April 25, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| Four more years. | ||
| Imagine what we can do next. | ||
| Four more years. | ||
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| Dude, that's not what you're supposed to read off the teleprompter. | ||
| Watch, I can do this without a teleprompter. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report, and we are officially, as of today, switching our Friday roundtable extravaganzas to Thursday roundtable extravaganzas. | ||
| My God, we're switching it up on you. | ||
| And joining me today is a former member of the NYPD and political commentator and proud Floridian, John Cardillo, and host of The Young Heretics Show, Spencer Clavin. | ||
| Gentlemen, welcome back to The Rubin Report. | ||
| Good to see you, Dave. | ||
| Pleasure to be here. | ||
| Pause, wait for a response. | ||
| I was going to say, are you guys going to be doing this with the prompter? | ||
| I mean, just even that cold open, let's just talk about it for a second, because it has become so obvious to everyone at this point, there is something wrong with this guy. | ||
| And at the very least, if he could read the prompter correctly, I think most of us would just swallow it and move on. | ||
| But instead, he can't even do that. | ||
| It's one thing if you can't speak off the cuff. | ||
| It's one thing if you can't remember anyone's name or just be able to talk calmly about things because your brain's not firing. | ||
| But he can't even read properly. | ||
| John, I guess this is going to happen to all of us one day, but maybe he shouldn't be the President of the United States. | ||
| You know, I don't know. | ||
| My dad's 81 in late June, and if you speak to him on the phone, he sounds like we do. | ||
| Here, there's no vocal strain. | ||
| He's completely sharp and with it. | ||
| I think Biden is just really, now his condition's advanced, right? | ||
| And like you said, everyone can see this. | ||
| I think the Democrats are Saying, what in the world did we do here? | ||
| What the hell did we do? | ||
| We should have swapped this guy out, but where did they go, right? | ||
| Kamala, they bring somebody in. | ||
| They're in a real tough spot, but yeah, Americans are seeing this absence of leadership combined with the price of gas, the economy, interest rates, car dealers. | ||
| Now you couldn't get a car a couple of years ago. | ||
| Now they're selling 10,000 under sticker on some models. | ||
| And so it's, it's, it's bad and getting worse, which encourages me for November. | ||
| Real quick before we dive into the other stuff, Spencer, I wanna get your take on this. | ||
| But yes, it's not really about age, it's about your functioning at a certain age. | ||
| I saw Frankie Valli at the Hard Rock Hollywood two months ago, 89 years old, two and a half hour concert, no intermission. | ||
| I would rather have him be president than Joe Biden. | ||
| But Spencer, they're just going with this thing, right? | ||
| It's too late, it's too late. | ||
| Short of him falling up the stairs at this point, it's too late. | ||
| Oh, past the point of no return. | ||
| And also, by the way, we are so far past the point where it would be impolite to talk about this or observe it. | ||
| I feel bad for the guy. | ||
| It's a form of elder abuse. | ||
| We all get it. | ||
| But as you both rightly point out, he is the president of the United States. | ||
| Just that he's whatever age. | ||
| Age ain't nothing but a number. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Joe Biden has always been a bit of a spiteful doofus. | ||
| So it's not as if he was whip smart to begin with. | ||
| But this job ages even the youngest people. | ||
| I mean, look at what happened to Obama. | ||
| It's as if you put him into the DeLorean and like rocketed him forward 80 years or something. | ||
| So to have started from the place that Joe Biden started and now to be doddering your way into just complete incoherence. | ||
| Like, it's not ageism, it's just simple pragmatism, practicality. | ||
| Trump's getting up there, too, but the difference between them is night and day, and I don't think they can hide it. | ||
| I also think they're totally up a creek, because yeah, it's too late to pull out the hook. | ||
| And as John points out, we've got a lot of problems, people, so that'll get us to the first story, because in case you haven't heard, this week, half of our college campuses went full Hamas. | ||
| I kind of saw it coming. | ||
| A bunch of us were warning about this, but the woke thing has burst forth into what it really was, | ||
| which is now, I think, basically an Islamist revolution. | ||
| Here on CNN, Jonah Goldberg, who is the, I suppose you can call him the conservative of CNN, | ||
| here he is trying to explain that to a woman that is a little bit confused. | ||
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Look, I think the antisemitism stuff, particularly Passover, is a big issue. | |
| It's a legitimate issue to talk about. | ||
| It's a serious issue. | ||
| And I think there's a lot of anti-Semitic stuff going on out there. | ||
| But when you're saying you're Hamas, when you're praising Hamas, when you're praising Hezbollah, when you're saying you're going to globalize the Intifada, Excuse me, I'm so sorry. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| No, I'm sorry, but... I'm going to finish my point. | ||
| It means you're pro-terrorist. | ||
| If you were celebrating Hamas, you're pro-terrorist. | ||
| I'm not disputing that. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| Yeah, but what I'm saying is there are selective quotes that are being taken, often not from students themselves. | ||
| In the encampments in Colombia, they have said this. | ||
| There are Jewish students who are actually part of this. | ||
| And they are being used to say... Wait, let me... You didn't let me finish my point. | ||
| No, that's true. | ||
| I am, many people have said that the action of bringing police into a group of people who are already feeling that they are sort of representative of the oppressed, who are inspired by what happened with George Floyd in 2020, and seeing what is happening in Gaza, that that has only really acted as a catalyst here. | ||
| And so I wonder at the wisdom of bringing in the armed police into what is essentially a university campus. | ||
| No one's endorsing that! | ||
| I question the wisdom of having a double standard that says it's okay to shout hateful terror, | ||
| pro-terrorist things at Jews, but you can't, you have to have total... | ||
| No one is endorsing that. | ||
| A lot of people are endorsing that. | ||
| A lot of people aren't condemning it. | ||
| No one here. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of people aren't condemning it, and I agree with you. | ||
| Universities and the Democratic Party on the left have a huge problem trying to figure | ||
| out how to cut this Gordian knot that they've created for themselves. | ||
| But that doesn't mean I have to sort of condone or not call out. | ||
| I spent, I got a lot of scars from calling out horrible statements on the right over the last ten years. | ||
| I call out anti-Semitism and bigotry all the time on the right. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| I don't hear a lot of that from sort of squad adjacent type people calling out this stuff on the left. | ||
| First off, I'm not a huge Jonah Goldberg guy, but I'll give a guy that's playing the part of the conservative on CNN a little credit for making some sense there. | ||
| The woman he's talking to, Lulu Garcia Navarro, seems very, very confused because yes, Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations. | ||
| They're calling for river to the sea, but they don't know which river and which sea and everything else. | ||
| But John, I suppose having a pundit on CNN like her who is running cover for all of this and at the end when she's like, oh, well, no one on this panel is saying anything like that. | ||
| It's like, we're not talking about the people on the panel, lady. | ||
| We're talking about the hundreds of kids out there calling for genocide. | ||
| Yeah, look, the church of leftism loves to trot out St. | ||
| Floyd of fentanyl, right? | ||
| That's their now default martyr. | ||
| I don't know what he has to do with anything there, so the woman is clearly a moron, right? | ||
| She reminds me of the video yesterday, the day before, those two NYU, the girls at NYU, who didn't know why they were protesting or what they were protesting. | ||
| But the real issue here, the crux of her argument was you don't send armed police onto college campuses. | ||
| Why? | ||
| USC did it very effectively. | ||
| I was shocked to see how the police at USC were handling it, and they were handling it exactly the way they should have handled it. | ||
| You know, Dave, let me tell you what bothers me about this when they talk about the police, or I haven't been there. | ||
| NYPD is now a 179-year-old agency. | ||
| It was founded in 1845. | ||
| Largest police department in the world. | ||
| In fact, it's larger than the armies of 70 nations. | ||
| Let that sink in, right? | ||
| The NYPD literally wrote the book on disorder control. | ||
| There was a chief back in the 90s, a guy named Louis Anamone. | ||
| He was the world, the global authority on disorder control. | ||
| I worked for the guy. | ||
| He really knew what he was doing. | ||
| It's one of the only agencies on the planet, and I'm going somewhere with this, with a dedicated riot squad. | ||
| It used to be called Task Force, then it was Disorder Control Unit. | ||
| Now you'll see if you're in New York, SRG, Strategic Response Group. | ||
| All these people do is train for disorder. | ||
| They are the best in the world. | ||
| Thousands of years of collective experience because of the size of the agency, they're not able to do their job. | ||
| I used to be, I wasn't in that unit, but we would back them up. | ||
| I used to be there on riots in the city. | ||
| They could put these protests down in 15 minutes so that Jewish students and others don't have to be in fear of their lives and safety walking to class at Columbia and NYU. | ||
| Eric Adams is tying their hands, and I can't stand that guy. | ||
| I knew him when he was a cop. | ||
| He's a liar. | ||
| I'm going to come right out on your show and say it. | ||
| He's a disgraceful liar. | ||
| He says one thing to the cameras, but the police commissioner controls the NYPD. | ||
| Always have. | ||
| Eric Adams is the one holding these cops back. | ||
| Eric Adams is the one allowing these terrorists. | ||
| And Dave, one last point, and then I'll toss it over to you guys. | ||
| We would never have tolerated this if these people were cheering for Al-Qaeda after 9-11 or for ISIS in 08-09-10-11. | ||
| We would never have put up with this. | ||
| Or Donald Trump three years ago. | ||
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Right. | |
| Imagine if they were wearing MAGA hats. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| This is the same thing. | ||
| We are allowing terrorists to recruit and fundraise. | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| This is pro-terror propaganda. | ||
| And it's actual terror when students are in fear of their lives. | ||
| John, you gave me a couple points I want to jump off of. | ||
| You know, you mentioned SRG. | ||
| AOC has a tweet out yesterday calling them, I don't want to misquote her, but it's something to the effect of the most violent branch of the NYPD or something to that effect. | ||
| Spencer, there's a whole A bunch of stuff here. | ||
| I mean, first off, we don't know how many of these protesters are actually students. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| And it's becoming clearer and clearer that there are agitators involved in Antifa, and this is just sort of BLM with its mask ripped off, which is ironic because they're all wearing masks. | ||
| But what should Colombia do? | ||
| Let's say we could just rewind, I don't know, six days ago, when it was just starting. | ||
| Is there something Colombia should have done that perhaps wouldn't have got us to this point? | ||
| Man, Dave, I wish six days were far enough back to rewind. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You know, if only somebody had warned the board of the Face Eating Leopard Society. | ||
| That one day the leopards would eat their faces. | ||
| If only there were people say on the Dave Rubin show or throughout conservative media and even centrist media to some extent saying again and again that if you harbor this garbage in the supposedly most elite institutions of thought in the country eventually it's going to spill out onto the streets eventually it's going to burn you because that's what venom does. | ||
| You know back on October 7th when the first Dreadful attack happened people these same guys were out in the streets saying this is what decolonization Looks like yeah in other words this sort of highfalutin pomo theory deconstructionist which by the way is not limited to Jew hatred although it certainly fixates on Jews, but it also extends to a | ||
| America is the evil, racist, colonialist empire that it is. | ||
| All of this highfalutin, pomo theory that these professors were sort of bandying | ||
| about in class as if words didn't mean anything, as if scholarship is just a game, as if the whole | ||
| thing is a kind of a made-up enterprise, this stuff means something. | ||
| This is what Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth was writing about decades ago. | ||
| And people on the right and even, you know, more more centrist people have been warning and warning that it's not a game. | ||
| It's not a toy. | ||
| I mean, I come from these universities. | ||
| I'm a creature and a swamp creature in some ways of these prestigious institutions. | ||
| But I went there because I was looking for wisdom and because scholarship is precious to me. | ||
| I take it intensely seriously. | ||
| And so in some sense, I found this, when I went to these schools, | ||
| to be a terrible betrayal of what you're supposed to be doing in these institutions. | ||
| I don't know what they can do, honestly, at this point, but I know that what we should do | ||
| is instantly threaten divestment, to take public funds out of these schools. | ||
| I mean, at this point, they ought to be selling the furniture, as far as I'm concerned, | ||
| unless they seriously salt the earth. | ||
| And the problem, although some people have started to pull back money and that sort of thing, | ||
| they don't have the proper administrators anymore. | ||
| They certainly don't have the proper faculty. | ||
| There are no adults, so the inmates are running the asylum. | ||
| I want to show you guys this clip from CBS. | ||
| This is Nancy Chen on CBS, and listen to how she frames What's going on there? | ||
| And try to note whether you think this would be a little bit different if say these were MAGA supporters, Trump supporters, I don't know just general white people, something like that. | ||
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Outside of Columbia University's campus, demonstrators continue to rally. | |
| After the school's administration warned students on campus to dismantle their camps or face consequences, some are seen breaking them down, while others remain defiant. | ||
| From coast to coast, California to Massachusetts, demonstrations expressing anger over Israel's bombardment of Gaza. | ||
| At NYU, plywood barricades were erected yesterday around a campus plaza. | ||
| After unruly demonstrations Monday night, 120 people were arrested. | ||
| New York City Mayor Eric Adams blamed the unrest on outside agitators. | ||
| People who peacefully protest for an issue, they're not throwing bottles in chairs. | ||
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Earlier in the day at Columbia, protesters reiterated their demands, including an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. | |
| And one of the most crucial components, cutting off any financial interest connected to Israel. | ||
| Our first demand is complete divestment from anything related to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide. | ||
| The words apartheid and genocide are loaded, but the idea of divestment is a refrain echoed over and over by protesters we spoke to on campus. | ||
| Financial divestment, financial transparency. | ||
| It's financial divestment from any companies that profit off of Israeli apartheid. | ||
| John, let me word this properly. | ||
| I've really had it with these genderqueer retards. | ||
| Like, we are being held hostage. | ||
| And the way that that coverage just ran cover for these people as they are calling for genocide. | ||
| And you know, it's interesting that you mentioned Eric Adams before, but it's like, dude, you created this and now it's on your head. | ||
| I mean, what are they going to do here? | ||
| You can't just take over a university. | ||
| Forget the issue for a second. | ||
| You can't just take over a university and not let people go to class, which by the way, now they've ended all classes for the semester and the whole Columbia, the rest of the semester will be done online. | ||
| It's out of control, right? | ||
| CBS should be investigated by the SEC. | ||
| Are they shorting stocks? | ||
| That was a BDS propaganda piece. | ||
| It feels like material support. | ||
| Yeah, it's material support for terrorism. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| You know, you want to like go out and buy a Templar Cross t-shirt when you watch these morons. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| And they're sitting there and half of them, my favorite, are like the green haired, you know, fat lesbians who would be the first ones shot dead in Gaza. | ||
| The black dudes with the dreadlocks who would be kicked out because if you've ever been to the Middle East in the Arab world, you see how they treat blacks there. | ||
| I mean, it's so preposterous. | ||
| The collective idiocy. | ||
| Of these groups. | ||
| Now, there are people in those groups, absolutely, and I believe a good majority now, who fully know what they're doing, who fully know that it's about terror, and who want to continue to rape and kill Israeli children, Jewish children, and Christian children for that matter, right? | ||
| That's my biggest fear is a low-tech asymmetrical attack. | ||
| One of these lunatics outside an elementary school with a rifle just shooting kids and moms as they drop them off or pick them up. | ||
| And I don't think we're taking those low-tech threats serious enough. | ||
| It's very difficult to intercept. | ||
| But you know that these people are pro-terror. | ||
| They're wrapping those keffiyehs around their faces. | ||
| They're purposefully trying to look like murderous terrorists. | ||
| It's time to start treating them like that. | ||
| Spencer, before I throw you in, let me show you a couple, about 30 seconds of how these protests are spreading | ||
| to other universities. | ||
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| It's good, so good. | ||
| It's good. | ||
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| Hey! | ||
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| All right, I said 30 seconds. | ||
| We played a slightly longer version because I wanted people to see how obviously coordinated this is. | ||
| The amount of people with cameras, as John pointed out, they are wearing these masks intentionally so they can't be seen. | ||
| They are handing out leaflets that talk about how they should link arms so that they can't be arrested. | ||
| Spencer, how did you not get infected? | ||
| How did you not get infected? | ||
| And what would you be doing and your friends if you were at one of these schools right now? | ||
| How do you know this isn't the long con, Dave? | ||
| Maybe I'm a secret covert operative. | ||
| You're going to rip the mask off now. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| The gears and diodes are churning behind my face right now, just trying to figure out a way out of short circuiting. | ||
| No, I mean, look, what I would like is for somebody on the, in the administration at Columbia or Yale or any of these places to look at a video like that and explain to me and to the American How it is that letting slaughter-hungry commie babies run riot on Harvard Yard is part of the great American enterprise of education, free speech, whatever. | ||
| In what way does this correspond to anything that looks like training America's youth to enter the best and the brightest institutions, unless what you plan to do is infiltrate those institutions with screaming mobs of slaughter-hungry commie babies. | ||
| And I do think, as you guys are saying, that this is a very coordinated effort on the part of the American far left, which is highly sophisticated tactically and has written books upon books about how to organize not just for this particular cause, although they are fixated on BDS with an almost diabolical | ||
| passion and fervor, but for any current thing that they can make use of to tear | ||
| down the walls of any American institution they can get their hands on. | ||
| I mean, it is a profoundly destructive and intentionally destructive movement that, in | ||
| the end of the day, isn't really about anything it says it is. | ||
| It's about hatred of America, of Israel, of Jews, of white people, of really any number | ||
| of things that they're out there now basically nakedly advocating to destroy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We went very quickly in the last week to suddenly chants for death to America. | ||
| And that's where this is going. | ||
| I keep saying on this show, you don't have to care about Jews or about Israel. | ||
| But if they take out Israel, do you think that they're just going to be like, all right, guys, let's go home. | ||
| We did it. | ||
| No. | ||
| Then it's game on for everybody else in the West. | ||
| John, can you quickly talk about, because I know you have a lot of friends still, obviously, in the NYPD, and I have great sympathy for them. | ||
| The idea that you would put on that uniform every day, not have the backing of your administration, be basically handcuffed when it comes to proper policing, as you talked about earlier, and in that video where, I don't think it was in New York, I think it was Harvard, where you see an officer consistently getting pushed, and he's just trying to push back with his hands. | ||
| That just doesn't last. | ||
| That can't hold. | ||
| No, I can't. | ||
| Look, anybody who can leave those agencies, they're leaving. | ||
| If they can retire, if they're finding jobs at other agencies, sheriff's offices here in Florida that don't operate this way, you know, Texas, they're leaving. | ||
| But it's incredibly frustrating and it's leading to, you know, Dave, it doesn't only lead to bad optics. | ||
| Right. | ||
| What it's also doing is it's sending a message to the single mom sitting on the bus stop going to her second job across the street from this idiocy that the police are not allowed to protect her. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They're watching these bad guys be set free. | ||
| They're watching police officers essentially be physically abused by terrorists. | ||
| And they're all forced to stand down by these leftist administrations in these cities. | ||
| And the damage it does, the psychological damage it does to the public, in terms of public safety, is devastating and nearly impossible to recover from. | ||
| And it also emboldens all the other bad guys out there, the rapists, the robbers, the muggers, the burglars, the murderers. | ||
| And it's a really dangerous condition and precedent that's being set. | ||
| And then just imagine if you're just the average person who gets on the subway after one of these things, and then you're in a subway car with 30 of these lunatics while they're still chanting for genocide and everything else. | ||
| Mike Johnson has called for the resignation of the President of Colombia. | ||
| Let's take a look at that. | ||
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I'm here today joining my colleagues and calling on President Shafiq to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos. | |
| I have a message, President Shafik, and a message for you all, too. | ||
| The inmates are running the asylum. | ||
| Take back control of this once great institution. | ||
| You took action last week. | ||
| It's time to act again. | ||
| If not, the committee will pursue every possible avenue to create a safe learning environment for Jewish students. | ||
| Again, I hate the idea that this keeps being framed around Jewish students, because there are thousands and thousands of other students who go to Columbia who just want an education. | ||
| I don't think that these Hamas supporters are the bulk of them, but those are the ones also, and it has nothing to do with religion, who are no longer going to class. | ||
| Spencer, do you think it even matters? | ||
| So, okay, so they replace this woman. | ||
| All right, let's say they replace her while we're talking right now. | ||
| Does it matter? | ||
| Well, I'm glad to hear Congress people really taking a hard line on this. | ||
| But yeah, I hope they're not laboring under the pleasant delusion that Shafiq or any of these other people represents an actual individual with thoughts that would be changed if somebody else were put in that The Borg is very good at just cycling out members and the entire structure is what's really at issue here. | ||
| So unfortunately, I'm not sure that it entirely would matter. | ||
| And what you said about Israel is really important. | ||
| You know, two things can be true at once. | ||
| These can be the most vile, anti-Semitic and passionate racists we've really seen in a while in public in American life. | ||
| And at the same time, Israel can be just a stand in, a first step for them for America. | ||
| And that is exactly the way that they talk about it explicitly. | ||
| It always has been going back again, decades to the wretched of the earth and all of these sort of, you know, new left arguments that Israel is the sort of settler colonialist state. | ||
| par excellence, except, oh, wait, you know what they really think is a settler colonialist empire, the United States of | ||
| America. And so if they can get it to seem as if there's a wide | ||
| support for that idea, I agree with you that this real support | ||
| among actual people is actually quite low. But if they can create the impression that that's a going concern, then | ||
| it's reparations, then it's as you know, I think it was Cori Bush, who said, you know, it's Juneteenth and reparations | ||
| and, you know, all of these other far left, you know, Green New | ||
| Deal. | ||
| It's all wrapped up into one very effectively, and it won't stop at Israel. | ||
| Right, and by the way, once you say to any group of people, oh, whatever your grievance is, you know, beheading people is okay and raping people and killing people, that's okay. | ||
| Well, everyone has their grievance. | ||
| So there will be some group here in America that will have their grievance and be like, oh, well, we got the green light on this. | ||
| I want to do one more thing on this and move to some other stuff. | ||
| Here is wizard over at the White House, Corinne Jean-Pierre, it's a little compilation of her explaining what's going on over the last couple of days. | ||
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Thanks, Karine. | |
| The House Speaker is heading to Columbia today. | ||
| He's calling on the President of Columbia to resign. | ||
| Does the President share that view? | ||
| And what does he think of the way that the administration at Columbia has been handling this? | ||
| So, I'm going to be really mindful. | ||
| Columbia is a private institution. | ||
| We're not, we, I mean, we've been very consistent here about not commenting on personnel matters. | ||
| that's something for Columbia University, obviously the board, to speak to and the | ||
| president, right, to make that decision. | ||
| So personal reaction to what he's seeing playing out on these college campuses. | ||
| What would be his message to those who are peacefully, peacefully protesting? | ||
| Um, you know, those who are targeted, you know, all sides. | ||
| I think the President's been very clear. | ||
| He's put out, he put out a statement in his Passover statement. | ||
| He talked about the, it is, we can't be silent here. | ||
| Silent is complicit. | ||
| And we can't allow that. | ||
| We believe in First Amendment rights, right? | ||
| We believe in people being able to express themselves in a peaceful manner. | ||
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Are seeing some of these on-campus protests really heightened I mean, look, I can't speak to what's going on on the ground. | |
| not just at Columbia, but at public universities, UT Austin, USC in California. | ||
| Is there any concern about how law enforcement is handling these protesters? | ||
| I mean, look, I can't speak to what's going on on the ground. | ||
| I know what UT, what happened is just happening now, happening today. | ||
| So I have no idea on how that's being dealt on the ground. | ||
| All right, I get it. | ||
| She just strings together words. | ||
| Nobody's really paying attention to her or listening to her. | ||
| Mostly, I wanted to show you that because her nipples were showing. | ||
| Did you guys both notice that? | ||
| It's like, lady, put on a bra, for God's sakes. | ||
| But I guess she's newly divorced, and she's out there looking for a chick. | ||
| So who knows? | ||
| John, I just want to drive- I haven't even seen that. | ||
| Dave, you're the worst gay man ever. | ||
| I feel like I totally lost that. | ||
| My monitor, the monitor that I look into for the show has high contrast and somehow the nipples seem very prevalent. | ||
| Anyway, John, speaking of nipples, no, John, can you just reiterate again, the way they're running cover for these people, what do you think she would be up there saying, sarcasm aside, what do you think she would be up there saying if these were MAGA supporters taking over these universities? | ||
| Oh, we would have heard the terms DOJ and FBI quite a bit and active investigation and thorough investigation and, you know, that they're going to work tirelessly to bring these people to justice. | ||
| It would have been not only an entirely different press conference and set of talking points, but the proactivity would have been incredibly different. | ||
| Merrick Garland would probably have been up there. | ||
| We don't have a comment. | ||
| It's a private institution. | ||
| would have been brought in to talk about what they're doing and how they're going to shut | ||
| down these white supremacist, neo-Nazi, nationalist, Christian nationalists, right? | ||
| But it's okay to be a Hamas terrorist and threatening people's lives and safety. | ||
| And no, we don't have a comment. | ||
| It's a private institution. | ||
| We're not going to talk about it. | ||
| The president was clear in his embarrassingly tepid Passover statement. | ||
| I mean, give me a break with these people. | ||
| They should just come out and make the bias. | ||
| We see it. | ||
| They're making it clear. | ||
| Just be intellectually honest about it and say what you want to say. | ||
| We support terrorism. | ||
| We hate Israel. | ||
| And we want to steal your money and give it to Ukraine and Iran. | ||
| Hoping that I ramble fund more of this and that the wars will continue so Lloyd Austin's buddies in the defense industry get even richer. | ||
| I mean at the end of the day, this is not a hard money trail to follow and an ideal to follow. | ||
| We know how they all think, right? | ||
| And that nothing about that is conspiratorial. | ||
| I think I told you offline the only companies that are being paid Out of Ukraine, funny, I don't wanna go, are these, are the big defense contractors. | ||
| Same with this, right? | ||
| We give Iran all this money, and what do they do with that money? | ||
| They fund Hamas, they fund Hezbollah, they funded 170, 170 attacks on our troops in the last five months around the world. | ||
| Iranian IRGC or IRGC surrogates are attacking our troops. | ||
| This is all Iranian funded. | ||
| Obama gave them that big tranche of cash. | ||
| They know this, and they will keep giving Iran money. | ||
| These people in the White House are enemies of the state. | ||
| And by the way, speaking of the money trail, I saw a stat this morning that Qatar has given over $3 billion to our universities in the last couple of years. | ||
| So if you wonder why these kids are learning about decolonization and everything else and then think that America is fundamentally evil. | ||
| Spencer, let me give you the last word on this and then we'll shift to something else. | ||
| But I've sort of come to the position in a weird way that we should just let these, like, I see no turnaround on this. | ||
| Let them have Columbia, let them have these places, and good people and good students will go to other universities. | ||
| Brandeis University put out a statement yesterday saying, hey, if you go to Columbia or one of these schools and you don't want to be there anymore, we will take you. | ||
| And then we'll just have a great sorting, the same way we've had a red-blue sorting in America. | ||
| And I kind of think that's okay. | ||
| We may have reached that point and it pains me to say it because I have a sort of native affection for a lot of these places and I think the idea is beautiful but ultimately if you have all the gothic buildings and in the world but what you stand for is this venomous hatred, then real learning, real scholarship, real search | ||
| for wisdom has to go elsewhere. | ||
| And I think you're already starting to see that with the University of Texas in Austin and, | ||
| you know, New College Florida and some of these efforts that conservatives are making. | ||
| John, isn't it good to be young? | ||
| I still hold out a little hope for reform, especially with political pressure | ||
| on some of these institutions, but it's a glimmering. | ||
| It's good being young, isn't it? | ||
| John, isn't it good to be young? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, I wish I was that, yeah. | ||
| I wish I was that idealistic still. | ||
| I'm officially past hope. | ||
| I think that's where I'm at in my career at this point. | ||
| All right, let's hit a couple other things that I wanted to get to this week. | ||
| Yes, I'm going to mention Anthony Fauci, who we haven't talked about in a couple weeks, but somehow he's making the rounds again. | ||
| You would think the guy would be hiding in a cave for the rest of his life, but he's taken that 400K a year retirement money and he's still out there making media rounds. | ||
| And now he's blaming RFK because many of us have woken up to the BS that he put on top of us. | ||
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Because of the anti-science, anti-vax approach that we see related to COVID, the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | |
| approach about vaccine, that it's spilling over now into vaccines of any type. | ||
| Our politicians who attack our scientists call us either misleading or flip-floppers. | ||
| So there really is a big anti-science feeling among several of elected officials in the United States. | ||
| John, I'm not anti-science, but I am anti-Fauci. | ||
| I am not vaxxed. | ||
| That guy right here is not vaxxed. | ||
| This guy is not vaxxed. | ||
| I know plenty of people who now regret getting vaxxed. | ||
| I know several people who have vaccine injuries, two of them quite severe, and that he dare gets up there and still conflates this issue around vaccines and then the belief in science. | ||
| It's like, man, the gall of this mother... You got it. | ||
| Yeah, listen, I mean, he's the most, he's just an arrogant little elf, that guy. | ||
| He's just horrible. | ||
| You know, a physician friend of mine, when all this Vax stuff started, Taking hold and they were trying mandates, etc. | ||
| He said to me, don't do it. | ||
| And I said, I wasn't going to do it anyway. | ||
| He said, because there is no substitute in a double blind study for the variable of time. | ||
| We have no idea. | ||
| He's a neurologist and he's an incredibly talented guy, one of the most brilliant guys I know. | ||
| And he kept saying that to everybody. | ||
| There is no substitute for the variable of time in testing. | ||
| And he was proven right. | ||
| He was proven right. | ||
| Many others were proven right. | ||
| But a guy like Fauci being a bureaucrat at that level for so long and being celebrated around the world has a God complex. | ||
| And Fauci, what this is really about, this isn't about science. | ||
| This is about, I'm Anthony Fauci. | ||
| I've always called the shots. | ||
| How dare you doubt me and question me because I'm right even if I'm wrong. | ||
| I mean, his arrogance killed people. | ||
| His arrogance put Biden in the White House. | ||
| Because I say this and I get flamed for it, Trump essentially abdicated his presidency to Fauci, put him in the driver's seat. | ||
| And that man's arrogance killed people. | ||
| That man's arrogance put people on ventilators in nursing homes and in hospitals that they never got off of those vents and they died drowning, you know, their own lungs filling with fluid and drowning on those vents. | ||
| I mean, he should be, Fauci should die in prison, not be making the rounds criticizing others. | ||
| Well, you're actually giving me a perfect segue to the next clip. | ||
| So this is RFK Jr. | ||
| now on my buddy Glenn Beck's show and talking about what should happen to Fauci. | ||
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| Well, he's not in jail because Joe Biden is president and because, you know, unfortunately, Donald Trump colluded with or was, you know, run over by him. | ||
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Right. | |
| Donald Trump knew what was wrong. | ||
| He knew not to shut down our businesses. | ||
| And he knew about, you know, he knew about lockdowns. | ||
| He knew about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. | ||
| And yet, And he said it, he tried to speak up, but his own bureaucrats told him to shut up, and he unfortunately did what he was told. | ||
| And that's, you know, why I think that he doesn't deserve another chance. | ||
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And you may defend him on that, but... I don't defend him on the vaccine or any of it. | |
| I think you could make the case early on, everybody was... | ||
| I try to believe, except for Fauci, I try to believe that everybody had good intent, doing what they thought was right, and then it just started dogpiling, and then it became, I don't even know, Communist China. | ||
| It just, it became a country that I didn't recognize, and no one was willing to stop it. | ||
| I'm going to have to text Glenn because I hope with that scarf he's not on his way to a Hamas rally after this. | ||
| Spencer, the reason I wanted to show you that clip was because I suspect that all three of us are going to vote for Donald Trump, but he did get run over by Fauci and these guys. | ||
| And really, do you think he will have learned anything? | ||
| Because I just have no doubt whether it's COVID-2 or disease X or An EMP or a nuke or whatever that the system, if Trump becomes president, will throw something else at him. | ||
| And the real question about a future presidency will be, did he learn the proper lessons? | ||
| It was, I think I'm comfortable saying, the single most catastrophic decision of his presidency. | ||
| And it was a swerve to the left when he should have swerved right. | ||
| Glenn is right that we were all a little bit caught in the headlights and Trump was under insane pressure. | ||
| I think that he probably will learn from that experience not to blink in similar situations. | ||
| I hope so. | ||
| I just want to know what Sin we have committed as a nation to be afflicted with Anthony Fauci. | ||
| It's like, I'm going to take this to the Lord in prayer. | ||
| How long, oh Lord, how long will we continue to suffer under the snide ministrations of this disgrace of a man? | ||
| And, you know, the fact that he lied about masks, the fact that he lied about what the vaccine could do, the fact that he lied about herd immunity, the fact that he said in the New York Times that he lied about it and sort of laughed it off, All of that is galling enough, but that he then sits up there and laments the fact that people are losing trust in science and they're losing trust in vaccines more generally and all of these things, which I agree are actually not something you want to lose public trust in. | ||
| Whose fault is that? | ||
| Why did that happen? | ||
| Did people just wake up one day and decide to become crypto-fascists and hate vaccines? | ||
| Nobody was trying to bring this issue up. | ||
| Fauci is the single culprit who has created the situation in which people hear scientists say, oh, we believe this or that. | ||
| And now we just shrug it off, and we ought to. | ||
| So I'm glad that we've learned that lesson. | ||
| I'm glad that people have become more skeptical. | ||
| I do agree with you that Trump has to consider profoundly what he did in that moment. | ||
| And I think he will. | ||
| I trust him to I think seriously about this stuff more than I do Joe Biden, so it's really an obvious choice in 2024. | ||
| But man, what act of expiation, what animal can we sacrifice to get Anthony Fauci out of our lives? | ||
| That's what I would like to know. | ||
| Right, the one that I always point to more than anything else, even though there's so many incidents of hypocrisy and lying and everything else, is that in May of 2020, a friend of his emailed him to ask if they should wear masks while on vacation, and he said masks don't work. | ||
| in May of 2020 and then he continued to push for masks and lockdowns and everything else. | ||
| I want to end with one other story and this is this one is just it's a chef's kiss beauty of a wonderful happy ending story because somebody broke into the house of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. | ||
| Before we get to that story though I'd like to show you video of Karen Bass a year ago as she was talking about emptying out the prisons in LA. | ||
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I mean, it's really an embarrassment on our country that we have more people locked up in the United States than any place in the world. | |
| And if you look at the many, many, many people who are locked up, they're locked up because they're poor, because they can't afford bail, or they can't afford proper legal defense. | ||
| If you dealt with the poverty aspect, you could probably reduce the population by 50% with that alone. | ||
| You know, why are people incarcerated just because they can't All right, so her goal was to reduce the prison population by 50%. | ||
| She let out all sorts of criminals in L.A., and then this. | ||
| It's the beauty, guys, from the New York Post. | ||
| A suspect was arrested after breaking into Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' home early Sunday morning. | ||
| The LAPD said at about 6.40 a.m., an individual smashed a window to break into Getty House while people were inside. | ||
| Getty House is Bass' official home. | ||
| And is located on South Irving Boulevard in Windsor Square, nearly five miles west of Los Angeles City Hall. | ||
| When officers arrived, they apprehended the suspect without incident. | ||
| The incident comes as crime continues to rise amid the L.A. | ||
| District Attorney's soft-on-crime approach to court cases. | ||
| L.A. | ||
| District Attorney George Gascon barred prosecutors from pursuing advanced punishments for gang members. | ||
| As the country's top prosecutor, Gascon also enacted a series of criminal justice directives since taking office in 2020 that have drawn scorn from opponents and many in law enforcement, such as barring prosecutors from attending parole hearings, prompting zero cash bail, and efforts to end the prosecution of juveniles as adults, even for violent crimes. | ||
| John, this is right up your alley. | ||
| I should note that George Gascon was the D.A. | ||
| of San Francisco, the Soros-backed D.A. | ||
| of San Francisco, who destroyed San Francisco, and then what happens? | ||
| Spencer, you mentioned the progressive Borg before. | ||
| Well, then they just move you elsewhere, where you get to, like a cockroach, destroy the next place. | ||
| All of these policies, John, none of this is going to work, and this is kind of a funny story, and no one got hurt, so it's okay, but it's kind of funny, right? | ||
| Like, lady, it literally, the bad guy's in the house, literally. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, San Francisco D.A.' 's office is a breeding ground for lunatics. | ||
| Kamala was San Francisco D.A. | ||
| Chesa Bowden, who God be called, he was his parents' cop killers. | ||
| Cop killers! | ||
| They elected this guy D.A. | ||
| But, you know, what strikes me about this is that Getty House, being the official mayor's residence, has an LAPD detail. | ||
| This is how brazen criminals are in L.A. | ||
| They're not afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department. | ||
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| Every, every large city mayor has a detail. | ||
| Presidents, it's just, it's just been standard operating procedure for decades now. | ||
| They know they're not going to get prosecuted. | ||
| Burglary is a non-violent offense. | ||
| At the best, they may grab something of value. | ||
| At the absolute worst, they're going to roll before a judge who's going to ROR them, release them on their own recognizance in a couple hours because she's got a mandate to keep the jails clear. | ||
| If you're a bad guy, why wouldn't you do this? | ||
| And her point about poverty and crime, yeah, sociologists, criminologists, we know that. | ||
| But you got a lot of rich drug dealers in prison too, I mean, who are pretty violent. | ||
| So that's not The only reason. | ||
| But in this scenario, when your prosecutors won't prosecute, and you and I have spoken about this offline, Dave, then your police don't make arrests because they can't justify spending the overtime because they're going to get hit very hard by the city council commission, right? | ||
| That's what's happening here. | ||
| So these bad guys don't care if the mayor's residence, if it's a Spencer, the reason I showed you the video clip from a year ago first is because the line, we're going to cut the prison population in half, is just like the perfect progressive line. | ||
| Spencer, the reason I showed you the video clip from a year ago first is because the line, "We're going to cut the | ||
| prison population in half," is just like the perfect progressive line. | ||
| It kind of sounds right in a way, like if you want to, if you think too many people are in prison or it's somehow | ||
| affecting black and brown people, it's sort of... | ||
| But it just means nothing. | ||
| It's just meaningless. | ||
| Wouldn't you have to look at the records of all the people? | ||
| You can't just imaginarily come up with a number, a percentage, to just let people out. | ||
| Or I guess you can if you live in LA. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I mean, I'm going to cut the budget deficit in half tomorrow. | ||
| Why not? | ||
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| It's all just words. | ||
| Well, that I'd be for. | ||
| Yeah, well, me too. | ||
| I wish that I could wave a magic wand and cause things to come into being simply by saying them. | ||
| And I wish that we all lived in, you know, the big rock candy mountain. | ||
| And if I could just describe perfect fairyland. | ||
| I mean, that is how progressive policies work. | ||
| But you make apocalyptic policies. | ||
| You have to live in an apocalyptic world. | ||
| And I don't want anybody to get robbed. | ||
| That's why I don't think you should just empty out The prisons. | ||
| But yeah, it's again, much like Joe Biden's age. | ||
| The irony here is just too obvious not to notice. | ||
| I doubt very much that it will make a dent. | ||
| You and I are both, Dave, refugees from Los Angeles. | ||
| We held out as long as we could. | ||
| But these things have consequences. | ||
| And it's not until the very sort of last redoubts of affluent white liberal holdover suddenly start to feel the apocalypse zombies kind of encroaching around the edges. | ||
| They start to say, hmm, maybe that was a bad idea. | ||
| But by then it's too late. | ||
| Yeah, John, let me give you a final word for today. | ||
| I mean, to that point, I mean, what does rock bottom for some of these places? | ||
| We all still know holdouts in L.A. | ||
| and they're not happy and they keep saying it's worse. | ||
| And all they do when you go to their houses or talk to them on the phone is complain about how much worse it's gotten. | ||
| That's, of course, not just L.A., it's Portland. | ||
| Yeah, it's Baltimore and Detroit, right? | ||
| I mean, look at those cities and what happened to those. | ||
| But San Francisco is fast approaching. | ||
| that would cause a reversal, sort of like in New York City, where we both lived when then Giuliani came in and fixed it. | ||
| I just don't know that that rock bottom exists anymore. | ||
| Yeah, it's Baltimore and Detroit, right? | ||
| I mean, look at those cities and what happened to those. | ||
| But San Francisco is fast approaching. | ||
| You're watching these major companies pull out of their leases. | ||
| They're paying big penalties just not to operate there anymore. | ||
| I think San Francisco might be California's wake-up call before LA because San Francisco is a smaller city by population. | ||
| It's in far worse shape. | ||
| The degradation is further along. | ||
| But again, all you have to do is look to Baltimore and Detroit to see just how bad things can get. | ||
| Those were once very prosperous cities, right? | ||
| Two of the most affluent cities by population in the world back in the 1940s, 50s, 60s. | ||
| Now they're just crime-ridden ghost towns where you can buy a house | ||
| for the price of an old VCR. | ||
| Yeah, literally. | ||
| They're literally, you can buy a house for $25 if you agree to maintain it. | ||
| In some cases, they'll give you the home for free. | ||
| And so I think look to those cities as a harbinger of what's to come. | ||
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| Gentlemen, I thank you. | ||
| I will see you guys soon. | ||
| And for everybody else, we've got a post-game show at rubinreport.locals.com in about 30 seconds. | ||
| Part two of my interview with Pete Boghossian is up across platforms. | ||
| Full Thing is up absolutely ad-free on Locals right now. | ||
| People of the Internet, at 1 p.m., goodbye. | ||
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Don't put yourself down. | |
| Put yourself down, huh? | ||
| We didn't put you back up. | ||
| You're a buddy. | ||
| You're being always down and ups. | ||
| That's why we live in this world. | ||
| Ups and downs. | ||
| And that's what I am. | ||
| I am just being the up. |
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