Even Jon Stewart Is Shocked That Zohran Mamdani Can't Answer This Easy Question

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The Rubin Report — Episode Summary

Episode Title: Even Jon Stewart Is Shocked That Zohran Mamdani Can't Answer This Easy Question
Host: Dave Rubin
Date: July 23, 2026
Episode Theme:
Dave Rubin examines what he portrays as the growing influence of left-wing, socialist, and Islamist ideas within the Democratic Party, focusing on Zohran Mamdani’s recent appearances and positions, Jon Stewart’s role as a commentator, and broader threats Rubin perceives to American values, free speech, and social norms. The show is characterized by a combative, irreverent, and sometimes explicit tone.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. The Left’s Shift: Socialism, Islamism, and Jon Stewart’s Role

• Rubin lays out his case that the Democratic Party is being overtaken by “Muslim communist socialist” ideologies, using Zohran Mamdani as an example.
• He criticizes Jon Stewart—referring to him by his birth name, Jonathan Leibowitz—for embracing this shift and allegedly "running cover" for it.
• Quotes:
  • “What Jon Stewart has become here is a capo. He is a capo.” (05:13)
    • [ context: Comparing Stewart to WWII prisoners who collaborated out of survival or self-interest ]
  • “You are very excited that a Muslim socialist is on the way. And the more power the Muslims get in America, the less freedoms there will be.” (05:57)

Notable Segment:

• [04:02] Mamdani & Stewart banter:
  • Zorhan Mamdani: “Being a Muslim Democratic socialist. I thought it would be pretty straightforward.”
  • Jon Stewart: “What if I label myself something that scares people the most? I’m a Muslim Democratic socialist.”
  • Mamdani: “If you scare 'em, you scare 'em twice.”

2. Are Socialists Comfortable with Internal Debate?

• Jon Stewart presses Mamdani on whether the far-left agrees on fundamental positions (abolishing borders/prisons), seeking nuance.
  • Mamdani responds: “If you have more than one socialist in a room and there isn’t disagreement, then you don’t have more than one socialist in a room.” (07:49)
• Rubin’s criticism:
  • Dismisses this as window-dressing, arguing the left is monolithic in practice, especially around issues like healthcare, borders, prisons, and Israel.
  • Quote: “You guys are all group-think automatons. That’s what you are, number one.” (08:08)
  • Rubin frames Stewart’s efforts as damage control for ideas he deems extreme.

3. Legitimacy of International Law Over U.S. Law

• Discussion turns to the International Criminal Court (ICC):
  • Mamdani expresses support for U.S. compliance with ICC warrants, including against American officials.
    • Quote: “The United States should not only be a party to that court, but should also execute the warrants that that court issues.” (10:26)
  • Rubin claims this is a fundamental violation of the oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
• [12:31] Mamdani asked about arresting Hamas leaders:
  • Mamdani: “My interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity.” (12:31)
  • Rubin pushes back, alleging selective standards and accusing Mamdani of targeting Israel disproportionately.

4. Historical & Religious Context: Tisha B’Av and Temple Mount

• Rubin discusses Mamdani’s public statement wishing Jews a peaceful Tisha B’Av, framing it as insincere given his political record.
  • Rubin walks through Jewish, Roman, and Islamic history regarding the destruction of the temples and current controversies over Jerusalem, arguing that Mamdani’s greeting is a form of historical obfuscation.
  • Quote: “You’re wishing the Jews...well, congratulations on your resiliency and this holiday you’ve been celebrating for thousands of years, which predates the religion that I have, which is here to destroy everything but enjoy that thing.” (17:19)
• Reference to Ben Shapiro’s tweet, clarifying the holiday for listeners unfamiliar with it.

5. Erosion of American Values & Political Radicalization

• Rubin asserts that leading progressives in Congress, like Rashida Tlaib, are sympathetic to authoritarian or anti-American elements.
• He questions whether current left-wing leaders believe in the core American constitutional framework, arguing the "barbarians are in the gate."
• Highlights John Fetterman’s criticism of Mamdani (21:00):
  • Fetterman: “Now you have the mayor of a city...You can fix a pothole, you can take out the trash, but you can [not] order people to arrest anybody any more than I could...[Mamdani’s] a clown and you are just going to pander to the fringe...” (21:00)
  • Rubin: “I have to say, Fetterman...it is true, right?” (22:01)
• Rubin repeatedly questions whether Mamdani's (and similar politicians') actions amount to oath-breaking and grounds for removal from office.

6. Democratic Party’s Future & Electoral Strategy

• Ted Cruz predicts a dramatic shift in New York politics, suggesting AOC could become the premier Democratic candidate or president, and Mamdani could replace Chuck Schumer.
  • Quote: “My prediction is Comrade Mondame will be the next Democrat senator from New York…I think Mondame is the single most powerful Democrat in the country.” (24:53)
• Rubin echoes this concern, urging "sane" people to consider leaving states like New York for “red states.”

7. Socialism, Capitalism, and “Over-education”

• Abdul Said (progressive politician) discusses flaws in capitalism and the dangers of monopoly rather than government oversight. Rubin calls out perceived hypocrisy, noting Said's wife does not take insurance despite advocating for guaranteed health coverage.
• Clay Travis and Alison Steinberg expound on the theme that progressive, college-educated youth are embittered because their degrees are less valuable than trade skills, making them “angry at capitalism.”
• Rubin: “These are over-educated. And the funny thing about being over-educated, they're not even that educated because they're educated in the wrong things. They never learned how to think. They were told what to think.” (30:14)

8. Election Integrity & Voter Fraud

• Segment on New Jersey voter fraud scandal—report of 6,600+ non-citizens registered to vote.
  • Alison Steinberg questions Elizabeth Warren on the SAVE Act, Warren doubles down: “It is already illegal for someone who's not an American citizen to vote, period.” (32:21)
• Rubin critiques Democratic resistance to tighter voting requirements, arguing open systems are being weaponized by the left against the country.

9. Authoritarianism & The Creep of Socialism

• Run-down on Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua eliminating elections illustrates Rubin’s thesis: leftists will use democracy up to the point they can dismantle it.
  • Quote: “That is them, guys. Does that not sound exactly like what Mamdani and AOC and the rest of them would do once they've gotten power? We don't need elections anymore.” (35:07)

10. Military Readiness, Masculinity, and “Wokeness”

• Pete Hegseth’s new order for testosterone screenings in the military is held up as a return to traditional fitness standards.
• Rubin skewers critics on The View, especially their mockery of "testosterone privilege":
  • “Sarah, that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I hear a lot of dumb things. This is what I do for a living.” (40:42)
• He lambastes the notion that mere intention (“I want to fight for my country”) or identity should qualify someone for demanding roles.

11. Transgender Athletes, Women’s Rights, and Sports

• Megan Rapinoe’s comments on trans athletes dismissed by Rubin as out of touch and hypocritical.
• Sophie Cunningham (WNBA) stands up for safeguarding women’s sports:
  • “I think it’s really important to protect children, and that's little girls who are also involved in that category. And so I stand on what I said and I always believe that.” (49:05)
• Rubin’s argument: biological realities matter, and the left’s denial of these truths is eroding trust in core institutions.

12. Pop Culture Notes & Reparations

• Caitlin Clark's stardom in the WNBA as a positive counter-example of merit and hard work.
• Sunny Hostin on The View reiterates demands for reparations for African-Americans:
  • “This is not about anything else. It's about this country trying to avoid paying African Americans our due.” (54:46)
  • Rubin’s retort: “You get nothing and you'll like it. How about that?” (54:54)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Jon Stewart and Dhimmi/Capo Allegory:

  “Jon Stewart, even if you weren't a Jew, which I don't know that you're a Jew, other than you probably have a bagel every now and again, you might want to be a little more concerned about the socialist thing on the way because you're worth $120 million. So right now, yeah, they're going for the trillionaire...but eventually it'll be for the hundred millionaires. And then your head will be on a stick.” (05:57)

• On Socialism’s Groupthink:

  “You guys are all group-think automatons. That's what you are, number one.” (08:08)

• On ICC Superseding U.S. Law:

  “He fundamentally believes that the United States should not be governed by the Constitution of the United States. That the ICC...should have some authority over the United States and override US law. In a normal society, this would be completely disqualifying.” (09:37)

• On Intersectionality & Anti-Semitism:

  “This is about going after America and our leaders. He's saying it right there. He's saying that going after Maduro...but, you know, it's a violation of international law.” (10:58)

• On Military Standards:

  “Just because someone comes in and says they want to fight for the country doesn’t mean they should fight for the country. Just because someone comes in and says, ‘I’m ready to fight’ doesn’t mean they’re ready to fight.” (40:42)

• On Transgender Athletes:

  “You are all completely ridiculous. Now there are a couple people that are not. And by the way, if [Rapinoe] was still playing...and there was a boy with a wig on and we called him Mary and he was kicking the crap out of her...she would be against it.” (47:22)

• Clay Travis and Alison Steinberg on College Degrees:

  “These highly educated, young, far left wing Democrats hate capitalism because they have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on degrees that the country does not value.” (29:15)

• On WNBA’s Caitlin Clark:

  “Guess what? She still couldn't make it in the NBA. But that's okay. She's a girl. It's different. But she's awesome. She's playing hard. She's quite literally got millions of girls and boys, too, that are excited about watching her.” (53:49)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [04:02 – 04:19] Mamdani and Stewart’s banter about “Muslim Democratic socialist” identity
• [07:20 – 08:08] Stewart presses Mamdani on abolishing prisons; Rubin’s critique of leftist groupthink
• [10:01 – 12:56] Mamdani on ICC and international law vs U.S. law; evasion on arresting Hamas leaders
• [17:19 – 19:10] Tisha B’Av, Temple Mount, and Mamdani’s holiday wishes contextualized
• [20:56 – 22:01] John Fetterman’s “scorched earth” critique of Mamdani; Rubin’s reaction
• [24:35 – 25:22] Ted Cruz’s prediction of New York’s political future
• [26:41 – 27:23] Abdul Said’s critique of capitalism, Rubin’s rebuttal
• [29:15 – 30:10] Clay Travis & Alison Steinberg on over-education and resentment towards capitalism
• [32:12 – 32:54] NJ voter fraud; Alison Steinberg presses Elizabeth Warren; Rubin’s analysis
• [35:07] Ortega abolishes elections in Nicaragua; paralleled to U.S. left
• [39:44 – 40:42] The View’s response to testosterone testing in the military; Rubin’s critique
• [46:28] Megan Rapinoe on trans athletes in women's sports; Rubin’s reaction
• [48:58 – 50:04] Sophie Cunningham stands up for biological women’s rights in sport
• [53:23 – 53:49] Caitlin Clark featured in NBA2K; symbolic of excellence regardless of culture war
• [54:34 – 54:54] Sunny Hostin on reparations; Rubin’s exasperated response

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Tone & Language

• Highly irreverent, brash, and provocative, with explicit language and blunt characterizations.
• Rubin repeatedly calls out what he describes as hypocrisy, groupthink, and the weaponization of American freedoms by the far left.
• Frequent use of humor, sarcasm, and pop culture references to make points.
• Engages regularly with live chat, guest hosts, and clips from other shows for context.

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Transcript

[Dave Rubin]

Previously on the Rubin River. The energy is around a belief that they're economic populace. Jihadists don't like guys named Stuart Leibowitz. With people of color out of the country, you cannot have hair encroaching into the eye. Olive Garden has a more secure system around their fettuccine Alfredo than we have around our. What's going on, everybody? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It is July 23, 2026. We have a tremendous program for you today. A little bit of everything. And as I said yesterday, with only a week to go before I disappear for all of August, we are going to just bring the heat. Relentless, with no apologies, completely off the hook. I think that's a term the kids are using these days. And I do want to mention one thing. It hit me yesterday, what I've tried to do this past six months or so this year is I've tried to control the cursing on the show. And every now and again, the F bomb does fly out there. Now and again, I have to have Connor preemptively mute me, et cetera, et cetera. But I think in light of going off the grid, where the whole point of going off the grid is that I can reset my mind, I can get rid of some of the nonsense, I can get off the hamster wheel of news and then come back with fresh eyes and a new perspective on things, I think I'm waiving my no cursing thing for the rest of the time on the grid. So for the next week, I'm not gonna go out of my way to curse. I will still keep it. It will be top of mind that I'm not here to just drop F bombs now and again. But I think I just gotta let it fly for this last little bit. Cause we are so deep in the mire and the muck with these commi jihadis. And I have a limited vocabulary. There's only so many adjectives I know, and a lot of them are around the F and the C word. So I'm just gonna. It's just. It is what it is. So if you've got children that are with you, maybe this won't be starting from today until I go off the grid after next week maybe won't be the best time to watch the show. Let's just put that there and dive in. Because we do have a little bit of everything today. Mostly, of course, centered around this communist takeover of the Democrat party. And that is exactly what it is with, as I've said for quite some time now, A dash of jihad. So Zorhan Mamdami, he went on Jon Stewart's podcast. And again, I hit Jon Stewart pretty hard yesterday. He should have been what Bill Maher is, which is a standard bearer for liberalism. They always used to say, for 20 years in America, everybody always used to say, more young people get their news from the Daily show than anywhere else. I never bought that. I never thought that was actually true. But he was somewhere that was out there, let's say on the left, not completely insane. And you can say he was funny or not funny or whatever. As you know, I interned for him at the Daily show in 1999. Man, that's 27 years ago. You guys weren't even born, you weirdos. Anyway, it was a long time ago. So this is not personal in some sense. But unfortunately, he has decided to dive all in on all of the leftist lunacy. And he seems to want to become a dimmy dude. H I M M I A Dhimmi. And that is someone who lives in a Muslim majority society, who has separate laws, separate ways of life, probably has to pay the jizya, that is the tax to their overlords. And it is worth noting that his real name is Jonathan Leibowitz. So he's a big Jew. Big Jew. But he loves that they are ushering in the Muslim communist socialist over there. Here they are

[Zorhan Mamdani]

being a Muslim Democratic socialist. I thought it would be pretty straightforward.

[Jon Stewart]

You just saw, like, what if I label myself something that scares people the most? I'm a Muslim Democratic socialist.

[Zorhan Mamdani]

If you scare him, you scare him twice.

[Dave Rubin]

He's just a Muslim Democratic socialist. And the funny thing for you, Jon Stewart, is that you're a really rich Jew, you're worth 120 million bucks and your last name, Leibowitz. So when they come and they start beheading people with machetes, you're going to be one of the people that they get. But it'll take a little extra time because, yeah, they'll go for the other Jews first and the other dhimmis first because you're a useful idiot ushering in their nonsense. What Jon Stewart has become here is a capo. He is a capo. And you know what that is? We'll even give you. I think we pulled up the actual definition of what a capo is. A capo, which is the shortened from the German word for corporal or foreign, was a prisoner forced by the ss, the Nazis, to supervise forced labor and administrative tasks. While some used their situational authority to protect fellow inmates, many abused their Power and acted brutally. They were hated by other prisoners and often targeted during camp liberations. And you can read more at the Holocaust Museum website. But that's what he is, right? Like, he is a Jew. Remember Leibowitz, not Stuart. That's your real name. And you are very excited that a Muslim socialist is on the way. And the more power the Muslims get in America, the less freedoms there will be. And I suppose maybe you do want to submit to Islam, but you right now are running cover as all of the bad ideas are ushered in. And again, Jon Stewart, even if you weren't a Jew, which I don't know that you're a Jew, other than you probably have a bagel every now and again, you might want to be a little more concerned about the socialist thing on the way because you're worth $120 million. So right now, yeah, they're going for the trillionaire, the one trillionaire who you used to love. And they're going for the billionaires. And I guess you're not a billionaire yet, but eventually it'll be for the hundred millionaires. And then your head will be on a stick. And you might say, Dave, but you might say, dave, you're being a little over the top here. Zorhan isn't that kind of guy. He's always smiling and laughing.

[Alison Steinberg]

But.

[Dave Rubin]

But I'm not being over the top because let's not forget, just a few months ago, here's Zorhan at a local mosque. And then. Well, watch what they're chanting after.

[Zorhan Mamdani]

I stand before you as the first Muslim mayor in our city's history.

[Dave Rubin]

I stand before you as the first Muslim. Oh, they're singing about killing the idiot. He's an infidel. And this idiot's putting me on his show. Anyway, you may remember the clip yesterday where Jon Stewart was saying that, you know, the Democrat socialists, it's just about economic populism. Most of them aren't on board the crazy ideas of emptying prisons and getting rid of borders and everything else. Well, they got. He got into it with Zorhan.

[Jon Stewart]

If someone says, we're going to abolish all prisons and borders, like I do, go, I don't think that's a good idea. Like, it's. It feels like order and security is also a progressive value. Why shouldn't people in neighborhoods with less resources have the same safety and security that neighborhoods with lots of resources? So are there tenants of those that are kind of following in the wake of Zoran Mamdani's success that you're not comfortable with or that give you pause?

[Zorhan Mamdani]

You know, if, if you have more than one socialist in a room and there isn't disagreement, then you don't have more than one socialist in a room.

[Dave Rubin]

And so.

[Jon Stewart]

But you're comfortable with those kinds of discussions?

[Zorhan Mamdani]

Well, I'm comfortable with disagreement and I'm comfortable with disagreement. That doesn't end the conversation entirely.

[Dave Rubin]

God, they're such liars and such frauds. And John, you are just the most pathetic capo Dimmy ever. And they're gonna come for you. Leibowitz. First off, when you have more than one socialist in a room, you have more than one opinion. It's like, dude, what counter opinion do any of you people have? Does anyone at the DSA that not agree in universal healthcare? Not agree in open borders, not agree on emptying prisons? You guys are all group think automatons. That's what you are, number one. Also, John's begging him to try to say something, saying, well, you guys would be for order and security and everything else except no, they're not. They want ice off the street, so they want illegals here. They're for defunding the police. Mamdani's tweeted it a million times and everything else. So John is trying his best to run cover for these ridiculous ideas as the good capo Dimmy he is. And Zorhan smiling through it. Well, no, I'm for disagreement. What are you for disagreement on? Is someone allowed to think that the State of Israel exists? Which by the way, it's gonna exist whether you like it or not, you jihadi fucktard. No, you're not gonna be for that. Is someone in the DSA allowed to say healthcare actually isn't a right? Cause you don't have a right to someone else's labor? Would you tolerate that? Like we could do. We could go down the line with all of these things. But what's even more dangerous about this guy is that not only did he swear on a Quran, as you know, but he also believes, he fundamentally believes that the United States should not be governed by the Constitution of the United States. That the icc, the International Criminal Court, or these globalist organizations should have some authority over the United states and override U.S. law. In a normal society, this would be completely disqualifying and he should have to step down in shame immediately. But I guess we don't live in a normal society. Here he is on that question about

[Reporter]

why Netanyahu specifically is often targeted in some of your comments. For example, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro he was arrested for a warrant that was here in the US and you were very against that. So I guess, how do you. Do you place more emphasis on the warrants that were issued by the International Criminal Court than here in the US how do you reconcile those two?

[Zorhan Mamdani]

I would say that the International Criminal Court is a body that seeks to hold those across the world accountable for crimes against humanity, for war crimes, for things of that nature. And I think that the United States should not only be a party to that court, but should also execute the warrants that that court issues. And what I have spoken up about Nicolas Maduro, who I've also described appropriately as a dictator, is that the violation of international law is one that has to also be taken very seriously. It stems from the same belief in the International Criminal Court.

[Dave Rubin]

Do you get it, guys, what he's saying? Not only is he saying that he thinks that there is something above the laws of the United States, which, again, I don't think he believes in the laws of the United States, nor thinks this is a fundamentally good place. And he swore in on a Koran that he was going to uphold the laws of this country, which is at odds with. With the laws of this country, the Koran. So that's a problem in and of itself. But, you know, I mentioned the tweet that I put up yesterday that went crazy viral, and Elon shared it about how everyone thinks he's just coming after Israel and the Jews right now, but this is really after America. That's the point. This is about going after America and our leaders. He's saying it right there. He's saying that going after Maduro, yeah, he was a dictator, but, you know, it's a violation of international law. Because what he wants is ultimately that the ICC and these other organizations will drag Donald Trump in front of them and drag Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and everyone else he doesn't like, so that he should not be mayor of New York City. He should not even be in America. Then he was asked a question in the same press conference about why he didn't mention that maybe some Hamas leaders should be arrested if they were to swing by town, which you've got some of them in Congress, so why not?

[Megan Rapinoe]

If circumstances were different, would you have

[Reporter]

vowed to arrest the leaders of Hamas who perpetrated the October 7th attack if they were visiting New York?

[Megan Rapinoe]

And if so, why not include something

[Reporter]

about that to show New Yorkers that, you know, you're presenting a more balanced approach? Why not include that in your video

[Zorhan Mamdani]

didn't the ICC put forward a warrant for Yahya Sinwar?

[Reporter]

I mean, I know he's dead.

[Zorhan Mamdani]

Yes, but my point is that they did. And in the video, I made very clear, as I have before, that my interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[Dave Rubin]

I can't even. I really. Like, I need August to come. It's so evil what he's doing there. First off, he keeps saying the word execute because he wants to execute Bibi. Let's be very clear about that. And he's already encouraging people protest when Bibi comes to the UN General Assembly. And if there was a list of 50 horrible people that show up to the UN General assembly and give psychotic speeches and oppress their own people, Bibi is not even close to being on that list. But, okay, that aside, for a second, the way she even framed the question, I see she was trying. Whoever that reporter was, she was trying, like, could you at least be a little fair? If you're going to go after Bibi, could you at least go after Hamas, too? Which it's like, I get it, she was trying to do something there, but it's like, no. Oh, you can either go after the leader of the Western nation who saw 1,400 of his people get slaughtered and raped and beheaded. And I saw the video of the beheading, and I keep telling you, that wasn't the worst thing I saw. And had 200 people kidnapped and hid in bunkers and tunnels. If you're gonna go after that guy, could you also. You could either have the guy who's defending the people who that happened to or the crazy people who did it. Like, could we make some parody here? It doesn't really make sense. I hope I said that in a sensible way. But again, all of that is an aside. He does not believe in the Constitution of the United States. He swore in on a book that is antithetical to the ideas of free people and individual rights and everything that our country was founded upon. He just should not be mayor of New York City. And he's being aided and abetted by pathetic dimmy capos like Jon Stewart. And speaking of Jon Stewart, let's talk about Kalshi for a second, guys. Which TV shows will be canceled this year? Here's what the call sheet markets are showing. 14% of the users think the Daily show will be canceled, which I guess John only hosts once a week or something, but still, he's got 120 million socialist Jon Stewart. Well, this video is sponsored by call sheet. It's like buying or selling a stock, except the line isn't set by some algorithm working against you. It moves based on where the money actually goes. It shows where people are putting their money, not what the media wants you to believe. If you put $100 on yes, the Daily show, you can earn 630. If correct, download the Kalshi app and use code RubinReport to get $10. When you trade $10k a l s H I Kalshi, put your money where prediction is. You know what? I'll throw down 100 on saying that the Daily show will get canceled. It probably won't. But if I can do anything to nudge the good people of America in that direction for this path I get. He's, he has his podcast still and he has his 120 mil still. But if I can do it, throw 100 on me for that, then it gets even better. This guy is a piece o work. Look at this tweet yesterday from wishing a peaceful Tisha B'Av to Jewish New Yorkers. Across the five boroughs from sundown tonight until tomorrow, mourners will pause and reflect on the history and resilience of the Jewish people. May all observing have a safe and meaningful fast. Now you might, you could be a. If you're a non Jew, you probably have no idea what Tishba is. And you could be a Jewish person and it's not thought of as a major holiday like Passover, something like that. It's extremely important, but you might not have a great sense of what that holiday is. So you might be reading that going, boy, that Zorhan Mamdami, he sure does like the Jews. He's wishing them a peaceful fast on their special day. Well, hot diggity dam. And they do have a lot of those special days. Well, Ben Shapiro noted you, he retweeted it and said this Tishbav commemorates the destruction of the first and second temples located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. You know, historic and current Jewish territory. Thank you for your best wishes. We have some images we're going to show you here. These are obviously artistic renderings of the old Temple Mount for those of you that have been to Jerusalem. So this was the original and second temples which were destroyed the second one by the Romans, of course. And the Temple Mount no longer has a temple on it. It has a mosque on it. There's the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque that are on top of. So what you have to understand here, if you're looking at this to do some historical context, what you're seeing on the right there, the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqs Kamas, that whole cordoned off area that is the holiest site in Judaism where the temples stood, where Zorhan Mamdami, who does not want the embassy to be in Jerusalem or Israel to exist or anything else, he's wishing the Jews a happy, happy holidays guys. For something that I don't even pretend even happened, right? This is sort of like when they wish Jews happy Hanukkah and it's like where was the story of Hanukkah? It was in Judea, which where you don't want Jews to live now also I've been there many times. I think we have a picture of. That's me and Ambassador David Friedman, who of course was integral in the Abraham Accords and who helped move the embassy to Jerusalem. But what you are seeing right there behind us you have the Western Wall, which is that's where everyone thinks is the holiest site in Judaism. That's just a retaining wall of the holiest spot, which is where the freaking mosque is. So which do you think came first? Well, actually I can't believe I'm doing. I've become a history teacher now. The first temple was destroyed in 586 by the Babylonian empire. Phoenix, roll with me here. And the second temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. so after Christ by the Roman empire, Islam didn't show up till 600 years later. So who was there first? And the fact that and it doesn't even matter in some sense other than the island incessant ridiculous irony and obfuscation of history. You're wishing people, you're wishing the Jews. Well, congratulations on your resiliency. And this holiday you've been celebrating for thousands of years, which predates the religion that I have, which is here to destroy everything but enjoy that thing. And we'll pretend that we don't even know what the holiday is about because it would actually make everything we say completely and utterly ridiculous. Here is the Hamas ho in Congress. Rashid to Leb ways with him. He's doing a great job. Well, he's exploring ways to arrest Netanyahu. What do you think about that?

[Sophie Cunningham]

Arrest him?

[Dave Rubin]

He's a war criminal. Does he even have the authority to explore the arrest of Netanyahu?

[Megan Rapinoe]

I don't know if it applies to citizens arrest.

[Dave Rubin]

If he needs help, tell him to call me. Got to stay with me. All right, so Rashida Tlaib, she's smiling. They're always smiling. They're so happy. And she'll help Zorhan arrest him. Okay, that would be literal violation of your oath. Okay, that would be a problem. Now I'm sure she swore in on the Quran as well. We better do something about this, guys. The enemies are in the gate already, right? This isn't the enemies. The barbarians are at the gate anymore, right? I'm always giving you that version of it. The barbarians will be at the gate and we'll be debating what gender pronouns to call them. Now. They're in the gate. They're here. They're telling us that they don't believe in any of our foundational principles. What do you, you think the founders would do? That's an open ended question for you. Let us know in the comment section. What do you think the founders would do if they were going 250 years after we created this incredible thing, this unimaginable place? This is the dream of what humanity is. That's what America stands for and represents, and thank God she exists that we would allow people to come in who not only swear in on a book that is against all of the ideas of the founding, but then openly want to destroy the country, are not proud of our history, hate the founders, of course, and are here to wreck everything and return us back to the types of things that our ancestors and our founders fled. I don't know what they would do. I suspect some of them, it would be rather severe in what they would do. There aren't many sane Democrats left, as you know. The main one used to have brain damage, but he doesn't anymore. And here's Fetterman going scorched earth on

[John Fetterman]

Zorhan when now you have the mayor of a city. You are a mayor, dude. You're a mayor. You can fix a pothole, you can take out the trash, but you can order people to arrest anybody any more than I could. Or, you know, I could have him arrested if he goes to Pennsylvania. That's. It's a joke and he's a clown. And now he also said that, that Netanyahu is not welcome in New York. You know, you can't say that any more than I could say, mayor, you're not, you're not welcome in Pennsylvania. So sit down. You know, you're a clown and you are just going to pander to the fringe and that's part of your base. And I know you're angry at Netanyahu because He killed a lot of people you admire, whether like at Sinwar or Nasrallah or El Khamenei in Iran. You know, he's. That's the guy that will only criticize the prime minister or isra, but he never criticizes Hamas. He's never criticizing Hezbollah or Iran.

[Dave Rubin]

I have to say, Fetterman, that line, I know he killed a lot of people you admire. Like, that's pretty funny. And it absolutely is true, right? Absolutely is true. Just like Abdul said up in Michigan was like, I'm not going to condemn the killing. I'm not going to. I'm going to honor. What did he say? I'm not.

[Joseph]

What was it?

[Dave Rubin]

I'm going to. I'm not going to condemn Khomeini. Right. Because he didn't want to upset his base there. It's the exact same thing. By the way, again, you can be removed from office if you violate your oath of office. So I'm not saying Mamdani in the most strict sense has violated it yet, but he was clearly putting things in motion with either the NYPD or whatever he was doing on the legal side, which would have been in violation of his oath of office, which is to protect the Constitution of the United States, not to be the executor for some globalist order that would like him to do horrible things. I need some relief factor. I really need some relief factor. Can I get some relief factor? Because I have to talk about these people and it's causing all sorts of pain. Thank you very much, guys. You know my feelings about relief factor. There we go. It's on this side too. I banged up my shoulder. I was at PT this morning.

[Megan Rapinoe]

Here.

[Dave Rubin]

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[Ted Cruz]

Chuck Schumer, I believe, can never again win a Democrat primary in New York. I think he will not even run for reelection. I've joked that Schumer will be the inaugural member of the AOC for President campaign because he's terrified. AOC will. I think it's a joke now. I don't think. No, it's not.

[Dave Rubin]

A poll out today that has a

[Ted Cruz]

winner in New Hampshire. She's the number one Democrat candidate in the country in New Hampshire. That's today's poll. I think she'll run for President. I don't think she will run for Senate. But I'm going to make a prediction for you, Sean. My prediction is Comrade Mondame will be the next Democrat senator from New York. That Mondami will replace Schumer. I think Mondame is the single most powerful Democrat in the country.

[Dave Rubin]

I mean, it's depressing. I don't know what to say. Like I like you, Ted. I wish you weren't depressing me on this thing Thursday morning. But it's kind of right. You could kind of see how it would all lay out that Schumer will get demolished in the primaries. And again, much of this has to do with the fact that average people don't vote, unfortunately. So you get ginned up Commie lunatics, they're taking over the primaries. You get a radical candidate. Schumer is just nominally nothing, right? He's definitely not good. But he's not a jihadi hating America lunatic. But that doesn't work in a Democrat primary cuz that's where they're going. So you could see a situation where Mamdani then becomes senator. So we better figure this stuff out. And again, I just. It's depressing. I know it is depressing. But if you are a sane person, you probably should not live in New York and John Leibowitz. They're gonna come for you one day, too. But for the million plus Jews who still live there, there's other places to go in America and they happen to be red states. But because this is not going to go well, and it does seem like it's scaling. So over in Michigan, you got Abdul Said, big fan of Khomeini, loves Hamas, all the stuff. Here he is talking about socialism and it's just like confusion nonsense designed for stupid people.

[Abdul Said]

And I read about capitalism, and if you read Adam Smith, what you'll read is that the biggest danger to capitalism is not government regulation. In fact, you need some government regulation to keep capitalism going. The biggest danger is monopoly. And we live in an America where we have functional oligopolies that are sustained by the way that these corporations can buy both sides of the aisle so that they can make sure that they have power in our system and they make more money and it comes out of our pockets. So I'm so sorry, I don't have to be a socialist to think that big corporations shouldn't be able to nickel and dime us at every turn. I don't have to be a socialist to believe that everybody in the richest, most powerful country in the world can have guaranteed health insurance.

[Dave Rubin]

Oh, that's funny. Guaranteed health insurance. As you guys know, his wife, who is a therapist. What's her last name? Jakuku. Which again for a therapist, cuckoo. She doesn't accept health insurance or Medicaid. So they're just hypocrites. He also doesn't want his taxes to be looked at because he's got money and property in Egypt, which is where he should be living. And also this. Look, I'm not saying that our. No one is saying. I never hear anybody running around going, our system is the greatest thing. Who has the great quote about capitalism's the best of a bunch of awful systems? Whose quote is that? That's somebody. But capitalism allows you to make choices for yourself. Are there sometimes going to be big corporations that do something you don't like and they're not allowed to nickel and dime you? Okay, so you're gonna stop a giant corporation from nickel and diming?

[Joseph]

Me?

[Dave Rubin]

How are you gonna do that? Oh, you're gonna have a giant government that is going to do it, and we gotta trust you to do it right? How about anyone that is a progressive, that is a socialist and a communist, show me that you have done anything in your life other than the relentless quest to attain power. Bernie Sanders. Abdul said any. Well, he Faked that. He was a doctor, remember that? Got called out on that. Show me any one of you that you have ever built anything.

[Ted Cruz]

Mom.

[Dave Rubin]

Dummy. Did you ever run a store? Aoc. Did you ever build anything? Whose quote was it?

[Clay Travis]

Winston Churchill.

[Dave Rubin]

Winston Churchill, you may have heard of him. Portly fella, helped save western civilization about 80 years ago. Here's my buddy Clay Travis talking about how, and this is something that we talked about a bit yesterday, how the reason so many of these people are embittered, these young people are embittered and angry at capitalism is because they went to schools, got into huge amounts of debt and came out with degrees in lesbian badminton, which just at the end of the day gives you a very small sliver of jobs you're qualified for.

[Alison Steinberg]

I think it's so incredibly important. These highly educated, young, far left wing Democrats hate capitalism because they have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on degrees that the country does not value. And they are angry that they are not getting paid for what's largely a valueless education. Meanwhile, look at that graphic. All the guys and gals out there that didn't go to College and spend $200,000 on a women's studies degree, they're deciding how to figure how to be a plumber, how to be an electrician, and they're driving better cars and they're making more money. And all those people who have all these highly educated degrees, they're furious because the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson. Young kids out there should take a lesson, get fungible, useful skills as opposed to some of these women's studies degrees.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Dave Rubin]

Connor, can you show that number again that he just showed there?

[John Fetterman]

The little.

[Dave Rubin]

So look at this. Post grads who are making 30 to 60 thousand dollars, this is exactly what we covered yesterday. So think about it. You're a post grad, you've spent so much money, college, graduate school, your parents probably paid for, private high school, et cetera, et cetera. And now you're only making 30 to $60,000. Out in the real world, 70% of those people are voting Democrat and 30% of them are voting Republican. So these are over educated. And the funny thing about being over educated, they're not even that educated because they're educated in the wrong things. They never learned how to think. They were told what to think. They were told, socialism is good, communism is bad, but think how bitter you would be. So now you're 25, you're in all this debt, you have A useless degree. And now your buddy who you went to high school with, who was a little slower than you and wasn't the best student. Everything else, he went to trade school, or as Clay pointed out, he became a plumber, or just anything else. Like, there's a million other things you can do, by the way, that are actual skills that will be valuable even in an age of AI. But then suddenly you're going, man, my whole life I was on track to be better than this guy, and I was going to make all the money and I was going to go to all the fancy restaurants and I was going to live in the gated community and everything else. Meanwhile, the plumber over here is now making 150 grand, and I'm saddled with this debt, making 45. Meanwhile, I got a bunch of college dropouts here, all making way more than that, which we need to discuss by the end of the year. Guys, I think you're making a little too much money, to be honest. Here's Alison Steinberg. She's just fantastic. We're going to have her on the show, but it'll probably be in the fall because we're. We're running out of time here before August. But here she is confronting Elizabeth Warren. This is a slight jump here on this whole New Jersey voter fraud thing that we covered yesterday, where now they've admitted that at least 6,600 illegals were registered to vote in Jersey, according to the Democrat governor of Jersey. Trump's now saying it's 35,000 people. Anyway, Allison asked Liz about that because, of course, Liz is still against the SAVE Act.

[Reporter]

Hi, just a quick question for you. I know you're vehemently opposed to the Save America act, but does the recent revelation in New Jersey with the aliens who are actually registered to vote change your opinion on getting that legislation passed?

[Sophie Cunningham]

Look, it is already illegal for someone who's not an American citizen to vote, period.

[Reporter]

That's at least 400 aliens that did vote.

[Sophie Cunningham]

There are already laws to prevent that. People have violated the law and they should be prosecuted. Do you see?

[Reporter]

Anything's actually going to happen. I thought Democrats always said that there's no evidence.

[Sophie Cunningham]

I don't understand why you want laws that are already there.

[Dave Rubin]

That makes no sense.

[Reporter]

I thought Democrats. Democrats said illegals never vote, but obviously they do, Right? Thank you, Senator.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, she's good. I love how Elizabeth gets in the wrong elevator. Like, how the hell did that elevator get over there? Anyway, it doesn't matter. Yes, yes. Are there laws, laws that right now say Illegals can't vote. I guess you can say that there are in that illegals aren't supposed to vote. Except you know that in places, California is the best example of this, where you don't have to show any ID whatsoever. Then obviously someone who's illegal can vote. We showed you things out of LA a couple weeks ago where there were several people who were going to LA homeless encampments, and they were talking about how they were literally paying homeless people to vote. They don't have IDs, they don't even have a home, and they can somehow figure out how to vote. The real issue here, of course, is as we're watching, the rise of what they called themselves, Democrat Socialists, then they called themselves socialists, now they're communists and they're also jihadis and everything else. That they're using all of our systems against us until they have enough power to take our system away. Right. Like they're using our. The fact that we have fair and free elections to whatever extent we do and everything else to attain power. But do you think they would afford us the ability to take power back once they had it? Well, you might need only look at Nicaragua, where Socialist President Daniel Ortega has just canceled all future elections.

[Joseph]

From this point forward, there will be no more democratic elections held in this country. There will be no more elections of any kind, specifically so that they can ensure no one else can ever try to seize the government or attempt to take total power for themselves again. And we are going to work in a very close and strategic manner with the national assemblies and all the relevant organizations to improve the current legislative laws, because we need to make strong laws that put up a powerful wall and that the definitive legal barrier against the coup plotters and the traitors. No matter how much money and financial resources the Yankees give to them, they simply won't be able to succeed in their plans and they will never achieve their goals of destabilizing our sovereign nation.

[Dave Rubin]

The Yankees. What's this have to do with Don Mattingly? I only know baseball from 1995. That is them. Guys, does that not sound exactly like what Mamdami and AOC and the rest of them would do once they've gotten power? We don't need elections anymore. Why would we have elections? Elections brought us all those fascists. Elections brought us Donald Trump and all of those scary people. Why would we need elections anymore? Or they maybe won't go that far, but they'll just say you don't need ID to vote, so it won't even matter if we have elections because we're gonna flood the country with illegals who will make sure that we always win those elections. That is where we are at with all of this. We better be ready to continue the fight. We've got a bit more on the other side. And then we'll get to arubinreport.locals.com community Q&A in a few minutes. But first, monetary gold to celebrate freedom every Fourth of July. And as America celebrates its 250th birthday, here's a question. What does financial freedom actually look like? For many Americans, it means protecting their savings from inflation, global uncertainty, and the declining value of the US Dollar. That's why so many people are turning to physical gold. And with monetary gold, you can even hold gold in a tax advantaged retirement account. For more than 26 years, monetary gold has helped Americans invest in physical gold and silver, earning five star ratings from both the Better Business Bureau and Consumer Affairs. Get started by visiting DavelovesGold.com or call 800-888-4096 to claim your free copy of Gold in Modern America. Once again, that's DavelovesGold.com or 800-888 to book your free one on one consultation. All right, so let's keep jumping around a little bit before we get to the community Q and A. You may remember about a week or so ago, we played a clip where Pete Hegseth, our head of the Department of war, decided that we were gonna give testosterone screenings for troops. And if they were low T troops, you know, if they were one of these guys on CNN who was always like this, and I can't really lift my coat and where am I? And if they were like that, they would boost their testosterone a little bit and it would probably make them a little bit better soldiers. Here is Hegseth. Hegseth announcing that this testosterone screening, easier said than done, is coming.

[Clay Travis]

Our most decisive tactical advantage will always be the individual warfighter. We have a sacred duty to maintain that advantage, which is why we must constantly look for new ways to optimize your performance, your resilience, and your long term health. And to meet that commitment, today I'm authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best. Warfighters age 30 and older are going to be tested annually as part of their periodic health assessment. It's a health assessment that happens every year. We're just adding this test. Those under 30 can voluntarily choose to get the test as well, if treatment is recommended, it's entirely your choice to receive testosterone replacement therapy.

[Dave Rubin]

Ah, that's interesting what he said there. Then it is your choice. We're going to give you an option that if you are low T and there is a massive deficiency, particularly with young people as it relates to testosterone right now and there's all sorts of theories on why that is. We've done some shows about it and actually I just a few days ago I interviewed Dr. Paul Saladino here. We're going to put that up in August. And could it be related to wearing so many plastics? Is it related to drinking out of plastic water bottles? Is it related to spending all day online? And way sexuality has been so adamant, there's many, many arguments around why this has happened. Is it literally from babies drinking so much soy milk? That's where the phrase soy boy comes from. But without getting into all of that, the idea that the government is going to say, hey, we need our soldiers to be the most fit, prepared, biologically and hopefully psychologically sound soldiers out there, it seems pretty good. And again, they're not going to force it on anyone. It will be optional. Despite all of that fairly obvious and decent layout of all of this over on the View, Connor, you have the warning. They're very concerned about this testosterone situation.

[Reporter]

All this made me think about in testing T levels is what are they doing next? Measuring penis size like this Feels like the manosphere is in charge of the military. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And by the way, bursts of testosterone don't end well for anyone. I'm gonna show you a little video that I don't know if you saw. Take a look.

[Ted Cruz]

Oh, no.

[Reporter]

So this poor man, by the way, is okay. He's my ex husband.

[Dave Rubin]

Oh, my God.

[Reporter]

So the man was hospitalized. He is recovering. But literally they link it to mating season and a burst in testosterone. This is what we get.

[Dave Rubin]

The bison or the man?

[Reporter]

The bison. You should not deduce people to their height, their weight, their T level, some of the most valiant, brave warriors, their gender identity. I think all the women willing to put their lives on the line. That is the ultimate sacrifice that I will admit that I could not do. If someone comes in and says, I will fight for this country, we should be letting them fight for this country.

[Dave Rubin]

Sarah. Mom. Mom, if you're watching today, you're not going to be happy with me right now. But Sarah, that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I hear a lot of dumb things. This is what I do for a living. I'm basically a person who hears dumb things and then has to translate them. But just because someone comes in and says they want to fight for the country doesn't mean they should fight for the country. Just because someone comes in and says, I'm ready to fight doesn't mean they're ready to fight. No, you're talking about, like, the intellectual idea, the hope that someone shows up and says, I want to serve my country. Well, that's honorable and decent and wonderful, of course. But that doesn't mean they're ready to. That doesn't mean they're physically or mentally or otherwise ready to fight for the country. So if someone comes in and they're struggling with their gender identity, you don't just throw them in and be like, all right, get out there and see what happens. You have a series of psychological problems. Here's an AR15. Have at it. No, that obviously doesn't make sense. And by the way, someone that comes in, if it's a dude or a chick and they're 300 pounds overweight, you don't say, okay, let's get going here. No, you'd have to make sure that they can meet certain requirements. Sort of like the New York City Police Department, which has had to lower requirements and now they have a bunch of fat people as police officers. Go to New York City and you'll see them standing on the corners because they've had to lower the requirements because people don't want to work for the NYPD anymore. Because, you know, if you do anything to defend the people of New York City, you'll likely be called a racist and Mamdami will throw the book at you and everything else. So it's just sort of. It's just sort of dim, what you're saying. Also that they threw the bison. Like, I do silly videos like that too, but like, blaming the bison for having a testosterone spike and that's what he did to the guy. And that's what's going to happen to these other guys. No, I know some people. I actually, I don't want to brag, but I have quite good testosterone numbers naturally, but. And I do a lot of squats, which are not fun, but if you do lower body workout, it actually helps your testosterone. And I take Tongkat Ali. Okay, there you go. That's it. You could try Mars Men too. They're not even sponsoring today's show. Show. But I'm just offering stuff that you could do, but you might feel better. You might have better energy you might actually be working out and then suddenly realize, oh, my muscles are changing for the better. These are all possible good things, but what they want to do is turn anything that makes you think that you're a man into something bad, because that's what all of these shows have decided to do. Let's continue with Pete Hegseth because there was a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday about supplemental money that could go for the Iran war and a whole bunch of other things, and it got a little spicy. Here is first Senator Dick Durbin asking Dick Durbin. Sounds right out of Marvel Comics, doesn't it? Like Peter Parker. There he is with Dick Durbin. Here they are talking about the cost of the Iran war. Do you have a new estimate about what the war has cost us so far in this, the fifth month of the first year of this war in Iran?

[Clay Travis]

Senator, the estimate we have as of today is 37.5 billion.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, I'll show you the fiery part in a second. The reason I wanted to show you that is Hegseth, he knows the answer. No one ever goes to these hearings and knows anything. Right. Well, I'll have to refer to my. I have to look at this. Remember the lady yesterday, did you do any of that gender stuff? And she's like, oh, well, I'm carrying the one and I'll see what I can. None of these people ever know anything. He knows the exact number. Now Durbin, of course, is trying to frame it like this war that we're. Yes, Donald Trump decided, which was American policy for about 40 years, that the Iranians were not going to get a nuclear bomb. I know that upsets you, Dick Durbin, and I know that the Democrats will gladly ship overnight. It'll probably be on Amazon at the time. They will ship two day shipping to Iran to get a bomb once they take over. But so, okay, so it's cost 37.5. And anyone can have their feelings on the war on Iran, on nukes, on anything else. But what I don't think you can really question is whether Pete Hegseth is a competent defense secretary. This guy gets up there, he exudes confidence no matter what. Again, you think of the Iran war that within days we took out their navy, took out their air force. It doesn't mean it's all perfect right now. It doesn't mean that further negotiations have to happen. But this guy's doing a good job. And just watch the way Democrat Senator Gary Peters goes after him. The war, the men and women are

[Zorhan Mamdani]

going to be able to do it. But they need to have leadership.

[Dave Rubin]

When will we show leadership? When will you show leadership?

[Clay Travis]

Why don't you show some leadership and stand up to your fellow Democrats who won't fund the troops, who stand and play partisan politics while you don't give us the money. You want to stand up here and talk about the troops? You won't show any political courage to actually fund our department because you have Trump derangement syndrome and can't actually commit to anything meaningful. So I put this on you, Senator.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, that's right. Like, again, you don't. It doesn't matter what your feelings on the war are specifically, but in a time of war, you should fund a war appropriately. And what he's pointing out is that the Democrats are completely against this thing, and it's not becauseand it's only because the Democrats are against anything that Trump is for. That's how it is. But the idea that he's yelling at Hegseth shows some leadership. Who was the last Defense secretary under Biden? It was Blanken or. No, no, no, not Austin Lloyd. Like, completely a forgettable person. They have all been forgettable because they exuded no strength, and then the world acted accordingly. That's how it is. Of course, the other thing that Pete is trying to do, which sort of gets us to that View clip also, is, you know, if you've got. If you're confused about whether your penis is a vagina or you want to chop your boobs off or take drugs, that maybe you shouldn't be in the army right now. We can figure this stuff out later. That would be just fine. And that gets us to something else here. You guys know this Megan Rappinow. She was legendary, a female soccer player who has become, like, crazy lefty woke activist. And, well, here she is going on and on about protecting women and girls by apparently having boys kick the crap out of them.

[Reporter]

And you recently wrote an article basically saying that anti trans legislation is not actually about protecting girls, but distracting from us, from what really matters. Tell us what you mean by that.

[Megan Rapinoe]

So let's just, like, pull back a little. At first it was like, well, nobody likes women's sports and nobody wants to watch it. Or there was, you know, abuse happening and nobody seemed to care. Now all of a sudden, we're going to use a vulnerable group of people in the trans community to be like, oh, well, we're just protecting women's sports, and we care so much about it when the Heritage foundation is now going to go after Title ix. Like, yes, they're going after trans people in sports and they're using this as a wedge issue because we love sports and you know, we don't want our little girls to be unsafe in sports. And it's like unsafe from who? But okay, but now we're using this as like an overarching thing when really what we're attacking women. We're saying if you look like this as a woman, you can play how absolutely pathetic.

[Dave Rubin]

Can I drop an F bomb? Or it's. I've already warned myself, so nah, I'm not gonna do it. But like that a bunch of chicks sit up there. We're gonna watch them for who? Who are we warning them about from who? It's the boys that are winning girls titles. It's the boys that are beating girls in wrestling. It's the boys that are keeping girls off basketball teams. It's the girls that are beating. It's the boys that are beating girls in soccer, et cetera, et cetera. And when she was on the US national team, they got beaten by a what, a boys like under 14 team or something? Like 15 teams? Yeah, a 15 year old boys team beat the girls team. Yeah, the U.S. women's National Team, which she was part of, lost 5 to 2 in an informal 2017 training scrimmage against FC Dallas Under 15 Boys Academy team. So that a bunch of women who would all say that they are feminists, that they sit up there saying this doesn't matter and that they're for women, it's completely and utterly absurd. You are all completely ridiculous. Now they're all are a couple people that are not. And by the way, if she was still playing right now, I suspect, I suspect if she was still playing right now and there was a boy with a wig on and we called him Mary and he was kicking the crap out of her and everything else, she would be against it. But she's retired and she's trying to pull the ladder up from the people coming behind her. One girl who's fantastic is Indiana Fever, Sophie Cunningham. We've shown you some videos of her lately and here she is making it very clear. She's in the wnba, making it very clear that dudes should not be dunking over chicks. Not to be a dick about it.

[Sophie Cunningham]

On that same vein, in that story with espn, you talked about wanting to protect young girls who shouldn't have to go against biological men.

[Reporter]

Just.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Can you expand your viewpoint on that? I mean, I think I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense and I Think I'll always believe in that. I think it's really important to protect children, and that's little girls who are also involved in that category. And so I stand on what I said and I always believe that.

[Dave Rubin]

Do you think, I guess along the way like, that it goes against, perhaps some people might say, hey, for the trans community, this could be something that could come back on us or be targeted against us. Like, how do you, I guess, view that sort of critique?

[Sophie Cunningham]

You know, like I said, I extend love and I don't dislike anyone. I think there is room for absolutely everyone here, and I think there's room to love everyone. And. And I truly think when you get people in the same room and you have conversations, you actually have a lot in common with a lot of people. And so I'm there to love, but I'm also there to love biological women. And I think that there are rights that need to be protected. And like I said, I'm going to stand true to that. I'll never falter in my beliefs in that.

[Dave Rubin]

Wasn't that refreshing? Like someone telling the truth and being honorable and decent and everything else? Do you think she has hatred in her heart and that's why she doesn't want biological boys to play against girls? She knows that for her own self. Unlike Megan Rapinow, if there had been a bunch of biological boys in her high school that wanted to be girls or thought they were girls or were pretending to be girls or just weren't quite good enough to be on the men's team, the boys team in high school, that she probably wouldn't have gotten on the girls team in high school, and then she probably wouldn't have got on the girls team in college, and then she wouldn't be a WNBA star right now. So she's fighting for everything that is honorable and true in the true feminist position, which is completely at odds with everything those ridiculous harpies at the View are doing. And by the way, the obvious version of all of this is, please show me if you think it's all 50, 50 and none of it matters and biology doesn't matter and everyone's exactly the same, please show me all of the young girls who transition to boys and then start crushing boys in any sport, pick your sport and show me the girl anywhere, the young biological girl who suddenly is beating the boys in basketball and suddenly beating the boys in track and in swimming and everything else. It's completely ridiculous. However, and this is what I keep saying about the socialist stuff, too, the more people see it the more ridiculous it becomes. And that may be the ultimate defense against it. Because most people know that boys are not girls and that boys have different biology than girls and generally are bigger and stronger and everything. And you can wake people up. And it's the same thing with socialism in a way. Most people know that America should not be a socialist nation. Most people are proud of this nation and everything else. So the more we expose these people, and that's why I always have an internal debate like how much should we do about the trans stuff all the time? Like it's so boring and old. But the more people wake up about it and you show them what is obvious, humans have something innately built into them that can recognize what the truth is. So something interesting now seems to potentially be happening with the WNBA as it relates to all this. Because as you know, Caitlin Clark, who is by far the biggest star in the 30 year history of the league, she happens to be white and straight and that is a problem for a lot of people and that's why they're kicking the crap out of her. And she should probably start her own league. However, the WNBA and the NBA seem to be coming around a little bit on her, towards her, because look at this cover of the new NBA 2K27 Deluxe Edition. It has her on it. So it's the deluxe edition. You have to pay a little extra for that and then you can play with the WNBA teams. Interestingly, as Joey pointed out to me right before the show, you cannot. So they let you choose any teams and you can choose all time teams and you can choose all star teams and everything else. For some reason, even in the video game, they won't let the guys teams play against the women. Does that kind of show you what's going on here? For some reason, they don't want Giannis dunking over Mary. I don't know why, I don't know why. You know, you can't create a team where you've got a girl and a bunch of dudes. It's very, very strange, huh? But again, I'm giving them some credit here. Somebody is suddenly like, she's our star. We left her off the 30 year anniversary team. We're kicking the crap out of her, put her on the COVID of the video game. And I thought this trailer for 2k27 was pretty good.

[Sophie Cunningham]

I'm obsessed with the work. I come in here every single day

[Dave Rubin]

and I want to be the best player in the world and I want

[Sophie Cunningham]

to help this team land.

[Dave Rubin]

Caitlin Clark from 28ft.

[Sophie Cunningham]

I think that's where the obsession comes from. You're obsessed with all the time you put in. When you have the obsessive people and you really, like, crave getting better, that's what's going to help you win championships. At the end of the day,

[Ted Cruz]

there's

[Dave Rubin]

no one like Caitlin Clark.

[Joseph]

Yeah.

[Dave Rubin]

And that's great. And guess what? She still couldn't make it in the NBA. But that's okay. She's a girl. It's different. But she's. She's awesome. She's playing hard. She's quite literally got millions of girls and boys, too, that are excited about watching her. And maybe in the NBA, you should be pushing wnba. You should be pushing a little bit more of that and a little less of, oh, let's break her neck and paralyze her and then see what happens. But I thought we would tie this all together, because either you can do that, you can be very passionate about what you do. You can try to get better all the time. You can be relentless in your pursuit of whatever you love, or you can be like Sunny Hostin on the View, who wants reparations.

[Reporter]

Even after 250 years. There is so much repair that needs to be done when it comes to aggrieved groups in this country, but especially African Americans. Let's face it, what this is about is money. Joy.

[Megan Rapinoe]

Yeah.

[Reporter]

This is not about anything else. It's about this country trying to avoid paying African Americans our due.

[Dave Rubin]

You get nothing and you'll like it. How about that? No. And you know what, Joy?

[Reporter]

Joy. Yeah.

[Dave Rubin]

This is about money. Joy. Yeah. All right, Joy. How about you fork over some cash to that bitch who sits next to you every day and tells you how bad you are because of your skin color? You want to try that, Joy again? They all sit up there, they throw women under the bus. They throw white people under. They throw everyone under the bus in the name of what? Progressive tolerance like Sunny Hasan. How much is she worth again? Isn't her husband worth, like 100 million bucks? And she has no discernible talent, and she's the most racist woman on tv. And. Okay, you want to just. So I got to hand LeBron James some cash if he moves to Miami. You know what? I'm going to try. I will voluntarily try. I don't need the government to force me to do it. If Miami. If LeBron James signs with the Miami Heat, which people are saying might happen as early as this week, I'm going to put a little cash aside. I'm going to try to find him one day and I'm going to see if LeBron James needs a little of my cash. It's completely effing ridiculous. RubinReport Locals.com, community Q&A on the other side. But first, Tax Network you usa. Do you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns? No matter how it started, the problem's only going to get worse. Penalties grow, interest adds up. And the IRS is already taking action through wage garnishments, bank levies and more. That's where Tax Network USA can help. With over 15 years of experience, they specialize in resolving back taxes and unfiled returns. They've handled thousands of cases and resolved over 1 billion in tax debt nationwide. Right now, they're offering a free investigation call with the IRS to review your situation and create a clear path to get you back on track. Don't wait for another IRS notice or worse. Call 866-685-6604 that's 866-685-6604 or visit tnusa.com Dave all right, we gotta locals.com community Q&A. Joseph is right over there if you want to get a question in on the fly. Join us. IOS app, locals, Android app, etc etc. Margaret says hey Dave, is there any movie or TV show you plan to watch for the first time when you're off the grid? You know, believe it or not. So this is my 10th off the grid and it is really off the grid. No, I don't think. I'm not saying I've never watched anything off the grid. And I've tried to tighten the rules around it over the years. The first years I probably watched a little bit of tv, like no news or anything like that. But I'm really trying to disconnect to the best of my ability to every single thing that is electronic. First off, there's nothing that's like really that I'm, I actually do want to watch the he man movie, which I missed, the Masters of the Universe movie. I don't even know if it's coming out digitally, but I'm not going to be watching. I'm certainly not going to be sitting there flicking. I don't, you know, I control my TV with this freaking thing, like everything, you know. So basically this phone will go into a safe and I will not have it for a month. And then I have an old phone that has, we've removed all the apps. Apps except like things that literally turn the lights on in my house and it has like Google maps on it. So if I'm going somewhere, I'm not getting lost. But even that, it shows you how tied into all of these things that we are. So originally when I did it, it was just to step away from the news. And then it became more about stepping away from social media and just the endless political fighting. But I'm really, really trying to step away from everything altogether. Yeah, maybe I'll take a phone call with my mom or something like that, but like I just want no part

[Jon Stewart]

in any of it.

[Dave Rubin]

And again, there's nothing really. We haven't really been watching anything. I usually put the kids down at night. So like from 8 o' clock to 10, I'm just kind of laying there telling stories with them. Or now we do these choose your own adventure things where we're telling the stories together. Then by 10 o' clock rolls around, I don't even want to watch anything. But no, that's the whole point of August. I am escaping the matrix. John says, what do you think the future of late night TV will look like? Will YouTubers take up the mantle? You know, I think everything will just get increasingly spread apart and people will just find things that are for them and that's what it'll be. The age of these massive shows. The idea that, what was it, Jimmy Kimmel's making 15 mil a year and Colbert was making 20 mil a year and you got $100 million budget on a show that's losing all that money and it's giant corporate backed stuff and it's of course all hyper partisan and everything else. The age of that is over. Would it be freaking awesome if there could be a new, you know, an updated Tonight Show, Johnny Carson style that could be somewhat apolitical but edgy and irreverent and all of those things and it could hopefully bring more and more of us together? Yeah, but A, young people don't even have TV anymore and B, like no, we're just gonna go off in our, in our own thing. And I'm telling you guys, AI is gonna so fundamentally change it. And we're working on some really, really cool AI things starting in the fall. But like you will literally be able to whatever your favorite show is, right? So for me, Seinfeld or Golden Girls or whatever, you're gonna be able to create your own show. So I'd like an episode of the Golden Girls that takes place in 2026 and Sophia goes to Shady Pines and it turns out that her roommate at Shady Pines is a progressive nut bag. Write the story out and it'll write the story out. You can already do that in text, but then you're going to be able to put it into one of these engines that will literally make the show for you right there. So more and more of these things are going to become catered to you. And then, you know, then there will be people who are the curators for more people. Not everyone's going to want to do that. So there's always going to be curators and sort of table setters, you could say, for these things. But I think the giant things that bring us together in that way, the way late night TV used to be, I just think that day is gone. Joe says. Any reviews on Batya Unger Sargon's new book, the Jews in the Left, or have you not gotten to it quite yet? My copy arrived in the mail yesterday and I'm looking forward to reading it. So actually, as you may note, if you turn the book around, I am one of the people who did blurb the book. But I will be completely honest with you, I did not read the whole book. I was sent the advance. It was basically like a 10 page breakdown of the book, what all the chapters were going to be and what the intentions of the book were. So I really wrote the blurb sort of because I think Batya is a wonderful person. Even though I have some pretty big disagreements with her. She's still a little bit. Bit on the left and whatever. And we've gotten into it on both of our shows. So my blurb was more about her specifically. So I have not read it yet. I do have it there. We'll see. Reading I will do. I try to do nothing but reading. I actually will do. And I may start off the grid. I've told you guys I have the 12 chapters for an X book laid out. I've written chapter one. I may try to do more of that. We'll just see how, how I'm feeling once I put this thing away. And I have a couple days to let go of everything. We'll just see where the creative juices are. Nanaby says, how did the cruise line not know in advance that the ship couldn't go into Turkey and Egypt? Okay, so apparently the guys gave me a note here. Apparently the cruise. Well, thank you for this. That, I guess, is from what show? That's from Arrested Development, I guess. That's a gay cruise. I watched Arrested Development, which is kind of funny because a lot of the writers on Golden Girls ended up writing on Arrested Development. But the cruise that you're talking about, these gay cruises that tried to go to Turkey and Egypt, apparently they did originally get permission and then it was revoked while they were en route. I don't know what they were thinking. Like, I just don't know. If 3000 gays get off the boat in Ankara, what did you think was going to happen to you? And it wouldn't be much better or much worse than what would happen to you if you got off the boat or if you got off in Cairo. It's just absurd. And then when we've shown you those videos of the guys, like, oh my God, in the age of Trump, look how intolerant people are. As if Erdogan and the military leader of Egypt needs Trump so that they can be anti gay. It's just completely absurd. But hopefully some of them will woke up. You know, that's why I always say the thing about a conservative is just a liberal who's mugged by reality. Hopefully there were out of those 2,000 guys and let's say it's a big gay Cruise and there's 2000 guys. So let's say 1800 of them, they all think the same and they're queers for Palestine and everything else. And then somehow they're on a boat and it starts getting closer to Palestine and then they realize Egypt, oh my God. Egypt, which has the door closed to Gaza, also doesn't like us. Like you might suddenly be like, maybe I need to think about this stuff differently. And Donald Trump is the first, first time incoming president who is for gay marriage. And it's not so bad in America. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Phoenix wrote for me. Lil Fella, Israel has invented many things for humanity. What have others invented for humanity? That's a good question. We got a couple notes here. I mean Israel's done ridiculous amount of stuff for such a tiny country, but they invented the U, USB flash drive, modern drip irrigation. Waze, Iron Dome. Obviously we could. Do you want other countries? We can give you other time periods and everything else. Ancient Mesopotamia, the wheel, early legal codes and irrigation systems. China invented paper printing, gunpowder, the compass and porcelain and number four fried rice. The United States, what have we done? Well, how about the airplane? We mass produced automobiles, the transistor, the Internet, GPS and many modern medicines. France, what did they do? Photography, parachute cinema. Ireland, hypodermic syringe, color photography, ejection seat. Somalia, Frankincense production. That's pretty good. And Pakistan, the Omaya Reservoir. I don't know. Is that just a general? Were you Guys messing with me. It's just a reservoir that they did over there in Pakistan. Okay, all right, fine. Bridges says, does Don Lemon even stand a chance as presidential candidate? He won't be our first black president or our first gay gay one. Don Lemon is not running for president. Nobody likes Don Lemon. He is an utter joke. He is ridiculous. May that question be struck from the record. Rob says, when you unplug, does that also include any dietary habits? Well, as you guys know, the last couple years I've been on this crazy. It was started as like very strict carnivore. And then I've modified it. Like, yes, I eat some pasta on the weekends. I enjoy pizza, I have a burger. But I've really just in general, I'm trying to. I'm actually switching a little bit off so much red meat. Not for any reason. My blood tests are all good, but doing a little more fish just for calorie purposes, to lean out a little bit. So I don't have any specific dietary thing. I mean, generally just try to eat right. Like, I like eggs in the morning. Like, I'll have. Usually, like, I'll have like a filet for lunch with a little bit of broccoli and then some fish at night. And then I'm pretty good to go to me, more than anything else is just get off the sugar. Sugar is the thing that's getting everybody. There is sugar in everything. I'm not. I don't even have to get into seed oils or process this or that or the other thing. Get off sugar as much as possible. And you don't have to be a Nazi about like. Yes, the kids love ice cream. So once a week we're taking them for ice cream. I don't have to get a big ass thing. Usually they don't even finish their ice cream. And if I just have a scoop of cookies and cream, I am good to go. Although I can't do the blue one that Luke loves. It is just disgusting. I don't know what cotton candy or whatever the high hell it is. It is definitely designed for children. But yeah, in August, I'm gonna really, as I've been trying, we're doing some fun stuff. And I will partake in those fun things. But I'm really gonna just try to eat right. I'm going to try to be working out, you know, my shoulder still.

[Joseph]

Let's see.

[Dave Rubin]

Can you see that? Yeah, look at that. You can really tell right there. Like, can I do this? Can you really see what's going on there? Yeah, Jesus Christ. We definitely got demonetized. People are like, nobody wants to see that. Sorry, we're live. Oh, I thought this was a post game. Like I still am trying to get that right. I was in therapy this morning. It doesn't look like the bone's going to go down on its own. Just despite everything. I've done everything right, like stem cells, exosomes. I'm doing therapy, I'm doing red light, I'm doing everything. But the scar tissue might just be too much. So we'll have to figure that out. But my hope is that every August is that not only do I come back mentally refreshed, spiritually refreshed, sort of clear minded, as I said earlier, and with sort of a fresh take on things and I'm able to get rid of some of the things that I'm ruminating about that I don't want to think about anymore. But I also come back, you know, feeling physically great too. So that is the goal for August. We shall see. But we do have one more week before that all happens and I promise that I will bring it to you next week as well. Post game show. What else am I going to show you in moments? Rubenreport.locals.com See ya.