Oct. 1, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| I don't know if the glue that they are putting their eyelashes on is seeping into your brain, but you are an idiot. | ||
| You just beheaded that guy? | ||
| You're supposed to give head, that behead. | ||
| Remember January 6th, that was the day that I had just switched over. | ||
| I'd been doing eggs with olivo. | ||
| I switched back to real butter that morning. | ||
| And then I was watching TV and people were freaking out because a few people with a Lego set or something showed up at the Capitol. | ||
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Uh anyway, let's talk about boner pills for a minute, and then we'll move on the other side. | |
| Sydney Sweeney's bathwater here. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| Hey doing people, I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
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It is October 1st, 2025. | |
| Where is the year going? | ||
| We got a big show for you, but a couple of housekeeping things right up top. | ||
| Uh the VIP tickets for Australia. | ||
| As I mentioned, all the shows sold out immediately. | ||
| We were able to open up a couple extra seats. | ||
| So if you want the two-second hug, if you want the primo seat, you want to say hi to me, uh Dave Rubin.com/slash events. | ||
| I think they opened up like 30 or 40 more seats uh at each venue for that, and regular tickets are still available. | ||
| Uh, and it's I'm very excited to uh get across the world. | ||
| And I'm just excited for the flight. | ||
| I I fly first class. | ||
| My team flies in storage, but also uh we have relaunched our merch store in honor of the fall because it is the month of Halloween here. | ||
| And if you want this beautiful new Ruben Report mug with ghosts on it, Dave Rubin.store. | ||
| We also have a candle that smells like Sydney Sweeney, and uh no, it doesn't, no, it smells like pumpkin spice or something. | ||
| And we've got hoodies and all that good stuff. | ||
| Okay, let's get to it. | ||
| Um the government has shut down people. | ||
| I don't know how we're gonna do the show today. | ||
| The government what are we gonna do without the government? | ||
| I mean, what how do we even do it? | ||
| How do we do it? | ||
| How do we move forward without the government? | ||
| Yes, they have shut down. | ||
| That is the theme today. | ||
| Let's just dive right and get some info for you up top. | ||
| Phoenix scroll for me, would ya? | ||
| Uh, here is uh, well, let's get to the funny stuff, then we'll get to the granular stuff. | ||
| So you remember that Trump put up the meme, the video of Hakeem Jeffries, the Mexican music in the background, the sombrera and all that. | ||
| Then Hakeem and Chuck Schumer, I mean the clown car of just nobodies. | ||
| They showed up at the White House yesterday. | ||
| Uh look at this image that uh these two images here that Trump put up on uh Truth Social. | ||
| There is uh Trump, big smile pointing at Hakeem, the MAGA Trump 2028 hats right there. | ||
| There's Chuck, who put his glasses up a little bit for the meeting. | ||
| That's very exciting. | ||
| Okay, so yes, they met. | ||
| They were talking about can we get a deal? | ||
| Trump does the Trump thing, puts the hats there. | ||
| There's a little bit of trolling, the smiling and the pointing. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| There's a little bit of show around it. | ||
| Now let's get to actually what's going on here from Fox News. | ||
| The federal government is officially entering a partial shutdown on Wednesday after the midnight funding deadline passed with Democrats and Republicans failing to agree on a funding bill. | ||
| An earlier attempt by Senate Republicans to pass a short-term extension of fiscal year 2025 government funding levels called a continuing resolution, was sunk by Democrats who were furious about being sidelined in shutdown negotiations. | ||
| The bill, which would have given Congress until November 21st to set the fiscal year 2026 funding priorities passed the House largely along party lines on September 19th. | ||
| The Senate is expected to vote on the same bill again on Wednesday, with more votes to come through the rest of the week and into the weekend until either a deal is struck or Democrats relent. | ||
| Democrats had also pushed for a CR to extend Obamacare subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic, but were set to expire at the end of 2025. | ||
| Republican leaders signaled that they were willing to discuss those health care dollars later this year, but accused Democrats of risking the entire federal government over their demands. | ||
| There isn't any substantive reason why there ought to be a government shutdown. | ||
| This is something that has been done routinely, as I said, 13 different times when the Democrats had the majority. | ||
| but we are not going to be held hostage for over a trillion in new spending on a continuing resolution. | ||
| Senate Majority Leader John Thune said ahead of the vote. | ||
| Republic uh Trump told reporters earlier in the day that Republicans did not want to shut down but warned the GOP could inflict pain on Democrats should the government close. | ||
| Okay, so the easy version of all of those words is the Democrats just want more spending. | ||
| We will talk about what some of that spending is, and of course it is health care for illegals and a bunch of other nonsense, but they want more spending to the tune of about 1.5 trillion dollars. | ||
| And to the backdrop of a Trump administration that for eight months has been trying to cut spending, remember Doge and all of those things. | ||
| Uh, it would be hard for a bunch of Republicans to sign on to that, especially when it comes to I don't know, health care for illegals, some trans stuff and all that. | ||
| Like it just does not make sense. | ||
| So look, I I will, as always, because I try to play these all as honestly as possible. | ||
| Both sides are probably guilty to a degree if the shoe is on the other foot. | ||
| If the hat was the other way, they'd all be doing it the reverse. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| But in this case, in this case, we're gonna be okay. | ||
| The government's gonna shut down for a couple of days. | ||
| We're gonna be just fine. | ||
| Your water is gonna run, your electricity is gonna be there, you're gonna your Wi-Fi, it's all gonna be fine. | ||
| But the Republicans are basically saying this is completely ridiculous. | ||
| We've had it, so they are nicknaming this thing, the Schumer Shutdown. | ||
| And here is former House Majority Leader Newt Gingrich, long time ago, uh, talking about why this will backfire on the Democrats. | ||
| This is insanity. | ||
| Um, we we know from the work we do at America's New Majority Project that there are two things the American people feel about this shutdown. | ||
| One, they do not want increased spending. | ||
| Two, they do not want the government closed. | ||
| So what do you have? | ||
| You have the Schumer shutdown, where Chuck gets up and says, I'm gonna close the government to get more money. | ||
| Now that means he's on the wrong side of both issues. | ||
| All right, so at some level, I would say Newt is correct there that people don't want increased spending. | ||
| Like, I just don't know anyone at this point. | ||
| I I'm not I'm not well liked or invited to a lot of progressive circles these days. | ||
| I know they just want oh, they just always want more spending. | ||
| They just want more money, they want more of your money, and that's how they feel that they're generous by taking your money and doing what they want with your money. | ||
| But generally speaking, we know this. | ||
| This is partly why Trump won. | ||
| It's why Elon got on board again, all the doge stuff. | ||
| People just don't want more spending. | ||
| They want and and any sane person, you just want more of your money back in your pocket, and then you can decide what to do with it. | ||
| And by the way, that's what gets the economy going, because when you have a little more money in your pocket, you spend a little bit more, you might do some repairs to your house, then the electrician has a little bit more money, then he's able to do things with his money, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| Like it's a bottom-up way, the more that you have your money as opposed to just keep giving it to the machine, and maybe it will trickle it down to you and give you some stuff. | ||
| As for the second part, whether people want a government shutdown or not, that Newt said, I don't even know about that. | ||
| Like, frankly, like, don't threaten me with a good time. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So, okay, the government's gonna shut down. | ||
| We're gonna find out who the non-essential workers are. | ||
| I mean, if you're non-essential, you probably shouldn't have the job in the first place. | ||
| Uh, we'll get to more on that in a second, because I think Trump is really gonna use this to his advantage to show how much waste there is and how many people we still have hired in the government post-doge that don't really need those jobs. | ||
| But Newt's general point there is right. | ||
| People don't want spending and they want the government, they would like the government, like joking aside for a moment or a sarcasm aside, they would like the government to just be working for the people. | ||
| I think most people agree on that. | ||
| Uh, here is Chuck Schumer on why he's voting to shut down the government. | ||
| We have very large differences on health care and on their ability to undo whatever budget we agree to through resistance and through uh impoundment, as well as pocket rescinds. | ||
| And we've I think for the first time the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill. | ||
| Their bill has not won iota of democratic input. | ||
| That is never how we've done this before. | ||
| When I was leader, we negotiated four times with Republicans, and we never had a shutdown. | ||
| And so it's up to the Republicans whether they want a shutdown or not. | ||
| You know, Chuck, I get it. | ||
| You're using a lot of government language, their rescinds and all of those things. | ||
| That's all very impressive. | ||
| And okay, it may be true that in other times there was more negotiations than right now. | ||
| But basically, what's happening here is people have had it with you guys. | ||
| People have had it with your radical agenda. | ||
| They've had it with the woke stuff. | ||
| They've had it with the end of spending. | ||
| They've had it with the Inflation Reduction Act that actually increases inflation. | ||
| They've just kind of had it, and Trump's calling you out on that. | ||
| They don't want health care for illegals. | ||
| It's not that complex. | ||
| And you might remember yesterday's show, if your memory serves you, uh, where we played clips of Obama and Nancy Pelosi all the way back in 1995 talking about how we should have closed borders and we shouldn't have illegals running around and all of these things, and how they certainly shouldn't get taxpayer benefits. | ||
| Well, we went in the time machine again, 1996, also a good year. | ||
| Here's Chuck Schumer on illegals and benefits and all that stuff. | ||
| This is an anti-fraud amendment. | ||
| All the over where we go, people say, well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here? | ||
| And the number one answer we give our constituents is when they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law because of fraud. | ||
| And here, the gentleman from Florida has put together the most effective anti-fraud measure we can find without it changing the actions of the government one bit. | ||
| And we find all this opposition. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen of this chamber, what I worry about is that this bill, which started out with good intentions, whether you agree with it or disagree with it, is gonna end up being the same kind of thing that the public gets angry with us on. | ||
| We say we're doing something, and we do nothing. | ||
| And as I said yesterday, what happened to that guy? | ||
| It feels like invasion of the body snatchers, right? | ||
| Where was that guy who was roughly saying, oh, you used to go around and people would say to you you don't like fraud, we don't like uh illegals getting benefits, and what are they doing here in the first place, and all of those things. | ||
| That is completely 180 degrees the polar opposite of what you guys stand for now. | ||
| You had four years of an auto-pen administration where you let in about 21 million illegals. | ||
| We know about all the Sanctuary City stuff, we know about all the benefits they were getting, we know about all of the other woke stuff that you wanted to fund, like, you know, literally chopping off the genitals of children and all of those things. | ||
| And Trump is calling the bluff. | ||
| What happened to you from 1996, Chuck Schumer? | ||
| Now, of course, what do the Democrats do? | ||
| They call you racist, they call you Nazi, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Okay, Trump's been through that before, so that's not working the way it used to. | ||
| So any time he does anything now, what do they have to do? | ||
| Or any time any of us make an argument that is going to maybe scale back the government or cut uh cut funding for something or put a little money back in your pocket, it's because we all want to kill the children. | ||
| Here's AOC on that. | ||
| What I'm not going to do is tolerate four million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don't have access to insurance. | ||
| That's what's not going to happen. | ||
| And so if those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me, they're free to enter my office and negotiate because what we're not going to do is allow all of uh millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and their chemotherapy. | ||
| So come strike a deal with me if that's what they really think is going on. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Very impressive. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| You're an actress and you're it's all rehearsed where you're going to move your head and all of those things. | ||
| By the way, Donald Trump and a guy by the name of Robert F. Kennedy, they are working very hard to lower prescription drugs, and you're fighting them all along the way to do that. | ||
| But of course, what it is. | ||
| It's what is it? | ||
| They you're they're going to kill the kids. | ||
| They're going. | ||
| This is what we we hear this every few months. | ||
| It's go, they're gonna kill the kids. | ||
| You reverse Roe v. | ||
| Wade, you're gonna kill the women. | ||
| I'm pretty thinking the women are doing okay and the babies are doing much better, I guarantee you that. | ||
| Uh, here's Bernie on CNN also telling us that this is going to kill a lot of people. | ||
| If any of us survive through the end of today, it'll be a freaking miracle. | ||
| So are you telling me you're willing to vote no every time leader therapy? | ||
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I am not going to allow it. | |
| Let me be clear. | ||
| All right. | ||
| You can quote me on this. | ||
| You can quote me on as we say in Vermont to the cows come home. | ||
| I will not let tens of thousands of fellow Americans die because they're thrown off of health care. | ||
| In my state, people cannot afford a doubling in the health care premiums. | ||
| We already pay the highest prices in the country for health care. | ||
| People just can't afford it. | ||
| Bernie, might I make a recommendation for you for your people when the cows are coming home? | ||
| You're f you're around a lot of rich people all day long. | ||
| They give you your private plane to fly around while you tell everybody that capitalism is horrible. | ||
| So why don't you work with AOC? | ||
| Get a couple of rich people, and you could put a fund together, and people will put money in the fund, and maybe the fund will get a little bit of interest. | ||
| And over time you could put that fund towards giving help to the people that you're so concerned they're gonna die. | ||
| But you're not gonna do that, because that would actually mean doing something. | ||
| Here's uh a man named Sarah McBride walking around Congress uh trying to find people because this is what the Democrats have left. | ||
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We're barreling towards a shutdown. | |
| All my Democratic colleagues are here. | ||
| I'm gonna go search for my Republican colleagues. | ||
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Republicans, Republicans, you all know there's a government shutdown. | |
| Republicans. | ||
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Anyone here? | |
| It's Mike Johnson in here. | ||
| Let's see if some Republicans are in here. | ||
| Are there any Republicans in here? | ||
| Hello! | ||
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Republicans. | |
| No Republicans here. | ||
| That's a guy. | ||
| Isn't that funny? | ||
| It's kind of funny. | ||
| Um anyway, here is John Thune, who is a Republican, uh, explaining actually what's going on here. | ||
| How is it? | ||
| How is it that the once sane Democrats who wanted less spending, who wanted more of a border, who wanted law and order and things like that. | ||
| So we're talking about Barack Obama, we're talking about Nancy Pelosi, particularly we're talking about Chuck Schumer, because he's still running the show for the Democrats right now on the Senate side. | ||
| So what has happened that they have become so radical that they are demanding 1.5 trillion in more spending, which would include spending for illegal immigrants to get health care. | ||
| Well, it's fairly obvious, and Thune lays it out. | ||
| I'm hoping there are enough reasonable Democrats over there. | ||
| We have picked up three tonight when we voted on this. | ||
| We're gonna vote on it again tomorrow. | ||
| Hopefully, we'll pick up some more and eventually we'll get enough to pass this thing in the Senate, keep the government open. | ||
| But this was all unnecessary. | ||
| This is all done to satisfy their left political base and Schumer's fear. | ||
| I mean, this guy is somebody who is running scared, obviously, every single day from AOC and the other, you know, um lefters that they that he has to answer to. | ||
| And what you're seeing, at least in you know, every day now in the Senate, is uh his reactions and the and the way he's going about the business of the Senate, in this case, shutting down the government. | ||
| And it's up to the Democrats. | ||
| I mean, we passed a I've said this, you saw this earlier. | ||
| This is our bill. | ||
| It's very straightforward, funds the government and avoids a shutdown. | ||
| And now they've they've blocked it on two votes. | ||
| We're gonna have another vote tomorrow, and they'll probably try and block it again. | ||
| But I think people are gonna start cracking because they're gonna realize this is a losing hand. | ||
| Yeah, and it looks like every time you guys vote on it, they lose more votes. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's completely right. | ||
| And it and it really shows you the radicalism of the Democrat Party. | ||
| Again, I I said this yesterday. | ||
| I I probably at this point, even if the Democrats were the Democrats of 1995 when they kind of made sense, I probably wouldn't be a Democrat at this point. | ||
| I'm not into they still want bigger government. | ||
| There's they were still a little wacky, whatever. | ||
| But if you take the words of Barack Obama from 2006, if you take the words of Pelosi from 95 and of Bill Clinton in 92 and Chuck Schumer in 96, all the things that we've shown over the last couple days, like there was something saying there. | ||
| That thing is now completely gone. | ||
| And you have Chuck Schumer, who's, you know, it's 20 some odd years later. | ||
| And Chuck Schumer basically is for Chuck, he sucks, right? | ||
| Like Chuck Schumer sucks, basically stands for nothing. | ||
| But he's not a total radical psychopath Marxist lunatic. | ||
| But what's happening is that all of the people in his party now, the energy of his party is AOC'd, it is the jihad crew, it is mom dami and all of those things. | ||
| So he has he has no juice. | ||
| There's just nothing left for him to do other than slowly step away from public life. | ||
| Like the guy, he's just screwed. | ||
| Sorry, man. | ||
| You you had chances over the years, you could have really broken away. | ||
| He tried a couple times, actually. | ||
| Um, because I don't think he's just wrong about stuff, and I don't think he hates America, right? | ||
| Even even Timu Obama, who's terrible and stands for nothing. | ||
| I don't think he's an absolute lunat lunatic radical. | ||
| But just look at it this way. | ||
| Who has the momentum in the party? | ||
| Is it Schumer and Timu Obama, or is it all the nut bags? | ||
| It's the nutbags. | ||
| I I answered my own question. | ||
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| Okay, so before we dive into whether this will backfire or not, it is worth noting that the people who will be considered non-essential or who are being considered non-essential, doesn't isn't that a COVID throwback? | ||
| Uh, as of midnight today, uh, most of them are Democrats. | ||
| So the Democrats who are choosing to shut down the government because they're not getting 1.5 trillion in new spending, which nobody wants, including health care for illegals, they are putting aside their own base because federal employees, we all know this, we all know how DC goes whack-a-doodle towards the Dems because people want the concentration of power, and Democrats are going to usually give that to you. | ||
| So all of the people who are being pushed aside right now, and the thing with the shutdown is they always get the back pay anyway. | ||
| So it's a little, it's a little, you know, when a certain set of people are screaming about it, it's like they're gonna get paid anyway. | ||
| But if you are not at work today and you are pissed, well, it's you. | ||
| You're likely a Democrat, and it's your guys who did this to you. | ||
| And again, it just shows that the Democrats, they don't have much other than tantrums, identity politics, and all of the children are gonna die. | ||
| Uh, here's former Minnesota Governor Tim Pallenty on Abby Phillips show. | ||
| Again, this woman. | ||
| I I need a better set of adjectives for her. | ||
| There's just nothing there. | ||
| Um, explaining that it's the Democrats' constituents who are gonna be hurt by this. | ||
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The Democrats are in a real box. | |
| Who's who's to say they're gonna work it out? | ||
| Because it doesn't really sound like there's a desire to actually work anything out. | ||
| They just want more time to do the job that they probably should have done three months ago. | ||
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But but the Democrats here are in a box because they are the party disproportionately of government. | |
| Their constituencies disproportionately are going to be hurt by a shutdown. | ||
| I mean, but these are Americans. | ||
| These are Americans over who live all over. | ||
| They live in your state. | ||
| They live all across the country. | ||
| Yeah, increasingly in red states, because the Trump administration has been moving them to places like Alabama and other parts of the country. | ||
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The Democrats will fold before the Republicans are. | |
| Well, Democrats are great at folding, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's the question. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, Democrats will fold, and Democrats are great at folding. | ||
| I mean, both sides fold for different reasons, but uh yeah, he's right. | ||
| It's your constituents, the people who will be most affected by a government shutdown. | ||
| The people who need the government are mostly Democrats. | ||
| Republicans generally are against the government. | ||
| Again, I woke up this morning, the government was shut down. | ||
| I had a nice cup of coffee, took the dog for a walk, watched a little bluey with the kids. | ||
| Everything's fine. | ||
| Everything's fine. | ||
| Uh, here's Donald Trump on how the layoff situation is gonna work out. | ||
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Mr. President, as we inch closer to a government shutdown this morning, you said we might do a lot of layoffs. | |
| If Doge is already reducing the federal workforce, why is it necessary to link more federal jobs cut to a shutdown? | ||
| Well, the Democrats want to shut it down, so when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. | ||
| So we'd be laying off a lot of people that are gonna be very affected, and the Democrats, they're gonna be Democrats. | ||
| Uh As you know, we this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country, and that's what they're insisting. | ||
| A lot of good can come down from shutdowns. | ||
| We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want, and they'd be Democrat things, but they want open borders. | ||
| So that's the key part of all of this. | ||
| What's going to happen now, I think. | ||
| First off, the Democrats will cave on this. | ||
| Mark my words. | ||
| First off, they have a split party of like a couple roughly sane people, if you could even say that, and then the lunatic. | ||
| So they have their own internal split. | ||
| Republicans, for the most part, even though there's some weird stuff going on on the right. | ||
| Republicans most mostly are together on this. | ||
| But what Trump's really saying there is, okay, so we're gonna have to lay off people because of the Democrat shutdown. | ||
| You guys are gonna hurt your own constituents, because it's the people that are going to be temporarily temporarily or permanently let off our Democrats, and Democrats tend to need more things or want more things, let's say, than the government. | ||
| So that's gonna hurt. | ||
| But then he also hinted that we are going to find out if any of these people basically should have jobs in the first place. | ||
| As we have gone through Doge, and as we have looked at the books, and as the departments are getting slimmer and trimmer, and it's Bobby Kennedy has fired an awful lot of people. | ||
| And as Tulsi goes into intelligence and they uh they start looking at things, we are slimming down the government. | ||
| This might be another moment where if we don't have the government the government is shut down for four days, and we're suddenly like, wow, there, you know, here there was another 6,000 people that we really didn't need them to do much. | ||
| Well, then they probably won't come back to work. | ||
| And now let me, you know, there's a lot of people that have been using uh Charlie Kirk's name to to push their own political agenda and exposing to old texts of his and claiming they know what he thought about things and everything else. | ||
| Uh but I thought this was uh this is Charlie in his own words, and I think it is quite applicable to what's going on. | ||
| This is from January 2019. | ||
| We should use this government shutdown as a chance to shrink government permanently, privatize the TSA, privatize the FAA air traffic controllers, abolish the IRS, remove non-essential workers. | ||
| If workers aren't essential, they should be working, they shouldn't be working the government in the first place. | ||
| Connor, leave that up for just a sec. | ||
| So just to whittle down each one, privatize the TSA. | ||
| Absolutely an argument for that, right? | ||
| Well, you go to the TSA, you go to any airport. | ||
| I recommend anyone go to JFK Airport in New York and tell me that this is the best and the brightest. | ||
| There might be a way to privatize that. | ||
| Go back. | ||
| Privatize the FAA air traffic controllers. | ||
| Okay, maybe you might make an argument that that's better done via the government, but you usually things work privately. | ||
| Abolish the IRS. | ||
| I mean, I can get on board that. | ||
| Imagine if you had more of your money, and then we had a slimmer and trimmer government that had to figure out how to stay within it means it means that would be pretty good. | ||
| Remove non-essential workers. | ||
| If workers aren't essential, they should be working in the government in the first place. | ||
| That probably is the big point, right? | ||
| And that is what Trump basically just said. | ||
| We're gonna shut this thing down for a little bit, or the Democrats basically are in essence, are forcing the shutdown, and maybe we'll find out that a whole bunch of people are gonna go home and play PlayStation for a couple hours and then realize that they actually weren't doing much work. | ||
| And that is the exact point that Russ Vaught, who is the director of the office management and budget made on Larry Cudlow's show yesterday. | ||
| If there's a budget shutdown, um, as our own chat program suggested almost um inelectably will be a budget shutdown, then you have the authority to reduce the uh federal employee employee count by roughly how much? | ||
| Let it be said, there are all manner of authorities to be able to keep this administration's policy agenda moving forward, and that includes reducing the size and scope of the federal government, and we will be looking for opportunities to do so. | ||
| Congratulations, Dems, you just gave Trump an opportunity to fire more people, to look at who actually is essential. | ||
| The idea that we call some people that work in the government non-essential and some are essential, as if the Congress people are essential. | ||
| You want to find the least group of essential people. | ||
| How about get rid of Congress? | ||
| That might be something. | ||
| These are the most ineffective hacky losers in Dorktown. | ||
| Um, so what really that's a sentence that's never been said before. | ||
| But what really is this all about? | ||
| Is this really about budgets and essential workers and dollars and cents? | ||
| Or is it really about memes and AI? | ||
| Because what kicked off the fight here, of course, we're just gonna show you a five-second version of it. | ||
| Was this AI video of Tebu Obama that Trump put on Truth Social? | ||
| Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it. | ||
| Nobody likes Democrats anymore. | ||
| We have no voters left because of all of our Okay, so Trump puts this thing up, and again, as I said, it's like we we are gonna we are really entering the uncanny valley now of where we will not know what is AI and what is not. | ||
| There the voice stuff's getting better. | ||
| You know, the big thing with AI for a long time was that the mouth didn't quite match the the words. | ||
| That's changing, like it's just getting better. | ||
| And what what was the uh AI new technology we've been looking at? | ||
| Uh Sora 2. | ||
| Sora too. | ||
| I mean, there is so much incredible stuff coming out that you will not know what is real soon enough. | ||
| And and you might argue Trump shouldn't be trolling these guys or anything else. | ||
| But okay, Trump puts that up. | ||
| It makes a point. | ||
| It right, it really does make a point because you have Timu Obama there and the music, the Mexican music, and it's like they care more about illegals than they care about our citizens. | ||
| That Trump knows what he's doing. | ||
| This is that that's the part of the game. | ||
| But what he really is good at is he then gets them to freak out about these things, right? | ||
| Because if they're not telling you that the children are going to die, they're going to freak out about memes. | ||
| Here is Chuck Schumer on the very racist meme that we just showed you. | ||
| Yesterday, the president posted an offensive deep fake AI video of Leader Jeffries and me. | ||
| With sombreros, fake music, impersonating my voice through AI, it wasn't me. | ||
| Talking even more lies about health care and immigration. | ||
| Listen to this, America. | ||
| Hours away from a shutdown, which we don't want. | ||
| The American people don't want. | ||
| The president is busy trolling away on the Internet like a 10-year-old. | ||
| And that's exactly why Americans are going to blame him if the government shuts down. | ||
| That's another proof point. | ||
| Chuck, I will give you the tiny piece there. | ||
| I'll give you the tiny piece there that in a different world, in a different situation, in a different timeline, in a different part of the multiverse. | ||
| Would it be nice if every if Trump didn't do those things at this point? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Would would it be nice if we operated in like a completely professional way and everything else? | ||
| Of course it would. | ||
| But I would say it's worse when you guys run around saying Republicans are going to try to kill everybody and everybody else is Nazis and racists and everything else. | ||
| I would say that's far worse than a deep fake AI video. | ||
| He also said it was fake music, but I'm pretty sure that was legitimate cucoracha. | ||
| I mean, I know the cucaracha, and that was the cucaracha. | ||
| Um, here is representative uh where's she from, New Mexico? | ||
| Was it New Mexico? | ||
| Uh Teresa Fernandez, and she's freaking out over that thing, too. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And then what does that shameful man do? | ||
| After a meeting where you're supposed to be working out details where you're supposed to be negotiating a deal, you post something that draws a sombrero and a mustache on the leader with whom you're supposed to be why is that racist, though? | ||
| The sombrero is a Mexican hat that people enjoy. | ||
| The mustache is something that some people, 70s porn actors have. | ||
| Um it's what I said yesterday. | ||
| If you if you're drinking grape soda and you say you like grape soda, that doesn't mean you don't like black people. | ||
| Nothing, everything is racist to them. | ||
| You say you like something, it does there's nothing racist. | ||
| He's pointing out via meme, because a meme is worth a thousand words, right? | ||
| He's pointing out that you people seem to care more about the illegals and their ability to get health care, which is American citizens' money, than you care about American citizens. | ||
| Here's Timu Obama, and he's very look at him emoting. | ||
| This is not easy for a Timu situation to emote, but he emotes. | ||
| Donald Trump posted this AI video. | ||
| Featuring myself and Chuck Schumer. | ||
| It was a fake video. | ||
| It was a disgusting video. | ||
| It was a racist video. | ||
| It was unbecoming of anyone purporting to be the president Of the United States of America. | ||
| But y'all, I ain't scared. | ||
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No! | |
| Y'all, I ain't scared, you pandering butts. | ||
| Well, what did Trump do in response to these people freaking out? | ||
| There's not- again, there's nothing racist about it. | ||
| You absolutely can make the argument that Trump should not be doing this. | ||
| And as I said, in the in some other version of this reality of the simulation, could things be a lot more proper and all those things? | ||
| Yes, but this is where we're at. | ||
| This is where we're at, and he's punking you guys into just this stupid stuff, and you fall for it every time. | ||
| So he's basically crying. | ||
| Chuck's upset that it's not the real kukaracha. | ||
| And then what does Trump do? | ||
| We are fighting to protect the healthcare of the American people in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault. | ||
| I'm sorry, I do think it's funny. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| How about this? | ||
| If you really think Trump's racist over this stuff, and you really don't like what he's doing, and you think you're being beaten by this stuff and everything else, how about take a moment of introspection and say, why is it that he keeps associating us? | ||
| Like, what is it about this meme that's working? | ||
| And you might realize that what's working about the meme is the average person watches that and then and that that's why a meme is worth a thousand words, right? | ||
| Like, why do memes travel fast? | ||
| What's the whole purpose of a meme? | ||
| You get an image, usually just a still image with text on it, that really just like explains something to you really quickly, right? | ||
| That's what memes are about. | ||
| That's why they jump through the internet so quickly, or the video memes, it's the same thing. | ||
| They're telling you something that is that is true using humor, and that's what Trump is doing, and all you guys can do is say he's racist about it and never explain why it is you want my money to pay for an illegal health care. | ||
| But we've had it with this this general sense. | ||
| I think what's really happening here is we've most Americans, I think at this point, have had it with this general malaise of mediocrity that that has been pushed upon us. | ||
| Nothing is ever great anymore. | ||
| We're all kind of the same. | ||
| It's equity over excellence, all of these things. | ||
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| Uh, he brought in all the generals and explained no more fat mother effers. | ||
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| All right, so you may remember when Donald Trump was picking out his cabinet. | ||
| I kept saying that Pete Heggseth was going to be an absolute all-star because not only did he have the track record and the resume, but as a former TV host, right? | ||
| He's hosted shows on Fox for about a decade, that he knew how to present the ideas. | ||
| He knew how to be in front of the camera. | ||
| He knew how to communicate all of those things. | ||
| I also know him a bit from doing shows together and things, like just a good guy. | ||
| But I really thought he was the double threat because of that. | ||
| You got the resume, and then you have the skill set to communicate, which is what a secretary of virtually any secretary that's going to be out there communicating these things needs. | ||
| Well, I think it was really proven. | ||
| I think my theory was really proven yesterday because he brought basically all the generals in, and he sat him down and he said, We are now the Department of War, and things are going to be a little different here, you donut eating freaks. | ||
| with physical fitness and appearance. | ||
| If the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. | ||
| Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon. | ||
| And leading commands around the country and the world. | ||
| It's a bad look. | ||
| It is bad, and it's not who we are. | ||
| So whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborne ranger, a brand new private or a four-star general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and pass for PT test. | ||
| And as the chairman said, yes, there is no PT test. | ||
| But today, at my direction, every member of the joint force at every rank is required to take a PT test twice a year. | ||
| As well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year. | ||
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Every year of service. | |
| Also, today, at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day. | ||
| Should be common sense. | ||
| I mean, most units do that already. | ||
| Pete, I think you proved my point. | ||
| He can communicate it, and he also, it's the policy and the communication. | ||
| Of course, we shouldn't have fat soldiers and generals and people that don't can't hit the minimum height and weight requirements, and people that can't do the basic physical things that you might need to do as a soldier. | ||
| And then the fact that he says it's across every rank, and you know, he's sitting there with some very high-ranking people that have been in the military for a long time, and a lot of them have big ass pop bellies. | ||
| And you're right, maybe they're not gonna be going to the shores of Europe with the guns. | ||
| But as he said, it's it's the it's not the right look. | ||
| It's not the right look. | ||
| Like there's nothing there's I saw a whole bunch of people, all the lefties, the usual suspects, freaking out about this. | ||
| He's fat, shaming, and it's like, no, if we at our Department of War can't have basic standards, this is exactly well, in some sense, it's the reverse of what has happened in New York City over the years, as New York City defunded the police and has had administrations that can keep attacking the NYPD. | ||
| What has happened? | ||
| The old timers, they have many of them have retired, a lot of them now have jobs here in Florida. | ||
| And then what happened? | ||
| They couldn't get people to become police officers in New York City, so they had to lower the requirements, the physical fitness requirements, right? | ||
| And do you think over time that's good, whether it's a police department or a military? | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| But it's not just the physical fitness part of this. | ||
| Heg Seth is also getting rid of the bad ideas that perhaps are far more uh dangerous than the physical fitness part. | ||
| Yeah, we're talking about DA DEI and the rest of it. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics. | ||
| No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. | ||
| No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions, no more debris. | ||
| As I've said before, and will say again, we are done with that. | ||
| I mean, man, that makes you proud to be an American. | ||
| It's like the adults are in charge again. | ||
| No more of this diversity BS, no more equity in in who we're gonna hire based on skin color or anything else, no more division within our ranks. | ||
| How did you how did you get that promotion in the military? | ||
| Well, I'm black and trans. | ||
| Well, okay, and I'm fat. | ||
| Well, okay, that's great, really proud of you. | ||
| Uh, but that doesn't mean you should be a four-star general. | ||
| Like, this isn't, this is basic, basic stuff. | ||
| We're just returning to what any sane politician or military leader would have wanted in 1950. | ||
| I know the left really fears the 1950s, but in 1950, it was probably better in a lot of respects. | ||
| Uh, here's Donald Trump on, because he also spoke to the troops and to the admirals and leaders. | ||
| Uh, here he is talking about how uh you better do some of the things they're asking, otherwise uh you could be considered non-essential pretty quickly yourself. | ||
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I'm going over, I'm gonna be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders. | |
| I'm going to fire him right on this spot. | ||
| I'm going to fire him right on this spot. | ||
| you Slight aside there, but did you notice that Trump's tie was particularly long, almost comically long there? | ||
| He does. | ||
| Can we get a screenshot of that for just a second? | ||
| He does like the longer tie. | ||
| It's supposed to go to about your belt buckle. | ||
| But let's see here. | ||
| Let's see here. | ||
| We're gonna go down, down, down. | ||
| I think this is just a little too where is it? | ||
| Where is it going? | ||
| Where? | ||
| Where well? | ||
| Okay, it's just a bit long. | ||
| It's just a bit long, Mr. President. | ||
| I've been very fair to you. | ||
| Think everyone sees that. | ||
| We're gonna just let's up that thing maybe two inches. | ||
| That's that aside. | ||
| Um, yeah. | ||
| Okay, he it's uh he is the chief executive. | ||
| We voted him in. | ||
| And if he doesn't like these people, if they're pushing all of this bad stuff, they're can't they can't, they can't work in the Department of War anymore. | ||
| Now, over on the view, uh women are very concerned that fat people will be losing their jobs. | ||
| I'm actually really befuddled by why by why he did that. | ||
| The optics were terrible, meaning all of our top military brass are all in one place, and we spent six million dollars to get them there. | ||
| That that didn't make a lot of sense to me. | ||
| It also didn't make a lot of sense um to me that he was saying that he was gonna toughen physical standards and re and review the anti-hazing policy um by sort of implementing a hazing policy. | ||
| And then also he said he was going to um return to the highest male standard for combat positions because the troops were fat. | ||
| I I just I I don't understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting message for our military. | ||
| When he's referring to Colonel Sanders. | ||
| I just it was it was just it was it was really a bizarre thing. | ||
| He started talking about woke DEI policies. | ||
| Final thing, I did not like that Pete Hagsoth, who did serve his country, but chose to denigrate the service of others. | ||
| He name checked three generals, two that I served as fat shaming. | ||
| And fat shaming Colonel Sanders. | ||
| Can you she has a writer that hands her jokes during the show? | ||
| She gets texted jokes during the show. | ||
| I mean, that was that was an award-winning joke right there. | ||
| So, Sonny, it's like the optics. | ||
| The optics actually were great. | ||
| You got our generals in a room, and the Department of War, the head of the Department of War, told them, hey, shape up. | ||
| Let's be better at this, let's make countries afraid of us again. | ||
| What what could be better than that? | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| And why and why are you upset about tougher physical standards? | ||
| Tougher physical standards. | ||
| It's not we're not demanding that of people that work at Best Buy. | ||
| We're uh we're asking our warriors to have tougher physical standards, and then just this obsession with they just love fat people. | ||
| They're all on Ozempic and they love fat people. | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| But uh, here's Joy, one more from the view. | ||
| Here is Joy, and she's very concerned that we are all going to die within 3.5 years. | ||
| Do you guys think if you guys think that we can survive another three and a half years of this, I think you're delusional. | ||
| Every day there's some nihilistic thing. | ||
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Can we not start there? | |
| This and I you're I mean, I hate to be Debbie Downer, but you're every day. | ||
| This guy is survived a lot. | ||
| He's undoing something in this country that we value every day. | ||
| It's every day is a shock and awe here. | ||
| I'm actually not trying to fat shame anybody, but why is why is it? | ||
| What is he undoing? | ||
| Our warriors should be fit. | ||
| We're not gonna survive this shit. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Joy, we will all be here in 3.5 years, right? | ||
| Like we're everything's going to be fine. | ||
| We might be a little bit safer, we might be a little more competent. | ||
| There might be a little less of the nonsense that people like you have been pushing into our institutions and into our culture, but everything's gonna be fine. | ||
| And if you guys can control your radicals, actually, it could be the best run that America's ever had because we are on an AI revolution, the cusp of an AI revolution. | ||
| The future could look incredibly, incredibly bright and inspirational and almost unimaginable because of what's happening technologically right now. | ||
| Um, but I know you're obsessed with a man that you think is Hitler and the desire for fat people to fight in wars. | ||
| Uh what this all reminds me of is a quote from the great G.K. Chesterton, who of course was a uh philosopher and uh English uh poet in the 20th century. | ||
| Uh and here we go. | ||
| Tolerance. | ||
| I've read this meant to you guys many times. | ||
| Uh he could have lost a little weight, but he wasn't in the army. | ||
| The point was he was a poet. | ||
| A poet can look like that. | ||
| Uh, tolerance is the virtue of the man with no convictions. | ||
| Uh, we will get to more on men with no convictions and what it does when you let them lead in just a second, but first, Rumble Premium. | ||
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| Okay, so since I've read that quote to you before, let me read one other for you, which I think will illustrate what's going on here, and you know this one. | ||
| And this is a meme. | ||
| This is why memes work. | ||
| Hard times create strong men. | ||
| Strong men create good times. | ||
| Good times create weak men. | ||
| Weak men create hard times. | ||
| Now we've been at the fourth panel there for quite some time. | ||
| We've had weak men and weak men in dresses and fat men and blah-blah bah creating hard times. | ||
| But we are now getting out of that. | ||
| What Pete Heggseth is trying to do and what Donald Trump is trying to do is now create a generation of strong men. | ||
| And that doesn't mean they're mean, and it doesn't have anything to do with the patriarchy and putting women back on the kitchen and it means that we are going to take responsibility for our lives, not outsource all of our autonomy. | ||
| And we're gonna fight for a country and a culture and a civilization that will be good, and it will be good for everybody. | ||
| But not everybody's on board that. | ||
| So now let's go over to Chicago. | ||
| And as you know, they have a racist mayor by the name of Brandon Johnson. | ||
| This is a man who does not care that usually it's about five to maybe a dozen, sometimes more young black men are killed on his streets every weekend. | ||
| Many more than that are shot every weekend. | ||
| Uh, and what he does, because he is a weak man with the wrong eye, he pretends he's a strong man. | ||
| You're gonna see right now. | ||
| He's going to the gym and he's gonna be yelling and right his that righteous anger that AOC had before, burning with the but it's all fake because they're actually weak, because what they want to do is outsource everything to the government so the government can tell them what to do. | ||
| Uh, here is Brandon Johnson, who has largely destroyed Chicago. | ||
| Donald Trump's trying to clean up Chicago, explaining that jails and law enforcement and all these things, none of it actually helps. | ||
| It all makes things worse. | ||
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The fact of the matter is we are driving violence down on this city, and we're using every single resource that's available to us. | |
| Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities. | ||
| Jail and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness. | ||
| Why don't you ask that to some of the parents of the dead black teens that are uh no longer with you in your city? | ||
| You might want to ask them about that. | ||
| And if they think that the problem was that jail and law enforcement and policing was the problem. | ||
| Or was it actually lack of policing? | ||
| Was it had did it have something to do with the destruction of the nuclear family, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| But someone like him, you might look at him and go, well, he doesn't look weak, right? | ||
| He doesn't look weak because he does look like he worked out, he's kind of big and he's angry, right? | ||
| They all do the same exact emoting. | ||
| It's the exact same fake emoting. | ||
| Their ideas are bad, so they have to fake a moat. | ||
| You watch Donald Trump speak, and he's not fake emoting. | ||
| You watch Pete Heg. | ||
| He's calmly explaining what's going on here, right? | ||
| Because he's talking about logic. | ||
| Oh, we should have warriors who have basic fitness uh acumen, right? | ||
| You watch AOC, who is that fake emoting about everything. | ||
| I'm burning with the hand. | ||
| And then you watch this guy, and it's all right, law enforcement doesn't do anything. | ||
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It's all fake because they are weak. | |
| They are weak. | ||
| And you know, one of the things that I mentioned earlier in the week, because uh, you know, this I was Joseph just told me that Zorhan Mandami, he's on right now, is it right now? | ||
| So I don't want you to change the channel. | ||
| I want you to keep watching the Ruben Port Show online. | ||
| But apparently Zorhan Mamdami is on the view right now. | ||
| We'll obviously cover that. | ||
| Um, but one of the things I've been talking about with Zorhan is that it the my concern is that he will fake it once he becomes uh mayor, they they can fake it for a while. | ||
| You can fit the budgets don't all collapse at once. | ||
| You they turn on and off the violence and the Hamas people and all the protesters and all that, and they can control it for a while. | ||
| And my fear is that once Once people see, oh, it worked for a little bit, that you're gonna see it popping up all over the country. | ||
| Well, the progressive maniacs are starting to spread throughout the country. | ||
| We know what's happening in Minnesota, we know what's happened in Chicago. | ||
| Uh here is Georgia representative, Ruha Roman. | ||
| And she wants to be the governor of Georgia because she's a good old Southern gal. | ||
| My first job out of college was at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, where I got to learn how to organize with incredible legends, like the late John Lewis. | ||
| Now I have the honor of representing tens of thousands of Georgians in the State House. | ||
| I'm as Georgia as we come. | ||
| I'm also the granddaughter of Palestinian refugees. | ||
| My family lost everything and had to rebuild from nothing. | ||
| My family's history and the skills taught to me by civil rights heroes made me never back down from a fight. | ||
| I'm actually gonna not offer much commentary on that, other than to say, I think you see what the problem is. | ||
| You get it, and this thing is spreading, and we should all think about that, and you should be thinking about where you look. | ||
| She's not gonna live, uh, she's not gonna uh win, right? | ||
| She's not gonna win. | ||
| But it's just enough of this stuff. | ||
| Enough of this stuff. | ||
| Okay, yes, because you're Palestinian, you should be the governor of George whatever. | ||
| Um, but these people, this set of lefties that are weak, are destroyed. | ||
| It's not what they're destroying here in America, it's what they're destroying all over the world. | ||
| And from a across the pond, from a British perspective, Keir Starmer is probably the best example of a weak man creating hard times. | ||
| And that is largely why Britain is starting to become a failed society. | ||
| Here he is explaining that uh free speech is very valuable to the British, but uh you're probably racist and you should shut up. | ||
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Free speech is a British value and we have guarded it for centuries. | |
| But if you incite racist violence and hatred, that is not expressing concern, it's criminal. | ||
| And do you see why we needed the First Amendment, guys? | ||
| Because free speech is great, but if you incite now, what he's not really saying there, the thing is, if you incite, if you incite racism, that's interesting. | ||
| If you incite racism, it's criminal. | ||
| Now, if you're to incite a violent act, that is actually criminal. | ||
| I'm talking about from an American perspective, but it's a very interesting use of words there. | ||
| Because if you incite violence, right? | ||
| So you say you have a gang of group of people, hey, let's go kill that guy. | ||
| That is not protected free speech. | ||
| But are you allowed to incite racism? | ||
| You actually are. | ||
| Now, would we all prefer that people don't? | ||
| Would you prefer that people not hate people because of their race or their creed or some other immutable characteristic? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| But are you allowed to say, are you are you allowed to say I don't like black people? | ||
| Yeah, are you allowed to say I don't like Jews? | ||
| Are you allowed to say I don't like white people? | ||
| I'm pretty sure that's in the Democrat Party platform. | ||
| So you are you allowed to say those things? | ||
| You are. | ||
| And then the the hope is that free speech on the other side of that will counter that. | ||
| That's that's a very Western idea. | ||
| That's a very um, it's a very thoughtful idea of that that in essence came out of the Enlightenment. | ||
| Um, but it's an important piece of what makes a society free. | ||
| That you can say as much as you want, but they're doing something very different there. | ||
| If you incite racism, and that's quite literally why they are arresting people for putting up memes online. | ||
| And unless we want that coming here, we better watch out about that. | ||
| Uh wait, are we putting the meme up again? | ||
| What do we got here? | ||
| Oh, yeah, okay, sorry. | ||
| Um, I thought this was quite good from Wall Street Maverick. | ||
| So, of course, what I mentioned before, weak men create hard time, hard times, and there's Keir, and here are the hard times. | ||
| Who are these people? | ||
| Why are they wandering into your country? | ||
| Why are they all seemingly 25 to 35 and they're all men, and they all have phones and they don't look that hungry. | ||
| They don't look like they're fleeing genocide or anything else. | ||
| Where are the women? | ||
| Where are the children? | ||
| And guess what, Keir Starmer? | ||
| There's your hard time, and it is on the way. | ||
| Let me connect this to something that uh Jordan Peterson said quite some time ago. | ||
| Uh, but that that weakness, that's the theme here, right? | ||
| Like these weak people, these weak people, whether it's the generals that are weak Because they can't fit the standards that their soldiers should fit. | ||
| Whether it's the analysts like Joy Behar who are upset about that, whether it's the leaders that let in all of these people that are there to destroy their country, and then they arrest the people who are trying to defend their country. | ||
| What does weakness do? | ||
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Well, it makes things much, much, much worse. | |
| Weak people are a problem in general. | ||
| And I don't mean physically weak, I mean cowardly, let's say, and deceitful, because I'm thinking it more in terms of moral weakness. | ||
| Well, there's a variety of reasons is first of all, if you can't support your own weight, let's say, then someone else has to do it. | ||
| And that's not good. | ||
| And then if you don't make your pathway, if you don't pick a forthright and useful and noble pathway through life, then you'll become bitter and too hurt by the tragedy of existence. | ||
| And then you tend to seek your revenge wherever you can get it. | ||
| And that's not good. | ||
| So it's a it's a mistake on all fronts. | ||
| It's not good for you, it's not good for your family, it's not good for the community. | ||
| Um, it's certainly not a good medium to long-term strategy because life is very, very difficult, and you have to be prepared for that. | ||
| So I think you can see how we're tying this all together. | ||
| The the weakness, the bitterness, and and you know, it's funny, because he said not physical weakness, and in some, and obviously the Heggseth stuff is about physical weakness, but it is also about mental weakness. | ||
| But if you just, if you don't, what it really is about is if you don't take responsibility for your life, you will outsource all of your decisions to people who don't really care about you. | ||
| And now I want to tie this to what we were doing earlier, which is remember, the Democrats, you're gonna kill all the kids. | ||
| AOC, you're gonna kill four million kids. | ||
| Bernie Sanders, you're gonna kill all these people, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And we want lower prescription medical costs, and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Well, guess who's doing it? | ||
| It's the guy that they hate. | ||
| Listen to this from the Daily Wire. | ||
| President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that popular medications will be offered at massively discounted prices, known as most favored nation prices as pharmaceutical behemoth, Pfizer commits to a $70 billion investment to the manufacture of drugs in the U.S. A new website called Trump RX will allow Americans to purchase drugs directly from the government rather than going through insurance. | ||
| Virtually all drugs will be discounted on Trump RX, the White House said. | ||
| Pfizer stepped up with a $70 billion investment, a shift towards making drugs in the U.S., uh, a shift towards making drugs in the US, which the Trump administration has addressed as a national security issue. | ||
| The company is also offering all medications to medicate at most favored nations' prices, which are prices comparable to or less than the cost of other nations' drug prices. | ||
| Additionally, all new medications will be offered at most favored nation prices. | ||
| Dermatitis medication, for example, will be discounted by 80%, and that refers to the net price, which is act which is what consumers are actually paying. | ||
| Meds for postmenopausal osteoporosis, which is extremely common, will be discounted 85%. | ||
| Migraine medication and rheumatard arthritis drugs will be discounted 50% and 40% respectively. | ||
| Today marks the end of the great American ripoff, but it also marks the beginning of the end of a great American tragedy, something I've seen as a physician at the bedside, patients getting spun up into a financial rage to try to get enough money to pay for a drug, a drug that's five or ten times more expensive than the same drug in France or Germany or the UK, he said. | ||
| So Donald Trump, the man that they are telling you wants to kill all those kids, the man that they are telling you wants everybody to not have health insurance and not have to pay too much for pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs and all those things. | ||
| Well, there's actually what he's doing. | ||
| And maybe you don't like that he's working with Pfizer on it, because should we really trust Pfizer after uh after COVID? | ||
| I didn't love the idea of seeing the CEO of Pfizer in the White House. | ||
| I didn't, that guy Albert Borea, who lied about everything during COVID. | ||
| But a 70 billion dollar investment so that people can get drugs that they need. | ||
| Now, we can always have that conversation about why do they need the drugs in the first place, and Bobby Kennedy has done a lot on that. | ||
| Let's get food poisoning out, let's stop doing the seed oil thing, let's get outside, let's get some sun, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| But at least it's a step. | ||
| And once again, it's an exposure of their nonsensical. | ||
| Donald Trump's killing everybody. | ||
| No, he's not. | ||
| But speaking of Bobby Kennedy, I thought this was quite good. | ||
| Uh, he talks about um here his his son thanking him for some of the things that he is doing. | ||
| This would not have happened without President Trump's leadership. | ||
| I told my son last, I were all under secrecy about this, but I told my son late last night. | ||
| A 27 year old son Connor is a very liberal Democrat. | ||
| I told him this was happening. | ||
| And he uh he just paused for a minute and he said, Thank you, Dad. | ||
| I'm so proud of you. | ||
| Because this is something Democrats have wanted for 20 years. | ||
| Republicans have wanted for 20 years. | ||
| Everybody said they're gonna do it. | ||
| Nobody has even taken a step towards doing it. | ||
| And the reason was because it was such a daunting task. | ||
| You know, look at those guys standing behind Bobby right there. | ||
| First off, that he admits that his son is a liberal Democrat. | ||
| I don't I don't even know what that means anymore. | ||
| So I guess his son's a progressive. | ||
| That that's kind of crazy, but okay, like it is what it is. | ||
| Um, but that he can tell that story up there, and that his son is appreciative of that. | ||
| So first off, I suspect his son is not a totally far gone lunatic, but look at those people behind him. | ||
| So you have Trump, you have JD, who's hypercompetent, you have Dr. Oz. | ||
| Uh Howard Lutnik was there. | ||
| Like, these are professionals who are supposed to be doing these things. | ||
| They are medical professionals, Dr. Oz, they're financial professionals. | ||
| Howard Lutnik, these are competent people who were hired for the right reasons, and they are lowering the cost of drugs for the American people while AOC is telling you that Trump wants to kill all of the kids. | ||
| Uh, here's one more from uh Bobby Kenny. | ||
| Here he is on Rogan, uh, talking about a book uh that he read that uh had a little something to do with his own evolution and what how he can help people now. | ||
| My about a week before, no, about two weeks before he died, my father gave me a book. | ||
| And the book was a book by Camu. | ||
| Camus had written this book called The Plague. | ||
| My father gave it to me, and he told me with this kind of peculiar intensity, I want you to read this. | ||
| And he had given me, he always gave me stuff to read, and poetry and stuff, but he said this with this uh with this directness that after he died, I ended up reading that book about three times, trying to figure out kind of what the message was that he was, you know, he was trying to give me. | ||
| And um, and the book is about a doctor who is in a city in North Africa where there is an unnamed plague ravaging the city. | ||
| It's a walled city and it's quarantined. | ||
| And the city is a the plague is something nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| And most of the people get it are dying. | ||
| So there's a huge infection fatality rate. | ||
| He's trying to say, I don't want to go out there, because uh if I go out there, I'm gonna catch it. | ||
| And I can't really help these people anyway, because we don't know, you know, anything about this disease. | ||
| We don't know how to treat it. | ||
| And everybody gets it dies. | ||
| So why, you know, why don't I just stay here and wait it out? | ||
| And then in the end, he ends up leaving, and he he ends up just comforting people. | ||
| In the stoic cosmology, Sisyphus is a happy man because he put his his shoulder to the stone. | ||
| He was given a duty and he does his duty. | ||
| And um, and that and that that cell group sacrifice that he makes, brings order to a chaotic universe. | ||
| He was given a duty and he does his duty, and that's what brings order to a chaotic universe. | ||
| I mean, that's a little bit of Jordan Peterson, it's a little bit, it's a little bit of everything we've described here. | ||
| Like if we all start doing our duty, if we take responsibility for our lives, we will be less reliant on these people who seemingly lie about everything, who want things from you, who want you to be weak and decrepit and pathetic and dependent. | ||
| And how about just enough of that? | ||
| Uh, but I would like to end the show today with something a little bit different. | ||
| Uh tonight begins the it's the 25-hour fast for Yom Kippur, which is the Holy's Day in the Jewish calendar. | ||
| It is the day of atonement. | ||
| I will be fasting for 25 hours, and I assure you, at about hour 18, you do not want to talk to me. | ||
| Um, but it is the holiest day of the year. | ||
| And uh I saw a video this morning of my friend Dennis Prager, and Dennis Prager, uh, as most of you know, right after the election last year, just a few days after the election, uh, Dennis took quite a spill getting out of the shower, and he had had some fusions already in his uh spine. | ||
| Um, and he fell in such a way that Dennis has basically been a quadriplegic uh for almost a year right now. | ||
| I've I visited him in the hospital. | ||
| Uh he's had a lot of trouble breathing, so you have a breathing, he has had a breathing tube, Which of course when you have that, even though his mind is there and technically he'd be able to speak. | ||
| If you have a breathing tube, you can't speak. | ||
| So that's been on and off. | ||
| His breathing has gotten better. | ||
| They've transferred him to some other hospitals. | ||
| But he does not have use of his limbs. | ||
| It has been, it's an unimaginable tragedy beyond, it's almost beyond comprehension. | ||
| And he really, you know, I always tell you guys like I've met all the people I've ever wanted to meet and heroes of mine and musicians and athletes and all of these things. | ||
| Dennis, Dennis, I put at the top, right up there with with Jordan as the single best uh person that I have met doing all of this, who has such an unbelievable impact on me. | ||
| And when we lived in LA, although Dennis is not technically a rabbi, uh, we did go, he would during the high holidays, the Jewish high holidays, he would host um basically he would have a sort of a makeshift temple where hundreds and hundreds of people would go, usually around 500 people, and Dennis would do services, and it was unbelievably meaningful for me and kind of brought me back into the fold on some of these things. | ||
| Um so to the backdrop of tomorrow being the holiest day in the Jewish year, and we'll we'll be pre-taping our show, so I will not be live tomorrow. | ||
| Uh, there was a video that went up this morning. | ||
| Marissa from Prager You, who's the Marissa Stride, who's the CEO of Prager You. | ||
| Uh, she chatted with Dennis. | ||
| They were able to get the breathing tube out for a little bit, and for the first time asked Dennis about his condition and his life. | ||
| And I watched it and I thought it was unbelievably meaningful and powerful and showed Dennis his spirit and perhaps offers us all a little something. | ||
| So let's take a look. | ||
| Would I wish I could move my limbs? | ||
| I dream about moving my limbs almost every night. | ||
| Of course I would love it, but I'm alive and I have my loved ones. | ||
| And I have the public. | ||
| And I think I could still make a difference. | ||
| Will I rather be dead? | ||
| It's it's inconceivable. | ||
| I love life, and I love so many people. | ||
| Of course, I love my wife and my kids and my grandkids. | ||
| Now I'll tell you one other interesting thing. | ||
| I have a book on happiness. | ||
| It's 26 years ago it was published by Harper Collins. | ||
| Happiness is a serious problem. | ||
| I would not change a word. | ||
| That is how philosophically prepared I was for this terrible thing that I that I have encountered. | ||
| I mean, what I wrote in there, like about expectations, and you know, my motto. | ||
| If nothing's horrific, life is terrific. | ||
| I mean, powerful, powerful. | ||
| There's a guy who's lost the the physical use of his body, and he still has his mind and he still has something to fight for and still believes he can make a difference, and he absolutely can. | ||
| And as I understand it, um, he's going to be moving actually to Miami. | ||
| They're moved for medical purposes, they're going to move him down here. | ||
| I'm going to try to spend as much time as I can with him. | ||
| Maybe I can do some weekly learning with him or something, because he does still have an awful lot to give. | ||
| Um, and I just thought that would be the right way to end today's show before we roll into the holiest day of the year for the Hebrews out there. | ||
| So I thank you guys for watching. | ||
| We got a post-game show in moments, Rubenport.locals.com. | ||
| Pre-tape tomorrow, and then on Friday, live in studio, Dinesh D'Souza is going to be my co-host. | ||
| He has a new doc out there. | ||
| We're going to talk a bit about that, and then we'll just recap the weekend, all that good stuff. | ||
| I thank you for watching and reminder, there are some extra VIP tickets still available. | ||
| We just released a bunch more. | ||
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