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Sept. 3, 2021 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Biden's Lies About Afghanistan Are Beginning to Unravel | Glenn Beck | Direct Message | Rubin Report
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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Alright people, we are live on the YouTube...
I am post off the grid, Dave Rubin.
It's September 3rd, 2021.
This is the Rubin Report, direct message.
And as you guys know, we usually do the panel show on Fridays, but because I was off the grid and I'm just trying to catch up on so much of what's been going on, I wanted to do something a little bit different today.
So Glenn Beck, who Of course, needs no introduction.
We'll be joining us for the full half hour solo, and we're really gonna focus on Afghanistan, do a little bit of timeline, what's going on now, a little bit of the media reaction to it, and quite a bit on his Nazarene Fund, which has raised, I just checked this with his people right before we started, an incredible $35 million.
That's $35 million to help get Christian refugees out of Afghanistan who are under the threat of death and torture and all sorts of bad stuff.
So Glenn has done some really incredible work, traveled to the Middle East in the midst of all this.
We'll talk about all of that.
And really I wanted to do this because as I'm catching up on Afghanistan in real time, I wanted to talk to somebody who I think could give me sort of a full breath of what's gone on there and a sort of holistic look at all of this because, you know, I'm trying to piece together everything and watching videos but, you know, the narrative changes over time and I want to be as clear and clean with you guys on this as I possibly can be.
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How did I do?
Oh, that was stunning.
Thank you, Ruben.
And now back to me, I'm bringing in Glenn Beck.
Glenn, you're a pro at pretty much everything you do, but you're an ad pro.
How did I do just now?
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Oh, that was stunning.
I don't even drink coffee and I've already ordered some.
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So stunning.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
(laughing)
Glenn, it's great to see you, my friend.
You know, obviously, I did this month off the grid, and you know, you've brought me back on, I believe, two years ago, you did that.
So you know, sort of, this month that I take off, it's the real deal.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
I've been waiting for this day.
I got up this morning.
Forgetting, honestly, that we were even on today, because I couldn't wait to hear your reaction after vacation.
And I heard Adam, and I'm like, no, Adam, don't tell him like that.
No, no, no, you're missing this, missing that.
But I can't imagine what it must have felt like.
And I was fascinated, Dave, if we can, I don't mean to just hijack this show here, but I was fascinated.
I was fascinated by your reaction.
And at first I thought, Wow, that's a weird reaction.
And then I thought, no, it's not.
That's exactly what I think I would be saying.
Because your reaction from the very beginning was twofold.
Each time he would tell you something, you'd go, wait, so the Taliban is in control now of Afghanistan?
You would restate what you just heard.
And then you would say, what is the press's reaction to it?
And I thought, That is a really, really sad state of affairs, when that is the primary question.
And I thought, wow, that's weird of Dave to say that, and I kept listening to you, and I kept thinking about it, and I thought, no, that is probably the most important question, because that's what is controlling public opinion.
That's what will set whether or not, you know, the people who were responsible for this get away with it or not.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
It's the lens that matters more in a sick, twisted way than what actually happened.
And actually, that's precisely why I wanted to have you on, because I watched a couple of your videos that you've done in the last two weeks or so about Afghanistan, and I obviously want to talk about the Nazarene Fund.
I mean, it's truly, like, it's flooringly incredible what you've done.
But I thought maybe we could just start, not, you know, obviously most of my audience has been playing along with this the whole time, but for people that haven't, or for people that just want, you know, me to be part of this conversation, can you just give a couple minute explanation of the timeline of what happened?
And then we'll kind of get into the optics part and what's happening right now.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
So let me just give you really from 40,000 feet.
There have been two people who have been against these wars.
That has been Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both of them not for these wars.
Joe Biden is constantly wrong.
Historically, if you look it up on his positions, almost every time when it comes to foreign policy, he is diametrically opposed to the right thing.
But we all agreed that we should get out.
By the time Donald Trump was saying this, he was in the zeitgeist and yeah, we all wanna get out.
The question is, how do you get out?
And there was no one dying and I don't want an endless war, but it's not necessarily bad to keep,
quote unquote, peacekeepers, to keep people who are like we have in Germany,
et cetera, et cetera.
So Biden comes in, they both have the same goal, but Donald Trump, when he is negotiating with the Taliban,
which I hated, when he was negotiating, when they killed somebody, he bombed them,
stopped the negotiation and killed them.
And so that set a different precedent.
You know, it was like, don't screw with the United States, we'll talk to you, but Don't screw with us.
That was the opposite approach of what Joe Biden said.
Now, Joe Biden has been saying for the long time that there's not going to be any problems.
The Pentagon is all for it.
They're with it.
That's not true.
As it turns out now, we know that's not true.
He called President Ghani, who turned out to be, I think, a weasel.
But he called President Ghani back in July, I think, and said, look, This is starting to look bad.
Even if it's not true, you need to say that things are going well.
And I don't want to say that he was telling him to lie.
What he was saying was, world perception, and even your own perception, if you present weakness, you're going to get back in spades.
I wish he would take his own advice.
But he knew at that time, we know now, that the Pentagon was saying, this is not good.
This is not going to go well.
But for some reason, Joe Biden just would not take no for an answer.
And I think it was the political calculation of I want this to end.
And I believe it's going to go well, because I say it's going to go well.
And I'm not changing course.
And it was an absolute disaster.
It was like For about three days, it was like watching the planes fly into the World Trade Center, except it was in slower motion.
It's that bad.
Our allies were freaked out.
Joe Biden, I don't know if you know this yet, Joe Biden wouldn't take a phone call or place a phone call to the Prime Minister of England for 40 hours.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
What?
Let me just pause for one sec, since I am playing a little catch up here.
When the images started coming out, was that the first time that the public knew that the withdrawal was happening, or were they saying, oh, it's happening 24 hours from now?
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
No, they're saying that it's happening, and we were pulling out of places, and the Taliban was just sweeping.
We'd leave, and they would march into the city, and the Afghan army would just run, surrender.
So it was not going well.
When they got to Kabul, they were even surprised how fast they got to Kabul.
And we needed the city to be secure because our embassy, our billion-dollar embassy was sitting there.
And our Pentagon and Joe Biden got the call from the Taliban, and they said, look, we're at the edge of the city.
It appears as though President Ghani has run.
So you either have to secure the city or we will.
So your two choices are come back and secure the city while you do your departure, or we'll secure the city and the airport gates, but you secure the airport.
That's the one we chose.
Well, as soon as that happened, it was over.
Everybody knew that Taliban was coming in and going to take control.
There was no holding back.
You know, I know you saw that video of the plane taking off.
I don't know if you know that one of the guys that was in it was the hero soccer player of the Afghani team.
Uh, is so, so desperate to get out.
And I believe he was frozen in one of the, the wheel hubs.
Um, the, they said that after that plane landed, they needed to have psychiatrists, uh, and, and mental health officials on the tarmac, not for the people on the plane, but for the people who greeted the plane, because there were so many body parts and things frozen.
And it, if it was, it was horrendous.
So then we go into a place to where the C141s are loading up, but there's nobody saving, you know, the SIVs.
There's nobody looking out for the little girls, for the Christians.
At this point is when I say on the air, we have to do something.
I talked to the Nazarene Fund.
They said it'll take at least $20 million to get the anywhere from 10 to 15,000 Christians out that are marked for death.
And we didn't know how we were even going to do it, and $20 million was a ridiculous sum of money.
And we started on Wednesday.
By Friday morning, we had $25 million raised just from my audience in hundreds and tens, and it's crazy.
And we were at the time just going to rescue Christians, because at that time we were being told, we won't leave anyone behind.
I didn't see any way that that could be done by August 31st, but I was hoping because America doesn't leave people behind.
And there was a huge shift, and this is something that you missed, and it was really good.
There was a huge shift in, I think, the American psyche during that week where people were tired of being told they can't do something, and this was a big thing.
By God, they were going to do something.
And people and organizations from all over sprung into action while we were having fights with our British counterparts, while the French were letting their people go through the gates to go out and save their people.
We were, we were just, I feel for everybody who was wearing an American uniform on the tarmac, because I know They wanted to go on the other side of the gate and go get people, but Biden wouldn't do it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Do you see this then?
I mean, from the side of trying to catch up on all this, everything that I have read, it seems like an abject disaster across the board.
Like, it doesn't seem like there was a moment.
It seems like they made a decision and it simply did not matter, even despite those images, which basically couldn't have been more horrific.
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And then after what you just described on the plane, when the planes landed, They continue to call it a success all the way through.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
It's a success.
That is the craziest stuff I've ever heard.
That's 25th Amendment stuff.
That man's clearly delusional.
He's out of his mind.
But he refuses to call it anything else.
No one is being held responsible for it.
Nobody's even being asked to step up and be held responsible.
They gave away Bagram Air Force Base.
Why would we do that?
And if we did do that, we should have bombed the tarmac so China or others couldn't use it.
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What did, what, what were we thinking?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
What were we thinking?
In essence, we've just armed the Taliban.
Is that fair to say?
I mean, with the amount of stuff that we left there and left the airfield, we have now armed the Taliban.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Now, you can say, and this is partly true, I think it's unreasonable to believe, I think it's unreasonable to think that there wasn't a, in case they take over and lose all these things, here's what we're going to do to make sure they don't have all these weapons.
They just say that happened because we didn't expect the Afghani forces just to abandon.
But that's not true.
We know from that phone call Joe Biden made in July.
He said, looks like your guys are just giving up and that cannot be.
And so we didn't do air support.
We did nothing.
And when they left, they just picked up all the guns.
16,000 night vision goggles.
The reason why that's important is because we can actually paint people on the ground and we know we paint them And then the drone or whoever knows exactly that's the target.
And they had no idea because they couldn't see the paint.
Now they have 16,000 of these and you don't think Russia's paying for some of those?
You don't think China's paying for some of those?
This is, this is, I think, I think this is the most impeachable thing I have, I've seen in my lifetime.
And that includes Nixon.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
I mean, the sad truth, though, of course, is that there won't be any impeachment because of this, and there probably won't even be anyone fired or any, maybe somebody, some third-rate person gets blamed for something.
One of the things that, you mentioned the media part of this, when Adam was explaining this all to me, I asked him about the initial reaction from the media, and he said that the images of the planes and the people falling off and all that was so shocking and happening in real time that there was a small window, basically, where the media was actually like, You know, kind of calling out the administration and everything else.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Yeah.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
How do you think the media has done sort of subsequently from that?
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Poorly.
You know, they did their deal and now they're off it.
And I can tell you, Dave, if you would have plugged back in and not had a briefing and you would have come back in probably Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, it would be like this didn't happen.
Because I think this story is now over.
They're done.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
You can feel it already.
Even just for a quick, I'm trying not to be on Twitter too much, but on a quick scroll, it's kind of like, that's not really what we're talking.
You know, it's all back to COVID stuff here.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Yeah.
It's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, and, and we have left thousands behind, thousands behind.
It is, this is one of the worst moral injuries to our nation and especially to our troops.
I've ever seen. There is something about America. We don't turn in our neighbors. We trust people.
That's what people always say when they come here. You know, you Americans are just so
trusting. Yeah, because we've never turned on each other.
You know, we never called the KGB and said, I think they're doing this. But we also had
this same thing that we're pursuing. We were we all believed we were pursuing a more
perfect nation that believed in equal rights. And we didn't. It's sloppy and we didn't
get it right. But we were making progress on many, many fronts. And then all of a sudden
that fell apart. And and now we're sitting here with this moral injury that all of us, I think
all of us had. And that is we don't leave people behind.
We don't leave.
We left a guy.
We've been trying, I guess, to negotiate for his release.
He's just like a gas man.
He was over there helping them build and take care of some stuff.
He was kidnapped in 2020.
Joe Biden said we're not going to leave without him.
I don't think they even negotiated for him.
We still don't have him.
We have, what, 20 or no, 40 students from California that are still trapped there.
What the hell do you mean the United States military is leaving?
No, no, we don't leave people behind.
And that's a huge moral injury on all of us.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Does this all feel like just another extension of everything else that seems wrong with sort of this country, and I think in a broader sense the West at the moment, that nothing is working the way it's supposed to?
Every single institution, educational, now military, obviously political, Oh.
they all are not functioning.
So in a weird way, it's like, well, how could the United States leave in a proper way?
Because look who's in charge.
And in a weird way, it almost feels intentional.
I mean, that was my feeling when I started catching up, that the disaster,
I don't think these people like America that much.
I'm talking about our leaders.
And I don't think they're that embarrassed.
I think you're embarrassed.
I think most Americans are embarrassed.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
I'm trying to- - I think you're right.
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Yeah.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
I think you're right, Dave.
I think, you know, I've thought about this a lot.
You know, how do these people sleep at night?
And how could you?
I mean, I couldn't plan a bigger disaster.
I really couldn't.
Right.
That's what I mean.
Right.
And so that's wild incompetence.
But even if you're that incompetent, once in a while, something will fall in your favor.
You know, this this feels like it was designed by people who hate America.
And what I thought about when I was thinking that was You know, we're looking at this and saying, how could we leave these people behind?
But the people who are really in charge, I mean, the radicals now that Democrats, I hope, are waking up going, that's not the party I thought it was.
They think that this is what we are.
They think that America is a horrible place and the military is just an aggressor.
So why would we?
Why would we save those people who helped us?
Where the people in uniform and the people in the real America, and that can be New York City, Los Angeles, whatever, but they have that feeling of America, that's a loss of real honor.
And there is something very, very honorable in America, and they don't have it.
They don't have it.
And if the American people on the Democratic side, and quite honestly, anybody else asleep, if they don't If we find a place for that honor to reside in them, we are doomed.
Because this is the point of choosing.
It really is the point of choosing.
You are either going to go over the cliff with the rest of humanity, because you have to.
You have to close your heart.
You can't see this and just leave your heart way open.
You won't.
You'll bleed to death.
You have to close your heart or do something to help.
I fear that many Americans will now just close their heart, and that's why Dietrich Bonhoeffer lost in Germany.
He was just like Gandhi.
He did exactly the same thing Abraham Lincoln, Jesus, all of them did.
And he was unsuccessful in Germany, and it's because the people had already closed their heart.
We cannot let that happen.
That's one of the main reasons why we're doing the Nazarene Fund.
And no matter what anybody says, when we first started raising money for the Christians,
it was because we thought everyone else was gonna get out.
We are taking, we have taken anyone who is marked for death.
I don't care.
And Dave, I challenged GLAAD, who I know you probably don't agree with.
They're not fans of mine.
I know.
I challenged GLAAD.
I challenged the National Organization of Women.
Join me.
I don't agree with you politically.
You don't agree with me.
That's fine.
But I have religious friends who know where the religious people are.
You gotta know where some homosexual is hiding out.
Somebody has to hear and have a friend.
I have the planes!
We have the resources!
Let's go save them!
Nothing.
Nothing.
They don't care.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Okay, so wait, two things there.
First off, on the Bonhoeffer story, we discussed that when you did my show a while back, so we're gonna link to that, so if people wanna know more about that story, because I think you're right, he was trying to do the right thing, and enough people said, nah, nothing really works anymore, I'm too scared.
So that's one thing.
Just to clarify what you're saying right now, so you reached out to GLAAD, National Organization for Women, said, hey, we wanna help out anybody, it's not just the Christians.
You got no response.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
No response.
No response.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
So, so, OK, so let's back up.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
But honestly, I mean, if if Joe Biden was stuck in Afghanistan, we would get him and put him on a plane.
This is this is the difference between the collective thinking and the individual.
I think you have value whoever you are, whatever your lifestyle, whatever it is you do, you as a human being have value.
And I can't sit around while people are being allowed to be executed, burned, Alive.
Their tongues cut out.
No, my 12-year-old daughter should not be your wife, should not be raped repeatedly.
No, my wife doesn't have to stay at home.
What part of these things do you think that you can't stand up for?
I really don't understand why some people are just silent and they're all just talking about politics.
This is so far beyond politics.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, well, in a way, it's a spiritual crisis and it's this horrifically myopic view of the world that views everything through that political lens.
So if you're not with me politically, then sure, I'm not going to help Glenn Beck get the gays out of Afghanistan or get a woman who might be raped out of Afghanistan because Glenn Beck is the real bad guy, not the Taliban.
But wait, I want to back up a little bit because, okay, you guys have raised $35 million.
It's absolutely incredible.
Can you tell me a little bit about the original mission of the Nazarene Fund, and how does this all happen?
I mean, how do you get planes there?
How do you secure the area?
How do you make sure you're getting the right people on the planes?
I mean, it's an extraordinary... Right?
Yeah.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Okay, so the Nazarene Fund started when they were crucifying Christians.
And do you remember in Iraq or Syria, they had trapped all those Yazidis up on that mountain?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Yeah.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
And they were surrounded and no one would help.
That's the beginning of the Nazarene Fund.
We're like, these people are all going to be wiped out and nobody is helping them.
Nobody is helping them.
Because the Yazidis, I mean, I don't know of any Yazidi families, churches, groups anywhere but there.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, they were literally like trapped at the top of a mountain, right?
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Top of a mountain.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
It was just this small, yeah.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Correct.
Correct.
So we went in to save the Yazidis and also to save Christians.
Um, because they were being crucified, marked for death.
So any religious minority anywhere in America, I mean, it kills me that we don't go for the Uyghurs in China.
Um, but anybody who is being persecuted for their religious stance, doesn't matter what religion you are.
Um, we, our mission is to go in and help you and to get you to safety.
We have moved.
I don't know the numbers, Dave.
So don't hold me to any of these numbers.
I think 10,000 just to Australia?
10,000 people?
I don't know the number.
I think it may be more.
It's not less than that.
It may be more than that.
We've gone in.
We've rescued them.
We have then stabilized them, then brought them to a host country.
We help them learn a language, learn a trade.
We help them with their rent.
We help them with their food for over a two-year period.
So we don't just dump people into a welfare system.
That doesn't help them.
And this community in Australia and several other countries are really thriving now.
It's amazing to watch.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
So just in the last two weeks though, so you guys raise the funds, you get the planes there.
How are you making sure you're getting the right people on the planes, like the actual logistics of it?
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
So the guy who is my COO of the Nazarene Fund, He is Rudy Atala, and he is a guy who is an Air Force colonel, or I don't know.
For 25 years, he was in the Air Force, high-ranking.
And then he's been on, I think, two Presidents' National Security Councils.
He's a buttoned-up guy.
He is also Lebanese, so he speaks Arabic.
He's from the Middle East.
He understands the whole culture.
He's been just a rich, rich asset for us.
I called him on, it was a Tuesday night and I said, Rudy, we got it.
We got to get out these people out.
Tell me, call me tomorrow morning and let's talk about it on the air and give me a number.
And so that's when he called me into Wednesday morning and he is so good at logistics and, and, uh, uh, Dave, I can't tell you this, uh, on camera.
Um, but I I'm telling you it was miracle.
It was like act of God stuff, because in the end, and I'll tell you personally, and you can tell it later when it becomes public knowledge, but we went from not being able to even land a plane to pretty much telling what planes could be landed and who's going where, and it just was a miracle.
So we ended up being the group that could get you out with a plane, we then partnered with
others like the Mighty Oaks Foundation, Save Our Allies Coalition. I mean, there's like
six different groups that we have partnered with that their assets were, I can go in and get
them, but I can't get them on a plane.
And so it was this really cool thing where everybody's just working together.
Nobody cares about the credit.
Nobody's positioning in front of a camera.
It's just, let's go.
Let's just go and help.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I'm going to donate, of course, and we're going to link to the fund down below.
Do you guys have a sense of how many people, either Americans, I mean, it's very unclear to me at this point, how many Americans are still there?
How many Christians are still there?
How many of our translators and all of the other people we were working with who are now going to be targeted?
Do we have any sense of those numbers?
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
Thousands.
You know, let's just put it this way.
I don't think anybody knows the American number, but it's not 300 or 200.
It's not even close to that.
Joe Biden came out and said in one press conference at the beginning, it was 16,000.
Then he said in the next press conference, you know, a few days later that it was 10,000.
And then the next press conference, he said, we got all 5,000 people out.
Now, I'm not a mathematician, but I don't think 5,000 is 10 or 15,000.
Maybe that's just me.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Well, in Joe's defense, he doesn't really know what he's saying, so.
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
I know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
I'll grant him that much.
All right, well, before we wrap up, I mean, is there anything else that you wanna share with my audience?
I mean, obviously, again, we're gonna link to things and all that, but is there anything else about this?
You know, it seems to me this is one of those things, which is why I'm so proud to work with you and call you a friend.
It's like, this is what your life led to is that I know you're not just this guy talking on these pipes, like you are actually trying to help people.
That's why you know the history and why you're a student of history.
And I've been to your house and your library and the documents that you have that talk about, that are the items of oppression over the years and the items of freedom and all of these things.
Is there anything else that you want to share about this that I can just open the platform for?
glenn beck ▲ ● ▼
I think, Dave, The most important thing, and I think you get this because of our conversations over the years, and you know, I know people have thought for a long time, I think he's crazy.
He's just bat crap crazy.
He's just a conspiracy theorist.
I'm telling you, this is the time I warned about.
These are the events, and these are the people in Washington and around the world that I warned about.
I said at one point this week, because I just, You know, when you're doing this, and this is not my job.
I'm not a soldier.
I'm not a guy who makes life and death decisions.
And now I'm kind of in that, and I don't think I should.
That's not my skill set.
And it wears on you.
It just wears on you.
We got them, but what about those people?
Did we get those people?
I understand the ending of Schindler's List unlike I've ever understood it.
And it is...
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You mean that last moment where he's saying, I could have done more, I could have done more.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But I tell you that this is the moment of choosing.
And people have to understand that we are now out of time.
And what I mean by that is you don't need a revolution.
You don't need anything.
You just need to realize that you do have the power, that you can fix it.
We don't need Washington to do it.
I'm a recovering alcoholic, former DJ, man, and my group is flying planes out of the Middle East.
That's insane.
That's insane.
You don't need permission and you are not the stooge of the government.
You are the one with the power.
They convinced the Australian people that, oh no, the government's going to take care of you and the government is great.
They're building camps now for the unvaccinated.
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Literally, yes, literally.
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I mean, all you have to do is take away guns.
That's all you have to do.
When the, I think it was Washington said, When the government fears the people, there's freedom.
When the people fear the government, there's oppression.
And I don't want them to be like, oh my gosh, I'm afraid they're going to blow us up.
I just want them to know we know.
We don't need them.
We don't need them.
We'll make our own decisions back up.
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Glenn, thanks for doing this.
Thanks for everything you do.
Have a good weekend.
I'm gonna continue on for a minute or two and share a couple other things.
I'm trying to fight for our friend Larry Elder here in California.
It's a whole other fight, but that's what I'm devoting my 10 days to now.
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And Dave, if you know anyone, any group in the Middle East, they don't have to agree with us.
If you know anyone, I have been, I think you know this, I have been on the, hey, can we just pay attention to the people they're throwing off roofs in the Middle East?
I've been on that bandwagon for a long time.
Anything, anything to help.
If you know of something that we can help, we're there.
Please.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
I have no doubt my audience is gonna be reaching out to me to fill me in on some stuff.
And as I said, we're gonna link to all that.
Glenn, thank you.
And just keep up the good work.
That's all I can say.
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God bless you.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Thanks, Dave.
Okay, guys, so I hope that gave a little bit of a sort of recap of everything that's going on and gave, I don't know, I guess I suppose gave you a little feeling that you have a little power in this, whether it's to donate a little money or support Nazarene Fund, however you can, or just really what Glenn said there at the end, that this thing is kind of broken.
It's very obvious.
I can tell you after being off the grid for 30 days, my feeling over the last three days has been that everything feels kind of broken right now.
But I don't feel broken.
And I'm guessing that you don't feel completely broken.
And that's what they're sort of preying on, that they can just break all of us and we'll all just be dependent on them forever.
And what Glenn said there at the end, it's actually happening right now.
I just saw an article about it right before we started.
They are building quarantine camps.
In Australia, a population that does not have guns.
It's like, what is really going on here?
Can we not do anything foreign policy-wise that is right?
I mean, what will our allies think about us?
I don't think we should have been, we probably never should have been at war with Afghanistan.
I remember the day we went to war.
I was at my cousin's birthday party and I remember one of the caterers was actually crying because she was saying she had just heard that we were going to war in Afghanistan 20 years ago.
The same cousin that I just went to her wedding a few days ago.
She was like 12 or 13 at the time.
What are our allies going to think now?
Is the United States trustworthy?
Whether the war was right or wrong or anything else.
But that's just sort of consistent with everything that feels like it's breaking down right now.
Like our media is broken down.
Our political system is broken down.
Everyone feels like everyone's lying all the time.
And I think the only thing that we can do, and again I am going to just devote every moment that I have to it, is trying to be honest and decent and figuring out a way that that some of us can can make it through this madness because the madness ain't going anywhere so uh... as for the madness that's happening here in california uh... there is a lot of momentum with larry elder right now it's really feeling like something uh... you know i tweeted out this morning i have no doubt that california the machine of california will will
Do whatever it can to stop the recall one way or another, or make sure that Larry isn't the governor, but maybe we can overwhelm them with votes.
You know what I mean?
Like whatever they're gonna do.
Actually, David got an email last night from the state of California talking about mail-in ballots, and they want everyone really to mail in, because they want you to do it safely.
Now, you know me, I'm a real right-wing freedom extremist, so I'm gonna vote in person.
I'm gonna risk my life and vote in person on the 14th.
But one of the things they said in the email was that you can send in your ballot up until the 14th.
Now think about what that means.
That means that if the election is on the 14th, and you can still send your ballots in on the 14th, then we know the counting won't be done until the 14th.
So do you think, or till after the 14th, so do you think that perhaps if Larry is in the lead, if the recall is happening, do you think maybe they're gonna say, oh, we gotta wait, cause we got a whole bunch of more mail-in ballots coming.
You know, it's like, Everything is kind of screwy right now, but that's not a reason to give up, right?
That's more of a reason to fight than anything else.
So all of that being said, we are not doing an in-studio show on Monday because Larry Elder is doing an event.
Where's the event?
In Thousand Oaks, right?
Thousand Oaks, California.
It's a little bit outside of Los Angeles.
I'm going to go.
I may speak.
It's a little unclear at the moment, but I'm going to be there with the crowd.
We will live stream or post some videos from there.
We're trying to figure out some of the logistical stuff and we'll see who some of the other speakers are.
Maybe I can do some interviews or just talk to you guys or something.
We are going to do something because as I said, I'm really devoting my next 10 days to this.
Maybe there's a chance.
Maybe there's a chance.
So that's one thing.
On the other side, we will link to the Nazarene Fund down below.
I'm going to donate right when we finish this.
And have a good weekend, everybody.
Everything's going to be okay.
I know it feels nuts.
Feels nuts.
Guys, am I being positive?
And how do you feel today?
Connor gave me a thumbs up.
Am I being positive or am I giving a scary worldview?
Are you freaking out, Michael?
They both gave me thumbs up.
All right, everything's gonna be all right, but we just, but it's up to you.
I know, who am I to tell you everything's gonna be all right?
I have no freaking clue, but it's up to you guys.
All right, get out of here.
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