Dave Rubin (45:46)
Don't shoot ice officers don't do that. Right. Don't encourage. And then it just makes you wonder like the guy's a school official, like what are they teaching the kids and everything else. And then some weirdness. I mean, you know, this is related to doxing and, you know, just threatening neighbors and just everyone kind of being on edge, which is a damn shame. As I said, this is Thanksgiving week. We should all be so thankful for this country right now. But apparently in Texas, you copy California, actually, leftists are terrorizing random people by sending them rather disturbing Christmas cards. Cards. On the outside, they look like normal Christmas cards, but on the inside, troubling messages. What is this? Several of these cards and notes were left at the doorsteps of homes in a quiet Yucaipa neighborhood Monday night, leaving residents on edge. I pick it up, open it, and it reads, santa, I want the head of a Nazi under my tree. And then I was like, whoa. One after another, each card and note carrying violent and threatening messages. They're trying to, like, cause chaos or something before the holidays and really scare people. All right, that guy's fabulous, number one. Number two, you may be going, Dave, just as a matter of. These are just random people at some random town. Why does any of this matter? Well, now I'm going to connect it to what I really think is the big story. We normally don't end on the big story, but I think this is the big story, and this is not going to go away. And you should really be aware of this. And you're. And I'm telling you right now, when it gets to politics at the Thanksgiving table, which, one way or another, it always ends up there somehow, as much as you try not to do it. But when your crazy Aunt Karen is babbling on about whatever, I want you to tell her about this story, because we have. We are being manipulated in so many crazy ways. It's not just a Christmas card showing up saying, the Trump's a Nazi. There has been an absolute foreign. Foreign intelligence operation hitting us across the board, and much of it has just been exposed this past weekend. This is from Mike Solano over at Pirate Wires. X just released a major profile update revealing the location of every user on the platform, triggering chaos among foreign rage farmers and slop peddlers LARPing as American, the massive ranks of which have apparently shaped our culture for years. Okay, so we're going to show you a bunch of examples of this in just a second. But I, you know, I tweeted something I think we read on the show last week that we. We just have no way to know how we've been. Been manipulated. You know, when Elon took over X, we got the X Files, right? Or the X Files, they call them the Twitter files. I guess at the time, they really were kind of like the X Files, now that I think about it. And we found out that under the hood, I mean, I went there myself and I sat with engineers and I said, saw the way the entire system worked and the entire thing was based on shadow banning and how to make sure if you tweet at this person, that person won't see it. It was a crazy, crazy system. Okay, we found out about that, but we didn't find out about. What about the YouTube files, what about the Facebook files? Like, what have all these other companies been doing? The other thing that's happened over the years, it's. And if you. For those of you that are on these things for years, like I. You can start seeing the. The rhythms of it. Six years ago, let's say, when bots really got activated, they. They were all kind of obvious because it was like cut and paste things and it was like the same kind of profile picture. And it was, you know, the name would be like, Alex 1, 496-8242, 39642. And it was kind of obvious. But over the last two or three years, the bots have gotten much more sophisticated and you really can't tell when they're real people or not. But what really has happened on X, and this has been, particularly in the last two years, I would say post October 7th, is that these massive accounts appear out of nowhere. They seem like they're American and they tweet about American news all the time, and they're extremely hostile. Like they're. They're very focused usually on breaking us apart. And it's. Something very weird has been happening. It has been obvious. So now it is coming out because X decided to release where the accounts were created and where they're downloading the Twitter, the X app. And suddenly we are finding out that massive accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers are not American at all. So let's just. We can just run through some of these. I don't have to read all of the stuff. But these are. Whether, you know, these accounts or not, these are huge accounts that most people think are American that have been shaping our discourse. Suppress news right there, which comes from North Africa. There you've got Conscious philosopher, which is always telling people about the better way America used to be. That's from Serbia. Clash reports. Sounds like it could be on Newsmax. It's from Turkey. We can keep going here. Israel exposed. This is one of the huge ones that constantly lies about Israel. Well, that's from. I can't believe it. Saudi Arabia. Jeffrey Epstein is an account from Norway. Shocker. You want to keep going here. I mean, we got a whole bunch of these. These. There's a ton of these. So there are these People that pretend they are from Gaza and they've been like live tweeting the war even though we told they had no food and no electricity. So here's Mahmoud in Gaza. All I hear now is F35s and intense bombs south. Turns out he's in Poland. So unless Israel was bombing Poland, that guy was a complete liar. Then there's a couple other accounts that say they are from the US but they're using a VPN. Now, I understand people use VPNs for all sorts of reasons, but as a little bit of subtext of what's going on here, the Fuentes update accounts, red pill media are using these VPNs so it doesn't. And you can tell if people use a VPN if they have an exclamation park and exclamation point in their location. So it's just very, very interesting. And this I thought was particularly interesting. This is from Jefferson Kulak on the X. About half of Nick Fuente's top 20 followers connected via overseas accounts. That's billing and app store access. Access. So think about that. We've been talking over the last couple weeks about this. This kid Nick Fuentes, who Tucker put on, and Tucker could put whoever the hell he wants to put on his show, but this is a kid who's on Team Hitler, who loves Stalin, who every time you tweet his people bombard you. If they don't like you, they bombard you with the most evil, noxious stuff you could possibly imagine. Turns out half of the big accounts that follow him are foreign. So we have been manipulated in crazily, crazily effective ways by bad actors. I put this up yesterday and it caught fire. This is an absolutely massive story of foreign ops shaping our political and cultural discourse. Will mainstream media even cover it? Will the set of influencers who fell for it look in the mirror? Stay tuned. Now I'll do the latter part first. Will the set of influencers who have been buying this like you can get a shit ton of clicks by going to conspiracy theories, by doing things that will burn down America, by making everybody hate everybody. It's all the Republicans reverse of what I do on this show, right? I'm not saying I've never fallen prey to some of the behaviors of X and said things that are crazy and everything else. None of us are perfect, of course, but there's been a certain set of people that, particularly for the last two years, were getting crazy amounts of retweets, crazy amounts of likes were sharing accounts that they thought were from America and they weren't. That's deeply, deeply interesting. And we better start unpacking and understanding that. And then I think the previous point is the important one. Is mainstream media even gonna cover this? Right. We always talk about there's a huge chasm between what mainstream media covers and what online media covers. Mainstream media might be interested in this story, and if they aren't, we should think about that. So we will see in the next day or two. I thought this was quite good. From Insurrection, Barbie on X, it was all astroturfed. The whole MAGA civil war was astroturfed. It consists of some libertarians who shock up. Shock are isolationists and people who are not in America. That's why polling on the Iran strike came back in Trump's favor. I never get tired of being right. So you get what she's saying there. So this is, this is. And I think this is right. I think we read you a poll last week that showed that the thing that Trump was polling highest on was the Iran op. Something like 80% of Republicans were supportive of that. But if you go online, it seems like everybody's an isolationist and everybody hates Israel and everybody hates America doing anything in the world. And now we find out it's a couple influencers. Like, it's like the Tucker Fuentes class being fed in by bots and foreign agents and everything else. So this is an unbelievably massive story. And to whatever extent over the last couple weeks, I've been talking about this right wing civil war. One of the things I've been thinking about a lot, privately I've been thinking about a lot and sort of trying to connect that to what goes on in my life is how much of this is leaking into the real world. Very hard to tell. And when I go out and I play basketball with my guys or I meet people in the stores, like, I think most, I don't know one Trump supporter that has abandoned Trump. I don't know anyone that thinks he's suddenly evil and compromised and everything else. Maybe you want some things to happen faster. Maybe you're not sure about every decision, but if you go online, the hate that has been manufactured there to Trump and maga, now we're finding out again, it was like a very specific, specific set of libertarians that don't like him. That's the Thomas Massie version of it. Right? And that's why Trump doesn't like him. And then it was just astroturfed by foreign actors. And that is profoundly amazing. But I didn't want to end on that and we will definitely be covering that story more. So I did want to end with this, in case you didn't see it. Over the weekend we put up an interview that I largely was able to do without talking about politics, but I had Cheryl Hines on. And for those of you that watch Curb youb Enthusiasm, she played Cheryl David, Larry's wife for they did it. The show took. It wasn't 24 seasons. How many seasons did they have? I'm gonna guess around 14 or so, something like that. But it was a course of 24 years because they took some years off. We'll get the number on the seasons. Oh, she's a great actress. And she also, as you probably know, 12 seasons over the course of 24 years. She is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So, you know, we've played a couple clips of her over the last few weeks as she's gone on this book tour, which is mostly to talk about Curb youb Enthusiasm in her acting career. She suddenly ends up on the View and she ends up on these other shows and they're attacking her over politics. So I asked her what it's been like for her as she's evolved and as she's gone on this journey with Bobby to come from liberal, lefty Democrat Hollywood and then meet all of these scary Republicans. You know, you're a Hollywood person, so now suddenly you're kind of welcomed in these right wing circles and that it was surprising for you to find that these people were kind of nice. And I went through a version of that myself 10 years ago when I was kind of evolving. And are you still kind of surprised by it that these conservatives are usually pretty kind of nice and open minded and tolerant and decent and all that stuff?
