Dave Rubin, Amy Jo Clark, and Miriam Weaver condemn President Biden's transgender tweet as dangerous overreach while attacking California Governor Gavin Newsom for driving economic decline and crime. They contrast this with Florida's stability under Ron DeSantis and denounce the second federal indictment of Donald Trump in Miami as a politically motivated witch hunt, noting selective enforcement against Biden and Clinton. The hosts mock media focus on Trump's unpaid meal at Versailles after his indictment, arguing such trivialities distract from the broader crisis of government overreach and judicial bias. [Automatically generated summary]
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Today, ladies, we will be talking about the elderly man pretending to be President Joe Biden and his obsession with transgender children.
We will be talking about the evil lizard person out of California, Gavin Newsom, and the juxtaposition with the sanity coming out of Florida.
And then, of course, the really nutty story of the week, the second indictment of former President Donald Trump, which happened right here in Miami.
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And this administration in general is just so pandery to the whole community, whether it's the gay community or the transgender community, and just the LGBTQIAXYZ element of P community in general.
Miriam, I keep trying to explain to people that these letters have nothing to do with each other and that actually there is no movement that is more anti-gay actually than the trans movement.
There is also no movement that is more actively anti-female in general.
And I think, you know, at some point, Facebook is going to have to add a new status that says you've been marked safe from puberty blockers.
Because, I mean, it's getting out of control.
The whole idea, the whole notion of the White House, anybody at the White House, and they repeat this line often about these being our kids, just immediately makes me put my hands up and like, stay away from my kids.
These are not your kids.
These are my kids.
And when you see states like California that are enacting some of these crazy, super weird, like if you don't affirm your kid's gender ideology at age seven, we're gonna take your kid away from you.
I mean, it's getting real at this point.
And so it's not even just about pandering, it's dangerous the way that they talk about our kids.
Well, I think we learned that during the COVID pandemic, right?
That there are a lot of liberals.
There are a lot of people on that side of the aisle.
I mean, gosh, I saw even some, dare I say, people on the right side of the aisle, conservatives, people who I thought were conservatives, Think and believe that the government knows what's best for them and knows what's best for their children.
And that's terrifying.
That's not the government's job to make any decisions like that about your children.
You are the parent.
I am the parent.
Stay out of the decisions for my child.
That's my job as a parent to make those decisions.
And we're seeing that in education.
We're seeing that in so many things.
It is kind of terrifying that that's happening.
And it's, you know, we see it in California, you think, oh, it's not going to happen in places like I live in Texas.
And so I think, oh, it's not going to happen here.
But so many of those whack job Californians are moving to Texas, you know?
Well, it's funny because here in Florida, where obviously I moved and we're getting the biggest influx, everyone that I meet that comes up to me and says, oh, I used to live in New York.
I used to live in Connecticut.
I used to live in Cali.
But they always make a point of saying, but I'm not going to vote that way.
But I get that that's a certain set of people that are coming up to me specifically.
Right, right.
Seemingly in Florida, it is working out and people, I mean, you just look at the DeSantis results and it's working out properly.
Miriam, what do you make of sort of the liberal mom, the 35 year old liberal mom that is going along with all of this stuff?
Like, is there a way to reach them?
Can a woman reach them in a way a man cannot, perhaps?
You know, it's funny, because on one hand, it's like, all right, maybe when they realize that their sons are not getting into colleges with better grades than, say, an LGBTQ kid or a black kid or whatever, that they that might wake them up.
But I think they'd fall on the sword on that one for the most part, actually.
All right, so there he goes again with this, they're all our kids thing.
But this line, the hateful bills targeting kids, the bills are stopping children from having their genitals mutilated and chemical castration, and God knows what else they are doing to these kids.
Amy, the media's just never gonna deal with this stuff, honestly, huh?
Also, for the record, I say this all the time, but a phobia is an irrational fear.
So the idea that you're transphobic if a government agent shows up at your house saying, I'm going to take your kid because he really thinks he's a girl or she really thinks he's a boy, I don't think that's an irrational fear.
Okay, let's move on because you guys mentioned Callie and there's just so much of the craziness that we talk about all the time emanates first in California.
So Gavin Newsom, who I truly believe is an evil lizard person from another planet wearing a human outfit, he went on Sean Hannity and just laid out a whole bunch of bunk, which we'll debunk in just a sec, but here's his bunk.
Well, absolutely, and it's like he just doesn't see what's happening right in front
of his very eyes in places like San Francisco, which is just absolutely falling apart.
And he doesn't recognize or he refuses to admit all the people that have fled California.
They're hightailing out of there with good reason.
And so I don't know how he can, it's fine.
He can memorize all of his little stats and pretend that they are creating this narrative
that's utterly untrue to anyone who has actual eyes and ears on the ground.
You know, it's clearly false and you only need to look at the actual things that are happening.
The problem is, if you go back to the people that we were just discussing, which are the young liberal women who are riddled with guilt, they will look at Gavin Newsom and they'll be all gaga over him, even though he's a lizard.
And he's so smooth.
And the way that he rattles off the stats and the way that he answered Sean's questions He's very, very charming in a way that I fear would make him a formidable candidate, which is ultimately where it's headed, right?
He's clearly gonna run for president at some point.
And there's way too many stupid people who are gonna be like, my God, he's so dreamy, and not actually face the reality of the situation that he is responsible for in California.
And what a shame because California is, I mean, if you look at it from just a geographical standpoint, it's a beautiful state.
It really is beautiful.
Just if you look at the scenery, if you drive through it and, you know, especially not the cities per se, but You know, just the state in general, it really is beautiful.
And he's ruined a beautiful state and shame on him, you know?
Because where California goes, so too follows the rest of the country in many cases.
And so there's a danger to one of the largest economies in the country leading the way, you know, that's how I'm sure how Gavin would put it, on some of these cultural issues.
That really sets the stage for other states to follow suit.
I hope that they don't, but there's reason to be paying attention to it for sure.
And so it's really important that people do, they don't look at California as an outlier
because I think that there are other Democrat governors who think, ooh, look at Gavin.
Like, look what he's doing.
We should be modeling ourselves.
Didn't he, like, 10 or 15 years ago have this big plan about solving homelessness and throw billions of dollars at it?
But I mean, it is starting to trickle and it's starting to sort of spread out a little bit.
And that does concern me because these people get sick of the high taxes, but yet they They go and they move, and then they bring their crappy politics with them, and that's not okay.
And that is a concern.
So it's kind of like crapping where you eat, right?
I mean, some of that, I think, is the people that tend to move towards big cities.
Austin seems like it's the place where all the people who wanted to stay a little weird went, so it went blue.
Again, we don't really have that in Florida, from what I can tell you.
I want to read one more thing that's happening in Cali right now.
And as chicks, I know you guys like to shop, right?
That's what they say.
Yes.
Westfield, here we go, Westfield Mall stopped paying its $558 million mortgage and is surrendering its namesake San Francisco Mall, the biggest in the city, to lenders in the wake of Nordstrom's planned closure and plunging foot traffic down 42% from 2019 and sales are down by a third.
Did you see the video that was going around even earlier this week?
Because all these stores are closing down in San Francisco and they're hightailing it out of there.
So there was just another video, I just saw it today as a matter of fact, of a bunch more looters taking advantage of the few stores that remain so they could empty them out too.
And then we got Gavin on Sean Hannity bragging about the state.
Miriam, one of the things I say on the show all the time is when you're telling the truth, your body language, everything about the way you speak, you don't have to scream, you don't have to genuflect and throw papers around and everything else.
And I think something good is happening with DeSantis right now, where he's coming into it, and everything he said there was true, which is why his demeanor was so calm, versus the Gavin thing, it's very, you know, like, I gotta tell you this thing.
Well, we'll see if Gavin actually- I mean, because Gavin, I think, would prefer to just get DeSantis on some sort of stage together before he'll ever admit what he's actually doing politically.
I mean, I think there's two different two different things here.
Right.
I mean, I think he actually did some stuff that was probably wrong.
And then there's the the two tiers of justice part of this.
Right.
Where there's, you know, Republicans or he actually faces Severe consequences because it's a witch hunt for him because they've been wanting.
I mean, there are people look at Keith Olbermann wants him to die for crying out loud.
I mean, it's like this is they've been on a witch hunt for him since day one.
They absolutely hate this guy.
And they're doing a lot of things out of just severe hatred for Trump.
I think we all know that.
And then there's the part where he did some stuff that was wrong.
So when he gets into that courtroom, they're going to be, you know, putting him on trial for the things that he did not.
Hey, what did what did Joe Biden face or not face?
What did Hillary Clinton face or not face?
I mean, it's going to be the things that that Donald Trump did.
So he can't really use in his defense.
Well, what Joe Biden didn't face it and Hillary Clinton didn't face it.
So he's going to have to actually face the music for the things that he did.
Now, do I think it's completely unfair?
Yeah.
And I think that everybody in this country is at least conservatives.
People on the right side of the aisle are looking at this and saying, this is a witch hunt.
Yeah.
And I hope that at the end of the day, if he is convicted of criminal stuff, wrongdoing, that Whoever is president, and if that president is a Republican, that they pardon him.
I hope they do that.
I hope that we all agree, or at least they agree, they come together and somebody will pardon him.
I suspect that any Republican would because it would help with some of the healing.
And if it is another Republican, most likely DeSantis, like you're going to need some MAGA DeSantis healing.
So I think that hopefully they would.
But Miriam, I'm not sure how much you paid attention to the specifics in the indictment, but in this one, you know, the New York one isn't that dense.
This one is pretty dense.
Phone calls that were recorded.
One of the things that seems like the most damning is that apparently he showed a classified map of somewhere in the world, we don't know where from the indictment, because it's classified obviously, but showed a map to one of the members of his PAC committee and literally said to the guy, this is classified, don't tell anyone about this.
He kinda did this to himself too, and again, that's not diminishing anything that Amy just said there.
Well, right, and that's, I think, we're seeing that problem, that sort of cognitive dissonance problem happen in much of our audience right now, because they so focus on the unfairness of this, which it is clearly unfair, that they refuse to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, he actually fucked up.
And so I think it's okay to do both of those things at the same time.
And I don't know why people are having such a hard time doing that.
And we talked about this off air, the fact that we have audiences, some of which are so devoted and so not able to withstand even hearing just the slightest bit of criticism or even just news reporting that doesn't present Trump in a good way.
That they just completely shut down.
And I think what's gonna happen here, if everybody does believe in having a fair justice system, the justice system has to work.
And if it is proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he did illegal things and he is convicted, that's one thing.
The justice system will have done its job.
The next job, as Amy Jo pointed out, Is that the Republican needs to pardon him because it's been so unfair.
So I think all of those things can happen all at the same time.
It seems to me that the out of this thing is that DeSantis becomes president, pardons him, like they acknowledge, yes, he did illegal things, but since we're going to have a nonpartisan, you know, scrutiny of the law, we're just we're going to pardon him.
Let's put that behind us, because otherwise everyone that ever runs for president in perpetuity will realize that they will be persecuted and prosecuted for something one day.
And that that genuinely is Banana Republic stuff.
Here's a little video of Trump at the Versailles.
It's a famous restaurant here in Miami at the Versailles restaurant right after the indictment.
All right, so the people there obviously supportive of him.
That's no surprise.
I did see this from the messenger after, which I just thought was kind of funny and maybe indicative of sort of what we're talking about here.
Trump promises food for everyone at restaurant, doesn't order anything.
After his indictment Tuesday, Trump went to the Miami restaurant, Versailles, where he, despite what he told a crowd of fans, he left in 10 minutes without ordering a thing.
And basically he said that he was gonna pay for everybody, it sounds like, and didn't pay for anybody.
I know this is sort of petty and whatever.
I'm willing to grant him a leash here, but Amy, like, it's just like, it never stops.
And for everybody else, there's no postgame show today because I'm actually on the road at the moment.
I will be with Governor DeSantis.
Tomorrow, outside of Reno, at the Basque Fry.
If you're somewhere outside of Reno tomorrow, Saturday morning, I will be there.
Actually, we'll put the link down below so you can maybe grab tickets to that, and I will give everyone that would request it the one-second hug.
Not the two-second hug.
The one-second hug.
Thanks, everybody.
Have a great weekend.
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