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Feb. 8, 2020 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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Democratic Debate February: Dave Rubin Reaction LIVE! | POLITICS | Rubin Report

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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright people, welcome to the Rubin Report post-democratic debate wrap-up show.
		It's not quite post-wrap-up, I just couldn't take it anymore.
		I was trying to watch that thing and I actually felt that I might have been getting brain damage in the middle of it.
		It's just such boring drivel from a bunch of people who seemingly can't smile or find anything to be proud of about this country, or find any joy in any of this.
		And it's just, ugh, I couldn't take it.
		So you know what?
		I've got whiskey.
		You know what I had here?
		I had one of those awesome, you know those huge ball ice cubes that you can make?
		We made me a giant, beautiful ball ice cube, but it cracked the second we put it in here.
		But I've got whiskey.
		I've got your questions on a trusty iPad and we're going to talk about the debate.
		We've got video clips and I promise you, I promise you, if you're watching this right now,
		you are gonna get more joy and information out of this thing than you will on any wrap up show
		on CNN or MSNBC or what ABC is gonna do or the rest of it.
		It's just all so stiff.
		I mean, you can watch CNN instead of this, you know, when they go live in a few minutes
		and you can just watch 10 people sitting at a desk, all who got everything wrong four years ago.
		You can watch them get everything wrong again, or you can watch Dave with a little whiskey and an iPad.
		So yeah, we took in, we ingested, as they say in the business, a bunch of video clips.
		So we'll play some clips, some of the highlights and lowlights, although there weren't many highlights, I don't think.
		And then we'll take your questions.
		So we are taking questions for subscribers only at RubinReport.com, so you can still jump in.
		I've got a live Google Doc right here, so they'll send them to me right here at RubinReport.com, or you can download the RubinReport app in the Apple App Store or on Google Play.
		I'll take your questions and all that good stuff.
		I thought first what I should do is, well first off, what are you guys drinking?
		I'm curious to know.
		But I will take a little whiskey.
		That's nice.
		I think that's Johnny Walker Black Label if I'm not mistaken.
		We're doing alright around here.
		I guess first I'll just tell you a little bit, share some of my thoughts on the whole thing.
		I mean, in case you can't tell, I'm just not impressed by this group of people.
		I mean, you guys know how I feel about Bernie.
		At the end of the day, look, Bernie is just an old socialist sort of at the end, right?
unidentified		It's this endless, I can do everything.
		Everybody was terrible before me and I can do it.
		I'm going to do it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's just, it's Larry David with no sense of humor if you threw another 10 years on him.
		And it's just not, his answer to everything is government, period.
		Has Bernie done a couple decent things over the years?
		Yes, he did not vote for the Iraq war.
		So that was good, right?
		And he's very proud of that.
		And that actually is good.
		He had the foresight not to do it, not to trust George W. Bush, which he made a point actually tonight to say Biden, well, you voted for it.
		And Biden was like, well, I trusted George W. Bush.
		And Bernie was like, well, you know, bad move.
		I didn't trust him.
		So yeah, I'll give Bernie credit where credit's due.
		But he's been in the Senate for about 30 years.
		He's never really accomplished anything.
		No major piece of legislation has ever had his name on it.
		He's never really worked with anyone across the aisle.
		He's done nothing.
		Yeah, he's a millionaire.
		He's become a millionaire.
		That's pretty good.
		And he's got three houses and that's pretty great.
		But I think you know my feelings about Bernie Sanders and I'm sure there'll be some questions there.
		And he's the one that really has radicalized the left into thinking that socialism is somehow good and that the government should just do everything.
		So whether we get hung up on the word socialist or not, in essence, what they're always talking about now is that these people, that somehow Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer and Pete Buttigieg can somehow run your life better than you can.
		And I just simply don't believe that.
		If one of them would just get on stage and be like, hey, I can't fix your life, I got my own problems, I just want to stay out of your life, keep more of your money, live freely, you know?
		You got my vote.
		That's the guy I want to vote for.
		Do you guys see the movie Brewster's Millions?
		It's a Richard Pryor movie from about 19, I'd guess 1988 or so, where he plays Brewster, this guy who is a...
		Hackensack Bulls.
		He's a pitcher for a minor league baseball team called the Hackensack Bulls.
		And he finds out he has a distant relative who says to him, if you spend $30 million in a month, I'll give you the real inheritance, which is $300 million.
		And Brewster has to spend all this money.
		So what does he do?
		He becomes a politician to waste money.
		And at the end, his whole campaign is anyone, wait, is it anyone but me?
		Can one of you guys Google it?
		What's Brewster Millions?
		What's his campaign slogan?
		Vote for anyone but me?
		Or none of the above.
		That's what it is.
		None of the above.
		And it's like, that's what I'm looking for there.
		These people are just not impressive.
		All right, so that's Bernie.
		Look, Biden, man, Biden, it's sad.
		I don't want to make any glib comments about age or what's going on seemingly with him mentally or any of that.
		He seemed like he struggles to complete a thought, struggles to complete a sentence.
		You know, you've been around people like this.
		Everyone's been around people like this when you're around your grandparents or some older person who they start talking and you're like, oh, can you finish that sentence?
		You get, you feel this like weird thing with them.
		And Biden seems to be going into that place.
		Also, you know, he keeps hearkening back when he can suddenly like.
		Jiggle out of that.
		He keeps hearkening back to what I did with Obama, what I did with Obama, what I did with Obama, except what he doesn't understand is the base doesn't care about that.
		The base thinks that Obama was some sort of evil, corporatist, Democrat, centrist, Republican, conservative or something like that.
		They think that Obama ran for president against gay marriage.
		Remember that?
		I always say this, but it's like the progressives of tomorrow are going to hate the progressives of today.
		The progressives of 2050 are going to want to burn down the Obama Library, which I think is being built in Chicago right now, because he was against gay marriage in 2013 or 2012, whatever it is.
		And it's like, when Biden keeps talking about, oh, let's go back to Obama, it's like, that's not what the base wants anymore, man.
		So Biden seemingly is done, plus all the Ukraine stuff and the whole ridiculous impeachment thing, makes Biden look worse than it does Trump, so that's that.
	So that's Biden, that's Bernie.
	Elizabeth Warren, I think, is just done too.
	I mean, all she has is that we're a bunch of racists coming from a woman who said she was Native American so she could Get a gig at Harvard.
	She's so uninspiring.
	She's like a librarian that you would be afraid of if you were in sixth grade.
	Can't smile.
	There's just no joy there.
	She just knows how to do everything.
	She wants you to send your children to public school, but her children don't go to public school.
	Of course, she's a millionaire.
	I don't mind millionaires.
	I would like to be a millionaire.
	That would be great.
	But this constant class warfare that they're all playing, I think she's just done.
	Because why?
	If you're gonna do whatever it is she's doing, it's like at that point you just go with Bernie.
	So she's done.
	Amy Klobuchar strikes me as a decent human being.
	She's sort of like a sitcom mom from like an 80s or 90s sitcom, right?
	like she should have been married to Everybody Loves Raymond
	or something like that.
	But she strikes me as a decent person.
	You know, it's interesting, she talks about how we can't sort of rip down everything in the past
	and not everyone used to be evil and that we should work with other people on the other side
	and the government shouldn't be there for everything.
	Now, is she too big government for me?
	Probably.
	Is a lot of it's just, it's seemingly just like endless talking into nothing.
	But like she strikes me as like does she love the country?
	Yes.
	Does she seem like she genuinely would work with Republicans and extend the arm?
	Honestly, of course.
	You think any Republican is ever going to work with Bernie and you think Bernie wants to work with any Republican?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	And by the way, that's not even blaming one side more than the other.
	I mean, both sides have become horrible at that, but we do need more people.
	Hopefully that'll bounce back and forth and be able to, excuse me, work with the other side.
	So Klobuchar actually just strikes me as somebody like, she's not embarrassed by America.
	I think she's confused on some of her policies, but.
	Seems like a decent lady.
	Tom Steyer, it's not even worth talking about.
	He's a billionaire who bought his way in.
	It's like, Tom, alright, you love reparations so much, you got a couple billion, how about 500 million tomorrow?
	It's like, show me the money, man.
	You're telling me and the rest of us who had nothing to do with slavery, no one in my family, none of my ancestors owned slaves, And even if they did, generations and generations and generations ago, I'm not guilty by my father's sins, much less many, many generations ago.
	But you got a couple hundred million, it just, that would be pretty easy for you to dump out, and I'm sure you could figure out a way to write it off, right?
	Just do it through a non-profit, it's a write-off.
	But he doesn't do it, right?
	Because this is all virtue signaling nonsense.
	So Tom Steyer, forget him.
	Who else we did?
	What we got?
	Yang is the last one I want to hit.
	Oh, and Buttigieg!
	I mean, Buttigieg, it's like...
	Man, how are you going to be the one sort of millennial or Gen X-ish type, right?
	So I'm 43.
	I think he's, can someone check the age on Buttigieg?
	I think he's probably about 38, something like that.
	It's like he comes off as if he's like a standard 64 year old politician, just so stiff.
	There's so little sort of human in there.
	It's like, Why can't you talk like this?
	Why cannot you be able to just communicate in some sort of functioning way?
	He just, he can't do it.
	And he has that sort of deer in headlights look where he's like, I can't believe I'm even doing this.
	Why am I doing this?
	And then there's Yang, who I think, you know, I've had him in this room.
	I think the guy is a decent guy.
	I think UBI is kind of interesting, not really my thing, because I just think it creates more government bureaucracy.
	It'll ultimately cost goods and goods to go up in price and things like that.
	But is he a decent guy who has an interesting way of looking at the world and is sort of a new voice
	in all of this?
	Yes.
	Unfortunately, it ain't happening for him, but I think that at least he's a decent guy.
	I should also mention that Tulsi Gabbard should have been there, she's not there.
	And she's actually a Democrat that's a little more of sort of like an old school blue dog Democrat
	who says words like, you're not gonna believe this, because these aren't words that any of these people
	are going to say she says words like freedom and liberty.
	Scary, scary words, you know, about empowering you to live your life as you see fit and not having the government do everything for you.
	She says those scary words, and she wants us out of wars, and she actually thinks that there should be limits on abortion, even though she's pro-choice, and a series of other interesting things that were once moderate positions.
	So, you know, unfortunately, the base, the progressives, Who are really basically socialists and that they should be sitting at the children's table.
	They've just ransacked the whole party.
	So for a sane voice, and I say this all the time, but Biden, they dragged his old bones out because he was supposed to be the one to be the sane voice.
	And the reason that it's obvious that they know it's not working is why is Bloomberg running now, right?
	Like if the Biden thing made any sense and if they didn't think it wasn't gonna implode, then Bloomberg would have no reason to run.
	Because do Biden and Bloomberg have any major real differences?
	No, of course not.
	But the Biden thing is just not working and he's refusing to be the adult in the room.
	And the one that I think is the best example of this is when they were at the LGBT equality forum and Biden said, it's not your biological sex that should determine which jail you go to.
	It's what gender you say you are.
	So it seems like there would be a lot of male rapists in female prisons, right?
	The next season of Orange is the New Black is gonna be lit.
	All right, so I wanna get to your questions.
	We'll do a couple clips.
	I got it, Pete Buttigieg is 38 years old.
	I mean, he's 38 going on 85, right?
	It's like, show a little human there, man.
	Come on, dude.
	All right, so let's go to, you know what?
	I'll take a question and then we'll go to clips.
	In my opinion, Tulsi Gabbard is the sanest choice that the Democrats could make.
	What will it take for the DNC to actually support someone like her?
	I mean, it ain't happening this time, I'll tell you that much.
	I think what has to happen, and this is my prediction, I've been predicting this for quite some time, this monster that we're all seeing, this identity politics monster, this socialist monster, this Bernie-led monster, It's going to destroy the Democratic Party.
	I'm not saying that the Democratic Party will not exist after this election, but it will be so fractured that there really will be two splinters of this.
	So right now, while the Republican Party seems to be coming together, it actually seems to be a kind of wide tent with conservatives and libertarians and some old classical liberals, and there's just like an ability to agree to disagree.
	Great example of this, Tucker Carlson, who's a conservative who is now for regulating big tech, and someone like me who's completely against it.
	We could still sit in a room and not kill each other at the end of it.
	These people seem unable to hash any of it out without trying to destroy each other.
	I think what will happen is the party will basically be destroyed.
	The progressives, if Bernie doesn't win, they will bring violence to Milwaukee for sure.
	They're telling you that that's what they're going to do.
	And that's really what the base wants.
	And, you know, when I was at the Young Turks years ago, not that I had many deep Political conversations with anyone there off camera, or even on camera, off camera.
	But there were times, many times I remember actually, that some of the people there would talk about how they're for political violence, that you need some violence to make some things happen.
	So this is very much in what the progressive ethos is.
	And I think what has to happen is it's almost as if they have to be so destroyed so that maybe a phoenix can rise out of the ashes, and maybe a new Democrat can be born, if that's what you I think it should happen because you want a healthy Democratic Party, and that's maybe a party that could be more led by someone like Tulsi Gabbard.
	And look, by the time the DNC is done with her and by the time the DNC is done with Yang and some of the other ones that are somewhat interesting, there's a lot of opportunity for either a new party to form there or the Clinton machine die out and something move and shift there.
	So there's interesting stuff that is possible.
	Do I get a bonus for having to watch that?
	Well, in that I am my own boss, I should give myself some sort of bonus.
	I guess I got whiskey, that's pretty good.
unidentified		That's about it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Do you think all of this is moot if Trump really does have 30% black support?
		Well, I don't know where you're coming up with 30%, although I did tweet that I truly think Trump might get 30% black support.
		I know that sounds completely insane, but let's say it's only 20%, and that's like triple, I think, at least what he got last time.
		We could check the numbers on that.
		It might even, maybe he got like 4%.
		I mean, that would be five times what he got.
		Black unemployment is at an all-time low.
		He's doing criminal justice reform.
		These are real things.
		You could even feel it up there when they had that like 10 minute burst where they endlessly talk about systemic racism and Bernie, what's the quote from Bernie?
		Do we have the quote here?
		I mean, Bernie was just that awful line about America's been built on racism and it's like this is the freest place.
		Nobody cares what race you are.
		Are there people, individual people that are racist?
		Yes.
		Are there individual people that don't like gays and don't like this and that?
		Yeah, but you can come here and do whatever you want.
		That's why everyone does come here and do it.
		So, Man, but the answer to your question is yes.
		If Trump gets 30% of the black vote, he's gonna win this thing in a landslide.
		I suspect he's winning this thing in a landslide no matter what.
		I think the impeachment thing was such a backfire.
		You fired up all the base.
		You took all of the decent centrists who were like, this impeachment thing was nonsense right after you ran with three years of Russia.
		And to me, it's like, He's going to win in a landslide.
		I almost see no way around it at this point.
		Certainly not with these guys.
		I don't know, maybe they drag Hillary's old bones and then it's a little closer.
		All right, one more and then I will throw to some clips.
		Will you be taking phone calls from relatives tonight while live?
		That's a little shout out to the other night after State of the Union, Larry King, for those of you that didn't see it.
		He was telling me a story about why he has a flip phone.
		He has an old school flip phone, he doesn't text.
		So one of my guys brought it into him while we were live, and his phone rang that moment, and he took a call from his son.
		It was actually a pretty hilarious and beautiful moment.
		All right, one more, and then I'll throw in some clips, so we'll get to that.
		How can we take seriously any candidate who's telling us that the economy's doing poorly?
		You know, I was thinking something like that during this, because it's all doom and gloom.
		Everything that they say up there, there's nothing.
		I didn't hear one thing in an hour and a half.
		The thing could be still going on right now, but I didn't hear anything that was inspiring, right?
		Like there's good things happening and we can make better things happening.
		So if it is true that all time, that black, Unemployment is at an all-time low.
		Latino unemployment at an all-time low.
		All of the numbers that Trump was talking about the other day, and we know the economy is super strong right now.
		We just know it is, right?
		We know that right now we are not going to more wars.
		Remember World War III a month ago when we killed Soleimani and everyone said we're going to World War III?
		Yeah, no World War III.
		We just restored some deterrence.
		No World War III.
		We made it, right?
		It's a blip in nothingness.
		So, you know, it's like they can't, they sort of need reality to be horrible.
		Otherwise, they have no case to be made.
		And I think that's sort of why they seem so hysterical.
		The reality of the situation is things are actually pretty good.
		It's really hard to see if you only listen to mainstream media.
		But things are pretty good.
		So all right, we got a bunch of clips, so let's throw to some clips because I'm sure that all of you did not watch this thing, but we want to get to some clips here.
		This is when Bernie calls, this is number one, Bernie calls Trump a liar and he says he's gonna beat him with voter turnout.
unidentified		Trump certainly thinks this label socialism will work. At the State of the Union he said socialism
		destroys nations, he's never going to let socialism destroy American health care.
		And before the Super Bowl he joked with Sean Hannity about your honeymoon in Moscow. Those
		hits are going to keep coming if you're the nominee. Why shouldn't Democrats be worried?
		Because Donald Trump lies all the time.
bernie sanders ▲ ● ▼		Doesn't matter what Donald Trump says.
		It's a sad state of affairs.
		It really is.
unidentified		People say terrible things about Joe.
unidentified		He has ugly, disgusting things about Elizabeth, about Amy, about anybody else who is up here.
bernie sanders ▲ ● ▼		But I think, George, that at the end of the day, the way we defeat Donald Trump—and everybody up here, by the way, is united.
		No matter who wins this damn thing, we're all going to stand together to defeat Donald Trump.
		I believe that the way we beat Trump is by having the largest voted turnout in the history of this country.
		And that is appealing to working class people who have given up on the political process because they don't believe that anybody is hearing their pain, perceiving their pain, feeling their pain.
		And we've got to bring young people into the political process.
		I'm very proud that in Iowa, we won the popular vote by 6,000 votes.
		What was most significant Most significant is we increased voter turnout for young people under 29 by over 30%.
		We do that nationally, we're going to defeat Donald Trump.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		There's so much there.
		First off, notice he didn't address anything that Trump actually said, which in essence is, are you a socialist?
		He never really denied being a socialist.
		He is a socialist and perhaps really a communist, right?
		He wants the government to do everything.
		He literally wants the government to be involved in whether Major League Baseball should have minor league teams.
		I am not making that up.
		He's been talking about that.
		He wants the government in absolutely everything.
		That in essence is communism.
		You know, it's funny, he also talked about his record high voter turnout for young people, except overall, the Iowa caucuses, the numbers were deeply, deeply depressed.
		So it's not like people are that excited about this crew.
		Also, they couldn't even figure out who won for days, and it's sort of like, ah, we'll just say Buttigieg won, but maybe Bernie won, or Bernie won, but Buttigieg won, let's not, who really cares about any of that?
		I think in a way, and there's a few questions that ask something like this.
		A few people are asking something to the effect of, well, wouldn't Bernie versus Trump be the best way that we end all of this?
		That we sort of have the ultimate, the Rise of Skywalker finale to this whole thing.
		You know, the ultimate good versus battle, socialism versus capitalism fight.
		In a weird way, that makes sense, but my suspicion is the DNC ain't gonna let it happen.
		They're deeply corrupt.
		We know they're deeply corrupt.
		They handicapped Bernie last time.
		And Bernie, by the way, who was, You know, just what do you say up there?
		You know he's ready to go down again, because he's like, we got to beat that damn guy or whatever it is, and we're all going to stand together to do it.
		Well, all right.
		So you mean when they take you out, you're going to support somebody again, just like you did to Hillary last time?
		You know?
		Yeah.
		I mean, the other thing, Bernie, is that identity politics will shred him one day because no matter how much he tries to play it, at the end of the day, he's just an old white guy.
		Because guess what, Bernie?
		Even though you occasionally play half Jew, that doesn't matter.
		That doesn't count as a minority in that oppression Olympics pyramid.
		So he's an old white guy that they'll take out one day in a pretty horrific way.
		Let's see.
		Let's go to some questions.
		Let's see, what's the ultimate outcome of this?
		Clearly the Democrats have taken a wrong turn.
		I assume even their supporters are having doubts.
		I mean, look, I can tell you this.
		The amount of emails that I am getting now over the last couple months from people saying I've always voted Democrat and I cannot do it for this crew, and that had a lot to do with impeachment also, is becoming overwhelming.
		We're getting a ton and ton of mail.
		Now that's not a total, It's not a totally fair way of estimating everything.
		But I think I've had a pretty good track record of being able to figure out what the trends are for the last couple of years.
		And I just sense the average person, the average person likes America.
		The average person is proud of America.
		The average person doesn't think America is racist.
		The average person doesn't think America is evil or was founded on genocide or any of these things.
		And these guys refuse to say they didn't.
		What positive message did they give up there?
		Biden is angry up there, right?
		Because Biden's trying to defend something that he knows is good, but he knows it doesn't play in that room.
		So Biden, you know, there was a really interesting moment with Biden in the Constitution.
		Let me see real quick if we have it as one of our clips.
		I don't think so, actually.
		Where Biden's talking about the Constitution when they were talking about abortion.
		And it's like, dude, you're in the wrong room, man.
		These people don't care about the Constitution.
		They don't care.
		What they want is what they want.
		The Constitution is just a roadmap, sorry, a road bump for that.
		So yeah, it's screwy.
		Let's see.
		Are you going to be playing a drinking game where every time the term 1% is said, you take a drink?
		If so, I bet the live broadcast will be more entertaining and worthy of spending a Friday night than watching these pointless debates.
		I will take a drink for that.
	They didn't say 1%.
	You know, it's interesting.
	They've moved off the 1% thing.
	If you've noticed, they say billionaires a lot now, which is interesting because, you know, it used to be sort of millionaires.
	Then it was the 1%.
	Now it's billionaires.
	And I think partly why they moved off the 1% thing was the 1% thing was always nonsense.
	Uh, we could check the numbers on this, but some, it's something like if you're in the 1%, if you make something like 450 grand a year, now that's a lot of money, right?
	That's more money than I make.
	I'm guessing it's more money than you guys make.
	Um, but, You have 450 grand a year.
	You have no ability to pull levers of power or anything like that.
	Even with a couple million dollars a year, which any of us would love to have, you don't have any real power.
	So they kept saying 1% and it's nonsense.
	What they really mean is like the .01%, like the ultra ultra ultra ultra rich, who by the way, I don't begrudge them being rich, right?
	Like every time that nobody's ever become a billionaire illegally or without inheriting it or blah, blah, blah,
	and it's like, well, you wanna tell that to Oprah?
	I think she did okay.
	How about that Ellen DeGeneres or Warren Buffett?
	Was he stealing money from everybody or Bill Gates?
	And the funny thing was with these billionaires, and you can really feel it with Tom Steyer, that fool.
	It's like, he's so guilty over what he created.
	You know what I mean?
	So he gets up there and all he wants to do is like jump around.
	What was that little dog?
	Remember in like the Bugs Bunny commercials, Bugs Bunny cartoons way back when there was that little,
	was it a little dog that was always jumping around, the big dog, and just wanted his attention.
	And Tom Steyer is like that with Bernie.
	And Bernie's like, yeah, yeah, get out of here.
	But Steyr, it's just like, stop being guilty.
	All these people, Bill Gates, he thinks that if he gives away enough money, they won't come for him one day.
	They won't throw him in the pit of Sarlacc.
	Dude, it's coming for you no matter what.
	There's nothing you can do for these people.
	That's the thing.
	All right, let's go here.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	We changed our password on this thing.
	Hold on.
	Okay, here we go.
	What was the most impactful or interesting moment of the night?
	Well, I guess the theme tonight was that it seems to be that Buttigieg has, like, a little momentum or something like that.
	So there definitely were more pointed attacks on him.
	And he has that star-struck look in his eyes.
	You know, he's looking at the car.
	He's like a deer caught in the headlights kind of thing.
	I don't think he really wants this.
	It seems like it's like, why would you want this, dude?
	You're 38 years old.
	You know, you seem like a decent guy.
	He doesn't have a real emotional range.
	It's like, just be a little bit more of a human.
	But it was interesting watching, and you see this in all, this happens every four years, Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter.
	Someone starts getting a little momentum, and then everyone starts coming from them, right?
	Because you gotta take them down, and the way you're gonna get the press to start following you is if you give them the kill shot.
	And it all starts becoming like an exaggerated theater, in essence.
	So I think that was interesting because it was the first time he's had that.
	I don't think he's gonna hold that position for very long.
	I didn't watch, but let me guess, everyone is racist.
	Yeah, I mean, there was a major moment.
	The Bernie, we're all racist.
	This whole place is racist.
	Tom Steyer, we're all racist.
	Even Biden threw in some of it.
	It's like, no, again, guys, no.
	And this doesn't work for anybody anymore.
	We're all sick of being called racist.
	You know, like, believe me, I have traveled enough of this country in the last two years and met literally thousands and thousands of people, the same people that you guys call racist all the time.
	And I find them to be not only not racist, but I find them very often to be minorities.
	I find them to be black and brown people and Asian people and all of this other nonsense.
	So it's just not working anymore.
	This was the danger that these guys did.
	You know, I did a video, I think on November 5th of 2016, the day after Trump got elected.
	We were building the studio here and I did the video in the backyard.
	You can find it.
	And what I kept saying was, this is what you guys have created.
	If you keep doing this, you keep calling him Hitler, you keep calling everyone Nazis and we're all racists, it's not what you're doing to us.
	You fools.
	What it is, is you're painting yourself in a corner.
	Because how are you, one day, when you realize that, oh my God, maybe that guy isn't Hitler.
	Maybe the economy's doing great.
	Maybe he's helping people live freer lives.
	Maybe he actually is draining the swamp and all of this stuff.
	And his supporters aren't racist and the rest of it.
	Well, you've already called him racist and Hitler, you can't walk that back.
	Ah, you're not gonna believe this guy.
	Is that Hitler guy?
	You know, he's really doing a fine job.
	And that's why they find themselves going more increasingly increasingly out of control because you have to double down and have to double down because you sold yourself on a bill of goods that was that was nonsense from the beginning.
	All right, one more and then we'll jump to a clip.
	Let's see.
	At what point will the Democratic candidates realize that they are pandering to the tiniest slivers of their constituency, and they're completely alienating their largest voting box?
	I don't know.
	I think it's what I said before.
	This thing has to get to its logical conclusion, which is a destruction in the election.
	It is a damn shame.
	But where are the good Democrats, right?
	Let's say there was a good Democratic Party right now that was a little more centrist.
	Whether that would be a party for me anymore is a separate issue altogether.
	But, you know, Jordan Peterson, when we were on tour, would talk about this often, that regardless if you're on the left or you're on the right, you sort of want a healthy opposition, because what's good in a free society is there's a push and a pull, and sometimes you're going to kind of lose a little bit this way, sometimes you're going to lose a little bit this way.
	And what you don't want is just one ruling ideology all the time, because then that really can get out of control, even if it's a good ideology in essence, right?
	So I think conservatives right now, and I do see this all the time, I find conservatives all the time saying, you know, where are the good liberals?
	We'd love to talk to them.
	Well, they like me, basically, right?
	But it's like...
	But, you know, I can't honestly say I'm part of the left anymore, so it's a little bit odd.
	I don't know, I think this thing has to just burn out.
	It has to just burn out and take down a lot of these guys.
	And I think it will take down Bernie, it'll take down a bunch of others.
	Let's go to another clip.
	This is, oh, this was a good moment for Andrew Yang.
	This is clip number five.
unidentified		You are missing the lesson of Donald Trump's victory.
		Donald Trump is not the cause of all of our problems.
		And we're making a mistake when we act like he is.
		He is a symptom of a disease that has been building up in our communities for years and decades.
		And it is our job to get to the harder work of actually curing the disease.
		Most Americans feel like the political parties have been playing you lose, I lose, you lose, I lose for years.
		And you know who's been losing this entire time?
		We have.
		Our communities have.
		Our community's way of life is disintegrating beneath our feet.
		That's why Iowa, a traditional swing state, went to Trump by almost 10 points.
		That's why Ohio, a traditional swing state, is now so red that I'm told we're not even going to campaign there.
		Communities are seeing their way of life get blasted into smithereens.
		We've automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs and counting.
		We're closing 30% of New Hampshire's stores and malls.
		And Amazon, the force behind that, is literally paying zero in taxes.
		These are the changes that Americans are seeing and feeling around us every day.
		And if we get to all the hard work of curing those problems, we will not just defeat Donald Trump in the fall, but we'll actually be able to move our communities forward.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So that's a pretty interesting statement right there.
		There were a couple of things that he said that was interesting.
		First off, this idea that we just can't always blame Trump.
		Even to the point, in essence what he's saying there, because he's obviously not a Trump guy, is even if I agree with you on all the Trump stuff, he's saying we can't do it because it doesn't work.
		He also said something sort of flippantly.
		As an aside, which is, I hear we're not going to campaign in Ohio, as if Ohio is automatically
		red.
		I mean, if that's the case already, then that's even more reason to think Trump's going to
		win this thing on the landslide.
		I don't know if he meant we, meaning his campaign, or if he meant Democrats in general.
		I don't know what he meant there.
		But I think what you see there, what you see there with Andrew Yang, and unfortunately
		Tulsi Gabbard wasn't on the stage, that, the basic bones of that were the right idea for
		what a Democratic candidate should be doing.
		Unfortunately, he's standing all the way to the left of the screen because he's a fringe candidate at this point.
		And again, I've had him in the room.
		I think he's a decent guy for whatever reason.
		Political disagreements we might have, but that's where they should be headed.
		You know, he did say one thing there in the effect that, you know, we go from one side to the other side, but we keep losing.
		I mean, the thing is the economy is doing really well right now and we're not going into extra wars.
		So I don't know how much more you would want.
		I mean, there's a lot of really good signs right now.
		And actually just today I interviewed Richard Grenell, who's the American ambassador to Germany.
		I think we're putting it up next week.
		Really, really interesting guy and gave me some really cool insight into the way that we are actually forging new alliances.
		And, you know, when they did that section on foreign policy about how everybody hates us now and NATO hates us and all of this and the UN hates us and blah, blah, blah.
		And Rick, who's become a good friend of mine, he was telling me how none of that is true.
		That behind the scenes, people are loving that America's reasserting itself and the rest of it.
		And that actually countries are now paying their fair share and they realize that we mean what we say.
		So I think in some level, Yang is a little, his mark is a little bit off,
		but I think he's got the general idea of what a good Democrat should be.
		I was pretty damn close, guys.
		I said that the top 1% make $450,000.
		According to the Economic Policy Institute, you are in the top 1% of US earners if you make $421,926.
		So $420,000, you're in the top 1%.
		$21,926, so 420 grand, you're in the top 1%.
		So again, to say, oh, it's the fault of the 1%, now would we all love to have 420?
		Yang ain't giving us that much.
		But would we all love to have that?
		Of course we would.
		But at $420,000, I assure you, you're not pulling the levers of power.
		And certainly if you tripled that, you're still not doing it.
		So that's why they've now moved on to billionaires.
		All right, let's see.
		Dave, this is taken directly from the DNC 2016 party platform.
		What follows is our 2016 party platform, our most progressive platform in our party's history, and a declaration of how we plan to move America forward.
		Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment, and bridges are better than walls.
		Dave, what grade would you give the Democrats for their ability to maintain their own standards over the past four years?
		I mean, I'd say a D, basically.
		Listen to that statement.
		I mean the statement itself.
		It just shows you that what and I always every time Bernie tweets I I'm always tempted to just retweet him and just say meaningless slogan number 462 meaningless slogan five thousand ninety seven point eight because It all sounds good.
		But upon any scrutiny, it's all meaningless.
		I mean, what does this mean?
		I A declaration of how we'd move America forward.
		Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity better than division, empowerment better than resentment, and bridges are better than walls.
		I mean, that all sort of sounds nice word better than scary word, but it doesn't mean anything.
		It doesn't mean anything.
		Sometimes you need some conflict.
		Right?
		So cooperation is better than conflict.
		Not if the other person is completely insane and you're going to have to cooperate with an insane person, you might need some conflict there.
		So they just say these things that are just these empty, meaningless slogans.
		Free college for everybody, where we can teach you socialism and won't teach you real math.
	Free, and of course it's not really free.
	You know, we're going to forgive student debt.
	Well, you know, I wanted to go to Syracuse University back in 1994 when I was going to college, a long time ago, right?
	And my dad said to me, you want to go to Syracuse University, it's a private school.
	At the time, it was something like 25 grand a year.
	It's I think now around 60 grand a year.
	My dad said, if you want to go to a private school, well, it's on you, figure out how to do it.
	I'm not paying for it.
	And then my dad said, but if you go to a New York State school, a SUNY school, State University of New York school, where we have some excellent schools there, We'll pay for it.
	And it was about nine grand a year, and that's what I chose to do.
	And I went to SUNY Binghamton, which is pretty much the best New York State school there is.
	And it's like, well, if I knew that 25 years later that Bernie Sanders was gonna pay all my student debt off, well then maybe I would have done it.
	It also just doesn't make any sense.
	So you're gonna pay off all student debts, all the rich kids who go to super exclusive colleges, you're gonna pay off their debt too?
	I mean, none of it makes sense.
	And why would you punish all of the people Who did it right, right?
	Like, we just paid off David's last bit of college debt.
	Why did we do it?
	Why did we do it?
	We did it because it was the right thing and he had debt, but I guess we should have waited around for Bernie to magically pay it off.
	Alright, let's go to another clip.
	Oh, this was, this was...
	Really a joy.
	So remember, we killed Iranian General Soleimani, who's been a mastermind of terrorism all over that region for many years.
	We killed him.
	Trump killed him about a month ago.
	Everyone said it was going to be World War III.
	This is a nightmare.
	This is a terrible scenario.
	World War III is apparently over already.
	World War III ended faster than the Iowa caucus.
	But here is Buttigieg talking about Mr. Soleimani.
unidentified		Oh, sorry.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		This is number eight.
unidentified		I did start the need to impeach movement in October of.
		And my father, my father was one of the people who prosecuted the Nazi war criminals after World War II.
		And that's part of the reason I started, because when you see something really wrong in the United States, you're supposed to stand up against it and fight against it.
		And that's what I was doing.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you know what?
		Hold on guys, sorry.
		We're on the fly here.
		That was clip number six, guys.
		So let's not do that.
		Do we have number eight there?
		We got it?
		All right, let's throw to number eight.
		Here we go.
unidentified		There is no debate about whether or not there was an imminent threat.
		There is no debate about whether or not Soleimani was a bad actor who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans.
		Given what you know about Soleimani, if your national security team came to you with an opportunity to strike, would Soleimani have been dead or would he still be alive under your presidency?
pete buttigieg ▲ ● ▼		In the situation that we saw with President Trump's decision, there is no evidence that that made our country safer.
		Look, I feel very strongly about the campaign of murder and mayhem that General Soleimani and his units have perpetrated.
		It's also the case that if we learned nothing else from the war in Iraq, it's that taking out a bad guy is not a good idea if you do not know what you were doing.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot of nonsense in that clip.
		So first off, he's comparing it to taking out a bad guy.
		What he means is taking out Saddam.
		Except with Saddam, we toppled a regime.
		That's very different than taking out a terrorist mastermind with one strike.
		And by the way, as these people were all screaming about World War III, I mean, they were literally saying this is the beginning of World War III.
		Not only did Iran basically do nothing, right?
		They shot a couple of rockets, they ended up shooting down a Ukrainian airliner in their own airspace.
		Not only did they do nothing, but we restored something called deterrence, right?
		The idea is peace through strength.
		You show other countries that we don't want war, and how do you show them we don't want it?
		By saying we're gonna occasionally do some things to rough you up if you start messing around.
		And also, there's sort of this idea that if you just let people just kill innocent people, That that somehow is more morally correct than you doing anything.
		Now, I'm not for nation building.
		I'm not for toppling regimes.
		You can find videos of me on The Young Turks when I was still a lefty, saying that the United States should have nothing to do in Syria, that maybe we could create a humanitarian corridor, but we should not be going in there militarily.
		You can find videos where I was completely against Obama's kinetic military action.
		Remember, no one had even heard that phrase.
		It sounded like Xbox, Kinect, something military, something, something.
		I was completely against that.
		Obama toppled And now Libya, we don't talk about it.
		You know why?
		Because it's not even a country anymore in effect.
		Nobody knows what the hell's going on over there.
		So, it's a little bit, it's a Reagan idea, peace through strength.
		It's not just a Reagan idea.
		I mean, it's an idea that goes back hundreds of years actually.
		There's this other idea of course is the counter, which is, oh, well, we'll just be nice to everybody.
		We'll sit and we'll talk to everybody.
		But, you know, the other guys may not be wanting to sit and talk.
		So I just don't think we're going to extra wars with these people.
		And sometimes you take out somebody and it doesn't mean that all hell is going to break loose.
		And I think that's what we've seen so far.
		OK, let's see.
		Most Democratic candidates have moved substantially towards socialism.
		Will the ones resisting get a taste of the cancel culture that other public figures such as yourself has experienced?
		Yeah.
		Yeah, I think so.
		You know, I had Adam Carolla in here, what was that, about six weeks ago?
		Something like that.
		And one of the things he talked about how is he's always able to figure out which Hollywood celebrities are conservatives because it's the ones that just never say anything, right?
		So if you're a lefty in Hollywood, you're a Democrat, you know, tomorrow's the Oscars right here in this town.
		I was invited to the Elton John Oscar party, but I'm not going.
		If you are a lefty or a democrat or whatever it is, a socialist or whatever that whole thing is at this point, if you're one of them, you could say whatever you want.
		You go up at the awards show, you lecture half the country, you tell everybody how racist they all are, and then you're like, come to my movies, please.
		And there's this other group of people that just never say anything.
		And I think that Karola is right.
		Not only are they conservatives, Which would make sense actually if secretly in this town there were a lot of conservatives because LA is a town that's based in really in one industry, Hollywood, right?
		And or let's say now it's beyond Hollywood because now there's a lot of this sort of thing so it's not just Hollywood traditional movie making.
		But it's a lot of people that come here to fulfill their dreams and bust their asses to do something and work all sorts of awful jobs to do it and want to be creative and free and all of those things.
		So actually that That's a lot of what the individual is all about.
		And that's not a staple of what modern leftism is.
		It's a staple of what traditional conservatism is.
		So it's a really weird situation.
		So I think there's a ton of Hollywood celebrities.
		I think there's a ton of—look, I'll even say this.
		I haven't said this publicly yet, but I've been thinking about it a lot.
		My crew, whoever you may think that is in the YouTube game.
		Notice that very few, except for I would say Shapiro, really talked about impeachment that much.
		I think that tells you a little something, right?
		That tells you something.
		Just read between the lines of what I'm trying to tell you, and maybe I'll talk about it more over the next couple of weeks.
		But if you didn't say anything about impeachment, it was partly because you were afraid that the left base was gonna come eat ya.
		And if you didn't say anything, it was probably because you weren't for impeachment.
	So this thing and that pressure machine can kind of get to everybody.
	It's definitely worrisome for sure.
	Do you see the rise of anti-establishment candidates becoming the new norm in politics?
	Well, that's interesting.
	I mean, it's definitely going to be a trend for now, right?
	It's got to be a trend for now, because Biden is the establishment guy right now, and it's just not working.
	I think there was a version of an establishment person.
	I don't know who it is, but it was not supposed to be Biden.
	Maybe what Obama needed to do, realizing that this insurrection, which he sort of fermented, Biden needed to start grooming some stronger, younger Democrat, but because he didn't do it, or maybe he truly didn't see this coming, it left them sort of naked.
	So Biden's the establishment guy.
	So the anti-establishment guy, Bernie, is the one that seems to have the energy, right?
	Elizabeth Warren's not really anti-establishment because she's a Harvard, she comes from the machine.
	Pete is a Rhodes Scholar guy.
	You know, Yang, I would say, is more of an anti-establishment guy.
	He's actually accomplished things in the private sector.
	That's a big no-no if you're a modern Democrat.
	So yeah, I do think outsiders are going to are gonna be the new thing with the Democrats for a while.
	And then it'll be interesting to see what happens post-Trump on the Republicans.
	So I assume Trump is gonna win again.
	And then do the new conservatives after Trump, do they run as establishment people going,
	oh, see, the guy before us, Trump gave us eight good years, let's say,
	so now we wanna continue that, or does something go completely haywire
	and then they have to go anti-establishment?
	But I think if you constantly are anti-establishment, that's not healthy for the long-term survival of a country
	because in essence you're always trying to tear everything down.
	Oh, this is number four.
	Klobuchar, I thought, actually made some sense tonight, as I said earlier, because it's very
	clear she talks about things like, oh, we can't always get everything we want.
	We have to reach across the aisle.
	Not everybody before us was an old racist bastard.
	These are sensible positions.
	All right, let's go to another video clip.
	Oh, this is number four.
	We're going to go to Klobuchar praising Doug Jones and Romney's courage.
unidentified		We had a moment the last few weeks, Mayor.
		And that moment was these impeachment hearings.
		And there was a lot of courage that you saw from only a few people.
		There was courage from Doug Jones, our friend of Alabama, who took that tough vote.
		There was courage from Mitt Romney, who took a very, very difficult vote.
		There was courage, as I read today, about Lieutenant Colonel Vindman being escorted out of the White House.
		What he took, took courage.
		But what you said, Pete, as you were campaigning through Iowa, as three of us were jurors in that impeachment hearing, you said it was exhausting to watch and that you wanted to turn the channel and watch cartoons.
		It is easy to go after Washington, because that's a popular thing to do.
		It is much harder, as I see Senator Shaheen in the front row, such a leader.
		It is much harder to lead, and much harder to take those difficult positions.
		Because I think this going after every single thing that people do, because it's popular to say, and makes you look like a cool newcomer, I just, I don't think that's what people want right now.
		We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us.
		I think having some experience is a good thing.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, I've been very fair to Klobuchar, but I do want to say, in defense of cartoons, when I've been doing cardio lately, I've been watching, remember the Clone Wars series, not the digital one, remember Cartoon Network did a series of shorts, it all ended up to about two hours, that take place between episodes two and three, so between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and it ends in a really cool way, I don't want to blow, maybe I'll blow a little something because it's been out for ten years, but If you're ever wondering why General Grievous coughs in Revenge of the Sith, they show it to you.
		You find out in the last five minutes of the Clone Wars cartoon.
		So let's not make this, let's not put down people who watch cartoons, Miss Klobuchar.
		That aside, this thing about bravery and the way all the Democrats, all the Democrats who said Romney was a racist and Romney hated women and he had binders full of women and he's an evil capitalist and all this stuff.
		Now Romney does what they want and now he's brave and the media is now treating him like a hero.
		This is what conservatives and right-leaning people are always fighting, right?
		So it's like Romney's realizing at this point he's become powerless.
		Nobody really likes him.
		He somehow got into the Senate just on his name.
		And it's like, oh, and he obviously hates Trump and Trump hates him.
		If you think it makes sense that he was the one Republican to vote against Trump here and that it wasn't sort of personal, I mean, that's probably pretty crazy.
		But then the media starts treating him like he's this wonderful, wonderful thing, the same guy that they were saying is a misogynist and a racist four years ago.
		Or eight years ago.
		So it's, you know, that's a little bit disingenuous.
		You're not just, someone isn't just brave because they do what they want.
		They're brave because they actually stand for their convictions.
		Now maybe she thinks these people are standing for their convictions, but I don't suspect it.
		And the way the media treated him certainly wasn't because, the media knows nothing about standing for their convictions.
		All right, let's go to another question and then we'll go to the videotape.
		Let's see.
		How bleh was Warren?
		Every time she spoke, I was like, whoa, I forgot she was there.
		Yeah, she's done.
		I'm telling you, call it tonight.
		Warren's done.
		Her base, if you like Warren, why wouldn't you love Bernie?
		Right?
		And Warren just, she's the worst sort of intersectional, know-nothing, know-it-all that there possibly is.
		Did you see her thing this week?
		She was gonna make sure that she would hire a young trans person so that that young trans person could hire other non-binary people, or her cabinet's gonna be half non-binary and half female.
		I did a thing on Tucker about this like a week ago.
		It's all just intersectional stupidity with her.
		And it's also like, lady, smile, show a human.
		And by the way, even funnier than any of this, she says all her WH words like white, white.
		She says it like whip.
		Like Cool Whip, like Stewie from Family Guy.
		Pull up the Stewie, Family Guy, Cool Whip thing and then listen to her pronounce a W-H.
		Okay, let's go to another clip.
		Ah, Buttigieg, not happy with our Supreme Court.
		Let's go to clip number 10.
		He's gonna change it for ya.
unidentified		Mayor Buttigieg, you have signaled that you'd be open to the idea of expanding the court.
		Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suggested leaving the court as it is, saying, quote, nine seems to be a good number.
		And in fact, she said if the number of justices is increased, quote, it would make the court appear partisan.
		It would be one side saying, when we're in power, we're going to enlarge the number of judges to have more people who will vote the way we want them to.
		Is Justice Ginsburg wrong?
pete buttigieg ▲ ● ▼		Well, if all we did was change the number of justices, then I agree with her that that could be the consequence.
		What I've called for is not only reforming the number of justices on the bench, but structural reform so that some of the justices are not appointed through a partisan process.
		We cannot allow the Supreme Court to continue to become one more political battlefield, as we are seeing today.
		And the time has come for us to think bigger.
		Not just reforming the makeup of the court, as America, by the way, has done several times in our history, but also remember that the founders gave us the power to amend the Constitution for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use it.
		It's not something you do lightly or quickly, but when it comes to something like Citizens United, Which holds that corporations have the same political soul as people and that spending money to influence an election is the same thing as writing an op-ed to your local paper.
		We need a constitutional amendment to clear that up and protect our democracy.
unidentified		Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You know, I don't have any major problems with the Citizens United thing, and I hear from right-leaning people all the time that you just have to let people put as much money, that money is speech, if you have money you can do whatever you want.
		I think there's an interesting argument there.
		I don't even want to talk about that specifically at the moment, although maybe I'll do a show on the ruling and some of the fallout.
		I think what's more worrisome is the way they talk about the fact that they want to change so many of the fundamental ways we have governed ourselves, right?
		So they want to potentially change or get rid of the electoral college, change the amount of Supreme Court seats, change voting rules, all of these things.
		And it's like, no, no, no, no, no.
		This has worked really well for a long time.
		We can do little.
		That's all we should ever really be doing in America, because it's still pretty damn good here.
		Also, it's not the job of the president to do that, by the way.
		He said, what I've called for.
		Well, it's not the job of the president to call for changing what another branch of government is supposed to do.
		He is the president, that is the head of the executive branch.
		He's supposed to sign laws into being.
		He's not supposed to create laws.
		That's supposed to be the legislative branch.
		Remember Congress and the Senate, and they don't do that very well or very often anymore.
		And then those other guys, the judicial branch, they're supposed to make sure they're actually
		legal.
		And then we have checks and balances to make sure the whole thing kind of works.
		It is not the job of the president to decide how another branch of government should or
		should not be changed.
		So yeah, he's a little confused on that one.
		Let's see.
		Now I'm watching Tarzan on Prime and to be honest, it's an easier story to believe that the ones that the ones the candidates are trying to sell me and Margot Robbie is better to look at than Bernie.
		I'm a little confused what the beginning meant, but I feel like there's something in there that is a point.
		Did I miss something?
		Alright.
		Let's see.
		Are leftists winning the long game with strategies to secure perpetual power?
		I mean, look, that's what they want.
		That's what they want, right?
		They want power.
		They want power.
		I mean, think about it this way.
		So right now, let's say you're Bette Midler, who's having a nervous breakdown, or you're Carl Reiner, too, but Rob Reiner, any of the litany of celebrities who all day long tell Trump to go, you know, if I say the F word, they tell me that these videos get demonetized, so I'm not gonna say it, but you know that I'm okay saying it.
		But they tell Trump to go F himself all the time, and the second Trump tweets, a million people say you're gonna rot in hell, you're gonna die, you're evil, all these things.
		No, no, it's not minority report.
		Nobody's coming and knocking on their doors and taking them out for thought crime, right?
		Nothing's happening to these people.
		Try to take it the other way now.
		Let's say we're like 10 years from now.
		Now AOC is president and she's, you know, or someone of her ilk is president, right?
		Bernie's president and then it becomes more extreme after because the left always goes to its further and further extremes, right?
		Do you think people on the right, the people that they call Nazis, that they're always telling you how we have to stop their free speech and ban them from platforms and all the other stuff, Do you think that if they're out there telling President AOC, God forbid, to go F herself or the rest of it, do you think that they wouldn't love to use state power to silence these people and silence journalists?
		Because I think they would.
		I actually do think they would because they believe state power is theirs to wield.
		So you may hate Trump, but no one's being jailed.
		There are no journalists being jailed right now.
		You can say whatever you want about Trump and it's okay.
		There's a freaking cottage industry of people that do it.
		So, yeah, these people want power, and I don't think there's much that will stop them.
		The only thing that will stop them is this thing getting to its logical conclusion and getting crushed, much like what happened with the Labour Party in the UK.
		Oh, here's a good one, speaking of socialism.
		This is clip number two.
		Nobody really wanted to denounce socialism.
unidentified		Let me just ask, is anyone else on the stage concerned about having a Democratic Socialist at the top of the Democratic ticket?
		I'm not.
		Senator Klobuchar?
		Sorry.
		Um...
		Heh, heh, it's funny.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's funny, I guess.
		That was funny.
		Yeah, if this is what you guys want.
		I mean, that was a moment, you know, you saw Yang really in the corner there.
		Why didn't he just put his hand up and say, guys, I'm different than you.
		I don't think the government should absolutely do everything.
		I do think we have to think about these things in a new way.
		I don't consider myself a socialist.
		I like UBI, but I don't think that the government should run everything and UBI should replace existing programs and it would function better or whatever it is that he would have said.
		But they're all sort of afraid of each other.
		They're actually afraid to say they're not socialists because that's what the base, which it's always hard to tell what the democratic base is anymore.
		Because if you look on Twitter, it's just a bunch of genderless queer anime frog avatars, or not frogs, it's unicorns usually or something, who always are the worst people online.
		You know, I do find that to be really funny.
		I'm sure you guys have seen this too.
		The Bernie people especially.
		They all are he, him, she, her, it, they, whatever it is.
		And they're unicorns and they're always brightly colored sprites and that sort of thing.
		They're almost all anonymous.
		And their names look all exactly the same.
		They have a rose in their picture.
		They're always all absolutely awful.
		Like, they're just terrible, terrible people.
		I just block and mute all of them.
		It doesn't matter.
		But, like, I see Yang people debating people, interestingly, having good conversation.
		Online, ability to agree to disagree.
		I see it from some of the other candidates.
		I've never seen anyone defend Biden online, but that may just be me, who knows?
		Okay, we'll do a couple more questions, and then maybe we'll throw in one or two more clips, and then I think we're gonna wrap.
		By the way, guys, if you are playing along at home, from now on when I do these live streams, And I'm gonna do more with guests after these things, and I think we'll do something for Super Tuesday, and we may do some on location.
		Oh, and by the way, in about two weeks, I will be announcing the Don't Burn This Book Tour.
		We officially got all the dates.
		I think on the 24th, I believe on the 24th it's gonna be, there'll be a private announcement for subscribers, and then I think around the 28th, we'll start doing some pre-sale stuff.
		But the tour begins on April 28th in New York City, I can tell you that, the hometown New York and my book comes out on April 28th if you haven't bought the book and you want to check it out It is don't burn this book calm.
		You can buy it right now.
		We've sold a ton So I'm pretty sure we'll be a New York Times bestseller Which is sort of ironic because at some level the whole book is about destroying the New York Times and those ridiculous institutions But it still would be nice to be on a list and and yeah, so I look forward to getting out to All over America and talking to you guys and then so we're gonna do like a two-month American tour and then it looks like we'll do some stuff up in Canada and then I think in June we'll probably be in the UK and then maybe a little bit of a Western Europe thing in July and then you know I dip out for August and then we'll we'll go from there.
		Oh by the way I'll also have some big announcements for Locals.com coming soon.
		We've started to build something really really cool I've been spending a lot of my time just trying to raise funds for the next round so that we can grow this thing properly and scale it properly.
		If you haven't just checked out the Rubin Report community, just go to rubinreport.com, create an account, just start looking around.
		You don't have to pay anything to get in if you want to interact and the rest of it you can pay as little or as much as you want to do that.
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		Well, this will be a good one to be the last question.
		So I'll take one more video and then we'll do one more question.
		How about... Oh, this is clip number three when they were talking about Medicare for all.
		Let's do that.
bernie sanders ▲ ● ▼		We are spending twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country.
		Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the health care industry last year made $100 billion in profit.
		Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we are wasting $500 billion a year trying to administer thousands and thousands of different plants.
		What Medicare for All will do is save the average American substantial sums of money.
		Substantial.
		Be much less expensive than your plan.
		And we will expand Medicare to include dental care, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and home health care as well.
unidentified		What Bernie's not telling you there is that when the government takes over everything, that then there's no competition, so then the quality of service gets lowered, and then you have to wait on longer lines to get stuff, and then it's going to become a problem, and then the whole thing starts collapsing on itself, and next thing you know, you're eating brains in the back of an alley because you're hungry, because also there's bread lines.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, the tone with this guy, it's like, Jesus Christ, is any, I mean, how do you listen to this?
		First off, okay, are there problems with our healthcare system?
		Of course there are.
		Is there a perfect healthcare system?
		Of course there isn't.
		But what I always think is interesting, as they're always talking about how horrible our healthcare system is, is they're really all just throwing Obamacare on the bus, right?
		Like, that was his signature thing.
		That was the thing Obama was supposed to ride the horse out on and go, yeehaw!
		I gave you Obamacare.
		Well, it must have been pretty freaking horrible, I suppose.
		So Biden, what we didn't show there was it was either right before or right after.
		But Biden basically is like, Bernie, you have no idea how you're going to pay for it and
		you have no idea how much it's going to cost.
		And by the way, Bernie admitted that on an interview a few days ago.
		He has no idea what it's going to cost.
		But he doesn't care.
		He doesn't care.
		But what he doesn't understand also is just basic fundamental economic concepts.
		I would welcome you to watch any interview that anyone's ever done or any lecture by Thomas Sowell.
		Watch the interview I did with him.
		You need competition.
		Bernie wants Medicare for all so there won't even be private insurance.
		What right does he have to tell you that even if the government gave everybody a public health insurance that you have no right to private health insurance?
		And you know damn well that he's going to be able to, next time he has a heart attack, get pretty good coverage even under his system.
		He won't have to wait in line the way you all have to.
		So it's all sort of silly nonsense.
		Alright, I'm going to take one more question.
		This is a good one and I've been getting it a lot.
		Will you vote for Trump?
		It actually says, are you voting for Trump?
		So are you voting for Trump?
		So look, here's where I'm at right now.
		I think you know how I feel about these people.
		This is just an absolute disaster.
		I believe that we need a decent Democratic Party.
		I don't think that is this party.
		I think this party has to go in the way that It has to go the way of the dodo bird, basically, and then we can see what happens after that.
		I think Trump basically has done a good job.
		I think that despite impeachment, despite three years of Russia, you know, I was watching Maddow a couple days ago.
		And I never watch it, but I happen to have MSNBC on.
		I haven't watched MSNBC in years.
		I see little clips on Twitter, but I haven't actually put the channel on.
		But when Larry King was here for State of the Union, he wanted to watch MSNBC, so I had the channel on the next time I turned on the TV.
		And I flicked on Enmato.
		And it's like the look of depression in her face right now, knowing that she pushed Russia for three years.
		She pushed the impeachment.
		They're going to try for another impeachment.
		And when Trump gets reelected, they'll try for another.
		And they're just going to destroy everything that was good.
		So where are the JFKs that was a good Democrat?
		Or the senator when I was growing up from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who I had the pleasure of meeting once.
		Or Mayor Ed Koch, who was a great man, who I also interviewed many, many years ago on my old SiriusXM show.
		Where are these guys?
		I don't know where they are.
		So I'm not going to sit here right this second and tell you that I'm voting for Trump.
		But I see no reason, at this point I see no reason not to vote for Trump.
		But I will promise you this, for sure.
		So last time, You may remember that in August before the election, I basically endorsed, whatever you want to call it, Gary Johnson, because my hope was, you know, I didn't like Trump, I didn't like Hillary, but what I really wanted was some of the good ideas of libertarianism and limited government to get out there.
		And I thought, well, let's just get Gary Johnson in one debate.
		And I knew that if he got in one, he wouldn't do well.
		He wasn't a particularly good debater.
		He would always forget what he was saying.
		He didn't know where Aleppo was.
		He couldn't name one foreign leader he respected.
	There were a lot of problems with this guy, right?
	He wanted to force the baker to bake the gay wedding cake.
	That's so antithetical to libertarian thinking that it's beyond imagination.
	He was very, very flawed.
	I had him on the show.
	Totally nice guy.
	I'd love to smoke a joint with him, right?
	But that's not necessarily what I want out of a president.
	But my hope was if I support this guy, I could sort of live with myself and go forward.
	Then flash forward to November of last year, or sorry, the last election cycle.
	And David and I moved into this house, so we had to drive back close to our old house for the polling station.
	And we're driving, it's about a 20-minute drive, and the whole drive I'm going, I don't know what I'm going to do.
	This is what I do for a living, but I don't know what I'm going to do.
	I don't know if I'm voting for Hillary or Trump right now.
	I don't know what to do.
	Anyway, we used to live in West Hollywood, which is the gayest place in the history of the world.
	It's gayer than Oz.
	They have rainbow crosswalks.
	It's gay, gay, gay.
	I get online in West Hollywood at the polling place and I'm literally standing behind RuPaul.
	I thought, I will not forget this.
	I don't know what I'm gonna do right now.
	So there's RuPaul.
	I go into the booth and David gave me a little pep talk right before we started.
	And basically what he said was, look, we're in California.
	You can vote for Gary Johnson here because it won't matter.
	It won't matter.
	Your vote won't matter because we know Hillary's gonna win in a landslide.
	And that's what I did.
	So my promise to you this time is I will not vote third party this time.
	I will make a clear distinction and I will gladly And proudly tell you who I'm gonna vote for beforehand.
	I will not take that third party option.
	I don't think it would be right for me to do.
	And that's sort of where I'm at with things.
	Anyway, I thank you guys for watching.
	We got a ton of good stuff going on, as I said.
	We're building a seriously awesome community.
	If you guys haven't joined, if you're sick of the Twitter trolls and the fighting on YouTube and the rest of it, if you join at ReubenReport.com, we've got video and audio Awesome community of cool people.
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	And so that means the trolls either have to pay me or I just boot them.
	But if I boot them, they're not being deplatformed because they can still be in anyone else's local.
	So RubinReport.com and our community is the first project of Locals.com.
	We've onboarded Bridget Phetasy and Michael Malice.
	We got a bunch of people coming, some big names on the way.
	My book, Don't Burn This Book.
	Free thinking for yourself in an age of unreason.
	Man, that whiskey is coming out on April 28th.
	So I'm excited about that.
	We got the book tour and a bunch of other stuff.
	So thank you very much.
	And I guess we'll keep doing these.
	I mean, they're killing me.
	I mean, did anyone enjoy this thing?
	I hope you enjoyed this, but I mean that thing.
	Jesus Christ.

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