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Reporter Stunned by JD Vance's Brutally Honest Reaction to Iran Questioning Ceasefire
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Previously on the Rubin Code. The whole civilization has already died. Is someone watching that stuff? Who do you think you are? You're tweeting out the F word on Easter morning like It's World War III. Thermonuclear, World War 3. Give that job to a black lesbian, I'll personally bring a lawsuit for murder. That's Trump for you. All right, guys, what's going on? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It is April 9, 2026. I know you've liked, you've subscribed, you've commented, and I appreciate it. And speaking of comments, you know, I've been saying how I've been trying to dive into the comments a little bit more lately, and I'm seriously appreciative of how good and thoughtful the comments are. So much of the Internet is in just meltdown mode. People just destroying each other, attacking each other. You guys get it with the bots and the trolls and all of that stuff. And I had the guys this morning just grab. I said, just grab a couple of the comments from our YouTube and from our rumble and just throw a couple of these up here and you can see I don't need to read them all. But, you know, thank you for being a normal voice and a sea of crazy. I watch you because my grandfather's name was Ruben. I like that one. At least we have a few common sense voices telling the truth. Thanks, Dave. Thank you, Dave, for your honesty. Trying not to get clicks for outrage. Great work. You were one of the few left that I listened to Ruben Reports, the go to show for facts sensible podcast, blah, blah, blah. You guys get it. You guys get it. And I'm really appreciative of that. And I will continue to try my best to tell you the truth. Also do that this evening at 5 o' clock with a little bit of tequila. That's right. It's Tequila Thursday. So if you want to join me for a sip, that's the way I do it. I'm a sip guy. So I'm just one rock and a sip of Copal if you want to join us tonight. And I think we've got some video games set up. I'm told there's some trivia, all sorts of crazy stuff. I feel like after the just last, I mean, I was going to say the last month of craziness, I don't know, the last 49 years of craziness, roughly, we thought let's have a little tequila at 5 o'. Clock. So hopefully you'll join us for the livestream then. We'll also be taking questions from the locals community. So if you want to join us over there. Rubinreport.locals.com and of course today, obviously we're catching up on all of the ceasefire stuff, a little bit of the craziness out of New York with their communist Islamist mayor and a whole bunch more. So first let's dive into the ceasefire stuff. And as I said yesterday, look, there are papers, there are papers being shuffled back and forth between America, Iran. Some of them are stopping in Pakistan right now. They're probably bouncing around to some other countries. We know Iran agreed to a 10 point plan. We had put out a 15 point plan. So there's at least five points that are just off the table at the moment. Things that are kind of half being agreed to also, don't forget, and there was some confusion over this yesterday. A lot of this stuff can get lost in translation because things are written in a certain way in Arabic and then they, or maybe even in Farsi, and then they can be written differently in English and translated differently. So it's just been a little bit of a cluster. Things have calmed down a tiny bit, but let's just get you caught up. So this is from MB Golubov, who is the speaker of the Islamic Republic of Iran's parliament. So this is like a fourth tier guy now who's involved in the negotiations and he says this statement on the violation of three clauses of the 10 point proposal, the Agreed Framework, before the start of negotiations. The deep historical distrust we hold towards the United States stems from its repeated violations of all forms of commitments, a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again. As the President of the United States has clearly stated in his truth, the Islamic Republic of Iran's 10 point proposal is a workable basis on which to negotiate. And the main framework for these talks. However, three clauses of this proposal have been violated so far. One, non compliance with the first clause of the 10 point proposal regarding a ceasefire in Lebanon, a commitment that Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif has also explained explicitly referred to and declared as an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other regions, effective immediately. We'll have more on that in a sec. Two, the entry of an intruding drone into Iran airspace, which was destroyed in the city of Lar in far easier violation of the clause prohibiting any further violation of Iran airspace. Three, denial of Iran's right to enrichment. This is the big one, which was included in the sixth clause of the framework. Now, the very workable basis on which to negotiate has been openly and clearly violated even before the negotiations began. In such situation, a bilateral ceasefire negotiations is unreasonable. Okay, so you gotta understand when a ceasefire is agreed to and they're just sort of, here's our plan, here's your plan. There's going to probably be, and this is why it was a two week ceasefire. There's going to be some back and forth on the language and everything else. Now the Americans are now saying that Lebanon had nothing to do with this. Hezbollah, which is an Iranian proxy, has been raining down rockets on Israel since October 7th. And I think something like 300,000 Israelis haven't been living in their home years now and they've had to move south. And Israel's taking care of that. Israel saying that has nothing to do with this. America's saying that has nothing to do with this. Iran is saying it does. That's one point. The nuke stuff and the material, that's a major sticking point. Here's a bit more. And really I played a couple videos of JD yesterday, really showing that obviously he's not 100% purely in line with Trump on all of this. He has a slightly different take on foreign policy, let's say. But he's been an extremely good communicator and more importantly, he's been a good team player about this. And he's going out there and explaining the President's position, which is what his job is. He's not sandbagging him, he's not undercutting him, et cetera. Here he is responding to what I just read you right there. So this is more of the American position on the Iranian problems with the agreement. Take a look.
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Let me say a few things. First of all, he said that there are a few points of disagreement before the negotiation. Well, that must mean that there's a lot of points of agreement between, because there's a 15 point plan floating around. There's a 10 point plan floating around. If he's frustrated about three issues, that actually means that there's a lot of agreement. That's point number one, point number two, to respond to each of those issues. And I read it very closely. Let me just say this. I actually wonder how good he is at understanding English because there are things that he said that frankly didn't make sense in some of the, in the context of the negotiations that we've had. But to address the three points, first of all, he talked about an attack that allegedly happened on Iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire. Ceasefires are always messy. An hour after the President announced the ceasefire, the Iranians launched a bunch of missiles. Then the Israelis responded. Then some of the Gulf Arab states responded. This is the nature of a ceasefire. No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness.
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Yeah. Okay, so we'll have a little bit more from JD on that, but he's making a couple points there. First off, the points don't exactly match a 15 point plan and a 10 point plan. You know there's going to be some discrepancy there. Right. Even if 10 out of 10 are matching, there's still five that are outstanding and the 10 out of 10 don't fully match. He makes the point that I made about translation quite literally. When they're translating the documents, certain words are interpreted different ways. Like this is not just some easy thing. Like, here you go, here you go, let's get going. And finally, ceasefires are messy. Yeah. People have pointed out, I think I said this yesterday, that so much of the Iranian military has been destroyed that the command and control has been completely obliterated. So there might literally be a guy somewhere outside of Tehran with a missile launcher just pressing a button, who hasn't even heard yet because the Internet's out that the ceasefire kicked in. Right, here's a bit more. Oh, and then we'll address the Lebanon stuff and everything else. Here's a bit more from Ben.
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The second thing Goliboff said, which again I found fascinating, is he said we refuse to give up the right to enrichment. And I thought to myself, you know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement that she's not going to do that because I don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane. We don't really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do. We concern ourselves with what they actually do. And I think the President's been very clear on the enrichment question. Our position on that has not changed. Look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them, and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that's ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.
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Okay, again, he's a really good sort of more granular communicator over what Trump's policies are there. Right. To enrich. We're saying they don't have it. They're saying they do, but as JD Points out, kind of irrelevant. The word right here is kind of irrelevant. We are not going to let them do it. And we're the party in power. If after a peace deal is signed, they want civilian nuclear power, there's ways to bring in that material. But they can't enrich to the level of being able to make a bomb. Everyone knows that that's what this thing has been all about. They can say they have that right and wanna do it. But clearly, I mean, JD that it seems like he's in line with Trump on like, you just can't, buddy. You just can't. Usha's not jumping out of a plane and you're not gonna have a nuke. That's the other thing. Then on the Lebanon front, the deal does not. The American deal does not include Lebanon, period. Right. Hezbollah is. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization paid for by Iran that's running Lebanon. When you think of Lebanon, you think it's a state, like it has a government and it's a state like most other states, except it's not. It has basically a failed government and a terrorist organization running it that's lobbing rockets into Israel. If they would stop and retreat, well, then Israel would stop. So what Jay Z's saying there is. This has nothing to do with that. That's been going on well before all of this. And if you guys are going to blow this up over Lebanon, blow this up. If you guys are going to end this agreement over Lebanon, well, good luck with all that. Here's Donald Trump on truth. Numerous agreements, lists and letters are being sent out to people that have absolutely nothing to do with the USA Iran negotiation. And in many cases, they are total fraudsters, charlatans, and worse, they will be rapidly exposed after our federal investigation is completed. There is only one group of meaningful points that are acceptable to the United States, and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these negotiations. These are the points that are on the basis on which we agreed to a ceasefire. It is something that is reasonable and can easily be dispensed with. It's very much like fake news. CNN last night headlining a source that had no power or authority to write a letter claiming great authority, President Donald J. Trump. So we referenced that yesterday that he was calling out CNN for publishing some fake version of the ceasefire. But again, this is where I would say I have no more insight in this than you do or your friends do or Tucker Carlson or anyone else. All we can do is report is hear the information directly from the source, which in this case is the United States government. And I suppose we can hear it from the Iranian government, and then we can compare those things and try to analyze it to the best of our ability. However, it is very obvious that a lot of misinformation is flying about this. Here's Caroline Levitt cleaning up a bit around the Strait of Hormuz. A quick follow up on the why would the US Allow Iran to collect tolls? Administrative permits? It's not something that we've opposed for a number of years now. Ms. Again, that's not something we've said that we've definitively accepted.
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The joint venture is something that was
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proposed by the president, but he was
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very clear in his statement last night he wants to see the strait reopened immediately, without limitation.
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And that's something we're gonna hold them to. Okay, so that's something we are going to hold them to. So it opened up a little bit over the last couple days and we will see. There's all these rumors about are there gonna be taxes around it? Trump, obviously we'll have more on this in a second. Trump wants to now hopefully create some sort of partnership, kind of like we did when we got Maduro out of Venezuela and now we have access to Venezuelan oil. We're exerting American influence. Again, he would like some sort of partnership with the new regime in Iran that would be beneficial for both of us. It's also worth noting because I saw so many people yesterday screaming about, oh my God, there's gonna be taxes in the Strait of Hormuz and what's this gonna do to the American economy and everything else. It should be noted that 500. We just checked this. 500,000 barrels of oil go to the US from the Strait of Hormuz, which is only 7% of our crude oil imports. So not only are we drilling again thanks to Trump, so we are less reliant on foreign oil. We also have access to Venezuelan oil right now. And we just don't need that much, right? We just don't need that much that's going to have from Iran that's going to go through the strait of Hormuz. 80 plus percent of that oil goes to Asia. Right? So if these tolls that they're talking, this tariff that they're talking about via Iran goes into effect, you know who's going to pay for that? It's China. So, again, this is where I think Trump deserves a little bit of our trust. Here's a little bit more from all US Ships, aircraft and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy will remain in place in and around Iran until such time as the real agreement is reached and fully complied with. If for any reason, and it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the shooting starts, bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed a long time ago. And despite all the fake rhetoric to the contrary, no nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz will be open and safe. In the meantime, our great military is loading up, resting, looking forward, actually, to its next conquest. America is back. So look, carrot and stick, right? This is have a strong army. Why do you have a strong army? Is it to kill and murder and maim everybody? Or is it so you show some posturing in the world and you say we will enter negotiations and if they fail and if you don't come closer to our positions, we might have to start shooting again. If only Donald Trump had written a book 40 years ago where he told you exactly what his plan was when it comes to negotiating and that you've got to scare the other guy a little bit, as we pointed out several times yesterday. Let's also talk about the economics version of all of this, because at some point, whether it is today or tomorrow, unlikely, whether it is in two weeks, maybe more likely, or in three months from now, the bombs are going to stop. This is not going to go on forever. That's not how wars work anymore. And there's going to be an economic, a new economic situation on the horizon. Here's Kevin o' Leary from Shark Tank on that.
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Yeah, and I think about this, if you knew with certainty that you'd get through and you had to pay a price, insurance premiums would come down. All the other important waterways, Suez Canal, Panama Canal, we don't have rogue nations controlling those. So there's a cost to get through with certainty. I think the market would be willing to pay for that. And that could also fund, you know, what Iran's going to need to rebuild the infrastructure they've lost. It depends if they really want peace or not. If they don't, there still could be a tithe, but it would be for the nations that care the region. Uae, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and of course the Chinese in Singapore and Japan. They'll all pay. And if it's five or six billion dollars a month, it's nothing compared to the value of stability in getting 21% of the world's oil through that strait. I like this outcome. I don't like war, but this tells me the region's coming back big.
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I like this outcome. I don't like war, but sometimes you need a little war, you need a little threat of violence and sometimes occasional violence to leverage in a better outcome. And what he's saying right there is if in the end, if this new regime is willing to play ball with the United States and the world feels more stable, that is great for everybody. And if there's going to be some version of a tax that goes through this to keep some of that stability, he's saying even that would be worthwhile. And as I just pointed out, much of that tax would have nothing to do with the United States because we don't get much of our oil from them. He also just one other clip from o' Leary here. He also pointed out that in some sense, this war, and I've sort of talked about this a little bit, I keep saying that this has been sort of the last conventional war in a certain way, like the wars of we're going to send massive aircraft carriers, tanks rolling into places which didn't happen this time, that everything's going to be done via, you know, these, via, you know, F35 fighters and everything else that actually is coming to a close one way or another. AI, robotics, drones wars are going to be fought differently in the Future.
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Here's Kevin O' Leary on that, rescuing those F15 fighters. But the rest of this was precision munitions from space and all kinds of different ways to use it. What we've learned, warfare is changing and the country with the best AI is going to win. Just think about China. If they attack Taiwan. If you've got data centers and you got AI, you win. So we better go chop, chop and catch up with the Chinese, right?
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So that's obvious, guys. There is, we are on the horizon of a new world. One way or another. The idea that true, let's look at it this way. In the old days, D day, you're going to send hundreds of thousands of troops into a foreign country to fight. Why would you do that? In the future once robots are fully here and they can be controlled by some centralized system and you don't have to risk human life, why would you be flying planes with pilots, living human beings in them, when drones can be doing all these things? How will all of that be run? Well, you're going to need the best AI systems, you're going to need the best AI data centers and everything else. So that is what we are on the next. We're on the threshold of. And again, this is where to me it seems like what Trump has been trying to do here is realize that the clock is ticking on Trumpism one way or another. Hopefully whoever comes after in the Republican Party will take as much of it of that vision and that fortitude and everything and move forward with it. But he's realizing the clock is ticking. It may only be till November in effect. Hopefully we've got two and a half more years of it. But he's trying to reorder the world as quickly as possible so that the globalists don't win, so that sovereign nations get their borders back and that America has positioning in the world as the world's last remaining superpower, which it should. Which brings us to the next point here about NATO, this untruth from Donald Trump. NATO wasn't there when we needed them and they won't be there if we need them again. Remember Greenland, that big, poorly run piece of ice? President DONALD J. Trump now to point out how NATO was not there. You know, we're in this NATO, we have NATO allies. It's a lot of these countries in Europe. And the idea is if anyone in NATO is attacked, we will all defend them. It's also over the years come to be something of which we pay virtually all the money for. We do all the military stuff for. Usually our allies, they put mealy mouthed statements out or a piece of paper saying, yeah, US can do whatever it wants, but NATO, there's all these people that think NATO means something. It doesn't mean anything. It's just whether the United States is willing to do something in the world. You may like what the US Is doing or not, but NATO in and of itself is nothing. For example, we got this image, this is how we had to send pilots. Do you see this? We could not go over Spain, so Spain did not allow us to use their airspace. So we had to fly over Spain to get to Iran. This is when we were rescuing those pilots. Now, as Trump pointed out, we showed you the video a couple days ago. We could have just flown over if we wanted, could have done it. We could have just landed on bases in Spain and what the hell is Spain going to do to us? But his point is, okay, uk, you haven't gotten involved. While we're trying to figure out, by the way, Iran's ballistic missiles would be more likely to hit you than us. Okay, France, you're gonna put out some ridiculous statement like he's rethinking how all of these, you know, in essence, 70 plus year old organizations work. Here's Trump talking about NATO and well, if it's going to have a future
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and I have to tell you, I'm very disappointed in NATO.
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Very.
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I think that NATO, I think it's a mark on NATO that will never disappear, never disappear in my mind. You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday, they're going to say, oh, we'll do this, we'll do that. Now they all of a sudden want to send things, you know, but they said it loud and clear at the beginning when I spoke to uk, of all I would have said they would have been the first because they've been, they're the oldest. And I say, yeah, I'd love to have a little help. He said, no, sir, we'd rather wait till you win. I said, I don't need help after we win. They have two old broken aircraft carriers, barely work. I said, I guess we can use them. Who the hell knows? I called the general, he didn't even want them. He said, we don't really need them. We got the SS Abraham Lincoln, sir, we don't need them.
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I mean, what a perfect example of when I tell you like this is, this is the most honest guy you're going to ever have in the Oval Office. Like, he's speaking off the cuff, he's telling you obvious truths. He's doing it with a little sarcasm and humor. Yeah, we'll help you at the end. Okay, we don't need the help at that point. And again, it just, it does not mean anything. Try to picture a crisis anywhere in the world or pick any NATO nation that would be attacked. Do you think the UK is going to do anything? Do you think Spain is going to do anything? Do you think the French are going to do anything? No, it's us or bust. And then what Trump is realizing is there's other countries in the world, some of whom are not NATO allies like Israel, Argentina, etc. That he wants to play ball with. Cuz they're sovereign nations who will stand up for themselves and when you'll stand up for yourself. That's what Trump likes. If Trump was doing a business deal, oh, you're a functioning businessman who's taking care of your house, you have your things in order. Let's go build something together. It's so freaking obvious, it's ridiculous. But Trump has now basically said, NATO, you're done. And NATO, they have no leverage here. You have to understand, what can they possibly do? So, interestingly, the head of NATO right now is former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutt, and he met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday. Take a look. Thank you for coming. We appreciate you.
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Good to be here.
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All right, so there they are smiling, everyone's happy. We're smiling, we're smiling. Then Rut went on with Jake Tapper.
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How was the meeting?
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Did he say he's withdrawing?
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Well, let me be absolutely clear. He is clearly disappointed with many NATO allies. And I can see his point. But at the same time, I was also able to point to the fact that the large majority of European nations has been helpful with basing with logistics, with overflights, with making sure that they lived up to the combined commitments. And there is also widespread support for the fact that degrading the nuclear and the inter, the ballistic missile capacity from Iran was really crucial.
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Ah, so that's rather interesting. So because Trump has now applied this pressure, he's going, yeah, Trump is making some points and yes, some of us opened up airspace, not all of us. And then at the end, and yeah, we've all come around to the idea that degrading or anti defense capabilities was good. Except the point is they were never going to do anything. And that's what Trump has had it with. We had to drag, um, Effers into this thing kicking and screaming. We have to pay for it. We have to do the dirty work. Your pains in the butt when it comes to opening your bases and your airspace. And again, in the case of Spain, you didn't even do that at all. Like, they should be kicked out altogether. What leverage do they have? None. Literally none. They have a communist prime minister right now. Like, go have fun with, with that. And you can see, right, and we'll have a little more from him in just a second. He's basically coming to Trump's position. It's very obvious in that he does not want to piss off Trump. Hegseth yesterday gave a press conference where he also listened to his use of so called allies here. I think this is quite interesting to our Israeli allies. Thank you for being a brave, capable and willing ally on this battlefield.
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The rest of the world and the
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rest of our so called allies saw what real capabilities look like.
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They should take some notes.
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Isn't that interesting our so called allies, Right. So he's going, thank you Israel. You helped us take over the airspace, you blew away their navy. They're all that stuff. Okay, fine, you're going to defend your again, you're going to defend yourself. You're also going to be a valuable partner when we ask you to do something. Help us with intelligence. Fine. Okay. That's an aside in this case because what he's really saying, sticking it to is all of the guys for him to say so called allies, you know, that's a pre written speech. So he could have said and our allies really failed us. But he went out of his way to say so called allies. And I think Trump is clearly signaling that NATO is coming to a close. Mark Root continued on Tapper and Tapper really wanted to get him to throw Trump under the bus because of some of the rhetoric around the tweets or the truth social post over the last couple days. He didn't quite take the bait when
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President Trump threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization. Did that bother you at all as a diplomat?
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Well, you know what I always say, when it comes to what leaders are saying, I'm not commenting on everything. What I want you to know is that I support the president and I know large parts of Europe do. When it comes to taking out the capacity of Iran to export chaos to the region, to Europe, to the whole world, they are one of the main enablers of Russia's war effort in Ukraine. We all know this.
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Yeah, all the drones.
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With the drones, it is an existential threat to Israel. If they would get their hands on nuclear capability, it is great to try to negotiate it away. But we also always knew that with North Korea it took too long and then North Korea had its hand on the nuclear and then you cannot negotiate any longer and they have that power.
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Is the world safer today than it
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was before the war was started?
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Absolutely. Because and this is thanks to President
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Trump's leadership and that is the genius of Trump, Tapper desperately wanted him to say, I don't like that rhetoric. That's mean. Mean tweets civilization. He said f he really wanted to do and then Everything that Root said there, everything he said was a complete replication of what Donald Trump would have said, right? Absolutely. Is Iran weaker? Yes. Is the world safer? Yes. Are they an existential threat? Yes. And that's the head of NATO. So do you think it's possible. I just have a theory here. Do you think after he and Rubio were smiling that they sat down in a room and Rubio was like, look, you know the orange guy over there, he's a couple offices down. He's going to cut funding for you guys. He's going to end this thing. And what are you going to do? So I would recommend, this is my Rubio impression. I would recommend that when you're on CNN later today, you're going to back President Trump. And the thing is that backing President Trump doesn't make Root lie, it makes him tell the truth. That's the irony here. Let's talk about Rumble Wallet for a minute and then we will go to the communist jihadist over in New York City. City. You already know why people are moving to crypto, but here's the issue. Most wallets are still tied to the same system people want to get away from. That's why Rumble built Rumble Wallet. It's a self custodial wallet in a platform that supports free speech and financial freedom. No bank holding your money and not even Rumble can access it. This is your money, your keys, your control. You can tip and support creators directly on Rumble quickly without waiting weeks or dealing with account issues. You can also send payments using Bitcoin, Tether Gold and usat. So you you can move money anywhere, anytime, without asking permission. Most wallets just store your crypto. Rumble Wallet lets you actually use it on a platform that doesn't cave to censorship. If you care about control over your money and your voice, this is the next step. Go to wallet.rumble.com or search rumble Wallet in the App Store, download it, back up your recovery phrase and keep your money where it belongs, in your hands. All right, enough international stuff for a moment. Let's take care of the good old US Of A. And we once had a great city. Some considered it the great greatest city in the history of the world. It was known as New York City. I lived there for most of my formative years. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. And it actually is true and it is deeply sad what has happened to New York City. They have voted in a communist who absolutely has Islamist leanings and he is ushering in all of the WOKE stuff, all of it. As it pertains to race, all of it. As it pertains to gender and all. All of those things people said. I told Piers Morgan to his face. Your book Woke is dead. Wrong title, man, because it ain't dead. And we're seeing it being ushered in at an extreme level in what should be the best city in the world. Here is Moran Zamboni talking about how white people have more money than black people. And we're going to deal with that.
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It's a report that is both, coupled with a true cost of living report, is that the inequities in this city, the racial inequities, are stark. We are talking about findings that have shown that the wealth of a median white household in the city is more than $200,000, while that of a black household is less than $20,000. This is not an indictment of any one New Yorker. It is an indictment, however, of policies and politics that have persisted for far too long. Our commitment now is to act upon these findings, to do so in concert with New Yorkers. Comments as we've now opened a public comment period for the next 30 days to ensure that we have a city where we are reckoning with the long history of racism here and starting to act upon a framework that puts equity right at the center of it. Thank you.
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Sure. But why remove the DEI language?
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We put forward a stronger report that actually reflects the realities New Yorkers are living through.
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Guys, there was a study, and now that they've got the results of the study, they're gonna have a public comment section for a month where people can say that they want other people's money, and then he'll put it into law. First off, okay, so he's telling you that the racial inequity in the city is that white households make over 200,000. Which, by the way, if you make $200,000 living in New York City, that is actually not a lot of money. Like, you probably do not live in some fancy doorman building in a great neighborhood at $200,000. Like. Like you really don't. I mean, try to imagine $200,000 after federal taxes, after state taxes, after New York City tax, blah, blah, blah. You don't have much left. That's one thing. But he's saying that black families have less than $20,000. Now, let me just pretend that his study is not faulty. Let's just pretend the study is true. If it is true that black families in New York City have less than $20,000, but somehow they live in New York City. Do you think that maybe that has has to do something with all of the faulty welfare programs that you've allowed all of this nonsense with subsidized housing and you've kept people on EBT and all of these food subsidies and everything else which has kept people into generational poverty. Do you think it has something to do with that? Instead of, I don't know, creating the conditions via low taxes and low regulation that would allow more people to build businesses and do things that they want to do and allow more market value to compete so that builders want to come in and overall then you get more, you get prices deflated on housing. It's all because of Democrat policies. And the irony is the places, except for the little blip that we had with Rudy Giuliani and then Bloomberg was a, he was a Democrat Republican, he was a little bit of everything but largely kept the sane Giuliani policies in place. It's a Democrat run city. It's like all these other Democrat run cities where all hell's breaking loose and they're telling you racism is everywhere and everything else. Chicago, Detroit, they're all run by Democrats for decades. So you might want to get a mirror, but whatever. And again, this use of equity that now they have just fully, they have fully embraced the socialist wing which is basically the entire party right now, has fully embraced equity over equality. Equality equal. Equality opportunity. Go get yours. Let's see what happens. Pursue happiness. Pretty good American dream. Equity. We are going to make you via artificial means. We are going to make you equal. Which means we are going to take from some. So if you are a New Yorker making $200,000, a white guy, white New Yorker. We got a few of you watching right now, I have no doubt. Get out. This is your last warning. Here's a bit more on Zorhan. He's a man of the people. And you know, a man of the people just walks down the street high fiving everybody. Everybody loves this guy.
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How you doing?
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How you doing?
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Hi guys. Hello. Hi guys. Hello.
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Oh my goodness. You saw that in my head when I was coming. I was like, you know what, I'm going to email him. But I was like, you can't do that. You don't know him. Oh my God. Oh my God.
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Okay, can I have it?
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Oh my God. That's the guy that's gonna take all the white people's money and give it to people who look like me. It's just so great. He's walking down the street, he's just like all of us. Here's a New York City mayor walking down the street when it really mattered. People should remain calm. They should remain where they are, except if they are in southern Manhattan. If you're below Canal street, you should walk out southern Manhattan and walk north, like these people are doing right here. All that we know right now is that two airplanes struck the two large towers of the World Trade Center. We spoke to the White House. There also apparently was an attack on the Pentagon. We asked that the airspace around the city of New York be sealed by military aircraft. Man, I get chills up my spine. I swear to you. I remember watching that live from my apartment on 90th and 1st. A block away, ironically, a block away from Gracie Mansion, where Zorhan Mandani now lives. And that is what you might call globalizing the intifada, something that Zorhan is all about. So he can walk around and he can high five people and people can come over and glaze him. Oh my God, you're the best. You're raising taxes on everybody and they're all fleeing the city and we're going to live here with rats and zombie people and it's going to be great. Or maybe they could have brought Rudy Giuliani back, but they didn't do that. Here is Rudy on what he'd be doing if he was mayor today.
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One way to visualize it is there is somewhere between seven and eight, 9,000 people walking the streets of the city of New York today that would be sitting in jail. If I were the mayor or Bloomberg were the mayor and I'm talking about violent criminals.
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Well, like we had the illegal migrant the other day.
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Multiple huge rap sheep throws an 83 year old veteran in front of the
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subway and he dies nine days later.
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You know, why is he on the street?
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If he had been on the street when I was mayor or Mike was, it would have been just a total mistake. And when I was U.S. attorney, those are exactly the guys that Koch used to like to grab.
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You know, it's interesting. Rudy, before he was mayor, he was U.S. attorney and he went after the Mafia. He did all these unbelievable RICO cases. Like he cleaned up, he cleaned up much of the Tri State area, New York and Jersey largely before he was mayor. Then he came in and I kid you not. And I remember this, my grandparents and my great grandparents lived in New York City those years. We lived in the suburbs in Long Island. But I remember going when Dinkins was mayor and when Dinkins was mayor and he was a socialist basically and the city turned into a nightmare. Like, my parents did not want to go into the city anymore. There was crime everywhere. Times Square was a disaster. People remember this. People remember this. And then almost overnight, Rudy was like, no more. And he turned. He gave that city, between him and Bloomberg, they gave that city 20 great, great years. And it is being upended by. Well, it was upended by. Who was that douchebag de Blasio? And now they've got this guy. And Eric Adams was just a big nothing. But of course, it's not just in New York that is happening. This is happening all over the place. There is a guy running for Michigan Senate by the name of Abdul El Sayed. And. And he is a Democrat, of course, running. And he is one of. Well, he's one of these mom dummy types. It's all about equity. It's all about globalized, the intifada, all of the stuff. So here is his campaign rally, and we're first going to show you a video. This is just the guy opening for him. This isn't even him. This is just a foot soldier. Enjoy.
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If you believe in free speech, show up. If you believe in academic freedom, show up. If you believe that DEI should be restored, show up.
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If you believe that trans healthcare must be defended, show up. There is no reforming. There is no retraining. There is only abolishing ice. Okay, so that was him in the second part. The first part's just the opener, but you can see the way they're. They're flipping everything right now. They want to be the ones to protect free speech and academic freedom. What they mean is they want Hamas supporters to run around with masks calling for river to the sea and stop other students from going to class. That's exactly what they mean, right? They want to end, by the way, you believe in free speech. They want to be able to shout down anyone who doesn't agree with them 100%. Then he also talks about bringing DEI back again. Woke is not dead. And that trans healthcare, because there's nothing an Islamist loves more than trans healthcare. Like, if you are one of these queer, furry morons and you are voting for these people, they're going to behead you, okay? Like, they're gonna behead you. They're going to behead you. Whether they do it tomorrow or the next day is largely irrelevant. Anyway, this Abdul El Sayed, he hopped in a car with. We've shown you some videos of this guy, Hasan Piker, who again, I used to work with at ty. He is an absolutely horrible human Being he has celebrated the 911 attacks. He has told his audience, we've played video of it a couple of times. His audience on Twitch streams, which is young kids, basically video game streams, how they can build drone bombs so that suicide bombing won't be necessary anymore. He went to China and talked about how much he hates America and he isn't proud to be an American. And anyway, here's just a bunch of, well, I'm gonna say it, retarded slop.
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Most people are still carrying a lot of white supremacist resentment that they've learned
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from their social conditioning, from their upbringing.
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And that's obviously a much larger problem,
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like, we gotta end poverty because we gotta end poverty. We gotta end racism because we gotta end racism. But if we fail to end racism, we won't end poverty. And if we fail to end poverty, we can't end racism. And so, like, those two things are mutually inclusive as problems. And it is absolutely critical that we ask, like, what are the intervent we can create that help to address both of them? Yeah, sorry, I'm trying not to say the R word as much. But like, that is just retarded slop. Poverty is racism. Racism is poverty and white supremacy. Like, these are the modern racists. These are all of the things that America was founded on to end that you would be looked at and judged by the color of your skin and everything else. Like, we gave you a chance here and you guys came to this country to shred all of that. And sadly, you've become somewhat successful at some of that. Here is Pennsylvania Democrat Representative Summer Lee with Abdul and Hasan. And yeah, you're not going to believe it. They think we're in the midst of a fascist takeover right now.
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Right now we are in the midst of fascism.
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We are in it.
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And I think that for Americans in America, sometimes it's hard to admit that, but the work that we're action going to have to do to get us out of this moment to build what comes next is going to take us having difficult conversations, going to have us going through tension, demonstrating what courage looks like, demonstrating what it means to be an elected official or a candidate who stands for something, who fights for something,
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who brings these people all deserve each other. They really do. It's just we're going to have to do the work. Like, they just say phrases. I just said a phrase. Do you want to say a phrase? Oh, I said a phrase. You want to tell him a phrase? Oh, she'll tell her a phrase. Oh, sorry, that's not A guy that's a girl. Like, it's just nothing. But they are here for the communist takeover, right? We're in a fascist country right now. No, we're not in a fascist. You know, when we were on the verge of a fascist country, it's actually when the Democrats were in charge because Joe Biden admitted during COVID the Biden administration fully admitted that the government was working with big tech government corporations working together to quite literally silence the American people around Covid. That actually was the textbook definition of fascism. That is the reverse of what is happening right now. But I would say to the Democrats, you should stick with this Hasan piker guy. Sure. 911 was good. Sure. What did he call for? Blood in the streets was something. I forget what the context was on that one. Sure. Have the kids build suicide bombs. Okay, Keep attaching yourself to this guy. That's a great idea. Idea and dare I do it? But Dana Bash, not one of my favorites. She did call him out fairly effectively.
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Here's some of what he actually has said about the depravity of the October 7 terror attack. The deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Quote, it doesn't matter if effing rapes happened on October 7th. Like, that doesn't change the dynamic for me. The Palestinian resistance is not perfect. Now let that sink in. Hassan Piker is excusing sexual violence by Hamas terrorists. He also claims Hamas is, quote, a thousand times better than Israel. Hamas is a designated terror organization not just by the US but by the eu, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, just to name a few. And here's what Piker said about the horrors of September 11, 2001.
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America deserved 9 11. Dude, I'm saying it like, we totally brought it on ourselves, dude.
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Holy. We did. We did. Guys, I want to be clear about why I'm showing you these clips. I don't think you have to care about this guy that much. Again, like, I. I knew him. He was a horrible person. Like, a really horrible person. Again, they. He was literally harassing all the girls at the office. Office to the point they had to just tell him to work from home. He's a grotesque human being. The reason I'm showing you these videos and I'm not outraged by any of this. And he can say whatever the hell he wants. The reason I'm showing you this is he is being wholly imported into the New Democratic Party right now. Right. We know over the years they have pushed out all of the moderates. All of the moderates. The Tulsi Gabbard types, Bobby Kennedy types, they all became part of maga. So they pushed out a certain set of people, basically the classical libs and they are importing now the radicals. So I would say to Ro Khanna, who's completely tied himself to this guy, good luck with that. Keep going with this. Democrats. Like if you think this is what the future of America is, that is what you think you are here to topple and end all of it. Keep attaching yourself to America deserved 9 11. Keep attaching yourself to globalize the Intifada. Keep attaching yourself to all of these rapids radical things and we'll see what happens. And maybe you will be right and that will be horrible for America. But in that I don't want the Democrats to win and I still have faith in America. We shall see. Here's my buddy Clay Travis calling out El Sayed, the Michigan guy running because he's a fan of the Ayatollah who wasn't a great guy to be quite frank.
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This guy. This is important. Leave aside whatever Piker may or may not have said. We know El Sayed this came out and I think it should be a bigger story than it was. He on tape was caught discussing with his top advisers the fact that he didn't want to talk about us killing the Ayatollah in Iran because too many people that would otherwise support him were upset about the fact that the Ayatollah was gone here in the United States. I think Mike Rogers is the Republican candidate here and I would encourage Democrats to go out and support El CIO to get behind everything that Hassan Piker has said about not loving America and believing that Jewish people are responsible for what happened on October 7th. Because guess what? The average swing voter in Michigan is not going to respond well to this. Harris.
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Yeah, yeah. He's basically reiterating what I said there. Go with that. Democrats and let's. And I guess it will ultimately be a test on where the average American is at over time. Right. You're going to have your people that are always going to be Republicans. You're going to have those people that are always going to be Democrats. Right. But that average person in the middle, which who knows what percentage of Americans that is at this point because everything's kind of upside down. Will the average American be like, you know that guy, he said that America deserved 9 11. They're into terrorism. Wait a minute. They're kind of really obsessed with Islam but also love the gays. How's that going to work out over time? I think eventually this stuff will start shaking out and sensible people will wake up. But good luck with all of that. I would like to contrast that with the free state of Florida where just yesterday Ron DeSantis decided to ban the Muslim practice of marrying her cousin.
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Now, there's some other things that were part of this package that we may need to add in upcoming because I think there were some things that really needed me. For example, you know, Florida doesn't ban cousin marriage. And that's an easy, that's a hanging curve ball for us to do. We need to do that. Other states have done it. I don't know why we wouldn't. But obviously that feeds in to some of the stealth jihad that we see. You know, when you're allowing things like that. It's things that are coming in from other cultures that are not consistent with the United States culture and certainly our culture here in Florida. So this is important. But the larger issue is we have got to stop as a country importing people that reject the values.
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Quick clarification. You know, I'm not above it. I slightly misspoke there. We haven't banned it yet. We are in the process of banning it. There's a piece of legislation around it and he did just over the last couple days sign a sweeping bunch of things related to banning Sharia law in the state. And then of course, at the end of the statement there, he says, look, culture matters. Stop importing people who are wildly against your values. And unfortunately, unfortunately, particularly if the Democrats ever become, you know, get power again at the federal level, which eventually will happen, we have to keep doing this at the state level. Every state has to keep strengthening itself and defending itself and inoculating itself, I would say, from the disasters that the Democrats could bring at the federal level. Let's talk about Mars Men for a minute and then we'll get to locals, community Q and A. At some point, things can start feeling a little bit off. Your energy isn't the same. 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Elizabeth says, does Crochet Dave get to participate in Tequila Thursday with his tiny bottle of Copala? Now, Elizabeth, you have sent me some wonderful crocheted things over the years, including Clyde and versions of Dave. I have two Daves that you have sent here. This is little Dave Rubin, okay? And this guy, by the way, he's normally in the. Well, one of them stays in the studio, and one of them is normally in the family room. And he fights with Megatron, Jango Fett sometimes he rides a car, does all sorts of things with the kids. Dave Rubin with the Kopal bottle, which you did send us. We think Clyde either Ate or Barry. So if you'd like to send us another one, I would love it. We'd be thrilled for that. We had a Dave Rubin that had a little bottle of Copal. He was just holding Dave with the little tequila right here. And I think Clyde, you know, he's a dog. He doesn't get the attention he does now with the kids. He used to with the kids. So, anyway, thank you for these guys, and we'll leave Dave right there. Okay? Chipster says, do you think that all people related to IRGC members should be deported or imprisoned? You know, this is an interesting question. We didn't cover this, but, you know, there's been a few stories in the last few days about how there are quite literally like, nieces and nephews and cousins of IRGC members, meaning members of the old regime in Iran who are wandering around in the United States. And of course, there's pictures of this girl. I forget it's one of their nieces. And she's like, running. Running around in a bikini so she in America can enjoy all that stuff while they keep the women in bags over in Iran and all of the hypocrisy. Okay, so the question is, should they be arrested? Well, look, if they're citizen. And this is where we're gonna constantly have a struggle now going forward. And you could connect this to what we just showed you out of Michigan if you have people that are citizens of your country, legal citizens, I'm not talking about temporary visas. Yeah. If you're on a temporary visa and you know, you're like, like cousins with someone who's a terrorist, I don't know, you could probably just boot them. We can have that discussion. The bigger issue that we are going to have to confront is that we now have. We just don't know how many, how many citizens in this country are here to undermine the system, are here to usher in communism or jihad, or don't care about our founding documents, would gladly have this whole thing upended and everything else. I mean, you have Mandami, like a guy swore in on the Koran and is now running New York City, counter to every idea that made America great, truly, over the last 250 years. So that to me is what the bigger issue is. You know, even if, even, look, we have our border under control and even if Trump was tripling the amount of deportations, which seems to have slowed down right now, but even if he was tripling, that, that still doesn't deal with probably what the stickiest issue is, which is the people that are legally here who are using all of our freedoms to try to destroy us. That's why what that guy did, the opener at the El Sayed thing. Are you for free speech? Are you for academic freedom? It's like you guys are using that, you're using our freedoms to ultimately upend us. Once you think when the Islamists and the jihadists have power, they're gonna be like, okay, queers, tell us what you think. No, no, no, that's not how it works. Glenn says, do you or have you ever believed in conspiracy theories like Artemis 2 lunar trip is a hoax, September 11 attacks were an inside job. Apollo 11 moon landing was a hoax, QAnon, etc. You know, I think I have a little bit of a built in defense or force field against conspiracy theories. I like them like, I really do like conspiracy Theories the movie JFK with Kevin Costner and this great freaking cast. John Candy is in it, he has a little cameo in it. It's a great movie. One of his only non comedic roles. Like it's basically a conspiracy the movie, right? It's a conspiracy theory the movie. And he lays, what's his name, Oliver Stone, laying out what his theory is around the assassination of John F. Kennedy and it's about the trial. I love the movie and I love thinking about those things. Right? I really do. But I've mentioned this quote, it's probably my favorite quote of all time from the great Carl Sagan, which is, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think one of the things that's happening to the Internet right now, now that we're 20 years into social media and that the mainstream media has been so derelict in its duty over the years, is that everybody, you see that they lie about something, right? So we were lied to about COVID obviously. And then everyone starts looking at everything and thinking that everything's a lie. And it's not to say everything was perfectly true or told to us perfectly. And the way information could be controlled 40 years ago versus how it's much harder to control it now. It's like, that's obvious. But with the freedoms of the Internet also come that anyone can put out anything, whenever, and they can lie about anything, and they can get likes on it. And then the bots and the algorithms and all. All those things. So, no, I don't think any of those things are grand conspiracies. However, if one day they came to me and they were like, here is the evidence that actually the JFK assassination was this, and we actually have evidence, not just the story around it, Right? You know, even the last couple days, watching this Joe Kent guy go on all these podcasts and shows, he basically just tells a story about what. What he thinks is happening. He never offers evidence to anything. I wasn't allowed to investigate the Charlie Kirk murder. And it's like, well, that wasn't your job. I wasn't invited to this meeting. Well, you were thought to be a leaker, so you weren't. So then he just tells a story, and everyone's like, oh, that's a story. That's interesting. And by the way, stories are important, right? This is something Jordan Peterson, I think, explained better than anybody over the years. We learn truths through stories, so people are. Are susceptible to lies within stories as well. Sam says J.D. vance and the majority of Trump's cabinet's loyalty is such a breath of fresh air compared to his previous term, where people were coming out of the woodwork left and right to disparage Trump. You know, that is a great point. It's why I've given credit always where credit is due with this great group of people. It's not just Trump that's been great here. It's that everybody, Hegseth, J.D. marco, like, everybody across the board. Again, doesn't mean that everything's gonna work out perfectly, but we're getting people that are communicating clearly, that are showing you that there's Some disagreements that are speaking off the cuff. Like I would say, as this is as robust an administration as we're ever going to get again, and you're completely right, by the way, that's very different than it was the first time around. I think Trump learned a lot. And by the way, what was one of the things when I was supporting Desantis in the primaries, what was one of the things that I said a million times my main concern around Trump wasn't Trump. We knew what we were going to get with Trump. It was that he was not going to be able to get good people to work for him. I am thrilled that I was proven wrong on that. Absolutely thrilled that I'm proven wrong. And the fact that Bobby came in and then you start and Dr. Oz came in and you get all of these people who weren't even Republicans, Republicans that long ago. It's incredible. And hopefully it's not going away in six months. Tappy Shep says, would you go into space if it was offered? Would Joseph Connor, Phoenix and your crew. You know, this is interesting. This is an interesting question. So I'm not good on roller coasters. I cannot sit. We took the kids, we took the kids to this lion park safari or park. What's it called? Can you Google it? Lion Park Safari. It's this awesome place, place. It's about two hours north of Miami, maybe three hours north inland from Palm Beach. Lion park, lion country safari. Yeah. And it's amazing. They have a full on safari with elephants wandering around and rhinos coming up to your car and giraffes and it's just freaking awesome. They also have like an amusement park there. I can't even get on a merry go round, I kid you not. I tried to get on the merry go round with the kids. I was like my whole equilibrium was shot for like two hours. Okay? So I'm not good with any of that stuff. Putting that aside, if Elon came to me and said, dave, would you like to do the first show in space? Or we'll put you in orbit and you could broadcast something, I don't know what kind of training I would have to go through, but I would try. I think it is so cool to think how could someone who loves sci fi as much as me say no to that. So I don't know if they also can put you to sleep. Right? All these movies where you get put to sleep on the long voyage. Usually one of the pods ends up exploding. Hopefully I'm not in one of those pods. But like there's ways that we could make it happen. I just watched. I went to the movies the other day for the first time in years. I saw Project Hail Mary, which I actually didn't think was great, but, you know, it's all about space travel and then the ship gravity getting lost and the guys getting all. All that, like, I would be puking left and right, but I think I would give it a shot. Connor, would you go? I feel like. Let me try to guess. I don't know. You like that iced coffee too much. I don't know what kind of availability of iced coffee there is up there. Would you do it? I'd go in like 10 years. You would go in 10 years, not now. Okay. You need a 10 year Runway. Joseph, would you go? You would go. You would go. Okay, I know Phoenix would go. You would go to space? Yeah, for sure. Phoenix would go to space. Phoenix said to me a couple weeks ago, out of nowhere, he's like, dave, I'll go to any war zone you want. I was like, all right, we'll see what we can do. And if Trump brings world peace, that's going to be a problem.
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All right. So it seems like we would do it. That's a good question. All right, let's keep going. Cecido says, did you let your children watch the Ten Commandments? I remember being terrified of that movie as a child. I appreciate it as an adult, but was really glad I wasn't the firstborn. Well, I am the firstborn born, so that did always have a little something in my mind. You know, we did buy it. I bought it on, I think it was on Amazon prime and David and I watched it a couple days ago last week. And it's, as I said, it's just wonderful. It's wonderful not only because of. Because it's the story of stories and it's the story, it's just the biblical version of everything is just so absolutely incredible. But to see old Hollywood and the set, the pacing of the movie, that people had patience. There's. There's beautiful scores that, you know, music that's going throughout the movie that's patient and the makeup, when you even as you see Moses age Charlton Heston age over time, once he's met God and then he comes down and he looks different, it's just so spectacular. No, we did not have the kids watch it. Well, first off, we don't do that much TV or any of that stuff. We did have them watch Toy Story, which we had to skip past that part With Connor, you know who's the bad kid? Sid is it. Sid is the kid that's like killing all the toys and he crushes them and he combines them into something evil. Maybe we get a picture of Sid. We had to. At that part, I could see that Justin was freaking out a little bit, so we skipped over that. So we don't do that much. But, yes, they are not ready for. They're not ready for 10 Commandments. You know what I did watch with them that was super cool. One night before bed, you know, the opening to the movie Contact, which I reference all the time time with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. There's that incredible panoramic view of the universe. They start with the Earth, and then it just goes out and out and out, and you see galaxy after galaxy after galaxy. We watched that, and then I started talking about that with them, and that was seriously freaking cool. And I had Joseph watch it on the flight back from Hungary, and he said it was overrated. No lunch for you today. Margaret MD Says with all the craziness in Europe, including Spain, not letting the US Use their airspace for the world against Iran, I wonder what it'll take for Trump to leave NATO altogether. I mean, it seems to me, as per what we discussed earlier on the show, he's laying the groundwork, right? Like, that seems fairly obvious, the question right now for Trump, that I think if I was interviewing him right now and we're constantly in touch with them, trying to figure out if we can make it happen, I think what I would want to ask him more than anything else is how is he ordering things in his mind right now? Before the midterm, like, deportations were really hot. Then the war situation took over for that. Then are we going to get back to Savec now? We haven't talked about Saveak in two years, two weeks. So it's like, how do you order all of these important things? Not only because there's a certain importance or there's a certain level that you have to have a hierarchy, right? You have to figure out what are the important. But it's not just what's the most important right now, it's also what's the most important. Where can you get your wins so that the Republicans don't lose the midterms? To me, that would be like the best question to ask the guy. Like, how do you do what you think is right and important versus balancing that with what will also keep you in power so you can do everything else? Maybe I'll get to ask him that question. I think we have one more. Lacy says yesterday's show was not a 9.9. It was a 10. You approach each issue with grace and common sense and an open mind without sacrificing the core of who you are. Do you think staying in touch with your locals community and doing things like touching grass with your basketball friends help you stay grounded? Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I should. The guys keep telling me I need to be jumping in and interacting more on locals. It's just I'm, like, pulled in a thousand different directions all the time. My downtime is minimal, and that's an overstatement, but checking, you know, it's even why I have referenced the comments lately, because for me to look and be like, all right, we end the show, and usually we'll do a little postmortem quick, and the show was good. We could have done that better. This better, whatever. I know when I think the show is basically good, but when I look afterwards and I see that it's not, the comments are like. It's not that the comments are about, like, the specifics of the politics. It's about the overall, like, what we are doing here, that is different. That is what is making me really proud these days. It really is. And if I have to sacrifice clicks or views for that, I'll be okay. We'll all be just fine. He'll still get his guacamole and you can have lunch today and all of those things. So I am very proud of that. But, yeah, I try to have a full life outside of this, and to that extent. Here's some basketball clips. I still got a little something. Watch this. Watch this. Watch. That was me on the pass. Look at the grab, the cut. Little reverse. Yeah, still can move. 49 years old, old. Not bad.
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And I pointed at the camera, too. A showboater right there. What happens here? Oh, I think I'm going to pass and there's going to. Let's see what happens. Little pass. Okay. Still moving. Look at moving without the ball moving. That's a deep three. That's a deep three. Not bad, not bad. I think we got one more. We got one more with my crew. It's such a great group of guys. This is a game winner right here. Still shooting off the dribble. 49 years old. That's not easy at 49. That's. You know, if there's a moment during the week, I play with these guys on Wednesdays and Sundays. Now we got a Tuesday game. Going. I'm trying to get a Monday game going. If there's a moment when I can just put aside all of the other stuff. And even sometimes the guys want to talk politics with me, because that's the thing. But I'm like, guys, I'm playing basketball right now. That's it. That's when my brain can be totally free. But it's that. It's that I try not to be on the machines over the weekend. That really, really helps. You know, we've got great. We've got great friends and family. We love cooking. You know, like. Yeah, some of the other stuff outside of this is that that's what it is. Like, this is important and that's important. That's our show. We'll do a quick post game. Why not? Right? Rubenreport.locals.com, i thank you for watching. And don't forget, guys, five o'. Clock. It is five o' clock somewhere, including quite literally five o' clock here. We will be drinking some tequila. Deal with you guys. Tune in a little bit later. Ciao.