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Does bitcoin really cause autism? I don't think so. I have not seen any kind of scientific study listing that. If that is true, which I don't know that it's true, then correlation, the science is up for debate. It's a crazy world Crazy world Somebody gotta have the same view It's a crazy world It's a crazy world. All right Everybody. It is December 16, 2024. I'm Dave Rubin, this is the Rubin Report. We are live streaming on Rumble, YouTube and locals. Share subscribe Tap that notification bell Post game Show as always, RubenReport.Locals.com and I should just note at the top of the program today, I think you can probably hear it in my voice a little bit. We had the big Rubin Report holiday party here on Saturday. About 100 people. It started at 7am it ended at about 4am it's over a day later and I'm still not right. It was a hell of a night with just great people. It was assorted cast of characters, many of whom you know from the show. I don't know exactly what happened. I don't know if I didn't get enough of the pasteur d'oeuvres. There was a bartender that kept drink bringing me tequila. But I'm not myself today. I'm not myself. So what I need, I just said to Conor in Phoenix, I need you guys to give me 110% today. And what I need for you, the viewing audience right now is pray, pray that we can do the next hour without me losing my voice or just falling out of my chair because I can't believe it. As my sister in law said to me last night, dave, you're not in your 20s anymore. Apparently that is true. Anyway, we do have a great show for you. I'm going to bring it, I promise you. And I've got to get out of this little thing. I've got my electrolyte water here because right after the show today we're going over to Tony Robbins house. I'm going to do a sit down with him. Our first live in person sit down. We've been trying to coordinate it for about four years and we're finally making that happen. It'll be officially my last interview of the year and all right, let's do a program. There is a lot of wacky stuff happening on the left side of the political aisle right now. There was a complete destruction of the Democr party obviously in this election and there has been, as I've been talking about, it's like, well, what is left over there? Do you guys just go down that progressive Marxist road? Does it just continue to slide that way? Or do a couple sane people wake up and try to constitute that and reconstitute, say, a sane party? And should any of us who are now part of this wide party actually, should we care, or should we just focus on widening this thing, strengthening it and much more? And that really is the theme today. We're gonna start with a clip of Stephen A. Smith. You guys know Stephen A. From espn. He's an interesting case in all of this, which is why I show you videos of him every couple weeks. Because he's a sports guy who's been largely, I would say a default lefty most of his life, but over the last year, woke up, really through Covid stuff probably a couple years ago was the beginning. Then he woke up with the BLM stuff, then started to see what was happening with Trump and the way the media treated him. And it seems to have now culminated because of some stuff around January 6th. So let me read this quote from the Daily Wire and then we'll show you the clip of Stephen A. The FBI had at least 26 informants in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, the day of the U.S. capitol riot, including some who committed offenses but are not among the hundreds who have been charged with crimes, the inspector general for the Department of Justice said in a report released on Thursday. The new report said the inspector general's team determined three informants were tasked but tasked by FBI field offices in the days leading up to the January 6th certification of the presidential election results, with the required approval by the FBI's Washington Field Office to travel travel to D.C. for events to report on domestic terrorism subjects who were possibly going to be in attendance. A review by the Watchdog found that these three CHSEs and another 23 FBI informants who were in D.C. for January 6th events did not receive authorization to enter the Capitol or a restricted area or to otherwise break the law on January 6. The Inspector General's report also stressed that none of the informants were directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts. On January 6, however, the inspector general's team determined four informants entered the Capitol during the riot and another 13 of them entered a restricted area around the building, which was a security perimeter established in preparation for the certification process. Despite this finding, none of the CHSs have been prosecuted to date. The Watchdog Egg so before I throw to the clip of Stephen A. Let's just think about this for A second. This is something that many of us, many of us, even if you flash back to January 7, 2021, go find my videos covering this. Why was I not going crazy that day? Because it seemed to me that this was a largely unorganized group of people. There was no plan for an insurrection. They didn't have weapons. There was none of this stuff. Now, some of it did go haywire. And you can't just break into the Capitol and sit down in Nancy Pelosi's chair and break windows and things of that nature, of course. But it seemed fairly obvious to many of us over the last couple years that there was something weird going on there, that Nancy Pelosi did not give the proper protection of the Capitol, that clearly there were people probably involved who had infiltrated, that maybe were instigating violence. And now we're finding out about that. So now, Stephen A. Didn't hear anything about that for the election. Didn't hear anything about that when the quote, unquote, insurrection was broached by Vice President Kamala Harris as a Democratic nominee, the belief that Donald Trump was a danger to democracy and using this as a profound, illuminating, bullying bullet point to make that case. And now here we are, yet again, finding even more evidence to Donald Trump's claims when he articulated that process is rigged. My big issue is that I'm really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way. I mean, I see Republicans like Megyn Kelly or Officer Tatum or Candace Owens or, you know, Deshaun Hannity's of the World. You know what I'm getting tired of? I'm getting, you know what I'm getting to the Democratic Party. You know what I'm getting really pissed off about? I'm getting really ticked off at every time they open their mouth about something pertaining to y'all, they seem right to make the case that the right had a monopoly on insidious, evil tendencies. Corrupt tendencies, duplicitous, hypocritical, untruthful tendencies. And every time they made those accusations, we turn around and find out that at least some of them are guilty of the same. I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick of all of it. I'm sick of all of it. I think what you're seeing right there is perhaps the final little bit of the red pill that Stephen A. Smith has been taking for these last couple years. I'm going to Put a stake in the ground right now and say this. You know, I show you these clips of Bill Maher all the time and as I always say, I don't know that he's ever gonna get there and likely he won't. I think Bill will come back. He's, he's on hiatus right now, but will come back in January and he will be the sort of liberal standard against Trumpism. Okay, fine, is what it is, Ben. He'll get certain issues right, but obviously never gonna support Trump. Stephen Hay, I think it's obvious you're there. You are obviously there. You have now fully seen through the lies. You are right. Why is it that you have to watch all of these people that five years ago, like Megyn Kelly or Sean Hannity or whoever else it is that you would have thought was crazy or right wing nut bag or whatever else and then suddenly you're watching them going damn, they are not wrong about this stuff. They're just early in on the truth. And what do I always say? The truth is a time release pill. But I think what is happening now as mainstream media has started to collapse and more people not started to collapse, it is in full free fall collapse. And more people have just woken up and they're getting news on shows like that. The gap in time of that time release is slowing down. So we're actually starting to get truth in real time more. And had this shift happened where more people were getting their news online than mainstream, had we fully been there maybe mentally around January 6th, I think it's quite possible the narrative would be completely different. So Stephen A. I think you are well on your way. You are right. They have lied about virtually everything. They will continue to lie about things. And I think regardless, regardless of what your position might be on let's say abortion, I don't know what it is. I think you will find a home in this new wide tent Republican Party. We'll have more on that wide tent Republican Party in just a second. 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But just that, just like that feeling that it can be cool to be for America again, that you can feel joy and pride in that. Like it feels like it's back and it's gonna be on steroids starting on January 20, 2025. And of course, you did see some video of Donald Trump there. We'll have more pics of him in just a second. But interestingly, Joe Biden has never attended an Army Navy game. However, here he is. You may remember this one In June of 2023, attending the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. All right, that was a little gratuitous, but I'm hungover. Give me a break here. Here's Donald Trump with Daniel Penny, the recently acquitted Daniel Penny. Trump looks good. He looks like he lost a little weight even in the last couple weeks maybe. And obviously there's VP to be JD Vance, here's Trump, JD And Elon that were there. And now let me throw to this video because now what we're seeing really is that it's not just a wide tent Politically. But one of the things that I was concerned about with Donald Trump, say, a year and a half ago, was, could he staff with the right people? Right. We've been through this a million times, and now if you just look at the people that he has brought in, it is obvious this is a very, very different administration. And it's also that they're going to be highly competent people who are experts in their field, whatever that might be, who have created great things, who are now saying, hey, I will do my duty as an American and be part of this government to right this ship. It's a beautiful thing. Chamath, over on the all in podcast was talking about that and referenced how the Democrats need to learn, because maybe competency in government isn't the craziest thing. Here's an interesting tweet that I saw, Nick. Can you just share it with the. With the guys? Oh, net worth of each one. Now, the reason why it was interesting to me was not the net worth per se, but I think this is the first time that I can remember in modern history, at least, that I've been in the United States and following US Politics, where such an enormous number of business people have been motivated to come and work inside of the administration. And I think that it creates this very interesting contrast and compare. I think that the Democrats would never have assembled a group of people like this, even though the Democratic Party has a version of this chart that they could have made. There's a lot of extremely talented business people that support the Democratic Party. The problem is that they believe it's deeply unfashionable to get strong, competent business people to take a pause in their business career and come work in government, and you almost look down on people that are successful. Whereas the Republican alternative here, if it creates a movement, so to speak, so that subsequent presidents tap folks on the shoulder, I think we'll be much better off. Isn't that what we've been waiting for? Like, putting your politics aside, right? Like, let's say 10 years ago when the Democrats were not completely insane, had they just started selecting people who were qualified and good, who and had built things. But Chamath makes a good point. They resent success. Once they decided to go down that democratic socialism route that Bernie basically ushered in. Once the base went crazy, we now we hate capitalism, which means we hate people who are successful. Well, hot damn, guys. People who are successful usually are pretty competent. So then you were left literally hiring people because they chopped their genitals off or because of their skin color. And they were not good at their jobs. That is what got us into this situation. So it's not. It's another good point. It's worth reiterating. It's not like, oh my God, look at all these people. They're all worth 100 million or a billion or 500 million or whatever it is. It's like, no, how did they get there? It's because they're actually qualified to do things. And how cool that some of these people, some of whom I know fairly well, like David Sacks, has built a billion. Not a billion. He's built dozens of businesses. I think he's a billionaire. I don't know what it said on there. It said billionaire. The guy does not have to be involved in government right now, but he is basically volunteering to be in charge of AI and crypto. Clearly we are going to need a competent person to deal with that. Mehmet Oz, worth 100 million bucks. He has a new podcast coming out. TV star. He doesn't have to do this. We could go through the list of people. Vivek has plenty of other things to do. You think Elon could maybe work on 20 other businesses? It's like everyone is jumping on board. 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Are there some sane Democrats? And as I said earlier, maybe I'm never going to vote for a Democrat again. It seems hard to believe, but you know, as time goes by, 10 years, the parties could flip again. But like, if someone is sane over there, will they maybe stop the true loons, meaning the AOCs and the Rashidas, from fully taking over the party? Well, maybe there is a chance. I want to show you this video. This is Representative Ro Khanna talking to Jen Psaki over on the televised mental institution known as msnbc. And he's the rep from Palo Alto. So this guy knows a little something about tech and he has seen his area basically been bled dry and have all of these people move to Nashville and to Dallas and Austin and Miami. And here he is talking about what the Democrats probably need to learn. Look, I agree. I think they're cutting waste and making things more efficient is a good thing. I think one of the challenges, as you know and you've pointed this out, is that there are kind of two big pots to cut from, right? There is there's the defense budget, which has a lot of money in it. Trump at one point expressed an openness to that during the first term, then backed off of it. And then there is entitlement cuts, which I know you're against. So I think the question is, like, if Trump opposes entitlement cuts, which he said we'll see if he's not going to cut the Defense Department or defense budget, how does Elon Musk get to this $2 trillion in savings? Well, what I'm not sure is a 2 trillion over one year or 10 years? One year. It's almost impossible. 10 years. I think you've got to have cuts in defense. I mean, the reality is he shouldn't touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. Trump claims that he won't. So the 56% of discretionary budget is defense. And those are being dominated by five primes. There's the F35s that have had almost a $200 billion overrun because Lockheed has a sole source contract, no competition. Jen, there's a larger point here, and I have my criticisms of Musk in terms of transparency, but here's the truth. The average American, they think that someone who puts rockets up into space, that's a pretty cool thing. And the Democratic Party has to get back to being a party that celebrates building, entrepreneurship, innovation, while at the same time holding people to account. Obama had that, Clinton had that. I don't think we should be a party that isn't for building the future. Did you see the Chiron that they put under that segment? It's tech billionaires cozy up to Trump. Like it's somehow bad that, my God, people who put rockets into space are bad. So you have ROE actually explaining it properly. Like we as a party better stop being against people that create while the Chiron below is making it seem like it's bad. It's also hilarious. It's like Psaki, you guys never talk about cutting waste. You would never be talking about cutting waste if Kamala had won. But now you realize it's going to happen. So you have to try to figure out a way to, oh, where's he going to find it? They're going to find it, I guarantee you. And I also guarantee you the 2 trillion, it's going to come a lot faster than 10 years. There's just no doubt they are going to go into all sorts of agencies, they are going to fire all kinds of people. Whether some of that is the defense stuff and that we've had way too much going to Lockheed Martin, which doesn't have any competition like they are going to, and maybe some of it will be entitlements too, or we'll figure out new ways to think about entitlements. Of course, the counter to a little bit of sanity from Ro Khanna right there. I don't know what he meant by the transparency around Elon Musk. The counter to that. Is that what the machine did the entire time was told you that if you don't vote for Kamala, you're basically a racist because I guess she was black or Indian or something. And if you don't vote for her, you're basically a misogynist because I guess she's a woman. Although who the hell knows what a woman is? Here's former Trump campaign spokesman Kellyanne Conway talking about the ridiculousness that they ran on. There's been a lot of discussion about the BRO vote, a lot of discussion about young voters. I'm curious why, as somebody who studied this question for a long time, why wasn't there this wave of women voters for Kamala Harris that a lot of people thought would emerge and basically save the day for her? Why didn't that wave not materialize? Well. Well, in some ways, the answer is two words. Kamala Harris, she did not run a good campaign. She's not a particularly informative or inspirational candidate. That is not an insult. I'm telling you, the way the public received it. And if you don't believe me, go back and look at all the election results. They're, I think, tough to digest and not see that this was a sweeping rebuke of, I think, her as a candidate, but also the campaign she ran, which was this seemed to be like a little bit of a mishmash of identity politics. Yeah, that's the point. The question is just silly at this point. Like at this point In December of 2024, the question of why didn't women show up? Women vote for all sorts of things. Women might care about the safety in their cities or the border or foreign policy or monetary policy or whatever, But Kellyanne is completely right. This identity, it's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's not going to. It hasn't run all the way through the system yet. But if we can all get in our heads, we don't have to play ball with this anymore, so to speak. We can put it behind us now. Speaking of playing ball, I want to show you this video from about two months ago. This is San Antonio spurs coach, NBA coach Greg Popovich. He happens to be white and has gone all in against old white men. So this is. We're just doing a little juxtaposition here. You know, that's my favorite word, comparing what Kellyanne just said, which is true to the ridiculousness that they have thrown at us over Trump and say, the Republican Party for years. So he's pathetic. He's small. He's a whiner. We all know that. But you wouldn't have him babysit your kids. You wouldn't hire him if you had a small business. You want that man in your business? There's no way. But were you going to vote for him for president because he's strong? I mean, Kamala Harris whipped his ass in the debate, and now he's able to just give the finger to the world because of his position now. And that's what he's doing. He's getting back at everybody because he's so small. He's got to go after everybody. Just like we all know the Generals and Mike Pence and all that. We've all heard that before. But those people around him, you know, the Grahams, the Cruzes, the hollies, the Meadows, McCarthy, McConnell, all those guys, all older white men, which so happens to be. They know he's an ass. They've called him a xenophobic, a religious bigot, a racist unfit for office. On and on and on, their words. But they're right there with them. Do they not know that they have children and grandchildren probably that are going to lose freedom if this guy is elected? Does Gregg Popovich know he's an old white guy? Like, does he not know he's old and white? If you were googling old white guy, he might show up. Maybe he doesn't know. You ever see the movie See no Evil Here? No evil with Richard Pryor? He's blind and they're on the subway and his sister says something about him being black. He's like, I'm black. I didn't know I was black. We have to go to the Gap. Like, Jesus, my voice. That was a terrible Richard Breyer. But Popovich, it's like, so anyway, the reason I'm showing you that is that's that thing you also have. Well, why don't I care about basketball anymore? Professional basketball? It's like that that thing has to be over now. And what you need are good people to stand up and say no more of that. So my friend Sage Steele, who also worked at ESPN for many years, just like Stephen A. And now has been completely red pilled and campaigned with Trump. She wrote this, she retweeted that video and she wrote love Pop Popovich. But he and a few others have been doing this for years and it's taken a toll. Preaching about diversity and tolerance, but then spewing hatred and lies. So sad that the league I loved for so long continues to shoot itself in the foot with this kind of rhetoric. And of course that is completely right. And I would just say to Greg Popovich, if you really do believe all that stuff, you're an old white man, just resign. Resign. I am sure a young black man would be happy to have your job. Like don't just say it to us how great you are for calling out those scary white men. Step away. You've been how many years has even coach of the spurs? Probably something like 25 years. It's like Step away now. You won some championships. It's pretty good. I liked what you did with Tim Duncan and David Robinson and some of you. Tony. What was his name? Tony, the point guard. Tony. Point guard on the Spurs. Tony. Tony something. Point guard on the Spurs. Tony Parker. Tony Parker. I got it. 29 seasons the guy's been working there. It's like, get a new job, dude. But a lot of people are seeing this. The writing is on the wall. And now even marginal Republicans who definitely have not been in the Trump camp are coming around. Check this out. It's Mitt Romney. Outgoing Senator Mitt Romney talking to Jake Tapper on cnn. You said in an interview a few months ago that, quote, there's a good chance that the Republican Party is going to need to be rebuilt or reoriented and that you want to have a voice in the post Trump Republican Party. Do you think that there's still, do you still think there's going to be a post Trump Republican Party or is MAGA now the Republican Party? Oh, MAGA is the Republican Party and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today. And if you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028, I think it'll be J.D. vance. All right. He's smart, well spoken, part of the MAGA movement. The Republican Party has become the party of the working class, middle class voter. And you've got to give Donald Trump credit for having done that, taken that away from the Democrats. Democrats pushed him out. The Democrat Party is the one in trouble. I mean, I don't know how they recover. And you know, I'm not going to tell them what to do because I would begin to have the capacity to do so. But they've lost their base. Yeah, you're right about that. Now I would say it's largely unfortunate, Mitt Romney, that you did not get on board this thing until now where it's so freaking obvious where the future of the country is politically and to restore American greatness like this was the move. And I know everyone kind of gets there slowly, but you really fought against it the entire time. And that probably was because so many people were calling Trump racist and everything else, but a lot of people have now woken up that that nonsense doesn't work. I want to jump back because we started with Stephen A. I want to show you a clip of Stephen A. On Bill Maher. I think we showed this once a few months ago, but this is the attitude that more and more people are starting to have. Right. But I've told this on many occasions I said this in my recent appearance on the View and stuff like that. Trump and I were friendly. Right before he ran for president, he used to have these boxing matches, particularly during the Tyson fights at the, at the Trump casinos. He would be at the Knicks games and stuff like that. And if we're being totally honest, all the brothers found him to be cool, right? They found him to be very cool. So it's like, is he really, like, in his heart, like, hateful? No, I think he. I've never. I don't think his motivation is. I don't like black people. I think his motivation is everybody must love me. Thank you. And that's why, that's right there, what you just said. Everybody must love me. It's his narcissism. It's not his racism. I have never called him a racist. I have never spoken about him that way ever. Not one time. Not one time. Because I knew him beforehand. Okay, so that's a pretty good admission there. You have two largely lefty Democrat voting people, one of whom I think probably has voted for Democrats for the last time. We'll, we'll keep working on his. Stephen A. Basically saying, no, he's not a racist. Now, was the entire machine calling him a racist the entire time? I would also say on the narcissist front, you know, it's. I'm not saying that's not true. Is, Does Donald Trump love talking? Does he love the attention? Does he love all those things? Okay, he does, right? But I think something really has shifted probably since July, whatever it was, July 13th of this past year when he got shot. I think there is a new Donald Trump now who really understands his situation in life and how deeply connected it is to the safety and wellness of the Western world, maybe the entire planet. And I think that the narcissistic part is going to be largely going away, and it's going to be replaced by something much richer than that. I think we're seeing that. And that might be why they put him on the COVID of Time Person of the Year. We'll have more on that in just a second. But first, let me talk to you about 1775 coffee. Guys. 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All right, so if I'm right, that Trump maybe is going to put aside a little of the narcissistic stuff and really focus on making the country great. And I think that that's fairly obvious, right? He doesn't attack people the way he used to. Yeah, he still puts out little funny things or the Canada's going to be the 51st state or something like that. But you can feel something else happening with the movement now behind Trump. Right. And partly he's just driving it now, but he's got a car full of good people who are helping him directionally. Right. They're not just driving. The left is always just driving, and there's a cliff in front and they're like, keep going. What he's doing now is driving, I would say, to the promised land with a whole bunch of people that if he starts going this way or this way, might be able to keep him in the lane. So, of course, he was named Times Person of the Year, and it's quite a good picture, actually. And people were going all sorts of crazy on that. And then the day after that happened, Trump went to the New York Stock Exchange and rang the bell, which I did once. So he's now following in my footsteps. Man, how are you? Good to see you. The incoming leader of the free world is going to ring the bell here in about 20 seconds. An historic moment at the New York Stock Exchange as we get this opening bell run by the President Elect Don Donald Trump, whether you have a dime invested in the market or not, although I would definitely, I don't give anyone financial advice. I would say get, get some money in the market right now because I think we're going to have a great, you know, run for a bit. Everyone should be happy about that. You should be happy that the system itself is acknowledging, hey, this guy's not evil. That's why we're letting him do this. And he got time man of the year. And it's like we just went through in the earlier part of the show, all of the well qualified people from the business world and the tech world who are excited about him, you can feel that the markets are going to loosen up, that there's going to be more competition, that inflation is going to go down, mortgage rates are going to go down. You can feel it because of the direction that he has shifted us in. Here is another former lefty, I believe, first time Republican voter, definitely first time Trump voter, Bill Ackman, talking about what's going on right now. What'd you make of today. It's a great day. It's a great day because the president's in obviously great spirits and we're stepping into, I would say, the most pro growth, pro business, pro American administration I've perhaps seen in my, my adult lifetime. Certainly. What do you, the president mentioned the word incentive and incentive theory upstairs, downstairs. How would you characterize corporate America's appetite for responding to those incentives? A bullion. Yeah. So I, you know, we just had a nice little ceremony and you know, CEOs of broad array of, you know, big American companies and I would say everyone is incredibly enthusiastic really about a new administration that's about efficiency, removing the impediments to growth, deregulation. I think, you know, a lot of confidence that comes from that. Yeah. Isn't it interesting to some extent, like how simple it could be like what he's talking about there, Ackman, he's like, everyone's enthusiastic because basically the government is going to get off our back. There's going to be a feeling of competency within the system and then businesses will want to spend more money. Right. Banks will be like we can lend again and lower rates because the economy will be chugging along. It ripples throughout the entire system. You might want to look at Argentina and see what happens when you start bringing in some efficiency and getting rid of regulations. Of course, they did put him as Time's man of the Year. And breaking911 on Twitter had this to say about that question. How long until the deranged left starts saying big deal? Adolf Hitler was also person Time person of the year in Time magazine published on January 2, 1939. They probably don't even know that now. They do. Watch them use this Joy Reid little jelly spoons. Better or for worse is not much of a ringing endorsement. And we all know which one Trump falls under. And let's remember who else has been given this title in years past in the same category. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just like Trump, regardless of the company he keeps. We know how important these magazine covers are to Trump. Just look at this tour he gave the Washington Post in 2015 of his Trump Tower office with a wall adorned with his various cover appearances. First, I have to address that last part that he, that he has these magazine covers up in his apartment. You know, I think I told this story once before, but I saw Larry King a few weeks before he passed away and he wasn't doing that well. And we were at his house, I hope his family doesn't mention, mind if I mention this? And I went and I sensed I was saying goodbye to him and I went into his house and we wheeled him into. He had a room in his house that was his, like, trophy room, like that. Like, there were all the awards he had gotten and the magazine covers and all of those things. And we sat there and I'll never forget this. He said to me, he said, dave, what's it all about? And I looked at everything and I said, larry, I think this is a life well lived. It's like you were allowed to know that you've done something cool in the world and honor that. Like, that's not narcissism. Like, these people just want to ruin everything for everybody. It's also worth noting that in the, I don't know, 80 some odd covers that Time magazine has done for the person of the year, Barack Obama has got it. Joe Biden has got it. A lot of other people that Joy Reid might think are good guys have got it. But of course, they fell for the gimmick. And there you go. Let's play a little comedy for a moment. And when I say comedy, I mean comedy in quotes. Here's Jimmy Kimmel. I've been thinking. We know next year is going to be challenging. We're about to endure a lot of gaslighting greed, lying, ignorance, possibly even the measles and the mumps. So let's fill this Christmas with generosity and goodness. Let's be nice to our friends, let strangers get ahead of us in traffic, maybe spend a little extra time with our kids, give our spouses a back rub, maybe have some snacks for the Amazon guy when he shows up. Let's deck those halls and lube up those chimneys because Santa's coming to town and he might not be coming back ever again. Which brings us to Donald Trump, who got yet another early Christmas gift today. He was named Time Magazine Person of the Year. That's the COVID sadly, there's no one left to roll it up and spank him with it. Maybe Elon will do it for him. I don't know. According to the Time website, the Person of the Year is bestowed upon a person, group or concept that had the biggest impact for good or for ill, which. That's him, all right. That's. God, it's just. It's not even that. It's not funny. It's just nothing there. You know, comedy is supposed to get you to. Comedy is supposed to be true. And it gets you as close to that line as possible so you can laugh at it. Otherw, if we don't have that. If we don't have that release, we end up killing each other. Now, every now and again, a comedian's gonna step over that line, whatever, but, like, there's just nothing even true to what he's saying. Like, it's just absolutely awful. His days are numbered. But don't worry, Jimmy, you got plenty of money and I'm sure you're well invested with a diversified portfolio in the stock market and you're gonna do just fine thanks to Donald Trump. Interestingly, there's something else happening in the system right now as it pertains to Donald Trump, which is that ABC News owes him a whole bunch of money. Listen to this from the Daily Wire. Incoming President Donald Trump has won millions in a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and veteran anchor George Stephanopoulos, who repeatedly stated on air that Trump was found liable for rape. Despite that not being the case, he was held civilly liable for defaming E. John Carroll. Court documents show that a settlement between Trump and ABC include the network paying 15 million to the president elect as a charitable contribution to a presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for the plaintiff, as President of the United States of America have established in the past. Fox News reported. The network will also have to fork over a million for Trump's attorney fees. Additionally, Stephanopoulos and ABC News will issue statements of regret about the anchor's repeated lie about Trump. Fox noted the statement reads as follows. ABC News and George Stephanopoulos Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Representative Nancy Mace on ABC's this Week on March 10, 2024. So Donald Trump was never convicted of rape. If Trump wants to sue people, I mean, this did not stop a gajillion mainstream media people from saying he was convicted or liable for rape. It was about defaming E. John Carroll. And you could probably Argue that he could have sued her for defaming him. But let's put that aside for a minute. Here's one of the moments that George say stepped in it. I still get judged for it today. I'm asking you a very simple question. And I answered it. You're shaming me for my political choices. I'm asking you a question about why you endorse someone who's been found liable for rape. It was not a criminal court. This was. This was. It was a civil court. It was a civil court. And by the way, she joked about the judgment and what she was going to do with all that money. And I find that offensive. I'm asking you about that as a rape victim who's been shamed for years now because of her rape. You're trying to shame me again by asking me this question. You've repeated that again. I think it's offensive. As a woman, I find her. I find it. What's incredible about that clip is while he's calling him liable for rape, the Chiron below is saying that it's about defamation. So 15 mil. And George Stephanopoulos, who of course is just a Democrat activist, he used to work in the Clinton White House. It couldn't happen to a worse group of people. Speaking of a worse group of people, some of the Dems, they're firing up the neurons. Something's going on there. They're starting to realize they better get on the train of American success or they're gonna be left behind. Here's a man who's constantly crying on tv. Van Jones on with Chris Salizza, who I think is like a former ex CNN guy. Now not doing much, but here they are talking about that they kind of can't hide the truth about Donald Trump anymore. How the hell did Donald Trump figure out the mainstream media is the fringe and the fringe is now the mainstream. How the hell did Donald Trump figure out. I mean, Joe Rogan is obvious, right? Like we knew the guy had a big audience. It's not like we were like stunned, but like how the hell was he, the 78 year old guy who doesn't even have a computer and still like writes handwritten notes. How did he become the guy who cracked the code? On to your point, running a cultural, I don't even want to say campaign running. It was a movement heading a cultural movement versus a campaign. Every one of your people knows. Elon, Elon, Elon, Elon Musk. Yeah. So everybody keeps. I mean, the problem is you have a framework in your mind. That how can Donald Trump. How can Donald Trump. How can Donald Trump. Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump. Let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you and all critics. You know why? We know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House. Totally agree. The popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem, bigger than the mainstream, built around him and for him, and a religiously, a religious fervor in a political movement around him. Well, you got something right there, man, and you didn't cry about it. You're right. He is smarter than all of you guys. To put it all on the foot of Elon Elon. It cannot be calculated how important his purchase of Twitter was and then getting involved and everything else. But millions of us voted for Donald Trump, some, an awful lot in this election who did not vote for Donald Trump last time and many more who didn't vote for him the time before that. And what really was that about? Well, Donald Trump somehow understood something about the American people that the American people don't like being talked down to. They don't like being lied to about everything. They don't like being belittled and called racist and everything else. So, yes, he is. That is a type of intelligence. When you're able to see something that is so obvious that people don't want you to see. And then, of course, it comes with a lot of bravery, I would say, is the thing that kind of pushed him over it. But it's also that he understood the culture. You guys are who are woke scolding us all the time and belittling us and mocking us and everything else. Donald Trump also understood humor, and he still understands humor. Look at this image he put up yesterday. We're going to finish on this whole New Jersey drone thing. So for those of you that are listening on the audio podcast, those are a bunch of drones delivering McDonald's to Chris Christie. Now, you might think that's in poor taste. You might say that's the Donald Trump we want to put behind us or whatever. And we can still all have our feelings about that. But the point is he gets something right. There is all of this stuff happening right now with these drones over Jersey. We'll get to it one minute. And Trump is still willing to, like, poke fun at it and be fun about it while the mainstream media lies to us about what's happening with these drones. So let's get to that. I got a little info here from AP News. A large number of mysterious drones have been reported Flying over parts of New Jersey and the east coast in recent weeks, sparking speculation and concern over who sent them and why. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy wrote to President Joe Biden asking for answers. New Jersey's new senator, Andy Kim spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural north New Jersey and post about it on Ed. Murphy. And law enforcement officials have stressed that the drones don't appear to be a threat to public safety. But many state and municipal lawmakers have nonetheless called for stricter rules about who can fly the unmanned aircraft. The FBI is among several agencies investigating and has asked residents to share videos, photos, and other information about the drones. Okay, now we are going to show you a compilation of some of these drones. And I want you to watch this carefully and think for yourself. What do you think is going on here? Okay, so to say mildly, there's something weird going on there and that anyone, if you were looking up and saw that over your house, would be a little concerned. I think that is very legit. Now we're gonna get into some of the ways that the media and the politicians are lying to us about it. But I do wanna paraphrase a Twitter thread that I saw. It's just from an account called Jersey Future. I cannot speak to the truthiness of all of this, but this does seem to me to be a somewhat plausible. So there's the entire thread. I'm not going to read the entire thing to you, but you can find it on Twitter. I'm going to paraphrase it for you here. What he wrote is what you're seeing are American made hpge nuclear detector drones that they can detect the presence of gamma rays miles away. In the late 2000s, the Department of Justice needed a response to the threat of dirty bombs from ISIS coming into our ports in New York and New Jersey. They've been stocking up on these drones for a while. Some were deployed to Ukraine when Russia threatened the use of dirt. They look weird because they're heavy and have giant cryo coolers mounted and giant horn antennas to communicate on MM wave frequencies that can't be jammed. In essence, what this person is talking about. And again, this is, I cannot speak to exactly if this is right, but I can speak to the lies that are being told to us about it. That they when ISIS was perhaps gonna bring a dirty bomb into one of our ports in New York and Jersey, that they put these drones up there so that the drones basically can kind of figure out where it is. And that right now they're running some tests on it to see how we the people would behave if we suddenly saw that. So it's like, what the high hell is going on here? That really is the question. Now, before we get to the media's reaction, here's what Trump said about it. Mystery drone sightings all over the country. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? I don't think so. Let the public know and now otherwise shoot them down. Donald J. Trump. Now, we're going to show you a couple people who are running cover for the administration right here. And I want you to listen very carefully to what they are telling you that you're seeing. And I want you to think back to the videos that we just showed you. Go. What I'm hearing from FBI is we don't see a threat here. And look, honestly, every video I've seen and I've spent the last couple days looking at every one of these videos, every video I have seen on Twitter, on the Internet are all airplanes. They're literally all airplanes. Some of them will show an airplane that's kind of stable out there and says that's a drone. And actually it's an airplane flying towards you at 30,000ft. And I can see the lighting on it. President Elect Donald Trump, he just called on the Biden administration for you guys to either release any information it has about these mysterious drone sightings or shoot the drones out of the sky. How do you respond to the president election? Well, first of all, the statements I've made already are the principal message that I want to communicate to the American public. We haven't seen anything unusual. We know of no threat. I just want to add a few comments on the reports of drone activity here on the east coast, particularly in and around New Jersey. We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat or have a foreign nexus. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating these sightings. Connor, do me a favor here, can you not. Adam Kinzinger just said that these are all airplanes. He see the videos. These are all airplanes. Can you show me a video of the airplane? Yeah, that does look. Oh yeah, yeah. I remember I was sitting first class going to LA last week. That does look like the JetBlue plane that I was sitting in in Mint had a little mint water over there. Yes, that does look like fully looks like a bunch of airplanes. The other quote there from Mayorkas, we haven't seen anything unusual. Do you see why Donald Trump is president? Do you see why the Mainstream media is free falling. Do you see why the Democrats both suck and blow simultaneously? So what do you do, people? How do we wrap together a show like this? Well, what you have to do, as you see the noise, nonsense. And it doesn't mean you're going to get everything right. That Twitter thread that I just paraphrased for you, I don't know if that's exactly right, but it seemed a little more plausible than getting up on. Imagine if I had just gotten on the show today and been like, those are planes, just planes. I sound like the kid from the Simpsons who's always going through puberty. Like, you wouldn't watch this show. And that's why you should tune out of CNN and not listen to Mayorkas and Kinzinger and the rest of these clowns. What you do have to do is be intellectually flexible. You have to be honest. You have to ask questions when they're warranted. And believe it or not, one of the Dems who I think is going to be an ex Dem soon enough is New York City's Mayor, Eric Adams. Mayor, let's talk about what seems to be your sort of warming relationship with the President elect. And I just wonder, is there a connection between your federal indictment on campaign finance fraud charges and your apparent shift towards him? Not at all. Listen, I did nothing wrong. I said that over and over again. I should not have been targeted in the first place. I've repeatedly stated that. And I think that we're finding out more and more some of the things that have been happening with doj, like putting parents on FBI watch list for just standing up for their children. I want to be clear. I asked the former, the current president, President Biden, to come to New York City to help me in 2022 to deal with gun violence. He arrived in the city, sat down with the police department. I met with his team several times on several initiatives. That's the same way I feel with the incoming president. I am not going to be warring with this president. I'm going to be working with this president. The American people communicated. Not only did he win the electoral vote, he won the popular vote. They sent clear messages. Affordability, public safety, securing our border. And I'm going to move in a direction to bring the resources home to this city. This is not about me, Jonathan. This is about we, the people of New York City. And I'm looking forward to getting some real things done. Look, a lot of the blame of what's happened to New York City falls on that man's Doorstep, right? Sanctuary city. Allowing the criminality, the drugs, the reason that good, decent people don't want to go on the subway anymore. Making it so that if you commit a crime, you don't get arrested. Revolving door, all of those things. But he's seeing the writing on the wall. And I will at least work with someone that is partly waking up. Would I ever support him for any other public office or anything else? Well, I don't know. We'll see how his evolution is, and we'll see where we're at in a couple of years. But at least the guy sees the writing as opposed to what so many others say. The AOCs or the Kinzingers or mayorkas. Everyone out there just going to keep lying to us as the script continues to be written. And lying is not good. You know what's good? Truth. Whatever happens to you when you tell the truth is the best thing that could happen, no matter how it looks to you. That's a statement of faith. Now, there's an alternative statement, which is, oh, no, no, no. I'll say something and there'll be a consequence. And I'll have faith that that consequence is the defining feature of. Of that utterance. I said something, I got in trouble, therefore I shouldn't have said it. It's like, well, what if you get in trouble, but like, three weeks later, everything's way better for you. Christ. Like, it's not like there's any shortage of things like that in life. That's what work is. Work is, I'm going to do this thing now that's difficult, so that something better will happen in the future. The other thing you have to understand, and this is a good thing for young men to understand, is you're going to pay one way or another. There's no way out of that. So choose your method of payment. If you choose the proper method of payment, the price you pay is one you would pay happily. I think that's right. Yeah, I think Jordan Peterson's right about that, that the truth is the best of all alternatives, no matter what. You might pay a price, but in the long term, that is what will order the world. And we are now coming out of a phase in culture where lies were put on us relentlessly about everything, that we should have settled a long time ago, that boys or girls, right? And finally enough of us are waking up. Enough of us are saying, hey, there's something good happening. I will be part of it. I mean, quite literally, some of the people that are involved in the administration that we talked about before and a bunch of you guys that watch shows like this and suddenly you're like, oh, I'm not going to partake in the lie anymore. And that's all it takes, enough of us stopping to partake in the lie, calling out the nonsense and then going ahead and building better things. And I think that's exactly what America has in store for it. Guys, we've got a post game show coming up in 30 seconds. Rubinreport.locals.com I made it. I don't know how I made it, but I made it. I'm going to sound like Tony Robbins. 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