June 20, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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What up yo! | |
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It's June 20th, 2024. | ||
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| And today's show, which is, as I said, it's a community Q&A, is also gonna focus | ||
| on my conversation that I had about two weeks ago in New York with Chris Cuomo. | ||
| We showed you one little clip of it yesterday, but we've got three or four clips for you today, | ||
| and then we'll frame some of that around Fauci, who again is still back. | ||
| These people, I mean, just the lack of self-awareness to still be out there pushing the lies and all of this stuff. | ||
| It's just really incredible. | ||
| But the reason I want to show you some of the Cuomo clips is because a few people, I did see some people on Twitter and I got a couple emails, people like, I don't want to even go to Chris Cuomo's channel. | ||
| I don't want to support Chris Cuomo. | ||
| He was horrible on COVID. | ||
| He's a liar. | ||
| His brother did this, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And I have to say, look, Obviously, I have been very critical and made an awful lot of fun of the guy, clearly. | ||
| But we had a two hour, I would say, very respectful conversation in his apartment. | ||
| So he welcomed me into his apartment, made me a cup of coffee. | ||
| We had a nice chat. | ||
| We talked a little bit about tequila at the end. | ||
| I enjoyed being with the guy. | ||
| We fundamentally see the world, I think, in largely different ways, but there is some commonality there too. | ||
| We're both originally New Yorkers and all that. | ||
| As I mentioned yesterday, my parents absolutely loved his father, Mario Cuomo, who they wanted to run for president. | ||
| A lot of people thought he was going to. | ||
| He was the governor of New York in the 80s. | ||
| So I think it's worth showing you some of the disagreement that we still have, because if we can't get to a place where we agree on basic truths that are happening now, or well, if we can't agree on basic truths of the things that happened over the last couple of years, then we're never going to agree on what's going on now. | ||
| So we're going to dive into that. | ||
| And a couple other things, and we'll talk about some higher ed stuff, too. | ||
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| of A. And now back to me. | ||
| All right, so let's dive into some of this stuff with Chris. | ||
| Now again, remember, he invites me into his home. | ||
| We had a little internal debate. | ||
| Phoenix and I about whether I should do the show at all. | ||
| It's like, here's a guy that I think has pushed so much of the COVID nonsense. | ||
| He was on CNN for years, prime time. | ||
| I think lying or at least misrepresenting things on every major story, whether it was Brett Kavanaugh as a serial rapist or Jesse Smollett, you guys know the list of things. | ||
| And now he's not on CNN anymore. | ||
| And I was just sort of personally, I'm just being very upfront with you guys. | ||
| I was just personally like, Should I kind of be part of dealing this guy back in? | ||
| Like, does he deserve to be dealt back in? | ||
| And ultimately what we decided was it would be worth airing out what some of our differences are and let people decide if they want to watch him anymore or if they don't care about him or if I'm able to effectively make my arguments, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| So that's exactly what we did. | ||
| Here we are sparring over the efficacy of the vaccines and Fauci's what I would say are lies. | ||
| I don't think Cuomo sees it exactly that way. | ||
| A little bit of it is an unfair analysis, period, and to Trump, because he didn't have the vaccine. | ||
| He made it. | ||
| I'm not taking away his credit, but I'm saying. | ||
| Well, I don't think he deserves credit for it. | ||
| I think the vaccine was not a vaccine. | ||
| And well, not I think the vaccine was not a vaccine. | ||
| The vaccine did not work. | ||
| Fauci is on right now. | ||
| It works. | ||
| It worked. | ||
| It works. | ||
| It's why the hospitalizations came down. | ||
| I mean, that's why the health care system. | ||
| I know everyone says that, but I don't think there's really any evidence of that. | ||
| I'm not vaxxed. | ||
| They're not vaxxed. | ||
| None of my crew is vaxxed. | ||
| You are not the people who should have been made to be vaxxed. | ||
| Well, first off, but they were forcing everybody to be vaxxed. | ||
| That is going to be something that needs to be reviewed and scrutinized and I believe ultimately found to have been wrong. | ||
| Yeah, but Fauci should be in jail. | ||
| For what? | ||
| What's the crime? | ||
| Well, we can do a whole bunch of things. | ||
| We'd have to decide what the crime is at the end. | ||
| Let me just go through a few of the things that he did and then we can figure out what the technical term for the crime is. | ||
| So just in the last few days he's admitted that six feet social distancing was largely made up. | ||
| He completely admitted it. | ||
| No he didn't. | ||
| Yes he did. | ||
| No he didn't. | ||
| What did he say? | ||
| We'll do it point by point. | ||
| What he said was, uh, I don't know where it came from. | ||
| I don't know why they said such a thing. | ||
| He's the head of the NIH. | ||
| The rule was from the CDC. | ||
| Bob Redfield, who is the head of the CDC, says, to me and to anyone who asks him, Tony had nothing to do with six feet. | ||
| It was us. | ||
| We gave it to him as the parameter. | ||
| It doesn't, but he has to have the wherewithal to say, where did you guys come up with this? | ||
| How did you just magically made up something? | ||
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Oh, no, no, no. | |
| They did not. | ||
| They did not make it up. | ||
| There was a debate in house at the CDC. | ||
| I know this stuff cold. | ||
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No, no. | |
| I believe that they had debates and internal memos about it, but there was nothing backing it. | ||
| There was nothing backing it. | ||
| No, they had tons of stuff backing it. | ||
| There was no evidence that when you went to a restaurant, if you were sitting, you could take your mask off and COVID could only get the waiter who was standing and had to wear the mask. | ||
| And masks don't work at all. | ||
| They do work. | ||
| They don't work. | ||
| They're not perfect. | ||
| There's a lot of research that's all over the place. | ||
| Okay, so that's just one portion of this. | ||
| And as you can see, we have a fundamental, I would say the fundamental thing, whether you fully agree with my assessment there or you fully agree with him, is we fundamentally have a difference in trust. | ||
| He seems to still trust the CDC, trust the NIH, believe that the intentions of a lot of these people, including Fauci, were good. | ||
| If Fauci got the memo about six feet social distancing from the CDC, | ||
| why didn't he ask about it? | ||
| Why didn't he say, well, what are the studies on this? | ||
| Has this ever been done before? | ||
| Has it been proven to work or anything else? | ||
| Like that was my point, right? | ||
| And we'll get into a bunch more in just a second. | ||
| But I think the fundamental thing that most of us are dealing with right now is that there is a set of people | ||
| who seem to trust the institutions. | ||
| Now, I wish that the institutions, I wish that the CDC and the NIH and even institutions like CNN and institutions like Harvard, I wish they were worthy of our trust. | ||
| That would be great. | ||
| That would be the sign of a functioning system, of a healthy system. | ||
| But I think we are well past the point where we should be trusting. | ||
| The study came out of here. | ||
| Oh, and this government bureaucrat said this or that. | ||
| So that really seems to be the disconnect. | ||
| And then we continue to get into it here. | ||
| Then the vaccine. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Joe Biden went on stage and said you will not get nor transmit, but they literally changed the definition of the word vaccine for this vaccine. | ||
| Joe Biden went on stage. | ||
| No, they changed it before. | ||
| They changed it when mRNA became a dominant research tool for them with Zika and AIDS. | ||
| They then changed what a vaccine is that today approximates what's called a therapeutic because they learned that this new species of viruses that they're dealing with, Doesn't react the same way that they used to see. | ||
| So they changed the definition. | ||
| I don't see anything nefarious in the change. | ||
| Do I see something problematic in the messaging? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And that's the point you were about to make. | ||
| Well, Joe Biden went on stage and said, you will not get nor transmit COVID if you get the vaccine. | ||
| Rachel Maddow gave one of the most ridiculous, you know, five minute beginnings of her show talking about the exact, just repeating what I would say in essence was state propaganda. | ||
| Why did I not get fooled by all of that stuff? | ||
| When I was like, so that's where I started becoming critical of you and more of the cable news guys, where I was just like, every day I turn on, and I don't mean any of this to own you or any of that. | ||
| Every day I turn on. | ||
| I never own you. | ||
| Never. | ||
| Good, good. | ||
| But that every day I turn on the cable news and they're all saying the exact same things. | ||
| And all I kept saying was, I don't know if this vaccine works and I don't know if masks work and everything else, but I know you shouldn't be locked in your house. | ||
| I know the government shouldn't have that power. | ||
| And I know that. | ||
| I shouldn't be able to force my employees to be injected with something, which is what | ||
| the government wanted. | ||
| You know, I don't have a thousand employees, but the OSHA mandate and everything else. | ||
| And all I did was remain skeptical of the entire thing and then to watch everyone go | ||
| completely insane. | ||
| So again, to reiterate the point about trusting the institutions or being skeptical of the | ||
| institutions and you know, a guy like Cuomo and I'm not doing this to own him and I'll | ||
| never own you, Chris, you get the point. | ||
| But on CNN, you worked at a network, CNN, which has lied about all of the big narrative | ||
| stories. | ||
| Donald Trump, very fine people on both sides, Jesse Smollett, Covington kids, et cetera, | ||
| Kyle Rittenhouse, we can do the laundry list, putting aside the COVID stuff. | ||
| So I think a healthy dose of skepticism is probably why you are watching this right now. | ||
| You're like, oh, maybe I get political predictions wrong. | ||
| Of course I do, right? | ||
| Like no one wants to be in the political prediction game. | ||
| It's like being in a, predicting what's going to happen at the end of a basketball game. | ||
| Like you're going to get some right, you're going to get some wrong. | ||
| But the grand narratives that they have sold us, I think there are some people that have been somewhat skeptical of it and largely been proven right. | ||
| I think I would put myself in that group. | ||
| And then there's been people who just kind of buy into the thing and then run cover for it after. | ||
| And I would put Cuomo more in that. | ||
| But again, we were doing it respectfully. | ||
| I'm there invited into his home. | ||
| You could see we were trying to do a dance together that I think probably a healthy society could use a little bit more of. | ||
| Here we got into something that you may remember when I couldn't even get into Fox when I still lived in L.A. | ||
| to talk about COVID because I was not vaccinated with the vaccination that wasn't even a vaccination. | ||
| I was supposed to do a hit at Fox in in LA during the height of COVID. | ||
| I was going to do a hit basically debating vaccines and mandates really with Gloria Allred. | ||
| So Gloria Allred, the legendary, you know, civil rights attorney. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Odd pairing, but okay. | ||
| Yeah, strange pair. | ||
| I had never met her before, interviewed her before anything, but she was going to debate the pro-mandate side and I was going to do the anti-mandate side. | ||
| I get to the studio and they said, well, where's your passport? | ||
| I said, well, I don't have a passport. | ||
| I'm not Vax. | ||
| They would not let me in. | ||
| So they sent me back home. | ||
| And that was Fox. | ||
| That was Fox. | ||
| It's the Fox affiliate, not Fox News there, but the local Fox affiliate. | ||
| Anyway, but I couldn't get in Fox News here either. | ||
| So nobody's, you know, guiltless in all this. | ||
| Anyway, I go back home and then we do it digitally. | ||
| And then on air, Gloria Allred, the legendary civil rights attorney, asked me if I was vaxxed on air. | ||
| Think how insane that is that she was asking me my private medical information on air. | ||
| I asked her when the last time she got laid was. | ||
| She was not too thrilled with that question. | ||
| And I still didn't get an answer. | ||
| But when do you think that was? | ||
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Let's throw to that old classic right now. | |
| You know, I'm a progressive. | ||
| Proud progressive, I might add. | ||
| But I also believe in science. | ||
| And this is really not about rights. | ||
| It's about life and death. | ||
| And of course, kids can also be carriers of COVID. | ||
| And I ask you, Dave, Do you think there should not be a mandate for kids in schools to have to get vaccine for chickenpox, for mumps, for polio, for so many other vaccines that they are required to have in order to go to school? | ||
| Gloria, all of those things were tested for years. | ||
| As we know, we rushed out this vaccination. | ||
| But this is not... I'm not saying people should not get vaccinated. | ||
| I'm saying it should be left up to choice. | ||
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Are you a good, decent citizen? | |
| Are you vaccinated? | ||
| It's nobody's business whether I'm vaccinated. | ||
| That's like me asking you the last time you got laid. | ||
| I mean, it's just irrelevant. | ||
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All right. | |
| So, you know, what's really relevant is that it's one thing if you have the right to choose. | ||
| My medical history is not your business, nor yours is mine. | ||
| Isn't that interesting? | ||
| She's a civil rights attorney. | ||
| And I said legendary with Cuomo because she is sort of like the ambulance chaser for civil civil rights cases. | ||
| She's been on television for 40 years and asking someone on air if they're vaccinated. | ||
| Also, how ridiculous in retrospect now that's, you know, about three years ago. | ||
| How ridiculous does that now come off that she was demanding that children get vaccinated for COVID to go back into schools and everything else. | ||
| By the way, the chicken pox thing is completely absurd. | ||
| Every kid gets chicken pox. | ||
| You get it once and you move on. | ||
| Actually, the week that I had chicken pox in about second grade, it was one of the best weeks of my life because my buddy John got chicken pox too, and we just hung out and played Super Mario Brothers for a week. | ||
| Like, everything that happened to us was completely ridiculous. | ||
| It was sold to us. | ||
| And here's the point, really. | ||
| It was sold to us by people who lie like Anthony Fauci. | ||
| Then those lies were laundered, unfortunately, I would say, in this case, by media people like Cuomo. | ||
| And again, I'm not saying that to own you, Chris. | ||
| And then it was further laundered by people who are supposed to protect our civil rights Like Gloria Allred. | ||
| And that is why things seemingly get worse. | ||
| Because all of the people we are supposed to trust, the people in the institutions that we are supposed to trust when the shit hits the fan, they have failed us miserably. | ||
| And then, not only do they fail us miserably, all of the people who get everything wrong, they basically never have a mea culpa. | ||
| They never say sorry. | ||
| They never say they got anything wrong. | ||
| They blame. | ||
| They pretend it didn't happen. | ||
| And then, of course, they try to point the finger at people who just were a little bit skeptical. | ||
| And Anthony Fauci, I mentioned that he's back making the media rounds. | ||
| Here he is on the televised mental institution known as MSNBC. | ||
| And he's still going after people in red states who didn't bow to him. | ||
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To follow that question, we now head into a moment where, because of that divisiveness, it's become a political issue. | |
| Vaccinations in particular have become a political issue, where you have not just Donald Trump, but other Republicans saying, no, no, don't take the COVID vaccine. | ||
| We have other prominent figures saying, no, you should not take other vaccines as well, for other things that have been standard, that everyone has received for decades. | ||
| So with this much of disinformation and anger and just flat-out vaccine hesitancy, how nervous are you about our ability to handle the next pandemic, whatever it might be? | ||
| I'm very concerned about that because the misinformation and disinformation about absolutely scientifically proven life-saving interventions, it's astonishing to me that so many people by political ideology will make a decision that would actually endanger their lives. | ||
| I mean, the facts are, and As a physician and a scientist, this is very painful to me that if you look at red states versus blue states, because of people getting less vaccinated because you're a Republican versus a Democrat, there are more deaths and hospitalizations in red states versus blue states. | ||
| That's horrible that that happens, that people suffer and die because of misinformation that's related to a political ideology. | ||
| God, he's awful and it just keeps getting worse. | ||
| First off there, I don't have the empirical evidence of what he's saying and I bet you he doesn't either as far as red state versus blue state deaths. | ||
| We can look into that, but it's not a one-to-one comparison anyway. | ||
| I don't know what the answer to that is. | ||
| I do not know. | ||
| But states are different as it pertains to weather and how much sun people are getting and other behaviors how people eat and people tend to be a little bit heavier say in a place like Chicago and a little bit thinner in a place like Florida like there's a zillion other factors that go into it but suddenly but everything's perfectly fits the narrative that he's been pushing this entire time also this line where he's upset that people won't trust scientifically proven things again this is the same guy who lied lied lied 100% lied about masks | ||
| Lied. | ||
| Made up 6 foot social distancing. | ||
| I don't care if it was handed to him on a piece of paper from the CDC. | ||
| He repeated it without doing any research. | ||
| It was complete nonsense beginning to end. | ||
| What happened to natural immunity, right? | ||
| How come I got COVID? | ||
| And then my knees hurt a little bit for a couple of days. | ||
| David got a little bit sicker than me, but then we had natural immunity, and I've probably had COVID three or four times since, and you just used to get sick back in the day, and then the body creates antibodies, and then you maybe should also do things like eat right and exercise and get outside and all of the rest of the stuff while they're literally locking you at home and having you ordering Chinese and pizza every day. | ||
| So it's just absolutely extraordinary, and also just the way the entire interview is framed. | ||
| The people won't trust you anymore. | ||
| And oh my god, you are the victim here, Fauci. | ||
| And yes, we've got more of that. | ||
| Here's Joe Scarborough fellating. | ||
| Hey, Fauci. | ||
| I'm just curious how frustrating it is to you that people will go back and pick up something that you may have said in March of 2020, or something that another health official or a politician may have said later in that year. | ||
| Whether it was about masks or vaccines or anything, we didn't know. | ||
| None of us knew where this was going. | ||
| None of us knew, like for instance, how long would the vaccine work? | ||
| Would we need one booster every five years? | ||
| Would we need one every five months? | ||
| How frustrating is it to you that people look back with 20-20 hindsight and judge you when you and the rest of the world was in the fog of war? | ||
| You know, it is quite frustrating, Joe, and that relates exactly to the answer to the question just a moment ago where I was saying that people really don't appreciate, I don't blame them for that, but They don't appreciate that we were dealing with a moving target. | ||
| And when we were saying things in the beginning, wear a mask or not, how the virus is spread. | ||
| I mean, originally it was felt, understandably but incorrectly, by the CDC, that it is spread by the same way that flu is spread. | ||
| Namely, mostly by droplets. | ||
| When in fact, most of the transmission is not only by not droplets, it's by aerosol, but also 50 to 60 percent of the people who transmitted have no symptoms at all. | ||
| We didn't know that in the beginning. | ||
| It was a changing, moving target. | ||
| You're absolutely right. | ||
| Was it frustrating? | ||
| It was terribly frustrating because people like to take things out of context and do a gotcha. | ||
| That's part of the reporting. | ||
| It's just so grotesque. | ||
| It's like, all right, dude, OK, let's let's even giving you every Every bit of grace that you don't deserve. | ||
| Then how about we just shouldn't trust you anymore? | ||
| Oh, the CDC thought it was droplets turned out. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Let's just say you, Anthony, you had the best of intentions the entire time while you weren't letting people go to their grandmother's funeral or while you were literally encouraging people to lock their eight-year-old child in their bedroom for 12 days for quarantine and all of the absurd shit that you did. | ||
| If we grant you all of the grace on that, then how about just step away? | ||
| Just go away, right? | ||
| You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. | ||
| Like, how about at least that? | ||
| How about stop showing your face? | ||
| And it's just gross the way Scarborough asks those questions that Fauci is the victim here and more people should listen to him and everything else. | ||
| No, all of the lack of trust in some of the things that maybe we should trust, vaccines of the past that perhaps we should trust, the reason it is broken is because of you, not because of us that we're questioning the lunacy that you people pushed on us. | ||
| Here's late night comedian Stephen Colbert glazing Anthony Fauci because it just never ends. | ||
| Falating, glazing, go. | ||
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Nice to see you again, doctor. | |
| Good to be with you, Steven. | ||
| Always a pleasure to have you on. | ||
| I gotta say, you are a spry 83 years old. | ||
| Have you... Have you thought about running for president? | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
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No interest whatsoever? | |
| Well, you served under... Six? | ||
| Seven. | ||
| Seven presidents. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Politicization of science. | ||
| It's dangerous, but it's not a new thing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This has happened in the past. | ||
| You've dealt with it in the past. | ||
| Have you seen anything like the way it is now, though? | ||
| Because certainly, just a few days ago, your testimony down in Washington, D.C. | ||
| made headlines for the hostility that you received. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Is this, even for your long-historic career and being involved with all these politicians, does this seem like something new to you? | |
| Quite new and disturbing. | ||
| Back when I first became director of the Institute, which was, you know, I've been director, I had been director for almost 40 years. | ||
| In the beginning, there was always politics. | ||
| You know, there was people of different ideology. | ||
| There was center, center left, center right. | ||
| They disagreed and They, you know, sometimes would argue with each other. | ||
| But at the end of the day, there was civility and respect for each other. | ||
| What we're seeing now is what you had mentioned, Stephen. | ||
| It's vitriol and pure hostility. | ||
| So I would get questioned in a very strict, pushing way, maybe back in other administrations. | ||
| But at the end of the hearing, they would come over to you and say, you know, good job. | ||
| You know, sorry that we had to be tough with our questionings. | ||
| But, you know, we want to get to the right place. | ||
| Now it's pure attack. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Fauci's the victim. | ||
| They're being mean to him. | ||
| People don't come up to him after the hearings and give him a handjob. | ||
| He can just go to Joe Scarborough's house for that, I suppose. | ||
| It's just absolutely absurd. | ||
| Again, I'm just showing you these videos to see the way that they keep bringing him back. | ||
| Dude, just go away if nothing else. | ||
| That's all we ask. | ||
| Okay, so the reason I'm showing you this also to the backdrop of the Cuomo thing is that what you were seeing there is that Cuomo and I just have a fundamental difference on who to trust and I happen to trust Actually, my own mind, and I would say common sense, and you have a degree of skepticism when it comes to things, and I don't think that the system is necessarily looking out for me, and he kind of does. | ||
| But it's not just, obviously, COVID, as it pertains to trusting the system and everything else. | ||
| The big thing over the last couple of years that's taken over our institutions, of course, is DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which, as you know, should be D-I-E, DIE, because that's really what they want most of us to do. | ||
| We had a fundamental difference of agreement on that as well, Cuomo and I, and I think I think I maybe got him a little bit here to change his mind perhaps. | ||
| You decide. | ||
| You know how he has been with racists and alt-right people. | ||
| He has been very hands-off and very delicate in his treatment of them. | ||
| But I would say Joe Biden is far more in bed with racists than Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib. | ||
| Oh, you mean the racism. | ||
| Yeah, but those are the real racists we have to worry about. | ||
| Those are the racists who are ruining this city. | ||
| Those are the racists who are taking over our institutions. | ||
| Those are the racists that are going to make it. | ||
| Why isn't it the same as saying, you worry about Omar, the people worry about Matt Gaetz. | ||
| Neither of them have any real power. | ||
| Well, she was on the Foreign Intelligence Committee. | ||
| I mean, they kicked her off now, but I mean, she is, but she has a huge amount of power. | ||
| I mean, look what she's amassed in Minnesota. | ||
| The policies that they are trying to put forward to the country, I would, you may not like their tactics and their, you may question their motives or whatever, but they are not trying to put in policies that would actually systemically put racism back into the country. | ||
| The left and DEI and all that, they are. | ||
| But DEI, the point of DEI, you can talk about its execution, you can talk about degree and duration, but the whole point was to stop minorities from being excluded from places and institutions that matter in American advancement. | ||
| That was the point. | ||
| I'm not sure that's what the point was. | ||
| I think that would be a sort of... | ||
| Pardon the way I'm going to say this. | ||
| I would say that would be a slightly naive way of looking at it. | ||
| I think that these people that are pushing this stuff are way more nefarious maybe than you think. | ||
| What do you think they want? | ||
| I think they actually want to upend all of the meritocracy that America has been built on. | ||
| I think they would gladly shred all of our founding documents. | ||
| I think that's very clear. | ||
| Listen to what they're saying at these campus protests. | ||
| They're starting with Israel, but the United States is the big fish. | ||
| I 100% know that Chris Cuomo as a father, four years from now when your son is out of college and he goes to get a job, On Wall Street or if he wants to be a doctor or whatever, does not want him to be discriminated on by the basis of the color of his skin, nor how much money and how famous his dad is and everything else. | ||
| And that is what they literally have systemically put into the country. | ||
| Supreme Court just reversed affirmative action as it pertains to college admissions, which was absolutely right. | ||
| You don't solve past discrimination by discriminating against Asians of today, right? | ||
| You don't do that. | ||
| In your opinion, they would say that, no, we are just trying to make sure this group isn't discriminated against anymore. | ||
| Not that you are. | ||
| But I don't think it's an opinion to say that, well, I suppose it's an opinion at some level, but I think it's an empirical truth that discrimination based on immutable characteristics is bad. | ||
| But they're not saying no white. | ||
| They're saying more other than white. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| Then thus you must discriminate. | ||
| Okay, so I think you saw how hard I was trying not to go after him personally or impugn his motives or anything else. | ||
| But you could also see that when you make a clear and cogent argument to somebody, and then make it personal too, that's why I brought up his son. | ||
| He had brought up his son earlier, said his son was just graduating high school, going to college. | ||
| When I made it about the discrimination that his son will face, because his son is growing up rich, his dad is, you know, Was a TV star, but certainly influential. | ||
| His grandfather was the governor. | ||
| His uncle was the governor of New York. | ||
| The system, the DEI system that he basically thinks is okay, is going to discriminate against his own child. | ||
| And I think that started breaking him up. | ||
| Also, a bit of his argument was... | ||
| Uh, the best of intentions. | ||
| Well, the intentions are we want to solve some of this stuff, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions, right? | ||
| So you can't say, okay, we're going to just artificially inflate the amount of, say, black and brown students we're going to bring into these schools. | ||
| So we're going to, you will, they will be able to have lesser grades, lesser qualifications than these Asian kids. | ||
| Well, then you are ultimately creating racism because what do you think will happen a generation later? | ||
| When a whole bunch of Asian kids, it's Asians and it's Jews and it's whites of course too, but it largely is happening. | ||
| We know for sure it was happening as it pertains to Asians at Harvard. | ||
| What do you think is going to happen a generation after a generation of that goes by? | ||
| You think Asians will be racist against black people? | ||
| Probably yes. | ||
| They'll be like, look what they're getting. | ||
| So all a system can do is say we are going to be colorblind. | ||
| And sure, some groups have a little more and some groups have a little bit less. | ||
| And that has to do with culture. | ||
| And that has to do with family. | ||
| And that has to do with hard work and everything else. | ||
| And there is no perfect system. | ||
| Humans are imperfect. | ||
| So we create imperfect systems. | ||
| But I want to connect what we talked about there as it pertains to DEI, to show how granularly in this country things are changing. | ||
| Here is University of Florida President Ben Sasse talking about how professors are now flocking to Florida because we have dismantled DEI, so we've taken it out of our schools, and what's happening is real professors, the few sane Ivy League professors, The Hamilton Center that we've been building, and thank you for some of the faculty that you've loaned us, at the University of Florida, we have 6,400 professors. | ||
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We have 16 colleges and schools, but Hamilton is our latest, and they're currently called a center, but will eventually be upgraded to a college or school. I think Hamilton is | |
| probably the most sought-after job in higher education in America right now. We had over 1,200 | ||
| applicants in about a 10-month period this year to become a professor there. And New York Times and other | ||
| places have tried to write pieces and call the Hamilton Center a right-wing this or that. It's | ||
| just classically liberal. | ||
| It's not right of center. | ||
| We're not interested in your politics. | ||
| And lots and lots of the faculty who are applying are from Ivy's and Ivy Plus top 15 institutions who are way left of center. | ||
| I just happen to know a lot of them personally. | ||
| And so that's the only reason I know anything about their politics. | ||
| But they just want to teach at a place that's humble enough to say, we're wrestling with big questions here and political indoctrination is boring. | ||
| That's not what an educational institution exists to do. | ||
| That's the white pill of everything I've done here today so far, is that the sorting is actually happening. | ||
| People, post-COVID, are moving to places that are more in line with their values, hopefully voting the right way when they get there. | ||
| Then the institutions are having a major sorting, right? | ||
| Like, if you're gonna spend $80,000 a year to send your kid to Colombia so they become a member of Hamas, okay, have at it! | ||
| But you could also perhaps spend way less, send your kids to a school in Florida where they will be taught a classically liberal education. | ||
| And that sorting over time actually is the strength of America. | ||
| It's the beauty of what the founders did with federalism. | ||
| It's the beauty of what choice is. | ||
| It's the beauty of bottom-up instead of top-down authority. | ||
| And that's just what we need more of. | ||
| Got a RubinReport.locals.com community Q&A coming up in just a second. | ||
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| All right, let's get into a community Q&A. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| James says, I would ask Dave to comment on the questions San Francisco Mayor London Breed posed to her chief opponent, Mark Farrell. | ||
| Quote, you were at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and couldn't name any LGBT advisors to your campaign. | ||
| You were at the debate last week and couldn't name any drag queens on your own, she said to Farrell. | ||
| This is an opportunity to redeem yourself if you could name three LGBTQ advisors to your campaign and three drag queens in San Francisco. | ||
| Okay, so this is true actually. | ||
| I'm going to skip the rest of the question because we have some video of this. | ||
| They're out of San Francisco. | ||
| Think of all of the crazy I'd like to ask Mark a question. | ||
| going on in San Francisco, the zombie apocalypse on the streets, | ||
| the drugs, the homelessness, the urban blight, the destruction of the middle class. | ||
| And instead of dealing with any of those things properly at a debate, they're debating | ||
| how many drag queens do you know? | ||
| So before I even comment on this any further, we actually have some of the video from the debate. | ||
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I'd like to ask Mark a question. | |
| You were at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and couldn't name any LGBT advisors to your campaign. | ||
| You were at the debate last week and couldn't name any drag queens on your own. | ||
| I was wondering if you This is an opportunity to redeem yourself. | ||
| And if you could name three LGBTQ advisors for your campaign | ||
| and three drag queens in San Francisco. | ||
| So we're not gonna. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| We're not going to revise the drag queen question from last week. | ||
| But what I will say is I'm incredibly proud of the support that I have from our LGBTQ plus community here in the San Francisco. | ||
| Let me be very clear about this during Gay Pride Month. | ||
| There is no such thing as the fucking LGBTQI2 spirit plus community. | ||
| The trans people want to chop the genitals off the gays and the lesbians. | ||
| The pies are just a little confused. | ||
| These people have nothing to do with each other. | ||
| The two-spirit and the queer thing. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| You like to wear a dog mask. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Just do it in the privacy of your own home. | ||
| But the absurdity, the profound absurdity, that the mayor of San Francisco, who has demolished that city, which was one of the most beautiful cities in all of America only 15 years ago, That they have so destroyed that city, and the question that they are dealing with is, can my opponent name three drag queens? | ||
| I can't name three. | ||
| RuPaul. | ||
| Can anyone else in this room name a drag queen? | ||
| George Santos, okay? | ||
| Anyone else? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, think how absolute, you people deserve whatever you get, and that is, again, why federalism is great, and the great sorting that I just talked about is great. | ||
| I want nothing to do with you people. | ||
| You want San Francisco, you want your drag queen advisors, have at it. | ||
| I just want nothing to do with you, and guess what? | ||
| You can't have our shit. | ||
| That's gonna be really the problem, because the more that we separate, whoa, the more that we separate, they're gonna keep coming for our stuff, and that really will be the problem, but congratulations, San Francisco. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| Give me one more drag queen. | ||
| Or give me a funny drag queen name. | ||
| There must be another drag queen out there. | ||
| Daddy Satan. | ||
| Phoenix is a pro-Palestine. | ||
| Daddy Satan is a pro-Palestine drag queen. | ||
| Glenn says, do you ever worry you will miss out on commenting on a big story | ||
| when you take your August breaks? | ||
| Um, you know, I guess Tory, I think this is my eighth year doing it. | ||
| We'll check. | ||
| It's either my seventh or eighth year. | ||
| You know, I go completely off the grid for August. | ||
| No TV, no phone, no electronics, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. | ||
| And no news. | ||
| And then, of course, I come back with the big guest host and get caught up on everything. | ||
| You know, the first couple of years, I guess I was worried that I would miss little things. | ||
| And I did miss things. | ||
| I missed the Afghanistan withdrawal. | ||
| That was obviously a huge news story a couple of years back. | ||
| I missed John McCain's death one year. | ||
| You know, I missed different things each year. | ||
| I missed one of the Republican conventions, this or that. | ||
| I'm not worried. | ||
| The whole purpose of me doing it is so that I can come back Refreshed and with fresh eyes to do this right to be able to look at the news and Communicate it to you guys in a way that hopefully is a little bit lighter and a little bit funnier And a little bit more honest than what most people are doing I say that to the backdrop of just showing you those clips with Cuomo and And I think it's just it's it's one of the reasons I have not gone crazy while doing this | ||
| A lot of people that do something similar to this that have kind of gone a little bit nutty or off the rails or anything else. | ||
| But for me, when I realize, you know, and I'm two weeks in and I'm like, all right, well, whatever's happening in the world, it's happening. | ||
| And okay, I didn't comment on it and I'll get to it. | ||
| You realize the world goes on and on with or without you. | ||
| And I think that that perspective, and then just actually literally just giving my brain a chance to kind of reset. | ||
| and I've told you guys how suddenly I can remember, I'll like out of nowhere, I'll be like, | ||
| whatever happened to that kid Rich in second grade? | ||
| I used to sit next to him. | ||
| I wonder what happened to him. | ||
| And like, I'll just start thinking about something that I just haven't thought about for 20, 30 years | ||
| because the brain has room to like wander a little bit. | ||
| Sometimes days go by where, you know, we'll be sitting at the beach and we barely talk. | ||
| I don't even say that much, which I kind of like too. | ||
| It's just a decompression of all of the craziness. | ||
| So no, I'm not worried. | ||
| I think this year is particularly nutty in that I suppose Donald Trump could end up in jail and Joe Biden could end up in the old age home or some other version of both of those. | ||
| And I could come back and it's September, whatever it is, September 3rd that I come back, and it'll be completely two different candidates running for president. | ||
| That does seem a little bizarre. | ||
| Also, it does feel like there's a world war at some level being ramped up. | ||
| So this one seems particularly weird, but that's exactly why I do it. | ||
| Jeffrey says, right-wing news outlets are showing how Biden is losing his mind. | ||
| Left-wing news outlets are showing how Trump is losing it. | ||
| Is RFK Jr. | ||
| really the only candidate with a functioning brain? | ||
| Well, first off, I don't think there's any, between the degradation of Joe Biden's brain | ||
| and whatever cognitively is going on with him and Trump. | ||
| Right, Trump's still for all of his silliness and yes, he repeats phrases | ||
| and just he glosses over things and whatever. | ||
| He can extemporaneously talk for two hours. | ||
| He gets, he's directionally right about most of the stuff. | ||
| And I just don't see a real comparison But to your point, yes, left-wing media will always go out of their way to show him in the most uncharitable thing, and I suppose right-wing media will do the same thing when it comes to Joe Biden. | ||
| You know, RFK, ironically, he had brain worms, but he might have the most functioning brain out of all of them. | ||
| Is he officially out of the debate? | ||
| I didn't think he was gonna get in, but I think there's, yeah. | ||
| So he will not be in the debate, which is a damn shame, and it really is, it's totally unjust For several reasons, but I would say the prime reason is he's still polling somewhere in most national polls between 10 and 20 percent. | ||
| Knowing that most of our elections come down to 1 percent, 2 percent, the guy with 10 or 20 in the middle, depending on which way he polls, he could fully affect the result of the election. | ||
| So we should be able to hear from him, whether you want Trump to win or whether you want Biden to win. | ||
| But I suppose that is not gonna happen. | ||
| He is getting on more and more ballots, so I think that that's good at least. | ||
| Shelly says, hey Dave, at what age did you realize you wanted to be a stand-up comic? | ||
| You mentioned going to college and probably did not have comedy as your major. | ||
| That being said, how did your parents take the new venture of yours? | ||
| Did they believe it was your passion or just a dream that would not come to fruition? | ||
| This too will pass a moment in time. | ||
| Glad you're living your dream, thanks. | ||
| Well, you know, it's funny. | ||
| My friends growing up, everybody was funny. | ||
| Like, that was the language that we spoke in. | ||
| Like, we were playing video games, playing basketball, and just being funny. | ||
| Like, that was it. | ||
| And I always thought somebody was going to be a comedian. | ||
| And my last day of college, literally my last day of college, I had done all my finals, handed in all my papers. | ||
| I was in a public speaking class, and it was the last thing I was going to do, the last class I was going to attend or anything. | ||
| And we were allowed to talk about whatever we wanted, like give a ten minute speech on something, and I just did this recap of what it was like to be in college. | ||
| And I sat down on a chair like Bill Cosby himself, and Cosby was my favorite. | ||
| Stand-up comic from 1983. | ||
| I saw himself. | ||
| I was seven years old. | ||
| The title of his HBO special was himself. | ||
| And I just could not believe anything was that funny. | ||
| My stomach was buckled and in pain from laughing so hard. | ||
| I just couldn't believe it. | ||
| And I did basically a 10-minute recap of what it was like to be in college and made it funny. | ||
| And half the class was looking at me like I was insane and half the class was cracking up. | ||
| And then a week later, I was at New York Comedy Club in New York City, 23rd and 3rd. | ||
| And I started doing stand-up and then it was, you know, 15 years of doing that in New York and doing some stuff on the road and then eventually doing it in LA and I think all of it. | ||
| led to my ability to do a book tour where I largely do standup for an hour, | ||
| pretty much kind of off the top of my head, but I'm just kind of messing around with everybody. | ||
| And I never wanted to be one of these like jokey joke, I'm gonna get on The Tonight Show, | ||
| here's my little five minute thing. | ||
| It's sort of the way I do this show. | ||
| Like I want it to be kind of thoughtful and then funny at times, | ||
| and it's kind of corny and also silly and ridiculous and straightforward and just a big mix of a bunch of stuff. | ||
| As for my parents, my dad basically was like, well, you can do whatever you want, | ||
| but you gotta figure out a way to pay the bills. | ||
| You can't live here forever. | ||
| So I did all sorts of odd jobs as a standup. | ||
| My first job out of college, I was assistant manager at Electronics Boutique, | ||
| which you guys know as GameStop now, but I was a waiter, I was a bartender, | ||
| I did promotions where I'd go to colleges. | ||
| Anything I could do to rub two nickels together so that I could survive. | ||
| And I guess it all worked out to some degree or another. | ||
| The analogy of Pakistan, which Douglas Murray so eloquently explained in the Monk Debate the other day, is a very good analogy to confront the Zionism argument, I think. | ||
| Do you think we should all use it to debunk the pro-Hamas group, like Breonna Joy Gray, who are now openly calling for the eradication of a Jewish state in favor of some utopian democracy, which of course would be an Arab theocracy? | ||
| And then, Salman, I do want to note, you gave me a really nice historical piece on Pakistan there, but I thought it would be a bit much to read right now. | ||
| In essence, the short answer is yes, that post-World War II, the entire world and the borders of the Middle East and across Europe were changed and altered and states were created and everything else. | ||
| As Douglas pointed out in the Munk debate, amongst a zillion other things that he said that were quite brilliant, if you were relentlessly trying to destroy and upend Pakistan, and then you were like, but it has nothing to do with the Pakistani people, I really love them. | ||
| Everyone would know you were like a maniac and an idiot and a liar and probably a racist to some extent, to the extent that Pakistanis obviously is not a race. | ||
| It's a it's a nation. | ||
| But you get the point. | ||
| I think that there are many, many arguments to be made that make the Zionism argument very simple. | ||
| There are basic, basic things. | ||
| Judaism is the first of the monotheistic religions. | ||
| Everyone knows the story of Exodus, which is the Jews going from Egypt to the ancient land of Israel. | ||
| You go to Israel and you see they're unearthing things in Hebrew from thousands of years ago. | ||
| Jesus of Nazareth was From Israel, right? | ||
| Everyone knows all of these things. | ||
| There's 22 Arab nations that all are only for largely Arab and Muslim people. | ||
| There is no coexistence. | ||
| Women are not treated well. | ||
| Minorities are not treated well. | ||
| There's no Christians left in any of these countries. | ||
| Virtually no Christians. | ||
| There's basically no Jews left in any of these countries. | ||
| The Middle East has one tiny place the size of New Jersey Where there's two million Arab Muslims who can serve on the Supreme Court and have in Israel and all the rest of the stuff. | ||
| You go to Jerusalem, and we showed you videos of this when we were in Jerusalem, where you'll be, there will be an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man standing next to a Muslim woman in a burqa and they're on the bus together. | ||
| Like, it is the only place of anything related to coexistence In the entire part of that world, it's the only place in the Middle East that has anything remotely close to progressive ideology or liberal ideology, and that's the place that the progressives hate the most. | ||
| Ironically, if Israel behaved the exact same way as an Arab nation, they would all hate it because they would say it was too liberal, right? | ||
| So it's all completely idiotic, and I think there's many good arguments. | ||
| The Pakistan one is one of them. | ||
| LW says, Dave, you said you had two Teslas sitting out back. | ||
| Does that mean you have no intention in the future of a long road trip? | ||
| No, so we do have two Teslas. | ||
| We only had one car for many, many years. | ||
| Then we had... | ||
| We had the kids, we realized we needed two cars. | ||
| But you know, the superchargers are all over the country. | ||
| You can drive coast to coast. | ||
| You can drive from Miami, Florida down south, you can go in the east, and you can go all the way to Northwest California or Oregon and supercharge all along the way. | ||
| It's gonna take you a little bit more time, but the superchargers, Elon's done a great job, where the superchargers now charge way, way faster. | ||
| So on the Model X, I mean, you can basically go from no charge to full charge probably in about 20 minutes. | ||
| And you have a beautiful screen in that Tesla where they have apps for Netflix and everything else. | ||
| So you can sit there and you can watch Netflix. | ||
| And most of the superchargers, at least in the bigger city areas, are usually somewhere that it's a nice outdoor mall or whatever. | ||
| Some of them are in a little more remote spot. | ||
| So you just get out of the car and you go have lunch or whatever. | ||
| So yes, it would make the drive a bit longer. | ||
| I've done the cross-country thing once. | ||
| We did it one time when we moved in 2013 from New York to Cali. | ||
| It is absolutely, Tesla or not, it is something that everyone should do. | ||
| Every American should do it. | ||
| When you drive across this great country and you see the vastness, and you see the change in foliage, and from mountains to plains, and the beauty of the sunsets and the sunrises and all of that, and the difference in the people and the weather, and you see that this is so freaking extraordinary what we have in this country. | ||
| That perhaps we should not give it up. | ||
| Jay from Boise says, I have a completely non-confirmed theory. | ||
| The reason why the left pushed to shut down American energy production in the name of climate control is because most of the stateside energy supports the Republican Party. | ||
| What do you think of this? | ||
| I don't think it's that crazy. | ||
| I think that's probably one layer of it. | ||
| I would say that the big layer of it is that the reason they are trying to shut down stateside energy and they want us off oil is not because of climate change. | ||
| It's because they want to institute huge governmental authoritarian power over humans and decide how much you drive your car, or as we covered yesterday, | ||
| whether you will even own your car or have to borrow your car, | ||
| or how often you can be on a plane while they are on their private jets. | ||
| Like most things just come down to control. | ||
| AOC seven years ago, when she said, we have 12 years left to live, | ||
| unless she is a complete retard, which I do think is possible, | ||
| she knew it was a lie, right? | ||
| But they lie because as James Lindsay often points out, everything is about the revolution, right? | ||
| So every single thing that they do, whether it's burning down buildings in honor of George Floyd, or trying to push Jews out of Colombia while wearing Hamas masks, or telling you that you have to give up your gas car or your gas stove to stop climate change, it's all in the name of the communist revolution. | ||
| So I think when you start seeing that, As opposed to what Chris Cuomo was doing, where he was like, well, DEI was originally brought in because people wanted minorities to, and it's like, okay, well, we can play this game forever, where they destroy everything and we just never call out why they're doing it, or we can be like, oh, we know what they do, we know what the game plan is, and we're not gonna play with them anymore. | ||
| KCMTL says, is it better to call Justin Trudeau a douchebag or a scumbag? | ||
| I like douchebag. I like douchebag. I'm not 100% sure what a douchebag is, and I kind of don't want to know, | ||
| but douche is a funny word. Douchebag. Scumbag is sort of standard stuff. I would say he's more of | ||
| a douchebag. Yeah, douchebag is a douche. It has something to do with downstairs in the feminine regions. | ||
| And he also, he's trans or something, right? | ||
| So it seems right for him. | ||
| Lori says, you have shared your humble beginnings, cans of tuna and sleeping on couches trying to make it. | ||
| Now that you've made it big, what is the most important thing that you want to leave for your kids? | ||
| Man, well, I did definitely have those lean years. | ||
| I told you I had a buddy who was in food service and he would bring me industrial size cans of tuna that I would eat for weeks and industrial size cans of soup that would go to restaurants. | ||
| My sodium levels and my mercury levels, I'm sure in the early 2000s probably, I should have been quarantined for that. | ||
| So I had those lean years. | ||
| I mean, I'm talking scrounging up a little bit of change from my roommate's coffee can so I could buy a cup of coffee. | ||
| It was definitely tough in some of those years. | ||
| Living, you know, I had a couple of different apartments, but also like living on friends' couches for a while and all that stuff. | ||
| What would I want to leave the kids? | ||
| Well, I mean, if you mean like the monetary stuff, like I would just I would hope that I would leave them... Well, it's really not the monetary stuff. | ||
| I hope that for the next 18 years or so that I'm able to fill them up with enough of the good stuff and the right things and the truth that they will go on a great adventure and do more amazing things than I've done. | ||
| That, I guess, would be the real piece of it. | ||
| We have discussed with our family planners and financial people, we're not putting aside for college, really. | ||
| We're putting aside a fund so that if Hopefully they have their head on straight and one of them comes up to me, you know, post high school and I'm like, dad, I want to travel for a little bit. | ||
| And then, and then this is what I want to do. | ||
| Well, there's some funds to do that. | ||
| But, but I don't, it's not like I want to like buy houses for everybody and all that stuff. | ||
| I think, you know, the struggle is also part of it. | ||
| And that's also the challenge for anyone. | ||
| Once you get a little something, Like, if you just hand it to your kids, why do so many kids of fairly wealthy parents, why do they, so many of them go crazy and drugs and blah blah blah. | ||
| Cause the struggle is real too. | ||
| Just being handed everything is not good. | ||
| So that, that, but that will certainly be a challenge that we will have to address. | ||
| Olaf says, do you have any flags flying outside your home? | ||
| I'm thinking you don't have the rainbow alphabet plus flag. | ||
| No, we do not have the flag of the trans terrorists in front of our house. | ||
| We don't have, you know, there's a ton of them. | ||
| This is Florida. | ||
| There's a ton of American flags here. | ||
| We don't have one outside. | ||
| Maybe we'll do it finally for this July 4th. | ||
| We have discussed it, but we do have a massive, I think we have a picture of it. | ||
| So we have a huge American flag that's in the hallway, which led to our old studio inside the house. | ||
| That's really not illustrating how big it is, but that flag was given to me, I wish I could remember the guy's name, by a former A former member of the armed services who, I think it's a World War II flag he got in France, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| I wish I had the specifics. | ||
| I'll have to dive into my email and check on that. | ||
| Long story short, I had mentioned one day on the show a couple of years ago that I wanted an authentic flag to hang in the house somewhere. | ||
| And somebody reached out to me and I met him in LA. | ||
| I should know the story a little bit better. | ||
| I'm sorry for that. | ||
| We'll double check on that. | ||
| The Eurasian says, in those clips you played of your interview with Chris Cuomo, you were spot-on. | ||
| Bravo. | ||
| Do you think your perspective on DEI will have any effect on his remaining followers, all 20 of them, or do you think such people are hopelessly brainwashed and we should just focus our attention on the uninformed moderates? | ||
| Well, look, that gets to a bit of what I said my trepidation was before we did the interview. | ||
| It's like, There are a million cable news hosts. | ||
| They're largely interchangeable. | ||
| I do not mean this as an attack on Chris Cuomo specifically, but they are just someone who sits in a chair and pretty much reads what's on the teleprompter. | ||
| As I keep pointing out to you guys, when I show you the lies of Joy Reid or of Joe Scarborough or these MSNBC people every day, when you start understanding that the reason they have that job is because it is their job to lie, which is why they never correct themselves, right? | ||
| Why is it that I correct myself sometimes live on air? | ||
| Like sometimes I make a mistake at the beginning or I read the numbers wrong or I just misremember something like and then I correct myself and it's not a big deal it's like I actually kind of like doing it it shows I'm human and okay but when you realize they're paid to lie then it starts becoming a lot clearer so I don't know I don't know that I changed Chris Cuomo's mind on anything. | ||
| I do think that the DEI thing, as it pertained to relating to his son, I think I probably got somewhere on that. | ||
| The COVID stuff, he's pretty damn in on it. | ||
| I don't think we're really changing him on that. | ||
| But again, these things, it's sort of like when I talk about Bill Maher all the time, the end goal. | ||
| As much as I like Bill, it's not so that Bill one day will sit down and we're gonna be at Club Random smoking a joint and having tequila, and he's gonna be like, you know what Dave, you're right, I'm voting for Trump, let's go. | ||
| The point is that the more you illustrate the truth to these people, they have huge audiences, and I believe that, just like I think you guys are bright, I think that there are bright people that watch a lot of these other shows, and if you can get them there, that that's more important than whether I've been able to get Chris Cuomo not to believe in DEI, Gilmar to vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| Chipster says, will y'all be hanging out at home or doing day trips or going on an actual vacation while off the grid? | ||
| So David and I will disappear for a little bit to an unknown location and just decompress and it's good to just have the two of us and kids will be well taken care of and all that. | ||
| We'll be doing some day trips as well. | ||
| We'll hopefully see a little bit of family and just kind of relax and be in the pool. | ||
| Just really just take it easy. | ||
| We're gonna work out, we're gonna eat right, like come back refreshed. | ||
| That really is the goal. | ||
| All right, we've got John Bachman on Newsmax in just a couple of minutes, so I gotta go quick here. | ||
| Tappy says, Dave, this is the only social media I do. | ||
| You're referring to locals, I assume. | ||
| So I'm wondering why someone doesn't point out to Joy Reid that she's basically wearing a Trump wig. | ||
| That is a good point. | ||
| I mean, it is cultural appropriation. | ||
| You've got a black woman with blonde hair. | ||
| I mean, I don't care about that stuff. | ||
| They do. | ||
| But apparently she took the wig off yesterday. | ||
| And Elizabeth says, Dave, do you have any fun birthday plans this year? | ||
| That's right, my birthday's next Wednesday, June 26th. | ||
| I'm having the whole team over. | ||
| My choice! | ||
| My choice! |
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