Outrage After Footage from Inside Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall Meeting Goes Viral
Dave Rubin confronts viral footage of Zohran Mamdani's City Hall meeting, alleging imported jihadist ideology and contrasting it with NYC's $7.3 billion budget gap. He critiques the Iran war's military success versus right-wing desires for defeat, dismisses "Lobstergate" as accounting necessity, and highlights ICE funding through 2029 despite DHS shutdowns. Rubin interprets BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's admission of the failed "woke era" as a guilty conscience following antitrust probes, while linking Democratic policies to airport delays and arguing that Iran conflict outcomes will dictate Trump's midterm prospects. [Automatically generated summary]
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Obviously, a bit on the war, bit on what's going on with this defunding of DHS, which the Democrats keep saying is about ICE, even though ICE is funded.
Then Lobstergate has burst forth.
Where's Jordan Peterson when you need him?
And a bit about how New York City has fallen to the jihadists.
Actually, why don't we start right there?
This is New York City yesterday, a little Ramadan prayer in New York City Hall.
Of course, this is to the backdrop of two guys from ISIS who threw an IED near Gracie Mansion the other day.
If you were watching CNN, the implication was that they were trying to threaten the mayor Mamdami.
Of course, they were throwing it at other people.
But here's the prayer.
Strange, I would set this up just by saying it's a little strange to me.
If Christians pray virtually anywhere, the left goes bananas about church and state, but they have their new fetish.
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Allah, we'll make some of that.
For a moment, we're asking yourself how you can reconnect to growing up with being taught that.
That was an interesting move that he just did there, that one finger up thing.
We've got this from End Wokeness.
Take a look.
Yeah, ISIS suspect.
We pointed this out yesterday.
This has become the thing.
ISIS's hand gesture is the one finger up.
I don't know where they came up with that one.
Yeah, there you go.
Those are ISIS guys.
Those are beheaders and rapists, you know, Democrats, basically.
And we can go back to the other picture right there from City Hall.
There is one of the guys who I guess is a Muslim TikToker or something.
And there he is giving the ISIS salute.
Now, again, you can say whatever you want about prayer and everyone's entitled to have their own private beliefs.
Of course, this is on public property, but I really think it is worth mentioning.
You can see the slow creep of this thing happening right now.
And it's actually not happening very slowly.
It's happening quite quickly.
We pointed out yesterday that Mayor Mamdami, instead of having the police officer who jumped over the fence to stop the guy who threw the bomb, the Islamist jihadist who was trying to kill people, instead he had, what's his name?
Who is the guy, the Columbia guy, Khalil Mahmoud Khalil over, who's not an American citizen?
He had him over for dinner, who was leading chants of River to the Sea and Globalize the Intifada and all that.
Now, he's embroiled in another scandal here, although quite frankly, this one, in some sense, I don't realize, I don't see how it's a scandal because he's just doing, he just is and is doing everything that was obviously going to happen.
But the other scandal involves his wife.
Take a look at this.
It's from Henshey, who's an ex-commentator.
New York City Mayor Mamdami's wife liked this picture of 12-year-old Yagil Yaakov, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th.
His father was murdered.
He was forced to strip in front of all these people and then abused.
Hamas posted his picture.
So let's just leave it up for just a second.
Obviously, we have to blur some of it for YouTube purposes.
But that is a 12-year-old boy whose father was just killed, who was kidnapped, stripped by a bunch of absolute savage, barbaric, backwards lunatics.
And Mamdami's wife liked that picture.
Now, she's got 2 million followers on Instagram.
And again, I'm not surprised.
She's a Hamas supporter.
He's a Hamas supporter.
They're supporters of the Islamist project, right?
Like the terrorist ideology.
And they're importing it into the city.
And he swore an oath on the Quran, not on the Old Testament or the New Testament or what they should all, every politician should swear on, which is the Constitution, but that's a separate issue.
But now there's all this outrage about this.
And again, it doesn't surprise me at all.
This is a guy who won't condemn globalized intifada and everything else.
Here he is asked about his wife liking a picture of a kid who was surrounded by terrorists whose father was just murdered by them.
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Is it anybody's business and is it fair to question you about it?
You know, my wife is the love of my life and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.
I, however, was elected to represent all eight and a half million people of the city, and I believe that it's my responsibility because of that role to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my sites.
So City Comptroller Mark Levine, painting a grim picture of the city's economic future, reporting that the city lost 38,000 private sector jobs over the last year.
Today, the city council kicked off their first budget hearing, and already there are mixed numbers.
Levine testifying today that the city's budget gap will now likely be $7.3 billion over two years, almost $2 billion more than what the mayor's office has been projecting.
Now, usually the mayor's budget director will kick off testimony at the first council budget hearing, but City Hall says that the director will testify later in the month because he is fasting for Ramadan.
So the budget gap is $7.3 billion, meaning that there's a shortfall of $7.3 billion to make things free.
Again, you really have to play along with their logic here.
We know that people that produce whose money they take for taxes are fleeing the city.
That means that that chasm there, right, that's going to continue to widen.
They keep wanting more money, and the people who provide them with more money, who are being punished by the people who want the money, are fleeing the city.
That was a hell of a sentence.
All true.
So that chasm will continue to grow while he will continue to say everything will be for free, which is completely absurd.
And the guy who's in charge of the budget office can't show up because it's Ramadan.
It's just perfect.
Good luck with all of that.
Greg Price on Twitter, I quote him quite often.
He's an actual journalist.
He reiterates something I just said a moment ago.
When liberals talk about separation of church and state, what they mean is every religion is allowed except Christianity.
And again, he can have his private beliefs and anyone can have their private beliefs.
But just imagine if there was an open, an openly, outwardly facing Christian right now who is doing Christian practices in Gracie Mansion and in New York City Hall.
And there were Christians all over New York City who were taking over Times Square for prayers and stopping traffic and all the rest of it.
And if there was the sympathy with terrorism, et cetera, et cetera.
A friend of mine who still lives in New York City used to work and he's a retired police officer, actually.
Well, why is it that you feel the need to run cover for people who are telling you what their ideology is, right?
Amir Balat, who was the guy that threw the IED, said that ISIS was the reason for his conduct and he pledged allegiance to ISIS.
That's according to ABC.
Also, the Austin shooter, tell me if this has something to do with really, I don't have a sweatshirt like that.
Does anyone watch this have a sweatshirt like that?
You know, he's putting it on the sweatshirt.
So, Abby, you look, I keep saying you're the dimmest person on television.
There's just something, something that's just, well, there's nothing behind your eyes.
That's the thing.
But like, what are you doing?
What are you doing with your life?
You put out that tweet two days ago implying that the bombing, that the terrorist who threw the homemade bomb was going after Mom Dhammi, which was completely a lie.
And there you are on television pretending that the ideology that he's saying he's doing it for has nothing to do with the ideology.
Like, it's just absolutely absurd.
And the more absurd you get, and this is something Jordan Peterson warned about years ago, the more absurd the left gets on all of these crazy things, usually baked into race and identity politics, we're going to get a version of it on the right that is going to be just as bad, if not worse.
So we are now seeing, I would say, more and more of a white identitarian movement.
Now, it's not in and of itself.
Every country has the right to defend its border and its culture and all of those things.
I 100% believe that.
I've always said that.
But what you are seeing now is more and more people talking about, well, why can't white people have their countries then?
A thing when an all-white country wants to stay all-white, where people get very nervous of.
If China had decided that they wanted to remain Chinese and stay Chinese and that being Chinese is very important to what China is, no one would have a problem with that.
Now, Ireland, unfortunately, has imported so many people that they are rapidly losing their culture.
But there was nothing wrong with the Irishman who was at the pub with his shalele.
There was nothing wrong with that guy.
It's an Irish walking stick.
You know that, Connor.
And it's St. Patrick's Day in a few days.
And I'm going to bust out.
I only bust out my shale once a year.
I'm very excited.
I'm going to shine it and I'm going to, okay, you know.
Anyway, but you're going, but there is some optics thing there, right?
Like the Japanese have every right to defend Japanese culture, right?
And you can call them racist or you can call them elitist or whatever, but they have every right to.
Now, the confusion usually comes with Western European nations and particularly the United States, because the United States was founded as a melting pot, right?
We've been through this a million times.
The whole idea was that everyone was going to come here.
We created foundational documents that were well beyond sort of ethnic background and everything else.
It was a place for individual rights and for everyone to be here.
And what we are seeing is 250 years later, because of the craziness of the left that imported identity politics, it reverted us back to many of the things that our ancestors fled, that that's sort of what took over on the left.
And now there's a version of it on the right that is appearing.
And most of us, unfortunately, probably sit between those two things, but we'll get caught up in it.
Let's talk about the sane Democrat.
You know who I'm bringing up, John Fetterman, because here he went on CNN.
And obviously the war, you know, I think this is day 12 now, if I'm not mistaken of the war, by every account, it is going extremely well, right?
Whether it's Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, the Iranian Navy is gone.
The military leadership is gone.
The straits of Hormuz are being cleaned up.
The oil prices going down after a day spike.
Like they're shooting less rockets.
Like we will see what happens after.
But everything seems to be going pretty well.
But watch Fetterman, the one sane Democrat, go on CNN and get into it with Caitlin Collins over the war.
And I would remind everybody listening right now, the United States never, ever targets, targets civilians.
Iran does, you know, and including their own citizens.
And they massacred that 35,000 of them just a couple of weeks ago.
And the left, please, please, the left media is much more angry talking about this hospital.
And it is a tragedy, but they didn't seem to be as concerned about the Iranians massacring tens of thousands of their young people just a couple of weeks ago, too.
So, and I don't know what your network talked about, but what I'm saying is that, you know, whether like it's the New York Times, they're making it more and more trying to convince America that this has been a disaster or things are out of control.
You know, it's so interesting because I keep making the jokes.
He had brain damage.
He's becoming more conservative as his brain heals and everything.
And it's like the guy still has a certain way to go, right?
Like there's some stuff that his speech is a little whatever.
And yet he's making more sense.
His point is the United States, think about what's happened in these last 12 days.
Do you think that the United States, that our Air Force and military is flying over Iran and looking to kill innocent people?
Like maybe you do, but it's just not true, as he points out.
So if we bombed a school that was next to a military installation, or sometimes they're being used as military installations, we in the West, we actually do the proper follow-up with our military.
We try to figure out what happened.
We try to figure out where the fault of intelligence is.
Now, the counter to that is the way the savages that the Western world is always fighting behaves.
Iran is firing rockets in every which direction, and every one of those rockets is designed to inflict maximum damage as much as possible.
Maybe we get a video we can show in a little bit of the cluster bombs that they're firing at Israel.
They are firing bombs that explode and then explode into a million pieces so the shrapnel will hit people and they're firing it into Tel Aviv, which is a civilian city, right?
They're not firing it like, oh, let's find that military base over there.
They're trying to kill as many random people as possible.
That is not what we do.
It's not what the Israelis do.
And we are subjected to being put on trial by a military that seemingly wants us to lose this war.
Here's Federman, who's making the rounds.
I mean, they got one sane Democrat, and he's making the rounds, talking to people on TV.
Well, it sounds actually like his son is in a hospital in a coma, and I think maybe his leg was blown off or something, and they're going to need a new leader real soon.
Look, again, I'll keep saying it, but it's like, you can be an isolationist.
You cannot agree with war.
I think it's a somewhat amateur way of looking at the world because you could say, I'm for peace, I'm for peace, but war could come to you.
This is what I'm always saying about those little guys with the hairy feet in the shire.
It's like they were having a nice life.
War is on the way, right?
Like you become scary so that your enemies don't screw with you.
Now, we got a video of the cluster bombs.
So these are the cluster bombs that Iran is shooting into Israel right now, and they are specifically designed.
So they blow up and then turn into all of these other parts.
And then those parts drop all over civilian areas, right?
So what they're trying, they are shooting things to inflict maximum damage on a civilian population.
That is not what we do.
Do you think for one second that's what the United States is doing?
We're shooting bombs that are going to blow up all over the place.
No, we're going with the most pinpoint precision attacks to take out military infrastructure and military leadership, et cetera, et cetera.
You know, one of the things that I do think we have to be worried about, even though this is going quite well and we'll see if the Iranian people rise up when the time is right and everything else, is that Iran could have sleeper cells, right?
I said that way back when, when the 12-day war happened back in May, that there could be Iranian sleeper cells and they could be activated.
Now, it's an interesting philosophical thing to think about for a second.
Let's say our intelligence knows that these sleeper cells exist and they're tracking them and they do things that we don't know about, right?
You remember I had Joe Lonsdale in here about a year ago.
He's one of the co-founders of Palantir.
And he talked about how, you know, in some sense, our intelligence services are so good and deal with so many things that we don't know about that it creates this false sense of security.
So meaning that there obviously are terrorist cells in the United States and across the West.
And if they were to be activated, a lot of people, you could see certain people, the isolationist types, would be like, oh my God, look at the terrorism in America right now.
This is the fault of Trump for bring, you know, for going to war with Iran.
And it's like, well, wait a minute.
So we should just not do what we think is right because terrorists are here and might kill us.
Like, we got to go for those guys anyway.
Anyway, Trump was asked about sleeper cells, and I thought his answer was quite interesting.
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Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the U.S. right now.
So this is where I think it's a weird thing to say, but I trust Trump, especially directionally, right?
Like I trust that he sees the world in a way that is realistic and is trying to do good things in the world.
We have to trust the administration that he's right, that he says, he says we know where most of them are.
Now, the problem is you don't need that many people to do horrible things.
That's why when I, you know, many times over the Biden years, when, okay, so about 20 million people came in, let's say 10 million of them, no, let's say 10% of 20 million people are just not great people.
That leaves us with 2 million people, right?
And let's say 10% of those not great people are pretty bad people.
That's 200,000 people.
And let's say 10% of those pretty bad people are really bad people.
That's 20,000 people.
And let's say 10% of those are psycholunatic jihadists.
That's 2,000 people.
And let's say 10% of those are the worst of the worst of the worst of the worst.
That's 200 people.
And if 10% of those are freaking Skeletor, Megatron, Sauron, Dooku, Killer Croc, two more.
Joker, Scarecrow, Green Goblin combined, 10% of 200, that's 20 people.
And 20 people can do an awful lot of damage.
Okay, it took 21 hijackers, or how many hijackers was it for 9-11?
And I want to, it just made me think, you know, when Trump says we know where these people are, again, I believe that we have shut down the border.
I believe that his intelligence services are doing the right thing, and we will see what happened.
But do you remember this video from 2024?
I mean, this is chills up your spine.
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But you are really not smart enough to know who I am.
Isn't it fascinating what Trump is saying right there?
He's saying we've taken out the military.
That in essence, this thing is a military win.
nothing else in terms of if our goal was to destroy the ballistic missile system, degrade the nuclear system, make sure that they can't, you know, that the leadership has so largely been taken out that they won't be able to coordinate exporting terrorism and all of those things, then we've in essence done it.
And what he's saying is soon enough, we're going to have to get to a point where there will have to be some sort of settlement, hopefully not with the mullahs, right?
Like they'll be gone and the Iranians, the actual Iranian people have taken them out.
Otherwise, it could get to the point where we're going to have to go after their electric infrastructure and everything else.
And he's exactly saying, in some sense, he's saying just what Vetterman said.
Vetterman said, we don't go after people, right?
We don't go after the, no one's trying to kill the average Iranian citizen at all.
There's just no evidence of it, no matter what your broken brain YouTube commentator is saying right now.
There's just no evidence.
And what Trump is saying there is we don't want to take out their infrastructure.
We don't want to take out their electricity and everything else.
We could do all of that.
And this is what negotiations and leverage is all about.
Now, the other thing that's super interesting about all of this is everyone thinks this is just about Iran.
But as I've been pointing out for weeks now, this is in some sense much more about China, about the energy that China gets from Iran, about the Trump-Monroe doctrine.
We're going to take care of our hemisphere and we're going to exert American influence again and that we are going to have peace through strength and that maybe China will not be allowed to take Taiwan because they're making all sorts of superconductors there that are going to be extremely important in the AI race.
We can do this all day long.
Here's China's foreign ministry spokesman saying that China condemns the actions, but note, he doesn't say they're going to do anything about it.
Okay, so that's kind of standard, you know, government spokesperson speak, stop doing it, America, where with Iran, but they're not doing anything.
And isn't that interesting?
So when you think about who will lead the world, we for the last, the United States for the last however many years, certainly all of the Biden years, maybe you could make some argument around the first Trump four years.
You absolutely can make an argument about it for the eight Obama years.
We have been seeding our position in the world, right?
And someone is going to step into that vacuum.
That's just how it is.
Someone will lead the world.
Someone will set the table.
And if it's not us, it's going to be China.
So now, as we are right now taking out all of the military and terrorist structures that exist in Iran, China, they're saying some things.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
But note, they're not doing anything.
And that may show you what American power is all about and that they might be a little more worried about Taiwan right now and figuring out how they are going to be the world's hegemonic power.
Here's Bill O'Reilly, who I think we have on next week, talking about how most Americans feel about the situation right now.
But I think most Americans understand that the campaign is noble, that Trump is doing the right thing, but the right thing isn't always the easiest thing.
Most of the time, it isn't.
But from my experience, across the board, most loyal Americans want the United States to break Iran.
You only see the fanatical progressive left rooting for Iran.
All right, as much as I agree with Bill, I would add one thing to the end right there, which is yes, the fanatical progressive left, so the Bernie's and the AOC and the Hamas caucus, yes, they are rooting for us to lose for sure.
Like they, like if you really think about it, do you think Bernie wants us to win this war?
The answer obviously is no.
He doesn't like American influence.
He doesn't like American power.
Do you think Rashida Talib and AOC and Ilhan Omer, do you think they want America to win the war against radical jihad?
Of course they don't.
They are part and parcel of it, right?
They're trying to import it here.
Do you think that Mamdami wants us to win this thing?
Of course not.
So that's one part.
But I would add to Bill, there is a portion on the right that no longer likes American power and influence.
And this is what I would say is that Tucker portion.
And they want us to lose, obviously.
If this thing goes cleanly and the Iranians rise up and get their country back and those 13 Arab Muslim nations who have been attacked by Iran, you know, if more peace deals are signed with Israel, how ridiculous do Tucker and some of these people look?
So they need an essence, right?
Tucker back in May, thermonuclear World War III.
Oh, it turned out to be a 12-day war.
In some sense, they need America to fail here.
That's just, sorry, that's just reality.
It just is.
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All right, guys, so you may have heard of the latest scandal.
We have been feeding our soldiers some decent food, and the Democrats are very upset.
The Democrats who will waste money on everything.
If you ask a Democrat to build a public toilet, they will literally buy an American standard toilet for $4.6 million.
But they are very upset that occasionally our troops who are fighting to defend our freedoms, who are much better people than all the rest of us, occasionally they're getting some ribeye and they're getting some lobster.
Let me show you a couple misleading headlines here on what's going on here.
Pete Hegseth goes on $93 billion Pentagon spendings free for lobster fruit baskets and Japanese flute.
Pete Hegseth blew billions on fruit baskets, stands, chairs, and crab.
And there's TMZ with AI Pete holding a crab and what is that, a mango?
What is that thing in his other hand?
A crab and a mango?
Does mango go with crab?
I'm not even sure what's happening there.
Now, we should clean up some of this.
The Pentagon spent $20 million on food for our soldiers in September of 2025.
This accounts for 0.002% of military spending.
0.002% of military spending.
I should also note that this isn't unusual because spending in September is huge every year because the government's fiscal year ends on September 30th.
And if they don't spend all the money they've been allocated, it doesn't roll over.
Now, you might say that that's a ridiculous way for any company could operate that way, right?
That you just have to spend all of the money you have or you're not going to get more.
They have the good way the government works is they just get more money because they keep taking more taxes from their rest of us.
I can't just budget out what this show is and then every year be like, spend all the money we've got.
I don't know what money I'm going to bring in next year.
That's a separate thing.
But the point is, there's nothing unusual about any of this.
So then we're going to CNN.
And this guy, Paul Begala, he seems to think that Pete himself ate $6.9 million of lobster.
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He has spent $15 million in one month for ribeye steak, $6.9 million for lobster tail, $225 million for furniture.
He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend in their defense for himself.
And you know, it is true that when we send our guys out to war, we often give them a really great meal.
And you know what?
I got to tell you, I'm a low-tax guy.
I am more than happy with the government wasting a lot of my tax dollars so that our soldiers can eat well and not just the day before they're going out to war.
But I mean, Bagala, what kind of moron are you?
Yes, Pete's eating this.
It's not the soldiers that are eating it.
There you go.
Can we, we got to do a curb your enthusiasm version of that.
There's not eating any lobster.
And then show them eating lobster with the curbsong.
Like, we'll get to, we'll put that up for tomorrow or something.
Anyway, the Democrats have just lost their mind.
So it's like just anything that they can grab onto.
My God, we've spent money on lobster.
Just anything, because they want to just keep the eye off the ball.
And what I mean by that is they don't want you to think the war is going well.
So they have to tell you it's going horribly and we're trying to kill innocent people.
They don't want us to have safe and secure elections.
So they have to tell you that black people don't know how to use printers and women who are married won't be able to vote.
But it's not just the Democrats.
This is wild.
This is Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski being asked why she is not supporting the SAVE Act.
What she said was it would, if the SAVE Act passes, meaning if we just ensure that citizens are voting in our elections, it will disenfranchise a majority of people in Alaska.
Are you saying a majority of people in Alaska don't have the proper identification to vote, don't know if they were born in the country, et cetera?
What are you talking about?
And again, as I keep saying, if you believed that, then wouldn't you put together a little government program that even in Alaska, and I watched the last season of the show on HBO with the lesbian Jody Foster.
I mean, there's something about the way that guy talks.
It's just hilarious.
But yeah, it's true.
Contrary to what Democrats tell you, black people can get IDs.
They can use printers.
They know what computers are.
We showed you a black man yesterday, a congressman who is apparently flying on planes all the time.
How about we just do what's right and we look to fix the system where it is broken, right, instead of ensuring that our broken system continues?
Could you guys work on that a little bit?
You know, the other thing that's going on right now is that because of the fight over the SAVE Act, we have a partial shutdown of Department of Homeland Security.
Department of Homeland Security, which not only runs our TSA, so yesterday we covered the hours worth of delays that are happening at airports all over the country.
300 TSA members have just outright walked away.
The TSA people who are working right now are not being paid.
They likely will be paid.
You know, they're being furloughed basically.
So you get the pay at the end, but it's not fun for these guys to have to work.
Ironically, the politicians, when they do a government shutdown, they always get paid.
But there have been some issues now around FEMA because of some tornadoes.
Listen to this from CBS.
Tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana raises concerns about FEMA disaster assistance.
On Wednesday, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, Democrat from Illinois who represents Kankaki, said she is going to fight for FEMA money for victims of Tuesday's severe storms.
People have died.
People's homes have been torn apart.
Businesses have been torn apart.
We should not look at Democrat or Republican.
These are people that live here and they need to release the money and there should not be any retaliatory efforts.
That would be absolutely ridiculous, Kelly said.
So these tornadoes have devastated this area, Kankake.
This is a survivor of one of the tornadoes.
Take a look.
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I said, Annabelle, there's a tornado coming, and she said, what should we do?
And should we not, at the very least, be able to fund the disaster agencies that will help people like that?
They're often inefficient.
In many cases, it's your local church or local organizations that are going to do better work on the ground.
But those people need to be helped.
And the Democrats are hanging up some of the money and the systems we have in place because they want to stop the funding of ICE, which is funded through 2029.
No, but we could all have to acknowledge that this shutdown had no impact, zero impact on ICE.
All of the funding was already in place there from the big beautiful bill that I did not vote for.
I did not vote for that.
So why should I punish all of those people that work under the DHS that keep our nation more secure?
Why they shouldn't be paid?
You know, I'm at the airport every week of the year, and I asked all of them in Pittsburgh, hey, do you guys like getting paid for your job?
And I've never met one that says, nah, you know, the paycheck's not really a big deal.
Everyone, and I believe we should be paid for the work that you've done.
Why punish all those TSA agents and all the other people under the DHS umbrella just because the base demands that we just shut it down, knowing, absolutely knowing that would have no impact on ICE?
There you have the one sane Democrat who admits he didn't even vote for the Big Beautiful bill, which funded ICE through 2029.
And he's saying he doesn't want to needlessly punish people, which is what the Democrats are doing.
When you are at the airport right now and spring breaks are coming and the delays are there, or you miss your flight or a flight get canceled or whatever it might, you miss your connection and you get late to the resort or whatever.
That's on the Democrats.
When your town is hit by a tornado and funds get there much more slowly, if ever, right now, that's on Democrats.
It is 100, not 99.
It is 100% performative, because ICE is funded.
By the way, I'm not paying you guys this week, you're just doing it for the love of the game.
Okay thanks, let's shift a little bit here, because one thing that's sit down, one thing that's sort of interesting right now is, you know, I've been talking about, you know, Piers Morgan titled his book Woke Is Dead, and when I had him in here I said, you know, I don't know about that, because it seems to me it's just morphing and and we're seeing maybe the final version, the end boss of woke, which is now the Islamization takeover of the progressive movement and the left and all of those things.
One of the places that has pushed wokeism throughout our corporate structure for years and years and years has been BlackRock and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who we've shown on the show a couple times over the years.
He is now admitting he sat down with Brett Baer and he is now admitting they pushed way too far.
He's the executive director of a nonprofit called Consumers Research on Fink and those comments.
Larry's comment that the pendulum simply swung too far to the left is telling because he's the one who pushed it there.
He's now only more pragmatic because he and the woke cabal got caught and now they're feeling the heat of antitrust investigations, lawsuits, etc.
For over a decade, BlackRock and Fink have been at the epicenter of the woke movement, quietly working behind the scenes, using their over $10 trillion in assets under management to push corporate America and adopt every single woke agenda item they could conceive of.
From ESG to DEI and everything in between, they've used the money that was entrusted to them by their customers to push Fink's far-left political agenda.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser, and Fink is no different.
Notice how he's rambling about fiduciary duty.
That's because for years he completely abandoned his fiduciary duty to push woke at the behest of a small subset of their clients like New York City who demanded he use all client money to push ESG.
So look, I suppose it is good.
It is a win in the culture war and in the war for reality that Fink, who controls BlackRock, which controls $10 trillion of assets, that they are going to step away.
But this is sort of like, you know, it's like Zuckerberg after Facebook, you know, silenced and censored the Hunter Biden laptop.
He then goes on Rogan and he's like, you know, we're not going to do that anymore.
And it's like, I'm not saying we have to throw you guys all in jail, but like, it's not, that's not a mea culpa.
Like a mea culpa is truly personally taking responsibility and saying, I really missed the mark here.
Or what he might say, although it actually could end with him in hot water, is say, I really did miss the fiduciary responsibility.
Because if you think that most of the companies that he was working with, $10 trillion, wanted this woke stuff put in, companies exist to make profit.
And woke was the anti-profit thing.
You know, it's funny, I went to Target yesterday.
And even in Florida, at the height of wokeism, Target was pushing.
You'd walk in and they were literally pushing underwear for trans kids, like tuck-it underwear or whatever they called it.
It was right in the front when you walked into Target.
And there was never anyone in that section, right?
There was never anyone there.
But they pushed that crap on us, literally and figuring it.
I mean, like they pushed the ideology and it was just crap products, right?
Nobody wants to buy these products.
And then it's like, was that good for the fiduciary responsibility of Target?
I don't know if Target is directly associated with BlackRock.
I assume it is, but you get the point at the corporate structure.
And maybe tomorrow we'll show you a little bit more from the rally itself.
But it was, you know, again, it was Trump at his best, prompter, off-prompter, jokes, fun, huge applause.
And look, I don't particularly care about the boxing stuff and the MMA stuff and all that.
But, you know, this guy's hugely popular.
He's up there with Trump talking about being brave and fighting for what you believe in and that this guy deserves some of our trust, which is exactly what I've said.
He was having a bit of a, might I recommend that maybe he should get some deodorant.
I would just, that would just be a sidebar.
There's got to be an anti-perspirant that can deal with that.
I said the show is over, but we've actually got a local community Q ⁇ A.
I offer a correction.
We're almost there.
But let me throw in a couple of questions here for you.
And if you want to get anything on the fly, Joseph is right there with a computer machine.
Ham Handed says, given the unpopularity of the war in Iran, how do you think it benefits the country to keep fighting it when it most likely result, when the most likely result is to totally lose the midterms, possibly leading up to impeachment with Trump and a conviction in the Senate?
Well, I'm not totally sure I agree with the premise of the question.
I mean, we just checked some numbers.
So 91% of MAGA approve, according to a CNN poll, of Trump and Iran.
So that's one thing.
41% overall, according to CNN agree, which is a little bit less than voted for him.
And NBC says 46% of America voted.
So I don't know that the country is not supportive of him.
However, I would say if it does not go well, right?
So right now it's going well.
So let's try to paint it two ways.
Let's say it doesn't go well.
Let's say, you know, it's two weeks from now.
We've bombed the high hell out of them.
The Iranian people aren't able to rise up.
And the best we get to walk away with is, well, we degraded all of their military systems, but now it's chaos there.
That's a win in some sense, right?
They can't export rockets, let's say, and mayhem across the Middle East.
And some of our allies will be happy with us.
The Gulf states that are getting hit right now will be thrilled and all that.
But it's not like a massive win that Trump can be like, you know, we did it.
We did it, right?
Let's try it the other way.
We continue to do well here.
We continue to degrade their systems.
The Iranian people are able to rise up, whatever that means.
And they start constituting a country and the rockets stop and Trump gets some peace deals now because of how the figurative map has changed, right?
That's a massive win for Trump.
And Trump gets to roll that into July 4th, our 250th anniversary.
That maybe gets us through the summer towards the midterms.
So a lot of this, I think just a lot of this depends on where it all shakes out.
Like, I think Trump did what he thinks is right.
I don't think he pays that much attention to what Tucker Carlson or Dave Rubin or anyone else is saying.
I think Trump has been wildly consistent with his position on Iran this entire time.
And he does what he thinks is right.
And we have competent people that are doing it, but we have to see where it lands.
Like nobody knows, even Trump does not know what the outcome is.
So that's the part that we're going to have to see.
Elizabeth says, do the boys have a favorite snack?
Izzy has been really into raw vegetables lately.
You know, I am very proud to say that as I have largely been on the carnivore diet myself, these kids are eating grass-fed meat virtually every single day, virtually every single day, one way or another, just chopped up, sometimes right off a tomahawk bone.
Like you ever watch a kid just take a bone, like there's something so human and natural about it to just like chew on that bone.
Like it's just, it's just such a great fun thing to see.
And it's so healthy for them and all of those things.
A lot of cottage cheese, a lot of cheese, a lot of meat.
That's basically what's going on over here pretty much all the time.
Mark Jev says, while I know you pick up the odd story from Canada, do you think the average American has any idea how screwed up their northern neighbor really is?
Some examples.
We're approaching 100,000 Canadians killed by government-assisted suicide.
Transgender ideology still fully entrenched.
$750,000 fine recently imposed on a school board trustee for saying boys are boys and girls are girls.
Cozying up to China and trade in other ways, inviting foreigners to join our military, passing censorship laws that mirror those in the UK and don't protect freedom of religion and so much more.
You know, we've addressed a lot of that.
I don't quite think people realize how wacky it's gotten.
You just laid out some of the specifics on there.
You know, I have many people in my life that are from Canada or lived in Canada or whatever.
I mean, just talking to Gad Sat over the last couple of days, like Canada really has fallen.
There are jihadists all over the place.
The gender stuff is out of control.
What I would say is from an American perspective, America is the center of the world, right?
So everyone cares about America.
America actually doesn't, like culturally, right?
Like Americans don't watch a lot of movies from other countries.
We don't watch a lot of TV shows or get things from other countries in that sense.
But everyone watches American-made movies, American-made culture, music, et cetera, et cetera.
I think what people have realized with Canada, I think, is partly what Trump was doing with Greenland, which basically was like, if Canada is going to be kind of weak, which it will be under Carney, that seems pretty obvious, right?
Like he's just, he's just like a slightly more heterosexual version of Trudeau, that we have to take Greenland because we don't want Russia and Iran encroaching on our part of the world.
And Greenland is the buffer zone there.
So I think that's the signal to most people here that Canada is kind of weak.
And I would also say that down here in Florida, all the Canadian snowbirds, I keep telling you, I meet Canadians quite literally every day because the snowbirds don't go up.
They don't go back.
They usually come down here for the winter, right?
They have their little condos down here in South Florida.
And right around now, around March, it's starting to warm up.
So they would normally head back, but they're staying down here.
I don't know how long they're allowed to stay or anything else.
And if they are staying illegally, there is a guy named Ron DeSantis who's probably going to catch him.
But Glenn says, how is it possible that JD Vance does not separate himself from Tucker?
I used to be such a fan of JD.
You know, I don't know exactly, right?
Like, I like JD.
I have always liked JD.
I've interviewed him many times.
I, you know, maybe we can grab that picture on inauguration night.
Can we throw that up real quick?
When I was at the, literally on inauguration night at the party and I got to say hi to him and you can see his reaction.
We've always had a nice relationship.
You know, I think he's trying to, my guess, this is just my guess, is he's really trying to pick and choose what his fights are.
So even let's look at Iran for a second.
Like he obviously is a little bit more on the, he's not an isolationist, I don't say, but he's a little less hawkish, let's say, than Trump on Iran or on foreign policy.
But he is standing by his president.
Now, is there an issue that Tucker, who JD seems to be quite associated with, is now the most anti-Trump figure on the right in America?
And maybe the most anti-Trump figure doesn't matter right or left or anything else.
I mean, he is radically anti-Trump.
He is radically anti this war.
I would argue he's radically anti-American at this point and everything else.
And he's associated with JD.
Is there some issue there?
Yeah, optically there is.
Should JD be going out there every day and being like, well, Tucker said something stupid, so I have to attack him.
Or Candace said something stupid, so I have to go after her.
I think he's just trying to manage those things.
And you have to judge that accordingly.
I do think it's possible that some of the reason you're seeing so much. momentum behind Marco is that he has been just out there more communicating America's position more.
So he's getting some of the accolades there.
But it's not even worth getting into the fight part of that of like who will come after Trump yet.
It's so freaking early.
Here's the image from inauguration night.
So he had literally just been sworn in and we got big smiles and big hugs.
So again, I like him.
I thought the debate, you know, one of the most important moments during the campaign was that vice presidential debate.
And when he kept looking at the camera, like Jim from the office and just completely dismantled Tim Walz.
I've also, you know, I've been to a lot of events where he's spoken and, you know, Trump's great at bumper sticker stuff and JD's really good at the granular stuff.
So they're going to have to work that out.
But at some point, yeah, it does optically become something.
The fact that, you know, Tucker's son works in JD's office.
Like whether whether there's anything nefarious there or not, there's something that feels weird there.
Tappy Chef says, will David publish a hard copy of his cookbook?
If you guys have not been to theonly.com yet is David's cooking site.
Sorry, the onlyfood.com.
We tried to get theonly.com.
It was like four gajillion dollars.
Theonlyfood.com.
And that's where David puts up all his recipes.
These are the things that we're eating every night.
There's a section for kids.
You're obviously seeing his bolognese there, chicken parm.
That's an awesome roasted chicken.
Those are non-fried wings.
That is the best Caesar salad dressing you will ever have.
I think those are Greek meatballs, if I'm not mistaken.
Then we've got the, that looks like a ribeye right there and another kind of sauce.
And he's a spectacular, spectacular chef.
And we host a lot and have people over to share in that goodness.
Eating good food is one of the true joys in life.
So he handles the cooking.
I handle the tequila.
And yes, so we are working on a, here's a little bit more on the kids side of things, how to eat things, how to make things for the kids.
There's so many ways to do things without using real sugar, without using preservatives and dye.
You know, you can use like pea powder to color things instead of using, you know, the dyes that are, that have become just ubiquitous and everything.
There's so many interesting things that you can do and eat the right way and still enjoy good food.
So yes, we're working on a hardcover version of that.
But for now, it's online.
It's theonlyfood.com.
Larry says, hey, Dave, I know I keep asking, any updates that you can share from Jordan Peterson's recovery?
Unfortunately, there's nothing I can share that Michaela, his daughter, has not shared publicly.
It's just not my place to do that, obviously.
I did try to go, or I did go to Phoenix about two weeks ago, and I was going to try to link up with Jordan.
And unfortunately, it wasn't able to happen.
But I'm praying for him.
And if you are someone who prays, like pray for this guy.
We desperately need him.
The world needs him.
And I know it might sound corny or something, but like if you if you believe in, you know, if you believe, if you're a believer, you would believe that prophets are there.
And I think Jordan was a modern prophet.
I really believe that.
He so fundamentally altered the world by speaking the truth.
And we just need more of that, right?
Like if there's one thing that we're suffering from right now, it's a lack of that, right?
Like we're only, we're six months and what, two days since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Like we could use a lot more of that.
So yeah, throw in a prayer for Jordan if you can.
A different view says, Dave, following up on last Thursday's Ask Dave anything where you offered to promote my candidacy.
Oh, I'm very excited for this.
My name is Benjamin Francis Cole running in Millikan, Colorado, Board of Trustees in the April 7th, 2026 election.
Milliken is a statuary city, so the board oversees zoning, development, judges, and ordinances within limits set by Colorado law.
My goal is to work responsibly and conservatively within those laws to serve the town.
I was also inspired by your message about civic involvement to run.
I'm doing this in part because my seven-year-old daughter is growing up here and I care about Millikan's future.
Also, today is my 50th.
Oh, also, my 50th birthday was March 10th.
Well, happy, happy birthday.
You got a couple of months on me, June 26th.
I will be the big five o.
I'm so thrilled to hear that.
And that if I had anything to do in any way of nudging you towards getting involved, and that sounds, you know, I'm not that familiar with Millikan, Colorado, obviously.
Can people, I mean, I'm more than happy to donate a little bit to the campaign if that's even something from out of state that people are allowed to do.
I'm not even sure how that works, but we'll check on that.
But hopefully, if you live in the Colorado area, sorry, what was his name again?
Can we go back so I can just give him a second shout out?
His name is Benjamin Francis Cole, K-O-L-E.
And sounds like a good guy who would help govern a, help be part of a state that perhaps would be fiscally sound.
And that wouldn't be so crazy, would it?
Good luck to you.
Eurasian says, hey, Dave, I'm going to be in Budapest at the end of the month.
If I only have a day or two, what do you recommend I see or do there?
Well, I will actually be in Budapest next week.
We're going for a couple of days.
We're going for CPAC, which I went to for last year.
I think I'm sitting down with Prime Minister Victor Orban, who has done an unbelievable job, as you know, of writing that country and pushing back against such EU nonsense, particularly as it pertains to immigration.
And then we'll do a few other things there.
I may just miss you if you're going at the end of the month.
What would I recommend?
I mean, just walk around Budapest.
I mean, walk around and you will see a clean, lovely, safe place.
And the architecture is spectacular.
And, you know, they've been attacked by the communists and the Nazis.
And they have an incredible, everyone that you talk to in Hungary, at least in my experience, like they know what their country is about.
They know the history of their country.
Walk by the Danube River.
I mean, that bisects all of Budapest, actually.
I'm trying to think, was there like a great, you know, we ate at some great restaurants.