Bill Maher Obliterates Patton Oswalt's Liberal Bubble in Only 2 Minutes

Summary

The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin

Episode Title: Bill Maher Obliterates Patton Oswalt's Liberal Bubble in Only 2 Minutes
Date: November 18, 2025
Host: Dave Rubin

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Episode Overview

Dave Rubin’s episode dives into the clash between progressive ideology and “old school liberalism” via Bill Maher’s recent interview with Patton Oswalt, using it as a springboard for wider current debates—free speech, wokeness, gender issues, media bias, the Epstein files controversy, waves of political realignment, and the growing influences of socialism and Islamism in American cities. Drawing heavily on recent viral clips and headlines, Rubin connects cultural and political trends, warning of the danger posed by insulated progressive “bubbles” and the alliance between certain elements of the left and establishment right.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Setting the Stage: Internet Outages & Political Friction

• [00:44]
  • Rubin opens with humor about that day's large-scale internet outage and pokes fun at viewers' responses to his shirt on a previous broadcast.
  • He sets the agenda: addressing “crazy left,” “wackiness on the right,” and the collision between them.
  • Theme: “It is incredibly tough—and increasingly so—to talk to those with whom we disagree.”
  • Quote:
    “I reach out to people on the left all the time. Barely anyone who’s willing to talk to me.” (Dave Rubin, [02:15])

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2. Bill Maher vs. Patton Oswalt: The Progressive Bubble Exposed

• [03:47–08:00]
  • Rubin breaks down Bill Maher’s attempts to snap Oswalt out of the “liberal bubble” on topics like race, gender, and scientific consensus.
  • Clip Highlights:
    • Patton Oswalt: “We elected Obama and clearly the country freaked out…we are not as…evolved as we think we are because we keep freaking out about this stuff.” ([04:14])
    • Bill Maher: “Well, you know, the left freaks out, too. The left freaked out about a lot of bull, too… Gender, race, parenthood, schools, homelessness, crime, the border, education…we stopped being a scientific people.” ([04:25])
    • Key Interchange: Oswalt claims the left “certainly stayed scientific” (incorrect, says Maher), particularly on gender.
  • Rubin’s Analysis: Progressives measure national maturity only by whether their side wins and rationalize away any failings.
  • Quote:
    “Bill just lays it out: border crime, homelessness, science, gender, blah, blah… Patton seems to have no idea.” (Dave Rubin, [05:35])
  • Rubin shows how Oswalt’s denial ("Were we teaching that?" – [06:51]) is refuted by Maher’s insistence—and news headline—about nonbinary birth certificates in California.
  • Rubin’s Theory: Progressives often don’t even know what radical policies are being passed, living in an information bubble.

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3. The Progressive Mindset: "If We Win, The Country Is Mature"

• [05:10–08:20]
  • Rubin explains the “motto” he sees among progressives: things are only good when their side is in charge.
  • He revisits Ketanji Brown Jackson’s inability to define “woman” ([08:09]) as further symptom of delusion on the left.

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4. Epstein Files, Media Narratives & Political Machinations

• [08:27–20:00]
  • [08:27]
    • The Epstein files resurface; Rubin argues this is being wielded as a political weapon, especially to hit Trump.
    • Reads Trump’s Truth Social post advocating release of the files: “Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s record setting achievements and not fall into the Epstein trap, which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. Make America great again.” ([12:05])
  • Rubin’s Critique:
    • "Why didn’t the Democrats release all this when they had the House, Congress, and the Presidency?” ([13:45])
    • Media only covers stories aligning with their preferred narrative; cites difference in coverage during Trump vs. Biden.
    • Quote:
      “We’re very, very interested in something when it fits our narrative, and we’re really not interested when it doesn’t.” ([13:15])
  • Notable Segments:
    • Timu Obama, Democratic leader, dodges question about Congresswoman Plaskett texting Epstein ([14:43]).
    • Nancy Mace, GOP Rep., slams media for focusing on Trump, not Epstein’s victims ([15:53]).
    • Van Jones claims the Trump coalition won't hold while defending “pedophile rings” ([17:09]).
    • Marjorie Taylor Greene gets praised on CNN for her reversal on Trump/Epstein, indicating media alliance shifts ([18:41], [19:40]).
  • Rubin’s Alarm: Non-traditional alliances forming in media and politics, many against Trump—raising suspicions.

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5. Socio-Political Realignments and The "Horseshoe Theory"

• [20:35–23:24]
  • Rubin notes alliances between some anti-Trump Republicans, progressives, and media.
  • On MTG’s new stance: “When someone’s in their 50s and starts reevaluating all their political beliefs and changing alliances in weeks, that is worth curiosity.” (paraphrased from [20:38])
  • Economic Discussion: Senator Markwayne Mullin argues grocery and energy prices are actually down, challenging criticism from the “anti-Trump” right ([23:00]).

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6. Migration, Identity Politics, and "Islamification": UK, Michigan, New York

• [25:48–35:37]
  • Back to Bill Maher & Oswalt: Maher claims England is “not recognizable” due to violence, immigration, and “Islamification;" Oswalt expresses ignorance.
  • Rubin Commentary:
    • Draws a parallel with developments in Dearborn, Michigan (Mayor Hamoud’s anti-assimilation “salad bowl” comments) ([27:36]).
    • Quote:
      “This is really, really dangerous…what he’s basically saying is, we are separate.” ([28:40])
  • NYPD demonstrations on hijab-wearing raise concerns about injecting religious elements into public institutions ([29:30]).
  • Aber Kawas, NY Assembly candidate, blames "capitalism and racism" for 9/11 ([30:46]).
  • Stephen Miller: 40% of NYC rent-controlled apartments are foreign-born residents ([32:10]), raising questions about public spending and voter trends.
  • Bill Maher on Real Time illustrates impact of socialism vs. capitalism (South vs. North Korea, Venezuela vs. Poland) ([34:35]).
  • Maher quote:
    “If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you’re in for a rude awokening.” ([35:37])

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7. Socialist Experiments in American Cities

• [40:19–43:39]
  • Seattle’s new mayor Katie Wilson, a self-identified democratic socialist, promises to force grocery stores to stay open to combat “food deserts”.
  • Wilson on food access:
    “Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. … As mayor, I’m excited to…explore public option grocery stores…” ([41:32])
  • Rubin mocks Wilson’s and other socialist mayors’ rationalizations, linking failures to increased crime and business closures—“You better scan that fucking kale!” ([42:07])
  • Wilson openly supports “defunding the police;” even her lefty predecessor was deemed not radical enough.

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8. ‘Via Venezuela’: Socialism & Utopian Dangers

• [45:00–49:08]
  • Venezuelan President Maduro sings John Lennon’s “Imagine” at a rally, a “utopian” anthem Rubin dislikes.
  • US (under Trump) cracks down on Venezuelan narco-trafficking, bombing boats smuggling drugs ([48:40]).
  • Rubin: “If you are illegally trying to come here via boat or through Mexico … We’re going to blow you up.” ([49:27])
  • Trump, when asked about striking Mexico to stop drug flows: “Whatever we have to do to stop drugs, it’s okay with me.” ([50:15])
  • Rubin’s argument: Trump’s toughness sends a deterrent message to criminals and traffickers.

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9. Closing Thoughts: Trump’s Enduring Appeal and Political Caution

• [53:00–ending]
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (as played in a recent interview) credits Trump with accomplishing more than any other modern president in the same timespan.
  • Theme: “Be wary of the people that are turning on him and where they’re getting love from.”
  • Quote:
    “If you’re a Republican and you’re suddenly getting love from CNN, maybe you’re not the good guy.” (Dave Rubin, [54:18])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Bill Maher on Teaching Gender ([06:42]):
  “That’s not what we started to teach…every baby is—I don’t know, let’s not even put it on the birth certificate. That’s what they wanted.”
• Patton Oswalt's Bubble ([07:08]):
  “I’m sorry, I don’t remember that.” – When told about California’s nonbinary birth certificates.
• Dave Rubin’s Summation of Progressive Mindset ([05:33]):
  “Things are good if he gets what he wants. That’s kind of a progressive motto there.”
• Direct on NYC Socialism ([34:41]):
  “It turned one of Latin America’s richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing…”
• Katie Wilson (Seattle) on Grocery Stores ([41:32]):
  “We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores at will, and leave behind food deserts. … I’m excited…to explore public option grocery stores.”
• Rubin, on Enforced Wokeness ([42:07]):
  “How are you going to do that? By gunpoint? You better scan that fucking kale like—it’s absolutely insane.”
• Rubin, on Political Alliances ([18:42]):
  “I’m telling you, there’s something weird going on here that has nothing to do with the Epstein thing. It’s the alliance that’s forming against Trump.”

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Important Timestamps

• Bill Maher confronts Patton Oswalt on leftist “bubbles”: [04:25]–[08:00]
• Rubin recaps Maher/Oswalt gender discussion: [05:10]–[07:20]
• Trump’s Truth Social statement about the Epstein Files: [12:05]
• Media double standards on Epstein coverage (Rubin and Van Jones remarks): [13:15]–[17:09]
• Praise for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reversal on Epstein: [18:41], [20:02]
• Discussion of migration, assimilation, and Islamification: [25:48]–[29:43]
• Maher on capitalism vs. socialism: [34:35]
• Seattle socialist mayoral campaign segments: [40:19]–[43:39]
• Rubin on deterrence and drug cartels: [49:08]–[50:15]
• RFK Jr. credits Trump’s accomplishments: [53:25]

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Tone and Style Notes

Rubin’s delivery is casual, sharp-tongued, and unapologetically pointed. He frequently uses humor, sarcasm, and profanity (“scan that fucking kale…”), sprinkling astute observations with cultural references ("Andy Dufresne...sludged through...Shawshank"). He’s consistently critical of progressive orthodoxy and mainstream media, but also calls out perceived opportunism and “wokeness” on the right.

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For Listeners: Big Takeaways

• Progressive “bubbles” shield many from inconvenient realities, particularly on issues of gender, crime, and policy overreach.
• Media narrative control is a persistent theme; coverage shifts are often about weaponizing information.
• Political alliances are fluid and sometimes suspect—watch for who’s championed by the media at odd times.
• Socialist experiments in cities are presented as traps that lead to collapse and loss of liberty.
• Immigration and assimilation are urgent topics as identity/factional politics threatens American civic unity.
• Trump’s policies and style, while polarizing, are argued to be uniquely effective in facing tough problems.

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Summary prepared for The Rubin Report listeners, November 18, 2025

Transcript

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Previously on the Ruben that's.

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Why so many of us can't swim.

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Whack you in the head.

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I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.

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He's going to be the new Liz Cheney. If Donald Bataman is the smartest person.

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In the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party.

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Is in really deep trouble. Only seven shot and two dead. Pretty good. Foreign. How you doing, people? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It is November 18, 2025. We are live streaming. Despite the problems that the Internet is facing this morning that you probably know about, we are live streaming on Rumble, YouTube and Locals. We got a post game show RubenReport.Locals.com and yes, for those of you living in a cave, you may not have noticed, but for a few hours this morning, it was like when Andy Dufresne slugged through about a, what was it, about a mile, about a football field. They said a football field of human feces and got out of Shawshank and on the other side yelled, freedom. The Internet was down. Cloudflare. Cloudflare, which I guess runs probably about a third of the Internet sites, was down. Twitter was down, or X as they call it. People were struggling, did not know how to communicate with each other, was absolutely beautiful. I took a walk with the dog. Then my phone died on top of it. So not only was the Internet barely working, my phone died too. I was just out there looking at the birds and the iguanas and picking up dog poop. It does not get much better than that. Also, before we get to it, I just want to thank all of you because I did take a gander at the comments yesterday and I was a little concerned at the top of the show because I wore the collared shirt with the short sleeves because we're doing a little painting in my room and I couldn't get into the master closet and I was worried that would people be able to accept news from somebody whose arms you could see. And apparently the Answer is yes. And the people. Several people requested more. They requested even a lower. More of an opening. No, we're not going to. Okay, we're not going to do that. Sorry, boss. Let's dive in. We got a ton to get to. A little bit of crazy left, some wackiness on the right, just general stuff. This is just kind of a general everything program. I would put it that way. I do wanna start with something interesting because, you know, it is incredibly difficult and I would say increasingly hard to talk to people who we all disagree with. I reach out to people on the left all the time. Barely anyone who's willing to talk to me. I would say even for some of the splintering on the right, I think we're gonna see that it'll be increasingly hard for people on the right who have divergence of opinion to talk to each other. But Bill Maher on Club Random had Patton Oswald on. And I was a little 50. 50 on what we wa. This Patton Oswald. Well, he. First off, the guy just looks like a troll. I don't want to make fun of the trollish body shape or anything, but the reason I'm even saying that to start, because you might go, dave, that's not very nice. This guy has called me racist a million times on Twitter, said horrible things about me. I've blocked him a long time ago. But anyway, he's just like a perfect kind of progressive lefty Hollywood troll. That's kind of what he is. And we're gonna show you a couple of clips here because Bill, who obviously is just kind of old school liberal, as you know, he really does a nice job of. While sitting and enjoying some copal tequila, just poking holes in some of the progressive nonsense. So here is clip one. I hate to admit this. This country is not as mature as it thinks it is. We elected Obama and clearly the country freaked out. We're still living in that freakout. We are not as progressed and evolved and intelligent as we think we are because we keep freaking out about this stuff.

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Well, you know, the left freak out too. The left freaked out about a lot of bull too.

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What did they, what did they freak out about?

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Gender, race, parenthood, schools, homelessness, crime, the border, education. Like we were not. We stopped being a scientific people. Like it's not scientific.

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But the left certainly stayed scientific.

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No, they didn't.

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Why not?

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Because they think gender, that they went way too far with. That's not scientific.

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But how do I. How do they go too far with like gender? Okay, there's a lot there so first off, bill, credit, credit, and you get a free case of copal just to show you that credit gets laid out here. The idea that the progressives are the mature ones. You see what Patton did there? He did saying that this is kind of a standard thing of what they do when you get the results of an election that they want. So in this case, when you get Obama, that means that the country was evolved and progressed and mature. When the election goes the other way, it's the reverse of those things. And that's a really, really dangerous thing because half the country just, we just know this, that Basically we're a 50, 50 country, something like that. And obviously, I think our side has a better set of ideas that are much more in line with the Constitution and freedom and liberty and all that. He has a set of ideas that means that when his people are in charge, that's when all of the good stuff's happening. I don't sit here and say all of the good stuff's happening when Trump's in charge. Trump happens to be doing a good job, but there's a disconnect in the mind. He basically, things are good if he gets what he wants. That's kind of a progressive motto there. But the real takeaway of that is that Bill just lays it out, right? He just lays it out. Border crime, homelessness, science, gender, blah, blah, blah. And Patton seems to have no idea. He thinks the left is into science. Covid, Covid. I mean, come on. Here's Bill checking Patton when he denies some of wokeness.

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That's not what we started to teach, which was that every baby is. I don't know, let's not even put it on the birth certificate. That's what they wanted.

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Were we teaching that?

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Yes.

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When were we teaching that?

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Teaching it? It was a law here in California, see.

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To teach what?

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Don't put sex on the birth certificate. We'll see now we've passed that period now.

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I'm sorry, I don't remember that.

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I mean, I know because it doesn't get in the blue sky bubble.

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I'm not just a blue sky.

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I really think that's a lot of it, is that some of this stuff doesn't get in to everybody's media.

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All right, this is really good by Bill because he's pointing out something that is actually true. Let's show the headline. You may all remember this. California Paves way for non binary birth certificates. So it's absolutely true. And of course, Patton, because he's kind of a perfect progressive, he Never knows what he doesn't know. Right. They all kind of live in their perfect progressive cave, and if something doesn't fit their narrative, they just. Just don't seem to know about it. But we all know that the left, largely, almost without exception, except for Fetterman and a couple other people, has gone crazy with this gender stuff. You may remember this from March of 22. This is Supreme Court at that time nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. And she don't know that boys have penises and girls have vaginas.

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Can you provide a definition for the word woman? Can I provide a definition?

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No. Yeah.

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I can't. You can't? Not in this context. I'm not a biologist.

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And that woman now sits on the Supreme Court. And remember, that was about three years ago and everyone was like, well, it just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Except when you bring up things like Bill pointed out to, I don't know, not putting gender on birth certificates or on passports or the litany of other crazy things that come out out of California, that a school can misgender your child and literally hide it from you as the parent, and they can take your child away if you don't affirm their gender, which is actually the least affirming thing you can do, and everything else. But the reason I wanted to start with those clips is not because Patton Oswald is important. He's not important, but what he illustrated there of this certain set of people that everything is good if we get what we want. And then when you point out the things that they don't know, they kind of. Well, I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. But it never breaks through. It never causes a sort of shift in their mind. And that is what we are largely up against here. So now I wanna shift to something else because over the last couple days, the Epstein stuff seems to have burst back. And as I said on the show yesterday, anything that can be released that is direct evidence of anyone that did anything horrific with the child must come out. Right. You have to protect the parties that were molested or raped or whatever it was. Right. But you should go after people who did anything criminal. The thing seems bizarre to me is that the Democrats had access to all of these files for years and did nothing. And the fact that it just keeps popping back up now seems like it's a political crude to be whacked over the head of Donald Trump. However, Trump, who's usually pretty good about staying in front of things this is what he said yesterday on Truth Social. As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the fake news media. House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide. And it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax perpetrated by radical left lunatics in order to deflect from the great success of the Republican Party, including our recent victory on the Democrat shutdown. The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the public on Epstein. Are looking at various Democrat operatives, Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, et cetera. And their relationship to Epstein. And the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to. I don't care. All I do care about is that Republicans get back on point, which is the economy. Which is the economy affordability where we are winning big. Our affordability where we are winning big. Oop, sorry. We had that twice. Our victory on reducing inflation from the highest level in history to practically nothing. Bringing down the prices for the American people, delivering historic tax cuts, gaining trillions of dollars in investment into America, a record. The rebuilding of our military, securing the border, deporting criminal legal aliens, ending men and women's sports, stopping transgender for everyone, and so much more. Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive. And if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our landslide election victory. Some members of the Republican Party are being used and we can't let that happen. Let's start talking about the Republican Party's record setting achievements and not fall into the Epstein trap, which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. Make America great again. So I think Trump is largely right about that. Again, reiterate, anyone who did anything absolutely criminal and there's evidence of it, of course, you pay the price for it. We still don't know who is in charge of all of this and everything else but that. You know, this is where Bondi made a huge mistake to say the files are on my desk. As I've said repeatedly, the files are on my desk and we're going to repeat them. Nobody knew what that meant. The files. Okay, so you got a stack of papers like this and does it actually show things? Is it just flight logs, et cetera, et cetera. But all of that aside, because I have no more insight into this than any of you do, right? We're all just getting the same information that is leaked out to us here and there and everything is kind of rumor and conjecture. All of that aside, it does seem to me that this is only coming back now. Because the Democrats think they can hang some portion of this on Trump. Trump, a guy who 21 years ago booted Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar a Lago and was clearly one of the few people that didn't want to be in his circles. But there seems to be something political going on here. Right in the kayfabe version of all of this. Again, why didn't the Democrats release all of this when they had the House and they had Congress and they had the presidency and. And everything else? Chuck Schumer was asked just that, just, I guess, a question that's out there. Why wouldn't they have been released the last four years when President Biden was in office? Well, that's the question every American is asking. Okay, well, how about you ask that question, Chuck Schumer? How about someone asks, that's what the guy's asking you, basically. Why didn't you guys do something about it when you could? We also, I saw something on Twitter which we tried to verify right before the show here, which is that Jake Tapper, good old CNN's Jake Tapper, during the four years of the Biden administration, he maybe, it's a little unclear, maybe had one tweet about the Epstein files. When Trump was president the first time he had a whole bunch, and suddenly right now, he has a whole bunch. That is the type of thing that I'm always more interested in the narrative and the framing around the story. We're very, very interested in something when it fits our narrative, and we're really not interested in something when it doesn't fit our narrative. A great example of this I can give you is that, remember when Elon bought Twitter a couple years ago, and suddenly for a week there were all these stories about all this child porn that's on Twitter. And that is horrible, obviously. But then if you went in and looked at all of the reporters at Axios and Daily Beast and CNN and blah, blah, blah, who were writing about it the week before or at any time before he bought Twitter, they never wrote about it. So that's the piece of kind of understanding how fake news operates that you really have to kind of get in your brain. Here is Timo Obama. And when I tell you that this guy's just nothing, he is nothing in a suit, I think he's a robot. I actually think this guy's a robot. Here he is being asked why we should trust the Democrats right now when at least one of them was in on it with Epstein for sure. And just watch his response.

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Why should Americans trust you? And House Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files when one of your own, Congresswoman Plaskett was found to be texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing, getting information from him, using that in her questioning during a congressional hearing. And at one point he tells her good job.

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This is a bipartisan effort to make sure that consistent with what the survivors have requested, that this full and complete transparency in every single predator who may be in those Justice Department files doesn't escape accountability. Sir, did you hear the question? Like he is a robot that is just prepackaged. Nothing. Did you get that Plasket, who is a Democrat member of Congress was texting with Epstein during one of the hearings? Can't address that. But again, you were part of the government during the Biden administration, Timu Obama. So why did you guys not release it then? However, I will. I've been trying to do it really hard lately. I will give the devil his due. I will agree with you on something here. Anyone who was on those flights, who that now there is evidence that they went to those islands to molest kids or whatever it was that they were doing there, to whatever extent any of it was illegal, of course they should pay the price. Here is Nancy Mace, Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace on CNN talking to Aaron Burnett, sort of making the point about the politicization of all of this.

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This is going to be historic. And the thing that I'm really frustrated with with the media right now is that they want to focus on President Trump and they're not telling the stories of these women who risked it all, their careers, their livelihood, their futures. But the president of the United States did say over the weekend that only a very bad or stupid Republican would fall into the trap of voting for the release of the files. And he's come around and that's a good thing. But Biden wouldn't do anything. But he. But the Trump. Trump has come around and Biden never came around. Biden never gave these women a chance.

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Okay, again, devil his due. Is it true that Trump seemed to have not want these released and now he does want them? The race? Yes. So what. What exactly is that about? I do not know. But something around this. I agree with Trump. Something around this feels like the Russia, Russia, Russia thing. Something feels very, very stinky that you have a certain set of Republicans that are anti Trump teaming up with the Democrats right now. Like something is rotten in stink town, as we used to say. Here's Van Jones, a man who often cries while on television explaining that this might take down the Trump group. He could just call the Justice Department right now. He could do it right now. He could just do it right now. Look, I mean, it turns out that, you know, there is a limit how far this kind of Trump cult is willing to go. And once you are talking about a massive conspiracy to protect pedophiles, even the Trump coalition cannot hold together. And I think he's actually probably shocked. He did all his usual tricks. He threw out the word hoax. He attacked this person. He attacked that person. He gave a nickname to Marguerite Taylor Greene. None of his tricks worked. And I think he's probably sitting there shocked that, yes, there is gravity, yes, there is a sun in the sky, and no, Republicans are not gonna support you protecting a pedophile ring. Okay, again, Van Jones, did you call for any of this to be released for four years while Biden was in charge? Right, so that's the part I'm just telling you guys, like, that's the meta part that you really have to focus on. When and why do people want things released. Anderson Cooper, how many times did you do shows about the Epstein files while Joe Biden was in office? But you guys seem to think that right now you can point this at Trump, but again, I just read you the Trump true social thing. He's saying release everything. But the political part of this that I think is weird is that if you have all of the Democrats and then a few Republicans who are suddenly getting a bunch of lavish praise on CNN working together, do you think there's something a little weird there? And of course, the main Republican doing this right now is Marjorie Taylor Greene, who seems to be reversing all of her old positions, going wildly against Trump, and now getting tons of love from mainstream media. Here is New York Times reporter Tyler Page praising Marjorie Taylor Greene's CNN interview. Tyler, yeah, remarkable interview, and just a sea change from what we've seen. In some ways, some of the rhetoric she was saying was. Sounded like Joe Biden of There's more that unites us than divides us. That is not the sort of rhetoric we are used to hearing from President Trump and the maga, baby. Oh, my God, I love her so much. She sounds like Joe Biden, not like a magaba. Where do they get these people? Do they literally. Do they check their testosterone when they hire them? Like they. Like they're. Look at your resume. Well, you work at Harvard and you. Oh, you have no testosterone. You're hired. Oh, you've masturbated on a zoom. You're hired. It's just so weird. But Anyway, the point of that, obviously, is that I'm telling you, there's something weird going on here that has nothing to do with the Epstein thing. It's the alliance that seems to be forming that is radically against Trump. And now it even includes someone like the most racist woman on television whose husband's worth of $450 million yet did not feed one person during the 40 days that the SNAP benefits were gone. Yes, I'm talking about Sunny Hostin here. She is saying that MTG may not have changed, but she's gonna give her a little credit, which is the next step into having Marjorie Taylor Greene be a co host of the View in probably two years. Watch.

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I just. I don't understand the shift because I think at a big age, people. At that big age, she's in her 50s, people don't change. They may change their behaviors to get something that they want, but I don't know that they fundamentally change. Well, she's ambitious, too. Sonny, let's be real. There may be something behind this. Maybe she wants to run for governor, maybe she wants to run for Senate. But I give her credit for saying I took part in some of that toxicity, and I apologize. That takes a pretty big person to do that. So I'm still on the fence about her, but I don't know if you're happy to have her.

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You know.

[C]

Do you ever see the movie Casablanca? Okay.

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Devil His Due again, that's what we're. Maybe we should. This should be the title of the week. Devil His Due. So how am I giving the devil his due here? Well, Sonny, you're kind of right that I think when someone's probably in their 50s and they start re evaluating all of their political beliefs and changing all of their alliances in a matter of weeks, that is worth having a little curiosity about. I actually agree. Regardless of whether it was someone going from left to right or right to left, I'll give you that. The part that I won't give you is if you are crediting her for not wanting to be part of the toxicity. I mean, if I was doing a toxicity list. You're up there, lady. You are arsenic on the toxicity list of what's gone on here. Or you call everybody racist. You are an extraordinary liar, and you are a genuine bigot and all of those things. So I suppose it's nice that you kind of like her now because she's coming around to your positions, which to the point of the Patton Oswald clip, up top. What do they love? Things are good when people accept that we are right about things and when, when they don't accept it, then we can burn everything down. That's, that's basically the attitude that's, that connects Patton to somebody like Sunny Hostin. So I would say we have to all take this with a grain of salt. Or as an old comedian who I used to know, Nicole Korkolis used to say take it all with a gram of coke. But either way, here is a senator by the name of Mark Wayne Mullen, who's a colleague and I think a friend of Marjorie Taylor Greene, basically saying she doesn't know what she's talking about when it comes to grocery prices and some of the economic stuff. And I think this is worth noting because most of the fight right now within MAGA seems to be about economics. And I think it seems to me she's using this as some, she's using the Epstein thing as some kind of other crudgel. But the economy is turning around and we need to acknowledge that. Take a look. Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think she's great, but I don't know what she's talking about. Walmart just came out and said that grocery prices are down over 20% this time last year. They said Thanksgiving and that was the CEO of Walmart. Amazon said that the trinkets, the things you were buying last year for Christmas are down. We have inflation that was at a high of 9.1%, average of 5% or eth Biden. Today it's hovering around 2.5%. Energy prices are down the lowest they've been since President Trump was last in office. And we know energy is the backbone of inflation. You can't make a product, you can't deliver a product without factoring the energy costs into it. So prices are down. Okay, so putting the Epstein stuff aside, which she's getting a lot of cred for, right. She's going on networks that hated her three weeks ago and now she's getting like a total suck job from them. Okay, putting that aside for just a second. Yeah, it's funny. Anderson Cooper giving the suck job. Putting that aside for just a second on the economic side, I mean, not only. You heard what he just said right there. I've talked about it here. When I go to the grocery store, it's noticeable to me that a lot of things are cheaper. Trump's only been in office for 10 months. How much can you change overnight? That, that's one part of it. But energy prices absolutely are down. Gas prices are down. Inflation is down. We are not endlessly printing money. We've also got control of the border which over time as we get rid of illegals, that will be more money in your pocket because we will have to spend less on illegal health care or housing or all of the other stuff. So what is really going on here? I think we're getting some version of the horseshoe theory right now, which is that you are going to see the more they're not even libertarian. I don't even know what they are at this point. You're going to see the more non gay government part of the Republican Party. They are going to somehow be in cahoots with the AOCs, the Marjorie Taylor Greens and the Tucker types are going to have way more in common with the AOCs and the Bernie's than they do with Trump, which is so ironic and sad for America. But we will put a pin in that and we will get to more in just a moment. But first let me talk to you about Noble Gold guys. Gold has officially gone mainstream. Every day more and more Americans are discovering the power of gold. But how do you actually take advantage of it and invest in a simple way? That's where Noble Gold Investments comes in. Their specialists are trained to help investors like you go from confused to confident. 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And then every time he is confused, confronted with the fact that they are bad ideas, he pretends to have no idea about any of them, which is a tactic they all use in this case. Here's Bill trying to explain that the UK has fallen.

[B]

What's going on in England right now is that is a lot of that. I mean like what's going on in England again, not in the bubble okay, well, doesn't get in the bubble.

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Don't.

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Wait a minute.

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It really doesn't. It's a big. I don't. I don't even want to start with it, but.

[C]

Okay.

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It's like just a lot of violence. Protests, immigration, or places that my grandfather would not even recognize anymore as British. Like it's become Islamicized, to put it anything briefly.

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He just doesn't know. He doesn't know what's going on. And isn't it perfect? And you could see the way Bill's doing it with kids. Kid gloves, right? That's kid gloves right there, Bill. Well, it's. There's some violence. There's some Islam. There's some problems. And he. My grandfather wouldn't recognize it. And that is the problem that they are up against. And why are they up against that problem? Well, they've had the Red Green alliance, right? So the Marxists and the Islamists are in it together. They've basically demolished the old school libs. The conservatives don't know how to stand up for themselves. Does this sound a little familiar to where we're at right now? And the problem is now, let's bring it back to our shores, is that we have a version of this here. As you know, Dearborn, Michigan has become ground zero for the Islamatization of America. Here is the mayor of Dearborn. This is a man who. Remember we played you a clip a couple weeks ago where a citizen went up at a public hearing and said that he would prefer not to hear the Muslim call for prayer in the morning. And the guy said, basically, you should leave our city. Well, here is the Dearborn mayor, Mayor Hamoud, saying that he doesn't believe in assimilation or the American melting pot. Because what you often hear that's accompanied with that is, well, you must assimilate. I shouldn't put out a magazine that's in two languages. Why can't you speak English? Why are my videos subtitled in Arabic? Why is my caption both in English and Arabic? People get frustrated by this, but to me, it's like I actually disavow the use of the term the melting pot. I actually don't like it. Why? Because in a melting pot, when you're talking about like a soup, everything looks the same, right? Where the salad bowl, the lettuce is lettuce, the tomatoes, tomato, the cucumber is cucumber, and they all complement each other. All right, Soup, salad. I'm not even going to bother with his idiotic analogy there. This is really, really dangerous. Guys, what he's basically saying is we are separate. And how do you think that that works out for a Christian or a Jew or an atheist in that town? Do you want to live in a city where five times a day they have the Muslim call for prayer blaring from speakers? Do you want that? And I wonder if Christians started blaring music or Jews started blaring music, how would the Muslims deal with that? But there is a problem here and most people seem to be afraid to address it. And I understand why people want to address it. The problem is if you are the ostrich and you bury your head in the sand, you will just be beheaded a little bit lower on the neck. That's how this works. And if you want to see how this thing is now going, how it is scaling across the country, well, we elected. Well, not we, but New York City elected this guy, Moran Zamboni, who, as I've said, he's a socialist for sure. Touch of jihad over there, probably a little more than a touch of jihad, but they are slowly going to inject Islam into all parts of of New York City. Do I have any proof of this on video? I do, because here is a New York City police teaching ceremony where they're teaching other police officers how to wear a hijab.

[C]

So ideally you just. Because there's different ways, by the way, you fit it how you want them. But you could take one size, short, one size.

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Okay, look, if that woman wants to wear the hijab, that is just fine. Anyone that wants to wear whatever the flying fuck you want to wear in your private life, whether it's religious or you're a dude who wants to wear a dress, you want to do all that, that's fine. But why are the police officers on city dime teaching this? This is completely and utterly absurd. And once you inject a certain racial. Because it is racial to some extent, but once you inject a certain religious element into the New York City Police Department, with all of the strife that we have on the streets already, right, and the chanting to kill all the Zionists and everything else, how do you think that's going to work out? How do you think that's going to work out? And then there'll be Shabriya compliant police officers in New York City and everything else. Like, it's here, guys. It's kind of depressing, but it is here. And we've got more evidence that it's getting worse because Zorhan or Moron Zamboni, as I like to call him, he has now endorsed a woman by the name of Aber Kawas for New York State Assembly. Here she is blaming America on 911.

[C]

Because of Islamophobia and so like. And finding that like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, etc. Have all. And Islamophobia have all been used, you know, to colonize lands. Right. To take resources from other people. And so this is like a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation. Right, with 9 11.

[A]

Yes, yes, it was. Because we are all colonists. Wait till she got into a little bit of the Arab colonization of the Middle east or the Muslim colonization of the Middle East. She's not going to talk about that part. Are these the type of people that you think are going to lead us to a future America that will be free and prosperous, or are they doing exactly what they're saying, which is trying to destroy our system, our capitalist system from the inside and use all of our freedoms against us? And they want it to be the salad that he wants. Where, you know, the funny. I will talk about the metaphor for just a second that, you know, we are a melting pot. Cause the whole idea was that you can create, take all of these ingredients in and of themselves and together they make a beautiful, delicious soup, a delicious stew. You ever make a soup that sits on the pot, that sits in the pot all day long and it smells great and all of the scents and the flavors, they all enrich each other. That's what America's done for about 200 years. He wants to turn it into something that we just throw in a bowl and it's all actually really separate. And yeah, the salad's okay, but it's a completely different way of viewing the world. And if you don't want to assimilate into America, then you probably are actually not American. At least you don't have the American ethos. That's just simply a fact. Of course, the other part of this is that we've just let, putting aside some of the legal people, I mean, I assume that the mayor of Dearborn is here legally and so is that lady who probably will be elected, because that's kind of the trajectory of all of this. The other problem is that we've just let a zillion people in here who are not here legally. Here is Stephen Miller talking about the amount of people, migrants who are in rent controlled housing in New York City. It is absolutely staggering. 40% of the population of rent controlled housing in New York City are foreign Born. Think about that. In one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, 40% of rent controlled properties are being lived in by people who weren't even born in the country. What kind of system is this? We bring in people from foreign countries and then we pay to lower the cost of their housing, while people who were born here have to pay higher prices. So when President Trump is reducing that migration, that is what's going to ultimately, along with all these other steps, deregulation, historic tax cuts, going to bring down the cost of housing. Yeah. Okay, let me be very, very clear about this. He's not talking about illegals who are getting that housing, who obviously most of us at this point agree they should be booted. And that's exactly what this administration is doing. He's talking about foreign born. So it's that first generation American. Why are so many of them getting these government subsidies? And then do you think they are not gonna vote to continue those subsidies? And that's exactly what happened in New York City. I forget, maybe one of you guys remember the numbers on the first generation people that came here and voted for Mamdami versus Cuomo. It was something like Cuomo got like 75% of the vote of people who have been here for more than one generation and Mamdani got something like 70% of the vote of first timers. Ballparking it. I don't remember the statistics off the top of my head. We'll look for it. Let me show you one more bill, because here he is talking about, this is from real time, actually talking about what happens when we trade capitalism, the thing that allows maximal freedom and the most amount of variation and liberty in a system, when we trade that for socialism. And it's pretty freaking obvious, and we've done this time and time again, here's.

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Capitalist South Korea at night from space. Here's socialist North Korea.

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Yeah.

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In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet style economics, went all in on capitalism. And now their economy is as big as Japan. And people there have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes. Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez's socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism in the last century, or any century, a mess. It turned one of Latin America's richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing. If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you're in for a rude awokening.

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Rude awokening. Why don't I have writers like that. That's pretty solid. Actually to clarify what I was talking about before, we just checked the numbers. So Mamdani in New York got 62% of the first generation immigrants. Think about that. So these people, they get on the government dole, they get the subsidies, they get in rent controlled apartments and then of course they are going to vote for someone who's going to continue that. And then as Miller points out in the previous clip, who do you end up punishing? You end up punishing the people that have been here that are working hard and are paying taxes. Cuz they're paying market price for apartments which then subsidize the rent controlled apartments for the people who just got here. And then that's ultimately what class warfare is about. And then you throw in a dash of the woke stuff when it comes to race and everything else and you have a powder keg ready to go in New York City. So to everything Bill said there, we've been through this experiment. It has never worked. As I always say, think about your grandparents, think about your grandparents. It doesn't matter where you are from. Someone in your family came to America with almost, almost without exclusion because they were fleeing the ideas of communism or socialism or Marxism. They were fleeing authoritarian regimes that promised everything. The bad guys don't come in saying we're the bad guys. The bad guys come in saying we're the good guys. We're smiling, see, we're for everybody. And what that usually means is we're gonna have to kill a lot of people because the everybody we're for is this many people, right In America. We're actually for everybody in that we let you pursue your happiness, right? We hopefully can create as even a playing field as possible. And it's not always perfect. And some are born with a little bit more. Some people are just born stupid. There are stupid people, they are out there. And some people are born with a lot of money and they end up blowing all of that and dying early because they're drug addicts. That's what life's all about. But we've done it here better than anywhere else. And we are electing because of these, largely because of these idiotic immigration policies. We are now electing people to usher in the thing that all our ancestors fled. It is rather disgusting. I need a minute to collect myself. Let's talk about outskill and then we'll get some more on the getting rich in 2025 is simpler than most people think. You don't need years of experience or an expensive degree you can start earning in just weeks. Nearly every job now demands AI skills and those who master them have 130% better chance of success. This weekend, join the two day AI mastermind workshop by OutSkill, the world's first AI focused education platform. 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You might say, Dave, Dave, why are you being so alarmist? It's just New York City and sure it'll be taken over by socialists and Islamists, but it's just New York and it'll so what? So what? Who cares, right? Well, it's actually happening in many other places. We talked about Dearborn, Michigan. We know what's going on in Minneapolis. And now let's jump over to Wackadoodle Seattle because if you thought Seattle was crazy over the last couple years, it's about to get a lot crazier. Listen to this from Fox News. Katie Wilson, a progressive activist who operates a small nonprofit called the Transit Riders Union, defeated Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell in an election so tight that it took over a week to determine. Harrell conceded Thursday as the vote totals all but guaranteed a win for Wilson, who like Mom Dhumi, identifies as a democratic socialist. Like Mom Dhame, Wilson has faced criticism for past support of defunding the police, most notably through her support of a solidarity badge, which would have cut the police force by 50%. So, okay, she doesn't strike me. You can leave the image up for just a second. She doesn't strike me as a as an Islamist per se. There you've got a moderate Karen looking ish white woman. Although as you know, it's the liberal women that are going to be the death of all of us. But she's into the socialism thing. And if you want a little more evidence of it, well, here's this. The very clear twin crises of affordability.

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We are facing an affordability crisis.

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Truly affordable homes, affordable homeownership. This city is your city.

[C]

This isn't their city, it's yours.

[A]

A new generation of leadership.

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We can see with our own eyes that we need new leadership. I mean, you know, we sometimes will put what we call a montage together like that. Marilla, it doesn't. It doesn't get easier than that one. I mean, it really does sound. You sound so much alike. I guess I'm just curious. Have you ever met him? Have you talked to each other at all since either of your victories, which are so important on coast to coast? Not yet, although I certainly hope to.

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Aaron. Aaron, I got a better, you know, I like to give a little advice to you people. I got a better question then. Have you ever talked to him? How about saying, do you know that these are the time tested, stupidest, worst ideas of all time that lead to societies collapsing? And even though he's saying it, maybe you shouldn't say it. You could try that, Aaron Burnett, but I know you're not particularly good at your job. Here's more from Katie Wilson. She is going to force grocery stores to stay open no matter what happens to Seattle. So you know they're raping somebody in aisle four. You must stay open.

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Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores at will, and leave behind food deserts. Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural. Corporations create them when they abandon our communities. As mayor, I'm excited to step up and with ufcw, explore public option grocery stores to fill those gaps.

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Oh, public option grocery stores. Yeah, because giant grocery stores, they get in the business of trying to starve people. I know if you were working at a big giant grocery store and you're like, boy, there's all this food out there and we can put all the fluorescent lighting in and we're gonna do all that. But actually, you know what? Why open that store? Let's just starve the fuckers. It's just so stupid. You know why some of these stores close? They close usually because of the amount of crime and mayhem that you people allow. Oakland. Oakland. Which is a shithole it has turned into an absolute shithole. Where is Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire when you need them? Not in Oakland anymore, I promise you that. And the reason is it turned into such a crime ridden dump. That in and out the greatest burger joint in the world. They had to leave. It's not just Walmart that has to close or some of these other places, but her entire ethos is that giant corporations want to create starvation and food deserts and we will force them to stay open. How are you going to do that? Is it by gunpoint? You're gonna force the worker? You better scan that fucking kale like it's absolutely insane. And the crazy part about this, we added this back in at the last second. No, I'll show you something else and then I'll show you what we added. Here she is. Because she beat Bruce Harrell, right? Bruce Harrell. We've shown you videos of this guy. He is a lefty himself. He's a nut bag lefty. But she was like, oh, you're crazy. I'll show you crazy. Have you ever supported the funding the police, Mayor Harold? No. Candidate Wilson?

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Yes.

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Okay, so she supports defunding the police, Mayor Harrell, who's destroyed that city. Destroyed that city. He never did. Although he did do this. The criminal system has had a disparate impact on black and brown communities. Let me lead with that. So when this person is committing six or seven crimes, I don't know his or her story. Maybe they were abused as a child, maybe they're hungry. So my, my remedy is to find their life story to see how we could help first. I have no desire to put them in jail, but I need to protect you. And that's the calibration. So that guy with all of that bananas bullshit wasn't crazy enough for Seattle. You're walking. Oh, look, there's someone raping my dog. Oh, sir, sir, why are you raping my dog? Oh, you were. You're hungry so you're raped. And he wasn't crazy enough for these people. So Seattle, good luck with all that. I do want to note, Conor, as you guys know, lived in Seattle before he was working for me. He lived a block away from chop. That was the semi autonomous zone where they were killing people during the high of the summer of love. Dave Rubin, humble servant for the people, plucked him out of Seattle, brought you to la and I apologize for that. But you live in the free state of Florida right now. Let's talk about crypto.com, then we'll have more on these socialist whack jobs. Cryptocurrency isn't just the future. It's already reshaping the world of finance. And one of the leading companies in that transformation is crypto.com, the trusted platform used by millions around the globe. Recently, Crypto.com partnered with Trump Media and Yorkville Acquisition Corporation in a major $6.4 billion initiative built around CRO. Crypto.com's native token. CRO powers fast, low fee, decentralized finance, stocking rewards and real world benefits like cash back on everyday spending. This collaboration underscores how far digital assets have come and how platforms like crypto.com are helping bring cryptocurrency into the mainstream economy. To Learn more about Crypto.com and explore the future of digital finance, visit Crypto.com today. All right, so using a little colorful language today, maybe I haven't made my point about why socialism is bad. So let us continue Via Venezuela. That's a good title for a movie Via Venezuela. This from Fox News. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro broke into a song during a rally Saturday singing John Lennon's Imagine and calling for peace as the Trump administration bolsters a military presence off Venezuela's coast in what it says is an effort to to curb drug trafficking. Maduro's appeal for peace comes as tensions with Washington escalate with US Warships patrolling Caribbean waters near Venezuela. The Trump administration says the operation is part of a broader effort to fight drug trafficking, while Maduro has denounced it as an aggression meant to weaken his government. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the nation's most advanced aircraft carrier, entered the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, the AP reported. So as you guys know, we are being a little less kind to people who want to bring meth and fentanyl and other drugs into our country. And if you're on a boat and you're speeding through the waters heading to America to drug our children, Donald Trump is sending in rockets to blow you up. We will have video evidence of that in a moment. But first, I would be remiss if we didn't show you the socialist leader singing John Lennon's imagination. You know, first off, this may be controversial, but Imagine is a horrible song. It is one of the worst songs of all time because it's complete. Well, first off, you also know how I feel about the Beatles. I don't like the Beatles. Connor likes the Beatles. I'm a big issue in this room. I don't like the Beatles. It's a cacophony of a bunch of Competing sounds. I just don't like it. I don't care for it. Sorry. If you're from Liverpool, that's number one, number two. The song itself is not good because it is completely utopian in nature. There'll be no borders, there'll be no. Okay. We'll all be exactly the same. Wouldn't it be perfect? I suppose in some sort of. Well, I would call that. They think it's utopian. I think it's dystopian. We are allowed to be different. We are allowed to have nations. We shouldn't be warring with each other. And it's nice when you meet someone who's a little bit different from you. Anyway, I don't like the song. Here's Marco Rubio, a man who also doesn't want drugs showing up on our borders. So he's doing something about it. The State Department intends to designate Cartel Delos Solace, a foreign terrorist organization headed by the illegitimate Nicolas Maduro. The group has corrupted the institutions of government in Venezuela and is responsible for terrorist violence and conducted by and with other designated FTOs, as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe. And here's a video of a narco boat strike making it. Apparently, this gets it to 80 people who have been killed in these strikes. Again, these are people who are coming to America from Venezuela with drugs on their boats in the Eastern Pacific. Southcom says three men in that boat were killed. It comes as the Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford has arrived in the Caribbean. Madeleine Rivera is outside the White House with more. Madeline.

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Hey, John. Well, there are now at least 80 people killed from these boat strikes. And according to U.S. southern Command, they say that this vessel was being operated by a designated terrorist organization and that intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling transiting along with a narco trafficking route.

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You know, for some of you that are a little more squishy on this type of stuff, and you're like, ah, I wish Trump wouldn't do these things, or whatever, it's. To me, this is the same thing as the border. What you do is you send a signal to the world, don't come, Trump. I like to come. You send a signal to the world, don't come. And then people stop coming. I can't do this. The point is, just don't bring drugs here. Just don't bring. Don't come, don't come. And here's Trump being asked if they should come. Also potentially launching strikes in Mexico or putting American troops or American personnel into Mexico to deal with. Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's okay with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs, Mexico is. Look, I looked at Mexico City over the weekend. There's some big problems over there. If we had to. What we do there, what we've done to the waterways, you know, there's almost no drugs coming in through our waterways anymore. Isn't it down, like, 85%? It is. That's a serious guy right there. And that's the type of person I want being the President of the United States. Oh, you are illegally trying to come here via boat or through Mexico so that you can drug our children and cause urban despair on the streets and all of the things that come with that and ruin families and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're gonna blow you up and we're gonna do what we gotta do. And I think that is the right attitude. And again, that gets to the joking aside, the don't come thing, it gets to the point, send the message to the world, stop effing with us. And just sending the message in and of itself. We had to blow up a couple boats, and then guess what? By default, less boats will come. You send the message to the cartels, you're not gonna be able to get these people through the border anymore. And then they will try less. And that is why this guy deserves a hell of a lot of credit. Cause he brought a huge amount of people into this coalition right now that is fixing the country. And while we're seeing now people on the right, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, abandon the guy so she can get love from cnn, remember, this guy is doing things that nobody thought could be done, much like bringing a guy with the last name Kennedy into the coalition here. And this will bring us home. Here's Bobby Kennedy on some of the things that Trump has done. I don't think. I think it's hard to have a third party in this country. And, you know, having now been in the government for a while, I. I think if I had won the presidency as an independent, that it would have been very, very hard for me to govern. And President Trump has gotten more done than any other president in this period of time. Yeah. And it's true, guys, we go through the list all the time, so I won't hit you over the head again, but for all of the people, and maybe you're watching this and you're one of them, and you want things to happen faster or you want housing prices to go down quicker or your frustrate, whatever your frustrations might be. And I'm not saying frustrations are not legitimate. Nobody is perfect. Right. Nothing happens overnight. And this is the guy that fought everything that we all thought this could never happen, and he did it twice. So let's be a little patient here. And again, to get to what I think is the grand part of the show today, just be wary of the people that are turning on him and where they're getting love from. Right. If you're a Republican and you're suddenly getting love from cnn, maybe you're not the good guy. You guys are good guys for watching the show. And we got a postgame show for you in 30 seconds. Rubenreport.locals.com I thank you for watching. We'll see you tomorrow.