Russell Brand, Tulsi Gabbard, Zachary Levi, and Senator Ron Johnson gather at the "Rescue the Republic" event to critique globalist totalitarianism and Democratic hypocrisy. Brand attacks Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris for funding wars while slashing pensions, contrasting them with Trump's state-level abortion support. Gabbard highlights media propaganda as a barrier to voter recognition, recounting her ostracization by radical Democrats. Levi risks Hollywood cancellation to expose corporate-captured politicians, while Johnson blames Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" for left-wing radicalism and warns that a Harris victory threatens the nation with open borders and massive debt on November 6th. [Automatically generated summary]
I mean, there really is something beyond politics.
Everyone's talking about the political alliance and all that, but you and Jordan, to me, just did something that is very different than the political part of this thing.
It's becoming, to me, increasingly clear that any moral or value system you have or claim to have must be derived from something.
That does not mean prescriptively that everyone must become Christian, but it does mean that your set of values can't just be your preferences codified.
And what I think we have with totalitarianism is the codification of preference as government, but also as a new hermeneutics.
They treat it as if it's a religion.
They treat globalism and statism as if it is a morally undergirded and indefatigable system.
But of course it isn't, because the principles wouldn't change all the time if it were.
You wouldn't have In the 60s and 70s, the Democrat Party was a party of free speech and civil rights and tossing out all these great heroes, and now they're about oppression and control.
And I feel that the spiritual dimension, Dave, gives us an opportunity to move through some of the fissures and potential traps that might be there if we remain divided along conventional, traditional and customary tribal lines.
Like when there are people that are credible and people that appear to be of principle, like Bobby Kennedy, they have to be expunged from the party.
When someone emerges around whom there's a lot of excitement and hope, like Barack Obama, it becomes clear that they're ultimately sort of cellophaned into total restriction.
If you watch, like, a documentary on PBS about Barack Obama when he was still a senator, you think, this guy's actually gonna make a real impact.
But of course, once in office, he bombs and drones the same way George W. Bush bombed and droned.
He advocates for the interests of the military-industrial complex in the same way, too.
And most tellingly of all, in 2008, when there's a global financial collapse, Barack Obama legislates favorably on behalf of the financial world, of globalism, not ordinary Americans.
And our man up there, Jordan Pearson, I'm like, whoa!
I know you, thank fuck!
He says, by their fruit shall we know them.
And how people legislate, how they govern, that tells you what you need to know, innit, Dave?
Our country, the United Kingdom, is quaking under authoritarianism.
We are not at the populist phase yet.
Populism in our country came out of the left for a minute under a political leader of the Labour Party called Jeremy Corbyn.
That political leader was, I mean he's an older man, so to say strangled in the crib is slightly ridiculous, but his movement was stifled and strangled by state interests.
Some of them international state interests.
When you have a leader like we have in our country now, like Keir Starmer, who is ultimately an authoritarian, A paternal figure who doesn't seem especially interested in the rights and advocating for ordinary Brits but just parroting the WAF talking points.
We'll continue to fund this war.
We'll slash money for pensioners.
Old people might have lost some fuel bill allowance.
It's a big deal in my country.
You can tell that this is a global phenomenon.
Trudeau, Macron, Kamala Harris, all of these political figures are under one sort of tyrannical umbrella.
That's what globalism has to look like.
No wonder nationalism, even the aspects of nationalism that I in particular would disagree with, are a threat to them because you can't have globalism if you have a patriotic and informed citizenry that demand electoral democracy and representation.
To me, it actually, I go to these political events all the time, not as many as you, but it does feel like something different is really brewing here right now.
unidentified
Something different is brewing, and today's event here is amazing.
You know, thousands of people who have come out here in really shitty weather.
At least it's not raining for you, it's raining for me.
Well, yeah, no, it's, but last night we were in Detroit, And we had well over a thousand people there.
There was a reporter who was there.
It was like a mainstream reporter who's been around D.C.
for 40 years and one of those cranky, cynical reporters.
And even he said, not to me, but to a mutual friend of ours, how impressed he was that we had over a thousand people come out for two people who are not candidates running for anything.
And the beauty of it is, and I've been doing this on every stop we make, is asking people to raise their hands in the crowd.
We've had thousands of people at every event.
Ask them to raise their hands if they're a Democrat or a former Democrat or an Independent, Libertarian, and almost at every event, almost half the hands go up.
Wow.
And so there are a lot of people, and this reporter asked me, he's like, do you really think you're making a difference?
And I answered without hesitation, yes, that Bobby Kennedy and I are able to connect with and speak to issues that we care about very much and that affect all Americans and point out the contrast, the difference, really the clear choice in this election, which to me, if you care about your family and you care about safe communities, you care about peace, you care about prosperity and freedom, there is only one choice in this election and it's Donald Trump.
If you guys succeed, then there's no reason for me to do this anymore.
unidentified
Zach and I were just talking last night, and you're going to talk to him, but we were talking about you, and we were both saying almost at the same time that, you know, Dave Rubin saw the light long before many other people did.
I mean, Ronald Reagan saw it way before me, so it's a long string, I suppose.
What do you think has to be done?
Because we've talked about shifting alliances a million times.
What do you think the last thing that the people who are still on the fence need?
And I tend to think it's more of a female thing, generally.
What do you think the thing is that's either holding them or what they need to get to the other side?
unidentified
You know, the biggest obstacle is the lies and propaganda that most of the mainstream propaganda media are pushing.
And they're doing Kamala Harris's work for her.
That is the biggest obstacle because, you know, in the conversations that I have both with voters as well as reporters, local media, the kinds of questions that they ask are based on things that are just factually not true.
The reality is that whether people, maybe people don't like President Trump's language or how he says things or his personality or his style, but they can't deny if they just compare the facts on virtually every important issue that we face, even on the issue of abortion, which often comes up and which Kamala Harris, essentially the only issue that she's really running on, And you look at President Trump's actual position on this.
He believes in the Constitution and he believes in making sure that these important and challenging and often tough discussions are happening at the state level as they are across the country.
And so, you know, there is opportunity in continuing to just speak the truth and compare and contrast the records of these two candidates, which for the first time in our lives, we have two candidates who have records in the White House.
It's so interesting because the abortion one, to me, I think you're right.
I think that seems to be the one that the Democrats are still just using in a very unfair way.
And even when Trump at the debate says, I'm not for a national abortion ban, she just says, you are.
And the moderators are basically like, yeah, you are.
And that kind of gets to it.
So we are ripping through this thing.
Let me ask you one other thing, which is if you were still in Congress these days, and if you were still a Democrat, what would your conversations be like with some of these, let's say, more radical types?
And I think this points to the actual realignment that's happening.
Even when I was a Democrat, still in Congress, not only did a number of people stop talking to me, people would literally, if I'm walking down the street, they'd cross the other side of the street.
Because they don't want to share a sidewalk or oxygen with me.
Listen, you know, I would say that, you know, it's not even so much a political evolution for me because I've really been this person.
It's just unfortunate that I've had to remain reasonably silent because this is the world that we live in.
We live in a world where if you have an opinion or even want to question what the status quo opinions are, it's cancellation, cancellation, cancellation, cancellation.
And no matter how many people say, oh, cancel culture is not real.
No, it's very real.
It's very real.
Has been the kerosene on that fire for far too long, because people feel very empowered in their anonymity while they're sitting there and wanting to just snipe you and destroy you.
unidentified
And in your world, or at least the world you come from, it's particular.
Listen, it's been a very, you know, liberally based industry for a long time.
And I will say, though, you know, in some Decades or eras that was a beautiful thing.
I think during the Kennedy Democratic era when there were a lot of actors and Hollywood was very much understanding that and about that But as Tulsi and Bobby have very well kind of pointed out the Democratic Party of today is nowhere close to I mean you yourself had that evolution and I you know, my parents were Kennedy Democrats that became Reagan Republicans that raised a Kennedy independent, which is really Doesn't talk to the other candidates.
Because, you know, the little time I've spent with Bobby, I can tell you, and I'm sure you know, he's a man of integrity.
He's a man of his word.
He's got tremendous amounts of wisdom and knowledge and understanding and genuine I think ability to fight the darkness that we're all facing and have been facing for a long time.
And fortunately, like, my mom was crunchy and woo-woo before that was even in phase.
Like, we did not grow up... We didn't have sugar in our lives.
Like, my mom knew that that was a poison you shouldn't be putting in your child's body.
You know, things that now finally are coming to light because of wonderful people like Callie Means and his sister, who are shining so much of a light on how we are constantly being poisoned.
Like, you know, if you're blessed enough to have the means to go travel in Europe or elsewhere, and you go eat pasta or grains in another country, you don't feel bloated, you don't feel messed up.
Why is that?
It's because they're not poisoning their populace in the same way that we are in the United States.
So these are things that I've held very dearly for a long time.
I've just not really been able to Speak about it as much as I wish that I could.
I think that, listen, not to be too end of the world about it, but I don't know.
I know that every generation has said at some point, or someone in that generation has said, this is it.
Nothing has ever been as bad as this.
And I'm not trying to follow in their footsteps.
But I don't think that there has ever been an election that's been more important in the history of this country.
I mean, maybe if you go back far enough to the very, very, very beginning or somewhere in the middle, you know, Abraham Lincoln, stuff like that.
I don't know.
But we live in a country that is not the democracy that we believe that it is or want it to be.
When the corporations have captured all of the politicians that are responsible for That should be responsible to the people, but instead are responsible to corporate interest and greed and all that.
I mean, it's so obvious.
It's obvious in every industry.
And we all look at that.
We've all kind of understood that.
All Democrats would rail against corporate capture and the greed, right?
And that was a Republican thing.
That was one of the biggest talking points that Democrats used to be like, you Republicans and your warmongering and your corporate greed and all these things.
And so when you have an entire party, and by the way, I would also say, I think there's plenty of the neocons and all that that are still in the conservatives and in the Republican Party too.
This here is someone like President Trump who, you know, for all of his foibles and all of his warts and things that make makes it difficult to vote for him.
I understand that.
But when you're given an option between two people and one of them is absolutely captured and the other one is not, which is why There have been multiple attempts on his life.
There would not be multiple attempts on his life unless he was a threat to whatever all that is.
And so I trust that he means it.
When he calls Bobby and he calls Tulsi and he sits down with them and he says, I genuinely want to make this country great again.
I want to make this country healthy again.
He fucking means that.
And they know it.
I've known Bobby and Tulsi now for a little bit.
I've not known them, but I know them well enough, even in that little bit of time, to know that they are absolutely people of integrity.
And they're intelligent people.
They're not sitting around being duped by the charms of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is a real human being.
Again, I really do think he means what he's saying now more than ever.
And so, guys, it's now or never.
This is it.
I mean, it's literally now or never.
Because if we don't get Donald Trump reelected, There's one other alternative, and that person does not have our best interests in mind.
And I think that there are so many ways that you can look at that.
The ongoing, you know, endless wars is one of them.
Our health crisis is another.
But the immigration situation that's going on right now, California.
Everyone who thinks that Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris somehow are a party of the people, that they care about the people, that they care about the American citizens, then why on earth If you're a California citizen who was born and raised in California and you're having trouble paying your rent, they don't give a fuck about you.
But if you're an illegal immigrant, they'll give you $150,000 to buy a new home.
I haven't talked to my... So I was telling you earlier, so yeah, I don't know if it's good or bad, but I changed from AT&T to T-Mobile yesterday before I flew to Michigan.
No, well, I've got some Wi-Fi here and there and I've checked some Twitter and some Instagram and it's been interesting.
I will say though, the majority of the people that I'm getting messages from are very positive.
Even people that disagree, you know?
But there are a lot of people that are just spewing hate, and like, ew, and unfollow, and I thought, you know, I'll never watch Chuck again, or Shazam's garbage, you know, whatever all that stuff is.
What's fascinating to me about all those people is like, you think that Donald Trump is the person of hate.
What are your own actions in this moment?
You're going out of your way to get on your phone to spew hate at me instead of engaging and saying, hey, I thought you wouldn't be this person.
I would love to understand why.
Would you mind explaining whatever any of that is?
Let's have discourse.
But you can't have discourse with people that don't want the discourse, you know?
And that's unfortunate.
But my team, just back to your question, when Tulsi invited me to moderate one of their town halls, I told her, I was like, I got to think and pray on this because obviously there's going to be ramifications to this one way or the other.
And I did.
And ultimately I came to the conclusion that it doesn't matter.
At the end of the day, if Hollywood wants to reject me, I'll make independent films.
I'll go do other things.
You know, podcasts or shows.
I've got a lot of things that I would love to do in my career, but nothing is more important.
Like, what is it to gain the whole world, but lose your soul in the process?
What is it to hold on to my career, but we lose this country and we lose democracy and we lose free speech?
I mean, yo, I don't think people even realize the ramifications of what that is.
And so I told my team, I told my agents and my managers a few weeks ago, I said, hey, this is on the table.
This is a, you know, an offer that I've gotten from Tulsi.
And they already knew that I was stumping for Bobby.
They knew I was not going to stop stumping for Bobby.
And to their credit, they said, hey, listen, there will be complications from that.
And we don't wish those upon you.
But we support you.
We stand with you.
Whatever you feel like you need to do, then you should go and do that.
Senator, to me, the thing that is most interesting about this is the Y10 thing that's happening politically right here.
You're a Republican, obviously.
There's a lot of, I would say, at least former Democrats or people who thought they were Democrats, Tulsi, RFK, et cetera, kind of coming around to a place that you've been in.
unidentified
Probably don't agree with you on everything, but they agree that America is good.
And is that the chance for America to really, let's say, rescue the Republic?
unidentified
Well, first of all, I view myself more Tea Party than Republican Party.
I'm not of this world, okay?
I'm a accountant, ran a manufacturing plant, so I'm trying to solve problems.
When Bobby Kennedy called me up as he was contemplating allying with President Trump, Really, the first words out of my mouth was, well, Bobby, this is an answer to my prayers.
Again, not only because it's so important that we address the issue of chronic illness, but even more important, it demonstrates exactly How you unify and heal this nation.
You set aside your political differences.
You focus on areas of agreement.
And let's face it, the good news is, as Americans, we're not a divided nation.
I mean, there are political groups that are dividing us.
That's what identity politics, critical race theory is all about.
But the big things in life, raising your family, safety, security, these are things we agree on.
So I truly think that that act of political courage, and it was an act of political courage, Um, and I'm glad that President Trump embraced it.
But I think that single act of political courage just may be the catalyst.
For bringing this country together.
I truly believe that and, you know, I'm just hopeful.
I said on stage before that I think about 80% of Americans actually agree on the big stuff.
And it's just the little stuff that they've caught us fighting all the time.
Well, I want to ask you a little bit about COVID because you've been one of the most outspoken people against the mandates, against the backs and everything else.
That must be another reason that you're happy that Bobby's gonna, or seemingly help Trump, because he might be able to go in there and make some sense of this at these institutions.
unidentified
So as tragic as our response to COVID is, I mean the travesties of sabotaging early treatment, mandating experimental gene therapy, the silver lining in all of that is It opened up American people's eyes, and there was nothing partisan about it.
When I held my panels, like COVID-19, a second opinion, assembled all those medical experts, and people had the courage and compassion to treat COVID patients, I didn't know what their political affiliation was.
But we really do One attribute, by the way, that anybody who goes to a Trump rally, I would say all the attribute that everybody here shares, we fervently love this country.
I'm glad to hear you say it, because that's what I've been screaming about forever.
Let me just ask you one or two other things.
When do you think the Democrats became so radical?
Because I know enough about you to know that if you had someone on the other side to be talking to and debating with in a healthy way, you'd do it effectively.
There's almost nobody left.
Is that a fair estimation?
unidentified
Well, first of all, you can trace it back to Saul Linsky.
Rules for radicals, when college administrators capitulated and the radical left took over our university system.
So it's been brewing now for 50, 60 years.
It's all coming to fruition, but I think the real spark was then Obama, who was a, you know, he was mentored by the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorans.
And he came into office on a subterfuge, as Biden has, as Kamala Harris has, but they're not moderates.
They are radical leftists, and they are imposing their radical leftism on these agencies.
They are, you know, stacking the deck.
I mean, they are infiltrating these agencies with more radical leftists, which is why the Trump administration was completely sabotaged from within.
So, again, I think Obama was really the spark of kind of the recent radicalism, but the fuse was lit back in the 60s.
My last question, the one question you don't want to answer.
Tell me what happens on November 6th.
unidentified
The fate of this nation is really determined.
I mean, I'm dead serious about that.
If Kamala Harris wins, I don't know how you turn back from this.
I don't know how you get ourselves off this destructive path they've put us on with their open borders, this massive deficit spending, you know, $35 trillion in debt, not a deficit under $1.5 trillion as far as the eye can see on the Democrats.
You know, the weakness that we're displaying around the world that has, you know, encouraged our adversaries, set the world on fire.
How bad does it have to get?
I mean, literally.
In a sane world with an unbiased media, this election wouldn't even be close.
So if they win, it's a really bad sign for America.
Alright guys, so the Rescue the Republic event is about to end.
You can see the stage right over there.
You might be able to still hear some applause.
It's really been an incredible day representing the Y10 thing that I have been yammering on about for years from why I left the left to talking about why it's so important that RFK leaves the Dems and bring Tulsa aboard.
And the whole thing.
And we were trying to figure out where we could do this little recap video.
And look at the spot, as we were discussing it, that we realized we are in.
Of course, this is the Washington Monument right behind me.
And of course, George Washington not only was the first president of the United States, but also was in charge of the army.
And they wanted him to stay in charge of the army after the Revolutionary War.
And he said, no, that's too much power for one man.
And of course, on the other side over there, Beyond the pool there, here's the World War II Memorial, but beyond that is the Lincoln Memorial, and what did Lincoln do most famously, beyond free the slaves, was keep the Union together.
And that really is what we're at right now.
We're battling between politicians who don't want to let go of power, counter to what George Washington did, and a man who wanted to keep the Union together, which really, if this doesn't work out, if this wide tent thing doesn't work out, I think they'll start being some discussions about that.
So it's really been an unbelievable day with Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand.
And RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, and Brett Weinstein, and a whole slew of people.