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*outro* I'm Dave Rubin.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
This is the Rubin Report Direct Message for today, July 15th, 2021.
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We've got a Q&A for you.
We got dozens and dozens, if not over a hundred questions submitted at rubinreport.locals.com.
So we're going to get into a big mix.
Before We do that though.
I've got one story I want to hit on with you because the administration seems to be afraid to say the C word.
Not that C word, the other C word, communism, you dirty, dirty person, you.
Yeah, the administration will just not say communism related to Cuba.
So we're going to talk about that.
And then, of course, that Black Lives Matter, or Black Lives Matters, whatever it is,
they are full-on Marxist-Communist.
We've known that for quite some time, and they've basically issued a statement
backing the government of Cuba and blaming America for everything that's happening.
I will read you the entire statement, a statement which you will not see on MSNBC or CNN.
Not that you, wise person that you are, watch those ludicrous channels.
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All right, so let's just talk a little bit about Cuba right up top because the protests continue.
There have been rolling blackouts there because of the government and shutting off internet and a series of attacks on citizens and people are still being brave enough to be in the streets because you're not going to believe this, guys.
Human beings want to live freely.
They want to live without government coercion.
They want to live lives that are theirs and with a sense of purpose And not to be told what to do and when to do it and how to do it and all that stuff.
Well, for some reason, Jen Psaki, who is our White House press secretary, not press correspondent, I don't know what she is.
She's just a liar.
Jen Psaki, who's just this woman who lies every day.
She stands in the White House press room and she just lies all day.
Well, she refuses to blame communism on this.
She just won't even say The C word.
And before I show you this video of Jen's sake, I would recommend that if you have any sake, now is your time to drink it.
Here we go.
peter doocy ▲ ● ▼
As the administration tries to figure out the root causes of migration to the country, don't we know that the reason people want to leave Cuba is because they don't like communism?
And so, as you're trying to figure out, like, what the processes are for these people who want to leave Cuba.
jen psaki ▲ ● ▼
Well, I'm not sure what your question is.
peter doocy ▲ ● ▼
Why won't she say the c-word?
jen psaki ▲ ● ▼
Why are people leaving Cuba or what is the process for them getting here?
I can explain either of them, but you tell me.
peter doocy ▲ ● ▼
Do you think that people are leaving Cuba because they don't like communism?
jen psaki ▲ ● ▼
I think we've been pretty clear that we think people are leaving Cuba or not leaving Cuba or
protesting in the streets all as well because they are opposed to the oppression, to the
unidentified
mismanagement of the government in the country. Why won't she say the C word? Why won't she just
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say, "Yes, people are obviously protesting communism." That would be something to say, right?
Like, communism, bad.
Capitalism, freedom, liberty, good.
Why won't she say that?
And I tweeted something out this morning that caught fire.
Because where is any Democrat that is an elected official in the United States saying just flat out communism is bad?
We stand against communism.
You don't even have to get into the minutia of what's happening exactly in Cuba at the moment, but the ideology of communism, that the government should take over everything and basically be in everyone's lives, from the media to business, private enterprise, education, the entire thing.
I mean, in many ways, it's exactly what's happening in America right now, so I think you can figure out why the Democrats won't speak out against it.
But if this is where we're at, Right?
And it appears to be so, where the White House press secretary will not say the C-word.
I mean, they're turning communism into Voldemort, right?
I did make a Harry Potter reference yesterday.
Again, it's against everything I stand for, because I want to keep it to a sci-fi thing, not a wizard thing.
But, you know, in Harry Potter, they didn't want to say Voldemort's name.
And that's what these guys are doing with communism.
This is really disturbing, but it shouldn't surprise us, because if you think That this is your parents' Democratic Party.
If you think there's any moderate left in the party, there might be some who are privately moderate, but unless they stand up against the radicals, they don't really exist.
So show me, please, I mean, I would love to see it.
Show me a Democrat who is an elected official in the United States who will forcefully come out against communism and for the people of Cuba.
You ain't gonna see it from Bernie or AOC or Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and you won't
even see it from the supposed moderates, you know, let's say the Chuck Schumer wing of
the party.
You ain't gonna see it from any of them.
And why you ain't gonna see it from any of them?
It's because the party has been completely radicalized by Black Lives Matter.
So now let's get the statement that Black Lives Matter issued on what's happening in Cuba.
I'm going to read the whole thing to you and as you'll see there's no real condemnation of the Cuban government.
It's mostly a condemnation of the United States.
They also defend a cop killer.
Here we go.
Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S.
federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo.
This cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans' right to choose their own government, is at the heart of Cuba's current crisis.
Since 1962, the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine, and supplies, costing the tiny island nation an estimated $130 billion.
Without that money, it is harder for Cuba to acquire medical equipment needed to develop its own COVID-19 vaccine.
vaccines, and equipment for food production.
This comes in spite of the country's strong medical care and history of lending doctors
and nurses to disasters around the world.
The people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S.
government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination.
United States leaders have tried to crush this revolution for decades.
Instead of international amity, respect, and goodwill, the U.S.
government has only instigated suffering for the country's 11 million people, of which 4 million are black and brown.
Cuba has historically demonstrated solidarity with oppressed peoples of African descent
from protecting black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur through granting her asylum
to supporting black liberation struggles in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and South Africa.
Now we look to President Biden to end the embargo, something Barack Obama called for in 2016.
This embargo is a blatant human rights violation and it must come to an end.
Now there's no condemnation of the Cuban government itself.
It's a communist dictatorship that the people are protesting.
The people on the streets who want to be free are not saying anything about a US embargo.
embargo.
They want to be free of their own government.
They're running around with American flags, screaming freedom and liberty.
So what's beautiful, in a way, is what's happening here, is that the administration can't say anything bad about communism because they kind of like it, and Black Lives Matter is now fully exposing itself.
It used to be a self-proclaimed Marxist organization.
Then they took that language off their website.
Well, now they're going all in on communism, right?
They're not saying communism is bad and this government is bad and the U.S.
maybe made some mistakes along the way.
They're saying this is all the U.S.' 's fault and the people really love the government of Cuba and it would all be okay if it wasn't for the U.S.
All right.
Black Lives Matter is a full-on communist organization, and no one in our administration seems to be willing to say anything bad about communism.
So this is one of those things.
I don't mean to be partisan, but if you tell me that the Democrats and the Republicans are equally bad, both sides are just equally bad, and I'm a centrist or something like that, it's like...
I don't know.
Can you tell what time it is?
Like, something ain't right here.
And I get that the Republicans aren't great, but they ain't that, and that thing's pretty freaking horrible.
So, Saki, if you're watching, say communism.
You'll feel better.
You'll feel better about it.
All right, guys, let's get to I'm going to do as many as possible from your questions submitted at RubinReport.Locals.com.
Oh, and by the way, for the first time ever today, now that we have live stream on Locals, I am going to jump on live stream a little bit later, and if I didn't get to your question today here, I will try to get to your question a little bit later, exclusive for the Locals community, because we are here for you.
Emmy says, when is your book coming out, and will we get a special pre-order deal with signature on it.
Also, has he considered having his own community for things like that?
I assume by he, you mean me.
The pre-order for the book.
So the book is coming out.
I want to tell you the title and we just absolutely finalized the cover today.
Like I saw it like an hour ago, but I won't do it just yet.
We will announce the title of the book.
We will show you the cover of the book during my live stream on July 30th, right?
That's Friday, July 30th, which will be my last day on the grid.
And then as you guys know, I go off the grid for August to an undisclosed location
where I will do undisclosed things for one month and not have any news or phone or anything else.
But on that live stream, we're gonna do all sorts of promos.
There'll be signatures.
We're gonna have numbered copies and we're figuring out a way.
We're trying to work through the details right now.
I have a meeting about it right after the show today to figure out a way that the locals community
will get the first numbered copies.
That's what we're trying to figure out.
Just logistically, it's a little bit of a thing, but if I sell, if we sell 10,000 numbered copies on day one, I will sign 10,000 things.
It will be absolutely my pleasure.
But I'm really excited about this book.
I think it's a nice step It's step two, and maybe in a trilogy.
It's sort of part two of after Dumper in this book where I laid out what my ideas are, what I think the right ideas are.
This book is, well, what do you do once you have those right ideas in the face of some really awful stuff, say an administration that won't say the communism.
So yeah, we're gonna figure out some giveaways and I'm gonna sign book plates and they'll be numbered
and a whole bunch of other stuff.
And yeah, there'll be special stuff for the locals community
Lance says, "Has your thought process improved "or the way you approach business shifted
"since being red pilled?"
You know, that's an interesting question because I would say they sorta,
it sorta happened in parallel.
Like, as I started, say, becoming a little more libertarian in my thought process, right, and talking to libertarian or even conservative economists and, you know, just the, let's get the government out of the way, let's lower taxes, let's get rid of regulation.
Like, I was building a business here, right?
Like, I have many employees now.
I also have locals now where we have about 20 employees and we're hiring right now in Miami, as you know.
And what I kept, As I was learning the ideas a little bit more, right?
Like, as the red-pilling was happening, it was all becoming very obvious to me.
Like, I would sit down with my accountants and business managers and I'd look at, you know, how much money we have coming in and how much money we have going out.
And I'm very happy to say that my two businesses, well, Locals is a startup.
So, you know, a startup in an early stage, although we have a ton of good stuff going, startups don't run profitably yet, you know what I mean?
But we're well-funded and we have a great, there's just so much going on, it's just great.
I can't even say more for now.
But the Rubin Report business in our production company is highly profitable.
As I always say, we treat our guys well.
We pay everybody's health insurance and their dependents 100%.
And I don't do that out of just the goodness of my heart.
It's like if you treat the people that are around you well, then they will work harder for you, and then hopefully your product is better, and then more people watch, or more people subscribe, and all of those things.
That is completely connected to my thought process, the red-pilling process.
It's like, if you tax the hell out of me, which they do here in Los Angeles, well then I have less money to, say, hire people or buy new equipment or things of that nature.
So when we sit down and we're like, you know, my guys are like, Dave, we want to get a new camera or we want to get this or that, like, we try to figure out a way to do it.
There's a few things that we want to do right now that will probably debut in the fall and, like, That's a beautiful thing.
So I would say it's not that my thought process happened and then it all happened.
It was happening in conjunction because I'm very proud to say that this operation, the Rubin Report and what we're doing here and then the book and locals and everything else, it's all still growing.
I say today, but almost every day, it's like, man, we're right back at the beginning again.
And, you know, we made the right choices along the way.
We left the Young Turks, left our jobs in health insurance.
We were then at OraTV for a while.
We left there, left our jobs in health insurance.
We went on Patreon.
I didn't like what was happening on Patreon.
We left that, built what became the beginnings of Locals, and went fully independent, then turned Locals into a tech company and raised millions of dollars.
These are all like the ideas that I care about without saying to the government, help me, help me.
So I would say these things happen in parallel.
Thanks for the question Lance.
Leah says, Freedom Fest next week.
Are you still speaking?
And are you willing to do a locals meetup?
I'm from California and I will be there.
Yes.
I will be at Freedom Fest next week.
I know Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be there, and Michael Shermer will be there, and a bunch of other friends of mine will be there, and it's a big libertarian-esque conference.
We're going to talk all about freedom and big tech and what some of the solutions are.
I will be giving a main stage speech at 11 a.m., 11 to 11.30, on Thursday, July 22nd.
Then I'm doing another panel.
Yeah, maybe we can figure out a Locals Meetup, or I'll just grab a drink with some of you guys.
Obviously, I'm not posting that publicly, so you've got to join us at RubinReport.Locals.com, and I hope to see you there.
Storm says, I try to buy locally when I can, but some of the best places virtue signals so bad I question my purchase at times.
As a consumer, when do you put your foot down, and when do you grit and bear it?
This is a great question.
I think we're all kind of struggling with this, right?
So I still have Amazon.
Am I thrilled with Amazon?
Of course I'm not thrilled with Amazon.
They blew up the Parler servers.
They're so ubiquitous and in every part of our life now, like what we buy and what we watch
and the servers that put websites up and everything else, that they're becoming too big, right?
Like, so I don't begrudge them, like I don't begrudge Jeff Bezos
for building an amazing product.
It's actually pretty amazing.
And as a guy that's in the tech world now, I know how hard it is.
I have at least an inkling of how hard it is.
So I don't begrudge him that.
But at some point, you know, to say that you're for small government, well, it's because you're against giant power over us.
So I would apply that same principle to these businesses, that they have become so big, like, what feels more powerful to you?
What has more to do with your day-to-day life?
Is it the U.S.
government or is it big tech?
Is it Amazon and everything else, right?
Like if the government just got out of your life, you'd probably be pretty happy.
If big tech got rid of everything, all your services, you'd be freaking out.
Now it might ultimately be good because we could rebuild some smaller things perhaps,
but I think you see my point.
So I try as much as possible to buy locally when I can.
I try not to buy everything on Amazon.
I know it's easy.
You know what I mean?
Like I know it's easy.
You run out of paper towels and you can just Amazon and it's there the next day.
I try to go to stores.
You know, also this last year, it just completely made the problem worse
because everyone started ordering everything and we were going out less than everything else.
But I do try like, you know, if I see a kid with a lemonade stand,
I try to buy the freaking lemonade, although I never have cash on me anymore,
which is a problem.
So if you're a lemonade stand kid, you gotta start accepting,
you gotta get like a Stripe thing or something just so we can scan a credit card or something.
That's a little tip for you kids out there.
Um, but I think you gotta try as much as you can, but don't feel guilty about it, because we're all trying.
You know, it's like, I get it.
Like, Disney sucks and has ruined so many of the things that we all love.
I mean, you know my feelings on what they've done to Star Wars.
But it's like, I get it if you're a parent and, you know, your kids want access to the Disney movies and you pay the money for that.
Hopefully you're not getting them brainwashed by everything else, but we all... I think that's your point about Grit and Barrett.
It's like, when do you just say, no, enough is enough, and when do you just, you know, oh, you know, Michael's looking at me like, he likes Bad Batch.
You like Bad Batch, okay?
You like Bad... I watched the first one, then I kind of fell asleep, that was it.
But like, I get it, he doesn't love Disney, but it's like...
You know, we're all playing a game.
And maybe you get your account from your cousin.
I don't know what you're doing over there.
Danielle says, how can locals help improve the conservative ground game?
The Democrats are great at organizing and getting tangible results.
Republicans still struggle with that.
Would be great to have an action component in locals linking your community with organizations and other resources.
So we've been thinking about something like this.
Again, you know, We've really only had this company for two years, and trust me, what we've built, and I always tell you guys, we own all of the tech, we own all of the code, the live streaming we built ourselves, like, you know, we're doing something really special here, and I want to announce things that I can't quite tell you right now, but good things are happening.
But yes, the next part of that is I want, the reason I love the name Locals is the idea was,
oh, I'm building my Locals community, I'm building my digital home.
That's what we've got over there.
So if YouTube, literally if YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, if the whole crew of them kicked me off tomorrow,
if my accounts all blew up right now, if this livestream just ended right now,
I still have a thriving business because of Locals.
I still have an ability to livestream.
I still have an ability to get push notifications out to you guys and everything else.
So that's why I love the idea of Locals.
But yes, the next part of that is I want people to be able to link to local businesses
that they can support, nonprofits that they're interested in,
to be able, I wanna create some sort of actually, gets to an earlier question,
like a smaller Amazon marketplace, where it's like I want people that are in my community
to be promoting their own products, which by the way is happening in the community.
And we know that people have bought artwork and people have bought spices and all kinds,
coffee and all kinds of stuff.
So I love that.
Like, I think we've gone from too big to fail to too big to succeed.
And it's like, let's figure out ways to, I wanna work with more nonprofits.
We actually just started doing that.
So PragerU is now on Locals and a couple others.
And it's like, we will figure out ways to fix this.
Like, I just believe in human ingenuity.
I believe in the human mind.
Like, we've been around for a long time.
Millenia human beings, and we've survived bad things before, and we will survive the bad things that are happening right now.
But it starts with us all getting involved one way or another.
TJ says that now that Larry Elder has thrown his hat into the recall ring, do you think he can attract younger black voters because they will respect his seniority and sense of authority, or do you think his age and traditional values could work against him?
That's a great question.
I should tell you that I will be interviewing my good buddy Larry Elder.
We're doing it in studio on Monday and then I believe we're posting it on on Tuesday if I'm not mistaken.
So I can't wait to sit down with, or I guess we're gonna post that on Wednesday.
We got a couple things cooking already.
But I can't wait to sit down with Larry.
I will ask him that very question.
I mean look, Larry is a fact machine.
Larry, as I said yesterday, he falls a little bit more on, I would say, the libertarian side of the conservative movement, which that's a little bit more where I am.
I don't think Larry cares about something like gay marriage.
I don't think Larry really cares what you smoke in the privacy of your own I know that Larry wants the economy open.
I know that he wants critical race theory out of the schools.
I know that he doesn't want to just throw money at everything, right?
Like, that's the real libertarian jolt that California needs.
That, you know, even right now, as Gavin Newsom, there's commercials every two seconds, every
time I open up a YouTube video, it's "Gavin Newsom is doing so great, California's roaring
And it's like, with tax breaks and tax cuts, and it's like, oh, what a nice man, Gavin Newsom, giving us the money that we earned that he stole from us in the first place.
It's like, it's so funny, if you think about how the Democrats think, it's like they reward us with tax breaks and tax credits and all that.
Well, okay, how about you just lower taxes in the first place?
How about just take less?
Like, if you've got the money, and I get it, they don't really have the money, and it's federal bailouts, and they just print money endlessly, but Larry, I think, has absolutely all the right ideas.
To directly answer your question, though, about Say younger black people.
I mean, I do think that there has been a huge awakening within, I hate the phrase community, but the black community related to what's going on with the Democrats.
We know that Trump's support for Trump's black support was doubled from 2016 to 2018, something like 4% to about 9%.
Now that's not huge.
I get it.
It's not huge.
But if something doubles, And doubles and doubles and doubles.
Well, now we got some scaling, like something interesting's going on here.
So we know that.
We also know that Trump did very well with the Hispanic community.
We also know that younger black people aren't as stuck and brainwashed, which I would say younger white people aren't and younger Hispanic people aren't.
You're not gonna believe this.
I'm starting to think that people, despite their skin color, are all kind of the same and all kind of want the same things.
So I hope that it'll work.
So when you say traditional values, I don't know exactly What you mean by that?
But I would say that I think that Larry's got the right idea set and I hope he's really, really willing to fight.
And just imagine, imagine a debate, if Larry can get in there, imagine a debate between Larry Elder, fact machine, who's got a good sense of humor and is a good man and fun and smiley and happy.
against evil American psycho Gavin Newsom.
Like, I would just, I would pay money to see it.
Anyway, Larry will be in here, right in this very room next week.
And then I told him, you know, for the rest of July, I'm willing to travel with him and fundraise, do whatever.
I'm off for August, but happy to pick it up in September and help him in any way that I can.
Amy says, I just watched the Lara Logan episode on Big Tech in which you are interviewed.
As you were talking about locals, I wondered, as it went from idea to fruition, what was it that you experienced personally and emotionally?
So for those of you that haven't seen it, I did part of a documentary with Lara Logan that's on Fox Nation.
And Lara is just, she's an actual journalist.
What a refreshing statement that is to make, that there's someone out there that actually cares about truth and is going You know, to the places.
This is a woman who is in Tahrir Square in Egypt.
Some pretty horrible things happened to her there.
She goes out in the field.
She reports on Antifa.
She reports on what's happening in the war on drugs.
All sorts of stuff.
And I was thrilled that she came here.
Her team, they interviewed me for about five hours.
It was really great.
And we talked all about big tech.
So your question is, on the local side, as it went from idea to fruition, what was it that you experienced personally, emotionally?
Well, first off, I had no, you know, like, I just had this idea, like, let's just build small communities if we build it for me.
Like, the first idea was not that we were building a giant company.
It really was like, well, if I get kicked off all of these places, like, I want my stuff to be accessible, and I want to be able to make some money, and I want to be able to communicate with my audience.
Let's build it.
And it didn't seem like rocket science to me.
It was a little tricky to build, but we built it.
And then once it started working for us, I was like, man, we should spawn this off to other people.
Like, this is what every creator, it doesn't matter if you're a political creator, if you're a sports guy or a video game or an unboxer or a knitter, whether you're a lefty or a righty, none of that matters.
Like, let's just give the tools so that somebody can have a home, a home online.
I think that's what we all want.
I actually think, I don't wanna give too much away,
but I think that a next version of locals, as we continue to reiterate,
and you pivot into different things, like we could start making locals communities for everybody,
like what Facebook was supposed to be, instead of just this giant mismatch of stuff
that makes everyone angry and hate people they used to like and everything else,
that if you just had a home that was yours, and then you figure out who do you wanna be
in a sort of wider community with.
But I would say personally and emotionally, it's been way more work.
Most of my days now are dealing with locals related stuff.
I'm not running, I'm not the CEO of the company, but I'm on virtually all of the meetings,
I'm onboarding people, I'm selling the company, I'm the main PR guy.
And then I'm involved in some of the technical decisions and when we're gonna lay things out.
And then the fundraising, which was like months and months and months
of hours a day and traveling and all that stuff.
But I gotta say, I love it.
I love it.
Like it's one of the coolest things I think you could do as an adult to like be part of building something
that A, that you think is important and that is vital and good and it's good for you
and hopefully good for the world.
And, you know, for the first year or so, I didn't take any money from locals.
I get a couple thousand bucks a month now, like a very small salary, just for my time, basically.
But like, could there be a huge financial reward at the end?
Of course there could be, but like, that's not really what I'm doing it for.
Like, it's actually fun to do.
So I would say, I'd say it's been very validating.
Like, it's like, oh, I saw, you know, it's sort of like, It's very in line, I would say, with my political evolution.
Years ago, I was like, guys, there's something wrong with the left.
They're all bananas.
We're not all Nazis.
Can we do something about this?
And then the world kind of caught up to that.
And I think that's sort of what's happening with locals.
Everyone knew there was a problem with big tech.
And a couple years ago, I was like, oh, I guess I should solve the problem.
I'm a guy.
Someone should solve the problem.
Why don't I do it?
I'm a guy like me, right?
The famous Homer Simpson line.
Ben says, "Where is the outrage about the political prisoners
"that have been detained and are in solidarity "as the result of January 6th,
"juxtaposed with the BLM and TIFA participants "who have all had their charges dropped greatly,
"reduced and are out on bail, "pending their constitutionally protected rights?"
This is a great question.
So I haven't done much on this, and it's a little unclear
how to get all of the information on this, but it sounds like there are many people,
I don't know how many.
that were arrested on 1/6, on January 6th, at the Capitol, either for violent acts,
or they were there, or trespassing, or whatever the charges are,
and they haven't had charges fully brought against them, and some of them have been in solitary confinement,
and a whole bunch of other stuff, and of course the mainstream media isn't talking about it.
Now, look, a hundred percent, if you violently broke into a building, if you tacked in a police officer, etc., etc., then we are a nation of laws, as I always say, and you have to Apply those laws fairly.
Your point is we don't apply those laws fairly, right?
Because we've got these people that are now charged or not charged, but are incarcerated, some version of that.
And then we know that there are hundreds, if not thousands of BLM and Antifa people who attack federal court buildings in Portland and burn down buildings and destroy Kenosha.
And I can go through all the cities that, you know, and create CHOP, a zone where, you know, it's a lawless, Mad Max style zone in Seattle.
And it's like, well, that's illegal.
Was anyone arrested for any of that stuff?
Should the politicians who allowed it to happen, like Ted Wheeler, the ridiculous mayor in Portland, should he be arrested because he's allowing illegal things to happen in his city?
I mean, I think there's a lot of questions about that.
Like these DAs in these cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, et cetera.
If you just say, we're not gonna prosecute certain crime, trespassing, criminal theft, Whatever it is.
Whatever the crime is.
If we just say we're not going to prosecute these things.
In New York City, where the new DA doesn't want to prosecute if you jump the turnstile to get on the subway.
I don't know.
I think it's about $250, $275.
You swipe your thing.
Well, you're basically saying, hey, go be a criminal.
Go be a criminal.
I have to believe that that's against their oath of office or their, their, the duty that they signed up for, right?
So I think we're going to have to get some of this stuff in the courts and, and hopefully we'll find out more about some of these people that are being held.
Tom says, with Cuba so prevalent in the news right now, what would you do as president that Biden isn't doing to stand up for the freedom lovers of Cuba?
Well, first off, it's directly related to how I started today.
You say this is about communism because that is the truth.
These people are not out there screaming that they're not getting enough vaccines.
That is simply not what's happening.
That is the narrative that is being spun by our ridiculous corporate media and by our administration.
But I would get up there and have a little bit of Moral clarity.
You don't have to have a ton of it, but they seem to have none of it.
Biden should be up there saying, people yearn to be free.
We know that communism over the last hundred years, every single place that communism has been tested, has been an affront to human dignity, that has been an experiment where lots of people get killed.
Because guess what?
Not every person wants to just be a cog in a much bigger system, right?
He could make a pro-capitalist argument, right?
He could actually read that BLM statement and explain why the U.S.
has done what it's done with sanctions and why people yearn to be free and the rest of it.
And he could even say, you know, maybe we did make some mistakes over the years, and I know Obama wanted to talk about sanctions, and maybe there's a way to do less with sanctions so that the economy there frees up a little bit.
Like, there's all sorts of things you could do.
But I think it starts with acknowledging reality as it is, which is that the people there want to be free.
The problem is the Democrats are being, the inmates are running the asylum.
In the Democratic Party right now.
And if Biden was to forcefully come out against communism, what that what the base would take that as means you're against socialism, right?
Because socialism is just communism done slightly more legally, right?
They're going to use the system as it is until they get the communist takeover.
And then they just change the system altogether.
But the idea of the centralized state controls everything.
That's the link really between socialism and communism.
Okay?
So he knows that if he really comes out forcefully against communism, that the base,
which is now a bunch of socialists, including the people in his own party,
AOC, Tlaib, Omar, et cetera, that they will turn on him.
So they've created just a really, really evil monster.
And they don't know how to control that monster.
They've got Frankenstein's monster on their hands.
And good luck to you guys.
Jamie says, what are your thoughts regarding Andrew Yang lately?
I saw a meme where he is portrayed as the voice of reason between the arguing left and right.
So, you know, Yang, of course, ran for president, basically polled at zero the entire time.
I saw a lot of people sort of in my circles that We're like, oh, he's not obsessed with identity politics.
He seems like he has some new ideas.
So they were sort of publicly supporting him.
Look, I had him on the show.
I like chatting with the guy and I think he did have some of the right ideas.
That being said, you know, a couple of weeks before the New York City mayoral election, because he also ran in that and did extremely poorly in that as well, he was interviewed by the New York Times and that woman, we've shown a couple of clips of her, Maya, I think it's Maya Gay, right?
Maya Gay or Mara Gay?
Mara Gay, I think.
Um, she basically said that I'm a white supremacist and that he did my show and he didn't push back at all.
Like, he basically completely threw me under the bus and he was like, he was like, oh, I wouldn't have to do shows like that if you guys, meaning you lefties, would invite me on more shows.
So I'm not very impressed with Yang.
Like I'm just not, I don't think he's a bad dude.
I think he's a decent human being.
He likes basketball.
He smiles every now and again.
He's not a generic politician, but ultimately it's like you ran a campaign
that had no support.
You then became a CNN contributor.
Then you ran for New York City mayor, no support.
It's like, if you're so great, and you're such an innovator, and you think so differently about things, like, go accomplish something in the private sector now.
Like, show us how good you are at things.
You know, he also then went to Georgia, and he was really campaigning for the Democrats there.
So it's like, you ran for president, you failed.
Then you went to Georgia.
You've never lived in Georgia, as far as I know, or you certainly didn't live in Georgia at the time.
Why are you obsessed with politics?
All these people that are just chasing around politics all the time don't really impress me.
Tina says, you have so much going on, yet you seem happy and not overwhelmed.
How do you do it all and not go bananas?
I would say I'm pretty happy, actually.
When people say to me, how you doing?
I'm like, well, despite the revolution, I'm doing all right.
I feel pretty good about life.
David and I are happy.
It's the summer.
Like I always enjoy this time of year.
It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago.
It's David's birthday on Monday.
My businesses are good.
My employees are good.
Like we're taking this off the grid thing.
So we're going away for a little bit.
And I'm going to have no phone for a freaking month.
I think that's a big piece of it.
Like I don't let this, this endless machine of lunacy.
I don't let it, like, infect every part of my life.
I think there was a time that I did, you know, when I first started doing all this, and when the show started blowing up, and when I did that Why I Left the Left video, and I started getting so much hate.
I mean, you guys all know the story.
Like, I developed an autoimmune disease.
I developed alopecia areata.
I lost about 40% of my hair.
I'd wake up in the morning and I'd have just clumps of hair on my head.
I went on experimental medication.
It was absolutely horrible.
But since then, I've started to just deal with stress better.
I start the day, every day, have a little water with lemon, I have my coffee, I try to do cardio,
I try to do about an hour of cardio.
This morning I did an hour and a half of cardio.
You know what I did this morning?
I started my morning, I woke up at, I'm an early riser, so I woke up at about 7 a.m.,
I went on YouTube, and I usually watch old basketball games or something.
They had the full 1985 Transformers movie.
Not the Michael Bay Transformers that are absolutely horrible.
The original cartoon movie after two seasons of the cartoon Transformers.
More than meets the eye, remember those guys?
And it's just an incredible movie.
Orson Welles!
plays Unicron. It's his last thing that he ever did before he died. Just incredible.
Leonard Nimoy is the voice of Galvatron. Like, just some really, like, great stuff in there.
Robert Stack is the voice of, uh, not Rodimus Prime, um...
Robert Stack, Transformers movie. Uh, not, uh...
unidentified
Prime, ah, it's killing me.
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Robert Stack, Transformers movie.
Who did he play?
Ultra Magnus!
I got that before he Googled it.
Ultra Magnus, there you go.
Anyway, so I did, it was like, ah, I'm watching this thing.
It ended up being about an hour and 40 minutes, so I did cardio the entire time.
So we try to eat right.
You know, I post a lot of pictures on the Locals community.
Like, I love good food.
Like playing with the dog?
I don't know.
And I will say something else, actually, which is that, you know, you guys know that, you know, years ago I was saying that I was an atheist, and I think as I've moved away from that, and I would say that I'm a believer, and I've talked about it a bunch, and I make a belief argument in Don't Burn This Book, and I've talked about that Jordan Peterson clip when he talks about belief, that, you know, truth for truth's sake, and saying the truth is the ultimate expression
of faith in a way, right?
You're taking the leap of faith by saying, hey, if I say the truth,
the best possible thing will happen.
It doesn't mean that all good things will happen.
Like that's a type of faith that I believe in.
And I think that that has also made me not crazy.
Like for all the craziness right now, it feels like the country is becoming,
like we're succumbing to communism and Marxism and all these horrible ideas.
And suddenly being racist is the new not being racist.
like all of these horrible things are happening but like I think
I just believe.
I believe that my ancestors had it worse than I did.
Much worse than I did.
And that humans go through times of really terrible stuff.
And I think if we can just wake up enough people, we won't be crazy.
Or we won't lose it.
We won't lose it.
And that gives me great comfort.
That really does give me great comfort.
So that, you know, keeps a smile on my face.
And we're in the middle of re-watching Curb Your Enthusiasm.
So we started season six last night.
You know, I try not to look at my phone after like 8 p.m. or so.
I do sometimes, but I try, I definitely don't tweet on the weekends.
And actually, really, and I'm not saying this as a sales job, but the community
that we've created on Locals, I open up that app and it's like good people sharing their ideas
and personal lives and pictures of sporting events and food and what they're listening to and everything else.
And it's like, that's my off-ramp for all the craziness.
And it's not everything, that's the point.
If you don't believe That politics is everything.
You can find happiness right now.
If you're struggling with something, and we all struggle with different things, I'm not saying I've got no issues.
I've got some family stuff.
We've all got stuff, right?
We've all got stuff.
But I think if you can keep a little perspective.
People have been through bad stuff before.
And that politics is not everything.
And that if you work to make sure that the bad people in politics can't Make every decision for you.
You can't infringe on every part of your life.
Then I think you'll be happier.
And, you know, having some decent friends and stuff like that.
Guys, part two of my interview with Kevin McCarthy, GOP minority leader of the House, is up on YouTube right now.
The full episode is up early.
And ad-free at roomandreport.locals.com.
And we are doing a round table tomorrow.
I know it's been a little while since we did one because of my travels.
Rogan O'Handley will be on, lawyer Ron Coleman, and Ali Stuckey from Blaze TV.
And as this conversation went today, I've now got 8,000 locals meetings.
Oh, and one book meeting.
So I got stuff to do.
I hope you have stuff to do that gives you a sense of purpose and happiness and joy.
Have a good day.
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