Oct. 18, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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It's a crazy world! | |
| Crazy world! | ||
| Somebody's gotta have the same views. | ||
| It's a crazy world. | ||
| It's a crazy world. | ||
| Somebody's gotta have the same views. | ||
| All right, people. | ||
| It is Friday, October 18th, 2024. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It's casual Friday. | ||
| No jacket around here today. | ||
| And joining me, a special guest co-host. | ||
| It's not a panel today. | ||
| It's a co-host show. | ||
| But I believe this woman has the intellectual capacity of 20 other guests, the one and only Sage Steele. | ||
| Sage, how are you? | ||
| I might as well just close this laptop up now. | ||
| I'm not going to be able to live up to that. | ||
| But hi, thank you. | ||
| The intellectual capacity of 20 guests. | ||
| That's a lot. | ||
| And the emotional intelligence of 30. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| Emotional for sure. | ||
| The highly emotional, might cry, sage seal. | ||
| And we look like we should be co-hosting a show together. | ||
| No, look at this. | ||
| The colors look good. | ||
| Sage, before we dive into anything else, I am very happy to have you on if for no other reason that you have officially, if I can say this, officially moved to the free state of Florida. | ||
| You have left the blue Connecticut. | ||
| You are now a Floridian. | ||
| Look at you, flourishing. | ||
| The smile. | ||
| The eyes are wide. | ||
| You're happy. | ||
| Have you ever been happier than you are right at this very moment? | ||
| No, never in my entire life. | ||
| Most importantly, I won't totally brag and be obnoxious, but right over the top of this laptop is the Atlantic Ocean. | ||
| That's my view. | ||
| Your beautiful view, Dave, but I'm just saying you're number two to the ocean right there, which is why it's a little bit different from the bears I had in my backyard in Connecticut, and then, of course, pull out your snow shovel right about now. | ||
| I am so grateful, and I'm just up the road from you, so don't ignore when I come knocking, okay? | ||
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Okay. | |
| You are welcome to babysit anytime. | ||
| And you got the freedom. | ||
| And you're going to save on taxes. | ||
| And we won't inject you with weird things and all that good stuff. | ||
| Before we, we're going to recap the wacky week in politics, of course. | ||
| But before we do that, you've been traveling a bit with Trump campaign and with J.D. Vance. | ||
| We've played a couple of clips of it. | ||
| Can you just kind of give me a temperature? | ||
| What are you feeling when you're out there on the road these days? | ||
| It is amazing. | ||
| It's exhilarating. | ||
| There's so much positivity. | ||
| The number of people, the diversity of the kind of people that come up to us with our pink jackets on, and it is, it's Women for Trump, and it was Laura Trump's idea, and it's a bunch of us. | ||
| The first stop was Tulsi Gabbard and Danica Patrick and Lynn Patton, and I mean, it's been, Elizabeth Pipko, it's been so cool to be with such strong women, all women who have taken chances, you know? | ||
| And just, you know what, this is what I believe in. | ||
| And like I was saying, the number of people who come up to us, black, white, Hispanic, It's almost emotional. | ||
| There have been two so far. | ||
| We have probably four or five left as the election as we count down to that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's cool because for so long, we've talked about this, Dave, how you feel alone and you feel like you have to just keep your opinions to yourself. | ||
| And then when you get out there, and we do it really loud with those hot pink jackets, people just, it's like magnets. | ||
| And they come to us and say, thank you and please. | ||
| And we have hope and we're no longer afraid. | ||
| And Black people in the inner city of Atlanta are like, we got you and we see you. | ||
| And we're here to help. | ||
| So that's been awesome. | ||
| And then real quick, last Saturday, I did the town hall with J.D. Vance in Redding, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Dave, this is nothing I ever could have dreamt of because I was like, no, I don't really want to get political. | ||
| Too late. | ||
| In deep. | ||
| But it's been really awesome, personally, just to see the number of people who I appreciate people like you and now people like me who are just finally saying, you know what, forget about the fear and it's so important to talk about the facts and do it in a professional kind way. | ||
| We don't have to be hateful and crazy about it, but there's so much more good in this country and good people that I get to see every single day now and I feel fortunate. | ||
| Well, let's focus on that for these remaining 18 or so days. | ||
| And we actually, we did play a clip of you and JD at that town hall. | ||
| And I love that you introed it basically by saying, hey, this isn't prepackaged. | ||
| I didn't give you any of the questions. | ||
| You didn't ask me to say anything. | ||
| Let's just do it. | ||
| That's what people want instead of that plastic thing that we're getting constantly. | ||
| Sage, one other thing before we get to it. | ||
| You are not only a woman, but according to my paperwork, you're black. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| I have a black father, Dave, so I guess so, yes. | ||
| You have a black father. | ||
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| All right, Sage, so why did I ask you about your skin color? | ||
| That was a hell of a tease, Dave. | ||
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Oh my gosh. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| Welcome to my show! | ||
| Because of her pandering, Don Lemon, who also happens to be black, I don't really care. | ||
| He was not a particularly good journalist who was fired from CNN. Then they brought him back for some reason. | ||
| Same thing they did with Stelter. | ||
| They sent him to some swing states to lecture black men who are into a certain orange man. | ||
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I was talking to a lot of voters. | |
| And I will just say that you texted me right around the Democratic convention and you said, I am talking to people and Kamala Harris has a problem with black men. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I told the campaign I did not hear from them. | ||
| I mean, who am I for them to get back to me? | ||
| But there's a problem. | ||
| And look, I went from battleground state to battleground state. | ||
| When they invited me to the convention, I didn't just want to fly there. | ||
| I said, I'm going to go and talk to voters in battleground states. | ||
| And I did. | ||
| It was not curated. | ||
| I went up to people just doing man on the street. | ||
| Who are you going to vote for? | ||
| Black men. | ||
| And time after time after time, they said, I'm voting for Donald Trump. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Now, there are reasons why. | ||
| They said because most of the time they said, well, you know, for economic reasons, right? | ||
| Or because he gave me a stimulus check. | ||
| And I had to correct them over and over and tell them that that stimulus check came from a Democratic Congress and from Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| And that Donald Trump actually held the check up so that his name could be put on the check. | ||
| So they think they got the check directly from him. | ||
| Meanwhile, Joe Biden has given one or two stimulus checks as well, but they seem not to know and understand that. | ||
| You can vote for whoever you want to vote for, but the reasons that you're going to vote for them, I think that they should be accurate and factual and you should know why you're supporting someone. | ||
| Sage, there's a bunch more. | ||
| I think we can leave lemon at that. | ||
| I think there's a little confusion sort of amongst Don and the set that's watching that as sort of what the role of government is and whether it's supposed to give you stuff, etc. | ||
| I'm seeing something else happening within the black community, and I hate those phrases. | ||
| But it's basically like we've just kind of had it with the BS and Donald Trump speaks straight to us so it doesn't really have anything to do with checks or foreign policy or anything else. | ||
| It's just kind of like, oh, he's kind of funny and we remember things were pretty good under him. | ||
| That seems a little more true to me. | ||
| Do you think that's fair to say? | ||
| Yeah, I do. | ||
| I also think that, obviously, I think we agree. | ||
| It's disgusting, the pandering. | ||
| It's so blatant right now. | ||
| I know you talked about it earlier this week with the scolding of Barack Obama and what he's done. | ||
| And now kind of the blowback from that and being on the road with Women for Trump and, again, just airports randomly traveling, the amount of people who come up to me and say, Who the hell does he think he is? | ||
| Does he think he's stupid? | ||
| And that's been amazing to me to watch. | ||
| I also think this. | ||
| People don't appreciate the way black people that have come up to me and I've talked to and actually gone up to them as well. | ||
| They don't appreciate the way that she ended up in this position. | ||
| Like, it was a coup. | ||
| And they think that the Don Lemons of the world and the Barack Obamas and the Kamala Harris's of the world think that they're too dumb to notice. | ||
| And they're like, no, enough of that. | ||
| Just like you saw other man on the street interviews with people, you know, in New York City saying, you know, do you have a driver's license? | ||
| Do you have an ID? Well, yeah, of course. | ||
| Well, they're saying it's racist to have an ID in order to vote, like talking about. | ||
| And so I think that's been going on long enough that people are like, no, stop it. | ||
| And I'm not, I saw a guy at the gym today who came up to me. | ||
| He's like, they think I'm voting for just because we have the same skin color. | ||
| And they acknowledge that's actually racist. | ||
| That's what you've been fighting against for all these years. | ||
| So I think people are done and they've underestimated the black community in that way. | ||
| Well, I'm very glad to hear it. | ||
| I'm glad you're kind of seeing it the same way. | ||
| Unfortunately, that is not the way they're seeing it over on The View. | ||
| I think it will make a difference because of this division that they're trying to cause within the black community. | ||
| I just think it's a fallacy that black men are the problem. | ||
| Black men are not the problem. | ||
| When you look at the stats, the New York Times just came out with a poll. | ||
| 80% of African Americans will be voting for Kamala Harris, and that includes black men. | ||
| But it was more for Biden. | ||
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I think that's the issue. | |
| No, this is about Harris. | ||
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Right, but Biden had greater support with black men than Harris. | |
| Yes, Biden did. | ||
| And demonizing black men, I think, needs to stop when it comes to Kamala Harris. | ||
| Well, look, for me, it has never really been about black men. | ||
| It's been about men. | ||
| There's this myth out there that black men can't handle being spoken to and told what to do by black women. | ||
| Black men come from our bodies. | ||
| So black men have black mothers. | ||
| So they're used to having these conversations with women. | ||
| The matriarchy is strong with the black women. | ||
| It is very strong. | ||
| They're doing that on purpose. | ||
| Yes, that's what I'm saying. | ||
| Basically, it's so disheartening for Democrats and people who are leaning towards Kamala to say, well, what's the point? | ||
| Don't buy into that. | ||
| No. | ||
| Sage, since you're a classy lady, I won't do all my low-hanging fruit jokes about the women of The View. | ||
| Suffice to say, it's like, doesn't that strike you as sort of just the way they have to talk around each other and carefully around all of this and in such pandering ways? | ||
| It's like, this is the purpose. | ||
| Perfect ending of identity politics, isn't it? | ||
| That they now have to figure out a way to rationalize that for some reason, black men who make decisions on their own, just like white men and Asian men, might have been more into Joe Biden than they are Kamala Harris. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, again, what a concept. | ||
| Black men, black women, they're not monolithic. | ||
| We actually have separate brains and can see things for ourselves and think differently. | ||
| Therefore, I love how Sonny started that off by saying how... | ||
| Divisive, the right is being, like, really? | ||
| Divisive? | ||
| Actually, you guys have rocked that for many years, but you've been able to get away with it. | ||
| I think the big picture is that Democrats have taken Black voters for granted for such a long time, because they could! | ||
| Because I think at the peak, when Obama was elected, wasn't it like 97% of Black Americans voted for Barack Obama? | ||
| And then it dropped down into the low 90s with Biden, and now look at these numbers, and then it skyrocketed for Trump. | ||
| And to me, it makes sense because we know that Donald Trump had historically low numbers for black unemployment, lowest in history, or at least in like a half a century. | ||
| Yeah, I think it was in history. | ||
| Yeah, when people start to actually do their homework, which that's what happens when stuff starts to go south. | ||
| That's what happens when the economy goes south, when inflation skyrockets, when people can't afford to live, when eggs are now $7, $8 for a dozen versus half of that. | ||
| And so they've taken these voters for granted and all of a sudden it's like, well, wait, wait, what? | ||
| And again, I'll never forget how this scolding by Obama made me feel. | ||
| I was disgusted. | ||
| And oh, by the way, where have you been? | ||
| Well, I think he has been behind the scenes working to be president over the last couple of years. | ||
| We know that he's kind of been in charge. | ||
| That's what we believe. | ||
| But also, you've been up in one of your three mansions across the country, Martha's Vineyard, and now you're going to come down? | ||
| And lecture us about what we're doing, basically being sellouts for considering voting for someone else. | ||
| You're the ones that talk so much about, you know, race relations and nopping about race and not the color of my skin and treat me equally. | ||
| And now what? | ||
| Vote for her because she's black or you are not a black man. | ||
| Kiss my ass. | ||
| Like, I'm so angry at him for it, but I shouldn't be surprised. | ||
| And I think it's beautiful that so many black men and women are saying, enough of you. | ||
| Don't talk down to us. | ||
| You've taken us for granted and look where it's gotten us. | ||
| You know, what I love you're saying there really is that in some respects, this is not exactly about policy. | ||
| It's as simple as don't talk down to us, right? | ||
| I think you can make many, many arguments why Republican policies, and you just mentioned lowest black unemployment under Trump. | ||
| I think you can make those arguments, but that doesn't exactly seem to be what's going on here. | ||
| It's this constant pandering, constantly be told, you're a Democrat, stay there, don't move, etc. | ||
| Or I grow chili peppers, so you better vote for me. | ||
| Watch this. | ||
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So you may not know, but you will appreciate. | |
| I'm the first vice president to grow chili peppers at the vice president. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Including scotch bonnet peppers. | ||
| Hillary Clinton carried hot sauce around in her pocketbook when she was speaking to black people. | ||
| Kamala is growing peppers. | ||
| I like spicy food. | ||
| I had put a little sriracha on my lamb salad this morning, this afternoon. | ||
| Like, am I black? | ||
| Apparently, yes. | ||
| And then the best part is everybody goes, whoa, really? | ||
| You grow peppers. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| The one thing I'll say I'm proud of her for in that moment is She didn't turn on her black scent, right? | ||
| And now... | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
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All of her decent accents, and then she's making me crazy. | |
| Although, who knows? | ||
| We just saw a quick clip there, but... | ||
| It's like she's speaking to children. | ||
| Just like, remember the school bus story before? | ||
| Like, I don't know what this is, but the key is that this is happening within three weeks of an election, right? | ||
| And so the only reason they're doing this, and all of a sudden Barack Obama comes off his chair, you know, his perch above whatever, is because she's in trouble. | ||
| Otherwise, you're not doing that because you never have gone into those communities. | ||
| Just like a couple of months ago in Detroit when Donald Trump went up and I forgot the exact location, but it was at a church and it was with a bunch of black ministers and preachers and they said, you know what? | ||
| Joe Biden never came here. | ||
| Barack Obama in eight years never came here. | ||
| Donald Trump, you're here. | ||
| You're talking to us. | ||
| You're listening. | ||
| And people see that and that matters. | ||
| Sometimes it's just showing up. | ||
| And having a conversation with somebody, that's what Donald Trump is doing, and he's been doing that. | ||
| Obama comes down at the last second to scold you because they know that they're in trouble, which goes to speak about all the interviews she's suddenly doing now too, which haven't been going so well. | ||
| Did you see this moment last week where I think he was at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| He's given a talk and he says, where are the gays for Trump? | ||
| And then someone's like, they're back there. | ||
| And he goes, you guys don't look gay. | ||
| And then everyone starts laughing. | ||
| And I was like, that is what is so great about him because he's treating them like human beings. | ||
| He would joke about anybody and he's treating them the same way he would treat the blacks for Trump or the gays for Trump or the three-legged lesbos for Trump, whatever it is. | ||
| And that's the thing. | ||
| It's just stop. | ||
| I love that about him. | ||
| And he is funny. | ||
| You know, it's just people don't want to see the human side. | ||
| I will say that's the thing that Kamala and I'm surprised because I think usually Democrats run much better campaigns than Republicans, historically speaking, at least over the last, I don't know, two or three decades. | ||
| And they've missed the boat on showing the human side of her. | ||
| I think that would help. | ||
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And if you could just, well, maybe we are seeing it, Dave. | |
| Maybe I'm giving her too much credit there. | ||
| I think you might be, actually. | ||
| I don't know that there's that much more there. | ||
| She seems so incapable of being authentic that I don't know that there's much. | ||
| What would we be peeling back and seeing? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I don't think I want to see any more than I've already seen. | ||
| But with him, he is. | ||
| He has a sense of humor. | ||
| He's funny. | ||
| And sometimes it can be maddening, right? | ||
| Where you're like, no, please, just finish your thought because you were there. | ||
| Like in the debate, you're like, no, just stick with it. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| And that's why when people say to me, how can you? | ||
| I go, you know what? | ||
| At the end of the day, I don't care about that stuff. | ||
| And is he the most eloquent person? | ||
| On a debate stage or even elsewhere, at times, no, I don't care. | ||
| It's what we call a track record that matters. | ||
| And that track record over four years, when you go back to the black men and black Americans and black voters topic, I mean, you don't have to look that hard, work that hard, search that far to look at what the track record was and how your life was better, period. | ||
| So, believe it or not, I do want to talk about other things besides race, but I want to bring up one other thing that Kamala tweeted out earlier in the week, because when she put this out, I said it was illegal. | ||
| I am not a lawyer, but I knew there was something not right about this. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is from the official Kamala Harris account on Twitter. | ||
| Harris Wall's policy. | ||
| Kamala Harris will create an opportunity agenda for black men. | ||
| It will provide $1 million loans that are fully forgivable, up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs and others to start a business, support education training and mentorship programs that lead to a good-paying job for black men, including Pathways to Become Teachers. | ||
| Protect cryptocurrency investments so black men who make them know how their money is safe. | ||
| Launch a national health initiative focused on illnesses that disproportionately impact black men. | ||
| And here's the bumper sticker for you. | ||
| Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for black Americans to succeed in this new industry. | ||
| Sage, before we get into how this has already been reversed, would you like to comment on any of that? | ||
| Because, wait, what about me? | ||
| All black people smoke weed, Dave. | ||
| Didn't she know that? | ||
| What about me? | ||
| Why is she leaving? | ||
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I am black. | |
| I can't believe it. | ||
| I mean, and I probably need some. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| But at the end of the day, like, really? | ||
| That is, you're right. | ||
| That is completely racist. | ||
| And I know you've seen this out there, and it's not rocket science here. | ||
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If Donald Trump tweeted that about women... | |
| Oh my God. | ||
| I mean, they already think he's a racist anyway, but it is, if nothing else, it just reeks of desperation and it's disgusting. | ||
| It is the pandering. | ||
| And the fact that they thought it was okay is what's so disturbing to me because I've seen the reaction from a lot of black people online. | ||
| And again, the guy that I was talking to at the gym today, he's like, what the bleep was that? | ||
| I don't smoke pot. | ||
| I've never touched it. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| It really, really is. | ||
| But again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. | ||
| Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. | ||
| Oh, I'm not that surprised. | ||
| I just think it's like, what I'm surprised about is not that they do it. | ||
| It's that they think they can get away with it. | ||
| And then alas, two or three days later, they can't. | ||
| Check this out from Greg Price. | ||
| Kamala Harris's campaign has now told the Wall Street Journal that these programs will be open to all Americans on a race neutral basis. | ||
| This campaign is a mess. | ||
| And then the Wall Street Journal headline right there, Kamala Harris's agenda for black men will be open to all campaigns. | ||
| says, I mean... | ||
| Again, I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that we have individual rights in this country. | ||
| I do know that you are not allowed to discriminate based on the color of skin, certainly as it pertains to the government giving handouts and things of that nature. | ||
| So I'm not shocked that they go for it. | ||
| I'm shocked that they don't think about the fact that it's illegal. | ||
| Yeah, but again, I think it just goes back to the point that they're doing this, and they sent out that tweet on October 14th, which if my math is correct, is 22 days before the election. | ||
| Where was that? | ||
| Earlier, Kamala, which hopefully we would have crushed her for, I mean, we would have certainly, but others would have crushed her at that time as well. | ||
| Because no matter what, there's never a good time to put out a racist tweet with your racist plans for just black men. | ||
| Here, that is exactly what it is. | ||
| And I'm disgusted. | ||
| The good thing is, is that they continue to prove who they are. | ||
| And at some point, you're just in denial if you're not going to admit what this is and what they're about. | ||
| Also, if you wanted to create racism against black people, wouldn't you have the government give black people more stuff or forgive more loans or get jobs easier? | ||
| And then the next thing you know, a white person might be like, you know, I'm feeling a little racist. | ||
| I didn't get that loan or that job. | ||
| Or an Asian person might be a little racist. | ||
| To me, what a great way to create racism, which is kind of exactly what they're doing. | ||
| the divisiveness that, frankly, I believe was created under Barack Obama years and years ago, and it's continued. | ||
| We've gone south since then. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| So, Sage, I was with you on debate night when Trump knocked out Biden officially. | ||
| We're going to show a clip of that in just a moment. | ||
| But I want to start with another moment from this Kamala Harris-Brett Bear conversation on Fox because he asked her when she noticed that Biden was, let's say, unwell. | ||
| And it's, again, just pantherpalooza. | ||
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But let's not diminish the significance of that. | |
| You call Donald Trump, he's misguided. | ||
| You say now he is unstable. | ||
| He is unstable, but... | ||
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He's not well. | |
| You say he's mentally not stable. | ||
| He's not stable. | ||
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Let me ask you this. | |
| You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff. | ||
| When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished? | ||
| Joe Biden... | ||
| I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room, and he has the judgment and experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people. | ||
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There were no concerns raised? | |
| Joe Biden is not on the ballot. | ||
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I understand. | |
| And Donald Trump... | ||
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But you talked about it. | |
| And Donald Trump is. | ||
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After George Clooney said within a few minutes of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not the same Joe Biden that we saw on the debate stage. | |
| Donald Trump is on the ballot. | ||
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I understand. | |
| Sage, first I just want to say that, again, I just think Brett did a great job. | ||
| It was respectful, but he pushed in the right spots. | ||
| And that is the right question. | ||
| It's like, lady, we all kind of know you forced him out. | ||
| When did you know? | ||
| And, you know, before when you said, you know, if you peeled back, what else would you find? | ||
| I'm telling you, I just don't think there's much there. | ||
| That's why she can give such a canned answer and think that it's clever. | ||
| Yeah, but it was awesome watching it live, and it was like, he asked the question, and it's like, 1-1000, 2-1000, silence. | ||
| And again, between that question, between the question on The View from Sonny a couple of weeks ago about if there's anything that you would do differently. | ||
| Yep, we'll get to that. | ||
| You have got to be prepared for these very basic questions about Joe Biden. | ||
| She's never been asked that because of who she has chosen to do interviews with. | ||
| But with Fox, you damn well better be prepared because it's a very fair question. | ||
| And it cracks me up, almost, that she didn't have anything ready. | ||
| Or is she not smart enough Right. | ||
| And also, if the idea here is that he's still able to be president right now, if we're to believe that he's acting as president, it's like, well, then why is he not running? | ||
| The fact that none of this went through her head, like, oh, some of this might come up, is rather extraordinary to me. | ||
| However, it's not extraordinary to former Dave and Sage, because on debate night, this is what we were saying. | ||
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Thank you, President Biden. | |
| and present. | ||
| I mean, like that moment made me mad. | ||
| Yeah, actually, first of all, it's super uncomfortable, I think for everybody. | ||
| And I want to start with that. | ||
| I've been saying this since I interviewed him and marked up 2021, right after he took office, that it's actually a heartbreaking thing to watch. | ||
| I don't care what side of the aisle you fall. | ||
| Uh, the human element of this to see a failing man is actually heartbreaking to me. | ||
| Number one, number two, Shame on Jake Tapper in that moment for saving him. | ||
| Unfortunately, we need to be able to see all of this and then you make your judgment based on that. | ||
| But when you jump in and save him, it's wrong. | ||
| And we all had been guessing and speculating as to what are they putting in his body to make him as alert as possible, just like during the State of the Union. | ||
| Sage, the reason I wanted to throw back to that is because you and I are not experts in Parkinson's or dementia or whatever he might have. | ||
| However, that night it was obvious to both of us it needed to be done. | ||
| And yet the media for two weeks after that kept telling us we didn't see what we saw. | ||
| And then that leads to a position where she can't answer a question like that. | ||
| And people then turn to, I guess, people like us to get something true. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And also, I think she'd never been asked that directly, but when the topic had come up before the other night with Brett Baer, I mean, what did she say? | ||
| She said he did the noble thing or, you know, stepping away and such a display of leadership. | ||
| Why? | ||
| And again, when did you notice it? | ||
| Because I know when I noticed it and I've never met the main person. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| But again, this is part of being a good politician, right? | ||
| You just have to be prepared for anything, even if you're going to lie. | ||
| We know they're good at that. | ||
| Just lie about it, but be ready. | ||
| Instead, you're like, what do I say? | ||
| This is not rocket science. | ||
| Right. | ||
| She could have just as easily said, you know what, actually, Brett, it was while watching the debate that everybody saw. | ||
| I really thought he was okay till then. | ||
| We saw that, and then there were some conversations. | ||
| And we basically would have accepted that answer, right? | ||
| But instead, it's just over the top line. | ||
| Can I do one real quick? | ||
| I think one of the things that upsets me the most, and I think I've learned when I did the town hall with J.D. Vance, when you're just raw and honest and accountable, That goes a long way. | ||
| When I asked JD on the stage the other day about his comments about Trump and I loved during his debate how he said, you know what? | ||
| Yeah, I screwed up. | ||
| I wasn't clearly or well informed and I've changed my mind. | ||
| And to me, that's huge. | ||
| When you can admit that you made mistakes, Just like them asking her, what would you change? | ||
| And she's like, nothing. | ||
| How about you say, you know what? | ||
| With the border, I wish that we had acted sooner on this. | ||
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When you own it, you will win people over. | |
| But even for the easiest, and it's a low-hanging fruit, she won't show accountability. | ||
| And that's why so many people can't vote for her. | ||
| You mentioned some of the contradicting herself. | ||
| And there is a reason they want to censor the internet. | ||
| It's because of things like this. | ||
| Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? | ||
| There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. | ||
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But nothing comes to mind that you would do differently? | |
| Let me be very clear. | ||
| My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency. | ||
| I mean, that is actually incredible. | ||
| There's a two-week window between those two videos. | ||
| On one, same exact thing, and then completely different. | ||
| But again, I mean, I think we're starting to beat a dead horse here, but there's no there there. | ||
| But she is between a rock and a hard place, right? | ||
| Because you don't want to crush that man, and you don't want to fully acknowledge that you should have done things differently, but you kind of have to. | ||
| So I think it's difficult, but they've just been really sloppy, which I said earlier, it's very unlike the Democratic Party to be sloppy in a campaign. | ||
| My friend David Sachs from the All In Podcast has been saying that she's in this doom spiral right now, which is they hid her, and then that didn't work, and then they put her out there, and that didn't work, so thus it just kind of starts eating on itself. | ||
| So what do they have when you're in a doom spiral? | ||
| Well, they've got the F word. | ||
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I do believe that this election is a litmus test for American tolerance for fascism. | |
| The elements of fascism are rooted in this nationalistic drive for more babies for the state, for a strongman-driven nation, and a deep sort of state-based religiosity. | ||
| So I do believe we have a media problem, and we do have some of our media that is leading people toward fascism. | ||
| The question of America has become too soft and feminine. | ||
| I think that is a fascist litmus test. | ||
| So this question of whether the society is too soft and feminine... | ||
| It was alarming to me that a majority of Hispanic Protestants agree, but that's not shocking. | ||
| Immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country. | ||
| This is one of the most terrifying things that you've heard a presidential candidate say because it is straight out of my comp. | ||
| 23% of Jewish respondents agree with that because that's straight out Nazi talk. | ||
| Sage, more babies, strong men, strong nation state. | ||
| Sounds pretty good to me. | ||
| Also, she seems to be confused about what fascism is. | ||
| That's when giant corporations and the government work together against the people. | ||
| You might argue that's what they're doing against a certain Donald Trump. | ||
| Do you have anything nice you can say about Joy Reid? | ||
| Yeah, I'm watching that clip and I actually hadn't seen that one. | ||
| And I just shake my head. | ||
| I was actually thinking, do I know of any other national broadcaster who has been so full of hate and divisiveness than Joy Reid? | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| Who else has done it at a high level for a long time? | ||
| I don't know anybody. | ||
| And certainly, it wouldn't be somebody with your color skin. | ||
| It only happened. | ||
| With someone who looks like her, honestly. | ||
| I'm just calling it out. | ||
| But she is the most racist, divisive, and seemingly miserable human in that kind of spot that we've ever seen. | ||
| And it's really sad. | ||
| Yeah, well, it's sad, and it's gross, and it's kind of all they've got. | ||
| They've got fascism. | ||
| So we've done sort of the, I would say, fairly obvious, it's not going that well for Kamala stuff. | ||
| And I said to my guys, I don't want to end on the pure political thing, and I really don't want to end on the racehorse politics stuff, because we're going to do it hardcore for the next couple weeks. | ||
| There's another story right now that I think is super interesting regarding Bridget Mendler, who is a child actress. | ||
| We'll get to that in just a second. | ||
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| All right, so check this out. | ||
| This is from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Nearly 20 years after starting her career as a child actress, Bridget Mendler is now heading to the boardroom as the CEO of a new startup company. | ||
| The 31-year-old started her career as a child actress at just 11 years old in 2004 with a voice role in the animated film Legend of Buddha. | ||
| She also has had roles on Jonas, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Squeakquel, and the Secret World of Already before her breakthrough role in Disney Channel's Good Luck Charlie. | ||
| While she was working fairly steadily through 2019, she has spent the last few years on her studies, earning degrees from USC, MIT, and studying at Harvard Law School. | ||
| Now she's ready to break into the business world, serving as the CEO of a new space startup, Northwood Space, which landed a $6.3 million round seed funding via CNBC. | ||
| And let's throw to Bridget for just a moment. | ||
| This is not exactly my generation. | ||
| It's just kind of a cool story. | ||
| Listen to Bridget herself. | ||
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I think for space companies, you're running a business that is completely reliant upon connectivity, but connectivity with space is stuck in a different era where you anticipate outages. | |
| Or you find very expensive and cumbersome solutions for outages in a way that would be completely unacceptable in other industrialized sectors. | ||
| We were actually talking to a space company yesterday that had their contact time just slipped out from under them at the last minute. | ||
| And so it's really hard to think of... | ||
| How to deliver a reliable business to your customers under those conditions. | ||
| And so we're excited to really change the expectations for space companies where you have this always-on, reliable, and frankly, dynamic satellite connectivity that you would expect of your power grid or of your cell phones. | ||
| And so we think that this is a huge opportunity space. | ||
| And our first contribution to it is through shared infrastructure through phased ray antennas, which offer a 10x improvement on availability for satellite operators, along with a lot of other exciting features of phased rays. | ||
| Sage, maya culpa here. | ||
| I did not see the chipmunk squeak wheel or the Disney stuff or anything like that. | ||
| But the reason I love this story is here you've got a girl. | ||
| She happened to have been a child actress, but clearly was working real hard. | ||
| Did it right. | ||
| There's no identity politics. | ||
| In this story, as far as I can tell, if anything, she probably had to fight some identity politics to get there. | ||
| She seems highly competent. | ||
| She's a great speaker. | ||
| She seems to know what she's doing. | ||
| She's passionate. | ||
| This is what America is all about. | ||
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Oh my gosh. | |
| And she basically just spoke another language there. | ||
| I don't understand anything she said. | ||
| She said they're going to the space thing out there. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I'm not smart enough to fully understand all that. | ||
| But kudos to her because my kid did see those movies. | ||
| Especially the Ariadne one. | ||
| Yeah, I mean the Disney one. | ||
| And she could have kept going and I'm sure she's still getting paid for some of that. | ||
| And at 31, So she's been in school for a long time to get to this point. | ||
| That's so impressive. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I haven't seen that. | ||
| And I'm going to send that to my 22-year-old daughter and be like, hey, because listen, you heard me talk about Quinn. | ||
| She's a senior in college right now. | ||
| She's like, mom, I don't know if I'm going to get a job. | ||
| Is it okay if I move in with you here in Florida? | ||
| I'm like, no, get a job. | ||
| Like, absolutely not. | ||
| And if this young woman can go over and be a child actress where she couldn't remain comfortable and chooses to do this, I mean, she's a trailblazer to be doing it that way. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| So you're telling me, Sage, as a black woman, you would send your child a video of a white girl who's successful and you'd think that would be okay? | ||
| Listen, I'm half white and her dad's all white, so I think I'm allowed. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| For now on, for as many things as we do together for however many years we do stuff, hopefully many years, I'm always going to keep referring to you as a black woman so you can keep saying you're half white. | ||
| Something seems very funny to me about that. | ||
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I'm allowed to do a little bit more than you are. | |
| Let me just show you this tweet from Pop Culture because this shows a little bit about the evolution of this girl, like how great this is. | ||
| She's just a Disney Channel girl. | ||
| She's doing this kind of standard YouTube song stuff and all that. | ||
| And then here she is as a CEO. This is what everyone, including your daughter, who I know you're a great mama too because I've heard you guys on the phone. | ||
| This is what every young girl and young boy should aspire to. | ||
| Do it right. | ||
| Care about something and go get yours. | ||
| And by the way, I'm not encouraging or saying that my daughter should have. | ||
| Did you see the bottom there? | ||
| You know, PhD student at MIT. Listen, that's not for everybody. | ||
| They would have not even opened my application once they saw the name. | ||
| So it's fine. | ||
| But like, how proud would you be as her parent? | ||
| Right? | ||
| No, it's amazing. | ||
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Oh, cool. | |
| It is the American dream. | ||
| You can start here. | ||
| And go here. | ||
| And by the way, you're going to fall on your face a few times along the way. | ||
| I'm sure she already has, but you're going to get back up and keep going. | ||
| So good for her. | ||
| Is it okay for me to idolize somebody that's 20 years younger? | ||
| Yes, right? | ||
| I think it is okay. | ||
| Sage, what do you do now that you're a free woman in the free state of Florida on the weekends? | ||
| I haven't been here for a weekend yet. | ||
| I've been traveling so much. | ||
| Again, I didn't think I'd be on the campaign trail, but I kind of am. | ||
| Listen, I just take long walks along the beach in the mornings. | ||
| Because like I said, it's right there. | ||
| It's one of the coolest things that you already know about. | ||
| There's so much good food down here. | ||
| And I'm having a blast just trying different random restaurants. | ||
| And I'll also say this. | ||
| I think people are so friendly here. | ||
| And it's because, in my scientific opinion, all the research I've done, because people... | ||
| Have made a choice to be here. | ||
| They've made a change in life to come down here. | ||
| And sometimes that changes is hard. | ||
| You know, I sold the house up in Connecticut, everything in it, packed my car with a couple of suitcases, a case of wine and the one plant I hadn't murdered and just drove and just did it. | ||
| And I'm like so many who chose to make a change. | ||
| And that's why I think people are smile, smile more. | ||
| And it is, it's, it's the free state of Florida, but I like like your, your avatar and your bio it's Florida man. | ||
| What do I get to say? | ||
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I don't get to say Florida man, do I? You want to be Florida man? | |
| I mean, who am I to say who a man is, you know? | ||
| Okay, good point. | ||
| I'm going to be Florida man too. | ||
| All right, Sage, have a great weekend. | ||
| All of you guys have a great weekend. | ||
| It's a Friday, so no postgame show today, and we will see you on Monday. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
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For your hope, for your prayers, for your support, for your hard work. |
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