Dave Rubin critiques NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for allegedly threatening Ken Griffin's $238 million penthouse, claiming such actions drive $6 billion in projects and 20,000 jobs away while signaling a communist revolution. The host connects this to broader fears of tax-driven wealth flight, the Southern Poverty Law Center funding racist groups, and radical redistricting efforts in Virginia. Interspersed are personal reflections on music, cooking tomahawk steaks, and favorite westerns like True Grit, ultimately illustrating Rubin's blend of aggressive political commentary with off-grid introspection to address modern societal fractures. [Automatically generated summary]
Second half of today's show is a RubinReport.locals.com community QA, which we normally do on Thursdays.
It's a Tuesday.
We have our reasons.
Do I have to explain everything to everybody all the time?
Like there's stuff going on.
What can I tell you?
Obviously, we'll talk a little bit about some of the narrative fallout post- The third assassination on the president.
But we're going to do more today, I would say, on just sort of general leftist lunacy across the board.
Because if it wasn't for hating Trump, which is a very lofty ideal in their minds, they would pretty much have nothing.
And I think if we can just keep exposing that, then the midterms will not go as poorly as most people are predicting.
And I refuse to be a panic and I refuse to be a black pillar and I refuse to be a negative Nancy or a negatron.
We're going to keep things as positive as possible.
Let's dive in.
Now, you remember about a week and a half ago when communist in chief, communist with a dash of Islamist in chief of New York City, Zorhan Mamdami, moron Zamboni, when he put that ad out about how they were going to tax the rich of New York City.
And it's not just tax the rich of New York City, they were going to have an extra tax because they already taxed the rich of New York City to the nth degree.
But they were going to have an extra tax for rich people who have a pied de terre, a very fancy word, which means an extra tax.
Extra little, usually a condo in a big city.
You don't live there, but it's where you come.
You throw some parties, you go out to the opera or to the theater, you go to restaurants, you spend an awful lot of money.
So to punish those people for that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
But these guys, these communists, they need more of your money.
And if you remember in the video, Zorhan went right outside billionaire Ken Griffin's house and pointed out his very condo.
Here's Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank on that moment.
Let's talk about what he did to Ken Griffiths, though, because how would he like it if Ken took a video crew outside his house and said, Mandami lives here.
This is where he lives.
Think about what that means for personal safety.
Just in New York City, to point out where someone lives, vandalism or much worse, I thought that was pretty bad.
That's not a good look for him.
And I would think he'd want to do a little soul searching on that one.
Okay, so the line there that I want to focus on in light of what just happened.
With the president is vandalism or something much worse.
Now, if you remember, if you watch the show the day we covered that originally, I said that this is pretty insane that he would just pick a billionaire and stand outside his house up there.
It's basically saying to the people, you know, when you come for the rich people and you break into the, you break past the doormen and you're going to like burn a place down, this would be a pretty good place, 238 mil, go for this guy.
Like that was the, I would say, Subliminal, but not that subliminal signal that he was sending.
The mayor of New York getting pushback from billionaire Ken Griffin and his company called Citadel.
Griffin threatening to go forward, not go forward, with his planned project in midtown Manhattan.
That would create, he says, 15,000 permanent jobs.
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Griffin lives in Miami, CEO of Citadel, a hedge fund that employs 2,500 people in New York.
In a memo to the staff, the chief operating officer wrote, It is shameful that he used Ken's name as the example of those who supposedly aren't carrying their fair share.
Griffin and the staff paid $2.3 billion in city and state taxes, he said, and Griffin himself directed $650 million in charitable gifts.
To city institutions, that their planned 1,600 foot tower on Park Avenue will create over 20,000 mostly permanent jobs.
Then adding, the project, if we move forward, will entail more than $6 billion of spending.
So, surprise, surprise, Zorhan, you stand outside of a billionaire's house basically telling people, hey, when you're ready for the revolution, you might want to start here.
And then what happens?
Well, Ken Griffin, first off, that's Ken Griffin's pied de terre.
That's not Ken Griffin's main place because he moved already.
And he lives, surprise, surprise, down here in Miami, Florida.
And we're happy to have him and all of the good projects that he'll be doing.
And I'm sure we'll be building buildings in Brickle similar to the ones that he may now pull out of New York City.
20,000 jobs.
He and his companies, what was that?
$2.3 billion in taxes.
He gave $650 million in charitable donations to the city.
Damn shame, Ken, because when the revolution happens, you're not going to be able to go to the museums to see those things because they'll be coming for your head.
But what's interesting about this, and this is why I would say there is a silver lining.
To Moran Zamboni being the current mayor of New York City.
It is exposing all of the nonsense.
I'm running on free buses.
Oh, I got sworn in.
No more free buses.
I'm running on free government run grocery stores.
Oh, I got in.
Now we can't build them for another three years and they're going to cost triple what they should.
People are seeing general states of crime go up and drugs go up and people with money are leaving.
Thus, they're going to have to tax the next layer.
It's causing a wake up amongst people.
And I want to show you something interesting.
So, Bill Maher on Friday night.
Who is a liberal and a lefty and all of those things?
Here he is, I think, making an interesting conclusion finally, which is Bill, there's no amount of money you can give these people that will ever be enough.
The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes, and the bottom half, 3%.
The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don't already have a lot Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare.
Disability housing subsidies.
Again, not against it, just the same question.
How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly?
How can it be that the federal government alone took in over $5 trillion in taxes last year and we still need that?
Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?
Don't answer that.
But here's the truth you're not going to get health care to these people by threatening to tax and eat the rich.
You raise billionaires' taxes, they just leave the state or they leave the country or, in some cases, the planet.
You already laid out the numbers there, so I don't have to repeat them.
People with money pay most of the taxes.
The bottom 50% pay basically nothing.
The government has $5 trillion in income, but it always wants more of your money because it's not a revenue problem, it's a spending problem.
Then, interestingly, he shows all those government programs, and what did he say?
I'm not against them.
But maybe you should be against them because what we're finding out is that they are completely inefficient, or they are slush funds, or they are filled with fraud, or they are run in the most Probably criminal ways possible.
So there's still another inch or two.
We'll get there, no problem.
But that getting to liberal masses, the reason I'm showing you that is that his audience is lefty liberal, largely Democrat, and that notion may be finally breaking through to them.
The very things that Thomas Sowell or libertarian economists were talking about 40 years ago is finally maybe breaking through to some level of the liberal elite.
There is no number.
Like, think about all the billionaires that are moving to Florida right now out of New York.
It's not because they're hardcore.
Florida man conservatives.
It's because they understand basic economics.
Most of them don't care about social issues, like, kind of is what it is.
Most of them are probably not even that particularly political, other than they like business.
But at some point, when you suck and suck and suck, there's nothing left, but they keep wanting to suck.
And there goes our monetization for today's episode.
I wish I understood a little bit more about economics, huh?
I thought this was interesting from PolyMarket.
Will Mom Dami pass the 2% millionaire tax?
Before 2027, only 14% say yes.
I don't know if he's going to pass it.
My guess is yes, they will keep.
Again, there is no reason to think that the Democrats will turn back on any of their bad policies.
They will see all the billionaires flee.
They'll look down about, you know, a thousand miles south, see Florida, see the flourishing, see that the new Wall Street and the new tech center is being built here, and they're going to blame us for it rather than go, Boy, are we the baddies?
Did we have something to do with this?
Maybe I shouldn't have stood outside.
That guy's building and told people where he lives so that they could come get him during the revolution.
But it's not just that with Mom Dami.
Another thing, this one is just crazy.
If you want to see why I truly believe he is intentionally imploding the city, maybe you could make some argument that he just doesn't get it with taxes.
He's just a communist Marxist and he just honestly believes he could tax his way out of everything.
Maybe you can make that argument.
I don't think so at this point because it's so time testedly wrong.
But maybe you could, right?
If you want to see that now I genuinely Think, and I think this is like almost as cold hard evidence as you get that he is trying to destroy every norm in the city.
He just vetoed Bill 175B, which would have made it illegal for buffer zones around school and religious institutions.
So, to the backdrop of COVID and Hamas rallies and BLM and all the crazy stuff, they were going to have some buffer zones so you couldn't just harass somebody as they were walking into synagogue or walking into church, or you wouldn't be able to threaten kids or whatever it might be at schools.
Our city's history is written by those who refuse to stay silent.
As mayor, I stand firmly on the side of New Yorkers' right to challenge power.
Intro 175B, which applies to educational institutions, is meaningfully different.
The problem is how widely this bill defines an educational institution and the constitutional concerns it raises regarding New Yorkers' fundamental right to protest.
As the bill is written, everywhere from universities to museums to teaching hospitals could face restrictions.
Say you're a worker protesting ICE, or a college student demanding your school divest from fossil fuels, or demonstrating in support of Palestinian rights.
Is not a narrow public safety measure.
It is a piece of legislation that has alarmed much of the labor movement, reproductive rights groups, and immigration advocates, amongst others, across the city.
Nearly a dozen unions have raised the alarm about its impact on their ability to organize.
Man, this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and if you don't see it, I don't know what to do with you.
Of course, what this really is about, he said it there, the Palestinian rights groups.
He wants these Hamas.
People to be out.
He wants to make life as unlivable for Jews in that city.
That's number one for this guy more than anything else.
You should be allowed to walk into a place of worship, whatever the religion might be.
And by the way, if it was a mosque and there were white supremacists standing outside all day long threatening people, which is exactly what's happening at synagogues in New York City, I would be completely against it.
And he would be against it too.
The idea that he's defending the Constitution is completely absurd.
This guy would crap on the Constitution if he could.
I mean, in some sense, you could argue he is.
But the big three, it's Immigration, Palestine, and reproductive rights, because there's nothing Democrats love more than flooding your country with illegals, than creating sanctuary states, than making sure they're terrorist supporters, which is what all these Hamas people are, and aborting young children.
Or an elementary school or a synagogue, but he is, I'm telling you guys, it's intentional implosion of the system.
You know, I'm always looking for the sane Democrat, and it's hard to find.
It's sort of like the Yeti or the unicorn or the Loch Ness Monster.
Sightings are reported, but no one ever knows where they really are.
Maryland Governor Westmore, eh, it's okay.
At any moment, I'm sure we'll do horrible things, but he did have a nice moment on real time.
Same episode as Bill finally realizing that you can't tax your way out of the problem, which was nice to hear.
Here we have a Democrat, actually, Democrat governor, as a matter of fact, actually saying that applying the law often gets criminals to do less criminal things.
When I first became the governor, we had an absolute violence crisis within our state.
I mean, Baltimore City was averaging almost a homicide a day when I first became the governor.
And I said, I was very clear that we were going to have a different type of approach.
If you look at the results, We've now seen how the violent crime rate in Maryland is down nearly 50%.
It's the fastest drop in the entire country.
The last time the homicide rate was this low in Baltimore City, I wasn't born yet.
The reason I bring that up is this we did not increase the severity of the punishment, we increased the probability.
We made sure that you knew you wanted to get there and be violent in our communities, you want to make communities and families like mine less safe, or we're going to get you.
And you're not going to get out.
And say, like, we're adding a death penalty to it.
But we said, you will be held to account, and it has worked better and faster than anywhere else in the entire country.
Maybe you could put Chris Corvo right here and he can nod along.
What Wes Moore just laid out there is what basically is happening in every Republican city and was the norm in this country until about 10 years ago that if you commit a crime, you are going to be punished for it.
We're not going to let you do petty theft.
We're not going to let you rape grandma or sell fentanyl or blah, That's how things are.
So what he's saying is we didn't have to increase the threat level.
It's not like they were like, we're going to murder, you know, death penalty you.
If you do a bad thing, we're just going to make sure you know you're in trouble if you commit a crime.
And everyone's nodding, like, oh, everyone in the audience, my God, is this guy a wizard?
Where did he learn this?
This is just incredible.
It's what sane people have been doing forever.
However, I like to give credit where credit is due.
And Wes Moore, congratulations.
Maybe, Connor, can you put a little cup, some sort of award cup that we could ding with a ding sound?
Wes Moore, you're our Democrat of the day.
Congratulations.
You get a digital ding cup.
Let's put that in EFT form, sell it for seven cents.
So, okay, you get it.
The narrative is the issue here, guys.
There are bad people on every which side of every which issue, and people say mean things, and we always want to be on the side of free speech and all of that.
But the fact that for the third time now, Donald, there has been an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and as Donald Trump pointed out in that interview with Nora O'Donnell, he is someone who is consequential, and people like taking out consequential people.
If he was just doing nothing, nobody would care.
But so much of it, and we now know this from the manifesto, so much of it comes from People, regular citizens, being fed lies not only by online influencers, but mainstream media and the Democrat establishment themselves.
It's so interesting, even just that last portion right there.
Donald Trump did not call Mexicans.
Rapists and violent.
He was talking about the ones that are rapists and violent, the drug gang guys, every single thing they do.
Now, I know we've shown you that before, but the reason I wanted to show you that is to highlight this poll from YouGov.
Listen to this and then wonder why we are in this situation that we're in.
This is most Americans across the political spectrum say political violence is never justified.
But watch this younger and more liberal voters, liberal Americans, sorry, are more likely to disagree.
So, very liberal.
So, this is the progressive woke end of things.
25%.
Say that violence can be justified.
This is very much what we've been talking about the last couple of days about this Hassan Piker guy.
I don't really like what you did, so I can understand why someone would murder you.
So, very liberal, woke, progressive, lefty, 25%.
Liberal, it's hard to know what they think the word liberal means, but 17%.
That's certainly not within the classically liberal milieu, but okay, so if you add those two, you're into the 40s now, you're in the 42%.
Conservatives, only 6% of conservatives say political violence could be justified, and very conservative, which it's a none, zero, zero percent say.
That is massively different.
So far left to sort of mainstream left, we're looking at about 42% of young people and right to a little further right, let's say conservative to very conservative, it's 6%.
That is a freaking massive gap right there.
And you might go, well, how did that happen?
How did that happen?
I would say it's largely because of the ecosystem that these people get their information from.
We showed you yesterday a couple videos from right before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel.
Talking about Melania Trump being a widow, making terrible jokes about Stephen Miller, a Jew being a Nazi, all of these things.
This is also two days before the White House correspondence dinner.
This is Joy Behar over on the view from the insane asylum, suggesting that Trump is trying to kill us.
I used to do that six mile race for The Cure or something, and I swam in sewage every year.
It was a pleasure.
I loved it.
They're trying to kill us.
That's what she's saying.
Donald Trump, because she doesn't like Donald Trump's policies as it relates to climate change, which is a completely made up fictitious thing, she thinks they're trying to kill us.
And I don't even know that she even believes that as much as she just says it for her dingbat audience.
And then Whoopi goes, You think?
You think?
So the implication is, Of course they're trying to kill us.
Well, if you thought that the president and his cadre of masters of the universe, like evil people, you got Merman and you got.
Triclops and I'm going, this is too early for you guys, right?
The point of all of that is that He Man is not applicable here.
And at the end of the day, don't watch The View, I think is what I'm trying to tell you.
These people are trying to scare the hell out of you, and don't worry about climate change.
Everything's going to be fine.
But you get the point that if you make everything about fear, then somebody who you've affected deeply because there aren't enough good institutions left to inoculate people from these bad ideas, they're going to do the worst thing.
And we know that, right?
Whether it is now the actual assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Or whether it is the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump and everything else.
And the irony of all of this, and I'll try to get one more He Man reference in here before the show is done, the irony of all of this is that the hatred that they love, that they focus on endlessly, it's actually in short supply.
So the big story of last week, of course, is that the Southern Poverty Law Center was quite literally taking millions of dollars and funneling it to quote unquote racist organizations on the right, including the KKK.
And the Unite to Right rally, which led to the whole Charlottesville very fine people thing, they were funding them so that they could point to them and say, look, they're racist there.
And then I think the budget for the SPLC before Charlottesville was something around $33 million a year, and then it went to $170 million a year.
So they have created this problem.
Here's David Sachs on the All In podcast explaining a little bit more about how the financial incentives of all of this instigate more and more and more of the craziness.
In business, you set up a company, the company has to make revenue, has to make profits.
And if it doesn't, it's going to go out of business, right?
Because it'll lose money.
So there's a feedback mechanism from the market with an NGO, nonprofit, what have you.
They raise money.
They don't sell things.
They fundraise from donors in order to engage in an activity.
But what happens over time is the actual activities may stop mattering.
And all that really matters is they're able to keep fundraising, right?
Because Obama got elected in 2008.
Regardless of whether you liked Obama or not or agree with his politics, I thought that at that point, most people could see that this was not a racist country.
Whatever else you could say, The fact that the highest office in the land was not denied to anybody showed that this country was not holding people back based on their skin color.
And instead of just basically packing up shop and saying, okay, we've achieved our goal, the goalposts all got moved.
Remember, that's when the whole anti racism thing started, right?
So that is broadly a point I've made about the nonprofits.
But so he's talking about Obama.
And then you'd think some of these organizations dedicated to racism would be like, wow, we got freaking Obama, a black guy in.
Like, let's close up shop.
And move on.
But nobody wants to close.
Nobody wants to be like, oh, my job is over.
Now you've got to find more of it and find more of it.
In the case of the SPLC, they quite literally were funding it so they could find it, so they could have a job.
But another version of it would be what year was gay marriage passed?
2014.
That sounds about right.
2014.
When gay marriage was passed, it was a fight for equality, right?
Every single adult should be able to marry and be in an engagement or a relationship with anyone else that they so choose, right?
That was a march to equality.
And everyone should have been like, okay, we did it.
That's what everybody was fighting for for 30 years.
But then what happened right after that?
It's that the trans thing came in because the, the, the activist class, GLAD, GLAD, and, uh, and human rights organizations, all these things, they, they didn't want to be like, well, we like going to these parties.
We have these great parties and they have the drag queens there and everybody's there and we get all the Svetka vodka and we're having these parties.
It's wonderful.
Nobody wants to say, oh my God, no more parties.
So then they're like, okay, we better find more things.
So in the case of, Obama winning, suddenly it became okay, we got to focus on anti racism because we killed racism, so now we got to move the goalpost on that.
And in the case of gay marriage, which was again a just fight for equality under the law, then they suddenly had to move on to something that actually, ironically, the trans movement is wildly anti gay, but that's a whole other issue altogether.
But I think what Sachs said makes a lot of sense, and it is worth noting when you get into a conversation with people.
Why is it that for all of these years, Why is it that the SPLC was calling all of us racist and funding the groups that they said were racist at the same time?
Unless it was the greatest grift God ever created.
Speaking of grifters, let's talk about some Democrats and some of the things they've been doing as far as redistricting and a bunch more.
So here is Rohana, who, as I pointed out several times, was like the only Democrat who would talk to me.
Something happened with him over the last couple months where he went from, I will pretend to be a moderate, to going all in on the leftist lunacy.
He's out there campaigning with Hassan Piker and he gets.
Up at these things where they laugh at October 7th.
He's just become pretty terrible.
Anyway, he gets asked here post the assassination attempt on Trump, should the Democrats maybe fund DHS?
Because DHS has a little something to do with keeping people secure.
Roe, you're a liar, and I don't understand these people in an age of an internet that can just lie and lie and lie and not think anyone's going to call them out on it.
We want to fund DHS, but we wanted basically, he was saying, we'd want to stop ICE funding.
Google it, fact check me, community note me, send the fact checkers here.
I don't know what you want to do.
But so he's playing with words there.
What he's basically saying is we are trying to, this is what I've said all along, we are trying to exert maximum pain on you people.
So even if DHS isn't funded and the president, you know, there's another assassination attempt on the president, we will literally go on national TV the next day and lie about.
Whether we support the funding or not, because what we really want to do is stop ICE.
And it's kind of tough, S H I T, man.
Like ICE is funded whether you like it or not.
And we'll just have to keep calling out your lies.
One guy who doesn't lie is Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, who's been fantastic.
I really think starting during COVID, this guy just kind of got red pilled.
And he is right now one of the leading voices of sanity on the Republican side, basically saying, guys, end the filibuster right now.
Or we are in trouble.
Literally, the Republic is in trouble because the Democrats are telling you everything they are willing to do.
Well, you know, we did not have the votes when Democrats were being so obnoxiously obstructionist on just nominations.
We didn't have the votes to basically nuke the filibuster on all nominees, but in the end, Democrats were so obnoxious, we had all 53 Republican senators go, yeah, no, we need to start.
You know, confirming nominees to just 50 votes.
This may be a moment like that.
Okay, I mean, again, it's a legitimate point of view wanting to maintain the filibuster to, if we're in the minority, to block awful socialist, leftist legislation.
But the Senate's already broken enough.
We've pretty well eviscerated the filibuster anyway.
From my standpoint, rip the bandaid off.
The Democrats will do it.
The Democrats will do it when they get the majority.
At a moment of national danger, if Democrats refuse to fund DHS, I will say this would be the time to nuke the filibuster for good.
And he even goes out of his way to make the point.
The Senate's broken enough is what he's saying.
Sure, he's basically saying, would I love to be the most principled guy in town and just be like, guys, it's just about 60.
Let's just get those 60 votes and we're principled and they're not, but we're just going to do it because we've got our principles and the boat is sinking, but we're holding on to our principles and we're going to be okay.
He's saying he acknowledges that that exists, right?
But what then he's saying is these guys are bananas.
They are going to push forward.
Every policy to disassemble the United States, and we are getting very, very close to the moment where they will be able to do it.
So, how about in this brief moment where we have power?
I don't like the idea of getting rid of the filibuster.
It was, he says, it was put in place to protect the minority.
But right now, if you don't use power when you have it, even if you're wary of that power, every now and again, I know this has something to do with Lord of the Rings, you're going to be in trouble.
And that's where they're going to be.
That's where they're going to be.
And how do we know that?
Well, we only have to listen to their own words.
As you know, last week in Virginia, a state that is as purple as purple gets, it's basically a 51 49 state that really should be red, but because of its proximity to D.C., it gets all those Democrats.
So it's a very, very purple state.
As Scott Jennings pointed out last week, it had the fairest congressional map.
It was six to five Democrats in a 51 49 state.
So that was as fair as it got.
Then they vote on it.
It goes 10 to one Democrats.
Now it's hung up by the court.
But that doesn't even matter because as it was unfolding, listen to Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, on what his plan is.
We are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time.
And we're going to keep the pressure.
On Republicans in every single state in the union to ensure at the end of the day that there is a fair national map because we believe that it's the people who should decide who's in the majority in the next Congress, not Donald Trump and MAGA extremists.
So again, with the rhetoric with these guys, but let's throw that aside for a second.
What he says is we want a fair national map.
You guys, that was to the backdrop of a 5149 state that quite literally had the fairest in the entire country.
It was the fairest proportional map, six to five in a 5149 state, basically 50 50.
That was how it shook out.
Then you got it, at least temporarily, you know, you got it as per the election, you got it to 10 to 1.
Now it's hung up in the courts, but how is 10 to 1 fairer in a 50 50 state?
It's not.
But you're a liar and a humanoid android that they plug into a Tesla charger.
Every afternoon to make sure you can operate, and you'll just say whatever you can in the quest for power.
Well, you know what?
Every now and again, as I said, you must fight fire with fire.
You must use power when you have it.
So, what is the greatest state in the nation, led by the best governor in the nation, doing?
Well, look at this from Town Hall just in.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped a brand new redistricted congressional map for Florida.
And as you can see, that's what our state actually looks like.
We are super, super red.
We have a little blue outside of Orlando.
It's all those Disney weirdos.
And then we've still got some issues in the Miami Dade area, you know, Fort Lauderdale with all those cruises, you know, there's something going on over there.
So if DeSantis gets the map that he wants, that would make Florida a 24 Republican seat and 4 Democrat seat state.
But would I like to have principles as I am sinking underwater going glub, glub, glub, glub?
I've got principles.
I would prefer not to.
I thought we could end on this because it's, we'll end on this and then we'll get to the QA.
I thought this was just kind of funny and really about how we can maybe message some of this better.
This is a truth from Donald Trump and just this is look appears to be what's a random X account.
Alyssa Marie, 11, wrote, I want Trump to change ICE to NICE, National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so the media has to say NICE agents all day, every day.
And Trump wrote, Great idea, do it, President DJT.
That actually is a great idea.
Win on messaging.
Remember Don't Say Gay in Florida, a bill that didn't have the word gay in it and had nothing to do with that or anything else?
They won it in the sense they lost because DeSantis doesn't lose, but they won the messaging.
There was a year long fight about Don't Say Gay because they just decided to name something.
It was only on from 78 to 79, so I was two and three, so I definitely didn't see it originally, but I must have seen some repeats over the years.
But yeah, if you have not seen Battlestar and you dig sci fi and just.
They just tell a great story.
And I think one of the things that's so great about it is you almost felt as if the writers did not know what they were going to do, but they were able to figure it out.
Even to the last, you know, you're four years into the show, how many seasons was the reboot?
I think it was four seasons, if I'm not.
Yeah, it was four seasons.
Even into the last episode, you're watching the last few minutes and you're still like, what the hell's going to happen?
What's going to happen?
So yes, it was great.
Nimbus says, since social outcomes caused by the left haven't made them recognize they've gone too far, such as assassination attempts, et cetera, would a significant economic hardship under their extreme policies be what causes them to reconsider their positions, similar to the animal on Orwell's animal farm?
So, for example, if New York City implodes right now, right, what will they say?
Well, they'll say we didn't tax them enough.
The answer will be well, it's because the rich people fled.
We didn't have a chance to tax them enough.
We started taxing other people.
They fled.
So, if only everyone had just stayed and played by our rules, which is also why they want to control freedom of movement and freedom of speech and everything else, they just want that perfect system.
And then what they realize is that, oh man, humans are weird.
They care about themselves, they do what's for their own self interest, and they may not want to be subjected to your draconian laws and rules and everything.
So, I don't think there's any evidence of that.
I think what is a, it just is what it is.
In the places where Democrats rule, people will just leave.
That's what they've been doing for years.
There are 2.3 more citizens in the state of Florida since COVID.
And those are people who were sick of what was happening.
Virtually all of them were people who were either sick about COVID or sick about, you know, it was lockdowns and the rest of it.
And then once they started waking up about that, they started then connecting it to crime and drugs and lifestyle.
And then suddenly they were like, oh, and I don't pay.
State income tax, and now it turns out DeSantis is about to get rid of property tax.
So I think it'll just be a separation, will just continue.
I have no evidence.
I would love if someone could give me the historical evidence on this of a movement of leftism that, in and of its own accord, was like, you know what, we are going the wrong way here.
Before we start beheading people, could we turn back?
I don't think there's any instance of that, but I would gladly have a historian on if somebody can figure one instance of that out.
But eventually it's off with their heads.
Kelly says, is there a chance you would have Spencer?
Pratt on, do you think he stands a chance of winning LA?
So that's a sort of extension of the last question.
So, Spencer Pratt, you know, I'm not a reality TV star, a reality guy, but he was in the Princes of Malibu, I've been told, and the Hills, which I vaguely remember.
I don't think I ever watched it.
Now he is running.
He was sort of recently red pilled, and I guess he's running for governor.
He's polling at about 16%.
Yeah, I'd have him on if we can get him.
Why not?
We should also have Steve Hilton on, who, of course, is running for governor of Cali.
I mean, Cali, like, You're really running out of chances here.
Your runway is getting pretty damn short.
The plane is going, going, going.
The runway is running out.
You're going to end up in the ditch.
And you can either continue that ditch with any of these Democrats or maybe you can choose a Republican and go the other way.
Of course, as I talked about many times with Larry Elder over the years when he was running, even if you got the governorship, it's still such a one party state in the state legislature that getting anything done would almost be impossible.
But at least it would be worth a shot.
And I am told that Nithya Rahman, who is the LA City Councilwoman, she's currently polling at 50.
3%, and she is a proud Democrat socialist like Zorhan Mamdami.
Karen Bass is also writing.
She's the current mayor, and she's at 28%.
So that's what happens.
Karen Bass is not left enough for these lunatics.
So they're like, okay, can we get someone who is even insane, more insane?
That would be great.
It's exactly what happened to Eric Adams, right?
Eric Adams governed like a lefty lunatic, BLM, a sanctuary city, and they were like, sorry, bro, you're not crazy enough for us.
Get us someone crazier.
Enter Zorhan.
Kevin says, do you play any musical instruments?
If not, which one would you like to learn the most?
You know, I have not played a musical instrument since the recorder in third grade, which I crushed that thing.
Yeah, it's not really.
I love music.
I love listening to music, and we always have music playing in the house.
Basically, from wake up time, I usually put on some classical music and then, you know, different things throughout the day.
But I've never been, I played the drums for like a couple weeks in fourth grade.
I've strummed a guitar every now and again.
I did play the cello a little bit in third grade, but, you know, I tried all that stuff as a kid.
Not really my thing.
The kids are really into it.
So we do have a piano here that I got for David for his 30th birthday years ago.
And they like playing the piano, and we got them little guitars, and we have other little instruments and little.
Cucarachas and all these kinds of things, which actually one of the funnest things that I've done the last year was when I interviewed Frankie Valley about a year ago before his concert.
I was talking to him about how much the kids love his music.
We have the Frankie Valley dance party all the time.
And he was like, Oh, they're into music.
Do they play anything?
And I showed him some videos of the kids playing the piano and doing some other things, which is great.
I think we got an image of that.
Lo Bryant says, When you're off the grid, is it all rest and relaxation, or do you do some planning or thinking regarding your next book, how to expand the Copal market, what fun stuff to do or places with the boys, et cetera?
Do you make meal plans to cook on your big green egg?
You know, it depends what's going on.
So, a couple for there, well, there's my big green egg, and I get an awful lot of use out of that thing.
Last time I used it was about three weeks ago.
We had the Big Connor birthday bash here, and how would you say those tomahawks?
Yeah, I just, it's ruined my ability to go to steak joints, but it is worth it.
So, yeah, no, in some of the years when I was off the grid, particularly when I was writing Don't Burn This Book, I did almost all of that when I was off the grid, whatever year that was.
And then a little bit for Don't Burn This Country.
But as I've mentioned several times, I don't need to do a lot.
Like, I really like just disconnecting.
And I'm literally, I could sit at the beach, get my chaise lounge, I can just stare at the ocean.
You put me out there at noon, I'll take a nap at some point, and then I don't need to wrap up till five, six o'clock, and I'm fine.
I literally go through things in my head.
About what I've been talking about on the show, or something maybe just something personal life or whatever.
And I just use that month as like a filing system, like I'm gonna end this issue, or I'm gonna talk to this person about that, or and that's and I'm just like sorting things out.
And you know, one of the cool things about going off the grid is that it'll then allow my brain to breathe a little bit more.
And I've mentioned this when I come back from the grid, I can suddenly remember like a whole album, every word out of an album, or I'll think about a friend, I'll think about a friend that I haven't thought of.