Dave Rubin and Lisa Boothe dissect Donald Trump's indictment, criticizing Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for targeting the former president while downgrading other felonies. They condemn the Biden administration's economic policies and Afghanistan withdrawal, arguing these failures emboldened adversaries like Putin. The duo attacks media outlets like MSNBC for "Trump derangement syndrome," claiming investigations weaponize laws against conservatives and unvaccinated individuals. Ultimately, they advocate for decentralization against centralized power in government and tech, predicting a potential 2024 red wave despite current polarization. [Automatically generated summary]
It's still The Rubin Report, and it's not a great day for America, but I do have a fantastic guest with me for this bonus show.
We did our live show this morning.
We haven't done two live shows in the same day in a couple years, but Sort of seemed like today was the day to do it, and sitting next to me is a Fox News contributor and host of The Truth with Lisa Booth on iHeartRadio, and most importantly, my friend,
So I was going to do a proper interview with you, like the Lisa Booth story and all of the stuff, and because you're also a new Floridian transplant, all that stuff.
So we're going to do that another time.
Most of my audience knows you already.
Fox News, they see you on all this stuff.
Do you want to just say anything about yourself and then we're just going to talk Trump?
Do you have anything else for someone that's never seen you before that is going, my God, Lisa Booth, who is this woman?
Look, I think we're sort of living in an age of cowardice where a lot of people are afraid to speak the truth.
They're afraid to say what they really should be saying because, look, we live in this social media culture where basically it's this mob mentality and people try to beat you down and get you to submit to the will of the broader narrative and the group thing.
So I try to kind of get to the bottom of stuff.
On my podcast and have some conversations that maybe you don't see, you know, that many other places.
Yeah, I mean, look, there was a period where we couldn't go out to dinner in New York City, right?
We were crucified for not wanting to get vaccinated.
And that's really, you know, kind of makes you understand where we are today in this day and age where, you know, with Trump getting indicted, I mean, even then you looked at the Rasmussen polling, almost half of Democrats wanted to put people like us in government camps.
Yeah, it's not, it's not too late, Dave.
But, but like, we probably, you know, who knows what we could have continued in the direction of China if it hadn't been for Omicron and essentially everyone getting deprogrammed because you had all these people who thought somehow they were never going to get COVID who ended up with COVID.
And then they're like, oh, it's not doesn't make you a bad person.
If you get COVID, like, let's move on, you know, but who knows what would have happened otherwise?
I mean, whether you like Trump or you hate him, it's not even really about Trump.
It's about the bigger picture.
It's about the future of the country.
And you aren't a free country if you don't have the rule of law.
And I think we're sort of mourning the death of the rule of law, mourning the death of due process, mourning the law, or mourning the death of the equal application of the law with this.
Because we know that you've got someone like Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA.
He downgraded 52% of felony cases.
To misdemeanors, and now he's trying to elevate maybe a misdemeanor to a felony.
And meanwhile, I mean, you know how dangerous New York City is right now.
Dave, I left New York.
You left California for a lot of the reasons.
Crime, all these other things that were going on in these places.
And so he's fine with people getting shot in the street.
I mean, there's literally executions happening in the streets of New York.
I mean, think about how hard life is for so many Americans right now.
You know, you can't put food on your table, you can't pay your bills.
Everything costs more with inflation, and it's intentional by the Biden administration, right?
Increased spending, also trying to not allow things like drilling, and for us to be able to be energy independent here in America, driving up costs in almost every aspect.
So people are feeling the pain of the economy.
And then you've got, you know, the concerns about, you know, Biden trying to instigate a world war, as well.
You're not safe in your streets, particularly if you live in liberal cities like New York.
And so I think this is almost a slap in the face to so many Americans who are saying, we've got real problems, right?
Like, life is not great for so many Americans.
There's a heaviness with everything going on in the country.
But then this is what gets the left's attention.
This is what they're focused on right now.
It's not about making the lives of Americans better.
It's about trying to go after Donald Trump, to try to get this trophy, which is the way they view him, and to put it on the mantle of—you know, Alvin Barg ran on this.
And this is what he said in the Democrat primary.
He ran on, I'm going to be the guy who gets Donald Trump.
I think what concerns me with that is that this isn't it, right?
He's facing that investigation out of Georgia, he's facing federal investigations as well, and these are criminal investigations that he's facing.
So yeah, you know, bigger than impeachment, bigger than these things where, you know, he's not facing a criminal investigation with that, but he is facing in Georgia, obviously New York City, we're talking about it right now, and then also federal as well.
And so I think that's my concern, is that Look, these investigations have weight and they've already made it known.
You mentioned Rashida Tlaib.
We know that Alvin Bragg has said that this was his mission.
We know that this is the mission of the left.
They want to destroy him.
So I don't know.
That's a lot of incoming fire that he's taking and real incoming fire as well.
That's sort of what you implied a second ago, that it's not good intentions, like these people are telling you what their intentions are and they're going ahead to it, meaning that they're not just sort of like in over their head and get into these messes, but they're here to actually jail former presidents and scare the hell out of the rest of us and tank the economy and pretty much everything else.
Well, yeah, I mean, they went after Mark Hoke, the pro-life Catholic.
He went and was basically just trying to get a woman to change her mind, a woman to change their minds to not get abortions.
They arrested him in front of his seven children.
Thankfully, he ended up, you know, not—the grand jury in Pennsylvania decided not to move forward for him, so he's going to be okay.
But you look what they've done to the January 6 protesters as well, even during COVID.
I mean, half of Democrats wanted to put us in a government facility for not getting vaccinated, right?
So, of course, this is the mindset of today's left.
Or even look at the fact that after the murders in Nashville at that Christian school, innocent babies, right, at the hands of a domestic terrorist, a transgender individual, what did Biden do?
Have you seen anyone on the left or any of the few remaining sane liberals, and it's always fewer and fewer as the days go by, stand up for Trump right now?
Because we were looking this morning.
I really, because to me, it doesn't even matter if he did something potentially illegal here.
The idea that you're going to go after former presidents, we end up in an autocracy over, like it's begun in a certain way.
Once you say, okay, we're going to arrest former presidents, especially on technicalities from years ago that have nothing to do with government corruption or what he did in office, having to do with a personal thing that he did before he was president.
Once you start doing that, you're basically saying to everyone who would dare be president, we'll arrest you too.
Well, and I think that's sort of the intent, right?
I mean, they don't want—they want people to be scared from running for office.
They don't want us to have good candidates.
And that's even just saying that—I mean, you look at what the FBI did in 2020, you look at big tech coming in and not disallowing the sharing of the Hunter Biden story.
So we already know that, you know, Republicans are fighting with our hands, you know, at least one hand held behind our back in an election.
But, you know, even beyond that, yeah, I think they're trying to scare off conservatives from running for office.
Like, look, we did this to Trump.
We'll do this to you as well.
And honestly, it's probably working.
I mean, don't you think there are a lot of people who, you know, maybe a decade ago would say, I'm going to run for office.
I want to make a difference in this country.
And then I think there's some people saying, can I even make a difference?
Will it even make a difference?
And then also, my God, do I want to have to deal with this?
But I was saying on the show today how it's like politics already is messy and they will come for you and they will come for your family and in some ways Trump He shifted that when he first ran because it was like he wasn't hiding that he wasn't this perfect human, that he didn't have these relationships.
You know, he brought out, remember the debate when he brought out all of the women that Bill Clinton in essence raped or was accused of raping, all that stuff.
But now it's like they escalated that.
Now it's like, we're not just going to go into your past and find out what skeletons are in your closet.
We will post-presidency arrest you.
Like, that's a, again, that's just a big escalation.
Do you think that's what this is really about in a weird way?
It's like they've gotten away with so many lies about all of these people and Jesse Smollett and this, you know, I always go through the list on the show.
So I think my biggest concern is that, you know how after Biden, and I don't believe it was the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
I don't necessarily disagree with that.
It was the manner in which he did it and the botched withdrawal and the fact he got 13 service members killed and just the chaos and leaving all those weapons behind.
To the Taliban, sort of the embarrassing nature of it.
You had all these bad actors, whether it's Putin, whether it's Kim Jong-un, whether it's President Xi, all saying, OK, now's the time, right?
If I'm going to take Taiwan, if I'm going to try to, you know, move forward with my nuclear ambitions, if you're Iran, like now's the time to do it under this guy because Joe Biden showed his cards.
And I think we as Americans showed our cards during COVID.
Right?
I mean, how many people just rolled over?
Right?
They said, go out and get a, yeah, go out and get a vaccine that might not be safe, that you might not even need for a virus that isn't a threat to your life when you're still going to spread it to other people.
But you better go get it.
And you're going to get a vaccine passport.
Log it in on your phone.
We're going to track you.
You know?
And then people just rolled over and they said, OK, sure.
So if you're Gavin Newsom, if you're Joe Biden, if you're any of these bad actors, you know, they're saying, oh, I can do whatever I want to these people.
Like, I think they just genuinely hate this guy and they actually want to see him in prison.
And I think we've reached a point in politics, maybe perhaps because of social media or whatever it is, where you've sort of this like social contagion where, you know, everyone's just like feeding off and it's like this feeding frenzy, right?
With this mentality that we have as a country.
But, you know, we sort of, there's been like this dehumanization of people.
You know, like this othering of people and we saw Joe Biden, you know, go along with it when he stood in Philadelphia to labeling 75 million Americans who supported Trump as essentially domestic terrorists.
But like for the average person that's watching this, I think part of the reason the machine always wins
is the average person is kind of doing Like they have to have a job and they want to live their life and they want to watch TV and not worry about everything all the time.
So the machine just kind of moves on everybody all the time because they know that people will just...
allow their freedoms to disappear.
They'll allow the symbols.
Did you see Glenn Beck was on Tucker last night and one of the things he brought up, yeah, well he brought up something that I thought was really great.
He said Trump is no longer a man in a way.
He's a symbol and I think that's right.
It's sort of like Christopher Nolan's Batman thing.
It's like Trump now represents this thing and either are we going to fight for it or against it and clearly a certain amount of people just won't care what the truth is.
Well, I also think that, you know, everything's so bad, right?
We talked a little bit about that earlier with just the economy.
Just, you know, COVID, I think, was really harmful on so many.
I mean, we saw it with increased depression, increased suicides, overdoses, people dying from overdoses.
So we saw it in terms of numbers and just, you know, a matter of fact.
But I think just with every, right, it really just.
I mean, it just led to the heaviness in the nation.
And so, you know, I think—and then you laud on us all this other stuff to it.
So I think people are somewhat intentionally just kind of turning off the TV, putting their head down, trying to get through the day, spend time with their family, because it's almost too much.
I mean, we're in this, right?
We have to be in this.
And even for us in the media, sometimes when I'm not doing TV or I'm not working, I turn it off, I go for a walk, I get outside, I spend time with my dog, I try to see my friends, talk to my family, because if you're just in it, 24-7 and you're just paying attention.
It's too heavy.
Like it really is all just too much.
And then you add on like personal stuff that you know so many Americans are going through just in their own lives.
So I think to some degree maybe people aren't seeing everything as they should because it's just too much if you really paid attention to it.
In some ways, Trump brought a little bit of this on himself by being so combative with everybody for so long and getting rid of so many people and making so many people enemies.
And even in the last month or so, I've been very critical of Trump.
Trump, who I like, and I voted for, and I might vote for again.
I'm more inclined to vote for him now than I was probably a couple weeks ago.
But all of the crazy stuff with DeSantis, that he's turned so many people against him that he was in some ways bringing this upon himself.
It's not an excuse for it, but just at some level.
I mean, I think there's, sometimes there can be truth in a bunch of different things, right?
Like, sure, do I believe that Trump has brought some stuff upon himself, you know, on tweets and just, or even, you know, going after Alvin Bragg personally?
I mean, I would have to assume that if you're Alvin Bragg, that only feeds the beast, feeds the fire, right?
The picture with the baseball bat, talking about death and destruction on the streets of New York City if they indict him, like, these things where it's like, Yeah, but then I also believe that probably the bigger driver of it was the fact that you had a guy that wasn't easily controllable, right?
And I think what we've seen in Washington, D.C.
that's really sad is it's not just Democrats who are the problem.
It's also a lot of Republicans as well, right?
You know, people talk about a uniparty or whatever you want to call it, right?
It's the government bureaucracy that's really working against the American people, and they're serving their own interests.
They're not serving ours.
And so I think you got a guy in Trump that really wasn't able to be controlled.
You know, he was really fueled by the people.
And I believe he ran for office in 2016 for the right reasons.
I do believe that he's a patriot.
I do believe he loves this country.
I do believe that he thought he was the guy to change it.
And he couldn't be bought.
You know, he'd be on stage being like, yeah, I gave to Nancy Pelosi because I could buy
her.
Like, you know, and everyone's like, all right, yeah, makes sense, you know, like.
So I think you had a guy with him that couldn't be controlled.
And what we've seen during COVID, what we've seen even with this trans stuff, they just want you to shut up, submit, and bend the will of the party, right?
Whether it's Democrats or Republicans, sort of this collective beast that we're facing in government.
And if you don't bend the knee, then they try to destroy you, like they did even with us during COVID, right?
You can't go here.
You can't do this.
We're going to make your life miserable.
And then some people on, you know, CNN, like that former Planned Parenthood lady, saying that, oh, she didn't want us to be able to go to
grocery stores or even be able to do little things in life.
They almost tried to stop us from being able to fly, right?
And it's because we didn't bend the knee.
And so I think Trump didn't bend the knee.
So I think that's the bigger issue.
But, you know, sure, has he done things that have pretty made his life a little easier
I do think that a lot, that in some ways it's like, we're just in the show must go on.
The crazy has to keep going because it's the only thing that unites us actually.
Whether you're on one side or the other, it's just like the craziness is the driver now as opposed to, hey, live and let live, let's get out of the way,
The more big everything is, whether it's big business, big government, you know, big tech, whatever it is, the less power we, the people, have.
And so I really believe that the only path forward, if we want to salvage this republic, if it's even salvageable at this point, is someone who truly, with every fiber in their being, is willing to risk it all to decentralize everything, and just to go in and to try to gut government from the inside as much as you Possibly can, and that's the path forward.
But I believe that the right message moving forward is just simple.
It's just fixing America.
Right, like it doesn't, I think most Americans, whether they want sanity, insanity, whether they're thriving off of the feeding of the beast, whatever it is, I think if you just say, you know what, we should live in a country where you can find baby titanol, baby food for your child, baby formula for your child.
You know, 20s dating looks different than, you know, late 30s dating.
But the point being is that I do think that, you know, America's had enough of the like crazy, you know, I think that people want some stability and want life to just be normal.
I agree with you and that's why it's funny because that's why over the last month or so I've been critical of Trump because I was like wait a minute wait a minute we have that here in Florida with the guy that you backed twice and all of that stuff who everyone you know all the people that suddenly kind of hate DeSantis You all loved him two months ago.
He was your hero, now he's your enemy.
And I didn't want Trump... I was like, make the case for Trump.
I was talking to the camera like, hey Don, make your case.
But that's not the case to destroy DeSantis in the process, because he's the guy doing that thing.
Yeah, I mean, like, I don't like the attacks on Governor DeSantis.
I mean, we both know him.
We live here.
He's an amazing governor.
He's a good person, right?
Like, Casey DeSantis is an amazing person.
Like, they love their kids.
Like, they are good people.
And he has been doing a phenomenal job in the state of Florida.
I mean, we're here because of him.
And because of the environment that he has created here, right?
So I don't like the knocks on Governor DeSantis.
He's doing an amazing job.
He's a phenomenal governor.
You know, I think my biggest concern with Trump and trying to get reelected is that he would have four years versus eight years for someone else.
And I worry that the things that you have to do, particularly with the federal government and really just trying to rein in this beast, I don't know if you can get that done in four years.
I mean, I think we're just moving closer to being an authoritarian nation.
I don't really know if people love democracy as much as they should, you know, love living in a constitutional republic as much as they should, or maybe they just don't really understand the difference between, you know, the direction that we're heading and where we could be.
So one of the first interviews I did when I was working on a campaign, or it wasn't my first, I'd done a couple at this point, but I thought the interview was over so I started like awkwardly walking backwards because I was trying to get out of the camera shot and I didn't realize we were still live.
As long as we're doing First TV Things, one of my first TV things ever, I was doing Republican National Convention coverage when Mitt Romney was going to be the nominee, you know, whatever year that was.
2012, I guess.
And I was supposed to do, it was Larry King was anchoring this thing at Ora TV.
He had just left CNN.
They had this big studio audience and the air conditioning broke.
It was hot as hell in that room.
They put me in a ton of makeup.
Sweating is just not a good look.
Yeah, so wait.
So they put me in a ton of makeup and they had me waiting behind this thick, Thick ass curtain.
Yeah, I mean, I do believe that, like, the curtain has been pulled, right?
Like, there was, I believe at least, some desire to conceal a lot of this stuff in the past, and then now it's just laid bare, right, throughout the Trump years, right?
Like, we know our government is weaponized against us.
There's not even, we know that there is a deep state.
Like, there's just no desire anymore to hide anything.
So yeah, to your point, does Alvin Bragg care?
That the statute of limitations are up.
Does he care that this case is bogus?
No.
I mean, he said I was going to indict Donald Trump when he was running, and that's exactly what he's doing.
But one of the questions that I asked every Republican is to your point, if we can't work with these people anymore, if they've just made their positions clear and they're never going to stop and they'll be chopping off our kids' genitals and they'll be teaching racism in school and they'll be arresting political, if they're just going to keep going, and my suspicion at this point is that they will.
Then what does that separation look like?
Like, I keep thinking like, man, I lived in Cali for eight years.
I loved it for six years.
It was high taxes, whatever, but I did love something about it.
I have no desire to go back there anymore.
I don't feel any camaraderie with it.
The governor is a maniac.
Los Angeles is a dump.
San Francisco is a dystopian nightmare.
It's like, what does connect us anymore?
And maybe, do you think we really have to be in a way?
You know what, I don't mind not being connected to other Americans.
Like I'm fine with, I mean I have to go up to New York for work, but like if I didn't I would be fine with like never stepping foot in the state again or not ever going to California again, not having to have conversations with those people.
But they won't leave us alone, right?
So that's the problem.
If we were just allowed to like true federalism, everyone just leave us alone, you know, get off our back, let Florida do Florida, like we would all be in peace.
But that's the problem is they won't.
Like we would allow, you know, California, but they will not allow us.
So is the silver lining you think that they're just exposing themselves so fast in real time right now that that may be that I mean, I do believe that there are more Americans than not who view a lot of this stuff as nonsense.
Like, you know, for instance, like I think a big issue is the transgender stuff and what they're trying to do to kids.
all sorts of, you know, you can vote in California without IDs, etc.
I mean, I do believe that there are more Americans than not who view a lot of this stuff as nonsense.
Like you know, for instance, like I think a big issue is the transgender stuff and what
they're trying to do to kids.
I think it says everything about a country and the way that you treat children.
And you know, we have a portion, which I actually do believe is a minority of the population,
are encouraging children to change their genders, encouraging their children to mutilate their
I mean, if I was cutting myself, my friends would say, my God, Lisa, let's talk.
What's going on?
And we are encouraging this to happen, particularly, you know, in children who Are probably going to regret it one day and probably going to have hatred for their parents for allowing them to go through it.
But I do believe, you know, I hope that the majority of Americans look at that and they say this is wrong.
I actually don't believe it.
But I think people have been so browbeaten and I really do think social media has a huge role in that.
where there's just this mounting peer pressure.
Like, even executives in corporations and companies are basically being held hostage,
I believe, by a small group of people who are vocal online, on social media.
And so I am just hoping that that silent majority will go out and try to vote and try to make
You know, I think people really do need to show up because again, I think they're going to try everything they can to try to stifle our chances of winning.
But I believe, though, that the 2024 election, because it will be a presidential election, I don't really know if it'll be as much based off of what Congress did as it will be who's the nominee, what their message is, and what they're going to do for the country.
So I really think that what will be driving That election is going to be the presidential election.
But, you know, sure, it's good to be able to look at things and say, we've done this, we've accomplished, you know, this, that and the other.
But, you know, I think the driving force of the presidential election will be, you know, the presidential election.
And look, I was one of those people with a midterm.
I thought a big red wave was coming, because if you look at just historically, like all the factors were there.
I've worked on previous elections that this had been.
Even 2016, if this had been 2010, when I was there for the wave election in 2010, I think we got 63 seats in the House, if my memory serves me correct.
I'm a little tired today.
But point being, so I've been there when waves have happened, and so I really felt like that was coming.
I do believe that the mail-in-ballot thing has completely changed the game in the sense of,
I mean, even if you look at Pennsylvania, by the time that the Fetterman-Oz debate had happened,
you already had, you know, I can't remember, almost- I think it was like 30% of the ballots.
Yeah, it was like almost half or whatever of mail-in ballots had already been submitted at this point.
Those are few and far between and probably meaningless at this point because it's not about earning votes.
It's about getting ballots.
And so we, as Republicans in our party, really need to wise up to that and to follow suit.
You know, in the states where you can do ballot harvesting, we need to, I mean, obviously everyone needs to do it legally, but in the states where it is legal to ballot harvest and do some of these different things, we need to play ball and do the same thing.
Is that also one of the weird things, and I said this right when Trump announced, that one of the weird things about the campaign in general, and I know this doesn't excuse any of the nonsense going on right now.
But if Trump honestly believes that the election was stolen, which I believe he believes, and I was at the 2000 Mule's premiere, and he gave a big speech, and obviously he's endlessly talked about it.
If he really believes that it was stolen, in a weird way it doesn't make sense to run again unless you've done something about that.
And I don't know that he's done exactly what you're calling for there.
He can't do it.
He's not president anymore.
You'd need the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania to do something about it, but they have no interest in doing it because their guys are winning.
I mean, but I think even, you know, putting aside like ballots and all of that aspect of his concerns with the election, you could even just looking at the disallowing and the stopping of the Hunter Biden story, right?
Like Media Matters, there's been all these different pollsters who have done research showing that the dynamics of the election truly would have changed if more Americans had known about the Hunter Biden story and some of these Biden scandals.
So even with that, you could say that, you know, it wasn't fair.
Right, so I do think that there are some validity to his concerns that he's making, even setting aside some of those other arguments.
Yeah, I mean, so they're making sure that the people are who they say they are, who are going out and voting, and then they pursue cases where it's not.
But yeah, I mean, I think he has said that now, you know, we should be doing or I do believe that was a big mistake in the 2020 election of not, you know, either I think the first and foremost was legally trying to challenge those things before they took hold.
You know, challenging it beforehand, right?
You know, challenging it before, you know, as the Secretary of State was trying to change these things unilaterally or what have you, whether it was a, you know, whoever it was, you know, Secretary of State, state legislator, whatever.
The governor, you know, going in and proactively trying to preempt some of these things that, you know, took hold that were Questionable with, you know, not like Pennsylvania, not looking at matching signatures and things of that nature.
Trying to get in beforehand and fighting those battles ahead of time, I think, would have been more prudent.
But, you know, once they took hold, you kind of have to play the game as it's laid out, you know?
And unfortunately, we're in this era now where it's sort of this new frontier in politics where we are having to deal with mail-in ballots.
I mean, we are, you know, it sort of appended the political process, but you can't change anything
until you win, and we can't win unless we play the game as it's already laid out, and it's an unfair game.
I hate the game, it's a stupid game.
I wanna hit, like, all the, you know, if you're playing Monopoly, I wanna just go like this to it
Because they're terrified of getting carjacked because there are so many carjackings that are taking place.
They're genuinely scared for their life to even just go get gas in Washington, DC.
So it is a shiny object.
Don't pay attention to the things that genuinely impact your life.
Let's all pay attention to this witch hunt that is happening in New York City.
And it is important, I believe, because we're talking about the rule of law.
We're talking about precedent-setting things.
Never before in history has this happened.
And then ultimately, sadly, what this will probably do is then open the door for DAs, liberal DAs, across the country to say, now we're going to be weaponizing The law even further against conservatives, conservative candidates, whoever else it may be.
but, you know, we're probably already on that path anyways.
And I think that we've reached a point where for the left, their God is government, it's power,
and the only thing that they respond to is power.
And so, in some respect, maybe the only thing that they will understand is realizing that then they're going to be vulnerable as well, right?
I mean, look at the amount of crimes the Biden family has likely committed.
You know, so if they're going to be pursuing these types of charges against Trump, then they're opening themselves up to similar vulnerabilities, if not more, because based off of all the investigations against Donald Trump, they're going to get him potentially on maybe not even a misdemeanor, that they're trying to elevate to a felony.
He's the most investigated man in America, and this is what they can come up with?
I guarantee if you put these kind of resources towards Joe Biden, my God, what you would be able to find.
Or any of the Democrats, and it's usually Democrats, it's Republicans too, but the amount of Democrats that go into office Worth next to nothing.
Barack Obama was a community organizer and a senator who now has a $12 million house in Martha's Vineyard right on the water, so he's not too worried about climate change either.
Or he also has 30 acres there, and for some reason when they brought those 12 people from Martha's Vineyard when Florida shipped them over there, he didn't offer them one acre.
Honestly, I'm not going to lie to the audience at home.
It's been sort of a downer the past few days, right?
Because I love this country and it makes me sad what's happening.
I don't have kids yet.
When I do have kids, if I ever get around to it at the rate I'm going, what kind of country am I going to be raising them in?
I mean that truly.
Or if I have grandkids, it genuinely worries me.
So I have felt it.
But I also, you know, look, I love life, I love my family, I have great friends, you know, and so there's so much beauty in life as well.
And so I tried to do my best of not letting all the negative negate all the positive and not living your life.
Because, I mean, how tragic would that be if not only do they put us through all this crap, but then also deprive us of happiness or joy in our own lives, right?
And so it's, You know, I believe that we have to fight these things.
That's why we were both so outspoken during the COVID stuff.
And I don't think we should back down or or be cowards, right?
We need to be brave and bold and trying to push back a lot of this stuff.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no My heart just, you can rent one of mine if you want or something.
Because I think this too, I've gone down this path of fighting for the things I believe in so deeply that I couldn't turn around now.
There's just nothing I could do.
I could never face myself if I didn't continue the fight.
I genuinely think it makes it hard with dating, it makes it hard with your life because it's You know, look how polarizing politics are today.
Look how polarizing COVID was and still is today.
So it is challenging when we are so outspoken and when, you know, all someone has to do is Google your name and all this stuff pops up, right?
And then they form an opinion of you.
And I think that's in part what the left wants as well, right?
They're trying to make social pariahs out of people who don't agree with them, who won't submit, who won't just go along with the program.
And so I think that part does make life challenging.
But I would rather be a social pariah and have people who I thought maybe love me turn their backs on me than have to live with being a coward every single day of my life.