Dave Rubin satirizes political elites before analyzing Tulsi Gabbard's October 11, 2022, exit from the Democratic Party, which he frames as a rejection of warmongering and "woke" orthodoxy. He contrasts her departure with Kamala Harris's selection, noting Hillary Clinton's past labeling of Gabbard as a Russian asset. Rubin argues that while Republicans like J.D. Vance adopt moderate stances on abortion and immigration, Democrats such as Tim Ryan and Stacey Abrams push extreme policies, driving sane moderates toward a new independent movement against authoritarians. [Automatically generated summary]
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And because it is October 11th, this day, It was ringing in my head.
What happened October 11th, a year ago?
Did something special happen that day?
Well, something very special did happen that day.
I was still living in the horrific, dystopian state of California, and I'll put some cash in the jar for saying it, and I was invited by local LA television to debate famed civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred about vaccines and lockdowns and everything else.
Now, the ironic part, of course, is that she is a famed civil rights lawyer.
People always say legendary civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred, but she was all about vaccines and mandates and locking people down and everything.
So I was the one debating the civil rights end of it.
Anyway, I showed up, this is one year ago today, I show up to the local affiliate, I think it was KTLA if I'm not mistaken, in Los Angeles, and I was not allowed in.
We were going to do this thing in person.
I was not allowed in because I was un-vaxxed.
I was not jabbed, and I might have killed everyone in there, even though they were all vaccinated.
None of it made any sense.
So I said to them, look, I'm not doing the show.
What can I tell you?
They said, OK, if you go home, You can do it via Skype.
We don't normally do that, but you can do it via Skype.
You can have the debate.
So we did have the debate, and I just wanted to throw back to this one moment, because although the Trudeau-Newsom thing might be my best work, this really, this is a top ten moment for me.
It's worth putting that up again, not only because it's kind of funny, but it's just like how insane so many people went because of COVID.
Civil rights attorneys asking people their private medical information on live television to prove that they're good citizens.
I mean, that is dystopian socialist lunacy.
Anywho, today is a really, really great day.
Every now and again, you'll wake up in the morning, and these days I'm waking up in the morning, I got one baby in this arm, I got another baby in this arm, people are spitting up all over me, there's poop everywhere, but at some point I am able to get to my phone, and the first thing that I saw this morning is that Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat, known Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard, former member of Congress, former presidential candidate, the last Democrat remaining in the field before they officially gave the thing to Biden.
She has announced, as of this morning, That she is leaving the Democratic Party.
This is something I've talked about on the show often.
I've had Tulsi on the show, obviously, a couple times.
I consider Tulsi a friend.
I sort of have wanted her to do this for quite some time.
Like, what is left over there?
I know that she was as frustrated with the Democrats as I've been, as you've been, and she is a moderate.
She is a member of our military, an active member of our military, by the way, who still goes to training and all sorts of stuff.
She's a proud American.
She's anti-woke.
Now, she may have a position that's, say, more liberal when it comes to abortion than perhaps most of you, and even me, perhaps, but she has some sort of moderate position.
I don't know exactly what it is, but let's say it's 15 or 20 weeks or something like that.
It's around, you know, something like that.
She doesn't believe the state should do everything.
She wants the gender stuff and the neo-racism out of the schools.
This is a wonderful moment right now because we need more high-profile Democrats leaving And I don't know if you know this, guys, but there's an election in about a month, a little less than a month from today.
And that's what the theme of the show is going to be today.
Who are the actual moderates?
If you want an America of, say, the America of about 10 years ago, when there was a plurality of opinion and you could say things that weren't fully lined up with your political party and not be destroyed or canceled.
Can we just go back to that?
Well, there is one party that's doing that, and I'm going to lay out a freaking case for you with videotape today.
There is a moderate party and there is a radical party, and it's just not the way the mainstream media would have you think about it.
And also it's in some ways for me, it kind of feels like the things
that I've been talking about here for a long time are finally bubbling up into the mainstream.
And that is great to some degree.
It's a little scary in another way because once things go mainstream,
they kind of fall flat, but that'll be my challenge to make sure that doesn't happen.
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Okay, so this is a portion of Tulsi Gabbard's goodbye.
Democrats, I'm getting the hell out of here.
The party is over.
Video that she posted this morning and then we will dive in and dissect it when I return.
unidentified
I can no longer remain in today's Democratic Party that's under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism, who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that are enshrined in our Constitution, who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, Who demonize the police but protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans.
This is not going to be an easy move for Tulsi, right?
The machine, the mainstream media, the corporate press is going to try to destroy her.
The Democrats that maybe once called her a friend or worked with her on legislation will now say she's alt-right and all of the worst things.
The cancel machine will move on her.
All of the stuff.
But she's doing it.
It's a huge risk to whatever she wants the rest of her career to be.
She doesn't know if the Republicans are going to fully embrace her.
I think there's a lot of evidence that they will, despite differences.
I don't even know that she wants to go back into politics.
But she's sticking, she's drawing a line in the sand, I should say.
And she's saying, this is where I am.
And you guys have left.
If you watch further into the video, she talks about what happened to the Democrat Party and how different it is from, say, when she became a Democrat 20 years ago to what it has become now.
I just want to quickly go through a few of the things she talked about.
The Democrat Party has fully embraced wokeness.
Well, we certainly know that.
They fully are into all of this racial nonsense.
Well, we fully know that.
They are anti-white.
Now, it's interesting she said this one, because this is the one that I see a lot of people, the haters, picking up on right now.
But it simply is true.
It simply is true, right?
If you believe in equity and you believe that we should help certain people based on their skin color, then you must harm other people.
So I think you could argue that the modern Democrat Party is not only anti-white, it's anti-Asian, it's anti-Jewish, it's anti-any minority.
White people are not a minority, but it's anti any other minority.
There's supposed to be four minorities, right, who dare succeed, who dare buck the trend.
They are undermining our freedoms.
They are against religious people.
They're demonizing the police.
They're for open borders.
They're weaponizing the security state.
All of these things.
And she goes into a couple more.
And it's all true.
It's true.
All of it.
As they said in Star Wars, The Force Awakens.
I haven't mentioned Star Wars in a while.
So this is good.
This is really, really good.
Now before I continue on why this is good, I thought we'd show you a video of Kamala Harris.
And I believe this is last night on a late night talk show.
Kamala Harris went on.
The Democrats could have chosen Tulsi.
Again, Tulsi was the last Democrat who stayed in.
So everyone had dropped out already.
They had cut all their backdoor deals for Pete and everybody else to get into the administration by backing out before Super Tuesday so that the machine could hand the thing to Biden and Biden's mentally compromised so they could get him to, you know, read poorly off the teleprompter, whatever they wanted him to say.
But Tulsi stayed in.
So she was already an enemy.
of the Democrats. You may remember that Hillary Clinton also called her, I think she called her
a Russian operative, if I'm not mistaken, or a tool of the Russians. Can I get the exact quote
on that, what it was? But she basically said she was a Russian agent. Anyway, the Democrats could
have chosen. They could have said, you know what, we've got Biden. He's kind of imperfect and not
right, but we know what it is. He's He's breaking down.
Maybe we could try for something a little more moderate behind him to kind of at least give the veneer of moderation.
But instead, they chose Kamala Harris.
Hillary Clinton called Tulsi while she was running for president as a Democrat a Russian asset.
But I mean, truly, when you, you know, when you see our kids, and I truly believe that they are our children, they are the children of our country, of our communities.
I mean, our future is really bright if we, if we prioritize them, and therefore prioritize the climate crisis and the need to address The woman says words just to get to the end of the sentence.
Just meaningless drivel from a very, very vapid human being.
So the Democrats had their choice, and I think they are going to rue the day they decided to destroy Tulsi and ultimately cause her to leave the party and instead go with a man who's obviously mentally compromised for one reason and a woman who's mentally compromised for a whole other reason.
Anyway, there is something interesting happening here, because the party that is supposed to be the intolerant party is becoming the tolerant party.
The party that is thought of as the tolerant party is becoming the intolerant party.
You guys all get it.
Now I'm going to lay out a further case of what's going on with some Republicans right now, because first you can look at Tulsi.
OK, she's leaving.
I don't know that she's going to be a Republican or ever run for office as a Republican.
And again, I don't know that she even wants a political future per se, you know, in office future.
But now there's this new crop of Republicans, guys like J.D.
Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona, who's running for Senate, and Carrie Lake in Arizona, who is running for governor.
Dr. Oz, certainly not thought of as a traditional Republican.
Herschel Walker, former NFL player, black man, happens to be black.
These are all people who you certainly wouldn't think are traditional Republicans.
Most of them maybe were sane or moderate liberals of a decade or two ago.
And they're all waking up, and they're saying a lot of the things that are in line with my political evolution, I think probably a lot of things that you believe, and a playbook that is much more in line with American values.
Look, I've always believed in reasonable exceptions.
This is a misrepresentation of my view.
But let's hear it from me, not from Congressman Ryan.
I absolutely think the 10-year-old girl, the case that we've of course heard a lot about, an incredibly tragic situation.
I mean, look, I've got a 9-year-old baby girl at home.
I cannot imagine what that's like.
For the girl, for her family.
God forbid something like that would happen.
I've said repeatedly on the record that I think that that girl should be able to get an abortion if she and her family so choose to do so.
But let's talk about that case.
Because why was a 10-year-old girl raped in our community, raped in our state in the first place?
The thing the media and Congress and Ryan, they talk about this all the time, the thing they never mention is that poor girl was raped by an illegal alien.
Somebody that should have never been in this state in the first place.
You voted so many times against border wall funding, so many times for amnesty, Tim.
If you had done your job, she would have never been raped in the first place.
Do your job on border security.
Don't lecture me about opinions I don't actually have.
Okay, so there's two things happening there, and I want to show you what the moderate position is, and then we'll get to Tim Ryan's position in a minute.
First, on the abortion part, now he, J.D.
Vance, who is pro-life, it is his personal and religious belief in life, okay, so he does not want abortion, but he does believe in some exceptions.
Now, me personally, you know this, and I know this is against, actually, what most of my audience believes, but you still tune in, because you're decent people.
My position would be that we find just some common ground thing, and it's hard to do, and we can talk about whether that's 12 weeks, I think 15 weeks, which is, you know, now you're into the third month, whatever it might be.
And then, you know, you could maybe go a few weeks past that.
That's for every state to figure out.
That's what the beauty of this experiment is.
Each state can figure out what it wants to do.
And then you're allowed to move according to that.
So J.D.' 's position is that he allows for exceptions, okay, in the case of rape and health to the mother, etc.
So that's somewhat of a moderate position, okay?
By the way, Florida, I've often mentioned this, Florida here, which is thought of as this very red state with a very mean guy named Ron DeSantis in charge, has a 15-week ban on abortion, which again is basically three and a half months into a pregnancy.
And nobody's arguing about abortion here in Florida.
Like 15 weeks, it's like the pro-life people are like, you know what?
We sort of wish it was less or didn't exist, but it is what it is.
We live in America.
We understand there's people different than us.
And even the, I can't say all of the Democrats, but even a decent amount of Democrats here in Florida acknowledge, like the moderate Democrats, because we do have actually some moderate Democrats here in Florida.
They even acknowledge that that's a compromise.
So first off, So, J.D., he's doing some level of moderation, right, on abortion, and then he's also taking the moderate position when it comes to immigration, which is we have to have a border.
That's the moderate position, actually.
We can figure out all the other stuff after, but a border is a moderate position.
Countries have borders.
That's what makes them countries.
Anyway, let's compare and contrast that with Tim Ryan's position on abortion.
unidentified
My question was about any limits to abortion at any point.
You know, late term, anything?
Look, you gotta leave it up to the woman because you and I sitting here are a bunch of... Well, you and I sitting here can't account for all of the different scenarios that a woman dealing with the complexities of a pregnancy are going through.
Okay, so you tell me guys which is the moderate position that there should be some exceptions and maybe a couple weeks or whatever it might be and we can again hash that out and that could be decided state by state.
Or that women should just be able to decide at eight months, or as the baby's head is coming out, that you should abort that baby.
By the way, of course you guys know that these are the exact same people, exact same people, who suddenly want women to have autonomy over their bodies.
But just a year ago, they wanted to make sure that everyone was injected with things and had to take experimental medication, or would be fired or canceled, and we're going to get rid of nurses and doctors and everything else.
So who is the moderate?
I think you see it.
But we shall continue.
Because one thing that they always do when it comes off, when reality is seen, and people go, wait a minute, those Republicans, they're not as radical as we thought.
And it's actually the Democrats that are kind of going off the deep end.
What do they do?
Well, they got to scare you.
They got to scare you with insurrections and mean things that happened on that day, January 6th.
So as you can see, what happened right before that was that Ryan went all in on January 6th and Insurrection tried to tie it to J.D., blah, blah, blah.
And it's like J.D.' 's going, that's not really what the people of Ohio care about.
And I know it's not what you guys care about.
People are sick of the supply chain stuff.
They're sick of the high gas prices.
They're sick of the high food prices, the general incompetency of this administration.
Now, let's continue because there's more.
I'm laying out a case, ladles and jelly spoons.
Blake Masters is running for Senate in Arizona.
He is running against the incumbent Mark Kelly.
And here is Blake discussing his position on abortion.
And again, tell me who the moderate is.
unidentified
It has been noticed that some of these more strident positions were taken off of your website.
Some say that you scrubbed them from your website.
Joe Biden is spending like a drunken sailor and at every single opportunity.
Mark Kelly just says yes.
He can't say no to Chuck Schumer.
He can't say no to Joe Biden.
At least Senator Sinema stopped Build Back Better.
My gosh, you were ready to vote for that.
That would have just ruined our economy even worse.
I know Senator Sinema caved on the Inflation Reduction Act, and I'm mad at her for that, but hey, isn't it interesting that you had to wonder which way she was going to vote?
You never have to wonder which way Senator Kelly is going to vote, because any spending bill that Biden puts in front of him, he will sign.
So yeah, we got the Inflation Reduction Act, and Mark Kelly was the deciding vote.
He hired 87,000 new IRS agents.
Mark Kelly voted to send stimulus checks to illegal aliens.
He voted to send stimulus checks to, get this, Violent felons sitting in jail.
Is that a good use of taxpayer money?
I don't think so.
Think about that the next time you go to the grocery store and you can't afford to buy steak or eggs.
Doesn't she come off as an SNL character, like they, like, dressed her up and put on fake glasses?
And I'm pretty sure doctors take an oath not to do any harm.
I think that has something to do with the Hippocratic Oath.
You're supposed to help everybody.
We can discuss whether abortion is... Yeah, OK, fine.
You got it.
But all right.
So who is the moderate?
Does that seem like a moderate position that a woman should just be able to get an abortion at any point?
Again, I say this as someone that believes you would want a certain window to allow for abortion.
But is that the moderate position or the radical position?
Think about it this way.
20 years ago, not even 20 years ago, 12 years ago, and perhaps even less, six years ago, if a Democrat had said, I believe in no limits to abortion, they would have been the outlier in the party.
But now they are all repeating the exact same stuff.
Show me a Democrat who isn't repeating the exact same nonsense.
So, okay, that's her position.
You can decide whether it's Radical or moderate for yourself, here is Republican Carrie Lake explaining her position on abortion.
unidentified
I'm a woman.
I'm a mother.
I'm all for women's health care.
I come from a large family.
Seven sisters I have.
Of course I want women's health care.
This has moved beyond health care.
We're not giving women choices.
I'm for giving women true choices.
And when they walk into an abortion center, they're only given one choice.
They're not told that you have the choice to keep your baby and we can help and here's how.
Or we can help you find a loving family who will adopt your baby.
I want to give women true choices.
I will uphold the law, whatever that law is.
And I want to see to it that we save more lives.
Right now the Democrats have started pushing so far from that rare but safe.
To anything goes, up to nine months of pregnancy, after birth.
Katie Hobbs, my opponent, actually is voted for, and you look at her voting record, allowing a baby who survives an abortion, that the hospital would refuse medical care and allow the baby to die on a cold metal tray.
This is what they call post-birth abortions, where the woman and her doctor could decide, sure, the baby's out of you, but there's this little window to still, in essence, I think we usually call that murder.
That would be known as murder.
And again, as someone that just spent a couple of days in the hospital with these preemies and the babies all in there and watching that, it's just absolutely mind-blowing.
She also had an interesting line there, which was, I will uphold the law, whatever the law is.
Because of course, she's running for governor, so she's not setting the law.
The law is set by the legislature, but she's saying, I will honor the law, whatever the law is.
She has her own, again, personal belief.
I'm trying to find out if she has any weak exception on that.
But she's saying, I want choice in that if a woman is pregnant, instead of automatically pushing her towards the abortion, which of course we know the Democrats want to do, instead of doing that, what she would like to do is say, hey, can we help you perhaps put this baby up for adoption?
Or maybe we can give you some resources so you will feel you don't have to.
Get an abortion.
And OK, I'm being given some information right now.
This is nice to hear.
Carrie Lake's position on this is 15 weeks.
15 weeks.
That seems to be the magic number.
That's according to Rolling Stone.
And Rolling Stone is no friend of the Republicans.
And by the way, 15 weeks is the current law in Arizona.
So who is more radical, the person who wants to keep it at three and a half months, in essence, which is the current law, or the person who wants to expand it into eight months?
You got it.
So, will these two debate?
Because it seems like they have a real difference of opinion.
It might be nice if they got on a stage together and talked it out.
Well, Katie Hobbs was asked about debating Carrie, and she ain't into it.
unidentified
One more time before we let you go, because I think it is on the mind of Arizona voters.
Are you saying this morning that there is no circumstance that you can envision, or would even try to negotiate, in which you and Carrie Lake would appear at a debate together before the election?
At this point in the race, with 30 days to go, our schedule in terms of forums is pretty much set.
And I'm really happy with where we are and the plans we have to continue talking directly to the voters of Arizona.
But the arbitrary standards of timelines ignore the medical reality that it is a fallacy we know exactly when a pregnancy starts, that we know exactly where we are in the system, I mean, in the term.
unidentified
And what doctors will tell you is that they need to make decisions based on the woman they are treating And what women will tell you is that they need the right to make medical decisions that can save their lives and save their ability to control their bodies and their futures.
Okay, she's just a liar and ridiculous that we have no knowledge of the science behind any of this and doctors don't know what they're doing.
Again, as someone with a nine-week-old and a five-day-old and having to do it through IVF, do you know what they do?
They take the sperm and then they take the egg, they put them together and quite literally the next day they can tell you whether you have male or female.
Now, I know that the left doesn't believe in male or female, so maybe my doctor is a complete psychopath, although he's one of the best doctors in the world and people come from all over the world to visit him because often couples can't have kids, whether they're heterosexual couples or homosexual couples or whatever it might be.
So he might be a complete psychopath, although he came very highly recommended to me.
But at that point, if you can tell me that they put the sperm and the egg together, they put them together and they go, boy, that's a male that you got there.
Well, maybe it has a little something to do with life.
She also has this crazy position on heartbeat that was exposed a couple weeks ago and much more.
But anyway, there you go.
So her position is do whatever the hell you want.
That's basically what it is.
But let's continue.
Here's this guy, John Fetterman, and he's up in Pennsylvania and he's running against Dr. Oz.
And he seems like he should maybe be working at a McDonald's or something, but somehow he's running for Senate.
Here's his position on abortion.
unidentified
Are there any limits on abortion you would find appropriate?
I don't believe so, no.
I believe that it's between a woman and her physician.
I didn't mean to put down people who work at McDonald's.
Whatever.
Good people work at McDonald's.
This guy should be just taken out somewhere.
You know what I mean?
Like, what is he doing running for Senate?
The guy's wearing a hoodie everywhere.
Like, put on a shirt, man.
But OK, again, whatever the woman wants to do, whatever the woman wants to do.
And of course, it should not be lost on you guys that whatever the woman wants to do, it's the same people who wanted the woman to be injected, even though they didn't know what she was being injected with.
And it turned out not to work and not to stop the virus and all that stuff.
Do you support a woman being allowed to have an abortion up until birth?
unidentified
Well, I'll tell you, that's a decision that should be made between a woman and her doctor.
These people who were forcing people to be injected with this experimental thing that turned out not to work, did they have the medical credentials to force them to do that?
So again, what he's saying in essence, I don't have the medical credentials, kill as many babies as possible.
It doesn't matter.
Eight months, do whatever you want to do, lady, because we're all about you.
We're all about women.
That's what they'll tell you.
We're all about women.
But I'm not a math magician.
I think about 50% of babies turn out to be chicks.
I think.
Right?
I mean, ballpark.
Connor's nodding.
OK, pretty good.
The point is that most Democrats are realizing now That the abortion thing, the January 6th thing, it's not a winning campaign.
That is why Tulsi is leaving the Democrat Party.
But will there be enough of them to fight the radicals?
I don't think so.
And I think what will continue to happen and this is what I have wanted to happen this entire time is all of the sane moderates, the libertarians, the liberals mugged
by reality.
They will find themselves in a wide tent Republican Party.
And that will be what America was supposed to be.
That will be the place where you can agree to disagree and we can accept states' rights
and we can abide by the rule of law and more.
And you're not going to believe this one.
We haven't shown this nutbag in a while.
Jen Psaki, who was the White House press secretary, a woman who was paid to lie, and I think the misery on her face often showed that, she is now an MSNBC analyst.
And it's like, well, wait a minute, lady, how can you get a job analyzing the news when we know you were a paid operative for one side?
But of course, you guys know that's how the swamp works.
Well, she's making a point now, Jen Psaki, actually making some sense, saying that the Democrats are disconnected from reality.
unidentified
I agree with Brendan that crime is an issue that Democrats have to speak to.
I think there was a missed opportunity there for Mandela Barnes when he talked about the insurrection.
I think that was a little disconnected from what people in Wisconsin are feeling.
You know if Jen Psaki is now making some sense that this is like last moments as the ship is sinking where Jen Psaki is the voice of reason within the Democrat Party, but they cannot stop the radicals.
They just cannot stop them.
Here is video.
This is CNN's Dana Bash saying what we all know to be true.
The Democrat leadership is crappy and people are getting it.
unidentified
There is a, to quote a one-term Democratic president, a malaise that is out there.
And that is what our polls have shown in some of these key states, Nevada and Arizona.
People just don't feel good because inflation is high, because there is so much discord and discontent in this country.
There's problems and the president is in charge right now and he's, well, I don't know that he's in charge, but the president is sitting at the desk and poorly reading the stuff.
But it's his party that's in charge right now.
They have been leading on all of this stuff and they have tanked the economy.
They've gotten us into this very bizarre war in Ukraine, even though we're technically not in the war.
We're just giving people money and weapons to fight a war.
We're in a war, by the way, guys, in case you didn't know.
And they're probably going to get that word to go real hot right before the election.
That's a sidebar.
The disastrous withdrawal of Afghanistan.
You guys get all the stuff, all the stuff.
And now Democrats and then on top of the woke stuff and the racialization and the borders and all the stuff, the average person, people who don't care about politics.
People who care about politics less than you, right?
Who don't think that politics is everything.
They're going, well, wait a minute, my town's being overrun.
If I live in Texas, my border town's being run.
Nobody cares.
But then when a couple of people go up to Martha's Vineyard, all hell breaks loose for 48 hours and they can get them out immediately.
People are seeing all the inconsistencies and the nonsense.
And now we're seeing, and people have been waiting for this a long time, we are seeing minorities leave the Democrat Party, which was happening under Trump.
Right.
Black men moving to the Republican Party doubled, I believe, under Trump, a little bit less for black women.
Here's CNN's Tapper, Jake Tapper, talking to Bakari Sellers, who's a former South Carolina state representative, talking about what's going on with black men right now.
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Just as a voter, I can tell you I am very concerned at the lack of enthusiasm in our state right now.
I don't feel and see the enthusiasm that I think voters across Georgia should have right now.
And I know that oftentimes in midterm elections, people don't turn out to vote.
I hope that won't be the case.
Uh, this year in Georgia.
She's talking about Democratic voters.
Yeah.
No.
And I mean, I think she's sounding the alarm just as many people have been doing, but it ain't just Atlanta.
I mean, it's Philadelphia in the race in Pennsylvania.
Uh, it's Cleveland in the race, uh, with, with Tim Ryan and JD Vance it's Orlando and Miami and, and, uh, about Deming's race.
And so Democrats have to do a better job, particularly, and I'm can't wait for my phone to blow up after I say this, but particularly with black men.
It just can't come to black men after Labor Day and say, come vote for us every two years.
There has to be a more direct, engaged approach with black male voters who, by all intents and purposes, after African-American women, are the second largest turnout base.
And that's just something that we haven't done forever.
Call me crazy, guys, but I think that black people are just like white people.
I think white people are just like Asian people.
I think Asian people are just like Indian people from an American context.
I think people like law and order.
I don't think people like feeling like if you're going to go on the subway or walk down the street, you're going to be mugged or shot or pushed into a subway car or whatever it might be.
I think people are looking at it regardless of their skin color and going, hmm, Democrats wanted to defund the police.
Well, look what happened in New York City under that.
Democrats want illegal immigration in sanctuary cities.
Well, look what happened to this city under that.
And I think people are realizing it, and I think they're realizing it real fast, and I don't think the Democrats have anything left.
They will have some sort of surprise because they're evil.
But I don't think they have anything left when it comes to sane policy.
And if you really want to see how insane this thing is getting, well, Saturday Night Live, which was a comedy show on NBC for decades.
It used to be a comedy show.
Nobody watches it now.
It's completely irrelevant.
It's ridiculous.
It's partisan.
It's hacky and everything else.
Well, even they are now going after Biden.
I'm going to show you.
It's about a 45 second clip here.
It's not funny.
I just want to warn you.
You're not going to laugh.
You're going to get the joke.
You're not going to laugh.
The can laughed at the whole thing.
But even they are now going after Joe Biden.
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This week, President Biden pardoned thousands of convicted marijuana users.
And it feels like maybe he celebrated with them a little because yesterday, Biden gave a speech at a car factory and opened with this.
Let me start off with two words.
Made in America.
Wow.
Well, let me respond with two words.
Jesus H. Christ.
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Biden was then heard criticizing reporters at the White House for shouting questions at him.
They got about 40 writers that put this thing together.
I got these two schmoes.
No offense, guys.
So that's Saturday Night Live, but it continues.
Schmoes?
Do people say schmoes anymore?
You schmohawk.
That's what Larry David says.
Anyway, here is, I believe he's, yes, he's still with ESPN.
ESPN went so woke.
He is still with ESPN.
I wasn't sure.
Stephen A. Smith, who's been really for the last, I don't know, about 20 years or so, like one of the most influential sports broadcasters in America, who is by no means, he happens to be black, big damn whoop, by no means a standard Republican.
Well, he went on Jesse Water's show on Fox talking about how out of control the Democrats are.
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What is the Stephen A. Smith platform to solve the crime and homelessness crisis?
There is no question that A lot of these issues need to be addressed.
There is no question that we should be against an extremely progressive agenda that's calling for people to be released from prison on multiple occasions, that's ignoring a lot of crime that's taking place in the streets.
There is no doubt about that.
Where I don't vibe with you...
Jesse Watters, who I respect, is that when you talk about politicians themselves being innocent, they're not innocent in all of this.
A matter of fact, in some instances, the division that exists and has existed for so long has contributed to some of the nonsense that's been taking place in the streets.
It doesn't excuse it, doesn't mean it doesn't have to be addressed.
Well, actually, a lot of them deserve the criticism that they're getting.
There is no doubt about that.
I was in LA, the homelessness that exists there, I got an issue with that.
Certainly when you look at Gavin Newsom and some of the policies that he's put forth, you're talking about a lot of different things that need to be addressed.
I don't agree with everything, and I'm not about to pretend that I do.
Are there some people that when they're talking, just because of the way they talk, I'm Stephen A. Smith and thank you for having me on the show and I'm gonna tell you all the stuff that you kind of want to listen to them.
It's interesting because this is a sports guy.
I've liked him from a sports angle for a long time, right?
But now he's Sort of in these culture wars and basically saying, hey, all this crime nonsense, the homeless nonsense, we're starting to put it together and it has a little something to do with Democrat run cities.
So, Dave, how are you going to tie this whole thing together?
Well, there is a way out of this.
And the way out is by honestly assessing what's going on here.
I think that's what we've done for the last 40 minutes.
The way out is good people just saying, sorry, Democrats, Adios.
Goodbye.
We can still fight for moderate positions.
You don't have to be a Republican.
What do I always say?
You don't have to be a Republican, but you cannot be a Democrat.
So we will see where Tulsi ends up on that spectrum.
That will be wide-ranging, and it will have some religious people who may not be thrilled with the more libertarian people, but hopefully under the broad umbrella of freedom and Americanism, people will realize how special this thing is.
Well, not realize.
They will remember and reinvigorate how special this thing is, and we will fix it.
I really think we can.
And how do we do it?
We do it by conversation, which is exactly what I did with Bill Maher just last week.
Why do I put on this jacket and spray my hair every day?
It's because these things do matter.
But I am pretty sure if you're watching this show, you actually do want to live in a country with some people who think about things a little bit differently.
And as Bill said, you know, if we've got this 30% difference on some of these things, it's like there is room in this country For all of us that fit within that, right?
Within that like, let's say, that lane of like, yeah.
Like, if we can get to the other side and we will all look back and go, boy, remember that woke nonsense?
Remember when they were chopping off kids' genitals?
And remember when they...
It's nuts, like we live in the Middle Ages.
But if we actually got to the other side and the squad was a distant memory, and Biden and all of this was just a distant memory, and we just had a sane, functioning president, say a Ron DeSantis, and a government that was scaled back a little bit, and if you wanted to smoke weed, you could, and if you didn't want to, you didn't have to, and if you wanted to marry a dude and you happened to be a dude, you could, and you weren't going to force other people to marry dudes.
It can all work.
It's what we had.
It's what we had.
It's what the promise of America is.
I think we can do it.
We got a great cold close for you to really wrap this thing all together.
Let me get to a couple of RubinReport.Locals.com comments, then we're good.
EK says, calling Kamala vapid is an insult to the word vapid.
I do need more Vapid-like words.
Can we get some synonyms for Vapid and we'll use them in the future?
Weekly Cigar says Hobbs sounds like a horrible cartoon character.
That's what I'm saying.
It's like she comes off as an SNL character.
Like they took an actress and they put her in the thick rim glasses and they gave her the straight blonde hair and they just put her out there.
This thing about not debating your opponent, like, we have 30 days left, I don't have time.
It's like all she's gonna be doing is raising money.
How about stand up there and defend your ideas?
You're not a legit candidate, in my view, if you're not willing to debate your opponent one time, stand on a stage for two hours in that seriously controlled environment.
If you're afraid of that, I don't see how anyone in Arizona could vote for her.
Tony says, it's amazing when you listen to Republicans versus Democrats.
Republicans give positions, Democrats dodge questions.
Look, it just is.
It just is now.
This is a very odd thing.
If you would have told me seven years ago, this is the position that I would be in.
And I would be celebrating someone like Tulsi Gabbard leaving the Democrat Party because I did it before her and I live in Florida and all of this stuff.
It would be quite bizarre.
But here we are.
So reality is what it is.
The world is what it is, whether you would like it to be or not.
What you can maybe do is push it a little bit on the margins.
And I think if we do that, I'm telling you, something really good can happen in about a month on these midterms and we can move past this thing and wrap it up.
I'll go do something else.
What do you guys want to do if we fix the whole thing?
You guys want to go into some other kind of business together?