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Oct. 15, 2020 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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NY Post Proves Joe Biden & Hunter Biden Lying, Twitter Censors Story | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report
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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Hello, bots, trolls, and other assorted internet creatures.
It's Dave Rubin.
This is the Rubin Report Direct Message for October 15th, 2020.
We are under three weeks away from the big election.
There's a lot to talk about.
Hunter Biden.
Censoring on the internet and Kamala Harris.
How much more do you want from me, people?
But before we get to any of that, I often tell you guys I am not a journalist.
I'm just a guy at a desk telling you what I think, sitting in my house, in my office, and I'm talking to a camera telling you what I think.
I'm not a journalist in that I'm not out there on the ground collecting facts.
One of the things that journalists, journalists have done to ruin journalism, is when they get something wrong or they make a mistake, they rarely retract the mistake.
Or what they usually will do is when they get the first story wrong, that'll get, you know, thousands and thousands of retweets, be amplified everywhere, get tons of YouTube views and everything else.
And then when they put the retraction up, they'll do it like in the middle of the night when no one sees it and like, you know, three people retweet it.
I actually made a factual error last week.
You're not going to believe it.
I am not the perfect human being.
On a simple definition of gaslighting.
I was talking about gaslighting last week, which is an internet tactic.
And basically what I said was something to the effect of that gaslighting is when you attack people online so over the top they don't even really know how to respond.
That's actually not quite right.
And by the way, many of you politely addressed it in the comment section.
So I said to my guys, we're going to address it.
Now, a few people did attack me.
Ruben doesn't know what he's talking about.
He got the definition of gaslighting wrong.
Okay.
But actually, most people said, you know, we like you, Dave.
You dropped the ball on this one.
A lot of people sent me links and the rest of it.
So I do want to correct what the definition of gaslighting is.
So the actual definition of gaslight is in reference to the 1944 movie aptly titled Gaslight, which is to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
That is actually the sort of internet 2020 definition of gaslight.
When I was saying, oh, you just keep saying things that are so over the top,
it's like people don't know how to respond.
That seems like an offshoot.
I would say that's an offshoot of gaslighting, but hey, I'm not the perfect human being, guys,
and I just want you to know that.
And that is the official definition of gaslighting.
And by the way, this is what we see constantly.
When people are just railed and attacked by bots and trolls so that they don't even know what's real anymore.
It's just sort of the culture of the internet as it is.
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And now back to me doing the show.
All right, guys.
So our three stories today, I think two of them are going to be pretty obvious in that we had to talk about them and they're sort of linked together.
And then we just got a bananas clip of Kamala and Rachel Maddow.
The big story yesterday was this New York Post story that came out that seems to reveal some things about Hunter Biden that a lot of people have kind of been talking about, but seems to now have some evidence, actual evidence behind it and some emails because of a laptop that was owned by Hunter Biden that he dropped off at a store.
So we're gonna get to that.
Now, ironically, that story Because it's about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and all that.
That's the type of story that, of course, would have been ignored by the mainstream media, regardless of how important it is, because it's a sort of anti-Biden story and it involves his son.
Of course, the mainstream media would have ignored it.
Of course, it goes without saying that if it had been Donald Trump Jr.
doing something, using business relationships of his dad, even if his dad wasn't president at the time, of course the media would be going crazy with it.
But there is a reason that this story really caught on yesterday, and it's because of the second story that we're going to cover today, which is that Twitter started blocking the links to the New York Post story And then what happened was several high-level people, including the White House Press Secretary, they were actually locked out of Twitter because they tried to post the story.
You also couldn't even send the story in a direct message.
That's the private messaging system that people who are following each other on Twitter have to communicate with each other privately.
and you couldn't even post it there.
So ironically, as big tech, and Facebook did some version of this too,
where they were warning people about the story, as they tried to censor a story, what did they do?
Well, they did the butterfly effect.
And the butterfly effect, of course, is when you were, by drawing attention to something,
you're then amplifying the attention.
You're saying, don't look there.
It makes everyone look there.
So then the story got bigger and bigger and bigger.
And yesterday, basically, was everybody talking about Hunter Biden.
And then that sort of shifted into something that obviously I've been talking about for years, which is the big tech censorship stuff.
I know a little bit about that.
And I actually had an exchange with the CEO of Twitter, Jack, yesterday, and I think he may end up regretting the exchange.
I actually wasn't trying to get him, but we're gonna show you the little exchange we had.
And then finally, Kamala Harris was on Rachel Maddow.
And they just laughed up a storm about that fly that was in Mike Pence's hair during the debate.
And I wanna show it to you because it is another one of these incidences where it's like, my God, my God, that tall, orange, hair-plugged man is a million times more authentic than you people.
And I don't know how that is.
It's a strange science fiction story that we're living in.
So there you go.
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And now back to me.
Here we go.
Okay, so Hunter Biden.
I'm going to tell you the key bullet points of this story.
You know, I think one of the...
Problems we have right now is that because we're inundated with so much information, that when you start hearing stories, whether it's a political story, or someone was shot by the police, or there are riots, whatever the story might be, there's so many conflicting versions of the story, and everyone gets so into the weeds of the details that most people tune out.
And I don't blame you for tuning out, and sometimes I tune out too.
It's like, you got a life, right?
You might want to do something.
You might want to have dinner with your spouse.
Or get laid.
Do people still do that?
That's what they were doing back in my day.
Or whatever it is you might want to do.
And then we're hit with so much information where you have to know every little detail of everything.
So I'm going to try to give you the bare bones on this Hunter Biden thing so that if you get into a conversation with someone about it, you will be able to talk about it functionally.
So here's basically what happened.
Hunter Biden dropped off a computer at a repair shop in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware in April of 2019.
Okay, so this is about a year and a half ago and that's according to the store's owner.
The customer who brought in the water damaged MacBook Pro, and we believe this to be Hunter Biden,
never paid for the service, nor did he retrieve it or a hard drive
where the contents of the laptop were stored.
And the store owner also says that he repeatedly tried to contact the client.
But before returning the gear, the shop owner says that he made a copy of the hard drive
and later gave it to former mayor, Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, Robert Costello.
So that's kind of interesting that he called the guy who dropped it off many times,
which we believe to be Hunter Biden, and then he did return it, it sounds like,
but then he also made a copy of it and gave it to Giuliani's lawyer.
So he must have seen something on there.
That's what it sounds like.
And then what we should make note of here, and this is the sort of big part,
is that Hunter Biden introduced his then vice president, father, Joe Biden, to a top executive
at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before Joe Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine
into firing the prosecutor who was investigating the company
according to emails that were obtained by the New York Post.
And Joe Biden, of course, is claiming that he, quote, "Never spoke to my son
"about his overseas business dealings."
Of course, Hunter Biden was paid 50,000 a month by Burisma, which is this Ukrainian company,
even though he had no expertise, right?
He had no expertise whatsoever, so they were obviously buying access to his father.
It's just obvious, and of course, many of you, I'm sure, have seen the video where Joe Biden is bragging and laughing about how he got the prosecutor fired, otherwise we were gonna hold back all of this aid money.
So this is a smoking gun, and you know, you could look at this story and you can go, oh well this is just sort of dirty politics and nepotism and all that.
And by the way, it is dirty politics and nepotism and all that.
It is.
This is sort of how it all works.
I suppose at some level this is exactly what Trump was talking about in 2016, about draining the swamp, that this stuff shouldn't work this way.
Now, that's not me sitting here saying he's never used his influence to help his children
because he obviously has.
But if he had done that as president, that's different than doing it as a private businessman.
Right?
Like if you're a hotel magnet and, you know, you give your son a job or whatever it might be,
well, that's your choice to do it.
And then if your son's not qualified, it's not gonna work.
And if your son is qualified, it is gonna work.
That's very different than if you work in the government and your son is getting jobs for insane amounts of money, 50 grand a month, when he's not qualified at all, just so those people have access to you as a representative of the US government, in this case, as the vice president.
So there is stuff here.
Now, the bigger part of the story I think is sort of the second thing that I want to talk about, which is the censorship around this.
Now, we can debate all of the nitty-gritty on that.
And by the way, I think it's perfectly legit for people to say, you know, with all the stuff that's going on in the world right now, with lockdowns and COVID and the race stuff and the protests and All of that, that this story is just sort of, you know, three weeks before the election, like they're just throwing the kitchen sink at everything and it's a distraction and all that, I think that's a perfectly legit way of looking at things.
So that's up for you to decide, right?
Like you personally have to decide how important this story is to you.
Does it sound like it's seriously crooked?
Yeah.
Does it sound like this is sort of Politics 101?
Yeah.
Does it sound like there's a cover-up?
Yeah.
But the bigger story is now this, which is the censorship stuff.
So Twitter decided that it would not let people tweet out the link to New York Post.
New York Post broke this story.
And it would not let people tweet out the link, meaning put it in their newsfeed, nor send it via private...
Direct message.
Several people, including the White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, were locked out of their accounts.
I saw that Jack Posobiec was locked out of his account.
A bunch of blue check people were locked out of their account for posting the story.
I didn't even try to post it because my feeling was if I get locked out too, it's an endless headache.
The story had already risen enough that it was like, okay, enough people are screenshotting it that people are now realizing there's a problem here.
There was also a Facebook communications guy who tweeted out something to the effect of, he's not going to link to it on Facebook, or he's not going to link to it even on Twitter, but that in effect he was saying, but will down regulate the story.
So all of the stuff that a bunch of us conspiracy theorists have been talking about on the internet for years,
about how they de-boost, about how they shadow ban, around how they reorganize search results
to make you think a certain thing, it's all coming out to be true.
And of course, it's all coming out now right before the election.
And that is actually why when every four years they say, "Oh, this is the most important election of all time,"
This probably is, at least within modern times.
Because it's not just about the battle between, let's say, Trump, which represents some piece of America that we can recognize, versus the far-left progressives, right?
It's not just that.
It's also how we're going to be able to get information going forward.
Like, Trump is sort of the last stand against big tech.
And now I saw a ton of conservatives yesterday saying we have to regulate them.
And my feeling is maybe, maybe you can break them up.
I mean, this is again where I'm more of a libertarian, so I would always want the market to do something.
By the way, that's why I started Locals.com.
It's to give tools to creators so you're not so reliant on big tech.
And if you guys haven't checked it out, check out RubinReport.com or download our iOS app.
or our Google Android app, and you'll always be able to connect with me,
and I'll always be able to connect with you if I ever got booted off these things,
and we've given those same tools to any other creator.
So I like the market, but I know that the market can't solve everything.
That's why I've always said, that's why I don't consider myself a pure libertarian.
I got into that a little bit last week with Joe Jorgensen, the libertarian presidential candidate.
So I saw a lot of conservatives saying, okay, regulate, regulate, regulate, and this is a dangerous game.
You just have to be aware of what the game is, even though I understand the impulse there.
Because the thing is, okay, so let's say you regulate.
Let's say just today, right, the Republican-led Senate and the President decide to regulate big tech, whatever that means, right?
They're gonna send government regulators in, we're gonna look at the algorithms, we're gonna uncover all this stuff.
Well, okay, that kind of sounds good for the next three weeks, but you do realize there's an election, and if Trump loses, you've now given the power of regulating big tech over to the Democrats, and they may be much less inclined to watch out for you guys, the conservatives.
So that's an interesting just...
It's just an interesting philosophical piece of what power does.
When you give power to another entity, you gotta be pretty wary that that entity isn't gonna use the power against you.
So I don't like the idea of regulation.
If you were to tell me that somehow these companies had to be broken up a little bit, something like that, I could get on board that.
And what I definitely can get on board is actually what Trump did, but it hasn't been put into play yet, which is stripping some of their protections.
So there's this Section 230 of the Communications Act, Which basically looks at these companies either as platforms or publishers.
And if you're a platform, meaning Facebook and Twitter and YouTube argue that they're platforms, meaning people just put stuff up there and they just get out of the way.
They're just a platform for people to put their ideas out there.
Well then they have certain legal protections.
But if they're a publisher, meaning if they're deciding what views can and can't be on their platform, well then they don't have all those
protections.
So a publisher would be more like, say, what the Daily Wire is, or what the Blaze is, or
what I do here, right?
We're publishers and we're creating this piece of content, as opposed to a platform that
just says we're going to put up these things.
So Trump did this executive action on 230, but I don't know that it's been put into place yet.
So it's a big mess, all of this, but I wanna show you an exchange that I had with Jack on Twitter.
So Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Twitter, and we had an exchange yesterday.
Now it started off where he basically was telling people that they dropped the ball On what happened with this New York Post story.
So he sends out this tweet about the New York Post story.
He said, our communication around our actions on the New York Post article was not great, and blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we're blocking, unacceptable.
And then what he did there was he linked to a Twitter safety thread where they explain their theory a little bit more.
I jumped in, I actually didn't expect him to respond, and I said, do you shadowban based on political beliefs?
Simple yes or no will do.
Now, Jack immediately responded and said no.
Now just to be clear, what shadowbanning is, when people say shadowbanning, what they mean is that when you sign up for Twitter, You expect you're getting a feed in chronological order, that you follow a certain set of people, and if they post something, it's gonna be in your feed.
Shadowbanning is not that you've banned those people from Twitter, it's that sometimes their tweets just won't show up in the feed.
Now, any of us that are in the game And I suspect many of you are.
In the game, meaning you tweet a lot, you talk to people online a lot, all that stuff.
We know when sometimes things just simply don't get seen.
And I have people that say it to me all the time, and you guys messaging me about how you're unsubscribed from my YouTube channel and the rest of it, okay?
So I said, do you shadow ban based on political beliefs?
Simple yes or no or do.
Now Jack immediately wrote back, no.
Now that's pretty interesting.
So Jack is saying, We don't shadow ban.
Now, I think if I could have rewrote the tweet, I would have said, instead of, do you shadow ban, meaning you, Jack, I probably should have said, does Twitter shadow ban?
Because he may just be playing some sort of linguistic trick here between you, meaning Jack, or Twitter as a company.
Also, he's not under oath, so he can say, I suppose, whatever he wants to me, right?
This isn't as if Congress asked him, does Twitter shadow ban, and then he lied.
But the reason, I'm not trying to make this about me, the reason I think this is an interesting point Is that if you look at the image that we show you where he says no, there's something known as the Twitter ratio, and this is where, you know, if you do something that really catches fire, that has meaning on Twitter, you get ratioed in a positive way, meaning you'll have, you know, thousands of retweets, and probably even more likes, and generally very few comments, because people will just retweet, that's their way, and like, that's their way of saying, oh, I like this, this is funny, this is interesting, this is insightful, something like that.
When you see a tweet that has, Tons and tons of replies.
That usually means you got ratioed to hell because you lied or you're being called out on something.
As of us taping this right now, and this has probably significantly changed even just in the last little bit, there were almost 5,000 comments to Jack.
Basically, virtually all of them.
I mean, I did a scan.
Virtually all of them saying, we don't believe you, you're a liar, you guys obviously shadow banned, you're playing with words, and the rest of it.
I don't know what the answer is.
I will just say one other thing on this.
I'm not trying to make this about Jack Dorsey.
I'm truly not.
Jack did agree to do this show publicly and privately several times, and then his people just, they just seemingly wouldn't do it.
That was actually right before he went on Joe Rogan, and I think that appearance was so terrible, probably for him and for Twitter, that they just, you know, you just kick the can down the road.
Anyway, I mention all of this not to get in the weeds again on just like little Twitter back and forths and everything else.
But the way the game is being played right now, it's like we are about, as I said, under three weeks away from a massive election.
And it's not just that crazy stories are breaking.
And again, it's for you to judge how important you think the Hunter Biden story is.
It's that the companies that control the way we can receive information and share information, they've decided That they are the arbiters of what can and can't be shared.
You know, the Twitter support thread on that that I just referenced that Jack retweeted, he talks about how they won't share certain stories if they're unauthorized and things like that.
And it's like, well, you guys did share the Trump tax story, right, which was leaked.
So we know that there's an asymmetry here.
And I think what has happened is the people, the people now, right, us, you guys, me, We've woken up enough that they're really losing control, losing control fast.
And they've got basically three weeks to figure out how to recalibrate so that Biden becomes president.
Because this, like the lockdowns and so many other things in our society, are purely about Trump.
It's a weird, it's just a freaking weird, weird thing.
Maybe we are in a simulation, who knows?
But speaking of simulations, let me show you two humanoids.
This is Kamala Harris, vice presidential candidate.
She was on Rachel Maddow, and just check out these two genuine humans.
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But I just realized that I would kick myself if I didn't just ask you, before I let you
go, if you noticed the fly on Vice President Pence's head at the time during the debate
or if that was something that only...
We could see it at home.
Could you see it sitting next to him?
Did you have feelings about, like, did you have the instinct to...
You know, Rachel, I just, you know, I think that it's important that we kind of find a way, all of us, to move on.
And, you know, kind of fly away from this subject onto something else.
Yeah.
Senator Harris, you are very kind, and let's just spare a thought right now for the people who have to write closed captions for this portion of the interview, and for those who have to transcribe it, because they're going to have no idea how to convey what we just communicated.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Lord, the theater, the fake laughter, the staring at the camera, the inability to talk, it's just all gross.
How Donald Trump Is more authentic than these people.
I mean, I've been saying it literally for a year.
I've been saying it.
It started really with Elizabeth Warren when she had that beer.
Remember, she's on a webcam.
I'mma get me a beer.
And it's like, man, Trump dancing the YMCA like this is more authentic than all of you guys.
It's just bananas.
Anyway, I just thought that would be a funny way to end the show today.
Hopefully you will see this.
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Thanks for watching, everybody.
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