Feb. 25, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| That cold open right there signified the three-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, which kicked off yesterday, three years ago. | ||
| And that was CNN's coverage from three years ago, with the Applebee's guy in a well-fitting jean eating the chicken finger. | ||
| Connor, you're a big fan of the chicken finger over at Applebee's. | ||
| You like Chili's more, but... | ||
| But would you say that Apple... | ||
| No, you hate Applebee's. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So we don't like Applebee's around here. | ||
| We're a Chili's family here at the Rubin Report. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| It is February 25th in the year 2025. We are live streaming, as we are one to do, on Rumble on YouTube. | ||
| On Locals, we've got a post-game wrap-up, rubinreport.locals.com, and our associate producer, Joseph, over here. | ||
| We've got a Joey back there, and we've got a Joseph over here. | ||
| He just said that today's show is going to be a 10. That means I can't make one verbal mistake. | ||
| Connor cannot throw accidentally to a video even a split second off. | ||
| Phoenix with the prompter, the person that I keep above me over here holding the light so I look perfect at all times, has to make sure they don't fall out of the ceiling. | ||
| It's a lot, but we're going to try. | ||
| Obviously, we will be talking about Joy Reid, because the woman is having a complete meltdown. | ||
| She's homeless. | ||
| She's out of work. | ||
| She's in a lot of trouble. | ||
| They've let her out of the mental institution, and we're going to have to focus on her for a little bit. | ||
| But we're going to start with something actually really nice, because have you heard of this place, Hollywood? | ||
| It's this place over in California. | ||
| It used to be a kind of cool place, you know, having stars making great art and great movies and all of that was... | ||
| Used to be kind of cool. | ||
| And over the years, it became hyper-political. | ||
| It became hyper-partisan. | ||
| It was infected with politics and all of this culture war stuff. | ||
| They decided to pursue agenda rather than pursuing art, which really is the death of art. | ||
| When you say, oh, I have to make a political statement instead of making art for art's sake, right? | ||
| If someone was painting, you want them to paint the most beautiful thing that evokes some response in you, not forces you to believe a certain political opinion or something like that. | ||
| Hollywood has largely fallen apart, but there are little glimmers that some good things are happening. | ||
| And I want to start with this video from the SAG Awards a couple days ago. | ||
| That's the Screen Actors Guild Awards. | ||
| And look, generally speaking, I don't really care what... | ||
| What actors say, right? | ||
| Like, they're just people that pretend to do things. | ||
| I don't know if you know this. | ||
| They're just pretending to do these things. | ||
| Tom Hanks was never stuck on that island, unless we're talking about Epstein Island, which maybe I just came up with that one. | ||
| Or he never went to the moon. | ||
| They pretend to do these things. | ||
| And then we're like, oh my God, they're such geniuses. | ||
| The geniuses are the people that actually do these things. | ||
| But in any event, Timothee Chalamet, you know this guy, he was in the Dune movie, movies, I should say. | ||
| and he's in this new Bob Dylan movie. | ||
| He got the award for best actor at the SAG Awards. | ||
| And I just want you to listen to his speech for a moment and I think you'll see why we're kicking off the show with it. | ||
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I can't downplay the significance of this award because it means the most to me. | |
| And I know we're in a subjective business, but the truth is I'm really in pursuit of greatness. | ||
| I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. | ||
| I'm inspired by the greats. | ||
| I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. | ||
| I'm as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Viola Davis, as I am by Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there. | ||
| So I'm deeply grateful to that. | ||
| This doesn't signify that, but it's a little more fuel, it's a little more ammo to keep going. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Okay, so I think you're already seeing why I wanted to start with that. | ||
| Because the pursuit of greatness is good. | ||
| You may not care that much about actors, you may not have seen the Dune movie, and you may not care about Bob Dylan. | ||
| But someone saying, I am doing this because I genuinely want to be the best I can be, the pursuit of perfection, right? | ||
| Like, I want to be the best. | ||
| I want to be Michael Jordan. | ||
| I want to be Michael Phelps. | ||
| I want to be, he says, Daniel Day-Lewis. | ||
| You know, Daniel Day-Lewis is another brilliant actor who you know nothing about his politics. | ||
| I know nothing about Timothee Chalamet's politics either. | ||
| But the idea that merit will mean something, and he even goes out of his way to say, this is a subjective business. | ||
| You know, when all these people, you watch these award shows, and then someone gets best actor, and everyone's like, oh my god, they were the best actor. | ||
| It's like, no, that just means a couple people behind the scenes thought for whatever reason, either because of PR people or for political purposes or whatever, they said that you're the it person right now. | ||
| That's just what it is. | ||
| It's completely subjective, right? | ||
| Two people watch the same movie and think completely different things, and that's just fine. | ||
| And to say this person is that much better. | ||
| Okay, you get it. | ||
| But I really liked the basic point that he was making there. | ||
| This is a subjective thing, but what I am doing is pursuing... | ||
| Excellence. | ||
| And we need more of that in society. | ||
| We need more of merit in society. | ||
| We need people who are like, whatever it is you do, if you're a ditch digger, I'm going to be the best damn ditch digger. | ||
| If you're a janitor, I'm going to be the best damn janitor. | ||
| If you're a shoe salesman or a basketball player or an actor or a rocket scientist, imagine if all of us were like, yes, I'm going to do the best damn work that I can do. | ||
| Actually, that's what I said to the team yesterday in our team meeting. | ||
| We're the best. | ||
| Let's be the best at everything. | ||
| Let's make sure that no one puts on a better show than we do and edits better than we do and makes beautiful content than we do, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| A little more from Timothy Shalvin. | ||
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I give 170% in everything. | |
| I'm doing no but there. | ||
| I'm giving it my all. | ||
| Something like the Dylan Project, these aren't watered-down experiences. | ||
| I'm going Daniel Day-Lewis on all of them. | ||
| I'm not saying in process, but I'm saying in level of commitment. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| It sounds like I'm desperate saying that or something. | ||
| No, it sounds like you're a professional and you want it to be the best it can possibly be. | ||
| Yeah, and increasingly, I don't want to shy away from saying that. | ||
| So the other part, the other reason that I wanted to show that to you is for what he just said right there. | ||
| We feel like we're supposed to be shy about these things. | ||
| If you're pursuing something and you're trying to get to greatness, you should be... | ||
| Like, humble about it and not really tell people and, like, afraid of success in some sense, right? | ||
| Or especially this guy is someone in Hollywood who happens to be, as far as I know, a straight white male. | ||
| And it's like he should be, you know, pushed to the back of that line. | ||
| But he's like, I'm going to be the freaking best. | ||
| And this merit, this merit-based society of people who are relentlessly going to get theirs, despite what everyone will throw at them, and I have no doubt he's had challenges. | ||
| Maybe his challenges aren't great, aren't as great as some other actor, but everyone has their own shit. | ||
| And if you're just like, I'm going to go get it, that's literally how we will fix society. | ||
| And we are in the process of doing it right now. | ||
| So now I want to contrast it with something else. | ||
| Because you guys know this guy, John Oliver. | ||
| I guess he's quote-unquote a comedian. | ||
| A British guy, he's got a weekly show over on HBO, and they do politics, so he is political in nature. | ||
| But what he decided to do with that show was instead of just telling people, here's what's going on in the world, it's called Last Week Tonight, right? | ||
| It's like instead of saying, here's just what happened last week, he decided to make it hyper-partisan, to tell his audience what to think rather than what I do, which is hopefully make you think a little bit. | ||
| And if you think something differently than me, then actually I think that's quite fantastic, to be honest. | ||
| Here he is on 60 Minutes, interviewed by Bill Whitaker. | ||
| And he asks, Bill asks him, like, hey, you know, you've really gone off on Trump and told your people not to vote for him. | ||
| Do you think that's a good idea? | ||
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Last season, you told your viewers, do not vote for Donald Trump. | |
| Absolutely. | ||
| I'm not going to sit here and say that that is not a partisan thing to do, to say don't vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| I think it's good advice. | ||
| But more than... | ||
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77 million people voted for Donald Trump. | |
| Does your show speak to them? | ||
| I really hope it speaks to some of them, yes, because most of those main stories that we're talking about are not actually party political. | ||
| Those are lasting problems that have been there before the last two or three presidents and may well be there after the next two or three. | ||
| If you were to look into your crystal ball, What's next? | ||
| Other than living in the president's gulags in the future, that's what my crystal ball is. | ||
| Yeah, you're not funny, dude. | ||
| Actually, Trump's not going to put you in the gulags. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| You decided to use your show, which is supposed to be an entertainment show, To lecture half of the country about issues that aren't even real, right? | ||
| Like they endlessly go on about systemic racism and they endlessly go on about the founding of the country and capitalism. | ||
| And he's all about the trans BS and all of that stuff. | ||
| So you decided to smash your audience over the head with an agenda rather than truth or just comedy. | ||
| How about just comedy, right? | ||
| And that's why, actually, you're not that relevant. | ||
| But I wanted to start the show with that kind of juxtaposition, that there are people, whether you care about what they do or not. | ||
| I didn't even think Dune was that great. | ||
| I know everybody loved it. | ||
| There was a little, that sound, that sound, and it was kind of droll and long. | ||
| I tried to watch it. | ||
| I've watched Dune literally. | ||
| The two Dunes, I've probably watched them 30 times each, and I've never made it to the end. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| I fall asleep. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| But that's not the point. | ||
| The point is it's cool when you find, we all know this in life, like when you find someone that loves what they do and they're doing it, you don't have to love what they're doing. | ||
| It's inspiring to be around people who are passionate about what they do because that's how you as an individual start bringing value to society and that's how society starts working bottom up. | ||
| We will contrast that with someone who... | ||
| Once worked at the televised mental institution on his MSNBC in just a moment, but first, oh, it's a good idea for an ad here. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| So the big story in the media world is the firing, the MSNBC letting go of racist, lunatic Joy Reid. | ||
| I have Megyn Kelly on the show this afternoon. | ||
| We'll be putting that up on Friday. | ||
| And we're going to have the debate. | ||
| Who was it? | ||
| We're going to finally settle the age-old debate. | ||
| Who has been the most racist person on television? | ||
| Was it Joy Reid or was it Sonny Hostin? | ||
| Stay tuned for that. | ||
| But Joy Reid, who has been fired, she's doing her last couple shows now. | ||
| She was, I believe, I guess this is in her office or maybe it's her home. | ||
| Backstage somewhere, wherever it is, she jumped in front of the camera to tell people about what's going on. | ||
| And Connor, can you do me a favor? | ||
| Can you leave me on camera for this one? | ||
| Because I want the people. | ||
| I've watched this before, but it's rather extraordinary. | ||
| I'm going to lead it for you a little bit here. | ||
| Listen to all of the things she brings up that she got wrong and still thinks she got right. | ||
| Go. | ||
| You know, guilt, you know, that I let my team lose their jobs. | ||
| But in the end, where I really land and where I've landed on today is just gratitude. | ||
| Just pure gratitude. | ||
| So far so good. | ||
| And gratitude not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me, but also that my show had value. | ||
| Starting to go sideways. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| That what I was doing had value. | ||
| Had value. | ||
| And in the end, I'm sorry, I try not to cry on TV. This is kind of like being on TV, so I apologize. | ||
| You're going to be on TV much longer. | ||
| And that it mattered. | ||
| I see Karen is there, and she's been texting me as well. | ||
| And so what I will just say is that in the end, thank you, Where I land is that the moment of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or a dad that was killed. | ||
| When we opened up people's eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks that went hard for immigrants who've done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and tried to make a life and defended them. | ||
| Or whether we've talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that... | ||
| People find inconvenient, you know, that Nicole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country. | ||
| Oh yes, and 1619 was the founding of the country. | ||
| So she's literally listing out all of the issues that she was on the wrong side of. | ||
| That she used her myopic, narrow view of the world to push on to people. | ||
| And then what happened? | ||
| Why is she being fired? | ||
| Now, we'll get more into it in a moment, but of course the subtext is somehow that MSNBC is racist or something. | ||
| The very people who gave her the job, they must be racist or hate women or something because they got rid of her. | ||
| But the proof is in the pudding, lady. | ||
| Nobody was watching your craptastic show. | ||
| It became a meme, right? | ||
| It became a meme because people like me and Megyn Kelly and... | ||
| Shapiro and Bongino and everybody else were playing your clips every day to show how ridiculous you were. | ||
| And yet, for some reason, a giant corporation decided to give you three million bucks a year to spout that nonsense. | ||
| I think we will find out more about why that was as the years go by. | ||
| People might find this a little interesting. | ||
| This is why they want to censor the Internet, because just watch what the Internet people can do. | ||
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There's a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears. | |
| Particularly male white tears. | ||
| Really white tears in general, because that's what carrots are, right? | ||
| They carrot out, and then as soon as they get caught, it's like, green waterworks. | ||
| White men can get away with that, too. | ||
| And it has the same effect. | ||
| My show had value. | ||
| And that... | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| That what I was doing had value. | ||
| And value. | ||
| And in the end, I'm sorry, I try not to cry. | ||
| Life moves at you pretty fast, lady. | ||
| Like, you get it. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| You celebrated white women's tears. | ||
| You celebrated that. | ||
| Women who you judged on the color of their skin, and they cried sometimes because they were overly emotive. | ||
| And look at you. | ||
| You lost it all. | ||
| And you need only a mirror to figure out what's going on here. | ||
| You know, I think I've decided I'd like to start wearing a wig on the show a couple days a week. | ||
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Can we? | |
| Where's? | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
| No wigs? | ||
| Let's find the closest Miami wig shop. | ||
| Oh, do we have a wig around here? | ||
| We have one wig somewhere. | ||
| We'll see what we can do. | ||
| Just a fun idea. | ||
| Who are you watching on any given day? | ||
| Anyway, Joy Reid, as she wraps things up, she managed to go on her show yesterday and, well, tell her bosses that they're racist. | ||
| Joy Reid's show, The Readout, ended tonight. | ||
| And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. | ||
| She is leaving the network altogether. | ||
| And that is very, very, very hard to take. | ||
| I have learned so much from her. | ||
| I have so much more to learn from her. | ||
| I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. | ||
| It is not my call, and I understand that. | ||
| But that's what I think. | ||
| I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got Two, count them, two non-white hosts in primetime. | ||
| Both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Fang on the weekend. | ||
| And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. | ||
| That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. | ||
| Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building, are facing being laid off. | ||
| They're being invited to reapply for new jobs. | ||
| That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it's not the right way to treat people and it's inefficient and it's unnecessary. | ||
| And it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work, and so we don't generally do things that way. | ||
| Yeah, but I'm pretty sure, Rachel, you're going to keep cashing your $25 million a year check. | ||
| I'm pretty sure you're not going to say, you know what, I'll take 24 mil this year and you guys can split that because this evil corporation is so freaking evil. | ||
| By the way, I already blew the tent. | ||
| I can't get the tent on the show because I said that was Joy Reid and not Rachel Maddow. | ||
| But they are interchangeable parts. | ||
| Skin color notwithstanding, it doesn't even matter. | ||
| But do you realize, like, just how absolutely... | ||
| Absolutely absurd, that is. | ||
| Do you think that the people of the network brass over at MSNBC was suddenly like, you know what? | ||
| We've had it. | ||
| We are just not going to have any more black people in primetime. | ||
| We're just over it. | ||
| Or is it that they literally looked at the numbers and they looked at the brand and they were like, this woman, not only is there's an awful lot, I don't know how many people she had on staff and everything else, but they look at a budget. | ||
| And they're like, boy, there's a certain budget for this show. | ||
| She's bringing us all sorts of bad PR because of her crazy thoughts, but we sort of brought her in for that, so maybe we could work with that. | ||
| But at some point, the advertising money and the budget, they don't match up, and it's actually completely irrelevant what skin color she is. | ||
| But I do note, Rachel Maddow, you're very concerned that two non-white hosts have been taken out of primetime over at MSNBC. I know $25 million is pretty good. | ||
| I don't make $25 million a year. | ||
| I'd like to. | ||
| But maybe you want to step down. | ||
| Maybe take your money, cash out, and allow for a black woman, preferably a lesbian, and let's keep it in the lesbian family, and let them have the show. | ||
| But I think you're not going to do that, are you, Rachel Maddow? | ||
| Rachel Maddow, who, by the way... | ||
| Gets $25 million a year, not because she is so great at her job. | ||
| We've played you a million videos of her lying about COVID vaccines and lying about Russia collusion and Jesse Smollett and all those things. | ||
| She gets $25 million a year because she sits there as a perfect progressive propagandist to lie for the regime. | ||
| That's what she does. | ||
| But Rachel, I do mean it. | ||
| I do mean it. | ||
| Let's find a black lesbian who could replace you. | ||
| I mean, just do the right thing. | ||
| Go retire. | ||
| Go do what middle-aged lesbians do if they have money. | ||
| Whatever that might be. | ||
| Start a rugby league. | ||
| Go to rent a U-Haul. | ||
| Go to Home Depot. | ||
| Build things. | ||
| What are you wasting your time for? | ||
| Show us. | ||
| Don't say. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| We'll have more on the other side, guys. | ||
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| We should have a better list of things that middle-aged lesbians do. | ||
| Those were very cliché. | ||
| Where did I send her? | ||
| I sent her to Home Depot to build something. | ||
| And what was the other thing? | ||
| Start a rugby league? | ||
| Like, that's just no need for that, right? | ||
| There's an oversaturation of lesbian rugby leagues, obviously. | ||
| So, Rachel, I leave it to you as what you want to do when you put down the $25 million salary and let a black lesbian take over this primetime slot over at MSNBC. But what this is really about, guys, and why I would connect it to that Timothee Chalamet thing, is there are some people in life that really are good at what they do. | ||
| And again, you don't have to love what they do, but it's awesome being, I love it. | ||
| As an interviewer, I love when I sit down with someone who loves what they do and they can explain why they're doing it and you can feel it around them. | ||
| We all know this when you're around friends and family, when you're around someone who's just in it, right? | ||
| You don't have to love what they do, but they love it. | ||
| And that's awesome. | ||
| That's what life is all about. | ||
| Go get yours. | ||
| The problem is, at all of these organizations, they've hired... | ||
| Sort of middle management nobodies who aren't particularly good or who are propagandists or liars or aren't particularly talented. | ||
| And that's exactly why they get the job in the first place. | ||
| So now let's take this all the way about 3,000 miles from where I am right now to Communist California over to Los Angeles. | ||
| And the mayor of Los Angeles, her name is Karen Bass. | ||
| And of course, Karen Bass, she beat a guy by the name of Rick Caruso, who is a commercial real estate developer who built all sorts of big malls. | ||
| And different commercial real estate holdings in Los Angeles. | ||
| His mall in the Palisades did not burn down in the fires a month or so ago because he had his own fire department there. | ||
| But they chose not to go with him as mayor. | ||
| They went with Karen Bass instead, who was not in town during the fires. | ||
| But she is making the rounds right now to, I guess, further illustrate her general incompetence. | ||
| Here she is with Alex Michelson talking about why she was in Ghana. | ||
| And was there any warning that the fire was coming? | ||
| Other people seem to know, but well, here she is. | ||
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The whole thing starts, there's the decision to go to Ghana. | |
| Which I know you've said was a mistake now. | ||
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But I just am curious on the thought process behind it. | |
| Because we know that there was warnings about the weather before you went, and you still went. | ||
| What was the thought process behind going to Ghana? | ||
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So let me just tell you a couple of things. | |
| First of all, when the White House called and asked me if I would represent the president, I said yes. | ||
| It was going to be a very, very short trip, over a weekend and two business days. | ||
| We need to look at everything about the preparation and all of that for the fires because I think when we evaluate that... | ||
| We will find that although there were warnings that I frankly wasn't aware of, although there were warnings, I think our preparation wasn't what it typically is. | ||
| But what do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware of? | ||
| Because I know we were talking about it on the news. | ||
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A lot of people were talking about the problems, warning that this was going to be a huge deal. | |
| So when I talked about it with the fire chief, what she said is that we have warnings of Santa Ana winds a lot. | ||
| But predicting this, and you saw from the city, from the county, that level of preparation really didn't happen. | ||
| So it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on a trip. | ||
| But to me, I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I think that that's one of the things we need to look at. | ||
| Lady, you gotta be kidding me. | ||
| Not even one clap. | ||
| Can I get one clap for that? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| You gotta be kidding me? | ||
| But you can see, this is an average woman who's not particularly good at her job, and the buck stops with nobody, and somehow she wasn't really aware of the Santa Ana winds. | ||
| And Alex does a really nice job there saying, he's a local L.A. reporter. | ||
| I've known his show many times. | ||
| He's a local guy. | ||
| So he's like, yeah, we were talking about it that weekend. | ||
| But that's sort of just middle management incompetence. | ||
| It's what we are seeing. | ||
| Being uncovered right now with Doge, that there are all of these people across all of the verticals in government that are not particularly good at their job, that are not particularly passionate at what they do like Timothee Chalamet, that don't really deserve the salaries that they're getting in 10th Rachel Maddow, 25 million bucks or anything else. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| We got pretty damn close to electing a woman who was the perfect representative of all of that. | ||
| Do you remember Kamala Harris? | ||
| Well, she's in Los Angeles right now, and she's surveying the wildfire damage. | ||
| And, well, here's Word Salad 101. It goes through your mind when you see this. | ||
| You're here. | ||
| You're now seeing it up close. | ||
| It's not only seeing it, Alex. | ||
| You can smell it. | ||
| You can feel it, right? | ||
| So it's seeing it with our eyes and many people have seen it. | ||
| You all are covering it. | ||
| But to literally be on the ground here, you can smell the smoke that was here. | ||
| You can feel the toxicity, frankly, of the environment. | ||
| You can feel the energy of all of the folks who are still here on the ground. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| That woman could be president right now. | ||
| If Donald Trump's head had not turned a quarter of an inch eight months ago, that woman would be president. | ||
| And she almost became president despite that. | ||
| She can smell it. | ||
| She can see it. | ||
| It's just driveless word salad. | ||
| They will fix nothing. | ||
| They have none of the right people around them. | ||
| Somehow she's going to have some other important government job in the future, people are saying, maybe even governor of California. | ||
| But now let's connect this to more of the media people. | ||
| Because with Joy Reid heading out to pasture, there is Sonny Hostin. | ||
| And in my debate with Megyn Kelly, my position is that Sonny is the most racist person on television. | ||
| I've now won that by default because Joy will no longer be on television, but Megyn and I will work that out. | ||
| But here they are talking about wokeness, and Anna Navarro is going to chime in, and notice where they aim. | ||
| Notice where they aim, and notice how it is never where the problem really is. | ||
| I was going to say enjoy, but that's kind of not possible. | ||
| Well, here's a clip of the view. | ||
| I thought about the conversations you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word woke and the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word. | ||
| To be woke is a word that came out of the African-American community, and it was about acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people's suffering. | ||
| It is not a bad thing. | ||
| To care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it. | ||
| And so it angers me when people are like, this woke stuff. | ||
| It's gotta go. | ||
| That's telling me that you don't care about my lived experience. | ||
| You don't care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community. | ||
| You don't care about the oppression of the disabled. | ||
| You don't care about the oppression of immigrants. | ||
| You don't care about your fellow neighbor. | ||
| And that is ungodly. | ||
| That is not Christian. | ||
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The ironic thing is, they don't care about it and they don't care about it while wearing big fat crosses around their necks. | |
| Yes, yes. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| I think we always have to remember that all things that make people uncomfortable would be called woke. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| There have not been changes made in this country that were made without people being woke. | ||
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That is a bag of... | |
| No, I'll just look. | ||
| I'm going to control myself here for a moment. | ||
| So you know how I said it when I was leading in on that, that they're always aiming the wrong way. | ||
| Now, first off, if you told me when you talk about inequities, if you said, oh, there's a certain person in the United States because of the color of their skin or some other immutable characteristic, there are laws against that person. | ||
| They cannot... | ||
| Participate in society fully in an equal way because of some immutable characteristic. | ||
| Well, then I would be on your side. | ||
| But we have taken all of that stuff out. | ||
| There is no one who is discriminated against based on some sort of immutable characteristic. | ||
| You think it's ungodly that parents of 15-year-old girls don't want their heads crushed in by boys in wrestling? | ||
| That's ungodly. | ||
| And the fact that they make this about Christians is the lowest hanging fruit you can possibly do. | ||
| You know, it's very funny. | ||
| You're very concerned, Sonny, about the oppression of the LGBT people, the oppression of the gays. | ||
| Interestingly, Sonny, and you're going after the Christians, do me a favor, Sonny. | ||
| Could you Google how many mosques in the United States perform gay weddings? | ||
| How many trans people are showing up to mosques and like, I want to pray for Allah. | ||
| Could you look into that? | ||
| How come you made it about, oh, you made it about the Christians because that's the easiest fucking thing to do in the world, you freak. | ||
| That's what you did. | ||
| And we all get it. | ||
| And we all see it. | ||
| And you people have nothing. | ||
| And then whoopee at the end, implying that America hasn't progressed more towards freedom. | ||
| You dingbats are the ones that are ruining the basic liberal, in the good sense of the word, liberal principles that this country was founded upon. | ||
| You are ushering in. | ||
| A hysterical authoritarian set of ideas. | ||
| I don't like you very much, and that's all I have to say about that. | ||
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| All right, so let's go across the pond. | ||
| Obviously, you guys know I was in Britain last week, and I was at the ARC conference in London, did my Oxford Union debate, which we did win in the name of free speech. | ||
| That'll be up on the channel in a week or so. | ||
| And there's some interesting things happening all across Europe, but particularly, I would say, in Britain, because they have massive problems as it pertains to immigration. | ||
| They have let in millions of people who have different cultures, different behaviors. | ||
| It pertains to minorities and women and gays, etc., etc. | ||
| And now they have violence on the street and they have stabbings and they have jihad rallies and people calling for their country to be destroyed. | ||
| And there's just a general, I would put it this way, there was a general feeling when I was walking around London of like, what is this place anymore? | ||
| You see a lot of old buildings. | ||
| You see the palace. | ||
| Oh, the king, he lives over there. | ||
| You see that stuff and that's kind of cool. | ||
| And then you go over there and it's clearly something else going on. | ||
| And I don't think Britain really knows what it is right now. | ||
| We were kind of heading in that direction from an American perspective. | ||
| I think a lot of Europe is dealing with that. | ||
| Well, I was at a dinner last week with a couple of people that have been on the show. | ||
| I won't mention their names at the moment. | ||
| And we were talking about how one of the huge problems that Britain has is that people are being arrested for memes. | ||
| There are moms and grandmas that post something against the government or they say something about Islam or whatever it might be, and literally the police are showing up to their doors. | ||
| This is happening in the UK. Fact. | ||
| Meanwhile, you can have massive rallies calling for jihad and killing all the Jews and overthrowing London, and the police will actually protect you for that. | ||
| Well, check out this video. | ||
| This is from a couple weeks ago. | ||
| This is the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. | ||
| And Sadiq Khan, I would say, is a wolf in sheep's clothing. | ||
| He comes in as a good progressive. | ||
| But what are his real allegiances to? | ||
| Well, I would say it's deeply connected to everything I just watched there. | ||
| And listen to the thin ideas that he promotes. | ||
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But here's the really important point of my short remarks. | |
| Yes, we celebrate our diversity. | ||
| And in Islam, we are a very, very diverse religion. | ||
| But there are some people who think diversity is not a strength and is a weakness. | ||
| They think diversity shouldn't be celebrated, it should be denigrated. | ||
| They try and pit Muslims versus Hindus. | ||
| They try and pit those from London versus those from other parts of the country. | ||
| They try and pit those who are older versus those who are younger. | ||
| And as the general election approaches, they will try and make these culture wars bigger and bigger. | ||
| And we've got to say no. | ||
| We've got to say we're going to build bridges and we're not going to build walls. | ||
| We're going to show them that Islam celebrates diversity. | ||
| What job is it that you're going for? | ||
| Are you trying to be the Grand Mufti of London? | ||
| Are you trying to be the mayor of London? | ||
| Someone can explain to me where Islam celebrates diversity. | ||
| Islam is a set of ideas, and people who are Muslim can practice it, I would say, as they wish, as long as they don't. | ||
| Push their ideas and subjugate other people, which actually they do have a history of doing. | ||
| But I would say you can be Muslim in London and that's just fine. | ||
| But why is he lying about that? | ||
| Where is the diversity in Islam? | ||
| Where is that? | ||
| And what job is he going for? | ||
| Does that sound like he should be the mayor of London? | ||
| Or should he be an imam at a local mosque? | ||
| Right? | ||
| And also then, of course, the reason I'm showing you this is that he then connects it to a word that we hear. | ||
| Hear all the time, or a phrase that we hear all the time, which is diversity is our strength, which is utterly meaningless. | ||
| Is diversity nice? | ||
| Is it nice if you have a bunch of people from different places, and they kind of dress a little bit differently, and they might have different accents, and they have different foods, and listen to different music, and if you got them all together and they could kind of talk and have fun, well, that's kind of nice, I suppose. | ||
| It's up to you if you like that kind of thing or not. | ||
| If you don't, by the way, it doesn't make you racist necessarily. | ||
| There are different variances in cultures and people and groups are different and things of that nature. | ||
| But it's not your strength. | ||
| There's nothing strong about diversity in and of itself, right? | ||
| But they give you this very thin idea. | ||
| So diversity is our strength. | ||
| And then Islam is somehow this diverse religion. | ||
| It's utter, utter nonsense. | ||
| But they've ushered in diversity in the UK. And then what do you get? | ||
| Well, you get this. | ||
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We are the people! | |
| We want to be silent! | ||
| Stop the bombing now, now, now, now! | ||
| We are the people! | ||
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Fuck the Jews, rape their daughters. | |
| Diversity is our strength. | ||
| Interestingly, the guy who was yelling that, well, the Crown Prosecution Service, CPS, in London has dropped all charges against him for talking about raping the Jewish girls and killing all the Jews. | ||
| But diversity is your strength over there, London, right? | ||
| Right, right? | ||
| It is. | ||
| It's got to be. | ||
| That's what that guy said. | ||
| Now, interestingly, there are places in the world where people are not putting up with this drivel. | ||
| Thank God Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and we are dealing with our deportations and our border, and we're doing it maturely and everything else. | ||
| Most of Western Europe is really struggling with this. | ||
| Eastern or sort of Central Europe, like Poland and Hungary, they're dealing with their own borders, and they're making sure people that want to destroy their societies aren't there. | ||
| Diversity is our strength. | ||
| Imagine going to one of those Hamas rallies and being like, even if you literally walked into a Hamas rally and was just like, you know, I'm for the Gazans, but I don't like Hamas. | ||
| You think they'll like that kind of diversity of thought over there? | ||
| No, they wouldn't even be for that. | ||
| But it's not everywhere. | ||
| There are actual Arab countries, like the United Arab Emirates, the UAE, and several others, that are making sure that the jihadist types are not allowed to practice that nonsense in their countries. | ||
| But for some reason, Western Europe is just falling on the sword. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is on British television. | ||
| This is journalist Amjad Taja. | ||
| He is from the UAE, right? | ||
| From the UAE and talking about why in Dubai they don't put up with this BS, but for some reason they do in London. | ||
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I've listened to some of the comments you've made. | |
| Why is it that you believe there are more radical Islamists in a place like Britain than there is in your own country? | ||
| The question is, why is it that when a Muslim lives in Dubai, he's more liberal, but when a Muslim lives in London, he's more extremist? | ||
| Why is it that you have the fact that if an Orthodox Jew after the 7th of October still wanted to walk in the street of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, anywhere in the UAE after the 7th of October, he actually identified himself as a Jew? | ||
| And where is his Kippah or Orthodox identity? | ||
| Yet he cannot do that in various areas in Birmingham, for example, in Small Heath, in Spockbrook, in various areas in the UK. This should be questioned. | ||
| It's not a matter of freedom of speech. | ||
| It's the fact that people in Britain have reached a moment where they cannot express their perspective, their opinion. | ||
| At any stage, at any point, in the name of the fact that they censor them under the umbrella of Islamophobia. | ||
| Various generation, a new generation, who are hostages of that propaganda, of Hamas propaganda, the Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda. | ||
| It's quite dangerous. | ||
| It's devastating, and it's quite a dark time. | ||
| I mean, to the point, when you speak to a British person at this stage, at this point, they always... | ||
| Look at yesterday and they don't tell you about tomorrow. | ||
| They're scared of tomorrow. | ||
| When they want to look into the light, they look at yesterday, not today. | ||
| And this is Britain, where Britain's message was always tomorrow. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I mean, that's chilling. | ||
| That is chilling. | ||
| And I can tell you that is true. | ||
| I talked to an awful lot of people when I was over there just last week. | ||
| And everyone, that idea of talking about yesterday, not tomorrow. | ||
| Because they're really afraid of what tomorrow might bring. | ||
| They are losing their country and they're losing it fast and they don't know what to do. | ||
| I had Carl Benjamin on. | ||
| The video's up right now. | ||
| You can check it out on YouTube at Rumble. | ||
| And Carl Benjamin has been at the forefront of talking about these sort of cultural rot issues and immigration and all of this stuff from a British perspective for many, many years. | ||
| And I asked him, I said, well, where are the good people in the UK willing to step up? | ||
| And he said, actually, if you want to find like an old school British guy. | ||
| Well, if we have our white working class, basically, who are all told that they're racist, and then you have to just go to a pub. | ||
| Go to a pub in the afternoon, and most of them are drinking. | ||
| That's pretty much it. | ||
| There's just nobody left. | ||
| We don't have the spirit, and this is connected to the top of the show. | ||
| What was the spirit that Timothee Chalamet was talking about? | ||
| He's going to be the best at what he does and relentlessly fight for it. | ||
| And yet in Western societies, we don't have enough of those. | ||
| To connect it to yesterday's closing of the show, what J.D. Vance said, we don't have enough of young men willing to stand up for their countries and their families and their values and all of those things. | ||
| But fortunately in America, you know who we have? | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| You've seen what happened when Europe opened their doors to jihad. | ||
| Look at Paris. | ||
| Look at London. | ||
| They're no longer recognizable. | ||
| And I'm going to get myself into a lot of trouble with the folks in Paris and the folks in London. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| That's the fact. | ||
| They are no longer recognizable, and we can't let that happen to our country. | ||
| We have incredible culture, tradition. | ||
| Nothing wrong with their culture, their tradition. | ||
| We can't let that happen here, and I'll never let it happen to the United States of America. | ||
| Yeah, and that's the guy who, for the last decade, basically, the entire machine said was racist. | ||
| But there is nothing wrong about being a Frenchman and believing that France should uphold its... | ||
| Hundreds of years of true liberal tradition, liberty, libertad, has a little something to do with France. | ||
| There's nothing wrong with being in the UK and being proud of your history and everything else. | ||
| There's nothing wrong with having borders and making sure that people who come in aren't there to destroy your country. | ||
| And there's also, go back to the journalist we showed you on British TV a couple moments ago from UAE. It's like, why don't they tolerate that bullshit in... | ||
| Some of those Arab countries, which are now flourishing, by the way, because they put this nonsense down. | ||
| Meanwhile, in places like Britain, in places like France, in places like Germany, they have imported a cancer that is taking their society out from the inside. | ||
| Inside, here is Berlin. F.U. Germany, F.U. Germany. | ||
| As you're still in Germany, you never leave Germany and you seem to want more of those types of people to come into Germany. | ||
| You would think if it was so terrible, people would be leaving. | ||
| It's kind of like America, right? | ||
| The progressives. | ||
| Ah, we were founded in 1619. The whole thing is systemically racist. | ||
| Please come here and enjoy the show. | ||
| It's so horrible. | ||
| Gadsad saw that video and he tweeted this. | ||
| Imagine chanting this stuff when Germany has opened its doors to you to grant you a better life. | ||
| I think the larger... | ||
| The larger sort of picture or prism around that that we should start, people really need to understand, is that none of this actually has anything to do with Israel at this point. | ||
| The Palestinian movement, because Palestine never existed and the Palestinian people never existed and everything else, all it is is a movement to destroy these countries from within, right? | ||
| They don't give a flying F about the Gazans or anything else. | ||
| They never do anything to help them. | ||
| You can't, if you were in Germany, it's very rare that you could be running around screaming FU Germany every day. | ||
| You have to usually mask it in some sort of Gazan thing. | ||
| The people in London that are out there with coffins celebrating Hamas, they have to mask it. | ||
| Oh, it's about Israel, but it's really about how would you take the UK down, right? | ||
| But you can't just be screaming, we want to take the UK down. | ||
| It's all too damn obvious. | ||
| I hope you guys can see that at this point. | ||
| And now if you want to see this, and again, I'm trying to compare and contrast all of this to the strengths of the United States right now versus what is happening. | ||
| All over Europe right now, which is deeply, deeply depressing. | ||
| It just is. | ||
| CBS here followed German police as they did a raid on a citizen who had the gall, the absolute gall to post a meme online. | ||
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It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning. | |
| And we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. | ||
| Inside, six armed officers searched a suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. | ||
| Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime. | ||
| The crime? | ||
| Posting a racist cartoon online. | ||
| At the exact same time across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out. | ||
| Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany. | ||
| I mean, if you don't realize how dystopian and evil that is, I don't know what to tell you. | ||
| We just showed you a video of people screaming FU Germany that would love to destroy Germany. | ||
| And Germany, because of their extremely complex history, has a serious problem. | ||
| I would say with, in some cases, unearned guilt. | ||
| You're not guilty of what your parents or grandparents or ancestors did. | ||
| And they are falling on the sword of diversity and tolerance. | ||
| So they are arresting people for putting up racist memes, whatever that might be, while they literally have people in the streets calling for the destruction of their state. | ||
| Now, interestingly, Germany had an election. | ||
| We don't talk about Germany that much. | ||
| We talk about the UK a little bit more. | ||
| We talk about France a bit more. | ||
| We don't talk about Germany that much. | ||
| They had an election this week, and we've got some info here from AP News. | ||
| The opposition conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, won a lackluster victory in Germany's election Sunday. | ||
| An alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest showing for a far-right party. | ||
| You can see what the AP is doing there. | ||
| Since World War II, projections showed Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called a bitter election result. | ||
| Projections for ARD and ZDF public television showed his party finishing third with its post-war result in national parliamentary election. | ||
| The campaign was dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe's biggest economy and pressure to curb migration, something that caused friction after MERS pushed hard in recent weeks for a tougher approach. | ||
| It took place against a background of growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe's alliance. | ||
| With the United States. | ||
| So what happened here, they're calling them far right, but the AFD is the party that doubled its numbers, basically. | ||
| They were thought of as the real right-wing party. | ||
| The conservatives did win. | ||
| Do we have a picture of the, I think we have a picture of the leader of the far right. | ||
| So this is the leader of the far right, what we're told is the racist party of Germany. | ||
| That's her right there. | ||
| She is the blonde white woman. | ||
| And hot damn. | ||
| Who's that woman next to her? | ||
| That's her wife. | ||
| Yes, she's a lesbian married to a Sri Lankan woman, and she's the racist. | ||
| The lesbian Sri Lankan going down lesbo is the bad guy in this thing. | ||
| But now get this. | ||
| So, okay, so the conservatives win. | ||
| And the conservatives in Germany are a bit like the conservatives generally in Canada, where they're just like a little less worse than the liberals. | ||
| They're just not that great. | ||
| But now check this out from Frederick Murs, who is the leader of the conservatives who just won. | ||
| He wrote, "There will be a de facto ban on entry into the Federal Republic of Germany for all those who don't have valid entry documents or who make use of the European freedom of movement." You're hearing that going, oh, he's going to take care of his borders. | ||
| That was a couple of days ago. | ||
| What did he say yesterday? | ||
| We translated this via AI. Take a look. | ||
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None of us is talking about closing the borders. | |
| No one, although that was claimed at times during the election campaign, none of us wants to close the borders. | ||
| So do you get it? | ||
| Do you sort of get what, like, when people talk about the Uniparty and all of these, like, fake, you know, we have rhinos here, and it's basically the same thing there. | ||
| So when this guy was running, we're going to close the borders, we're going to do all that. | ||
| Now he comes in, and by the way, he's not forming a coalition. | ||
| With that lesbian and her Sri Lankan lover, he's forming a coalition with the Social Democrats, basically with the socialists. | ||
| So Germany is really, really, really screwed. | ||
| And when Germany is screwed, bad things can happen. | ||
| So we will have to keep an eye on that one. | ||
| But what else is happening on these shores? | ||
| Let's come back to America for just a moment, Phoenix. | ||
| Can you scroll up for me? | ||
| As you know, yesterday, or over the last couple days, Elon encouraged the Doge people to send out an email to ask federal workers what they do. | ||
| What is it you people do for a living? | ||
| I believe we have an image of the email that was sent, and you saw that yesterday, the title of the email. | ||
| What did you do last week? | ||
| Seems fair to ask. | ||
| Please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and copy your manager. | ||
| Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. | ||
| So this very simple thing, an employer asking his employees, in this case the federal government, what is it that you do at work that we pay you for? | ||
| This has caused a firestorm like you would not believe. | ||
| CNN brought a federal worker on who is very upset that they are going to have to explain what it is that they do. | ||
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First, just tell us about this email and what it was like receiving it and what you all have talked about after getting it. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I got this email Saturday afternoon about 3 p.m. | ||
| and I felt absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand within 48 hours to provide a response on what I did within the last week or face termination. | ||
| This is clearly an attempt from Elon Musk to harass and bully and intimidate the federal workforce, which is part of his broader plan to gut the federal workforce and privatize public sector services to ensure that corporations like his own can get more profit. | ||
| And that makes me really angry. | ||
| My co-workers as well. | ||
| I don't know who that lady is, but I just want to say I hope you get fired. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| Asking what someone does for the job is not some sort of threat or anything else. | ||
| Lady, if you would respond and say, well, you asked for five things, I can bullet them all out here, and here's what I do, you're probably not going to get fired if those things have value. | ||
| Now, if they do, you probably shouldn't have that job. | ||
| And is it possible that we could privatize some of this so there would be some competition in the system so we could do things more efficiently? | ||
| I'm fairly certain we could. | ||
| I'm going to try something I did yesterday. | ||
| Just out of the blue, I'm going to ask you guys once again, name one thing you did last week, and you cannot say what you said last week. | ||
| I'll start this way. | ||
| Joseph, what did you do last week? | ||
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Arranged comedy venues for you for the summer. | |
| You arranged comedy venues for the summer. | ||
| Sounds like a Rubin Report comedy tour may be coming. | ||
| Phoenix, what did you do last week? | ||
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Booked guests for you. | |
| Booked guests for me. | ||
| Connor, what did you do last week? | ||
| Screened interviews. | ||
| You screened interviews. | ||
| You see these wizards that I keep with me at all times, okay? | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Just like that. | ||
| They know what they did last week. | ||
| My God. | ||
| Everyone's getting guacamole today. | ||
| Brian Stelter, a potato-like man who was fired for CNN for being a joke and then got rehired because they thought, okay, at least bring the joke guy back because people talk about him. | ||
| He is very upset that people will have to tell other people what they do for a living. | ||
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It makes a lot of sense, in theory, to go and ask all the employees what they're doing, right? | |
| Elon Musk would say that's common sense. | ||
| He did this to the then-CEO of Twitter before forcing out the CEO of Twitter and taking over Twitter a couple years ago. | ||
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And I think we should recognize, to a lot of Americans, this makes perfect sense, right? | |
| Tell us what you did last week. | ||
| What are your accomplishments? | ||
| Lots of people are used to doing that in their jobs. | ||
| Of course, it gets really complicated really quickly. | ||
| When you're dealing with classified information, or if you're not checking your work email over the weekend. | ||
| So I understand it's not the common sense that he claims it is, but I think we should understand why this appeals to people, why the memes appeal to a lot of people, right? | ||
| It's actually nonsense, but it sounds like... | ||
| Jelly-filled bucktard. | ||
| Yes, they went out of their way to say... | ||
| They went out of their way to say, don't put classified information in there, obviously. | ||
| They may not check their email on the weekend. | ||
| Okay, that's fair, which is why they gave them 48 hours on an email that they sent on Sunday. | ||
| That would give you a little window. | ||
| To check their email. | ||
| What they're concerned about is that there are probably thousands of employees who never check their emails, who actually don't do anything. | ||
| And the fact that you people are defending this is completely insane. | ||
| But let's go over to corporate comedian and hack sellout Stephen Colbert, who also gets an awful lot of money to, you know, basically live in service of the machine. | ||
| Going after, it's Elon. | ||
| Elon's the bad guy for asking people who you pay, by the way. | ||
| It's your money that these people are stealing. | ||
| But who's the bad guy here? | ||
| It's Elon for asking what they do. | ||
| Our federal workforce is in the clutches of a heartless billionaire who wants to colonize Mars with vehicles shaped like his penis. | ||
| By which I mean cyber trucks. | ||
| He should see a doctor. | ||
| This weekend, Field Marshal Musk sent a mass email to every single federal worker. | ||
| Subject line, what did you do last week? | ||
| Instructing them all to reply with approximately five bullets of what they accomplished last week, he followed up by tweeting, failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. | ||
| Now, obviously, the only proper email response to that is, what did I do last week? | ||
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Your mom, your mom, your mom, your mom. | |
| That was comedy, right? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's unclear whether that was comedy. | ||
| We're not sure. | ||
| But you get it. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| You get why I started the show with that video of Timothee Chalamet? | ||
| Somebody out there that wants to be the best at what they do. | ||
| If you want to be the best at what you do, and let's go out on a limb here. | ||
| I am not attacking every federal worker. | ||
| there are obviously good people. | ||
| I don't know how many people who really want to be the best of the best want to work for the federal government until now, where great people are getting involved in this thing as we're uncovering so much of this fraud and waste and criminal abuse and everything else. | ||
| But if you're even ballparking like, oh, I'm a functional person who I want value in the work that I do. | ||
| And I want to do something decent. | ||
| If your boss asks you what you did, there's nothing There's nothing wrong about that. | ||
| There's nothing criminal about that or anything else. | ||
| It's literally the lowest possible bar that could be set for you as someone that has a job. | ||
| Again, if I turn to one of these guys, what did you do last week? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Or if they were like, I'm not going to answer that. | ||
| You gotta go home. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
| Not because I'm a dick, but you get it. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| Now, interestingly, what's happening, as the machine goes crazy, while we try to just get basic transparency and competency in government, we, the people, the one who are paying the bills for all the people that aren't really working, we are going through a massive, massive reshaping of America's voter base, and they're even acknowledging that on CNN. Donald Trump and the Republican Party has changed the electorate. | ||
| What do I mean by that? | ||
| Well, let's take a look at party identification, Democrats versus Republicans. | ||
| You go back to 2017, five points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans. | ||
| You go to 2021 when Joe Biden was starting out, look at that. | ||
| Six points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans. | ||
| But look at what's happened in February of 2025. Look at this. | ||
| Republicans. | ||
| There are more Republicans in the electorate than there are Democrats. | ||
| Republican plus two. | ||
| So Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate. | ||
| They've turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans. | ||
| New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican-leaning. | ||
| And so when you combine that with the fact that Republicans are really, really behind Donald Trump... | ||
| All of a sudden you get a winning recipe whereby you break the normal rules of politics and give Donald Trump that positive net approval rating when he had pretty much a consistently negative one in term number one. | ||
| As I said at the beginning, he's copying Frank Sinatra, doing it my way. | ||
| Great song, by the way. | ||
| I think it's my favorite Sinatra song. | ||
| Well, that's it. | ||
| Donald Trump came in, and because Donald Trump said, let's make America great again, what Trumpism represents is Americanism. | ||
| It represents individualism. | ||
| It represents capitalism. | ||
| It's not purely ideologically conservative. | ||
| So what it has done is now created this incredibly wide tent. | ||
| And of course, that's to the backdrop of... | ||
| A Democrat party that has gone off the deep end. | ||
| They decided we are going to judge all of you based on these characteristics, thus purging out all of the individual thinkers. | ||
| All the individual thinkers came over to the Republicans. | ||
| They said, oh, we can agree to disagree on some things. | ||
| I'm Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| I got Kennedy in my last name. | ||
| I'm going to work with you, Donald Trump, because I want to stop poisoning the kids with the Captain Crunch. | ||
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And Trump said, let's do it. | |
| So what are the Democrats left with? | ||
| Well, not much. | ||
| They have a bench that is so thin, it's thinner than, it's thinner than a, it's thinner than, who is that? | ||
| It's thinner than Kate Moss at an Ozempic rally. | ||
| That reference, probably, maybe two people got that, but it kind of worked, I think. | ||
| Well, what do they got? | ||
| Well, who do they have left? | ||
| Well, they've got Pete Buttigieg. | ||
| And you know Pete. | ||
| He was our transportation secretary because he's gay. | ||
| So they said, you're in charge of trains. | ||
| And here he is now. | ||
| He realizes that the ground is shaking, that the culture is shifting, and that they better run away from that thing because it ain't working. | ||
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A little bit of that event you described, and it was a caricature of everything that is wrong with our ability both to cohere as a party and to reach to those who don't always agree with us. | |
| And we cannot go on like that. | ||
| We cannot. | ||
| I also think that we believe in the values that we care about for a reason. | ||
| And this is not about abandoning those values. | ||
| It's about making sure we're in touch with the first principles that animate them. | ||
| What do we mean when we talk about diversity? | ||
| Is it caring for people's different experiences and making sure no one's mistreated because of them, which I will always fight for? | ||
| Or is it making... | ||
| People sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced, and it is how Trump Republicans are made, if that comes to your workplace, with the best of intentions, but doesn't actually get at what actually matters here, what's actually at stake. | ||
| I think, and this might sound counterintuitive, if we were more serious about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project, I think if we thought about it a little bit differently... | ||
| Things like diversity would be actually an example of how we reach out beyond our traditional coalition. | ||
| And what I mean by that is the opposite of diversity is uniformity. | ||
| And if there's one thing I really respect about principled conservatives, even if I don't always agree with them, is that they have a horror of anything that has a whiff of being pressed into conformity by government or by society. | ||
| So I would like to appeal to people who, whether it's because of a conservative or libertarian instinct or a more progressive instinct, or I would say just an American belief that part of the point of living in a country like this is you don't have to conform to what other people demand of you. | ||
| It's kind of funny, Pete, because you're actually kind of talking some sense there now that you see that the worm has turned and the culture has shifted. | ||
| But why didn't you say any of that for the last couple years? | ||
| Oh, because you benefited from it, right? | ||
| You were the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had absolutely no expertise when it came to transportation. | ||
| But because of your sexuality, got a job. | ||
| That is just true. | ||
| Now you are realizing that this shit does not work, that nobody wants anything to do with it, and you're kind of shifting these people a little bit. | ||
| Now the question will be, what will the Democrats do? | ||
| Will they try to burn down people like you now because you're just a white gay guy and that's not going to hold much longer for their intersectional oppression Olympics? | ||
| Or will they kind of shift back and maybe... | ||
| Take you and be the mantle for what the Democrats are. | ||
| I don't think it matters either way because what I want is just a wide tent Republican Party and let this thing continue to burn. | ||
| RedheadedLibertarian on Twitter saw that video and I thought laid it out quite cleanly. | ||
| Pete Buttigieg was deemed qualified for transportation secretary and confirmed because he loves trains. | ||
| And gay, and that's important. | ||
| Had key supply chain bridges suspiciously crumble into the sea on his watch. | ||
| Had planes falling out of the sky. | ||
| Ordered civilian volunteers blocked from locating victims of Hurricane Helene. | ||
| Oversaw numerous train derailments. | ||
| Oversaw the disastrous East Palestine response. | ||
| Oversaw crippling supply chain mismanagement. | ||
| And finally, he courted libertarian voters using Dick Cheney. | ||
| So the point here is, is that some of the Democrats will pretend that they had nothing to do with the thing that we now all see, right? | ||
| It's why Pete took his... | ||
| Pronouns out of his bio. | ||
| It's why even a freaking OC took the pronouns out of her bio. | ||
| If they had believed any of that, and now they thought Trump was really coming for all the he, him, she, her, zzers, they would be putting more pronouns in their bio. | ||
| But they're abandoning the shitty set of ideas because they were just a shitty set of ideas that they used as a hammer to bash us over the head. | ||
| Now, interestingly, you're not going to believe that I'm going to take this position. | ||
| I believe that black people and gay people often are qualified to do different jobs. | ||
| And when they're qualified, they should be treated equally as anyone else. | ||
| And not given the job because of their skin color or because who they sleep with, but because they're qualified. | ||
| We've got a guy by the name of Scott Bessent right now. | ||
| He is running some things as it pertains to the economy. | ||
| He happens to be a homosexual, yet seems to know what he's doing. | ||
| Pretty, pretty good. | ||
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You're also the highest ranking gay member of the cabinet. | |
| Is there history there? | ||
| Well, I think I'm actually the highest ranking openly gay official in U.S. history. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| U.S. history. | ||
| But what's important to me is it's coincident, not causal. | ||
| President Trump, I believe, picked me because he believed I was the best person for the job, not because... | ||
| People with green eyes are better treasurer's secretaries, not because of sexual preference. | ||
| It's a different way of looking at the world. | ||
| Basically, it's what you've been talking about. | ||
| Merit-based. | ||
| And we were talking about the history. | ||
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It's a merit-based thing. | |
| Yeah, look, President Trump, I think, is a symbol of one of the greatest, maybe the greatest cabinet of all time. | ||
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And we're here to help him push through his agenda. | |
| And central to his agenda is the economy and national security. | ||
| And a lot of that goes on in this building. | ||
| So that is the new Secretary of the Treasury. | ||
| And do you think he got the job because he sleeps with dudes? | ||
| Do you think Donald Trump was like, you know what? | ||
| The economy is really important. | ||
| Find me a homosexual who can carry the one. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think actually it was because Scott Besson has been an investor for decades, a hedge fund manager, knows a little something about math and the economy, and he got the job. | ||
| And as he laid out right there... | ||
| Who he sleeps with, how he lives his life privately is utterly irrelevant. | ||
| But that is the reverse of what these ding-dongs have been pushing on us for a long time. | ||
| I don't know exactly what the connection to all of this is. | ||
| To this next segue, well, I sort of do. | ||
| One of the people, actually, who has been, I would say, hacking away at the bad ideas of identity politics forever and doing it at a very high level is Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| Vivek ran for president and was up there every day, I would say, attacking the woke in probably the most effective way, certainly as a candidate. | ||
| He then was going to do Doge with Elon. | ||
| There was a little bit of fight about that H-1B visa thing, so he's out of the administration. | ||
| It's a little unclear if that's fully why he's out. | ||
| But yesterday, he announced he will be running for governor of Ohio. | ||
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I am honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio. | |
| President Trump is reviving our conviction in America. | ||
| We require a leader here at home who will revive our conviction in Ohio. | ||
| And that is why today I am honored to announce that I am running to be the next governor of a great state at the heart of the greatest nation known to mankind. | ||
| The state where I was born and raised. | ||
| The state where Apoorva and I raise our two sons today. | ||
| A state whose best days are still ahead. | ||
| I am honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio. | ||
| I will lead Ohio to be the top state in the country where we give our kids the toolkit to think of themselves not as victims, but as victors in a competitive global economy. | ||
| We will lead Ohio to be the top state in the country. | ||
| Where we embrace capitalism and meritocracy instead of apologizing for it. | ||
| I will lead Ohio to be the state of excellence in America. | ||
| What has been the point of today's show, guys? | ||
| I think you got it. | ||
| The point is that capitalism, meritocracy, fighting for what's yours, going and getting something, not just being a cog in the machine who can't... | ||
| Send an email saying what you did last week, not just saying meaningless slogans like diversity is our strength and all of this other nonsense. | ||
| That's not going to get us anywhere. | ||
| Actually, it almost got us to the end of the United States of America. | ||
| How about we do something else, like pursue greatness? | ||
| Timothy Chalamet, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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I can't downplay the significance of this award because it means the most to me. | |
| And I know we're in a subjective business, but the truth is... | ||
| I'm really in pursuit of greatness. | ||
| I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. | ||
| I'm inspired by the greats. | ||
| I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. | ||
| I'm as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there. | ||
| So I'm deeply grateful to that. | ||
| This doesn't signify that, but it's a little more fuel. | ||
| It's a little more ammo to keep going. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| I didn't even think Dune was that good. | ||
| That, ladies and gentlemen, is our program for today. | ||
| I thank you for watching. | ||
| We've got a post-game show coming up in moments. | ||
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