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March 30, 2022 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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Disney Attacks Parental Rights & DeSantis. His Response Is Brutal | Direct Message | Rubin Report

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unidentified		Good morning, Governor DeSantis.
		Ron here.
		Um.
		Don't say gay.
		Don't say.
		That's the first two words in a sentence spoken by a political leader of a state in the United States of America.
		Don't say.
		Don't f*ing say, you f*ing Nazi pig.
		Say!
		First Amendment.
		Read about it.
		Then run for office.
		You piece of s***.
		Hey, how are ya?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a fun way to start the show, don't you think?
		I'm Dave Rubin.
		This is Rubin Report Direct Message.
		It's March 30th, 2022.
		It's happy birthday to my brother day, March 30th, 79, 42 years old, 43 years old now.
		Man, we're getting old.
		You're catching up to me, bro.
		That was Hollywood actor Ron Perlman with a ridiculous, ridiculous, Selfie video yelling at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for something that is completely made up in Ron Perlman's head.
		And I think the theme of the show today will be enough is enough.
		It is time to fight back against these freaks and their imaginary problems.
		So, of course, we are live streaming on Rumble on YouTube and on Blaze TV.
		Do me a favor, subscribe, all that good stuff.
		But, you know, over the last week or so, I've really been hitting hard on just the ineptitude of our government, our officials, the lies of mainstream media.
		And I think maybe something's turning right now.
		I think so many people are waking up so fast.
		I think the curtain has been pulled back to the point that so many people are seeing what
		is really going on here that it is time we start going on the offense.
		And Ron DeSantis has been doing that right here in Florida, so we're going to be talking
		about this from this idiotic "Don't Say Gay" bill, which by the way, Ron Perlman.
		If you're watching and you don't know who Ron Perlman is, he's an actor.
		He was in Hellboy.
		What else was this guy in?
		He was in Hellboy and Hellboy 2.
		They weren't so great.
		Can we Google maybe what else this guy was in?
		I don't know what he was in.
		The guy needs an orthodontist more than anything else.
		That was the main takeaway from the video there.
		But this is what they do to people.
		They have broken people so deeply, so profoundly, that you have a grown man taking a selfie video that he sends out to his over million
		Twitter followers, right?
		And he talks about "don't say gay," the implication being that "don't say" or "gay" is in the bill.
		And it's not. It's not. You guys know that, right?
		We're going to unpack it a little bit in just a moment.
		But then so he makes up what's in the bill because the media has, you know, push this meme of don't say gay out there.
		And then not only does he make it up and then his response or he makes it up or he's been duped by the made up thing that the media pushes.
		But then his response is to call Ron DeSantis a Nazi.
		Let me just tell you something about Ron DeSantis.
		I actually, I'm not saying this to brag, but I've met him a couple times now since I've been in Florida.
		I was an enemy of the state in California and now I've hung out with the governor a few times.
		I actually had dinner with him and a few other people last week.
		And the word gay was set at the table.
		It was.
		And the First Lady wished me well because we're having kids.
		These are good, decent people who are fighting massive corporations, and it's the individual versus the machine right now, and DeSantis is modeling the right thing.
		These are bad guys.
		He calls him a Nazi?
		A Nazi?
		You, Ron Perlman, would be the Nazi.
		So anyway, the theme of the show today is it's time to fight back.
		There are signals out there that are showing us that fighting back is winning.
		And we're going to model a whole bunch of that for you over the show today.
		So it's going to be DeSantis versus Walt Disney.
		Jon Stewart.
		Who's gone fully woke.
		It's so depressing.
		He was sort of a half good liberal, I suppose, something like that.
		Well, now he's just gone all in on like the anti-white hate and all just the stupid woke bullshit on his show that I guess is on Apple TV.
		I don't think anyone's watching it, but I did see this one clip.
		We got to show it to you.
		And then some COVID stuff where Fauci is now admitting and data is coming out that they just didn't know what they were doing.
		They have no idea that anything that they did worked.
		So that's what we're doing today.
		So buckle in, people, because today we're going on the offense.
	It's not just about commenting.
	I try not to do that in general.
	It's not just about commenting on what these people are doing and exposing their nonsense.
	But now I think it's time for a shift.
	And the shift is we go on offense now and let's start beating these people and these bad ideas because they deserve it.
	and it's being done correctly here in Florida.
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	So, the Don't Say Gay bill, which doesn't have the words Don't Say or Gay in it, it's actually called HB 1557, has officially passed here in Florida.
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	And now back to me.
	Okay.
	So the Don't Say Gay bill, which doesn't have the words don't say or gay in it,
	it's actually called HB 1557, has officially passed here in Florida.
	It has been signed by Ron DeSantis.
	So first off, why don't we just go through what is in the bill.
	One more freaking time.
	So first off, there's the basic thing that you cannot talk to children in kindergarten
	through third grade about gender identity or sexuality.
	And if you think that's weird, Then just, I want you to picture what a first grader would be doing talking to a state employee about gender identity.
	Really think about that.
	Try to picture that in your mind.
	A first grader, a six-year-old that you know, and that that state employee could then hide that from the parents.
	That's what they're trying to get rid of.
	That's all this is really about.
	But now please show that image again.
	It also adds a couple things related to transparency, which we should all want.
	Notify parents of changes to health or well-being of the kid.
	Of course you would want that.
	Don't encourage withholding information from parents.
	Of course you would want that.
	Allow parents to access child student records.
	Yes, the parents should know what's going on at school.
	Let parents refuse school health care services.
	Sure, the school does not own the child.
	Get parental permission for health screening.
	These are all basic, obvious things.
	And everything, everything, everything coming out of Hollywood, coming out of the corporate press, coming out of the blue check journalists, they lie about everything.
	We have We've crossed the Rubicon, people.
	They've lied about a lot of stuff for a long time, but now there's nothing they don't lie about.
	Like everything that I talked to you about yesterday with Biden lying about everything, the machine, all it has left is lies and defamation and slander and the rest of it.
	That's all they got left.
	So here is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing the bill into law and saying that he ain't going anywhere.
unidentified		I don't care what corporate media outlets say.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		I don't care what Hollywood says.
		I don't care what big corporations say.
		Here I stand.
		I'm not backing down.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Here I stand, I'm not backing down.
		This is the individual versus the machine.
		This is the American story.
		This is why American ingenuity has flourished, because of individual rights.
		That the man, you the man, the individual, can stand up to the man.
		You get it?
		And DeSantis is doing it.
		It's not fun to say I'm fighting Disney, the biggest corporation in the world that owns so much of our cultural apparatus.
		It's not a fun thing.
		There's this feeling like, I don't know, could Disney destroy me?
		Is that really where we're at?
		But I think we all kind of feel that.
		If I say something bad about Disney, I don't know what Disney's going to do to me.
		It's like Disney is the bad guy in a Disney movie.
		So he signs the bill and he tells Disney, I am standing up against you.
		And by the way, it's not just that he's standing up against Disney.
		As if they're just some company that exists somewhere.
		I mean, Disney, Florida, Orlando.
		It's like there's a lot of Floridians here that work for Disney, and he's saying, no, I will do what's right.
		So then, of course, on cue, here is the statement from Disney.
		Florida's HB 1557, also known as the Don't Say Gay Bill, should never have passed and should have never been signed into law.
		Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that.
		We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ plus members of the Disney family as well as the LGBTQ plus community in Florida and across the country.
		Screw you, Disney!
		You're lying about what the bill is.
		You are being held hostage by a radical group of leftist woke activists in your own company.
		And I hope, I hope and believe that they will actually destroy your entire company.
		Because once wokeism is in a system, we've seen this at educational institutions, we've seen this at other corporations, we've seen this in our government.
		Once wokeism is in, And your eye is off the ball, right?
		You're not looking at what the goal is.
		What is the goal of an entertainment company?
		It should be to produce the best entertainment, to sell the most tickets, and that's what it should be.
		But you guys have decided that agenda matters more than that, and I hope it destroys your whole fucking kingdom.
		I hope Mickey gets crushed by the pillar on top of that stupid castle, okay?
		That's what you people deserve at this point.
		That is what you deserve.
		There is nothing wrong with this bill.
		I happen to be gay.
		Big damn deal.
		It just, it doesn't matter.
		It's one thing about me.
		I'm married to a gay dude, okay?
		We're having kids.
		Regular gay people want nothing to do with this thing.
		What does being gay, when they say Disney, we're defending our LGBT employees, what does being gay mean?
		As an adult and entering a consensual relationship with another adult where now you can get married because we have equality in America, you can have a family and all of those things.
		What does that have to do with a state employee telling a kindergartner that their gender and their biology does not match what their gender identity could be and then to hide that from their parents?
		These people are genuinely evil.
		It's extraordinary how evil they are.
		And they're doing it right in front of us.
		Disney are the bad guys.
		They also have all sorts of relationships in China.
		We'll get to that in just a minute.
		But now we have this incredible compilation.
		It's about a minute and a half.
		Disney had an internal meeting.
		Of a ton of higher-ups.
		I'll tell you after we play the clip who some of these people are.
		But a ton of higher-ups.
		They did this internal meeting about the Don't Say Gay Bill and how they intend to continue to infect people with this woke bullshit.
		And it got exposed, of course, because everything gets exposed, of course, these days because things are on Zoom and everywhere else.
		So just take a look and listen to these series of people who they want your kids.
unidentified		Last summer, we removed all of the gendered greetings in relationship to our lives fields.
		So we no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
		We've trained, we've provided training for all of our cast members in relationship to that.
		So now they know it's hello everyone or hello friends.
		We are in the process of changing over those recorded messages.
		And so many of you are probably familiar when we brought the fireworks back to the Magic Kingdom.
		We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we say dreamers of all ages.
		I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.
		Many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and yet we don't have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just get to be characters.
		On my little pocket of, like, you know, Proud Family, Disney TVA, the showrunners were super welcoming.
		Meredith Roberts and, like, our leadership over there has been so Welcoming to, like, my, like, not-at-all-secret gay agenda.
		And so, like, I feel like... I felt like it was... I mean, like, maybe it was that way in the past, but I guess, like, something must have happened in the last... Like, they are turning it around.
		They're going hard.
		Let's have these two characters kiss.
		Let's... In the background... Like, I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness to, like, the... If you see anything queer in the show...
		We're also reacting from the reality that when they can erase you, when they can criminalize your existence, when they can demonize who you are, the next step is to criminalize you and take your kids. And we're already
		seeing that in Texas.
		So the slippery slope between these ugly messages, you know, emanating from legislative leaders in
		our state, and then amplified by our governor, whose spokesperson immediately began calling
		everyone who opposed this bill, groomers, aka pedophiles.
		Yeah, um, I've had the privilege of working with the Moon Girl team for the last two years, and they've been really open to exploring queer stories, and so I put together, like, a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have, like, the full breadth of expression.
		And, uh, we got into a very similar conversation, Carrie, of like, oh, all of our, like, gender non-conforming characters are in the background.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		So who are these people that just spoke there?
		I'm just going to break it down real quick.
		The woman who said that they're not going to use gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls anymore, that's Disney's diversity and inclusion manager, Vivian Ware.
		She's up there.
		She has a ridiculous amount of power.
		Because all the kids that were going to Disney and that, you know, before you'd get on the ride, they were going, boys and girls, Line up, get on the ride.
		That was actually causing hate and there were all sorts of hate crimes.
		They were murdering children apparently because of that.
		The next lady who said that she has a transgender child and a pansexual child, I don't know what that has to do with her work at a giant corporation, that's Disney corporate president Carrie Burke.
		So congratulations, you have those kids.
		That's just fine with me.
		I don't have a problem with gay people, actually.
		I think it's a perfectly normal part of society.
		There are gay animals, there are gay human beings.
		It's part of the experience, right?
		It's an outlier sexuality, but it's part of the thing.
		But you think because you have these kids that somehow that should infect all of your work.
		Uh, the next person was Disney executive producer Latoya Ravenue.
		She said that she's implementing her not-so-secret gay agenda into all of the movies.
		Again, this has nothing to do with being anti-gay, but do you want your children to be propagandized by people that are telling you that they are activists?
		And if, even if you remove gay from this, whatever that they would want to propagandize to your children, whatever thoughts they would want your children to have, they're saying, hey, we operate as a propaganda outlet, not as an entertainment outlet.
		The next person was Disney's activism partner, Nadine Smith of Equality California.
		She said that they want, that DeSantis wants to erase you, criminalize your existence, and take your kids.
		Again, I had dinner with him last week.
		There was no moment of taking my kids or criminalizing me.
		I had the steak.
		It was pretty good, actually.
		We went to this place, Flagler's, in West Palm Beach.
		It was really excellent.
		I had a tomahawk. They seared that thing just freaking perfectly.
		And DeSantis made sure that I had dessert.
		So that's the reality of what's going on here.
		I want to give a quick shout out to Chris Rufo, who you guys know he's been on the show many times, who is exposing most of this.
		I think he was the one that got this video because he gets all of these leakers at these companies to send him videos.
		And it's important to know what these people are doing.
		This has nothing to do with being prejudiced towards gay people.
		This has nothing to do with breaking up gay families or not allowing a kid to say, I have two dads or that the parents can't come to the play.
		At the school or anything else.
		This is about transparency in education and making sure that state employees cannot infect children with whatever their ideas are and then hide it from the parents.
		But unfortunately we don't have a mainstream media that is honest.
		We have a corporate press that is a propaganda outlet for a bunch of woke lunatics.
		And then guys like me have to do this.
		But we can fight back.
		We can fight back, and you guys are fighting back.
		People are fighting back.
		Glenn Youngkin won in Virginia over this, over critical race theory.
		It's connected to all of these things.
		It's connected to the gender stuff, right?
		He ran against critical race theory, and he ran against wokeism, and he won the governorship in Virginia.
		So there are wins.
		But before I fully move on, I decided to take, not to just talk about this stuff, but to actually do something.
		So you know what I did this morning?
		I canceled Disney+, and many of you may say, Dave, why did you have Disney+, and I was trying with Star Wars, and you know what?
		Mandalorian wasn't that great.
		Boba Fett really wasn't that great, but I mostly had it because I have, we have young nieces and nephews, and when they come over, I wanted them to be able to watch, but you know what?
		We're gonna get a stick.
		I'm gonna go out into the backyard, we're gonna find a stick, and when the kids come here, well, they can jump in the pool if they want, or they can play with the stick outside.
		Enough is enough.
		Enough is enough.
		Stop paying these people.
		Stop giving them your money and your attention and your time.
		"You don't have to give it to me, "but don't give it to them."
		I really mean that, I really mean that.
	Enough is enough.
	Cancel them.
	Don't go to their movies anymore.
	Don't buy their crappy, overpriced products.
	They destroyed Star Wars.
	They destroyed my childhood dreams.
	That's what they did.
	And now they want to infect and control you, and you want to go there and spend,
	I think the new Star Wars land that they have now, which supposedly sucks, is $5,000 a night
	for a family of four.
	Yeah, these people really care about you.
	But fight back, and how do you do it?
	You model this guy, because here's DeSantis even more so going off on Disney.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		For Disney to come out and put a statement and say that the bill should have never passed and that they are going to actively work to repeal it, I think one was fundamentally dishonest, but two, I think that crossed the line.
		This state is governed by the interests of the people of the state of Florida.
		It is not based on the demands of California corporate executives.
		They do not run this state.
		They do not control this state.
		And then for them to say they're going to actively work to repeal substantive protections for parents as a company that is Supposedly marketing its services to parents with young children?
		I think they crossed the line.
		People ask me about their posture on the bill.
		I said, you know what?
		If we would have put in the bill that you were not allowed to have curriculum that discussed the oppression of the Uyghurs in China, Disney would have endorsed that in a second.
		And that's the hypocrisy of this.
		And we're going to make sure we're fighting back when people are threatening our parents and threatening our kids.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You get it?
		Fight back.
		And I do want to address one specific thing he said there, which is that they're going to work to overturn this legislation.
		That's what Disney said.
		Disney is a giant corporation.
		What right does it have to go against the will of the people of the state, the legislature, which writes the laws, and the executive, the governor, who signs the laws in this state?
		What right do they have?
		They are not our overlords.
		But these corp- and I thought the- I thought the people- I thought the meme out there was that corporations are bad, right?
		What do we always hear from the lefties?
		Bernie!
		Corporations are bad!
		Elizabeth Warren!
		Corporations are bad!
		That was my Elizabeth Warren, that wasn't so good.
unidentified		Uh, but the Bernie was- Corporations are bad!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I thought corporations are bad, but oh, I guess corporations are good when it comes to, you know, injecting this insane leftist woke bullshit, right?
		It's just enough of all of this.
		But it's infected everything with Hollywood, and that's why we have to cancel and move on from all of these things.
		And I mean cancel this.
		I don't mean cancel culture, destroy human beings, which is what they do, and try to infect people.
		I mean stop giving them your money and stop paying attention to them.
		So we're going to get to a little bit more on woke Hollywood in just a sec.
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		Okay, so more from Hollywood because all it does is choke out propaganda.
		So you guys remember Jon Stewart.
		Jon Stewart was the host of The Daily Show for about 20 years, 18, 19, 20 years, something like that.
		Little known fact, some of you may know this, I actually interned at The Daily Show in 1999
		when Jon Stewart had just taken over.
		You may remember that Craig Kilborn, who was a former ESPN anchor,
		a guy I really loved in college, he was the first host of The Daily Show
		and then Jon took over.
		It was a very weird time to be there because there was a lot of turnover,
		they were firing a lot of people, their senses of humor were different, so there was.
		A lot of churn there, but it was a formative experience.
		I was doing stand-up at night.
		I was interning there during the day.
		I was working at Electronics Boutique, which you now know as GameStop, in my free time so I could have a little money, eat some food.
		I was eating a lot of tuna back then.
		I'll probably die of a mercury overdose because that's all I could afford.
		In any event, over the 20 years that Jon Stewart hosted The Daily Show, there was an idea out there that this is where young people get their news.
		And that's what everyone kept saying.
		This is where young people get their news.
		And it was a culturally important show.
		And he was sort of a basically a good liberal, like sort of,
		it was before wokeism really.
		He completely went in on Trump derangement syndrome.
		And then he dipped out as Trump had his four years.
		So he kind of went away for a while.
		Now he's back apparently with a show on Apple TV and he's gone full woke.
		He's gone full woke.
		These lefties, and this is like the Bill Maher thing I always talk about, they just don't know when to stop.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		And thus, the problem with white people.
unidentified		Hold on.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		I'm just gonna... I'm just... I'm just gonna stop for a second and... and pose so you can get your memes out.
		Okay, there we go.
		Get a good picture for you.
		Clickbaits.
		For however sincerely we want to reckon and listen, the truth is America has always prioritized white comfort over black survival.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's such boring bullshit.
		And trust me, it went on and on and on.
		And he had a ridiculous panel where he was basically applauding as a white woman was calling a white woman who seemingly didn't know she was white, calling all white men evil.
		This stuff is so.
		Yes, America has always been based on white comfort.
		All the men who died in coal mines and who were laying track and died and got burned in horrible accidents in oil rigs and all of those things.
		It was all done in the name of white power.
		So that white comfort ultimately could rule the day.
		This is the best, maybe not for much longer, and you freaks are doing a pretty good job of destroying it.
		This is the best country in the history of the world.
		Jon Stewart, give up your show, man.
		What are you doing?
		You're a white dude.
		You're a white dude, okay?
		Maybe you should give up your show and give it to a black guy.
		Is there not some black guy that could do comparably what you do?
		You're pandering woke bullshit.
		What are you doing?
		Why are you taking the 10 million bucks?
		I'm sure it's gotta be at least a $10 million a year deal from Apple TV, right?
		That's a lot of money.
		Why don't you give it to a black guy?
		But you're not gonna do that.
		Colbert, you're not gonna do that.
		Jimmy Kimmel, you're not gonna do that.
		You're just gonna tell white people how horrible they are.
		And it's like, man, I've just had it with these freaking people.
		But the funny thing about Jon Stewart is the same thing as Bill Maher, which is he sometimes kind of gets it.
		And then you see all these people that are like, oh my God, he kind of gets it.
		He's a liberal who's not a complete moron.
		It's a miracle.
		My God, we should, somebody should say something.
		It's so wonderful.
		You may remember a couple months back, I believe this was June when Jon Stewart was on the Colbert show.
		And even though for a year and a half, a whole bunch of us were saying, do you think that maybe COVID was a lab leak?
		Well, Jon Stewart said it on cold air and then suddenly everyone was allowed to talk about it.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		Science has in many ways helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.
unidentified		There's a chance that this was created in a lab.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		There's an investigation.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		A chance?
unidentified		Well, if there's evidence, I'd love to hear it.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		I just don't know.
		There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China.
		What do we do?
		Oh, you know who we could ask?
		The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab.
unidentified		The disease is the same name as the lab.
unidentified		That's just a little too weird, don't you think?
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		And then they ask the scientists, they're like, how did this... So wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan Respiratory Coronavirus Lab.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		How did this happen?
unidentified		And they're like, a pangolin kissed a turtle.
		There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.
		What do you think happened?
		Like, oh, I don't know.
		Maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean.
		Or it's the...
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		Chocolate factory!
unidentified		Maybe that's it!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That could be.
jon stewart ▲ ● ▼		Alright, I don't know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Is he funny anymore?
		Like, I don't know.
		It's not for me to say.
		Like, it's just, it is what it is.
		But the point is that after that, suddenly mainstream media said we were allowed to talk about the lab leak.
		Before that, people were getting banned from Twitter, kicked off Facebook, shadow banned, the rest of it, from all of the social media sites for even questioning that maybe there was a lab leak.
		Maybe there was a lab leak that led to all of this.
		So John gets some stuff right, but he's, unfortunately, this is what happens.
		And there's a reason, there's an entropy to it.
		Why do so many of the supposed good liberals or these people who are not complete idiots, I don't think John in his heart is a complete idiot.
		I really don't.
		I think he's probably mostly a decent guy.
		But once you go into that thing on the left, once you go into collectivism, once you go into wokeism, There's nothing you can do to defend yourself against it, because now you have to bow, because at the end, John, you are now a, I don't know, 60-year-old white guy.
		You are a 60-year-old white guy, so you know you have to bow to the activist base.
		So give up your show.
		I really mean that.
		Give up your show.
		Give up your show, or at least, John, I have no doubt, I mean, you must be worth 50 million bucks.
		At least give up 20 million bucks to help young black TV hosts get shows.
		If you really believe any of this, but none of them believe any of it.
		He just want clicks.
		I don't know.
		Is anyone watching Apple to people pay for Apple TV?
		That's the thing people pay for.
		Ridiculous, but anyway, speaking of COVID, it all continues.
		It all continues because Anthony Fauci, the man we were not allowed to question for two years, the man who lied about masks, lied about social distancing, lied about what the NIH was doing in Wuhan, all of the stuff.
		Well, now he's kind of admitting that he doesn't even know if lockdowns work.
unidentified		I'm interested in your reluctance to use the word lockdown.
unidentified		Do you think two years on that they were worth it or were they too severe?
anthony fauci ▲ ● ▼		You know, I don't think we're ever going to be able to determine what the right balance is.
		I think the restrictions, if you want to use that word, which I tend to shy away from, lockdown has certainly prevented a lot of infections, prevented a lot of hospitalisations and prevented a lot of deaths.
		There's no doubt about that.
		Obviously, when you do have that kind of restriction on society, there are unintended negative consequences, particularly in children who are not allowed to go to school, in the psychological and mental health aspects it has on children, in the economic stress that it puts on society in general, on individual families.
		Obviously, those are negative consequences that are unintended.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Or are they intended, you freak?
		So when he talks about it, prevented lockdowns, in fact, prevented infection, hospitalization,
		hospitalization and death.
		Notice as always, he never gives you numbers.
		How many hospitalizations did it prevent?
		Lockdowns, locking people in their houses.
		Doesn't tell you that.
		How many people didn't die because of it?
		Doesn't tell you that because he doesn't have data on that.
		And when he talks about the unintended consequences, was it not obvious from beat one if you locked people down that alcoholism rates were going to go up and drug use was going to go up and depression and all sorts of stuff that we have seen?
		I mean, crazy rates of all of these things.
		And I'd love to see numbers on how many more people are on prescription pills.
		These days, as opposed to two years before, although I'm sure he would love that, Mr. Science over there.
		And what this all proves is that DeSantis, again, I'm trying to show you that there is a way to fight back.
		And it starts with the individual because DeSantis is just one man.
		There is a way to fight back.
		And what it shows you is that when all hell was breaking loose, some people didn't completely lose their minds.
		And in Florida, they didn't completely lose their minds.
		So if any of it worked, If any of it worked, the rates of COVID and death and hospitalizations and all this stuff would have been completely out of control here in Florida and completely under control in California.
		And you know what?
		From all the studies that I've seen, and I welcome you to show me counter studies, it's been pretty much comparable.
		Pretty much comparable on top of the fact that Florida has the second oldest population in the United States.
		OK, so they have lied about everything and that's all they can do.
		That's all they can do.
		And if you think, Dave, well, no, they don't lie about everything.
		They wouldn't just make up numbers and a whole bunch more on that.
		Well, first, I've got some info here on just generally what has happened with covid.
		This is from The Daily Wire.
		More than half Of Americans, 52% say they have contracted the virus, according to a new Monmouth University poll.
		This appears to be the first poll to show a majority of Americans saying they've been infected at some point.
		An August poll from the Pew Research Center showed that 30% had tested positive or were pretty sure they'd contracted the virus.
		OK, so that means a whole bunch of people got it in states that did lock down and didn't lock down.
		And you know what?
		Ninety nine point nine, whatever percent of people survived and everyone should take whatever precautions they think are necessary.
		But now back to the line, because they do lie about everything.
		You're not going to admit this.
		The CDC.
		Yeah, they bungled the numbers there.
		They're admitting it now.
		We've got more from The Daily Wire here.
		The Center for Disease Control updated its COVID-19 death statistics last week.
		Revealing that the agency had included an additional 72,000 deaths, 72,000 deaths that should not have been counted as COVID deaths.
		The change impacted 26 states and all age groups.
		The CDC explained in a footnote that the overcount stemmed from a coding logic error.
		Yeah, they forgot to carry the one.
		With a total of about 970,000 deaths from COVID-19, the extra death The extra deaths compose about 7.5% of that number.
		That ain't no small number.
		416 extra pediatric COVID-19 deaths also represent a significant revision from the initial data.
		The question of how to differentiate between how many deaths were from COVID-19
		and how many deaths were with COVID-19 still remains.
		Meaning that if you went to the hospital and you had some other infection
		or something else that was gonna kill you, but you also had COVID,
		they would just chalk it up to COVID.
		But OK, so there they lied all along about what they were doing and whether it was working or not.
		They never really tell you the numbers.
		They fudge all the statistics.
		And now they're admitting, oh, we had a coding error at the CDC.
		You know, somebody is anyone going to be fired?
		Is anyone going to be reprimanded?
		No, no, no.
		Because the machine is evil, people.
		I just realized I haven't taken a breath in six minutes.
		All right.
		So let's recap the show today.
	There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
	There really is.
	We are fighting corporations.
	We are fighting what seemingly are inept governments and officials and all of those things.
	But do you know what we have?
	We have the individual.
	We have our own free minds.
	There are places in this country where that still flourishes.
	We still, even if it's hampered, have the ability to communicate with each other through these pipes.
	But we must build new things.
	We must build new entertainment outlets.
	The Daily Wire is doing a hell of a job of it.
	The Blaze is doing a hell of a job of it.
	I think we're doing a hell of a job of it.
	We must build new technology.
	Rumble's doing a hell of a job of it.
	Locals is doing a hell of a job of it.
	We need new payment processors.
	We need everything, literally everything.
	We need to figure out how, if you don't want to be a cog in this very, very evil machine,
	that you must find a way to do business with people you want to do business with.
	I'm not for jailing these people.
	I'm not for destroying them and pushing them to the margins of society.
	I just don't want anything to do with them.
	And I am going to continue to devote my life to making sure that a flourishing America, and it starts here in a flourishing Florida, exists.
	And that's what we have to push on.
	And DeSantis is just one guy.
	You know, I know I talk about him a lot here, but it's like one guy is saying enough's enough.
	One guy is saying to Pharaoh, no, let my people go.
	Like, it's enough of this.
	Enough of this.
	And I know you've got power.
	And I know you've got armies.
	And I know you've got big tech.
	And I know you've got corporations.
	And I know you've got the media.
	And you can lie and slander and seemingly destroy all of us.
	But if that's why you're not saying anything, Then you're digging your own grave because it will only get worse.
	It's your silence that acquiesces to it, right?
	It's your silence that feeds it so that it keeps moving and moving and moving.
	So it's us versus the mob.
	It's us versus the mob.
	And the mob, guess what?
	The mob, it's powerful and it eats people that otherwise sort of get it.
	It eats people like Bill Maher.
	It eats people like Jon Stewart.
	That's not an attack on them, but they're, yes, it's white people that are the problem.
	We live in the most tolerant society probably in the history of the world.
	We really, really do.
	The only people who are really intolerant right now are the woke leftists.
	And yes, there are some on the right.
	There are.
	There really are.
	They have no institutional power.
	They have no institutional power.
	But are there some racists?
	Are there some old school white supremacist racists somewhere?
	Are there people who really have true bigotry in their heart that are that are more right leaning or whatever you want to call that?
	Of course, there are.
	Um, but we are all being dysregulated.
	We are being dysregulated by algorithms and bots and trolls and all of these things.
	And we need to figure out a way to win this battle.
	I think, I think DeSantis is doing it just by saying, here I am, here is what I believe.
	Um, I am trying to say, here I am, here is what I believe.
	I think if you do it, whatever that means to you, whatever small step you can take, we can do this.
	No one else is going to save you.
	No one is going to save you.
unidentified		Guys, I got a book tour coming out.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		DaveRubin.com slash events.
		You can see me in Orlando and West Palm and Raleigh, North Carolina and Brea and Oxnard and a whole bunch of other places.
		Don Jr's joining me.
		Megyn Kelly, you know the spiel already.
		DaveRubin.com slash events.
		We're adding more VIP seats, I think, at all the menus because a bunch of them sold out real quick.
		I think there'll be more added a little bit later today.
		As always, if you want to chat, During the show, you can join us at RubinReport.Locals.com, part two of my interview with the original Wolf of Wall Street, the real Wolf of Wall Street.
		It was not Leo, it was Jordan Belfort.
		That is up on YouTube right now, the full thing's up at RubinReport.Locals.com.
		And we've got a cold close for you, because DeSantis, he was just nailing it across the board.

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