May 6, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Take on the oligogs. | |
| All right, everybody. | ||
| How you doing? | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It is May 6th, 2025. | ||
| We are live streaming on Rumble, on YouTube, on Locals. | ||
| I know you've shared. | ||
| I know you've subscribed. | ||
| And you absolutely have clicked that notification bell. | ||
| So I got nothing for you. | ||
| There is no post-game show today, however, because you may... | ||
| Be noticing as you're watching this right now. | ||
| This is a pre-taped episode because tonight I am the keynote speaker at the Media and Democracy Summit, believe it or not, at the Biden School of Public Policy at the University of Delaware. | ||
| I don't know if it's a setup and they're just trying to assassinate me or what, but I was invited. | ||
| I'm going. | ||
| We're going to talk about free speech, new media. | ||
| And all of that stuff. | ||
| And then I have a private event tomorrow. | ||
| So the rest of the week is pre-taped interviews that I've done that I think you're really, really going to dig. | ||
| I'm not going to give away too much at the moment. | ||
| And then we will, assuming I'm not assassinated, we will post the video of the University of Delaware event. | ||
| We're going to catch you up on a couple things that I've wanted to hit over the last couple days. | ||
| And then we've got a rubenreport.locals.com community Q&A. | ||
| On the other side, we're going to start with just the craziness. | ||
| It's an extension. | ||
| We'll get to some, let's say, less than compelling arguments from Democrats as to why you should vote for them. | ||
| The massive cover-up that finally is being exposed around Joe Biden's cognitive abilities. | ||
| A little bit of Hamas stuff, a little bit of George Soros, and then Dave Portnoy will bring us home from Barstool Sports. | ||
| But let's start with... | ||
| With my buddy Stephen A. Because if you want to understand how banged up the Democrats are right now, amongst a certain circle of internet people, Stephen A. Smith, who has been a phenomenal... | ||
| Sports broadcaster for probably almost three decades at this point. | ||
| I mean, he is one of the best, whether you agree with his opinions or not. | ||
| The guy's just got an unbelievable TV presence. | ||
| He's waded into politics over the last couple years, had him on the show a couple months ago. | ||
| He's a good guy. | ||
| And there are all of these rumors floating around, who knows where these things come from, that he might run for president. | ||
| So he went on Jake Tapper's program on CNN, and Jake asked him. | ||
| I think the kind of impact that I could have as a centrist, as a moderate, as somebody who believes in being sensical and engaging in common sense, unfortunately... | ||
| I believe that if I did take this very, very seriously and I moved forward and I decided that I wanted to be a politician, do I believe I could win? | ||
| You're damn right. | ||
| But it's by default. | ||
| It's not because I'm the most qualified candidate in the world. | ||
| It's because of the state of our politics in the nation's capital, the politicians that we're looking at, and the fact that we don't believe for one second that they are serving the interests of the American people, nor are they interested in it. | ||
| Okay, as I said, you can see why he's a great broadcaster. | ||
| The way he speaks, like the sort of rhythm and rhyme to it and all of that stuff. | ||
| And he captures a certain amount of the frustration. | ||
| Now, it seems to me what he's missing perhaps a bit of is for the things that I sense that he cares about, it seems like he should just be backing America first, backing MAGA, backing Trump, etc., etc. | ||
| So Jake did ask him a bit about what's going on with the woke stuff with the Democrats and whether he would run. | ||
| As a Democrat, you'll see why I'm combining those two things. | ||
| If you were to run for president, though, it would be as a Democrat or no? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I'm an independent. | ||
| I'm a registered independent. | ||
| I would lean who leans left. | ||
| I'm fiscally conservative when it comes to my money. | ||
| I'm socially liberal. | ||
| I'm liberal when it comes to social issues are pretty much across the board. | ||
| I believe in living and let living. | ||
| So I'm a moderate and I would say if I had to run, it would be as a Democrat. | ||
| But I'm not happy with the Democratic Party. | ||
| So the Democratic Party is presently constructed. | ||
| We pretty much need to be purged in order for me to assume that I would want to be associated with them. | ||
| We know who the extreme left is. | ||
| We know how they go about operating. | ||
| We know what we lean towards when it came to open borders. | ||
| We know that the spending was excessive, even though it's excessive on the Republican side as well. | ||
| I think a $37 trillion budget, when Republicans try to act like it's just the Democrats, that's not true. | ||
| But the Democrats certainly shouldn't be absolved from blame in that regard. | ||
| Identity politics, woke culture, cancer culture. | ||
| I thought that that was something that ravaged our nation psychologically because you had people literally scared they were going to lose their jobs if they pronounced the wrong pronoun for crying out loud. | ||
| It got that bad. | ||
| Okay, again, I don't know if he's actually going to run or if this is just like good PR strategy to further his career or whatever. | ||
| I don't even mean that as a noctum. | ||
| It's just there's a game being played. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| But I thought it was interesting that he said that, you know, he's basically a moderate that leans left. | ||
| And he said he's fiscally conservative and socially liberal. | ||
| Now, I don't know what he means by leans left in that sense. | ||
| So if you're fiscally conservative, then you're, I mean, that's Trump, right? | ||
| You're going to cut taxes. | ||
| You're going to get rid of regulation. | ||
| You'd want fairer trade deals. | ||
| These are all the things that Trump's doing. | ||
| You'd want to roll back wars, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| And socially liberal, I mean, basically he's saying, I think he's pretty much moderate, let's say, on abortion, and that he doesn't care who you marry or... | ||
| What you smoke or that kind of stuff. | ||
| That's basically all within MAGA too, right? | ||
| Donald Trump was the first... | ||
| Incoming first-time president that was for gay marriage. | ||
| Donald Trump has talked about legalizing weed, or at least letting some people out from federal prisons, like they're working on some of that kind of stuff. | ||
| Trump, even as it pertains to abortion, although Trump did eventually, because of his Supreme Court nominees, get Roe v. | ||
| Wade reversed, having a kickback to the States. | ||
| No one thinks Donald Trump is a zero-week abortion. | ||
| No one thinks that either. | ||
| So again, I just don't know where, if that's the idea set, it seems to me you're basically part of MAGA. | ||
| If the idea really is like you're just going for your angle and you want to moderate the Dems, like if you want a healthy Democrat party, so you want to purge all of the whack jobs, and if you really have the balls, and I really mean this, Steve, like if you've got the balls to go up against the AOCs and the Hamas people and the Bernies and the crazies and everybody else, then have at it. | ||
| Again, I just don't know if there's enough of those good Dems left. | ||
| It seems to me they are now. | ||
| Now, the other thing that has flipped in the country right now, because the culture has just so shifted, and Donald Trump has done so much in a year, and the way we get our news is so differently, so different than it's been for so long, is that the racial makeup, which I don't care about, but we're constantly bludgeoned with it, the racial makeup of who votes for who, black people vote for the Dems and white people vote for the Republicans, that is crumbling in real time, too. | ||
| So check this out. | ||
| CNN. | ||
| We invited a group of black people, because you have to have black people on a show and white people on a show, separate but equal. | ||
| I assume they had a group of white people on a different show. | ||
| Van Jones, who's black, so they sent the black guy to talk to the black people, and they asked the black people if they're still going to stick with Trump. | ||
| These were black Trump people. | ||
| Do they still like Trump? | ||
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If you had to do it all over again, would you vote for Donald Trump again, yes or no? | |
| Yes, I would. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Now, in the future, I am not a diehard Democrat or a diehard Republican. | ||
| If there were a Democratic candidate who was more aligned for me, then I would vote Democrat. | ||
| If you go back in time, would you vote for Donald Trump, yes or no? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I think I might know the answer on this next one. | ||
| She said yes. | ||
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It's immediately yes. | |
| No, I'm sorry. | ||
| If you had to do it all over again, would you vote for Donald Trump, yes or no? | ||
| 1000% absolutely yes. | ||
| All right, so that's all good. | ||
| These are black people who, the point is, they did not vote for Trump the first time. | ||
| They came around on him, and now we're 100 days in, and they're happy with their results. | ||
| Now, it's interesting, this racialization that they're always doing, unfortunately, to pit whites and blacks against each other. | ||
| Notice that CNN did not do a panel of Indian Americans. | ||
| They did not do a panel of Asian Americans. | ||
| They did not do a panel of Jewish Americans, right? | ||
| Like, for some reason, there's this obsession with black people, and it's partly because they need black people to stay on that Democrat plantation. | ||
| But even here, you're seeing these people are like, well, wait a minute. | ||
| I mean, what did that first woman say? | ||
| I'm not a hardcore Democrat. | ||
| I'm not a hardcore Republican. | ||
| But Trump is good. | ||
| The point is Trump is good. | ||
| Trump does not care about race. | ||
| It is obvious. | ||
| You want to hang out with a bunch of hardcore racists, go to an AOC rally or go to a Jasmine Crockett event and see what they say about race. | ||
| Speaking of lady eyelashes, here's Jasmine Crockett. | ||
| She was giving a commencement speech and she somehow brings up the N-word and DEI hires and a whole bunch of other gibberish. | ||
| And instead of publicly calling us the N-word, They use racist epithets and suggest that we're ghetto or unqualified or diversity hires. | ||
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Even though we're all more, oftentimes than not, more educated and qualified than they are. | |
| I have news for you. | ||
| These attacks are not new because Jim Crow never died. | ||
| He just lied in wait. | ||
| It's just so boring. | ||
| It's so boring. | ||
| And that's why when I tell you they want to keep them on the plantation, and some people get upset by that phrase, it's actually right. | ||
| The only people that... | ||
| Want racism anymore are the people that are keeping it on life support. | ||
| I think that's a loosely quoted Thomas Sowell line. | ||
| Like, they need racism to keep the grift going, right? | ||
| Like, what is she talking about? | ||
| Nobody—I have been so critical of her, right, with her ridiculous eyelashes and her fake ghetto talk, and she seemingly—every lie about Trump and everything, all of the stuff, right? | ||
| But none of it has to do with her skin color. | ||
| If she was white, I would be making the same jokes about her, right? | ||
| If she was a man, I'd be— Going after him the exact same way. | ||
| It's not because I want to call her the N-word. | ||
| It has nothing to do with that. | ||
| And this idea about DEI, so they don't use the N-word, they use DEI hire. | ||
| Well, the thing is, DEI hires are real. | ||
| That's why human resource departments... | ||
| Had DEI divisions, and human resources are in charge of hiring. | ||
| So they had human resources, then they had people that worked within that in DEI, and those people would vet out a certain set of people based on skin color usually, but also genitals and sexuality, and then those are the people that got hired. | ||
| So when you call someone a DEI, yes, not every single person of any particular color is a DEI hire, but if you see a bunch of... | ||
| Clearly unqualified people. | ||
| So let's say Corinne Jean-Pierre, who the day they brought her into the White House, what was it? | ||
| She's a black lesbian. | ||
| It's fan-freaking-tastic. | ||
| Okay, is she qualified? | ||
| Well, I'm fairly certain after two years of watching that circus, she was not qualified. | ||
| The secretary of health was the guy who chopped off his dick, Levine. | ||
| His name was Dick Levine, which is even funnier. | ||
| And then he dressed up like a woman. | ||
| Like, was he actually qualified to do this? | ||
| He was the same guy who was trying to tell you that young people need chemical castration, but he will also, because he didn't transition or whatever till he was in his 50s, will tell you that his kids I mean, it's so absolutely psychotic. | ||
| You might call it low IQ. | ||
| Do we have a video of a popular man calling Jasmine low IQ? | ||
| And you know what I can't name? | ||
| I can't name one Democrat. | ||
| I mean, I look at the Democrats. | ||
| They're in total disarray. | ||
| They have a new person named Crockett. | ||
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I watched her speak the other day. | |
| She's definitely a low IQ person. | ||
| And they said she's the future of the party. | ||
| I said, you have to be kidding. | ||
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I don't know what they're going to do. | |
| And that's the point. | ||
| That connects us to the top of the show. | ||
| So that's why. | ||
| CNN is bringing Stephen A on. | ||
| I don't know what Stephen A's intentions are, as I said. | ||
| I don't know if it's just a PR game or whatever. | ||
| But remember, what was it, about two weeks ago when we talked about George Clooney and why they suddenly were putting Clooney out so that they could get him also on CNN to be interviewed by Jake? | ||
| Because what they're doing is, as the whole thing is melting down, as the crazies are out there, as AOC has got the energy, and old Bernie, who they'll throw under the bus again, like it just ends poorly for a millionaire socialist. | ||
| It's gonna end terribly for you, Bernie. | ||
| I've warned you for years. | ||
| But they can't have them being the face of the thing. | ||
| So then they're like, all right, throw out Clooney, bring on Stephen A. Anything to stop the lunacy of Lady Eyelashes and AOC and everybody else. | ||
| How the machine operates. | ||
| But again, I would just say you all suck to some extent. | ||
| I don't mean that about Stephen A. specifically, but like all of these people, they all kind of suck, right? | ||
| And... | ||
| There's another party in America that is doing incredible things for the past 100 and roughly 10 days that is taking out these bad trade deals, that is cleaning up the border, that is making sure our cities are safer, that is getting rid of the Department of Education, like that is doing good stuff. | ||
| So how about join us on the side that doesn't care about skin color and genitals? | ||
| Or stick with those guys and good luck with all that. | ||
| The other guy that the Democrats have, and it's basically just because he's white, so they're putting him out there. | ||
| He's a heavy white guy. | ||
| And they were like, again, they know he's not gonna be president, but they just have to put bodies out there in the mainstream so people don't think that they're all absolutely insane, is the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker. | ||
| And we've played a couple of videos of this guy. | ||
| This guy who... | ||
| Chicago is in Illinois. | ||
| Chicago, which has the strictest gun laws in the country, and they have the most murders every weekend in the country. | ||
| A lot of people have fled Illinois post-COVID and everything else. | ||
| This guy who has been pushing for protests in the street, he's implied that violence is okay. | ||
| Not a great guy. | ||
| But what happens when you're not a great guy and you're just kind of average? | ||
| Well, the machine loves you, you get on Jimmy Kimmel, and you get to explain yourself. | ||
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Well, let me ask you about something specifically that you said in the speech, and I think this is kind of the thing that got people fired up. | |
| You said, it is time to fight everywhere and all at once. | ||
| You called for mass protests. | ||
| There were mass protests today. | ||
| What does that mean, fight everywhere and all at once? | ||
| I mean, what should we do? | ||
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Well, I think everybody understands that at this point, we've got an authoritarian in office. | |
| He's essentially tearing apart the things that really matter to working families across the United States. | ||
| And nobody's stopping him. | ||
| The Congress is under the control of his party. | ||
| They're all paying homage to him at all times. | ||
| No one's willing to break with him, even though they're taking away health care from millions of people across the United States and threatening social security. | ||
| No one has lost health care in the United States. | ||
| They are not threatening Social Security. | ||
| As a matter of fact, Donald Trump repeatedly says that they're not going after Social Security. | ||
| They're cleaning up fraud. | ||
| You know it. | ||
| You portly Putz. | ||
| You know it, but you still say it, of course. | ||
| And Jimmy, he's only bringing you on to clean up the mess that you got yourself in because you implied that people should be out there violently rioting in the streets. | ||
| You know, and again, as it pertains to what's going on in his state, well, in Chicago, he's not the mayor of Chicago, but he is the governor of Illinois, and Chicago has huge problems. | ||
| Nine were shot last weekend, three dead. | ||
| And I asked Joseph while we were playing the clip, well, how does that compare to, say, Florida? | ||
| There were two shootings in Florida, no deaths. | ||
| We have very loose gun laws, laws which, by the way, Ron DeSantis is still trying to loosen up. | ||
| Even further. | ||
| But the point is, they just don't know what they're doing. | ||
| So they're throwing out Stephen A., and they're throwing out George Clooney, and they're throwing out Pritzker. | ||
| Meanwhile, you've got the crazies and the racists and the Hamas people. | ||
| They're all just out there doing their thing. | ||
| So it's just something to watch out for. | ||
| And just because we're just having a little fun on this Tuesday, it was May the 4th the other day, which, of course, May the 4th. | ||
| May the Force be with you. | ||
| That's International Star Wars Day. | ||
| JB and his wife got dressed up right there. | ||
| And that is a guy who would not have passed the fitness test at the Jedi Academy. | ||
| I promise you that. | ||
| And that is his wife over there. | ||
| Of course, now in the real Star Wars, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were brother and sister. | ||
| So I don't know how weird this is about to get with these two. | ||
| But there you go. | ||
| Another Democrat who I don't like, but who has got momentum, she has momentum because the party is a group of crazy people, is Ilhan Omar. | ||
| This video of Ilhan, this is from 2018, but it could just as easily be from yesterday, and it's been making the rounds over the last couple of days as they continue to racialize everything. | ||
| Listen to who she was worried about in 2018. | ||
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I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country, because they are actually causing most of the deaths. | |
| No, it's not true. | ||
| Again, even just at the micro level, go to Chicago every weekend and who shot who? | ||
| It's black people shooting other black people. | ||
| That's just the truth. | ||
| And if she's fearful of white people, we should be more worried about white people. | ||
| I suppose it's ironic, although I am a little fearful of this guy because his taste in women ain't great. | ||
| Here's Ilhan Omar's husband. | ||
| That is her white husband. | ||
| His name is Tim Minette, and he married her. | ||
| Why, I have no idea. | ||
| Of course, her husband before that was this guy. | ||
| Yeah, and that's her brother, and they got married to cause immigration fraud, which hopefully one day will come out in the mainstream. | ||
| You know us, just ahead of the curve. | ||
| Now to get it to Ilhan of 2025, she has gotten no better, and now she has her orange enemy in the White House, I guess you could say. | ||
| And she... | ||
| Thinks that Trump is tyrannical, although I think she need only a mirror. | ||
| In this case, for several reasons. | ||
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So it is up to us, Americans, to make sure we are standing up for American values. | |
| To make sure we are standing up for democratic values. | ||
| To make sure that the country that once defeated a king's tyranny does so again. | ||
| Even the way she says a king's tyranny, we don't have the Ohan puke bucket. | ||
| It's in the shop right now, but I could have puked right there. | ||
| But you just have to think for yourself. | ||
| Again, I'm obviously not a Democrat. | ||
| You probably watching this are not a Democrat. | ||
| Maybe you were a Democrat. | ||
| But the question is, which way party? | ||
| And there's every reason to think that that thing that she represents, which is now a combination of, you know, racists and communists. | ||
| And America haters and deep state people who've gotten everything wrong but stay around forever. | ||
| Like, is that the future of the Democrat Party? | ||
| I think it is. | ||
| And to the latter point of the deep state people who are just kind of around forever, here's Congressman Jamie Raskin. | ||
| And he also does not like Trump. | ||
| Trump, who again, tell me, someone in the comments, tell me this. | ||
| What is the worst thing that Donald Trump has done in the 100 days? | ||
| I want to know, like, objectively, what would be the absolute worst? | ||
| The guy is also literally going to build a ballroom at the White House and pay for it with his own money. | ||
| He announced that this week, too. | ||
| But they all fear him, these over-the-top, insane, authoritarian Hitler comments, and they've actually got jack shit. | ||
| What people are asserting today is not a right to dissent from what the law is. | ||
| People are asserting a right to uphold the law and to exercise their rights under the law and also to demand that the government act in accordance with the law. | ||
| So really what we have is a lawless administration violating the rights of the people and then people and institutions standing up to say, no, we are going to defend the rule of law against the administration. | ||
| When would they be able to come out with the technology where I would be able to slap someone? | ||
| If I'm just watching them on the screen and you could just... | ||
| And they would be actually slapped. | ||
| No, everything he said there was mirror. | ||
| Get the mirror, look in the mirror. | ||
| You guys are the ones that tried... | ||
| You guys are the ones that did lawless things like allow 12 to 15 million illegals come in. | ||
| You guys are the ones who unleashed the tyranny on our streets and burning down Ventura Avenue where I used to live in Los Angeles in the name of peace and tolerance with Antifa and BLM. | ||
| It's all you guys. | ||
| And the thing is, the more they go crazy, and I guess this is why I'm highlighting it more than anything else. | ||
| The more they go crazy, the more the rest of us can just coalesce around America and freedom and goodness. | ||
| And the more that it actually makes Donald Trump, for all his eccentricities, seem like the moderate. | ||
| So listen to this from Donald Trump on truth. | ||
| The Democrats are really out of control. | ||
| They have lost everything, especially their minds. | ||
| These radical left lunatics are into the impeachment thing again. | ||
| They already have got two no name, little respected congressmen, total Whack jobs both throwing the impeachment of Donald J. Trump around for about the 20th time, even though they have no idea for what I would have to be impeached. | ||
| Maybe it should be for cleaning up the mess that they left us on the border, or the highest inflation in our country's history, or perhaps it should be the incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, or Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, or the attack on Israel on October 7th that only proceeded because they allowed Iran to regain great wealth. | ||
| These congressmen stated that they didn't know why they would impeach me, but we just wanna do it. | ||
| The Republicans should start to think about expelling them from Congress for all of the crimes they have committed, especially around election times. | ||
| Why do we allow them to continuously use impeachment as a weapon against the President of the United States, who by all accounts is working hard to save our country? | ||
| It's the same playbook that they used in my first term, and Republicans are not going to allow them to get away with it again. | ||
| These are total lowlifes who hate our country and everything it stands for. | ||
| Perhaps we should start playing this game on them and expel Democrats from the many crimes that they have committed. | ||
| And these are real crimes. | ||
| Remember, Shifty Adam Schiff demanded a pardon, and they had to use the power of the auto pen and a full pardon for him and the unselect committee of political thugs to save them from expulsion. | ||
| It probably worked. | ||
| There should be a course taught. | ||
| You know, I don't think anyone should go to college anymore. | ||
| That's been my position on everything. | ||
| Like, do not send young people to college. | ||
| Go get an apprenticeship. | ||
| Take a walk, you'll figure out more in a half hour than you will in four years at Harvard. | ||
| But there should be a course taught. | ||
| Maybe it could just be an annex learning course on the weekends or something. | ||
| How to write like Donald Trump. | ||
| That should be a course, because he really has just perfected that thing. | ||
| But everything he said there is right. | ||
| Everything they're accusing him of, they're doing. | ||
| We finally, I think, have enough Republicans that will not go along with this. | ||
| You know, Republicans were still... | ||
| Scared of their shadow first time around, and a lot of them went along with the nonsensical impeachment stuff. | ||
| But what do you want to impeach him for? | ||
| We had a president before who the entire administration should have been impeached because he had dementia and wasn't running the office at all. | ||
| The executive branch was being run by committee of shadowy people. | ||
| Like, that's a fact. | ||
| That is just a fact. | ||
| So keep pushing, Democrats. | ||
| Keep pushing. | ||
| And more and more people will read those long statements with the capital letters and everything by Donald Trump and be like, you know what? | ||
| He is the good guy. | ||
| And actually, that is true. | ||
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| So, you remember Jen Psaki. | ||
| Jen Psaki, of course, was the predecessor to the Black... | ||
| Lesbian, I mentioned earlier, Corinne Jean-Pierre. | ||
| She was White House spokesperson. | ||
| And then once she stepped down, then she got a job as a quote-unquote journalist at MSNBC 13. She is not a journalist. | ||
| She is a propagandist. | ||
| And she goes on podcasts. | ||
| Not only does she have her MSNBC show, but she goes on podcasts. | ||
| And listen to her claiming that there was no cover-up around Biden's mental decline. | ||
| The fact that this was always going to happen. | ||
| They were all so obviously lying. | ||
| That eventually they were all going to get caught in it. | ||
| And it's like a Chinese finger trap right now. | ||
| They can't get out of the thing that they created. | ||
| I never saw that person. | ||
| Not a single time. | ||
| And I was in the Oval Office every day. | ||
| That was on that debate stage. | ||
| I'm not a doctor. | ||
| Aging happens quite quickly. | ||
| Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would have been in a category of that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Possibly, right? | ||
| And all these books are going to tell us. | ||
| Do you think that they were, were they actively covering it up? | ||
| Were they sort of in denial? | ||
| Or was that just a bad debate? | ||
| Like, what is your read on that? | ||
| Well, this is what I mean about cover-up is a very loaded term, I think. | ||
| Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I think is what people do a lot. | ||
| Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover-up is often like a crime. | ||
| They say it's worse than the crime. | ||
| People use that term as they relate to Watergate or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war. | ||
| Yeah, and I'm not accusing anybody of a crime here. | ||
| I understand, but other people have used that term, and I think it's a bit of a dangerous term. | ||
| I'm not kidding, guys. | ||
| You download me some kind of slap app where I can just start slapping these people. | ||
| Like, who had that guy been something? | ||
| I think he used to run BuzzFeed. | ||
| Saki, you, like, stop lying. | ||
| For a second, Saki, your entire career, your life is a giant lie. | ||
| You're a liar. | ||
| You're a propagandist. | ||
| Okay, fine, but you will feel better. | ||
| I mean this to you spiritually. | ||
| You will feel better if you stop lying for a moment. | ||
| What she wants you to believe is that this woman, who was the press secretary for Joe Biden for basically two years, she never went into that office or saw any video of him or had lunch with him or anything else. | ||
| We all know that in every speech that he gave, whether it was... | ||
| Even the debates before he was president, but then it was his State of the Unions. | ||
| Anytime he was given a speech anywhere, if he was asked a question while he had ice cream or falling off a bike, the only thing you were thinking when he was basically answering a question was, when will he not be able to finish the sentence? | ||
| Or when will it veer off into something crazy? | ||
| Or when will corn pop appear? | ||
| Or how did he learn about roaches because kids used to rub the hair on his legs at the pool? | ||
| Saki! | ||
| You're embarrassing yourself. | ||
| I mean this. | ||
| I don't like you. | ||
| You're not the type of person I want to help. | ||
| But I feel so bad for you. | ||
| It's not even that I feel bad for you. | ||
| It's just pathetic. | ||
| It's absolutely pathetic. | ||
| Gavin Newsom. | ||
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I mean, you're leaving something very important off the list, Governor. | |
| You also ran a candidate who could not reliably talk, walk or ride a bicycle. | ||
| Take me into Gavin Newsom's soul when you had to tell reporters from around the world why the United States president could not complete a sentence. | ||
| Well, it was obviously we were challenged as it relates to that debate. | ||
| But let me if you're asking. | ||
| About my soul, which I appreciate. | ||
| You're asking about my direct engagement and interactions with former President Joe Biden, who was not our nominee, but as it relates to his campaign and what those decisions look like, as it relates to his determination whether or not to continue that campaign or end it as he did, I never had period, full stop. | ||
| I would be lying to you and I won't lie to you as it relates to the direct engagement I had with Joe Biden that ever suggested a cognitive decline to the degree that we saw at that debate All right. | ||
| First up, it was a stupid question because Gavin Newsom obviously has no soul. | ||
| So I'm not sure who the interviewer was, but that obviously made no sense. | ||
| But the heart of the question, putting aside the soul part, the heart part was right. | ||
| And then Gavin, I mean, his ability to just so many words to just say nothing. | ||
| And again. | ||
| You guys, you're getting exactly what you deserve, Gav. | ||
| You're getting exactly what you deserve, Saki. | ||
| You guys lied the entire time. | ||
| You pretended that we couldn't see what we were seeing. | ||
| It's exactly the same thing as the immigration thing. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| There's no problem. | ||
| Oh, but I'm seeing all these videos of hundreds of people, all military-age fighting men, plowing through the ground. | ||
| You don't see that. | ||
| You don't see that. | ||
| And then eventually we saw it, and now they're pretending they had nothing to do with it. | ||
| So if it is true, like I will try to give you the benefit of the doubt, you two soulless freaks. | ||
| If it is true that... | ||
| Jen Psaki, for two years you were walking into that office, having meetings with this guy, traveling with him, blah, blah, blah, and you did not notice it, then you must go away. | ||
| Go to a cave and hide for the rest of your life because there's something deeply wrong with you and you probably shouldn't be in human society. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom, I would say the exact same thing. | ||
| If you are so out of touch with... | ||
| Basic reality, human interactions, right? | ||
| And I know because you're an alien person, you're not even human, so they maybe should have taught you that before. | ||
| But humans can figure it out. | ||
| When you're around somebody that something is not right with them cognitively, and they get a little lost in their conversation, and they can't finish a sentence, and all of the stuff. | ||
| And I don't mean to mock it. | ||
| We've all been around it. | ||
| I've told you guys stories about both of... | ||
| My grandmothers that had to deal with that kind of stuff and going to geriatric doctors and all those things. | ||
| And we all probably, there will probably be way more of those things coming because we're all so brain broken by the phones and endless scrolling and everything else. | ||
| So I'm not doing this to make fun of the cognitive breakdown of Joe Biden is the sad part. | ||
| The funny part and the part worth discussing. | ||
| And the important part is that all of you people who lied about everything the way you lied about, as I said, the porter, but the way you guys lied about COVID, the way you've all abused your power and authority, you should just be mocked and shamed into oblivion. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom has no soul. | ||
| Now, let's continue with a slight offshoot of that when it comes to, but not that far, actually, when it comes to these people that lie about everything. | ||
| You know, one of the things that we've seen over the last couple of years... | ||
| is these protest movements. | ||
| These protest movements that are told, we're told they're based in goodness and tolerance and diversity and all of these things. | ||
| But in the name of tolerance and diversity and all of these lovely things, they burn cities down and you have to board up buildings and they burn down Pep Boys and they take out a Target and they loot TVs and, you know, a series of other things. | ||
| Connor, good Connor over here, who I hired years ago, used to live right a block outside of CHOP in Seattle. | ||
| I saved the guy's freaking life and he thanks me every day for it. | ||
| But it now turns out, surprise, surprise, That yes, these things are all Funded, highly funded, and yes, George Soros is involved. | ||
| This is not surprising at all, but now we've got some receipts. | ||
| This is from Mario Nafal on Twitter. | ||
| Open Society admits, yes, we fund protest groups. | ||
| Protests targeting Elon, Tesla, Trump, and Israel are labeled grassroots, but major Democratic donors are footing the bill. | ||
| Groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now leading anti-Israel protests are bankrolled by foundations ceded by Soros, Rockefeller, And the Pritzkers. | ||
| The Open Society Foundation admits it funds groups that may organize protests while denying direct coordination. | ||
| The pattern is clear. | ||
| If there's a left-wing protest, there's donor money somewhere making sure it happens. | ||
| Source W-O-A-I and OSF. | ||
| The point of all of this, and of course, who is the, we'll show you the picture of this guy. | ||
| He's Palpatine barely in disguise. | ||
| Yeah, that's George Soros right now. | ||
| Now, who's basically out of commission. | ||
| His son, Alex Soros, is pretty much running it right now. | ||
| But this is something, now there's more evidence on this, and it's going to keep coming out. | ||
| And by the way, this is why they didn't want everybody looking at USAID and all of these things that we were funding, because they were going to find we were funding the very destruction of our country. | ||
| Now, Soros was doing it separately with Open Society. | ||
| He funds all of these NGOs that go after Western democracies and installs these DAs that then don't... | ||
| Apply the law in their cities. | ||
| This is what happened to San Francisco. | ||
| This is what happened to Los Angeles. | ||
| We know this is what's happened to Portland and many other cities. | ||
| Did not happen here in Florida because when one of his guys came in, I think it was in Tampa, DeSantis took him out immediately. | ||
| So there are places that don't deal with this nonsense. | ||
| But it's all obvious. | ||
| How is it that they turn these protests on and off? | ||
| On and off. | ||
| And at the height of COVID, when we were told you were going to kill grandma, if you walked into the room with her, they would say, oh, but you can go outside and protest systemic racism, right? | ||
| It was all always bullshit. | ||
| Where do they get all their signs? | ||
| Where do they get their kefias? | ||
| They're all doing this coordinated and well-paid for. | ||
| And I have no doubt they are going to find there are connections to Ilhan Omar. | ||
| They're going to find out there's connections to Tlaib, AOC, and many more of these people. | ||
| There's just no doubt about it. | ||
| Now, the other part, and I'm not even sure this is a full segue here, is that what we're dealing with in the internal, let's say, city version of all of this, is I think it's becoming almost impossible if you are a decent human being to live in a major American city. | ||
| Because it has become clear, especially in blue cities, which most big cities become blue. | ||
| Because over time, people just want more and more services, basically. | ||
| So they want big government and then big government screws them over and then they don't even realize why they wanted it in the first place. | ||
| But it's becoming basically impossible to live in a big blue city because every weekend they can shut down Fifth Avenue in New York City. | ||
| They can burn down a Portland courthouse. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| Like every one of these, they can create CHOP in Seattle. | ||
| They just, law and order is completely out the window. | ||
| You can jump turnstiles. | ||
| I don't know, you could say, Burglarize and then rape a man on a subway if you're in New York City. | ||
| There's all sorts of things you can do. | ||
| And now to add, this is literally the last thing New York City needs. | ||
| But Eric Adams, who is the mayor of New York City, who's now an independent, because he thinks the Democrats are too awful, although he ushered in a lot of their awfulness, including sanctuary cities, now he's decided that mosques don't need permits for their call to prayer, so they can just blast the Islamic call to prayer on speakers throughout New York City. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
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A historic step here in New York City in support of the Muslim community. | |
| Mayor Adams announced new guidelines clearing the way for the Muslim call to prayer to bring out freely. | ||
| For too long, there has been confusion about which communities allow to amplify their calls to prayer. | ||
| Today, we are cutting red tape and saying clearly, if you are a mosque or a house of worship of any kind, you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer. | ||
| Where are all the chicks in that video? | ||
| Were they in the back? | ||
| I didn't see any chicks there. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| That was also on a public street, so you could just take over a street. | ||
| You can have your call for prayer. | ||
| You might think, well, okay, but churches have bells on Sundays. | ||
| Yeah, they do. | ||
| Some churches do have bells. | ||
| The bell... | ||
| It's generally a kind of pleasant sound, but removing the subjectivity from this, the Muslim call to prayer is also really a call to submit, to have the other people, the outsiders, submit. | ||
| And, you know, once this gets instilled in New York City, so now mosques will be blasting this, it's never going away. | ||
| So New York City is done. | ||
| If you don't want to hear that on a Friday in New York, you got to get out of New York. | ||
| It's here, it's staying, it's not going anywhere. | ||
| By the way... | ||
| New York City has all sorts of noise codes. | ||
| We pulled up one, New York City noise code. | ||
| Anything over 85 decibels at 15 feet is generally not allowed without a permit, meaning in New York City, you will literally get a, well, they don't have any laws anymore, but in the old days, if you had a boombox, that's what we used to call it, with your two cassettes, and you were blasting the, who was big back in, let's say, 87, you were listening to who? | ||
| DJ Masterclass? | ||
| Fat Flash. | ||
| Never heard of him. | ||
| And who'd you say? | ||
| Prince. | ||
| You're blasting your prince. | ||
| Your purple rain. | ||
| Somebody might say you gotta shut that down. | ||
| But now they're gonna have the Muslim call to prayer. | ||
| And just, even putting aside, I also just don't like sounds in general. | ||
| I don't like light sounds. | ||
| We don't let the kids have a lot of electric toys. | ||
| I like wood. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Just something. | ||
| But... | ||
| Do you think that is what New York City needs right now? | ||
| Do you think that that's what New York City needs? | ||
| The call to prayer, what did you say? | ||
| It's six times a day? | ||
| It will be six times a day on certain days. | ||
| Like, absolutely insane. | ||
| With all of the things going on right now, with the calls for genocide of the Jews and everything else, is that what you need in New York City? | ||
| So, as I always say, as Jerry said to George, good luck with all of that. | ||
| But let's juxtapose that with something else, because Dave Portnoy from Barstool Sports, I think, did something kind of right here. | ||
| Had a little righteous indignation in the right way. | ||
| Apparently, he's got a bar in Philly, and at the bar in Philly, you can have a bottle service. | ||
| If you're getting bottle service at a table, you can put up a sign, and you can put whatever you want to put on the sign on it. | ||
| And a couple guys put up, fuck the Jews, on the sign. | ||
| Portnoy saw that and he responded. | ||
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I need The last two hours, I have been on the trail. | |
| Trust me, I've been on the trail. | ||
| You think I'm going to put up with this s*** at my bar? | ||
| So I've been hunting down waitresses, the table who did it, and everything you can f***ing name. | ||
| Because I want f***ing consequences for f***ing actions. | ||
| So I'm not just sitting back like, oh, what are you going to do? | ||
| No, trust me. | ||
| I have been on it. | ||
| I believe the two waitresses responsible, the table already fired. | ||
| I talked to one of them, one of the dumbest f***ing humans I've ever talked to in my life. | ||
| She's at a f***ing dance recital. | ||
| She's like, can I call you back in 20? | ||
| No, f***ing honey. | ||
| You f***ing can't. | ||
| This is your one chance to talk to me. | ||
| I'm giving you one f***ing hour. | ||
| One f***ing hour. | ||
| Two kids go to Temple. | ||
| Tell me, how do I make this f***ing right before I go f***ing eight s***? | ||
| You want to take anti-Semitism classes? | ||
| You want to do whatever? | ||
| You make it feel right. | ||
| I don't need your f***ing tears. | ||
| The Mike Wade kid wasn't even f***ing there. | ||
| Wasn't in the bar. | ||
| We got the footage. | ||
| Trust me, they're pulling the footage. | ||
| They're doing this. | ||
| I'm 20 steps ahead. | ||
| I'm using everything. | ||
| I'm like, I am going to come for your f***ing throat unless you give me answers. | ||
| All right. | ||
| First off, I appreciate the energy. | ||
| There's a lot there. | ||
| When he says they go to Temple, he's not talking about Temple like synagogue. | ||
| He's talking about Temple University. | ||
| It turns out that one of the kids that did this, a 20-year-old from Temple, had had a series of racist things that he had been writing on Instagram and whatever, mostly as it pertains to Jews. | ||
| But the point is that Portnoy owns the bar, and if you're going to spread that shit there, he's going to go after you. | ||
| Now, it turns out that he decided not to go scorched earth fully with these guys. | ||
| He's, I guess, paying for a trip for them to go to Auschwitz. | ||
| I don't know if that is... | ||
| Yeah, it just kind of sounds ridiculous. | ||
| I suppose it is good to learn that the Holocaust was real and that they put people in gas chambers and all of those things. | ||
| Is that going to make these kids less whatever they are, racist or trolls or whatever? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| In some sense, maybe we do need a little more scorch-earth when it comes to pushing back on this nonsense. | ||
| It's just going to keep happening. | ||
| We're seeing one side ever encroach, right? | ||
| We're going to take over your streets. | ||
| We're going to call for genocide. | ||
| We're going to have our call for prayer. | ||
| We're going to keep encroaching, encroaching, encroaching. | ||
| And if you say anything about it, we're going to say you're Islamophobic, which it's not even, phobia is an irrational fear. | ||
| Ask women how they're doing in Islamic societies, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And then another side that's just like, oh, well, we'll debate whether we should exist or not because, you know, we're kind of nice. | ||
| And I think his original inclination of just destroy him is kind of right, but all right. | ||
| He's going to send them to Auschwitz, which is, I guess, very different in 2025 than it was in 1937. | ||
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| RubenReport.locals.com community Q&A. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Elizabeth says, I'm going to be a guest on a podcast this week. | ||
| Any advice? | ||
| It's the most cliche thing I can tell you, but it absolutely is the truth. | ||
| Just be yourself. | ||
| I don't know what the nature of the podcast is or what it is that you do, but whether you're an artist or you're a chef. | ||
| Or you're a political pundit, or you're a mommy blogger, whatever it might be. | ||
| You're being invited on a show, I assume, because you have some level of expertise or you've done something interesting in some sort of field and someone wants to talk to you about that. | ||
| And just be honest and be real and be as clear as you can possibly be. | ||
| And that's what comes through. | ||
| You know, one of the things that I'm seeing over time that I've been doing this, especially in the political world, is over time, you can kind of see who the authentic people are, and you can kind of see who, like, the fake people are, and you can kind of see the people who just want to do it for popularity, and you can see the people who are kind of the true believers in everything else. | ||
| And all I can ever do on this show is tell you what I think. | ||
| And I don't think there's anyone in this room, and hopefully literally not one of you watching this, that when my show ends, you're like, boy, I don't know what Dave thinks about that. | ||
| Or I think he doesn't believe what he's saying. | ||
| Or I think it's a misdirection or something like that. | ||
| I tell you what I think. | ||
| You can agree with me. | ||
| You can not agree with me. | ||
| You can hate me. | ||
| You can love me. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| But I think that comes through. | ||
| It's why I hit the media people like Saki and Tapper and all of these people so hard and Gavin Newsom. | ||
| It's I hit them so hard because it's not right. | ||
| To be hit with inauthenticity for so long as a society. | ||
| They have bludgeoned us with so much bullshit. | ||
| And it's not good for them in a spiritual sense, but it's not good for us as a society. | ||
| And I think what we've tried to do here is the antidote to that. | ||
| So I wish you a lot of luck. | ||
| And let me know in the comments. | ||
| I'll take a peek and see how it went for you. | ||
| Goldie says, how much did you love Stephen Miller savaging the press over the deportation of Abrego Garcia? | ||
| It was epic. | ||
| Yeah, we played a ton of clips of him lately. | ||
| You know, he is just an unbelievable, direct, no-nonsense... | ||
| I keep telling you, and we'll probably debut it sometime next week, this top 10 Trump's peep list. | ||
| And, you know, we'll have Marco on there, and we'll have David Sachs, who I've mentioned, and we'll have, you know, just the laundry list of people on there, and, you know, RFK and Tulsi, etc., etc. | ||
| He's surrounded himself with great people, but what he really understood was you are going to need people who are not afraid to fight the media. | ||
| You can't just bring on these mealy-mouthed people who are like private experts, but not really good in the public sense. | ||
| And Miller has just been fantastic. | ||
| And he's been, you know, in this case, he's been particularly fantastic because he's a master. | ||
| He's a good speaker, but he really knows the ins and outs of what's going on here. | ||
| And he's doing the trick. | ||
| Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, I had a little something to do with this because I was saying it for a year, is a great trick in general that Trump does that then has now extrapolated throughout the administration is start asking questions back to these people and you will shut them up and expose them very quickly. | ||
| And he's quite good at that. | ||
| Erica says, you're invited to a potluck dinner party. | ||
| What homemade dish would you bring to accommodate up to 50 guests? | ||
| Please share a recipe. | ||
| I mean, that's tough. | ||
| 50 guests? | ||
| Like, I host a lot of dinners here, and I'm usually manning the grill or the smoker, and obviously we're doing all kinds of steaks around here. | ||
| I'm not a great sides guy, and you're also giving me a 50-person thing. | ||
| I mean, if you tell me I gotta make something that's gonna make 50 people happy... | ||
| It's gotta be some kind of guacamole situation, right? | ||
| It's gotta be a guac. | ||
| It's gotta be a spicy. | ||
| We're gonna throw some jalapeno in there. | ||
| We're gonna go a little heavier on the lime juice than maybe the traditional recipe might say. | ||
| We'll put a little avocado in there for the guacamole. | ||
| Mash it up real nice with a mortar and pestle. | ||
| No mayo. | ||
| We're not cutting it with anything or anything like that. | ||
| You want a recipe? | ||
| Well, I'm not gonna give you the full recipe right there. | ||
| But I will tell you, there is something, not only is the tequila coming out, we'll have an update on that very, very soon, I promise, but there is a recipe and a cooking situation in the works as well that we should be able to expose soon enough. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| Kulma says, the woman cutting my hair yesterday told me she was thinking about homeschooling her daughter because she was afraid her daughter would be deported since she has a Hispanic last name. | ||
| I asked why they would deport her, and she said she's heard people saying that's happening. | ||
| Can you think of anything conservatives believe during the last four years that was the equivalent to this level of crazy? | ||
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| Well, first, let me just address the issue there. | ||
| I mean, just because she has a Hispanic last name, look, nobody, maybe you want to send this to your stylist, although she'll probably, you know, she's got a scissor near your head, so you've got to be careful, but nobody's deporting citizens. | ||
| And if any U.S. citizen was being deported right now without due process, I would be 100% against it. | ||
| That is different than a green card holder, particularly one who was a member of MS-13, and that's different than someone on a student visa, etc., etc. | ||
| There is no evidence. | ||
| And they're ramping this craziness up with, well, you're saying it there from a Hispanic perspective, but they were talking about this on The View. | ||
| Wasn't Whoopi saying it the other day? | ||
| Or Sonny Hostin was saying it, they're going to come for black people next? | ||
| It's just patently absurd, and that would be illegal, absolutely illegal, and I guarantee you there would be huge swaths of Americans across the political spectrum that would be against it. | ||
| So she's deeply, deeply confused, but that just gets to this issue that we have to figure out about this information war that we're all in. | ||
| We're just watching our own movies right now, and it's tough. | ||
| As for your question, can you think of anything that conservatives believe during the last four years that was equivalent to that level of crazy? | ||
| You know, conservatives, generally speaking, I think lefties are a little more susceptible to some of the craziness because liberals... | ||
| Liberals are a little, conservatives generally have like a belief set that has something to do with religion or tradition or something. | ||
| So there is something outside of themselves, usually rooted obviously in God or something, but there's a belief system outside of themselves. | ||
| Liberals, but particularly progressives, they think the here and now is everything. | ||
| So whatever is being put in front of them on any given day, oh my God, black people this, oh my God, Hamas this, oh my God, they just buy into whatever the issue of the day is. | ||
| So it's a lot easier to trick them generally. | ||
| Which is why, by the way, I felt at least that conservatives were way better during COVID because they were way more, because they believed in something else than just any given day the government saying, put your mask on, take your mask off, stick six feet under or six feet away. | ||
| Maybe body doubles, if I was trying to really think of something, like what were some conservatives into? | ||
| Remember, when Hillary was running, they kept saying there was body doubles for her and Joe Biden, even in these last few years, that there were people wearing a mask, body doubles, something like that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm open to suggestions on that one if you want to throw it in the comments. | ||
| Monsoon says, what's an issue that you think conservatives didn't handle correctly? | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| Well, right now, I would say they're conservatives, if you're just in a sort of wide sense of Republicans. | ||
| You know, if you were to go back to, say, 10 years ago or even 15 years ago, I think when the gay marriage fight first started, there was a conservative argument that probably should have been made that would have left people with equal rights and equal opportunity and equal protection under the law that would have not... | ||
| Force them to abandon any of their religious beliefs. | ||
| And I think a lot of conservatives got caught up in those things. | ||
| You can have whatever religious beliefs you want, and I would never force a church or a temple or a mosque to marry anyone. | ||
| They have a set of beliefs, and I don't think the governments... | ||
| The government's ideas should supersede their ideas. | ||
| The conservatives, I think, probably, and Trump was a master at this because, again, he ran first time 2015. | ||
| He wasn't against gay marriage. | ||
| Barack Obama was his first time around. | ||
| The conservative argument should have been, we have our own private beliefs. | ||
| We believe we have, let's say, a set of beliefs that is the best thing for... | ||
| How we want society to be. | ||
| But we understand that works within a pluralistic system of 350 million people. | ||
| And we do believe in the Constitution and equal rights. | ||
| And we believe in equal protection under the law and all of these things. | ||
| And I think had they done that a little bit more... | ||
| Instead of going so against it, perhaps, that maybe it would have caused the left to go a little less crazy. | ||
| I can't make this argument in the most compelling way because the left was going so crazy on so many fronts with so many things. | ||
| But I think in some sense, if there had just been a, ah, you know what? | ||
| In this case, we're going to go a little more libertarian, a little more live and let live. | ||
| And if you don't want to marry a dude, don't marry a dude. | ||
| It might have offered a bit of a force field against some of the left's crazy. | ||
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| Kelly says, I run a gift basket business serving Auburn University students. | ||
| One of my Wisconsin clients shared her concerns about her neighborhood in Alabama. | ||
| She says the south side of I-65 is mostly conservative and orderly, but the north side is now filled with Somalians, mosques, and Muslim stores with reports of lawlessness. | ||
| Her family plans to move. | ||
| How can we stop what feels like an invasion? | ||
| I mean, I would say this is somewhat connected to the New York City thing that we just went through about the call to prayer. | ||
| Look, religions are different. | ||
| The truth. | ||
| They are all different, right? | ||
| We think of the big three, let's say, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as monotheistic religions that we think that there's some connection to. | ||
| And there obviously is a connection to Christianity, which was born out of Judaism. | ||
| And that's why the phrase Judeo-Christian values actually does make sense. | ||
| If you want a little bit more on this, I mean, there's a million books you can read. | ||
| Dennis Prager's written several of them. | ||
| But Ben Shapiro's book, which was the book about Athens to Jerusalem, I always forget the title of the book, The Right Side of History, thank you, is a really great explanation of how Western society was built and that it was born out of these ideas. | ||
| We can connect that to all sorts of history in the Middle East and everything else. | ||
| Look, there's an immigration problem here that has nothing to do with religion per se. | ||
| So whether people are moving in are Somalian or from wherever, if people are coming into a town, And a town has a certain finite amount of resources. | ||
| And then these people are coming in and they're not working or they're taking more. | ||
| And then the people that do have the jobs there feel like they're not getting the services that they used to get or that they're paying taxes while some people don't. | ||
| You're going to eventually have strife. | ||
| Then you add to it that certain types of immigrants don't want to speak English. | ||
| So now you have neighbors that you don't speak the same language as. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| And then there is a problem, I would say broadly. | ||
| With Islamic immigration, it's an uncomfortable thing to talk about, but that's what everyone in Germany now knows. | ||
| It's what everyone in France now knows, and Belgium, and Holland, and the UK, right? | ||
| Because where Islam spreads, it becomes authoritarian in nature. | ||
| That's why every Islamic country, there's about 40 of them, There are no Jews left in any of them. | ||
| There's virtually no Christians. | ||
| Ask the Coptic Christians in Egypt how that's going. | ||
| Ask Lebanon, which was only 40 years ago, a majority Christian country, how's it going for the Christians now? | ||
| It becomes authoritarian in nature, and it's not good for women or anyone else. | ||
| So there is a problem that... | ||
| The Islamic doctrine is at a loggerheads with Western values. | ||
| And until we're willing to really think about that and talk about it, it's going to get worse and worse. | ||
| You know, there are these Islamic cities that are now growing in Texas. | ||
| It's just real. | ||
| It's really happening. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I can't speak to the specific one you're talking about. | ||
| But how do you stop an invasion? | ||
| Well, you close the border. | ||
| So we've done some of that. | ||
| And then you start trying to teach people what freedom really means. | ||
| Get people to buy in on the greatest experiment of all time, which is the United States of America. | ||
| Jennifer says, how has becoming a father changed your political views, especially around education and family policy? | ||
| I mean, that's a great question. | ||
| Look, our kids are still home, and David does an unbelievable job at two and a half now they are. | ||
| You know, we're doing a little bit of homeschooling, and, you know, we're doing the best we can. | ||
| Right now. | ||
| And because they have each other, they're socially conditioned, I think, quite well. | ||
| And that's all going great and they're happy and healthy, which is the most important thing. | ||
| But it definitely has changed me as it pertains to education. | ||
| You know, when we see all of these videos of these teachers that are so going out of their way to indoctrinate these kids, whether it's that America is fundamentally racist, whether that they're a boy, but they think they're a girl, all these things. | ||
| Like when you suddenly have a kid, then you start realizing, boy, like it just, it just ramps up the realness. | ||
| I don't know, the contrast has turned up a little bit. | ||
| Everything's a little more easy to see or something like that. | ||
| And I think it's really fundamentally altered my views. | ||
| My views were, I would say, evolving anyway as it pertained to education and school choice and charter schools and private schools and vouchers and all of those things. | ||
| I was definitely heading in that direction over the last couple of years. | ||
| But I think I mentioned this on the show, like... | ||
| Two weeks ago. | ||
| But we're rewatching The Sopranos now. | ||
| And in season four and five, there's a lot of episodes that pertain to Tony's son, Anthony. | ||
| His name's Anthony also. | ||
| And he's in school. | ||
| He's in high school. | ||
| And there's a lot of episodes that are around his teachers and the guidance counselor and getting into college. | ||
| There's a couple episodes where the other daughter, Meadow, she's a little bit older when she's trying to get into college too. | ||
| And you see how they're just in this system. | ||
| They're just in a public school system, and you're just handing your kid off, and you're hoping that the guidance counselor or the school administrator or whatever really cares about them. | ||
| And then, of course, what you ultimately realize and what the parents realize is they're the ones that are responsible for all that. | ||
| So I would say education is probably the one. | ||
| That is most fundamental. | ||
| And then you also asked about family policy. | ||
| I would say, look, it should, broadly speaking, it should be the, and Trump has been absolutely great on this, it should be the policy of any government. | ||
| What you want in a healthy society is that you're going to have young people who grow into adults, who become functional people, who build good families, who offer something to society, and then hand that off to the next generation and hand that off to the next generation. | ||
| And that's how you'll have a healthy society that will thrive and grow over time. | ||
| So anything that the government can do, not anything that the government can do, there should be certain things that the government can do through tax breaks. | ||
| Through school choice and things like that, that would encourage anyone that's in a committed relationship to have children, grow families. | ||
| Like, that's how you build things bottom up. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Beth says, what's the toughest personal moment you've had while being in the public eye, and how did you handle it without giving in to outrage culture? | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| I mean, that's a tough one. | ||
| You know, look, I get a certain amount of hate. | ||
| It ebbs and flows. | ||
| There are times when it's really, really personal. | ||
| There's times when it's... | ||
| You know, where it's obviously coordinated. | ||
| I mean, I think one of the things that's helped keep me sane for these last couple of years, what you guys know, I do the off the grid August thing and that gives an awful lot of perspective by just stepping away from the machine and the hate and the love, by the way, just getting away from all of that for a month, a year, you know, one twelfth of the year, I think is really important. | ||
| What's the most intense one? | ||
| You know, look, when there's been times, if they're coming after my family or something like that, that's like the thing that is the most vile and disgusting. | ||
| I would say. | ||
| But, you know, it's interesting because you find in some ways that you focus on the negative more than the positive. | ||
| But like the positive, the proof is in the positive here. | ||
| The proof is in the pudding. | ||
| Like there's, I've built businesses and work with great people and I've built a great life and I have great relationships and I've met heroes of mine and, you know. | ||
| I sat down with Frankie Valli a couple weeks ago, which I never would have thought I could have done, or I've met basketball heroes of mine, or I've smoked the joint with Bill Maher, which 20 years ago I would have said that would be the greatest thing ever. | ||
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So the good way, way, way outweighs the bad. | |
| That is to say that it doesn't come with some headaches and everything, but it's why I always talk about this black mirror that we're all holding. | ||
| It's like you've got to figure out what your relationship to this thing is, and it's going to be harder and harder and harder and harder. | ||
| Connect that to the earlier question. | ||
| I mean, one thing we're really trying to do is we're trying to do no screens with these kids. | ||
| We don't just hand them an iPad or a phone ever, ever, ever. | ||
| We have very limited TV time. | ||
| We're doing a little bluey and a little frog and toad, but very, very limited. | ||
| But I know that gets harder. | ||
| We took them last weekend to the beach and we're, you know, we're out at a restaurant and it's like when kids are going crazy, the inclination is just throw something right in their face. | ||
| But we really, really try not to. | ||
| But I'm sympathetic to every parent that has ever tried to do that while eating a meal that they could actually chew on. | ||
| It ain't easy. | ||
| Karen says, who would have thought that after 56 years of marriage, I'd hear a story from my husband for the first time about the first time he heard the Four Seasons while watching your interview. | ||
| Thank you for making that moment possible. | ||
| That's wonderful. | ||
| And that's what I love so much about the interview, that... | ||
| Frankie has been doing this since he was about 16 years old. | ||
| He's 91 now. | ||
| And his first hit was in 1962. | ||
| So you go to these shows and you see people that are his age. | ||
| There are people in their 90s at these shows. | ||
| And there's people in their 70s and 50s and 30s. | ||
| And there's teenagers there. | ||
| And they, like, that's the cool thing about music. | ||
| Like, music, good music, I don't know about the music these days, like, I haven't heard anything new good in a while, but, like, good music is transcendent, you know? | ||
| And I think part of my love for old music, why I love music of, I love, like, doo-wop of the 50s, and then I'm really into, like, 70s and disco stuff, and I love the 80s and the ballads and all that stuff, is because it brings you back to another time. | ||
| And then if you can share that. | ||
| With your kids after, you can, in some sense, bring that. | ||
| It's like a time travel machine that we have that's built into our brains. | ||
| So that's so great that you heard that. | ||
| 56 years of marriage, you're still learning something new about the guy. | ||
| That's fantastic. | ||
| Nimbus says, Trump mentioned that Vance could be his successor, but also spoke about Rubio. | ||
| Who would you want to carry the mantle in 28? | ||
| I mean, it's way too early to get into any of that, but the bench is deep. | ||
| Could it be JD? | ||
| And is it likely JD? | ||
| Because he's the VP. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Could it be Rubio who has done an unbelievable job as Secretary of State so far and who was qualified after all his years in the Senate? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Could you see him handing it off to Don Jr.? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Is there three other people that could get involved in this thing? | ||
| Does Tulsi want to get in? | ||
| You know, she ran as a Democrat already. | ||
| Like, there's such a deep bench. | ||
| I think it's way too early to start thinking about it. | ||
| I think the key thing, like, if you're... | ||
| Roughly into the idea set that I present on this show, and you like what Trump's doing, and you love this country, the key thing is just making as many people realize that for the next year and a half. | ||
| Because the key thing is getting to those midterms and not having what normally happens, which is an incumbent gets a bloodbath in the midterms, meaning the incumbent's party usually gets crushed in the midterms, and then basically you end up with pretty much that next day, two years into the Trump presidency, you have a lamed up. | ||
| Lame duck Trump with a Dem majority in the House. | ||
| And then basically it's just a circus for two years. | ||
| That's the last thing that we want. | ||
| So you want as many people, you want people looking around going, boy, you know, if it was JD, that'd be pretty good. | ||
| And you know, if it was Rubio, that'd be pretty good. | ||
| If it was Tulsi, that'd be pretty good. | ||
| And oh, it turns out that these people are all in this administration. | ||
| Maybe we should support them. | ||
| Tony says, if you could give one piece of advice to someone that's trying to break out of groupthink. | ||
| What would it be? | ||
| You know, I did a video for PragerU. | ||
| I've done four of those five-minute videos. | ||
| And one of them was about breaking out of groupthink. | ||
| And I would say, basically, you kind of have no choice. | ||
| How do you want to live your life? | ||
| Let's say you are around a circle of friends that don't really know what you think. | ||
| And you're in your 20s. | ||
| It's pretty doable. | ||
| It's pretty doable. | ||
| You don't have to talk about politics all the time or anything else. | ||
| But, like, you can kind of get away with it. | ||
| Now you're in your 30s and your friends don't really know what you think about whatever. | ||
| I'm not even talking about politics, but you just don't share what your thoughts are on family or culture or philosophy or religion. | ||
| You just don't. | ||
| But they're still your friends and you can still go get drunk with them. | ||
| Okay, now you're in your 40s and you're doing that. | ||
| Now that seems kind of not that fun at all. | ||
| And now you're 50s and doing it? | ||
| Well, I'm not in my 50s yet, but that sounds absolutely terrible. | ||
| Like, at some point in life, like, you gotta just say it's your life. | ||
| These are the people you wanna be around. | ||
| And I think that everybody wants to be around people that actually know who they are, right? | ||
| So if you're trying to break out of groupthink, say what you think. | ||
| Like, that really is the answer. | ||
| Say what you think, and then you might, I mean, and I guarantee you this will happen, actually, not might. | ||
| I guarantee you this will happen. | ||
| First off, you're gonna lose some friends. | ||
| That's the bad part. | ||
| There are gonna be some people that turn on you, some family members. | ||
| They're going to call you a Nazi and all the rest of it, for sure. | ||
| But the other part, the cool part, is that other people will start coming out of the woodwork. | ||
| Oh, I saw you posted that thing on Instagram. | ||
| That's pretty cool. | ||
| I didn't know you were one of us. | ||
| And then next thing you know, while a few friends and relationships kind of flit away, which, by the way, their foundation wasn't great anyway because it's a hampered friendship if somebody doesn't know who you are and what you really think, suddenly you will find a much, much richer place. | ||
| That is literally what my life has been about. | ||
| Because I just started telling people what I thought. | ||
| And it caused a whole bunch of people to hate me that used to like me. | ||
| And it caused a whole bunch of people that, I don't know, either didn't like me or were indifferent to me or didn't know me, that are now my friends and colleagues and, in some cases, family members and everything else. | ||
| So, it's... | ||
| You gotta say what you think. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Except you guys, if you have a problem with me. | ||
| In that case, shut the fuck up. |
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