March 8, 2023 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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No regrets. | |
| Oh, no regrets? | ||
| No regrets. | ||
| Oh shit! | ||
| What up yo! I'm... | ||
| What up yo! I'm... | ||
| What up, yo? | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| It is March 8th, 2023. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
| We are live-streaming on Rumble YouTube and Locals. | ||
| There will be no post-game show today. | ||
| I have my reasons, but I will make it up to you, I promise. | ||
| You. | ||
| Those of you that are in the Locals community know why there's no post-game show today already, because of reasons of which I described to you yesterday. | ||
| That's all I have to say for the general public. | ||
| Today we are doing a Locals Community Q&A, but I wanted to frame it around the state | ||
| of the state of Florida, which was yesterday. | ||
| Governor Ron DeSantis given the annual State of the State address. | ||
| Obviously, this one had a particular sort of poignancy to it, a certain focus on it | ||
| because of what seemingly is happening related to this whole presidential run kind of thing. | ||
| Again, I don't know anything that you don't know, but it all seems to be kind of going in that direction. | ||
| The guy's just coming back from a nationwide tour. | ||
| the blueprint that Florida is trying to export to the rest of the country, and much more. | ||
| So we're gonna talk about that with one little clip of CNN and Don Lemon related to DeSantis, | ||
| and just the pure propaganda that corporate media just keeps spewing on us. | ||
| So that's on the agenda today. | ||
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| And now back to me. | ||
| All right, so I mostly want to focus on the good stuff. | ||
| And the good stuff is the state of the state. | ||
| And even if you don't live in the great, the free state of Florida, it is good for you wherever you live because this is the beacon of freedom. | ||
| This is the signal that is being sent across the world right now of how to do it right. | ||
| See someone doing it right. | ||
| You gotta amplify it. | ||
| You gotta help them. | ||
| That's what I'm trying to do. | ||
| I think that's what you're trying to do. | ||
| But the liars, the frauds, the con men, and the bad people will always try to quash that sense of freedom because they love control. | ||
| Here's Don Lemon on his morning show. | ||
| And as you know, he was demoted to the morning show because no one wanted to watch him at night. | ||
| Soon enough, he'll be on the 4 a.m. | ||
| hour, and then he'll probably be wandering the streets of San Francisco after that. | ||
| But here he is. | ||
| He brings on Ken Burns. | ||
| And you guys might know Ken Burns. | ||
| Ken Burns is a very, very famous documentarian. | ||
| He has done many, many documentaries over the years on on baseball and American history, a whole bunch more, but | ||
| basically has become a left-wing progressive pundit. | ||
| I don't know why they ask him these questions related to current events and what's happening | ||
| today, but they do. | ||
| And here's Ken Burns basically equating DeSantis to the Nazis and the Soviets. | ||
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Moved enough to write about this bill and what's going on with the whole idea of critical | |
| race theory and not teaching the full history of this country. | ||
| Why? | ||
| You know, what makes America great is not the suppression of ideas, or the pursuit of every corner those ideas may lead us, or the facts. | ||
| It's about who we are and how we investigate who we are and celebrate the diversity of who we are. | ||
| All of these bills that DeSantis and others are doing limit our ability to understand who we are and are not inclusive. | ||
| They're exclusive. | ||
| They're narrowing the focus of what is and isn't American history. | ||
| It's terrifying. | ||
| It feels like a Soviet system. | ||
| Or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village. | ||
| Tucker Carlson's doing the same thing with the footage from 1-6. | ||
| It's just a kind of rewriting of history at the most dangerous level. | ||
| It's a huge threat to our republic. | ||
| You are a huge threat to our republic, you clowns and hacks. | ||
| All right, first off, one more time, say it with me, you know it. | ||
| They are not removing African-American history from the schools in Florida. | ||
| They are taking away one AP course, which was going to teach woke gender theory as it | ||
| relates to African American history, and that has nothing to do with African American history. | ||
| Although I've often asked the question, was Harriet Tubman running a secret underground | ||
| railroad that had something to do with lesbians? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe that's what it was all about, but I would need to read more. | ||
| There is nothing bigoted about this. | ||
| The idea that you have to teach everything in schools, regardless of whether it's true or good or just or right, is completely insane. | ||
| Is the position that these people are taking, that Ken Burns and Lemon and the ladies are taking, that we should teach Nazism in school? | ||
| Nazism is a political ideology. | ||
| Based in racial supremacy, which actually is pretty close to wokeness if you think about it. | ||
| Do they want to teach that? | ||
| I suspect they don't want to teach that. | ||
| He also just says it's just these generic platitudes that mean nothing. | ||
| What makes us great is who we are. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| It's who we are. | ||
| That's what makes us great. | ||
| And the other one, it's how we, what makes us great is how we celebrate diversity. | ||
| Diversity is not good in and of itself, right? | ||
| If diversity was good in and of itself, these people would like intellectual diversity. | ||
| They would like the diversity of ideas, but that's the last thing they like. | ||
| They like their ideas and for you to sit down and shut up. | ||
| But, don't take my word for all of this, because Governor DeSantis gave his State of the State yesterday, and he knew exactly what the media was going to do when he got rid of this AP course, which, by the way, everyone in Florida agrees with, and most of these people actually do. | ||
| So here is DeSantis. | ||
| Oh, first, before we get to the State of the State. | ||
| So this is like two days ago. | ||
| Before the State of the State. | ||
| Here is DeSantis responding to the corporate media attack on this removal of the AP course. | ||
| Governor DeSantis does not want students to learn about slavery and its aftermath. | ||
| Well, if you actually looked at what our standards are, not only is it not prohibited to teach that, it's required to teach that. | ||
| It's required to teach all of those things. | ||
| It's required under Florida statutes to teach about racial discrimination. | ||
| They're doing it because they know there's enough people and corporate media who will just take that and will run | ||
| with that. | ||
| So we've got all these examples cataloged of basically media lies to try to do the hoax. | ||
| In Florida, you know, if it's explicit and pornographic, parents have the right to object, | ||
| and it should be taken off. | ||
| But in terms of issues involving American history, it's very clear in Florida standards | ||
| that we are required to teach all aspects of black history, not queer theory, | ||
| but actual aspects of black history. | ||
| All right, so look, he knew the attacks were coming. | ||
| He has an incredibly airtight team that knows how to deal with these people. | ||
| We showed you the video, what, two weeks ago? | ||
| Andrea Mitchell of NBC News asking Kamala Harris, what is it that Ron DeSantis doesn't want people knowing about slavery and black history? | ||
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What does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that Slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida school children. | |
| These people lie about everything. | ||
| Ken Burns is lying, Don Lemon is lying, Andrea Mitchell is lying, Anna Navarro is lying, Whoopi is lying. | ||
| They lie about everything, but DeSantis is just going about the business of the state. | ||
| And if you really want proof on all of this, they have these hysterical outbursts about all of these things. | ||
| And then what happens as time goes by and people forget things? | ||
| Nothing bad happens because of the things that Ron DeSantis is doing. | ||
| For example, we checked, and Phoenix, if you could fire up your computer right now, how many gay people have been arrested in Florida since Don't Say Gay? | ||
| How many from the DeSantis goon squad? | ||
| I got a big fat zero. | ||
| Unless, were you just giving me the white supremacist sign? | ||
| No, that was a zero. | ||
| Okay, so that's one thing. | ||
| And we are, as he said, we do have to teach black history, so that, of course, is a lie. | ||
| Everything that they say is a lie. | ||
| And what they are jealous of is that people are waking up, people are understanding what freedom is, people are moving here, they're leaving the crap factory states. | ||
| I'm going to say craptastic or crap factory. | ||
| I combined that into one thing. | ||
| And it's all good here. | ||
| So here is Governor DeSantis kicking off the State of the State. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, Madam President, members of the Legislature, and fellow citizens, my duty under the Constitution is to inform the Legislature concerning the condition of the state and to recommend measures in the public interest. | ||
| Well, as we used to do in the military, here's the bluff, the bottom line up front. | ||
| Florida is number one, and working together we will ensure that Florida remains the number one state in these United States. | ||
| The guy is focused. | ||
| He's got a super majority. | ||
| We're escalating infrastructure projects because so many people are moving here. | ||
| If you didn't see my, I did a mini interview with him last week, just 15 or 18 minutes or so. | ||
| And we discussed some of the things that he can do to ensure that Florida not only will stay free, but stay flourishing as we get all of these new people. | ||
| And one of the other things that he's doing, and somehow the left will have a fit about | ||
| this one too, he's going out of his way to make sure it is easier to have children in | ||
| Florida. | ||
| He's going out of his way to make sure that there are less barriers financially and otherwise | ||
| if you want to start a family in the free state of Florida. | ||
| By permanently eliminating sales tax on all baby supplies, diapers, wipes, clothes, cribs, strollers, we will be able to say that in Florida, having a child will be tax-free. | ||
| We are proud to be pro-family, and we are proud to be pro-life in the state of Florida. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I paid state tax on that! | ||
| But we are buying diapers and probably will be for quite some time so I'm gonna save a little cash on that. | ||
| I do want to quickly address the pro-life comment there. | ||
| Because obviously not every single person in Florida is a hundred percent pro-life the way Governor DeSantis describes his own personal beliefs. | ||
| I have been on stage with him when he has been asked about this. | ||
| I was sitting next to him at a event a couple months ago and people asked him about his personal beliefs on abortion versus the position of the state and he said look I'm a Catholic and that that frames my view on this and I personally And pro-life. | ||
| He said, but I understand that I govern a state with many different people and we feel that the 15 week ban on abortion, which is what we have in Florida right now, 15 weeks, you know, basically three and a half months, that's quite deep into a pregnancy, that that is the right thing. | ||
| And what's so interesting about that is Florida, which is now thought of as this, you know, right wing red state run by evil DeSantis and the fascists. | ||
| It has a 15 week ban on abortion, which every Democrat in America would have said is a fair | ||
| cutoff point 10 to 20 years ago. | ||
| Bill Clinton of 20 years ago, you know, 15 to 20 weeks, 20 was sort of the max. | ||
| Now the Democrats are at eight and eight and a half month abortions. | ||
| Cali wants you to have an abortion at any point. | ||
| They literally are talking about post birth abortions where the doctor and the mother | ||
| can decide whether to kill the baby after the birth. | ||
| I mean, there's such crazy stuff. | ||
| So Florida, which is a pro life state in that in a certain sense has the most moderate position. | ||
| So when they tell you how far right this place is, what you should say to them is, oh, you | ||
| mean moderate Democrat of 15 years ago. | ||
| Anyway, he concluded his speech. | ||
| We could have played a gajillion clips of it, but I'm sure we'll play some more in the coming weeks as he lines up what his agenda is and what this blueprint actually stands for. | ||
| But he concluded his address by doing something that I think was really effective. | ||
| There is going to be an awful lot of noise, right? | ||
| The noise is going to come from every direction. | ||
| Don't worry about the chattering class. | ||
| Ignore all the background noise. | ||
| Keep the compass set to True North. | ||
| We will stand strong. | ||
| We will hold the line. | ||
| We won't back down. | ||
| going to try to destroy him, but the guy is focused on doing the right thing and that | ||
| was his message to the legislature. | ||
| Don't worry about the chattering class. | ||
| Ignore all the background noise. | ||
| Keep the compass set to true north. | ||
| We will stand strong. | ||
| We will hold the line. | ||
| We won't back down. | ||
| And I can promise you this, you ain't seen nothing yet. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Gotta say guys, it feels good to live in a place that is governed by people who are interested in freedom and doing the right thing and ignoring the noise and fighting and saying enough is enough and all of that stuff. | ||
| So if you're watching this as a Rubin Report viewer, I welcome you to move to Florida. | ||
| Don't bring your family. | ||
| That's not cool. | ||
| But you, you can come. | ||
| All right, let's get to a RubinReport.locals.com community Q&A. | ||
| Paul says, the Democrats are reducing penalties for murder. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| We discussed it a couple of days ago. | ||
| I cannot fathom this at the request of the people. | ||
| Who wants that? | ||
| Do you think they are doing this knowing that many of them and their friends will soon be facing some very serious charges? | ||
| Is this mitigation? | ||
| So every time the Democrats come in with one of these idiotic things, we are not going to arrest you if you jump a turnstile. | ||
| We are not going to arrest you if you're trespassing. | ||
| We are going to lower penalties on murder and armed robbery and all these things. | ||
| Their thought process—let's try to give the least cynical version, right? | ||
| Let's try to steelman their argument. | ||
| Their argument would be there is a set of people who are aggrieved in society and who have basically been forced into doing really bad things, and the system is racist and oppressive against them, and they have to do these bad things. | ||
| So when they, say, murder a family or push an old lady into the subway Or break into a Target to steal a TV that I suppose they're gonna eat because, you know, okay, fine. | ||
| That we should not treat them so harshly because it's, in some way, it's our fault. | ||
| In a weird way, we deserve it. | ||
| And this would be their belief of good intentions. | ||
| However, the road to hell is paved with you-know-what. | ||
| And this is what consistently happens. | ||
| So that's the age-old debate. | ||
| It's like, Who's driving the progressive machine? | ||
| Who's driving that car off the cliff? | ||
| And do all the people in the back know what's really going on? | ||
| Do the people really driving it? | ||
| Like, they would have to look at basic evidence. | ||
| Big government, high taxes, lot of handouts, you destroy cities. | ||
| Like, there's evidence everywhere. | ||
| It's everywhere. | ||
| You don't even need more studies or to read old Thomas Sowell books or anything else. | ||
| Just go to any big city. | ||
| Go to New York where I was last week. | ||
| Go to Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle. | ||
| Okay, you know it, right? | ||
| Go there and see do these policies work. | ||
| But it all sounds like, well, let's defund the police. | ||
| The police are kind of mean, and they don't like black people. | ||
| And even when five black cops, you know, kill a black guy, somehow that's racist. | ||
| So the question is, is it the intentions of all the people, and then you just have a bunch of useful idiots? | ||
| And what do you do with that? | ||
| That is the combination that I think we have, and it's a match made in hell. | ||
| I think you have a small set of really bad people with bad ideas, and then you have a whole bunch of mostly young people who haven't thought through the issues. | ||
| But then I would say there's another version of it, which is you could take someone which is a Bernie Sanders type, Who I really believe is a believer in this stuff. | ||
| Like, I don't think he's faking it. | ||
| But after what happened on Real Time that we played, you know, we played that clip a couple times, where he did not know the difference between equality and equity. | ||
| That would be like saying, do you know the difference between socialism and capitalism? | ||
| Do you know the difference between baseball and basketball? | ||
| This is your basic 101 stuff. | ||
| And he didn't even know that. | ||
| So you've got useful idiots, you've got intentional morons, you've got just, it's a clown car. | ||
| It is a clown car with ain't. | ||
| Where there ain't much good in it. | ||
| Snowbaby says, have either of the boys started cutting teeth? | ||
| Have you started introducing them to solids? | ||
| My baby was interested in foods at four months now, almost one year devours everything. | ||
| So nobody's on solid yet. | ||
| We are, we're still doing the breast milk thing. | ||
| I've got a giant freezer of breast milk with also one Wagyu steak that when they are officially done with the breast milk, we will share our Wagyu ribeye that we've had in there for six or seven months now. | ||
| Uh, but they are both, well, Justin is in full teething mode, which is why the other day, uh, I told you when my eye was a little screwed up, he had scratched me in the eye. | ||
| It's still, like, a little irritated, actually, because he's always, you know, they're always just clawing at whatever you can get, and I try to let him do as much as he wants to do. | ||
| If he wants to just kind of grab around and pull my hair or whatever, they, like, kind of rubbing on the beard. | ||
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| But I used his teething thing, because, you know, we've got all these teething toys that you keep in the freezer because they like that coolness as they're starting to teethe. | ||
| I was using that on my eye to get the swelling to go down. | ||
| Anyway, we think the tooth is coming any day now. | ||
| A tooth is coming, could come by the end of this sentence right now. | ||
| That's on the way. | ||
| Luke will be a little bit behind him. | ||
| And then we've started the discussions about how long we want to keep them on the breast milk and before we move to solids and everything, because obviously at this point it would be easier to move to solids. | ||
| Dave, great name Dave, Dave, says, in the fight to end the deep state cabal, can anyone trump Trump? | ||
| Well look, that question... | ||
| is the best argument for Trump, right? | ||
| That he has been through the machine. | ||
| They have thrown everything at him. | ||
| Impeachments and hearings and investigations and all of the stuff. | ||
| He has almost nothing else to play for other than the thing that he's always talking about, which is draining the swamp and all that. | ||
| And he has sort of this there's a vengeance to it this time because he feels he was robbed last time. | ||
| The whole election was fortified, right? | ||
| That was the big article in the Atlantic after the election. | ||
| They didn't steal an election. | ||
| They fortified an election. | ||
| So the question is, can anyone do that job better than Trump? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think it is perfect. | ||
| I think there is a perfectly legit argument. | ||
| To say that Trump would do that specific thing perhaps more effectively than DeSantis, because he's been through part of it, right? | ||
| Now, he had all sort of leaks. | ||
| He didn't drain it. | ||
| A lot of it didn't work out, but some of it did. | ||
| We had a great economy. | ||
| We had peace deals in the Middle East. | ||
| Like, there was a lot of good there, too. | ||
| But I think there is an argument to say that he would be the best at that if it can be done at all. | ||
| Now, the counter-argument on the DeSantis side would be like, all right, well, DeSantis basically believes the same thing, right? | ||
| He doesn't like the globalists. | ||
| He doesn't like the WEF. | ||
| He doesn't like the endless bureaucracy. | ||
| He wants more term limits for these people. | ||
| And he has a better track record of actually accomplishing specific things. | ||
| Trump's done a few big things, and they should not be discounted for sure. | ||
| But DeSantis seems to have more discipline, a tighter team, and he might do it more effectively. | ||
| So I think you can make arguments on either side for that one. | ||
| Susan says, I just finished up watching the new Transformers movies that were produced over the last decade with my kids. | ||
| The one that is coming out in June flips the story back to the 90s, and my son is highly disappointed. | ||
| My son seems to think that Transformers will be the next Star Wars franchise. | ||
| I know you're a big Transformers fan. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Look, the Transformers movies, if you just watch them all, first off, you must need a drink. | ||
| Those things are such, like, bludgeon, hit you over the head with a bat, you don't know what's going on, you can't understand the stories. | ||
| The last one, was the last one with the, it was like the British, they were in, like, Knights of Camelot or something. | ||
| It was so insane that if any, I kid you not, If anyone in the locals community can explain to me in three sentences what that movie was, I will send you $500. | ||
| The movie was so perplexing and psychotic and whatever, and they've all been terrible, basically. | ||
| The first one was kind of okay. | ||
| But they are nothing in comparison. | ||
| Have your son watch the 1985 animated Transformers movie. | ||
| I think I referenced it a couple days ago on the show. | ||
| The death of Optimus Prime and of Starscream, Galvatron, Robert Stack as... | ||
| Not Rodimus Prime, he was the other guy, like, there's just so much goodness there, and the soundtrack is a great 80s soundtrack and everything, but Michael Bay, I mean, he loves to make things explode, he likes to have very shiny things, you can't see anything, there's no story to him, there's no cohesive narrative, they're just, ugh, it's just disappointing. | ||
| Florida Manchuk says, I'm not for big government, but do you think there's anything that can be done policy-wise that could stop the blatant lying from the media outlets? | ||
| I think almost all of America wants to repair the country, but it's hard to find a common place to start when the media constantly lie about what's going on. | ||
| Yeah, this is... | ||
| In some ways, that question gets to the heart of what I'm doing on this show more than anything else, because I'm always showing you clips of the media and showing you how they should be debunked in real time. | ||
| And that if we don't do that, you know, on one hand, we can ignore it and just move on. | ||
| But then, you know, a certain amount of people are brainwashed. | ||
| On the other hand, we don't want to always waste our time talking about the people who are doing everything wrong. | ||
| But either way, it puts us in this divergent path situation. | ||
| And that's a problem. | ||
| Look, is there anything that could be done at the governmental level This is tough, we have libel and slander laws. | ||
| They are very, very tight, and I don't know that you'd wanna tighten them. | ||
| You know, over the years, Trump has talked about tightening them. | ||
| And if you tighten them, I would fear that the chilling effect on free speech | ||
| would be a problem. | ||
| Meaning if you were to, not tighten the laws, | ||
| if you were to loosen them a little bit, right? | ||
| So I was giving you the reverse version. | ||
| If you loosen these laws a little bit, and then suddenly more people | ||
| could be sued for libel and slander. | ||
| Well, I make fun of people on this show all the time, usually in a sarcastic manner, | ||
| hopefully in some level of wit and witticism or whatever. | ||
| But if the laws were loosened a little bit, and I felt I could be sued, | ||
| well, now I'm gonna self-censor. | ||
| We already have enough self-censoring, right? | ||
| Everyone's doing it to themselves. | ||
| We already have self-censoring related to what videos put on YouTube and what gets demonetized and everything else. | ||
| So I don't know that there's much that can be done at the state level. | ||
| I think maybe, maybe there's a way to do something specifically to news outlets. | ||
| So if you're, I don't know what the exact accreditation is, but let's say you're a news channel on a cable network. | ||
| Or you're a newspaper with a certain circulation that there should be some law passed that you have to have a certain standard of journalistic integrity. | ||
| But again, these are tough things. | ||
| I think we're just gonna all keep going off in our own directions and hopefully, you know, the truth has a way of bubbling up and I think we all have to just hold that with us and believe that the truth will shine through. | ||
| I think that probably is it. | ||
| Dr. Wine Guy says, Hey Dave, as a successful business owner and entrepreneur, what would be your biggest recommendation for those who are thinking about opening their own business? | ||
| Well, first off, I mean, this is silly and cliche, but just do it. | ||
| Just do it. | ||
| I didn't know what I was doing when we went independent with the Rubin Report and we started the production company and we left our jobs and health insurance, and we did it several times. | ||
| It wasn't just when I left the Young Turks, then we left Patreon, then we were renting a studio, then I thought we have to own our own studio. | ||
| We did this many times. | ||
| Then we started Locals, so I started the tech company, all of these things. | ||
| It was just a matter of there's a problem, let me just do it. | ||
| And you know, I did it so many times that the last two or three times that I've done it, I was like, here we go one more time. | ||
| And then in my head now, even now, I'm always like, is there one more in me? | ||
| Like, is there one more crazy move in me? | ||
| And there probably is. | ||
| Actually, I have no doubt that there is. | ||
| There will be probably one, if not two or three more crazy moves along the line. | ||
| Like I will always, I've come to enjoy the business part of it, which is really weird. | ||
| I never thought of myself as a businessman. | ||
| I don't like sitting there, you know, crunching numbers and I have business manager and accountants that do that kind of stuff. | ||
| But building things that are good, building a successful production company that, you know, puts on this show, that hires these guys, that I'm proud of the content we put out and that I own it and control it and can get it out to you in a way that I think is effective and all those things is so beautiful. | ||
| And then on the locals front, ultimately merging with Rumble, putting these things together, And then fighting for what I think is the most important thing, which is free speech, which is exactly what we're doing. | ||
| And we're on the front end of that fight. | ||
| And it's a really, really beautiful thing, and I'm honored to be part of it. | ||
| So I would say, just do it. | ||
| And if you believe in it, and I would say this to anything, if you believe in what you are doing, do not stop. | ||
| Again, it sounds kind of cliche, like you want some kind of granular business information, like don't forget to carry the wand. | ||
| I can't give you that kind of advice. | ||
| But if you believe that what you are doing is good, whatever it is, whether you're making a freaking lollipop, or you're talking for a living, or you want to start a dental practice, whatever it might be, if you are good at it, and you love it, and you believe in it, You will find a way. | ||
| I worked an awful lot of odd jobs. | ||
| I lived in crappy apartments. | ||
| I was broke at times. | ||
| Scratch and change together, get a cup of coffee, literally. | ||
| But now I'm not, and I think that that was just, I just believed that if I kept doing it, that really is it. | ||
| It's something I've said in regards to Jordan Peterson. | ||
| Belief was built in. | ||
| I didn't even realize it at the time, but belief was built in. | ||
| I believed that if I gave something everything I got, I would get there. | ||
| At one time, I wanted to host The Tonight Show. | ||
| Well, I'm not doing that, although I do watch the old Carson Tonight Show, as you guys know. | ||
| I'm not doing that, but I'm doing something pretty close, and I think the proof is in the pudding. | ||
| Tali says, Dave, an actual serious question regarding social media. | ||
| Who would you say are the top people, other than yourself, who, in conservative media, tend to get things right a majority of the time, and who are the ones you would say are the most suspect? | ||
| Oh, you want me to name names? | ||
| He'll name names. | ||
| Well, how about I give credit to one guy who I often give credit to when he joins us for the Friday panel, but Jeffrey Tucker. | ||
| Uh, who if you have not seen him on this show, you got to check out Jeffrey Tucker. | ||
| He was so right from day one on COVID. | ||
| Now he's a, he's a libertarian economist, so he's not a traditional conservative in that sense. | ||
| Uh, but he was so right about lockdowns. | ||
| He was so right about mandates and vaxes and all of this stuff. | ||
| I mean, from day one, I was right pretty early on, I would say a few weeks in. | ||
| And as I always say, everyone's got a couple week window on that thing. | ||
| You won't have it the next time. | ||
| The next time it comes down, if you get fooled again, now it's on you. | ||
| So many of us, for a gajillion reasons, all got fooled this last time. | ||
| But he did not get fooled, so I give him a massive amount of credit. | ||
| I would say other people who have been directionally right about almost everything, I mean, Jordan Peterson, I think, has been directionally right about almost everything. | ||
| He did get the vaccine, and I grant him a little bit of a leash on that because he was very, very sick and MIA for a while. | ||
| So I don't think he was, like, fully, fully in, you know, primo Jordan Peterson mode. | ||
| Oh, by the way, speaking of Jordan Peterson... What? | ||
| Can I say this? | ||
| There might be something happening tomorrow night. | ||
| That's all I'll say for now. | ||
| So I would say Jordan has been directionally right about what the real threats are and alerting people to it. | ||
| I would say James Lindsay, who obviously I've had on a bunch of times also, has really nailed most of these things and gotten them right. | ||
| As for the people who've really gotten things wrong, I mean... | ||
| I don't want to throw anybody under the bus that I like. | ||
| Look, we all make mistakes. | ||
| We all screw up things. | ||
| I would say, look, I like Ben a lot. | ||
| I would say, you know, Ben Shapiro, he did screw up to some extent on the vaccines because he was repeating a lot of the data, the quote unquote data from the CDC and the NIH and everything else related to vaccines. | ||
| And I think he had one tweet where he said, it was something, it was like a long thread and it ended something like, in short, get the vaccine morons or something like that. | ||
| maybe it wasn't morons, but it was a word like that. | ||
| And I remember reading that thing and like, I just don't believe all this nonsense. | ||
| And I don't think that as a relatively young, healthy person who takes care of myself | ||
| and gets some sunlight and tries to exercise that I need to worry about this stuff. | ||
| So whatever, we all miss some here and there. | ||
| BBG says, I learned from my time in DC that many protesters are not actually in it for an issue, | ||
| but are professionals, i.e. paid to protest. | ||
| Antifa members have military police grade equipment. | ||
| Who is paying for all this? | ||
| I mean, my guess is there is some Soros connection to NGOs that are training these people. | ||
| It's also why the media, the way they talk about Antifa is so ridiculous. | ||
| It's like Antifa had the summer of love burning down our cities. | ||
| They just had a massive attack on a police training facility in Atlanta. | ||
| You're not seeing that on mainstream media. | ||
| Check it out on Rumble or YouTube if you want to find some videos on it. | ||
| But these people do seem very coordinated. | ||
| They know when to attack, they know when to move forward and retreat. | ||
| They use these little flash bombs and occasionally Molotov cocktails. | ||
| They had the Portland, what was it, the Portland State House | ||
| under lockdown for like a year during the Summer of Love. | ||
| There is something more coordinated there. | ||
| I believe there is money there. | ||
| And you know it. | ||
| It was the federal courthouse in Portland, actually. | ||
| And the thing is, you know it because they can turn it on and shut it off whenever they want. | ||
| Meaning, let's say that the movement behind BLM was legit. | ||
| Let's just say it wasn't, but let's just say it was. | ||
| How is it that they protested for two years under Trump? | ||
| And then the second, you know, we had people out in the streets and it was COVID, but you could, as Lori Lightfoot said, you could take your mask off for that because it's another sort of health. | ||
| Racism is another sort of health emergency. | ||
| But then the second Biden takes over, there's no more BLM, there's no more rioting, there's no more people in the streets. | ||
| Like, there is some level of coordination, and you know it because the media always tells you there's no coordination. | ||
| So if the media tells you that there's nothing, then there's obviously something. | ||
| Amy says, are there any movies coming out this year that you're looking forward to seeing? | ||
| Not really. | ||
| You know, I didn't see Avatar 2. | ||
| I would like to see it. | ||
| I would like to see it. | ||
| It's just tough getting out with the kids right now. | ||
| So I would like to see it. | ||
| I've heard some mixed things, but I enjoyed the first one. | ||
| And, you know, James Cameron is a great director in terms of the innovation with cameras and technology and all that kind of stuff. | ||
| And, you know, I'm a big sci-fi guy in general. | ||
| Is there anything you guys want to see? | ||
| Like, do movies even come out anymore? | ||
| Do they make movies anymore? | ||
| No one has a recollection of them. | ||
| You guys remember movies. | ||
| You'd go to this big room at the theater and they'd give you popcorn. | ||
| You know that the butter that they put on that popcorn has... I don't know that they do it anymore. | ||
| We used to pump your own, which I always felt, you know, very libertarian, but I never felt we should be allowed to pump our own butter. | ||
| It has something that causes Alzheimer's in it. | ||
| And then we wonder why we have a generation of brain-dead morons. | ||
| Todd says, assuming the next wave of politicians continue to flip seats red and a Republican is elected to the presidency, how long do you think it would take for things to get even remotely close to what it was before COVID? | ||
| It's a good question. | ||
| Well, let's put it this way. | ||
| The states are the states, right? | ||
| The red states are gonna get redder, the blue states are gonna get bluer. | ||
| The question is, can we flip a couple? | ||
| Can we get a Colorado to go from blue to red, right? | ||
| Like, there's a couple in the middle that are kinda bouncing back and forth, and can those go a certain way? | ||
| But let's say we got DeSantis in. | ||
| And he started putting a hatchet to some of the bureaucracy. | ||
| He started empowering the states to actually abide by the law and do things with the federal government that should be done. | ||
| And also maybe, and this is why I'm saying DeSantis, not Trump, maybe because it was DeSantis, he gets these crossover people who then can push back a little bit against the radicals. | ||
| The problem is that if Trump gets in, the radicals are going to be emboldened like crazy. | ||
| Now that's not Trump's fault, but he triggers these radicals, okay? | ||
| And then the radicals run the asylum on the left. | ||
| We know that, right? | ||
| The inmates are running the asylum over there. | ||
| So I think DeSantis probably as president would have a better chance to say, look, here's what I did in Florida. | ||
| The proof is in the pudding. | ||
| Florida's flourishing. | ||
| How can I now apply that so the states can do most of the work, which is the way it's supposed to be, and that the federal government can just kind of slim itself down and do the limited things that it's supposed to be doing? | ||
| I guess it's this. | ||
| Who do you think at the end of the day could get more border security actually accomplished? | ||
| Do you think it's Trump who, unfortunately, was unable to do it? | ||
| It was better than it was now, and I fully blame the Democrats for it. | ||
| There's many videos of Schumer and Pelosi saying they would not negotiate at all because they didn't want to give Trump any win. | ||
| Or do you think DeSantis, who seems to be a better political operative, do you think he might be able to get a little more done? | ||
| And I think that that's what many of us are going to have to decide when we have to vote in primaries if it ends up being the two of them. | ||
| Holly says, are you going to invite Crowder to the studio since he's in Florida today as well? | ||
| I believe Crowder is in Sarasota at the moment, but I don't know that I can say anything else. | ||
| I think he might be with Russell Brand. | ||
| I think I've said too much. | ||
| I think that will move to the next question. | ||
| Chef says, do you and David get date night or are you homebodies? | ||
| I mean, right now we're homebodies. | ||
| Like we are home freaking bodies. | ||
| It's a lot of cooking. | ||
| I'm doing all the cooking these days cause he's just on overload mode with the kids, but it's all good. | ||
| It's really been very nice. | ||
| And you know, now the kids are going to bed at about seven 30. | ||
| So from seven 30, You know, till about 7 a.m. | ||
| when it starts up all over again. | ||
| And just every day it starts up again. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| Then we can just kind of hang and watch a little TV or something, but mostly we're like passing out on the couch. | ||
| Like a little daily recap. | ||
| He's like, how was the show today? | ||
| I'm like, good. | ||
| He's like, how are the kids? | ||
| Good. | ||
| Okay, nice talking to you. | ||
| Yeah, we haven't had a date night or gone out in a while, but one of these days I imagine we would go out again. | ||
| But we still host a lot of dinners here and that sort of thing. | ||
| We have guests coming constantly and family and all that, so it's all good. | ||
| Prusky says, after the questioning of Merrick Garland, do you think he'll be held accountable for anything? | ||
| No, not really. | ||
| You guys know it, you know, they have these hearings, nothing really happens. | ||
| So then you might go, all right, well, then why cover the hearings if nothing ever comes of it? | ||
| If Fauci can lie under oath, if Jack Dorsey can lie under oath. | ||
| Well, I think getting the truth out is still good regardless, because over time, even if they don't prosecute these people, and Fauci I certainly think should be prosecuted, but even if they don't, get some of these people and they're not arrested | ||
| or put behind bars or thrown in the gulag or whatever it is. | ||
| More and more people can wake up to the nonsense, right? | ||
| So when Fauci testifies, no, I was never for school lockdowns. | ||
| And then you show people videos of Fauci being like, I'm for school lockdowns. | ||
| You can start exposing more of the nonsense. | ||
| And that really is the game. | ||
| And you know, there is a piece of me as much as I would love to see somebody pay | ||
| for what happened during COVID, like the people who really, really screwed up. | ||
| And I put Fauci at the top of that list. | ||
| It's like, you don't wanna end up in a banana republic where one administration comes in and arrests and punishes people from the previous one, and then another administration comes in and we do it the other way, and then that way, and that way, and that way, and we end up on this seesaw of insanity because you'll get no good people in government That's kind of where we're at right now, anyway. | ||
| So my preference at this point would be, I don't see a way that Merrick Garland's gonna be punished, I don't see a way Fauci's gonna be punished, but you keep having the hearings because you keep exposing it, and then hopefully people start voting a different way, and then maybe over time, that's how you uncalcify the machine. | ||
| Lewin says, do you find any of Trump's comments about DeSantis' integrity relating to his support of RINO anti-MAGA leanings even remotely concerning? | ||
| I understand that actions speak louder than words, but why run away from CPAC? | ||
| Why not lean in? | ||
| Well, let me address the second part first. | ||
| I don't know that, well, I'm sure he was invited to CPAC. | ||
| I was invited to CPAC. | ||
| I had other things. | ||
| The guy's been traveling all over. | ||
| He has the book release. | ||
| You know, CPAC just isn't as big and influential as it once was. | ||
| Like it was, it was pretty empty this year. | ||
| You watch some of those speeches. | ||
| They were pretty, pretty, uh, empty and cavernous in those rooms. | ||
| So they aren't, the event itself isn't as, uh, As sort of ubiquitous as it once was, that it would kind of leak into everything. | ||
| And it also has become a very MAGA-focused thing. | ||
| So I don't know how representative it is of the wider conservative movement. | ||
| As far as some of the Trump things, where he's saying these things about DeSantis, he's a rhino and a globalist, it's like, dude, you endorse the guy twice, you live in his state, you take credit for putting him on the map. | ||
| Like, these games are not working with him. | ||
| If you wanna make, and also, if DeSantis is a rhino, Republican in name only, a globalist, then, well, he's doing everything we all want. | ||
| So I don't know what that makes us, but he's doing all of the things that conservatives | ||
| ever purport to believe in. | ||
| And is he doing all of those things in the name of globalism? | ||
| Like, come on, come on. | ||
| So Trump, and I've tweeted this out and I got a lot of pushback from the Trump people, but it's like, dude, I voted for you once. | ||
| I like you. | ||
| I like your kids. | ||
| I think you've been a net good for this country and you woke up a gajillion people, but make the case for yourself. | ||
| Instead of the crazy tweets or the true social posts about him, make the case. | ||
| I'm the guy who can drain the swamp. | ||
| Disantis can't do it because I have endless resources. | ||
| He doesn't. | ||
| He has young kids. | ||
| He has other considerations. | ||
| It's all or nothing with me and I'm gonna do it and blah blah. | ||
| Like that's the case for Trump. | ||
| That's the case for Trump. | ||
| Make that case. | ||
| But if your case is... | ||
| DeSantis, who hasn't even announced yet, is a rhino and a globalist, and I supported him twice, and all. | ||
| It's like, that just does not work. | ||
| I also just don't think the names work anymore, DeSanctimonious or Tiny D. It's like, he's workshopping these names. | ||
| It feels phony, it feels scripted, it feels kind of Hollywood, like, it just ain't flying anymore. | ||
| So I think, look, letting them fight it out hopefully levels up everybody. | ||
| And right now, I would say, between if you look at Trump and you look at DeSantis and you take Vivek Ramaswamy, You take Nikki Haley, has anyone else officially announced yet? | ||
| It sounds like Mike Pompeo will, I think that's about it for now. | ||
| Yeah, but back, the point is, guys, it's like, you're gonna get a really decent wide net. | ||
| Remember what the Democrats put out there a couple years ago with Biden, right? | ||
| You had Pete Buttigieg, completely unqualified, no real set of ideas behind him other than wokeness. | ||
| You had two socialists in Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. | ||
| You had, who else did they have? | ||
| You had Cory Booker, who was always crying. | ||
| You had Kamala Harris, who was polling at zero. | ||
| Like, you had really just a, and then you had Joe Biden, right? | ||
| Like, the winner of that thing was Joe Biden. | ||
| But you really, I think that's fairly objective to say, this was not the greatest crop of candidates. | ||
| Where right now the Republicans have some interesting choices, right? | ||
| Like DeSantis obviously is a good candidate. | ||
| Trump, you know what all the positives are, right? | ||
| Nikki, she's clearly good. | ||
| I know a lot of people on the Trump side don't like her, but like she's a good sort of I would say center-right candidate. | ||
| Vivek's got a new set of ideas and is a great communicator. | ||
| So you hopefully you get some more people in there. | ||
| whether that's a Ted Cruz or a Rand Paul or a Tim Scott or whoever it might be, and you get more people in there, | ||
| and then at the end, you bludgeon each other, and then you figure out how to coalesce, | ||
| and then we remove this psychotic, woke monster that this administration has become, | ||
| and then to get back to an earlier question, then the federal government will start working, | ||
| and it will get off the backs of the states, and this country could run like it was supposed to. | ||
| I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, if you have not subscribed at rumble.com slash RubinReport, please do! | ||
| And, uh, that's it for today. | ||
| There's no post-game show because of the thing that I told you guys, uh, secretly on the post-game show yesterday. | ||
| And, uh, I gotta go now, so see you later. | ||
| Have a nice day. | ||
| So long. | ||
| Sayonara. | ||
| Adios. | ||
| Auf Wiedersehen. |
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