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It's just business. | |
This is him. | ||
Look at it. | ||
What's your name? | ||
Tell us your name. | ||
All right, people, we are live in Washington, D.C. That's right. | ||
I am in the swamp as the swamp. | ||
Is being drained. | ||
I am Dave Rubin. | ||
This is the Rubin Report. | ||
It is February 10th, 2025. We are live streaming on Rumble on YouTube and on Locals as always. | ||
No post-game show today because I got a bunch of meetings at the Capitol. | ||
There's a rumor that I may show up at a certain house that's here of a certain color or lack thereof. | ||
Anything is possible. | ||
I'll be here for the next three days. | ||
We got a whole bunch of going on. | ||
I don't want to tease too much, but there is so much popping in this city right now. | ||
And trust me, we're here for good reason. | ||
Today's show really, it's perfect that we're in D.C. actually, because today's show really... | ||
Is about the shift. | ||
You know, I've been talking about Trump 2.0 or the Trump effect, but I want to coin a new phrase today, which is the shift. | ||
We can call what's happening in America right now and really all over the world the shift. | ||
Something has so broken. | ||
The ice that has been made sort of was freezing over us so that we couldn't get out of that, you know, that chilling water. | ||
We've broken through it. | ||
There is a cultural shift. | ||
I think we can all see it. | ||
There certainly is a political shift. | ||
There is a media shift. | ||
And I think it was on display yesterday at the White House, which is what's going to kick off. | ||
Today's show. | ||
And then we're just going to connect that to all of the things happening in the country right now, mostly related to Doge. | ||
And we're just uncovering so much stuff. | ||
And it's not just USAID. The slush funds that have been about taking your money and putting them to pet projects that somehow always benefited the left and the Democrats. | ||
It's all being exposed right now. | ||
The media is being exposed. | ||
And perhaps, guys, authenticity and transparency And, I don't know, people that want to work for we the people, maybe that's becoming cool again and that's what the shift's all about. | ||
I know I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. | ||
Let's just dive right into it. | ||
I don't know if you heard, but yesterday was a big football game. | ||
They call it the Super Bowl. | ||
They've been doing this for a while. | ||
I did predict on Thursday's show my prediction for the Super Bowl, and I forgot to watch football this year. | ||
I've been caught up in a whole bunch of other stuff on Sundays. | ||
My prediction... | ||
It was Kansas City 24, Philadelphia 17. Apparently I got that wrong, which means I could work for ESPN. But in any event, the president of the United States showed up to the Super Bowl. | ||
First time ever that a sitting president actually went to the game. | ||
And here are some of the cheers. | ||
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All right. | |
So Trump's getting cheers. | ||
It was electric in there, the fact that he showed up, everything else. | ||
Now, I want to compare that, and you'll see why we're doing this. | ||
I want to compare that to some of the crowd reaction to Taylor Swift, who, of course, as you know, has been dating Kansas City player Travis Kelsey. | ||
OK, so it appears that the crowd at the Super Bowl loves Donald Trump, loves the president of the United States, not so into Taylor Swift. | ||
And you might say, well, why is that important? | ||
Why does that matter? | ||
Dave, what does this have to do with the shift that you're talking about? | ||
Well, there is a cultural shift to happen in. | ||
Here's what Donald Trump wrote after the game on Truth Social. | ||
The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. | ||
She got booed out of the stadium. | ||
MAGA is very unforgiving. | ||
Okay, now, here's where I'm going to explain the whole freaking thing to you. | ||
As we are going through this shift, as it is cool to be for America again, as people are applauding the President of the United States, as the President of the United States shows up to the Super Bowl as opposed to being hidden in the basement, as now people are booing the wokesters, right? | ||
The Taylor Swift. | ||
Travis Kelsey, he was big on COVID vaccines. | ||
Like, there's something shifting here. | ||
And now I will connect it to the politics of the day. | ||
Muppet, human Muppet, Chris Hayes, from the televised mental institution known as MSNBC, was on Bill Maher's Real Time on Friday night. | ||
And I would say there's a divergence between these two guys. | ||
They're both Democrats, in essence, both self-described liberals. | ||
But Hayes is, you know, sort of a corporate Muppet and bananas progressive. | ||
You know my feelings on Maher. | ||
Obviously, let's just say he's old-school moderate at this point, right? | ||
And he realizes what time it is. | ||
He realizes that the culture has shifted. | ||
So they got into it about the Democrat messaging, and I thought this was quite good. | ||
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But it's also the case that, like, all of the reflection that happened after losing an election and trying to figure about how do you win back people you lost was real and true. | |
And I guess my feeling is you've got to fight, A. You've got to try different things. | ||
And you have to be authentic. | ||
You can't, like, reverse engineer any of this off a blueprint. | ||
I mean, this Ken Martin guy, he said something I've heard Democrats say a lot. | ||
We didn't get our message out. | ||
Maybe I'm paraphrasing. | ||
And I've said this before to Democrats. | ||
No, you did. | ||
That's the problem. | ||
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You did get your message out, and people don't like the message. | |
Yeah, that's the key part. | ||
People don't like the message. | ||
Now, first off, let's talk about this authenticity thing for a moment. | ||
You know, for years, I've been saying the same thing about Donald Trump, which is how is it possible that this orange man with crazy hair, who's a billionaire, is more authentic than all of them, right? | ||
All of them across the board go through every single Democrat. | ||
But for Chris Hayes, a Muppet who actually is a walking commercial for estrogen right there, it's like, dude, he just looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy with glasses. | ||
Anyway, for him to talk about authenticity, it's like, dude, do you come off as authentic? | ||
Authentic? | ||
You're authentically a dork. | ||
I do believe that. | ||
But look at the people on your network. | ||
Is Chuck Scarborough and his wife, are they authentic? | ||
Is Rachel Maddow authentic? | ||
You guys are the ones who have lied about everything, who have pushed all of this propaganda. | ||
We don't have to go through the laundry list of things that these people have lied to us about and everything else. | ||
And of course, that's deeply because MSNBC and corporate media is basically just an extension of the Democrat Party. | ||
Well, then look at the Democrats. | ||
Does Pete Buttigieg strike you as authentic? | ||
Did Kamala Harris? | ||
Did Joe Biden strike you as authentic? | ||
Does AOC? None of these. | ||
Elizabeth Warren? | ||
Bernie is authentically whatever he is. | ||
I would give him that. | ||
But the rest of them, they're deeply, deeply fake. | ||
And at some point, as the online media has grown and corporate media has fallen apart, people do have a system inside of themselves that recognizes authenticity. | ||
It recognizes reality. | ||
And people have just had it with these fake fraudsters. | ||
Speaking of fake fraudsters, there was this woman. | ||
She was vice president for a while, and she got the job because she was a black chick. | ||
That's what the man with dementia said. | ||
And then she cooed him, pushed him out, and then she ran an unbelievably horrible presidential campaign. | ||
Kamala Harris, does this name? | ||
You're not going to hear much of her going forward. | ||
But anyway, she does live in California, which was affected by these wildfires. | ||
And if you think, to say we dodged, We dodged it, people, with this woman. | ||
Okay, we barely got by. | ||
This woman could be president. | ||
This is a 17-second video. | ||
Listen to this lady talk about the fires. | ||
As we think about the future, we must, as a society, as a country, invest in adaptation and resilience. | ||
And we have to understand these extreme weather occurrences are extreme, but they are increasingly less rare. | ||
They're extreme, but increasingly less rare. | ||
It's endless, driveless word salad. | ||
it. | ||
Just for a moment, I don't want to focus on the fires too much, but I do want to connect this to something we talked about last week, which was that Gavin Newsom is talking about how they have to build with science. | ||
Remember, we covered that on Friday, and it's the same thing she's saying, and it's so patently absurd. | ||
These houses in the Pacific Palisades, many of these were 20, 30, 40 million dollar houses that were cutting edge state-of-the-art building and materials and everything else. | ||
This is the fault of you people, and the point of all of this, as I talk about this shift, Is we can see through it now. | ||
Your word salad, your meaningless prepared marks, none of it works anymore. | ||
And what that's going to do, as you guys, because you are so freaking fake, as you continue to go down that path, what it's going to do is it's going to take all of the sane people, which I keep saying I think is around 70% of America, and it's going to keep forcing those people together. | ||
It's going to take coal and it's going to kind of push it. | ||
And condense it and grind it together into a diamond. | ||
Let's jump back to real time on Friday night. | ||
Bill Maher had Byron Donalds on. | ||
Byron Donalds. | ||
Florida congressman, possibly our next governor, who makes an awful lot of sense. | ||
And here's Bill Maher agreeing with him. | ||
The public is aware of the mismanagement, the improper payments, etc. | ||
What about the Department of Education? | ||
Now, I don't know that much about it, but I've never read good things. | ||
Rahm Emanuel, who I agree with on almost everything, here was a quote, he said, a third of eighth graders can't read, and now he wants to close the department? | ||
And I thought, that's probably why they can't read. | ||
Or at least partly. | ||
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I mean, the numbers keep getting worse and worse and worse. | |
And I don't know if the Department of Education is anything but... | ||
I mean, it doesn't really... | ||
I don't know what it does. | ||
Except take money. | ||
It's sort of a middleman. | ||
It doesn't, like, run classrooms or do stuff like that. | ||
I don't think it makes policy. | ||
So where are you on something like that? | ||
I think that the Department of Education has to essentially be closed. | ||
A lot of the authorities have got to get sent back to the states. | ||
The dollars we appropriate actually need to go directly into the hands of parents. | ||
So that they can use those resources in their states and in their communities to find the best outcome for their children. | ||
When the Department of Ed was created in 1977, our reading scores and math scores for kids 4th and 8th grade were higher than they are today. | ||
So it's not worked. | ||
That is the shift, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
Sanity and common sense out of Byron Donalds, out of MAGA, and then Bill Maher suddenly realizing this is sort of a welcome to the party, pal, moment for Bill. | ||
Again, didn't vote for Trump, but not going to be hysterical about it. | ||
That's what he said. | ||
He sees the tea leaves changing. | ||
You can call that self-preservation or whatever else you want to call it. | ||
I'd like to think I know him pretty well. | ||
I think it is authentic. | ||
He sees what's going on here and I think is responding to it accordingly. | ||
But for a guy like him to say, I don't even know what the Department of Education does. | ||
And then Byron just lays it out quite simply. | ||
We don't need to pump a ton of money into a giant building that's... | ||
Actually, about a mile away from where I'm at right now that no one shows up to work for, that does absolutely nothing. | ||
And what are the—I can't say it does nothing because all it's good at is propagandizing and causing brain damage for our children so they don't know what gender they are and they don't know if America's good and they think that socialism is better than capitalism. | ||
So Byron's right. | ||
If you believe that we should tax people in the first place and some of that tax money should go to— If you believe that public education should exist, then what you would want to do is kick as much of it back to the states. | ||
You would want to have as much choice. | ||
So the parent would, say, get a tax credit. | ||
And then maybe you go to the public school, if the public school in your neighborhood is good. | ||
Maybe you send them to a charter school. | ||
Maybe you do homeschooling or podschooling. | ||
But choice and local decision-making that you have some... | ||
Some ability to affect as a parent. | ||
Like, that's how you do it. | ||
So again, the shift is now that it's combining all of these people that you might say that me and Byron Donald shouldn't, you know, in a normal world, someone that's a little more on the liberal side and someone like Byron Donald shouldn't be on the same side. | ||
But now he's grabbing Bill, too. | ||
And Bill is acknowledging and his audience is applauding for it. | ||
I don't know what, like, think about that. | ||
Bill's audience, which is a bunch of liberals, most of those people voted for Kamala. | ||
They're applauding the fact that Bill's going, I don't know what the hell the Department of Education does. | ||
And suddenly they all go, I don't know what the Department of Education does either. | ||
Check this out from Doge, Department of Government Efficiency. | ||
I do know what they do. | ||
Today, the Department of Education terminated three DEI training grants, totaling $15 million. | ||
One of the institutions had previously hosted faculty workshops entitled Decolonizing the Curriculum. | ||
We have way more coming up on Doge, but that is it, guys. | ||
Doge, which is now under full assault. | ||
If you think our institutions are under assault, all that's happening right now is our institutions are being looked at. | ||
They are literally just looking at the books. | ||
What are we taking your dollars for and what are we spending it on? | ||
And we are finding out that we are spending on a whole bunch of crazy shit. | ||
Trans comic books in Sweden and gender studies in Jordan and a whole bunch of other nonsense. | ||
And we are eliminating it lying. | ||
But a certain set of people who have built careers and made an awful lot of money grifting off of that and are mostly talking about Democrats and their media allies, they are not happy about this. | ||
They don't want you looking under the hood and being like, man, this thing was really freaking messed up because you might start pointing back on them. | ||
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All right, guys. | ||
So as this shift occurs, we are finding out more and more about the inefficiencies of government, which is exactly what Donald Trump ran on, right? | ||
That when he brought Elon on board after Elon, you know, when did Elon come on board officially? | ||
Well, it was July. | ||
It was over last summer, the day that Donald Trump almost got killed, that was the day that Elon threw all in on this. | ||
I mean, it seems like a long, long time ago, but it's only about eight months ago. | ||
That's actually kind of crazy. | ||
But he got in on it saying, hey, I will help you figure out what is wrong with government. | ||
We all know it is fundamentally wrong. | ||
Something is not right at the very least, right? | ||
We know that much, right? | ||
So now they're going ahead and doing it, and it is causing people to go complain. | ||
Completely, completely insane. | ||
Not only did Trump show up to the Super Bowl, which, as I said, first time ever that a sitting president did that. | ||
Pretty cool. | ||
And just think about the pressures he's under. | ||
Think about the security threats. | ||
All of this stuff. | ||
The lack of sleep this guy gets. | ||
Everything else. | ||
And he's just out there, out there, out there, out there. | ||
It really is amazing and probably should be studied years from now. | ||
But he also gave the customary interview. | ||
They normally would air it. | ||
Sometimes they air it before the Super Bowl, sometimes at halftime. | ||
He gave an interview to Bret Baier, which aired right before the Super Bowl coverage. | ||
And here they are talking about Doge. | ||
I don't know if it's kickbacks or what's going on, but the people, look, I ran on this, and the people want me to find it. | ||
And I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who's been terrific. | ||
Bottom line, you say you trust him. | ||
Trust Elon? | ||
Oh, he's not gaining anything. | ||
In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it. | ||
He's so into it. | ||
But I told him to do that. | ||
Then I'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. | ||
He's going to find the same thing. | ||
Then I'm going to go to the military. | ||
Let's check the military. | ||
We're going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. | ||
And, you know, the people elected me on that. | ||
Yeah. | ||
We're going to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse. | ||
He's bringing in... | ||
The world's renaissance, man. | ||
I know you guys know this, but he's bringing in the guy that's sending us to Mars so that we can figure out what's wrong with this system, so that it can put more money back in your pocket, so we can balance the books, so that economically things will make sense, so that these giant systems won't abuse you. | ||
Actually, they'll have very little to do with you. | ||
And that's really pissing people off. | ||
And you really got to think about that. | ||
Why is it pissing people off? | ||
That we are just going to figure out where our money has been going. | ||
Check this out from Leading Report Breaking. | ||
President Trump permits Elon Musk to hire 45 new Doge agents to manage and audit the FBI, CIA, and Pentagon. | ||
So this is it, guys. | ||
In some ways, it doesn't matter whether you're left or right when it comes to taxes specifically. | ||
Whether you want a flat tax, whether you want to abolish income tax altogether, whether you like high progressive taxes. | ||
Putting all of that aside, I think, unless you really, really hate America or you're really not right in the head, which often those things have a bit of a Venn diagram on, that I think everyone wants our dollars to be spent well. | ||
We can all debate how much money the government should take, in essence. | ||
We can debate how much a person of a certain income should have to give. | ||
Have stolen from them. | ||
We can do all of that. | ||
But at the end, I think, whether you're the most lefty, whacked-out, giant government progressive, or you're a total libertarian, whatever, you would think that we would all agree on what the government has they should spend effectively, right? | ||
It should be transparent and open. | ||
That's what we're getting right now. | ||
And it's shocking. | ||
It's actually shocking. | ||
Here's Pete Hegseth, our new Secretary of Defense, and this is why they feared the guy. | ||
What did I say? | ||
That he was being feared not just because of his pedigree, his pedigree that he has military background and everything else. | ||
The other thing that they feared was that he was going to, as a TV host, which is what he's been for a decade on Fox, be able to communicate ideas effectively. | ||
And here he is talking to some of the Department of Defense people about an audit that's coming their way. | ||
That includes a Pentagon audit, which to the Marines out there, y'all got it figured out. | ||
And we appreciate that. | ||
Lean in me. | ||
We are going to focus heavily to ensure that at a bare minimum, by the end of four years, the Pentagon passes a clean audit. | ||
The American taxpayers deserve that. | ||
They deserve to know where their $850 billion go, how it's spent, and make sure it's spent wisely. | ||
It used to be that if you called for an audit, somehow you were undermining the department. | ||
I believe the exact opposite. | ||
I believe we are accountable for every dollar we spend. | ||
And every dollar of waste we find or redundancy is a dollar we can invest somewhere else, as President Trump has committed directly to rebuilding our nation's military. | ||
So rebuilding our military is key. | ||
You know, in some sense, guys, the shift that I'm talking about here, it's an actual mental shift that we all, it's like there's a shift happening culturally and politically. | ||
We can all see that. | ||
That's what I'm illustrating here. | ||
But there's also a shift, I think, that you have to do in your own mind, like when you hear that. | ||
When you hear a government official be like, oh, auditing this department is not bad. | ||
It's good. | ||
We should be accountable to the people. | ||
You have to realize what a massive shift this is. | ||
Like, you have to actually understand that there is a way things should work. | ||
And they haven't worked that way for quite some time. | ||
And they're starting to work that way. | ||
So we want to keep encouraging people and offering them defense the best way we can when they get those unwarranted attacks. | ||
But yes, auditing the Department of Defense. | ||
You know my feelings on defense. | ||
Like, I believe in a very strong military. | ||
Speak softly, carry a big stick. | ||
I believe in peace through strength. | ||
Right? | ||
So I want a strong military, but that doesn't mean you just end the easy answer. | ||
What's the easy answer on that? | ||
Pour more money into the military. | ||
It's not that simple. | ||
How about make sure it's effective? | ||
Make sure our stuff works and our people are being trained properly and we don't bring in communists and gender benders who are confusing everybody and all of that stuff. | ||
How about that? | ||
Well, that's what Pete's doing right now. | ||
Let's just keep going because this is happening across the board. | ||
This from Elon Musk. | ||
The Doge team just discovered that FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. | ||
Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the president's executive order. | ||
That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals. | ||
A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those losses. | ||
Guys. | ||
Again, it's just more and more and more of this, but this is incredible. | ||
So $59 million, and you might say, oh, that's just a drop in a bucket. | ||
There's trillions of dollars of debt and everything else. | ||
But that stuff that they're still trying to push through under Trump now. | ||
So when you connect all of this to USAID, how did all of this work? | ||
Why are we paying high-end hotels to house illegals while the average person that lives in New York City or elsewhere sees all of their services degrade, sees more crime on the streets, doesn't want to take their family in the subway anymore? | ||
These things are all deeply connected without question. | ||
Check this out from Doge because the hits keep coming. | ||
In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contracts worth $182 million. | ||
These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses. | ||
None touched any healthcare programs. | ||
This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum. | ||
Phoenix, can you check where is the NIH Museum? | ||
I assume that's here in D.C. Because what I would like to do, I'm going to do this. | ||
This will be out of my own pocket. | ||
After we leave here, Phoenix, we're going to go to a local hardware store, okay? | ||
We're going to buy a basic plastic bucket. | ||
I'm going to take a dump in a bucket and we're going to put it outside the NIH Museum. | ||
It's here in D.C. Do we have that? | ||
It's in Maryland. | ||
Okay, so we're going to have to go across the river. | ||
We'll do it. | ||
I'll Uber it. | ||
Again, we're going to expense all this. | ||
It's not on your dime, people. | ||
I'm going to take a dump in a bucket, and I'm going to write Fauci on it. | ||
We'll put it outside. | ||
Congratulations. | ||
There we go. | ||
We saved $168,000. | ||
But do you see the millions and millions of dollars, guys, on administrative expenses? | ||
When they tell you it's administrative expenses, that's the deep state. | ||
That's the swamp. | ||
Administrative expenses. | ||
It just means, oh, it's a bunch of mid-level people who don't really do anything. | ||
Mostly they're confused about their genitals and that's why they got the job, but they don't really do anything. | ||
And we just, this is what it's all about. | ||
Like I'm so, we're like getting to that point where we're really over the target. | ||
It's a gajillion of these micro expenses, 168 million here, 59 million for luxury hotels. | ||
And it keeps adding up and adding up and adding up. | ||
One of the things that I'm seeing from the lefties and mainstream media people right now is. | ||
Oh, they're just, these are, well, that doesn't mean anything because we have trillions of dollars in debt. | ||
And it's like, it adds up. | ||
We're going through it line by line and we're figuring it out. | ||
And by the way, it really does add up. | ||
Check this out from Ian Yeager. | ||
Breaking, Elon Musk and Doge have saved American taxpayers $76 billion in less. | ||
Then three weeks. | ||
So you don't save $76 billion with one slash. | ||
How do you do it? | ||
You do it the way anyone runs a business. | ||
When I run my business and I don't have, what is it, 2 million federal employees, right? | ||
I got a dozen employees. | ||
And you know what I do with my business managers? | ||
At the end of the year, we do it quarterly, actually. | ||
We look at the books. | ||
How much are we paying people? | ||
What did we spend on? | ||
Services. | ||
What did we spend on travel? | ||
Blah, blah, blah. | ||
And we see, oh, can we make this more efficient, that more efficient? | ||
We're spending way too much on that. | ||
Oh, I can. | ||
I'm spending an awful lot on Uber Eats for these people. | ||
They eat an awful lot. | ||
But it's worth it for me to keep them fed. | ||
That's the point, Connor, with your guacamole. | ||
You're not even here in D.C. right now, but you better be watching the show. | ||
Let me connect this also to, I would say, this mental shift that I just mentioned. | ||
Because I think a lot of people are waking up right now to what liberty is, to what freedom is. | ||
And unfortunately, our education system did not teach them these things. | ||
So people didn't really understand actually what the nature of being American is. | ||
And I think you can connect the nature of being American to the drive of being human. | ||
That's how good this country is, that pursuit of happiness thing. | ||
Bill Ackman, tech billionaire who's been in the news a lot lately, sort of lifelong Democrat, postdocs October 7th, woke up. | ||
Listen to what he wrote here about government inefficiency and why it exists. | ||
He wrote, incentives drive all human behavior. | ||
The problem with government is that it is divorced from the incentives of the private markets. | ||
Government employees don't think of themselves as fiduciaries for the owners or the shareholders, as there are none. | ||
The taxpayers are the de facto shareholders, but we are an extremely diffuse group, many levels of control away from the government entity. | ||
We can only exercise our power once every four years by electing a new CEO for the country. | ||
In government, there are no restricted stock plans, stock options, bonus compensation plans or other economic incentive tools to motivate employee behavior. | ||
There is no bottom line and there are no key performance metrics that are carefully tracked that must be met or exceeded for the CEO and management to keep their jobs. | ||
There are no analysts writing, buy, sell or hold research reports. | ||
There are no short sellers doing independent research with an economic incentive to uncover wrongdoing. | ||
Fraud and bad accounting. | ||
That is why the problem has gone unfixed for decades. | ||
But now the people have elected Donald Trump and Trump has appointed Elon Musk to lead Doge to fix this mess. | ||
And yes, people voted for Elon and Doge as he and Doge were announced well before the votes were counted. | ||
And you should not be surprised by the resistance that is fighting to preserve the status quo. | ||
They will fight to the death because their bureaucracy has been their livelihood forever. | ||
The president and Elon need our support. | ||
To save us from ourselves, let's not let this historic opportunity go. | ||
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. | ||
I mean, that is on point. | ||
And I really think, I know for you guys watching this, you're aware of these things, right? | ||
Like, what it does to you when you just work in a system. | ||
Look, there are two million federal employees. | ||
There will be certainly less within the next six months. | ||
And many of them are retiring or taking that very generous offer that Trump put on the table last week. | ||
I'm not going to impugn these people's motives. | ||
There's good people there. | ||
There's bad people. | ||
There's people that aren't great at their job or anything else. | ||
But we know that the dream of a person is to build something for yourself, right? | ||
And the more that you have a stake in it, that's what he's talking about as a stakeholder. | ||
The more that you have a stake in something, the more you will work for it and do good around it. | ||
But when this everlasting deep state, administrative state, when this thing just exists. | ||
And you can get in and your skin isn't really in the game. | ||
Yeah, you can make some more money next year. | ||
You might get a promotion next year, something like that. | ||
But you know your job is going to exist and your existence will exist and everything else. | ||
Nothing really moves. | ||
Nothing gets better. | ||
You want to make sure your department spends its entire budget so it can get a bigger budget next year. | ||
And then government just gets bigger endlessly. | ||
And this is all in stark contrast, as Ackman lays out. | ||
To public companies or private companies where there's competition, where you are reliant on the stakeholders and the shareholders, where you have literal other companies trying to build a better mousetrap so you have to do better. | ||
And to the final point on that, they're suddenly pretending that this is a new meme that the lefties are putting out there. | ||
Well, no one voted for Elon Musk! | ||
That is true, except that Elon Musk more loudly campaigned with Donald Trump than literally anyone, and I do mean that literally, and campaigned with him on the promise of doing exactly what he's doing right now. | ||
So transparency and efficiency is what these people freak out about, and the reason for that is, hint, hint, they are the baddies. | ||
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All right, let's talk about big balls. | |
That's a segue for you. | ||
I want to give the devil his due here because as good as Doge has been and as not only efficient as it has been at creating government efficiency, it is taking some heat at the moment and I think it is worth addressing. | ||
You can check this out from Newsweek. | ||
A 19-year-old with concerning hacker background known online as Big Balls is working as part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. | ||
One former FBI agent has said he would not have recommended Edward Koristein for government work, knowing his experience to date. | ||
Koristein's recruitment to Musk's team, which was commissioned by President Donald Trump to recommend ways to cut down on government spending, symbolizes the new administration's unconventional approach to government reform. | ||
Koristein, a high school graduate with a history of launching startups, has founded at least five companies across multiple jurisdictions, including Connecticut, Delaware, and the United Kingdom. | ||
One of Koristein's ventures, Tesla.Sexy LLC, registered when he was just 16, manages dozens of web domains, including Russian-registered sites. | ||
One of these is still operational, offers Hellfire, an AI-powered Discord bot operating in Russia, which could present security clearance challenges per Wired. | ||
Korsin worked at Neuralink, another Musk-run enterprise, before joining Doge, where he has reportedly participated in meetings reviewing government personnel and code. | ||
Okay, so the reason I'm covering this is it is making the rounds in mainstream media. | ||
This kid, he's only 19 years old, so people are saying, could a 19-year-old, you know, be effective? | ||
Does he have any right to be looking at the books? | ||
Figuring out what these civil servants have been doing for a living and everything else. | ||
I mean, I suppose there's a certain irony to that because we just did have an 82-year-old with dementia pretending to be president. | ||
Now we're just doing the younger version of it, I suppose. | ||
But he goes by the online moniker Big Balls. | ||
And here's a compilation of people that normally don't talk about Big Balls on air talking about Big Balls. | ||
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Big balls, big balls, big balls in charge. | |
It was very difficult for Rachel Maddow to say big balls. | ||
But okay, maybe this big balls fella, 19, he's created a bunch of startups. | ||
He worked at Neuralink. | ||
Like, he's got a pedigree for sure. | ||
But there's a little controversy around him, and there is a bit more here. | ||
Again, we're giving the devil his due. | ||
This is from NBC News. | ||
The staff member, 25-year-old Marco Elez, resigned from the Doge Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had made comments online that included supporting racism and eugenics. | ||
The White House confirmed to NBC News that Elez had resigned. | ||
The Wall Street Journal said it reviewed archive posts from a deleted X account used by Elez in which he posted messages such as, just for the record, I was racist before it was cool, and you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. | ||
Normalize Indian hate, he wrote in another post. | ||
NBC News has not verified those posts. | ||
Okay. | ||
Now, there's a couple things going on here. | ||
So these are two different stories that I'm telling you. | ||
Big balls and Ellis. | ||
These are two different things that are creating a little bit of controversy here. | ||
Now, before we dive into the back and forth on all of this, I didn't know who this Ellis guy was. | ||
He was anonymous before he was basically outed here. | ||
I want to talk a little bit about shitposting for a moment. | ||
There is a certain set of kids who grew up on this thing. | ||
Right? | ||
I'm 48 years old. | ||
I didn't have this thing until I was about 20. But there's a certain set of people in the world who are going to run the world soon enough that grew up on this thing. | ||
And they had anonymous accounts and burner accounts and whatever you want. | ||
And they shitposted. | ||
Shitposted is just tweeting crazy things at people because it upsets them. | ||
Find a celebrity. | ||
Write something insane. | ||
Then the celebrity starts crying and you're like, look what I did. | ||
I'm a 14-year-old kid. | ||
Look what I did in my room. | ||
That's not to defend anyone who's saying... | ||
Outwardly racist things and certainly not threatening anyone or anything else. | ||
But I think this is also watching them talk about big balls in their serious fashion. | ||
We just have to understand the way that we communicate now and the way the internet works. | ||
Like, there's something here. | ||
So anyway, as these two have gotten, as big balls and Ellas have gotten into a little hot water here, here's what Elon said about it. | ||
Bring back Doge staffer who made inappropriate statements via now-deleted pseudonym. | ||
And, of course, you can see most people said yes on that. | ||
Now, the reason I'm showing you this is, A, I'm trying to give the devil his due here, show you that for all the good that Doge is doing, I'm just acknowledging that there is some controversy, whether you think it's manufactured or whatever else or not. | ||
But now check this out, because this made it all the way to the VP. Yeah, J.D. Vance wrote this. | ||
Here's my view. | ||
I obviously disagree with some of Ellis's points, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. | ||
We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people, ever. | ||
So I say bring him back. | ||
If he's a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that. | ||
And I think that is the right take on this. | ||
We'll get to some of the response to JD's response in a second. | ||
But the idea that we are not going to forgive anybody, that we're going to hold teenagers who, again, grew up with this Pandora's box in their pocket, and we're going to unmask them, unanonymize them, and attack them, and make sure they can't have jobs and everything else. | ||
Man, what kind of society will we have? | ||
As J.D. points out, that's not to defend any of the things he said, and I don't know what's in this kid's heart or anything else, but shitposting. | ||
As a notion, it's a real thing. | ||
And guess what? | ||
You may not know what it is, but your grandkids or your kids or your cousin is probably doing it under some kind of pseudonym. | ||
Now, interestingly... | ||
So J.D. put that out, and now Ro Khanna, who's a Democrat from Silicon Valley, and he's not a completely insane Democrat, and believe it or not, I'm going to be interviewing him here in this very room tomorrow. | ||
We finally got a Democrat. | ||
I'm shocked and appalled and excited, actually. | ||
I'm going to sit down with a Democrat. | ||
What's that going to be like? | ||
He saw J.D.'s response, and he wrote this. | ||
Are you going to tell him to apologizing for saying normalize Indian hate before his rehire? | ||
Just asking for the sake of both of our kids. | ||
Now, obviously, J.D. is married to an Indian woman and his kids are Indian and Ro Khanna is Indian. | ||
So he's playing on that right there. | ||
And J.D. wrote this. | ||
For the sake of both our kids, grow up. | ||
Racist trolls on the internet while offensive don't threaten my kids. | ||
You know what does? | ||
A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. | ||
A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children. | ||
So that's a fight. | ||
Them's fighting words. | ||
I will discuss that and we'll show the tweets and the responses and all that to Roe as we sit in here. | ||
I preemptively want to thank him for doing the show. | ||
We have sent emails to every freaking Democrat in Congress and Senate forever. | ||
And can't get anybody. | ||
So I want to give the guy credit for even sitting down with me as if I'm the most hardcore interviewer ever. | ||
Like, I want to hear his thoughts and everything else. | ||
And as I said, he's not a completely bananas progressive. | ||
I think he's missing a little something here. | ||
I think JD is right. | ||
Whether this kid is actually, Elez, is actually racist against Indians. | ||
Or not is in some ways secondary. | ||
He probably isn't, would be my guess, right? | ||
They make shitty jokes and they do it about Jews and blacks and everybody else. | ||
And a lot of people make jokes about white people. | ||
Nobody ever seems to be upset about that. | ||
But that's not really what the issue is, right? | ||
Like the issue actually is what kind of society are we building? | ||
We're going to hand kids the world on a phone and then try to destroy all of them from ever having jobs because of something they did when they were 16. Like, that does not end well for anybody. | ||
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All right, so as you can see... | ||
I'm a big fan of Doge. | ||
I like transparency. | ||
I like people saying, here's what I'm going to do and going ahead and doing it. | ||
And at the same time, I am giving the devil his due. | ||
There's a little controversy there. | ||
Maybe you agree on my take on what they should do with this Ellis kid or not. | ||
And we're all entitled to our opinions. | ||
I'll discuss that further with Ro Khanna tomorrow. | ||
But there are some people in government who are absolutely apoplectic about looking at the books. | ||
And again, that's all that's happening here. | ||
Just looking at the books. | ||
What did we pay? | ||
Four. | ||
And do we have receipts on it? | ||
And did the money get there? | ||
And did it actually do the thing it was going to do? | ||
Et cetera, et cetera. | ||
I would say you could call this doge derangement syndrome. | ||
Here is a guy. | ||
He's a Florida congressman. | ||
It pains me to say that. | ||
His name is Maxwell Frost. | ||
He's up in the Orlando area. | ||
We showed a video of him last week. | ||
This is the very same guy who, when I did a show... | ||
With Governor DeSantis in Orlando a couple years ago for my book tour, he repeatedly interrupted the show, started screaming. | ||
I think he was calling us white supremacists and we hate gay people and all that. | ||
Not a fan of most gay people. | ||
There's one guy I like. | ||
But in any event, here he is, and he's young. | ||
He's a young guy. | ||
He looks like he's in his early 20s or something, congressman in Florida, but he really loves the system. | ||
He loves the slush fund. | ||
He loves the lack of transparency, and he's very upset that he can't get into the Department of Education right now. | ||
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Hey everybody, I'm here with multiple members of Congress. | |
We're here to go to the Department of Education to fight for education, and they have locked the doors. | ||
They're not letting us in. | ||
It says all-access entrance. | ||
There's this random guy out here who's refusing to let us in. | ||
His name is Jim Harfield. | ||
What's his name? | ||
His name is Jim Harfield. | ||
And right here they have armed officers as well, acting like we're dangerous. | ||
A year ago, I'd be able to walk into this building and not be locked out. | ||
This is what they're doing. | ||
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Elon is allowed in, but not you, not your elected representatives, not parents, not students. | |
Elon can go in, his goons can go in, but not the representatives of the people. | ||
All right, first off, yes, that was a cameo by Human Catchers Mitt, Maxine Waters. | ||
This guy, this guy who, again, showed up to my show with other activists to interrupt the show, not respecting my right to free speech. | ||
I'll take the personal part aside. | ||
What do you think is going on in the Department of Education? | ||
What do you think is going on in that building? | ||
Do you think they're focused? | ||
I don't mean today when Doge is looking at the books. | ||
But for the last, let's say, decade, what do you think has really been going on at the Department of Education? | ||
Do you think there's been a bunch of really, really great people who have children's best interests in mind, who love this country and want to give a fair assessment of history and teach them the STEM? Do you think that's what's being generated in that big-ass building, or do you think it's been something much more rotten? | ||
Something that really had far more to do with wokeism and indoctrination and everything else. | ||
So I do not care for one second if these activists masquerading as good guy politicians cannot get into that building. | ||
And of course, she wants to get this guy's name and really take it out. | ||
She is such a freaking disgusting bully. | ||
She is just absolutely awful. | ||
And well, actually, here's some video of her being quite awful. | ||
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Look them in the eye. | |
Come on, hold your face up. | ||
Look at them. | ||
This is him. | ||
Look at it. | ||
What's your name? | ||
Tell us your name. | ||
Give me that ID again. | ||
So what? | ||
I showed you the ID. You do what? | ||
I showed you the ID. Could you let me see the ID again? | ||
No. | ||
No? | ||
Will someone else ask him for the ID? Will you ask him for it? | ||
He won't let me see it again. | ||
You didn't see it. | ||
I hope we see Maxine Waters today. | ||
We're going to walk around D.C. a little bit. | ||
We're going to go to the Capitol. | ||
We'll go to some of these buildings. | ||
I hope we see her because I have a little bit of catcher's mitt oil from childhood. | ||
I have a little bit left. | ||
I used to have an Ozzie Smith. | ||
Remember the old baseball gloves? | ||
Mine was signed by Ozzie Smith. | ||
You'd put a baseball in a little oil, wrap it in something, put it under your bed so that it would break in the glove. | ||
I'd like to smear a little on her face. | ||
I think it would help. | ||
That's all I'm saying. | ||
Also, her wig. | ||
It's a bit much. | ||
That aside, the demeaning way she's going after this guy, he's doing his job. | ||
But we know anyone who's against you is a bad guy and you want to get their name. | ||
And why do you want their name, Maxine? | ||
It's because you want to destroy his life. | ||
You don't care about anything but power. | ||
He's doing his job. | ||
And sorry, we're going to find out what the Department of Education is doing. | ||
And hint, hint, spoiler alert, I have a feeling it's not good stuff. | ||
Here's someone who's worse than Maxine Waters, who married her brother and committed immigration fraud and is a big fan of terrorist organizations like Hamas, Ilhan Omar. | ||
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Yeah, I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis. | |
We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies, in their role in deciding where money is allocated. | ||
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My next question, because your colleague, Jeff Merkley, basically said he's prepared to try to shut down the government over some of these sledgehammer actions. | |
Are you prepared to shut down the government, to join Democratic colleagues who want to stand in the way of keeping the government open? | ||
Well, you have to look at what the Trump administration is doing right now. | ||
They are simply trying to dismantle the government. | ||
So yes, look, if we have to take steps... | ||
To be able to hold them accountable, use the leverage that we have to force it, I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we're seeing when it comes to this administration's actions. | ||
And for us to be able to support government funding in that way, only for them to turn it around, to dismantle the government, that is not something that should be allowed. | ||
Oh, Andy Kim, don't threaten me with the good time. | ||
You're gonna shut down the government? | ||
You people are gonna go away for a little while? | ||
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Oh dear, please, no, come back. | |
No, that would be just fine. | ||
We don't need you. | ||
We don't like you. | ||
Also, Ilhan Omar, I mean, she's just awful. | ||
She's just an anti-American. | ||
And I hope Oman gets her on the illegal immigration thing that she did with her husband and brother. | ||
But she, no, there's no constitutional crisis. | ||
Looking at the government and finding out what these agencies are doing and making it more transparent is actually exactly what governing for we the people is all about. | ||
And by the way, blocking the doors of the Department of Education while they figure this out is also not unconstitutional. | ||
If you were locking the doors of Congress so that Congress people and senators couldn't get into the Capitol, etc., then you might have a constitutional problem there, right? | ||
Like, then you could say, okay, the executive branch is infringing on the legislative branch. | ||
There would be something there. | ||
But that is not what's happening. | ||
Opening up the book so we can see what you freaks have been doing is actually way more in line with democracy than any... | ||
We showed Ro Khanna, who, as I said, he, I think, or we read the tweet by Ro Khanna, he is what I would say is a little bit more of a Democrat, a moderate Democrat, to whatever extent that exists. | ||
But most of them really have gone off the deep end. | ||
This was a bit of a disappointing watch for me. | ||
Scott Galloway, professor at NYU, who I've had on the show and I personally like, he's... | ||
Has really gone in on the Trump derangement stuff. | ||
And here he is with Kara Swisher, who's a CNN contributor. | ||
Pretty lefty person. | ||
And they are just freaking out because Doge, again, is trying to make things a little more transparent for you. | ||
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I want to know who are these young, highly intelligent, highly motivated zealots following him into these buildings and shutting off payments to schools and headstarts. | |
I want to know their names. | ||
You know, the local officials are trying to make that official. | ||
The newly installed Trump are threatening people for naming their names, just so you know. | ||
But go ahead. | ||
Oh, yeah, but they can unmask CIA officers who put their lives in harm's way to try and keep our Americans safe. | ||
I want to know who their names are, and I want to see a Democratic governor saying, I'm going to do everything I can in my power to use the full faith. | ||
And to the letter of the law to put you folks in prison, I think what you're doing is trespassing. | ||
I think this is a coup. | ||
And be clear, just because the new insurrectionist who was elected, you know, I don't believe this is legal. | ||
And I'm going to hold the people accountable who are trespassing and part of a coup accountable. | ||
To just sit back and say this is horrible and this is unlawful, we need to go. | ||
Gangster here and say, look, we are not negotiating around this stuff. | ||
This is illegal. | ||
This is a coup. | ||
This is the unlawful seizure of power. | ||
We are not going to engage in these bullshit, ridiculous arguments over, you know, Gaza and Greenland. | ||
We are going to hold the people accountable. | ||
Here are their names. | ||
Here are their faces. | ||
And we have contacted the local authorities in where these kids live, these young adults. | ||
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And we are going to hold them accountable. | |
I have to say, guys, look, I personally, I only met Scott the one time we did the show together, so I liked him in the interview that we did. | ||
We chatted a little bit after for a few minutes. | ||
He struck me as a nice guy. | ||
But it's really fascinating watching lefties get unmasked. | ||
What are you guys defending? | ||
Why are you so relentlessly defending the inefficiency of government? | ||
Why are you defending USAID? Why are you defending slush funds? | ||
What is it about? | ||
And I think there is something. | ||
That in the end, lefties, they just believe in the state. | ||
They just believe in power. | ||
What are you talking about? | ||
That there's a coup happening and you have to go gangster because of the coup? | ||
Again, this isn't Trump. | ||
Trying to stop Congress people from doing their job, going into Congress and doing the work of Congress people. | ||
We're looking at agencies and seeing if they are efficient. | ||
That's exactly what he ran on. | ||
What is illegal about any of that? | ||
Nothing. | ||
That's the thing. | ||
There is nothing. | ||
So this sort of, it's kind of, I was going to call it hysteria, but it's like a depressive, they're sort of depressed at the same time, which is why it's hard. | ||
I don't know that anyone, how does anyone listen to these lefty shows? | ||
There's this sort of depressive hysteria. | ||
Around all this, but what it really is about is that they just don't like that their pet projects that have pushed all of the ideology that they're into, that it's starting to come up dry, like the swamp is being drained, and at the bottom of that... | ||
It's going to be nothing for them, and I think that's the problem. | ||
Elon saw that clip, and he wrote this. | ||
Swisher and Galloway are threatening, talented young software engineers who gave up high compensation for death threats in order to help the American people. | ||
Shame on Swisher and Galloway, cruel, mean, and deceitful human beings that they are. | ||
So look, again, guys, I'm trying to do this as I always try to do. | ||
I'm trying to do this show as honestly as possible. | ||
We just read you some of the criticisms of big balls. | ||
And some of the things that this, was it Erez guy, Erez? | ||
Some of the previous things that he said. | ||
So I can't speak to the veracity and qualifications of every single person that Elon has brought in. | ||
But the 19-year-old worked for Neuralink. | ||
Like, I trust Elon's ability to hire people way better than I would trust some government middle management person's ability to do that. | ||
It does not mean it is perfect. | ||
But taking competent software engineers and other people who have new ways of looking at things and looking at government like, man, you're angry about that? | ||
What's going on there? | ||
What's going on there? | ||
Check this out. | ||
This is Representative Al Green from Houston, a Democrat, on C-SPAN. And one of the things they do on C-SPAN, maybe we should start doing it on this show, is they like to take live callers. | ||
Old school, right? | ||
And well, I don't think Al was so thrilled that this call was not vetted. | ||
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I watched you yesterday with the Democrat Party out. | |
Protesting everything that Elon Musk is trying to do for the American people. | ||
The USAD is the 100% of money laundering scheme around the world kickbacks back to the Democrat Party. | ||
Whether it's to the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, $4.4 billion and $84 million went to her daughter, Chelsea Clinton. | ||
All y'all have is impeachments and race and gender, etc. | ||
And you actually do nothing for the people of America today. | ||
I think the Democrats should sit back and let America see what it's like to reduce the people in government to wasteful spending. | ||
And all y'all can do is just complain and be negative. | ||
And we're sick of it. | ||
Yeah, right. | ||
Sir, anonymous sir, who they're probably trying to unmask and dox right now, you're right, and Al Green just had to sit there and take it. | ||
We are tired of your pet programs. | ||
We are tired of the fact that our dollars literally went to pay people who would kill random Jews in Israel. | ||
We would then give money to the Palestinian Authority. | ||
Literally, actually do that. | ||
We would pay for trans comic books in Peru and we can go through all the litany of things. | ||
And it's not just things that are so obviously ridiculous. | ||
It's everything. | ||
It's just all of the people that we paid 2 million government employees. | ||
And again, some of them might be good people. | ||
I have no doubt some of them are. | ||
And some of them are doing good work. | ||
There's obvious, obviously. | ||
But we just built a system that nobody was accountable to anybody. | ||
And as it gets uncovered, all of the worst people are freaking out because it is the source of their power. | ||
And it's just so connected to everything that's gone wrong over these last couple of years, how COVID got smashed in our faces, how the media lied about everything. | ||
When you see these dollars being thrown around every which way, like we're just at the beginning. | ||
The shift is about radical transparency, right? | ||
And it's happening. | ||
And you should be happy about it. | ||
Stephen Miller, who works for Mr. Donald J. Trump, who's number 45 and 47 over there at the White House, here he is explaining how USAID is just a giant slush fund. | ||
The USAID was a slush fund, first of all, for left-wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries around the world, diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal climate scams. | ||
It was funding an army of left-wing activists, these NGOs, non-governmental organizations. | ||
They get billions and billions of dollars, and they use that money to then infiltrate corporate America. | ||
Resettle, for example, at taxpayer expense, millions of illegal aliens into this country. | ||
Yeah, yeah, right. | ||
Like, yeah. | ||
And we all kind of know it. | ||
And if you don't think this thing is a slush fund, now I gotta show you this video. | ||
So Samantha Power. | ||
Who worked in the Obama administration and Obama, you know, was in some ways the chief architect of everything that happened for these last four years while we pretended that Biden was in charge. | ||
She has been the chief of USAID. She makes $180,000 on that salary and somehow in the years, the couple years that she's been the chief of USAID, her net worth went from $6.7 million To $30 million. | ||
Enjoy. | ||
So in the couple years that she worked there, she basically made $23 million on $180,000 salary. | ||
I'll have what she's having. | ||
So yes, it is a slush fund. | ||
It's how you get kickbacks. | ||
It's how you peddle influence. | ||
And we only are beginning to find out what really is going on here. | ||
Now as we get to this shift... | ||
And we get to transparency and looking at books and figuring out what's going on here. | ||
It's going to have all sorts of hysterical reactions. | ||
Obviously, we showed you Catcher's Mitt Woman and the guy from Florida who doesn't like me. | ||
Here is David Sachs. | ||
You guys know David Sachs from the All In Podcast and who is now the czar of crypto and AI. He returned to the All In Podcast to talk about how basically we the people have been funding crazy left-wing I was just listening on your conversation about Doge. | ||
Jake, I'm surprised that you never figured out a way to get involved in this USA. I mean, everybody's on the take except you. | ||
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I mean, if I had known, I would have started an NGO. Where's my NGO? You had everything except the money laundering. | |
You had the grip. | ||
You had the virtue signaling. | ||
You had it all except the actual money. | ||
Let me up-level this for a second, okay? | ||
So we knew the U.S. government... | ||
Runs a $2 trillion deficit every year. | ||
We're in debt almost $40 trillion. | ||
And we also knew that anytime anyone tries to cut anything in Washington, the whole city screams bloody murder. | ||
Okay, so the question is just why? | ||
Well, now we know. | ||
The money is all going to them. | ||
It's like round-tripping to them. | ||
New York Times, getting paid. | ||
Politico, getting paid. | ||
Bill Kristol, perennial warmonger. | ||
Getting paid. | ||
Ukraine. | ||
Getting paid. | ||
Like 11 out of 12 publications in Ukraine. | ||
Getting paid. | ||
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Incredible. | |
Viktor Orban, who's the prime minister of Hungary, was saying that he's very popular in Hungary. | ||
His political opposition? | ||
Funded by USAID. In Poland, the left-wing political opposition? | ||
Funded by USAID. And on and on and on it goes. | ||
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BBC. BBC. You wonder why everyone in the UK... I couldn't believe that BBC is getting paid. | |
Every left-wing organization in the world seems to be getting paid by this slush fund at USAID, which disperses about $50 billion a year. | ||
That's a billion dollars a week. | ||
That's actually a lot of money. | ||
And so it makes you wonder. | ||
The left in general tries to portray itself as a movement of the people, that it's grassroots. | ||
This is the exact opposite. | ||
This is astroturf. | ||
This is basically money coming from the top down out of Washington. | ||
To fund all these groups, maybe not even in the United States, like all over the world. | ||
So it makes you wonder, what is the real level of local support for these left-wing policies all over the world? | ||
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Yeah, crazy. | |
That, at the end, is the key. | ||
Doesn't it all feel, as we watch this House of Cards fall, that all of this bullshit that we have been force-fed as it pertains to wokeness and gender stuff... | ||
And race stuff and the hatred of capitalism in America. | ||
And when you watch the Hamas supporters, it's all been fake. | ||
It was fake in that it was paid somehow by us, by a bunch of activists, to destroy our society. | ||
In America, we did it to ourselves and then we exported it to all of these other countries. | ||
And now we have the receipts. | ||
And the people who are going to be exposed, Aren't that happy about it? | ||
I want to jump back for a second, because what did Bill Maher say at the beginning? | ||
He was talking about how no one buys this nonsense anymore, and I would relate that to authenticity versus inauthenticity. | ||
You do not have to love everything about Donald Trump, and you may not even like the truth social post that he put up about—what's her name? | ||
Who's the girl? | ||
The football girl. | ||
Taylor Swift. | ||
I don't even care about these people. | ||
She's probably a construct, too. | ||
You don't have to like any of that stuff. | ||
But what Donald Trump is, is authentic. | ||
And what the Democrats are or not. | ||
So here's seven more seconds of Bill Maher. | ||
This Ken Martin guy, he said something I've heard Democrats say a lot. | ||
We didn't get our message out. | ||
Maybe I'm paraphrasing. | ||
And I've said this before to Democrats. | ||
No, you did. | ||
That's the problem. | ||
You did get your message out. | ||
And people don't like the message. | ||
And why don't we like the message? | ||
Because it was inauthentic. | ||
Most Americans love America. | ||
Most Americans know that boys have penises and girls have vaginas. | ||
Most Americans know. | ||
That you don't judge people based on the color of their skin, but somehow a machine through this slush fund, again, we're looking at a puzzle right now and we're piecing it together and it's starting, this is like a puzzle that you didn't have the box. | ||
So you don't know exactly what you're creating right now, but we're starting to piece it together. | ||
And much of what we are piecing together is pointing right back at the Democrats and right back at every lefty NGO and virtually. | ||
The fruits of what they have done infected all of our institutions. | ||
It's rather extraordinary. | ||
And as it gets exposed, guess what? | ||
The authentic guy, the orange guy with the crazy hair who's a billionaire yet somehow authentic, more and more people are digging what he's doing. | ||
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Our CBS poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53%, approve of the job he's doing. | |
That's a better approval number than he ever reached during his first term in the White House. | ||
Joining us with more is our Executive Director of Elections and Surveys, Anthony Salvato. | ||
Good to see you, Anthony. | ||
What's driving this? | ||
I will keep it simple, Margaret. | ||
He's doing, in the eyes of the public, what he said he would do in the campaign. | ||
There's political value in that. | ||
In fact, 70% of people say he's doing what he promised. | ||
That's whether they approve of him or not. | ||
Now, there's another part of this that continues over from the campaign. | ||
There were words that he was described as being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in big majority numbers. | ||
So, as people... | ||
Take a look in these first few weeks. | ||
There's been a lot of activity. | ||
They're getting that general sense of governance, and that's being reflected in these early numbers. | ||
So that's perception. | ||
What about the actual policies? | ||
Well, let's start with the ones that are popular. | ||
And again, these echo a lot of what we saw in the campaign. | ||
The idea of deporting those in the country illegally continues to be popular. | ||
We saw that in the campaign. | ||
Sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. | ||
Again, majority in favor. | ||
We'd seen that in the campaign. | ||
For his supporters in particular, the focus on ending DEI is popular. | ||
We had seen in the campaign, a lot of them thought those processes had gone too far. | ||
So what's the too-long-don't-read part of that? | ||
It's that Trump is doing what he said he was going to do with a guy, Elon, that he said he was going to do it with. | ||
And what we're finding out about that, as I say that 70% of Americans are on board this thing, is that right now 53%, assuming that poll is roughly right, 53% of people are there. | ||
That's higher than percentage. | ||
Of the vote that Trump got, right? | ||
So more and more people are like, oh, yeah, I do want a border. | ||
Oh, I do want DEI out of the institutions. | ||
Oh, I want radical transparency. | ||
I want to know where my dollars are going, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
And even the corporate press, sometimes things become so freaking honest and obvious, I should say, that even they have to cover it. | ||
And by the way, there's more evidence that the numbers are looking good for Trump and the future of this. | ||
You don't have to call it Republican Party. | ||
You can call it pro-America movement. | ||
Look at this from Scott Pressler. | ||
Voter registration since November. | ||
Center County, Pennsylvania flipped. | ||
Hillsborough County, Florida flipped. | ||
New Jersey Republicans gained 10,480 voters in January. | ||
Nevada has a plurality of registered Republicans. | ||
Pennsylvania is 105,000 voters away from flipping. | ||
So now we're seeing it on the ground. | ||
It's not just the polls. | ||
We're seeing it in actual numbers. | ||
And Scott Pressler has done just a bang-up job of registering voters and doing an incredible job of showing people you don't have to be just some sort of brain-dead default Democrat. | ||
So what does this all bring us to? | ||
What it brings us to is this town that I am in right now, this crazy swamp town, as it is being drained, and as there are hysterics around it, and people will say that we're in a constitutional crisis, and all of just the ridiculous blather and drivel that these people have offered up, the counter to that is success. | ||
And Donald Trump really does understand that, and that's why more and more people are heading in his direction. | ||
This is what he said to Brett Baer about just that yesterday. | ||
I would say this. | ||
We have to come together. | ||
But to come together, there's only one thing that's going to do it, and that's massive success. | ||
Success will bring the country together. | ||
And finally, there's a reason I'm laughing. | ||
I'll show you in just a sec. | ||
So yes, success is what brings the country together. | ||
That is his ultimate revenge on all of this. | ||
Absolutely. | ||
And the reason I'm laughing is, for some reason, Taylor Swift, I can't get her name in my brain. | ||
I keep thinking of Taylor Dane. | ||
Do you guys remember Taylor Dane in the 80s? | ||
She was awesome. | ||
She was huge. | ||
On my tombstone, let it say, I wanted to say Taylor Dane better than Taylor Swift. | ||
In any event, Taylor Swift dated this guy, Travis Kelsey, who was on Kansas City. | ||
He kind of went woke, was pushing COVID shots and everything else. | ||
But even he sees the culture changing now. | ||
And look what he was saying about Donald J. Trump right before yesterday's Super Bowl. | ||
That's awesome. | ||
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It's a great honor. | |
I think, you know, no matter who the president is, I know I'm excited because it's the biggest game of my life, you know, and having a president there, you know, is the best country in the world. | ||
Yeah, it's cool, man. | ||
We do have the best country in the world. | ||
And what we're finding out right now is there were a whole bunch of people that were doing a bunch of awful stuff to destroy it, but we might have rescued it just in time. | ||
Ladles and jelly spoons. | ||
That is the Rubin Report live from Washington, D.C. for today. | ||
I've got a couple meetings at the Capitol later today and a few other things, as I mentioned. | ||
Congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat, is going to be in this very studio with me tomorrow. | ||
We will be live at 11 a.m. | ||
as always tomorrow and Wednesday from here. | ||
And then we got a couple surprises on the way. | ||
There's no post-game show for the next couple days because our schedule is absolutely packed. | ||
So appreciate that. | ||
I'll make it up to you guys on Locals, Cold Clothes, and we'll see you later. |