Dave Rubin hosts a year-end recap highlighting 548 million views and an upcoming election cycle featuring guests like Megyn Kelly, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump. The discussion covers the Israel-Hamas conflict, Biden's cognitive decline, Harris's candidacy, and Trump's potential jail time after 34 felony convictions. Topics extend to transgender rights, COVID conspiracy theories, Project 2025, and Florida's strict election security laws under Ron DeSantis. Ultimately, Rubin urges old-school liberals to reconsider their Democratic support due to perceived radicalization on abortion, immigration, and free speech. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, guys, 2024 is coming to a close, and it was an incredible year, I would say, for the world and for the country, but also for us here at The Rubin Report.
We traveled, we interviewed, we talked to you.
The stuff and ideas that we're constantly getting into were the exact things that became the hotbed of the cultural revolution we're seeing in this country, and I'm so psyched for 2025 and the incredible boom that I think is about to happen.
I'm here for a week to talk to some of the survivors of October 7th, to talk to some politicians, media members, just people on the street really find out the temperature of what's going on here in Israel.
And the reason that I came was not only to show solidarity with Israel and the Israeli people, but also because I think that this country is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world.
I think we're quite literally millions and millions of people all over the world have woken up to over the past few months is that evil is real.
Not everyone thinks as we think.
Not everyone believes the same things that we believe in.
And if we don't reignite that sense of freedom, figure out how to fight for it and do it justly and honestly, then all of our societies will collapse.
That is the great challenge for Western societies right now.
And that's what we're gonna be exploring for the next week.
How appreciative are you of what Elon Musk has done with Twitter to allow some of the debunking of this nonsense and overall defend free speech?
I think Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter may be a greater service to humanity than Tesla and SpaceX and other great things he's doing and will be doing combined.
Free speech is the cornerstone of Western democracy.
We took it for granted, but we saw, especially during COVID, that we cannot take it for granted.
Even today, accounts get banned for posting pro-Israel videos on Facebook, on Instagram, on TikTok, of course, that's completely terrible on a different level of its own, and all other social media.
The only place that you can actually speak freely is on X. And we should all be thankful to Elon Musk for the amazing job he's doing for preserving the Western values and Western democracies.
Alright, we're up here in northern Israel, right at the Lebanese border.
I'll talk about that in just a second.
Today's been an extremely emotional day.
We started the morning by watching the 47 minute video compilation that Israel has put together.
Of the October 7th events, and for all of you that have seen some of these videos, and everyone has at this point, we've shown some on the show, whatever you've seen, it's worse.
Beheadings like by hand with knives, throwing grenades into bomb shelters with Children in them, burning people alive.
It's just beyond imagination.
So we started the day down there.
We're up north right now.
What's interesting about this, so we're at the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Everyone here, everyone here is saying the real war is the oncoming war, the upcoming war.
You can see bullet holes and just utter devastation everywhere.
You know, I mean, my main thought as I've been walking through this is I personally have never been to Auschwitz, but Auschwitz was a place that was made for death and then created a lot of death.
I know nothing about strategy and war and negotiation with terror organizations so I don't know.
I can only believe that my authorities and other authorities are doing the best they can but I feel like every minute that they're not here, it's failure.
I had never heard this until you said it to me a few months ago, that Gen Z actually is breaking more conservative than at least the two previous generations.
What do you think that says about the truth in general?
Well, I hope you heard the overriding part, which is that I don't want to make it personal with her.
I don't really consider us friends anymore.
I think there's many layers to this.
There's a pure business layer to it, which is that Candace has a contract with Daily Wire, but it seems fairly obvious to me she wants to leave the Daily Wire.
And I think Candace, to her own, whether she wants to join Tucker or do something else after, start the Candace Owens Network, whatever it might be.
I think there are realities outside of just like the political fights.
And that's why in this case...
Actually, for me, it has more to do with that we were friends for a while.
I'm trying to honor and respect that.
We were quite good friends, you know.
And I think she sees an opportunity here, and she's going.
Why can you at least talk to just sort of where it's at now?
I think now is a time to focus on actually delivering a victory that is far from a foregone conclusion.
And I actually think this is going to be a really complicated year.
I don't think this is going to be some linear path where it's going to be a front door good faith fight between Trump and Biden and then somehow we have a cleanly ordained winner.
I think there's going to be a lot of twists and turns this year.
Both of them are saying the principal reason you should vote for me is if you vote for the other guy, democracy is going to be over.
And that there's no way, if that's what you're telling the public, that you're going to be capable of ending the polarization.
You know, what I said at the beginning of the campaign is I'm not going to feed into the vitriol or the rancor, the demonization, all this.
I'm going to try to identify the common ground, the things that we all share in common, rather than focusing on those little issues that keep us all apart.
And I'd be honored to serve my country in that way.
And to be in a position first to help win this election.
To stop the Democrat elite from destroying our country.
And then actually begin the real work.
of getting our country back on track and that starts with having people of courage in our government who care more about the country than they do about the political elite in Washington and actually rooting out the deep rot that exists Within our bureaucracies, the administrative state, the deep state in Washington.
I think part of the reason why Miami is succeeding while other cities are failing, right, is because of our birth narrative, right, sort of our trauma, right?
Our DNA, it's Venezuelans, it's Ecuadorian, I mean, it's Nicaraguans.
You know, it is certainly something that has influenced us because I've always said socialism is the easiest sell in politics.
It's very easy to tell people, if you're not doing well, have the answer.
We'll just take more from these people with government and we'll give it to you.
And the problem with that is it's a massive disincentive to produce.
It's a massive disincentive for investment, which is what propels growth.
And not only that, we've seen that these dictatorships, because they ultimately become dictatorships, these governments never want to let go of power.
wrong there was no evidence there was no evidence that when you went to a restaurant if you were sitting you could take your mask off and kovid could only get the waiter who was standing and had to wear the mask but here's not and masks don't work at all they do work they don't worry they're not perfect there's a lot of research that's all over the place do masks work of course they do why do they wear them in hospitals we're under attack from what i call the tyranny of the Do you miss the old days of doing the show and dealing with problems that were a little more granular?
I went on the air Publicly multiple times and said that the damage that will happen psychologically will exceed the damage from the virus itself.
I think some of our elite universities are doing nothing but creating intellectual rot in our young people right now.
You're electing the people that are precipitating these problems and it starts From the bottom of the ticket up, young people stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives.
I tell you what, take that banner and walk into Gaza and see how that goes.
I would rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question.
The human element of this to see a failing man is actually heartbreaking to me.
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.
It was interesting to watch Trump during that moment as well, too, because he looked and he almost seemed like, are you going to be able to answer this?
They're going to have a washed-up 38-year-old NBA player who's 6'8", 250, and he's going to realize, I'm averaging one point, and I actually just got cut from the Knicks, and I'm going to go, and I'm going to average a triple-double, 30 points a game, and I'm going to put on a dress, and they're going to call me Sally.
And then Sonny Hostin will tell, oh my god, it's so great because now it shows that everybody loves the tea community.
It's absolutely insane.
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The debate, we ran a poll.
And every single person we polled thinks that you're a retard.
We polled African Americans.
They all say you're a retard.
Hispanic Americans.
Also think that you're retarded.
They call you el retardo.
We even polled actual retarded people.
Even they say you sound absolutely retarded.
You see where this is going, Mr. President?
Well, I just had a bad night.
That's good, that's good.
I'm going to intimidate him.
Okay?
Okay, great.
I'm just gonna watch.
So anyways, she says, that is the biggest penis I have ever seen.
And I said, I know.
That's why I brought you to the Penis Museum, where tickets are $1,000.
I don't think I see this one.
Well, hello, Dad.
Where's that museum?
At least once a year, I like to bring in some of my Kevin's famous chili.
The trick is to undercook the onions.
Everybody is going to get to know each other in the pot.
I'm serious about this stuff.
I'm up the night before, pressing garlic and dicing whole tomatoes.
I toast my own ancho chilis.
It's a recipe passed down for balloons for generations.
Has he done anything else?
He really was great.
I'd like to know more about his life.
I'm a gay conservative and I just want to kind of ask you, like, what do you have to say for people like me who kind of feel like, I guess, it's kind of hard for gay conservatives because there's not a lot of us.
So, like, what do you have to say to other gay people who need to realize, like, they do have a choice?
You are a complete human being and I'm sure you treat people well and you're studying something.
So I want to get away with this idea that you're gay anything.
I just think that we have gone a long way in the negative direction in this country where we act as if the most important part of your identity is What you do in the bedroom.
It doesn't mean that much to me, but if you ask from a perspective as a Christian, I don't agree with that lifestyle, but politics is about addition and multiplication.
I imagine you agree with a lot of what we talk about, right?
Strong borders, strong country, and for that, we welcome you to the conservative movement.
Charlie is absolutely entitled to his own personal religious belief.
And America is governed by a set of laws based on equal rights and individual liberty.
And you could see even the kid right there, he said, you know, I'm a gay conservative.
And then he also at the same moment was like, oh, I want to just be a person.
And that's what we all want to be.
And that's so the reverse of what has been culturally pushed on us, right?
Basically, that right there shows you, completely exposes almost everything that the left is.
The left wants that kid, oh, you're gay, you must be a progressive, and you must fit into the stack, and you must never move from that place that we are going to put you.
And what Charlie just explained right there is, well, you know, whatever you want to call it, the conservative movement, whatever you want to call it, welcome to this new wide tent thing.
You can have your religious beliefs.
You can have your sexuality.
And if we all agree that America is good and people are going to live differently and we are going to agree to disagree on some things, then we have something really special.
And that really is the only thing that can save the country at this point.
But that is just so embarrassing and she is so in on it.
If you want to be angry at somebody tonight, like we can be angry at all of the media people, but everyone in America really should be angry at Jill Biden.
It's elder abuse what she has done in her quest for power or whatever deal she has made with Obama or anything else.
If you've ever dealt with, God forbid, state-run healthcare, you know, banking, insurance, all the things that the state touches become very inefficient because there's broken incentives, right?
They don't have an incentive to be accountable to the preferences of their customers because they're backed by a money printer, right?
And if you're backed by a money printer, then all you want to do is keep the scam going, right?
Just let me keep printing money and to hell with how you feel about your customer satisfaction because guess what?
I don't have a P&L. If I had a P&L, I would care about what you think.
I just want you to know, if one of you were in the crowd, and you're a conservative fan of mine, and you end up, you know, getting blown away or whatever the fuck, I'm making fun of you the next day on Twitter.
I have no doubt that some people, well, some people say it, they pray for me, or some people maybe don't approve of something, but no one's coming for my life.
No one's trying to take me out.
And that is so much more tolerant, actually, than anything I get from the supposed tolerant people.
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That hypocrisy is thick because they're the ones that are...
So there's a strange Faustian bargain, I suppose, in all of this.
There's a weird moment right now where it's like, okay, those of us that don't want a Democrat in office, well, we kind of should want Biden to run, but I would say I'm an American.
I don't even consider myself a Republican.
I'm a Florida Republican, I suppose.
But I'm an American first, and I want a president who's competent.
This man cannot wake up at 3 a.m., Is Kamala Harris, in your view, a stronger nominee?
It's a little hard to say because, look, as you know, she was polling at zero to one percent in her own party when she dropped out when she was running as a presidential candidate against Joe Biden.
She does not have a huge amount of support either, and it's very clear that the party apparatus does not want her.
But there isn't a mechanism really to get rid of her.
So if they're able to either force Joe Biden out, which Joe Biden clearly is against, and Joe himself or whatever's left there doesn't seem to be for, well then you have to figure out a way to push her aside.
Now I will say this, for all of my frustrations with Democrats in general, I will give the devil who's due here.
The Democrats will do whatever they need to do.
If they feel that she cannot win and Joe's out, they will find a way to get rid of the first black female potential president.
And they will put up my good friend Gavin Newsom, Or they will put up Gretchen Whitmer.
I think the data is overwhelming that we are raising a generation of lonely, broke, and isolated men in the most deepest resource companies in the world are all trying to convince these young men that they can have a reasonable facsimile of life on a screen with an algorithm.
You don't need friends.
You have Discord and Reddit.
You don't need to go through the bullshit and the rejection of trying to find a partner and going out and looking good.
And I think we're literally raising a group of almost like a new species of males that don't engage and don't socialize.
And I think they become more prone to conspiracy theory.
They become more likely to be misogynist.
They become more homophobic.
And into that void have slipped some really unproductive voices that either want to tell them to be mean and coarse and take charge of their lives and treat women like property.
Or on the left, they lecture, be more like a woman.
I had a lot of friends who were university professors.
They were the F-word, feminists, who taught women's history in basically Jesuit universities.
That was the first shock.
They had to deny them tenure and kick them off the universities because they refused to include trans theory.
And when I saw who's doing what and how they're positioning groups of people against their own better interests, they're dividing everybody to have two groups, an internal enemy and the regular dumbass people that are too busy to not listen to CNN. I don't know a tremendous amount about this, but I don't think they're supposed to inject the Botox directly in your brain.
I think that they see mistakes and I don't think those mistakes were made for any ulterior motive other than trying to save our ass without knowing anything.
If she just came out and said I'm voting for Kamala Harris because I think she's the better leader, whatever.
To specifically cite Tim Walz and his stance on the trans issue is disgusting.
She is no heroine to young girls.
She's a danger to them.
If she's gonna take the power she has Thanks to her singing and her songs about her shitty love life and inability to actually meet somebody who will treat her right and turn it into a manipulation of young girls on the, in her own words, LGBTQ. How are you feeling at this moment about the election?
I feel better than even where we were in 2016. With that being said, given the environment, I would think we should be feeling even better because this election really should not be competitive or close given the economy, given the southern border, given the kind of status of how things are in the country.
Kamala Harris' campaign team is brilliant.
She's receiving coaching very, very well.
If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, he's president of the United States.
If you're telling me that Trump has to win three states, all three of which he's won in previous elections, one of which he won in 2020, and then the other he fell 10,000 votes short of, that's a great starting point.
It's a great map for Trump.
What should happen is that it should break in Trump's favor somewhere around mid-October.
However, we can't underestimate Kamala Harris and their team's ability to chase ballots, register voters, engage in early voting.
It actually was just a category error, where if a guy has been the victim of politically motivated violence by an assailant who allegedly has been exactly saying the exact kinds of things that Kamala Harris says about Donald Trump as a threat to democracy, The thing that might at least make sense to say is, hey, should we look ourselves in the mirror and say we need to tone down our rhetoric here?
This man was shot several months ago, actually shot, and then this time around had shots fired at him yet again.
And the question is, should he be the one turning down the rhetoric?
It's the equivalent of, I mean, it's a classic example of the thing that the left says they don't like to do, which is blame the victim.
That's the kind of logic that they're applying, which is insane.
He said, look, I don't directly do very much with this, so stop trying to pin this on me.
But Project 25 is a great thing.
And the movement behind it is, I think, totally obvious, which is personnel is policy.
So, you know, you can write up all the greatest white papers and even laws in the world.
If you don't have people who are actually going to enforce those laws and regulations, then they in $1.50 can't even get you a cup of coffee anymore because of inflation under Joe Biden.
But it's going to be completely worthless.
So that's the question.
Can Trump get enough of his guys in there now that we have a little bit more control over the administrative state to wield this authority?
So if I put on a big suit and kind of look like the Joker or Beetlejuice, remember the end of Beetlejuice when he's sitting there, he's in purgatory, and then right at the end, the guy drops some dust on his head and his head shrinks?
77-year-old Chris Wallace will quit CNN and walk away from a seven-figure salary rather than renegotiate his contract.
His plan is to go into independent streaming or podcasting, pointing to Joe Rogan and Charlamagne Tha God, that's Lenny, as inspiration.
He's 77 years old and he's gonna go independent.
Cause you know all the kids are gonna be like playing PS5, you know, they're playing Call of Duty or Fortnite and they're eating their Takis and they're drinking their Prime.
And they're going to be like, yo, bro, you want to watch Chris Wallace, man?
I think Donald Trump actually believes what he just said right there.
And if you believe in divine intervention, if you believe in the man upstairs, that we are all part of something that is bigger than ourselves, then I think something major was just delivered to us.
And I think Donald Trump realizes it.
That is why the Elon, RFK, Tulsi, Dana White, Joe Rogan, it wasn't just, We all agree on politics.
There's almost no other, I don't see any other alternative.
They are telling us, we will censor the hell out of you.
We will take your guns.
We want eight month abortions.
Like there's nothing even remotely moderate on that side anymore.
And on the right, look what's happened.
Donald Trump was the first president ever to come in first time around being for gay marriage.
Barack Obama did not.
Donald Trump, yes, he reversed Roe v.
Wade via the justices that he appointed, but he's not for a national abortion ban, and I would argue kicking it back to the states is way more moderate than eight-month abortions that they want in California.
It's like, here's the left, bigger, bigger, bigger problems, and the right seems to actually be more moderate, more welcoming to gays, more welcoming to people with differences of opinion on their side, more willing to have these conversations.
1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the garden for a so-called pro-America rally.
Donald Trump is once again turning Madison Square Garden into a staging ground for extremism.
Honestly, f*** that guy, whoever the f*** that is.
F*** you and the horse that you rode in on, you worthless piece of s*** on your evil propaganda network.
You know why they didn't zoom in?
You know why they didn't zoom in on the footage they were showing you there on MSNBC? Because they would have seen Jews wearing yarmulkes and they would have seen black people and the people with Hispanics for Trump.
You people are the worst, most disgusting, awful liars on the planet.
Moderate lefty your entire life, not particularly political, you've now seen the light.
And there's still certainly this delusion that I think the legacy media and perhaps even the Democrats are starting to realize that Rogan is a fringe figure.
And certainly, like some kind of gateway to the right, is ignorant and preposterous.
I was, because I left the left, but wait a minute, this guy's gay, he's still liberal, we could do the whole laundry list of things, but that I was just willing to talk to people.
So then suddenly I'm talking to you, and then I was like, I'll talk to Shapiro, I'll talk to Glenn Beck, that's a scary guy, he's a crazy right winger.
That's what people used to say to me all the time, you're the gateway drug.
The funny thing about Rogan is, if you see what the media's doing with him now, is they're going, the mainstream media's going, you know, why is it that we don't have our own Rogan?
Well, you idiots, you had him.
You had him, you refused to talk to him, and you tried to get him kicked off Spotify.
I mean, does this strike you as hope and change anymore?
You saw that video a couple days ago after his speech.
He goes there.
He has a couple black dudes around him and basically like, you guys don't know what's good for you.
You know what?
Call me crazy, but I believe that black people want what white people want and it's what Asian people want and gays and straights and men and women.
It's freedom and it's capitalism and it's America and all that good stuff.
I would say to the average liberal who is out there, the old school liberal that I think Sam believes he still is, what you are about to do is now vote for Kamala Harris, the most illiberal person On the planet.
You are going to vote for someone that is for censorship.
You are going to vote for the person who wanted Vax mandates.
I thought individual autonomy and bodily autonomy was a liberal principle.
You are going to vote for the people who have opened up our borders and let Millions and millions of people into this country, you are going to vote for someone who is at the epicenter of all of the woke stuff you purport to be against.
So you're voting for someone who is for chopping off kids' genitals.
You are voting for someone who fundamentally now leads a party that is anti-American, doesn't think this place is good, that is for identity politics.
You are voting for someone that has destroyed the city that you live in, Los Angeles.
And you're doing all that in the name of liberalism because you don't like Donald Trump, who is actually the most liberal Republican candidate we have ever had.
And I mean this gently and with friendship and openness, say to Barry Weiss and whoever else is out there.
That considers themself an old school liberal, that sees the evils of the left, that now understands how radically insane the Democrat Party has become.
This is your challenge now.
This is up to you guys.
There's only a certain set of people who can move electorally.
The disaffected lib is the only group, is the main group that can move.
And many of them are, I would say to Barry Weiss and whoever else there is.
This is your chance.
You're a liberal, you think gay rights are great, and you think feminism is great, and you think that children shouldn't be abused.
Well, you got one chance now, and I hope that you will take it.
Yeah, I mean, look, it didn't always work that way in In Florida, kind of what we do is, one, photo ID, two, paper ballots, three, transparency in the votes that are being cast.
Now, you can't vote in Florida if you're an illegal alien.
For everyone that's just feeling this unbelievable tension right now, what would be the sort of most comforting thing you could say to someone if they don't get the outcome they want tonight?
Well, I would say you're morally required not to lose hope and despair.
It's a sign of courage to maintain faith in the future.
And it's a sign of faith to assume that if you are committed to doing the right thing in And following the pathway of truth that things will work out for you as well as they can.
And I don't think you should underestimate the power of that.
I mean, you know, if Trump isn't elected tonight, you still have a thriving business enterprise and a family.
You have people around you that love you.
You can focus your attention on that and continue to work on the political front.
And there's no reason to despair.
And four years into the future isn't that long a period of time as well.
But this obsessive need to push all of this on everybody all the time, right?
It's like pushing race on people all the time.
The way you get over things, the way you normalize things, is you just go live your life.
It's so So if you walked into a room and there were straight people and gay people there, first off, generally you wouldn't even be able to know that they were straight or gay and that you'd be like, oh my God, there are the queers.
Basically he's doing a rally and he's talking about these MS gang members who have face tattoos and they're taking over buildings and it's being clipped online in such a way that implies that he's talking about immigrants and he's not talking about immigrants, he's talking about the actual gang members, you moron.
Perhaps the most insane headline that we have ever read on this show.
I saw this yesterday.
This is from the New York Post.
Governor J.B. Pritzker vows Illinois will boost sex changes after decisive Trump victory.
Guys, Trump has won!
Who wants to take their boobs off?
We're lopping off penises.
Buy one, get one free.
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We are really trying to understand this.
How is it that you boys think referring to gay people as f**ks in today's world is acceptable?
Because we're not referring to gay people.
You can be gay and not be a f**k.
Yeah, a lot of f**ks aren't gay.
I happen to be gay, boys.
Do you think I'm a f**k?
Do you ride a big, loud Harley in the...
and go up and down the streets ruining everyone's nice time?
No.
Then you're not a f***er.
What if a guy is gay and rides a Harley?
Then he's a gay f**k.
I mean, is this really this hard?
I don't know.
This is ridiculous.
Alright, look.
You're driving in your car, okay?
And you're waiting to make a left at a traffic signal.
The light turns yellow, should be your turn to go, but the traffic coming at you just keeps coming.
And even when the light turns red, a guy in a BMW runs the red light so you can't make your left turn.
What goes through your mind?
F**k.
Right!
But you're not thinking, oh, he's a homosexual.
You're thinking, oh, he's an inconsiderate douchebag like a Harley rider.
How about, guys, a new Broadway show, and it's called Justin Trudeau and his pack of demented minions.
And it's Justin, and he's singing, and my demented minions, and they could be midgets maybe, and there's a bunch of midgets, and they're dancing around, and I'm Justin Trudeau, and everybody come into my country, call for jihad.
I'll go dancing at a concert while they burn down Montreal.
He's changing his tone because, again, there's an orange man two hours north of me who is laying down the law and Trudeau will go back to being the bitch that he is.
And ironically, when he's Trump's bitch, that will set things right for Canada.
Assuming that Marco Rubio is confirmed as Secretary of State, that means we have an opening in the Senate.
There are an awful lot of people in the Twitter world saying that you would be interested or that they would like you to be interested or something to that effect.
And so I'm ultimately going to leave it up to him, but I have said yes, I'd be very interested in discussing what that looks like, if that's something that he sees fit to potentially point me to.
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So I'm at this country club in West Palm Beach, and then this man just appeared across the way.
Can you see him over there?
These other people seem to know who he is.
That's right, it's Glenn Beck.
Wonderful Night At Pray For You00:00:26
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We're here for a Pray For You event.
There's got to be hundreds, I don't know, 2,000 people here.
Wonderful night.
We're missing Dennis.
And yeah, that's the President of the United States.