Dave Rubin opens the May 11, 2026 episode by analyzing Spencer Pratt's conservative mayoral surge in Los Angeles following the Palisades fire, where NBC polls show 80% favor Pratt over Mayor Karen Bass despite Polymarket odds. The discussion critiques Senator John Fetterman's alienation from the Democratic base and President Trump's ongoing war with Iran, noting Netanyahu's demand to cut U.S. aid from $3.8 billion annually. Rubin highlights Virginia's Supreme Court overturning a gerrymandered map to restore a 6-to-5 Republican advantage, contrasting this with Democratic accusations of racism and proposals to lower Supreme Court justices' retirement age to 54, ultimately framing the election as a choice between Trump's vision and collectivism. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, we got a lot to cover today.
There's a lot going on.
We're going to start in LA, where obviously there's this big mayoral race going on.
It gets to that thing that I'm always talking about how when you're telling the truth, you don't have to be screaming, you don't have to be yelling, you don't have to be slamming your hands on the desk, you don't have to fake a moat and all of those things because the truth is the truth and it kind of is easy when it comes out.
But of course, what he's saying there is right.
And that is that asymmetry I'm always talking about.
If you think about it from this perspective, from a media perspective, which is what he's saying, think about the view.
It's all lefties with one quasi.
Republican, right?
The CNN panels, it's all crazy lefties with Scott Jennings.
You think about the White House press briefings.
Now, Joe Biden did very few of them, but if you think about Jen Psaki or, God, I haven't said her name in so long, Corinne Jean Pierre, or any of these people, they got questions that were basically like, so what's for lunch today?
Oh my God, your hair looks so great.
Where do you get it done?
Is that a perm?
Versus where Trump comes in and he gets, well, first off, he does these press conferences himself and he does them on the plane and everything else, but they get real questions and they are getting real answers.
Think about Margot Rubio just last week when he was White House press secretary.
So the asymmetry, that's why I'm always talking about narrative stuff.
If you're a Democrat, you can lie, you can cheat, you don't have to have your facts straight, you can say crazy things, and they just nod along.
And if you're, it's not even that he's, I don't even know what all of his policies are.
It's not like he doesn't strike me as like the most hardcore conservative guy out there who was a reality star on the hills.
Whatever the hell that was, I don't even know what it was.
It doesn't even matter.
That's the point, is that his house burned down, and he goes, you know, I'm going to get a little political now.
Here he is with a bit of what he might do in those first two to three weeks, and I actually believe him.
I like how he led with no more nakedness, which you might think is what are you talking about?
Literally, when I was in LA about three years ago for some trip that we went on, walking into the hotel, walking into the Marriott Courtyard, we spend money over here at the Ruben Report, and I was with my then producer, Michael, and two guys who were Basically naked, except they had dog masks on, and one was walking the other one.
So, like, that shouldn't be happening.
It was noon.
It was noon.
It's like, you got to save that for night.
What the hell are you doing at night?
So, there's nakedness, there's feces, there's crime.
He's right about, you know, at the height of COVID when I was in LA, I did think about that a lot because there were homeless encampments everywhere.
You've got all of these super rich people sending their kids to schools with plastic bags on their head, you know, with duct tape around them.
They can't breathe.
And meanwhile, you've got people literally living in feces with the dog and the zombie, what was it, the super meth?
That we talked about on actual friends that Dr. Drew was telling me about.
And it just creates this toxic insanity.
But basically, all he said there, jokes aside, was you know what?
This urban decay that is now everywhere, we're going to put up some signs and we're going to start dealing with it.
Now, this, I thought, this is absolutely hilarious, almost to the point that I could not believe it was real.
I actually thought it was AI.
Discussed it with Connor.
This is real.
We double checked it.
So they put out an ad against.
Spencer Pratt.
Okay, I need you to understand this.
This ad that we are about to show you is against Spencer Pratt.
If this doesn't make him look like an absolute all star who you must vote for, I don't know what's going on.
Take a look.
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Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor.
Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out.
Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt.
Thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more.
LA is on the right track and needs to stay the course.
You mean he wants you to keep your money and not just take it to put homeless people in houses as if that will solve the problem?
He's going to go against the unions?
I mean, it really does perfectly illustrate how out of control the left, and it's across the board on the left with those tiny little asterisks, they have completely lost their mind.
They're putting out ads that make the Republican look like the good guy.
Now, I want to contrast that with something.
You remember last week, I think it was on Friday, we showed you one of these AI ads that came out.
Now, this was not from the Spencer Pratt campaign.
It's just a guy who lives in LA.
He's a creator in LA who likes Spencer Pratt.
He's had it with the destruction of his city.
And he put out this incredible it was basically a Batman kind of Dark Knight Rises version of what's going on in Los Angeles.
We played a portion of it.
We've reached out to the guy.
He's just fantastic.
His name's Charles Curran.
He put out another one this morning, like 20 minutes before the show today.
And we just want to show you a portion of it.
And if you wonder, guys, Why is it that Bernie's always, we've got to stop AI and robotics and it's going to put everybody out of work?
And it's like, no.
You know why they want to stop AI?
It's because of this.
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You didn't finish burning the city to the ground in your first turn.
Make sure you finish the job in your second.
The only thing that can stop us is someone telling the truth.
As long as they don't have any hope, the city's ours.
It's about a minute and a half long, but you see one of the beautiful things.
It's why I did the show that we did.
Hopefully, you saw some of it on Saturday.
We put up my interview with Joe Alonzale.
Joe is one of the co founders of Palantir.
He's a major VC guy involved in all the AI stuff and everything else.
And what we spent the hour talking about, if you haven't seen it, is the positive vision of the future.
And that what, you know, because we're always doing the dystopian version of what AI can do in robotics, and they're going to, Skynet will turn on and all that stuff.
But, like, they used to say a picture is worth a thousand words, and, like, what is AI worth?
What is that worth?
Where they can show you something deeply true, and then you've got the Democrats screaming that they want to destroy AI and destroy robotics and burn it.
That is good.
That is how you get people to think.
You start taking cultural references, that's how you win the culture back, right?
You take cultural references as banged up as Star Wars is, and you have Gavin Newsom as Palpatine and Bass as Vader, and then the people, as it goes on later, then you see little people, you know, regular people, not little people, you see regular people busting out their lightsabers ready to fight the madness, right?
And I think his messaging also is good, that what the Democrats have created is a situation that it's everyone versus these progressive lunatics.
Let me throw in, you probably don't want the jihadists too, but that's probably baked into the communist and the socialist at this point.
But again, that's what I like.
I like people who are apolitical and then something gets forced on them.
They start using gender pronouns with their kid at school and they get red pilled like that.
Or in this case, his house and his parents' house burned down because of utter incompetence and he gets involved.
Or there's just so many versions of this that you've all been through, right?
We've all been through this.
You don't get a promotion because you're told at work, well, you're a white guy who's 57 and we're just not going to promote someone like you.
Next thing you know, you're a radical right wing maniac like me.
Like, that is what I'm interested in.
And actually, that's the thing.
That's what the power of the people is, right?
Like, that the system will do enough stuff to you that it will start creating heroes.
That's kind of what's going on here.
That is what is going on here.
And then, of course, there are the people that are just part of the machine that get everything wrong and that, for whatever reason, keep getting elected in Democrat cities, right?
So, Detroit, 100 years of Democrat rule, disaster.
Chicago, However, many years, New York now, Los Angeles, I mean, all of these big blue cities, they keep getting worse, and then the people keep voting for the people who make it worse and going, I don't understand, right?
Here's Karen Bass, and of course, the California fires had nothing to do with her, even though she was warned about it, went to Ghana anyway, had the reservoirs drained.
It's climate change, of course.
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Are you responsible for what happened there and the mismanagement that did occur in those fires and the response to them?
Let me just say that as the mayor of the city, the buck stops with me.
That is very, very clear.
What was true of our city, but not just our city, our region, our county, was that we were not prepared because, let me just tell you, with climate change, we are experiencing climate events that Los Angeles is not prepared for.
Now, I don't think she means it really, because if she meant it, she wouldn't be running for re election.
She would say, Boy, did I screw up here.
The buck stops with me.
I was in Ghana despite being told that these wins were coming and this Santa Ana was happening and we hadn't done proper preparation.
And, you know, I'm just going to go crawl into a hole now.
But she's not doing that.
But I will give her credit for at least saying, The buck stops with me.
Then she says, We were not prepared, except you could have been prepared.
Because the guy that you ran against, Rick Caruso, he somehow, who has built many, many malls, outdoor, quite expensive malls, and many other things, commercial real estate and much more, in that town of Los Angeles, he prepared and his mall in the Palisades, which was destroyed, wasn't destroyed because they built it in a fire retardant way and he had a private fire department take care of it and everything else.
He could have been mayor and would have fixed a lot of these things.
People, the fire department literally went to turn on hydrants and there was no water in it.
So don't tell me on one hand, I'll give you credit for saying it, but the buck stops with you, and also please elect me again.
And then to blame it on climate change, we're just experiencing these things we've never experienced before.
It's just not true.
It is just not true.
I can make a zillion arguments why we should go more green.
We should try to have more renewable energy.
We should try to have things that are cleaner for our air and water and everything else.
But what you guys have done is created climate hysteria.
For so many years.
And all your solutions are just give us more power and more of your taxes and we'll put up more wind turbines and blah, blah, blah.
And it won't fix anything.
It will not fix anything.
So, what really is happening right now is that you've got Spencer Pratt who's basically defending kind of common sense.
I didn't want to be involved in this.
Something's really wrong.
I'll get involved.
And then you have a woman who says the buck stops with me, but she is trying to defend the status quo.
It will be up to the people of Los Angeles to decide which one of those works.
Clearly, Many of us that are not Los Angelinos anymore, just outsiders, are looking at Pratt and going, This thing's making sense.
Here's Lydia Moynihan from the New York Post making a hell of a lot of sense about Spencer Pratt.
And watch what they do.
I mean, this is pure what they do on television.
Split screen and watch the Leslie, I don't even know who this woman is, Leigh McGowan.
Just watch the way she emotes as Lydia lays out the truth.
Drain the reservoir so there's no water when people's houses are burning down.
It's common sense and normalcy.
That's all he's doing.
And she sits, the other woman sits there, and that's perfect, like producer A on that.
You knew she was going to, like, what?
What is wrong with any of those things?
You people are completely bananas.
Here's an updated poll from NBC Los Angeles.
Which candidate won the debate for mayor?
So this is not current polling.
This is just who won the debate.
Karen Bass, 14% thought she did a bang-up job.
Spencer Pratt, 80%.
And Nithya Raman, who is just, she is the mom dummy of Los Angeles.
She got 6%.
Polymarket right now is rating it at 49% in terms of who will win.
49% of the betters are still saying Karen Bass, which is disappointing.
Obviously, 30% saying Pratt, and then Nithya Raman at 18%.
So we will see what happens.
And look, this is one of those things where, you know, I obviously do a ton on this show about the good things happening in Florida, right?
And it's easy to do, and I think it's important to do because decline is a choice, and we have to map the good things.
For those of you that don't live in Los Angeles or you don't really care about Cali or anything else, it's important because we can't keep losing all of our cities.
We've lost New York City, at least temporarily.
We lost Chicago a long time ago.
We lost Detroit a long time ago.
We lost Portland and Seattle, and we can keep doing.
You want me to name some more, right?
So it's like we can keep losing all those cities, and eventually you lose the country.
So you may not care about Los Angeles, but we can't keep losing all of these things.
So when someone good comes up, I think it's worth talking about it and elevating that to whatever extent any of this matters.
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Yeah, well, I mean, you have whether it's like the mayor in Seattle.
I mean, she's absolutely a socialist in New York, and a lot of these candidates across the country, and that's really moving towards that.
And people that are proud to be labeled as a socialist.
That used to be like a smear when I was running my first cycle, and now that's becoming more normalized, and now I think that's a very dangerous slippery slope for us to be.
You know, you have that Lydia Moynihan who we just pointed out on CNN talking about how Spencer Pride is just saying kind of common sense stuff, and there you have.
Two liberals, I think we can actually call them liberal in the true good sense of the word, saying, man, everyone in our party is insane.
And unfortunately, the island that they are on is getting lonelier and lonelier.
The amount of good liberals who are willing to fight within the Democratic Party or who will have any influence in a future Democratic Party is disappearing.
Where the good liberals have influence, well, it's Maha involved with Donald Trump and MAGA, obviously.
It's the Tulsis, it's the Bobby Kennedys, it's the Me types, it's the Rogan types, like the basic.
Old school liberal who's now at home on the right.
And these guys are going, well, shoot, gosh darn it, everyone here is insane.
They're all socialists.
And really, you really have to do think about it this way.
Look, I said it years ago.
They're calling themselves Democrat socialists now, but eventually they'll say socialist.
And by the way, many of them are saying communist already.
So there's no energy to stop the radicalization that is happening on the left.
There's nothing there, right?
But what Bill and Fetterman and the rest of them will continue.
Continue to find is that they will have common cause on the right.
And whatever those differences are, I would say the better use of your vote and your influence is to keep the right in power and then be the liberal side of that.
Moderate it, right?
Whatever you think might be the scariest part of being conservative, well, be part of what they're doing where you will have some influence versus a bunch of people that have burnt the house down or blaming you for it and also coming for you and your way of life.
Here's Marr asking Fetterman the gajillion dollar question, which of course is will he switch parties?
You know, it's interesting also, if you didn't notice, he's holding his phone there.
So obviously, and even in some of his speech patterns, and it's not quite that he loses his train of thought, but doesn't really finish a sentence maybe or something.
So he obviously still has some stuff going on mentally, but he's looking at notes every now and again.
It's interesting.
He calls himself a committed Dem.
I mean, I think we should commit most Democrats, but I don't think that's what he meant by that.
The 93% thing is interesting.
So I'll assume he's telling the truth there.
Roughly right.
So he votes 93% with the Democrats, and yet the Democrats hate him.
They hate him.
The base absolutely hates him.
He's not with them on Iran and a couple other little things.
But he says, I thought we were the big party, the Big Ten party, but you're not.
That's the issue.
In some sense, I don't think it matters, right, whether he runs Democrat or Republican.
And I don't know what his future is and when he wants to go up for reelection.
Like maybe there might be literal reasons that you stay a Democrat in Pennsylvania that it's just easier.
Than switching, right?
I mean, because they had a good Republican candidate, a guy I like a lot, Mehmed Oz, who ran against Fetterman and it didn't work out.
There might be literal, like Pennsylvania, just granular issues of why you would stay a Democrat.
But as long as he votes what his heart is, then I suppose it doesn't matter if he switches.
Now, I want to show you a little more from the show because then they had former DNC chair Donna Brazil on.
And Donna Brazil, where you might recognize her from, besides her purple hair, is that she was the one who was the former head of the DNC, who then took a job at CNN and was caught giving Hillary Clinton.
Questions before one of the debates with Donald Trump.
She then got her job back at CNN.
She shouldn't be on any show ever again.
I mean, the woman has exposed herself to be a complete and utter fraud.
But anyway, she gets on these shows.
And here she is.
She's not happy with Trump on Iran, never fully explains why.
She gives a bunch of platitudes, and then Fetterman goes after her.
Again, put aside what you think about the war, what you think about anything else.
Did we do, is it an empirical fact that we have done extraordinary damage to the Iranian?
Military.
Yes, the Air Force is gone.
The Navy is under the sea, as Hegseth keeps saying.
We've taken out something like 80% of the ballistic missiles, all of those things.
On top of killing a huge amount of the leadership, remember Ayatollah, et cetera, et cetera.
So that is obvious.
The question that she asked, like, are we done with the military thing?
Trump would never give you the yes, yes, we are done.
We're just negotiating now.
Like, I like Cheryl Atkinson, so I'm not even knocking her, but like, it's a silly question in some sense.
Like, Trump obviously keeps a military option on the table because that's how he negotiates.
So we will see what happens there.
The other part of all of this is that Iran was enriching uranium past what they needed for civilian use.
They admitted it and it's hidden all over the country.
So, one of the things that we have to do, and Trump has said we will do it, is get the uranium out one way or another.
That's a massive project, right?
We don't know where it is.
It's a hugely mountainous country.
They had underground reactors.
Like, that's a huge, huge thing.
So, the hope would be that we have a trustworthy government on the Iranian side.
We cut some kind of deal, and they're like, boy, we would like to be in business with the Americans.
And look at all those Gulf states that are doing stuff with the Americans now.
And they're flourishing.
So, maybe we could get in on that, and that hopefully the Iranians will do some of it themselves.
It's a very big task.
To take on.
But here's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talking to Major Garrett on CBS about how the war is not over because they've got to figure out where this stuff is.
Like, Trump, are you ever going to go in and bomb him again?
I'm not going to say.
How are you going to get this stuff out?
Well, of course, you don't say it right now.
The hope would be that you would have some layer of Iranian leadership that would cut a deal, say, okay, this is it.
Our country is in tatters.
We can't get any of our oil out because they've blockaded the Strait of Hormuz.
Let's play ball with them.
You know what?
We're not going to have nukes.
We're just going to have to give it up.
And if we want, Nuclear energy for civilian use, we're going to have to import it.
Like, if that's what you can get out of the Iranian leadership, then you will be able to get that stuff out.
How exactly we are going to do it, we don't know.
I thought this, there was a bunch of clips that were going viral from this, but I thought this was the other interesting thing because, you know, there's a certain set of people, and I always, this is what I say consistently across the board, I am sympathetic to the people that are just sort of America only, we shouldn't do anything, there should be no foreign aid, blah, I am sympathetic to that in some sense, except for when it comes to reality, when you do have alliances, there are good guys and bad guys saying you don't.
Want war doesn't mean you're not going to get war.
I'm for peace.
Well, okay, you're probably going to be the easiest person to take out.
But there is a certain set of people on the right, particularly the more libertarian right, who want U.S. financial aid across the board to go down.
If you told me tomorrow that America was just cutting 20% equally across the board to every single country, I'd probably be for that.
One of the things that has happened as it relates to Israel is we give them, we're going to get some numbers here, but we give them a certain amount per year, and then they have to spend a Huge percentage of it in the United States.
So it's not that we're giving them money that they're spending on themselves.
They're actually spending it here.
It's an odd subsidy to the American military, right?
And then, in a weird way, it also has a vested interest in keeping Israel at war.
So there's been a weird thing surprise, surprise, that was a 10 year deal signed by Obama.
But here's Netanyahu saying that he would like to draw American financial support to nothing.
Do you believe it's time for the state of Israel to re examine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States, meaning what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis?
I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have, because we receive $3.8 billion a year.
And I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.
So, anyway, I think that's worth a little context.
But here's one other clip from that, because I thought this is something that I've said again also from the beginning of the war, that what is going to happen after.
This thing, whenever it ends, is that all of these Gulf countries and other Arab states who don't want to be perpetually at war, they're going to be like, Boy, it wasn't Israel attacking us.
It wasn't the United States attacking us.
As a matter of fact, it was Israel and the United States defending us while Iran attacked 13 of its neighbors.
And when we finally get to the end of this, whenever that is, when the peace deal is signed or whatever, or a ceasefire is officially taken hold and everything else, there will be peace deals.
It's more than you think now in ways that I cannot, I guess, will become public.
I can't give everything to 60 minutes or to you in one shot, but I'm telling you that the degree of economic cooperation on energy, on AI, on quantum, the areas where Israel is so strong.
And they see the possibility now of sharing the fruits of these capabilities with them.
It's so interesting because he's right in that economics kind of solves everything, right?
Like, if you realize, boy, things are kind of working here and people have jobs and everything's going okay and we're on this AI horizon and we can work with these guys who will help us do all these cool things with robotics and everything else, you're less inclined to try to kill these people.
So it doesn't mean that all the truly religious radicals are going to be thrilled.
About this little country the size of New Jersey over there.
But what is going to happen at the end of this, I completely believe him on that.
Other deals are going to be signed because all of the countries that signed the Abraham Accords deals, none of them got involved in this war.
Well, Iran shot at some of them, but meaning none of them attacked Israel, right?
So once deals are signed, then countries start sending people back and forth.
You have diplomatic offices.
There's liquidity in the system, right?
There's movement.
There's dollars being moved and everything else.
And then people are like, you know what?
Maybe blowing up those buildings isn't a great idea.
Maybe trying to kill all those people or rape all those women isn't.
Isn't a wonderful idea.
And let's not forget, days before, you can go back to headlines from literally three, four, or five a week before October 7th, they were about to announce that Saudi Arabia was going to be part of the Abraham Accords.
So there's massive, massive things happening here.
Now let's get you updated on what happened over the weekend as it relates to the ceasefire itself, because Iran did come back and did not agree to the latest offer from the Americans.
Here's Trump on truth.
Iran has been playing games with the United States and the rest of the world for 47 years.
Delay, delay, delay.
And then finally hit pay dirt when Barack Hussein Obama became president.
He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel and all other allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life.
Hundreds of billions of dollars and $1.7 billion in green cash flown to Tehran was handed over to them on a silver platter.
Every bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out.
It was so much money that when it arrived, Iranian thugs had no idea what to do with it.
They had never seen money like this and never will again.
Taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn't believe their luck.
They finally found the greatest sucker of them all in the form of a weak and stupid American president.
He was a disaster as our leader, but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden.
For 47 years, the Iranians have been tapping us all along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protesters and laughing at our now great again country.
They will be laughing no longer, President Donald J. Trump.
I mean, he says an awful lot of stuff there, right?
Obama paid them, literally.
I said it before, but people don't realize this.
It wasn't like a wire transfer, like ding, and can you turn the key?
It was a plain load of money sent over there.
They had to empty banks and bring the cash over there.
They couldn't believe it.
And did it weaken?
Obama was like, well, if we show them that we're nice, they'll start being nicer.
And no, that's just not how, unfortunately, international diplomacy works.
It's like peace through strength.
That's what works.
Learn it in the eighth grade social studies and just remember it.
Then it's interesting, I think, particularly interesting that he brought up the 42,000 people that they killed because he's showing them, I didn't forget about you.
I think that's just an interesting little side note there.
And here's State Department spokesman Tommy Peugeot explaining that there are red lines that Trump is not going to trip over here.
So remember, guys, when Donna Brazil says, we don't know why we got in this war and they haven't explained anything else, how many more times?
Can't get a nuclear weapon.
And how many more times can Rubio say, so the reason we had to do it now is you don't wait until their ballistic missile program creates a nuclear shield, right?
So that they have enough weapons that to take out the nukes, which every American president has said they were going to do in 40 years, would be too difficult, that it would basically create a threat level that would cause much more mayhem and disaster and death and everything else.
So we will see.
So basically, we made an offer.
They made a counter offer.
Trump is now saying, well, we're not accepting that.
So I suppose we will find out more as the week.
Goes by, but let's come back to our shores because we've got some interesting things related to all of this redistricting craziness.
You remember about two weeks ago, Virginia, which was literally, literally the fairest state in the union when it came to representation.
They were a 51 49 voting state that had six to five representation for the Democrats six Dems, five Republicans.
They then did a referendum to vote on redistricting.
It passed at 10 to one.
It got 10 to one Democrats.
A 50 50 state basically went 10 to 1 Democrats.
Does that seem fair to anybody?
Got caught up in the courts, and as of yesterday, it is officially gone.
This is from Benny Johnson.
Massive Virginia Supreme Court overturns redistricting referendum, strikes down Democrat gerrymandered maps.
So last week, it was just kind of hung up in the courts.
Everyone expected this decision, and it is official.
The redistricting map will not go 10 to 1 in a state that is 50 50.
It will remain 6 to 5.
Here's Scott Jennings explaining that the Democrats picked a bunch of fights here, but in the end, this could be quite good.
For the Republicans, and I'll just add, it might have a little something to do with what Florida did last week.
It's going to be more like 10 or 11, I think, after all of this, because not only do you have the Virginia case, you've got Louisiana redrawing, Tennessee.
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Let's put up the map if we can there, just to show the redistricting push.
We calculate that Republicans have figured out a way to pick up about 14 seats, Democrats is about six, so that's a net.
Yeah, the Supreme Court sided with not Republicans per se in Louisiana.
Louisiana case, they decided on the side of not racism, that you can't do redistrict based on race.
Ron DeSantis then went ahead and gave the Republicans four more seats.
We've received about 2.3 million people in the last four years, and huge swaths of them are Republicans.
Like the Democrats chose this fight.
I'll even go as far to say, let's just say, for the sake of argument, it's a 50 50 thing.
Both sides do it when they can.
Nobody's hands are cleaning this.
Well, congratulations, Democrats.
You got into a fight.
Everybody does bad things.
And as the map just laid out there, it looks like the Democrats probably get down 10 seats, which I would actually say in this case, thank God, as we are rolling into the midterms.
Thank God this might save the House for the Republicans.
Now, when things don't go the Democrats' way, what do they do?
A new generation of Americans have to show up, stand up, speak up, fight, get into good trouble.
To usher in an era of progress and this behavior that we're seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States to throw the American South back into the Jim Crow era.
So it's going to take an all hands on deck effort.
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That it was a quote 21st century version of Jim Crow in new clothes.
Do you agree?
Absolutely, I agree.
We saw yesterday in the state of Tennessee was a political lynching.
When you are seeing states like Tennessee want to wipe out every black representative on the map in these states, we have an obligation as Americans to stand.
Now they keep doing this Jim Crow thing, so I thought, let me read two lines on Jim Crow.
We've done it before, we'll do it again.
And you tell me if this is what the Republicans have just done.
Jim Crow refers to a system of state and local laws, customs, and practices that enforced strict racial segregation and marginalized African Americans in the United States, particularly in the South, from 1877 until the mid 1960s.
It was a legalized caste system predicated on white supremacy that relegated black Americans to second class citizenship.
If someone can point out to me how removing districting based on race is racist, If someone can point out to me how any of the things that the Republicans have done here is racist or creates a system that white people will be treated differently than black people, if there was a bunch of Republicans that were like, you know what, we've just about had it with this water fountain situation, we're going back.
We're going to have water fountains for white people and water fountains for black people.
And as a matter of fact, the water fountains for white people are going to have Hawaiian punch.
That would be a problem.
This is not a problem.
But you guys have decided, because it's all you've Got.
If you didn't got this, you ain't got nothing.
Listen to this from Polymarket.
Just in, Virginia Democrats propose lowering the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices from 75 to 54.
Do you know why they're doing that?
Because most of the judges who just sided with the Virginia Constitution and got rid of the 10 to 1 map are over the age of 53.
So they're.
You realize how insane the Democrats are, right?
Like, this is really nuts.
They got a judicial decision they didn't want.
So then they.
Are going to try to force retirement for 55 year old judges.
I'm going to be 50 next month.
Can you believe that?
I'm going to be 50 next month, which means that some, what if years from now, that's what the Democrats will do?
No YouTuber will be able to be over the age of 55.
My buddy Ben Dominic, here he is talking about how their whole scheme here, like it was a scheme out of Scooby Doo and it did not work out.
I know people hate gerrymandering, but it's always going to be with us.
And it's going to be something where people are trying to get a leg up on each other.
Democrats this cycle thought that they should lean into it because it would give them an advantage going into the midterms.
A lot of them right now, though, are looking at this scenario, especially combined with the Supreme Court's own decision regarding the VRA, and saying, did we make a mistake?
Did we make a miscalculation here?
And are we now going to have to effectively run the table with all of our swing districts in order to take back the House, which is an astonishing place to be given the historical trends?
But you guys chose the fight, and then I do believe what Ron DeSantis believes is you use political power when you have it, particularly in the face of an endless onslaught from the other side.
So, congratulations.
You guys picked the fight.
We got four more seats.
But let's continue with the Democrats, because what do they have?
We're all racist.
We're all racist, racist, racist, and we want to put them in chains.
It's not just that we want Jim Krovac.
That would be one thing.
My Hawaiian Punch Water Fountain thing.
That would be one thing.
But it's that we want to actually bring back slavery.
I understand the anger and the frustration of what it feels like to go backwards.
I mean, we're talking about 250 years of slavery.
We're talking about the scars of 100 years of Jim Crow.
We're talking about reconstruction that was cut short with the Southern redemption.
Many of us were born thinking that this nation had overcome those.
Ugly strains after decades and decades of sacrifice, and that we were the beneficiaries of moving towards Frederick Douglass and King and Obama's dream of a multiracial democracy.
Well, it turns out we were wrong in thinking it would be as easy a path.
It's in a little lockbox, a little lockbox in the heart there.
What are you talking about, man?
What are you talking about?
Donald Trump and the Republicans are not racist.
Do you know that there are people, black people, who live in red states and they live under the same exact laws as white people?
And actually, the cities that are red are safer for black people.
You guys view everything, no matter what happens, you guys view it through the lens of race.
So when we take racism out of the system, you actually think it is racist.
I think black people, like white people and all other people, have a panoply of ideas.
And what's happening to black people actually is that each year a few more of them vote for the Republicans.
And as you guys have lost that base, right?
Donald Trump got record numbers.
They're not huge numbers, but he got record numbers of the black vote in the last election.
So as you guys start seeing that you don't have complete control of those people, you don't have ownership, you know, we'll do the slave referendum, you don't have ownership of those people anymore.
Well, then what are you going to do?
Move them aside and I don't know, usher in a whole bunch of illegals and make sure that they can vote and will be on the government dole and replace them?
Could that be something like a replacement theory?
The sleazebag radical left congressman from the failed state of California, Rokhana, should not be allowed on Fox News unless you have an anchor who is capable of disputing his lies one after the other and closing down his fake BS narrative.
He is similar but worse than Hakeem Jeffries, only with a somewhat higher IQ.
This morning, he tried on behalf of the Democrats to take credit for the steel industry pouring back into the U.S., knowing full well that the dumbs virtually destroyed it and I saved it through strong tariffs.
Plus, Our country was dead during the last administration, and now it is hotter than ever before.
We can't allow the Democrats to take credit for this.
If elected, they will fully destroy our thriving and now very respected nation.
I will not let that happen, President Donald J. Trump.
We're just going to miss him.
AI is not even going to be able to create these tweets, these truth social posts once he's gone.
We really are going to miss him.
But of course, American steel coming back.
Think of all the videos we've shown you in the last year and a half where Trump's standing up with major, not only tech leaders, but industry leaders, steel guys, all of these guys talking about how they're pouring money back in.
Banks are opening up credit to America again.
The world is looking to us to lead again.
And it has, it's not only does it have nothing to do, it would be one thing if it had nothing to do with the Democrats.
It's in spite of what the Democrats are doing.
But they are radical.
They are radical.
There is no doubt about it.
And they plan, they will.
I would just take their word for it.
Pack courts, D.C. state, Puerto Rico state.
What can we do to break everything?
Cory Booker, who he's a lefty nutbag, tries to pretend he's not completely insane.
Just got married to a woman, which is a very exciting thing that leads us to believe he'll run for president because you've got to be married to a woman no matter what.
Here he is hedging on whether he would pack the Supreme Court.
The one note that I want to leave us on is we are allowed to have fun.
While we are destroying fascism, we are allowed to inhabit joy and we are allowed to cherish one another and we are allowed to celebrate our victories.
That's where on the left, what she does and what she says, as silly and stupid as it may be, that's where all the energy on the left is right now.
You look at the primaries that are going on at this moment.
They got this platinum character in Maine, they've got lunatics running in Michigan.
All the energy in these Democratic primaries are flowing towards people, and they'll forgive anything, even a Nazi tattoo, as long as you've got the right radical energy.
Because they're losing all the money, and quite literally billions and billions of dollars are being siphoned out, largely going to Florida.
You know, I had a tweet on Friday that, well, maybe we could grab it real quick, just to end it.
My tweet about the Ken Griffin Cancer Center.
It's been here for a while, but I was driving in Miami and I passed at the University of Michigan the Ken Griffin Cancer Research Center.
Zorhan stood outside of his condo and said, This 238 million condo here, when you're going to burn something down and rape the women, this is where you want to do it.
Well, Ken Griffin, although that building had been built here already, he's moving a ton of stuff right now to Miami.
And congratulations, we will get all the people who will build things, we will get all the jobs, we will get all the cancer research centers.
I think we've got the image, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, I took that picture.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Cancer Research Building.
Well, congratulations.
And even the fact, the way I took the picture, I happen to be driving, I try not to touch my phone when I'm driving, but the fact that there is a crane right there showing we're building, like that.
That's the picture of the year, MFA.
So, it's either we can keep doing this, we can do what you lunatics want, and the energy cannot be stopped on your side, or you can choose differently, Democrat run cities, and it's up to you here, Spencer Pratt.
So, again, if you're on the right and you've fallen into that tucker, whatever that trap is, and you're a Upset about Iran or whatever.
And by the way, again, you don't have to agree with Trump on everything.
But look what we are up against right now.
So the thing that Trump now represents is will America go on or will it be the warmth of collectivism?
And will it be that everyone is racist?
And will it be that all of the norms, like packing, like having a Supreme Court that is not packed, et cetera, et cetera, will be blown apart?
That's basically where we're at.
You're going to have to decide what you want to do.
Guys, one month from today, that's right, June 11th here in Miami, Fillmore, me, DeSantis, Shapiro, Carolla, Jillian Michaels, there's going to be a lot of fun stuff.