Dec. 11, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| Yep, I defer my time to Mr. Rubin here. | ||
| Well... | ||
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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. | ||
| *music* Hello, people. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It is December 11th, 2024. We are live streaming on Rumble, on Locals, and on YouTube. | ||
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| At this point, I just don't know what to do with you. | ||
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| It's literally click, and then you move on with your life. | ||
| Quick correction up top. | ||
| I believe that yesterday I referred to Daniel Penny as a member of the Navy, but he is actually a Marine. | ||
| You know I'm not above corrections, so there you go. | ||
| Everyone makes mistakes. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| We do a lot of this on the fly. | ||
| And let's just dive into what we're doing. | ||
| Did I even say my name? | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
| You guys know what you're doing, right? | ||
| Um... | ||
| We've got an interesting show for you today, because something has been brewing online, I guess for a couple months now, that people have been trying to drag me into, and I've been a little hesitant or reticent to talk about it. | ||
| But for those of you that have been with me for years and years, you know that I started at the Young Turks, the original Rubin Report, a Way back when, started on the Young Turks Network when I was a progressive, I was a lefty, all of that stuff. | ||
| About 11 years ago, I moved to Los Angeles and started the show in February of 2013. And then, of course, over the course of about a year and a half there, I started waking up to some of the excesses of the left. | ||
| You guys know all my feelings about that, and I've written several books about it, done a million PragerU videos, and I do this show every day. | ||
| And I've been very, I don't know that there's literally anyone in America that has been more open about their political evolution than me, and that's obviously led me to a lot of success, and a certain amount of people that hate me, and everything in between, and it's all good. | ||
| It's been a nice life, and the career's going well, and it's all good. | ||
| But one of the interesting things that happened in the course of that, and all of you know this, for any of you that have woken up, or you've been red-pilled, or whatever you wanna call it, is as you start doing that, you start getting a lot of hate. | ||
| You start losing friends and people turn on you and they block you on Facebook and all of the stuff. | ||
| Well, over the last couple months, one of the hosts at the Young Turks, Anna Kasparian, who was an extremely good friend of mine, I would say my best friend in L.A. for those first two years in L.A., hung out all the time, multiple times a week. | ||
| We did plenty of shows together, all of these things, was invited to my wedding. | ||
| We shared events and... | ||
| Stuff together, like super, super close. | ||
| She, apparently in these last few months, or I guess really it started, I think, sort of post-COVID, has been waking up. | ||
| She's going through her own wake-up, her own evolution, her own red-pilling. | ||
| And more and more people almost every day are reaching out to me like, Dave, you gotta talk to her. | ||
| You gotta talk to her. | ||
| She's going through what you're going through. | ||
| I see all these memes of basically people saying, oh, she's gonna be the next Dave Rubin, all of these things. | ||
| Anyway, we were very close. | ||
| She has said an awful lot of... | ||
| I've heard kind of nasty, dishonest things about me over the course of the last 10 years. | ||
| I think you guys that watch this show, and you can even look on YouTube and Rumble and everywhere else, I've mentioned her maybe once or twice over the years on other shows when people have asked me about it, but it's not something I'm that interested in, is those sort of one-on-one back-and-forths and fights and all those things. | ||
| I've said a couple things about Cenk on this show. | ||
| He's the other co-host, obviously. | ||
| But I just didn't want to be in that, in like the back and forth fight and all of those things. | ||
| So I've just for 10 years basically ignored all of the sort of nasty, dishonest things that have been said about me. | ||
| The reason I'm doing the show the way I'm doing it today is because over these past few months as she has woken up, she's starting to see the light, let's say. | ||
| She now has been on a couple of shows where she's talking about that evolution and I think we're at this interesting moment where I've been talking about this wide tent thing forever and it's like, okay, well the wide tent... | ||
| It's also going to include some people that maybe did get some things wrong and did say nasty things about all of us, even some of us personally in all of those things. | ||
| So I'm going to lay out a show for you today that's going to be a bit of my history, but also like, what do you do when someone is waking up and you want to be gracious, but you also don't want to be a fool and much more. | ||
| Okay, I think I've said enough for now. | ||
| So let me show you a quick video compilation. | ||
| These are three videos of Anna over the past... | ||
| These are all within the past three or four months discussing her political awakening. | ||
| I can definitely be honest about my own flaws and my own mistakes because I bought the mainstream media narrative that there wasn't a migrant crisis. | ||
| And yeah, I did believe it. | ||
| I believe because, look, I was an idiot because, I mean, who do you trust in today's media landscape? | ||
| You are... | ||
| Painting a picture of the homeless community. | ||
| You know, how could you be like this? | ||
| You know, these are your unhoused neighbors and they need help. | ||
| A few people accused me of being racist when I had never disclosed the race of the individuals who did this to me. | ||
| That woke me up. | ||
| That woke me up because I'm like, oh my god. | ||
| I am 1 million percent guilty of... | ||
| Honestly, allowing him to kind of break my brain for a little bit because I saw him as such a significant threat. | ||
| When I look at my life right now and I ask myself, which political party has made my life worse? | ||
| It's not the Republican Party. | ||
| Locally speaking, the Democrats have complete control and they have nearly destroyed my family's livelihood, okay? | ||
| We are living in trash and squalor everywhere. | ||
| Okay, so for those of you that don't know Anna or don't know my history with Young Turks or any of those things, it doesn't matter that much. | ||
| What I'm showing you there is someone who is a public figure who is waking up. | ||
| And I don't want to make this all about personal drama and any of that stuff, which is why I really haven't addressed this thing for quite literally a decade, since 2014. The second clip that you saw there where she's talking about how she was accused of being racist, one of the things that woke her up, apparently there was some COVID stuff, | ||
| but the thing that really woke her up is she lives in Los Angeles, where I used to live, and she was accosted by somebody on the street and then suddenly started putting the pieces together right outside of her apartment, suddenly started putting the pieces together as to what's going on with the homeless and the drugs and all of the criminality in LA and everything else. | ||
| So, you know, I always say the thing about... | ||
| You know, a conservative is just a liberal mugged by reality, right? | ||
| And in this case, it's quite literal in her case. | ||
| So I thought for just a second, we would find one video of me and Anna together just to illustrate that we were incredibly close for all these years. | ||
| This is just 15 seconds or so. | ||
| This is 10 years ago this week, actually. | ||
| It was right before Christmas 2014. Well, so my best moment, clearly, That thing right there did get engaged a couple weeks ago. | ||
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Round of applause from the crowd. | |
| Okay, so, God, we were kids. | ||
| I mean, we were really kids. | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| But the point is, we were super close again. | ||
| She was invited to my wedding. | ||
| There was no hard feelings. | ||
| As a matter of fact, when David and I left the Young Turks, when we I told Anna. | ||
| We took her out. | ||
| Anna, you probably remember this. | ||
| It was on Melrose Avenue. | ||
| We went to Zinc and we took you out. | ||
| We all had red sangria. | ||
| And you actually started crying because you didn't want us to leave, right? | ||
| And again, I'm not doing this to open up old wounds or anything else. | ||
| But the point is we left on absolutely fine terms. | ||
| And unfortunately, so now I'm going to show you the sort of unfortunate part because it needs to be addressed. | ||
| And then I think that there actually is a way out of this. | ||
| Anna is now acknowledging that she did, she made some mistakes, she didn't see certain things, she had Trump derangement syndrome, she's accused people of doing things that maybe she regrets. | ||
| So here's just one, they've done so many videos about me, and I've done none, none, like literally none. | ||
| But here she is six years ago going after me because I'm some sort of sellout or something. | ||
| $1.5 million home, so it must be good. | ||
| Let's go to the next video. | ||
| Again, this is Ruben on a Brazilian pro-Bolsonaro propaganda show. | ||
| What is news really is what's really happening in culture. | ||
| What are people really thinking about? | ||
| Yeah, he's all about big ideas. | ||
| What are people really thinking about? | ||
| For someone like Dave Ruben, he's thinking about dollar signs. | ||
| Ah, thinking about dollar signs. | ||
| I actually, that interview, I didn't know, or no, I don't even know that it is a pro-Balasaro channel. | ||
| It was a bunch of college kids that I met at, I think, a Turning Point event who asked me to sit down and talk to them for a little bit. | ||
| I did not get paid for it. | ||
| But anyway, you can see, and the reason I'm showing you that clip is this. | ||
| We know what the left does with people. | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| You impugn their motives, right? | ||
| They're a sellout. | ||
| They're evil. | ||
| They're doing it for some nefarious reason, right? | ||
| There's no There's no honest assessment of my thoughts or my issues, right? | ||
| She goes out of her way, actually. | ||
| I'm making a point about culture. | ||
| She doesn't address that. | ||
| It's that he must be a sellout. | ||
| This is how much his house costs. | ||
| Like, okay. | ||
| And again, I want you to see this not for the little drama that they're Potentially was or could be with me and her, but because we've all gone through these things. | ||
| Every single one of you watching this that has been red pilled has had the friend turn on you on Facebook or block you or some of the other things. | ||
| Just real quick, here's just like a tiny compilation of some of the titles of the videos that she has done on the Young Turks about me. | ||
| Okay, and it's just all, it's all, you know, I'm a useful idiot for fascism. | ||
| My friends hate my existence. | ||
| It's just, it's all dribble and it's nonsense. | ||
| And again, I did not play in this game. | ||
| I am not doing this for any of that. | ||
| But now, okay, so what really escalated this to my desk? | ||
| What escalated it was, Anna was on Piers Morgan a couple days ago, and as she has woken up, what she's finding, and it's very obvious because the truth is incontrovertible, you will consistently find that people on the right will be open and willing to disagree with you and yet treat you decently, and that simply doesn't happen on the left, which is why she's able to sit down at my friend Glenn Beck's studio in Dallas and have a wonderful conversation with him, even though I have no doubt she has said unbelievably horrible things about Glenn Beck for the last 10 years. | ||
| He's still willing to do that. | ||
| The people on the right are more tolerant. | ||
| People on the left say they're tolerant. | ||
| People on the right generally act tolerant. | ||
| Anyway, what really escalated this in the last couple of days was Anna was on Piers Morgan. | ||
| And I did not know this till I saw it, but he asked her about me. | ||
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But what people have said is they said you were quite outspoken. | |
| I'll play it to you. | ||
| This is what you said when Dave Rubin pivoted. | ||
| Let's have a look. | ||
| There has been this prevalence of prominent figures who identify as the left, right, or on the left, who then later start to cozy up to right wing figures. | ||
| And then it turns out that they completely move to the right wing because they're essentially paid to do it. | ||
| They're used as tools by the right wing to essentially spew right wing talking points while purporting to still be on the left. | ||
| In fact, Dave Rubin's a great example of that. | ||
| Dave Rubin used to work with us. | ||
| He identified as someone on the left. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
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Forgive me, Adam. | |
| Dave Rubin made a video for PragerU why I left the left. Oh, I know. He does not, in fact, state to the world that he's still on the left. I don't know who you have in mind, so I can only address the one name that you gave. So, I mean, have you pulled a Rubin, as some people suggest? | ||
| I mean, I'm still pretty left-wing, and I'm still working at the exact same place. | ||
| Look, I don't know. | ||
| Maybe I was wrong about Dave Rubin, but I just felt that he... | ||
| First of all, after he left TYT, he did lie about us, and that bothered me because we were still friends, and I didn't understand what was going on, so I was discombobulated about... | ||
| What was happening with Dave after he left TYT. He did leave on good terms, so it was weird. | ||
| And, you know, he kept saying that he was this classical liberal, but had trouble defining what that meant and had trouble reinforcing or at least backing up some of the claims that he was making about, you know, his newfound identity. | ||
| Live and let live. | ||
| Dave is doing his thing. | ||
| I did feel that his pivot was strange, but maybe it was sincere. | ||
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Who knows? | |
| Wrong one, the other book. | ||
| Okay, so look, I will take the concession on maybe I was wrong about Dave Rubin. | ||
| And then she has to backtrack a little bit because she's, I suppose, still on the left or whatever that means. | ||
| So she has to claim that, you know, I don't know what I'm talking about. | ||
| I mean, I did write. | ||
| Can I have it? | ||
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I have a book. | |
| That I wrote right here. | ||
| It's called Don't Burn This Book. | ||
| It was a New York Times bestseller, despite the fact that the New York Times is not too kind to people like me, or who write things that are actually true, and it explains all my classically liberal beliefs. | ||
| I wrote a follow-up, by the way, which was also quite good. | ||
| Great stocking stuffer. | ||
| So there's some sort of implication there that, again, that I did this for money. | ||
| You know, the funny thing is, try to imagine around 2017 where the culture was, the idea of leaving the left and I was doing it for money. | ||
| So I couldn't explain myself and I was doing it for money. | ||
| I mean, it just doesn't stand on its own. | ||
| Also, as for this concept that I lied about the Young Turks, I mean, it's just simply not true. | ||
| As a matter of fact, I know that they actually were lying to her about why we left. | ||
| I did not ask for more money. | ||
| There's a whole bunch of nonsense. | ||
| I didn't ask for more money. | ||
| I just said I was leaving. | ||
| As a matter of fact, David, who left with me, who was the producer at the time, he was paid by the Young Turks a whopping $40,000 a year to be a producer there. | ||
| They offered, if he would stay, they offered him $80,000, and we still walked. | ||
| That was a hell of a lot of money in our lives at that time. | ||
| So I think there's some confusion there. | ||
| And again, I don't mean to make this about the myopic portion of this, but I will take the maybe I was wrong about Dave Rubin part. | ||
| And maybe there will be an apology along the way and then there will be a sit down and everything else. | ||
| We shall see about that. | ||
| But I just, I was very conflicted about this over the last week or so as Phoenix and I were discussing whether we should address it or not or what we should do with this. | ||
| Because I don't like just like the internet like gotcha stuff. | ||
| Except I think the thing that overrides that for me, or I guess what I know overrides that for me, is that I probably more than anyone, I mean, My evolution was real, but also this wide tent thing that I've been calling for is real. | ||
| And when you're gonna have a wide tent, you're gonna have to have some people that maybe you weren't thrilled with before. | ||
| So I did tweet this out, and she did not respond, but we shall see. | ||
| I saw that video, and I tweeted, Hey, Anna Kasparian, glad to see you're rethinking some things. | ||
| For the record, I can explain my classically liberal beliefs quite well. | ||
| I wrote two books about them. | ||
| And I never lied about TYT. Some people lied to you, but that's not what's important. | ||
| We want to break the internet. | ||
| So this is my official invite to Anna Kasmarian to sit down. | ||
| We can do it in person or we can do it on Skype. | ||
| We can find a third location if you want Piers Morgan to moderate it. | ||
| I am willing to do all those things. | ||
| If there's anything else that you want to accuse me of, We could do it completely live and that'll be just fine. | ||
| If you'd rather just apologize and then we move on and talk about what all our touch points are and what we see the same or how we see that government should be different or something like that, I think that would be fine too. | ||
| And that's actually how we will continue to heal this country and own a proper culture that is good and pluralistic in the sense of ideas and all those things. | ||
| She said she still has her Her lefty beliefs or whatever they are, okay, that's fine. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I like when people have differences of opinion. | ||
| The funny thing is I know from my own experience and from the experience of so many of you guys that when people wake up, you just can't stop the wake up. | ||
| So my guess is over time, and Anna, maybe you don't want to hear this yet, most of your lefty, whatever you have that you think is still lefty at this point, is going to disappear because that is just what happens. | ||
| You cannot stop the truth. | ||
| It is as simple as that. | ||
| However, despite all of the things that you have said about me, and again, whether you lied or they lied to you, or some of the nasty things, and I was above the fray the entire time, I will put all of that aside to see if we can do something better that I think would be good for the culture and good for the countries. | ||
| So that is segment one of the Rubin Report for today. | ||
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| You know what I've decided to do? | ||
| I'm a good man. | ||
| Oh, this book is already signed. | ||
| We're going to get a different version of Don't Burn This Book. | ||
| I'm going to sign it to Anna and we're going to mail it over there to the Young Turks studios and see what happens. | ||
| And maybe she'll end up agreeing with a bit more than she might have thought of. | ||
| Let's move on to some of the news that's breaking really across the country right now. | ||
| There's a lot of stuff, and it's all sort of loosely connected, and I think in some sense it's loosely connected to the first segment we did right there regarding people waking up. | ||
| So Daniel Penny went on Jesse Waters' show last night. | ||
| He has been acquitted, and this was really the first time that in a public sense he talked about the acquittal and what happened, so take a look. | ||
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The former Marine enduring years of vicious left-wing attacks who vilified him as a racist. | |
| But Penny has no regrets, and here's why. | ||
| What in you caused you to want to get involved? | ||
| I mean, I'm not a confrontational person. | ||
| I don't really extend myself. | ||
| This type of thing is very uncomfortable. | ||
| All this attention and limelight is Very uncomfortable. | ||
| And I would prefer without it. | ||
| I didn't want any type of attention or praise. | ||
| And I still don't. | ||
| The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, would never be able to live with myself. | ||
| And I'll take a million court appearances and People calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed. | ||
| That's a good man right there. | ||
| It's so interesting what he's focused on. | ||
| What he's focused on is not what he's going through right now. | ||
| He's focused on, boy, if I hadn't done this, that 30-year-old guy with the history of drug problems and all of this stuff who was on the subway getting in people's faces, in the faces of kids and women, etc., and yelling at them and saying he was going to hurt people and that he didn't care and all these things. | ||
| Had he done something, had he actually hurt or even killed one of those people, he couldn't have lived with himself. | ||
| That's still what he's focused on. | ||
| This is a 24-year-old Marine who was on his way to school on the subway, and we're all told, do something, right? | ||
| You see something, say something, or do something. | ||
| We're all told, like, you know, you should be a man and defend people when bad things are about to happen. | ||
| He did the right thing. | ||
| This was a true carriage, not miscarriage. | ||
| This was a carriage of justice that he is a free man right now. | ||
| And of course, all of the bad guys, all the people who get everything wrong are going after him. | ||
| Listen to AOC here talking about the justice system as it pertains to Mr. Penny. | ||
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She said that he would do it again, if necessary, if there was a threat. | |
| What do you make of the comments? | ||
| Well, you know, doesn't that... | ||
| I just feel like that tells us everything. | ||
| If we do not want violence on our subways, and the point of our justice system is a level of accountability to prevent a person who does not have remorse about taking another person's life. | ||
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I mean, even people... | |
| engaged in manslaughter or have taken a life accidentally expressed remorse. | ||
| And so the fact that a person may express no remorse indicates that there's a risk that it may happen again. | ||
| And if we do not want to unleash that level of violence then we should exert a level of accountability to prevent that from happening again. | ||
| You know, it's interesting. | ||
| We actually can connect this to the earlier segment because leftism, I think, basically creates a situation where you get everything wrong. | ||
| You get absolutely everything wrong. | ||
| And that's exactly what AOC is doing right there. | ||
| She seems to think that the man who saved the people, the women and children from getting hurt, who were being threatened, he was saying he was going to kill them, that the man who saved them is the bad guy. | ||
| And that is just simply not true. | ||
| So what is it about the set of leftist ideas that makes people get virtually everything wrong? | ||
| They get everything wrong in terms of economics. | ||
| They get everything wrong in terms of the family. | ||
| They get virtually everything wrong across the board. | ||
| There's a deep spiritual component to that, I think, because they seemingly only believe in themselves rather than anything else. | ||
| So it's only if the world would behave and everyone would behave exactly as they wish. | ||
| And it's like, lady, if you cared about the people, the good people trying to ride the subway, You as a congresswoman in New York, you might try to create the economic conditions so there's less homeless people. | ||
| You might try to do some things to get some drugs off the street or have less transients out there or not defund the police, thus leaving the average citizen to have to do the right thing instead of proper policing. | ||
| So if you want to blame anyone for this actually AOC, it's you and your set of ideas that are far more to blame than Daniel Penny. | ||
| But of course, the usual grifters are just going to come out And blame this on racism and everything else. | ||
| Which the implication, think how thin that is. | ||
| I know you guys know it. | ||
| Like the cries of racism these days are always so thin. | ||
| But this idea that somehow if it had been a crazed white person getting in the face of the women and children on the subway and threatening them, that somehow Daniel Penny would have been like, oh, it's fine. | ||
| Like we just played the video of Daniel Penny. | ||
| He still is worried about had he not done anything. | ||
| How he would have lived. | ||
| And it's like, no, he was like, yeah, I just got on the subway today. | ||
| I'm going to just kill a black guy. | ||
| It's absolutely insane. | ||
| Anyway, here is BLM leader Shyvana Newsome on Dan Abrams' show, basically saying that Daniel Penny is racist. | ||
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So do you not blame Jordan Neely at all? | |
| I mean, for what he did? | ||
| He deserves no blame from your perspective, right? | ||
| Did you hear the witness testimony? | ||
| I'm asking you a question. | ||
| Or are you cherry picking the ones that they are? | ||
| I'm asking you a question. | ||
| Do you blame Jordan Neely at all for his conduct? | ||
| If Jordan Neely was a white man, we'd be saying it was an opioid crisis. | ||
| He was hungry. | ||
| He was mentally ill. | ||
| He had a muffin in his pocket. | ||
| I wouldn't be if there were other... | ||
| What about the witnesses? | ||
| Let's play again, just so we're clear on the race. | ||
| I'm sure you won't play Eddie Gibson, who begged Daniel Neely to stop. | ||
| And he stayed there throughout the incident. | ||
| Play the ones that fit the narrative. | ||
| But what's the narrative? | ||
| There's black women who were on the subway. | ||
| It was mostly people of color on the subway. | ||
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What about a white man during cross-examination who said that he was afraid of Daniel Neely, Daniel Penny, the one who poured water onto his head and said that he was afraid? | |
| He was a white man. | ||
| What about the Latino man who was holding his arms? | ||
| I'm not the one identifying everyone by race. | ||
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You are. | |
| You're the one who keeps telling. | ||
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I have to. | |
| Why? | ||
| Why do you have to? | ||
| There was nothing in this case. | ||
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Because when you look at the FBI, when you look at when hate crimes happen, when you look at when injustice happened to black people, that shows we don't get justice. | |
| How sad what the left has done to people, that you would view everything through the lens of race and you think, oh, there was a Latino person on the car and he did this and there was a black person on the car and he did this. | ||
| That is the sum totality of what we are. | ||
| And that's really what has been so pushed on us for the last 10 years that has broken so many brains on the left, I would say, in some sense. | ||
| Connect that also to the earlier segment, why they're so hysterical all the time, because their worldview is largely not connected to reality. | ||
| We are all individuals who are complex and multi-tiered and everything else, but they've whittled us down to skin color. | ||
| And again, you just have to think about it slightly differently. | ||
| For anyone that's ever been on the New York City subway, and I lived in New York City for 20 years, and you see homeless people everywhere, and crazy people everywhere, and people pissing and shitting on the subway, and as we covered yesterday, public masturbation is up 51%, not 50%, 51%. | ||
| Somebody's really at it over there. | ||
| The idea that you would only stop someone from doing a horrific thing because of their skin color is just completely insane. | ||
| Anyway, speaking of completely insane, let's jump over to the ladies of The View, because here are Whoopi and Sonny. | ||
| They're not happy with Daniel Penney, and they are defending Jordan Neely, again, who was threatening women and children, some of whom happened to be black, on the subway. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know that seeing them celebrating in a bar Made me comfortable. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I mean, you killed a guy. | ||
| The man is dead. | ||
| And maybe you just... | ||
| You take the celebration home. | ||
| You don't do it outside. | ||
| But that's just me. | ||
| But what I... You know, and people are conflicted because... | ||
| He was an ill man, and the more information we're learning about him now, turns out his mom had been murdered, and that may have been what set him off on his mental path. | ||
| Well, that's what his family is saying. | ||
| That's what they're saying. | ||
| And so when you look at that and you look at the result of what happened, my question is, where is our compassion as a society? | ||
| Where is our compassion? | ||
| One other thing. | ||
| Man, what a perfect illustration of what I just said. | ||
| You will end up getting everything wrong. | ||
| Whoopi Goldberg, we did a quick Google search. | ||
| She's worth about 60 mil. | ||
| I don't begrudge her any of that, right? | ||
| She used to be a great actress and Oscar-winning and what was the line in Ghost? | ||
| Molly, you in danger, girl! | ||
| Like, she used to be great. | ||
| Now she's horrible. | ||
| She gets paid a lot of money for it. | ||
| But I don't begrudge her any of that. | ||
| But the reason I'm bringing up the amount of money she makes is, Whoopi, you don't have to be on the subway in New York City. | ||
| I'm gonna guess you haven't taken a subway probably in decades, that you have a private car and security that picks you up from wherever your house is, probably outside of New York City, and drives you directly to the studio. | ||
| And there's a series of people that protect you throughout that. | ||
| And there are security guards Literally in that studio with you and people have to pass through metal detectors to get there. | ||
| But Whoopi, let's try it a different way. | ||
| I think your real name is Karen Walker, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| Now imagine Karen Walker had never become Whoopi Goldberg and imagine Karen Walker was just another woman who happened to be black on the subway and a crazy person for whatever reason they were crazy or whatever mental health issues they had or whatever had gone on with their family or drugs or whatever. | ||
| Imagine they got in your face, Karen Walker, and they were screaming at you and threatening to kill you. | ||
| And imagine you were sitting with the little five-year-old kid Next to you. | ||
| How would you feel about this whole situation, Karen Walker? | ||
| I suppose a little bit different. | ||
| So I suppose Whoopi Goldberg should probably check in with her inner Karen Walker. | ||
| And of course, I'm not even going to address Sunny. | ||
| She's just a racist idiot. | ||
| Alyssa Farah, she is the pet conservative over there. | ||
| You know, she gets the cookie. | ||
| She gets pat on the head. | ||
| But every now and again, she says something sane. | ||
| And Alyssa, I guess Christmas came early. | ||
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I think it's a tragedy that Neely is dead today, but I do not think that the villain is Daniel Penny. | |
| I think it is the city of New York who repeatedly fails people who could be a danger to themselves and others. | ||
| And as you mentioned, he was on this list. | ||
| He had previously assaulted a woman, committed some minor offenses, petty crimes. | ||
| But he was somebody who, I can say, I've been on the subway and felt unsafe. | ||
| People that I've talked to on our staff have been on the subway and felt unsafe. | ||
| Yeah, you're exactly right there, Alyssa. | ||
| Congratulations, you got one. | ||
| That's exactly what I said yesterday. | ||
| The very same people who have defunded the police, who have created horrible economic conditions in the city, who have let in all of these migrants, who've created a situation where it is simply public masturbation up 51%. | ||
| It is less pleasant, let's say, to be on the subway. | ||
| There's more people with mental health problems out there. | ||
| There's basically just a giant stew of bad stuff. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And it leads to something like this. | ||
| So it is the fault, you know, when she says it's the city, it's the fault of the people who have been in charge of the city. | ||
| It's the fault of the people who have put all of these things out there. | ||
| Now look, there's no perfect system. | ||
| You could have an absolutely wonderful system and competent governance and all of those things. | ||
| And still, could someone who's not mentally well get on any kind of public transportation and threaten somebody and end up in the same situation? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But we know that there's something particularly nefarious. | ||
| There's something particularly out of whack. | ||
| Now, interestingly, over the last couple of days, I've played you a few videos of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has largely been a far-left progressive, but he is waking up to some of that nonsense. | ||
| He's suddenly talking about how he's for deportations and that the Sanctuary City thing wasn't so great and everything else. | ||
| And here he is with an actual sane take on the verdict. | ||
| First, you know, as I stated when this incident first happened with Jordan, that's my son's name. | ||
| And so, you know, these incidents that happen in the city is not only professional, but they're personal. | ||
| And we take that with us. | ||
| Jordan should not have had to die. | ||
| And I strongly believe, as I've been stating, probably from day one, we have a mental health system that is broken. | ||
| When you have someone repeatedly going through that system, that's a signature of failure. | ||
| And we need help in Albany and in the City Council. | ||
| We can't sit back and mourn the loss of someone that is caught up in the system when we're not taking the action every day. | ||
| But a jury of his peers Heard the case, saw all the facts and all the evidence and made a decision. | ||
| And I joined DA Braggs and stated that I respect the process. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Now you could say, like, if you want to just make like a little argument against him, you could basically say, well, you know, the idea that people are getting mental health services from the state is completely ridiculous. | ||
| Like, that's not really what's going on here. | ||
| I remember when I lived in LA, there were always billboards everywhere about like the LA Department of Mental Health, as if you could call The Department of Mental Health in LA and anyone was going to get more mentally healthy because of them. | ||
| That's probably completely absurd and what we really need to talk about are families and two-parent families and stable homes and proper education and diet and exercise and a whole bunch of other things. | ||
| But just shifting that aside for a moment, the basic point of what he is saying is that there was a trial. | ||
| Of Daniel Penny's peers, they heard the evidence. | ||
| You all know the story now, and we better respect that. | ||
| Now, we know a certain amount of people won't, but we probably should, otherwise it'll lead to more violence and more vigilante justice, which we played that video of one of the BLM leaders yesterday calling for it. | ||
| I should make another correction, a second correction in one show. | ||
| I'm not above it. | ||
| I said that Whoopi Goldberg's real name was Karen Walker. | ||
| If Karen Johnson. | ||
| So if there's a Karen Walker out there that I just compared to Whoopi Goldberg, I'd like to apologize to you and yours. | ||
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| Okay, so let's get you up to speed on the latest with UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was quite literally summarily executed on the streets of New York City. | ||
| This is from Colin Rugg. | ||
| Justin, the person of interest in the UnitedHealthcare CEO execution has been ID'd as Luigi Mangione, a former Ivy League student. | ||
| An activist, Mangione is described as a tech whiz and was a former valedictorian. | ||
| Mangione is an anti-capitalist 26-year-old who shares quotes online from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. | ||
| Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs to take away their unhappiness, a Kaczynski quote liked by Mangione Redd. | ||
| Science fiction, it is already happening to some extent in our own society. | ||
| Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. | ||
| In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. | ||
| Mangione studied at the University of Pennsylvania. | ||
| He was valedictorian of his 2016 graduating class at Gilman School in Baltimore. | ||
| According to the New York Post, his ex-profile appears to be Pep Mangione. | ||
| I don't even know if that account's still up right now. | ||
| They usually take those things down pretty quickly. | ||
| But anyway, now that we know who this guy is, we are getting more and more information about him now. | ||
| Obviously yesterday we covered some of the things as it relates to his back pain and that he was probably on drugs related to that and potentially didn't get some healthcare coverage that he wanted to. | ||
| We have a little bit of insight into some of his political beliefs. | ||
| By the way, as it pertains to SSRIs and drugging people and not dealing with the proper issues and just drugging people instead of figuring out the root cause of things, I can get on board some of that stuff. | ||
| Anyway, here he is being taken to the police station yesterday. | ||
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Down, down. | |
| I'm completely out of touch. | ||
| and insult the intelligence of the American people and the life experience. - Okay, so I don't know what's going on there. | ||
| Now there is, like, I think you can probably put two and two together and sort of connect it actually to the previous story in that, you know, there's something going on with mental health there. | ||
| He's talking about his lived experience. | ||
| That's like leftist language 101. Clearly written about and liked posts as it pertained to mental health and things of that nature. | ||
| So was he not getting prescription drugs that he needed? | ||
| Did he feel he was being over-prescribed things? | ||
| Did they not feel? | ||
| All of these things. | ||
| And actually, none of it matters because no matter what your reasoning is, you cannot take the law into your own hands and just execute somebody on the street just because you think that they wronged you or a company wronged you. | ||
| And they happened to be at the helm of that company. | ||
| Now you'd think in a sane society, you wouldn't have to say that, but there's an awful lot of lefties online who are defending this. | ||
| We played some videos of it yesterday. | ||
| Anyway, Luigi's former roommate went on Jesse Waters to discuss the sort of discrepancy between the person he knows and the person who committed this murder. | ||
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Do you feel strange now that this guy who lived six months with has now been picked up on murder charges? | |
| I feel strange because he was a great friend and I consider him, you know, a close friend and that somebody who would assassinate somebody is completely incompatible with the person that I lived with, the person that I cooked meals with, the person that, you know, was part of book club and other activities with. | ||
| It's like two completely different human beings. | ||
| Yeah, that's why I asked you if he took drugs because it looked like he snapped at some point and went haywire, but we'll see how it shakes out. | ||
| Okay, again, we will find out more about him, about his history, and everything else. | ||
| The reason that I think these two stories are so connected is that There is a mental health problem in this country that is maybe partly because of prescription drugs, but it's also partly because so many people have been lied to by the media for so long. | ||
| So many people have been taught all of their own things, taught that they are growing up in a country that is fundamentally evil, is founded on slavery, and that the world is gonna end in 10 years because of climate change. | ||
| And so much of that is connected to what I think now is happening, In the country where we're reversing some of those cultural trends. | ||
| And that's actually exactly why since the day after the election, I've been saying we are about to see an unbelievable booming renaissance in America, an 80s style revolution in America, revolution in the most positive sense. | ||
| The other part that I think has been super interesting about this, and I had a tweet about this go really viral yesterday, is that As this guy got executed on the streets of New York City, just executed, you've all seen the video at this point, nobody on the left is talking about gun control. | ||
| Now, they're always talking about gun control. | ||
| Whatever happens with guns, they always bring it back to gun control. | ||
| And it's too easy to get guns. | ||
| And there are too many murderers out there and everything. | ||
| They never talk about why people kill people or mental health or whatever else, the cultural stuff that I just mentioned. | ||
| But they're always talking about gun control. | ||
| And however, have you seen any clips on CNN covering this where they're talking about gun control? | ||
| Is the New York Times writing op-eds about gun control? | ||
| So I tweeted this. | ||
| Pretty interesting that a healthcare CEO is murdered in cold blood on the streets of New York City. | ||
| And nobody on the left is talking about gun control. | ||
| And what are they talking about? | ||
| Well, we're talking about mental health and we're talking about SSRIs. | ||
| What really should we be talking about? | ||
| We're talking about it here. | ||
| We should be talking about mental health. | ||
| We should be talking about prescription drugs, SSRIs. | ||
| We should be talking about radical academia and the mainstream media that's lied about everything. | ||
| And hopefully we will get to some of those things. | ||
| Let's jump back to the view where these women should all be on prescription drugs if they're not. | ||
| Here's Sonny and Joy blaming the shooting on ghost guns because it appears perhaps he 3D printed this thing. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| I was gonna bring up the ghost guns because, you know, I think it's all speculation now as to why someone so young, so promising, would do something like this. | ||
| There's some indication that he was also suffering from chronic back pain. | ||
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Like severe. | |
| Severe chronic back pain. | ||
| Who hasn't? | ||
| Everyone has back pain. | ||
| Yeah, so we're not sure. | ||
| We're not sure why this happened, but we do know the instrumentality that was used. | ||
| And it was a ghost gun that can be printed on your computer. | ||
| And I think what is so frustrating to me is that, you know, you have all these lobbyists lobbying and saying that this is not a firearm. | ||
| It obviously is a firearm because a man was killed using one of them. | ||
| Another point. | ||
| These ghost guns are up for discussion at the Supreme Court right now. | ||
| So let us hope that they do the right things because, let me say, they do not have serial numbers. | ||
| No, they're ghost guns. | ||
| Yes, they are sold online as do-it-yourself kits. | ||
| What type of country are we living in that some nutcase can get a gun that has no serial number that he can make the same way that he can text me? | ||
| Come on. | ||
| All right, lady, before I even analyze the clip, let's go to what happened a moment later, because you can already guess what happened a moment later. | ||
| Ghost guns are, making a homemade gun isn't illegal under federal law. | ||
| And so I wanted to make that clear. | ||
| But what is interesting, and I know it's not a political topic, but the Biden administration, they put in place a rule, it's called 2022 rule, required for the first time that these kits include serial numbers, which you refer to, and that people who buy them from dealers be subject to background checks. | ||
| Yeah, which you referred to incorrectly and then Whoopi was like, yeah, there's no serial number, there are ghost guns. | ||
| As always, they just don't know what they're talking about and they either have to issue a correction or a legal statement or anything else. | ||
| But the point is, Joy almost said something saying there when she said everyone has back pain. | ||
| It's like, you know what? | ||
| You're kind of right. | ||
| A lot of people do have back pain. | ||
| After I play ball for three hours, my back hurts, right? | ||
| And it's tough sometimes to, like, bend over and pick something up after you're running around for three hours, okay? | ||
| People have back pain. | ||
| It's kind of ubiquitous throughout society. | ||
| But most people then don't shoot somebody because of it. | ||
| So let's talk about the real thing. | ||
| It's not whether he had a regular gun that he potentially could have bought legally if he would have passed whatever background checks were needed wherever he was to get the gun. | ||
| But Or whether he 3D printed it or anything else, let's talk about the real issues here, which seem, again, much more to be connected with mental health, with prescription drugs, and a series of things as it pertains to education and people being taught the wrong things. | ||
| But of course, what do you guys want to do here? | ||
| You guys want to make sure... | ||
| That this is about guns. | ||
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| Okay, so this is going to be a bit of a jump, but I think you'll see how we're going to tie it together. | ||
| The other big sort of like hardcore political thing at the moment is that Trump's nominee for defense secretary is Pete Hegseth. | ||
| Pete Hegseth, who has quite a military background and obviously weekend host over at Fox. | ||
| But there is all sorts of attacks going against the guy, and we've got a bit more from the Daily Wire. | ||
| Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth has broken his silence on the sexual assault accusation made against him back in 2017, which has resurfaced since President-elect Trump tapped Hegseth for the DOD position. | ||
| A police report concerning the allegation against Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran and former Fox News host, was released last week in response to a public records request. | ||
| An unnamed woman claimed Hegseth sexually assaulted her in a hotel room following a conservative conference. | ||
| Hegseth said that the encounter was consensual and police decided against any further action. | ||
| It's very simple, Hegseth told reporters on Thursday. | ||
| The matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared and that's where I'm going to leave it. | ||
| Okay, so that's where we are at with that accusation from eight weeks. | ||
| Years ago, by the way, there were also, people were saying, oh, he's also a drunk. | ||
| And it's like all, I think 10 of his Fox News co-hosts and colleagues all came out saying they've never seen him drunk on camera. | ||
| And I don't even know if I mentioned this last week, but I saw Pete Hegseth about two months ago after I did Gutfeld. | ||
| I went over to Del Frisco's, right next door to the Fox News studios over there. | ||
| I went for dinner. | ||
| I saw Pete sitting at the bar Eating a steak, and I was having my tequila, and I walked up to him and I said, oh, can I get you a drink? | ||
| And he was like, oh, I'm not drinking right now. | ||
| Like, that's not what an alcoholic, like, it's all just ridiculous and conjecture, and did we not already go through all of this with Brett Kavanaugh? | ||
| So the point, and this is what I think Trump really has to understand, and I think he does, and I think he did learn the lessons, is you have to stick with Pete Hegseth right now. | ||
| Not only is he qualified and will be highly competent and a great communicator as a TV host, But if you allow your administration to come in with a scalped head, let's put aside the Gates thing for a second, because there was a lot of messy stuff around Gates. | ||
| But if you let them chop off the nuts of somebody who does, it is not deserved, you will be walking in to your administration hampered already. | ||
| It would be a major concession to the deep state, to the machine, whatever you want to call it. | ||
| So Trump has to continue to back this guy. | ||
| I think that's what we're seeing. | ||
| And hopefully more and more Republicans and maybe some Democrats, if there's any sane ones left, we'll see the light on this thing. | ||
| Anyway, let's jump over to the televised mental institution known as MSNBC because Eric Swalwell, who banged a Chinese spy, and Michael Steele, who used to be a Republican and is now just, I don't even think he considered, he was the head of the Republican Party. | ||
| The guy was literally the head of the RNC. And now he's just like this pet, the Democrat nothing, I guess. | ||
| Here they are going after Hegsa. | ||
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| Do you think that what we are watching unfold does change the calculus for some Republicans in the Senate who might not have wanted to have this fight? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Now, the trick here is you can't put it on just one. | ||
| When you put it on just one person, they shrink. | ||
| And the beauty of Gates not being the nominee is that no one can say who the senator was that took out Gates. | ||
| And so they need to find a way to collectively come together to take down these nominees. | ||
| By the way, I thought it was so interesting, Michael, that Pete Hexeth, the man who said no woman should ever go into combat, sent his poor mom into combat to try and save his butt. | ||
| And I feel bad for her. | ||
| But she did have thoughts about him, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When your mama tell you you're not much of a man, that puts you in a very interesting position. | ||
| God, what worthless drivel they show on that network. | ||
| Swalwell fucked a Chinese spy. | ||
| Google it. | ||
| Her name is Fang Fang, and he fucked her. | ||
| And he has the gall to go on television and tell you that Pete Hegseth is a bad guy. | ||
| Eric Swalwell should probably be in jail. | ||
| And there he is doing that. | ||
| Anyway, Megyn Kelly sat down with Pete Hegseth and talked about whether he's being Kavanaughed right now. | ||
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Do you think you're being Kavanaughed right now? | |
| I had a member not 45 minutes ago look me in the eye in private, just he and I, and say that's what they're trying to do to you. | ||
| That's what they're trying to do to you. | ||
| That's their playbook. | ||
| Get ready for more. | ||
| And they're gonna make it up. | ||
| Just like they have so far. | ||
| All anonymous. | ||
| All innuendo. | ||
| All rumor. | ||
| Nothing sourced. | ||
| No verification. | ||
| And they're just gonna keep doing it. | ||
| Because you're a threat to them. | ||
| You're a threat to their system. | ||
| You're a threat to all the things in Washington DC. The swamp. | ||
| The things that people have rejected. | ||
| You're a threat to that. | ||
| And so they're coming after you. | ||
| And I know that. | ||
| He knows that. | ||
| And when you stand firm on that, it's not difficult to just continue to fight. | ||
| So yeah, we saw what happened, but guess what happened? | ||
| Kavanaugh stood up, and he fought, and he won. | ||
| And hopefully Republicans have learned that lesson. | ||
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And Trump stood by him. | |
| And Trump stood by him. | ||
| What you're seeing right now with me is the art of the smear. | ||
| Yeah, and that's the point, guys. | ||
| If we've learned anything in the last decade is don't give in to the lies. | ||
| What does Jordan Peterson always say? | ||
| Don't apologize unless you've actually done something wrong. | ||
| There is no evidence that Pete Hegseth has done anything wrong, and I think he laid it out there quite well. | ||
| The people going after him and the way they launder the lies through the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC and everything else, the way they launder the lies is they just put out a rumor there and it's an anonymous source and then they start talking about that and someone references an article. | ||
| Oh, on MSNBC, they're talking about a Washington Post article where someone anonymously said this. | ||
| But this is the moment. | ||
| This is the moment to stand up. | ||
| And you can just see it so clearly. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| That's the beautiful thing that has shifted in culture. | ||
| So many of us get it right now that if enough of us get it and we're like, no, we will not partake in the lie anymore. | ||
| We will not let you take out good people. | ||
| And why are they going after him? | ||
| Because they know he's going to do what he says he's going to do. | ||
| And that's the biggest threat to them. | ||
| And as I referenced earlier, Donald Trump better get it. | ||
| Well, there's a lot of evidence that he actually does. | ||
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How's it going with Trump right now? | |
| Is he so far standing by you, and have you spoken to him? | ||
| I spoke to him this morning, Megan. | ||
| I mean, he's amazing. | ||
| He's a fighter. | ||
| He's been through this himself. | ||
| And he told me, the last thing he said to me, well, two things he said to me when I left his office when he chose me, was, well, besides what he said about being a warfighter, we can get into that, was, you're going to need to be tough as s***. | ||
| You're going to need to be tough as s**t. | ||
| But he paused again as I was walking away and said, but you're the man for this moment. | ||
| I chose you because you're the guy that's going to put the warfighters first. | ||
| We haven't had that. | ||
| We need a guy that's kicked down doors and understands the consequences of war and why us deterring war, fighting it, and winning it is important. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| And we can get into the policy of all of that. | ||
| But ultimately, he reiterated the same thing this morning. | ||
| Hey, Pete, I got your back. | ||
| It's a fight. | ||
| They're coming after you. | ||
| Get after it. | ||
| Yeah, and again, would they come after someone they didn't fear? | ||
| It wouldn't be worth it. | ||
| So you're gonna go after the biggest target. | ||
| So I'm glad to see that Pete gets it. | ||
| I'm glad to see that Trump gets it. | ||
| I think more and more of you are getting it, and there will be a fight ahead, but do not let them Kavanaugh you, Matt. | ||
| So, okay, so where are we at in this show? | ||
| There was a little of everything here, but let me try to tie it together. | ||
| For Daniel Penney, You did the right thing, right? | ||
| There was someone threatening people on the subway, and you did the right thing, okay? | ||
| And now the system has exonerated you. | ||
| So for you, I think the lesson is ignore the haters now. | ||
| Go out there and live a great life. | ||
| Tell the truth. | ||
| Be brave. | ||
| Like, see what the adventure of life presents you. | ||
| The machine could have destroyed you, but it didn't. | ||
| For Pete Hegseth, it's like, do not stop. | ||
| Do not stop right now. | ||
| You are in the middle of the thing. | ||
| Daniel Penny is now on the other side of the thing. | ||
| He's been exonerated. | ||
| He's on the other side. | ||
| He has to figure out what his path is in life. | ||
| And he's a young man, only 24 years old. | ||
| For Hegseth, you are in the belly of the beast right now. | ||
| You are target number one for an awful evil machine. | ||
| But it's very, very clear. | ||
| Your eyes are on the prize and you're just gonna walk straight through that fire. | ||
| And then to connect this to everything else, where we started. | ||
| For Anna Kasparian, someone waking up right now. | ||
| Someone that may be rethinking some of their positions or... | ||
| Perhaps is a little, let's say, apologetic about some of the things they did in the past, or maybe they accused people of doing things they shouldn't have, or they're just rethinking their positions. | ||
| What I would say is don't be afraid of getting to the end of the road. | ||
| Like, if you follow the truth... | ||
| It will take you to someplace good, or at least as Jordan would say, it will take you to the best of all possible alternatives. | ||
| And how do I know that that's true? | ||
| Well, let's play a video of Jordan himself. | ||
| This is Jordan Peterson, who at this time was a little-known psychology professor at the University of Toronto in 2016. And as you guys all know, in Canada, they were pushing Bill C-16, which was going to threaten to jail and fine people if they misgendered somebody, even accidentally, although that should be largely irrelevant. | ||
| And here's Jordan Peterson, really just at the beginnings of him stepping into the fire. | ||
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| So there's a reason I'm defending freedom of speech. | ||
| And the reason for that is quite straightforward. | ||
| The reason I'm defending freedom of speech is because that's how people get their opinions, settle their opinions in a civil society. | ||
| That's eight years ago. | ||
| And in the eight years since then, Jordan Peterson has helped change the world. | ||
| He has helped more people stand up straight with their shoulders back. | ||
| He has helped more people clean up their room before they clean the world. | ||
| And look where he is today. | ||
| That is the point. | ||
| That is the point. | ||
| Daniel Penny, you will do great things in your life, I have no doubt. | ||
| Pete Hegseth, when you get through this thing, you will reform our military the way it is supposed to be. | ||
| You gotta keep going. | ||
| And Anna Kasparian, as you see the truth, if you follow the truth, it will lead you to a better place. | ||
| And look at Jordan Peterson now. | ||
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You can walk there. | |
| You can walk there. | ||
| That's very different than you have to walk there. | ||
| Well, it went from you can walk there to you have to walk there in about 15 seconds. | ||
| It's like, people don't need cars. | ||
| People don't need to fly. | ||
| People don't need clothes. | ||
| People don't need to eat meat. | ||
| People don't need dairy. | ||
| It's like, um, f*** you. | ||
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No, I mean, seriously, you petty tyrants, you would control everything. | |
| The point of that, guys, is that eight years ago, Jordan Peterson was defending this little C-16 bill in Canada, and eight years later, he has not only literally changed the world, but is still on the forefront of all of the important issues fighting against authoritarianism. | ||
| And what is the key to all of this? | ||
| The key that I think that Daniel Penny has been through by doing the right thing, the key that Pete Hegseth clearly knows by continuing the fight, and the key that I think Anna is probably learning right now, Well, it stopped being afraid. | ||
| Do you watch Fox News with your finger on the back button in case someone enters the room? | ||
| Do you methodically clear your browser history to erase all evidence of PragerU videos? | ||
| Do you hide your subscription to the Ben Shapiro podcast? | ||
| Or, and perhaps most dangerous of all, are you afraid of getting caught watching the Rubin Report, which is hosted by the very scary but quite dapper Dave Rubin? | ||
| If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you're in the political closet and it's time to come out. | ||
| The point is, perhaps your most important job as a human being is to stand up for the things you believe in. | ||
| Don't take the path of least resistance. | ||
| Be better than those who would silence you, deplatform you, and mob you. | ||
| How? | ||
| Just stop being afraid. | ||
| It's time to come out of the closet. | ||
| The political one. | ||
| You are the solution to the bravery deficit. | ||
| So what are you waiting for? | ||
| Alright, that is one of my four PragerU videos. | ||
| That's just a portion of it. | ||
| Obviously, you can find the full thing over at PragerU.com or their YouTube channel or wherever else. | ||
| But that's the point. | ||
| That's the point, guys. | ||
| And that goes for everybody. | ||
| Whether it's Anna, if they sent this to you and you're watching, or it's any of you watching this, stop being afraid. | ||
| The fight is here. | ||
| You can't avoid it. | ||
| It will come for you one way or another. | ||
| But there is so much evidence right now that we are turning things around. | ||
| But as the thing gets turned around, that's when they will come for you more and more. | ||
| That's when the machine will get more and more hysterical. | ||
| And we've still got, you know, whatever it is, 40 some odd days until Donald Trump becomes president again. | ||
| And God knows what the machine can do. | ||
| And God only knows what the machine can do once he is president. | ||
| And the political answer is not really the answer. | ||
| It's a spiritual and existential answer. | ||
| For all of us. | ||
| So anyway, Anna, I look forward to chatting. | ||
| We got a post-game show, RubinReport.Logals.com, in about 30 seconds. | ||
| We have a relaunch, DaveRubin.store. | ||
| If you want to get some merch before the holidays, we leave you with the view, and we'll see you on the other side. | ||
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