Dave Rubin hosts the October 27, 2025, episode from Brisbane, debating Zohran Mamdani's citizenship and alleged hypocrisy regarding 9/11 narratives while critiquing Bill Maher's arguments. He mocks Gavin Newsom's background and California's gerrymandering, promotes Trump's Southeast Asian peace deals, and analyzes Japan's new female Prime Minister Sanae Takachi. Ultimately, Rubin warns against the fracturing of the right despite his support for liberal values within the MAGA movement. [Automatically generated summary]
This is the Rubin Report on Location in Brisbane, Australia.
It's October 27th, 2025.
And because I'm actually in the future in this part of the country, apparently we've just completed our Brisbane show.
I'm sure it was absolutely amazing.
I may or may not be on a plane back to America.
Apparently, I'm live tomorrow because Phoenix will not give me the day off.
We've had an incredible trip here.
It's been, it really has been 12, 13 days of just pure joy bouncing across the country and meeting you guys and doing the live shows and a couple private events and at the Concilium Conference and a whole bunch more.
It's really just been wonderful.
I'll have a lot to talk about when we get back to America and catch you guys up because it's so interesting.
One of the things that I love about traveling the world is going to these different countries and just a couple that I've been to in the last few years, whether it is Israel or it's Hungary or it's the UK or it's right here in Australia, seeing how many of the big issues, the real big issues, which at the moment are mostly, I would say, immigration issues related to culture and will the West survive, how they transcend borders.
It's ironic.
They transcend borders completely, that all of these countries are dealing with the same things.
Americans, what does it mean to be an American Australian?
What does it mean to be an Australian, et cetera, et cetera?
And how will you defend your country?
And will you fight for your country and your values and all of those things?
So it's really just been absolutely, absolutely wonderful here.
And as I said, we will be back live in studio in the free state of Florida in Miami tomorrow.
And let's just dive in on everything that's going on in the world right now.
Most of it has to do with what I can only describe as a horrific impending disaster in the once great city of New York, a city that I spent most of my formative adult years in, which appears to be on the verge of electing a socialist slash communist slash Marxist slash little bit of jihad, Zorhan Mandami.
Let's start with Bill Marshall because it is Monday, but we're not going to throw it to the intro today.
He had a former Biden-Comms director on the show.
Her name is Kate Beddingfield, and they got into how Mamdami is a dual citizen with Uganda, which I suppose in itself is just fine, although he does seem to want to import a lot of Ugandanese ideas here into America.
But that in Uganda, they still have the death penalty for killing gays.
Now, this is a guy who's always out there with the gays.
He never invites them over for his mosque parties, but he's out there with the gays.
I would renounce if I was the dual citizen with a country whose policy, the government policy was we kill homosexuals, yeah, I would renounce that citizenship.
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I don't, and to not and he also can't.
I think it's buying into a fear.
I think that is buying into a fear framework that is not available.
This guy is an absolute scumbag, and every single thing he says is a complete and utter lie.
And you better realize it soon, New York.
The clock is freaking ticking.
Do you hear the ticking?
It is getting louder and louder.
First off, Muslims in New York expect indignity.
What are you talking about?
Muslims in New York have the same exact rights as everybody else.
You pal around with people who literally call for genocide.
You will not condemn globalize the intifada, blah, blah, blah.
So it's just pure nonsense.
Also, people selling t-shirts to kick you out.
The t-shirts, if the t-shirt said, kick out and kill all Muslims, that would be an infringement on the First Amendment because it would be a direct call for violence.
Saying that you should be booted out of the country, I don't like you.
You should be booted out of the country.
You are here to destroy America.
We have free speech and free expression, and people are allowed to wear that t-shirt.
But he desperately wants to be the victim, right?
Born with a silver spoon, got the lo-fi music, got the soft lens, got all the money, has all his fake accents, depending on who he's talking to, and he's also the victim.
And also, as it pertains to Islamophobia, which is a completely nonsensical, made-up word, a fear.
What is a phobia?
A phobia is an irrational fear.
If you are gay, what should you think of Islam?
Do you think that's irrational?
If you are a woman, what should you think of Islam?
If you are a non-believer, what should you think of Islam?
If you're an ex-Muslim, what should you think of Islam?
If you're a Muslim who just, you know, wants to go out and have a good time, what should you think of Islam?
Are any of these things illogical fears?
It is complete and utter nonsense.
It is a word.
Oh man, what's the Christopher Hitchens line?
Can someone Google it?
Christopher Hitchens on Islamophobia.
He's got a great line on it.
But it is a word that is basically designed to break brains.
I think he says something like, Islamophobia is a word designed for morons.
We've almost got it here.
Watch this.
We are fact-checking live.
I will get the exact quote: a word created by fascists and used by cowards to silence morons, something to that effect.
And I basically, yeah, that's it.
I want to give credit to a woman by the name of Amy Mech.
She's on Twitter, and you should follow her if you don't, because she has been tracking what's going on with these false cries around Islamophobia and radical jihad and the rest of it for years and years and years.
And this tweet popped up.
She back in February of 2020.
Remember, where are we right now?
We're at the end of October in 2025, but in February 2020, five years ago, she was already tracking and predicting what was going to happen with Zorhan Mundami.
Listen to this.
Threat Alert New York, Democrat socialists of America leader Zorham Kwame Mamdami is a Muslim immigrant from Uganda who is running for the New York State Assembly District 36.
Mom Dami describes how Muslims are the victims of 9-11 and continuously pushes unproven claims of discrimination.
She was absolutely right about him then.
And of course, the clip that you've probably seen already, so we're not even going to bother showing it here, is that Mom Dami now is out there with these crocodile tears claiming that after 9-11, his aunt was afraid to wear a hijab in the subway.
Now, I was in New York during 9-11, and you know what happened immediately for weeks after 9-11?
Everyone ran around, making sure that nobody was bigoted or hateful.
There was more of a concern for the Muslim community on 9-12 than there was on 9-10.
I assure you about that.
That doesn't mean there wasn't individual acts of racism.
That is part of the human condition, which they would love to wipe out because they're not thrilled with the human condition as it generally stands.
But anyway, he basically said his aunt, and this whole story sounds fabricated.
There's a lot of reasons to believe it's fabricated, but he was crying about his aunt who couldn't get on a subway after because she was getting mean looks.
I thought Scott Jennings on CNN had quite a good take on that.
No, I think if you're going to have a press, if you're going to run for mayor of New York City or have any position in New York City and you're going to talk about 9-11 or invoke 9-11, you darn sure better start with the people who died in the Twin Towers.
So he's trying to use guilt, unearned guilt, and victimhood.
He's trying to extract the emotional price from the voters to make it seem like somehow he and his aunt was the victim, not the thousands of people who died.
And by the way, because he is for current jihad, he is.
He is a Hamas supporter.
Because he is for that stuff, there's every reason to believe he was for the 9-11 attacks.
I'm sorry.
And the fact that, oh, by the way, his Imam was the co-conspirator, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Center, World Trade Center attacks.
I don't like this guy very much.
Good luck, New York.
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No, or he's worse.
I don't know.
Well, we'll talk about Gavin Newsom in a second.
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All right, so Gavin Newsom is back in the news.
And yes, in case you didn't realize it, he is running for president in 2028.
You're not afraid to go into Red States.
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No.
When I saw you slinging shots behind the coffee bar, I thought this guy might run for president.
The idea that a guy who got a 960 on his SAT that still struggles to read scripts that was always in the back of the classroom, the idea that you even throw that out is in and of itself extraordinary.
Who the hell knows?
I'm looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment.
And that's the question for the American people.
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It's fair to say after the 2026 midterms, you're going to give it serious thought.
But also, you know, it was also about paying the bills, man.
And it was just like hustling.
And so I was out there kind of raising myself, turning on the TV, started, you know, just getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with the, you know, the wonder bread and five stacks of story.
You know, then this student that was student in the back with his head down all of a sudden started throwing the baseball a little faster than everyone else and started, you know, make a few free throws because I was sitting there practicing 500 of them every damn night.
And in high school, I look up in the stands, my dad's back up there.
If you are looking at 10 resumes and people have equal qualifications and then you decide to bring their race into it or their genitals or whether they wear big furry hats while they're having sex, there's something wrong with you.
Okay.
You should be colorblind.
All right.
So you guys have instituted systemic racism.
And the fact that he's still going for it now, which I do think is particularly interesting because a lot of us thought that the, you know, we thought the kind of woke thing was dead.
Now the momdami version is bringing it back with the Dash and Jihad, but now he's going all the way back to it.
So they obviously are doing some testing within the Democrat Party and people still want it.
So if you are white, if you are straight, if you are sane, certainly if you're Jewish or anything else, you must leave the Democrat Party.
You should have nothing to do with these people.
And Gavin, by the way, if you believed any of it, you would not run for president.
You would find a colored person because that's what you think of them, really.
You would find one of them and you would back them to run because you're a rich white guy who wants to pretend he's a poor guy, but you would give them the job.
But we know you're not going to do that.
I thought this was pretty good from Representative Mike Collins.
This is unbelievable.
Gavin Newsom gave 62,000 commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens and migrants.
Every one of these jobs was taken from an American and every one of these drivers puts the public at risk.
It's unacceptable and dangerous.
That is incredible.
62,000 illegals driving trucks.
We showed you the video a couple days ago.
There's been many instances of this where these guys then get out of state and they kill people on the road because they're drunk and or high in other states.
And that's the problem because we don't have walls that are separating the states, which I'm not necessarily calling for, although I would be for it with Florida involving a moat and a gator and all that kind of stuff.
But this is what they are going to do.
And they simply are not going to stop.
Everyone always asks, like, when does it end?
Where is the bottom to this hole that is the Democrat Party?
When does wokeness and leftism, when does it end?
And right now we are seeing that it is genuinely a bottomless hole.
It is just going to keep going and going and going and going.
Now, that's not to say there aren't a few sane people in California because there are.
California, which even though it's a one-party state, has probably the second most Republicans, if not the most Republicans in the country, because it's such a freaking massive state.
Former Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, here he is talking to Jake Tapper about what Newsom's trying to do with gerrymandering.
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Anything that is temporary with government is permanent.
So in the year 2032, when the Independent Redistricting Commission is supposed to come back, they're going to say, wait a minute, there's still gerrymandering going on in Texas.
There's still gerrymandering going on in Ohio.
There's still gerrymandering going on in Florida.
We have to continue with the gerrymandering.
This is what's going to happen.
They will find an excuse.
So therefore, I don't think it is temporary.
So that's total fantasy.
So the second thing is that you cannot cheat your way out of it.
What they should do is, what the Democrats should do is they should outperform Trump.
To me, it's all about competition creates performance.
I think Arnold Schwarzenegger knows a little something about competition, right?
And of course, he's right.
Everything that the government does is temporary until it is permanent.
So there will always be another excuse.
Oh, we fixed these districts.
And now you think the Independent Commission of California in 2032 is going to be like, well, we got what we wanted, but we are the independent commission.
And now we're going to redraw those maps because everything's fair.
Of course not.
It will just be a furthering of the tightening of the screws against everyone who doesn't bow to the system.
So Cali, good luck with all of that.
But I would also say America, good luck with all of that.
Between the rise of Momdami, Newsom coming back, there are dark, dark clouds on the horizon in many respects.
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All right, so to the backdrop of all that, before we get too black pilled, let's talk about some of the good things that are happening right now.
And you know, I always try to talk about the good things.
I know there's a lot of people on the right that don't talk about the good things and are trying to break your brains and make everything depressing and everything else.
But Donald Trump continues to rack up win after win after win after win.
We can't just make fun of these losers on the left.
So listen to this from Fox News.
Cambodia and Thailand on Sunday signed an expanded ceasefire deal that President Donald Trump helped broker over the summer, ending their broader conflict, ending their border conflict.
Trump threatened higher tariffs against both countries to push them into agreeing to end the fighting, which left dozens of people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced.
The agreement requires Thailand to release 18 Cambodian soldiers held prisoner and for both countries to begin removing heavy weapons from the border.
We did something that a lot of people said couldn't be done, Trump said.
And yes, this is once again Donald Trump using American influence, not dropping bombs on people or making anyone live a different way, but using American influence in the most positive sense of that to get people to come to the table so that there is less violence, less displaced people, and less war and death, et cetera, et cetera.
Here's Donald Trump mocking the freaks over at the UN.
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I won't forget that day because it was one of the first wars that I got involved in.
And I love doing it.
I love, it's one, it's like, I shouldn't say it's a hobby because it's so much more serious than a hobby, but it's something that I'm good at and it's something I love to do.
The United Nations should be doing this, but they don't do it.
You know, they don't do it.
They turned off my teleprompter when I made a speech.
I mean, even that, like that he still has a sense of humor about these things.
Yeah, at the General Assembly, they turned his teleprompter off.
Yeah, they literally turned the escalator off as he and Melania got on there.
And he's right, they're not good at making peace.
They're actually really, really good at continuing the grift of war and siding with all the bad guys always.
And Donald Trump, I actually, Trump, I'll give you a little more credit than you give yourself.
It is your hobby.
Your hobby is actually making peace.
Your hobby is the thing you love, which is bringing people to the table and figuring out how everyone can walk away from the table, maybe not getting exactly what they wanted, but feeling good about whatever deal came to pass.
Joseph pointed out to me that the guy's averaging one peace deal per month right now.
He's been in office basically eight months.
India, Pakistan, Congo, Rwanda, Israel, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Kosovo, Israel, Hamas, and Cambodia, Thailand.
And here's the Prime Minister of Malaysia praising Trump.
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Thank you, President Donald Trump, for giving us this honor.
And on behalf, of course, Malaysia and our colleagues in ASEAN, I must thank you for your concern, for your empathy, and for your commitment to support this peace deal.
You personally did call both prime ministers to urge for a speedy peace settlement.
The world needs leaders who promote peace strongly.
And to achieve that, you have to break some rules, as you did today.
When the president arrived, he asked me to join him in the car.
I said, that's again the security and protocol rules.
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All right, so we mentioned the other day that Japan has a new prime minister as their first ever female prime minister, which does not really matter other than she is a badass chick who wants to keep Japan for Japanese people.
She would like to kick out the people who have come, who are trying to destroy her country.
Her name is Sanai Takachi, and here she is saying that Japanese people, who also have a huge problem actually as it relates to population collapse, because they're getting married way later.
They're having way, way less kids.
There's a huge cliff that they are coming close to when it comes to population that they should start banging again.
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Based on the understanding that Japan's biggest problem is population decline, we will establish a system to consider measures against population decline, including policies for children and child rearing.
It is true that given the labor shortages caused by population decline, there are fields that require foreign workers.
Inbound tourism is also important.
However, it is also a fact that some illegal acts or rule violations by certain foreigners have created situations where the public feels anxiety or a sense of unfairness.
While this is clearly distinct from discrimination, the government will respond firmly to such acts.
We teach young women in particular that the fundamental goal of their life is going to be their career.
And, you know, first of all, most people don't have careers.
They have jobs.
And those are very different things.
But you're not a very happy camper, so to speak, if you're 45 and you have no one.
And it doesn't go upwards after that.
So don't miss it.
Little children pay you back immensely if you have a good relationship with them, you know, if you're on their side and encourage them because they're an unconditional source of joy and love.
And that right there, as someone that's been away from my kids for 12 days now, is what it's all about, right?
And that also is what sits beneath politics.
We talk about everything from the political lens usually, right?
So there you have the Japanese prime minister saying we have to have kids again.
And there's sort of like a political reason.
We have to repopulate, we have to have jobs, blah, blah, blah.
But then Jordan gives you the most human reason to do that.
And it's also just what we know.
It's like what you fundamentally know to be true.
We all just know it.
So to tie this all together is the last clip that we'll show you while we are in Australia.
And then as I said, I will be back live from Miami tomorrow.
I'm sure severely jet lagged, but we'll do the best we can.
I want to show you this small bite from one of my talks at the Concilium Conference.
The topic was what's going on on the right right now, some of the fracturing on the right.
And what I was trying to lay out was the idea that we've got to keep this tenuous, wide tent together.
There's a way to do it.
It's going to be tricky.
There are all sorts of forces trying to take it out.
But that's the way that not only MAGA will continue, but an America that you and I love will continue.
So we're going to show you a short bite right here.
And the full thing is up already on our YouTube and Rumble channel, which we will link to in the description above, or below, I should say.
Well, I'm on the other side of the world, so I'm not sure if it's above or below.
I think it's down there.
And we'll see you back in America.
We were the shining beacon in the world where everyone from literally every corner on earth wanted to come to to make a better life and largely did that.
But of course, the exchange in that is that you're going to have people that have different religious beliefs.
You're going to have people that have different philosophic beliefs that are going to have different lifestyles and different foods and music and all of these things.
And America, much, much better than Europe, integrated these people properly.
And that is the promise of liberalism.
And if the conservatives and the MAGA movement is to last, they are going to have to pick which way are we going to go on this?
Are we going to be an America that is going to lead the world, that is going to defend liberal Western values, individual rights, universal human rights?
Or are we going to do something that is different?
So Trump is basically trying to hold a very tenuous position.
How do we balance all of these things and keep the widest tent possible?
I honestly don't know if it's possible.
What I've said to my audience all the time is, and what I've said to the Trump people and anyone who will listen, is that I will stake out the position to be on the liberal side of the MAGA movement.
And as long as the people to the further right of that are willing to live in the same country as me, then we're going to be okay.