Dave Rubin critiques Tucker Carlson's sudden pivot to nuclear threats against Iran, contrasting it with Donald Trump's measured rhetoric while highlighting public support for airstrikes. He mocks The View's immigration jokes and discusses the DNC's financial woes under Ken Martin before promoting his AI-art tequila, Copal. Rubin also defends the legacy of Naked Gun creator David Zucker over Seth MacFarlane, recounts his near-stay in Israel during conflict, and recommends a mallet for cooking, ultimately framing these cultural and political shifts as symptoms of a broader societal decline. [Automatically generated summary]
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So we are going to dive right back in, and we're going to focus a little bit to start on the media component of what's gone on, obviously, between Israel and Iran.
And, you know, I've been talking about some of the influencer stuff on the right.
Tucker Carlson particularly.
We're going to dive into that, then do a whole bunch more.
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So let's start with Tucker Carlson.
He had Ted Cruz on his show yesterday.
And, you know, over the last, whatever it is, year and a half since Tucker has gone independent, one of the criticisms of him, and it's not a criticism that I've laid out publicly, but one thing that I do consistently hear about him is that he's giving all of these softball interviews to people.
That have either confused ideas about history or about politics or whatever it is.
Now, I'm an interviewer.
People can criticize me.
I've heard that people used to say it.
They don't really say it anymore.
People used to say Dave Rubin's a softball interviewer.
Everyone can interview the way they want.
When I was growing up, I used to watch Larry King.
He was my hero and then became a mentor and a friend, and I would say a bonus grandfather.
People used to say he was a softball interviewer.
Then there were interviewers like Piers Morgan that are way more combative at times, and then sometimes they're softball interviews.
everyone has their own style.
But one thing that has definitely been leveled at Tucker in the last little bit is that he's a softball interviewer for people that he wants to promote their ideas.
He had an extremely, He had an extremely combative interview with Ted Cruz, mostly over Israel and Iran yesterday.
And there was a lot of back and forth.
It really caught the internet on fire.
We're gonna show you two or three clips here.
I wanna start with this because one, I don't know, like funding Hamas that killed 46 Americans, and also that Iran has had a plan to assassinate Donald Trump.
They got into that and listened to Tucker's reaction.
First off, I think you can see the general demeanor is very, it was very combative for two hours.
Okay, you can do an interview however you want.
Everyone's entitled to that.
He simply has not done that with anyone else, with anyone else.
And he puts on even the left-leaning people.
Now, there's a couple things there.
He said that he had never heard of this assassination plot.
I mean, I just want to show you this headline.
This is from ABC.
ABC News 3 charge in Iran-linked murder plots.
With one targeting Donald Trump as revenge for killing Qasem Soleimani.
Now, you remember that Soleimani was the head of the Iranian military, and Trump did that very, very early on.
It was the mother of all bombs was another thing that Trump did.
Both of those things, people said it was going to start World War III.
Obviously, it did not.
Now, I want to also make another point.
I don't know if—I don't have any more information than you do.
Ted Cruz, I suppose, has more information because he gets intelligence reports.
Now, are we to trust everything that the Department of Justice says?
Probably not, right?
At least the previous Department of Justice.
I mean, it's being cleaned up now with Cash Fatale and Dan Bongino, so I have a lot more faith in the Department of Justice right now than I did before.
But if we are to believe the Department of Justice, if we are to believe the reporting around that, if Ted Cruz, there's no reason not to believe Ted Cruz.
If any of that is true, well, then and Pam Bondi, I mean, if any of that is true, well, then Tucker's response is rather extraordinary because he's.
I don't want to kill anyone.
I'm peaceful, blah, blah, blah.
And it's a sort of thin, I would say, low-resolution bumper sticker thing.
Because if someone killed your wife, you might want to kill them.
If they were shooting rockets at your house, if someone from another country raped your daughter, etc., etc.
Like, if it was in self-defense, you might kill someone.
So to just say, I never want to kill anyone.
I don't want to kill anyone.
Obviously, you watching this don't want to kill anyone.
But there are moments that you should defend yourself.
And if someone's saying, I'm going to wipe your country off the planet, well, then perhaps you might be willing to kill someone.
So it's interesting to me that he said he has never heard of it, something that I think most people have heard of.
It's been widely reported.
But then he did ask the right questions.
How do you know it's true?
And again, I'm giving the devil his due as it pertains to the Department of Justice.
But then he says, all right, then we should attack Iran.
Why aren't we at war with Iran?
and we should nuke Tehran.
And even Like, let's say it is true.
Let's assume that it's true for a moment, that there's an assassination threat against Donald Trump.
That doesn't mean we should nuke Tehran.
We should try to find, there are pinpoint ways.
I mean, I think the Mossad has shown there are ways through beepers and other things to kill specific people who are plotting to do things.
But Tucker went from, I'm not for killing anyone.
To moments later, saying, if this is true, nuke Tehran.
Now, he's entitled to whatever opinion he wants on any of this, but I'm just trying to show you the sort of thinness around what he's been doing, and I genuinely do not know why.
Also, he was very dismissive of the assassination plot and then suddenly was implying that Ted Cruz wasn't even taking it seriously enough.
I mean, if Ted Cruz, the implication is that if Ted Cruz brought a bill to the Senate today, I wouldn't be for that.
I mean, I just don't really understand that.
Anyway, here they continued a little bit more.
Here's Tucker saying he's against killing anyone, which has been his thing.
And then Ted Cruz making the moral argument, which is sometimes you do have to kill terrorists and bad people.
Now, interestingly, Trump has a completely, he has a similar approach, I would say, to Iran, which is that if they get him, they're going to be in an awful lot of trouble, but not just because they have plans to do so.
Tucker is literally saying if they have plans to do so, nuke them.
Trump is saying if they get him, well, listen to this.
If that happens to a leader or close to a leader, frankly, if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it.
That is probably right, that if they God forbid assassinated Donald Trump, the gates of hell would be opened on him.
Now, I think you could have a perfectly moral, reasonable, philosophic argument like, okay, so if you found out that the heads of the Iranian national government You know, this cadre of 20 people or whatever it was.
500 people all coordinated to work together to kill the President of the United States.
You could have a philosophical and moral debate as to whether it's okay to obliterate the entire country.
I think there's 91 million people in Iran.
That's what Tucker told Ted Cruz yesterday.
He really wanted to get him on the fact that Ted Cruz didn't know the exact number of people.
I mean, it was a really ridiculous gotcha moment that it was obvious Tucker didn't even know the answer to that a minute before.
But you can have an honest debate about that.
Like, what would be the real response?
I mean, that would be the ultimate act of war.
You'd be killing the leader of the free world.
And should your country just be blown apart?
Trump said, I've left instructions.
So there's some debate around that.
Tucker said we should nuke Tehran now if this is true.
Again, our Department of Justice says it's true.
I hope it's not true, and I absolutely hope it doesn't happen.
But I'm just trying to show you the thinness of these arguments.
You can take like these faux You can take these faux moral positions.
I'd never kill anyone.
I'm always a good guy.
I'm nice to everybody.
I always turn the other cheek.
Those are easy things to say, and we all like them in theory.
But then there's something.
There are people that actually have to guard the walls, right?
There are people who actually have to defend countries.
And it may be hard for us to realize in the West, but there are people who do not like our way of life, who do not like our country.
Some of them chant and lead chant saying death to America and call us the big Satan.
So you can make a simplistic argument if you want, and I suppose that can confuse an awful lot of people and make it seem like the people who are defending themselves are the bad guys.
But it's just not true.
Now, I would prefer that everything that's happening right now with this little schism on the right be dialed back.
I don't think you have seen anyone online call for more of a wide tent situation than me, repeatedly, almost to the point of banging my head into the desk, which maybe if I have a little more tequila, I will do at the end of the show.
So Trump was asked about this little schism that's happening with Tucker right now, and he says that Tucker actually apologized.
That right there was even better than yesterday, Trump.
The way he is speaking with nuance.
Talking about that people can have disagreements with things, and that Tucker really doesn't want this, and okay, we fought, and he apologized.
The layer of honesty that we are getting out right now is just incredible.
It is rare and precious, and I suspect we won't have it for very long.
not because of Trump, but the machine will always figure out a way to push in more lies.
But that is nice to hear if Tucker does not want...
Again, let's not forget, 46 Americans, at least, were killed by the Iranian proxy Hamas less than two years ago.
So they have plenty of American blood on their hand.
There's the Lebanese barracks.
We can go into all of the things that they've done over the years.
And the threat.
Again, it was Tucker taking more of a hardline position.
That's the irony.
Tucker said, if it is true they're trying to assassinate him, you nuke Tehran.
Donald Trump is not taking that position.
Ted Cruz is not taking that position.
I'm not taking that position.
So anyway, it was an extremely, and I would say oddly unnecessarily combative interview.
That Cruz had with him.
I think Cruz did a really nice job and probably, if anything, maybe could have realized that it was going to be as combative as it was.
Jason Calacanis from the All In podcast, I was on his show a couple weeks ago when we were in Austin, he wrote this.
I thought this was the right tone here.
It's awesome that Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz are debating issues like Iran in a full-contact way.
The Democrats should take note on how effective this is in building a big tent with different ideas.
So I will say this, my criticisms of Tucker's ideas aside, the fact that he's sitting down in this case with someone who, It is something I've tried to do.
It's gotten harder over the years because so many people on the left, to Jason's point, would not debate ideas.
So even when I was a lefty, as I started defending free speech, I'm talking about eight, nine years ago, it was the left that wouldn't talk to me and the right that would.
So the right has an interesting moment right here.
Like there's a really, really teachable, learnable, like level up moment, which is we've got some differences of opinion.
But if it's true, Tucker.
That you don't want Iran to get a bomb, but you just don't want America involved, then you should be pretty thrilled with what Israel did right now, because Iran is basically not functioning as a military anymore.
There is still this issue with Fordo, which is the nuclear site Fordo, and whether they can actually do that final bombing themselves.
But putting that aside, the rockets are basically stopping.
They're not fully stopped, but they're basically stopping.
Israel has control of their airspace.
No American boot was on the ground.
Tucker and Alex Jones, for weeks now, I've been saying this is going to lead to thermonuclear World War III.
Whether you're for Israel doing this or not, and Israel's a sovereign nation and should do whatever they want, just like any sovereign nation should defend themselves as they see fit.
The argument for weeks was this would lead to thermonuclear war.
Well, not only is Iran's nuclear ability incapacitated, none of the Arab countries jumped in on the war.
They're secretly rooting for Israel.
Jordan is even helping shoot down some rockets.
The Saudis are obviously happy, and they won't have to get in a nuke race.
With Iran.
So there is not going to be any World War III.
I don't know what the end of this is.
I hope the Iranian people step up and take their country back from the mullahs and all those things.
But there's just no situation where we end up in World War III.
So why for so long would you scare people into believing that?
And that's what I mean about low-resolution arguments.
That's a low-resolution argument.
If anyone does anything, it leads to the worst thing.
Like, no nuance whatsoever.
It's the same exact thing as saying, I'm for peace.
I'm peaceful.
The people that are for war are bad.
Except you're not bad if you're for a war that is to save your life and save your family and everything else.
I guess you get it.
I did do an interview yesterday afternoon, which we put up last night with Rand Paul.
And I hope you watch it.
It's about 20 minutes and we talk about the big, beautiful bill, we get into He's obviously a libertarian, has very strong feelings about foreign aid and everything else.
And we got into some agreements and disagreements.
And I just want to show you the end of it, because what I've tried to do, and maybe I've failed that at times, but what I've tried to do in all my years doing this is treat every single guest the same.
I obviously have guests I don't agree with on different things, but I try to treat everyone the same.
I don't bring in somebody and then berate them for two hours.
So this is how it ended with Rand Paul last night.
You and I probably don't completely agree on everything, but we've just had a pretty reasonable conversation, and I don't mind you challenging me in any way.
But I have no intention of yelling or screaming, and I'm also clear that I don't know what the future is.
Nobody does.
Anybody who thinks they knows exactly what Iran will do, that's the unpredictability of foreign policy.
We don't know what they're going to do.
And I'll be the first to admit it.
If they capitulate and they negotiate and we can get to a better place, Israel made the right decision.
If they race to a nuclear bomb, it'll have been the bad decision.
But Israel won't have known in advance that.
But there will at least be people like me saying it was a possibility that an attack could push them in the wrong direction, not the right direction.
So I can't sit here and tell you, or I won't sit here and try to scare the hell out of you.
Oh my God, some stuff's happening.
World War III is on the way.
I won't take sort of fake moral positions that I wouldn't apply to my own life, right?
If there were terrorists that lived a mile away that were attacking me, I won't take my, Like, everyone should think, how would you behave in a certain situation?
And that's exactly what Rand Paul did right there.
Regardless of Rand Paul's feelings about foreign aid, about generally about military conflicts and everything else, what he said there was true.
If this, he doesn't want Rand to get the bomb, and apparently Tucker doesn't either, right?
And they have been a state sponsor of terror.
Nobody doubts that.
Rand Paul doesn't doubt it.
Ted Cruz doesn't doubt it, et cetera, et cetera.
Tucker Carlson doesn't doubt it.
If Israel does this, which it's almost done already, if Israel does this in the miraculous way that they have, and then Iran doesn't get a bomb and the country doesn't collapse and the people rise up, then it's a massive win.
If this causes them to race for a bomb, which I don't see how that could be because so much of their infrastructure is destroyed right now, then maybe it would be a mistake.
But the future will be the answer to that, right?
That's where we will find this out.
It's better to have a little nuance when you're discussing this stuff than be screaming the entire time.
World War III is coming.
These people are warmongers.
They want everybody dead.
I'm just the good guy and all of it.
It's just not honest.
It's just not honest.
So let's jump into now, where are we at at the moment?
Israel has basically decimated the Iranian army.
Iran is running out of rocket launchers.
Apparently, they got a lot of rockets, and they hit an Israeli hospital yesterday.
It was an Israeli hospital that I went to once, I think in 1997.
I cut my hand on something and I had to go to the hospital, Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.
They've hit this hospital, but they're running out of launchers, right?
Because you can have a million rockets, but if you don't have a way to deliver them, then you've got a bigger problem on your hands.
So things do seem to be calming down just a bit at the moment.
Here is Jesse Waters, and they get into a bit of talking about what Trump's plans are as it relates to all this, and that we may be in a little bit of a pause right now because maybe some good things are happening.
It's like multiverse Trump or something, you know, isn't it?
Being absolutely consistent.
And by the way, The Iranian regime, not the Iranian people, 61% who are Persian, but the Iranian Islamist regime of the Mullahs and Khomeini and everyone else, they brought this on themselves.
I've been to Israel many times, spent a lot of time with people there.
There was not one person that wanted this to happen.
They would just prefer that a regime that constantly, that makes its main goal.
What does Khomeini tweet about?
Go to Khomeini's Twitter.
Go to Khomeini's Twitter and see what he has tweeted about for the last 10 years.
It's always destroy Israel, kill the Zionists, America's evil, big Satan, little Satan, all of these things.
All they had to do was just focus on their own country.
And again, that's completely congruent with what Trump said in Saudi Arabia two months ago.
Everyone, have your borders, have your countries.
He's not demanding they have our lifestyle or anything else.
He's not demanding they abandon their religion.
But you just can't export terror.
What you can export is good trade.
And if you want to be part of what America is setting up through the Abraham Accords and everything else, you can all be part of that.
And that's the horizon that we're getting to.
Like that is the wind that I actually think is possible.
And that seems a lot more...
But instead, the Iranians have chose to do this.
There's a million videos of this.
This one happens to be from 2018.
"The Man on record!" "The Man on record!" Okay, first off, that seems like a terrible fire hazard to be burning those things in their parliament.
But that's what they've chosen to do.
Big Satan, let's burn the flag, let's fight with America all the time.
They just could have chose another way.
So now I want to connect this to Trump's broader policies, because I think also what's happening right now is there's this debate in MAGA as to what Trump's policies are.
Now, Trump, I think, has been very consistent about this and made it very, very clear.
Here's Ted Cruz on what Trump's foreign policy philosophy is and that he wants to defend America, not just leave America on an island somewhere.
But the point is that Remember, all of those things, all of the media, World War III is about to start, World War III is about to start, and none of it did, because the world actually likes an America that leads, and that's Donald Trump's MAGA America First agenda, not a purely isolationist agenda.
Well, I'm very sympathetic to the most libertarian voices, which is why I like Rand Paul so much.
And I believe in individual liberty and you should keep as much of yours.
I don't think it works.
In some sense, it doesn't work outside of just a pure vacuum.
It's nice to say that you can just focus on yourself and everything will be okay.
But there is a wider world and you do have to defend yourself.
Okay, alright, so not only do most Americans not want Iran to get a bomb, most Americans are actually for a huge amount of Republicans, but most Americans, as he just showed, 48% versus 47% opposed, are for America doing something.
Again, I'm kind of ambivalent on that.
I don't know.
I don't know more than you do on that as to how this thing finishes and exactly what they need.
Again, it does sound like, from what everyone's saying, and Trump is asking the generals, that the B-52 probably has to drop and that Israel doesn't have one or two bombs to really get into the deep underground area that the Fordow reactor's in.
Okay, fine.
Again, I don't know.
But the point is that most Americans don't want Most Americans are for what Trump is doing.
And I guess what I would say to put a pin in the Tucker Carlson thing is, if it's true what Donald Trump said when you called him on the phone and you don't want Iran to get a bomb, well, okay, Israel has done an awful lot for that.
So maybe stop endlessly focusing and vilifying Israel.
And then maybe at the same, because Israel's doing the dirty work.
As the German chancellor said in an interview yesterday, Israel right now is doing the dirty work for the entire world because the world will be safer after this.
So you can hate the Jews along the way, but they're actually making the world a little bit safer.
So there's that version.
But I would say, Tucker, give up some of that argument.
Stop doing that and get on board Trump.
You're never going to have a president that will be more transparent and more clear and more consistent over the years.
So it does not mean he's going to do everything right, but you're going to damn well know why he did it and what his plans are, because he's telling us consistently.
From all of that, we will go to the ladies of The View who have awful lot of opinions on this nonsense in just a moment.
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I haven't eaten since about 7 o 'clock yesterday, then played basketball, haven't eaten today.
Why are you always showing the clips of the ladies of The View?
And you know I have this constant battle about this.
For some reason, they have lodged themselves into the mainstream psyche of America.
And until that gets dislodged, I think they need to be called out on it because it's getting more and more hysterical.
And I guess the piece that I'm really amazed by is not that Whoopi says stupid things and it's not that Sonny's a racist.
It's that it is a giant corporate-backed show.
So what I'm much more curious about is why does the ABC news and entertainment divisions, why do they back this ridiculous show saying completely insane, like this is a top 10 stupid thing for Whoopi, which is not an easy list to crack.
I think maybe she's talking about the Matthew Shepard thing that happened about 25 years ago.
Gay people are doing just fine.
I went to South Beach recently.
I don't go there that often.
I had a smoothie at Pura Vida, and I saw some gay people.
They were very happy, actually.
They seemed to be doing just fine.
That was my one experience of the week with gay people.
As for black people, They seem to be doing just fine.
Nobody's lynching.
Well, actually, they get fake lynched, like Jesse Smollett, so maybe that's what you were talking about, Whoopi.
But the idea that you need, it's like you need this country to be so horrible.
And in your mind, I suppose it is, except that you're worth probably 50 million bucks, and you have your own security, and you're getting the good-ass weed.
We know about that.
Like, come on, ladies.
Stop with this nonsense.
And I love how she's, when Alyssa Farra again.
The pet Republican who occasionally makes sense, and they give her the cookie.
Meanwhile, if you want to see something completely ridiculous, you know, we've seen this, like, endless since COVID, really, or maybe even a little bit before.
The BLM, Antifa, Hamas, you know, it just morphs.
The protesters just morph and they put on Hamas masks and they put on COVID masks and they don't know what they're protesting for.
You're waving the flag of a, I think that was the Palestinian flag, of a country that never existed, that was funded by the Iranian regime that's killing Americans.
Like, what are you doing?
Why are you doing this?
But again, it's just, you know what we call it?
We on the computer there, we call it the current thing, trademark, right?
It's the current thing.
whatever the current thing is, okay, so now they've got Iran flags.
They went, they had Hamas flags, they had Hezbollah flags, they had Antifa flags, they had BLM flags, The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution.
And we have revolutionaries that have been ginned up by dingbats like Whoopi Goldberg and AOC and the rest of them into thinking that America's a bad place.
Marine Corps Mama, just an ex-user, I thought laid it out perfectly.
They shifted from trans to Ukraine to Gaza to illegals to Iran.
And look, what's going to happen here is that we're going to find that milk gets a lot higher.
Because I don't know if any of you have ever been on a dairy farm.
It is god-awful work.
We're going to see that groceries and vegetables are higher.
We're going to see an effect in our economy because whether people like it or not, whether Americans acknowledge it or not.
Undocumented immigrants are an integral part of our society and our economy.
And we're going to have to get used to seeing the videos of U.S. citizens detained, of U.S. citizen children being ripped from the arms of their mothers while they wail, of dads and moms and business owners.
First off, are there ways to either giving them some sort of pathway to citizenship or having them register or getting to the back of the line?
There's a million things as it relates to all that.
But basically what she says is she wants slaves.
She wants modern serfs.
She wants modern indentured servants so that your milk and your vegetables will be a little bit cheaper.
I'm all for cheap milk and cheap vegetables and cheap everything, right?
I want more competition and more capitalism to do that.
She doesn't really understand the basic idea of free trade and capitalism and exchanging goods in return for service and dollars and all of those things, but also, It's happening right now.
They're robots in the field.
By the end of this year, the optimist robot from Tesla that Elon is working on is going to start being in our homes.
And then, Anna Navarro, you probably won't need your butler because her husband's worth like 50 million bucks, right?
Like, she's doing okay.
And I wonder, does she have, like, Anna, I'm going to guess that the people who cut your lawn are illegals.
I'm going to guess that they are.
And I'm going to also guess that you can afford not to.
But you're pretending to be good rather than being good.
And now if you think that wasn't nutty, I genuinely cannot believe this one.
Eric Swalwell, who's, you know, he's one of the worst, I would say.
You've got like the Hamas Cruz or the Ilhan AOCs, like the true terror supporter.
Democrats are the worst.
And then there's this layer below it.
That's where Swalwell is and the catcher's mitt lady and a couple others.
Eric Swalwell put this video up on X yesterday.
Actually, I had to look like four times to make sure this wasn't a parody account.
This was from his official X account.
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I had a really good time today.
Yeah, me too.
What are you doing?
She's coming with us.
What are you talking about?
Who are you?
I'm your Republican Congressman.
Now that we're in charge, we're rounding up illegals.
She was born here!
She's a citizen!
I don't care.
She looks like one of them.
But don't worry.
When she's in prison in El Salvador, she'll have lots of company.
I'm okay with you putting up ridiculous misinformation and malinformation and total lies and complete fabrications and notice you had to hire actors for it because you couldn't show real video of it because that shit's not happening.
But can you believe he did that?
And then you wonder, why is it there are brain-broken 19-year-olds with a COVID mask and a Hamas thing over here and a scarf over here with an Iranian flag and a BLM thing and one nut and a boob and they're running around screaming, I hate America.
It's because of people like you.
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Let's jump over to Jim Acosta.
This is the man who was embarrassed and fired from CNN for being a total hack.
And again, this is what they do with everything.
Listen to his argument for illegal immigrants.
It's actually an argument against illegal immigrants, but somehow you know how TDS works.
Everything's about Trump, and thus you will take any position on anything at any time.
After all of everything we've been through, she still wants to take $50 million from good, decent taxpayers of New York, many of whom actually are hanging on by a thread because so many of them have left and come down here, which is why Florida's number one economy in the country right now, and New York is running out of a tax base.
She wants another $50 million for the services or illegals.
Who does she care about?
Does she care about the people who can vote for her?
Does she care about another group of people?
Unless her plan is to bring in enough of them so that they can vote for her.
Let's jump over to what happens if you just have bad podcasts.
What happens?
Well, this from the New York Times.
The DNC is in chaos and desperate for cash under its new leader, Ken Martin.
The Democrat National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power.
Just months into the tenure of the new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee's financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.
Fundraising for major donors, some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with, has slowed sharply.
At the same time, he has expanded the party's financial commitments to every state and even far-flung territories like Guam.
You don't know the difference between boys and girls.
You think one plus one doesn't equal two.
And all of that, you put that all in a bucket and have your base out there holding terrorist flags.
Suddenly the people with cash are just like, you know what, I think I'm actually just gonna buy an extra expensive bottle of wine tonight.
James Carville, who at one time was a sane Democrat and at one time was one of the leaders of the party that was a, whether you agreed with it or not, you wouldn't think it was completely insane, right?
It was a somewhat moderate party for a while.
Think Bill Clinton Democrats, whether you agreed with them or not.
That's when James Carville really came to stardom.
Here he is on Will Cain's show trying to explain to us that the Democrat Party is the most effective party in the history of the world.
This was a demonstrator in Los Angeles on top of a burned-out Waymo waving a Mexican flag after the ICE riots last weekend.
That, to me, is something that's a problem not just for his legal future, but also for your party and what it symbolically now has embraced, which I think we're getting a lot of examples.
But that has nothing to do with the party that you now, I suppose, are still a part of.
All of the sane people that believe the things that you believe are now part of a much bigger, broader Republican Party brought to us by an orange man with a red hat named Donald Trump.
And until you really understand that, what you guys are going to do are purge all of the sane people.
So we've got one more video for you, and then we'll get to the Ruben Record community Q&A.
Whitney Cummings, I don't think I've ever shown a video of her before.
She's a comedian, kind of indifferent to her altogether, but she's been a big lefty.
She's been pretty bad, I think, on a lot of the woke stuff and that kind of thing.
But she went on Bill Maher's show on Friday, talking about how she's been a big lib her whole life, but then she had kids, and you're not gonna believe it.
It's been fascinating because I've been on this sort of journey through motherhood where, you know, I've always been a very liberal person, maybe even a libtard.
But once you have a kid, you start, like, having thoughts that have been characterized as conservative.
As soon as I had a kid, I was like, I need a gun now.
Not for myself, because I've got coyotes in my yard.
I've got coyotes everywhere.
And before I had a kid, I was like, they coexist with us.
And you suddenly realize, boy, offense does matter at your house.
And you suddenly are like, oh, maybe I should have a gun.
And you're suddenly like, oh, maybe it starts opening up doors in your mind.
And you're like, boy, that is odd.
Why is the government forcing me to inject my child with this thing when kids don't die of it?
So congratulations to Whitney Cummings.
I think you're well on the way to becoming a sane person.
It doesn't mean you have to become some hardcore, right-wing, traditionalist, religious conservative, but you might just be for America and freedom and liberty, and those are all the things that are now represented by MAGA.
And to tie it all together, I would say that person, that Whitney Cummings, seems to be on the way to becoming.
Cummings becoming?
That person maybe could actually be in the same party, clearly, as Donald Trump, but maybe even Tucker Carlson, if he'll just let some of his nonsense go away right now.
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All right, a couple questions, and then we gotta move.
Doc Ransom says, I know the left likes to use the argument that immigrants commit less crime than citizens.
But this is patently false for those here illegally, given the simple fact that being here illegally means you have committed a crime.
So 100% of illegal immigrants have committed a crime.
But progressives slash leftists don't operate on a logical level.
They are all emotion and optics.
Yeah, I mean, that's why I've been doing this thing about why they're all limp-wristed and why do all these Democrat men, Cory Booker and Padillo from Cali, why are they constantly crying?
Like they are operating in a way that, because they're trying to hit on something emotional rather than something real, it's why you need The Douglas Murray line, the barbarians will be at the gate, we'll be debating what gender pronouns will call them.
And if it wasn't wrong-willed, again, I mean conservative in the little C sense of it, if it wasn't sensible people guarding the door, then all of the limp-wristed crying people would be like, oh, the orcs who are coming in, they just want lunch.
And then next thing you know, the orcs are eating you for lunch.
That's how it works.
And yes, of course, that's why they don't want to say illegal.
It's why they want you to say undocumented or a series of other Orwellian terms, right?
Because legal, You put those together, it's pretty obvious what it means, and that's why they don't want to even use the word.
So when they start going after your words, you should know there's a more nefarious reason than just because they're just so kind and lovely and nice.
Glenn says, what do you think about the theory that the shooting of Democrats in Minnesota in their homes by an apparently fellow Democrat was so the left could blame it on the right and Republicans?
Well, look, I wouldn't put anything past the machine.
It's interesting how that story has kind of largely gone away now, right?
I mean, it was a pretty significant story.
To have lawmakers killed in Minnesota, but it went away almost immediately because it did turn out to be lefties.
Was there a moment in the media where they wanted to pin it on the right?
Yeah, but again, thankfully now we have this, to whatever extent the internet is free internet, free internet.
And we pretty much would have debunked all that, so that's good.
Elizabeth says, any fun birthday plans on the agenda?
We're having a big 49th birthday for me on June 28th.
My birthday is June 26th.
I don't know what the plans are.
I assume it'll be just probably dinner with David and the boys, which will be just great.
I don't want anything.
I don't want any gifts.
I want nothing.
I have everything that I could ever want.
And then just party with some friends and tequila on the 28th.
Joe says, what's the fastest way to annoy us?
Oh, this is super easy.
It's one of the only things that bothers me in Florida, besides the nonsense that, if I'm talking about The View or whatever stuff I'm talking about on the show, if I see a, particularly Bernie, because I do see them, Bernie or just like any, you know, when I saw Charlie Crist.
Bumper stickers.
Or I had a neighbor that had the Charlie Crist sign.
We put up a huge American flag in the front by the entry of the house because it's like, this is America.
It's the greatest country in the world.
Let's keep fighting for it.
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You know, it's not just that the jokes don't look good and they're just trying to recreate something that they should have handed it to the original guy.
He wrote the script for Naked Gun 4, the rebooted Naked Gun.
I read it on a plane.
It is hilarious.
I want to help him make it.
Unfortunately, they won't be able to call it Naked Gun because obviously the studio owns the name and they've already given it to McFarlane.
But I watched the trailer, and one thing that was bothering me beyond just kind of the jokes falling flat is that if you watch the original Naked Gun, the beauty of Leslie Nielsen was the hapless, the hapless character that Frank Drebin was.
Frank Drebin's being shot at, and he always kind of has a smile on his face or just this look of bewilderment all the time, doesn't really know what's going on.
Leslie, Liam Neeson, and it's funny that they went from Leslie Nielsen to Liam Neeson.
They were like, can we get a name that sounds familiar?
And yes, I do think Naked Gun is the funniest movie of all time.
I would even put it above Airplane, which most people say.
But the fact that Zucker has two of the top, anyone, any sensible person would say Airplane and Naked Gun are two of the top ten movies.
Ten funniest movies of all time.
Like, pretty freaking amazing.
Jeffrey says, are you glad you left Israel before the bombs started falling?
You know, I actually almost stayed a few extra days.
And I was going to have the team.
I didn't go back, and I was gonna stay a couple extra days, and then I realized that I didn't want to be away from the kids for that long, and we were missing a lot of shows.
I have to say, there has been a part of me that, in some sense, it kind of sounds crazy to say, but in some sense, that I wish I was there, because I was just there.
I was just there, and I experienced all of the incredibleness of it, and took my team out.
We're out at 4:00 a.m., having fun.
And then the very next day, talking to a woman who was held under Gazda for 54 days.
There's this unbelievable sense of life.
What I keep saying is Israel's fighting for its life while the West is just dying a slow death.
So the energy of being there has been incredible.
And they will survive this, right?
like this too shall pass.
And I think to be there during something like that would be unbelievable.
And I can assure you that being in Jerusalem for the time we were was, I think, this time more deeply meaningful than any other time I was there.