Dave Rubin dismantles Whoopi Goldberg's claims of a Trump-led Iran draft, labeling them drivel while highlighting alleged $1.7 billion Obama wire transfers to Hezbollah. He details JD Vance and Steve Witkoff's Pakistan negotiations, asserting a Strait of Hormuz blockade forces oil tankers to the U.S., pressuring China and potentially triggering regime change in Cuba. Critiquing Democrats like Cory Booker and Kamala Harris as unstable or corrupt, Rubin warns that Republican abandonment of Trump risks party collapse and a socialist takeover led by figures like AOC. [Automatically generated summary]
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Quickly want to note that, you know, yesterday, several times during the show, I used mental telepathy to send you guys adjectives instead of saying exactly what I was thinking about some of these Democrats.
And I looked in the comments, and basically, you all nailed it.
Hundreds of thousands of you that watched andor listened to the program yesterday, you all nailed every single one of them.
A lot of it was the C word.
It's true.
What can I tell you?
We're going to dive back in.
It's really interesting to me because, you know, I'm always talking about the sort of divide between the online world and the real world, you know, this real carbon based world that we used to live in.
And one of the things that I'm finding is the disconnect, you know, it kind of fluctuates, right?
Sometimes it feels like what's happening online is really somewhat within the realm of what's happening.
Offline, sometimes it feels really wide, sometimes it narrows a little bit.
Right now, I'm seeing a really, really big divide.
There are so many people, it's virtually everyone on the left and then a certain set of people on the right, but it's a lot of loud people.
We've been calling them panic ins.
There's a lot of people that seem to think the sky is falling right now.
Like they're just like reading chicken little on crack, and the sky is not falling.
There is a lot of good stuff happening, and unless we really figure out how to make people understand that, show people that is true.
All of the people who are endlessly hysterical, either because they want to destroy Trump or they want to destroy America or a little bit of both, they're going to win.
And I don't mean just win in the midterms.
They're going to win the whole thing.
And it will literally be the end of Western civilization.
So we got a lot of work to do to show people.
I hate the phrase work to do.
The Democrats always say, we got to do the work.
And they just do nothing except complain.
I mean it in the literal sense.
Like we have to actually convince more people that there are good things happening, show them evidence of it, and get the panic ins to.
To step off the ledge.
So let's start with a group of ladies who are all panickens.
Yeah, we're doing the view right up top.
Here is Whoopi.
Whoopi is telling people that Trump wants to kill all the young people by drafting them into the Iran war.
Everything she says here is complete and utter drivel, fabrication, fiction, etc.
And you're bitching and moaning that there are women who are part of the Army, Navy, and you're getting rid of people and you're talking about who shouldn't be.
But not only is it not true, let's just try to take stock of where we are at in 2026.
By the end, likely by the end of this year, commercial robots are going to start showing up in homes, right?
There's going to be the Optimus robot, Figure AI has their robots, and there's others.
Drones are becoming ubiquitous in warfare.
Everything is going to be automated.
Do you honestly, Whoopi, I know you don't mean anything you say, but do you really think that the wars of the future are going to be wars where we are just grabbing our own citizens, forcing them to suit up and sending them all over the world?
Whatever the wars of the future might be, they are almost all going to be AI dominated.
They are going to be robots, literal robot soldiers.
Think Terminator.
It's going to be drone warfare.
It's going to be robotics and technology.
It's going to be lasers shooting rockets out of the sky.
The day of conventional warfare, D Day, we're sending soldiers to another country.
It's partly why, for the last month, I've said that one of the things that Trump is doing with the Iran war is he's ending sort of war as we know it.
He's not ending war, right?
War is kind of how people are.
People are pains in the asses and often want other people's stuff, and you're going to get some more every now and again.
But conventional wars of nations invading nations, soldiers going in, and all those things, that stuff is ending.
You can feel it even with this war, right?
We didn't send soldiers into Iran.
We didn't put boots on the ground.
There were rockets flying between all these different countries.
And then you had the Iron Dome, and you had this new laser system, and all of these things.
So they just want you to feel hysterical.
What Whoopi and the rest of them are doing right there is they want the mothers that watch that show to feel hysterical.
Oh my God, Donald Trump is sending my child.
To Iran, and it is complete nonsense.
And speaking of complete nonsense, Roh Khanna, who, again, I've had on the show many times, the truth is I was never particularly impressed with him, but I'm more than happy to talk to these guys and have them explain themselves.
And usually I felt that he didn't do a particularly good job of it.
But interestingly, I haven't had him on in, I don't know, maybe eight months, a year, something like that, but I had him on a couple times.
He, at one point, I would say about a year ago, was trying to come off as a moderate, whatever that slim sort of moderate Democrat might be.
I'll still talk to both sides.
I'm not a complete bananas lefty.
He tried that.
I honestly think he focus grouped it, and it didn't work.
And he's going all in on the progressive lunacy without question.
Here he is telling Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo that Obama, the guy who sent the plane load of cash to the mullahs, that he was way better on Iran than Trump.
And if you want to do the show again, I'll say it to your face.
Like, what has happened to you, man?
And I know what's happened.
I just laid it out.
You thought that you could pretend to be moderate, but you are unmasking yourself across the board.
And that's why all the Silicon Valley guys are turning on you now and exposing you for the radical you are.
Obama was a statesman.
What do you mean he was a statesman?
So 1.7 billion to Hezbollah.
Ask the people of Lebanon how that's working out.
Then he sent, what was it?
It was about, what was it, 40 million?
400 million, quite literally in a plane.
I don't know, that's a lot of cash.
You've got to stick on a plane and send that over.
How did that work out?
Did any of that money get to the people?
Everything that we did by unfreezing those funds funded terror.
It funded the mullahs.
It funded a regime that chanced death to America.
Donald Trump is the only president who actually did what Obama and Bill Clinton and even Ronald Reagan, and Joe Biden, all these, Joe Biden don't, all those presidents for 40 plus years said, we are going to stop this regime.
Donald Trump went ahead and did it, but what do you like because you're a Democrat?
You just like people that say the right things.
So I'll give you this Barack Obama would get up there and the suit fit, and he's got nice white teeth, and he knows how to read a teleprompter, and it all seemed very nice.
But the fruits of what he did were quite rotten.
Let's jump over to another Democrat.
This is Washington Representative Adam Smith.
And he seems to think that the Iranians are telling the truth more than the White House.
I would think it quite likely that Iran will not show up and negotiate because what they've said about where negotiations are at has turned out to be a lot closer to the truth than anything coming out of the White House.
They're meeting and we know what's going to happen.
No.
But they frame everything as if all hell is about to break loose.
And CNN, of course, and New York Times and all the usual suspects. Are doing this over and over again, almost to the point where it seems like they're rooting for Iran.
And again, I think you can argue that a good portion of the DC elite, a good portion of the mainstream media, the entire Democratic Party, I think they actually are rooting for a failure here by America.
Well, what they want is a Donald Trump failure.
And I don't know if they've connected that Donald Trump failure to what that would do to America if we were to fail here, which we will not.
Here's Caroline Levitt calling out legacy media for basically rooting for Iran instead of the U.S.
They definitely should not pick up the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or watch CNN, especially these days in the midst of this incredibly successful military operation against Iran.
It's almost like these legacy American media outlets were rooting for the Iranian regime over the American people, over our great United States military, because they are so rooted in their opposition to President Trump rather than seeking and reporting on the facts.
The facts are the United States of America tonight.
Have never been so close to making a truly good deal, unlike the horrific deal signed by Barack Hussein Obama, than we are right now.
Why?
Thanks to President Trump's brilliant negotiating tactics.
They've now admitted they were enriching uranium at higher levels.
Clearly, they had a very intense ballistic missile program that, fortunately, we and the Israelis were able to take out very quickly.
They decided to bomb a whole bunch of neighboring countries.
These were not good people who, as Marco Rubio said, were getting close to the point of having a nuclear umbrella, meaning having enough defensive capabilities that for us to eventually take out the nukes would have caused much worse of a problem, militarily and economically and everything else.
So, these guys don't want, there is a machine in place that does not want Donald Trump to get a win here.
And if Donald Trump doesn't get a win here, America doesn't get a win.
And if America walks away from this thing, losing, whatever that means, you know, there's no, as I said yesterday, I think a lot of people think wars are like basketball games.
Like at the end, there's a, you know, the clock buzzer goes off, and then there's a winner and a loser, like in the most clearest terms.
And something has shifted, I think, as it pertains to war back in the day.
The Japanese, the Germans, there was a unilateral declaration of, oh, we lost the war, you won the war, we'll sign documents, borders are going to be redrawn, new leaders will come in, et cetera, et cetera.
Wars don't seem to be like that.
They're sort of low grade, kind of win, don't win, whatever.
But what we are trying to do right now, and JD, I think, right now is on his way back to Pakistan, poor guy, third vacation in Pakistan in two weeks.
What he's trying to do is get something on paper that hopefully people will.
Stick with for some period of time.
But the broader point of all of this is for everyone, everyone watching this at home, right now, you know someone, whether it's in your family or at work or someone you're chatting with at a bar or whatever you're doing, that is freaking out right now, that still thinks that, oh my God, Alex Jones said thermonuclear World War III is coming and Tucker Carlson wants the 25th Amendment for Trump and all of these crazy things.
And to all the critics in the media, the Democrats, the panicans out there, you doubted he would win in 2016 and you were proven wrong.
You doubted he would return to the Oval Office in 2024.
You were proven wrong.
I remember last year fighting with journalists from the podium about the president's ability to strike a deal to end the war in Gaza and bring home all the hostages.
And again, they were proven wrong.
I suspect this time is going to be no different, Sean.
When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Autopen were running stuff over at the Oval Office, Not only was the Gaza war raging on, all they kept doing was saying don't to the Israelis.
And fortunately, they ignored them and they killed Sinwar in Rafah.
Remember Kamala Harris?
I studied the maps, don't do it.
And Netanyahu is like, well, the leader's over there and we think we might be able to get some of our people out, so we're going to go ahead and do it.
And then Trump comes in office, he applies pressure, military pressure.
And then what happens?
That war gets wrapped up.
This is the very same people who said that was never going to happen are now saying this is a freaking disaster.
So have A little like, don't fall for the same old.
It's one of the many things that President Trump is so successful at in leading out on because no one is attacked as baselessly as he is and as much as he is.
And our leaders that get attacked under his brilliant leadership must do the same.
And I won't tolerate their attacks on me.
Because they are indirect attacks on the men and women of the FBI that we've cleaned up.
You know, what's interesting about this is so, look, I don't have any insider knowledge on this, but basically the article claimed that cash was like constantly wasted and passed out and people had to break into rooms to get them and that there was some kind of substance abuse and everything else.
He's suing.
So, you know, when you sue, now there's going to be discovery, they're going to need to show evidence and everything else.
My general suspicion here would be that if any of it was true, that he wouldn't be doing that because it would make him look pretty bad if there was any evidence that.
He had done any of these things.
But the broader point, whether the lawsuit works or not, the broader point is he's right.
What they're trying to do is you go after him.
It's really a way of getting Trump and it's a way of getting the FBI and everything else.
And let me just say, you know, when it comes to suing mainstream outlets or when it comes to suing anyone that says or prints something, we have very, very strict laws around libel and slander.
You want those laws to be as liberal, in the good sense of the word, as liberal as possible, because you don't want, you know, let's say on this show I call someone a blank or I make you think the word, you know, think about that.
Like, you don't want everybody that you, just because somebody says something about them or it's sarcastic or a joke or even an accident or just because they said something mean, you don't want everyone suing everybody.
That would be the biggest chill on free speech possible.
But every now and again, if a major outlet like The Atlantic, which has a long track record now of just being a crap factory, if they, in essence, have made up a story about him and he knows they have, well, then it's worth threatening them with a $250 million lawsuit and we shall see what happens.
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Okay, so let's put aside the panic ins for a second.
Let's put aside the, let's say, manipulative mainstream media and let's figure out where are we at with all of this.
Well, here is Donald Trump telling CNBC's Joe Kernan that.
Well, we might start bombing again if you guys don't sign a deal.
And I would say, consistent with everything we know about Donald Trump, this is called leverage.
You don't send your guys over there and be like, you know, we're not going to bomb anymore, so just see if you guys can work it out.
That's a ship going through the port, an Iranian ship, and that's one of our guys.
Telling them, hey, we're in charge of this operation right now.
And people tend, it's sort of like Trump negotiating with a little threat of war.
People tend to listen to you when you have a big gun with a lot of bullets hanging out of it.
That's a better way to negotiate.
Here's a bit more from the Department of War.
Great rename on that one, Trump.
Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right of visit maritime interdiction and boarding of the stateless sanctioned MT Tiffany without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.
As we have made clear, we will pursue GLOWA.
Global maritime enforcement efforts to disrupt illicit networks and interdict sanctioned vessels providing material support to Iran anywhere they operate.
International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned vessels.
The Department of War will continue to deny illicit actors and their vessels freedom of maneuver in maritime domain.
So, as I'm showing you the video and I'm reading that thing, who do you think is in charge right now?
Who do you think has leverage right now?
We control the strait.
Iran cannot get its oil out.
And at some point, Iran needs that cash.
It's about $500 million a day.
that they would normally be exporting.
If they don't have that cash, they can't pay their civil servants, you can't pay whatever remains of your military, et cetera, et cetera.
Your economy will collapse.
So now when these third, fourth tier guys show up in Pakistan, And they're sitting there, and there's JD, and there's Witkoff and Kushner, whoever.
And they're going, you know, man, we thought we had these guys by the balls.
You know, it seems like Americans don't have an appetite for war or anything.
But we can't even get any cash right now because they control our oil.
And really, without controlling oil, we don't have anything.
Well, then we have the power.
That is the point.
Here's a bit more from Fox.
This is Jackie Heinrich on JD for his third vacation in two weeks to Pakistan.
JD Vance, Vice President Steve Witkopf, and Jared Kushner are going to be leaving the U.S. for Islamabad soon, even though the Iranians are threatening not to show up to these negotiations unless the U.S. removes this naval blockade.
The tensions are very high after American forces seized an Iranian flagged sanctioned vessel that tried to blast through the blockade this weekend.
So I suppose we will find out probably in the next 48 hours if the Iranians will show up.
But if you think that Donald Trump is going to be like, oh, the Iranians aren't showing up, let's Open the straight.
Let's just be nice to them and open the straight.
You are bananas, right?
He has leverage and he's using leverage.
And at the same time, he's sending our guys to talk and saying, if you want to talk, show up.
That's where we're at right now.
Here is senior military analyst James Stavridis talking to Cassie Hunt over on CNN about what he thinks the chances are a deal will be coming relatively quickly.
Are you confident that you understand who in the Iranian apparatus? Is making these decisions and how that's interacting with President Trump's bluster.
I think that's pretty decent analysis for CNN, which is not known for that, right?
First, he addresses what I've said all along, which is, you know, who are we negotiating with?
We know some of the names now, but like, do they have the authority?
Like, we've slaughtered so many of the leaders.
It's like, we're throwing people there.
Do they have the gravitas?
Do they have the control and the will of the people so that they will be able to negotiate?
That's one portion of it.
Let's assume the answer is yes on that.
Well, then they also know that they don't have any leverage when it comes to oil or money anymore, and their military's gone.
So his estimate is 65% chance.
And I'm pretty sure Trump.
That JD is not like, hey, Don, could you send me back to Pakistan?
I want to hang out on the beach on Islamabad and we'll see what happens.
No, we're sending him back to make a deal.
Now, whether the Iranians will come in and concede, right?
Concede, guys.
That's what you got to do at this point.
Like, give us what we want.
You have no leverage.
That remains to be seen.
Here's a bit more from Trump on what he needs to see out of that deal.
The deal that we are making with Iran will be far better than the JCPOA, commonly referred to as the Iran nuclear deal, penned by Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst deals ever made having to do with the security of our country.
It was guaranteed road to a nuclear weapon, which will not and cannot happen with the deal we're working on.
They actually gave $1.7 billion in green cash loaded into a 757. and flown to Iran for Iranian leadership to spend any way they saw fit.
He emptied out all of the cash from banks in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.
Those bankers said they've never seen anything like it before.
In addition, hundreds of billions of dollars was paid to Iran.
If I did not terminate that deal, nuclear weapons would have been used on Israel and all over the Middle East, including our cherished U.S. military bases.
The fake news, like lightweight Washington Post journalist David Ignatius, loves to talk about the JCPOA, knowing that it was dangerous and a complete embarrassment to a country.
If a deal happens under Trump, it will guarantee peace, security, and safety, not only for Israel and the Middle East, but for Europe, America, and everywhere else.
It will be something that the entire world will be proud of instead of the years of embarrassment and humiliation that we have been forced to suffer due to an incompetent and cowardly leadership, President Donald J. Trump.
So, look, Obama did get a piece of paper signed.
That's what the JCPOA was.
They got a piece of paper.
And you have to say, okay, well, the Iranians, were you going to abide by that?
We now know they were enriching over the limits that they were allowed, and we paid them tons of money to do it.
You can either choose lip service or you can eventually do some stuff, and sometimes it's going to be a little bit ugly and everything else.
And as I've said for the last 40 days, I am somewhat sympathetic to the, say, most libertarian leaning person who just is an isolationist and doesn't want us involved in anything.
I think it's a sort of seventh grade view of the world.
But I can be sympathetic to, oh, Donald Trump said no forever wars, and now we're in a war.
But the point is, this has been a 35 day war.
With a military portion that is mostly over, probably.
We'll see what happens.
And an economic war that is now happening, which ultimately will lead to a more peaceful world and get a regime that has been the number one state sponsor of terror to play ball with the rest of the world.
And then maybe we'll have something a little closer to world peace.
I think it's possible.
Am I just a dreamer?
I didn't even smoke weed on 420, but maybe it's possible.
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All right, just a little bit more on what's going on with Iran and the blockade, and then we'll move to some other parts of the world, which I do think are connected, particularly this Cuba thing that seems like it's about to happen.
Here's a bit more from Trump on truth.
The Iranian leadership has forced hundreds of ships towards the United States, mostly Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to get their oil.
Thank you very much.
So, you see what's happening here?
People, do we have video?
I think we have video of empty oil tankers, which are now on the way to us.
A few weeks ago, they might have got their oil in other ways.
But now we have Venezuelan oil, and we have plenty of our oil.
And countries are sending oil tankers to us to get oil.
Empty oil tankers are making their way to the United States of America.
68 of those 121 vessels are very large crude carriers capable of carrying 2 million barrels apiece.
President Trump has urged countries squeezed by Iran's disruption of the Strait of Hormuz to turn to American energy supplies instead.
Well, it would appear perhaps they are obliging him.
They are listening to Trump.
The president told Fox, quote, China can send their ships to the U.S., China can send their ships to Venezuela, while also saying that empty oil carrying ships from many nations are all headed to the U.S. to load up.
Now that we have this leverage, this blockade over the Strait of Hormuz, virtually everybody is coming to us for oil.
And we are saying to China, we control that thing.
And guess what?
They can sign a deal, and if they break it, we could control it in a month from now, right?
We could just start the blockade all over again.
So perhaps China will have to buy oil from us.
And you know, if China has to buy oil from us, they might be less inclined to do crazy things like, I don't know, go for Taiwan.
So there has been another.
There has been the immediate game of what's happened on the ground of Iran here, but as I have said for the 40 freaking days of this thing, I think this had way more to do with Donald Trump looking at the globe, looking at what's going on with China, and realizing this is America's last chance to remain the one superpower.
Because if we didn't, then we were going to be at odds with China that probably would have just kept encroaching, encroaching, encroaching.
This also has to do with why Trump wants to get Greenland.
You don't want to let Russia keep encroaching, and now Canada's become useless, and that's our only buffer.
Between us and Greenland, but that's a whole other side issue.
Here's director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, talking about what this is about to do to the energy sector in the United States.
Once this is resolved, think about how much energy production in the Gulf area has been depressed over time because of the huge risk premium associated with Iranian misbehavior.
And so, once this thing is done, think about the explosion in new energy production that can happen in the Middle East, driving prices way, way down over time, including in the U.S.
The final thing I can say is that if you look at the ship traffic data, it's kind of like every empty vessel on Earth is headed towards the U.S. to fill up with oil right now.
So, the U.S. is the biggest oil producer on Earth, and the capacity that we have to meet The demand of people who are stuck in that picture that you're showing, I think, is a positive surprise for markets.
I like someone who can talk about oil with a smile.
You know, it's like what he's saying is basically look, everyone's coming to us for oil right now because the strait is closed.
But once we get a deal here and the strait reopens, well, suddenly all these other countries in the Middle East that just realized that the old regime in Iran wasn't good, they knew it the entire time, maybe didn't want to say it too much, but they've been sort of living under the shadow of the Iranian regime.
Well, once that's gone, They'll be able to unlock their own energy.
And then, once those countries are doing a little bit better economically, first off, when you're doing better economically, it's good for people, right?
Department confirmed Secretary Marco Rubio dispatched a delegation of senior officials to negotiate in Havana.
Last week, a U.S. government plane landed on the island nation's soil.
For the first time since 2016.
As the U.S. fuel blockade worsens an already dire humanitarian crisis for Cuba's people, U.S. officials believe there is an opening to push communist leaders out.
Quote, President Trump is committed to pursuing a diplomatic solution if possible, but will not let the island collapse into a major national security threat if Cuba's leaders are unwilling or unable to act.
President Trump is reportedly considering a range of options from U.S. military intervention to U.S. led regime change.
So when you see a story like that, do you think, oh my God, Trump wants to kill Cuban people?
Trump wants to invade Cuba and take over Cuba, and Trump's a mean man?
Or is Trump going, boy, you know, communism, although it seems to be on its way up in New York, It doesn't work.
And we've got this nation, Cuba, that's not too far from quite literally from where we are in Miami right now.
And we might be able to fix the situation over there.
And if we fix the situation over there, then there could be more trade.
It would be good for the people.
Again, an economic peace first.
So he's going.
So what's Trump doing?
Trump 101.
We're sending a delegation, first delegation in 10 years since 2016, according to that report.
They're going to talk for a while.
If it doesn't go well, then what's Trump saying?
Well, we do have bombs and weapons.
And, you know, look what we just did to Iran.
So, Cuba, you're Little tiny, teeny tiny thing ran very big, so we could do some stuff to you.
So I suspect that Iran will, that the Cuba situation will actually be wrapped up fairly quickly in a similar situation to a Venezuela situation, but we will see.
Now, I want to show you one other piece on sort of the global scale, and then we'll take everything back to America, which is that the other thing that has happened during this Iran war is that Donald Trump, I think, has really, and America as a nation, has really realized who our useful allies are and who our Allies in name only, or as JD put it, so called, not JD, Pete Hegseth called it, so called allies.
So we have so called allies in Western Europe like the Brits, and this is not an attack on any of the people, it's an attack on the leadership.
You know, the Brits and the French, Spain has basically decided to completely step away and really not be an ally at all, but you know, they like their little statements and their words and all of those things.
They love paper, but they don't do anything when push comes to shove.
They'll take our protection, they'll take our money.
They'll take our soldiers and all the benefits that have working with America, but when we need something, they won't do anything.
That's in contrast to several other countries, most notably, obviously, Israel, that when America's like, we're doing something, they get in and join us for it.
And as Hex has said, it causes a force amplifier effect.
What this is all really exposing is that NATO, which was basically brought in after World War II, and an attack on any NATO nation is an attack on all.
Is that if the US doesn't do anything, no one does anything.
And NATO really is a sort of meaningless organization.
Here is Bill O'Reilly talking to my friend Bayangar Sargon about what is going on with NATO and Europe and what perhaps this is really all about internally in Europe.
And then it causes them to be in a certain state of paralysis.
So when the United States of America asks them to do something, they don't do it because they don't want to upset the people they just brought in.
That was a hell of a Faustian bargain that they did.
But let's leave all of the international stuff there.
Let's jump back to our shores because there is some craziness coming out.
Of Virginia right now involved regarding redistricting.
Listen to this from Fox.
Opponents of Virginia Democrats' redistricting referendum are accusing Governor Abigail Spanberger of a bait and switch, pointing to her campaign trail pledge of no plans to redraw the state's congressional map ahead of Tuesday's vote.
Former Virginia governors George Allen and Glenn Youngkin, along with a slew of top conservatives, have opposed the effort, which would redraw the Commonwealth 6 5 Democratic map to a 10 1 map crafted by Senate President L. Louise Lucas.
From Portsmouth and backed by Spanberger.
So Spanberger, who is a radical, a radical leftist, she had the tiniest patina of a moderate, so a kind of, but you could put her in sort of like the, I don't know, I guess that's the Josh Shapiro kind of rohkana, like, I'm not like a complete jihadist lunatic, but I am one of them, and said she was not going to redraw the maps the second she got power.
They're going to go from 6 5 to 10 1.
And then Virginia, which Virginia really should be a purple state.
In some sense, it should really be a red state, but because of its proximity to DC, you get so many DC people who are all Democrats living in Virginia that it becomes a little more blue.
It should really be purple, but it will be perpetually blue if they redraw these maps.
Here's Timu Obama.
He's very excited with all the emotion of what a humanoid robot can do in 2026.
And we're urging everyone to vote yes to stop the MAGA power grab.
And the voters of Virginia have an opportunity to ensure that there's a fair national congressional map.
Because we believe that it's the voters of Virginia and the people of this country who should decide which party is in the majority in the aftermath of the midterm elections, not Donald Trump and his extreme MAGA sycophants in state legislative bodies across the country.
The congressional map, as it stands right now, is 6 5.
You guys are trying to turn it to 10 1.
Look at that.
Who do you think is doing the power grab?
Is the guy doing the power grab the guy who's just keeping it at a pretty much 50 50 situation?
Or is the power grab the governor who literally just got elected?
I mean, she got elected a few months ago, who said she wasn't going to redraw the maps, going to a 10 1 map.
Who's doing the power grab?
Do we have any video of a former president who I mentioned earlier, a guy with nice teeth, knew how to read a teleprompter, back in 2016 talking about gerrymandering versus what he thinks about gerrymandering now?
Ten years ago, don't redraw the map, protect democracy.
Now, redraw the map, protect democracy.
It's just, it's too easy, and that's why they want to control the internet, because all that video is out there.
Of course, the Democrats are pretty terrible, and often the Republicans are just slightly better, and occasionally they're slightly worse.
John Thune, oh, John Thune.
The guy who should be right now devoting his, he's just back from vacation, they all just came back from vacation, and he should be devoting his life to getting the SAVE Act passed, to make sure we have free and fair elections where people have to show an ID, and I know a black person would have to find a printer or something, but that would be what he should be devoting his life to.
Their largest refund in years, money that is going toward paying down credit card debt, catching up on bills, Padding savings accounts or covering the cost of a vacation.
Money that is going toward paying down credit card debt, catching up on bills, padding savings accounts, or covering the cost of a vacation.
Mr. President, that was our goal with this bill.
To take some of the pressure off, to free up money that families could use to do things like pay down debt or put away for a rainy day or take a much needed vacation.
But there he's because look, Thune is going in with a certain set of priorities right now.
And right now, Thune is talking about redoing the FISA Act as opposed to focusing on the SABE Act.
That's what Mike Lee is pointing out right there.
And the point is, if we do not have some sort of federal, we have to do it federally for federal elections.
We have to do it federally because we know how corrupt the Democrat states are.
We will not have free and fair elections anymore.
And the Democrats have a slew of radical, loony candidates.
That they are trying to bring in, and they are also trying to get the census redone, which will include all of the illegals, and then they'll have all sorts of people that will be voting that should not vote and more.
I believe we have some video of some of these crazy Democrats.
We've showed a little bit of this guy yesterday.
This is Michigan Democrat senatorial candidate Abdul Al Sayed, and he really doesn't like ICE because he likes illegals more than he likes American citizens.
He's a generic progressive lefty Marxist, undoubtedly a Hamas supporter, all the usual stuff.
The fact that that's like just part of the ether now is kind of nuts.
But they are making it clear they don't want you to have an ID to vote, and also they want to hamper the government organization that would get the illegals out.
If you are a citizen of the United States and you vote for them, you should be sent to a mental institution.
So I'm not For big government programs, but if you told me we should dedicate, I don't know, $75 trillion, let's say, to mental institutions where we could send Democrats, I would be for that.
I'll even throw in the first $500 or even more.
I'll put in $10,000 to have the Dave Rubin wing at the Democrats are psychotic lunatics mental institution of the greater Michigan area.
Here is Senator Cory Booker, and he seems like he's just emotionally fine.
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Ladies and gentlemen, there is a storm in our nation.
There is darkness and wind.
People are getting hurt.
What we need is not from on high.
We need foot soldiers of our democracy who, in times of trial, are willing to stand up.
Now, I have a feeling I know what he's screaming about because Corey Booker, who's a lifelong bachelor, got married to a woman.
Very exciting.
Back in November of 2025.
And here they are.
That's Corey and his wife, the woman that he married because he's running for president.
And it helps if you're a homosexual who's in the closet to marry a woman.
And he's probably pissed because he has to lay in bed with a woman every night.
And I don't think he likes women.
That's not right.
There are plenty of gay guys that like women.
I don't think that he wants to sleep next to a woman all the time.
So then he gets invited to a conference like that and he just starts screaming like an unhinged lunatic because he's venting all the emotions that he can't get out with that lady.
Clip that, put that on the internet.
Here's Kamala Harris and she just wants the Democrats to be more selfish.
And so don't count on me to be a voter and be the backbone of the Democratic Party because it is my value system and my ethics and my sense of civic duty and responsibility.
So that you look at me and say, oh, they're gonna vote because of a high level of character, which is to say, I must conduct myself in a way that.
I honor the ancestors and all who have sacrificed before me, and so I will vote because it is my duty for all that paved the path for me to be here.
They think that they say that Donald Trump, Donald Trump's mean and authoritarian and everything else.
Have you ever seen Donald Trump get on stage and scream the way Cory Booker just screamed?
Have you ever once seen that?
Can anyone think of one video like that where he was so emotionally unregulated that he acted like Cory Booker?
You can't.
Now, can you think, for all of a sudden, Donald Trump rambles and blah, blah, blah.
Can you think of any time where Donald Trump rambled in any way that was come close to what she just did right there?
These people are insane.
They live in an alternate universe.
I will now up.
What did I say?
$10,000 for the Dave Rubin wing?
$20,000 for the Dave Rubin wing at the Democratic Insane Asylum.
Where does Batman put the Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane Democrats who often are complete lunatics?
Interestingly, Democrats also shoot drugs into dogs.
Okay, okay.
I talked about this on Monday's first look.
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Anyway, they are the Democrats, great people.
They are now taking the fentanyl that they're bringing in with the illegals and the crack and everything else, and they're injecting it into dogs to make sure that the drugs are okay.
So, you know, there is something, there's a weird thing that happens with humans.
We've all experienced this, where, like, you know, you see a bunch of homeless people, and in some sense, you can't fully emote with it properly, maybe because it's so deeply depressing or something.
So sometimes you can almost, and I'm sure I'm a victim of this, like, you can almost come off cold when you're talking about homeless people.
And then you see a dog, a stray dog, or you see a dog with a homeless person, and then you have this other much more.
Human, ironically, emotion about what's going on there.
Here is footage of some of the dogs in Skid Row.
So, you've got these people that are drugging these dogs to test the drugs.
They're keeping them in these cages.
They're tying them up together.
All of these things.
And by the way, that was just on the sidewalk.
There's supposed to be businesses in these places.
Skid Row is sort of downtown.
And remember what was it that Karen Bass said a couple months ago?
She was like, oh, well, there is all the drugs and the homeless and everything, but not a lot of people live downtown.
Well, that's kind of true.
But, you know, there's sporting events that happen downtown, and some people do live downtown.
And regardless of whether it was one or a million people that live downtown, do you want to live in a place like that?
So if you're a panic in right now or you're friends with a panic in, Understand, it could get a lot worse and really quick.
If you're on the right and you're pissed about the Iran war and you say, all right, I'm not going to vote in the midterms or I'm going to abandon Trump or whatever, you will usher, not only will Donald Trump be impeached, the Republican Party will completely collapse because there will be a fight like you can't even imagine for the next leader, right?
And the factions will all split.
But what will be the real result of all of that?
We will become a communist country.
That is what the Democrats are right now.
Right now, they, remember, You don't have to track this very long.
Five years ago, Bernie were Democrat socialists.
And what did I say then?
They will drop Democrat.
And now what are they?
They are socialists, right?
Mamdani gets up there and says, I'm a proud socialist.
I promise you, in three years from now, they will say they are communists.
And they will have used all of our systems against us to usher in what quite literally the founders of this country intended on avoiding.
And we'd have to tip our cap to them for doing it.
I would prefer not to go that route.
I hope you would.
So let's get cracking.
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