Nov. 10, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| Previously, on the Rubin page. | ||
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Stop donating. | |
| Today, I am asking them to start once again. | ||
| The insult around it. | ||
| Is that the weirdest intro to Tales from the Cryptid you've ever seen? | ||
| Time, I lost my job! | ||
| Your college major was underwater lesbian basket weaving. | ||
| I'll send you a bottle of tequila. | ||
| Why, hello there. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
| It is November 10th, 2025. | ||
| We are live streaming on Rumble, YouTube, and local. | ||
| Share, subscribe, tap that notification bell. | ||
| And I am very excited to tell you today that according to my aura ring here, I slept eight hours and 10 minutes last night. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Since we have been back for just under two weeks from Australia, my jet lag has just been completely insane and my brain has not been right. | ||
| I've been wacky, waking up basically at like 3 a.m. every single day. | ||
| I've just felt a little off for two weeks. | ||
| Yes, I bring it. | ||
| I bring it when I'm on the air. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I bring it. | ||
| But I finally slept well last night and I have a feeling it's the rare moment right now. | ||
| I'm going to call a 9-7. | ||
| You know, I don't believe in the 10. | ||
| It's almost impossible. | ||
| You cannot hit perfection, but I'm going to say we're going to do a 9-7 today. | ||
| It is a thick and a dense show. | ||
| And we're going to do a little bit of what I would say we're probably going to have to do for the remainder of my life on this program, which is hit both the left, that's easy, and the right, which is a little less easy, but is important to do. | ||
| We're going to get into some of the government shutdown stuff, which seems to be ending, although the base of the Democrat Party has just begun their burndown of the entire system. | ||
| And then we will end with a little positive stuff because it's a Monday and why not? | ||
| But let's start because it is a Monday with a little Mondays with Maher because Bill Maher had Bill O'Reilly on over the weekend on Friday night on real time. | ||
| And of course, they had to discuss what happened earlier in the week, which was the election of the Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Jihadist Zorhan, or as we call him on this show, Moron Zamboni. | ||
| And Bill got into it. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| Let's give them a week, okay? | ||
| I've been critical. | ||
| Let's give him a week. | ||
| Just say, just congratulations. | ||
| On a political level, it was quite an achievement. | ||
| I'd like him to do this show. | ||
| So many other Democrats. | ||
| And I vote Democratic, and they still won't come on here. | ||
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This guy seems to say he has balls. | |
| Let's see it. | ||
| You can't deal with me. | ||
| I mean, here's a Mendami quote from his speech. | ||
| He said, we will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Wait, wait till he gets to the end of the day. | ||
| I can tell Bill O'Reilly thinks that's ridiculous. | ||
| So crazy. | ||
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We'll see if they move. | |
| I mean, you saw Biller going to move. | ||
| They're already moving. | ||
| Hold on, Bill Ackman said. | ||
| No, they're not. | ||
| People say they're going to move all the time after elections. | ||
| They don't do it. | ||
| Bill Ackman said he was going to move. | ||
| You know how many people moved out of New York City in the last three years? | ||
| 600,000. | ||
| They're moving. | ||
| They're moving. | ||
| They've been moving from COVID. | ||
| How many people moved out of your state, California? | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| On the Newsome? | ||
| Yeah, no, no. | ||
| People do move. | ||
| No doubt about that. | ||
| People move in America. | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| No, but they're not moving because they want a better view. | ||
| They'd like to keep more of their money. | ||
| That's your turn. | ||
| No, you're not. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I really look forward to the part of my career when I shift into the Bill O'Reilly page when I'm just kind of like old and cranky and start yelling at people because he's right. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| They are moving. | ||
| So yes, around 600,000 have fled New York City just in the post-COVID stuff, right? | ||
| And Bill, I mean, we've discussed this personally on air many times. | ||
| Like, yeah, you know, you told me how many of your friends have left Crazy California. | ||
| So people do flee blue dystopian nightmares. | ||
| They don't, they simply don't flee red states. | ||
| Like we, we know this. | ||
| U-Haul, the U-Haul people, we've shown you videos of this with U-Haul executives being like, wait a minute, we can only send our cars one way now, our trucks. | ||
| We can't send them the other way because nobody's going back to California. | ||
| So they actually have to charge you more when you leave California. | ||
| Because in the old days, certain amount of people went this way and then a certain amount of people went that way and they could work it out financially. | ||
| Now they actually have to charge that guy more for leaving because then they have to get somebody, they have to pay somebody to bring the freaking truck back. | ||
| But okay, I will credit you. | ||
| Absolutely, Bill. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| You congratulate. | ||
| You congratulate someone that knows how to play the game. | ||
| And I will give Moron Zamboni credit on this one. | ||
| He won. | ||
| He ran a slick campaign. | ||
| Lo-fi music, soft lens, all of the stuff, said all the right things within reason for a slightly retarded base. | ||
| You do all that. | ||
| Okay, that's just fine. | ||
| But I will give you absolute credit. | ||
| Yeah, he should go on your show, right? | ||
| Of course he should go on your show and defend some of those ideas. | ||
| Bill is still a Democrat for some reason. | ||
| So I don't see why Moron wouldn't go on the show. | ||
| And if you want to see, well, I guess I do know why, because he does not really, with real opposition, want to have to push back on his radical ideas. | ||
| I mean, the funny thing of Bill playing the clip of there's no problem too big for government to solve is that they should have played what we've done on this show over the last three weeks multiple times, the Reagan clip right after that. | ||
| The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help, right? | ||
| Because you've got Bill, the liberal, now defending Ronald Reagan, who he certainly wouldn't have defended way back when, but that's how things all shifted. | ||
| Anywho, here is Moron Zamboni saying that he will confiscate the means of production. | ||
| Starting on day one, we will expand the city's special enforcement programs, doubling fines for hazardous violations and tripling them for conditions that are immediately dangerous. | ||
| And when a really bad landlord like this guy refuses to fix the city's going to step in, make the repairs and send them. | ||
| If that doesn't work, the city's taking over the building. | ||
| Okay, so what you were hearing, the editorializing you were hearing there was a little bit from the Patrick McDavid podcast, but that is Marxism 101. | ||
| They will seize the means of production. | ||
| Now, look, I'm not defending some negligent landlord. | ||
| So are there landlords out there who don't fix the water heater and who don't have proper insulation and the elevator doesn't work? | ||
| And there's, I lived in New York City. | ||
| Trust me, I lived through all of it in shitty ass apartments, little walk-ups that felt like they were going to crumble and all of those things. | ||
| Nobody's defending the highly negligent landlord. | ||
| Okay, nobody is. | ||
| But what he's really saying there, what is he like, you have to really kind of read through it a little bit. | ||
| It sounds good, right? | ||
| It's everything that progressives do. | ||
| Sounds good. | ||
| We're going to penalize them more. | ||
| We'll punish them more. | ||
| And if they don't do what we want them to do, we're going to come in and take over. | ||
| And that's interesting because he also wants government-run grocery stores and free buses and everything else. | ||
| So the government, one way or another, because all they have to do is just make those laws around how you have to act as a landlord a little bit tighter, change them a little bit more. | ||
| And eventually everybody that's a landlord will be forced out. | ||
| Oh, you didn't do this new regulation that we wanted or that new regulation. | ||
| And all of the good people, the builders, the industrialists who come in and buy buildings so that they can rent and make a little money, everybody will leave and there will be government-owned housing for everybody. | ||
| And as Palpatine said, I assume there will be peace. | ||
| Didn't work out that way. | ||
| Here is Mamdani making his first public appearance after being elected. | ||
| you'll have to translate for me. | ||
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It is such a pleasure to be here alongside so many friends and so many for whom today is the first time I'm having the opportunity to meet you. | |
| And this is the first drama that I've been to since we won our election on Tuesday. | ||
| New York City, you're fucked. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's the analysis. | ||
| I'm not doing much more on that one. | ||
| But in Minneapolis, they may have dodged a slight bullet, although not really, because the other guy, the Mom Dami guy over in Minneapolis, was this other guy, Omar Fatah. | ||
| You remember Omar Fatah, who was in that movie with Captain Phillips, I'm told it is, with Tom Hanks. | ||
| I did not see it. | ||
| Last Tom Hanks movie I saw was big. | ||
| Great movie. | ||
| Great movie. | ||
| Anywho, Omar Fatah there, he lost to Jacob Frey, who is the current mayor. | ||
| And this is a, now the whole story is so insane. | ||
| It now is turning out, it sounds like that the reason that Fatah put Fatah up, Somali Fatah, the reason that Fatah lost is because Jacob Frey was able to coordinate with some of the local Somali tribes in Minneapolis, even though Fatah was endorsed by Ilhan Omar. | ||
| So they were basically warring Somali tribes, I kid you not, and they backed Jacob Frey, who's just this pathetic low-T soy beta, as Aaron Wexler says, pathetic, nothing, progressive, pandering douchebag. | ||
| He won, beat Fatah, and here's Jacob Frey, also very similar to Mom Dami, giving a speech right after winning. | ||
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are from galmadug or getaway you are from minneapolis Whether you are from Bosaso or Mogadishu, you are from Minneapolis. | |
| Whether you're from Galmadug, Garaway, Bosasu, or Mogadishu, you are from Minneapolis. | ||
| What about somebody who's just from Minneapolis? | ||
| Is there anyone from Minneapolis or the surrounding areas of Minnesota, say St. Olaf, that maybe moved to Minneapolis and they'd like someone to represent them? | ||
| But he's very big on the people of Bosasu. | ||
| Ilhan Omar, a woman who married her brother illegally for immigration purposes, who lost, who endorsed the Somali warring tribe guy who lost to that douchebag. | ||
| Well, here she is, and she suddenly doesn't care if she gets deported and we can only pray. | ||
| I mean, I have no worry. | ||
| I don't know how they take away my citizenship and like deport me, but it's, but I don't even know like why that's like such a scary threat. | ||
| Like, I'm not the eight-year-old who escaped war anymore. | ||
| I'm grown. | ||
| My kids are grown. | ||
| Like, I can go live wherever I want. | ||
| Well, good, because you might get deported because eventually you guys know how the airlock works. | ||
| All of us online talk about something. | ||
| The mainstream completely ignores it. | ||
| They tell us it's, and then eventually they tell us it's not real. | ||
| Then they come around to it. | ||
| Then they sort of pretend they knew about it the entire time. | ||
| She married her brother in an illegal immigration scheme. | ||
| On top of the fact that she's a Hamas supporter and an Islamist and completely against America and a bunch of other stuff. | ||
| But she could potentially be deported. | ||
| It's just nice to know if you're a Nohan Omar supporter. | ||
| I'm sure many of you watching this love Ilhan Omar, that she won't be that upset if she gets deported. | ||
| But she did kind of say the quiet part out loud. | ||
| It's like, lady, you did flee a war-torn country when you were eight years old. | ||
| So you might want to respect and love the freaking place you came to instead of turning it into the place that you fled in the first place. | ||
| So the question is, why do these people get elected? | ||
| Why are we in this odd moment where the worst ideas possible, the ideas that, as I keep saying, that all of our ancestors, just everyone watching this, think of your grandparents or your great-grandparents or whoever, how many generations back, your family came to America. | ||
| What were they fleeing? | ||
| And in virtually every case, whether it was South America, Eastern Europe, does not matter where, they were fleeing communism. | ||
| They were fleeing socialism. | ||
| They were fleeing Marxism. | ||
| They were fleeing awful totalitarian government control of their lives. | ||
| And they're trying to import it here. | ||
| So why is it happening? | ||
| I'm going to show you a condensed version of a video we showed you last week. | ||
| This is Palantir CEO, Alex Karp. | ||
| And he's making the point that it has a little something to do with the way we've framed the entire educational system. | ||
| Watch. | ||
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And I think the average, you know, Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their education is not that valuable. | |
| And the person down the street who knows how to drill for oil and gas, who's moved to Texas, has a more valuable profession. | ||
| And I think that annoys the f out of these people. | ||
| Okay, so there is something there. | ||
| I don't think that is all of it. | ||
| But when you see all of these Columbia kids and Yale kids and Dartmouth and all of these kids that then get out into the real world and they've really learned nothing, they come from unbelievable privilege, right? | ||
| Because it's a privilege to be an American and it's a privilege to come from a family that has two parents and a privilege to be taken care of and be financially supported. | ||
| So then you can go to a university, learn all the wrong things, get out of that university with a degree in nothing, and then suddenly realize that that other kid down the corner who went to a trade school or was an intern or something, like worked with his hands, knew how to do something, electrical work or plumbing work or something, that he's actually more qualified to be out in the world than you. | ||
| And then once you realize that, you might kind of want to burn it all down. | ||
| So there is something there. | ||
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| And now back to me. | ||
| Let's jump back, since it's Mondays with Marr, to something happening on the right. | ||
| So, okay. | ||
| 15 minutes into the show, Dave, you bang the left a little bit or hit the left a little bit or you smacked around the left a little bit, whatever. | ||
| That's kind of low-hanging fruit to some extent. | ||
| At this point, we get these guys are out of control. | ||
| They're wacky. | ||
| The base is nuts. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| We'll put that aside. | ||
| Now I want to talk about something that's been bursting on the internet. | ||
| I would say it's actually been for a couple months. | ||
| I've addressed it a little bit, but it seems to be burning a little hotter right now, particularly over the last two weeks, because Tucker Carlson interviewed this kid by the name of Nick Fuentes, and he is an online creator, commentator, whatever, who basically comes from what they call the alt-right, the far-right, whatever. | ||
| I don't even care about the labels. | ||
| He is a Nazi supporter. | ||
| He is someone who has talked about how he admires Hitler, admires Stalin, goes after the Jews relentlessly, goes after black people relentlessly, goes after Indians relentlessly, all of those things. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| He's gone after me a gajillion times. | ||
| If I'm not mistaken, I've never, maybe I mentioned him on the show for the first time on Friday. | ||
| It just doesn't matter. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Tucker had him on his show two weeks ago and really gave him a very, very softball interview. | ||
| Now, Tucker, like me, is entitled to interview anyone he wants. | ||
| He can platform whoever he wants. | ||
| And I would argue he can interview him however he wants. | ||
| But in a time when there's a million of us out there all doing somewhat of the same thing, people then are allowed to criticize you for it. | ||
| People are allowed to call you out on your nonsense, just like you call other people out on their nonsense. | ||
| People can call me out and I can call them out. | ||
| That's the free exchange of ideas. | ||
| That's what free speech is all about. | ||
| Anyway, about two weeks ago, Tucker puts this kid on. | ||
| It blows up online because a lot of people on the right, unlike the left that usually just goes to its worst place always, and no one, you know, as I always quote Jordan Peterson, when does the left go too far? | ||
| No one on the left will ever say it. | ||
| Well, anyway, Nick goes on Tucker's show and a lot of people called out Tucker. | ||
| I did not hear anyone calling for Tucker to be kicked off YouTube or kicked off X or anything else, but they criticized him. | ||
| Conservatives are only conserving something if they put some walls around it, right? | ||
| So now let's dive into Bill Maher discussing Nick Fuentes with Bill O'Reilly. | ||
| Let me introduce this issue because I almost didn't want to talk about this person because he's so gross. | ||
| But it's such a big issue this week and we're going to talk about it after I do this bit. | ||
| But this guy, Nick Fuentes, I don't know if you've ever heard of him. | ||
| If you haven't, I mean, I have. | ||
| I know he had dinner with Trump at one point and Trump is, I don't know him. | ||
| I have my picture taken with a lot of people. | ||
| But he's what I would call a racist racist. | ||
| And they are like pointlessly politically incorrect. | ||
| They were doing it just to troll. | ||
| They would say the worst sort of awful things or things you wouldn't even understand. | ||
| But it's working. | ||
| So you didn't invite him on a program. | ||
| I don't live in that world. | ||
| I didn't invite him on my program. | ||
| You can get somebody like him at Speaker's Corner in London anytime you want. | ||
| They're wandering around with wine. | ||
| Okay, so why would you have him and waste all of these nice people's time? | ||
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Why? | |
| Well, you say, well, the answer is because the Republican establishment never met something so far right that they won't, at least some of them, take it seriously. | ||
| Okay, so I actually disagree with Bill's last point there. | ||
| I don't think this is about the right flirting with all of this. | ||
| I think it has much more to do with Tucker wanting clicks, wanting fame and or attention, or that he wants, he agrees with a lot of Nick's ideas, but he doesn't want to come out and say those things. | ||
| So he launders those lies. | ||
| I had Dinesh D'Souza in the studio about a month ago, and that's a point that he made about the way Tucker has been interviewing people for a while. | ||
| I would also say quickly before we dive a little further into this, that a lot of this, like the reason I'm not apoplectic right now and screaming and everything else, is because a lot of this is just the nature of the internet, right? | ||
| Like there are just trolls out there who want to say the worst thing to upset good people, and it often works. | ||
| And until more of us realize that, yes, there are bad ideas and bad people and they should be called out. | ||
| And sometimes we're going to have to call out our friends. | ||
| And we'll have more on that in a second as well. | ||
| That there's also just like this nihilist version of the internet. | ||
| Jordan Peterson has spent a lot of time talking about this, right? | ||
| These people that just want everything to burn, that can sit behind their screen from anonymous accounts and send out awful Nazi imagery to people and send out, you know, awful images of slaves to other people and just try to burn down the whole thing on top of Pakistani bots and everything else. | ||
| Anyway, Tucker puts him on, doesn't criticize any of his ideas for an hour. | ||
| Again, Tucker can conduct an interview any way he wants, just like I can. | ||
| Here's the picture of the two of them after, which looks like the worst gay porn I've ever seen. | ||
| And also everyone says that this nitkid is gay. | ||
| Frankly, I don't care, not that there's anything wrong with it, but whatever. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But just to give you a little point, when people say, okay, well, don't call everyone Hitler, don't call everyone Nazis. | ||
| And that's true, right? | ||
| The right for the last 10 years has been back on its heels because the left and the machine called us all Nazis and Donald Trump Hitler and everything else. | ||
| So it seems to me in a moment where somebody who actually admires Hitler is trying to get into the right, you might want to push back. | ||
| Like that's like the lowest bar you could possibly set. | ||
| Here is one tweet from this Fuentes kid, Team Hitler. | ||
| Okay, so he's not, he's not hiding it. | ||
| Now, is he just a nihilistic troll or does he actually believe that? | ||
| I would leave that for anyone else to decide. | ||
| The fact that we are all focusing on him, to Bill's point, Bill didn't even want to talk about him. | ||
| It's like if someone just does the worst thing and it creates energy in the internet, do we all have to pay attention to that energy? | ||
| I mean, that's something we're all going to have to think about. | ||
| Anyway, I want to show you one clip from the Tucker Nick Fuentes interview, because this was one of the things that got a lot of people on the right upset. | ||
| Here is Tucker telling Fuentes that the thing he despises most, the people that he despises most, are Christian Zionists. | ||
| Now, this just Christian Zionist is just a Christian person who happens to believe the state of Israel should exist, which is virtually every Christian on earth, including Tucker, unless he thinks Israel shouldn't exist, but I've never heard him say that. | ||
| So take a look. | ||
| How do you explain Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz? | ||
| And they're a lot like that, John Bolton. | ||
| I mean, I've known them all. | ||
| George W. Bush, like Karl Rove. | ||
| I mean, all people I know personally who I've seen like be seized by this brain virus, and they're not Jewish. | ||
| Most of them are self-described Christians. | ||
| And then the Christian Zionists who are, well, Christian Zionists. | ||
| Like, what is that? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I can just say for myself, I dislike them more than anybody. | ||
| You know, because like what? | ||
| Because it's Christian heresy and I'm offended. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Listen, let me just say about Tucker at this point. | ||
| I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth. | ||
| And I think he's deeply disingenuous. | ||
| And we've shown you some videos and they're all over online of him saying one thing and then saying the polar opposite and everything else. | ||
| But of all the people he despises in the world right now, it's not the Islamists. | ||
| It's not the Marxists. | ||
| It's not the communists. | ||
| It's not whatever is going on with the Democrat Party. | ||
| It's not the people that are killing the Christians in Africa. | ||
| It's Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz. | ||
| It's the Christian Zionists, Christians who just say that Israel should exist. | ||
| There was a guy by the name of Jesus from Nazareth. | ||
| You know where that is? | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| I think you guys get it, right? | ||
| So he's a little confused, but there he sits with a guy who's telling you he's on Team Hitler. | ||
| And he's basically saying the non-Jews who support Israel are the worst of the worst. | ||
| Now, there's a really more interesting part of this because it is, is today two months to the day? | ||
| Today's November 10th, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| So it is two months to the day. | ||
| I didn't even realize that when we did the run through. | ||
| Today is two months to the day of the assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Charlie, I now realize more and more every day that goes by, was holding something, was holding a position that was so profoundly important in this country that everything has gotten significantly worse, I would say, as it pertains to what we're talking about right now, since Charlie has been assassinated. | ||
| But when Tucker says that he hates Christian Zionists the most, that these are the people he despises the most, he is dancing on Charlie Kirk's grave. | ||
| Here is Charlie Kirk. | ||
| The greatest trip I ever took was to Israel and the second greatest trip I ever took was to Israel. | ||
| And I've only been there twice. | ||
| I'm a huge supporter of the Holy Land of Judea and Samaria and up against the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority. | ||
| Okay, there's millions of those videos. | ||
| We could have played it much more. | ||
| Anyone is entitled to any feeling they want about Israel and how they conduct a war and whatever. | ||
| You are completely. | ||
| But it is extremely bizarre that two months to the day of Charlie Kirk being assassinated, that Tucker Carlson is now laundering in the ideas via the one person. | ||
| There was one person that Charlie didn't want at Turning Point, Nick Fuentes. | ||
| And there are videos of Nick Fuentes saying that he lit, I think the exact quote is, I fucked, what did he say? | ||
| I fucked and impregnated Turning Point USA. | ||
| I stole it from you. | ||
| I've already won Charlie Kirk. | ||
| That's what he said months ago, because he had turned so many of these young men against Charlie, I suppose. | ||
| Nick was the only person Charlie did not want anywhere near Turning Point USA. | ||
| And less than two months after his assassination, Tucker is bringing him on. | ||
| And then Tucker is up there saying that the people he hates most are Christian Zionists, which is exactly what Charlie was. | ||
| You can draw your own conclusions to that. | ||
| You really should. | ||
| But I want to show you this, because Megan Kelly's on tour right now. | ||
| And she had Tucker on her show on the live show a couple days ago. | ||
| And she asked him about the Fuentes interview specifically. | ||
| Nick Fuentes has said a long list of very vile things. | ||
| Big time, including attacking my dad, which was the most vile of all, in my opinion. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, I personally have watched videos of him questioning the Holocaust, likening it to baking cookies in the oven. | ||
| And there's no way you could have gotten to six million seems to be his theory. | ||
| He thinks to seem to think that we've way overstated the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. | ||
| He's ripped on poor Usha Vance in the most offensive terms. | ||
| So what do you say to those people who say, why didn't you raise any of that? | ||
| You know, do your own interview the way that you want to do it. | ||
| You're not my editor. | ||
| Buzz off. | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| You want to go yell at Nick Fuentes? | ||
| I'll give you a sell. | ||
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Call him. | |
| And go sit and yell at him and feel virtuous or whatever. | ||
| That's up to you. | ||
| I got the same thing with Putin. | ||
| Why aren't you yelling at him? | ||
| You know, Tucker, there's something to be said for what you're saying right now. | ||
| You have every right to conduct any interview exactly as you wish, as I do. | ||
| I get criticized all the time for conducting this interview that way. | ||
| When I was on the left and I started talking to people on the right, I would get slammed left and right by leftists telling me I'm laundering in the bad ideas of Larry Elder, right? | ||
| And then Dennis Prager. | ||
| But the question is, why is he so dismissive of that? | ||
| Why is all of that deeply, why are all the horrible things that Fuentes has said, whether he's just a troll or not, why is that deeply uninteresting to Tucker? | ||
| That's the question. | ||
| If I was Megan up there, that's probably what I would have followed up with. | ||
| Like, why aren't you interested in that? | ||
| When you bring on someone you don't like, for example, Ted Cruz, you relentlessly attack him. | ||
| So it's not that you can't do it. | ||
| So you actually are doing exactly, I would say, what Dinesh said, which is that you are bringing on people to uncritically question them so that you can usher, launder in their lies. | ||
| And then by the way, Tucker, again, nobody's calling for you to be deplatformed. | ||
| I've literally not heard anyone say it. | ||
| And I certainly am not. | ||
| You should be on YouTube. | ||
| You can be on X. You can be on Rumble. | ||
| You can be on locals. | ||
| You could be out wherever the hell you want to be, but people are allowed to criticize you. | ||
| You spend your life criticizing people. | ||
| That video we just showed you, you criticized Mike Huckabee and Tucker and who else? | ||
| Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz and John Bolton. | ||
| Like that's what people who talk do for a living. | ||
| But now I want to show you a sort of darker version of this. | ||
| So then all of this happens. | ||
| Tucker gets hit left and right by a bunch of people. | ||
| And again, I don't even consider myself a conservative, certainly not a big C conservative, right? | ||
| As an old school liberal, I have much more to do with conservatives these days than lefties. | ||
| But if I don't understand, I genuinely don't understand, and I would love to hear someone's response on this. | ||
| If conservatives are not to set any ground rules, what are you conserving? | ||
| If you don't have any borders, like ideological borders, forget, and you should have physical borders as well. | ||
| But if you're just like, oh, anyone, we're conservatives. | ||
| So yes, Nazis should be self-proclaimed Nazis should be part of what we're doing. | ||
| Then what are you actually conserving? | ||
| So that's what it seems to me this fight is about. | ||
| But I would also say that there's something a little bit darker here. | ||
| And now we're going to dive into that. | ||
| So Tucker gets pushback on this from a whole bunch of people. | ||
| Again, I did not see one person calling for his cancellation, even though that's what a lot of his supporters were saying. | ||
| And then he went on a podcast with this guy, Dave Smith, and listen to how Tucker talks about some of his ideological opponents. | ||
| Well, they've been promoting violence for decades because this whole project is about violence. | ||
| It's about the thrill that they feel killing their enemies, the godlike power they imagine they have when they extinguish human life. | ||
| That's the whole game for them. | ||
| And we shouldn't like, so, oh, you're not promoting violence. | ||
| Oh, you're definitely promoting violence. | ||
| And that's why I oppose you, because I'm opposed to that. | ||
| We don't have a right to kill people. | ||
| We do not have a right to kill the innocent, period. | ||
| And that's the dividing line between me and Ben Shukaba. | ||
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| So what he's doing there, you can see it. | ||
| And this is where I say everything he says is a lie. | ||
| And I mean it, you know, I always say, what does the left, what does the mainstream media do? | ||
| Like, stop lying about everything. | ||
| You can lie about almost everything. | ||
| And we probably accept it, but stop lying about everything. | ||
| And it's very obvious what Tucker is doing there. | ||
| So what he wants you to think is that Israel is this genocidal project and they love to kill people, right? | ||
| Israel loves to kill people. | ||
| Israel, who didn't have one person in Gaza before October 6th, who drops all the leaflets, who sends all the text messages, who feeds the people that are holding their people hostage, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| But you can criticize Israel all you want and you cannot agree with me on any of that. | ||
| And that would be just fine. | ||
| But what he's really going to is that people like Ben Shapiro and then by extension, those Christian Zionists like Charlie Kirk and blah, blah, blah, blah and Dave Rubin, because he does name check me all the time now on his show. | ||
| What they really love is killing people. | ||
| And it's just, it's extraordinarily nothing. | ||
| It's sort of, you know, when he says, well, and I'm against violence. | ||
| I'm against killing people. | ||
| And it's like, okay, Tucker, if somebody, if a group of jihadis, even though you're kind of in bed with them, if a group of jihadis killed your wife and kidnapped, I don't know if his children are, I know he has at least a son, but if they, I assume he has a daughter, I have no idea. | ||
| But let's pretend you have a daughter. | ||
| If they kidnapped your daughter and then they hid her somewhere in Mexico, would you not want to kill somebody or do everything you possibly could to get your kid back? | ||
| Because I damn well would. | ||
| And that's not because I don't care for human life, but I would care about my child. | ||
| So all of it, it's just like weak intellectual libertarianism 101 that is nice when you're 16 and reading Ayn Rand for the first time. | ||
| And it has nothing to do with the reality of the world. | ||
| You would do nothing as people rape and ransack your family. | ||
| Like it's just simply not true. | ||
| And we all know it. | ||
| So now I will show you the counter to that. | ||
| So that's sort of hysterical attacking your opponent's motives. | ||
| That's what he was doing right there in the most, I would say in the most grotesque way you possibly could. | ||
| Well then, this is all fortuitous because Megan is on tour and basically two days after she had Tucker on, she happened to have Ben on. | ||
| I'm sure the tour was laid out way in advance of that. | ||
| So she didn't know that any of this was coming. | ||
| She then has Ben on and listen to Ben take a slightly different tack at going after your intellectual opponents. | ||
| These are not arguments. | ||
| He's not a person who's making arguments. | ||
| He is a Hitler-loving troll. | ||
| And I say that advisedly. | ||
| He literally says on his show that he loves Adolf Hitler. | ||
| Okay, so just the reason this has come up in recent weeks is because Tucker, your guest last night, decided to have him on last week and to completely gloss him, in my opinion. | ||
| And you can make up your own opinion as to what you think Tucker was doing during that interview, but I know what it looks like when Tucker Carlson decides to be an aggressive interview or when he decides to ask difficult questions of people. | ||
| Tucker is eminently capable of doing that. | ||
| He did it to Ted Cruz quite thoroughly. | ||
| But he decided for any number of reasons, and I try not to attribute motivations to people, that he was going to treat Fuentes with kid gloves, that he was going to not ask him about any of the things that I've just mentioned, literally any of them, and to essentially normalize Fuentes, act as a sort of gateway drug or as a, what I've called Tucker as an ideological launderer of bad ideas over the last couple of years. | ||
| The real question is, for me, I got into this business because I care about the ideas and I care about the ideals. | ||
| And so when you're determining what is conservatism, what should the future of America look like? | ||
| And where do you draw the lines? | ||
| Those are the questions that I need to answer in my job. | ||
| For me, my business is really not about friendship. | ||
| I have lots of friends, people who I love, with whom I disagree on politics and don't believe they should be leaders in the conservative movement, for example. | ||
| I have to say, while I hope you tune in more to the Rubin report than the Ben Shapiro show, that has been at his absolute finest. | ||
| He did several things there. | ||
| He said, you can make up your own opinion. | ||
| He then gives credit to Tucker as an interviewer. | ||
| He has seen Tucker do interviews, let's, you know, quote unquote, properly, right? | ||
| He then says, I try not to attribute motives to people. | ||
| So he goes out of his way to do every caveat around all of this. | ||
| I think just as I have done here. | ||
| And then, what does he do? | ||
| Then he says, you can decide as to what Tucker did. | ||
| And his conclusion is that he is laundering in these bad ideas. | ||
| And I think, not only do I think that is true, I think that actually kind of explains Tucker's response in the clip that we just showed you. | ||
| When Megan says, well, why didn't you, you know, in essence, your critics have saying, why didn't you interview him a little bit? | ||
| Go do your own interview. | ||
| Go do your own interview. | ||
| And it's like, again, I'm granting you that you can do the interview whatever you want, but why not listen to a little bit of criticism? | ||
| Do you agree with any of those things or not? | ||
| You're very upset that I guess Frontes went after your dad. | ||
| Well, he has said far worse things about me, right? | ||
| And I don't even care. | ||
| I don't need Tucker Carlson to defend me. | ||
| Anyway, show you another one, because then one of the things that came up is that Tucker also, not only has he done no shows criticizing Mom Dami, he has done many shows. | ||
| You know, every show basically is going after Israel and the Jews. | ||
| He does nothing about Momdami. | ||
| He barely goes after the left anymore. | ||
| You know, sort of glazes or glosses most of the lefty socialist stuff, including Nicolas Maduro. | ||
| And here is Megan asking Ben about that. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| Two, saying last week that the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro is actually not that bad because they're being attacked by, in his words, Globo Homo. | ||
| Tucker's made the point. | ||
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I'm not here to be Tucker's defender, but he's made the point that Maduro is culturally conservative. | |
| Who gives a sh ⁇ ? | ||
| The guy's a communist dictator. | ||
| Everyone in his country is eating dog. | ||
| He's shipping fentanyl to the United States to kill Americans. | ||
| Why don't we give a shit? | ||
| Whether he's anti-LGBTQ rights. | ||
| This is the number one thing about Nicolas Maduro. | ||
| You know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolas Maduro? | ||
| I did ask. | ||
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| Again, Ben is right. | ||
| And whether Megan is acting, Megan, who you know I love and adore, whether she is acting as Tucker's lawyer there or not. | ||
| I mean, Megan, you have a ton of gay friends. | ||
| I know that for a fact, right? | ||
| So it's like, why would you even feel the need to defend Tucker when he's defending the guy who's defending the world against Globo Homo? | ||
| He's, you know, he's culturally conservative. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I know for a fact you don't think that that's great. | ||
| Anyway, it continued. | ||
| I mean, Ben was just in rare form. | ||
| Like, you don't want to wind up a little guy that talks fast. | ||
| I think that's what everybody learned. | ||
| I think you and I differ on our angle with regard to, for example, Candace Owens. | ||
| I think that what Candace Owens is doing right now is evil. | ||
| It is evil what she is doing right now. | ||
| Okay, and I say that again. | ||
| But what because I didn't know pine on whether it's evil or not, but my position is it's really none of my business. | ||
| I have a question. | ||
| Why is it none of your business? | ||
| I mean, you comment on these things for a little bit. | ||
| I'm not mother of the internet. | ||
| No, but if this were on the left and somebody were accusing Charlie Kirk of his wife having murdered him, I assume that you would be talking about it. | ||
| Is that what Candace is accusing Erica of? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Of murdering her own husband? | ||
| She's accusing TPUSA insiders and other members of the right wing, including Seth Dillon, of being involved in the murder of Charlie Kirk. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| Like I said, I don't take in that content, which is an honest statement. | ||
| I don't have time to watch it. | ||
| No, I believe you. | ||
| I believe you, but the point that I'm making is that friendship in our business, I think it's important. | ||
| Listen, I'm not sure if you're not a person. | ||
| Friendship should not trump. | ||
| We don't even know each other. | ||
| I understand, but even with Tucker, friendship should not trump our manifest requirement to speak out when people do and say things that are both detrimental to conservatism and morally wrong. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I don't totally disagree, but I think the way of handling that, at least for me. | ||
| All right. | ||
| First off, again, like, I know I guess I'm glazing Ben right now, but he deserves it. | ||
| It is not easy to go onto someone else's show in general when it's not a live audience and criticize them. | ||
| But it's really not easy to do it when you're in front of thousands of people. | ||
| I don't know how many people are at those shows, but it's certainly thousands. | ||
| You can add it to me. | ||
| When thousands of people are there to watch Megan, and then you have to criticize her a little bit. | ||
| And he did it absolutely respectfully. | ||
| And I think he did it properly. | ||
| Listen, I don't care. | ||
| Look, you can tell. | ||
| I don't really want to talk about Tucker. | ||
| I certainly don't want to talk about this nick guy, but sometimes these things just hit you in the desk. | ||
| And I agree with Ben. | ||
| Like, I have a job to do. | ||
| And if I don't address the things sometimes that I don't want to, then I'm probably not very good at my job. | ||
| And you should watch another show. | ||
| I don't really want to talk about Candace. | ||
| We were great friends for a long time. | ||
| She has been to this house for dinner. | ||
| She loves chicken parm and says that David's chicken parm is the best she's ever had, which Megan Kelly does too, by chance. | ||
| He makes a great chicken parm. | ||
| So I don't want to criticize her, and I've largely stayed out of the fight with her. | ||
| I don't want to criticize Tucker. | ||
| Here's Tucker on Dave Rubin from Don't Burn This Book. | ||
| It's on the back. | ||
| Dave Rubin is one of the bravest, smartest people I know, as well as a tremendous television presence. | ||
| Tucker has been talking shit about me on his show for months. | ||
| Okay, so it doesn't give me great pleasure. | ||
| I offered to sit down with him on his show or mine unedited live. | ||
| I offered to broker peace privately, I'm talking about back in May with him and Ben. | ||
| But it is, but as Ben said, I didn't get into this for friendship. | ||
| My two best friends on the planet are my friend John, who I met when I was four years old in kindergarten and my buddy Ari, who I met in third grade. | ||
| And I got great people here and I have plenty of other friends. | ||
| So these people kind of come in your life and then you feel like you shouldn't do anything. | ||
| And that's what he's slightly criticizing Megan for, I suppose. | ||
| Although she says she's not really, she's definitely not friends with Candace and to whatever extent she's friends with Tucker. | ||
| I understand what that is. | ||
| I understand that you meet these people, you hang out with them, you've broken bread to them, you go to events with them, and then you don't want to. | ||
| But it's very easy for anyone to criticize Megan Markle and then just be like, oh, well, Candace is saying things and I'm just not going to say anything about it. | ||
| That's the most soft glove way I don't want to. | ||
| I'll text Megan after because I'm not trying to go after Megan, but I think you see the point here. | ||
| I want to show one more thing about this for the moment, because then Ben also went on the trigonometry podcast. | ||
| And I think he laid out sort of what's going on at the deeper level than just like he said, she said about all of this. | ||
| The things that I've fought for, let's put it this way. | ||
| I've been doing this for a very long time. | ||
| I started writing a syndicated comment when I was 17 years old. | ||
| I don't know that there's anybody who's been following me for any period of time who's ever said, whatever happened to the views that Ben Schwerve, he's really morphed. | ||
| He's really changed. | ||
| Well, what happened? | ||
| Like, I don't get that question ever, but I don't think you could say the same about Tucker. | ||
| I mean, I think that's one of the most common questions about Tucker. | ||
| It's like, what changed? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| And so I think, you know, that's, that's a relevant question. | ||
| And pretending that people haven't morphed or that that shouldn't have any impact on the public discourse, of course it does. | ||
| The things that, I mean, that's literally our job is to talk about these issues. | ||
| And if you talk about the issues in a different way, it seems to me that that earns a different response. | ||
| Yeah, and that's right. | ||
| So the question is, what is all of our job? | ||
| You know, we all criticize the mainstream media and it's so easy to do at this point. | ||
| It's boring. | ||
| It's boring for me. | ||
| You know, sometimes we go back and forth. | ||
| Like Phoenix and I have an endless debate, or I even tell you guys, like when we show you clips of The View and I can go after Sonny Hostin and I can go after all these ding bats or what did some idiot on MSNBC say? | ||
| And it's like, okay, we can do it. | ||
| And it's kind of fun in its own way and it's silly and it's ridiculous and it should be exposed and all of that stuff. | ||
| But if we do that easily and then when our own house is burning down, we're like, oh, I smell some fire, but I'm going to look away. | ||
| Well, eventually your whole house will be burned, right? | ||
| Like everything that you love will be burned down. | ||
| And then what happens if we don't do what Ben said? | ||
| If we don't take some of this stuff seriously, if conservatives do not conserve, well, then all of the bad ideas that our ancestors, who many of whom paid the price so that we could live freely, well, then all of the bad things will come back. | ||
| I will tell you for a moment about my Uncle Jerry's father, Joe Berger, who I grew up with, and he was a Holocaust survivor, as is his wife, Anne, and they had to hide and do unimaginable things. | ||
| But I grew up with him and he had a tattoo on his arm and he would tell us the stories of what it was like to live through that. | ||
| That is the shit that we don't want to bring back. | ||
| So if you are going to interview someone who is on Team Hitler, you might want to, unless you want to launder those bad ideas back in, you might want to be a little critical of it because if you don't, then people will start importing bad ideas into their brain. | ||
| The woke mind virus of the left will have a different version of it on the right. | ||
| So now look at this. | ||
| Dave Portnoy, we've shown you plenty of videos of him. | ||
| He's a barstool sports guy. | ||
| He's mostly a kind of moderate liberal. | ||
| I'd say he's somewhere in the Bill Maher camp. | ||
| He happens to be Jewish. | ||
| It has virtually nothing to do with anything he does. | ||
| He talks about sports basically all day long, but he is Jewish. | ||
| And watch this. | ||
| So one of the things that he does, he goes all over the country and he goes and he reviews pizza. | ||
| So he just walks into a random pizza place and he reviews pizza. | ||
| And if he gives you a good review as a pizzeria, your business is golden for the rest of your life. | ||
| He's been doing this for years. | ||
| It's a fun thing that he's been doing. | ||
| Anyway, here he is walking out of a pizza place and some random guy throwing money at him and yelling, fuck the Jews. | ||
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| Hey, fuck the Jews. | ||
| Fuck you, they blow. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Why you coming to the camera, buddy? | ||
| Why you coming to the camera? | ||
| Hey, you! | ||
| Go away! | ||
| You, you! | ||
| Hey! Hey! | ||
| All right, let's try a different tack at this for just a second. | ||
| Imagine if it was a black guy standing there and some white guy had done that and said, fuck the blacks or whatever it might be. | ||
| This is national news. | ||
| It's all over the place, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| But I don't need to play the hypocrisy game or the intersectional version of all this stupidity. | ||
| The point of that clip is that there's Dave Portnoy, a guy who cares about sports and who really loves pizza. | ||
| And he's doing a pizza review. | ||
| And some kid who likely, you would have to, by every estimation, that kid, whoever did that, that young man, is a Fuentes fan, probably a Tucker fan. | ||
| So these things then do start manifesting into real life. | ||
| And then would that kid, I don't know, burn down a Jewish-owned bakery? | ||
| That happened in Germany in the 1930s. | ||
| Would that happen? | ||
| Like, where does this go? | ||
| That is kind of what we have to grapple with at the moment. | ||
| Here's Dave Portnoy on what's been going on. | ||
| I've seen in my own experience, just being Barstool, the difference between how much hate I get. | ||
| I never, I mean, occasionally you get a Jew or whatever. | ||
| It's every day now. | ||
| Like, there's a definitive shift in what's going on. | ||
| So, yes, now I, for me, being a Jewish person, like, you got to step up. | ||
| You're kind of someone people look up to in the Jewish community. | ||
| You have to be like, all right, this is, this is not normal, haha, with the guys. | ||
| People are coming up with real hate. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So, again, there you have somebody that he just talks about sports for a living. | ||
| He happens to be Jewish, right? | ||
| I don't really know his political opinions on anything. | ||
| He basically gets some of the stuff right when we've played clips of him over the years. | ||
| And he kind of came a little around on Trump when his parents weren't. | ||
| And there was something interesting about that and whatever. | ||
| But now you have a guy doing pizza reviews, having money thrown at him, going with some young guy going fuck the Jews. | ||
| So I would say to Tucker, because that kid obviously is a Fuentes fan, like there's a place of the internet that this stuff thrives. | ||
| And like, what has happened here in the two years post-October 7th? | ||
| Well, if someone like Tucker is like, look at them, they just want to kill people for no reason because they get a thrill of it. | ||
| And then you have Fuentes going, I'm on Team Hitler. | ||
| Well, then some young guy might be like, here's some money, Jew, and then go and fuck the Jews. | ||
| So is that what you want? | ||
| Now, if I was to ask Tucker that, he might say, go fuck yourself. | ||
| Do the interview how you want. | ||
| All right, that's just fine. | ||
| I can also conduct my show how I want to do it. | ||
| And you're going to be hit on it when you don't call out the bullshit. | ||
| And that's why Ben, I think, last week leveled up as we saw Tucker in some sense bottom out. | ||
| But let's put all of that there for a moment because the government shutdown is over. | ||
| Finally, we can leave our houses again because I was stuck in my house. | ||
| I could, you know, for the last 40 days, I couldn't go anywhere. | ||
| I was like, government, help me. | ||
| How can I walk the dog without you, government? | ||
| But it is officially over. | ||
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| So the shutdown may be finally over. | ||
| The government will be back and better than ever. | ||
| Listen to this from Fox News. | ||
| The Senate took a massive step forward on its way to reopening the government on Sunday with a group of Senate Democrats caving and joining Republicans in their bid to pass a revamp plan to end the shutdown. | ||
| Signs that the shutdown, which entered its 40th day, could be ending, became more and more clear as the day went on, particularly with the unveiling of a bipartisan package of spending bills that lawmakers hoped to attach to a modified bill to reopen the government. | ||
| Eight Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to mark the first step in the GOP's quest to end the shutdown. | ||
| Many of the lawmakers that splintered from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, were among those engaged in bipartisan talks over the last several weeks. | ||
| Among those defectors were Angus King from Maine, John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez-Masto from Nevada, Jian Shaheen from New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire, Jackie Rosen, Nevada, Tim Kaine from Virginia, and the number two Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin. | ||
| Schumer and Senate Democrats long stayed the course that they would only vote to reopen the government in exchange for a solid deal on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies. | ||
| Okay, so there's a ton here. | ||
| First off, this is exactly, I mean, exactly what I said last week. | ||
| If you guys really care about the snap benefits and all of the things that you love the government for, you just need a couple quote-unquote moderates, because there are very few moderates actually left. | ||
| You need a couple moderates left to just join with the Republicans, open the government, and then you can keep fighting after. | ||
| So that is basically what happened. | ||
| Now, interestingly, you may have noted, Chuck Schumer himself did not vote to reopen the government. | ||
| So they hate him no matter what. | ||
| He now didn't vote to reopen the government, and they are going to still hate him because they'll still blame him. | ||
| Now, Fetterman, the guy with brain damage, who's, as he's come online, has become more conservative, he kind of led on this because he was the one out there saying we have to end this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Here is Fox talking about some of the, because I've long, I've mostly been joking about all of this, and the government is kind of ridiculous, and we largely don't need them, and they take too much money from us and all of that. | ||
| But as it pertains to doing things like making sure you can hop on a plane and get where you want to go, they are needed, at least at this point. | ||
| So here's Fox discussing some of what happened during the shutdown related to flights. | ||
| All across the country, when people walk in on this Friday afternoon hoping to go somewhere this weekend, those dreams might be dashed. | ||
| This message is from travelers to lawmakers. | ||
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| If I could vote every single legislator out on both parties and start with some people that are boringly neutral, I would do it. | ||
| I'm incredibly concerned. | ||
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I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't really feel like I had to. | |
| I don't feel safe flying at all. | ||
| Okay, so people have been frustrated and there have been some flight delays and all that stuff. | ||
| I put that there just to because I've been so sort of over the top with sarcasm on what the government does. | ||
| But okay, so then there's some stuff as it pertains to flights and mail and a few other things. | ||
| But in essence, we had 40 days that there needed to be, that there could have been literally zero days of a shutdown because all because the Democrats basically got nothing out of this. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump on getting these eight Democrats over and where we're at now. | ||
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We'll never agree to give any substantial money or any money to really prisoners, illegals that come into this country. | |
| And I think the Democrats understand that. | ||
| And it looks like we're getting close to the shutdown ending. | ||
| You'll know very soon. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And yeah, we're basically there. | ||
| Here's a bit more. | ||
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Senator, you can have my answer now if you like. | |
| My offer is this. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Did you see what we did there? | ||
| Because Trump as Michael Corleone, Senator, you get nothing. | ||
| Schumer, you get nothing. | ||
| And that's what the Democrats got after all of this. | ||
| They got nothing. | ||
| They had 40 days to make their base hate them even more. | ||
| And Schumer, you got nothing out of it. | ||
| Even on the televised mental institution known as MSNBC, here they are admitting that Trump is actually a pretty good negotiator and the Democrats did settle. | ||
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We spoke about this earlier, but it's strange, Dean. | |
| To go back to the original sort of part of this conversation of whether he is a good deal maker, I mean, in a way, it seems like the president is kind of getting what he wanted 40 days ago when all this started. | ||
| I have a lot more questions than answers. | ||
| I don't know why Senate Democrats are going to work so hard for a date promised in the future. | ||
| And looks like they're settling. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, they are settling in that they realize that this was not a win for them. | ||
| There was no win in this for the Democrats. | ||
| And Trump is a good negotiator. | ||
| I was a little 50-50 on whether we should show you this because, you know, I'm always saying that it's hard to find. | ||
| It's one thing we can go after the MSNBC people and the view people, as I said earlier, unlike the lefties on TV. | ||
| But I am always interested in are there lefty equivalents of what me and Ben and Tucker, by the way, and all these other people, what we do online. | ||
| And I suppose there is. | ||
| They're not happy with the Democrats. | ||
| So the Democrats made a deal. | ||
| The government will reopen. | ||
| That means all of the people that they just said were starving to death because of SNAP are going to get food, but they're still not happy. | ||
| So congratulations, Democrats. | ||
| You've let the inmates run the asylum. | ||
| And here's a compilation of lefty influencers. | ||
| And they are not happy with the lefty politicians. | ||
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Well, it looks like Democrats are caving to Donald Trump and the Republicans. | |
| We have breaking news right now. | ||
| Senators have reached a deal to reopen the federal government with some suggesting that Democrats are caving. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| So it turns out that Chuck Schumer was indeed behind the Democrat plan to cave. | ||
| We have treason in the Democrats. | ||
| I guess these, whoever these folks are, must want to be primaried. | ||
| What? | ||
| Sure, you had to. | ||
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This is all they're going to get is a promise. | |
| The absolute cowardice of Senate Democrats. | ||
| You will be primaried. | ||
| We're coming for you and we're not going to let you forget it. | ||
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Do not get it twisted. | |
| You can get it braided. | ||
| Don't get it twisted. | ||
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What the f ⁇ are you doing? | |
| Are you serious? | ||
| This is just crazy to me. | ||
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They gave up this easily. | |
| Wow. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We should note there. | ||
| There was a little REM playing in the background, which we had to slightly edit out so we didn't get hit by a copyright. | ||
| I'm not a fan of REM. | ||
| I remember they were big when I was in college. | ||
| All these people, these kids would get stoned and just listen to REM and cry. | ||
| It was like, I wanted to get stoned and watch, well, play PlayStation mostly or watch Billy Madison. | ||
| That was my kind of stone. | ||
| But anyway, so congratulations, Democrats. | ||
| For 40 days you did this. | ||
| And even all of your little influencer crew, they hate you for it because you got nothing out of it. | ||
| And the base, the base is too radical for you anyway. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Now they will. | ||
| They've already been threatening to primary Federman. | ||
| They will primary Tim Kaine and the rest of those ding-dongs. | ||
| And I would just say good luck with all of that. | ||
| Let's talk about Morgan and Morgan for a minute. | ||
| And then we will get to something that I think is whether it is good or not remains to be seen. | ||
| But I addressed last week that if Trump wants to get the narrative back post-Mom Dami win and young people being into socialism, he's going to have to try some different things. | ||
| And he's doing just that. | ||
| We'll get into it in a second. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| So even though New York City is a very specific blue city and a very specific blue state and all of the woke stuff that's there and everything else, Mom Dami's win is, I would say, a bellwether for at least partly where the narrative of the country is at. | ||
| Maybe not where the country is, but where the narrative is at, right? | ||
| So as I said last week, Donald Trump has to do something to get the narrative back. | ||
| And there's nobody better that can control the narrative or at least offer some peanuts to the narrative than Donald Trump. | ||
| So what is he going to do post-the socialist win? | ||
| Well, listen to this. | ||
| Truth social from Donald Trump with an image there. | ||
| Great American presidents. | ||
| And there's a picture of President Roosevelt, 30-year mortgage, Donald Trump, 50-year mortgage. | ||
| So Donald Trump is going to push forward with a 50-year mortgage. | ||
| So obviously what that would do is in a normal mortgage, if you have a 30-year mortgage, you have to make payments so that you've completed the payment process and paid the interest and everything else by 30 years. | ||
| But if you extend that to 50, obviously you have 20 extra years to pay it. | ||
| So your monthly bills will go down. | ||
| So the argument is that will allow more people to get into buying a house and becoming part of the ownership economy. | ||
| Whether that is true or not, because they'll end up paying more interest and everything else, okay. | ||
| Here's a bit from Yahoo Finance. | ||
| The Trump administration is considering a 50-year mortgage and not just the traditional 30-year term, a potential game changer for the housing market. | ||
| Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Puilt announced, thanks to President Trump, we are indeed working on the 50-year mortgage, a complete game changer, Polt wrote in a social media post on Saturday. | ||
| He later posted that the proposal aims to help with affordability. | ||
| The 50-year mortgage could be a boon to families looking to buy with soaring housing costs. | ||
| It would lower their monthly payments significantly, but would make payments for loans two decades longer than the standard 30-year term. | ||
| We are laser focused on ensuring the American dream for young people, and that can only happen on the economic level of home buying. | ||
| A 50-year mortgage is simply a potential weapon in a wide arsenal of solutions that we're developing right now, Polt wrote in a Sunday morning, to the post in the Sunday morning. | ||
| So look, there's some interesting things here because obviously, just putting aside what you think about any of this, if you just extend, if you're buying something for $500,000 and you have to pay it off in 30 years, you're going to have to pay a certain amount. | ||
| I'm going to do the math right in front of you right now, but that and the interest, you're going to pay a certain amount. | ||
| By extending the years, you automatically are going to have to pay less per month. | ||
| Now, over time, because you've got tacked on 20 years to it, you are going to have to pay more interest. | ||
| Now, the counter from the administration would be, well, okay, at least we got you into the housing market, as opposed to renting for 30 years where you have nothing to show for it at the end. | ||
| Darth Powell on X wrote this, which explains a little bit of the confusion around the interest part here. | ||
| So a 30-year mortgage on a $410,000 house with the 6.5% interest rate, which is basically where we're at right now. | ||
| In essence, you would pay $470,000 on the house over the course of the interest over the course of 30 years. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Now, on a 50-year mortgage on that same $410,000 house with a 7% interest rate, basically the same, you will now pay $963,000 of interest. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So you can see the issue here. | ||
| And that also assumes a 10% down on both. | ||
| And I don't know that the banks are going to be doing that. | ||
| I mean, that's what got us into the problem in the first place, right? | ||
| When banks were just allowing people with very little money to shoot for the moon, right? | ||
| Low interest rates. | ||
| You have to put very little into the house. | ||
| And then you're in the house for six months and they're suddenly like, oh, well, you have to pay for the house. | ||
| And people are like, well, I can't do it. | ||
| Help me, help me. | ||
| And then, of course, we end up bailing everybody out and all that. | ||
| So, where are we at with this? | ||
| On one hand, it seems like a good idea. | ||
| Get more people in so that they can pay less immediately so that they can get into the housing situation and own something rather than just paying rent. | ||
| On the bad side of it, does this ultimately just help the banks because they are going to make more money on the interest? | ||
| I think there are good arguments on both sides, and I'm happy to have someone on both. | ||
| Why don't we do that on Friday? | ||
| We'll have two people that can debate that and much more. | ||
| We'll try that for this Friday, okay? | ||
| Listen to this from Trading Economics: the annual inflation rate in the U.S. rose from 3% in September of 2025, the highest since January, from 2.9% in August and below forecast of 3.1%. | ||
| Energy prices rose 2.8% on the year, the most since May 2024, after a 0.2% gain in August, led by fuel and gasoline, while the rise in natural gas was smaller. | ||
| So, the point of showing you this is that there are legitimate concerns, let's say, that the economy is not growing as fast as everyone would want. | ||
| Now, I've said this a million times. | ||
| I think, as far as I can tell, unless I'm missing something, I don't know what else the Trump administration can do. | ||
| They are trying to get better trade deals. | ||
| We are not printing money like we were before. | ||
| We are deporting people. | ||
| We're doing all the things that I think create the conditions again to the backdrop of AI and robotics and everything else. | ||
| But people want results immediately. | ||
| Like, that's just what people want. | ||
| They don't care if you've done good and done right by them for a long time. | ||
| If you don't give them what they want, when they want, they'll turn on you. | ||
| That's politics, man. | ||
| And Trump's going to have to deal with that. | ||
| Listen to this from Trump on truth. | ||
| People that are against tariffs are fools. | ||
| We are now the richest, most respected country in the world with almost no inflation and a record stock market price. | ||
| 401ks are highest ever. | ||
| We're taking in trillions of dollars and we'll soon begin paying down our enormous debt, 37 trillion. | ||
| Record investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. | ||
| A dividend of at least 2,000 a person, not including high-income people, will be paid to everyone. | ||
| So it does sound like it depends what he means by high-income, but an awful lot of people will get $2,000 checks. | ||
| Okay, it's not nothing. | ||
| It is something. | ||
| Hopefully, the trade deals as they come in, we start to reduce the debt. | ||
| Like they are trying something, but I can't comment on it further than that because we have to see where some of it lands. | ||
| I would say the problem around some of this is that even as Trump fixes things, so he fixes the border and cleans up the cities and does some of these better trade deals, and we aren't printing money. | ||
| Okay, as he does some of this stuff, we do know that a certain set of people will always be against him, right? | ||
| That Trump derangement syndrome, they've basically decided that Donald Trump is the center of the universe. | ||
| And if you think that the center of the universe is evil, then no matter how many times he does something good, you will always think it's evil. | ||
| So I thought this was sort of interesting. | ||
| This is video of Molly McNearney. | ||
| This is Jimmy Kimmel's wife. | ||
| And here she is talking about losing relationships with her own family members who support Trump. | ||
| And if only she could deprogram them like a good liberal. | ||
| To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family. | ||
| And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it. | ||
| It's like this is not just Republican versus Democrat for me anymore. | ||
| It is, to me, it's family values. | ||
| And so I feel like I'm kind of in constant conflict and I'm angry all the time, which isn't healthy at all. | ||
| But I like personalize everything now. | ||
| When I see these terrible stories every day, I'm immediately mad at certain aunts, uncles, cousins who put him in power. | ||
| And it's really hard. | ||
| And I wish I could like deprogram myself in some way, but I get really angry. | ||
| I will give her credit. | ||
| She wants to deprogram herself from her way of thinking, not the other people. | ||
| So that's nice. | ||
| But you get the general condition there as Jimmy Kynes kind of sits there. | ||
| But again, this is what our culture has led to. | ||
| Like you, Jimmy Kimmel, led to so many people hating Donald Trump and hating half the country that your own wife wants to deprogram herself so that she can talk to her family again. | ||
| And it's not just Jimmy Kimmel, of course. | ||
| It's Stephen Colbert. | ||
| It's all of these guys. | ||
| So Colbert is making the rounds right now. | ||
| And here he is explaining that he's actually, I almost choked on my own words because it's so ridiculous. | ||
| He's actually more conservative than people give him credit for. | ||
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You think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. | |
| I think I'm more conservative than people think. | ||
| I just happen to be talking about a government in extremes. | ||
| And so what I'm giving you is my reaction video to the day. | ||
| Extremes a word, first of all, I think he means extremes, but putting that aside for just a second. | ||
| Stephen, Stevie, who was president for the last four years? | ||
| Oh, well, we don't really know because it was a guy with dementia and autopen. | ||
| But for four years, you basically never, you glazed and you glossed the hell out of them, right? | ||
| You didn't do anything. | ||
| Now you've got Trump for a year and you're going all in. | ||
| But in what, I don't care if you're conservative or not, and you're entitled to whatever your beliefs are. | ||
| And you can conduct your show however you want, but don't tell us you are something that you obviously aren't. | ||
| Do we have an example, maybe the worst thing that Stephen Colbert ever did? | ||
| You've got to imagine one day when he's on trial for his life and he's in purgatory and God's trying to figure out which way he's going. | ||
| Like they are going to sit down. | ||
| He's going to have his lawyers and they're going to be like, well, show us your life's work. | ||
| And like they're going to show all the good things that Stephen Colbert did. | ||
| And he probably was nice to his kids and he maybe started a farm and fed people. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm trying to give him some credit here. | ||
| And his lawyers are going to be like, we nailed it, Stephen. | ||
| You're going to heaven. | ||
| And then the other lawyer is going to be like, God, I'd like you to see one other thing. | ||
| And they're going to play that. | ||
| And he's going to spend the rest of his life in hell. | ||
| What you want to do is not be like Jimmy Kimmel and you want to not be like Stephen Colbert. | ||
| You might want to be like Greg Gutfeld, who is now the king of late night, who over 3 million people tune into every night. | ||
| Colbert and Kimmel would combine, would kill to combine those numbers. | ||
| Gutfeld went and did a New York Times interview, which he said he didn't really want to do, but he did go ahead and do it. | ||
| And here he illustrates a little bit of the difference of what's going on as it comes to some of the polarity. | ||
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They write letters, but they're so polite. | |
| The ones I get, I'm telling you, man, the ones I get, it's like, Greg, we always respect your opinions, but I must ask you, please refrain from using the Lord's name in vain. | ||
| And then they will try to, it's like Penchulette said to me, like, he's an atheist. | ||
| He's like, somebody who works at Planned Parenthood might have a different opinion about how polite the religious issues are. | ||
| Well, I mean, let's write children. | ||
| So that's part of the game. | ||
| In your face. | ||
| I mean, well done, Greg, like smiling and laughing at the guy as he makes money. | ||
| Well, that is what they do at Planned. | ||
| I mean, I know you guys don't think fetuses are children, but that is what they're doing after. | ||
| But he is right. | ||
| And by the way, you know, one of the things that I'm most proud of right now, as it pertains to my career and what we do here, is that when I jump in the comments and I try to spend just a few minutes every day jumping in the YouTube comments, looking on the Rumble comments, et cetera, et cetera, I usually look at the local stuff every day. | ||
| But when I jump in there, I am so proud of what we've created here. | ||
| And that's because I conduct myself in a certain way, right? | ||
| So like I look at the comments and they're thoughtful and they're interesting and they're on point and they're all of the good things. | ||
| Not all of them all the time, but like the bulk of it is. | ||
| And I would say that's also to connect this to a little bit of what we were talking about earlier. | ||
| When you see some random kid throw money and say fuck the Jews to Dave Portnoy, it's like, what, what have you created? | ||
| What have you helped water here, Fuentes and Tucker? | ||
| Well, you've kind of watered that, right? | ||
| Like that's what you've done. | ||
| And I think we've done something a little bit different here. | ||
| I want to end the show on something that I put up last week because, you know, as I said, it's very easy for me to hit the left. | ||
| It made my career. | ||
| It's not that interesting to me anymore. | ||
| And, but I'll always do it. | ||
| I'll do it as long as it's warranted, right? | ||
| But there is something growing on the right, and it needs to be pushed back against. | ||
| And if we do not, then the right will go as crazy as the left did. | ||
| So allow me to quote myself here for just a moment. | ||
| 10 years ago, there were only a handful of us on the left warning that the growing radicalism of the progressives could destroy the Democratic Party. | ||
| While we made huge inroads online, no mainstream Democrats were willing to support our cause. | ||
| The legacy media ignored us or attacked us outright. | ||
| Ironically, the only people who were willing to give us a platform were on the right. | ||
| Flash forward to 2025, and the right now faces its own internal battle. | ||
| Will MAGA remain a big tent movement or will self-proclaimed Nazis, Stalin supporters, and race realists tear it apart? | ||
| Believe it or not, I'm far more optimistic about the right holding together than the left ever could for several reasons. | ||
| First, people on the right generally believe in something beyond politics. | ||
| Hint, God. | ||
| That belief serves as a stabilizing force against the wild ideological swings of the day. | ||
| Second, conservatives seek to conserve something, freedom and liberty, while progressives seek to progress towards something, usually a utopia that never actually exists. | ||
| Third, this new MAGA coalition includes countless disaffected liberals, people like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, and many more. | ||
| Does the right really want to push all these people away? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| And then perhaps most importantly, there's Donald Trump. | ||
| He loves America. | ||
| He loves the big tent, and he loves welcoming as many people into it as he can. | ||
| For years, I've said that Trump has been saving both liberalism and conservatism. | ||
| And in many ways, that's what America itself is about. | ||
| Trump's legacy of saving America is at risk if in the end the Nazi sympathizers become the heir apparent to MAGA. | ||
| Of course, holding it all together will be difficult. | ||
| There are bad actors and manipulative algorithms trying to tear it apart. | ||
| But as Trump often says, success will be his ultimate revenge. | ||
| The success of America is what can pull us out of this fight. | ||
| We can either celebrate America or pour more fuel onto the fire of bitterness and division, the same division we've been fighting against for a decade now. | ||
| Ask yourself, which pundits are celebrating Trump's wins and which are peddling conspiracies and distractions? | ||
| The answer might tell you who's truly rooting for America. | ||
| No one is calling for censorship or restrictions on free speech, certainly not me. | ||
| People can say whatever they want, but every movement is worth, every movement worth anything must set boundaries, just as every nation must set borders. | ||
| Because if you don't protect your borders or your principles, you're not protecting anything at all. | ||
| Yeah, I agree with that. | ||
| I got a good night's sleep last night. | ||
| Very exciting. | ||
| Post-game show 30 seconds, RubinReport.locals.com. | ||
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You're doing a great job, Chuck. |
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