Dave Rubin addresses Florida's freezing temperatures and Veterans Day before dissecting the government shutdown, arguing Democrats caved after eight members crossed party lines to isolate Speaker Chuck Schumer. He critiques CNN's Scott Jennings and Senator John Kennedy's predictions while mocking Bernie Sanders' primary threats, Elizabeth Warren's SNAP debates, and Gavin Newsom's climate denial. Rubin contrasts Zohran Mamdani's inexperienced socialist appointments with clips of Bill Maher praising Trump, concluding that American decency is being eroded by radical lunacy on both sides. [Automatically generated summary]
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You know, it is freezing.
If you're a Floridian, you're freezing right now.
I walked out.
I was in sweatpants and a hoodie.
Had the hood over my head when walking the dog this morning.
It's in the 40s.
If you're a Floridian, that's freezing.
There are iguanas falling out of the trees.
They are not dead.
They freeze because they're cold-blooded.
They go unconscious.
They fall into the street.
If you are a nice person, you can move them to the side.
Eventually, when it warms up, they will wake up.
But apparently, the pipes that send us across the internet, they're freezing too.
That's what we're dealing with over here.
but I sound okay now.
We're good.
We're back.
All right.
Apparently, I sounded a little robotic or digitized or something.
So let me just quickly repeat what I said at the top of the show moments ago.
This is what Groundhog Day must feel like.
Today is Veterans Day, and I actually did not even realize it until about an hour before the show today because I wake up and I do the stupid scrolling on the Twitter machine and all that stuff.
And, you know, in the old days on the Veterans Day, Memorial Day, MLK, Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever, you'd see like a lot of people acknowledging the day, right?
And now it's all devolved into just fighting and back and forth nonsense and doom scrolling and everything else.
I really did not even realize it was Veterans Day, which is one of the most important holidays that we have, because if it was not for the veterans, if it was not for those who serve, none of us would be, we wouldn't be here.
We wouldn't have the freedom to fight about nonsense all day long.
So I thought one nice way to honor the veterans was with this very short quote from Ronald Reagan that I think gets it perfectly and succinctly.
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world.
A veteran does not have that problem.
So any of you who are veterans out there watching today, I thank you for your service.
We are going to dive into all of the day's news, mostly about the shutdown, which is now over.
Thank God.
Oh, he raised the roof again.
The government is back.
Zippity Dippity.
Yes, we just needed a couple Democrats to jump over the aisle and open up the government.
And it finally happened.
Listen to this from Breaking Report.
The U.S. Senate has officially passed the CR to end the shutdown, sending the bill back to the House.
And why don't we name the Democrats who jumped across, who were so brave to jump across the aisle and open the government do their job.
It was Catherine Cortez-Masto from Nevada, Dick Durbin from Illinois, John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire, Tim Kaine from Virginia, Jackie Rosen from Nevada, and Jianne Shaheen from New Hampshire.
Here is Scott Jennings over on CNN trying to explain to this rather young Democrat pundit whose name need not even be mentioned because you'll never hear from him again that this was all the fault of the Democrats.
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Scott, with all respect, you cannot put on the American people that Democrats were the one that were hurting people, making this plight.
Oh, guys, I barely listened to that clip because I was told when we threw to it, that kid there is Michael Douglas's son.
So I guess he's a serious XM host, Michael Douglas, who might be my favorite actor.
Do you guys know that?
Michael Douglas, I think he might be my actual favorite actor of all time.
Used to work out at the same gym, Equinox, on the Upper West Side with him years ago.
We had a couple nice interactions.
So that lefty ding-dong is his son.
Yes.
Oh, that's so disappointing.
It all just sucks.
Doesn't it just suck and blow?
Oh, man.
Well, anyway, the kid is a little confused as to what happened here because all, as Jennings points out, all they had to do, if the Democrats were so concerned about SNAP and they were so concerned about all of the government stuff, because there's nothing that they love more than the government, all they needed was a couple to jump across the aisle, which is what they did.
And now, of course, we'll have more on this in just a second.
The lunatics, meaning the AOC, moron Zamboni branch of the Democrat Party, now they're going to try to take out anyone who decided to open up the government.
Here is Jennings explaining to Abby Phillips, dim-witted Abby Phillips, that the government is going to open after the election.
How are Republicans going to use leverage in their fight with Democrats when the Democrats are actually the ones with the upper hand in the eyes of voters?
As always, Abby Phillips, it's like she barely knows what's coming out of her mouth as she says it.
And I don't know that more people were attacking Trump over this.
And the Democrats did completely cave post-election.
Here is Scott Jennings, though, explaining, and now this is from yesterday.
Here is Jennings explaining how the shutdown actually has exposed the failure of the health insurance companies because there is something legitimate to talk about around that.
This whole thing has exposed this outlandish money laundering scheme where your tax dollars go right into insurance companies and your health insurance never gets better.
Your health care never gets better.
Your health outcomes never get better.
That's what we have exposed here.
So what our responsibility is as a Republican Party, how do we stop getting your tax money to insurance companies?
And how do we put more actual money into the health care of the American people?
Because I can assure you, writing a bunch of checks to insurance companies doesn't make your health care any better.
I mean, first, he's broadly hitting like, we should really be thinking in a new way about health care, right?
This is what the Maha movement, the Make America Healthy Again movement that became so integral in allowing MAGA to return just a year ago is all about, right?
Like we keep thinking, oh, we should just do whatever we want with our bodies.
We should eat all of this crap and the seed oils and the poisons and all of the sugar and all of the stuff and the high fructose corns.
We should do all that.
And then we should just medicate the high hell out of ourselves.
And the drug companies and the health insurance companies might subsidize some of that, but we'll all become fat and incapacitated.
And by the way, we're all going to have to pay for everybody who does that, which really makes no sense.
If you think about universal health care in some sense, it's like, why should all of the people who actually do take care of themselves, who do eat right, who do work out, who do the right things, if you're doing all of those things for yourself, why should the government be taking money away from you to then subsidize the health care for people that don't do any of those things?
I mean, that's one of the problems when you start doing everything universally.
You actually punish people who do things right, whether it's play by the rules as it pertains to economics and law, or whether it's literally taking care of their own lives.
But he does make a broad point, which is that the Republicans should be now thinking about, okay, how do we rethink this thing so we stop taking dollars and just giving it to health care companies that don't make our, that the results of our health care does not turn out to be better or anything else.
But the bumper sticker on all of this is that we didn't have the government for 40 days.
We're all okay.
Everyone's okay here.
We didn't have it for 40 days and it was all pointless.
The Democrats who were screaming, this is going to kill people, people are going to starve and blah, blah, blah.
All they ended up doing by having these six, seven Democrats jump across the aisle was signing a clean CR, which is exactly what always happens.
So this was completely on the Democrats.
I hate to say it, but Michael Douglas' son was wrong.
And nothing, they got nothing out of it other than the few Democrats that jumped across the aisle to do the right thing will now pay the price with the lunatic radical base.
But here is Senate Majority Leader Mike Johnson explaining to Jake Tapper that this was just nothing.
So Chuck Schumer did exactly what Kennedy laid out.
He did not vote for reopening the government, in essence, to save face, to make it look like to the progressives, see Bernie AOC, don't murder me, don't behead me just yet, right?
Because I'm still with you guys.
I don't have control of these other guys.
And whether he coordinated for them to do it or they were just like, we've all had enough of this charade.
We're not going to placate to the lunatic progressives like you or whatever, whatever the answer to that is.
It wasn't that hard to see what was going to happen here, right?
And they got nothing out of it.
And the irony is, while John Kennedy's right that Schumer, in essence, was trying to save face, Schumer gets nothing out of this.
They hate him even more now because for them, it's like, all right, Schumer, whether you voted for it or not is irrelevant.
You couldn't control these eight radicals who voted to open up the government and give the snap benefits back to the people.
We're for the people.
We keep telling you everyone's going to starve, but we're against opening the government so that they don't starve.
So the point of all of that is to show you that this was all predicted.
The Democrats got nothing out of it.
And much like the Scott Jennings thing, where he basically is like, yeah, they'll get through the election and then they'll open it up.
There are some people that honestly do assess these things.
And that's how you can see the results of it.
So congratulations, Democrats.
But really, congratulations, Chuck Schumer.
You're in a lot of trouble.
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A guy who doesn't have a very strong future, his name is Chuck Schumer.
Here he is after losing control of the party, having seven, no, eight, we said, eight of the non-complete lunatic Democrats jump to the other side, abandon him.
In a weird way, I have sympathy with Chuck Schumer.
Not that I have any sort of like respect for him as a legislator and he's kind of been wrong on everything.
I don't think he is, as I've said many times, I don't think he is like a true America-hating loon like the progressive base.
He isn't.
And that's partly why they hate him.
But he was trying to lead a party without really leading the party, right?
Like he needed to do some housekeeping within his own party.
He didn't do it.
You let the inmates in.
Now they're running the asylum.
If John Kennedy is right and he basically said to those eight guys, you guys go ahead and do it.
I'll say no to save face.
Like that didn't work either because they're coming for you no matter what.
So he really just got outmaneuvered here.
But it's not just him.
It's also Hakeem Jeffries, Timu Obama, who again, I also don't think like that he fundamentally, there are some of them that actually, I think, hate the idea of America.
Most of the progressives, they fundamentally hate capitalism.
They are not proud of our founding.
They are not proud of our documents and our freedom and things like that.
I don't think that's Schumer.
I really don't even think that's Hakeem, right?
I just have strong political disagreements with him.
But their day is done in the Democrat Party.
Listen to this word salad here as Hakeem tries to explain whether the shutdown was worth it.
Well, the fight lives on, but I think it's not exactly the fight that you think.
You think you're going to be fighting Trump now, but I hate to tell you, dude, you're going to be fighting the radicals of your own party.
Who is one of those radicals?
Well, she is one, what is it, one 64th, one 248th Native American.
That is Pocahontas, Liz Warren.
Here she is on November 7th, explaining that Trump wants Americans to eat dirt.
Then we'll flash forward to yesterday where Dick Durbin, one of those crazy eight Democrats who decided to feed the hungry people, explain, well, just watch.
They think we should have kept our government closed indefinitely to protest the policies of the Trump administration.
I share their opinions of this administration, but cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbor's paycheck or the food for his children.
Listen, I don't have particular feelings towards Dick Durbin one way or another.
Again, he's probably just like a neither here nor there Democrat who's mostly wrong on stuff.
But again, like, I don't think he hates America.
But he's right about that.
I don't know why he had to read a statement instead of just being able to say it.
It's like, Elizabeth, if you want them to eat dirt, what you are concerned about there is the people that are on Snap.
And again, we should figure out how many people are on Snap and why are they on Snap?
And if you keep telling us it's 40 million people on Snap, why is it that 40 million people need government assistance to eat?
There's also a zillion videos out right now.
There's a huge TikTok account that just started, I guess, or it started over the last couple of weeks that's showing people on Snap going into the store and the type of crap that they are buying.
And it's all like the worst kind of foods and they throw it into the bin and they're so proud of it.
And then those are the same people who end up overweight and more of a drain on the healthcare system, which addresses what I talked about before.
If we're all in it, if it's universal health care, and then we're paying certain people to eat all of the wrong foods, maybe there is a problem there.
And maybe SNAP benefits should only go towards Whole Foods or something else.
But I know they'll never have that conversation.
But Elizabeth, if you really cared.
Elizabeth, I got one for you.
I posed this question on Twitter yesterday.
I got some funny answers on this.
But do you think Bernie Sanders bought one person a hamburger during the government shutdown?
He was so concerned about SNAP.
Do you think AOC went anywhere and bought some eggs for anybody?
Or do you think Eliz or just any of these people, you think any of them did that?
Of course they didn't, because progressives don't actually want to be good.
They want to pretend they are good while using your money.
That's how it works.
Here is Angus King, one of the senators who did jump the Schumer vote, explaining to Joe Scarborough that the shutdown didn't work and Trump now came out looking better.
This is why you don't make politics the center of your universe.
And you better believe in something else besides what's going on right now.
Like, so freaking angry.
But again, Sonny, what I would say to you is for 40 days, you guys complained that people were starving and SNAP benefits weren't being paid and everything else.
So then eight Democrats decided to open the government so that people wouldn't starve again.
Wouldn't you be at least happy about that temporarily?
Like say, okay, hey, the government is running again.
Those people are not starving anymore.
I mean, unless what really is going on here is it's all bullshit.
It's all lies.
Everything they do is based in fear and hysteria and everything else.
But even putting that aside, I would welcome you the same question to Sonny Hostin.
You make, we're told, it looks like about $2 mil a year over there.
I think her husband is worth a gajillion dollars too.
So you have plenty of money.
I don't begrudge you any of that.
But how about you do something for the people that are hungry?
Like, could you do that yourself, at least temporarily?
Like, you don't have to do it all the time, but when you're so concerned that the government's not feeding all of these people, could you maybe do a little of that?
I am being told by Joseph right now that her husband is worth a cool $450 million, according to Yahoo.
So I assume that means he could buy like a couple happy meals or something for these people.
Alas, I'm going to guess she did jack shit.
Here is Bernie Sanders, who is on, you know, you might argue he's on the losing side of this, right?
Because the progressives wanted to keep starving people and keep the government closed.
But in reality, he's on the winning side because this is going to break apart the Democrat Party.
And that's what he's long wanted as a socialist.
So here he is going after Chuck Schumer, a man who, again, voted no on the freaking thing in the first place.
Chuck thought that he could just kind of feed them a little something.
I'll vote no.
You guys vote yes.
We'll keep it on the DL.
It's exactly what John Kennedy predicted, right?
And he thought that might keep the wolves at bay.
He thought That might keep the barbarians at the gate.
But now the barbarians are in, and you are in a lot of trouble, man.
But if Bernie is right about that, that they've got about, what did he say about?
They've got about eight of the like hardcore radical progressives in there and the rest of them aren't, and they're going to primary all of them.
If he's right, then how about the majority of you Democrats again, who I don't agree with on most political points at this juncture, how about you guys get some balls and start pushing them out of the party instead of just letting them push you out of the party and going full communist?
How about you guys get some balls?
That would be my recommendation to you, although I doubt you're tuning into the Rubin Report to get my political procrastinations.
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So a little continuation of where we left off there.
Here is Bernie waving his arm.
He's married Bernie Sanders in this clip, I warn you in advance and he's telling everybody they want more morons and bonies.
So what we have got to do is go above and beyond what happened yesterday that terrible, terrible vote and understand that yes, you are parts of the Democratic establishment who are way, way out of touch with where the American people are or where we have got to go, and our job is to build a political movement.
We are doing it with the three candidates of the Senate I expect more to come with many candidates in the House, candidates all over this country running for local office.
We're going to build that movement, grassroots movement, to do what Mamdani did in New York City, all over this country.
We're going to primary all of the moderate people.
I'm not a Democrat.
I caucused with the Democrats.
The Democrats actually should have kicked me out a long time ago, because I was here only to destroy the country.
By the way, i've never passed a serious piece of legislation.
I've been in the government for 40 plus years.
Yes, i'm a millionaire with three houses and I used to rail against millionaires all the time.
But now i'm a millionaire, so I rail against the billionaires.
You see how it goes, but i'm telling you.
I'm telling you what i'm gonna do.
What i'm gonna do is i'm gonna do the thing that I said, which is primary, all the people who love America, who like capitalism and stuff, Oh, God.
We put this little image together because the Democrats are really going to have to figure out what to do.
And I think we can illustrate it quite effectively here.
So three points for a great Democrat leader.
You're going to have to toe the DNC line.
Now, the DNC line is a little hard to figure out what it is because is it anything of the remaining moderate?
Probably not.
It's probably someone that just wants to govern as a giant pandering big government flanky floozy who's destroyed virtually everything.
And there we have a picture of smiling Gavin Newsome.
So that seems like it makes sense.
You have to be presidential.
Well, I will give him credit, you know, using the aborted babies that he puts in the grinder and then uses them as hair gel.
He does look presidential.
And can you put the image back for just a second?
Pushes radical policies with a smile.
I mean, that is Gavin Newsom more than anything else.
So now let's dive into where Gavin Newsom is at with things.
He went on CNN, talked to Jake Tapper, and Tapper asked him if Prop 50, where he re-zoned California so that it will become even more of a Democrat supermajority, if that really is about him potentially running for president.
Whether that was part of a longer-term campaign for you, because obviously you have acknowledged you're thinking about running for president, possibly in 2028.
He has a massive, massive, ridiculous supermajority in that state.
He has caused businesses and people to flee.
Nobody is like, I'm going to move to California to start my dreams.
Like some people, I guess, still move there because the weather is still okay if your house isn't burning down because he can't manage forest fires or whatever.
But we know the, I don't even have to bother getting into that and all the U-Hauls that leave and everything else, right?
We know all of that stuff.
But him implying that he did Prop 50 because it was he's trying to save America, right, guys?
It was Texas.
I'm not even defending red districting at all.
I'm not defending gerrymandering.
I'm not defending anything that Texas did or didn't do or anything else.
But his basic position is I will save democracy by destroying it.
The ends justify the means.
And do you think he is really going to save democracy?
Listen, just listen to the hysteria.
This is all the hint you need to know that he is going to run for president.
Man, you know, you know those clips that we show you from like Donahue and Oprah Winfrey in the 80s when they're asking, I mean, literally Oprah Winfrey, will you run for president?
That just, and now she has total Trump derangement syndrome.
And they ask him, will you run for president?
And Trump is always like, well, I'd prefer not to, but, you know, we are throwing our country away.
And he talks about the trade deals and he talks about the borders, all of the stuff.
I mean, no one has been more consistent over the last four or five decades in American public life than Donald Trump, right?
But when they ask him, his response always is, I don't want to do it.
I'm doing other things.
I'm building businesses.
I'm building hotels.
We're changing cityscapes and all of these things.
And they basically forced him into it because he realized, like Homer Simpson, I'm a guy like me, right?
Newsom is the complete reverse of that.
He's telling you, I'm not going to do it when you know damn well he is going to do it.
And I would say the most dangerous part of Newsom in a weird way is that is Newsom a psychotic, yes, he is a psychopath, but is he a like, does he fundamentally hate the United States of America?
No, the guy is the grand, what is he, the grandson of Paul Getty, and he grew up rich and he's got the winery and he's got the good life and all of the stuff it's afforded him so much, his fake teeth and slick hair.
Like it's done all that for him.
So does he fundamentally hate America the way that Bernie and the progressives hate America?
I don't think so.
But someone who stands for nothing, he stands, he has no principle other than attaining power.
In a weird way, he's far more dangerous than if you just threw out some ridiculous ideologue Bernie type out there.
Here he is over the last couple of days.
He's been in Brazil explaining that the Palisades fire, where there was no water in the freaking reservoir, so that when the fire department showed up, they literally couldn't get water to stop the houses from burning down.
Although the guy, we'll leave that aside for a second.
Here he is explaining that despite that, that it was really about climate change.
As they say, what Trump is doing is unprecedented.
Yes, the fire and the building codes and the lack of water, somehow that has something to do with Trump, or we should maintain giant international agreements like the Paris Accords that nobody, there's no mechanism that forces anyone to do anything except the United States dumps money into like everything.
I should be clear, he is not Paul Getty's.
I was just babbling off the top of my head.
He's not the grandson of Paul Getty, the Getty Museum, which almost burned down in several of the fires.
His father was Paul Getty's attorney and he delivered the ransom money to the kidnappers of Paul Getty's grandchild, which if you, that whole story is a whole other thing, which is quite interesting, but not for right now.
But here he is a little more from the evil lizard man explaining that Elon, the great capitalist Elon Musk, who's building tunnels underneath LA, who's trying to send rockets out there, who's got Starlink up there who freed us with ex-Twitter, blah, blah, blah.
That it's all because Elon's success, it's all because of California's regulatory environment.
We've extended out now for decades this commitment to sustainability and stability as it relates to the investment posture.
There's a reason Tesla was created in California.
3.2 billion reasons why they were supported.
There'd be no Elon Musk, as we know him today, forgive us, had it not been.
I say that with love in my heart.
Trillion dollars will do that.
But proud of that, proud of his innovation, proud of that leadership because of California's regulatory environment, because of the Air Resources Board, because of that regulatory posture that we are now building on and building off of and now extending it substantively to 2045.
Gavin, some of that would be correct if we lived in Bizarro Land.
It's the regulatory situation in California and the high taxes that has caused Elon Musk to move all his companies out of California.
You're talking about two decades ago when people moved to California because there was still the promise of freedom before taxation went completely bananas and before the regulations all went crazy.
If that's what you mean, I guess you're saying something true.
But people are leaving because of you.
Like, that is the fundamental truth.
Why are they moving to Texas?
Why are they moving to Florida?
It's not because of our regulatory environments here.
It's because of our deregulatory environments here.
We have less regulation.
We make it easier for companies to build.
We have less corporate tax so that they can invest more, et cetera, et cetera.
This is a bit of a non-sequitur, but back in 2007, Gavin Newsom banged his best friend's wife, who his best friend was his chief of staff.
He banged his wife, and I just thought that would be, it would just be kind of fun to show, you know.
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Connor just choked out Joseph.
That was a total joke, man.
He said, I have no evidence to think that, and you're not even married yet.
Joe Biden was the president before this.
He obviously was not in charge of anything.
There was an autopen doing a lot of it.
He got a soft coup, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But only a year and a half ago, he was running for president, and they were all pretending that it was going to be possible that he would not only be president right now, but for the next three years.
Think how absolutely insane it is.
He showed up yesterday at a restaurant.
And tell me if this man you think could have been president right now.
I'm not even doing that to be gratuitous.
It's just like this is what when you look at what the Democrats now have, it's partially because they propped that up.
And it wasn't just that he, you know, by the way, it's not about, it's not even making fun of anyone's age or anyone's conditions.
And now he has cancer and everything else.
It's not about making fun of any of those things.
It's about making fun of the theater around all of it, right?
because it was that guy, and then it was a lady who he literally, Biden himself, only brought on board because she was black and female, and apparently because she was a 3D chess player.
I was aware of my opponent's strategies, and I wasn't about to fall prey or fall into those traps.
And part of his strategy and those around him was to try and take me off our game and message.
And I wasn't about to be distracted by those little, those flames that he was trying to throw to get me away from my highest priority, which was talking to people about the economy and their well-being in terms of their financial well-being.
And that's, so I was, I understood the game that was being played, and I made a decision that I wasn't going to get played.
Because I'm pretty sure she's laughing at the wrong point there.
So again, it's just more nothingness with her, which I just put out there to illustrate.
They just don't know what they are going to do right now.
But a party that won't, doesn't know what it's going to do, whether it's Dementia Guy or her or Otto Penn or Timu Obama or Schumer is on the way out.
What this is rife for, and this is the warning here, what this is rife for is for the radicals to take over, which is exactly what Bernie says his plan is.
So now let's jump back to Timu Obama.
Here he is on with Kirsten Welker on MSNBC, and she's wondering if Mom Donnie, if Moron Zamboni, can deliver on his promises.
And you can see he doesn't, because he doesn't really believe in him.
He doesn't really want it to happen, but he does not know what to do.
Well, he's going to have to work with the Rent Guidelines Board and probably more importantly, with the governor of the state of New York and the state legislature in order to enact those proposals.
But it's all centered around the notion of making New York City more affordable, which is, of course, what we have to do throughout America in a country that's far too expensive.
This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world.
It's unacceptable that far too many people are struggling to live paycheck to pay.
He doesn't want to get on board all the Mom Dami stuff.
But then, okay, then he gives us these just sort of generic platitudes about expenses.
Okay, so then how about you push for deregulation?
How about you push for tax cuts?
How about you acknowledge that it was your party that printed all the money and was more for lockdowns, which we're still in the hangover of, and everything else.
But you're not going to do that.
Interestingly, New York mayor, New York governor Kathy Hochul, who's quite horrific in her own right, who endorsed Mom Donnie and then he refused to endorse her, which is just perfect for these people.
She's now saying she's, quote, not ready to move forward with free buses.
So I don't know how all the inner workings of New York works, whether free buses, I guess some of the funding, I guess, comes from the state.
Not all of it comes from the city.
But okay, that might be a little bit of a Democrat that is going to stand up to some of this lunacy because again, guys, it doesn't take a wizard or a mathematician to know that nothing is free.
Yesterday, Zorhan or Moron Zamboni introduced his new chief of staff.
Her name is Elle Bisgard Church.
She is a socialist from Cali, and she has no real world experience, but here she is for just a moment.
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I would now like to introduce my chief of staff, L. Bisgard Church.
Mamdani's chief of staff, El Bisgard Church, a California transplant with zero executive experience, zero budget management, and zero accountability for anything beyond DSA-approved slogans.
Her resume, activist radio show, academic theory, and organizing arrest performative stunts, not running a city agency.
And this is from CityDex NYC, which is a great follow-on X.
And then he goes into the rest of the cabinet, which is just an absolute disaster.
And now let's get over to Zor.
I can't call him Moron every time.
So let's go over to Zorhan or Zoron or whatever you want to call him.
Here he is saying, and I'm fairly certain this is illegal, but nothing matters anymore.
Here he is explaining that the NYPD will not work with ICE because he wants New York City to remain a sanctuary city.
What I will continue to do is be someone who will stand up for New Yorkers when Donald Trump is seeking to fulfill his promise to create the single largest deportation force in American history.
And my NYPD will continue to not be of assistance to ICE whenever they are trying to terrorize New Yorkers across the five boroughs.
ICE is going after illegals who are not here legally.
It's in the word legal and illegal.
It's all there, right?
And they're removing those people from the United States who should not be here.
If you live in New York City, you really should leave if you're decent.
I know it's not fun.
I would also recommend watching Fiddler on the Roof again and watch at the end of Fiddler on the Roof.
When it's time to go, it's time to go and you can find greener pastures.
That's the story of the Hebrews.
They don't like the Hebrews very much, obviously.
But sometimes when it's time to go, it's time to go because you don't want to be there when the Cossacks or the Marxists or the et cetera, et cetera, has come.
But it's not just moron Zamboni, that's terrible.
They've also got Lady Eyelashes, Jasmine Crockett.
And, well, to Bernie's point, they want some more crazy people to run.
Well, she's considering running her Senate in Texas.
Yeah, I am considering it, is what I can tell you.
I think that we're living in unprecedented times.
And I think an unprecedented candidacy is what we need to do in Texas if we're going to do something different.
And so I think when you're talking about how expensive these races are, starting with someone who is known and has a brand, a brand that doesn't take from anybody, I think being a fighter for the people is what people are looking for.
I mean, he took a long time when I had that dinner with him talking about the pictures he sees coming from Ukraine, the stuff that doesn't get out on the news.
So I'm not just playing that clip because it's giving Kopal a nice little shout out.
That is a bottle of Copal right there.
I'm playing it because, look, these are two people who are not really in Trump's camp, right?
If there was an if Trump was running again, he's always threatening to run again.
I still don't know if Bill would vote for him, right?
But what Bill's saying is he does not like war.
He actually is affected by those images.
We are wrapping this stuff up.
And then he's saying, he still jokes during an ego and whatever.
And there you have Cheryl, who I have no doubt, I've heard her talk about it, actually, and I will ask her about it, who has lost friends over her husband joining her husband joining scary Donald Trump as he now tries to solve autism and as he tries to get, you know, dies out of our children's cereal and everything else.
Here they are a little bit more on the human side of Trump, which you don't get to see that often.
Again, this is someone that you might have said five years ago had Trump derangement syndrome.
And Cheryl, who would have never said anything positive about Donald Trump.
So what does that tell you?
And by the way, that tracks, he said the word tracks.
That tracks exactly with my experience when I've now met him a few times, but the first time, particularly when I met the president, and he was interesting and he made eye contact and he listened and he asked questions and all of those things.
And that does tell you that there is something fundamentally different between him and some of these hysterical people that we've shown you on the show today.
But I want to show you one more clip from that, if you can bear with me for one more second.
One more clip from that sit down, because I think this gets to the heart of what has been so confusing to so many people for so long.
The entire cultural apparatus for decades now has told us that Democrats are good guys and they're kind and nice and they like diversity and they're decent and Republicans like war and money and they're mean and cold and everything else.
Well, here's two, I would say, former Democrats on that.
So now I want to show you, and you've seen this clip before, but this is a great illustration of why, you know, everyone thinks politics is about policy or something.
You have to drub people over the head with all with charts and explanations and everything else.
But it actually is quite human because what Bill is saying right there is that over time, he realized that these Republicans weren't that bad.
And Cheryl's saying she was kind of surprised that the Republicans were welcoming to Bobby.
And you may remember a couple of years ago when I had Bobby on the first time and we had never met in person before.
It was the second we went live on camera, it was the first time we met.
And by the end of the interview, even though we disagreed on many things, many different things, including affirmative action and much more, we debated it.
I said to him, I don't know if you'll be a Republican by the end of this thing, but I know you won't be a Democrat.
You can see his eyes light up.
Well, now I want to throw back to October of 22 when I sat in that very chair, although they were organized a little bit differently, that Cheryl was in right there.
And I told Bill exactly that about how kind Republicans really MAGA can be.
I went a few times and I did live streams from there.
And I'm telling you, you could have walked in that audience and people would have, yes, would a certain amount of people have been like, ah, fuck Bill Maher.
But you know what?
A lot of people would have been there like, you know what?
Bill Maher's here.
That's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
Which think how different that would be than if you went to an AOC rally where you would be hated beyond imagination.
There's a lot of political fights to happen again.
There's weird stuff happening on the right, which I'm going to do my best to try to quell some of the lunacy.
But overall, I think most of us fall into what we've just shown you of these last couple clips.
It doesn't really matter what your differences with Bill Maher or Cheryl Hines are or anything else.
Like these are people who love America, right?
It's against the progressive lunacy and whatever sort of fringe lunacy might be appearing on the right.
That's the bulk of Americans.
And we just need better leaders or better communicators to keep pushing that because that is the thing that will save the country right now and well beyond.