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Jan. 12, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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Elon Musk Shocks the Internet by Agreeing with John Fetterman About This

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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, I'm Dave Rubin.
		This is The Rubin Report.
		It's time for another Friday Roundtable extravaganza, and joining me today are two first-time guests.
		First up, Editor-in-Chief of Upward News, Ari David, and the host of the HoopChat podcast, Emily Austin.
		Ari, Emily, I've wanted to have you guys on for a while.
		How you doing?
unidentified		Good, thanks for having me.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Thank you for having us.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, let's dive right into it.
		We're just going to recap some of the craziness of the week.
		And of course, we've got the big Iowa caucus coming up on Monday.
		Maybe I'll ask for some predictions at the end of the show.
		I would say the zaniest thing that happened this week is that South Africa, which is a sort of, I would say, in common cause, or has had some
		history of actual apartheid.
		They are bringing a trial in the International Court of Justice or something like that. It's
		a clown court. That's what you really need to know. Against Israel. Let's take a look at some
unidentified		of the beginnings of the hearing. Israel has a genocidal intent against the Palestinians in Gaza.
		That is evident from the way in which Israel's military attack is being conducted,
		which has been described by Ms.
		Hassim Assy.
		It is systematic in its character and form.
		The mass displacement of the population of Gaza, headed into areas where they continue to be killed, and the deliberate creation of conditions that, quote, lead to a slow death, unquote.
		There is also the clear pattern of conduct, the targeting of family homes and civilian infrastructure, laying waste to vast areas of Gaza, and the bombing, shelling, and sniping of men, women, and children where they stand, the destruction of the health infrastructure, and lack of access to humanitarian assistance.
		So much so, that as we stand today, 1% of the Palestinian population in Gaza has been systematically decimated.
		And one in four Gazans have been injured since 7 October.
		These two elements alone are capable of evidencing Israel's genocidal intent in relation to the whole or part of the Palestinian population in Gaza.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Emily, I will let you say it a little more cleanly, but everything that that buffoon just said either was a lie or a complete distortion.
		There's a war going on.
		They're still firing rockets into Israel.
		They've got 100 plus hostages.
		Israel's dropping leaflets telling people to leave.
		It was all epic bullshit.
		The idea that South Africa is bringing this charge to this clown court.
		I mean, the whole freaking thing.
		Can you just talk a little bit first, though, about how you got involved in Israel advocacy?
		Because you're thought of as a sports chick, but you've become a huge voice in defending Israel since October 7th.
unidentified		Yeah, I mean, of course I defend Israel because not only am I a Jew, but I'm a human being first and foremost.
unidentified		And when there's a country that's consistently being attacked and their existence is constantly being threatened, of course I believe they have the right to defend themselves.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Now, what I did not expect was this little reminder to the world.
unidentified		October 7th was the worst thing that has happened, at least as far as I've been alive.
unidentified		And it's insane to me that, instead of the entire world coming together to condemn a
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		terrorist group that just slaughtered, dismembered, raped and burned people alive, and then took
		civilians as hostages, instead of condemning them, the world is now siding with them and
		arguing basically they have feelings too, and now categorizing them as freedom fighters.
		So why have I become an Israel advocate?
		Because it's mind-boggling to me that anyone could stand against Israel.
		So what I'm trying to do is share the truth.
		Now in regard to this stupid idiot, whose name I don't even know from South Africa,
		he's contradicted himself so many times within his own speech.
		He said Israel's mass displacing Gazans with intention of genocide.
		If Israel didn't care about the Gazans lives, let me tell you something,
		we wouldn't bother displacing them anywhere 'cause they would just be collateral damage
		in all of the airstrikes and killing Hamas.
		So A, that was the first stupidity that came out of his mouth.
		B, you can't say that Israel has genocide, Sorry, my AirPods are falling out because my ears are tiny.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's all good.
		Make note she has tiny ears for next time she's on the show.
		We'll have that taken care of.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		South Africa is becoming the present-day country that's sided with Nazi Germany in World War II.
		They have now chosen to be on the side of evil, with a very little understanding, clearly, that it starts with the Jews, it starts with Israel.
		But it doesn't end there.
		Because a terrorist group, when they say, kill all the infidels, why don't you believe them?
		Israel is an example of what they plan to do to the rest of the world.
		And if Israel doesn't take care of it, I can reassure you, it'll be your problem next.
		So to bother them in defending themselves and not protecting their right to exist, you're going to hurt yourself in the long run because Israel is the only thing protecting democracy in the Middle East.
unidentified		You lose that, you're screwed, I can promise you.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, we'll let you work on the headphone for a second.
		Ari, my position is that Israel shouldn't even be at this clown court.
		These international courts of justice, they're just nothing.
		They're made up nonsense.
		And that this is still in the middle of a war.
		It's not like after the war where everyone can look back and go, okay, we're mistakes made here and there.
		It's just a complete clown show.
		Do you think that Israel should even bother defending themselves at this thing?
		Because in a weird way, it adds legitimacy to something that's totally illegitimate.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, for some reason, a lot of people around the world think that South Africa has some kind of moral high ground that we should be looking at when really we should be listening to South Africa the same way we would be listening to a country like North Korea talk about the situation in Gaza.
		For example, I mean right now South Africa is nearing a failed state.
		It is pretty much a DEI regime on steroids.
		If your farm in South Africa is too white, they won't let you sell your products out of the country.
		there's corruption to the max there where hospitals and schools, for years, I've been having their electricity shut
		off because the people that are in power, and it's a one state
		party there, have not been able to take over and pretty much be
		competent in ruling over South Africa. And so for Israel, which
		really, if you look at if anyone who's been in Israel understands
		that at least what's going on in Israel, it's a normal country,
		and it's functioning very well. And South Africa is quite the
		opposite. So no, I don't think really anybody should be listening or taking South Africa. Honestly, here.
unidentified		Yeah. And by the way, I think Dave, I want to add one more point.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		If you were silent and not condemning Hamas very strongly and hoping that they become eradicated on October 7th, then you best shut your mouth when Israel defends itself.
		And people, I emphasize the word defending itself because Israel did not start this war, nor did Israel want this war, nor did Israel violate the ceasefire that they had on October 6th.
		And I'd like to also add, this whole thing could have been over if they simply surrender and release the hostages.
		The whole world's very, very quick to start condemning Israel.
		But when you ask them, OK, what about the hostages, or what about the fact that October 7th did in fact happen, suddenly nobody has a better suggestion, but they're very quick to criticize Israel.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's why I keep making note that there are still hostages and there are still rockets being fired into Israel.
		There's a current war going on.
		It's like, you could end this right now.
		It could end while we are doing this show right now, if Hamas did what you just called out for.
		In a bizarre twist, the sanest Democrat in the Senate on this thing is John Fetterman.
		I cannot believe it, but here is John Fetterman talking about this ridiculous South African clown court.
unidentified		And now let's also talk about that.
		Now we're talking about genocide.
		And now South Africa now is now bringing that kind of a trial.
		Maybe South Africa being able to sit this one out when they're talking about criticizing the behavior of the African
		American.
		Sit it out!
		(audience applauding)
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's a weird world we live in.
		Elon Musk saw that video and here, Elon Musk, who is from Johannesburg, South Africa, that's right, he's an African American, he said he is right talking about Federman.
		Ari, the Democrats have sort of lost their mind, at least from my position when it comes to Hamas and everything happening with Israel and everything else.
		Federman is now the most moderate, sane Democrat.
		How did this happen?
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's kind of absurd and it's a mystery when you look at exactly what he was campaigning on.
		And the fact of the matter is, is that there's a large portion of the Democratic Party that is now afraid of the progressives.
		And if you look at the approval rating that Federman has in his own district right now, I mean, it's nearing what, the high 70%?
		People clearly, especially liberals right now, they look at Democrats like Fetterman and they see someone that is making sense as opposed to looking at the squad and people that are calling for ceasefires.
		They've kind of been disassociating with those people recently.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Also, Federman was clinically depressed and sort of, we all thought he was mentally ill while he was a progressive.
		Now he's become a moderate and seems like he can speak again and everything else.
		It's very bizarre.
unidentified		Maybe he was mentally ill because he was a Democrat and now he's happier because he's found his truth.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I'm not a scientist, but that makes sense to me.
		I wanna show you one other thing related to all of this.
		In San Francisco, the shithole of San Francisco, the woke, disastrous city, once great city, even 10 years ago, known as San Francisco, the city council voted eight to three to call for an end to this war and a ceasefire.
		and look at these, I may have to show you this video twice 'cause you really need to focus in on these people.
unidentified		Free ballots, drive free!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I just want everyone to look at it again.
		Can I speak over this one too?
		Just look at each one of these people.
unidentified		Every one of these people would be thrown off a building.
unidentified		Look at this freak and this weirdo and that genderqueer nutbag.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		These people would all be killed by the people that they are celebrating.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Emily, irony is truly dead, is it not?
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		First, that baby, we need to call Child Protective Services to remove that baby from this, I'm going to assume that's a woman, by the way she looks, as soon as possible.
		B, I really think that this little party that they just threw has, in fact, freed Palestine.
		So I want to congratulate San Francisco for being the first city in the United States to free Palestine.
		Lastly, did they make sure to call Bibi and Hamas and demand a ceasefire now?
		Because they seem like they're celebrating that they've accomplished something.
		So I'd like to know what, in fact, they accomplished.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Ari, what is it about progressives that they can watch their own cities crumbling?
		I mean, that's what's happening in San Francisco and Chicago and New York and Portland and Seattle.
		And they spend more time doing these ridiculous hearings while they literally have drugs everywhere, crime's rampant, you can't park your car on the street and the rest of it.
		Like, the disconnect between their own lives and what they think they're doing 7,000 miles away is extraordinary.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think when you're in that kind of mind space, you're trying to probably fill the void of meaning in any kind of way that you can.
		And for a lot of conservatives in America, I mean, we have religion, and so we're focusing on religion, on family life, whereas for a lot of progressives that have taken more of an enlightenment route and walked away from religion, and a lot of them which are atheists, I mean, when you Live like that you need to fill the void and so they're going towards politics They're going towards movements that are constantly changing from one to another Because it would be kind of boring to just believe the same exact thing and spend a whole year talking about something Instead of having a current thing that rolls out on a monthly basis.
		And so this is the current thing This is exactly what they're doing.
		They want to participate in it.
		It gives them meaning it's completely wrong But that's where I think it's coming from.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well said I want to add to what Ari just said I think the reason most woke people are atheists is because believing in God means you have a belief that something's above you, something's more powerful than you and bigger than you.
		And this woke mob, they are so narcissistic that they need to make everything about them.
		Why is everything insulting to them?
		Why are their feelings hurt?
		And they're too narcissistic to believe that anything could be more important than them, including God.
		It just shows you how insane they are.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I think you guys both have, you're both a little bit younger than me.
		Do you think there's something generationally happening there?
		Is that partly because of the internet and that it's just blown apart everybody's brains and everything else that people have chose to believe just kind of what's in front of them than anything more eternal?
		Ari?
ari david ▲ ● ▼		I actually think that right now, like Gen Z, the younger cohorts of it that are growing up with the social media and everything, probably for the first part of their lives, they were looking at everything happening and they were still thinking that these news sites and the social media and stuff is giving them the truth.
		But I think they're becoming disillusioned really quickly.
		And there's a break that's happening.
		So, for example, with younger men and the boys, they're becoming conservative and they're kind of rejecting everything that's going on and everything that's being fed to them.
		Meanwhile, for the girls, it's a little bit different.
		It's the opposite.
		But clearly, there is something in this generation where, I guess, the older millennials that have adopted this wokeism to their hearts, that it doesn't sit well with them.
		And I think they're going to be looking for something that is more true.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Emily, can you connect that a little bit to liberal Jews?
		I mean, a lot of liberal Jews, people that used to be friends with me, that wrote me off years ago.
		I've gotten a lot of texts since October 7th, suddenly going, Dave, maybe you weren't so crazy this whole time.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Dave, I will never understand liberal Jews.
		In fact, last week I was fighting with a liberal Jew at Fox News who was telling me how, as a Jew, I should be voting for Biden.
		And I looked her in the eyes and I said, are you insane?
		If you care about the Jewish people's existence, Biden's going to let that slip right through and there won't be an Israel or Jewish people to be there to vote for the next Democrat.
		And she's just like, well, Trump's the worst answer.
		And I was like, okay, I don't understand liberal Jews.
		And honestly, It's kind of embarrassing to the non-liberal kind of God-believing, God-fearing Jews, because they just twist everything to fit, like again, that woke agenda.
		And going back to Gen Z, which is the worst of liberal Jews, they are the ones that lost the ability to think for themselves because of social media.
		If something's cool on TikTok, it's cool in person too, and no one gives it any time or thought.
		And then secondly, the problem is, it's like, We all know this but TikTok is showing you exactly what they want to show you and they're like poisoning our youth and whatever they see they're so quick to believe without actually indulging it to whether this is fact or fiction and suddenly that becomes the reality and then lastly another thing that Gen Z including myself has grown up with is over catering to
		I don't want to say over-catering to feelings, but treating everything over-sensitively.
		Like, growing up, I was like, I don't want to play in gym.
		My gym coach was like, too damn bad, go run.
		Today, if that happens, you don't want to run in gym, oh, he's neglecting her mental health, oh, he's racist, oh, my God, he doesn't like Jews, and now he's fired.
		And that's why we're raising, like, the most sensitive, helpless generation of Gen Z that the world is now seeing.
		We can't function as adults.
		This is the next generation of voters.
		We're screwed.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's why I'm never sending my children out of the house until they're 18.
		They are gonna live in this house until they're 18 and then I'm just gonna send them off into the world and we'll see what happens.
		Let's shift over to that Biden guy who you mentioned because obviously right now the main thing on people's minds is this disastrous immigration situation where finally, thanks to the internet, as long as we have a semi-free internet, we're seeing these crazy videos of thousands of people pouring through our borders Oddly, mostly middle-aged, sort of fighting-age men, and not a lot of women and children.
		Peter Doocy asked Corinne Jean-Pierre about just that.
peter doocy ▲ ● ▼		My school in New York is having remote classes today because the building was needed to house people who came into this country illegally.
		So what is the president's priority in this case?
		Is it the migrants or is it the students?
karine jean-pierre ▲ ● ▼		So let me just just clear this up a little bit.
		So yesterday New York City informed us that as a precaution they would temporarily relocate migrants staying at Floyd Bennett Field to a nearby high school.
		As of this morning all migrants have returned to the facility at Floyd Bennett Field and so anything specific as to the program and what decided to do and all of the specifics to that I would certainly refer you to New York City for any additional questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So to be clear, what happened was our government doesn't protect our border.
		We send these people to these sanctuary cities and states.
		They end up, the migrants, these 2,000 migrants, ended up at this field.
		The field was gonna flood, so they temporarily moved them to a school.
		Apparently, they're back.
		But either way, this whole thing is illegal and immoral and everything else.
		Ari, these people, do you believe this is intentional, yes or no, by this government?
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, absolutely.
		It's a combination of being intentional.
		It has been for the past two decades, and now it's even more intentional by way of incompetence, really.
		A lot of liberals at the border that are in those border states and that have always been pro-immigration, even they're turning on this whole immigration Uh, catastrophe that's happening right now because they can sense that even if the Biden wanted to have some kind of control over it, they don't.
		And it's just absolute chaos.
		There's no method to the madness.
		Uh, and it's quite scary for a lot of people that are living down there.
		It's scary now in almost every major city in America that has these migrants.
		Uh, and if you go talk to these migrants directly, they associate the Biden administration as the leader of America who let them into America that is going to put them into the welfare state, that's
		going to take care of them.
		And so really there is this kind of optimistic view that the migrants have of the Biden
		administration. And let's also be very clear that from day one, the Biden administration has been
		talking about amnesty. And so this is still a long-term goal. The Democrats are not going to
		let go of this. And so if you're looking a couple of years down the road, you're going to see
		a lot more calls to give citizenship to everybody right now.
		And of course, they're going to reward the people that let them into this country, the people that gave them free cell phones, that gave them debit cards, and really fed them for not contributing much to society here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Emily, did you happen to see the video this week of AOC on Comedy Central basically saying that the solution to an undocumented immigrant problem is to just document them?
		I mean, that's exactly what Ari's bringing up.
		It's not that you do anything about it, you just actually document them and congratulations, they're here.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Well, did she say it on Comedy Central because she was joking or she was being serious?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		She was being serious.
unidentified		Wow.
unidentified		Yeah.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah.
		The problem is a thousand people in the last two months crossed the border.
		I saw a video last night of so many children that were so heavily sedated while crossing the border, and no one gave a damn to even ask a question as to where they came from.
		This is who we are letting in our country.
		Now, I'm not saying there are no good people that are seeking refugee.
		Of course they are.
		So let's do this the right way.
		My grandparents came into this country legally.
		They did not sneak across the border and now get free health care too.
		That would have been much easier for them, I'm sure.
		But why is this always America last?
		Why is Biden now putting our security in compromise for these migrants?
unidentified		Why are our students now being Zoom schooled because the migrants need our school as their facility?
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		I was a Zoom student in college.
		That was the hardest thing.
		I did not learn a thing for two semesters.
		paying $60,000 a year to receive my education and I was on Zoom and now you're taking high school students that are arguably the most vulnerable students and you're putting them home because you're putting the migrants first.
		That's America less.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Well, a little bit of a silver lining, I suppose, to this is that good people, and there are some good people in some of these cities still, like New York and Chicago and elsewhere, are actually realizing that there's a problem on their hands.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Check out this video from Chicago, a black civic leader who most likely will be called racist by the end of today, calling out the nonsense of allowing all the illegals into his city.
unidentified		Politically, having over 500 people in our community would completely wipe out any interest we have.
		Are you aware that there are immigrant advocates at state houses all over this country who are advocating for non-citizen voting in local elections?
		What if that happened here?
		That would change the mindset of what we as a black community need to thrive here in Chicago.
		That's a concern of ours.
		This is much bigger than the mayor of Chicago or Chicago Police Department.
		This is an effort to destroy our neighborhoods and silence our voices even further.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Well, I do agree that it's bigger than the mayor of Chicago.
		It should be noted that the mayor of Chicago did want Chicago to be a sanctuary city, just like Lori Lightfoot before him.
		Ari, it's good to see people waking up.
		Like this guy's like, well, this is a problem and we're not happy with the Democrats.
		That seems to be pretty good, right?
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, just eight years ago, you had people like Bernie Sanders that actually had a good way of thinking about immigration, and they realized the more people that they let into this country, the worse it is for American workers, the more opportunities there are for these massive corporations to find people that are just willing to work for less.
		And so throughout the 60s, 70s, you had classic leftism have the position that migration on a scale like this is just terrible.
		And you used to have like the most hailed activists on the left go down to the border when there were illegal migrants trying to go through, and they would attack these people.
		And actually Biden has a bust of one of these people on his desk in the White House.
		So he's clearly turned away to the people and how they thought, even those leftists back in the day.
		And I think that a lot of people actually will be changing their minds as soon as they see the complete shock here.
		There was a chance in America that all of this crazy migration chaos would have just been limited down to the border states.
		But when that all changed with Greg Abbott that decided to fly everybody and bus them to the sanctuary cities, he made the problem affect everybody the way that it should have been.
		And so he's changed the game here.
		And I think people are going to realize really soon.
		It's time for a change.
		Mayor Adams is now constantly fighting with the Biden administration.
		So is pretty much every mayor in the cities.
		They're trying to get more money so they can do something about this and really just put a stop to it.
		So yeah, people are waking up right now.
		I think they're going to continue to.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I do have to give credit to my guy, Ron DeSantis, who did ship them out to Martha's Vineyard before Abbott was sending them up to New York and Chicago.
		Emily, do you think it's, is it cynical or just truthful that in a weird way, the Democrats are basically like, look, we have the black vote no matter what.
		They never break away from us.
		So why give them anything?
		Why not just ship a bunch of illegals into the black communities?
		They're going to vote for us either way and congratulations.
		Then we'll document the undocumented and have even more voters.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		So as of two days ago, they do not have the young black vote at least anymore, which is a perfect reflection of you are not safe in doing stupidity and thinking you're still going to maintain everyone's votes.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		I'm glad people are waking up.
unidentified		I'm glad especially the black community and the Hispanic community are waking up
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		because one thing Biden did very well was over promise and under deliver to these communities
unidentified		that are marginalized or experience a form of oppression, at least in their own mind in the United States.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		And they're waking up like Biden promised us a lot of things
		and he has given us nothing.
		So what incentive do they have to vote for him again if he's not doing anything?
		And that's probably why he's letting all of these migrants in
		because like AOC stupidly said, they are probably going to grant them citizenship
		or at least voting rights.
		And these people, of course, are going to want to repay the people who let them into our country and vote for them because he sure as hell has not done anything for the black community, not done anything for Gen Z, not done anything for the Hispanic community, hasn't done anything great for America, truth be told, and nobody has any incentive but to vote for him.
		So this is now the Democrats' plan B. What do we do?
		We can't lose this election.
unidentified		Cool.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Let's let the migrants in.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		They'll vote for us.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Let's finish up talking about... Go ahead, Ari.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, there's one really important note to make there in that, like, if anyone should be concerned in America about the migrants, the Black community should really be concerned because the more migrants that come in here, the less the Black vote matters.
		I mean, that's just a matter of demographics in America and how electoral politics are played.
		So, as soon as you have more of these immigrants that are going to be voting, A lot of these politicians that have made the backbones of their campaigns reaching out to the black community, they won't need to do that anymore.
		And that's going to be a really bad thing for the black community.
		So they're definitely worried, and if they're not, they should be.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		And if we're to believe that the black community needs social services more than rich white people, well, it's their community that will be hit hardest when those social services are moved to other people.
		Let's shift over to Joe Biden, though, because apparently he is gonna run again or something like that, or he's running again, or this sham is just continuing.
		He doesn't do many sit-downs.
		When he does, it's usually with Jill Biden.
		They never do anything live.
		It's always highly edited and everything else.
		But Dr. Jill Biden went on Mika Brzezinski's show on the televised mental institution known as MSNBC for a little sit-down to talk about her husband, and we enjoyed this clip.
unidentified		So I see that strength and that resilience and that steadiness every single day.
		Wow.
		And he's unflappable.
		And when I look at the man, you know, his integrity, his character has not changed and he's unwavering.
		He's unflappable.
		And I think what people don't see is how hard Joe works every single day, that he gets up thinking what he can do for the American people.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		The best part of that, she goes, his strength, resiliency and steadiness.
		And Mika goes, wow, wow.
		You think Joe could do an interview like that where he could just speak off the cuff and not stumble and fumble and everything else?
		Like, are we just well past that point?
		And do you think they're just going to hide him for the next year, Emily?
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Maybe his body double can.
		I know he sure as hell can't.
		He can't even walk straight anymore.
		She said Joe is unstoppable.
		One strong gust of wind is blowing him over.
		What are you talking about?
		And then B, why are you sitting there?
		It should be our president that's sitting there.
		And C, of course, this anchor did not Um, follow up with any of Jill's claims, but me being a normal person with half of a brain cell would think, okay, uh, what has Joe done for this country?
		Just ask for one example.
		She's just stating the most broad statements that we know is not true.
		And she's not even coming back to her with any questions or any statements other than, wow, ask her a question.
		How does Joe put our country first?
		You know, she said, I mean, I just spoke about how America's last.
		It doesn't even feel like Joe is functioning as our president.
		Now Jill is trying to argue that he's the best president.
		It's very ironic to me.
		We're smarter than that.
		Don't insult our intelligence.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Ari, do you think a certain set of people want their intelligence insulted?
		I mean, I think that's kind of where we're at.
		Like clearly half the country, you don't have to be a Republican or a conservative or whatever, but if you're a Democrat right now, you know something, every single person knows something's wrong with Joe Biden.
		That is not me being ageist or anything else.
		Something is not functioning.
		I don't know one 80-year-old or 81-year-old that has a full-time job, me personally.
		I have no doubt that some of them do and are highly functional and everything else, but I don't think he could run McDonald's for a day and that's not a shot at a McDonald's manager.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, the polls show that everyone thinks that Joe Biden is way too old.
		And I always like to think about the fact that really him and Trump age-wise are not too far apart.
		But I mean, Donald Trump has more energy than I do.
		And so nobody's going around polling, well, is Donald Trump too old?
		People really don't feel that way.
		But when they look at Joe Biden, and this is bipartisan. This is both Democrats and Republicans. They
		recognize the fact that, yeah, something is going on there. And they like to look at the people around
		him and try to rationalize, well, at least we hope that they know what they're doing. But as
		we've seen with the border, and we kind of mentioned a little bit earlier, even the
		voters on the Democrat side don't think that any part of the Biden administration is
		competent anymore.
unidentified		Right, so as of course- - By the way, I wanna add, I feel very bad constantly bashing Biden because in my eyes,
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		he's an old man.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		I feel like if God forbid someone insulted my grandfather, I take it very personal.
unidentified		But at the same time, this old man is the president of the United States.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		And you shouldn't now, like a lot of Democrats argue with me, but Biden's such a great guy.
		Trump's not a good guy.
		I know a lot of great people that would not make great presidents.
		And him being a good guy doesn't qualify him to be our president.
		In fact, he's been the biggest pushover president.
		So maybe he's too much of a good guy, but not when it comes to the American people.
		So it's not about age.
		It's about effectiveness.
		And Biden, maybe because of the age, is just not effective as our president.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Well, as a quote, double edged sword here, I wanted to mention real quickly, before we move on from that, there's actually a lot of Democrat voters that will look at Joe Biden's age, and they're going to associate him with the old school Democrats.
		And that's like a really big strength for Biden going into 2024.
		Whereas younger people like Gavin Newsom that are totally associated with the progressive side of new Democrat politics, That would really push a lot of voters away.
		People might look at Joe Biden and they might look at him and think that is senile and might not be able to do his job, but at least they're not looking at him like a crazy Democrat that is pushing all of this crazy stuff.
		And that's not to say his administration isn't doing that, but that's just what they see when they look at him.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a great point, actually, because I think that's what's happening with a lot of people.
		Even though he is ushering in all of the woke lunacy, it couldn't, throughout the government, it just basically couldn't get more woke and crazy and leftist and psychotic, somehow people think he's not like that, so that means something.
		But I want to just show one other thing here, because in that interview, you guys know, if you're losing it, if people are not believing that he's capable and everything else, what do you have to do?
		You have to scare the hell out of everybody.
unidentified		What do you think when you hear Trump Republicans calling the Biden crime family?
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		One Congresswoman.
unidentified		The Biden crime family sold out America.
		Marjorie Taylor Greene.
		He's a liar.
		He's mentally incompetent.
		And let's not even talk about what Let's Go Brandon means, but you have U.S.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		senators holding signs that say that.
unidentified		It's hard to realize our country, isn't it?
		I mean, to look at it, what we used to have and what the other side, the extremists, have turned this country into.
		I mean, we would never see things like that.
		No, no.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We would never see people calling the President Hitler all the time and all of his supporters white supremacists.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We'd never see that, would we, Emily?
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely not.
unidentified		I mean, first of all, the best part about America is the free speech.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		And for them to say, oh, we would never see that 10 years ago, maybe because 10 years ago our country wasn't in a place that's as bad as it is today.
		And secondly, She said, let's not even go into let's go, Brandon, what that means.
		No, go into it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Joe Biden said it himself.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Joe Biden has said it.
		It's so funny to me.
		I mean, I can't even take an interview like this seriously.
		I'm being serious right now because I know every single thing was verified 300 times.
		Every question was pre-approved 700 times.
		And it's so phony and fake.
		I don't even want to hear it.
		And it means nothing to me.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Ari, that's the other part of all of this, right?
		As a new media guy, like, just watching these things, watching these debates now, watching these town halls, watching these interviews, it's just, it feels like we're just at the end of what old media was.
		It was good at some time, it was necessary, it was just growing as our technology grew, but something ain't working anymore.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I look at the corporate media now the same way I do as the Italian mob back in the day.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		They're just able to get away with murder constantly.
unidentified		At least the mafia was cool and they ate good food.
unidentified		Right.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		And if we're even looking at like all of the evidence that we have now on Biden, the corruption in the family within Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, the brothers, Really, there's just so much evidence that we've had that paints a very clear picture of what is happening and that there really was serious corruption going on.
ari david ▲ ● ▼		And the fact that the media has been able to really make it so that half of the country still, after multiple years, doesn't believe that any of that stuff is true, well, it's really impressive and it's also really scary.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Did this anchor bring up the fact that Biden's son is doing cocaine and they found cocaine in the White House or no?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I didn't see the full interview, but I'm guessing it was not mentioned, the cocaine in the White House with the cocaine son.
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so if we're not going to address like current events surrounding the president's son doing dealings with Russia and doing literal drugs in the White House, it might not be the most honest interview.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Surely Mika would have treated Donald Trump Jr.
		doing cocaine in the White House the exact same way I would have imagined.
		Let me ask you guys one other thing.
		It was not scheduled, but because Monday is the Iowa caucus and people in our shoes love making predictions, Ari, would you like to make a prediction about Monday?
ari david ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, first of all, I hate making predictions because everything that's happening right now is so unpredictable.
		But I would say that it's probably going to be Trump's game there, and then we'll see what happens afterwards.
		But my overall long prediction for 2024 is if the economy is working and it gets better, and it might because there's going to be a lot of Wall Street pushing over and changing interest rates to help Biden, then we might just see another Biden administration.
		If it doesn't, then it's totally Trump's game.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I sense the same thing if Trump is the nominee that we we end up with Biden for a series of reasons.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Emily, what do you think?
emily austin ▲ ● ▼		I disagree with both of you.
		I mean, in terms of Monday, I think Trump is going to bring the show home.
		I think he's going to be the star of the show.
		I think his lack of media presence is now like starting to bring more attention to him.
		So it worked out to his benefit.
		I think Vivek's going to always talk a good talk. He's always really fun to watch, honestly. I
		really enjoy him. I just don't think he will be the next president. I think it will be Trump.
		I don't know. Even if our economy gets better, I don't know if it'll get to the point that it was
		when Trump was in office. I think the woke mob is actually disgusting people and deterring people
		away from voting left. I think it's going to be Trump.
		I know a lot of Jews, we're a very small percentage of the population, but a lot of Jews who are now saying, you know what, Emily, you had a point all these years.
		And I think people are starting to wake up.
		Why vote for something or someone who hasn't done anything for your country?
		And even if he fixes the economy that he broke, that's not enough of a reason to vote for him again.
		So, I don't know.
		I think it's going to be Trump.
unidentified		I mean, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty confident.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Well, if you're wrong, we will clip this and make sure the internet sees it.
unidentified		That's how it goes.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Emily, Ari, I thank you guys.
		I'll definitely have you guys back.
		Really enjoyed this.
		And for everybody else, we've got a post-game show in about 30 seconds.
		ReubenReport.Locals.com.
		Thanks for watching, everybody.
jimmy kimmel ▲ ● ▼		I understand that argument, but also it's like you're playing Monopoly with somebody who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules, and how do you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules?
unidentified		Well, you gotta send them to jail, uh, you know.
		There's that little box in there.
		Directly to jail?

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