Trump Just Took an Even Bigger Risk on the Iran War
Dave Rubin, Gates Garcia, and DeBore Darkens analyze President Trump's "Epic Fury" military strikes on Iran, debating whether the operation is a calculated strategy or political risk while discussing the potential eradication of the IRGC. The conversation shifts to California Governor Gavin Newsom facing civil rights complaints from Dr. Oz regarding Armenian Americans, alongside criticism of Tim Walz over Christy Noem's DHS departure and false military service claims. Finally, the hosts condemn mainstream media for normalizing anti-Semitic violence following NYC terror attacks near Gracie Mansion and a San Jose stabbing, praising NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards while arguing Democrats ignore victims like Stephanie Minter and Lake Riley. Ultimately, the episode frames these events as evidence of systemic political failures and media normalization of extremism. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, look, first of all, the majority of Americans voted for this president.
And the famous thing about Donald Trump is he ran on promises made, promises kept.
And I continue to see him keeping the promises he's made.
He's the most transparent president we've ever had that trickles down throughout the administration.
Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, as you said, essentially lay out the playbook for us.
I mean, Iran was warned about this.
We knew about this before it was going to happen.
So all we're really seeing is him follow through on what he said he was going to do.
It doesn't come as a surprise to anybody.
I think the overwhelming majority of Americans, certainly that MAGA camp that you talked about, is happy to be safe.
This is a regime that has continued to attack us for the last 50 years.
And we finally have somebody that's willing to step up and do something about it.
And as far as all these forever war comments go, after looking at Venezuela and Iran, you know, part one, I'm all for forever wars that last, you know, a week or two.
Yeah, I think you kind of pointed to it, which is essentially eradicating the RRGC, removing the existing regime, and hopefully the people of Iran can replace them with someone who will actually exercise diplomacy.
I mean, that's what's actually lacking in all of this.
I think they put the president in a position where he had no choice.
And there's a lot of chatter online, as you stated, but the fact of the matter is the president is not an ideologue.
So the fact that he did this tells you that he probably exercised every option in the book.
So success, to me, just looks like a different coach of Iran who wants to actually collaborate and not destabilize that regime.
And, you know, Gates, when I was on your show last week, we talked about this a little bit, but I'm sympathetic to the people that have PTSD or a hangover because of mistaken wars and all of those things.
And you guys are, I mean, you're both veterans, so I'm sure you're very sympathetic to that.
But to me, it's like Trump, after 10 years of all of this, deserves a little of our credit, of our trust.
Like he deserves it.
And we will see.
We can pick it up in six months if we're still in this thing.
And it just seems to me if we degrade that military, I mean, that's done already, as we've all pointed out.
But then, if those people stand up, and then if the rest of the Middle East, those 13 Arab Muslim nations who have been attacked by Iran, are basically like, okay, Israel's not our enemy anymore.
Like, we could, this literally could change the world for the next 50 to 100 years.
But all right, let's leave that there.
Let's go to a more difficult place to live in than even the Middle East.
We're talking about California.
That's right.
Davari, you're lucky you got out too.
So here is Gavin Newsom, who is now filing a complaint against my friend, Dr. Oz.
Something, something, he's racist.
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Governor Gavin Newsom's office is filing a civil rights complaint against Dr. Oz, who is currently serving as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The governor is seeking an investigation into Oz's quote, baseless and racist allegations against Armenian Americans in California.
Davari, is this a perfect example of the end of what identity politics is?
That somehow even uncovering fraud, which in this case, it happens to be a bunch of Armenian-owned businesses that are doing this type of fraud, that will lead to the accusation of racism, as opposed to, I don't know, rooting out the fraud, making sure that places that say they're taking care of end-to-end patients are actually being taken care of instead of just cashing checks from the government.
You know, this is the number one playbook from Democrats.
I mean, step number one is make everything about race or somebody's skin color and not actually talk about the merits of the case.
And the fact that someone from the CDC, who's in charge of the CDC, by the way, physically went there and did something that you would expect your local journalists to do, I think really screens a huge problem for California.
And that's just the, what, speckle in the bucket of all of the massive fraud, whether it's COVID or homelessness, we can go down the actual line, but I wouldn't expect anything less from Newsom.
Man, this guy loves a government program to figure out government fraud.
Listen to this.
He's been on this for years from CBS.
CBS News examined the business and financial records of every hospice currently operating in LA County, applying the same indicators identified by the state.
Indications of fraud have not stopped.
In fact, they've grown.
The CBS news analysis reveals that over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in L.A. County trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defined by the state.
Gates, I cannot believe that Newsom doesn't have a good handle on this and is lying about it.
Well, one American who definitely sees past it and has been dealing with Newsom for a decade, at least publicly, and fighting with him and bringing him on his show and just mocking the high hell out of him is Adam Carolla.
Yeah, I think the roads have definitely been paved for Gavin Newsome.
I mean, if you go all the way back to his time as mayor, I think that is pretty clear.
And the other thing, I don't think his wife has any time to give him any advice because she's too busy making money off her nonprofit, as we have come to learn.
But more importantly, at the end of the day, he is a dangerous politician.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
He knows how to get a response.
You've seen his campaign against the president, especially over the past last year.
I think it's kind of died off a little bit here towards the end.
But I think he's very effective.
Somehow, the white liberals of the world, particularly the females of the world, they just go crazy over him.
I don't know why.
But do you think Californians would be fed up by now?
And I know this is kind of a fun show, but there's a serious movement going on in this country that is called looks maxing.
And there's a group out there saying that have historically been conservatives saying that they will vote for Gavin Newsom simply because of his looks.
These are men saying this.
So it's working and all politicians do is feed the beast that works.
And so someone's going to have to come out and challenge this nonsense or we're going to be dealing with the hands for a while.
Yeah, I don't know that I can get into looks macking, maxing, or frame mugging right now or whatever, but it is true.
I mean, that little rat person, Fuentes, did say that he would vote.
I mean, he already is a Democrat pretending, but he said he would vote for Newsom over JD because JD is sort of roundish in the face and Newsom is, I mean, we are just at the end of democracy and this is what it looks like.
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Let's continue because the other thing that sort of got glossed over in the last week is that Christy Noam is now out as head of DHS.
And I thought this was particularly interesting.
Here's Tim Walz on what should happen to her.
So when people are going, oh, you know, when the Democrats take power again, maybe it won't be that bad.
Dabari, the phrase I say on the show probably more than anything else, these people just need a mirror.
I mean, this guy's in charge of the biggest fraud scam maybe in American history, although California may trump that.
But it also, to me, it's like we're entering the Dark Knight Rises phases of all this where they're going to have the scarecrow giving clown court appearances for these people.
And the thing is, I believe the Democrats when they say that, that they will put people up on trial and everything.
Yeah, you know, this actually brings me to two things.
One is a very serious warning to all of us here, especially alternative media, that they will come after us.
I mean, if the previous administration showed us anything, they're willing to bend the rules, if not break them, to get their way against people they disagree with.
So I think that's very clear, which is why it's a rally cry for the Republican Party to catch up here and take advantage of the opportunity that the president has given them.
Now, secondly, I don't take any moral clarity from Tim Wallace.
This is a man who committed stolen valor.
He claimed he was a command sergeant major, retired.
He never actually completed the academy.
So as a veteran myself, he's one of the most idiotic people I've seen in government who can't even tell the honest truth about their military service.
So yeah, I don't think I'll be taking any advice from him regarding Christy Noam.
Let's jump to this video because I think this perfectly illustrates.
So Christy Noam's out.
You can criticize her or not criticize her.
You can be happy with what ICE did or not.
But one thing that the Democrats never do is they never mention the names or even remotely talk about the victims of the illegals who come here and rape and murder and kill and get kids hooked on fentanyl and all of these other things.
And I thought it's worth showing some of these videos.
This is a video of a woman by the name of Cheryl Minter, who is still waiting for accountability after an illegal killed her daughter, Stephanie.
Dave, I'm a father of four men, two boys, two girls.
How many is it going to take?
I feel like these poor victims are sacrificing their lives for the rest of us for the rest of us, because at some point, enough will be enough and Americans are going to wake up to the terror invading our neighborhoods.
Why aren't the families of these victims on every mainstream media platform and invited to tell their stories?
You mentioned Lake and Riley.
We only know her name because so many people outside of the mainstream media were stepping up to say it.
Do you remember when during Biden's State of the Union dress, he was essentially backed into a corner and forced to say her name?
Sadly, sadly, he mispronounced it.
He named a college football coach.
That tells you everything you should know about this issue.
And another thing is telling.
Her family was invited to that State of the Union dress, and they chose not to attend.
But you know where they did show up?
For Trump when they were invited to the chamber by him.
One party grieves the victims of heinous crimes committed by whether it's illegals or repeat criminals.
And so the craziness actually manifests itself in fatal outcomes.
I actually have a term here.
It's called fatal empathy at this point because they claim they're empathizing with criminals, but what they're doing is that empathy turns into fatal outcomes for the American citizen.
And the other thing is there are countless victims that we still don't even know about.
These are just names that have actually been talked about, you know, as far as the media is concerned.
So, you know, my heart actually goes out to that family.
And if we actually run the numbers, how many American citizens have actually been killed by illegal aliens?
Yeah, I think that number is countless, you know, at this point.
Let's stick with a little media criticism here and we'll connect it to where we started with the Iran war because the new meme in the media, even though we're only less than two weeks into this thing, is that somehow Trump doesn't know what he's doing or there was no exit plan or there is no grand plan or anything else.
This is Midas touches Adam Mockler, who looks like he's 12 years old.
I mean, this is CNN has just got nothing left.
They're taking literal 12-year-olds and he's arguing that he's arguing that Trump has no plan with Iran.
I mean, just judge the outcome by the inputs or judge the inputs by the outcome.
And we're getting results.
There hasn't been any retaliation.
I'm not ignorant enough to think that there isn't some form of planned retaliation at the moment or that we may suffer retaliation, but it's nonsense to believe that Trump didn't have a plan.
And that guy can say whatever he wants on CNN, but look at the meteoric rise of Marco Rubio in the public's eye since all this began.
It's very clear that we have a strategic genius in the White House and Marco Rubio.
He's getting a lot of people around.
He's risen up sort of neck and neck with J.D. Vanson, who will be the next Republican nominee for president.
And I think it's all because he has a strategic plan and he knows how to execute on it.
Yeah, well, to Gates' point here, Adam is not in the room.
None of us are.
And, you know, this is the problem with pundits and journalists is they say a lot of things, but they were never actually in the room and privy to that information.
So, you know, if you're 13 years old, you think you'd be humble enough to just say the words, I don't know, but I guess not.
And here's the other thing.
Based on his logic, that implies that every four-star general or captain or commander, I guess, is just winging it.
I mean, how disrespectful is it to our men and women when you're speaking that way?
If you want to argue what's going on in Iran, just argue the merits, but don't start talking like that.
It's a gift because people like you, Dave, and Gates and myself, it gives us the opportunity to show people the alternative side to this, which is usually the actual truth.
And it's a curse because people still eat up that stuff.
I mean, it's terrible when they're sympathetic to terrorists.
I mean, the mayor of New York City has yet to actually call them terrorists or even acknowledge that it was a terrorism in front of his mansion there.
In fact, he focused more on the words white supremacy and not actually the people who went there to kill innocent American citizens.
So I think we actually know what's happening here.
He's earning the nickname Bomb Dami after this event.
I hope we touch on him in a little bit.
I'd rather talk about him in light of the reaction to the law enforcement that saved lives that day.
But I want to go back to that image.
We've heard of a smoking gun, right?
That's an old saying.
Look at the picture.
This guy had a smoking bomb.
It's in his hand.
I mean, you don't accuse someone of something.
You don't say someone was accused of something when we have photo evidence.
What angers me most about the image in the post that we just put up on the screen is it's going to put my friend Seth Dylan at the Babylon B out of business because mainstream media has turned so satirical that we don't need the Babylon B anymore.
You just get on the train and you're going to go in for a soda and a hot dog and maybe, you know, bomb some people, whatever it is.
You know, on a more depressing version of all of this, I mean, we know what's happening in New York, but a lot of the rhetoric around what's happened in the Middle East, and I would say partially connected to Tucker and some of the other things, has just ramped up the hate on the Jews.
Okay, so by all accounts, all the guy was doing was speaking Hebrew.
In a weird way, this shouldn't surprise us because this is sort of where we are at with things.
It's worth noting that this is Roe Khanna's district.
I've had Roe on the show many times.
Half of his Twitter, I mean, literally every other one of his tweets is about Israel or AIPAC or something like that.
He was recently on stage at the Arab American something or other where they were quite literally the people before him were laughing about October 7th.
Are we just, is this just the new norm now, Dabari?
Are we just in the new norm of where these things are going to be happening?
Yeah, you know, it goes back to what we learned with the president, derangement syndrome.
Just, you know, put Israel or put whatever you want.
I mean, ultimately, it lacks critical thinking, and that's essentially what's happening here.
I mean, if you don't see it from New York City or Austin or New Orleans or D.C. at this point, their first step in response to things they don't like about Western civilization is violence.
And who continues to be sympathetic to that violence?
Democrats.
So I think as critical thinkers, we not only have to continue to call it out, but bring more attention to it because it's becoming a dangerous thing for innocent American citizens out there and it's just unnecessary.
You know, we're sort of conditioned with the screens and we're all living in like an alternate matrix while reality is happening right in front of us.
But the other part of that, Dabari, you know, everyone says, you know, if you see something, say something.
But now people are afraid to, it's one thing to do something would have been great if somebody would have jumped in there and been like, they're pummeling this guy for no reason.
But people don't want to deal with the headache after that.
They don't want to be dealt with, oh, suddenly it turns out you're going to be called racist.
CNN's going to throw you on the front page and say that you're somehow a white supremacist or just like the laundry list of insanity.
And the longer that goes on, it just degrades all of our ability to kind of be in a society together.
If we go back to that, I mean, when someone's afraid to do the right thing because they're going to get prosecuted, I think that tells you it's a society that is in trouble.
Now, out here in Austin, we're actually experiencing the same thing.
The local DA is prosecuting the police officers who actually killed that terrorist at that Austin bar.
Why would he be investigating them?
I think he has better things to actually do.
But again, I think that's a prime example of exactly what you're speaking towards.
Yeah, by the way, I'm glad you mentioned the Austin thing because we're literally less than two weeks from a jihadist attack that killed two people, injured 14.
And it just moves on.
Then it's like, all right, well, then there's the jihadi attack at Gracie Mansion, and there'll be another one tomorrow and everything else.
But everyone that watches this show has know I can't end the show on bad news.
So I thought this would be a nice way of wrapping it up because even in New York, where so much has been destroyed so quickly, here is video of police chief, New York City police chief Aaron Edwards.
And there was the spectacular picture of him jumping the little barricade there when the bomb was thrown in, which we'll show you.
First of all, as we sit here in the middle of NFL free agency and I watch my Tampa Bay Buccaneers continue to sign nobody to the team, I want that guy.
That guy's an athlete.
I want that guy on my team.
We'll take him.
Look, I'm going to break some news here.
Civilization only works because someone is willing to risk their lives to stand in between order and chaos.
And when the mayor of your city campaigns on defunding the police, common sense Americans back the blue.
The left has spent years trying to tear down the police, but the American people know better, Dave.
You know better.
Davari knows better.
And you know what else is important?
Gratitude.
Officer Edwards prevented a bomb from blowing up outside the mayor's house.
And in his press conference, the mayor doesn't even mention him.
You know, Dave, you know what I wanted to be when I grew up?
When I was little, what I wanted to be when I grew up?
A cop, bro.
You know what one of my sons was for Halloween last year?
A cop.
That's the type of gratitude and the recognition we need to be giving to the heroes that keep our lives safe on a daily basis.
And by the way, it's worth mentioning that that night, instead of inviting that cop over for dinner, that Mom Dami had Mahmoud Khalil, who was the non-citizen who was leading the Columbia protest, derivative C, you know, keeping students off campus, et cetera.
Listen, I'm grateful that there are police officers still out there willing to do the job, even though they don't get the actual credit.
And I'm grateful that we have a president who's willing to do the right thing, even when things get tough and everybody continues to slam him and say he doesn't know what he's doing.
And Dave and Gates, I'm grateful for you guys having me here on the show.
And as terror attacks occurred outside Gracie Mansion, Moron Zamboni, the mayor of New York City, had dinner with the illegal jihadist behind the Columbia pro-Hamas protests.
Mamdani writes, for Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship and profound courage.
Hey, moron, I think you forgot the part where Mahmoud did this.
Courage indeed.
Then, of course, people noticed that Zorhan's wife happened to like a bunch of posts celebrating October 7th.
They responded by doing what they do best, standing on their toes and looking extremely disappointed.
And it because their toes are pointed.
No, write your own show.
This week, Trump is polling people in his inner circle about whether they like JD or Marco better for 2028.
They say he can't stop asking the question and is asking everyone, advisors, confidants, his hairstylist, even the guy who installed the Diet Coke button on his desk.
Advisors say Trump's dream ticket is a Vance Rubio pairing.
Interesting, because whenever I think of a dream ticket, I usually go back to WrestleMania.
And that's this week on the internet, where jihadist politicians have dinner with illegals and then tell us their influencer wives are just private people.
Where Hollywood celebrities are disappearing faster than Iranian leaders.
And where the New York Times looks at a guy holding a smoking Looney Tunes bomb and says he's merely accused of bringing one.
If that's the case, this guy was merely accused of troubling his ex-wife.
Apparently, nothing you see on the internet means what it actually is anymore.
Because the internet didn't break reality.
It just made it obvious that everyone is lying about it.