Dave Rubin and Adam Carolla critique LA Mayor Karen Bass's "Stay the Course" strategy as disastrous governance, contrasting it with the city's decline where only In-N-Out employees remain. They mock former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for treating a man's chin-up ropes as a hate crime requiring FBI involvement, labeling it performative "chick think." The hosts also discuss whistleblower James Erdman III's report on the COVID-19 lab origin cover-up involving Dr. Fauci and NIAID funding conflicts, while analyzing Justin Pearson's shift from moderate to radical theater, concluding that modern progressive leadership prioritizes nonsensical performance over practical solutions like family stability and education. [Automatically generated summary]
If you live in this city and you are thinking that everything is fine and you're going to elect or reelect the lady who got, well, it's not that you can't even blame her for this because it was Garcia or Garcetti before her.
And it's just, it's been going on for a long time.
But I got to tell you, like, in a weird way, I don't even mean this jokingly.
You know my feelings about Florida and Cali and fleeing this place and everything else.
It was worse.
I mean, it's worse in the 24 hours that I've been here than I have been here in about a year.
But if you'd walked in in the middle, this is my I'm just getting started argument, which is sort of the Karen Bass.
It's the Democrat argument in California and Los Angeles.
But if you walked in in the middle of the tile setting and the guy was just doing, A freakishly bad job setting the tiles and the margins were all up and everything was cattywampus and he wasn't using spacers.
And then you went, Hey man, this doesn't look right.
And speaking of that, the only In N Out franchise to ever move since 1949 moved out of Oakland, California.
So whatever they're doing there in Oakland, they're doing wrong.
Oh, reminds me of the greatest clip.
That we've all forgotten about, which was awesome.
And I don't think people fully understand the implications or what things mean, which is sort of like what I'm saying is, women, if you are going on a date with a guy, and I've said this a million times, if a woman says, you know, a guy comes over to pick them up on their first date, And the woman says, Oh, come in, come in.
Just wait here.
Just let me finish putting on my lipstick.
I'll be with you in a second.
And she goes off into the bathroom.
And her dog comes like sniffing around the guy to sort of say hi.
And the guy like kicks him away.
And the woman sees it in the mirror from the bathroom what the guy did.
And it's like when I, it's like if you drive around town and you see the guy that's got the dumpster for a car, like just wrappers, fast food garbage on the dash, newspapers in the back, like you go, okay, that person's nuts.
And then someone will go, well, all you've seen is their car.
I go, I don't need to see anything else than that.
And I know, I know what the guy's apartment looks like.
And I don't think people do that enough with like, The politicians, like the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaff, or whatever her name was, and this is going back some years, maybe five, six years.
Um, she was the mayor of Oakland.
This is before the A's left and before the uh Warriors left and and before In and Out left.
We we we decided, by the way, we we signed our infinite wisdom we could fix all this.
We just had a bunch of women in charge and it would just fix every city, yes, with compassion.
Now you have to think about how this woman's brain works and then you would apply it to everything, but just like the guy with the trashed car, I would apply that to their life globally.
This clip is from when Andrew and she's given a presser because, and you may remember this story, Dave, 2023.
Okay.
A guy, a black man who seemed a little crazy, but a black man, Set up a workout sort of jungle gym at the park.
He hung rope hoops from the tree so he could pull himself and do chin ups.
I get communities, marginalized communities, and I bring them together and I give them a seat at the table so that we can all have justice and we can all have pride.
We've, on several of us, I know, been out to the park and interviewed a gentleman, an African American gentleman, who says this was, you know, he said intentions don't matter, but he said the intentions were strictly to create this rope system.
He showed us another one that's still in the tree.
He showed us videos of them using it in that manner.
I mean, don't the intentions matter if it was just strictly meant to be a thing that they've been up there for months?
So if you made a loop on a piece of rope to pull a garage door down so that you could grip the rope better and pull the door down versus an old timey lynching, it's still the same thing, right?
Listen, the intentions will matter with regard to whether or not this is prosecuted as a hate crime, but intentions don't matter when it comes to terrorizing the public.
These symbols are symbols of racial violence, and it's incumbent on all of us to have that sensitivity, to have that knowledge.
And that is why I've directed our staff to remove any such symbol of hatred.
Regardless of the intention of what put it there, what a privilege for those of us that don't feel complete fear and terror when we see a rope in the tree.
You know, having walked through Hollywood today, where it's just a zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and homeless people, if I had seen a couple homeless people with some ropes climbing on trees or whatever, I would have thought it was refreshing, actually.
You know what I mean?
Like they're all hunched over because of the meth or whatever.
So, it's like, oh, yeah, you're hanging on a rope.
That's the best way to straighten out your back, by the way.
Which is a guy, a whistleblower just got in front of Congress.
Well, not Congress, because the Democrats don't show up, but half of them, and started talking about the COVID cover up.
Which is, remember a few years ago, remember when Libby Schaff was complaining about racism and the notion of the origin of COVID?
COVID would come up, and some people would say it was from a wet market, and then someone would say it's from a lab, and then you'd be called a racist and shouted down and have every expert on CNN tell you why you were wrong.
Uh, guess what?
Surprise, surprise, surprise, everybody!
Surprise, surprise about COVID.
As it turns out, the thing you got yelled at if you just want, in terms of the things CNN yelled at you the loudest about, or progressives yelled at you loudest about, or whatever Biden said, or whatever anybody said, I lab origin would be up there, masks, uh, of course, vaccines, whatever it is that CNN said was wrong.
All but I'm just talking about in the realm of COVID, yeah, everything they got was wrong.
So remember, it didn't come from a lab in China, except for I knew it came from a lab in China, and I'm in North Hollywood.
How did I know that?
Because it made sense that it came from a lab in China, and eventually, by the way, if you read the tea leaves, if you realize everything they yelled about, they were wrong about, then this is just one more thing they were gonna be wrong about.
But we have the whistleblower.
Which is James Erdman III, I guess, and he was an FBI guy, I think.
And he's just, it's three and a half minutes, so this breaking news.
Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident.
Motives are difficult to define given the scope of the DIGS review.
Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in a cover up.
Wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers.
Public health policy would have been very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for an emergency use authorization mRNA products being mandated by the former administration.
Dr. Fauci influenced the analytical process and findings by leveraging his position to ensure the IC consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials, and scientists.
This included some of the authors of the paper, The Proximal Origin of SARS CoV 2, and other public health experts who have been in his orbit for the last 20 plus years.
Some of the scientists were part of the Biological Sciences Experts Group, or the BSEG.
An office of Director National Intelligence Advisory Body, whose members often receive considerable funding from NIAID and public health agencies.
The BSEG scientists influence national laboratory WMD research, policy decisions, finished analysis, and other intelligence matters, creating misaligned incentives and conflicts of interest.
They received funding from NIAID and other agencies for vaccine research, USAID's Predict Project.
The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and even worked with Chinese scientists on coronavirus and other pathogen studies pursuing vaccines.
There was no oversight monitoring how this web of relationships influenced research, policy, and public health in any holistic way for over 20 years.
In fact, several of the BSEG scientists helped Dr. Fauci rewrite definitions of gain of function in 2015 to lift a funding pause on dangerous research.
Still, others participated in planning Event 201 in 2019.
This was a coronavirus pandemic tabletop exercise, curiously similar to the events that played out during the COVID 19 pandemic.
And it was attended by Dr. Fauci and individuals with IC ties, like former DNI Avril Haynes.
And that literally we came home and people were, we didn't do it, but people were spraying their, the paper bag, the paper bag that they put the food in.
They were spraying it down with aerosol and everything else.
Like the level of stupidity across the board in the, you know, at a restaurant, when you're walking to the table, Howard Stern quarantined.
I wish he was still alive, Larry King, and his health was failing at the end before COVID.
And he did a show, and I don't think this is up anywhere, but, you know, because it was before we connected live, but his guys were in a hazmat suit behind him.
By the way, I need black people behind me because every time I go, here's what I want to do, it's three white people going, I don't think that's going to work out.
I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative, in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle.
Well, it's all the same people who buy the same crazy shit.
And that's how I know they're lying, because if they were being intellectually honest, then you'd go.
What do you think about Joe Biden?
You go, okay, I voted for Joe Biden.
And then you'd go, what about Hunter Biden's laptop?
And they go, oh, well, that's real.
And then you'd go, what about COVID?
And they go, well, I believe COVID's real.
What about masks?
You don't need to wear masks.
What's a paper mask going to do?
Like you'd find some back and some forth.
Like Republicans do, they argue about Israel and they fight about tariffs.
And you go, who's right, who's wrong?
Well, at least they're being intellectually.
Honest because they're having an argument.
You guys, the guys on the left were all lockstep on everything COVID, and nobody ever raised their hand and went, Well, she probably came from a lab, right?
No, no.
They're all lockstep on Biden's cognitive abilities.
They're all lockstep on Hunter Biden.
All the stuff they're all locked in on.
And that means they're lying because they would be saying, No, I don't think that's true, but I agree with you on this other stuff.
Well, this is what people on the internet are always saying they're a bunch of.
Theater kids, and that's kind of what they are.
They all love the performative part of this.
You know, when I was on tour with Jordan Peterson, Jordan was a clinical psychologist for decades.
He was a professor for decades at Harvard and University of Toronto and other places.
He was not a performer in any way.
But what I was always most amazed by, beyond obviously like the crazy intellect and the stuff that he was saying, was he would stalk the stage, like, you know, like some comics do the stalk back and forth.
You can picture like Richard Lewis kind of bouncing.
And he became a performer, but it was only because it was an extension of him doing something that was true.
These guys do the reverse of that.
They perform while they're extending something that's nonsensical.
He doesn't believe any of that.
And you're right.
Like all the people behind him, and everyone's, they're all having a fever dream together.