Feb. 7, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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What's going on with Mother Nature? | |
| Again, around the globe, not just in the city. | ||
| I don't know if the audience could hear your audible grumbles and guffaws and deep breathing during all of that, but I could hear them. | ||
| So, Mike, I'm going to throw to you first. | ||
| But there's so much nonsense there. | ||
| Let me just recap real quick. | ||
| First off, that he originally said they could rebuild in six to nine months. | ||
| Some of those houses there in those places take three, four, five years to build. | ||
| That's number one, just because of the gradient and the mountains and all of that stuff. | ||
| And almost any house takes about a year. | ||
| So six to nine months was complete nonsense. | ||
| The line, rebuild with science, I mean, just is so completely idiotic. | ||
| Climate redundancy, these are the richest people in America. | ||
| Like, these are some of the best built houses and engineered and everything else. | ||
| I'll let you, there was more, but I'll let you take it from there. | ||
| Yeah, what a douche. | ||
| Look, he's talking about this as if somehow The insurance companies didn't make a mad dash for the door, didn't escape from California because of regulatory policies in California. | ||
| They ran them out of business, which is why all these poor homeowners who have lost everything, Didn't have insurance. | ||
| This is going to be a major story that really most of the media hasn't focused on, is this lack of insurance. | ||
| And it's because, look, what do you expect, right? | ||
| You can't blame the company to say, well, you have to stay no matter what we do. | ||
| The state drove them out through their regulatory policies. | ||
| Gavin Newsom is just the poster child for, I don't know, the old saying, form follows function. | ||
| He's not it, right? | ||
| There's nothing there. | ||
| He's an empty suit. | ||
| You know, chance from being there. | ||
| Walter, can you extrapolate on that a little bit more? | ||
| Because I think that the thing that he represents, that fake, overly polished, ridiculous, veneer-teeth politician, slick back hair, there was a time I suppose that worked, and I think we're fortunately getting out of that time. | ||
| But I want to give the devil, in this case, I mean it literally his due. | ||
| Like, this guy does not go away. | ||
| Well, I disagree that he's an empty suit. | ||
| He has returned to a script that he had to stop quoting from during the fires themselves. | ||
| But this is exactly the set of policies that you would imagine he had going in. | ||
| In other words, he refuses to accept that Rick Caruso is right, that it is a series of negligent decisions that resulted in this. | ||
| And he's gone straight back to climate change. | ||
| Climate reality, he calls it, which is chilling. | ||
| And he has now recited the list, the sort of catechism-like list of things that need to be done without any reference to why the fires really started, what really drove them and so on. | ||
| This almost feels like conspiracy theory fodder because These are the reasons you would imagine these fires would be allowed to burn. | ||
| So this new kind of building, this new kind of climate reality-based development could go forth. | ||
| The solutions that he's giving are not the reasons that the fire burned this place down. | ||
| You know, the solution of filling your reservoir. | ||
| That's not listed. | ||
| Burying underground lines and putting in different materials, building materials and different kinds of construction and this and that, that does not address why the place burned down. | ||
| It's just a list of things he wanted to get to anyway. | ||
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Before we move on, do you guys think there is- I'm sorry for interrupting you, David. | |
| Or building new reservoirs. | ||
| People should Google, when was the last time California authorized the building of a new reservoir? | ||
| Right, of course. | ||
| And when people, when you look at the geography of it, I mean, Malibu is quite literally on the water. | ||
| That is why it is the most famous place in America, basically. | ||
| It was like the dream of America to live in Malibu, the idea that those houses burned down, putting aside the Palisades. | ||
| But do you guys think there is a rock bottom for Cali, or does it just continue on this slow descent, Mike? | ||
| Yeah, I don't think we'll probably be alive to see the rock bottom. | ||
| I'm sure there is one. | ||
| There's always the bottom of the barrel. | ||
| But, you know, I think their tendency will be if they hit the bottom of the barrel, they'll scrape to see what's underneath it. | ||
| They'll just keep going. | ||
| Karen Bass is still mayor. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| I mean, not only is she mayor, but when Trump comes to town, she has the temerity to interrupt him. | ||
| I mean, you're right, Mike. | ||
| These people haven't lost power, not in their own minds, certainly. | ||
| They still, you know, think that they can gainsay the newly elected president of the United States after having let their city burn down. | ||
| Walter, how do you make sure they don't all stop in Montana on their way to Florida? | ||
| I used to live in Malibu not that long ago. | ||
| I had an apartment on the beach there. | ||
| I'm very familiar with the area. | ||
| I know how it works. | ||
| I know that fires tend to happen. | ||
| I hate to interrupt you, Walter, but that sounds very posh, an apartment on Malibu on the beach. | ||
| It wasn't that posh. | ||
| There used to be a lot of kind of surfer apartments that were in these old rickety buildings up on telephone poles and stilts. | ||
| The amazing thing about all this is that if you know there are fires in a place, Then you take precautions if you know that they happen regularly. | ||
| But they're acting like just some strange satanic wind came out of nowhere, and it's all due to climate change, and they're going to have to do their list of things they were going to do anyway. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| Fear not, if your house burned down and you're just wandering the streets right now, or if you're like Adam Carolla who lives in Malibu but can't even get back into his house that didn't burn down because of the rest of the chaos, don't worry, Gavin Newsom's gonna use science. | ||
| It's all gonna be okay, guys. | ||
| Let's talk about, speaking of science, let's talk about BHMD-1 for a moment and then we'll get to some of the good stuff happening in the country because there is an awful lot. | ||
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| Alright, so now let's get to some of the good stuff. | ||
| Thanks to Donald Trump's big executive action this week, it will be a little more difficult for dudes to kick the crap out of chicks. | ||
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You know, if you'd like to gather around me, I think I'm going to be okay. | |
| Come on. | ||
| Come. | ||
| Secret Service is worried about them? | ||
| If we have to worry about them, we have big problems. | ||
| Okay, do you want to do this? | ||
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Watch what I do, and then I'm going to give you some pens, okay? | |
| You ready? | ||
| What a nice picture this is, huh, Governor? | ||
| You ready? | ||
| We'll do a good job. | ||
| Wait, let me press that. | ||
| I want to make this a really good signature. | ||
| Because this is, you know, this is a big one, right? | ||
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Oh, I think we have a 10. | |
| We have a 10. | ||
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God bless you, Mr. President. | |
| Pretty good, huh? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Now you're gonna go out and win those events, right? | ||
| So there's Donald Trump surrounded by young girls making sure that boys don't crush them in wrestling or dunk over them in basketball or the rest of it. | ||
| But before I have you guys chime in, here's 10 seconds of Joe Biden sniffing a young girl's hair. | ||
| There were a lot of those videos, guys, We could have picked any of them. | ||
| There's about 80 hours worth of it. | ||
| Mike, this is good, right? | ||
| We're ending this nonsense. | ||
| And even the optics of that, the fact that Trump clearly did that impromptu, like all come around, and it just, we're getting back to something normal. | ||
| Hallelujah. | ||
| Yeah, look, speaking of that clip of Biden, I've seen hostages and high-value detainees look more comfortable than she did. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And there's tons of those videos, by the way, really. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| I don't know how this was. | ||
| Again, it speaks to what you referenced earlier. | ||
| It's just sort of this inability for the Democrats, particularly the far left side of the Democrats, to read the room. | ||
| I don't know how it was so difficult for them to understand how most of America felt about. | ||
| Dudes, you know, invading women's sports. | ||
| I just, I don't, I really can't, I can't speak to it eloquently, like I'm sure Walter can, because I really don't understand that thought process, right? | ||
| I've got a family, and I'm a fairly simple individual. | ||
| If you wanted to put some dude, no matter how he felt about himself, and I don't care, let people feel the way they want to feel, it doesn't matter to me, right? | ||
| But there's... | ||
| You know, you can't be on the side that says scream and believe the science and then also say there's a hundred different genders, right? | ||
| The idea that there'd be some dude in my daughter's locker room, no, it shouldn't happen. | ||
| So I'm fairly simplistic on this. | ||
| I'm gonna hand it over to Walter because I know he's gonna make a better job of this. | ||
| Well, Walter, let me read you a tweet by J.K. Rowling because she's been right in the middle of this fight and she's paid a serious price. | ||
| I mean, there are literal Harry Potter conventions that she doesn't get invited to anymore because she decided to take the controversial position that boys and girls are different. | ||
| But she wrote this after the executive action. | ||
| She said, congratulations. | ||
| To every single person on the left who's been campaigning to destroy women's and girls' rights. | ||
| Without you, there'd be no images like this. | ||
| And the reason I wanted to read that is because it's like, man, all you guys had to do was not be completely insane. | ||
| I think most of the country agrees with what Mike just said right there. | ||
| You feel a certain way about yourself. | ||
| You want to dress a certain way, especially if you're over 18 and be called as if most people can figure out some negotiation with you on how to live your life. | ||
| But what they did to kids here was the overshot. | ||
| And so congratulations to the lefties. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, what's amazing is that Mike feels a certain way, you feel a certain way naturally, and I do. | ||
| And yet they did it anyway. | ||
| They obviously believed that they had some sort of mechanism or formula for pushing opinion and canceling rival opinions that would allow them to engineer society in this direction. | ||
| It wasn't that they... | ||
| Got public opinion wrong. | ||
| What they got wrong was their ability to change public opinion. | ||
| They actually thought that through an orchestral series of cancellations, pressure campaigns, public service announcements, political statements, they could get this across the goal line, and they failed. | ||
| Once again, they'll probably try again because you know that everybody who applauds this as common sense is going to have, you know, 50 bots on their ass if they say it on Twitter, petition campaigns. | ||
| And we're seeing in a lot of this USAID stuff that we're pushing this all around the world in societies much more traditional than ours. | ||
| So we know those societies don't like this. | ||
| Wait a minute, Walter, are you telling me that the 20 million we spent on that trans comic book in Pakistan wasn't worth it? | ||
| Well, exactly. | ||
| But I think Mike can affirm that, you know, we might be somewhat traditional here about gender roles, but in Pakistan, they're even more so. | ||
| So what is it that makes them think they can do this? | ||
| Queers from Palestine. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Queers from Palestine? | ||
| Queers from Palestine is very different than Palestine for queers. | ||
| But you actually made a couple of great points there. | ||
| I think one of them is that they put all of this pressure on to do all this. | ||
| And it's like, who is really backing it? | ||
| So there's a weird political part of this, which is for Trump to have to do an executive action here, can it just be reversed by executive action if a Democrat takes over in four years? | ||
| And that was in essence what Sage Steele asked Caroline Levitt yesterday. | ||
| And in the seat today, we have a longtime national television broadcaster. | ||
| I'm sure many of you recognized her when she came in, Sage Steele, who is now the host of an incredibly successful podcast, The Sage Steele Show. | ||
| And previously, Sage was a fixture at ESPN from 2007 to 2023, primarily hosting SportsCenter, which we all know well, before leaving the company to exercise her First Amendment rights more freely. | ||
| We are honored to welcome her to the briefing room today. | ||
| She will be joining the president at the There's a big EO signing later this afternoon. | ||
| I know many of you will be there as well. | ||
| Some friends of ours, Sage Steele, has been very strong on the issue. | ||
| Sage, thank you. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| So, Sage, why don't you kick us off on this very exciting day for women and girls across the country. | ||
| Thank you for joining us. | ||
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It is exciting. | |
| And, Caroline, thank you for welcoming. | ||
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People like me with a little bit of a different perspective, different background in this seat. | |
| It really does mean a lot. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Obviously, the House already passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which was a really big step for women and girls. | ||
| So far, the Senate, as we know, has not brought it up to vote. | ||
| We all know executive orders can be overturned, so I'm wondering how important it is to the President to get Congress to bring this, to pass legislation, so there are no instances like the past administration that really tried to destroy Title IX. It's incredibly important that Congress immediately acts on this priority. | ||
| I think the president is really setting the tone, making this a very immediate priority for this administration, just as he promised to do on the campaign trail. | ||
| There was a new poll recently that showed the overwhelming majority of Democrats also support keeping biological men out of women's sports. | ||
| And so I know the president is very excited about the bill signing that will take place at 3 o'clock this afternoon. | ||
| You will hear from him more on that later, and we look forward to it. | ||
| Mike, interestingly, I did a little digging, and apparently President Trump has not had to sign an executive action banning girls from boys' sports. | ||
| What do you think is going on here? | ||
| Yeah, look, the Democrats overwhelmingly now, she said, support this move. | ||
| Well, that's because they got their ass kicked in the election, and there was an awakening, I think. | ||
| And part of this is also, look, There will be pushback, right? | ||
| And going back to our earlier point, we have to be careful because they will continue to push for this, right? | ||
| It's a religion for them, and they can't be dissuaded from it. | ||
| But I think the importance here, whether the executive order is able to stand, whether Congress is able to take action, I think one of the important points here is it emboldens people to push back, right? | ||
| The average person who has been cowed, right, for quite a while. | ||
| While now, because anytime you opened your mouth and said, well, this doesn't make any sense, you know, you were declared whatever, and you were pilloried out in public. | ||
| So I think the benefit here, in large part, is that it's gotten people to think, yeah, I can't actually talk out loud and say how ridiculous this is. | ||
| Walter, I said you were a cultural critic up top. | ||
| Is that the key part of all of this, that what has changed now is the culture, so that even if an executive order got flipped or something like that, there's just more of us, because the culture has shifted, who are just going to say no to the BS? Well, you know, I was thinking for a second about what Mike does, and he used the word cowed. | ||
| People have been cowed. | ||
| And that reminds me of a prisoner or somebody you've taken into interrogation. | ||
| Your first job is to make them scared of you, you know, to make them recognize your authority. | ||
| What people are doing now is they're breaking away from that spell of respect and, you know, reverence for authority. | ||
| They're starting to speak normally again. | ||
| And they're starting to get used to being what they were. | ||
| Notice how many times they said women and girls. | ||
| Those were almost banned words. | ||
| They came close to being banned words. | ||
| When I would sit down and write a short story about two years ago, and I'd say, you know, hello, he said. | ||
| I'd go, can I really say it's a he? | ||
| You know, I'm not kidding. | ||
| I was so, they had put such a stutter in my step. | ||
| They had created that whipped dog syndrome in me. | ||
| And it's hard to whip me. | ||
| I can only imagine the people who it's easy to whip. | ||
| And just using our freedom, using our actually natural language again, all those things is going to be really important. | ||
| I absolutely agree with Mike there. | ||
| It is a cultural change that is necessary and that is going to be profound and change things in the future, not a political change. | ||
| They can bring in judges to say anything at this point in history and reverse anything temporarily and so on. | ||
| But if we start speaking up, if we're not as... | ||
| Cowed by our captors. | ||
| That's what's going to lead to a new way. | ||
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| Right. | ||
| So the really huge story of the week, obviously, is this Doge expose on the amount of money that USAID has been laundering through the system and putting into all sorts of countries for all sorts of crazy reasons. | ||
| Oh, and buying our corporate media. | ||
| Here's President Trump. | ||
| Did you see what happened yesterday where they found hundreds of millions of dollars of money was fraudulently given to newspapers? | ||
| I guess Politico. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They're here. | ||
| I hope you're enjoying your breakfast. | ||
| You still got it. | ||
| Let me give you a little more context before I have you guys chime in. | ||
| This is from The Daily Wire. | ||
| As the Trump administration continues cutting waste from the federal government, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt announced that the left-wing media outlet Politico will no longer receive millions of dollars from the federal government that she said was essentially subsidizing subscriptions. | ||
| I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room, Levitt began. | ||
| I can confirm that. | ||
| That more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening. | ||
| The Doge team is working on canceling those payments now. | ||
| Again, this is whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal government books. | ||
| And this president and his team are making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? | ||
| Is this a good use of the American taxpayer's money? | ||
| If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will be seeing significant savings because of the effort. | ||
| Mike, before we get into some of the rather hysterical reaction to all of this by the Democrats and the media, I mean, this is exactly what Trump ran on. | ||
| This is exactly what Elon was on stage with him talking about. | ||
| This is a rare moment of people in government doing what they said they were going to do. | ||
| Yeah, which I think is why it's so frightening. | ||
| To people in government. | ||
| Because they're not used to that. | ||
| So, look, it's astounding. | ||
| If you think about it, let's just touch on what you just pointed out from Caroline Leavitt. | ||
| The idea that government money would be given to media outlets. | ||
| Last time I checked, there are for-profit organizations for subscriptions. | ||
| It's astounding. | ||
| But, look, there's... | ||
| There's two parts to this. | ||
| One is that the USAID was set up as an autonomous organization back in 1961. And it was set up as an independent organization, in part because the administration at the time, the Kennedy administration, didn't want to be seen as directing where U.S. government money was going to be spent. | ||
| The other part of this is... | ||
| That's fine, right? | ||
| There's a lot of sort of autonomous or independent government organizations. | ||
| That's fine if the power within the government that has the purse strings, and that would be last time I checked Congress, does their fucking job, right? | ||
| And they're not. | ||
| So Congress is not auditing any of this. | ||
| It's not as if USAID over the years... | ||
| USAID provides a line item budget every year, like any organization should. | ||
| Here's what we're proposing. | ||
| Here's what we want as a budget. | ||
| And then Congress goes through and does their job and says, okay, not this. | ||
| Yes, this. | ||
| This is a responsible use of taxpayer dollars. | ||
| They haven't done that for years, years and years and years. | ||
| So there's two parts to this. | ||
| You can gut USAID. You can put a smaller version of it within. | ||
| State Department, because there are legitimate reasons to have an organization like that that can project soft power for the U.S. and push back against other entities that don't have our interests at heart, like the Chinese regime, which spends a lot of money on Belt and Road initiatives. | ||
| So there's a reason to have it. | ||
| Look, you can do that, but unless Congress starts doing their job and provides an audit function and a responsibility for the tax dollars that, again, they're supposed to be holding the purse strings, you know, we're still going to be screwed. | ||
| I also think that there's sort of a meta story going on with this, which gets to how they've manufactured consent so much over these last couple years. | ||
| I want to read you this tweet I put up yesterday, and Elon retweeted it, so this thing caught fire. | ||
| And Walter, I want your take on this. | ||
| The USAID story is way bigger than most people realize. | ||
| It's not just that they funded Politico, the New York Times, etc., but then the articles in those publications were used as sources all over CNN, NBC News, etc., to further push their agenda. | ||
| This is how they laundered the lies. | ||
| And this is like, you know, every time you'd turn on Meet the Press, you'd have Chuck Todd, who interestingly just last week lost his job officially. | ||
| I wonder if there's a connection there. | ||
| He'd be citing a story on Politico to then bring on a Democrat politician to comment on that story. | ||
| So you can see how the system used this to manufacture consent, launder the lies, whatever phrase you want to use. | ||
| Well, that's how Russiagate worked. | ||
| This circular construction is the essence of the cultural masquerade in America. | ||
| Politico cites some academics. | ||
| Who are supported by the National Science Foundation, who have done some study. | ||
| Then that goes on to CNN. Then CNN talks about it. | ||
| Then it ends up in Congress as a hearing or an issue. | ||
| And around and around it goes. | ||
| The American reality is basically different institutions. | ||
| It turns out supported by some of the same entities handing off to each other the same issues and information and opinions as though they came up with them separately. | ||
| It's like we live in a magic show where the magician has confederates in the audience at the bar and the casino and they all pretend not to know each other but they're all operating in common and breaking down that wall of deception Is the all-important development that we have to see. | ||
| Because we don't know what we actually think. | ||
| We don't know who we are. | ||
| One of the reasons that they can voice these strange transgender policies on us is that we don't even, until recently, we don't even know what we think about this. | ||
| You know, it came out yesterday that USAID had spent $400,000 on Gallup polls. | ||
| You know, organization during the election. | ||
| So, wait a second, sponsored polls? | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, we're basically all walking out of Plato's cave right now. | ||
| Sorry, Mike, go ahead. | ||
| I was going to congratulate Walter on his use of the word foist. | ||
| I think it's very impressive. | ||
| And the other thing is what he's referring to with this idea that you have this one Comment or line or source. | ||
| And then the networks take that and they blast it out there for their own purpose and they start referring to it. | ||
| From an operational perspective, you would talk about it in terms of a single source. | ||
| Let's go with WMD all the way back prior to the first Iraq incursion. | ||
| And you get that one source who comments. | ||
| And then the next thing you know, somebody reports on it. | ||
| And another intel report. | ||
| And then a liaison service has heard that, and so they report on it. | ||
| And it's all coming from the one source, but you're getting it from multiple directions. | ||
| So you think, well, this has been corroborated. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And the crazy part is we funded it ourselves. | ||
| Like, that is the part that is just so wild. | ||
| I got one more clip for you this week, because obviously the other big thing that's happening, and it is connected to this, as we watch our institutions crumble and hopefully be rebuilt in, let's say, a slimmer, trimmer way. | ||
| There are the three big hearings that we're waiting on the votes are, which are Bobby Kennedy, obviously, and Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel over at FBI, Tulsi at DNI. | ||
| But Brett Weinstein was on Rogan yesterday discussing how ridiculous these hearings have become largely because of the Democrats, which, again, he was just just like Bobby, you know, about a year or two ago. | ||
| I don't know about you, but as I was watching confirmation hearings, My sense was that the Elizabeth Warrens and the Bernie Sanders were dinosaurs who do not understand that the earth has just been hit from outer space and that they don't live in the world that they are so used to. | ||
| That their corruption was immediately apparent and they're not used to that. | ||
| They're used to having a whole phony journalistic layer that covers for them. | ||
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Right. | |
| And that layer is gone, and the American public is awake, and it's angry, and rightfully so. | ||
| And now it looks at Bernie Sanders, who, you know, I remember the first time you and I spoke, you and I had both been Sanders supporters. | ||
| And now to see that same guy going after Bobby Kennedy, and, you know, the feeble excuse, well, what if Bobby Kennedy becomes the head of HHS? And people don't have access to prescription drugs. | ||
| And it's like, dude, I just lived through COVID. It's not obvious to me that they wouldn't get healthier if they didn't have access to prescription drugs. | ||
| Do you realize how corrupt those companies are and how nonsensical their science is? | ||
| The science that says that you actually get better if you take a statin based on some metric in your chart, right? | ||
| So I'm not arguing that there aren't good pharmaceuticals. | ||
| There undoubtedly are. | ||
| But what's the net effect of our pharmaceutical-obsessed medical culture? | ||
| It's not obvious to me that it's positive. | ||
| I think it may well be negative. | ||
| And so anyway, again, I see Bernie Sanders and I see him reading from a script that is no longer relevant to the movie we're watching. | ||
| I mean, guys, that clip really, I think, ties this show together perfectly because, again, you've got Rogan and Brett, who were Bernie supporters a couple years ago. | ||
| You've got Bobby, who ran as a Democrat only a year ago. | ||
| You've got Tulsi, who was a presidential candidate for the Democrats four years ago. | ||
| And now what you have left are people that were supposed to be fighting the system, these brave, you know, Democrat socialists like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, sinking in the La Brea tar pits like dinosaurs. | ||
| I like that metaphor. | ||
| What do you think, Mike? | ||
| Yeah, first of all, I love the cigar smoke coming in. | ||
| I'm not sure that was a cigar. | ||
| Was that a cigar? | ||
| Pretty sure that's a blunt. | ||
| I'm going to be outside lighting one up here after we finish. | ||
| But look, you know, the point being is what you had referenced earlier. | ||
| Look, and Walter talked about that the population is angry. | ||
| They're starting to have an opportunity to look behind the curtain. | ||
| They're seeing how bad it is. | ||
| If you want to understand Capitol Hill. | ||
| And the reason why we don't have term limits, just Google the net wealth of any long-term politician when they started, and then what their net wealth is now. | ||
| And look at that. | ||
| And then just step back and try to imagine how that plays out. | ||
| So I loved it. | ||
| I loved the hearings in particular with Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| I loved him talking about how much money some of these individuals who were lambasting him took from pharmaceuticals. | ||
| So I don't know that all three of them. | ||
| We'll get through the confirmation process. | ||
| I think the Democrats are going to hold out for at least one. | ||
| But honestly, I don't know that I could put money on which one it will be. | ||
| So it's going to be fascinating. | ||
| I think it's another example of what we referenced earlier also, which is they just can't seem to read the room, the Democrats, I mean. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's the right phrase. | ||
| Walter, bring us home here. | ||
| Well, I was at the first Kennedy hearing. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| With the Finance Committee, I was sitting about 10 feet away from Kennedy himself. | ||
| And I can tell you as a fact, Bernie didn't look at him, didn't listen to one word, was absolutely not present except for his own little tirade, which he spun up from nothing like an actor does a line reading for the camera. | ||
| I hate to tell people about this because their parasocial relationship with Bernie particularly is extremely resilient. | ||
| But the dude is an actor, okay? | ||
| He's been playing a part. | ||
| He's playing Ernie the red diaper socialist. | ||
| That is what he's doing. | ||
| And in general, the Democratic side of that horseshoe of characters, those senators, looked like a law firm that had been assembled out of various affirmative action rules, you know. | ||
| Here's this senator who represents that. | ||
| Here's that senator that represents that. | ||
| And they were all performers. | ||
| It was like the monkeys. | ||
| They want a Beatle-like band, so they cast the monkeys out of Hollywood. | ||
| That group of people are cast members in a masquerade. | ||
| And I hate to tell you that, but it's not that they changed. | ||
| They've always been the same. | ||
| They do what they have to do, and their instructors tell them, and none of them cared a damn about what Bobby said. | ||
| They didn't listen. | ||
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Well, I'm going to do my Bernie Sanders impression to end the program today, because the two of you have talked too much and said too many truth things, and that's not what we're in the business of. | |
| Thank you for watching, everybody. | ||
| We've got a post-game show, rubinreport.locals.com. | ||
| We'll still come here and rent movies. | ||
| Lots of choices. | ||
| It's just kind of fun to come and look around and see what's here. | ||
| Companies are rapidly developing new technologies. | ||
| Stephen Hill views the video industry from his desk at Sutro& Company. | ||
| People will be able to... | ||
| Have movies on their TV screens on demand, so they could, in essence, dial a few numbers and call up any movie from a wide library of movies to be shown when they want it to be shown. | ||
| Pay-per-view was liable at that time to be perhaps a $3 billion-plus market, but home video will be $20 billion. | ||
| But staying home, even if the choices are there, may not be the viewer's first pick. | ||
| Well, that's basically making an assumption that people want to be couch potatoes and not dancing raisins. | ||
| The price to pay at the end of the month in the form of this, a bill. | ||
| But it probably won't be as much as it would be to go to the movies with a family member or a friend. | ||
| I won't have to stand in line. |
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