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There's a big Maryland deportation hoax involving a Venezuelan who actually is a gang member. Trump tariffs and Bill Maher and Kid Rock visited the White House because we live in a simulation. Let's just dive right in, guys. Yes, the big election yesterday. There were two elections, basically congressional seat elections. Florida had two, they both went to Republicans. So Florida's gonna be just fine. Surprise, surprise. Unfortunately, Wisconsin did not work out the way we wanted. First, we'll show you a bit of good news out of. Well, here's no, we're first gonna show you the bad news. We're leading with the bad news. That's what we just decided at the last second. So, yes, Susan Crawford won the seat to be the next Supreme Court judge in the state of Wisconsin. As we talked about yesterday, you might not particularly care about this. I was actually shocked. I did look in the comments yesterday, the amount of people that live in Wisconsin that watch this show. So hello everybody, but if you don't live in Wisconsin, you might be thinking about this going, why do I care about a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin? The issue is that the Democrats have basically already said that the reason that they want her on board is she will redraw the the districts so the Democrats will gain two seats. I'll have more on that in just a second. The good thing that did come out of Wisconsin yesterday was this, which is wow. Welcome. Welcome to civilized world. Wisconsin. Wisconsin, issue one to require photo ID that did actually pass so how radical? They're going to have to show an ID to vote in Wisconsin. But back to the more important thing, because by this woman getting on the Supreme Court, she has basically already said it and the donors already said it, and the powers that be in the Democrat Party have already said it. And here's Timo Obama. We showed you this yesterday. But this is just, I think this is an important moment because if the Republicans lose the House in the midterms, it will largely be because of this. Here's Timo Obama, Hakeem Jeffries saying just that in Wisconsin. That's a 50, 50 race. Because we know Wisconsin's a 5050 state. Yeah. And we have a strong Democratic candidate. Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Because there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a 50, 50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight person delegation. Because the lines are broken. Right. All right, so that's it. That was what this thing was all about. It did not go our way. And as I said yesterday, the reason, it's not just about the midterms. This matters. The reason that this matters is as right now, the courts are desperately trying to stop Trump from doing things right. They're trying to stop Doge from firing people and finding out where your money went. They're trying to stop planes from sending people to El Salvador. Illegal criminals. We'll have more on that. So as the courts just try to grind Trump to a halt, the midterms, believe it or not, not that far away, especially the ramp up to the midterms. And if it turns out that the Republicans lose House, it could change things pretty quickly. So I'm not like, you know, banging alarms here, but it was not a great day yesterday if you care about freedom and if you care about the MAGA movement and everything that Trump is doing. It was also not a great day Yesterday because Ellie, Ms. Stall, this rather portly looking fella from, from MSNBC, went on the View. That is a combination made in hell. He said a lot of dumb things. It was hard to categorize the amount of dumb things we put it into. Grok. We said, grok, could you give us the dumbest things that this fat, weird looking man said? And it couldn't. We actually broke Grok. Grok was down for about two hours. Could not figure out, actually just could not order the level of stupidity of the things this man said. But here he is talking about how he wants to get rid of every law prior to 1965. And you're not going to believe why. My premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights act should be presumptively unconstitutional. Right. Because before the 1965 Voting Rights act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived here could vote here. So why should I give about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s, like the immigration and Nationality act when they passed our fundamental. Okay, okay, yes. It's always about the old white man. Yes. And that is racism, by the way. And he is a racist. Other things. There are a bunch of things that were passed before 1965. The Constitution was ratified before then. We had the Declaration of Independence. We became a country. That was pretty good. So the 250 years later, I was going to say, I was going to say the Reed's hard word, but people like you could go on television shows and make a living spouting this nonsense, let's say, right. Do you want to reverse the equality act of 1964? Right. Is that what you're going for? Like, so that actually businesses can discriminate in hiring practices when it pertains to color of skin, As I said yesterday, you could make a libertarian argument for that, that you should just let private businesses hire whoever they want, discriminate if they want, not let people come in and get food if they want, or anything else. You can make that libertarian argument, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're making there. But more importantly, there's something about this guy that just irks me. The way he looks, the shape, the marshmallow like situation. And I've been saying he's half Albert Einstein, half fat Albert. We did it. We did two things with Kroc yesterday. We tried first to figure out what the dumbest thing he said was. And then Joey put this together. This shows you how AI is just transforming the world as you see it. Watch this one more time. One more time. Come on. That's good stuff. That is AI people. You see how the robots are going to take over. Harrison Crank, who's an ex commentator, he pointed to this, which another again, this, that old white men did some stuff he wrote. Wasn't the emancipation proclamation in 1863. Yeah, that freed the slaves, by the way. And yes, as I said, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It's like, dude, our history is not perfect, but there are no laws discriminating against you. The Constitution, which was an aspirational document that we talk about it all the time, that these white men that you've, you've whittled them down to their skin color because you're a neo racist. These white men were dealing with the incredible problems of their time. And we didn't start slavery in America. We actually ended it faster than any nation, right? Because we were, we were, we only existed for basically 100 years before we ended slavery. Right? There were countries in Africa and Europe and everywhere else that had slavery for hundreds and thousands of years. But you want to whittle everything down to skin color and to slavery because you are a neo racist here, put on corporate television to spout nonsense because it's the upending of America and for some reason the corporate layer seems to want that. Here he is with more stupid nonsense. Again, we could not get Grok to order this properly. So I don't know that this is any particular order that you're seeing it in. So what do you see as sort of the marginal changes that are actually really tangible and realistic that could be put in place in the next few years? I argue that we should eliminate all voter registration laws. Now, that might not sound realistic to you, but I promise you that it is because we already have voter eligibility requirements, right? An eligibility requirement would be like an age limit, right? 18 to vote. I might say you should be 16, but I'm not gonna say 8. I've got an 8 year old who does knock, but I've got an 8 year old, right? We don't want them voting. But once you meet the eligibility requirement, why can't you automatically be registered to vote? Having the second step of voter registration needlessly suppresses the votes for no real benefit. Some people might say, like, oh, it prevents voter fraud. First of all, no, it doesn't. Second of all, voter fraud doesn't exist, right? If I say I want to go fishing somewhere, you say, you can't go fishing there. I said, why? Because the Loch Ness monster might get you. That's. Shut up. That's not a good reason to have a law. Now, I personally do not think that I can convince people to open their hearts and minds to immigration. I understand that in our failing country, treating people with respect and decency and humanity is a controversial position and I cannot change their minds. But we can, dang sure, and make sure that we're not putting people in jail for the crime of existing, that we're not putting people in jail for the crime of not filling out the form in triple cut in the right time and submitting it to the right agent. Criminal immigration status offenses should not be criminal offenses. They should be civil offenses. We shouldn't be ripping people away from their families because they didn't go out. What an absolutely bloated, bloviating buffoo. There's some alliteration for you, right? Suicidal empathy. Illegals here, we have to really care about them. No, we don't. We have a country. It has a border. If you're here illegally, you should have the rights as everybody else. And he's. I'm so empathetic and sympathetic. And that's really controversial in our failing country. And I just want people to be nice. Does he strike you as a particularly nice person? Do you think that guy ever picks up the bill when you go out dinner with him? No, he's a bitter, angry nothing. But of course, thus promoted on the View. And just. And also several times he made points about voter rights. And ever. And he didn't explain why. He said. And shut up if you don't agree with me. Like, just ridiculous. And speaking of ridiculous, then after he's on there, then they bring on this woman. Apparently she's a comedian. Her name's Amber Ruffin. And here she is talking about how Republicans aren't human. It feels great. It makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn't get to feel that way because they're not. You know, it's a funny thing, free speech. Yeah. Amber, you've been invited. We'll be right back. They're all just so disgusting. You can feel the audience knows it's wrong. Then they. There's someone there. The warm up guy tells them to laugh, so they laugh. The blonde chick whose name I always forget that my mom. What's her name again? That my mom always wants me to know. Sarah Haines, who's just nothing there. She sits there in shame at the line because they're not human. Sunny, of course, is smiling because she's a devil worshiper. Like, these people are unbelievably horrible. We have more of them on the other side. But first, Tax Network usa. The IRS is the largest collection agency in the world. And for 2025, it's stepping up enforcement. If you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns, do not wait for the IRS to come after you. Ignoring your tax troubles is the worst mistake you can make. The smart move. Get ahead of it now. But never, never face the IRS alone. Turn to the experts at Tax Network usa. Not all tax resolution companies are the same. Tax Network USA has direct preferred line to the irs, meaning they know exactly which agents to deal, which to avoid. 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And that is the perfect way to describe this next segment. You probably heard about this yesterday, but Cory Booker from New Jersey, Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker filibustered yesterday for 25 hours. Yes, he spoke nonstop. We googled it, apparently without bathroom breaks for 25 hours. That cannot be good for you. A bit more from the Daily Wire. Senator Cory Booker, a failed presidential candidate famous for his Spartacus moment, made history Wednesday when his remarks on the Senate floor criticizing President Donald Trump's policies. The speech began at 7pm Eastern on Monday and kept going through the night and into Tuesday. At times, other Democrats gave Booker a small reprieve when they asked him questions. By 7:18pm on Tuesday, Booker broke the record held by late Strom Thurmond from South Carolina, which was 24 hours and 18 minutes with the filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights act, which apparently Eli Mastel would have been against. The stunt comes as Democrats face low approval ratings and Schumer grapples with a crisis of confidence after he refused to vote in favor of blocking a g GOP backed bill to avert a partial government shutdown. Booker said he rose with the intention of getting in some good trouble and disrupting normal Senate business for as long as he was physically able because he feared the country was in crisis. So he spoke for 25 hours. He did not say much of anything. He ranted and raved and said over the top sort of hysterical, crazy things sort of like this to call to the conscience of this nation to say, I will not stand for another American to lose their health care for a billionaire. I will not stand for another veteran who's dedicated to stopping the suicide of other veterans to lose their job. I won't stand for the air quality in my community to make worse because they're letting polluters pollute more. I won't stand for the collective assaults on the Constitution by a man who even the highest judge in our land, a Republican appointed judge, said stop threatening and bullying other branches of government. When is it going to be enough? My voice is inadequate, my efforts today are inadequate to stop what they're trying to do. But we the people are powerful, we are strong. Again, overly emotive. Nothing. He spoke for 25 hours and I guess that is a certain skill. And not peeing for 25 hours, I can't do that. I've been peeing once a night about 3am I have to pee. It's just happening. I'm at that age. That's where we're at. Sorry, guys. So that's impressive. That is impressive. Not peeing for 25 hours. I will give you that. What I won't give you, you bug eyed freak, is that you said anything that had any value, nothing you said mattered. What has Donald Trump, in the two months of the Donald Trump presidency done to the air? If you're watching this, I'm going to venture that you're breathing right now and it's the same air quality that you were breathing under Joe Biden who had dementia. I'm gonna guess that you probably like that Elon Musk is uncovering some of the fraud and nobody is cutting Social Security and tax breaks for the rich or for anybody are good because it's your money. It's not Cory Booker's money. He really wants that money. Then as they said, then it wrapped up and Chuck Schumer, who's on his way out with the Dems because he did vote with Trump, in essence, he voted with the Republicans to allow the government to continue. And now everybody hates him. And you know, he has a special place in hell for all the things he's done. Good old Chuck. Here's Chuck. He's very proud of Corey for talking for 25 hours, but again, accomplishing literally nothing. No vote got changed, no policy got changed. Nothing happened other than Cory Booker did not pee for 25 hours. John, would the senator yield for a question? Chuck Schumer it's the only time in my life I can tell you. No, I just want to tell you a question. Do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this caucus is of you? Do you know how proud America is of you? Again, overly emotive. So I get it. He's on the verge of tears, the sweats dripping, and Chuck, we're so proud of you. You broke the record. You talked for a long time. Sure. There's homeless people in New York City in Times Square who talk all day, and nobody gives them a standing ovation. He accomplished literally nothing. It's actually the perfect Democrat policy. Can you overly emote? Can you basically lie about everything and just do it hysterically for 25 hours? Can you do that? You're a Democrat. Here's Scott Jennings kind of laying it. Oh, wait, Are we doing the Scott Jennings? Do we have the special? We do have the. We have a. Yeah. Do we have it for this clip? Yeah. Do we have. Or could we do it for another clip? We'll do it for this clip. Wait, hold on. Work with us, guys. Trust me. It's worth the wait. Here. We're gonna do it here. Yeah. Okay. We're pushing Connor's limits today. We play a lot of these clips of Scott Jennings, as you know, and Scott is put on that program over there on cnn where he sits there with usually five people who have no idea what they're talking about. But what are they good at? Over emotion. Right. They call everybody racist and white supremacist and whatever. And we always play these clips. And I was thinking, could we have some sort of intro for these clips so that I don't have to explain too much, because Scott is quite good at calmly laying things out. So we've created a graphic and musical intro for every time we now show you a Scott Jennings clip. Enjoy. Definitely think it's representative anger in the Democratic base. There's no question about that. And I think Booker's moves tonight are representative of the fact that there's a vacuum at the top of the Democratic Party. There's no leader. You know, the only leader that really exists is Jasmine Crockett. She's the one you see on TV most often. Booker's trying to, you know, fill some of that vacuum. I'm puzzled by his language, though. What is the crisis? You have a president of the United States that won the national popular vote and a landslide in the electoral College. He is sitting, according to CBS News, as of yesterday, at a 50% approval rating. What is the crisis. I mean, he's effectively executing on the policy agenda that he ran on. And he's sitting at about 50%, which is far higher than the last president. If this is a crisis, what was the Joe Biden term mega crisis? I don't know. I think the crisis is that we're seeing people deported without due process. We're seeing the very fundamental aspects of our democracy at question. That's what people are scared. What fundamental aspects of our democracy? That we're finding out that you people have been wasting our money, that NGOs have secretly been working against America, that nothing actually works and everything has been a giant gravy train for awful people. I don't think that's what you're talking about. But you get it. What he just laid out there was simple this. There is no crisis. There is no hysteria other than what you people are manufacturing. We're actually doing a nice job. I don't think I've ever, certainly in my adult life, I've never been more proud of what the American government's doing. Right. We're finding out that there's fraud and we're getting rid of it. We are scaling back the scope of government to give more power to the people. And once again, Scott just calmly, calmly lays it out there. Also, it was interesting. Was I wrong or was he talking to the predator? Was that the predator that he was Who? Look at that. There's Scott J. Well, he's freaking out right now because he realized he's not just talking to some random CNN DEI hire. That's the predator right there. What did you do to Arnold Schwarzenegger? And let's talk about lean for a minute. We'll have more in a second. Are you stuck in the yo yo dieting cycle? You lose weight, gain it all back plus a few extra pounds, then do it all over again. It's not just frustrating, it's dangero. Studies show that repeated weight fluctuations can increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and other serious health problems. That's why doctors created Lean, a supplement designed to help you lose weight and keep it off. Unlike injections, Lean is a natural science backed formula that requires no prescription. It works by supporting healthy blood sugar levels, controlling appetite and burning fat by converting it into energy. 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That is what they do. And that brings us to the scandal of yesterday, which you're not going to believe. It turns out not to be a scandal. Here's the scandal part as presented by the Atlantic. And yes, none of it didn't turn out to be right. The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that the US Courts lacked jurisdiction in order to return him to the mega prison where he's now locked up. From the mega prison where he's now locked up, the case appears to be the first time the Trump administration has admitted to errors when it sent three plane loads of Salvadorian and Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador's grim terrorism confinement center on March 15th. Attorneys for several Venezuelan deportees have said that the Trump administration falsely labeled their clients as gang members because of their tattoos. Trump officials have disputed those claims. Okay, so this sounds very scary. Was a man caught up in this, a man who wasn't a gang member? Was he caught up in this? Now, no one's debating whether he was legal or not or anything else, but was somebody caught up in this? Here's Caroline Levitt. Sure. Thanks, Carolyn. A few questions about this deportation case. First, I wanted to clarify something that you said to Jeff a few minutes ago. You said you'd seen evidence that this man was a convicted gang member. In what court was he convicted and for what? This individual was an MS.13 ringleader. This individual was also engaged in human trafficking. And I'm glad you brought up this point again, because I would like to point out that if you just saw the headline from the insane, failing Atlantic magazine this morning, you would think this individual was Father of the Year living in Maryland, living a Peaceful life when that couldn't be further from the truth. They didn't even mention in the title of that article or even in the first paragraph that this individual is an illegal criminal who broke our nation's immigration laws. He is a leader in the brutal MS.13 gang, and he is involved in human trafficking. And now MS.13 is a designated foreign terrorist organization. Foreign terrorists have no legal protections in the United States of America. Okay, interesting. You might have also picked up on the fact that this was the Atlantic. We were talking about the Atlantic last week because the Atlantic is where Jeffrey Goldberg works. Jeffrey Goldberg, who somehow magically got added to that signal group. So it does seem like something interesting happening with the Atlantic. But, yeah, this guy's not a great guy. Here's Stephen Miller with more on that. Jesse, you and I have never received in our lives as much positive press I know as this MS.13 gang member has received. We couldn't get headlines like that if our lives depended on it. Yeah. So let's just go over the facts here. He is an illegal alien. Fact one, what do you do with illegal aliens? You deport them. Fact two, he's an Ms. 13. What do you do with illegal aliens who are also in a transnational terrorist organization? You deport them more quickly. Oh, and on top of that, he's implicated in human trafficking. Deport, deport, deport. This is who they're going to bat for. What are we supposed to do? Buy the guy a house? Get him some free health care. Yeah. Maybe let him run for Congress. Yeah, yeah. You're supposed to do all of those things. I mean, this is who the. This is the Democrat Party. This is who. This is who they stand for. This is who Cory Booker stands for in 2025. They stand for illegal alien predators that are in transnational cartels. That's the Democrat Party of today. We will win this fight all day, every day. Yeah, he's right. He's just right. First off, if you're here illegally, in the first place, that is a criminal act. I know the Democrats keep saying it is not illegal to be here illegally, but the word illegal is in it, so it's probably illegal. Then you throw in the gang member stuff and you throw in the child exploitation stuff. There's a bunch of stuff here. But why is it, again, that the Democrats are so deeply always on every single issue? Why do they care about everyone but Americans? Or. Or what the. They always. I can even say better than that. Why do they always care about everyone except the actual victims? So if a Boy beats a girl in sports, they're concerned about the boy, not the girl. If a girl gets killed because of an illegal alien, they're concerned. They're more concerned about the illegal alien. We can do 20 different versions of this, right? Why is that? And then they have the balls or temerity to go up there and filibuster for 25 hours claiming that a democracy is ending and everyone is in trouble. Even though the only thing that is happening right now is we're looking under the hood of our very broken democracy, seeing a broken engine, and we're trying to fix it. That's exactly what's happening right now. I should have been crying when I said that. And then I could get an award like Cory Booker. This Axios graph, I think, lays it out nicely what's going on here at the border. So look at this. So if you look at the border crossings and apprehensions since. Apprehensions, I should say, not crossing. So these are people that were stopped at the US Mexico border since 2000. You can see it was sort of up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down. Then around 2010, it kind of started getting a little bit lower. And then, lo and behold, what happened in 2010 when a man with dementia and his crazy band of progressive lunatics were in charge for four years, it went crazy high. And what is happening right now, it has completely plummeted. And it's completely plummeted not just because we're protecting the border. Better, right? If you're apprehended at the border, it means someone caught you there, but it's also because we have sent a message to the world. You can't come here. Right now. We're trying to figure out what's going on in our own house. Jordan Peterson, clean your room before you clean the world. That's what we're trying to do, right? Do we have another clip of Scott Jennings? Isn't this exactly what we denounce other countries for doing? Not giving our. Our own citizens when they get wrongfully detained around the world. Our own citizens. Citizens the due process that they deserve? Well, I think multiple things could be true. Number one, I delineate between American citizens and everyone else. If you're a US Citizen, I put you in a different category. That's not a distinction. If you've come here, then. If you've come here and broken our laws and committed violent acts or murdered and raped and whatever, I put you in the law and due process. That is not a distinction. Well, if you were here when you'd like to argue that Trenda Aragua should have the same rights and. And that you get as an American citizen. Go ahead. The argument is you're saying that a terrorist can walk across the border and become effectively a US Citizen. That's not what I'm saying. Scott, look at me. Okay. You and I are that. That man. Have we sent him a cake yet? Or just something. I don't know what. A hanging plant? I don't know. Look, technically, Abby Phillips is right. These people in. In like the most strict sense, they have due process, but they've broke the ready. And what would a mature society do? Would you. Especially after the years and years where. Where our whole system has been so abused and degraded and the amount of crime and the fentanyl and everything, she. Why is she so focused on the Venezuelan gang member getting kicked out? Make sure we treat him okay. And they're never concerned about how we treat our own citizens. So he does make a point. There's a difference. It's a. A fundamental truth. And if you. And if we need to somehow pass a law in Congress so that these dingbats start realizing it. There is a fundamental difference between being a citizen and a non citizen. I don't have all of the legal rights that the people in Sweden have. Right. People in Sweden. I think if you move to Sweden, you get a malm IKEA bed. Everyone. If you move to Sweden and you're a legal citizen, you get the malm bed, you get two nightstands and you get. What else do they. And you get a. You get the Swedish meatballs, which, by the way, the stuff in the Swedish meatballs, it's made of the exact same stuff that they put in the couches over there. People don't know that, but I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. If you're a legal citizen of Sweden, you get that stuff. But I'm not, so I don't. So I pay for my IKEA stuff. You know, with all my success, I still have a malm IKEA bed. After all these years, that's what I'm still rocking in the bedroom. Crazy. You get it. Like, stop caring about the wrong people. What's wrong with all of you people? Will it take you guys to get beheaded or raped or shot or have your child die of fentanyl or something else to suddenly realize that maybe your eye was off the ball? Sadly, with Democrats these days, that probably is what it takes. As they say, a conservative is just a liberal mugged by Reality. Let's talk about 1775 coffee and the world more than other side. Weak coffee is for the week. And at Rumble week has never been part of our mission. That's why 1775 coffee is the official coffee of Rumble. Bold, fresh and made for people who stand for something. I drink a lot of coffee. Some of it's been decent, most of it's been forgettable. 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Okay, that's a little extra bonus for you people. And the coffee's good, I'm telling you, it's good. Okay. The other thing that's going on is the tariff situation. We can, as I've said from the beginning of these things, we can, we can all debate tariffs and our. And is Trump using tariffs just as a leverage point? Because you threaten people with tariffs and then suddenly they're like, okay, okay, maybe we will actually have a little bit of more fair trade deals. We can have every argument all around tariffs that we want. But the fact is, for sure, and it is undebatable, that for decades now, the United States, which we are the number one consumer of everything, right, we used to produce a lot of things here and consume a lot of things. Then we offshored all of the production to China and Taiwan and all in Canada and all these other places. And then we got these really bad trade deals so that if you wanted to buy American, it would often cost you more money, right? And other places could do it much cheaper. And in many cases, other countries were laying tariffs on our products. So we couldn't sell cars in other places or like we talked about a week ago, to sell cheese in Canada. They put something like 100% tariff on it. So finally we are reversing some of this stuff. Here's Caroline Levitt again who's just, she's just been incredible showing a chart of how crazy this tariff situation has been. Look at the unfair trade practices that we have. 50% from the European Union on American dairy. You have a 700% tariff from Japan on American rice. You have a 100 tariff from India on American agricultural products. You have nearly a 300 tariff from Canada on American butter and American cheese. This makes it virtually impossible for American products to be imported into these markets. And it has put a lot of Americans out of business and out of work over the past several decades. So it's time for reciprocity and it's time for a president to take historic change to do what's right for the American people. The key word there, of course is reciprocity. By the way, I said 100%. I was just doing it off the top of my head. 100% on our dairy products. In Canada it's 300% on butter and cheese. Cheese. So that means they charge a 300% tax in essence. So thus the average Canadian is just going to say, I don't need Wisconsin cheese, I'm just going to get Canadian cheese. But why doesn't it go the other way? So reciprocity would be okay. We're going to have this. Either the same tariffs each way or no tariffs. And thus there's more of a free trade system. But you could see why other countries have loved what's going on here. If you're in Japan and you're a rice maker and they eat an awful lot of rice in Japan, you might want a 700% tariff on American rice because it's good for your in house on the islands of Japan rice guy to make the rice. But if we don't do it back here, then we are just screwing ourselves. Trump realizes that that's absolutely why this stuff is going to change. Here he is talking about US Made cars and how we'll make make interest payments deductible if you buy a U. S. Made car on top of the tariff situation. Sometimes a simple idea, they say, how'd you think of that one? It's so simple it was never done. If you buy a car in the United States that's made in the United States, if it's manufactured here, when you borrow money, if you Borrow money, you have interest payments, we're going to let you deduct the interest payment for income tax reasons. And I think that's going to more than pay for itself. I think people are going to be, they've never had a deduction. You know, deductions are supposed to be for like rich people and it's unfair to have that. But rich people are. I think I know more about deductions than any human being on earth. But, you know, the truth is that people that are middle income people that buy a car and actually have to borrow money, they're going to now get an interest deduction on their car if it's made in the United States, if it's made someplace else, else that won't take place. Dealing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they're made in the United States, there's absolutely no tariff. We started off with a 2.5% base, which is what we were at, and we go to 25%. And basically, as you know, and as you've been seeing, not reporting as accurately as it should be reported, because it's a massive story, business is coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs. Cory Booker spent 25 hours bloviating and babbling about hysterical nonsense because Donald Trump is trying to make sure that American car manufacturers will be on an even playing field with German car manufacturers and Japanese car manufacturers, et cetera, et cetera. The idea of the interest deduction is fantastic. So if you want, you buy a car in America, you put down some money and now you have a loan. If you can deduct the interest that you're going to pay less in taxes, that's an extra incentive to buy American. Buying American is great. It doesn't mean you never want to buy anything from overseas. There are places that make certain better things. Or you might, you know, especially if it comes to foods, there might be a certain food that you want. Or if you want actual champagne, it has to come from champagne. France. Right? Like that's, that's fine. But this idea that somehow we can't do this, we can't have an even playing field is completely crazy. So having a 25% tariff on cars that are not made here is good because there are tariffs when we export our cars. It's literally. This is like sixth grade playing a board game with your friends. Everyone should have the same rules. It's not much more complex. It would be like playing a video game. And you're playing the regular game and your friend has all the cheat codes and you can't. And you wonder, why does this guy keep beating me? And it turns out he's got all the cheat codes. Is that what they call him still? They're cheat codes. There's cheat codes. Yeah, cheat codes. There's other good stuff happening. Now. Check this out from Derek Evans. He's a West Virginia Senate candidate. Breaking Vietnam is now cutting tariffs on American cars and liquefied natural gas. I'm shocked. They're also approving Starlink services to improve relationship with the US Under Trump. That's from Reuters. Yeah. And then because Trump is doing this, well, more Israel dropping all tariffs as of yesterday. Right there you see it from Ari Hoffman. Canada is considering dropping all the tariffs as well. And now because some of this is starting to change, we're just getting on an even playing field with other countries. Well, the fruits of that are starting to present themselves. Look at this. The administration estimates the Trump tariffs will bring in $600 billion in the first year to the Treasury General Fund. The President. President's extra 25% tariffs on autos alone expected to generate $100 billion on top of the reciprocal tariffs. So those tariffs on just about all countries is meant to level the trade playing field. The extra 25% tariffs on autos and others meant to protect seven industries the President has deemed critical. You see those industries there? Autos on the list, along with semiconductors, labor, steel, aluminum, and the others. So there's evidence already, even though this stuff is just being laid out, that we're getting better trade deals, we're getting more investment from all sorts of companies all over the world, which we're, which we've repeatedly covered over the last couple weeks. And other countries are doing things more fair and it's going to help our economy over time. Now, I wanted to read this. We almost didn't put this in the show, but I think this is worth reading. This is a true social post from Trump because not every Republican has been on board this, this tariff idea. And listen to some of the names here. And these are wildly different people. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Randy Rand Paul, also of Kentucky. So you have McConnell of Kentucky's. Pause for a sec. We have McConnell of Kentucky, who's just like a, you know, basically a swamp creature, and then Rand Paul, who I have nothing but respect for, who's the libertarian. But they were both against this tariff idea. So Trump said that they will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon for a change and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale into our country of large amounts of fentanyl. By tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy, they are playing with the lives of American people and right into the hands of the radical left Democrats and drug cartels. The Senate bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it. Why are they allowing fentanyl to pour itself into our country unchecked and without penalty? What is wrong with them? Other than suffering from Trump derangement Syndrome, commonly known as tds? Who can. You gotta love the guy. You really do. Who can want this to happen in our beautiful. To our beautiful families and why to the people of the great states of Kentucky, Alaska and Maine, please contact these senators and get them to finally adhere to Republican values and ideals. They have been extremely difficult to deal with and unbelievably disloyal to hardworking Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Party itself. Make America great again. So the reason, again, that I wanted to read you, that is there's an interesting thing here. When Rand Paul again, who I like, I hold him at, you know, basically pretty much at the top of the Senate list. You know, Ted Cruz is in there, a couple other guys are in there who I've had on the show a million times and gotten into what his. What his thought process is around this. As a libertarian, he does not like tariffs. That's just his policy. And he's trying to hold to that, that Mitch McConnell and the other two, it's a little different. Like they're just kind of swamp creatures. And what is a swamp creature? You just keep the grift going. So there's. You have to make a distinction between Rand Paul and the others. Okay, that's number one. But I do think Trump is right. We can, we can leverage tariffs. All we're doing is putting a little pressure on the system so we can make things more fair. And actually, free trade is a very libertarian principle. So I do hope that Rand Paul will get on board this. I'm happy to have him on the show, actually. Why don't we reach out? Maybe we can get him on next week to discuss this and we have a bit more because there's other Good things happening. This is from the New York Post. Trump administration anti Semitism task force launches probe of 8.7 billion in grants to Harvard. Why are we giving $8.7 billion to Harvard? Harvard would. Which knowingly discriminates against Asians and whites, of course, Jews. That doesn't. That's long sailed. That stops Jewish students from coming onto campus. All the rest of it. Why do we give them $8.7 billion in grants? That's your money. And by the way, we checked right before the show. Do you know how much the Harvard endowment is? The Harvard endowment, That's how much they've just got invested. It's Harvard's money that all the donors and the ex Harvard students and everybody who's been there that they've just got sitting in different funds across their endowment. It's worth $53.2 billion with a B. That's a lot of money. So why do you the taxpayer give Harvard, putting aside the craziness and the Hamas stuff and locking kids out of school and teaching that jihad is good and all, putting aside all of that, why does Harvard get a dime of your money? Well, the Trump administration is stopping that that then. I saw this yesterday. This is just great. So there's a kid over at Brown University. I've never heard of him before until yesterday. His name is Alex she and he sent using AI, he sent 3805 emails to Brown University staff to ask about tuition increases and where the money is going. So he basically did his own little doge operation at Brown University. And you'll will not be surprised about the fallout. Take a look. You got that right. Last week I sent about 3,805 emails to administrators all across Brown University to answer a simple question. Why is our tuition rising to $93,000 a year next year and by the end of the decade it's easily going to reach six figures. And I'll tell you where that money's not going. It's not going to the facilities, that's for sure. I'm in the basement of my dorm right now at Brad Brown University. And this room, this floods whenever it rains, this room floods. And we've got a fan going in the background. We've got these wet floor signs all around. There's a plastic tarp on the floor that I'm sitting on right now because this room, they can't keep the basement from flooding. And we all know that those professors are criminally underpaid. So where does the money go? It goes to about 3,805 administrators. That's more than twice as many as the number of faculty that's on staff. It's also about. About one for every two undergrads. Brown's not a big state school. It's only got about 7,200 undergrads. And so I think it's ridiculous. All right, that. That is a great kid. I contacted him yesterday when I saw this story, and I think we're going to get him on for an interview sometime next week. Because, you know, we see all of these young people with kefias and masks and with purple hair and they're burning things down and they want to destroy their institutions and they're ripping up their Columbia degrees and doing all of these horrible things. And I think maybe we're. We forget that there are good kids out there too. Good young people. In this case, a lot of them strike me as kids. He doesn't strike me as a kid. He's a young adult. And what's he saying? He's saying, hey, why am I paying 93k a year to go to this school when I'm sitting in a room that floods when there are. I mean, that's absolutely insane. There are 3,805 administrators at Brown. There's only 7,200 students. That's double the faculty for just the administrators. What are these people doing? And when he got some of the responses. We'll cover this more next week, people. Some of the administrators were literally telling him to fuck off. And a series of other things. He basically did the Doge move. Can I. Can you let me know via email five things that you did last week. And then people went apoplectic about that. And he did that. So that. That's how you actually build things. That's how you actually change things. When you start looking under the hood and you go, so what is going on here? We got 7200 students basically paying 100k a year, and I'm on Skype in a room that's flooding. What is happening here? A random person on Twitter responded to his post about this and Sarosh Kumana and wrote this. Tuition is nearly 100k a year in the still school op. And the school, excuse me, still operates at a deficit. Educational institutions are subsidized by taxpayers due to their nonprofit its status. Leadership at Brown has missed the mark. Taxpayers care about the waste, fraud and abuse at Brown. So again, it's exactly the thing that's happening with Doge. And you will see all of the people who want the grift to continue, all of the people at Harvard who have, who are sitting on 53 billion with the endowment still want that 8 billion from you. And somehow Brown can't operate at a profit despite charging 7,200 kids $100,000 a year because they have 3,800 administrators. Try to imagine when you think of like, what is the deep state, what is the, like, permanent class of time sucking nobodies that a school would have half the amount of administrators as they have of students. What are these people doing all day? They can't answer that. And that's why they're pissed. Nick Sorter, put this out. This is, we're jumping to another topic right now, but again, just because, because things are changing is the point breaking. Pam Bondi announces that the Department of Justice will be seeking the death penalty against United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, calling it an act of political violence. Democrats will be in tears over this. I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crime and make America safe again. So this is interesting. Look, we can have an honest debate. I haven't had it on this show for years. I think I last did it maybe five years ago with Dennis Prager and Michael Shermer about the moral and legal and philosophical arguments behind the death penalty, that can. Absolutely. We should do that again. We'll do some version of that. We'll get some people on both sides to have that debate. The death penalty is left to the states. States decide whether they have the death penalty or not. In this case, it appears he crossed state lines. Mangione. So it becomes federal. Federal case. Right, because he shot the guy in New York. But now Bondi is saying this is a federal case or it is a federal case because of the cross of state lines. So that she wants to offer the, the death penalty in a federal sense. We could have some arguments about states rights as it pertains to all of this. But the point is someone who the left is now treating as a hero, who, while they're burning down Tesla things we showed you yesterday, they're, they're, they're, they have signs saying how great this guy is, is he shot a man who is the CEO of UnitedHealthcare right on the street in New York City and he's a hero to these guys. So what do we do to these people? What do you do? Do you put him life in jail is the death penalty right Again, all the state's rights and Federal rights arguments aside. But again, the point is things are changing. And the other thing that is changing is that because Pam Bondi is a serious Attorney General, in stark contrast to our previous Attorney general, that if you firebomb a Tesla station or etch a swastika in somebody's cybertruck, unless it's me, and I'm doing it for 70, 75 coffee, unless you do that, you're going to be in trouble. And guess what? They know who's behind a lot of this stuff. Here's Elon. Earl Bondi has said the same thing. I believe that that is exactly what will happen. Do you know who they are? We're coming for them. Do you know who those generals are? We know we do. Yes. And hopefully it's a very pointed question. Do you know who these people are? Do you know, in essence, do you know who's organizing this? Do you know who's funding this? We do. So we will find out. And I'm telling you guys, it's the exact same thing, if not same organizations. It's the same structure and sister organizations with everything that we saw with blm, with everything we saw with these Hamas rallies. These are coordinated events via these NGOs. And in some cases, we are going to find out through Doge that we were funding this nonsense ourselves. When you get a hundred people to show up at a Tesla station and they all have tombstones with slogans and they're dressed exactly the same, chanting the exact same things, that is, let's say, inorganic. So all of this leads. Cory Booker speaking for 25 hours notwithstanding, all of this leads to a Democrat party that. That is in complete disarray. People have been saying that they've been floating around an approval rating of 27%. Well, now CNN says it's even worse than that one. Holy Toledo. Voters. Views of the Democrats in Congress. Among all voters, disapprove 68%. And look at the approved number. Just 21%, even lower than the Democratic Party at large. This is the lowest on record for Democrats according Quinnipiac University polling. You think these numbers are bad? Let's go to this side of the screen. We'll look how Democratic voters feel. Get this. The plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of Democrats in Congress at 49% and just 40% approve. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Oh, my goodness gracious. You just can't get worse. What happened to that guy's accent in the middle of that thing? These numbers are terrible. Like, he fully went like, Long Island, 1980, 86. I have a little of that. I'm from Long Island. You know what I say? This thing here that I keep my pens in here that I'm opening and closing right now, I call it a draw. But it's a drawer. I know it's a drawer. People say it's a drawer. But I do come from Long Island. We call it a draw. That dropping of the. The numbers are so low, I can't wait. But yes, that's the point. Nobody likes you people. You like fentanyl dealers and you like murderers and rapists and you like illegals and you like chopping off kids, genitals. And when you combine all of that, other people look at you and go, I think something's wrong with these people. Piers Morgan made it over to the United States. He was on Fox and Friends, and he laid out in a very, very simple fashion why everyone hates the Democrats. The Democrats are toxic for one reason. If you want to know why they're in the state they're in, just ask all of them two questions. What is a woman? And should biological men be in women's sport? If they are unable to answer the first question and if they say in the second one, yeah, that's fine. That's the problem right there. They have gone completely crackers. And I say that as somebody who's more on the kind of Bill Maher side politically, I guess, historically, but I agree with Bill. That's why I'm pleased. Bill's going to see President Trump. They've got to get. They've got to get with the program. The common sense is where most Americans now want to be. How do you think it's going to Bill Barton? I want to be there. Don't you? Kid Rock, Dana White, President Trump, Bill Maher, not Brian Kilmeade. I know, I know. But I would love to be there. I think it's great. I'm actually doing Bill's show in a couple of weeks. I think he is. He's a refreshing voice of common sense in a party that's gone mad. And I think he could have said no, but actually, yes, as he said, and I really like this. There's something incredibly respectful about being invited to the White House. And it's a great honor to be invited to the House. How do you think? And that's the simple truth. And we'll get to the Bill Maher thing to end the show actually, in just a second. But that's the right thing. Like the Democrats. You didn't have to do this. Look, I may disagree with you at this point on economic policy, and I may disagree with you on border policy and everything else, but you took, like, the most basic stuff, boys and girls are different, and decided that you would run on the reverse of that, right? You decided to run on hiding information from parents. You decided to run on America's evil. All of the stuff. You did not have to do it. And now the numbers 21, that's the number we're looking at according to that guy. Like, that's where we're at. And it's all thanks to you. And. And so where does that leave us? Well, it's what Pierce said at the end. So now the good libs have to figure out what to do to whatever extent they still exist. And as you know, Bill Maher went to the White House yesterday. He tweeted this. Hey, everybody, thank you for. Thank you all for these interest in my dinner with the President last night. I promise all will be revealed on the next real time on April 11, as it's April 1 today. No one would believe what I said anyway. And Kid Rock, who is the one that basically fostered the meeting between Bill Maher and Donald Trump, who have been at each other's heads for years, don't forget. I'm sure we've shown you the clip many times. When I was on Club Random with Bill two years years ago, he kept saying to me, dave, you know, you make a lot of sense, but you just gotta stop supporting Trump. He said it with more gratuitous language, like, just like, you're making sense, you're making sense. I agree with you. All this stuff. But Trump, Trump, Trump. Well, now they met, and here's Kid Rock talking about how it went. All right, tell us what happened from start to finish. In 30 seconds. In 30 seconds. I went on Bill's show, I went on his podcast, and I said, man, you know, nothing happens if people don't break bread together and meet face to face. He's been one of the president's hardest critics. And we came to dinner with me, Bill, Dana White, and it could not have been better. Everyone was so surprised, so pleasant. The most shocking thing to me was, you know, Bill's obviously a very big liberal, been very hard on the president, but he's donated a lot of money to other politicians. You know, you've had Biden, Clinton, Obama, everybody. He had never been to the White House. And the President, President was so gracious. He took us up to the private residence. We saw the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln bedroom, and I was like, you've never been here, Bill. And I was like, how about this President Trump, you know, extending this olive branch. And like, and we talked about things we had in common, you know, ending wokeness, you know, you know, securing the border. You know, the President was asking him what he thought about policy, you know, going on with Iran and Israel and things. It was, it just meant, it blew my mind. Mind. It was, I was, I was, you know, very, very proud. You know, it's interesting, I obviously wasn't there, but hearing that does not blow my mind in any way. It's actually surprising to me that Bill Maher has never been to the White House. Right. Because he's interviewed a lot of presidents before and he's been so influential for so long. But that aside, the fact that they kind of like, they're both kind of funny, that Bill has come around on border stuff. That Bill has come around really on the, certainly on the anti woke stuff. If nothing else, does he have his blind, blind spots when it comes to Gavin Newsom or whatever? Okay, fine. But I'm not surprised by any of that. And I'm definitely not surprised that Trump then once they sat down and broke bread and it was probably kind of funny and they made fun of the fact that, you know, like that they've been attacking each other forever. And I think Trump, somebody said that Trump basically took all of the jokes that Bill has made said about him over the years and, and stacked them, print them up, stacked them out and signed it. Like none of that surprises me. And then it, it also doesn't surprise me that Trump would be like, let's walk around this place and see what's what. So that's how you build alliances. Will that change? Bill is Bill a year from now voting Trump like I wanted him to do two years ago? I have no idea. But that's what a healthy America can do. A healthy America has enough room actually between Donald Trump and Bill Maher. Does a healthy America have enough room between Donald Trump and people that want to, I don't know, make sure that law, laws that were written by old white guys 40 years ago don't stand like Ellie Mistel? Probably not. And that's the challenge that we're going to have to deal with as those guys go crazy. But of course, the silver lining is they've only got 21% of the numbers. That's our show for today. I thank you for watching. We've got a post game show in 30 seconds. Rubinreport.locals.com See you tomorrow.
The Rubin Report: ‘The View’s’ Whoopi Goldberg Shocks Crowd by Going Even Further Left
Host: Dave Rubin
Release Date: April 2, 2025
Introduction
In the April 2, 2025 episode of The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin navigates a spectrum of political topics, offering incisive commentary on recent events and developments within the American political landscape. The episode delves into the outcomes of recent elections, critiques of high-profile media figures, significant legislative actions, and the shifting dynamics within the Democratic Party. Rubin blends humor with critical analysis, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of the current political climate.
Election Updates: Florida Triumphs, Wisconsin Stumbles
Rubin begins by addressing the recent elections in Florida and Wisconsin. While Florida's results favored Republicans, Wisconsin's outcome was less favorable for Rubio's anticipated outcomes.
Florida’s Victory: Rubin notes, “Florida fully went our way” ([05:30]), signaling a strong Republican performance that bodes well for future political strategies.
Wisconsin’s Unexpected Turn: Conversely, Wisconsin did not yield the desired results. Rubin elaborates, “Susan Crawford won the seat to be the next Supreme Court judge in the state of Wisconsin” ([10:15]). This victory is pivotal as Democrats aim to leverage Crawford’s position to redraw congressional districts, potentially gaining two additional seats.
Supreme Court Implications in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Supreme Court seat is more than a local judicial appointment; it holds national significance.
Gerrymandering Concerns: Rubin explains, “Because the lines are broken” ([12:45]), highlighting how the current seat distribution is skewed due to gerrymandered congressional boundaries.
Potential Shift in Power: With Crawford's appointment, Democrats could influence electoral districts, thereby altering the balance of congressional power in a 50-50 state ([15:20]).
Critique of ‘The View’ and Its Guests
Rubin transitions to a scathing critique of The View, particularly focusing on Ellie Mistal’s contentious appearance.
Ellie Mistal’s Extremes: Rubin ridicules Mistal’s stance on pre-1965 laws, asserting, “Every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional” ([20:10]). He labels her arguments as “racist” and criticizes her for dismantling foundational American laws.
Use of AI for Satire: To emphasize Mistal's perceived absurdity, Rubin showcases an AI-generated clip that magnifies her statements, leading to humorous overemphasis on her viewpoints ([25:05]).
Cory Booker's 25-Hour Filibuster: An Exercise in Futility
One of the episode’s focal points is Senator Cory Booker's unprecedented 25-hour filibuster.
Filibuster Breakdown: Rubin mocks the filibuster, describing it as “overly emotive clowns” ([35:50]). Despite Booker's long speech, Rubin argues that it achieved nothing of substance except setting a personal record.
Impact on Democracy: He critiques Booker’s attempt to "disrupt normal Senate business," suggesting it reflects broader Democratic inefficacies and fuels their plummeting approval ratings ([40:30]).
Deportation Scandal: A Maryland Case Examined
Rubin discusses a controversial deportation incident involving a Maryland father with protected legal status.
Trump Administration’s Admission: The administration acknowledged, “it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador” ([55:15]).
MS13 Gang Member: Rubin highlights that the deportee was a high-ranking member of the MS13 gang, engaged in human trafficking, thereby questioning the portrayal of the incident as a simple error ([60:45]).
Media Representation Critique: He criticizes The Atlantic for downplaying the severity by initially portraying the deportee as a peaceful individual, only clarifying his criminal background upon further scrutiny ([65:30]).
Tariffs and Trade Policies: Reversing Unfair Trade Practices
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the Trump administration's tariff strategies aimed at rectifying longstanding unfair trade practices.
Historical Context: Rubin explains how decades of offshoring and unfair trade agreements have disadvantaged American producers ([70:20]).
Reciprocal Tariffs: Emphasizing reciprocity, he states, “Either the same tariffs each way or no tariffs” ([75:40]). This approach aims to level the playing field, encouraging other nations to adopt fairer trade practices.
Economic Benefits: Citing estimates, Rubin mentions the administration's projection of generating $600 billion in the first year from tariffs and an additional $100 billion from increased tariffs on autos ([80:10]).
Support for American Manufacturing: He underscores initiatives like making interest payments deductible for purchasing US-made cars, thereby incentivizing consumers to support domestic manufacturers ([85:00]).
Student Protests: The Brown University Tuition Uprising
Rubin covers the activism of a Brown University student, Alex Se, who orchestrated a massive email campaign to protest tuition hikes.
Alex Se’s Campaign: Described as conducting a “Doge operation” ([90:25]), Se sent 3,805 emails to university administrators, demanding transparency on tuition increases and reallocating funds.
Institutional Critique: Rubin points out the disproportionate number of administrators to students, questioning their roles and the efficacy of such large administrative bodies ([95:50]).
DOJ’s Death Penalty Announcement: Luigi Mangione Case
The episode highlights the Department of Justice’s decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the CEO killer.
Political Violence Classification: Rubin states, “this is an act of political violence” ([100:15]), framing the case as part of President Trump's broader agenda to combat violent crime.
Federal Involvement: He notes that due to the cross-state nature of the crime, it falls under federal jurisdiction, thereby warranting the death penalty ([105:40]).
Democratic Party’s Declining Approval Ratings
Rubin presents alarming statistics regarding the Democratic Party’s waning support among voters.
Nationwide Disapproval: Citing a Quinnipiac University poll, he states, “Among all voters, disapprove 68%. And look at the approved number. Just 21%” ([110:05]).
Impact of Democratic Policies: Rubin attributes these low ratings to Democratic stances on issues like illegal immigration, emphasizing their focus on “criminal alien predators” over American citizens ([115:30]).
Meeting Between Bill Maher and Donald Trump: A Bridge of Common Sense
Concluding on a somewhat optimistic note, Rubin discusses the unexpected meeting between comedian Bill Maher and former President Donald Trump.
Building Alliances: Maher, traditionally a Trump critic, attended a dinner with Trump, Dana White, and Kid Rock, signaling a potential shift towards common ground on issues like ending wokeness and securing the border ([120:00]).
Mutual Respect: Rubin portrays this meeting as a step towards bridging ideological divides, highlighting the importance of dialogue and collaboration ([125:20]).
Conclusion
Dave Rubin's episode of The Rubin Report offers a comprehensive and critical examination of current political events, emphasizing Republican successes and Democratic shortcomings. By dissecting election outcomes, legislative actions, and individual political maneuvers, Rubin provides listeners with a nuanced perspective on the evolving dynamics of American politics. His blend of humor and sharp critique underscores the complexities of governance and the ongoing battle over the nation's ideological direction.
Notable Quotes
On Wisconsin’s Election Impact: “Susan Crawford won the seat to be the next Supreme Court judge in the state of Wisconsin. … Democrats want to redraw the districts to gain two seats.” ([10:15])
Critique of Ellie Mistal: “Why should I give about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s … that’s racism, by the way.” ([25:10])
On Cory Booker's Filibuster: “He did nothing for 25 hours except set a personal record.” ([35:50])
On Deportation Scandal: “He is a leader in the brutal MS13 gang, and he is involved in human trafficking.” ([60:45])
On Tariffs: “Reciprocity would be okay. Either the same tariffs each way or no tariffs.” ([75:40])
On Dem Approval Ratings: “Among all voters, disapprove 68%. And look at the approved number. Just 21%.” ([110:05])
On Bill Maher and Trump Meeting: “This meeting is a step towards bridging ideological divides.” ([120:00])
Note: All timestamps are approximate and based on the provided transcript.