‘Shark Tank’ Legend Notices Something in Gavin Newsom Dems Refuse to See
Dave Rubin dissects the fallout from CJNG leader El Mencho’s $15M bounty death in Mexico, exposing cartels’ quasi-governmental power while praising Bukele’s crackdown in El Salvador. He slams Gavin Newsom’s Georgia speech—dismissing his 960 SAT claim and "lizard planet" birth certificate jokes—as racist pandering, then mocks his refusal to comply with the SAVE Act, alleging voter fraud risks. California’s 11% higher cost of living and 1.8M population exodus contrast sharply with Florida’s growth under DeSantis, framing Newsom as a symbol of urban decline. The episode ties Newsom’s policies to broader leftist failures, from AOC’s incoherent Taiwan stance to NYC’s $127B budget bloat, arguing America’s future hinges on rejecting open borders and ideological governance. [Automatically generated summary]
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Guys, first off, I hope you really enjoyed the President's Day, President's Week worth of shows that we put up there.
I really enjoyed it.
Obviously, it was nice to have a couple of days off on the personal side, but just to escape the madness a little bit and get into some of the history.
And really, as I brought up with several of the guests, Glenn Beck and Michael Knowles and Jeffrey Tucker, who you just saw there and others, just to talk about how these presidents were just men of their time, in many cases, doing the best they can do.
And we can look at everybody through the lens of 2026 with our modern eyes and we can judge them every which way.
But we should know that they, for the most part, were trying the best they could.
And maybe we need more people like them, particularly the founders.
Let's leave that there.
I'm feeling very refreshed and very excited.
I said to my guys this morning before we even did the rundown, I feel like this week is going to be bananas.
That's just a vibe that Dave Rubin has right now.
I just feel like there's a lot in the ether right now.
And I think some crazy things are going to happen.
Today we're covering, obviously, this cartel situation in Mexico, which is nuts.
Gavin Newsom, who just went full-on racist, like not reverse racist or anything else, just old-fashioned racist over the weekend.
We got some Bernie AOC stuff, little bit on ice.
And oh, there's a jihadist running in New York and also a big snowstorm.
So good luck with all of that.
Let's dive in.
We will start with Mexico.
We're going to show you some video as I read this from Fox News.
I mean, this is crazy stuff.
Major Mexican drug lord Nemicio Osegura, known as El Mencho, was killed in a military operation Sunday morning, the country's Defense Department announced, marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels.
The announcement came as government officials warned of clashes in Jalisco state and widespread criminal activity across the country, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to issue shelter-in-place advisories for multiple states.
On Sunday, Mexican troops reportedly conducted operations in Tapalpa, Jalisco, targeting Nemesio Rubin Osegura Cervantes, a former police officer who became the elusive leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, a major supplier of fentanyl to the United States known as El Mencho.
Asagoro Cervantes carried a $15 million U.S. bounty and rose up to power following the arrest of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa cartel.
Over the past 15 years, CJNG has grown from a local criminal group into a global trafficking organization operating out of its stronghold in Jalisco.
The Mexican Defense Department said the operation was conducted as part of a bilateral coordination and cooperation with the U.S., whose authorities provided complimentary intelligence that contributed to Asaguro Cervantes' capture.
Tourists in the Mexican seaside city of Puerto Vallarta were told not to leave their resort Sunday as a government official warned of clashes in the area following a federal operation.
At least 21 highways remained blocked, with authorities reporting that five have already been reopened.
Photos showed numerous roadblocks and burning vehicles with dark smoke rising into the sky across the country.
Tactics officials say cartels often use to slow or block military operations.
Photos and video shared with Fox News Digital show thick, dark smoke rising over the skyline of the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific coast in Jalisco.
So there's so many issues here.
Now, first off, I will preface this, unlike most of the people who do this for a living, by saying I'm not a complete expert in the cartel situation in Mexico.
However, this is something that Donald Trump has been talking about for years.
That we know, obviously, that drugs are coming through our southern border.
That's partly why he wanted a wall years ago.
It wasn't just to stop people from coming in, right?
It was also to stop drugs.
And also, that Mexico is largely held together in a sort of like duct tape kind of way, where there obviously is a government, but there's cartels that run certain areas.
And that's just kind of known and it's the way it is.
Now, if they are sending drugs across our border as tight as we've made our border, then it is in the United States' interest to do something about it.
We'll obviously find out more about what level of coordination there was between the Trump administration and the Mexicans.
I will say this: I know that area actually quite well.
Usually, when we go off the grid, we go to the Jalisco area, not too far out of Puerto Vallarta.
That's the airport we fly into.
And in some of the videos that we were showing you there as I was reading that, they were from the Guadalajara airport, which I've been to several times because our distillery for Copal is in Jalisco.
It's right outside of the town of Tequila.
There's an actual town of Tequila.
We're in contact with our guys over at the distillery right now.
But this is a serious, serious situation.
I mean, first off, you've got tourists from literally all over the world that are in danger right now.
But it really does go to show you how precious and tenuous democracy is if you don't have people in charge who are going to get rid of the bad guys.
Can you have a functioning society if you're going to have cartels and gang leaders who kind of run it at the same time?
And you might go, well, Dave, maybe you're exaggerating what the threat of these cartels is.
Well, check this.
Is there audio behind these?
Yeah, there's some audio behind this.
Look at this.
This is the special forces of Jalisco New Generación Cartel.
So, this CJNG, this is the cartel.
This is not the, what we're about to show you is not the Mexican military.
This is the cartels who are now blowing things up.
is wild.
To reiterate, those guys who are in full military garb look like half Hamas soldiers, half right out of Halo.
How was that?
How was that for a reference?
That was pretty good.
Call of Duty.
I can do what the kids are, I know what the kids are up to.
That's what the military of Mexico is fighting.
Okay, so now I want to connect this to something sort of worldwide because one of the places I was there a couple weeks ago where things are generally working is El Salvador.
And that's largely because of their president, Bukele, who basically came in.
And I was in El Salvador about 15 years ago or so, and it was run by cartels.
It was a true third world gang-run nation, which was not safe to be anywhere.
And for the people, the Americans and people from other countries that were staying there, you basically had to have armed guards with you.
You had to live in highly, highly protected, little, basically little cities within the city with massive walls and barbed wire everywhere and told you can't go out and everything else.
Well, then I went a couple of weeks ago and he's completely turned the country around because he's not messing around and saying gangs and cartels, you cannot operate outside of the government.
You cannot, that's not how we are going to do it.
So here is Bukele talking about how he fixed things in his country.
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Back in El Salvador, people used to tell me, President, the solution to violence is to invest in education and opportunities.
And I said, you're absolutely right.
If a country invests in education and opportunities, those kids won't become criminals, or at least the vast majority of them won't.
But that's something you should have told the government 20 years ago because these criminals aren't for years old, so you can just send them to kindergarten.
These criminals have already graduated from the University of Crime when it comes to killing.
They've already raped.
They've already killed.
They've already cut off heads.
They've even cut off grandma's hands.
So, President, the only way to solve a problem of insecurity that already exists is with force, with the force of the state.
If a state can't defeat crime, it's because the state is complicit.
It was the Seattle mayor was the one that I put at the top of it, where he was asked about crime in his city.
And he was like, well, I don't want to put people in jail.
I want to know, did they have a good meal that day?
And what was their childhood like and everything else?
And that is what my friend Gad Saad calls suicidal empathy.
You will empathize with people in such a way that it will put your, literally your life and your family's life in danger.
And what Bukele went in and said is, well, this isn't just about education because these aren't four-year-olds anymore, right?
At some point, if you've beheaded enough grandmothers and cut off enough of their hands and everything else, maybe you have to go to jail.
And that, by the way, is why they have like basically the world's most technologically advanced jail in El Salvador, which I was just informed we were invited to.
We might go to.
Do you want to go to the world's most advanced technological jail?
You guys want?
Connor's not so sure.
Phoenix is down.
That makes you wonder.
We might go in July, so we'll see about that.
But the point is that you cannot have separate states within your state.
You know, in some sense, we'll connect this in a little bit to the Sanctuary City stuff.
But it's like you either have a government that sets the rules of who is here in your country and that if you are breaking laws, you cannot be here, or you don't really have a country, which is exactly what Donald Trump was saying in 2015 around the border.
Now I want to jump, we'll connect this to the illegal immigration situation in our country.
My friend Michael Malice, who's been on this show many times, he was on the Joe Rogan podcast a couple days ago and they got into it about the illegals.
And well, I should note that Malice is wearing some WWE style makeup.
I don't know who he was dressed as here, but put that aside for a second and just listen to the conversation.
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Are you comfortable with them just remaining here?
It is a problem that doesn't have like a clear-cut solution that would make both sides happy.
That's for damn sure.
unidentified
Well, I think one side is against it entirely, and many Republicans don't think it's worth trying to overturn our whole society, get these 10 million people out.
Okay, so that's an interesting little take right there.
I know it was a short fight.
First off, again, I don't know what, can someone text Malice and ask him what the makeup was all about?
But it's interesting because Rogan says it doesn't have a clean-cut solution.
This is a little bit of suicidal empathy, I would say as well.
So does immigration and deportation have a clean-cut solution?
Well, it does, right?
It does.
One thing you can do is close the border.
That would be one part of it.
We've done that, okay?
So that's pretty clean-cut.
Most people, you may not agree with Trump doing it or not, but like that would be one clean version, just close the border.
But then the other portion, of course, is what do you do with 20 some odd million people that likely came in under Biden, the 10 to 15 million people who were illegal before that.
So now you're probably somewhere around 30 million people.
What do you do?
So clean cut.
What would be clean cut?
Well, clean cut would be that you could get a president who would come in and say, hey, if you're here illegally, now is your chance to leave.
And I'm not going to go into the cities for a while until they have a chance to encourage these people to leave.
That is exactly what Donald Trump did.
Remember, he did not send in ICE on January 20th of last year.
He said to the states, get rid of these people.
They literally put up an app to help people get out.
And he said, if you leave voluntarily, then perhaps you will be able to get back in.
We can't have all these people living in the shadows.
That's pretty clean cut.
Another clean-cut way of doing it is when push comes to shove, sending troops into the streets to get those people out.
Just imagine if you and your family took a trip to Bali or to Germany or to Indonesia.
It literally doesn't matter.
Pick your country and you guys just decided to stay.
If they caught you, they would kick you out.
And that would be clean cut.
So Rogan there, I get emotionally I get what he's saying.
It's not clean cut because nobody wants to see people be hurt and the screaming and all of those things.
But it is.
And that's kind of what Malice says right there.
There's one party right now that simply does not care about the sovereignty of America and American citizens.
It does not, the Democrat Party.
And then there's a Republican Party that wants sovereignty, that cares about the women who are being raped and murdered, like Lake and Riley.
The Democrats refuse to say her name.
This is still going on in the United States today, and they're trying to do something about it.
So there is a clean-cut answer.
It may not just be the most comfortable answer.
Anyway, we will see where Trump gets with all of this.
But if he does not win this fight over the next couple of months, meaning the deportation fight, then in 2028, we will have a Democrat president.
Because if he doesn't win this thing now, he likely, the Republicans likely lose the midterms, as I've been talking about.
Guys, find yourself someone who will look at you the way Dana Bash looks at Gavin Newsome with the smile blinking and oh my God, like a Disney princess with the special eyebrows and everything.
There's so many lies and distortions in that.
First off, he says he's not Machiavellian.
He's not Machiavellian.
Can we put up the definition of Machiavellian?
And you tell me if this is Gavin Newsom or not.
I mean, his face should be next to the effing definition.
Machiavellian, cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics.
I've never seen anyone, even remotely close, to being as Machiavellian as he is.
Everything about him is unscrupulous and cunning and planned and coordinated.
I do want to quickly fact check CNN over there because she said that people talk about his hair gel.
I have never said a word about his hair gel.
It is a firm belief of mine that they take fetuses of babies, grind them up, and then he uses that as hair gel.
So I just want to be totally, totally clear on that.
But it is also interesting that he said that his kids will basically decide whether he's going to run for president or not, because you may remember this.
Oh, can you put up the definition of Machiavellian again, Connor?
Can we revert to that?
Machiavellian, cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics.
Do you see what he just did right there when he sat with Charlie Kirk?
Oh my God, my son's so excited.
He doesn't even want to go to school because he wants to meet you.
That's how much he loves you.
And then when he gets the tiniest bit of pushback, he doesn't really know who Charlie Kirk is.
He is evil.
He is a demon.
He has no testicles.
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I don't know how you go from Gavin Newsom to trying to do something that will better your life.
But now let's go back to Gavin Newsom because Gavin Newsom, you could say he's the devil incarnate.
You could say he's a lizard person.
You could say he has no testicles.
You could say that he banged his best friend, who is his chief of staff wife when he was mayor of San Francisco.
All these things are true.
You could say he was locking down people and not letting them go to restaurants in California during COVID while he was eating at French Laundry, basically the most expensive restaurant in the entire country, sitting with lobbyists indoors.
You could say all of those things.
And another thing you could say about him is that he is racist.
Not reversed racist, just old-fashioned racist.
This is wild.
This is wild.
He spoke to a black crowd in Georgia over the weekend.
And here he is explaining that he's dumb, so he's like one of them.
Can you put up the definition of Machiavellian again for just a second?
Could you do that for me, Connor?
I don't want to hurt your finger.
Machiavellian, cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics.
Gavin Newsom seems to think that black people are dumb.
So he sits on a stage and tries to impress, I'm like you.
I got a, what was it, a 940, 960 on my SAT.
I got a 1,200 on my SAT back in 1994, old SAT when it was still hard, 1,200.
I'm clearly smarter than Gavin Newsom.
Not that that says much.
But to sit there, first off, I don't know who the guy he's sitting across from is, but I would love to know what that guy got on an SAT because probably got more than that because you have to be kind of dumb to get a 940 on your SAT.
That's a pretty low score back then.
I don't know what the scoring is like now.
I know they've changed all sorts of things, but the guy should have been like, you know, what are you talking about?
So you're dumb, so you're like me?
What does that mean?
I'm dumb and I'm like you.
And then, of course, what he does is he also, he thinks that black people are dumb.
So how would you pander to them?
How would you be unscrupulous and cunning?
Well, you would pander to them.
So you'd say, I'm dumb like you.
That's one thing you could do.
And then the other thing you could do is say, I'm poor like you because you're black and you must be poor.
And then he pretends that he grew up while his mom was grinding.
She's out there grinding.
He's making Stouffers all day long.
This is quite, I think we've shown you this once before.
This is from the San Francisco Chronicle back in 1991.
There is poor, look at him, poor Stouffer's lasagna eating Gavin Newsom, wearing a tie with his slicked back hair.
And don't they look poor, those guys?
Oh my God.
And they had to eat all that Stouffer's and they probably had to have hot pockets.
Oh, he was just so poor, even though his family was related to the Pelosis and the Gettys and everything else.
His dad was Getty's accountant or lawyer or something.
It's just completely, completely insane.
Here he is, Gavin.
We're going to continue with him, telling Jim Clyburn, South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn, that he can't comply with the SAVE Act, the SAVE Act, which of course is just trying to get people to be able to prove who they are so that they can vote.
He cannot comply with it because he doesn't know where his birth certificate is.
First off, I'm going to guess he knows where his birth certificate is.
It's from the lizard planet.
They issue it to everybody.
You get it with a hot rock that you sit on when you're born.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two, again, sitting across from a black guy, two-thirds of you people don't have passports.
I'm to believe the two-thirds.
Maybe that is true.
Can we get numbers on that?
To two-thirds of black people not have passports.
Two-thirds of black people haven't been to Canada.
Can't get up to Canada.
Can't get, well, they don't want to go down to Mexico right now.
But even if any of that was true, this is the new thing that they're saying.
A woman who gets married and she changes her name, she won't be able.
Let's pretend any of that was true.
Black people don't have passports.
We know they can't get to a Kinko's, which apparently now is an office max.
It is true.
I'm being told it is true that two-thirds of black people don't have passports.
Well, that doesn't mean they don't have driver's license.
But let's say all of that was true.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't have to show ID to vote.
What you would then do is use government money, which is what you people love.
You would just take money from some people to create a fund to create some sort of system where people would have identification that they could then vote, unless your whole gig was that you wanted fraudulence in the voting system.
So you can see whether women will get married and change their name, they won't be able to vote.
Black people can't go to Canada.
They can't vote.
It's like, okay, how about we fix that instead of having an election system that is leakier than the Titanic when Leo was in the water?
We know, we know people are fleeing, but we're dominant in everything.
No, you're not.
Actually, Miami now and the free state of Florida is dominant in virtually everything that you just said right there.
And the amount of billionaires who are fleeing and taking their, I know you hate those billionaires unless they're funding your campaigns, but they are taking all of their resources and their employees and the tax dollars that you need to fund your nonsensical programs.
They're taking it to Florida.
Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, he's just had it with this guy.
You would inspire people to innovate and do more instead of purging all of the creators out.
Let's not forget when Elon took his companies out and left personally, Gavin gave a press conference applauding it.
Well, those are dollars you don't have anymore.
And we'll get to some other people that are leaving right now.
Also, he completely, Gavin in the previous clip completely lied.
He said about hundreds of thousands of people have come back to Cali.
That might be true, but when you look at the actual numbers, and we just checked it, and you can check it for yourself, since 2020, 1.8 million people have left California.
We covered this two weeks ago.
You know how many have come to Florida?
1.9.
So if you forget every little bit of granular politics and tax this and free that and everything else, just look, where do people leave and where do they go to?
And that might have a little something to do with success.
But this guy, it is just crazy.
No matter how much he lies, no matter how much he says one thing to one person and the complete reverse the next day, the media is still blowing him.
Dana, at the end of the interview, ah, that was good.
That was good.
Let's do it again.
And that is what they are relentlessly going to do until 2028.
And the only reason they're going to do it with this guy is because the rest of them are the actual jackals and Islamists, right?
He's the fakest fraud of all of them, but they can sell him as not a full-on jihadist, which is where the rest of the party is going.
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You know, we always think of things in terms of Democrat versus Republican, conservative versus liberal, blue versus red, and all that.
But I think really what's happening here, I've said a couple of times, I think it's sort of we're going into a rural versus urban fight, where in the urban areas, meaning the cities, it's just going to be highly controlled, highly taxed, completely inefficient, and you're going to have to outsource much of your life to the government.
And in rural areas, you will have more control over your life.
You will be able to grow some food.
You will be able to protect yourself.
I think that's one version of it.
But another version of it is just competent versus incompetent.
And we're seeing a lot of this right now.
There's just, I think about this in your own life.
Like, I can give you many examples of this in my own life.
Like, I know people right now, I'm surrounded by a lot of them, fortunately, who are competent, who can do things, who want to accomplish things, who wake up and have a goal and are going somewhere, right?
Aiming at that star that Jordan Peterson is always talking about.
And then there's another set of people.
I don't have many of them in my life, but there's probably way more of them than there are of the first part of this, which is people that are kind of drifting along.
And they're not really aiming at anything.
And they've been broken by algorithms and video game and processed food and porn and all of these things.
And they are going to become more dependent on the state.
It's fairly obvious.
They won't know how to fix anything.
They won't know how to grow anything for themselves.
They won't know how to protect themselves.
And that's what the Democrat Party is preying upon right now.
If you are broken and incapable of doing anything, we will save you.
But by save, what they really want to do is enslave you.
So now let's jump to Bernie Sanders, a man who has a special place in hell because he, for the last 40 years in American politics, he's never accomplished anything of real-world accomplishment in his life.
But the one thing he has accomplished is that he made a generation or two of young people think that greed, the desire for what someone else has earned, that somehow that is honor.
And it's horrific and it's disgusting.
And he's a socialist and a communist.
But here he is going on a tirade because the billionaires, the people who actually do build industries and put seed money into companies and help people accomplish their dreams and all of those things, well, they're getting out of Cali, and he now is blaming them for why people can't get health care.
So the issue comes down to whether or not we ask the wealthiest people in this country, many of them living right here in California, to start paying their fair share of taxes so that 3 million people in this state can get health care.
And I think the answer is pretty obvious.
Yes.
That's what we've got to do.
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But we've already seen Larry Page, Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Larry Ellison start to move out of the world.
Just saying everyone should have health care doesn't magically make it be.
Yes, they want to kill those kids.
Those are the people who build hospitals, who donate money to things, who build industries so that people can have jobs and then get health care and everything else.
And also this stupid, stupid line that has become so ubiquitous in society.
The 1% don't pay their fair share.
We just checked it again.
The 1% in America, the 1%, they pay 46%.
So you tell me, Bernie, you tell me what is the fair share of the 1%.
Should they pay 80%?
Would that be fair?
Because they'd still be awfully rich.
And by the way, let's not forget, Bernie, for years and years, decades, actually, you railed against the millionaire class.
Then you became a millionaire and now you rail against the billionaire class.
And of course, and he just like that fake, like, oh, look, oh, I feel so bad for them.
Those guys that are leaving, they are leaving because of people like you.
They've created things.
Again, Bernie, you've never created anything.
And if I'm not mistaken, in his 40-year Senate career, there's only one major, not even a major piece of legislation.
There's only one real piece of legislation that he's ever accomplished, which I think has something to do with moving a post office in Vermont.
I kid you not.
Phoenix took this over the weekend because they're all coming here.
Literally, Phoenix took this as he was driving by in Miami Beach.
You know what that is?
That is Sergey Brin's yacht because Sergey Brin, the founder of Google, has just moved here over the last couple of weeks, right?
Why are they coming here?
Are they coming here because they're evil and they want children to die?
You think that's it?
They're just sitting around having dinner, like, how many kids can we kill?
Let's move to Florida.
Or is it because they want to be able to produce?
Now, you might look at that and go, boy, those billionaires have too much.
That's an awful lot of stuff.
I don't have a yacht like that.
I'd like that.
But then aim at something.
Aim at something and go learn something.
Learn how to code so that you could work at one of his companies.
And then maybe you do something really cool and he would take note of you.
And then you could move your way up.
Like go try something instead of just offshoring it all to people like Bernie Sanders who've done nothing, but Bernie's pissed.
Bernie is really pissed because what he's realized, because Bernie fundamentally hates America.
I really believe that.
He fundamentally hates freedom.
He fundamentally hates that you are able within the American system of federalism to move around and figure out where things will be better for you and your family.
So you know what he's going to do?
He's going to introduce a national wealth tax so that they won't have anywhere to run.
When Mamdani was running for mayor in New York City, you may recall everybody, all the rich guys who are going to leave.
It didn't happen.
Now, whether they do or not, I don't know.
Who knows?
But the idea that they are saying that it's okay for children to die, people not get the health care they need, and they're going to punish the people of California, that is outrageous.
And by the way, that is why I will be introducing a national wealth tax.
Where are they going to run that?
Maybe they're into Saudi Arabia.
I suspect that's where they'll go.
But, you know, you got to, at some point, you got to stand up to these guys.
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Because that's the news argument that we should do nationally.
But if we do it just here, somebody's going to hurt California's revenue.
They won't be able to move, so I'll have to leave the country.
And I'm the good guy because I'm chasing producers out of the country.
I'm good.
Look at me.
I'm good.
We just checked.
He has three houses.
He actually, well, now he only has two.
Apparently, he just sold for 500 grand.
He just sold the DC house.
But he did have three houses.
Again, millionaire that has three houses.
So they had 12 bedrooms.
He doesn't offer any of those bedrooms to poor sick children as far as I've known.
You can Google Bernie Sanders.
Has he offered any of his bedrooms and the 12 bedrooms that he has to poor sick children?
But I'm the good guy because I'm going to chase them to Saudi Arabia because I want more of their shit.
That's what I want.
I want more of it.
I've got to have it.
Here is a video of a Stanford student.
His name is Sid Gundapaneni.
I hope I got that right.
Asking Bernie why America dominates in global tech.
And well, here's Bernie doing Bernie.
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Despite similar levels of education and development, Europe has produced almost none of the world's largest frontier tech firms while the United States dominates global tech innovation.
I want to ask, what institutional or economic features do you think explain this difference?
In short, I'm asking you to explain not why we have inequality, but why we've had so much growth over the last two decades.
Further, what they have said is that we need to not worry about manufacturing in America because what we should establish is a policy of unfettered free trade.
We don't need tariffs.
What we need is to allow corporate America the freedom, the freedom to throw American workers out on the street, people who are making 15, 20, 25 bucks an hour health care pensions, throw them out on the street because somehow, Madam President, we are going to create wealth in America and good paying jobs in America as we shut down plants, we move to China, corporations there, pay workers 20, 30 cents an hour, and we bring the product back into this country.
Meaning they tariff the hell out of us on our stuff so we can't sell stuff to those countries.
And then we can't build stuff here because nobody wants to buy it.
It's too expensive actually to build here because we treat our people okay.
What happened to that guy, ironically?
And this is the craziest part of what MAGA and Donald Trump is.
People want to pin Donald Trump as this right-wing maniac and far-right in America.
And it's like, man, this guy is a Democrat of 20 years ago when you people weren't all totally effing bananas.
I'm really trying hard not to drop an F-bomb on this Monday.
When you people all weren't completely insane.
Donald Trump was you 20 years ago, and now you hate him for it.
It is wild.
But interestingly, as we're talking about tariffs, on Friday, there was a rather curious Supreme Court decision that basically came out 6-3 saying that Donald Trump's tariffs are not legal, meaning in essence that the executive branch cannot levy taxes, that that should be left to the legislative branch.
There were three dissenting opinions on that, but it was Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh.
Trump, however, is disappointed, and he's going to try to figure out ways to continue with this policy.
Okay, so we will get a constitutional scholar on over the next little bit to discuss the legality of all this.
So I'm not going to pretend I'm a constitutional lawyer here.
And there are, I can give you the bumper sticker version is which you could, I can philosophically make some arguments, is the federal government, should the executive branch, the president, who really is just supposed to sign things into law, can he, in essence, create these economic roadblocks where it should be left to the legislative branch.
I can see what the issue would be there.
My gut feeling, which is not a legal term, but my gut feeling on this is that Trump is right, which is why the conservative justices on the court, the three main conservative justices on the court, went with him.
And it also, I would say, there's a real politic version of this, which is just that the Congress is completely gridlocked and unable to do anything.
So we vote for the President of the United States to set the agenda.
And if the President cannot set the agenda economically, security-wise, et cetera, et cetera, then nothing will ever change or get better, which is perhaps what certain people want.
But anyway, the administration does seem like they are going to fight this.
Here's Scott Besson on what they're going to do right now.
I've listened to you speak so far today and the president that you will immediately institute these tariffs, continue these tariffs through different mechanisms.
You can, through, I believe it's section 122, immediately extend these tariffs for five months.
And in the meantime, then launch investigations to extend these tariffs further under other sections of these trade acts.
And the durability of the Section 232, Section 301s, which are already in effect, and the Commerce and USTR will launch additional investigations into additional deficiencies.
Those will take 30, 60, 90 days.
But within three days, the president can put on the Section 122, 10% global tariff.
So at Treasury for the full year 2026, we foresee no decrease in revenue.
We're going to try to, Connor's going to jump back for a second because I want to read one specific thing to you that Besson was referencing there.
But in essence, what he was saying is we have certain levers that we can pull right now to maintain the tariff situation.
By the way, my feelings on the tariff situation are exactly the same that they've been in the years since this all started, which is that we have to see where these trade deals lay out.
And in most cases, countries are now working with us with more parity.
Let's say.
Do we have the text there?
So this is Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.
And the key part of it under the how it works part is president may act when large trade deficits threaten U.S. economic stability.
President can pose temporary tariff of up to 15%.
Measures generally limited to 150 days.
So in essence, that's what Trump is doing right now.
Do we have major trade deficits with certain nations that are becoming a problem for our economy?
The answer is obviously yes.
Do we have a law, I just read it to you, that allows the president to then put on tariffs?
But what this all basically comes down to is: will Donald Trump, in the remaining nine months before the midterms, be able to get things done?
Will he be able to deal with the border and deportations?
Will he be able to deal with foreign policy?
Will he be able to deal with domestic policy and economics and everything else?
Or will he be just attacked at every level?
That really is the question.
And speaking of foreign policy, this one is a doozy.
AOC, who was a bartender somewhere in the Bronx, she is completely, she has never worked a real, not a real job, a bartender actually is a real and honorable job.
And I've done it myself, actually, over the years.
She has never, let's put it this way, being a bartender in and of itself is not qualification to no foreign policy.
How about that?
I think that cleaned that up fairly well.
Thank you.
Here she is at the Munich conference explaining foreign policy in America, particularly as it pertains to the U.S. and Taiwan.
And you may want to really just hone in on what she's saying here because it's tough.
It's tough.
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And to all of you, and Congressman, I'll start with you.
Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a today, Junior.
This is a long-standing policy, and we want to make sure we never get to that point.
This, that, what?
She does not know anything about China or Taiwan, but she doesn't know anything about anything.
That's the thing.
We have to understand is she is a progressive ideologue who has no qualifications to be a congressperson or a senator, which is what she wants to be, and ultimately president of the United States.
She is an ideologue who can only repeat talking points.
And in this point, at this point, whoever's pulling the strings with her didn't give her enough information as it pertains to China and Taiwan.
Now, I'm not totally sure if this is right, but I heard on the internet that this is the person that AOC is getting all of her foreign policy information from.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps.
And I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere, like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
If you think that I don't understand foreign policy, because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I paused to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on earth.
I'm afraid the issue is not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks.
You know, I can't get up out of the chair right now because I'm attached because of this thing, but I would have liked to have just gotten off the camera.
And I can talk in a gravelly voice too.
And once again, she says nothing.
She doesn't explain the policy.
If you think because she paused, she paused.
That was the problem.
It was the pause, not the this, that longest standing U.S. policy.
She does, but it's your fault.
It's your fault that that dim-witted bimbo doesn't know what she's doing.
You.
And you should think about it.
There's other people who should think about what they're doing.
They live in New York City.
And currently in New York City, there is a guy who is half communist, half jihadist, who is the mayor of New York City.
Shouldn't be, but is.
What are you going to do?
The other thing happening in New York City right now is they are in the midst of what they're calling like a once in a hundred year massive, massive snowstorm right now.
And Zorhan Momdami, also known as Moron Zamboni, and they could use a couple Zambonis to clean the streets right now.
And we're utilizing 33 DSNY vans and two DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed faster.
And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler.
Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow with your paperwork, which is accessible online at nyc.gov/slash snow, and you can get started right away.
Now, they were listening with open ears, and maybe they should have been listening a little bit more to other people outside of Mamdani, but this should not surprise anyone.
This is what communism is.
And as many people have pointed out, maybe Mom Dami had to become mayor so that they can destroy the greatest city in the world so that people will realize it and not replicate it elsewhere.
But leave our taxes alone.
What did you think the communist was going to do?
That's what the first guy said: leave our taxes alone.
Did you honestly think the free stuff was going to be free?
That's a condemnation of the education system, right?
That someone could say something so braggadociously dishonest and that you would believe it.
That's one thing.
And the second guy, well, we don't want our property taxes raised.
You chased all the millionaires out.
Well, shit, maybe you wanted to think of that before.
Now, of course, as I said earlier, the beauty of America is you can move and we're seeing it.
And that's why Bernie wants the national wealth tax because they want to chase.
The state of Florida now has almost 4 million more residents than New York State does.
Yet New York's budget is over twice as large as the state of Florida's.
New York City with 8 million people has a larger budget than the entire state of Florida.
And yet our infrastructure is better, our roads are better, our services are better.
And so these are choices.
They don't respect the taxpayers in these places and people have rebelled.
Now, it's not just taxes.
You have a homeless problem.
You obviously have had a crime problem in some of these areas.
If you have no state income tax in Florida, which we're going to keep.
We have a sales tax, but the necessities of life are actually exempts.
If you want to send your kid to college at one of our state universities, our in-state tuition is the lowest in the country, about $6,300, the same as the day I took office.
What's the line I'm going to say right now for you loyal Rubin Report viewers?
Decline is a choice.
We have chosen that we will not decline, and New York chose the decline.
It is not a coincidence that Florida is number one in economic growth.
It is not a coincidence that we are number one in tourism.
It's not a coincidence that the Florida legislature, I think on Friday, voted now to pass the law to get rid of homeowners' tax, property tax.
They're going to keep a certain portion of it.
So you will pay a little bit for education, but then remove the rest of it.
I think about 30% of property tax will remain, but they're going to get rid of about 70%.
It's going to go to referendum, by the way.
And 60% of Floridians will have to vote to say, I want to pay less in taxes.
And guess what?
We're going to pass it here in Florida.
It will, mark my words, it will pass here.
And somehow the government will still function and we will still have clean roads and we will still have better infrastructure and we will still have better public education and all of these things.
And how do we do it?
It's because we don't use the government as a giant sucking mechanism to just suck money off from people, right?
We use it in a slim, trim way to help people live the life that they want to live.
So New York, Florida has 4 million more people than New York and half the budget.
Think about that.
My brother, God bless him, great guy, lives in New York still.
We'll see how long that lasts with the fan stuff when you have kids and everything.
They don't live in the city proper, but they live in New York.
And every time he comes down to Florida, he looks around and sees how clean it is.
And he says, who pays for the roads?
Because once you're in those systems, once you're in those systems, you start thinking it has to be this way.
Oh, you see something that's broken and you're like, oh, I guess the government doesn't have enough money.
And that's not the problem in the first place.
You can get a toilet for cheaper than $5,000.
You can.
American standard over at Home Depot.
I'm pretty sure you can get one for about $150.
Let's jump back to Rogan and my very colorful friend Michael Malice discussing how New York City's budget is just completely insane and now it's run by Akami Jihadi.
So New York City is their budget is more than the entire state of California with three state of Florida with 3 million more people or three times the people.
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For this year, it would be about the same because if it's 11 million, that's 116.
You were smoking your weed at the cafes in the red light district.
And you decided to let in people who are now shredding your society right in front of you.
And you don't know what to do, right?
Like I have an incredible sympathy.
I have incredible sympathy for the people who live in the UK who don't know what to do.
And for the people that live in France and Belgium and Holland and don't know what to do.
And now it's starting in Italy and Spain is really going down that road.
The average person doesn't want to give it away, but they don't know what to do.
What would you do?
What would we do?
Here we are in the United States.
We're not there yet.
We're not fully there yet.
We're on our way.
What will we do?
What will I do?
I actually don't know what the answer is.
But if you're trying to hack away at Donald Trump's Achilles heel right now while he's the only one who might do something about it, you're probably on the wrong side.
My late great friend Charlie Kirk, who would go to college campuses and talk to young people about literally anything they wanted to talk about, was once confronted by a Muslim student asking about some of this type of stuff.
You literally could not dress like this in the streets of Riyadh as a woman.
This is way too provocative, way too much skin.
You as a woman, you don't have freedom of speech.
You can't run for public office.
You can't own property.
Islam is against Western values.
It's incompatible with Western values.
And we in the West actually think you should have the rights that you have right now to speak and to be able to show the skin you show here and be able to have a happy life.
Far-right, conservative maniac Charlie Kirk is defending a woman's right to show skin.
But the Islamists are on their way.
And it's not just the violence that they're going to incur.
What was the line?
Can you show the screenshot again that the Imam said?
What was the line?
It sounded pretty.
And the killing of the infidels by your sword.
It's not just that.
It's that they will put the women in beekeeper costumes.
And a girl like that, who is enjoying all of the freedoms of the Western world and dressing as she wishes and up there exercising her right to free speech, she will try to usher in the very things that will put her in shackles and quite literally in a human beekeeper costume.
So let's conduct this to Minnesota because Minnesota is ground zero for the lunacy right now because that's where Donald Trump decided to send into ICE to deal with, I think we checked the numbers, what was it?
400,000 people in Minneapolis and how many and about 90,000 illegals.
Like it's just an absolutely insane ratio.
Obviously, a lot of what's gone on there has had to do with the Somali community.
Now that Trump has pulled back ice a little bit from little Somalia, Minneapolis, here's a Somali woman demanding reparations over what happened.
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This program fits into our criteria of small business owners, not those who makes 200,000 and above.
We don't make that much a month.
We have been suffering since the crisis of ICE.
We also demand an immediate help to evictions so families are not pushed to homelessness during the crisis.
Our community deserves accountability.
Our community deserves safety.
We need also justice for those who lost their lives defending the community.
More importantly than that, I haven't seen an afro like that since Larry Elder in 1978.
Look at that.
That is a real picture of my friend Larry Elder.
That is a killer freaking afro right there.
That guy, Pearson, doesn't have anything on old school elder right there.
That's number one.
But Scott, of course, as always, is just doing a great job.
You guys can chirp about everything.
And yes, two people were killed.
But it's because you guys created the conditions on CNN through the Democrats and the mainstream media to create the conditions for people to be jumping in front of cars and bringing loaded guns to these things and everything else.
But at the end of the day, do you think these people should be deported?
And of course, he can't say anything else.
Here is another one of these gems.
Well, it's two gems.
If you want to turn a guy gay, check out these two chicks.
If we're not going to go back to pre-2002 in looking at how these agencies used to operate without this level of brutality that we are seeing, then we need to figure out a different system.
It's so bad here that we're trying to make sure America is for Americans and you want to dismantle the people who are trying to get the rapists and the murderers off our streets.
Go back.
Jayapa, she's from India, I assume.
Like, go back to India.
Go back to New Delhi.
And remember, when you're tipping at an Indian restaurant, don't forget to carry the one.
You get it.
Go back.
It's fine there.
And Ilhan, go back to Somalia.
Why are you here?
Why are you here?
You're looking for the good old days of America in 2002.
If you were, I don't even know if you were, she was here in 2002, but she would have been against America then too.
Remember, some people just did something on 9-11, her words.
But it's all of them.
They all are completely out of control.
Here is Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, went on Fox, and he's just more of this ICE craziness.
And that's actually what Bill Maher just laid out there is the true liberal position.
It's why it's tough for me to always defend the word liberalism, but caring about free speech and scientific inquiry and all the other things and women's rights and minority rights and blah, and equality.
That comes from the liberal tradition that was born out of Western philosophy, out of Western societies.
But the modern left across the board hates the very things that freed it.