June 23, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| What's up, humanoids? | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
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| It's June 23rd, 2025. | ||
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| I don't know if you heard, but we bombed the nuclear reactors over in Iran. | ||
| A lot of people screaming about World War III. | ||
| I'd like to think that, as usual, I've been a kind of calming voice in this entire thing. | ||
| I don't think World War III is coming. | ||
| I think everything's going to be okay. | ||
| I wasn't calling for the U.S. to get involved. | ||
| Trump made a decision. | ||
| I think it actually was the right decision. | ||
| And as I've been saying all along, since Trump took over in January, you know, he deserves a little bit of leeway here. | ||
| He deserves a little bit of a leash because this is a guy who consistently for the last 10 years has done everything that everyone said couldn't be done. | ||
| This is the guy who does it. | ||
| He is the first mover more than anyone else. | ||
| He does the unthinkable things. | ||
| And when he does things, let's not forget, he moved the embassy, the American embassy. | ||
| He moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. | ||
| First time around, 45 Trump, everyone said World War III is going to break out. | ||
| He dropped the mother of all bombs in Iran. | ||
| Everyone thought World War III was going to break out. | ||
| He killed Iranian General Suleimani. | ||
| Everyone thought World War III was going to break out. | ||
| So there's a certain level of hysteria that's kind of baked into the system. | ||
| It's not really the way I do things here. | ||
| And I think commer heads are prevailing right now. | ||
| And I think everything's going to be okay. | ||
| So we're going to unpack not only what happened, but a little bit of the media response, some of the kind of craziness, which I've, I'd say, begrudgingly been addressing in the last week or so as it pertains to the right-leaning online media, then the easy stuff that we can do, always smacking around the left. | ||
| And then we will end on a positive note. | ||
| And once again, just make note up top. | ||
| Fear not, guys. | ||
| World War III is not on the horizon. | ||
| Let's start with what happened. | ||
| I know you all know it, but worth recapping. | ||
| This is from Donald Trump on truth. | ||
| We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, Natans, and Esfahan. | ||
| All planes are now outside of Iran's airspace. | ||
| A payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site, Fordo. | ||
| All planes are safely on their way home. | ||
| Congratulations to our great American warriors. | ||
| There is not another military in the world that could have done this. | ||
| Now is the time for peace. | ||
| Thank you for your attention in this matter. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| Thank you for your attention in this matter. | ||
| That's the new line that Trump is going with. | ||
| And of course, on open source Intel, Fordo is gone. | ||
| Here, we're just going to run through a couple of the greatest hits just to get you caught up real quick. | ||
| Here's another one from Trump on truth. | ||
| Any retaliation by Iran against the United States of America will be met with force far greater than what was witnessed tonight. | ||
| Thank you, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. | ||
| Then he tweeted out, as he has one to do, a picture of the American flag. | ||
| Certain people burn the flag. | ||
| Donald Trump, when he accomplishes things he likes to, puts a picture of the American flag. | ||
| And then he gave a big speech at 10 p.m. | ||
| on Friday night. | ||
| Here's Trump saying that Iran's key nuclear facilities have been obliterated. | ||
| A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Ford, Natans, and Esfahan. | ||
| Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. | ||
| Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. | ||
| Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. | ||
| Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. | ||
| All right, so we're going to show another clip of that speech in just a second. | ||
| And while you're listening to Trump, I think it's worth noting that look at the three guys that are standing behind him and the competency of these people, right? | ||
| You've got J.D. Vance, you've got Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth. | ||
| Like these guys are all ready for the job. | ||
| You don't have to agree with everything Trump has done. | ||
| You may have questions about what he's done. | ||
| We can all debate the philosophic underpinnings of peace through strength and all of that stuff. | ||
| But think how different it is, as I always say, think how different it is between what we have right now, those four men standing up there. | ||
| Donald Trump, who has just, as I said, done everything everyone said couldn't be done relentlessly over and over. | ||
| They tried to kill him for it. | ||
| They tried to impeach him for it. | ||
| They tried to end all his businesses. | ||
| They tried to get him off ballots, all of the stuff. | ||
| He's up there as the decider, and it's clear that he made the decision here. | ||
| And then he has three competent people behind him. | ||
| I mean, imagine if there was the other version of this. | ||
| Imagine if it was Kamala Harris standing up there with VP Tim Walls and whoever they would have brought in on those other things. | ||
| I mean, the other jobs. | ||
| I mean, first off, this would have never occurred, but just like the level of incompetence and everything else where right now we have competent people. | ||
| So here's Trump talking about how if Iran does anything now, which they're pretty much completely incapacitated, that they will live or not live to regret it. | ||
| Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. | ||
| If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. | ||
| For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel. | ||
| They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. | ||
| That was their specialty. | ||
| We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. | ||
| In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani. | ||
| I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. | ||
| It will not continue. | ||
| And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God, I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military. | ||
| Protect them. | ||
| God bless the Middle East. | ||
| God bless Israel and God bless America. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I have to say, I'm sure, like probably almost all of you watching this, I watched that live, and it was just, it was just Trump at his best. | ||
| You know, lately, the last couple of weeks, I've been saying that Trump at his best is when he gets these impromptu questions, and he's just constantly, he has this way of at sort of different levels telling the truth with either an offhand remark or a joke, or he flips the question back on whoever asked him something. | ||
| But what he did right there, it was true. | ||
| It was direct. | ||
| It was completely consistent with everything he's been saying for 10 years, right? | ||
| We're not going to show it to you again. | ||
| We've showed you several times last week that compilation of from day one, from the day he came down that escalator, which is now 10 years and a week ago, saying Iran will not get a nuclear bomb, talking about the state sponsor of terror. | ||
| Let's not forget these guys were the ones funding. | ||
| I mean, it was actually America, unfortunately, through the Biden administration that gave Iran back $16 billion. | ||
| And we know that a lot of that was funded to Hamas, which killed 46 Americans. | ||
| Forget about 2,000 Israelis. | ||
| They killed 46 Americans in the last two years alone, right? | ||
| So this is not a good regime. | ||
| Now, again, you can make your arguments as to whether we should have done this or not or gotten involved or just left it up to the Israelis. | ||
| As I keep saying, every sovereign nation has to make decisions for itself. | ||
| If you think you have an existential threat on your border, if there's a country over here saying we're going to kill you and we're building the weapons, oh, and by the way, we already have launched all of these missiles at you and raped your women and killed people and all these things. | ||
| You have to make a decision. | ||
| And then there's allies involved, right? | ||
| And it sounds like Israel probably couldn't have finished off the nuclear reactor, particularly at Fort Oak, because it was so deep. | ||
| So we needed these American bombers. | ||
| And Trump and Beebe clearly, look, they gave them, they said 60 days. | ||
| This all started with Israel a week ago on day 61. Clearly, there was some misdirection there. | ||
| We're going to find out how they were coordinating and everything else. | ||
| Was it good faith negotiations on both sides? | ||
| We will find out about all of those things. | ||
| But the end result right now is that the Iranian military is completely destroyed. | ||
| Khomeini is hiding in a bunker. | ||
| They know where he is. | ||
| All of the nuclear scientists and the military people who just, if they would have just focused on their own country, would all still be alive and have pretty sweet gigs and be doing just fine. | ||
| They're pretty much all destroyed. | ||
| Israel has complete control of the Iranian airspace. | ||
| It's a country that it's probably 50 times bigger than Israel. | ||
| And they have Israel now a tiny country has control of their airspace. | ||
| So World War III is not coming. | ||
| It doesn't mean bad things can't happen. | ||
| It really doesn't. | ||
| Of course, you never know what could be unexpected. | ||
| But the military has been destroyed. | ||
| Here's Fox News Trey Yingst talking about how Iran appears to have been just weeks away from finally getting that nuke. | ||
| 5 local time, one source said rumors Trump gave the word supposed to be happening now. | ||
| We were working on tracking it down and the president taking it true social to say the Americans did indeed strike three separate Iranian nuclear facilities, including the Fordow nuclear facility deep underground outside of the Iranian capital of Tehran. | ||
| The bottom line here is that people are talking about enrichment. | ||
| They understand that this decision was made because the Iranians were increasing their uranium enrichment capabilities and increasing the purity closer and closer to weapons-grade material. | ||
| And the concern was that the Iranian regime was just weeks away from being able to build a nuclear bomb. | ||
| And clearly tonight, President Trump ordering these strikes against the Iranian regime's nuclear program because there was no off-ramp for diplomacy at this point. | ||
| There was that 60-day window that President Trump gave the Iranians to come to the table. | ||
| Five rounds of conversations, most of them taking place in Oman with Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, other top American officials meeting directly and indirectly with their Iranian counterparts, but the Iranians did not want to finish a deal. | ||
| All right, so if that's true, Trey's a pretty good reporter. | ||
| If that's true, well, then that's why we're at where we're at. | ||
| Either BB and Trump realize, boy, we gave them 60 days and they're not going to do this. | ||
| And now there's some movement. | ||
| So it does appear they're trying to do some last-minute things as it comes to pertaining a nuke or figuring out how to deliver it, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| And we're going to move on this. | ||
| But for all of the people, and we'll do more on this in a moment, but for everyone, and I see so many people that I think a few years ago, I thought were like kind of centrist sane people, or not even centrist, I just thought they were like roughly sane, screaming that we're going to be in World War III. | ||
| the largest state sponsor of terror has been completely incapacitated right now it doesn't mean that there can't be sleeper cells it doesn't but if there are sleeper cells would you also want the nation that's funding them to have nukes too so we are absolutely in a more peaceful situation as a world than we were a week ago let's not forget i said it last week every other time over the years 48 67 73 etc etc every time there is a an adventure to wipe out israel all | ||
| the arab nations get on board notice nobody got on board this time egypt could have sent some tanks over jordan they share a border like all of these countries could have jumped in lebanon could have figured out a way to get in they didn't because everyone's happier now right there's there's a it's completely consistent with what donald trump said in saudi arabia a couple uh two months ago no not even two months ago what was it six weeks ago basically he basically said listen if you want to join us the united states if you want to join us and | ||
| trade with us and be part of of a future that is not going to be handed to the radicals then get on board like just let go of some of the old hate and i think we're seeing that right now we're we're beginning to see the seeds are starting to grow uh let me just go back to a little bit of what was happening before we dropped the bomb this is from newsweek satellite satellite images show unusual activity at iran nuclear sites before strike before strikes pictures taken on thursday | ||
| and friday showed unusual truck and vehicular activity close to the underground uh close to the entrance of the underground fordo complex south of tehran satellite imagery firm maxar said late on saturday iran says its nuclear program is peaceful but international observers believe the country has enriched uranium far beyond what is needed for non-nuclear use israel the u.s and other american allies have consistently said they would not tolerate tehran gaining a nuclear weapon a total of 16 cargo trucks were spotted on the access road leading up to the fordau | ||
| tunnel entrance on thursday but most had moved to a spot one kilometer northwest of the access road by the following day mexar said new trucks and multiple bulldozers had appeared close to the main entrance by friday with one truck very close to the main tunnel entrance the satellite imagery provider said iran was producing considerable amounts of highly enriched uranium at fordo but it is not immediately apparent how much was still at the site in recent days william albukirk a senior adjunct fellow at the pacific forum and former director of nato's arms control disarmament and | ||
| wmd non-proliferation center told newsweek okay so there you can see and phoenix just throw back to that for a second so what you're seeing right there uh is the cargo trucks outside who i don't know again as i said to you several times last week i don't know what was exactly going on there any more than you do i think largely what we have right now is a situation where america is kind of back and we voted for trump and i think we have to trust that trump is making the right decisions i see all these people | ||
| and again we'll get to this more in a moment saying well we're trump was going to end all the wars end all the wars trump blah blah blah and it's like yeah sometimes you need to finish something to end the war and i think that is what we are getting to we'll have more on jd vance basically saying just that in just a second but first gold go guys did you know that florida just legalized gold and silver as money yeah that's right the free state of florida my home state recognizes gold and silver now as legal tender governor deSantis put it best this is | ||
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| where I do in some sense see good people on both sides and then I think there are some bad actors but I think it is a perfectly legitimate argument to say hey why is the United States getting involved here Israel's allowed to defend itself let them finish it like you can absolutely make a cogent argument around that often I'm making the argument that US it's we're like a house right we're like a home and if you have a ton of problems in your home you can't welcome all these people in I make that argument as it pertains to immigration but also in your own home if you have a lot of problems in your own | ||
| home you can't go out and fix everybody else's home right that's a Jordan Peterson like clean your room before you clean the world kind of thing so that's my position on it and I want to show you this video of JD Vance who I think has really been what's nice about JD is he seems to be able to in a way where Donald Trump is very bumper sticker he can give you the great bumper sticker answer and sort of be the first mover as I said on everything JD really does is able I think to communicate the nuance behind everything and | ||
| here's JD who no one in their right mind thinks is a war hawk wants to nation build bring about World War III or any of those things no there's nobody in their right mind who thinks that about JD here he is explaining that we don't want war with Iran and the way you get peace is making sure they don't have a nuke what we've said to the Iranians is we do not want war with Iran we actually want peace but we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program and that's exactly what the president accomplished last | ||
| night I really think there are two big questions for the Iranians here are they going to attack American troops or are they going to continue with their nuclear weapons program and if they leave American troops out of it and they decide to give up their nuclear weapons program once and for all then I think the president has been very clear we can have a good relationship with the Iranians we can have a peaceful situation in that region of the world we have to step back a little bit Kristen to remind ourselves that we negotiated aggressively with the Iranians to try to | ||
| find a peaceful settlement to this conflict it was only when the president decided that the Iranians were not negotiating in good faith that he took this action he didn't take it lightly but I actually think it provides an opportunity to reset this relationship reset these negotiations and get us in a place where Iran can decide not to be a threat to its neighbors not to be a threat to the United States and if they're willing to do that the United States is all ears All right. | ||
| Thank you, J.D. Vance, for illustrating exactly what I said there. | ||
| So he's making two points, right? | ||
| So what can Iran do right now? | ||
| To whatever extent their military is still functioning, and it is barely functioning. | ||
| There are less rockets even going into Israel right now. | ||
| Like they're in a lot of trouble right now. | ||
| Could they figure out a way to attack American installations in other places, right? | ||
| We've got troops in a bunch of different Arab countries. | ||
| They could attack troops in Iraq, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| Could they do that? | ||
| Yes, probably, right? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| And then the other thing was, will they continue with their new program? | ||
| Well, it's so far set back right now. | ||
| And so many of those scientists and people involved with that and military experts are dead that they probably can't. | ||
| So what does he say? | ||
| Well, then that's the opportunity for peace. | ||
| So while you have all these people screaming about World War III and for weeks now, I've been seeing Alex Jones ginning up people online. | ||
| There's going to be thermonuclear World War III. | ||
| Well, A, we just took out their nukes. | ||
| B, their military is gone and nobody else, none of the other countries got involved in this. | ||
| Jordan actually was helping shoot down rockets that were going to hit Israel. | ||
| Like there's an incredible opportunity here. | ||
| There actually is a horizon, but you have to see it. | ||
| And as JD says, they have to take the opportunity. | ||
| So if now the people, 61% of the people in Iran who are Persian, if they are done with the mullahs and Khomeini is somewhere in a bunker, you have a chance to take your country back. | ||
| Maybe they bring back their exiled leader. | ||
| Like anything is possible. | ||
| Anything is possible. | ||
| But it wasn't happened while they were literally funding terrorist groups like Habbas and Hezbollah, while they were building nuclear weapons and threatening other countries. | ||
| So the game, this is great. | ||
| Trump, this is Trump at his best. | ||
| We have a completely different game right now. | ||
| Now let's throw to Marco Rubio because Marco, you know, we've got our secret Rubin report list that I think will start it officially tomorrow of the top 10 people that Trump has had around him. | ||
| And we're going to let you guys in our newsletter, we decided we're going to let you guys vote on it. | ||
| And each week on Fridays, I'll reveal it. | ||
| Who is just doing the best in the Trump administration right now? | ||
| I just gave major accolades, obviously, to JD. | ||
| Marco Rubio, I don't know that there is anyone on earth who is better suited for a job that they have right now than Marco Rubio at Secretary of State. | ||
| Here he is just schooling Margaret Brennan on what Iran's capacity was and why we did what we did. | ||
| Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? | ||
| That's irrelevant. | ||
| I think that question being asked on the media, that's an irrelevant question. | ||
| They had to ask the media. | ||
| That's a key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| Yes, it was. | ||
| I know that better than you know that, and I know that that's not the case. | ||
| But the order was given. | ||
| And the people who say that, it doesn't matter if the order was given. | ||
| They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. | ||
| Why would you bury things in a mountain 300 feet under the ground? | ||
| Why would you bury 60%? | ||
| Why do they have 60% enriched uranium? | ||
| You don't need 60% enriched uranium. | ||
| The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons because they can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements they have. | ||
| Why do they have a space program? | ||
| Is Iran going to go to the moon? | ||
| No. | ||
| They're trying to build an ICBM. | ||
| So why would you enrich uranium at 60% if you don't intend to one day use it to take it to 90 and build a weapon? | ||
| Why are you developing ICBMs? | ||
| Why do you have 8,000 short-range missiles and 2,000 to 3,000 long mid-range missiles that you continue to develop? | ||
| Why do you do all these things? | ||
| They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon. | ||
| They have the delivery mechanisms. | ||
| They have the enrichment capability. | ||
| They have the highly enriched uranium that is stored. | ||
| That's all we need to see. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Especially in the hands of the regime that's already involved in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things around. | ||
| They are the source of all of these. | ||
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Yes, and no one's disputing that. | |
| Golf clap Marco Rubio. | ||
| Florida's Marco Rubio, by the way. | ||
| We're lending him to the feds for now, but we want him back here in Florida. | ||
| Everything he said there is right. | ||
| In essence, she's saying, well, why didn't you guys wait till they dropped the bomb? | ||
| Otherwise, how could you know it worked? | ||
| And he lays out there the difference between 60% and 90% enriched uranium and that they have all the pieces and why are they doing those. | ||
| So again, you can debate about whether we should have got involved. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| But also just note the way the mainstream media still treats. | ||
| Imagine if this was a Barack Obama operation. | ||
| Now, Barack Obama was very different because Barack Obama, actually, when the Iranian people had a revolution against the mullahs in 2008, Barack Obama fully did not back the people. | ||
| He backed the mullahs. | ||
| So we know what Barack Obama would have done. | ||
| But just try to imagine a situation where it would have been a Biden or a Harris or Obama person on one of these silly shows where this would have happened. | ||
| They would be sucking them off hardcore, okay? | ||
| Hardcore suck off. | ||
| That's not what they're doing with Marco Ruvio, who deserves it, by the way. | ||
| Like he deserved it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think I've ever met his wife, but that guy, okay. | ||
| Here's Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| And this is interesting because a few weeks ago, everybody was saying, well, not everybody, a certain set of people on the right were saying, Tulsi will stop the war. | ||
| She will stop the war and she's not on board this and she hates the neocons and everything else. | ||
| And they kept flashing to an 18-second clip of her testifying in Congress about Iran making the bomb. | ||
| And of course, surprise, surprise, ladles and jelly spoons, it was completely edited. | ||
| So now check out this clip. | ||
| We're going to show you the full clip of Tulsi explaining to Congress what Iran is doing. | ||
| Iran continues to seek expansion of its influence in the Middle East, despite the degradation to its proxies and defenses during the Gaza conflict. | ||
| Iran has developed and maintains ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs, including systems capable of striking U.S. targets and allies in the region. | ||
| The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. | ||
| The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. | ||
| In the past year, we've seen an erosion of a decades-long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision-making apparatus. | ||
| Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons. | ||
| Okay, I think you can already see where they selectively edited things. | ||
| The certain set of people on the right, who I would say are the kind of, well, some people call them the woke right, you can call them the retard right, the grifter right, whatever you want to say it is, were taking basically an 18-second portion of that saying, oh, that Khomeini's not interested in Imam and saying, see, see, see. | ||
| And then, of course, you'd have to listen to nothing else she said there. | ||
| And also, before I read out Tulsi's tweet on this, the idea that Tulsi Gabbard is suddenly a warmonger. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat only a year ago, who ran for president as a Democrat, who is from Hawaii, and her whole life is about surfing. | ||
| And like, this is the most, out of all of the politicians I have ever met doing this. | ||
| Like, not only, I would say I've become good friends with Tulsi, but like, she is the most like decent human being out of all of them. | ||
| A lot of them I just know in sort of a political vertical. | ||
| Like, this is a good woman. | ||
| So Tulsi, because a lot of people were taking her stuff out of context, she tweeted this. | ||
| The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division. | ||
| America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months if they decide to finalize the assembly. | ||
| President Trump has been clear that can't happen, and I agree. | ||
| My full testimony below. | ||
| Now, it's interesting because she says the dishonest media there, and we're used to talking about the dishonest media when it comes from the left. | ||
| In this case, she's mostly talking about people on the right. | ||
| But again, even putting aside what you think about any of that stuff, the only way you could be angry at Tulsi right now is if you suddenly think she's an absolute warmongering liar who has sold out to Donald Trump. | ||
| And that is just so patently ridiculous that only a certain set of people could believe it. | ||
| Here's Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, congratulating Donald Trump on a successful mission. | ||
| Congratulations, President Trump. | ||
| Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history. | ||
| In Operation Rising Line, Israel has done truly amazing things. | ||
| But in tonight's action against Iran's nuclear facilities, America has been truly unsurpassed. | ||
| It has done what no other country on earth could do. | ||
| History will record that President Trump acted to deny the world's most dangerous regime, the world's most dangerous weapons. | ||
| His leadership today has created a pivot of history that can help lead the Middle East and beyond to a future of prosperity and peace. | ||
| President Trump and I often say, peace through strength. | ||
| First comes strength, then comes peace. | ||
| And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with a lot of strength. | ||
| First comes strength, then comes peace, right? | ||
| Peace through strength. | ||
| You can't just say, I'm for, I'm for peace, I'm for peace. | ||
| Okay, that's nice. | ||
| And if you're basically over sixth grade education, you should understand why that doesn't really make sense. | ||
| You get peace when you're strong and someone then has to respect you and or fear you and they might not punch you. | ||
| This is schoolyard bully stuff. | ||
| But if you're just, I just want peace, I just want, well, what do you think the bully is going to do to you? | ||
| So yes, first strength, then peace. | ||
| I also thought it was interesting that what he, what Netanyahu said there, this is a pivot of history. | ||
| It's actually the same thing that JD said. | ||
| What did JD say? | ||
| Iran has a choice, a choice, a pivot. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| So Iran can make up its mind right now as a country, and hopefully they can figure out how to do it themselves. | ||
| Do you want to now attack American installations? | ||
| Do you want to figure out how to race to the bomb? | ||
| I mean, I just don't think there's any way they can possibly do that at this point. | ||
| But do you want to just continue the path that you've been down? | ||
| Or do you want to join the rest of the world as Donald Trump himself went to Saudi Arabia and put out his hand and said, join us, join us. | ||
| And meanwhile, the UAE and Oman and Saudi Arabia and everybody else is getting on board the Trump train and it will be up to them to figure it out. | ||
| I saw this video over the weekend. | ||
| I thought it was really, really great. | ||
| This is Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||
| This has got to be probably early to mid-80s, talking a little bit about his philosophy. | ||
| And he tells a story about a bear. | ||
| I thought it was quite good. | ||
| There's a story about two people who walk in the forest and are suddenly confronted by a grizzly bear charging at them. | ||
| One of them begins to run away. | ||
| The other asks him, why are you running? | ||
| Don't you know you can't outrun a grizzly bear? | ||
| And the man running turns around and he says, I don't have to outrun the bear. | ||
| I have to outrun you. | ||
| That's the attitude, I think, of some in the West. | ||
| They think that they can run away from the grizzly bear of terrorism and leave a few countries behind to be gobbled up by it. | ||
| But in fact, no one can outrun it. | ||
| The only thing you can do with this phenomenon is to turn around, squarely face it, confront it, and defeat it. | ||
| And you can only do that together. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| you you Confront it and defeat it. | ||
| I think we just did that. | ||
| Doesn't that feel right? | ||
| Now, again, defeat. | ||
| Okay, so what is defeat? | ||
| Can bad guys always figure out how to do things? | ||
| Could there be sleeper cells? | ||
| All of the other things. | ||
| But did we? | ||
| Israel took out the air defenses. | ||
| Israel took the brunt of it, right? | ||
| I don't know that there were any rockets into Israel yesterday, but they have an awful lot of damage in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. | ||
| But they did the heavy lift, and then we finished the job. | ||
| And now maybe other countries and other bad guys throughout the world will look around and be like, this shit ain't working anymore. | ||
| And we're going to have to, I don't know, pivot or perhaps make a choice. | ||
| And I think, speaking of pivoting, I think a lot of the online people on the right who have been criticizing over the last week or so after largely dipping out of the argument, I think they're going to have to pivot and make a choice as well. | ||
| We'll have more on that in just a second. | ||
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| Okay, so I think it was it, maybe right after Trump gave the speech. | ||
| I tweeted this out. | ||
| It got a couple million views, and I think this will set us up nicely for this segment. | ||
| And that's a wrap on World War III. | ||
| Unfollow grifters accordingly. | ||
| So let me just start with this. | ||
| You don't have to agree with me on everything. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| And I have no doubt. | ||
| I just know I meet you guys on the street and at the stores and at the gym and wherever, and you don't. | ||
| And you often bring that up to me. | ||
| And we can always try to do that respectfully. | ||
| I had Rand Paul on last week. | ||
| We, at the end, we had a nice sort of moment of like, we obviously don't agree on everything, but we'll keep having these conversations. | ||
| That was in stark contrast. | ||
| It was the same day that Tucker had Ted Cruz on, and they did it in the most oppositional, or I can't say they, Tucker intended it to be the most oppositional thing. | ||
| We have to figure out how to slog through some of this if America is going to be a place that people with various ideas and disagreements are going to coexist. | ||
| But one of the things that I think has been really bad in the last year is there's been a set of influencers on the right that have ramped up the endless fear and apocalyptic vision of the future for so many people that many people right this moment think World War III is on the cusp. | ||
| And if you just listen to what JD said, what Donald Trump said, what Marco Rubio said, it's like, no, we actually are way less chance of that now. | ||
| So unfortunately, Tucker, I think, has been at the center of this thing. | ||
| Again, it's still, it just gives me no pleasure to talk about this. | ||
| But there's this guy, Daryl Cooper, who I believe is a self-proclaimed historian that Tucker really likes and has put on his show many times. | ||
| This is the guy who basically said Churchill was the bad guy or certainly not a good guy of World War II. | ||
| He's had sort of a revisionist version of history. | ||
| He tweeted this out. | ||
| He said, now our only hope is Iranian restraint. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| And he retweeted Trump saying that we had a successful attack. | ||
| And it's like, no, that's not our only hope. | ||
| Our only hope is that now we've taken out the military of Iran, or actually Israel did that. | ||
| We've ended the nuclear program. | ||
| And now the hope is that Iran will make a choice slash pivot. | ||
| But if you've gone so deep, and this is what Alex Jones did, this is what Tucker was doing for the last five months, telling everybody that if we do any of this or Israel does any of this, we're going to end up in thermonuclear World War III. | ||
| You could probably check how many times Alex Jones has put that up on Twitter. | ||
| This is going to end in thermonuclear World War III. | ||
| There's less chance of a nuclear war right now because Iran won't have nuclear weapons. | ||
| You ramp up all of the craziness with people. | ||
| It's very hard to get out of that. | ||
| You know, it kind of reminds me, and I think this is, you know, James Lindsay coined the phrase woke right, that there's a woke left that we all get. | ||
| And then there's a woke right. | ||
| One of the things that I was always worried about with the woke left, and you can find my video the day after Donald Trump got elected the first time around and I did not vote for him. | ||
| I said I was worried about all of, I was going to give him a chance, right? | ||
| Like I was going to give him a chance and not be hysterical. | ||
| And there was a, the problem was the people that wouldn't give him a chance that were calling him Nazis and Hitler and all that stuff. | ||
| It's not what you're doing to Trump. | ||
| It's what you're doing to yourself. | ||
| You're painting yourself in a corner because once you've gone down that road, it's very hard to go down that road, turn around and be like, boy, I guess he's not Hitler and they're not white supremacists. | ||
| Well, in some sense, this woke right thing or these people on the right that have gone this road, in a weird way, they desperately, desperately need World War III right now. | ||
| They desperately need a terrorist attack or some lone wolf thing or some sleeper cell to be activated. | ||
| Otherwise, everything they've been selling their audience, the endless hysteria they've been selling their audience, all just flits away. | ||
| It's all obviously dishonest and it was designed for clicks and not real. | ||
| Donald Trump just exposed that. | ||
| So I just want one more on this guy because I don't like, you know me, I talk about mainstream media people. | ||
| I'm not, I don't like doing the like, let's just go after online people, but the online thing is ascendant these days. | ||
| So this guy Martyr made, this Daryl Cooper guy, who Tucker says is his favorite historian, he also literally last week admitted he's a Nazi, literally admitted he's a Nazi. | ||
| Put this up. | ||
| So somebody tweeted, this guy Corey Mahler tweeted, the American right is by any reasonable metric now openly socialist, openly national socialist, national socialist. | ||
| That means Nazi. | ||
| And he put up a picture of the Joker from the best Batman movie ever. | ||
| I'm not a monster. | ||
| I'm just ahead of the curb. | ||
| So in essence, he's saying, I am a Nazi. | ||
| So I'm just putting a pin in that. | ||
| I hope I don't have to talk about the guy ever again. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| And I also do hope that for some of the criticism that I and others have laid at Tucker over the last little bit, that he will come back now, right? | ||
| Otherwise, what are you going to do with your audience, right? | ||
| Like, do you want to just make them crazier at all times? | ||
| Do you want to just keep ramming up the crazy? | ||
| Or do you want to just acknowledge that maybe you were wrong about this? | ||
| It's not going to lead to World War III, that America is leading again, that MAGA and Trump was never about isolationism. | ||
| It was about America first and America leading the world to what Donald Trump calls the golden age. | ||
| Like you can get back on board that, Tucker, but you just got to give up the other stuff. | ||
| You remember this from the New York Post. | ||
| And this just shows you how thin the arguments became with Tucker in the last week. | ||
| Tucker Carlson floats nuking Iran if they're actually trying to kill Trump in epic clash with Ted Cruz over Israel conflict. | ||
| We showed you that clip last week. | ||
| Within 10 minutes, he went from saying, I'm against killing everybody. | ||
| I would never kill anyone, to saying that, oh, if Iran is trying to kill Trump, we should nuke Tehran, which has 10 million people. | ||
| I wouldn't be for that. | ||
| So again, I'm not doing this for like the gotcha, whatever you want to call that. | ||
| I'm doing it because I think there's hopefully an opportunity to reverse course for a certain set of online people that maybe got caught in a little bit of algorithmic tricks and bots and a whole bunch more. | ||
| Konstantin Kissen, who's been hitting Tucker on some of this stuff, he wrote this, I'm incredibly grateful that President Trump didn't listen to warmongers like Tucker Carlson who wanted to nuke Iran in retaliation for trying to assassinate him and we got a surgical strike on nuclear facilities instead. | ||
| Blessed are the peacemakers. | ||
| I also want to read to you a tweet that I put up at, I think it was just before 8 a.m., 7.58 if I'm not mistaken, on Thursday the 18th. | ||
| So a couple days ago, this is before we got involved. | ||
| I wrote this. | ||
| Iran's military is basically incapacitated and their nuke program almost totally gone. | ||
| Israel has done this by themselves. | ||
| Can someone explain to me why Tucker and Alex Jones keep saying this will lead to thermonuclear World War III? | ||
| If the U.S. gets involved, it's a couple bombs to finish the job. | ||
| I haven't seen anyone, literally anyone, call for more than that. | ||
| And maybe that isn't even necessary. | ||
| Also note, none of the Arab countries like Egypt, Jordan, et cetera, have jumped in to attack Israel, which they did in 1948, 1967, and 1973. | ||
| They're happy about this. | ||
| Seems to me at worst, Iran has sleepover. | ||
| I'll get into that in a second. | ||
| Sleep cells, sleeper cells, which could be activated. | ||
| But if that's the case, we should be dealing with that regardless rather than just waiting. | ||
| Trump knows what he's doing and the sky isn't falling unless you're Khomeini, in which case it is literally. | ||
| First off, sleeper cells, somehow autocorrect. | ||
| Does Autocorrect do that to you guys? | ||
| You start typing something and it actually adds letters. | ||
| Obviously, I didn't mean sleepover cells, although that sounds kind of funny. | ||
| But look, I said that on Thursday morning and every bit of it was true. | ||
| I didn't call for Trump to do anything. | ||
| I said, if Trump does anything, it sounds like it'll be a couple of bombs. | ||
| And what did Trump do? | ||
| It was a couple of bombs. | ||
| I think it was six bombs. | ||
| And World War III is not here and their military is incapacitated. | ||
| And again, if the fear, if the fear is they have sleeper cells, which they might, and by the way, that's on Joe Biden's head and that's on the Democrats' head. | ||
| We have no idea who is in this country. | ||
| And thank God Donald Trump's president and doing something about that as well. | ||
| But if that's what the fear is, then the fear is, you should still have the fear, right? | ||
| Like whether they, you wouldn't want the bad guys that have sleeper cells to also have nukes, right? | ||
| So it's like, oh, they're only going to activate their sleeper cells if they don't have the nukes. | ||
| That doesn't really make sense. | ||
| You're in like an endless hostage situation. | ||
| Is that what you want to be in? | ||
| So again, what did I tweet that I think is right and I think you should encourage your friends to do? | ||
| And that's a wrap on World War III. | ||
| Unfollow grifters accordingly. | ||
| I really do think that's right. | ||
| Now I want to connect this to, I think, the wider information war as well, because it is becoming very, very clear that X and the YouTube algorithm and all of these things, they have been highly, highly manipulated. | ||
| So when you see someone like Tucker going in that direction, and I'm not even saying I can't be affected by this, like we all can be affected by algorithmic tricks. | ||
| What do I always say as it came to shadow banning and everything else? | ||
| I was always worried about the things I didn't know they were doing more than the things I did know they were doing. | ||
| But now there has been a massive study that is showing that there are an incredible amount of counterfeit and bot accounts that are affecting things. | ||
| So what you see often is if someone tweets something nominally, you know, let's say pro-Israel or pro-America, you know, it gets some likes and tweets or whatever. | ||
| But if you post something pro-Hamas or anti-Israel or anti-America, it just gets these crazy numbers. | ||
| And we are finding out it has, much of it has been completely illegitimate. | ||
| This is from Walter Kurt, who's an investigative journalist. | ||
| New counterfeit MAGA influencers exposed. | ||
| Foreign bot farms renting our flag. | ||
| Foreign spook shops are mass producing Patriot accounts, slapping stars and stripes avatars on Macedonian spam and pumping Kremlin Tehran talking points into your feed. | ||
| A new NCRI dossier shows that 650,000 false flag posts since May. | ||
| 4 million fake interactions to frame Hamas atrocities as CIA ops, smear Trump as an Epstein crony, and cheer Iran's nukes. | ||
| Grifters like Fuentes and Hinkle ride the wave. | ||
| A quarter of their replies are bots born on two magic dates tied to Russian state TV plugs. | ||
| Real MAGA isn't run from St. Petersburg or Tehran. | ||
| Treat overnight follower booms as suspect, mute the breaking false flag crowd, and starve the imposters of your clicks. | ||
| America first means foreign cash and click farms last. | ||
| So look, I've been talking about this for a long, long time, and I've been in this game for a long, long time. | ||
| I've been on X and Twitter for over 10 years. | ||
| God help me. | ||
| It's partly why I do August off the grid. | ||
| I can see, like you can just feel it when things are kind of normal on these things, like when your responses are kind of normal and from real people. | ||
| And then suddenly you get a million things with American flags telling you you're awful. | ||
| Like we all, anyone that's been in this game long enough, you can see it and you can feel it. | ||
| But now I want to show you this video. | ||
| We've been sitting on this one for a little while. | ||
| We were waiting for the right moment to show it. | ||
| But I thought this was, if you want to understand, there is a game, a reality game. | ||
| Like we are in the Matrix, guys. | ||
| Look at this Chinese AI agent running 50 different social media bots at once. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| Do you get that? | ||
| Do you get what's going on there? | ||
| I may want to throw back to it real quick. | ||
| What they're doing is they're opening up all of these accounts. | ||
| They can show likes. | ||
| They can show likes. | ||
| They can show retweets, right? | ||
| And they're doing this from one computer and it's AI run. | ||
| So imagine now, imagine if you're an influencer or you're whatever the hell you guys consider me to be. | ||
| You're someone who talks for a living. | ||
| And every time you tweet something, you get either an insane amount of hate for it or you get an insane amount of love. | ||
| Could that start shifting your opinion? | ||
| It absolutely could. | ||
| Is it possible that that's happened to me over time? | ||
| It absolutely is. | ||
| But understand that this is part of the game. | ||
| The clicks and the likes, you see these people that say these unbelievably horrible, dishonest things. | ||
| And then you look at their numbers and you're like, oh my God, all these people must believe in it. | ||
| But what if it was all fake? | ||
| What if it was the great and powerful Oz and then you looked behind the curtain and it was an old washed up wizard? | ||
| Well, it might just be. | ||
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| Okay, so let's talk about the left's response to some of this. | ||
| And spoiler alert, it's the usual nonsense. | ||
| Here is Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, my statement on Donald Trump's unilateral military action in Iran. | ||
| Donald Trump promised to bring peace to the Middle East. | ||
| He has failed to deliver on that promise. | ||
| The risk of war has now dramatically increased, and I pray for the safety of our troops in the region who have been put in harm's way. | ||
| President Trump misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional authorization for the use of military force, and risks American entanglement in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East. | ||
| First, the Trump administration bears the heavy burden of explaining to the American people why this military action was undertaken. | ||
| Second, Congress must be fully and immediately briefed in a classified setting. | ||
| Third, Donald Trump shoulders complete and total responsibility for any adverse consequences that flow from his unilateral military action. | ||
| Look, okay, so there's a couple of things here. | ||
| I am somewhat, as I discussed with Rand Paul last week, I am somewhat sympathetic to the argument around congressional authority. | ||
| Unfortunately, the way the machine has worked for several decades now is presidents don't do that. | ||
| How did we get into Libya and cause the Qaddafi regime to fall? | ||
| Obama didn't get congressional authorization. | ||
| What did he do? | ||
| He called it a kinetic military action, Google, kinetic, not Xbox Connect, a kinetic military action. | ||
| And then the Libyan regime fell. | ||
| So do you want to impeach or now jail Obama? | ||
| I suspect not. | ||
| And yes, every Democrat at the time was for it. | ||
| But I am somewhat sympathetic to that argument. | ||
| I think the counter to that would be that Iran has been killing Americans. | ||
| I laid that earlier in the show. | ||
| And the president felt that this was the time to do it. | ||
| And unfortunately, our Congress is so partisan and dysfunctional that maybe he felt he couldn't go to them. | ||
| He owes no further explanation to you guys, by the way. | ||
| You have undermined him and tried to impeach him and everything else this entire time. | ||
| So he owes you absolutely nothing. | ||
| And again, this notion that somehow we are closer to war now is completely ridiculous. | ||
| It does not mean that some bad things can't happen, but we have incapacitated the main state sponsor of terror who no longer has a functioning military, no longer has a nuclear program, and nobody else in the area even got involved. | ||
| So we are not closer to war. | ||
| We are further from war. | ||
| And that is the pivot now that Iran has to decide they want to take, which is exactly what JD was talking about. | ||
| AOC, it's Monday, so I'm not going to curse. | ||
| Here's AOC. | ||
| The president's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and congressional war powers. | ||
| He has impulsibly risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. | ||
| It's absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment. | ||
| Well, I would say good luck with that bitch. | ||
| Does bitch count as a curse? | ||
| I'm 50-50, because they can say bitch. | ||
| Can you say bitch on network TV now? | ||
| I'm pretty sure you can. | ||
| So I'm taking bitch on a Monday. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Again, I'm not even going to bother addressing the congressional part. | ||
| We are further away from war. | ||
| And if it was you guys, you would be all for it. | ||
| You want to burn down the Obama Library. | ||
| Here's Adam Schiff, who has a man who has spent his entire career abusing the Constitution and trying to take out a sitting president, saying that Donald Trump shouldn't do what he did because he's a bad man. | ||
| These strikes, again, against Iran last night. | ||
| He says that they have been successful. | ||
| Do you see any upside, any positive news for the security of the world in learning of the success of these strikes? | ||
| First of all, Casey, I want to express my gratitude that the pilots are all out safely and acknowledge the skill, the bravery, and the professionalism of all the military forces that were engaged in this military operation. | ||
| But it's not an operation that should have ever been authorized by the President in the absence of intelligence showing that Iran had made the decision to break out and build a bomb. | ||
| The intelligence I've seen, and it's been limited, indicates that Iran had certainly enriched uranium but had not made the decision to build a bomb or pursue the mechanism of a bomb. | ||
| And in the absence of that, this is not a strike that should have been ordered. | ||
| It's the same exact nonsense that Margaret Brennan offered. | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| She's a quote-unquote journalist. | ||
| He's a congressman. | ||
| But it's the same exact logic. | ||
| Like, yes, they were doing all the stuff and they were enriching, but they hadn't made the decision as if they were going to send him a note as shift by, oh, shift in the mail. | ||
| We're going to make the bomb. | ||
| Send Adam Schiff a nice note and we'll send him a hanging plant. | ||
| Like, what are you talking about? | ||
| This tweet is so insane, what I'm going to read to you. | ||
| You know, I sometimes say it's the craziest thing I've ever seen, but this one is so absolutely bananas that it's going to go down in the Rubin Report Hall of Fame. | ||
| I'm putting it. | ||
| I want this. | ||
| We're going to print this one and put it in the office. | ||
| Yeah, Chris is already working on it. | ||
| We're going to put this one in the office. | ||
| This is so completely ridiculous. | ||
| This is from the LA County Sheriff's Department. | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
| Our hearts go out to the victims and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran. | ||
| While this tragic event occurred overseas, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is closely monitoring the situation alongside our local, state, and federal partners. | ||
| At the moment, there are no known threats to Los Angeles County. | ||
| However, out of an abundance of caution, we are increasing parole checks at places of worship and other sensitive locations throughout the county. | ||
| The safety and security of our communities remain our top priority. | ||
| We will continue to assess and respond to any developments as they arise. | ||
| If you see something, say something. | ||
| Okay, so the tweet was then edited and then I believe it was deleted and they reposted another version of it. | ||
| But sorry, Phoenix, can you put it up for one second? | ||
| I just want to get that first line absolutely right. | ||
| Our hearts go out to the victims and families Impacted by the recent bombings in Iran. | ||
| They blew up military sites and nuclear facilities. | ||
| We don't even know that there were any people at the nuclear facilities. | ||
| You might be concerned, I don't know, there's an awful lot of Jewish people in LA. | ||
| You might be concerned about the relentless attacks on them in the last two years. | ||
| Or you know what? | ||
| I lived in the valley in Los Angeles. | ||
| There's a hell of a lot of Persians there. | ||
| And they're very gaudy, by the way. | ||
| Have you ever been to a Persian's house? | ||
| It's not my thing, okay? | ||
| I like simple. | ||
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They like a lot of like, it's a lot of gold and a lot of stuff. | |
| But God bless them. | ||
| They're good, happy people, and they love the country. | ||
| You might be concerned for them, but you guys are worried about the nuclear sites. | ||
| Oh, and by the way, this is Los Angeles, where last week you were in full revolution, right? | ||
| And you had mass jihadis throwing boulders over overpasses. | ||
| It's extraordinary, actually extraordinary. | ||
| John Fetterman, a man who had brain damage and was a Democrat, now has less brain damage, still is a Democrat, but making some sense, he tweeted this. | ||
| As I've long maintained, this was the correct move by POTUS. | ||
| Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. | ||
| I'm grateful for and salute the finest military in the world. | ||
| It's just as simple as that. | ||
| Like, how about you just try to say that shift, but you can't because you're so deep. | ||
| It's the same thing I said before. | ||
| You're just so deep in the mire and the muck that you cannot get out of it because once you have Trump derangement syndrome, it appears to be cureless. | ||
| Although there might be one guy in Los Angeles who has figured out a cure and his name is Bill Maher. | ||
| So Bill Maher, on real time this week, they talked about a clip we showed you last week that was one of the most extraordinary clips ever from The View where Whoopi basically claimed that it is as bad for women in Iran, it is as bad for gays and women in America and blacks in America as it is for women in Iran, which is completely absurd. | ||
| Apparently, Alyssa Farah also is Iranian, so she's lecturing her about it. | ||
| And Bill Maher makes an interesting point here. | ||
| What are you going to do with these people, the left? | ||
| They are destroying the thing that you care about, Bill, right? | ||
| Like the old school liberal idea, which I believe in. | ||
| I just don't think it has anything to do with the Democrats. | ||
| Here's Bill calling out Whoopi for the nonsense. | ||
| What do you think of Whoopi Goldberg saying it's worse to be a black person in America today than a woman in Iran? | ||
| You know, I say we were talking about the trans issue before, and the New York Times really has come over on that to the sort of the sensible, liberal, not crazy woke position. | ||
| I think this is a great first step toward getting the Democrats back to sanity. | ||
| And a second good step would be, we've got to do something about the view. | ||
| Really believe that. | ||
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I mean, it's huge in Iran, though. | |
| Yeah, you know, I mentioned last week that the number two country in terms of trans surgeries is actually Iran. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| The reason they do it is because they don't want gays in Iran, and the trans movement is the number one anti-gay thing because you're taking what would otherwise likely be just a gay male or a gay woman. | ||
| My day, we called them lesbos, and you're chopping their genitals off so they can appear to be straight. | ||
| So the number two country in the world where they have trans people. | ||
| So in essence, you're just taking a man, making him a woman, and then he lives with another man. | ||
| And everyone's like, oh, everything's just fine. | ||
| And then I guess when he's a woman, you can put him in a bag and the whole thing. | ||
| But Bill, in some sense, is right. | ||
| Like he's not, he's not called, like he's being jokey, right? | ||
| Like, what are we going to do about the view? | ||
| But in some sense, it's the struggle that I always have with you guys when I show you the view clips. | ||
| And I mentioned my friend that I played basketball last Wednesday was like, Dave, I can't take it anymore with the view clips. | ||
| I don't know what to do about that. | ||
| Like they shouldn't be forced off the air. | ||
| But my issue is no longer with the fact that Whoopi has become a lunatic or that Anna Navarro, who was once as Marco Rubio Republican, is a crazy person or that Sonny Hassan's the most racist person on television. | ||
| My issue is no longer with that. | ||
| My issue is with the executives that put that on there. | ||
| If you guys care about the Democrats, look what you've done to the Democrats. | ||
| And if you want an example of what, look what you've done to the Democrats, there is this guy. | ||
| He's a congressman here in Florida, believe it or not. | ||
| His name is Maxwell Frost. | ||
| And the thing is, when you're a Democrat and you're a radical and you're young and you're a lunatic, the machine makes you a star. | ||
| It's what they did with the entire squad, right? | ||
| They never make a young Republican a star. | ||
| But if you're a young, it doesn't matter. | ||
| You're just some random congressman anywhere. | ||
| Why would this guy be on Stephen Colbert's show? | ||
| It makes no sense. | ||
| I think he's in the Orlando district. | ||
| Why would he be on Stephen Colbert? | ||
| Well, he's a deranged. | ||
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He also happens to be black, and that's very important for these people. | |
| But he's a deranged progressive leftist. | ||
| And here he is warning Stephen Colbert that America might turn into Florida because that would be a shame. | ||
| You know, this fight against far-right neo-fascism, for me at least, was mainly taking stage in my home in Florida, fighting against Ron DeSantis and the extremism there. | ||
| And something I always told people is that Project 2025 is actually Florida 2022, Florida 2020. | ||
| And the stuff that's going on around the country right now, we've actually been dealing with in the South for a long time, especially in my state of Florida. | ||
| So the difference is it's like the struggle in my state has kind of been just spread throughout the nation. | ||
| And honestly, that day after election day, I had a hard time getting up. | ||
| I cannot believe I live in the same state as that guy. | ||
| Like that you live in Florida, the freest, most flourishing state. | ||
| We're going to show you some numbers in just a second. | ||
| And all you do is complain about it and hate it and wish to usher in all of the bad things that are the things that people flee New York and Cali from to come here where we don't have any of that shit and you want it here. | ||
| What do you say? | ||
| It's the far-right neo-fascism of Florida around 2022. | ||
| You know what's funny about this guy, Maxwell Frost? | ||
| When I did my last booked stop, my last on the book tour, the last theater we did was in Orlando and it was at the height of Don't Say Gay. | ||
| And there were protesters outside calling me and DeSantis homophobes. | ||
| And although I'm a bit of a homophobe, I can't say that Ron DeSantis is. | ||
| And that guy, Maxwell Frost, he paid for a ticket to come to the show and then rushed the stage as several other people did that he coordinated with and were repeatedly interrupting and had to be kicked out. | ||
| So he's all for free speech, but just his free speech, not your free speech. | ||
| And if you just want a little bit, so what does Maxwell Frost fear. | ||
| Well, how about this? | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
| Florida ranked as top state in the U.S. for education economy. | ||
| Sunshine State is ranked ninth overall by U.S. News and World Report. | ||
| And here's the capitalist. | ||
| Florida tops nation in economy. | ||
| Higher ed earns number one spot for ninth year. | ||
| State University System of Florida. | ||
| Florida is ranked number one in higher education for nine years in a row. | ||
| U.S. News ranks Florida as the number one state in higher education. | ||
| And these headlines are just absolutely endless. | ||
| This is the safest place in America. | ||
| This is the most flourishing economic place in America. | ||
| And that is what they hate because they're not really for America. | ||
| And how do you know it? | ||
| Well, because they want everyone to become American. | ||
| To my Republican colleagues who say, I don't want any undocumented people in this country, I actually agree with you. | ||
| So let's document every single one of them. | ||
| Speedy path to citizenship. | ||
| That's how we fix this problem. | ||
| Like, yay, make the f ⁇ ing can rape me and steal my home. | ||
| They can come into my house and be a squatter and I'll live on the street. | ||
| It's just boring drivel. | ||
| Like, leave, man. | ||
| Maxwell Frost, this video is for you. | ||
| Leave Florida, please. | ||
| I'll throw in. | ||
| What do you want? | ||
| Pick a number. | ||
| How much should I throw in for his move? | ||
| 10 mil. | ||
| 10 mil. | ||
| 10K. | ||
| 10K? | ||
| 10. Yes. | ||
| I'm going to pay $10 million for that guy. | ||
| I really pay you people too much. | ||
| You have no sense of money. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So the other thing that happened last week was, remember when the senator who replaced Kamala in California, Alex Padilla, remember when he bum rushed the stage and tried to get at Kirsty Noman? | ||
| He had no identifying marker on him that showed who he is. | ||
| You cannot blame the police or any of the Secret Service or anything for defending her. | ||
| That's what their job is. | ||
| You're not allowed, whether you're a senator or a janitor or anywhere in between. | ||
| And I would actually put janitor above senator. | ||
| You're not allowed to just bum rush the stage. | ||
| And then he went on the floor at the Capitol and he started crying about it. | ||
| Well, then J.D. Vance apparently called him Jose. | ||
| His name is Alex. | ||
| J.D. called him Jose. | ||
| And now that, well, that's a problem too. | ||
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Currently the president of the Senate where you serve. | |
| He also went to Yale. | ||
| I assume that he knows your name is Alex Padilla. | ||
| Your response to him calling you Jose. | ||
| Oh, he knows my name. | ||
| He knows my name. | ||
| Look, sadly, it's just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. | ||
| He's the Vice President of the United States. | ||
| Do you think he'd take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously? | ||
| You know, you think maybe he'd take a moment to talk to some of the families who have been impacted, have been terrorized, to hear what's really going on on the ground. | ||
| You saw him shaking hands with Marines, but did he listen to the Marines? | ||
| Because we have report after report of the Marines, so many of the Marines themselves that don't want to be there. | ||
| That's not why they enlisted. | ||
| Or if not the migrant families, how about the employers who I know are speaking up because they're concerned about their workforce? | ||
| Well, there's Jose or Alex, whatever his name is. | ||
| As always, he's about to cry. | ||
| They're always on the verge of tears. | ||
| That's the Corey Booker effect. | ||
| If you just sound like you're about to cry, a certain amount of people just buy that nonsense. | ||
| And of course, once again, never concerned about the actual taxpayer or the citizen of Los Angeles. | ||
| Never concerned about the person that can't get to work or the person that can't get grandma her medication or the ambulance that can't get through or anything else. | ||
| We're always concerned about the people who are not legal citizens of the United States and then their friends who are dressed up like terrorists trying to burn the city down, you buffoons. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| Ding. | ||
| Oh, that was an approving ding? | ||
| You know, Phoenix is, Connor is off today. | ||
| It's the first time in how much Connor's been working for me for about seven years. | ||
| He's run every single show we've ever done here. | ||
| Phoenix is running the show today. | ||
| We don't know what happened to Connor. | ||
| He said, I'm going to Wisconsin. | ||
| I have my reasons. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He's at the Big Cheese Festival or whatever. | ||
| But that was a ding. | ||
| That was just a ding, an approving ding. | ||
| Like I said, something that you liked and you just gave me a ding. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Here's Scott Jennings. | ||
| I think you're going to have to ding him too. | ||
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Do you think it's political theater or do you think, hey, this is something that they're really serious about and they want the public to see them out leading the charge? | |
| Well, I agree with some of that. | ||
| They are emotional. | ||
| And the last part, they do want the public to see. | ||
| But what they're doing is clearly creating stunts. | ||
| These are political stunts. | ||
| I mean, this is designed to, I mean, this is sort of like porn for their base. | ||
| There's a lot of capital right now in the Democratic Party for getting arrested. | ||
| In the case of Padilla, who if you handed me $10 million right now, if I could pick him out of a lineup, I don't think I could do it. | ||
| Charging into a press conference, lunging towards a stage. | ||
| I mean, I'm sorry, but screaming that I'm a senator, I'm a senator. | ||
| I don't know who you are. | ||
| I still don't know who the guy is. | ||
| And so that's not good enough. | ||
| He's a U.S. senator. | ||
| If he wanted a meeting with her, he could have had one. | ||
| And he did get one as soon as it was over with. | ||
| I find it curious he had a staffer posted up in there to film the whole thing. | ||
| These are clearly stunts. | ||
| The guy who went to lock arms and interfere with the detention of an illegal in New York City. | ||
| I mean, the energy in the Democratic Party right now is around doing everything they can do to protect the illegal immigrant populations in the United States, which is still baffling to me. | ||
| But more than anything, more than anything, the theater kids have taken over and they are desperate to create theater, and that's all it is. | ||
| Oh, Van Jones, that's who you're seeing on the other side of the split there. | ||
| Stop shaking your head. | ||
| You keep kind of getting things right, but you do cry a lot on television too. | ||
| And I think you got to get over that. | ||
| But of course, everything that Scott Jennings said is right. | ||
| These overly emotive, ridiculous people, nobody knows who Alex Petit is. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| You just can't attack the stage, but they want more of the theatrics. | ||
| So where are we at to try to bring us all together right now? | ||
| There's a serious group of people. | ||
| Some of them were standing behind Donald Trump in that speech a couple of days ago. | ||
| There's a serious group of people trying to like really fix things, trying to think of a new way of looking at the world, trying to blaze a path for peace and saying, hey, we may have our differences, but if you want to join us, like get on the crazy train and let's see what happens. | ||
| And then there's another bunch of people who either want to burn everything down or who really don't want America to lead or who don't seem to think that America really is that great or is worthy of being a moral force for the world. | ||
| I just don't believe that. | ||
| So now I want to show you what will happen to America if we don't do the right thing. | ||
| This is a video of what has happened to women in Iran. | ||
| Oh, just kidding. | ||
| is Michigan. | ||
| Matt's song, I believe that's what you kids call a banger. | ||
| That was pretty good. | ||
| But is this what we want? | ||
| Look, anyone can practice their religion however they wish to, but not all religions are equal. | ||
| And some religions are more political in some sense than religious or spiritual. | ||
| I would also say that. | ||
| And if you care about liberalism, if you care about women, let's not forget that the women of Iran lived in a largely secular country and were in bikinis on the beach in 1977 before the revolution. | ||
| And what have we now imported into our country? | ||
| And whether those people are here legally or illegally, there is an issue that we better start thinking about. | ||
| Now, this is wild too. | ||
| If you want to see how this thing that we're fighting has infected so many layers of everything. | ||
| James O'Keefe did a, who does bang up job. | ||
| You know, I know a lot of people think he's really controversial and they don't like some of the way he edits and things like that, but he's still doing these undercover videos where he talks to people in the government usually and gets them to admit the quiet part that they won't tell us in front of the camera. | ||
| So this is James O'Keefe. | ||
| He set up a girl apparently on a date with this guy. | ||
| He is a U.S. State Department visa specialist. | ||
| U.S. State Department visa specialist by the name of Arslan Akhtar. | ||
| And here he is admitting that as a visa specialist for the U.S. State Department, he helps illegals get into the country. | ||
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Doesn't that remind you that I work at the State Department or anything like that? | |
| You work for the office of the legal advisor. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Visa adjudications, basically. | ||
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Sometimes I do say it's a cabbage or some like Hispanic dissent. | |
| don't talk to the police you know i'm just saying like don't admit the truth if you want to recall keep your mouth shut the one group of people that i'm not a huge fan of yemeni people i hate them with a passion they're such awful people uh in the application process in the application process they are they're not easy to deal with folks next to indians | ||
| among the nation people What do you mean? | ||
| It's really what it comes into. | ||
| It's a culture of ultimately. | ||
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And it's a culture of the music. | |
| We need to create our own canary mission. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Fight fire with fire. | ||
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How do you feel about that? | |
| I don't like that. | ||
| Oh, I would love for him to be dragged out of the building with his hair plugs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I would love that. | ||
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And lynched. | |
| That guy is the U.S. State Department visa specialist. | ||
| He hates people from Yemen. | ||
| He hates people from India. | ||
| He hates Jews. | ||
| He seems to want to hurt Elon Musk. | ||
| Was there any other group that he didn't like in there? | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| I think we got everybody. | ||
| He's encouraging people to lie, but he's been in the government. | ||
| Do you see why we have a problem? | ||
| We really have a problem. | ||
| I think we're going to send Chrissy on some of these undercover missions. | ||
| See what she can come up with. | ||
| Yeah, see what she can do. | ||
| Check this out from James O'Keefe after that video went viral. | ||
| Just in U.S. State Department visa specialist fired. | ||
| State Department launches new vetting process. | ||
| See below the statement provided to O'Keeffe Media Group by the United States Department of State. | ||
| The contractor is no longer employed by the U.S. State Department. | ||
| Upholding the rule of law and protecting the integrity of our immigration system is essential, which is why the department will launch a new contractor screening and vetting process. | ||
| Well, how about what was your process? | ||
| And how about how many more people do you need to fire? | ||
| Like he's not the one random guy who didn't like Indians. | ||
| By the way, you know what you do if you're at an Indian restaurant and you want a tip? | ||
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Just carry the one. | |
| Don't forget to carry the one. | ||
| Okay, now you get the point, guys. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| Like these people have infected our institutions. | ||
| And this is what Peter Bogozzian, I've been saying this for seven years, the first time I heard Pete Bogozian say it on the show years ago, I thought that was right. | ||
| Woke is a virus. | ||
| Once it enters the system, it basically eats out the system completely. | ||
| That sounded particularly bizarre, but that is the truth. | ||
| It infects the host. | ||
| And almost without exception, there's almost no way to remove the cancer. | ||
| Once it's in a system, it's in a system. | ||
| So the State Department has a lot of stuff to deal with. | ||
| However, we have a new guy in charge of the State Department right now. | ||
| And listen to this from the U.S. Department of State. | ||
| This is just the beginning. | ||
| These radicals with anti-American views have been embedded in our executive branch for generations, and we are systematically cleaning out contractors that have allowed this. | ||
| Let us be clear. | ||
| If you have these views, you and you work in or with the State Department, we will find you. | ||
| James O'Keefe, you got to find a whole bunch of cute chicks and get rid of these people. | ||
| I keep exposing them, and we got a good State Department, and we're going to fix this shit. | ||
| That is our Monday show for all of you fine people. | ||
| I am told we have less than 150 bottles of the first round of, let me just check the numbers here. | ||
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| It's going to take a little while till the end of July. | ||
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| I also was told that the subscribers really jumped. | ||
| My full interview with Victor Orban's director of policy, Balaj Orban, no relation, is up right now. | ||
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