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'The View' Gets Tense After This Host Praises Trump's Aggressive Move

The Rubin Report

Tue Jan 06 2026

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The Rubin Report – Episode Summary

Episode Title: 'The View' Gets Tense After This Host Praises Trump's Aggressive Move
Air Date: January 6, 2026
Host: Dave Rubin

Main Theme and Purpose

Dave Rubin dives into the aftermath and media reactions to President Donald Trump's decisive military action removing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The show explores how different factions on left and right process Trump's move, with special emphasis on a viral "The View" moment in which Ana Navarro, typically a Trump critic, unexpectedly praises him. Rubin connects this to broader issues: hypocrisy in media and politics, the toxicity within alt-media circles, and how America is handling both foreign and domestic crises as the 2026 election cycle ramps up.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media Reaction to Trump's Venezuela Action

"The View" Segment – Rubin opens by examining a tense exchange on "The View," where Whoopi Goldberg questions the legality and mandate behind Trump’s action in Venezuela, while Ana Navarro—herself an immigrant and usually anti-Trump—expresses joy over Maduro’s arrest (03:10).
- Notable Quote:
  Ana Navarro (as recounted by Rubin, 05:30):
  “For us, this is a very, very happy day. When we see a dictator who has been part of oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for 25 years... it brought me into tears. It brought me great joy.”
Rubin highlights how Navarro's personal background influences her brief support for Trump, underscoring how cultural ties can override typical partisan responses.

2. Hypocrisy in Media & Political Discourse

Rubin notes the selective outrage regarding executive action, pointing out that Whoopi never asked "who voted for this" when Biden made controversial decisions (04:10).
Intersectionality – The personal becomes political as Navarro’s Latin heritage leads to a rare alliance with Trump supporters on this issue (06:30).

3. Panel Reactions & Political Shifts

Guest Scott Jennings reflects on Navarro’s shift and the broader impact (08:20).
- Notable Quote:
  Scott Jennings (08:20):
  “This week, Ana Navarro and I are aligned. Trump did right on Venezuela. So we'll take it as a win.”
Rubin bounces off this, reflecting on inconsistent standards: Biden used to criticize Maduro but accomplished little, while Trump delivered on action (09:00).

4. Theatrical Nature of Mainstream Media

Rubin plays a lighter segment about how off-air dynamics dramatically differ from broadcast antagonism, noting how "mainstream media is just theater" (11:19).

5. Left & Right Factions: Who's Pleased, Who's Not

The Venezuela operation garners praise from immigrant and centrist voices but is reflexively opposed by the left-wing activist base solely because it was a Trump initiative.
Sen. John Fetterman is highlighted as a "sane Democrat," calling out his own party’s inability to acknowledge the positive (12:29).
- Notable Quote:
  John Fetterman (12:29):
  “Why, as a Democrat, we can't just acknowledge that it was successful?”
Rubin and guests mock the hypocrisy of longtime Democratic critics of Maduro who now oppose his removal merely due to Trump’s involvement (16:20).

6. Reflexive Anti-Trump Sentiment

Jennings notes the polling that 42% disapprove of the operation, attributing it to tribal polarization:
- Notable Quote:
  Scott Jennings (17:25):
  “42% of the American people would oppose it if [Trump] cured cancer personally in the Oval Office tonight. There is a reflexive opposition to Trump.”

7. The Trump Doctrine and “Peace Through Strength”

Rubin and guests explain current foreign policy as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine; it's “America First” with an eye on keeping outside threats (China, Iran) out of the Western Hemisphere (07:40, 20:31).
- Notable Quote:
  Stephen Miller (20:31):
  “Damn straight we did. ...We're not gonna let a country fall into the hands of our adversaries.”

8. Infighting and Decline in Alt-Media

Rubin laments how independent online media, once a haven for truth, is now poisoned by grifters, opportunists, and personal feuds (23:45).
He addresses the split among right-wing influencers about Trump's intervention, especially criticism from Tucker Carlson and those skeptical of “neocon” foreign policy.
Clips of Ben Shapiro debunking Tucker Carlson and Meghan Kelly’s equivocations on U.S. intervention play as examples (25:17).

9. Critiquing Influencer Culture

Rubin singles out Meghan Kelly’s attempt to play the “yellow light” (not pro, not anti) on Trump’s Venezuela intervention, accusing her of choosing alliances and chasing clicks rather than principle (28:00).
- Notable Quote:
  Dave Rubin (28:00):
  “She has tied herself to Tucker and to Candace Owens to get their clicks.”
He sharply criticizes Candace Owens for mocking the widow of assassinated activist Charlie Kirk in a tasteless segment (34:01).

10. Notable Deaths and Loss of Conservative Voices

Rubin reflects on the recent personal and professional losses among conservative commentators—Jordan Peterson's illness, Dennis Prager’s accident, Scott Adams’ cancer—and expresses hope in Dan Bongino's return (36:00).
Bongino’s tweets about “declaring war on black pillers and grifters trying to hijack MAGA” are read aloud (38:30).

11. Corruption and Political Chaos in Minnesota & New York

Rubin skewers Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for stepping down amid a massive Somali daycare fraud scandal, disputing Walz's blame-shifting toward Trump and YouTubers (43:23).
Caroline Levitt dubs Minnesota “the land of 10,000 Somali schemes” (45:45).
He then skewers New York City Mayor and his administration over “clown courts” and proposals to treat property as a collective good, warning this is outright communist policy (55:06).
- Notable Quote:
  C. Weaver (NYC official, 55:06):
  “For centuries we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. We are going to transition…”
Rubin responds:
- “That is radical, psychotic lunacy. That woman should be in a mental institution, and instead she’s working for the mayor of New York City.” (55:41)

12. California’s 'Billionaire Tax' and Erosion of Property Rights

Rubin features David Friedberg from the “All-In Podcast,” explaining how California's billionaire tax is the opening wedge for universal asset audits and property seizure (58:36).
- Notable Quote:
  Friedberg (58:36):
  “For the first time ever, degrading our private property rights... the government can now go in and, for the first time, look through the veil into your personal property and say, ‘Here’s how much all this stuff is worth. I’m charging you a percentage of that.’”
He warns this is the true intent—not just to tax billionaires, but everyone.

13. The Great State Divide

Rubin ends with the argument that success in America will increasingly align with functional, low-regulation states like Florida and Texas, and that blue states will suffer the consequences of their adopted policies, as illustrated by Miami's boom (64:00).
- Notable Quote:
  David Sacks (cited):
  “Miami will replace New York City as the finance capital, and Austin will replace San Francisco as the tech capital.”

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

Ana Navarro on "The View" (as quoted by Rubin, 05:30):
“For us, this is a very, very happy day… when we see him in handcuffs… it brought me to tears.”
Scott Jennings on public polarization (17:25):
“42% of the American people would oppose it if [Trump] cured cancer.”
Rubin on Megan Kelly seeking clicks (28:00):
“She has tied herself to Tucker and to Candace Owens to get their clicks.”
NYC official C. Weaver on collective property (55:06):
“We are going to... treat property as a collective good...”
David Friedberg on billionaire tax (58:36):
“We're creating... a new tax system that allows the government... to look through the veil into your personal property...”

Timestamps for Key Segments

[03:10] – "The View" segment with Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro
[08:20] – Scott Jennings analysis of bipartisan support/opposition
[12:29] – John Fetterman calling out Democratic hypocrisy
[17:25] – Reflexive anti-Trump sentiment in polling
[20:31] – Stephen Miller on Trump foreign policy doctrine
[25:17] – Ben Shapiro on Tucker Carlson’s Venezuela take
[28:00] – Rubin's critique of Meghan Kelly and right-wing influencer opportunism
[34:01] – Candace Owens mocked for callous comments about Erica Kirk
[38:30] – Dan Bongino’s return and MAGA focus
[43:23] – Tim Walz’s resignation speech & fraud in Minnesota
[55:06] – NYC official extolling collective property rights
[58:36] – Friedberg on the lure and danger of "billionaire tax"
[64:00] – Rubin’s conclusion on the growing gap between states

Tone and Language

Rubin’s style throughout is sharp, sarcastic, direct, and often biting. He employs humor to lampoon politicians and influencers alike, employs rhetorical questions for effect, and frequently pivots to moral and political “common sense.” The episode is laced with personal asides and inside references to conservative media/influencer drama.

Conclusion

Rubin closes by reasserting America’s need for strength, principle, and an alt-media sphere rooted in truth rather than outrage or opportunism. He warns of the dangers of collectivist policies spreading in blue states, and frames Florida and Miami’s success as evidence America can thrive—if the right lessons are heeded.

(Postgame show and sponsor plugs omitted as per instruction.)

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Transcript

Dave Rubin (0:00)

Previously on the Rubin Dicker. You're confused, boss. I'm a little less inclined to be fighting for communism today to register my opposition. International. Perfect place to hide cocaine. My God, that's grade A cocaine. Joseph, you're read this with me. Foreign. People, as they say in Venezuela. Hola. This is the Rubin Report. I'm Dave Rubin. It's January 6, 2026. Five years ago today, something happened. Okay, what are you gonna do? We got a big show for you today, people. I am going to have to do something that I don't love doing, but gotta do a little of it. It's just part of the job. I saw it in the job description. I'm gonna have to smack around a couple of the influencers in this space, some of whom I, at other times in my life was friends with. It is what it is. Obviously, mostly we are gonna focus on what's going on with Venezuela and connect that, as we did yesterday, to everything happening in New York. Because we are in some sense eliminating the scourge of communism in Venezuela or at least pushing back against it. We'll see where it all lands, or while it's quite literally taking root in the number one city, the one time number one city in America right now and all. Then we'll get into all the media fracas around it and everything else, and we'll end by showing you that actually there are places that things are working. They just aren't in the once great state of New York. I should note that on yesterday's program, I said to you up top. I thought I had a colonoscopy today. So I was on a bone broth cleanse. I did manage to pull through the show despite not eating solid foods. And I'm just going for it again today. I'm still just doing bone broth. I sent an eight, nine. Let's dive in. We're gonna start with the View, because where do you go for hardcore international politics? It's the View. And here is Whoopi, a woman who, as I often point out after the show, lops off one of her dreadlocks, smokes it, and heads on home to Westchester. Here she is saying that no one voted for Trump to take out Maduro.

Scott Jennings (2:35)

So while perhaps no one is going to miss a tyrant like Maduro. Is this a legal thing? I mean, who voted for this? Who said, hey, yeah, go on in there and do this? Because originally wasn't it he was concerned about the drugs coming in and out, and yet he pardoned like a giant kingpin yeah, Kingpin. And so what is this all about?

Dave Rubin (2:59)

All right, she's a little muddled, which is why she can't get her words straight there. She's not even sure what she's talking about. Is this a legal thing? That's great analysis. Well, yes. First off, there is nothing illegal about what the President did. Now, who voted for this? That's an interesting one. Who voted for this? Because the election was a little over a year ago, about 14 months ago. And it's not as if a whole bunch of us were like, I'm voting for Trump so we can invade. Not even invade. So that we can have a precise military action in about an hour and a half that will take out Maduro without anyone getting hurt. Nobody was really talking about that. However, one of the things we were talking about as it led into the election was drugs getting into our country and borders and things of that nature. And that's at least a portion of this. Obviously, there's the oil portion, Obviously there's the general state of communism portion. And also, as I mentioned pointed out yesterday, there's a big connection between when things are going crazy in other parts of the world, people do want to leave, and what is the magnet that everybody wants to come to? Well, of course, that is the United States of America. But I did think it was interesting that Whoopi said, who voted for this? As if that should be the barometer of what a president does. I mean, first off, circumstances change all the time, so it's like things are going to pop up. But it's interesting because I don't think that Whoopi ever asked who voted for this when Joe Biden was in office. So, okay, we could do the hypocrisy thing all day long. But the point is, I don't remember during the election of Joe Biden, him saying, I'm gonna open up the border. As a matter of fact, Joe Biden was sold to America as the moderate Dem. Who wouldn't do that? But for some reason, Whoopi never asked that. Now, the reason I'm starting with a clip of the View is not just to whoopee. That's low hanging fruit, obviously. But something interesting did happen because Anna Navarro, who's a fairly terrible analyst, not a great person, and shits all over Florida while she lives here enjoying all of our freedoms. She is Latina, or Latinx, depending on, you know, whatever, and she is actually happy about this. So they got into it just a little bit. Your question, who voted for this? The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban American community, the Nicaraguan American community voted for this. And for us, this is a very, very happy day. When we see a dictator who has been part of oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for 25 years, when we see him in handcuffs and held to some sort of accountability, it brought me into tears. It brought me great joy. And, you know, I live in South Florida, and I think you can still celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, sadistic son of a bitch is out of Venezuela.

Dave Rubin (6:03)

Million Venezuelan exiles all over the world. People have fled from this man's tyrannical rules. Well, hot damn. It's the first week of January, of 2026, and Ana Navarro made some sense. That might be the only clip. But it's so interesting how intersectionality works, because in e. What she. She's Nicaraguan. What she was basically saying there is in this case, shut up, Blackie. That's pretty much what she was saying there. Whoopi is basically like, I don't care about this part of the world. Or it's not even that. Whoopi just. If Trump does something, she wants the reverse, right? But now Anna, who's been absurdly and obscenely inflicted with Trump derangement syndrome, finally, Trump has done something that she views as positive because she's Nicaraguan. And obviously there's a connection there between Venezuelans and Cubans and Latin America. And she points out she lives here in South Florida, which, by the way, I'm here in Miami. There are tons of Venezuelans, as I pointed out, this is Little Havana, Basically tons of Spanish speakers here. Everyone that I'm talking to is freaking thrilled about this because they had to flee Venezuela and Cuba and some of those other countries because of communism. But it was just an interesting moment, I think, right there, because you get someone like Anna, Trump did something that you think is important, and I happen to think it's the right thing and agree with you. So there you get to basically dismiss Whoopee and Whoopi, who voted for this. Well, Donald Trump has made it clear we now have a Trump doctrine. It's an addendum to the Monroe Doctrine. And we are going to take care of America first. But that also means protecting our Western hemisphere. And if you let China and Iran and other bad guys get in on Venezuela and start exporting, Exporting drugs, exporting terror, controlling the oil, well, then we have a problem on our doorstep. So it would not be America first to be like, yeah, let the bad guys just Invade our neighbors. And let's see what's what. I did get to interview Scott Jennings finally last night. As I pointed out to him at the top of the show, this is a guy who's been on the Rubin Report a gajillion times. However, it was his first actual appearance with me on the Rubin Report. And just real quick, we're gonna be releasing a few of the clips tonight, and then the full interview will be up on Saturday. But I did ask him about Anna Navarro.

Dave Rubin (13:13)

So there's a couple things here. I mean, he's as always pointing out the ridiculousness, the general state of ridiculousness of the party. Right. The party itself always purports to care for people. The people of Venezuela are going to be freer now. There is no doubt about that. All of the people that are running around screaming, this is going to be like Iraq and Syria and Libya and all these things. Like there is no, as Marco Rubio pointed out, we showed you the clip yesterday. There's just simply no comparison, right? There is. It's a completely different part of the world. It's a completely different set of cultures, a completely different religious structure around all of it. Like these are completely separate things. And we did an unbelievably precision operation within 90 minutes to remove the guy, bring him here to the United States. We will see what happens now with elections and who's going to lead the country. And there's an exiled leader that maybe she'll get like we're going to see about some of that stuff. So I'm not going to sit here and tell you that it is all going to be absolute like roses and candy tomorrow. But the people of Venezuela by and large are happy right now. The leadership who is around Maduro is quaking in their boots. They're not too thrilled. The expats are happy again cuz they fled Maduro. But he's brought more broadly pointing out that what the Democrats have been quite good at and what pol, it's not even Democrats, what politicians almost exclusively before Trump have been very good at is saying things right? We can say things. Maduro's a murderous thug. We don't like him and we don't like the drugs he's exporting and we don't like all that stuff in communism. But they don't do anything about it. They tweet about it. Donald Trump has. The thing that Donald Trump has done more than anything else is shift what politics actually is. He says something and then he does something about it. And not only that, we now went in and got rid of Maduro. And then what did Trump say on the plane we showed you the clip yesterday? He was like, well, you know Cuba, you may want to watch out. It sends a signal to the rest of the world to maybe you want to be a little bit better. But I want to show you how he also then exposes all the hypocrites, which is exactly what John Fetterman is talking about. This is Representative Joaquin Castro from San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. And here he is. I think the first clip is him on Maduro in Venezuela or it's Maduro, Venezuela and the leadership in 2017 versus yesterday. The people of Venezuela are in dire need of humanitarian assistance to endure critical food and medicine shortages. The desperation, oppression and violence in Venezuela really are reaching a breaking point. Think his foreign policy is make Trump rich. I don't think he's doing what's in the best interest of the United States of America or even Venezuela. I think he's doing what's in the best interest of himself and a small circle of cronies that he's going to help take over industries in Venezuela and make billions of dollars off of. The level of absurdity with these people is incredible. So you're telling me in 2017 the desperation, the violence, these people are starving, they're hungry, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was in 2017. Now Trump eliminates in a 90 minute operation where not one American twisted an ankle, eliminates the leader there is going to whoever steps in after and whether we're going to facilitate some of it or Marco Rubio is going to be the Viceroy of Venezuela or whatever, it's like it's obviously going to be more friendly. These are people who yearn for freedom and they don't. Again, this has nothing to do with the Middle East. They don't have the ancient relig religious hatreds that are driving so much of this craziness over there. Right. So that you suddenly now Trump come? Yes. Donald Trump sat around over the last couple weeks with his billionaire buddies and was like, yeah, let's do this operation. So we all get richer. It's just at this point, after a decade plus of Donald Trump the politician, it is just profoundly, profoundly ridiculous. And it's more importantly, it's completely dismissive to the people of Venezuela and the Americans, sort of like Ana Navarro, who are sympathetic to the plight of those people. So now let's jump back to Scott Jennings. Not on this show. This is over on CNN talking about the 42% of people that oppose Maduro's capture only because a certain man did it.

Dave Rubin (18:11)

Yeah, you shouldn't look at through everything through that lens. It's a sort of, in some sense, it's a silly question, Jake. Look, you can question what Donald Trump did. You can question what the future might hold for Venezuela and could we get into some version of a quagmire? Again, it's going to be very, very different. We're not just loading the country with troops and installing people. Like, it's just going to be a very, very different thing. And again, it's in our hemisphere, not a world away. And we know that Iran and China have been encroaching and trying to get control of their oil. But all of that aside, what Scott's saying basically is 42%. All right, well, so 42% disagree with what Donald Trump did here. Okay. We know America's basically divided. 50, 50, 42% isn't that much. And it's also true. He says it in a joking manner. If they came out today while we are on air right now, and Donald Trump was like, we have cured cancer, half the people would think it was horrible because they would say it's not a real cure. And he did it in some sort of nefarious way, or it's just for him and his billionaire crony friends to profit, et cetera, et cetera. So giving me polling on this isn't that important. It is what is actually right and what, and to the broader point, what is American policy in our part of the world? We are the last remaining superpower. We are the only country in the world that can really still do big things. And thank God for that. Unless we wanna completely abdicate the throne. Right. We could just say we're out, we're out. And I get that this is what a certain portion of the left absolutely wants because they don't fundamentally like America. And this is what this sliver, this sliver of, I would say, nut bags on the right, the Tucker Carlson types want. They want this hyper libertarian thing, which is just fantasy, that we will have nothing to do with the world and then the world will just be perfect. I think it's just kind of silly. What you can have is peace through strength. You blow up a boat, the next boat guy is like, I'm not gonna get on that boat anyway. Here is Stephen Miller explaining to Jake Tapper what Trump's foreign policy actually is.

Dave Rubin (20:51)

I'm gonna try to give the devil his due. Jake, it's not a terrible question. Are we going to back, you know, in essence, free and fair elections in Venezuela at some point? That is legit. Actually, I don't know that it's necessarily what we need to be talking about right this second. But what is the future for Venezuela, for the Venezuelan people to live in a free place? Is that part of the equation here? That is somewhat fair. But what Miller's, I would say, righteous indignation is about, is that what he's trying to illustrate is the old rules don't apply anymore. It's exactly what Fetterman was saying. Why is it that we had a $25 million bounty on this guy's head and we did nothing? Why is it that Joaquin Castro seven, eight years ago was talking about how evil Venezuela's regime was and now is against what Donald Trump just did? That Trump is now a man of action? America is stepping into the world stage. You may not love all of that, and it may not all work out perfectly, but we are doing something a little bit different. And it doesn't mean we're gonna steal all of Venezuela's oil, but if China and Iran have less access to it and have less access to this part of the world, that's just empirically good for American values. We will get to, I mentioned at the top, gonna have to do something that's a little messy and talk about some of the. The influencers on the right who I once was friends with, and their reaction to some of this stuff. We'll do that in just a second. But first, Tax Network usa, Do you owe back taxes or haven't even filed in years? Now's the time to resolve your tax issues. With the national debate around abolishing the income tax system, the IRS is pushing back by becoming more aggressive than ever. They're sending more collection notices, fil tax liens and collecting billions more than in recent years. If you owe or you haven't filed. It's not a matter of if the IRS will act, its when. Right now, Tax Network USA is offering a completely free IRS research and discovery call to show you exactly where you stand. Their programs and strategies can save you thousands or even eliminate your debt entirely if you qualify. Don't make the mistake of trying to handle the IRS on your own. Representing yourself or calling them directly can waive your rights and cost you significantly more. The IRS is not on your side, but Tax Network USA is. Get the protection you need and start resolving your tax matters once and for all. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com Dave for your free discovery call. Don't let the IRS be the first act. All right, so you guys know it is easy for me to sit here and beat up the mainstream media. And they have lied about so much, whether it is Covid or Russia, Russia, Russia or Biden laptop or very fine people. And it goes on and on and on. It's easy. It's extraordinarily easy for me to do that. And I would say it's easy to the point that it's actually boring. One of the interesting things that's happened over the last couple years is as the mainstream media has descended, there has been an ascendant online media of which I'm part of. I guess I'm probably a pioneer in it. And I was one of the first independent guys in home studio before COVID and all of those things. I'm very proud of that, actually. And one of the things that's been great about the online media is that because the mainstream media was so terrible, online media started doing things that were real and true and got you information without the middleman and all of those things. And that, for a couple years, I think, was really great. I would say over the last year or so, that ecosystem has really been poisoned. And maybe there was no way around it in that. Anyone can get a nice desk and put on a nice jacket and kind of look like they know what they're doing. And you can lie to people, and if you can trick the algorithms and all of those things, you can do an awful lot of damage. And I would say right now, the online ecosystem is very poisoned. We will see where that all shakes out. And I have a feeling a lot of people who have been very influential over the last couple years are going to be much less influential by the end of this year. But. Okay, put that aside. Yesterday we showed you this clip which we've shown you before. It's from about a month and a half ago when Megyn Kelly was on tour and she brought Ben Shapiro on, and she was sort of doing this little dance with Tucker Carlson where she was constantly defending him, but pretending not to defend him. And they brought up Maduro and Venezuela. And this is. Remember when you watch this clip, I know you saw it yesterday, but when you watch this clip, listen to the applause that Ben is getting at Meghan's own show 2, saying last week that the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro is actually not that bad because they're being.

Dave Rubin (28:00)

All right, my friend Megan, let me point out a couple things here. First off, it's interesting you Say you would have known what to do because you were at Fox for all those years. So in essence, what you're saying is they were paying you to lie. That's interesting. How much money did you get all those years while you were just doing what the company told you to do? Some people might say that makes you a sellout. I don't know. Just an interesting point. That's one thing. The second thing is that it's absolutely fine to have an isolationist worldview. I've pointed that out many times. It's not my particular. I'm always very sympathetic. I mean, I say this all the time on a million issues. I am very sympathetic and often really deeply understand the libertarian position on things. Right. I think it's mostly. Unfortunately, it's a theoretical worldview and not a real worldview. You can say, okay, I want peace. I want everyone to be nice. I don't believe in war and all these things. And it's like, well, war can still come to you. There are bad guys out there. Unless you're. Unless. And I don't think Meghan is. Unless you're so brainwashed into believing in utopia that you don't even understand the nature of human beings, that there are people who are bad and who are going to do things. And that's the very nature of having a nation state and everything else. So what she's really doing there, as she lays out all of the obvious reasons that it's good that we did this, right? Like, it's good because Iran and China are encroaching and the oil situation and everything else. She knows that it's good and what she's doing there, unfortunately, and I really, really mean this, is that she has tied herself to Tucker and to Candace Owens to get their clicks. That is what she has done. She wants their clicks desperately, which is why she has repeatedly said she's very happy about what Candace Owens. She wanted Candace Owens to ask all the questions. Charlie Kirk's death. And it's like Candace has gone completely off the freaking rails. And she wants that audience. And that's why she. You don't have an opinion on this? I'm just gonna play the yellow light on this. You know, what's right and wrong. But. Okay, we'll leave that there. Max Abrams, who's a professor at Northeastern, he wrote this about Megan's show yesterday. I'll remind you, Megan is a turning point speaker. I came across her interview with Aaron Mate from a Glenn Greenwald retweet. Hardly a friend of Trump So this is who she had this guy, Aaron Mate, who's a far lefty. I mean, and she loves Glenn Greenwald, who's a far left, complete anti American nutbag who doesn't even live in America. But that's who she chose to have on her show to do analyze, to analyze what's going on in Venezuela yesterday. I mention all this not because I won't even play in this stupid influencer game. I really don't. And I think that that's pretty freaking obvious. But I think this is the year that a certain set of influencers are just gonna crash out. Like, you guys are smart. You know, one of the things that I never do on this show is treat you stupid. I don't. I treat you smart. Sometimes I don't even finish my sentences. Cause I know you know what I'm thinking already. I know you know what the conclusion is. And then there's another set of influencers, and I unfortunately now absolutely can put Megan in that bucket who think that their audiences are stupid and they're just doing it for clicks. And that's really kind of disappointing. But it is interesting to watch the ecosystem sift out. Here's Patrick Bat David talking, analyzing a little bit about what's going on with Tucker and Ben. And I think you'll see the connection to all of this. Charlie's the guy you follow, and you're like, dude, Charlie's a fricking, you know, not Charlie. What do you call it? Tucker is.

Dave Rubin (35:53)

Future everyone's always predicting, like the AI future, it's here. We're actually here. I think that we are fighting machines. She then goes on to say that she thinks Erica and some of the others are sentinels. They're not humans. Now, I actually sat next to. The only time I met Erica Kirk ever was at Candace's wedding. And I sat next to Charlie and Erica, and I saw her even. And everyone knows that humanoid sentinel robots cannot eat organic food. So I demand that Candace Owens release the seating chart from the wedding and the menu from the wedding. That would go a long way to answering some of the questions that many of us are having about all this. Okay, I want to put a pin in that, because it's not. It's, like, annoying and retarded and everything else. And one of the things that I've mentioned over the last little bit is that it's been a very strange couple months. You know, Charlie was assassinated on September 10th of last year. About a month before that, Jordan Peterson became quite ill. And he's fully MIA right now. And hopefully we'll get some good news out of that soon. But he's not available in a public sense at all. Dennis Prager, as you know, right after the election last year took quite a spill and he's in essence quadriplegic right now. Thankfully, he has his mind and a bit of an ability to speak and he's been putting out some more videos, which is great. Scott Adams, who is another absolute all star of sanity who I've had on the show many times. He is terminally ill with cancer and thinks he probably only has a few more weeks to live. It's Victor Davis Hanson who I haven't had on this show but we've played clips of many times, who's been an unbelievable voice of reason for the last couple years. He just had a tumor removed and he's mia. So there's just a. We've just been in this moment where we're losing some good people and then another one that we lost but for a different set of reasons. And we're about to get him back. Thank God is Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino, who I think had the single biggest political podcast in the world before he took this job with the Trump administration. He has finally stepped away and he is coming back and I wanna read you two tweets of his regarding sort of why the timeline and kind of why he's coming back. And thankfully we will have him back. Cuz we need more soldiers. It can't just be me. People listen to this. Good to see you all. I missed you. Thanks for everything. While we worked on cleaning up, working in the administration was the experience of a lifetime. I'll have some announcements coming up, but I'm taking a couple days to spend with family. A couple of things. Thank you for your interest in the show and its return date. We will have something for you soon. The Trump team is not kidding around and it's an otherworldly experience from the other side. He's determined and focused and having been around quite a few presidents, this one broke the mold. If we blocked you, it's because we care so little about your bullshit that we deem it not worthy of even seeing. If you're bitching and whining about what that means, you can't exist without seeing and commenting on ours. You'll need to get over that. We do it because there's nothing black pillars and anti Trumpers want more than to create division and drama. We're about results and we'll talk about some of it soon. Love you all and thanks again. Flaming Elmo emoji. And let me just read you one more before I comment. Let me add this. So he retweeted himself and he wrote this. Let me add this from the jump. There's no. So there's no confusion. I started in this movement as a candidate during the Tea Party movement and began my political commentary shortly thereafter. I helped build this movement and I sure as hell am not going to let it get hijacked by a group of black pillars. Life losers, grifters and bums. We are a movement guided by truth. The essence of conservative ideology is the preservation of eternal truths. We are not the latest thing group. We are not political cannibals. I've watched quietly from the inside while doing the job I was hired to do. But I'm back now and it's time to restore that balance to the force that was won for jui. As we get ready to make some announcements about the future of the show, I also want to warn the haters and the zeros. We've been at this a long time. We live for this stuff. This isn't our first, second or tenth rodeo. We've seen a lot of dipshits come and go. We revel in making you angry enough to show your asses. It's glorious. We've got midterms coming up and there's no time for bullshit. This administration is cooking and real change simmering. If you're spending your entire day bitching and whining with the 3/4 of the term still to go, then please find the exits. There's no time for it. It's not infighting. When you exercise a cancer killing the host, it's out fighting because you're not part of any movement. I'm familiar with looking forward to things ahead. Can't wait to tell you about it, Dan. That is the energy and truth and reality that we need. These black pillars, these people purportedly on the right who scream about Trump's creating World War 3 and everything is horrible and everything's crashing and it's enough. If we are going to survive the Communist takeover and Islamist takeover of this country that by November could really start. If Trump loses the house and then suddenly he's a lame duck and everything else, then we gotta get on board right now and we have to push the grifters and the black pillars and everything else aside. So I am thrilled that Dan will be back. And I guess this just came out from Dan. He's writing. You're damn right I did. Oh, I see. So this. I'm just seeing this. You're damn right I did. And it's a Mediaite headline. Dan Bongino declares war on Black Pillars and grifters trying to hack hijack maga. So it is obvious who he is talking about right there. He's talking about the Tuckers and the Candaces and perhaps some other people who I've mentioned on the show, et cetera, et cetera. And we will see. The fight has just begun. Look, I don't want to. It is great that we have an alt media. We needed it. Mainstream media was pretty shitty. But alt media, in some sense has become as toxic and in weird ways even more toxic than mainstream media. And maybe this is now the year if we're gonna really fix things and America's 250 and Trump's gonna continue and all those things, that we're gonna have to clean up our own pond, Right? Our pond has been poisoned and we gotta clean it up. All right, let's put that aside for a moment and we'll get back to the easy stuff, which is making fun of the lefties. We're gonna go to Minnesota. But first, Venice AI Sam Altman just announced that ChatGPT can now reference all your past conversations, every thought, question, idea you've ever shared. And with a former NSA director now on their board, Edward Snowden called it a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. We've seen this before. Alexa listens, meta tracks, everything you do. Why assume AI will be any different? And now OpenAI might even start asking for government IDs to use ChatGPT. That's Venice AI comes in. It gives you the power of AI without giving up your privacy. It's open source, private, and runs right in your browser. No spying, no censorship, no data collection. Your chats stay encrypted and stored only on your device. Go to Venice AI Dave and use code Dave for 20% off a pro plan. That's Venice AI Dave. Code Dave. Real AI, real privacy. All right, so obviously, Venezuela is the big story, but back here domestically, the major. There's two kind of stories blowing up up. One is all the chaos of New York City, and we'll get to that in just a second. The other one is the corruption in Minnesota. And the corruption is so bad and so over the top that it stopped a man who was on the cusp of becoming Vice President of the United States. It has now stopped his reelection campaign in its tracks. That's right. Tim Walls will not run for reelection because he has so obviously been exposed in the this Somali fraud case that we're going to find out a lot more of. Here's a little compilation but here's Walls saying that it's the mean YouTubers who have done this to him, and Trump's mean, and that means he can't run, or something like that.

Dave Rubin (48:25)

Just telling you, you know, like what a scumbag. Like what? Putting aside. Okay, so it will hurt Elon Musk because the stock was in. It hurts millions of other people. It also is an unbelievably incredible piece of technology. Right? Like I have a Tesla. When you are driving that Tesla, it is like. And then you go into a combustionable engine, a combustible engine car. It's night and day. It's an incredible piece of technology. Now, ironically, that was back in March. Well, listen to this from yesterday. Sorry, Tim. Breaking. Elon Musk's Tesla has surged 100% since Tim Walls publicly celebrated the stock's decline. While Musk keeps winning. Walls can't seem to catch a break. I mean, really think about that. From that he was celebrating a temporary blip because you guys were literally firebombing Tesla Charger stations and you created so much chaos around Tesla, right? That's what you guys did and you were celebrating. That's just some average person who has some of his money in. Tesla was going to lose money. And well, we flash forward, what is it about 10 months later and it's up 100%. So as they say, suck it, Tim Walls, Rumble Premium. And then we will jump to New York City. Guys, if you want the best experience on Rumble, you need a Rumble Premium. It's ad free, distraction free, and built entirely around creators who actually stand for something. You'll get exclusive access to a whole lineup of voices that aren't afraid to think differently. Rumble Premium is how you support a platform that's genuinely built on free speech. Not just talking about. Go to rumble.com premium Rubin. That's rumble.com premium Rubin. For 10% off annually for Rumble Premium. Join the movement today. Actually, just during the break there, Joseph just reminded me that the other ironic. But it's all obvious too. Part of the absurdity of him celebrating the Tesla stock went down. Is that Minnesota's state. What is it? The state pension, Right? The state pension fund is heavily invested in Tesla, so. So you idiots all get what you vote for anyway. Speaking of idiots who get what they vote for Zorhan. Mom. Dummy. The communist, socialist, jihadist Islamist who's in charge of New York City right now is very excited because his clown car, his clown courts are about to begin.

Dave Rubin (51:14)

More government, more agencies, more departments, more offices, more floors that are made of linoleum with really bad lighting and all depressed people that are working there who aren't really committed to anything because they don't own any of it, because it's all run by the government. And we can have these crazy hearings. Do we have, remember these? Yeah, that's the Dark Knight Rises and that's the Scarecrow there. And he had those kind of clown court hearings. And you got to choose. You were guilty either way, but you could choose to be. I think it was killed right there, or you could walk off in the ice and be killed a few times minutes later. And that's basically what is coming to New York City. But not only that, okay, so they're gonna have more offices, rental ripoff hearings. By the way, that's not to say that there aren't bad landlords. Of course there are bad landlords. And by the way, in many cases, there are bad landlords because you guys artificially do things with rent regulations and all of those things so that they can't make enough money, or they choose not to do repairs to things because they're not making as much money, right? If you, if an apartment. Apartment could potentially go for, let's say, $3,000, fair market value, but you guys say, oh, this person's been living there for a while, it can only go for $1,000, right? Well, then the guy that owns the building might be like, well, I'm gonna put less into the building. Trust me. I lived in New York City for many years in shitty ass buildings that cracks were falling all over the place and there were leaks and there were times in the winter that our heater didn't work for months. I'm not defending the landlords of New York City writ large, right? But it's like, okay, we're just gonna have more governmental control over everything. As if that's not gonna work. As if that's gonna work. It's completely absurd. And speaking of absurd, he also is gonna get World cup tickets for everybody.

Dave Rubin (55:41)

Who the fuck do these people think they are? Phoenix, you were in a watch, right? You have a pretty nice watch over there, right? Yeah. Yeah, you have a pretty nice watch. Did you know that watch is mine? I want that watch. We're gonna go on a little timeshare operation. I don't wear a watch. I'm not a big jewelry guy. But I want your watch and I want that watch. And Joseph. Well, look at those fancy shoes you got on over there. I want those shoes. Give me that shoe. Thank you. I've got. Joseph, hit me in the head with the shoe. I've got the shoe now. Connor, what do you got over there? You got nothing. You got just the point. Look, these people. That is radical, psychotic lunacy. That woman should be in a mental institution and. And instead she's working for the mayor of New York City. But none of this should surprise anybody, right? Like, we've all screamed at this. You idiots voted him in. I feel bad for the people who didn't vote for him that are still there. Plus the jihads coming like, you guys are screwed beyond imagination. But everything she said there. Property should be collective, not individual. What? These are my glasses. They're mine. They're not yours. You wanna borrow them if you're having a problem? Sure, yeah, you could borrow them. But you can't have them. They're not yours. Property's not collective, it's yours. Like, it's just as simple as that. There's a reason you have a door at your house. It's your house. Shared equity. And it's going to be mostly white people, of course, but some POCs, some of those black people who got shit. Suck it up. You're whitey now. It's just completely absurd. I thought this quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was fantastic and sort of debunks that entire nonsense. Human beings are born with different capabilities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. Let me just read it one more time because it's really good. This is Soviet dissident who lived under communism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote the Gulag Archipelago. Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. Good luck, New York. They're telling you they're going to take your stuff, they're going to take your family assets. They are going to create a situation where builders will not come in because there's going to be clown courts around rentals. They are going to destroy human ingenuity because that's what big authoritarian governments do. Joseph, take this shoe back. It stinks. Let's expand on that a little bit because it's not just happening in New York City, it's also happening in California. You may have heard about the billionaire tax in California, which is that they've already. I mean, the amount of people that they've already purged out of the state and businesses they purged out of the state is almost untold. I mean, Elon is the best example of it. Who moved most of his operations to Texas, and then evil snake lizard person Gavin Newsom applauded for it. While he's losing the tax base for his crazy projects. I wanna jump over to the all in podcast, guys. This is David Friedberg talking about how California's billionaire tax is actually way more. Even if you don't like the billionaires, it's way more nefarious than just coming after the billionaires.

Dave Rubin (59:25)

That is the communist dream. That is what they want in New York City. So he's also making a really important Point, they call it a billionaire billionaires tax. For now. That's just how you sell it to people. Because most of us, including me, and I'm going to pretty much guess you are not billionaires. So you might. If you're. If you're a jealous person or you're. You're not paying that much attention, maybe, or you happen to be more progressive, you might go, well, I'm not a billionaire, so a billionaire's tax, it's. It's pretty easy, right? Like, that's what class warfare is. I'm not a billionaire, so, yes, I want my fair share of their shit. It's when Bernie always says the fair, they have to pay their fair share. Well, 1% pay 48% of taxes. Is that not enough? With 76%, 79%, it's the same thing they do with minimum wage, right? Like the one person says it should be a $12 minimum wage, and then the next one's like, no, that's not enough. It's 15. And since it's not based on anything, then we played a video about a year ago where Rashida Tlaib was like, it should be a $25 minimum wage. She now is the best of all of them because she said the most. But somebody could. Why not $100 minimum wage? Like, it's all nonsense based. Based in jealousy. So. But his point is, you sell it to the people. You sell this endless audit system where everything you own, I mean, talk about your grandma's jewelry, your couches, everything that you own will be looked at by the government. But you don't sell it to people like that because no one's going to go, yes, I want the government coming into my house and looking at all my stuff and peeking around and seeing how much everything's worth and what I inherited and all of these other things, things that have nothing to do with the government that I got free and clear and everything, but. So no one's gonna vote for that. But if you vote for something called the billionaires tax and you go, oh, it'll only affect them, and I'm gonna get some of their shit, you might vote for it. Here's Friedberg expanding on what's going on here.

Dave Rubin (62:07)

Right. So this is the part you really have to understand. And this, they want control over everything. It's, it's why the craziness of the tax system in Cali is directly connected to the craziness of the clown courts and rent control and court and all of the nonsense that they are going to do in, in New York. They want control over your life. So they're pointing out something super interesting there. The, the however many it is, the hundred plus billionaires of Cali, they've got about 8 trillion in assets. But what was it? Did he say 170? Was that the number that he said for the middle class? Right. It's way. Was it 170 or 130? I forget, but it was 170. So it's 170 trillion. That's the real golden goose here. And once you voted in thinking it's only going to come for them, well then one day it will be at your doorstep. Now thank God we had people before us who were much better than we are. Any of them were the founders of this great country. And what they did, several of them wrote the Federalist Papers and they created a system that allowed for states rights so that states would make most of the decisions. And some states would have high taxes and some states would have low. And some states you could get stoned on the corner. In some states you couldn't. In some states you could have abortion up to the day of birth. In some states you couldn't. And then that would allow, it would put some grease in the system. And that is absolutely wonderful. So what we need right now is some. We need some. I don't even mean this as like a Republican sense. We need some cohesion through policy success. Right. So this is what Trump is really doing right now. And it's why Bongino is saying, I've had it with the black pillars. Like, we need to just focus on all of the wins that Trump is getting, which is what I've done certainly since. And it's not. And it's easy to do because they are obvious wins. But if Cali is gonna go that route and go for all the asset seizure and just audit every single thing that you've done, and New York City is gonna control every bit of. Of rent and everything else so that people will never build, then you're going to have to move. If you're a thoughtful person and it sometimes sucks and you have family reasons to say and everything else. And where might you move? Well, you might move to Florida. Now, I sort of as a. I'm only here a little over four years, and it's not like we need more people here. But you might want you watching this. If you're watching this show, you can move here. Sachs, who we just showed you from all in, he put this up as a response to socialism. Miami will replace New York City as the finance capital, and Austin will replace San Francisco as the tech capital. I mean, I think that's happening already. I mean, it clearly is happening already. There's just simply no doubt about it. But that's why here in Miami, we see it all the time. It is still booming beyond imagination. And it's a little bit of both. Right. It's private, people coming here with bringing value and bringing companies and everything else, just like I did at a very small scale a couple years ago. But now we have all of this new money coming in, and then it's a functional government that doesn't spend beyond its means, that's doing incredible stuff with infrastructure. And then you add the layer where we're a safe state, too. Right, because people are armed and we have a functional police. And as Desantis says, if they take over the roadways, these Hamas lunatics, you can drive right through them. Patrick Collison, who is the CEO of Stripe, I think maybe I had him on the show years and years ago. He's a good guy. He wrote this Miami posting might be a phenomenon whose time was. Has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boom town in a way. That no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways it reminds me of Chinese cities. So it's kind of a funny thing to say at the end, meaning Chinese cities, like we don't want to be Chinese 15 minute cities, but meaning that right now what's happening in this city is that it is booming, it is building, it is creating good people are bringing their talents here. And just think about it. If you were a builder, let's say you want to build really awesome new buildings that'll be cutting edge design and everything else. And you have money to do it, you have financial backers to help you do it. Are you looking at New York City going, you know, that's the place I want to do with all that regulation and all that red tape and you know, they're going to have these trials now for these people and everything else. I'm going to do it in New York. Or are you going, you know what, look at Florida with low regulation and low tax taxes and you can actually get better people to work for you because there's an influx of just wonderful people here too. This is the great divide for America. It's a micro version of the political divide. But where you live will become increasingly important as America sort of goes in different directions. Here's a little video of what's going on in Miami.