Dave Rubin, Brendan Leslie, and Sara Gonzalez dissect the Florida-California political divide, criticizing Gavin Newsom's abortion pill policies and contrasting it with Ron DeSantis's successful conservative governance. They condemn Representative Stacey Plaskett's harassment of journalists, mock Hillary Clinton's climate-conflict rhetoric, and denounce Antony Blinken's transgender activist award as erasing biological women. The roundtable further attacks Joe Biden's mental acuity and Marianne Williamson's authenticity, arguing Democrats lack principles while preparing a 2024 transition to Newsom against DeSantis. Ultimately, the episode portrays a fractured Democratic party driven by identity shifts rather than consistent ideology. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, people, we are live on the computer machine.
I'm Dave Rubin, this is the Rubin Report, and welcome to another Friday Roundtable extravaganza.
Before I introduce my guests today, this just arrived in the mail and I wanted to call attention to it.
This is a little statue from the fine people over at Rumble.
I got a decent amount of heft on this thing.
This is to commemorate 250,000 subscribers on Rumble, which we hit like two weeks ago, but as of today, like within the next few minutes, if you people do what I need you to do, we will cross 400,000 today.
So as you know, we've been talking about a lot lately, Rumble and the alternative pipes are blowing up, and that is at least part of what is going to save us from this digital dystopia that we happen to be in.
And I think we'll talk a bit about that with today's guests.
Joining me today is the CEO of Florida's Voice, Brendan Leslie, and the host of News and Why It Matters on Blaze TV, Sara Gonzalez.
And we are going to be talking about International Women's Day, which mostly is guy with a penis in a dress day, so we'll get to all of that in just a second.
But let's start with the divide between the blue and red states.
It's obviously a big theme around here, and everyone's sort of talking about just this continued sort of distancing between what's going on if you live in a Democrat-run state and you live in a Republican-run state.
And Cali and Florida seem to be the two best examples of that.
We've got some info here on what's going on in California right now.
This is from TheBlaze.com.
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom forcefully criticized Walgreens over its new plan to stop shipping and selling abortion pills in some states after 20 state attorney generals sent a letter warning about the policy.
Walgreens made the announcement on Friday that its stores in 20 states would not sell abortion pills.
We intend to be a certified pharmacy and will distribute Mifepistrone only in the jurisdictions where it is legal and operationally feasible, read a statement from the company.
Pro-abortion advocates said they would boycott the company over the decision, while pro-life advocates praised the decision.
Newsom issued a fiery tweet on Monday excoriating the company for caving to the demands from 20 state attorneys.
California won't be doing business with Walgreens or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk.
We're done.
Now, first off, it's a little unclear to me if Gavin Newsom knows what those pills actually do, because some of those babies do turn out to be women, but again, what is a woman?
My personal take on this, it's like, if the states don't want the abortion pills there, and Walgreens wants to abide by that, that's fine.
Walgreens isn't stopping anything from happening in Cali, but this is kind of what Newsom does, isn't it, Sarah?
Yeah, you know, it's interesting because in that statement that he gave, he calls Walgreens, he says that they're capitulating to extremists.
They're following the law.
So, I mean, I would say the extremist is the one who is demanding that a private company not follow the law, break the law in other states in which Newsom has no part in, just so that he can say, hey, we're doing something, we're helping women.
And so it's just fascinating to see him you know, change, use the language to just change the
entire narrative. I don't think it's going to work. And by the way, I would like to just bring up on the
issue of this abortion pill, which is what he's advocating that they allow by mail. This is a
really dangerous thing. I mean, you've got multiple studies that show that women are more at risk for
severe side effects.
They've got hemorrhaging they're more at risk for, the need for follow-up surgery, even death.
And so by making this more available to women by male rather than under a doctor's care, he's saying that this is about women.
But if he wanted it to be about women, why would he put them more at risk?
I mean, it just it blows my mind that he's able to use this narrative that Walgreens is the one that's doing something wrong here.
Cali will still have their eight and a half month abortions and have their abortion parties and they can bus in women from Texas, usually young black women, and they can then have their abortions and they can bus them out.
Optics on that may start looking bad after a while.
Brendan, I take it you're not surprised by Gavin Newsom having the wrong take on something.
Like I've been saying from the beginning, it's not 100% yet, but it's pretty damn close to being 100% of him running.
And this book tour, I mean, Listen, at the end of the day, it's a great thing for the country to hear from Governor Ron DeSantis, see what Florida did.
The Florida Republican Party, just it stands out compared to the GOP nationally.
And it stands out compared to just about every single state GOP in this nation.
So every 49, all the 49 other states need to be following the blueprint of Florida.
And if they do, we might see a lot more Republican wins.
I mean, remember, Florida was like a purple state, like not even two years ago.
Now it's a Deep red state, and it has a lot to do with Governor Ron DeSantis' leadership in conjunction with all the teamwork that we're seeing from the Republican Party of Florida.
So, Florida was that close, that close, to handing their whole state over to a Democratic Socialist, and they didn't.
And now, clearly, they're happy with that decision.
So I think that it's smart to do the contrast, because over here you have Ron DeSantis, I mean, I would argue that you guys are more red than we are here in Texas.
Everyone thinks that Texas is some deep red state.
Not anymore.
Ron DeSantis has done what needs to be done while Governor Abbott just sits around.
So to have that contrast between Ron DeSantis doing what needs to be done in Florida and Gavin Newsom, who had a mass exodus of people, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, Dave, a mass exodus of people Who left because he was so tyrannical, he almost got recalled.
You've got crime, just, I mean, insane amounts of crime.
You've got the homeless crisis.
You've got all of these problems in California because of the Democrat policies and because they're so tyrannical.
It's so smart to make that contrast, to show people this is what happens when you go conservative.
So as a Floridian, though, that's someone that's now very ingrained in what's happening here in Florida, is that the best argument against DeSantis running?
That we've got grade A stuff right here and maybe we don't want to just send it right through the grinder?
First off, she doesn't know that Barry Weiss is a woman, so she doesn't know who Barry Weiss is.
I mean, to be at a hearing about the Twitter files, I mean, Barry was one of the people that released one of the original ones, she's well known in these circles, so put that aside.
Then she calls them so-called journalists, as Taibi pointed out, they are not so-called journalists, they are actual journalists.
And the fact that she's going after sources, which is the biggest no-no in journalism, which is almost dead, but not completely.
And there really is so much to unpack there because it shows us several different things at once.
Number one, these people in Congress Are completely incompetent.
They have no idea what they're doing.
They don't even come to a hearing with the, having done the research on what in the world they're going to talk about.
I mean, you, you also, uh, later in that hearing that I think it was representative Sylvia Gonzalez who was like, well, um, I have this here at a sub stack.
I don't know what, what is a sub stack.
I don't know what that is.
Like they don't even read any of this beforehand.
They just come in with a narrative to push because they believe that they are the elites and we are not.
And we are not allowed to know when they are collaborating with a private company to shut down speech.
We're not allowed to know these things.
And so that's why she's trying to discredit Matt Taibbi.
She's calling him a so-called journalist.
You know, they don't think that we should be allowed to know how far the corruption goes.
And I just, it's laughable at this point that they think that they're so far above us.
And I think that they're so arrogant, they've gotten so arrogant about having these partnerships with these private companies, because remember, We don't know what the hell's going on at Facebook, right?
We don't know what conversations they're having with Mark Zuckerberg and his team.
We only know this because of Elon Musk's takeover.
And so I just, I think that they've gotten so arrogant in running this entire country quietly through these private companies that they just never, they never thought that all of this information should be made public.
So now that it is, they want to, they want to intimidate journalists and they want to, they want them to know that we're going to push you to, to, you know, to tell us your sources.
Even Pete Buttigieg had the Daily Caller reporter that was following him, and he made sure to say, can I take a picture of you?
I mean, they are trying to intimidate journalists into being scared of reporting the truth.
I think that that's very clear with this regime now.
You know, to your point on what we don't know related to Facebook and YouTube and everything else, it's like it obviously was happening at Facebook and YouTube, meaning government intervention.
Like there's simply well, we know Facebook for sure, because Saki admitted it, you know, I think last summer.
So there's no doubt it was happening at YouTube, too.
But now, because we haven't done anything about it for months, God only knows what they've digitally put through the paper scrapper and everything else.
I'm glad that that is the take, because honestly, I look at this from a First Amendment, as a journalist perspective, what they're doing and making a journalist testify about their story.
I mean, that's just that's just a that's big government bullying private citizens into submission, just like what Sarah was saying.
That's ridiculous.
And I saw that that that clip with the Daily Caller.
Reporter with gay with gay Mayor Pete.
It's just these people don't want to accept actual journalism in the hard questions and then they go turn around and argue that Governor Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump are the fascists when these people are bullying reporters left and right.
I mean, I had an instance.
We had Charlie Criss when he was running for governor against Ron DeSantis and then got his ass kicked by 20 points.
He was soliciting donations from Hurricane Ian victims here in Fort Myers.
He was saying, hey, if you're Hurricane Ian victim, Tell me your story.
And then when you go click on the link, it's like, oh, chip in $5 for my campaign.
And I was the only journalist to ask that question.
And I take it personally, because I'm from Fort Myers.
So I go and meet up with Charlie Crist at his event, where he was supposedly supposed to be handing out supplies.
And he wasn't.
He was just doing a photo op.
And I went up to him.
I said, hey, Charlie, why are you soliciting donations from Hurricane Ian victims?
Or, Sarah, you've been going to the drag shows in Texas, which the idea of a kids' drag show in Texas, of all places, like, it's just all so crazy.
But I want to show you one other clip from the hearing, because Jim Jordan, who I think has really become an all-star on this stuff, like, he really is fighting the good fight right now.
Obviously, congressman from Ohio.
He got into it with Congresswoman Plaskett about what we're discussing right now, and it's a really great moment.
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Either Musk is the source and he can't talk about it, or Musk is not the source, and if Musk is not the source, then he can discuss his conversations with the source.
Sarah, is the issue here that the Democrats at this point, and I really, I try to be as fair as I can, but it seems to me they have no rules.
There is no rule that they will not break in the quest for power, so I don't think any of those Congresswomen there give a flying F about what the rules are and what journalistic integrity is, etc.
Well, you're right, because it's not just journalism.
It's like every facet of the government.
And the left, really, they show you that they set a standard in which they intend for you to live by.
They don't care to live by that standard, and they don't care to live by those rules.
That's why anytime there's a Democrat who says something racist, Joe Biden says something racist.
They're like, well, he didn't mean it that way.
You guys are just misinterpreting it.
Donald Trump says, you know, here's my black friend, and they say he's the most racist person ever.
I mean, they set these standards, these unlivable standards, and they never intended to live by them.
And, you know, I recall not too long ago, back when there was an orange man bad in the White House, They were complaining about freedom of the press being threatened.
Freedom of the press was under assault because Donald Trump wouldn't answer their question.
Donald Trump wouldn't allow one CNN reporter in his press conference room, even though others were there, and they accused him of assaulting the First Amendment.
This is the type of thing that you're talking about, Dave, to go to your point.
And I just want to mention one other thing, which is that when I went to San Francisco and to the Twitter offices and met with Elon, people know this already, but I met with the guy for a couple hours.
I said to him at the end, hey, do you mind if I repeat any of this?
And without hesitation, he said, as long as it's true.
So the idea that somehow he was manipulating all these people, he had no idea who I sat with for hours, the engineers, before meeting him.
He said, as long as it's true.
That's all you really need to know about that.
But let's move on because it is International Women's Week.
So obviously, Brendan, I'm going to have to throw to you first.
Hillary Clinton chimed in on what's going on with the chicks these days.
So because it is International Women's Month, everybody gets a month.
And even though we can't decide what a woman is, Jill Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken were giving out some international women awards.
And yeah, one of them included giving an award to a dude.
Enjoy.
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In Argentina, Alba Ruada is a transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms, barred from sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family.
But in the face of these challenges, she worked to end violence and discrimination against
Well, what better way to accept this thing as a woman than for Blinkin' to just go full-on tongue makeout with it.
It's so, we're literally fighting with the devil.
This is what is happening in society.
And it's so infuriating because how long, how long did women fight to just get a, you know, an even playing field for years?
And then when they finally get it, In comes the Democrats with a wrecking ball, like Miley Cyrus just ruining it and just destroying everything that it is about being a woman.
You know what's interesting?
I feel like we never talk about trans men.
It's always trans women that is a thing.
So that's very curious to me.
And it's such a slap in the face.
I really hope I become a dad one day, but I really hope it's not to a girl because I don't know how I'm going to explain all this craziness to her one day.
Well, yeah, I mean, I have a couple things to say here.
You know, it's fascinating that for all this time, the left wanted to talk about the patriarchy.
The patriarchy, the patriarchy is taking things from women.
Can you think of a more representative example of the patriarchy than men literally replacing us in everything?
It's maddening all of these feminists that are like, yay, I'm so happy that men are replacing us and taking our awards and our scholarships and they're invading our bathrooms.
They are literally, this is the erasure of women.
And I don't understand the radical feminists who, as Brendan pointed out, fought for so long for what they called equality just to sit back and watch all of these men take over.
They think that slapping on a bunch of makeup and putting on some fake breasts is going to make them a woman.
It's so maddening to me because womanhood, I mean, we are uniquely made.
Our bodies are so unique.
I talked about this yesterday on my program.
Grow human life, right?
And then I can birth those babies.
My organs shift in my body.
They know exactly where to shift so that my womb can expand.
And after I deliver the baby, my organs know how to shift back.
My body knows how to produce milk for my babies that give my babies just the right nutrients that they need.
These are all unique traits about women.
And these men will never be that.
And it's just so frustrating to see people cheer along like they don't understand that.
It's like no one on the left is willing to say, we know, like we know this, they know this.
They all know this, but they're too scared of being called transphobic or whatever phobic
that they just sit here and cheer it along.
I gotta tell you, it's getting pretty scary out here.
As Brendan mentioned, he said he didn't wanna have a girl.
I'm hopeful that by the time, maybe in five years or so, Hopefully we can right this ship because it's gotten so
absurd.
I mean, this is just absurdity playing out in real life.
You look at all these South Park clips and all of these, you know, Simpsons clips, clips that are resurfacing from like 2004, where it was meant as a joke because it was something that was so outlandish that nobody thought that it would ever happen.
And now it's real life.
So I'm hopeful, especially with all of the drag stuff that I'm doing as well.
I'm seeing the pendulum swing back because people are going, Oh, that's really happening.
Yeah, and I think the other important piece of this that apparently the lefties don't seem to understand is that you can actually be accepting or acknowledge someone else's existence.
You don't have to celebrate everything about everyone.
It doesn't mean you should be jailing people, but you don't have to celebrate everything.
And the left seems to have this need to celebrate absolutely everything, which usually is a dance on the bodies of women Or other minorities or whatever.
But let's move to one other thing, because we are rolling into this 2024 situation.
This thing never ends.
And there are some legitimate questions, I would say, about the mental acuity of Joe Biden.
So Dr. Jill, we've got another Dr. Jill clip.
Dr. Jill, who Whoopi Goldberg said should be the Surgeon General, which is... She was asked about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
And this answer is just incredible.
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Nikki Haley, one of the Republican candidates, is calling for mental competency tests for those politicians over the age of 75.
Let's put aside 2024 or Joe Biden being president.
If you let's say, Sarah, I'll go to you first on this one.
If you were married, you know, you're married now, but I mean, when you're 75 and you and your husband have been married for 50 some odd years, if you notice that he was forgetting things constantly, often seemed to not know where he was, was slurring words, couldn't remember things, would give up in the middle of sentences.
Putting aside what his job was, if he wasn't retired at that point, would you maybe discuss going to the doctor with him?
Would that be something or would that just be a dick move?
Yeah, I mean, I would say the dick move is the elder abuse that Jill Biden is committing right now by not doing that.
I mean, she pushed her husband into this.
She was constantly trying to, you know, make excuses for him and like, Tell reporters not to ask questions, you know, get in between the mix, because she was trying to cover the fact that he is incapacitated, as we all can see, because we all have ears and eyes, and we can see it.
So, I mean, I guess, like, she wouldn't discuss it with him, because she knows that his brain is already putting, and the dementia has already set in, and there's no point in discussing it, because if she did discuss it, she would have to reveal that she's known this for a very long time and pushed him into it anyway, which is...
Not what a good spouse would do, obviously, but it's really interesting to me that the mainstream media who carried water for this guy, they let him campaign from his basement, they asked him softball questions, I mean, they helped him into this, and now all of a sudden they want to turn around and be like, Oh, well, we didn't know.
How could we have known that this guy is so, you know, like, he can't remember anything.
And as you mentioned, he's slurring his words.
He's tripping up the stairs.
His son is a crackhead.
Like, how could we have possibly known any of these things?
It's just, it's fascinating to watch the mainstream media now start to turn on him, now start to ask these tough questions that I don't think that the Bidens were prepared for.
Well, what's so also interesting is like there's such an easy way to end this immediately, which would be somebody with balls, maybe Peter Doocy, because he seems like he's the only one at the at the press conferences, to just flat out say, hey, Corinne, yes or no, is the president on medication for his memory?
Yes or no.
Don't ask it in any kind of other ancillary fancy way.
Yes or no.
And she'll say she doesn't know and refer you to the doctor.
But that would at least start it because he's obviously on something.
When they get him at a debate, he obviously has taken something.
He's sometimes very cogent and sometimes not.
It's a sad reality.
He's the pilot of the plane.
I wish he knew how to fly.
So, whether I like where we're going or not with this guy.
And what infuriates me even more is one time Donald Trump held a glass of water and the media was out for his head and saying he needed to take a mental test of some sort.
And now we're not going to do it with Joe Biden.
And like Sarah said, they were carrying the water for him.
I think the corporate media and the Democrats are in cahoots.
They're working together.
We know that it's happening.
So I think everyone thought that things would go a little bit better than what is happening right now under a first-term President Biden.
It's been just a complete catastrophe.
Everywhere you go, it's horrible.
I mean, you couldn't even predict it to be this bad.
So because of that, now you start seeing the sprinkle of those hard questions because maybe, just maybe, there is some sort of plan to get Biden out and Gavin Newsom in for the 2024 election.
Because let me tell you, if a guy like Ron DeSantis is on the debate stage with Joe Biden for a debate in the 2024 election?
Ron's gonna run away with it in a landslide, and they know that.
They do know that.
That's why everyone's coming after Ron DeSantis these days, because they view him as a threat.
So maybe they're gonna start sprinkling in the questions, and they might get a little bit harder and harder and harder.
And more often, the closer we get, and we'll see what happens.
But it sure seems like Gavin Newsom is considering a 2024 run.
How do you gracefully dump Joe and Kamala and replace what Kamala, you would assume Kamala would be the next in line, and replace her with a white man?
How do you gracefully do that?
What are the optics of that when you're the Democrats?
I want to be president because this country needs to make an economic U-turn.
And the system that effectuates and perpetuates that kind of income and opportunity inequality is not changing itself.
It tweaks itself every once in a while.
There's some incremental change.
But the devastation, the ubiquitous economic despair and human devastation that is produced by this sociopathic economic system is not changing.
And it's not going to change if we continue to elect the same old, same old.
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All right, first off, I just want to say, as someone that's interviewed her, her accent is totally fake, and she puts that on when she's doing interviews, and it's gotten much more drastic than it was two years ago.
I do have to make note that when I interviewed her two years ago, and I had a bunch of Democrats on, and I treated them exactly the way I treat all of my guests.
I had Yang on, I had Tulsi on, who was a Democrat at the time.
Marianne Williamson, the second the camera went off, She told me that she thinks that the base of the left are awful and evil and mean and that she never gets hate like that from the right.
And she then said to me that she's mostly a libertarian.
She would never say that on camera.
She got caught once saying that on camera when she went on Eric Bolling's show, I think on Newsmax a couple years ago.
The guy can't remember a thing and yet he has every, uh, every event that he's ever been to, he can remember just like that.
Yeah, this fake, also her fake accent, because her fake accent sounds like an elite accent, but she's also telling you that capitalism is awful.
She's of course worth a couple million bucks and yada, yada, yada.
Anyway, guys, I have thoroughly enjoyed this show.
Sarah, you're always welcome back.
Brendan, I will have to talk to the team, but I think you've passed the test.
Thanks for having me, Dave.
We'll link to your stuff down below.
I'm going to finish up with the post-game show in about 51 seconds, so if you want to join us for that and throw in some questions and comments, and if we made any factual errors, I will gladly correct them.