May 31, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| All right, people, that was Donald Trump's promo video immediately after hearing the indictment yesterday. | ||
| Obviously, this is a very strange day. | ||
| I would say this is the day after in America. | ||
| I think everyone will remember Where they were when they found out that Donald Trump has been indicted on these 34 counts in a New York, dare I say, clown court yesterday. | ||
| Sort of like everybody remembers where they were when OJ Simpson was let off the hook or where they were on 9-11 or other seminal moments in American history. | ||
| We are doing the show a little bit later today. | ||
| Obviously, it's 12 30 Eastern right now because I didn't want to do our 11 a.m Show directly against Donald Trump's press conference from this morning, which we will cover in just a moment And of course as always we are live streaming on rumble YouTube. | ||
| I And locals, we're gonna dive into all of the stuff right now, so let's just do it. | ||
| And I just want to say before I begin that I know that there are a million shows and a million pundits and a million, you know, opinion makers and all that that you can watch to try to get some sense out of this. | ||
| As always, I'm going to try to do this in the most honest way possible, but my sort of bumper sticker on all of this would be that it does not matter Whether you like Donald Trump, whether you hate Donald Trump, whether you begrudgingly were going to vote for Donald Trump, or you just were sort of on the fence, or whatever, wherever you fall in that chart, right? | ||
| It just simply does not matter at the moment. | ||
| We are now at a very, very dangerous precipice in this country where Again, regardless of what you think of Donald Trump, if we get into a situation where former presidents will be found guilty of quote-unquote crimes that occurred a long time ago in certain states, and it's very unclear what the crimes actually are and everything else. | ||
| Then no good people will ever run for president and we will enter banana republic phase. | ||
| We are really right there. | ||
| I think for those of you that watch this show often, you know that I don't do like the constant alarmist stuff. | ||
| I actually try to do the reverse of that, but we could be heading there. | ||
| And for all of the other things that are wrong in the country right now, whether it's immigration or the economy, Or all of the woke crap and everything else. | ||
| If we allow what seems to be happening right now to happen, and Donald Trump ends up in jail or is not the nominee, It's kind of over. | ||
| It's kind of over. | ||
| And I don't say that, I don't mean that to be hyperbolic. | ||
| I mean it to be quite literal. | ||
| So what are we talking about here? | ||
| Well, let's let's dive into it. | ||
| Let's just get into some nuts and bolts. | ||
| First, we'll start with some info from the Daily Wire. | ||
| Jurors returned a guilty verdict on Thursday in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, marking the first time a former U.S. | ||
| president has been convicted of a crime. | ||
| The decision is the culmination of a weeks-long courtroom battle in which Trump claimed he was the target of a political persecution as he runs another campaign for a second term in the White House. | ||
| The former president was found guilty on all 34 charges brought in the trial. | ||
| Legal experts doubt the 77-year-old Trump will end up being incarcerated, though the Secret Service reportedly coordinated with local jail officials just in case. | ||
| Possible alternatives to imprisonment include probation or community service. | ||
| Sentencing has been scheduled for July 11th, just days before the Republican National Convention is set to be held in Milwaukee. | ||
| Trump, who is the presumptive GOP nominee, can still run for the presidency if he ends up behind bars. | ||
| In response to the guilty verdict, Trump delivered remarks in which he called himself an innocent man and declared that the real verdict will happen on November 5th, which is Election Day. | ||
| At the heart of the case, brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, were 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal damaging information around the 2016 election as part of a catch-and-kill scheme. | ||
| Prosecutors accused Trump of improperly masking reimbursements to repay his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on an alleged extramarital affair by classifying them as legal expenses. | ||
| Trump has denied that the affair with Stormy Daniels ever happened and pleaded not guilty to those charges. | ||
| His lawyers argued there was no intent to defraud or influence the 2016 election. | ||
| The trial began last month and featured nearly two dozen witnesses, including Cohen and Stormy Daniels. | ||
| Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to multiple crimes, including lying to Congress and served prison time. | ||
| At a news conference on Thursday, Bragg thanked the jurors for performing a service that he described as literally the cornerstone of our judicial system. | ||
| Commenting on the work of the prosecution, the district attorney said, I did my job. | ||
| Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor. | ||
| And that's exactly what we did here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So we're going to get to some video in just a second of Donald Trump's press conference. | ||
| From this morning, we're going to show you about two and a half minutes unedited. | ||
| But all right, I set I set the table by, I think, giving you the gravity of the situation, right? | ||
| If Donald Trump is incarcerated or if they somehow can push him off the ballot and that it feels like this whole thing is being ramped up right before the Republican National Convention and all of that, that that's one portion of this. | ||
| But I would say that there's another portion of this and the other portion of this is that most of the people who are celebrating right now I think they are really gonna come to regret | ||
| that they are celebrating. | ||
| A, they're celebrating just because Trump seemingly is a bit wounded. | ||
| Now, the polls in the last 24 hours are actually showing the reverse. | ||
| The polls are showing his numbers up by about 6%. | ||
| And it sounds like his website, which crashed last night while they were taking donations, | ||
| it sounds like they got about $40 million in small money donations. | ||
| But the people that are celebrating this, so let's say the MSNBC class, the pundit class, | ||
| the Obama team, the Biden team, all of these people. | ||
| This eventually will come to get them as well. | ||
| If you set the precedent that we are going to arrest the former president on quote-unquote, let's say, trumped up charges, Eventually it comes for you too, right? | ||
| And also, of course we know, and why have I said many times over the last couple weeks why I wasn't covering the courtroom every day? | ||
| Like, a lot of the shows every day were telling you what was going on in the courtroom. | ||
| The reason I wasn't doing that every single day was because, A, I just think that the day-to-day minutiae of what goes on in a court is ridiculous and sort of... | ||
| Not going to make any of you smarter or happier or have a better understanding of what's going on in the world, and I would include myself in that as well. | ||
| If we do this here in New York, okay, so in New York, they will take out the Republicans because New York is largely a Democrat state. | ||
| Well, then in Florida, they'll start taking out the Democrats. | ||
| By the way, another portion of the problem here is that although they will appeal this thing, you might think that in a normal situation, it would get reversed on appeal because there isn't a lot of evidence and that most of the people that are happy about it don't even know what They don't even know what he's being indicted on right now. | ||
| They're like, does it have something to do with the 2016 election? | ||
| Does it have to do with election fraud? | ||
| Does it have to do with payments to a porn star? | ||
| People don't even know, right? | ||
| But they're just happy because they think Trump is wounded. | ||
| That is really, they see blood in the water right now. | ||
| But if we go this route, it will come for everyone, I guarantee you. | ||
| That's how banana republics are made. | ||
| Okay, so with that as the backdrop, let's go to Donald Trump this morning with a bit of his response. | ||
| If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. | ||
| These are bad people. | ||
| These are, in many cases, I believe, sick people. | ||
| When you look at our country, what's happening, where millions and millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, not just South America, from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East, and they're coming in from jails and prisons. | ||
| And they're coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums. | ||
| They're coming in from all over the world into our country. | ||
| And we have a president and a group of fascists that don't want to do anything about it. | ||
| Because they could right now, today, he could stop it. | ||
| But he's not. | ||
| They're destroying our country. | ||
| Our country is in very bad shape. | ||
| And they're very much against me saying these things. | ||
| They want to Raise your taxes by four times. | ||
| They want to stop you from having cars with their ridiculous mandates that make it impossible for you to get a car, afford a car, but make it very possible for China to build all of our cars. | ||
| It's a very serious problem that we have. | ||
| We just went through one of many experiences where we had a Conflicted judge, highly conflicted. | ||
| There's never been a more conflicted judge. | ||
| Now, I'm under a gag order, which nobody's ever been under. | ||
| No presidential candidate's ever been under a gag order before. | ||
| I'm under a gag order, nasty gag order, where I've had to pay thousands of dollars in penalties and fines, and was threatened with jail. | ||
| Think of it, I'm the leading candidate. | ||
| I'm leading Biden by a lot, and I'm leading The Republicans to the point where that's over. | ||
| So I'm the leading person for president, and I'm under a gag order by a man that can't put two sentences together, given by a court. | ||
| And they are in total conjunction with the White House and the DOJ, just so you understand. | ||
| This is all done by Biden and his people. | ||
| Maybe his people more importantly. | ||
| I don't know if Biden knows too much about it. | ||
| Because I don't know if he knows about anything. | ||
| But he's nevertheless the president, so we have to use his name. | ||
| And this is done by Washington, and nobody's ever seen anything like it. | ||
| Alright guys, I wrote an awful lot of bullet points out on that. | ||
| First off, it should be noted and cannot be overstated that this was the plan from the beginning. | ||
| Actually, one of my calculations that I mentioned a couple times over the last year was that part of my support for DeSantis during the primaries was they were going to go after Trump and throw everything at him. | ||
| Now, of course, the counter to that would be that if it was DeSantis, | ||
| they would figure out a way to do the same thing. | ||
| That's legit. | ||
| These people, Donald Trump is right. | ||
| These people are evil. | ||
| They are using lawfare. | ||
| They are using every media trick, every lever they have to now stop him. | ||
| So maybe they would have done the same thing if it was someone else. | ||
| Donald Trump is a specific sort of like fly in their ointment but maybe they would do all that for anybody else. | ||
| Before we get into some of the specifics though, Donald Trump is a billionaire. | ||
| Everybody knows that. | ||
| Donald Trump loves to golf. | ||
| He lives at Mar-a-Lago, which is what, 30 some odd acres in West Palm Beach. | ||
| The guy does not have to be doing this. | ||
| He didn't have to do it the first time and he certainly doesn't have to do it this time. | ||
| I think he largely knew that if he did it this time, that this sort of thing would happen. | ||
| He could be playing with his grandkids and spending the rest of his days on a golf course. | ||
| But he's doing what I think is right. | ||
| And for whatever his flaws are and all of that stuff, it's actually all irrelevant at this point. | ||
| It's completely irrelevant. | ||
| Because he is right. | ||
| If they can do this to him, if they can make sure that either he ends up in jail, which actually at this point seems likely to me, Because when they have this sentencing on July 11th, do you think the judge who just sat there and basically encouraged the jurors to come to this decision, do you think the judge is suddenly going to be like, oh, it was 34 counts. | ||
| They got him on all 34 counts. | ||
| Now the judge is in charge of sentencing. | ||
| It's completely up to the judge. | ||
| Do you think the judge is going to have the balls in a New York court to be like, you know what? | ||
| Actually, we're just going to fine the guy. | ||
| We're just going to put him on probation. | ||
| No, the system wants to take him all the way and they want the drama to be ramped up. | ||
| And then, okay, so Donald Trump is going to be in jail. | ||
| I don't know how quickly you end up in jail. | ||
| Is it the next day? | ||
| I'm not sure of the mechanisms on that, but again, the RNC, the convention, | ||
| is like a week and a half later. | ||
| So the level of craziness right now is completely off the charts. | ||
| But the key there is that the guy did not have to do this. | ||
| And if they can take him out, and anyone, how could anyone | ||
| who has a business in New York right now wanna stay there? | ||
| What could they go after you for if you have a business in New York? | ||
| If you have, look what's going on with Elon Musk and his Delaware businesses. | ||
| He's getting his businesses out of Delaware because it's clown courts there. | ||
| Like we're starting to see this spread across the country. | ||
| And of course, of course, it's just happening in blue states. | ||
| And there is going to be a further divide, that divide that we're always talking about and that the founders so beautifully set up our federalist system so that we can all kind of go our separate ways. | ||
| That has been given a tremendous amount of energy. | ||
| But now let's dive into some of the specifics. | ||
| You know, Trump at the top of that video right there, he was talking about the border and our problems. | ||
| And it's like, Again, no matter what you think about Donald Trump and whether you're going to vote for him or not, most people realize that the country is in trouble right now. | ||
| These 7 to 10 million illegals, the sanctuary cities, the crime, the drugs, all of that. | ||
| Does putting Donald Trump in jail or going through this clown Circus that we are going through. | ||
| Does this solve anything? | ||
| Does this make anyone's life better? | ||
| I know it makes Rachel Maddow's life better because she gets to talk about it, right? | ||
| And it makes, I suppose, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's life better because they'll attain more power. | ||
| Again, with Joe Biden, you don't even know if he's there, so it's irrelevant in a weird way. | ||
| But for the 350 million Americans, That would like a border and a functioning economy and all of those things. | ||
| Nobody's life is better because of this, but everybody, everybody. | ||
| Everybody's life is actually worse because the strength of our country has now been weakened. | ||
| Actually, I got a haircut about two hours ago and the guy who cuts my hair is a first-generation immigrant from Italy. | ||
| He is a great, great guy. | ||
| Came here with nothing. | ||
| He literally basically, as he's told me, he had a pair of scissors. | ||
| Came here with nothing. | ||
| He now owns a salon. | ||
| They're coming out with their own styling stuff and everything else. | ||
| He loves Trump, right? | ||
| Absolutely loves Trump. | ||
| He did not know. | ||
| He doesn't spend a lot of time on social media. | ||
| He was busy with some other stuff. | ||
| I walked in there thinking he was going to look all sad because of what's going on with Trump. | ||
| He says, Hey Dave, how are ya? | ||
| I said, ah, this is crazy with Trump. | ||
| And he didn't know what I was talking about. | ||
| Then when I told him just the sadness because he loves America and that is now what Trump represents. | ||
| Trump represents America at this point. | ||
| And then, and the system, I don't know what the system represents. | ||
| Actually, the system right now represents all of the things that all of our family members fled to get to America. | ||
| It doesn't matter where your ancestors came from, whether they came from Cuba or Eastern Europe or South America or Asia. | ||
| It just simply doesn't matter. | ||
| All of our ancestors fled places that had authoritarian clown courts and politicians who would jail other politicians and everything else. | ||
| So again, even if you think, even if you've been paying every minute of attention, and nobody has, but even if you are the one person on earth who watched every minute of that trial and you think they got him, you think the payoff, the Michael Cohen testimony, you think all of the stuff, does it feel right that in America we are potentially about to jail one of the candidates for president? | ||
| Do you think that long term will be good? | ||
| I think everyone knows the answer to that, right? | ||
| is where we're at at the moment. | ||
| So number one, does it solve any of our problems? | ||
| Number two, of course, is would they do this if Trump wasn't running for president? | ||
| If he was just on the golf course right now and playing with his grandkids and tweeting out or truth socialing out every now and again, would they be doing this to him? | ||
| And the answer obviously is no, right? | ||
| Obviously is no. | ||
| So this is political persecution. | ||
| I would love to hear anyone make the argument. | ||
| That if Donald Trump had just gone out to pasture and was just, you know, tweeting out every now and again that they'd be doing this, it's just completely not true. | ||
| It's just nonsense. | ||
| It's absolute nonsense. | ||
| Again, that thing about, well, they can do it to you, right? | ||
| You're just going to have to think about that. | ||
| Everyone is just going to have to think about that. | ||
| What kind of clown court trumped up charges? | ||
| Can they get it? | ||
| You avoided taxes on this. | ||
| We're going to go after you. | ||
| You know, by the way, the Supreme Court of New York. | ||
| They're going to file the appeal to go to the Supreme Court of New York because this is a New York trial. | ||
| We showed you video about a month ago. | ||
| It's five black women because of diversity. | ||
| Now oddly the diversity they care about is always about skin color. | ||
| Somehow the left's diversity ends up with five black women being in charge of the Supreme Court of New York. | ||
| So do you think I don't know all of their judicial beliefs, these five women, but do you think that they probably think similar things and they probably don't like Donald Trump and that's probably how they got the job in the first place? | ||
| Do you think? | ||
| Is that a crazy conspiracy theory? | ||
| Also, Guys, when he was president, this is exactly what they did to him the entire time. | ||
| Two ridiculous impeachments, one on the way out when he wasn't even going to be president anymore. | ||
| The entire system, COVID, everything kept crashing down on him. | ||
| And he fought to the best of his ability, his imperfect ability, and now things are worse. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Things are worse. | ||
| Imagine where we will be. | ||
| Really think about it. | ||
| Imagine where we will be. | ||
| Let's say they jail the guy. | ||
| And then you know what? | ||
| He just can't take it. | ||
| So now the Republicans, five days later, have to figure out who else to put up there. | ||
| So the Republicans are like, all right, well, Nikki Haley has the second most votes. | ||
| Or they put up anybody. | ||
| They throw up DeSantis or anybody else. | ||
| And who the hell would want to do it? | ||
| Again, that's the real question. | ||
| But let's say they nail Trump. | ||
| Trump literally just can't take it. | ||
| He has a freaking mental breakdown. | ||
| He cannot take it. | ||
| And now we get just somebody else. | ||
| You see how messed up that will be? | ||
| How absolutely messed up that will be? | ||
| And what the repercussions will be for years and years and years. | ||
| This is where we're at, guys. | ||
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It's not good. | |
| You get it? | ||
| This is not a good day in America. | ||
| And I would also take a moment to welcome anyone. | ||
| Find me a Democrat. | ||
| I'm not talking about your uncle. | ||
| Find me a decent Democrat with a following who is a Joe Biden supporter who believes this is good. | ||
| I will do a live debate with any of them. | ||
| Any of them. | ||
| That is a promise. | ||
| Like, I'm not talking about some weirdo with 40 Twitter followers. | ||
| I'm talking about legit people that believe that Joe Biden is a functioning, solid president, that this is not political persecution, and that this decision made sense, and this is good for America. | ||
| If you could check off those boxes, that shouldn't be that hard to check off. | ||
| If you're in that camp, I will gladly debate any of these people. | ||
| Anyway, one thing that's been really nice in the 20 or so hours since this all went down is that largely, and it's really not the right, but I would say everyone that is roughly sane at the moment Realizes what a horrific decision this is. | ||
| And again, not even the decision itself, the signal out to America that our courts are not blind anymore as they are supposed to be, right? | ||
| Lady Justice, that's why she has the blindfold on in front of every court. | ||
| But we are seeing a huge, huge swath of people come together right now. | ||
| Today's verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved. | ||
| A leftist prosecutor, a partisan judge, and a jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America, all in an effort to get Donald Trump. | ||
| That this case involving alleged misdemeanor business record violations from nearly a decade ago was even brought is a testament to the political debasement of the justice system in places like New York City. | ||
| This is especially true considering this same district attorney routinely excuses criminal conduct in a way that has endangered law-abiding citizens in his jurisdiction. | ||
| It is often said that no one is above the law, but it is also true that no one is below the law. | ||
| If the defendant were not Donald Trump, this case would have never been brought, the judge would have never issued similar rulings, and the jury would have never returned a guilty verdict. | ||
| In America, the rule of law should be applied in a dispassionate, even-handed manner, not become captive to the political agenda of some kangaroo court. | ||
| So what's interesting there is DeSantis is hitting a few things we already addressed, and everyone knows it. | ||
| Alvin Bragg is the leftist, Soros-backed District Attorney. | ||
| Fact. | ||
| What else has Alvin Bragg done in New York? | ||
| Well, you guys know what he's done in New York. | ||
| He has allowed criminals to basically run the city, and they don't arrest you for basic things like jumping the turnstile or stealing, say, $100 worth of stuff out of Walgreens. | ||
| Though Alvin Bragg does not apply the law equally. | ||
| He says some people are allowed to break the law. | ||
| Also, DeSantis makes the point that this is a decades-old incident, right? | ||
| How many other cases? | ||
| I would imagine, since they're looking at, say, a decade-old case here, it's about 2016 is when this all went down, so about an eight-year-old case. | ||
| Are there others that they're looking into, or was it just this one? | ||
| I think you know the answer. | ||
| Now, again, what the silver lining to all of this is, is that good people are seeing this. | ||
| And for the last two months, I think probably more than anyone else that sits in a similar type chair as me, I've been trying to figure out a way to line up this wide tent. | ||
| How do we get all of these people that do not think the same thing politically To get on board so that we can get Trump elected so we can fight this monster, right? | ||
| How do we do that? | ||
| Well, there's evidence that it's happening, perhaps with steroids now that this ruling has come out. | ||
| Elon Musk saw that Ron DeSantis tweet and he wrote very simply, well said. | ||
| That gets millions and millions of more eyes on that. | ||
| Now I want to jump, speaking of that wide tent thing. | ||
| to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | ||
| has the name Kennedy right in there. | ||
| He was the Democrat family for decades, who of course, when he ran for president, was running as a Democrat. | ||
| This is just months ago. | ||
| I predicted on day one he would not be a Democrat by the end, and he is no longer a Democrat. | ||
| He's an independent, and here's what he said about it. | ||
| The Democrat Party's strategy is to beat President Trump in the courtroom rather than the ballot box. | ||
| This will backfire in November. | ||
| Even worse, it is profoundly undemocratic. | ||
| America deserves a president who can win at the ballot box without compromising our government's separation of powers or weaponizing the courts. | ||
| You can't save democracy by destroying it first. | ||
| The Democrats are afraid they will lose in the voting booth, so instead they go after President Trump in the courtroom. | ||
| I'm also running against President Trump in this election. | ||
| The difference is I'm challenging him on his record. | ||
| His lockdowns during COVID, his atrocious environmental record, his cozy relationship with corporate America, his support for the war machine, his failure to root out waste and corruption in Washington, his service to the billionaire class, his bloating of the national debt, These are the issues that shape American lives. | ||
| I'll challenge him on these things, but the Democrats won't. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because they pursue the very same policy. | ||
| So okay, you may not. | ||
| I agree with RFK on all of that, and that's just fine. | ||
| But he represents what the Democrats used to be and what they are no longer. | ||
| You guys know that often I talk about how we can't just dismiss this crazy, woke, lefty thing. | ||
| It's not just enough. | ||
| They're blue-haired, crazy people. | ||
| They're just a bunch of college kids. | ||
| You can't just dismiss them. | ||
| You can mock them and all that, but look at what this evil, | ||
| progressive, authoritarian machine has done. | ||
| It has destroyed so much of our institutional value in this country by destroying our universities | ||
| and brainwashing a bunch of kids to think that America is fundamentally evil | ||
| and that their genitals don't match their gender and all of that, and it did it on our watch, | ||
| and now it is on the verge of impeaching Donald Trump, who is the leading candidate in virtually every poll. | ||
| You cannot just dismiss that as they're just crazy anymore. | ||
| It's why I wrote about it in Don't Burn This Country. | ||
| To me, they are the alien. | ||
| Go watch the original alien movie. | ||
| 77, I think, or maybe not, maybe it's 79. | ||
| Sigourney Weaver, and when you find out that Ash, who is the doctor on the ship, he turns out to be an android, but the alien has killed everybody on the ship, and Sigourney's freaking out, and she wants to survive and kill the alien, and they have this conversation, and Ash is basically like, well, I admire the alien. | ||
| And he admires the alien, not because what it's done, but how it did it. | ||
| He doesn't know why it wants to kill everybody on the ship, why does it want to dismember everybody and slaughter everybody and everything else, but it's doing it. | ||
| And what the left has largely become in this country is the alien. | ||
| I actually don't know exactly what the end goal is. | ||
| Maybe it's complete total authoritarian control, that kind of sounds right. | ||
| Like, maybe it is that Marxist-Communist utopia, that kind of sounds right. | ||
| But put aside what exactly it is, we have to now acknowledge that they're doing it. | ||
| They destroyed our institutions. | ||
| They brainwashed our kids. | ||
| They're potentially jailing their political opponents. | ||
| How much more evidence do you need? | ||
| Now, with that knowledge, you have to figure out How you can make adjustments in your life. | ||
| Again, I would say if you run a business in New York, you may want to rethink that. | ||
| And not just New York, if you have a family in California, you might want to rethink that when your kid comes home and they tell you that they're not the gender they are and the state wants to now take your kid. | ||
| Like, that's where we're at. | ||
| My friend Dave Reboy, who I have on the show every now and again, often says his line on this is, you have to know what time it is. | ||
| Well, Now's the time to know what time it is, because otherwise you're gonna need a time machine to turn things back, and I sorta do wish we had a time machine to turn things back about 20 years, and we could've all been screaming that this was gonna happen, although a bunch of us, I guess, were screaming about it for the last 10 years or so. | ||
| I wanna jump to a tweet from Ben Shapiro, because as always, Ben, I thought nailed it quite well. | ||
| Trump is the threat to democracy? | ||
| Are you serious? | ||
| Biden has. | ||
| Activated party apparatchiks in New York to convict Trump on spurious charges thus leading to the possible jailing of his chief political rival. | ||
| Biden has activated his Department of Justice to target Trump in three separate jurisdictions while avoiding criminal culpability for himself and his son. | ||
| Biden has tried to use OSHA to force 80 million Americans to take the vax. | ||
| Biden has defied the Supreme Court by illegally waiving student loan debt. | ||
| Biden has falsely claimed that any election he uses will have been decided by racist Republican voter suppression. | ||
| Biden has attacked the Supreme Court directly. | ||
| Biden has used governmental agencies to threaten social media companies. | ||
| Biden has attacked states for attempting to enforce border law. | ||
| The list continues. | ||
| That's just the short version. | ||
| Biden also has a son who was a crack addict who got paid millions of dollars by a Ukrainian energy company and nobody seems to know why. | ||
| Biden also, that same crackhead son, also is a quote-unquote artist who sells his shitty, shitty, shitty And I know art is subjective, but it's shitty art. | ||
| He sells these pieces for hundreds of thousands of dollars. | ||
| And do you know why he does? | ||
| Because selling art is the easiest way to money launder. | ||
| So he sells his crappy art to somebody that wants access to Joe Biden, and then that's how they get access, because you just gave his son, you know, 300, 400 grand for a piece of shit. | ||
| I want to go back to Elon Musk on this because there's a whole bunch of people lining up right now in that wide tent who just who disagree on almost everything but are trying to figure out how we can restore America. | ||
| He retweeted, I'll read the Geiger Capital tweet first, and then I'll read Elon's response. | ||
| The first felony conviction of a former U.S. | ||
| president wasn't for the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, illegal CIA coups, drone strike weddings, or spying on Americans. | ||
| It was because Trump misclassified a $130,000 payment for a porn star's blah, blah, blah, you get the point. | ||
| And Elon retweeted that and wrote, indeed, great damage was done today to the public's faith in the American legal system. | ||
| If a former president can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter, motivated by politics rather than justice, then anyone is at risk of a similar fate. | ||
| Now again guys, most people, I would venture to say about 90% of people that you're going to talk to at the dinner table tonight or at the store or at the gym or wherever, they're going to have no idea what they got Trump on. | ||
| It is over a misappropriated $130,000 payment to the porn star for the hush money from over | ||
| a decade ago, and that it was listed wrong on the taxes. | ||
| That's the basics. | ||
| That's the basics of it. | ||
| Let's say that really is a crime, and then what they try to do, because it's 34 counts, | ||
| you get all these other subsequent crimes that are related to that. | ||
| But let's say Trump really did do that. | ||
| Let's say the $130,000 payment really was classified wrong because it was a way to avoid taxes or something to that effect. | ||
| Let's say 100% you nailed him on that. | ||
| Do you think it's worth not allowing the guy to run for president right now because of that? | ||
| Do you think that is good for our republic? | ||
| Do you think that is good for the ability for us to believe in the system? | ||
| You know, a system only works if enough of us believe in it. | ||
| Quoting freaking Padme from the prequels now. | ||
| But that's really the truth. | ||
| If enough of us just stop believing that any of it works, then it actually doesn't work. | ||
| And that's what the system just pushed more of us into. | ||
| There are an awful lot of people right now That are like, wow, maybe the system is kind of evil. | ||
| I thought the system was a little corroded. | ||
| I thought the system was a little whacked out. | ||
| Now it's starting to come off as evil. | ||
| Well, how long can a society last if that's what a lot of people think, right? | ||
| Now, another piece of this, of course, is what I keep talking about with this, with this wide 10 thing. | ||
| Check out this New York Post cover. | ||
| This is from two days ago. | ||
| So this is from the day before the indictment. | ||
| Donald Trump considers appointing Elon Musk to advise him in the White House. | ||
| Now the reason I'm mentioning that right there is because clearly this is all political, and as the polls were going in Trump's favor, and as all of these disaffected liberals were leaving the Democrat Party and suddenly being like, oh maybe I'll have to hold my nose and vote for Donald Trump, and Donald Trump was reaching out to people like Elon Musk, you could start seeing I would say the new America, America on the other side of this, the good America that we all wanna get to, not that evil communist dystopian America, but the new America, you could start seeing it be formed, and it was gonna be formed with alliances like Elon and Trump, and it was gonna be formed with the disaffected liberals who weren't bananas, woke lefties, looking at the conservatives and going, you know what? | ||
| Maybe you guys were right about some things, and the conservatives going, you know what? | ||
| Maybe I don't hate you that much. | ||
| Maybe you're a little off from where I am on abortion or something, but you love the country? | ||
| You do love the country? | ||
| Okay, let's talk about it. | ||
| And that is the biggest wide tent ever. | ||
| And that, I suppose, it almost sounds cliche, but that, I suppose, is the thing that the elites hate the most. | ||
| That a whole bunch of us, a wide swath of Americans, probably, I think it could be 80% of Americans who would never bear out that way in the elections, but that this huge number of us Would all be like, you know what, we don't hate each other and we do think America's pretty good and your genitals do match your sex and like a whole bunch of obvious stuff. | ||
| Instead, they have decided to go after the one guy who was exposing more of the BS than anybody. | ||
| And that is where we're at at the moment. | ||
| Guys, I'm going to jump into a Rubin Report Community Q&A here, which I just quickly glanced at some of the questions. | ||
| I think many of them will be about just this. | ||
| Maybe we can add a couple on the fly right now. | ||
| And obviously none of this is going anywhere, so we will keep talking about all of this, of course. | ||
| And also, normally on Fridays, we've started pre-taping our panel shows on Thursdays for Friday. | ||
| So we pre-taped a really wonderful show yesterday with Riley Gaines, the swimmer, Riley Gaines, who's now become an unbelievable outspoken advocate for women in women's sports. | ||
| I know, very controversial. | ||
| And Sage Seal, who's just absolutely fantastic. | ||
| We taped that yesterday. | ||
| It was supposed to be our show for today, but we're gonna push that to Monday. | ||
| I'm going to New York. | ||
| I'll be on Gutfeld and a couple other Fox shows on Monday, and we'll try to tape some stuff while we're in New York. | ||
| But let's get into a couple questions, which again, I think will be largely about this. | ||
| Megan says, my twin sister believes CNN and other leftist news sources are being truthful and she doesn't agree with anything that is right wing. | ||
| She does think Biden and Trump are both too old. | ||
| However, she's been duped into believing all the lies about Trump, the reason for high taxes, the current new wars, the money being sent overseas, the border, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| She relies on mainstream media for her news and has lost the ability to believe her own eyes and her experiences when comparing life with Biden now and life with Trump four years ago. | ||
| How am I supposed to break through this level of brainwashing if there is no recourse to showing her the truth? | ||
| Look, some version of that question is probably the question that I get the most. | ||
| I like to think that one thing that I've done if... | ||
| Nothing else in all of these years by someone that so publicly left the left and did it in real time so you can see my evolution. | ||
| I'd like to think that I led an awful people on that journey and I suppose that I know that I have. | ||
| You need something to sort of What happens basically is it's hard to say to your sister, OK, watch this Dave Rubin video. | ||
| She'll say he's a right wing maniac. | ||
| Watch this PragerU video. | ||
| Oh, that's propaganda, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Usually what happens with the lefties is that something hits them in the face. | ||
| One day they finally look at their bank statement and they're like, why am I paying all of this stuff in | ||
| taxes and I live in this city where the tax money | ||
| seems to be to these government programs and things keep getting worse. | ||
| Or why is it that the police aren't actually doing policing? | ||
| Like you need something, it's weird because people don't seem to get it. | ||
| You have to give the media credit. | ||
| Again, it's the alien thing. | ||
| You have to give them credit. | ||
| The media is so broke brain that people don't realize | ||
| that they constantly give more in taxes and things get worse. | ||
| They outsource their decision-making when it comes to their health and everything else | ||
| and things get worse. | ||
| You need something to hit them, I would say. | ||
| And it's usually something bad, by the way. | ||
| It's very rare that something so great happens and then you start thinking about your politics | ||
| or your worldview differently. | ||
| I would say look at October 7th, an awful lot of liberals in America, | ||
| largely Jews, but not just Jews, a lot of moderate liberals in America, | ||
| which in many ways is what Donald Trump was 20 years ago. | ||
| right? | ||
| He's not a traditional conservative. | ||
| A lot of them were suddenly like, wait a minute, we have all of these lefties and progressives | ||
| excusing murder and beheadings and now calling for genocide. | ||
| And this is my side of the aisle and they kind of seem racist suddenly. | ||
| So they're on their way, right? | ||
| So something has to happen in her life, unfortunately, that will get her on that road. | ||
| But I would say one other thing, which is that if you can always just try, not necessarily to always turn the other cheek, but if you can always try to be as welcoming as possible, if you're having one of those dinners where it starts getting tense and you just keep your cool throughout it, I think it's a long game, but I think you can get people there. | ||
| John says your show is fantastic and I've been listening for years now. | ||
| I'm curious if you've ever toyed with the idea of taking calls during interviews or shows. | ||
| I think it would be a good opportunity to hear from people that are not typically on the political circuit other than the usual scuttlebutt. | ||
| at work or with friends. Yes, you know, so Rumble Studio does now have something where we can do live | ||
| call-in shows and we tested some version of it a couple months ago. We still want to tweak it a | ||
| little bit, but I would like to do that. Maybe we'll do it just with locals people. We're still | ||
| figuring it out, but yes, look, as I said at the top of the show, there are plenty of shows you | ||
| could be watching right this second that are doing something similar to what I'm doing. | ||
| So I'm very appreciative that my audience comes here. | ||
| But what I have found is that I get, I think, as much from you guys as you get from me. | ||
| Because there's only a few other pundits or whatever you want to call us that I turn to to make sense. | ||
| It's an extremely short list. | ||
| There's an awful lot of people who can make you crazy. | ||
| There's an awful lot of people who can make you angry, try to trick you, all the rest of it. | ||
| But I find, and I mean this literally if I'm like at the park with the boys and someone comes up to me, like I learn from you guys the same way you learn from me. | ||
| Like it is very often someone will come up to me on the street or something and say something to me and then I'm like, oh, that's an interesting way of thinking about it. | ||
| I never thought about that. | ||
| I'll incorporate that into the show. | ||
| So it's a two way street. | ||
| And yes, I do like the live call thing and stay tuned. | ||
| We'll work on that. | ||
| A cool mom says a few weeks ago in my art class we were using red, white, and blue clay. | ||
| One of the students shouted, America, and the discussion turned patriotic. | ||
| Then one of my Middle Eastern students said, I hate America, and began chanting, Russia, Russia, Palestine. | ||
| I am so sad to be faced with this insanity as I near the end of my teaching career. | ||
| How would you have responded to these innocent children coming here who hate our country? | ||
| I mean this is this is a tough one and if you're I'm guessing you've probably been teaching for a couple decades and it's like yeah you didn't have to deal with this for a long time and now we all have to deal with it and You're doing this in a clay class. | ||
| Look what they've done to college kids, much less what they can do to a third grader when it comes to gender confusion or a sixth grader who's in an art class and suddenly the patriotic colors have another kid screaming Palestine. | ||
| It's deeply sad. | ||
| Look, nobody leaves. | ||
| Nobody leaves America. | ||
| You might want to say that to them. | ||
| I don't know how much heat you want to get. | ||
| Before the parents come after you and the rest of it. | ||
| But again, everyone's standing up. | ||
| Bravery begets bravery. | ||
| So you standing up in your own way, and if you're close to retirement anyway, it's probably, it might be worth it. | ||
| What are they going to, are they going to fire you because you said to a student, oh, I don't know. | ||
| America's pretty good. | ||
| You could ask the student, well, why did your parents come here? | ||
| Where did they come from? | ||
| Is it better here than it was there? | ||
| Like, there are ways to do things, but I know it's complex and everyone only has so much pressure they want to deal with and the hate and everything else, but they have preyed on that. | ||
| They have preyed on it for a long, long time. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I genuinely don't know. | ||
| Maybe when I'm on my deathbed, it'll hit me. | ||
| But when I started talking about this stuff and everyone kind of said, oh, Dave, you're so brave, which I never considered myself brave. | ||
| I was like, I don't know. | ||
| I'm just saying what I think. | ||
| Maybe when I'm on my deathbed I'll look back and go maybe oh there I guess there was some formative thing that suddenly I now I realize when I was in eighth grade something happened that I was like oh I guess I didn't want to be a brave person or something. | ||
| I don't consider this bravery. | ||
| I think I think it's pure cowardice at some level if you're not willing to put a little skin in the game and get involved. | ||
| But again we all have our own pressure points and We all play the game a little bit differently. | ||
| Well I reference it often because we are at that precipice. | ||
| my husband and I watched Ready Player One because you have referenced it several times, | ||
| good movie, my husband even liked it. | ||
| Well, I reference it often because we are at that precipice. | ||
| If I'm talking about a political precipice we're at, we're also at an AI virtual meta world precipice | ||
| where many of us will be spending more time in the metaverse, in the digital universe | ||
| than in this universe. | ||
| And then thus, we will just be batteries. | ||
| Our bodies will be batteries for the digital universe. | ||
| That's sort of the driving theory of The Matrix. | ||
| But Ready Player One is really about life in that universe. | ||
| It's a really enjoyable movie. | ||
| I haven't read the book. | ||
| I would love to, but I've been told the book is is way, way better, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. | ||
| Mary says, in these judicial cases, when doing something that has never happened before, one would think they would try to avoid any sign of partisanship. | ||
| How can these bad actors be held accountable for their blatant disregard for precedent? | ||
| How could the prosecution not name the underlying crime until after the defense arrested? | ||
| How can the state deprive a defendant of his constitutional right to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation? | ||
| Right, so if you did not see yesterday's show, we got into a bunch on just that, that the defense rested before they were even really told what the full set of accusations are. | ||
| And again, it's selective prosecution in that I assure you there is no other businessman somewhere hung up in a New York court because of a hush money payment from 10 years ago. | ||
| So they're specifically going after him. | ||
| You also have an entire Democrat party who has said from beat one of when Donald Trump became president, back in 2016 that the entire goal was to get rid of him. | ||
| Rashida Tlaib in her re-election a couple years ago, at her re-election speech said, | ||
| we're going to impeach Trump. | ||
| This was way before any of this. | ||
| They have been planning this and throwing the kitchen sink at the guy the entire time. | ||
| Your question is, how do they get away with it? | ||
| They get away with it because of a media that runs cover for them. | ||
| They get away with it because people just kind of go along with the thing. | ||
| And until people stop doing that, until enough of us stop doing that, they'll push and push and push and push. | ||
| Again, the alien. | ||
| The alien was going to go as far as it could, right? | ||
| The alien would have gladly had that ship crashed on Earth and then gone ahead and eaten everybody on Earth, too, and put the spawns out and then had an alien Earth. | ||
| It's the same freaking thing. | ||
| They will go and go and go until somehow we figure out to stop them. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| There has been some evidence of stopping them. | ||
| Why is it that we don't have Soros-backed DAs in Florida? | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because Ron DeSantis found the two and he got rid of them, right? | ||
| The big one was this guy in Tampa. | ||
| So you can stop these people, but you need competent governance. | ||
| You need good legislatures. | ||
| You need people that understand what the issues are, which is another reason that the media keeps everyone so damn dumb so they don't even know what their rights are. | ||
| We got a problem on our hands. | ||
| Shelly says, Dave, how did you get comfortable using the teleprompter versus impromptu speaking? | ||
| Was this an easy transition from standup? | ||
| Just curious. | ||
| You know, it's a constant push and pull. | ||
| Obviously I read the questions like that. | ||
| I'm reading off a teleprompter that I can look directly into the camera. | ||
| So I'm not seeing a camera lens. | ||
| I just see a screen in front of me right now. | ||
| And then everything else that I do beyond that is me extemporaneously telling you what I think. | ||
| I like telling you what I think freely and not worrying about the prompter more than anything else. | ||
| There are moments in a show where I need to know specific stats | ||
| or I need to know, you know, basically, you know, when we do a show like this, | ||
| today's not the best day to show you an example, but when we do the show like this, you know, | ||
| I have the note version of everything that's on the prompter and Phoenix's role on the prompter. | ||
| So I'm, you know, I'm basically, I'm using it as basically navigation to get through the | ||
| show so I know what's coming next | ||
| and what asset I'm throwing to it and everything else. | ||
| So I use it for guidelines, but when I give talks, public talks, I never use a prompter, I never use notes. | ||
| I think one of the great, Jordan Peterson gave me so many gifts along this ride. | ||
| I would say the greatest gift was to convince me to have kids, to convince us to have kids, but another gift he gave me just as a speaker was that I watched that man every night give a different hour and a half lecture every night. | ||
| He would think about it beforehand. | ||
| Sometimes we'd be sitting in the green room and he'd ask my thoughts on what he was going to do or what we do last night that we could pick up on something like that. | ||
| And then I'd watch him give a different speech every night. | ||
| And that gave me the courage. | ||
| I was like, look, I'm not Jordan. | ||
| Nobody's Jordan, but I can get on stage. | ||
| And if I know what the idea is that I want to talk about, I can talk about it for an hour and it'll, you know, it'll meander a little, it'll come around and I'll do it in my own way. | ||
| Hopefully it'll be it'll be funny. | ||
| It'll be enjoyable. | ||
| And and I think I've been able to translate that into what I do on this show. | ||
| And yes, a lot of it does come from doing stand up, like just getting on stage and not just a lot of guys just had the script. | ||
| You got to go on the script. | ||
| And I just felt like, let's figure out what's funny in the moment. | ||
| And I think it's how I've been able to communicate ideas through these wires in a way that I guess people are digging. | ||
| Misty says, I just saw Tulsi Gabbard speak at the Nixon Library tonight. | ||
| Honestly, just between you and me, what do you think of her chances of becoming VP? | ||
| Can we broadcast this directly to Misty? | ||
| Misty, this is just me and you right now. | ||
| I would say they're pretty good. | ||
| I think there's all sorts of things that can happen. | ||
| And now, look, look, look. | ||
| After what just happened yesterday, everything is so freaking up in the air. | ||
| It is possible right now. | ||
| I don't think this is a crazy thought. | ||
| Does this sound crazy to you? | ||
| Is it possible right now that Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee and Joe Biden will not be the Democrat nominee, right? | ||
| Biden could fall down the stairs today. | ||
| Trump could end up in jail. | ||
| They're both of a certain age. | ||
| I mean, there's a million things that could happen. | ||
| Trump could just burn out. | ||
| We don't think of that in his, it doesn't seem like something that would be possible, but anything could happen at this point. | ||
| I was Trump. | ||
| I've said it many times. | ||
| To me, Tulsi is the thing that makes the most sense because it's going to help you bring in all of the new people. | ||
| They're on their way. | ||
| Things may have significantly changed yesterday where now so many people are going to come to Trump no matter what because they see the unfairness of what just happened that maybe that isn't as important anymore. | ||
| A lot of people are talking about Marco Rubio. | ||
| It just gives you like a solid guy behind you. | ||
| So maybe that makes sense. | ||
| The base people sort of want a JD Vance more. | ||
| I don't fully see how that makes sense. | ||
| Cause again, you have to widen things. | ||
| Marco Rubio, he's a Florida Senate guy. | ||
| Like that shows me a little bit of a wider tent. | ||
| It's not just purely base. | ||
| It does seem like Tim Scott maybe is the front runner. | ||
| I think there's reasons that make sense. | ||
| Tim Scott, Respectfully, I don't think he brings a lot to the table. | ||
| I think that he's a fairly good senator. | ||
| He's a nice guy, but I don't see him. | ||
| There isn't a dynamic-ness there. | ||
| It would not surprise me if it's Nikki Haley. | ||
| I know the base doesn't like her, but we know that she's been getting, post-dropping out of the primaries, she's still been getting about 20% of the Republican vote. | ||
| So there are Republicans that are not thrilled with Trump and you want to get them. | ||
| She also would be good on the fundraising side. | ||
| So I think anything, absolutely anything is possible. | ||
| I think Tulsi checks the boxes probably more than anybody else, right? | ||
| It brings you the new people. | ||
| She's a current member of the military. | ||
| She's young. | ||
| She's pretty. | ||
| She's thoughtful. | ||
| She absolutely loves America. | ||
| She just freaking left the Dems. | ||
| It's the thing. | ||
| It's the thing. | ||
| Tony says, have you finished Fallout yet? | ||
| I know you were part way through a couple weeks ago. | ||
| Curious to know your overall thoughts on the story so far. | ||
| Also, do you have any favorite characters? | ||
| So I think I'm only in episode six. | ||
| I was traveling was in DC for a couple days and just it's tough with the kids. | ||
| Like sometimes we're just like too burned out even to watch anything. | ||
| But I am absolutely, absolutely loving it. | ||
| And I promise you a full review when we get through it. | ||
| Give me like a week or two. | ||
| Yesen Space says, in an election year, gas prices, interest rates, and inflation are usually tampered down. | ||
| The Democrats usually band together, but they're being fractured like we're seeing with the Hamas caucus, etc. | ||
| Media are reporting on things that make it look like voters are turning towards Trump, like the black and brown voters who are coming out for Trump. | ||
| What are your thoughts on why the Biden administration and the media are letting him look so bad? | ||
| Ah, well, that's a good question that we could probably go down many different rabbit holes with. | ||
| It is possible. | ||
| That they are allowing Biden to look bad because the plan all along is to just replace him at the convention. | ||
| I think that that is absolutely a possibility. | ||
| I think that perhaps he broke down a little bit faster than they thought. | ||
| I think they also really did not think that Trump would just keep rising in the polls. | ||
| I think that they thought that if they just made him look like a criminal and even what | ||
| they've now done in the last 24 hours, that people would just feel that it's icky. | ||
| We just don't want to touch it. | ||
| But clearly, from every bit of evidence I can see, it's doing the complete reverse. | ||
| So I think it's possible. | ||
| Look, Biden, whether he knows it or not, Joe Biden is a patsy. | ||
| He is not in charge of this administration and I can't get anyone on this show to defend him because he isn't. | ||
| There are reasons that people are voting for him and supporting him because they hate the Republicans or they think Donald Trump's Hitler or they just really want to retain power. | ||
| There's a reason that the media and MSNBC and the rest and New York Times run cover for him, but he has been an absolutely terrible president. | ||
| And if you think with all of the problems In the world, that an 81-year-old man who everyone thinks has some cognitive problems, who has been in government for over 50 years, who has the amount of corruption around him as it relates to his son and everything else, if you think he's the one that's going to lead us to a better place, a better America, you're legit bananas. | ||
| But I'll gladly talk to you. | ||
| So if you can find somebody, if you guys can find someone that'll talk to me, defend some of that, please bring them. | ||
| Elizabeth says, what are Justin and Luke's current favorite activities? | ||
| Izzy is really into swings right now. | ||
| They love the swing. | ||
| We've got a swing set. | ||
| They love the swing. | ||
| They have to be pushed constantly. | ||
| You cannot look at your phone while you are pushing them or they will not be happy with you. | ||
| What are they into? | ||
| They're really into this. | ||
| We got a truck, you know, I don't believe in, it's like a farmer's truck with some animals and you put the animals in the truck and if you can get the animal in the sort of spot that it fits into, it will make the sound of the animal. | ||
| I'm not big on electronic sounds and all of that. | ||
| We like wooden toys mostly, but we have granted them access on that one. | ||
| They're really into that. | ||
| And now it's hot as hell here in Florida in the summer, so anything involving water. | ||
| We bring them into the big pool sometimes, but we have a little pool that they can get into and jump in the sprinkler and shoot each other with water guns and all that. | ||
| That's the main stuff at the moment. | ||
| Glenn says, who do you consider the worst governor currently destroying their particular state? | ||
| Gavin, the Snake Newsome, Kathy Hochul, Gretchen Whitmer, or another atrocious slime ball? | ||
| And who is the best Democrat governor and the worst Republican governor currently in office? | ||
| And who is the second best Republican governor? | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| Well, look, Gavin is the worst because he is the avatar for everything that is wrong with the Democrats. | ||
| Biden, it's like Biden is horrible and he has no effing idea what he's doing. | ||
| And he's awful. | ||
| He's also, he's not a governor, obviously, but like, But Gavin represents everything that is wrong with the Democrat party. | ||
| He represents everything that is wrong with the media. | ||
| The slickness, the fake smile, the lies, everything. | ||
| What was it? | ||
| What was it last week? | ||
| He was, the reason that California is in debt is because of atmospheric rivers. | ||
| And he says it with a straight face. | ||
| It's completely insane. | ||
| So he's the worst. | ||
| Yes, Whitmer is horrible. | ||
| Hochul is evil. | ||
| I mean, it is a clown car of terrible, terrible people. | ||
| Who's the best Democrat governor? | ||
| I mean, they're really, who would you say is the best Democrat governor? | ||
| You guys wanna help me here? | ||
| I mean, I guess what's-his-name-in-Colorado's not terrible, but he's not great either. | ||
| Jared Polis, he's not like bananas lefty, but he's pretty bad. | ||
| I don't know, honestly. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| And who's the worst Republican governor? | ||
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| And who's the second, all right, I'll work on those for a second. | ||
| Let me think for a second on this. | ||
| And who's the second best Republican governor? | ||
| So DeSantis obviously is the best Republican governor. | ||
| Who's the second best Republican governor? | ||
| Look, Greg Abbott, you know, I know people have frustrations with him and see some shortcomings with him, but I think he's done a really nice job. | ||
| Let's not forget that a couple of years ago, Ted Cruz almost lost to Beto O'Rourke. | ||
| That was for Senate, obviously, but he only won by about a point or two. | ||
| That really could have started swinging Texas blue and Texas has really largely swung back to being red. | ||
| Greg Abbott has also picked the right fights when it comes to fighting the federal government as it pertains to the border towns and the border and all that. | ||
| So he's done a pretty good job. | ||
| I'm gonna punt the other question for a moment and we'll get back to that next week. | ||
| I promise I'll give you an answer on that. | ||
| Samantha says, dear Dave, can you please set a date for the July locals meetup? | ||
| I'm a huge fan from Portugal who's willing to fly across the Atlantic to the free state of Florida just to meet you and some like-minded people. | ||
| Okay, I probably, you're smiling at me. | ||
| Do we have to, do you know something I don't know? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right, we're working on it, I promise you. | ||
| It'll be something on the water in Miami, so we get a little bit of a breeze, probably last week in July, right before I go off the grid. | ||
| That's the last time we did it last year, and it was a wonderful meetup with you guys, and I promise we will make something happen. | ||
| Joe, it's the summer of an election year. | ||
| Will a country remain relatively calm, or will we have a few months of mostly peaceful protests? | ||
| You know, the Hamas stuff at college campuses has largely died down because school is out now, right? | ||
| Today's the last day of May, school's basically done, and these kids are committed to the cause, but then when you send them home, they're a little less committed to the genocide and all that. | ||
| So to that extent, hopefully some of it has died down. | ||
| Again, I would just sort of paraphrase something that I've been hitting on here. | ||
| Yesterday so changed the calculations of virtually everything in the country that anything is possible. | ||
| Do the Democrats, look, if they start seeing that Trump's numbers are going up and up and up and up, what do they need? | ||
| They need you to think that he's Hitler again. | ||
| They need you to think that he's racist again. | ||
| So would it be that suddenly they find a young black man who is killed by police officers, doesn't even matter what the circumstances are, and suddenly we all know his name, and we all gotta post the thing, and we all gotta bow again, and then we have to burn down cities in his honor? | ||
| Could all of that start up again? | ||
| Of course it could. | ||
| Of course it could. | ||
| They turn it on and off. | ||
| How did BLM get turned on and then one day it was just over? | ||
| And how did all of this Hamas stuff by the same exact people? | ||
| They turned it on for a couple weeks and then they can shut it down. | ||
| So there is a calculus here. | ||
| There is a chess game being played. | ||
| And yes, I do expect violence. | ||
| I would also say that the Democrat Convention is in freaking Chicago where we covered it, I think on Monday, 50 some odd people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. | ||
| So they're taking it to one of the most violent cities in America, Democrat run for about a hundred years in a blue state. | ||
| And the base hates Joe Biden and it's going to be a complete circus. | ||
| Vinay says, hey Dave, your newsletters and live chat community are worth the renewal of my annual subscription. | ||
| Oh, I'm glad to hear that. | ||
| Could you make this Brexit guy happier by saying my username, your, By saying my username and your papers, please, in a German accent. | ||
| Papers, please, Vade. | ||
| Vade, your papers, please. | ||
| That was pretty, that was halfway decent. | ||
| Sometimes my accents are like, just completely off. | ||
| Cassafrae, this is the last question, says, will you please tell us when the Libertarian Party asked you to run for president? | ||
| So I got a call I mentioned this yesterday, but I don't know that I ever said it publicly before. | ||
| I got a call from two higher-ups at the Libertarian Party about, which one was this? | ||
| This was the last election, so this was not the Gary Johnson 2016 thing. | ||
| This is when they ultimately nominated Jo Jorgensen, and it was months before I think she was in, and they were trying to figure out what to do. | ||
| And I got a call from two higher-ups. | ||
| They're asking if I would consider it. | ||
| And they wanted some, like it was a very, it was about a 20 minute | ||
| or so conversation. | ||
| And they asked a little bit about, to clarify some of my positions on things. | ||
| And I was, at that point, I had already sort of ideologically shifted more. | ||
| I don't even want to say more to the right. | ||
| I was already like ready to support Trump. | ||
| So I didn't think it made any sense. | ||
| You know, the libertarians, sadly, it's as I always say, it's trying to wrangle cats. | ||
| Let's debate whether we should have, you know, driver's licenses instead of actually doing anything important. | ||
| I love libertarian ideas. | ||
| This country was founded largely on libertarian ideas. | ||
| Classical liberalism is really just libertarianism with some set of rules around it, like some minimal set of rules around it. | ||
| And that, to me, is how we should be governing ourselves. | ||
| You can have all the ideals you want, but you usually can't live in a utopia. | ||
| You can have little brief moments of it. | ||
| And libertarians largely live in a utopia. | ||
| I don't mean that to dismiss anyone who is a libertarian. | ||
| It is always worth Like holding your highest beliefs in order. | ||
| But then at some point, the rubber meets the road. | ||
| And I would say largely Trump, imperfectly, has been the most libertarian president that we've had in a long time. | ||
| Scaling back wars, lowering taxes, leaving COVID to the states, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| So libertarians are never going to get what they fully want. | ||
| But there was a reason Donald Trump went to that convention. | ||
| And it was because it's like, hey guys, I'm more like you. | ||
| So come on this way, instead of getting that, as Trump said, three to 4% that you guys get every year, every four years. | ||
| But by the way, they didn't even get that last time. | ||
| They got 1.2% last time. | ||
| Look, you guys have ballot access, the Libertarian Party. | ||
| You're on all 50 states in DC. | ||
| You could do something magical with it, or in times of great, with an impending disaster on the way, which is what it seems like, you might want to just be like, all right, Do we wanna hand this to Biden and the Dems and the communists and all of the authoritarians and big state people who are completely antithetical to all of our ideas? | ||
| Or do we wanna just kinda go with the Trump guy and yeah, he spends a little bit more and okay, he's not a perfect libertarian. | ||
| At some point, you just gotta get into reality as well. | ||
| All right, guys, that is our show for today. | ||
| I hope this offered you a little bit of insight, probably a little bit of worry that you maybe already had, | ||
| but maybe a little bit of comfort as well. | ||
| Obviously, none of this is going anywhere. | ||
| As I mentioned, Monday, I will be in New York. | ||
| I'm doing Gutfeld and I think a couple other Fox shows, and I think we have a surprise or two | ||
| that you'll find interesting while I'm there. | ||
| But my show that we were supposed to be today with Sage Steele and Riley Gaines | ||
| will be up at the normal time, 11 a.m. | ||
| on Monday. | ||
| Part two of my interview with the great Gad Saad is up on platforms everywhere. | ||
| Full thing, ReubenReport.Locals.com. | ||
| And although we normally don't do post-game shows on Fridays, we are doing one today. | ||
| 30 seconds. | ||
| We'll see you right there. | ||
| Look, it says it. | ||
| Wait, where'd it go? | ||
| It said it right there. | ||
| Can we put it back? | ||
| Look, it's there. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| It's coming. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| It's almost there. | ||
| It's going to come after that. |
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