Dec. 16, 2022 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| That was one year ago tomorrow people on December 17th 2021 when we landed in the free state of Florida and I have to | ||
| say that this has been well without question the best year of my life in that we have | ||
| two new babies over here and life's good in the free state, but it has also been the fastest year of my life. | ||
| year of my life. | ||
| I cannot believe how much has changed in just a year. | ||
| It's absolutely wild. | ||
| Today is December 16th, 2022. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin, as always. | ||
| We are live streaming on Rumble YouTube and BlazeTV. | ||
| Share, subscribe, all that stuff, if you have not. | ||
| And actually this video, which appears to you to be live right now, is pre-taped because | ||
| the Rubin Report party was last night and I wanted my guys to have a good time. | ||
| You never know what's going to happen at a Rubin Report party and I wanted to make sure | ||
| everybody could actually sleep a little bit this morning. | ||
| So we're taping this in your world yesterday. | ||
| But let's just pretend it's live. | ||
| We're going to do a little Rubin Report community Q&A for you. | ||
| This is the first time ever that we've done two in one week, but it's just been crazy around here and it's a good mix of questions. | ||
| I think you'll dig it. | ||
| And before we do that, I want to talk a little bit about, I saw this bit, this bit, I guess, I guess it's a bit, this schtick from Stephen Colbert, from comedian Stephen Colbert, going after Ron DeSantis. | ||
| And it's like, man, I've been predicting this for, A good five months, I'd say, at this point. | ||
| They are going to do the Trump to DeSantis, regardless of whatever happens with Trump and DeSantis and working it out or fighting it out or whatever it might be. | ||
| They are going to turn Ron DeSantis, the mainstream media, they are going to try to turn him into Hitler Plus. | ||
| Hitler with an accountant, basically, with a calculator, meaning that he will just be the more functional version | ||
| of Trump because he's the real threat, because he is doing everything right, | ||
| and because he is younger and competent and everything else. | ||
| So Colbert went after him in just like an absolutely crazy way. | ||
| We'll show you a clip on that in just a second, then get to the Q&A. | ||
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| So I don't like this Stephen Colbert fellow very much. | ||
| He replaced David Letterman, who was phenomenal. | ||
| David Letterman, one of the greatest late night hosts of all time. | ||
| To me, and I'm of a certain age, a 46-year-old, Carson was the best. | ||
| and I'm of a certain age at 46 year old. | ||
| Carson was the best. | ||
| Carson, and he was mostly before my time, obviously. | ||
| Carson, and he was mostly before my time, obviously. | ||
| I think he retired in 1992. | ||
| I think he retired in 1992, I was 16. | ||
| I was 16, but I was just kind of getting into comedy. | ||
| But I was just kinda getting into comedy. | ||
| I remember staying up late night to watch the show a little bit. | ||
| I remember staying up late night to watch the show little bit and as a matter of fact staying up that last | ||
| And as a matter of fact, staying up that last night when he was signing off for the last time. | ||
| He had Bette Midler as his guest on that last show. | ||
| She sang him Wind Beneath My Wings. | ||
| Flash forward 30 years, she was calling me racist on Twitter. | ||
| So life's weird, what can I tell ya? | ||
| But Colbert has taken over for Letterman and he's just an absolute partisan hack. | ||
| And you may remember my conversation with Bill Maher from Club Random Podcast a couple months back | ||
| where we were talking about Colbert and I said, you know, he just gives the machine | ||
| whatever it wants, right? | ||
| If the machine wants you to be for vaxes, he'll dance with a little vaccine hat on. | ||
| He just gives whatever is politically correct. | ||
| He calls everyone racist, all of that stuff. | ||
| And now he's going after DeSantis. | ||
| Of course, he's always going after Trump, but now he's moving it on to DeSantis | ||
| because I think he sees what the future is. | ||
| Here is a, I suppose we call this a comedy routine by Stephen Colbert. | ||
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New Wall Street Journal poll says that in a hypothetical GOP primary matchup, | |
| DeSantis beats the former president 52% to 30%. | ||
| 38% Yay | ||
| Also, maybe boo It's hard to know who to root for here. | ||
| It's like a poll between gonorrhea and a slightly more racist gonorrhea. | ||
| This is... Apologies to gonorrhea. | ||
| This is all because, well, with the insurrections and the Hitler dinners, only the most conservative voters are still backing the ex-president, while DeSantis is trouncing him with voters who consider themselves only somewhat conservative. | ||
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Basically the folks who don't support gay marriage, but think Andy Cohen does a great job handling those housewives | |
| I tried to laugh I tried. | ||
| I couldn't do it. | ||
| I mean, he's just awful. | ||
| He's syphilis. | ||
| He is the syphilis of comedy. | ||
| Stephen Colbert, you're the syphilis of comedy. | ||
| He's just absolutely awful, and you can see what the move is. | ||
| You can absolutely see what the move is. | ||
| DeSantis will be Trump, but worse. | ||
| He's functional. | ||
| Trump was just an idiot. | ||
| So if anything, he's kind of coming off as pro-Trump there, right? | ||
| Because it's like, oh, well, this other guy's coming. | ||
| And also, like, this idea that DeSantis has a problem with gay people. | ||
| It's so effing stupid, and it's so deeply dishonest. | ||
| And also, why would? | ||
| Why would people run and support Ron DeSantis? | ||
| Why would they? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We got a couple points here. | ||
| Well, he did keep Florida open with no mandates. | ||
| That was pretty good. | ||
| Implement numerous tax holidays to make sure that people would be struggling a little bit less during this economic downturn. | ||
| Crime in Florida has completely cratered virtually everywhere. | ||
| That is a little bit something to do with him backing law enforcement. | ||
| He rebuilt the Sanibel Causeway and did incredible stuff down in southwest Florida after Hurricane Ian. | ||
| He expanded school choice for Florida's families. | ||
| He provided $70 million to bolster programs aimed at equipping dads with parenting resources to help foster youth. | ||
| And he gave parents the right to know what kind of education their kids are receiving. | ||
| That is just a small amount on top of this massive COVID move that he's making where they are going to actually have a grand jury to look into what Fauci And the CDC did and everything else. | ||
| I know all of that freedom is scary and he's not coming for the gays or anyone else. | ||
| Actually, the governor sent us two onesies for the babies when we announced that we were having kids. | ||
| You people are just absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| The syphilis of comedy Stephen Colbert. | ||
| All right, let's get to a RubinReport.locals.com community Q&A. | ||
| Lawrence says, I'm originally from Jersey, but living in North Carolina. | ||
| I have no desire to live in Jersey again, but when I visit family, I will take time | ||
| to drive by places I used to go, often remarking how great it used to be, but no | ||
| longer is. When you go back to L.A., do you drive by your previous house and haunts | ||
| and maybe feel a bit nostalgic for how it once was? | ||
| No, I've been back twice in the year since we moved from L.A. | ||
| And first off, when you go there, everything here in Florida, and I'm in South Florida, obviously Miami area, it's so lush and alive. | ||
| Literally, there was an iguana, not an iguana, there was a gecko in my shower this morning, just taking a steam in my shower. | ||
| I posted a picture of it on Twitter. | ||
| There's just like a life here. | ||
| And then there's another type of life, which is just happy, functional people going about their business and things are just kind of buzzing here and it's all good. | ||
| It is so deeply depressing in Los Angeles. | ||
| The people do not look happy. | ||
| The amount of masks, the misery, everyone just kind of walking with their head down. | ||
| And it doesn't feel lively either, right? | ||
| I mean, it really is a desert there, and just nothing looks lush and alive and any of that. | ||
| But when Phoenix and I went back a couple weeks ago for the Bill Maher podcast, | ||
| and we did some stuff with PragerU, PragerU is about, I don't know, | ||
| maybe three quarters of a mile from where my old house was. | ||
| I had no, I loved that house. | ||
| It was the most beautiful. | ||
| I could have lived in that house the rest of my life. | ||
| It was just in the wrong state. | ||
| But I just had no desire to go back. | ||
| I felt no attachment to anything. | ||
| I didn't miss anything there. | ||
| I didn't go out to restaurants for the last two years. | ||
| So there was no restaurant I missed. | ||
| There was no store that I missed. | ||
| There was really no person I wanted to see. | ||
| I mean, I do like Prager, obviously. | ||
| I like Dennis and the Prager U people. | ||
| I like Adam Carolla, who's the other guy that I like. | ||
| And I like Larry Elder. | ||
| I'm trying to move them all here. | ||
| I literally send them all listings on Zillow and Trulio all the time. | ||
| But no, I don't feel any nostalgia for it. | ||
| I don't miss it at all. | ||
| And it's like, in a weird way, when I see these stories about LA wants to, you know, bring back mask mandates, I'm kind of like, I'm kind of for it. | ||
| I don't mean that in like, I want to punish people. | ||
| I mean it like the only way you will ever change is if you get rid of these people and you'll only get rid of these people if it gets that bad. | ||
| So. | ||
| is what it is. | ||
| Quinn says, Dave, what is your least favorite thing about having kids? | ||
| Damn! | ||
| I mean, we're not even five months in over here. | ||
| My least favorite thing, look, I mean, the sleeping thing, obviously, is some level. | ||
| You know, I'd say one thing, like, as sort of clear and clean and honest as I can possibly be, which is what I always try to do on this show, but it's a little different when you're asking me about the kids. | ||
| You know, we had a really great life before kids. | ||
| We have a great life now, but I do sometimes miss, like, a little bit of, like, the flexibility of my previous life. | ||
| Like I haven't been able to just like lounge in the pool on a Sunday lately because like on a Sunday it's the two of us and the two kids and like somebody's pooping and crying and screaming and every now and again that's one of the kids so Yeah, I got you that time! | ||
| So I do miss a little bit of what our life was. | ||
| I know it's so much more fuller now and the picture is brighter and higher contrast and more everlasting now and all that stuff, but there is some piece of that. | ||
| You know, for these last couple of years, I've had a very charmed life. | ||
| I've kind of done what I've wanted to do, when I've wanted to do it, and I've built good things, and I work with great people, and we have good friends. | ||
| And, you know, so we haven't seen people as much. | ||
| It's like we're having less dinner parties, that sort of thing. | ||
| So it's not even about the least favorite thing, because the stuff that involves them, it's good. | ||
| Even when I'm getting spit up on, it's all right. | ||
| It's all right. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Nick says, can you please explain how so many people seem to agree that the presidential candidate Gavin Newsom is one of the most objectively good-looking men in America. | ||
| Even before his hair turned gray, his hair gel game never even compared to yours. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| For the record, this is two types of spray. | ||
| There's a dry texturizing spray and a super fine hairspray. | ||
| It's a lot. | ||
| I'm inhaling a lot of that. | ||
| David thinks it's either gonna kill me or it's preserving my insides. | ||
| I'm not sure which one. | ||
| I don't find him attractive. | ||
| He looks like just like an evil, smug douchebag. | ||
| Like, if you Googled evil, smug douchebag, can you Google evil, smug douchebag right now? | ||
| Like, I'm pretty sure Gavin Newsom will pop. | ||
| I got all you Googling it. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| I'm pretty sure he's gonna be Gavin Newsom. | ||
| Like, I know, he just, you know, he reads as American Psycho. | ||
| Like, he's just a bad dude. | ||
| I don't like him. | ||
| But I know, I know, what's her name? | ||
| Sunny Hostin on The View finds him very handsome. | ||
| So good luck with that. | ||
| Amy says, should Sam Bankman Freed be worried about meeting Jeffrey Epstein soon? | ||
| I'd be more worried about meeting the last people that Jeffrey Epstein saw. | ||
| That would be a bigger issue. | ||
| Yes, I think it is very likely that he is going to accidentally, a camera's not going to work, and he's going to slip on a puddle or somehow something. | ||
| Like this guy knows too much something about this story. | ||
| And I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but everything's a conspiracy these days. | ||
| It's like something about this story reeks. | ||
| We've shown you that compilation video a couple times of like the media just absolutely fellating this guy over and over. | ||
| How he got in with every celebrity, how they were giving every politician on both sides, though mostly Democrats, second largest donor, all of this cash. | ||
| Something about this reads like it's so connected to just the general state of craziness. | ||
| And in an age when texts and tweets and direct messages and all that can be exposed, especially when you got a guy like Elon involved, it's like a lot of people probably do not want him to be talking. | ||
| So we shall see. | ||
| see. | ||
| It's what's between, I would say, his brain and his heart. | ||
| The disconnect from here to here. | ||
| That's the problem that the guy has. | ||
| You know, it's funny. | ||
| I said on the show a couple days ago that I don't know that he's, like, inherently evil. | ||
| Like, did he devote his life to all of this to do evil things? | ||
| And sure, he did do that study where he locked dogs down, put their heads in a bag, and let maggots eat their faces off. | ||
| I don't love that and I'm not sure what science he was trying to get to on that one but like was he like profoundly evil when he started doing research about AIDS in the 80s and then everything with infectious disease and then you could say well he got drunk on his power and he got into this gain-of-function research where we started you know in essence gaming these viruses to do more and do different things and study them and Try to keep them in a lab, but you never know what happens | ||
| when that door swings open and all of that stuff. | ||
| So I don't know that he's purely evil, but I would say this, actually, I would say at this point, his level of dishonesty | ||
| relating to what his previous actions were when we have videos on all of those things that I would say is pretty | ||
| much evil. | ||
| Like the way he's going out in this blaze of glory as if he had nothing to do with any of this stuff and where he literally sits there and basically tells you that China's zero covid policy is kind of OK. | ||
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Uh, you know, you wouldn't want to do it forever, but you know, you do it for a little while. | |
| It's like, there's something evil about all of that. | ||
| But yeah, the lobotomy of Fauci, people would want. | ||
| I'd pay. | ||
| I'd pay. | ||
| Sweetwater says, are you a fan of desserts or do you usually skip it and go for a drink or tequila? | ||
| You know, I don't love the sweets. | ||
| I don't love the sweets, but I do love ice cream. | ||
| So I guess that ice cream obviously is a type of dessert and it's often a sweet. | ||
| I love, you give me a nice mint chocolate chip, a nice mint chocolate cookie. | ||
| I like the mint flavors. | ||
| I like a peanut butter ice cream, something like that. | ||
| Oatmeal, what is it? | ||
| Oat milk ice cream has been working for me lately. | ||
| There's a good place not too far from here. | ||
| But, you know, tequila at the end of the night will always be fine. | ||
| But for the Rubin Report holiday party, we got some sick-ass doughnuts. | ||
| You guys know we're going to be eating some crazy doughnuts tonight. | ||
| Which, as these people watch, it's yesterday. | ||
| It's a whole time warp around here. | ||
| Aliza says, what is worse, The View or CNN? | ||
| That's tough. | ||
| I mean the view is just like an endless onslaught of everything decent and good in this world. | ||
| Like that these women sit there and they all agree and they bring on the fake conservative to agree with them and like and that they're so wrong about everything. | ||
| And the one that kills me, the one that kills me is Joy, because I was sort of friendly with Joy | ||
| when I lived in New York City. | ||
| We lived a couple blocks away. | ||
| She did my radio show a couple times. | ||
| I would see her and her husband Steve on the street and we would chat, say hi to Emma, our dog at the time. | ||
| And she wasn't a bad person, but politics makes everyone crazy | ||
| and it has a way of making leftists particularly crazy. | ||
| Because if you only believe in what's happening right now and then what's happening right now happens to be nutty, | ||
| you will go nutty with it. | ||
| So listen to her, someone who I kind of liked and respected. | ||
| Maybe we had some differences, doesn't even matter. | ||
| To just watch her go completely off the deep end Trump derangement syndrome, COVID, all the stuff, that one's been tough. | ||
| So the fact that that show is just like that, a certain set of people just religiously watch that and think they're watching something sane seems dangerous. | ||
| As for CNN, I mean, CNN's awful too, but but CNN has really become the brunt of | ||
| a giant joke now I mean if anything I think we can thank CNN for being so | ||
| bad because I think that that has has Red-pilled an awful lot of people right so many people now | ||
| see how How partisan how patently partisan CNN is that I think it's | ||
| actually woke up a lot of people and people are tuning out and | ||
| turning into shows like this And I guess that's probably a net good. | ||
| Mike says, Hey Dave, I know you've always been a tequila type of guy, but now that you've officially registered as a Republican, have you thought about when you're going to transition to brown liquor? | ||
| Look, I get it. | ||
| Conservatives, you know, you meet a guy that's a conservative. | ||
| He wants you to know that he's a guy. | ||
| And how does he prove he's a guy? | ||
| He drinks brown liquor. | ||
| Does it taste horrible? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Does he say he likes it? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Does it get him drunk? | ||
| Conservatives love whiskey and bourbon. | ||
| I have a ton of whiskey and bourbon in the house right now. | ||
| Oh, and speaking of, yeah, I'm gonna do it. | ||
| Connor loves this bourbon. | ||
| It's called monkey shoulder. | ||
| Wherever he goes, he's got a jar of monkey shoulder with him. | ||
| He loves monkey shoulder. | ||
| I don't like whiskey or bourbon. | ||
| I just don't like it. | ||
| I like the smooth, delicious taste of a beautiful reposado or an anejo. | ||
| That's what's for me. | ||
| But I respect the conservative who says I drink Whiskey or bourbon, I smoke a cigar and I have hair in places that nobody should have hair. | ||
| Spike says, hi Dave, when do you announce the Cali Jar winner? | ||
| Good question, Spike. | ||
| We are going to announce it next Friday. | ||
| So next Friday will be our last show of the year. | ||
| Obviously giving everybody some time off for Christmas and I got a ton of family coming here and everybody else is going home, do their holiday thing. | ||
| So we will announce the Cali Jar winner. | ||
| It will be somebody in the locals community. | ||
| And a whole bunch of you have been submitting all sorts of interesting, somewhat often funny requests about why you're deserving of the money, and I'm going to throw in some extra money. | ||
| We're going to post about it again next week so we make sure that we don't miss anybody, because the posts have been just flying in on who thinks that they deserve the cash to get out of California and to move to the free state. | ||
| If you want to get in on that, join us at rubenreport.locals.com. | ||
| Ski says, do you think the first thing the new Congress should do is tackle the corruption inside the FBI? | ||
| How will we ever get any real investigations and prosecutions of all the corrupt politicians and the woke CEOs colluding with the government? | ||
| Do you think it's even possible to clean up the FBI at this point? | ||
| Thanks for being a sane voice in an insane world. | ||
| I actually do think it's possible, right? | ||
| I think Trump had all of the right ideas related to the swamp and the permanent state that just exists no matter what of unelected bureaucrats that just are kind of in all of the halls of power in DC. | ||
| It was not something that we all talked about before. | ||
| If you remember when Trump originally said deep state and everyone said he's a crazy conspiracy theorist, but now we all accept that these bureaucratic Giant institutions, CDC, NIH, whatever is going on behind the scenes in the intelligence services, that these things last over this administration, that administration, etc. | ||
| So I think it is possible to disassemble some of it. | ||
| The question is, and I think this is going to be a question that pops up more and more over the next year or so, is, okay, Trump shined a light on it. | ||
| He didn't do anything about it when he was president but it was first time in and I think he was a little over his head as anybody would have been. | ||
| It was really hard to staff and everything else. | ||
| Is he the guy to come back in and really continue that work or is there someone perhaps with a track record that is better and obviously you know who I'm talking about that would make sense like he's got the right team around him. | ||
| Like the question that I think Trump really has to answer still is who's around him now. | ||
| Who's around him now? | ||
| You know, a couple of days ago, Trump had this announcement on Truth Social that he had a huge major announcement coming the next day. | ||
| And people were like, well, what could it be? | ||
| Is he going to announce his new foreign policy or that he's doing this or that or something? | ||
| And it was like he's selling NFTs on his website for $99 a pop. | ||
| Like, is that what we need right now? | ||
| And he's doing that at the exact same time that DeSantis is doing this COVID panel. | ||
| And it's like, I think you got the point. | ||
| I think you got the point. | ||
| So I think there's other, I think there are some people that can do some things related to that. | ||
| I don't know if it can be Trump. | ||
| Lloyd says, where did you find Brock? | ||
| Great content. | ||
| Brock is your name Lloyd in the community? | ||
| Did you submit this question yourself? | ||
| Where did we find Brock? | ||
| Well, you may remember a couple months ago we announced on the show and on social media that we were hiring. | ||
| We got Hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes plowed through him. | ||
| We have a little system of how everything works, where Phoenix goes through some stuff, Daphne kind of filters them for me, they take some meetings, then I take the final Zoom calls. | ||
| And Brock had an awesome resume, and I chatted with him on the Zoom. | ||
| He didn't fall out of his chair, which was half of it. | ||
| And you're moving to Florida! | ||
| Can I say that? | ||
| I just announced it. | ||
| Yeah, alright. | ||
| He's moving to Florida. | ||
| He's here right now. | ||
| Visiting just checking out some stuff, but he's moving with his can I say? | ||
| fiance and Yeah, so far so far so good, and I'm gonna call you Lloyd for now on because clearly you're Lloyd Me says the amount of hate directed at DeSantis on Twitter is unbelievable I watched his roundtable on the kovat shots and started reading comments before I couldn't take it anymore Do you see that hate represented at all on the ground in Florida? | ||
| Or do you think it's mostly trolls and bots on Twitter doing this? | ||
| I don't see it anywhere. | ||
| I don't see it anywhere here. | ||
| Even the people that... So I'll tell you something. | ||
| I play basketball with a bunch of guys. | ||
| I knew one guy. | ||
| I was invited to this weekly game and I'm playing ball with these guys and they're all good guys and it's about basketball. | ||
| Like we're not sitting there having roundtables about politics. | ||
| Anyway, I started chatting with one guy, and it became fairly obvious that he was a lefty. | ||
| He didn't know who I was. | ||
| And I started asking a little bit more, and it seems like they're all kind of lefties. | ||
| I think they're a little more old-school Democrats, or they're like Florida Democrats. | ||
| I guess that's the point. | ||
| So they're not completely bananas insane. | ||
| But my point is that even the Democrats here, And there are some bad ones, I would say, like a Charlie Criss type. | ||
| But even the Democrats here are a little more moderate than what you would get of a, let's say, | ||
| a Democrat in San Francisco or more broadly, Cali and parts of New York and Connecticut | ||
| and all that kind of stuff. | ||
| But Florida, Florida is freaking flourishing right now and I don't think there's any hatred on the ground. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| I think people are really happy about what's going on here. | ||
| The proof's in the pudding. | ||
| The guy won by 20 points. | ||
| And as for bots and trolls and YouTube comments and everything else, you've really got to remember, | ||
| like for example, our comments on YouTube are quite good. | ||
| They're quite on point. | ||
| I'm very proud of that. | ||
| That means that our base audience is usually talking about the issues. | ||
| I scan the comments every day, and it's just like people are paying attention to the show. | ||
| They're asking interesting questions. | ||
| I see people going back and forth and everything else. | ||
| But what you have to remember when you see a video that has a ton of hate, let's say a video has 100,000 views, right? | ||
| 100,000 views. | ||
| Now, if a 100,000 view video has 5,000 Comments, that's 5%, right? | ||
| Which is a lot, because most people, most of you watching this right now, you're watching it, you're either enjoying it or not enjoying it, hopefully you're enjoying it, and then you move on with your life. | ||
| But then there's a certain set of people that comment. | ||
| So it's a self-selected group of people, and then the people that comment, for whatever reason, as a general rule, and it's actually not happening that much in our community, they tend to be angrier. | ||
| And the more crazy that you write things, the more likes that you'll get, the more responses that you'll get, and then you'll start fighting with people. | ||
| Then the average person looks at the comments and they go into the comment section and they're like, man, I guess people really did hate this video or I guess people really do hate Dave or whatever it might be. | ||
| And it's like, well, actually, that's a self-selected group of 5% of the people. | ||
| 95% of the people probably watched it, enjoyed it and moved on with their lives. | ||
| So the focus on the bots and the trolls and the anonymous comments, I know why we all do it and we think it's indicative of something bigger. | ||
| But I actually think that the more important number to look at is the amount of people that watch and don't comment, that just watch and go, oh, I kind of agreed with that, kind of didn't agree with the other part, but hopefully I'll come back. | ||
| Carlton says, can you give us a group picture of you and the team of Rubin Report tonight? | ||
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| Everyone's, yeah, everyone's willing to be in a photograph, at least the people in this room. | ||
| So yes, there will be a Rubin Report team picture taken this evening, posted at rubinreport.locals.com. | ||
| Cassie says, my brother is a gay man who has run radically to the left because he thinks conservatives hate him. | ||
| He very much buys into the idea that LGBTQ plus being a unified community, although I'm not sure he's heard any arguments suggesting otherwise. | ||
| I love your advice on how to have the best relationship. | ||
| Oh, I'd love your advice on how to have the best relationship with him since this has really thrown a wrench in our siblinghood. | ||
| It sucks and I'm sorry you're going through it and I've heard this from a million people and it's also like the obvious reason why these group identities, these collectivist identities are so dangerous. | ||
| The simple truth is a gay man has no more in common with a trans person than a straight person does. | ||
| It's just the truth. | ||
| A gay man doesn't think he's in the wrong body. | ||
| You're talking about attraction versus identity. | ||
| They've just combined all of these things and they've done it in such a dangerous way, | ||
| as I've talked about many times and I've mentioned with a few guests. | ||
| You know, if you took a little seven-year-old boy who was effeminate and liked playing with | ||
| Barbie instead of G.I. | ||
| Joe, these days the entire machine around them would be encouraging them to transition | ||
| when most likely they will just turn out to be a hopefully functional gay person and live | ||
| a fully actualized life like anybody else. | ||
| That would be the hope. | ||
| Maybe they'd turn out to be straight. | ||
| You know, there are straight guys who are effeminate and there are gay guys who are straight, acting, etc. | ||
| So as to what you can do with that, I mean, maybe try sending them one of my videos. | ||
| Listening to some of this stuff, like who would want to be? | ||
| I don't look at the people that work for me that happen to be straight and my base thought is they're straight. | ||
| They must represent straight people. | ||
| But there's this weird thing that happens with gays or it's a weird thing that happens with all minorities in general. | ||
| But imagine thinking that your political ideology had to be deeply tied to what your sexuality was, how depressing that would be. | ||
| And in a weird way, it's like when when the Democrats You know, Chris Rock does a bit about how the cops need a certain amount of crime and the Democrats need a certain amount of hate. | ||
| The Democrats need the idea out there that somehow conservatives or most Americans hate gays and hate trans people and hate, hate this and hate that. | ||
| Because if they don't have that, if they don't have that idea out there, by the way, it's just an idea. | ||
| It's not a reality. | ||
| If they don't have that idea, well, then why then a gay person might be like, hmm, let's see, I'm equal. | ||
| I have equal rights. | ||
| I have a job. | ||
| I like to have a family and own a car and a house and pay a mortgage. | ||
| I'm going to have to make some decisions politically on my own. | ||
| I'd maybe like to vote for lower taxes. | ||
| Boy, the Republicans generally are for lower taxes. | ||
| My foreign policy, I'm not really that into wars and endless spending on things. | ||
| That does seem like more of a Republican ideal these days. | ||
| So they need to keep you focused on your identity. | ||
| They need black people to think that conservatives are all racist. | ||
| And they need you to think that you need to be on the government dole. | ||
| Otherwise, you would realize you don't need them. | ||
| And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's really about. | ||
| Tony says, what is something in the new year that you're looking forward to? | ||
| Well, look, this has been a great, as I said, it's been an absolutely great, life-changing year. | ||
| We've got some big announcements. | ||
| I think we're going to at least tease two announcements next Friday. | ||
| But we got some big things coming in the year just in terms of the show and everything else. | ||
| And more than anything else, what I want for 2023, I mean, we brought two new lives into this world and into this home. | ||
| I just want to make sure everybody's happy and healthy and we keep doing that. | ||
| I think we're going to do a little more travel. | ||
| I'm going to try to take the show on the road a bit more. | ||
| I think we might do some international stuff, probably in the spring of 2023. | ||
| And just keep building something good that that feels valuable, that when I wake up in the morning, I'm ready to go to work. | ||
| And hopefully that my team feels the same way and that that we're making a little bit of a dent. | ||
| You know, like I think more than anything else, it's like if I can make just a little a little dent, In this machinery that has been so calcified against us, if I can be a little bit of a part to wake up some more people and have people take more responsibility for their lives and maybe smile and laugh every now and again when it comes to politics, that would be pretty, pretty sweet. | ||
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| And we've got a couple interviews coming out this weekend, actually. | ||
| We did interviews with Senator James Lankford and Senator Marsha Blackburn that just in the last day or two that'll come out this weekend. | ||
| And I leave you with the elderly man pretending to be president. | ||
| Have a nice weekend. | ||
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