Nicole Arbour, a former Canadian Liberal turned Trump supporter, details her ideological pivot after exposing Hollywood hypocrisy and media lies regarding the Malibu fires. She contrasts "social justice warriors" with genuine Trump voters, criticizing CNN and The Washington Post for election censorship while defending big tech's user retention strategies. Arbour also attacks Justin Trudeau's "Great Reset," recounts securing security for a Dave Rubin event disrupted by Antifa, and announces plans for a new late-night show targeting left-wing figures, suggesting the cultural divide stems from elite deception rather than voter racism. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, I'm really happy to have you here because I did not know you.
I didn't know who you were.
Now I know you a little bit, although we've only done it with this stupid digital stuff.
We haven't met in person yet.
But I didn't know you until my book came out, and then I was doing all this press stuff, and you were one of the people that I did an Instagram Live with, and I immediately turned to my producer, Michael, after, and I was like, I need to know this girl.
We need to be friends.
She's just great, and fun, and happy, and you care about politics, but it doesn't dictate your life, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So for the people that know nothing about you, let's just introduce Nicole Arbor.
I'm from Canada, but then legal immigrant to America, holler holler.
Did stand up for tons of years after a bad car accident, ended up doing stuff online because I still could.
And yeah, I'm over I'm over 80 viral videos now doing comedy straight to camera and I freaking love it.
I also on the my other secret life side work with every major brand you can think of and I've worked with every social media platform you can think of either on the dev team secretly helping develop different strategies for them or marketing advertising and it's the best and I have a lot of fun.
Well, you are having fun and you're happy in the midst of all this.
And you're kind of one of those people that I feel like, you're not really like a pure political beast, but when I open up Twitter or I open up Instagram, I have a very short list of people that I think are like kind of sane these days, you know?
My very first official, official job was I was voted into this like junior prime minister of Canada role in Canada.
I was working for the federal government, making way more money than my friends were, working at like MPP and MP's offices, so kind of like our senators.
And people wanted me to go into politics.
I actually had a scholarship for political science if I went through the Liberal Party of Canada.
So I really started getting into it again a couple of years ago because everyone started
going nuts after Trump.
And specifically, I told this story a few times.
Two nights before the last election, I was on a platform speaking at USC.
I was on a panel talking about social media, how it's working through the election, stuff like that.
And people from Hillary Clinton's campaign came up to me right before I went on, these large men in suits, and they told me that I'm going to say on stage that I'm voting for Hillary.
And I was like, well, I'm a Canadian, first of all, so I'm not voting for anyone.
So when they, when they did this, when they intro'd you at USC like that, did you say anything when you got on stage or were you just too nervous or you just wanted to get?
And I was like, I definitely didn't say that, but hey, like I kept it sarcastic, but the same people wanted me to do an interview with David Hogg.
Who I am not a fan of.
I kind of think he's made a career off the, you know, dead students in his class.
I've inquired to see how much he charges for appearances and I think a kid getting $30,000 to talk about his friends, maybe his friends, being shot at school is pretty grotesque.
How much of that are you giving to the families?
Right? $30,000!
How much of that's going to the families?
How much of your activism is actually activating anything?
And not a fan of the kid.
I think he's a dick.
So I was still going to do the interview.
I do.
It's what I think.
Sad that that happened to you.
It's tragic.
But kid's a dick.
So I was going to do the interview.
And his, like one of the other fathers that were part of the shooting, they think they're giant celebrities now.
And they stood up all of their interviews that day.
They just, oh, sorry, we're busy.
We're going to a dinner.
So there's these camera crews and these people and we're like, we came here to do an interview.
It took hours to get to this location in LA and they went to a dinner instead.
So do you care about your message or are you just trying to be famous?
And yeah, that started it.
And they still reach out to me, that group of people to be like, Hey, Nicole, can you help us for this election?
I'm like, no.
I think you're dicks and I see you lying constantly.
So you've made an enemy and I'm going to beat you.
And I actually was responsible for outing him twice, he probably hates me, in the last year because I was like, wait a minute, that doesn't seem right.
I'd go to C-SPAN and watch the full uncut footage and then I'd do a quick video on it and be like, Jimmy Kimmel, did you just lie to your entire audience?
Let's see.
And he did.
And then he issued an apology a couple days later on Twitter.
He was lying about Mike Pence in one of them.
But the more I saw this, the more I was like, motherfuckers tricked me.
Doesn't it seem crazy to you that you have to, like, fact-check comedians as a comedian?
Like, if you would have said that to any, like, eight-year-old who wants to be a comedian, and your job will be to fact-check comedians through comedy, you'd be like, what the F are you talking about?
Like if I suddenly wanted to vote for Trump, it doesn't change that I think you can get married to whoever you want and be happy and I love you and I'm going to dance with you in the parade.
It just, it got so obvious and ridiculous and just purely absurd that I was like, one side seems crazy and the other side seems like values.
Yeah, but isn't it weird because, I mean, one of the things that I love about you is that you've been open about your evolution and you've just kind of gone where good people are and that kind of thing, which is very, very much what I did as well.
Like you just kind of were like, Well, wait a minute, all the bad guys actually seem like the good guys and the people who are always telling you they're the good guys, they don't seem that great or that tolerant or that diverse or anything else.
But I've never done this on the Rubin Report before, but I would like you to pick up your phone right now.
And I am gonna ask you to quote yourself.
We're gonna put up the image, but I want Nicole Arbor to do her best Nicole Arbor impersonation because I believe it was the day before the election.
Am I right?
The day before the election, I think it was the day before or like two days before.
Or maybe two days before.
You put up a post on Instagram that I thought just absolutely encapsulated so much of why people that you would never think traditionally would have voted for Trump or would have voted Republican or conservative, why they did it.
And so now Nicole Arbor, this is Nicole Arbor as Nicole Arbor.
I said, and I meant this, I said because one day I'll be telling my grandkids to stand up for what they believe when I didn't.
Because I believe black people can vote however they want and speaking down to them is racist.
Because I am and will forever be against censorship of any kind.
It's dangerous, it's wrong, and it's anti-American.
Because Democrat-run cities are falling to pieces like a zombie movie.
Because for four years I was called a Trump supporter as an insult.
I wasn't at the time, but it was used as the worst thing you could call someone and a quick jab by people who call themselves liberals.
The way they treat anyone with different views is actually discrimination and isn't liberal at all.
It's gross.
No different from not liking someone because of their race or religion.
Because logic over feelings.
Because I grew up admiring the American dream, and he's the closest choice to restore it for everyone, not just those who say the script and fall in line.
That a couple, two years ago, when there was the giant fires in Malibu, I saw her post on her social media that there was a bunch of animals trapped at the Malibu Wine Safari, like trapped in the fires, couldn't get out.
Yeah.
So I was part of a search and rescue team just because I'm a Canadian and this is what we naturally do.
Um, so I went and I told this search and rescue team, Hey, I just got this tip about this.
Look at this story.
Truckloads of us went up into the mountains during the fires with these giant animal crates.
We were like, Oh, we have to rescue this draft.
We have to get all these animals.
So we had to get all these big animal containers that they usually use for zoos or to transfer animals.
There was, I think there was like 10 or something of us going up there.
It took an hour to get in through the fires.
We get there ready to rescue these animals and they were fine.
They were never at any point in danger.
It was alive.
It was totally social justice warrioring all over the interwebs.
And the zookeeper was in tears.
This tiny little Mexican man that this is his whole life.
He came out running in his socks, crying, and he's like, please stop taking photos and stuff with my animals and pretending that they're being abused.
This girl came here earlier, said she was going to try and help raise money for us to rebuild because the buildings were burned down, but not the animals.
And she took all these selfies and stuff and he let her, and then she released them to the press as if something bad happened to these animals and they were abused.
I came back.
I felt so bad for these people.
I came back the next day with the press.
Walked around with the fire chief who said that the place was so safe he would have put his men where they had their animals during the fire.
The SPCA came with us.
All the press came with us and walked around the entire property to show what she had said's a lie because she was told business.
Turns out she had a personal vendetta against the business.
Can we do a little bit of the what happened to comedians kind of thing?
We talked about Kimmel a little bit.
That's like late night TV, a certain set, a certain level of them.
But what the hell has happened to comedians?
There are basically no funny comics anymore.
I wanna do some standup stuff with you.
We were talking about it before this, and then the whole stupid lockdown thing.
But watching some of these people that used to be funny, Sarah Silverman, Cummings, it happens, Amy Schumer, like it happens to be a lot of females, but it's the men too.
I mean, they've all, Patton Oswalt, all of these people that have just gone totally bananas.
I kind of love everything that's happened to stand-up and to comedy and this whole like, everything is wrong stand up for blah blah blah shut up Amy Schumer showing up to the woman's march with your supermodel friend to pose in her belly top saying don't objectify women while she twerks for money in a thong shut the fuck up all of you shut the fuck up get out of the way but because they're so crazy it made a new breed of comics and I'm so happy.
I swear, like, the day after the election, I saw all of the comedians just kind of, like, snap.
I saw them kind of like snap to I saw all these comedians just like this little spark went in their eyes like we give up we've been over okay we're going and everyone's just been like going and it's been really fun to watch and I think it cracked people to where comedy is just gonna go boom again So you think we'll have a boom in comedy because it was so bad and so, you know, social justice, virtue signaling, lefty nonsense, that you think after now we're gonna have like a second explosion, like an 80s explosion or something?
Oh, people really knew him for more, like, kind of Christian comedy, and he kind of stays in that, like, hilarious and witty safe space of the Christian comedy.
His last, like, eight videos have just been lethal, and he's just, like, going after the leftists.
And I'm like, okay.
Like, everyone is just starting to hammer on it, because it's so ridiculous.
And I've decided, I have, like, thrown out all my other plans for 2021.
And it reminds me of when there was those first round of riots, and they went after the CNN building, and I was just like, look, I hope nobody's inside.
Oh, it's fun.
Like, in all of the chaos, there always come some new sprouts of hope, and I really think comedy's gonna swing the other way now, and I'm excited to go punch it at all of them.
How have you managed, like, what do you think it is about you that manages to keep you happy and sane throughout this?
Because I've seen so many of friends, colleagues, family members, blah, blah, blah, that have just, even the ones that kinda get it, that are basically sane, but they're just crushed by all of this all the time.
So this is a tweet that you sent out on November 15th.
The election was November 3rd.
So 12 days after the election, you sent out this tweet, which I shared and it really caught fire.
And I think, and I've seen other people steal it, by the way, since then, where they've just copied and pasted and not credited you.
But here we go.
Here we go.
I'm not, I'm gonna do, this is Dave Rubin as Dave Rubin reading Nicole Arbor.
Number one, election is held.
Number two, citizens' votes are counted.
Number three, participants may contest procedures.
You are here, and that's in caps.
Number four, results are certified.
Number five, elector votes are cast.
Number six, elector votes are counted.
Number seven, winner is declared.
Some think you are here.
When I saw this tweet, I was like, ah!
It's the perfect illustration of everyone being confused about everything, because even people that I know that are bright political people are pretending that we're at number seven, that just because the AP and CNN said something, that that means we're there.
I think the reason for that, actually, is because a lot of people want to be at seven so badly, whether we're supposed to be there or not, that they're just saying, okay, we're at three.
But are you afraid that if Trump does not pull off this stuff with the lawsuits and stuff, and Biden becomes president, that at that point, why wouldn't big tech just get rid of all of us?
They're calling us all Nazis anyway.
The entire political establishment will say, you're a bunch of Nazi Trump supporters.
You've built your life and career and all that goodness on the pipes of YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all that.
Are you worried that January 20 rolls around, Biden's president, and within the next couple of weeks, why would big tech not just boot everybody who's deplorable and a bad guy and a Nazi and the rest of it?
Everything they do is, this is where my tech nerd side comes in, everything they do is to keep people on that platform longer and to keep them looking at more ads and watching more videos and earning them more ad revenue.
They have no reason to get rid of 70 something million people like this.
Like they're not going to infinity wars us because they like our money.
Because most Western countries, and now it's a little up in the air with the US, but in the last five years, most Western countries, they went to the right.
But you guys, you went the other way, and now he's talking great reset.
Listen, the Media Matters people, they watch this show with a keen eye waiting for me to pause the wrong way or for one of my guests to accidentally say something because Skype freaked out for a moment.
So we have to be very careful you do not - Is that true?
Yeah, these people are pathetic, ridiculous fools.
Wait, do you guys think it's a little weird, you guys, you Canadians?
We don't really understand you people up north.
Do you guys think it's weird the way that we, that it seems like our issues have been imported into Canadian shores?
Because every gig that I did in Canada, and when I was with Jordan and when I've done solo gigs, People are crazed and starving for the types of things that I talk about, and I did an event with...
Maxine Bernier, who was the People's Party of Canada, you know, basically the libertarian candidate for prime minister.
And we did an event and Antifa was there and they were throwing things and attacking us and screaming Nazi.
That video, you probably saw that video of the woman with the walker trying to cross the street.
That was for me to come to Canada to talk about free speech, like insane.
And then you have all these people and they're screaming Black Lives Matter and all this stuff.
And it's like, well, is there a problem with police shootings in Canada?
When Canadians start going off about issues, I laugh most of the time because I would say our number one issue, if we have issues outside of pandemic and stuff like that, is environmental.
It's where are we going to lay pipeline for natural oil?
What indigenous lands can we go through?
What's not cool?
Let's make peace with the indigenous people.
Those are the real issues Canadians have, and I'd say number one is environmental.
Other than that, we're kind of chill.
And I think that makes some people antsy, so they make up problems, just like everyone else in the world.
They have nothing to complain about, so they make it up.
I just remembered something.
I don't think I told you.
Did I ever tell you that I messaged you while you were in Hamilton, Ontario?
Can I tell you off camera, because it's a very special brand, and I'm afraid if I tell everybody, then everyone will have it, and then I won't be able to get it.
Can I just?
I do have some limits around it.
Okay, yeah, that's fine.
Nicole, I can't believe we haven't met in real life and actually had a beer or something, so I can't wait to actually do that.
And I'm pre-congratulating you on your nighttime show, and I'll see you on the Instagram.
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