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There's One Major Problem w/ Gavin Newsom's Controversial Plan & He's Too Dumb to Know
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the Florida Man Rubin report. Lie me, Governor Ron DeSantis, Adam Carolla, Gillian Michaels.
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This is an app where they plot the human feces.
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We gonna do maximum warfare against Republicans.
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You hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you. All right, let's go eat some Chick fil.
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A carney went to a Vancouver pride parade.
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I. Yeah, I'm just trying to get comfortable. Hey, up there in the negro balcony, can you see how comfortable I am with the trans and LGBT plus? Can we get the translation on that one? We can't. He's like, dude, I'll do Chinese. I can't do Somali. Thank you. God bless you. I love you, sir. This is a win. Start with the obvious. What's shaking, you fools? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It's May 28, 2026. I've never started a show with that one before. It just. It just burst out of me. I don't know how it happened. Yeah, you know, June 11, Fillmore Theater, daverobin.com/events. It's gonna be a great night. Giveaways, fun stuff, Q and A. Who knows what can happen in Florida in the summer? As they say, go to Florida in the summer. That's the state motto. We got a big show for you today. The theme really today, the second half of the show is RubinReport. Locals, community, Q and A. But the theme really today is that the choice that we have to make as a nation is becoming more and more obvious. The Democrats have so gone bananas Lefty, that everyone who used to be bananas lefty is looking sort of sane. And they're just going and going and going. And there's an incredible opportunity for people on the right, if you like liberty, if you think America's decent if you've enjoyed our 250 years of existence, if you think we should have borders and that we should have basic laws and stuff like that we should all be together. It should basically be about 80% of us versus 20% of us. And I really think that maybe that's the messaging that more and more people need to hear. It's kind of common sense and maybe we'll disagree on some policies versus just sheer lunacy. That's what we're doing today with evidence. We will start in California, though I should mention first that we covered a couple days ago that Trump and the DOJ have just announced this anti Weaponization fund. Let me just read you a line about it. So the DOJ Anti Weaponization Fund is worth 1.7 billion and it's supposed to compensate people who are unfairly targeted by government through weaponization organization or lawfare. Now, obviously this is mainly aimed at people related to January 6th. People who just wandered into the Capitol that didn't break anything or attack anybody or take a dump on Nancy Pelosi's desk or anything else that then got arrested. People were put into solitary confinement, hung up with all sorts of legal fees that you would have some sort of way of getting some restitution from the government. It's not just related to January 6th, but that seems to be the main one. I've pointed out many times that Congressman Jim Jordan from Ohio mentioned to me that I was on one of the lists when they figured out how the government was coordinating with Twitter to silence people during COVID I was one of the tweets. I had one of the tweets and I think it was in July of 21 that got silenced. He said to me, but there's just nothing you can do. Yes, the government did trample on your First Amendment right to free speech, but there's nothing you can do. So the idea that the DOJ is creating this fund so that you will be able to maybe get some monetary win if the government screws with your God given rights, I think is pretty good. However, over in California, they are not fans of that. And here is evil lizard person Gavin Newsom claiming, although I don't quite think this is legal, that anyone in California who receives any of these funds, they will be taxed 100% on it. Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100% of those proceeds. And that's an action the state of California can take. It's an action we look forward to. Taking. Well, Gavin, actually, it's not an action that the state of California can take. This from ChatGPT. California cannot simply impose a special 100% tax targeted at one specific federal payment program because it dislikes the politics behind it. A confiscatory tax aimed at a disfavored group would face enormous constitutional problems under equal protection, due process, federal preemption, and likely bill of attainder concerns. Equal protection clause, U.S. constitution no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. Then there's the bill of attainder clause, US Constitution article blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No state shall pass any bill of attainder. A bill of attainder is a law that legislatively punishes a targeted group without judicial trial. A Statute singling out 1-6-payment recipients for confiscatory taxation could be argued to be punitive rather than revenue raising. I don't have to read everything here, but you get the point that there are several. At a minimum, there are several legal reasons related to the Constitution of the United States, something that most Democrats are not fans of and Gavin obviously isn't a fan of that would not allow him to do this. But what I would ask Gavin if he would do the program or if I would get on his little podcast there is gav. First off, it's not a slush fund. It's not a slush fund. A slush fund would be something like the government creating a giant program so that they can send corporations who they're friends with huge amounts of money. Right. That would basically be a slush fund. Something like that. A slush fund is not the government setting aside some money so that people who have been wronged and will have to prove it, but wronged by the government, hung up in trials, et cetera, et cetera, lost their jobs, all of that stuff that we know happened after January 6th, that they would get some restitution. In some sense, that's the reverse of a slush fund. A slush fund is something illegal and immoral, and that's stealing from the taxpayer to give it to other cronies that the politician's in favor with. And this is giving restitution to the individual who was screwed over by the government. Of course, one thing that Gavin's not very concerned with is all of the crazy amount of money that has been laundered through the California system. Some might call it a slush fund when you, I don't know, create a railway to nowhere that costs billions of dollars. And who's getting all of that Money. And do you know those people who are running those contracts and everything else? Look at this image from Fox. California's lost money. I mean, this is crazy. 32 billion in Covid relief. Missing 24 billion unaccountable homeless relief. Where is it? I mean, why don't these people have those new teeth that Karen Bass wants to give them? 18 billion high speed rail fraud. Zero track late incred. 6.5 billion in food stamp fraud. 650 million in a 911 system that never even worked. I'm pretty sure, Connor, you have decent technical skills. You could have probably built a 911 system for under 650 million. That didn't work. You could have done that, couldn't you? But this is what they do. Anything that is designed to maybe help the individual or get the government off their back, that's what they hate. And they love their giant slush fund. They love their giant money laundering machine and everything else. And so that's the Cali version of it. Now let's do the New York version of it. So, you know, just. We covered it yesterday. It was really the most viral thing over the weekend. It was basically Zorhan saying that the government will seize buildings, it will seize private property if the landlords don't live up to whatever the standards they set are. As I said on the show yesterday, and I saw several comments, people bringing up how, yes, there are plenty of buildings in New York City and every big city, probably in every city in the world, that the landlords should do better. They actually should do better. And I've been in those buildings where I mentioned the boiler wasn't working during winter storms and things of that nature. And the government, there's already laws around that and there are penalizations around that. You get fined and everything else, you're gonna get the Board of Health, that's gonna show up and everything else. That's very different than the government coming in and saying, okay. Well, first off, their line of what is okay and allowable will always move, right? So the goal will be that they will take over all private property. That is the goal of a communist. But, okay, let's say you own a building and you're a pretty crappy landlord. Does that give the right of the government to come in and give the building to the tenants, as he said? So here's a bit more on what he wants to do with affordable housing.
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The announcement we made today of a plan called Block by block is looking to do everything we can to actually lower costs in the city. Because we know that at the heart of a cost of living crisis, the number one driver of that crisis is the housing crisis. And this is an announcement that does three key things. It builds 200,000 new affordable homes, preserves 200,000 affordable homes alongside it, and then additionally, it invests in tenants across the city, makes it easier to provide code enforcement for housing violations, and does all of this while investing more than $5 billion in public housing, which has long been neglected, not just in our city, but frankly, across our country.
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And I know during the campaign you wanted to double the city's funding for public housing. Right now it's about 1.2 billion annually. The executive budget you have calls for 5.6 billion over, over five years. Do you still plan ultimately to double it?
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Yes, absolutely.
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God, Kaitlyn Collins. Like, you're all just so bad. Maybe you could ask a follow up question, like, does public housing ever work? Could we get some images maybe of the projects in Harlem, like, does it ever work? Why do you want government to come in and control everything? Control the rent prices, control who can build what and where? If you cared about affordable housing, if you wanted people to live in buildings that were better structurally and engineered in a better way and more green and everything else, you would create economic conditions via loads, lower regulation and lower taxes. So there would be all sorts of competition. There would be builders and construction experts coming into your city to build better things. And the more of them that wanted to do it, they would have to figure out how to do it more cheaply. You are quite literally taxing the innovators, the corporations, the builders. So they are leaving the city, which is what he wants. And this is all intentional destruction by this guy so that it will only be the government that will come in and do any of that. This stuff. I ask anyone who. We have pictures of affordable housing in New York City. Those look. Oh my God. Who wouldn't want to live in those? They're gorgeous. And I'm sure they're all unbelievably maintained. Well, I'm not making fun of any of the people that live in those things, but that, okay, so that's affordable housing. And then you know what you do? You create a situation where these people live in affordable housing at less than market value and then they can never get out. Because if you're getting that apartment for $400 a month and the government, by the way, is giving you some of that money, and you're getting food stamps and everything else, you are not even incentivized to get out. So you will just live in a little box with crappy fluorescent lighting for the rest of your life. And that's actually what the communists want. And how do I know he's a communist? Well, because of this, of course. Everyone knows the famous Karl Marx line, which is, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. That which in essence is saying, rejigger everything once you have enough power so that nobody will be able to make individual choices. And here's Mamdani back in 2020. He just reversed it. Each according to their need, each according to their ability. So he is a 100% Marxist. And what I would say is, maybe we don't need to kind of bitch and moan about it, right? I try to say what he's doing and make fun of it and mock it and all that. I think that's worthwhile. But we should just keep shining a light on it. Keep shining a light on it and have more and more people realize, oh, there is an actual Marxist running New York City, and he's running out all of the wealthy people, and he's running out the corporations, and he's gonna build five grocery stores at 30 million a pop. But that'll be in three years. And the free buses never came. And I was just in New York City two weeks ago. It smells like weed on every corner. Oh, and, you know, the occasional terrorism rally and everything else. And then, well, we'll roll into the midterms, and people will have to decide what they want to do. So now let's starkly contrast that. Let's 180 this thing and show you a place where things are working. So while in New York, they are taxing, taxing, taxing. They are making sure that people can't build. They want government control over everything. Well, Ron DeSantis right here in Florida yesterday announced that he's raising the property tax exemption. And this is just the first in a series of things he's going to do. His goal is ultimately to eliminate it, but things are moving along quite nicely, and thus you will have more of your money. How novel.
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We are going to work with the legislature on to be on the ballot. We'll begin with an initial raising of the homestead limit to $250,000 for all Florida homesteaders within the legislature commanded to enact a state schedule that will lead to the full elimination of the homestead limit. A $250,000 limit that eliminates property tax for 60% of Florida homeowners. Once you put a schedule in. And this would be something that we'd work with the legislature on after the vote is taken in November, if it's successful, when you raise to 500,000 limit, that's 92% of all Florida residents would be tax free. We always say that if you cut property tax, the people aren't going to have police or all this. So here's the thing that revenue can only be used for schools, for police, for fire first, and the core services that we all agree on, it's not going to be allowed to be used on. Some of the other things that I know are a little bit more divisive in terms of whether they're going to do.
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Guys, you see what competent governance is. So I will benefit from that. And every Floridian who has their home, when they say homestead, you can apply for a homestead license. And that just means it's your main place of living, basically is your homestead. So it won't be your second home. If you have a second home in Florida, it's not applicable. And you will pay the market rate on the property taxes on that, but 250,000 off on that. So that's a nice amount of money that I will save. And then I don't know, maybe I'll spend that money, maybe I'll give these guys raises. Probably not, guys, but anything's possible. That's what you do. And then what he said is then there will be a schedule. And his hope is to get it to 500,000, which he said at that point, then you're covering about 90% of Floridians and that ultimately they will eliminate it. And then he's also saying, and guys, don't worry, we will still have money set aside for roads and policing and all those things. So this is the key thing in almost every. The election in the midterms will not be about the Iran war. What it will all boil down to is, do you want crazy government control over everything, or do you want to elect people who to some extent would like you to control more of your life? Which is what the founders intended. And as I keep saying, we're rolling into our 250th year, and I think the founders would be pretty dismayed at what so many people in America seem to to think right now is the correct answer of those two. But that is the way to do it. Boy, think about it. I mean, property tax in and of itself is kind of nuts because you could outright own your home, and then every year you're still paying the government to kind of rent, in essence, to Rent the land that your home is on. So your home is never fully your home. So again, this is just a perfect example of, I don't know, Florida having a budget that makes sense, people living within their means. We're also obviously getting a ton of money coming in here. So that helps. And it helps helps with infrastructure and everything else. And then an executive DeSantis going, how else can we actually provide relief for people? Not, oh, we're going to create all of these government run homes for everybody. No, that's the reverse of what you would do. Here's a bit more from DeSantis on X. The Florida budget for the next fiscal year after line item vetoes will spend less than in the current fiscal year. The budget for the current fiscal year spends less than the budget from the previous year. And that previous year's budget spends less than the year before. Four straight years of spending reductions. Guys, do you think it's a coincidence that this place is flourishing? Do you think it's a coincidence that 2.3 million people have moved here and are voting the right way and it's the reddest state in the nation? It's not a coincidence. You have a guy that is proud of the fact that he is taking less of the taxpayer money that when they send him a budget and even though we have a super majority here in Florida, they send him a budget budget and he still crosses things out and he's pushing, he's the one, not the legislature that's pushing for the elimination of the property taxes. So this is just, this is not a culture war thing in some sense, right? Everything's always about the culture war. And this is racist and trans this and everything else. This is a real literal one that I think is an easy win for us. When you're in an argument with a friend about, okay, so what's going on in New York and what's going on in Florida, what's going on in Cali, what's going on in Florida, right? There is one place they want to tax you and tax you and tax you, and we know what the results of that are. And then there is one place that is trying to do the worst, trying to do the reverse and each year doing a better job at it. Perhaps that is the model we might want to follow. Guys, let me talk to you about relief factor for a second. You know, relief factor is 100% drug free research based formula which is designed to support your body's healthy response to everyday aches and pains. I told you guys I've been taking it for a couple weeks. They said, dave, are you allowed to take drugs? They're not really drugs in the sense of drugs drugs, but are you allowed to take them on air? I said, I don't know, but I will because they work. And I played basketball for three hours last night and I'm banged up, my hips are killing me. But you take one of these packets, you can take one or two a day. I've been taking one for about three weeks. It really works. There we go. And you will feel better over time. Like it really does get rid of aches and pains. My friend Larry Elder's been on this for years, guys. Relief Factor was created to help you stay active and keep you doing the things you love. It features ingredients like revezitrol, omega 3, turmeric, Karen Black Pepper, all working together to help support joint and muscle comfort, which trust me, as I am rolling into 50. You play ball for three hours. Everything a after guys, it's been easier to stay active and enjoy the day and play ball and all of those things. The neck, the back, the shoulder. I think you get the point. Their three week starter kits, just $19.95. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-for- a leaf. Tell them Dave sent ya. All right, let's continue because the Democrats, again, it's just about control. Whether it is your money, whether it is what you are being taught in these schools. They're just trying to control you at at every possible level. The other thing that the Democrats are really blackpilling on is the AI revolution. And as I keep saying, related to this, you know, I am a sci fi guy. I can do every version of every dystopian movie and Skynet will turn on and we'll be the creatures in the pink goo in the Matrix and we're gonna be in Scanner Darkly or every Philip K. Dick book. Like I can do all the negative ways that the future will be horrible. I love dystopian future movies, however, and I think that is possible that some of those things will be possible. I also think that the world and what is happening right now with AI is absolutely extraordinary. Anyone who is using AI, we've shown you the AI videos that Spencer Pratt that it's not even from his campaign. But these people are creating. They used to say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, now it's like an AI creation's worth a million words words. We are changing the way we are going to make movies. We are making things cheaper. AI is revolutionizing. Science and medicine and surgeries and nanobots. There are incredible things on top of 3D printers and robots. And we're going to send robots to the moon and then they will start building space stations from there, and we'll go from there. Like, the future is so unbelievably bright and wild. Don't be afraid of everything. But all the Democrats have is fear. So one of the things they're really pushing on is they want to regulate AI. These people who couldn't regulate their way out of a wet paper bag want to regulate AI. Here is multimillionaire socialist who is also, I would say, the librarian from hell, Elizabeth Warren.
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Here's something really scary. Tech execs are warning that AI could lead to a level of wealth concentration that will break society and create a permanent underclass. Those are their exact words. I refuse to accept that. There is no doubt that we need to regulate AI and consider bigger and bolder options to rein in the technology. But understand this. If we're going to build an AI future that works for everyone, then we need to tax AI and invest in people. Taxing AI raises the money we need to deliver universal health care. So if millions of workers get fired because of AI, those workers don't go bankrupt just from a visit to the doctor. Right now, companies pay taxes on their workers and get tax breaks for investing in AI. Whoa. It's time to make corporations pay their fair share.
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Whoa. I like how they put whoa on her teleprompter. Lady, everything you have there is backwards again. Even where I'm giving the devil is due. And I can play out the dystopian versions of what could go wrong here. Notice what all her answers are. We should rein it in. Rein in this technology. Yes. The government is going to rein in AI technology and even to whatever extent the government could possibly do that. Do you know that? I don't know if Elizabeth Warren knows this. There are other governments. There are places like China and Russia that are going to be going ahead and doing these things. And if we're regulating it while they're running with it, we will fall behind. And then they will be leading us in science and tech and going to space and medicine and all of those things. So we have to rein in the technology. We have to tax the technology. Right. So you want to make it more costly for people to innovate. And then. And this is where they trick everyone with health care. So her argument is, okay, so people, well, is it possible that some people will lose their jobs because of AI, Certain things will disappear. Well, the answer to that, obviously is yes, right? Amazon, they're already doing this in some places. They will have drones that will drop off your package as opposed to a human. That is true. And if it's not a drone, it could literally be a humanoid robot. These things are coming in factories. Now we see figure AI has robots running factory lines. So that is true. But her concern is that people will lose their healthcare. Well, what do you think, lady? Will make healthcare cheaper? It's AI when we have robots that can literally perform surgery or can diagnose you earlier or can look at your blood panel and tell you all of the things that you might get as the years go by. And here's how you can change your diet. Your diet, your behaviors, all of those things. You guys have no imagination. That's what it is. You have absolutely no imagination. So your answer to everything is control it, tax it, put it in a little box and never talk about it. Completely ridiculous. I saw this. It's a random account on X, but I thought this was a perfect explanation. It's roach. Char. Rand. Char charging what Elizabeth just said right there. So by her logic, every business built using. Using. Sorry. So by her logic, every business built using roads, electricity, schools, or the Internet belongs to all of us. Using public infrastructure doesn't erase private ownership. The people who build, invest and take the risks own the result. What she's really saying is if something becomes successful enough, politicians should get to redefine ownership. Bingo. And invest in people usually means transferring more control and wealth to the political class. So, again, well, not only is that perfectly correct, which is why I read it, but why is it. Why is it that they want you? Why is it that Bernie is doing AI Doomerism constantly? And by the way, there's the horseshoe theory of politics. Tucker is doing it too. It's like you cannot stop progress. You can be wary of it. And I would say you should do what we're trying to do, literally with my team in this studio, I have Joseph over here and he's kind of leading us on AI. We have a meeting next week to all go through Claude and figure out how it can help everybody's tasks. Right? We're working with some of these places that are creating these incredible AI movies, and we're going to start incorporating some of them. There'll be ways that we can do clipping and various things. We did AI Dave last year and we're going to expand on that. You should treat it as a means, not an end It's a tool in your toolkit. But for anyone that thinks, okay, it's inherently evil, it's run by bad people, well, that's not gonna stop it. And taxing ain't gonna stop it either. That will just crush innovation. So stop being so bland and boring. I don't like it. We showed you a bunch of videos last week of Jeff Bezos on cnbc, really pushing back on Mamdani, pushing back on communism, trying to explain that the 1% already pay half the taxes and the rest of it. Here's one more from that clip that now, subsequently, because everyone's talking about AI this week is going viral. It's Bezos talking about how I will actually create. Well, take a look. I need to leave.
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I think there's so many people who are afraid that is going to take their job. I think that there's going to be a labor shortage as a result.
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I don't know if you saw Eric Schmidt gave a commencement address over the weekend.
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Yeah.
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And the students were booing because they went every time he mentioned. Yeah, they were booing because I think they're deeply fearful and worried about whether they're going to have a job.
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Yeah. Well, and the reason they're afraid of that is because all these smart people keep saying that. So there are so many smart people, and they are smart, and they are saying, oh, my God, you know, there's going to be no more radiologists because, you know, AI can read X rays better than a radiologist can, and they're going to be no more software engineers because AI can program better than a software engine engineer can. These people are wrong. So what's really going to happen is that it's going to elevate all of these people and there's going to. It's like, it's. It's like you've been digging. Let's say you're a software engineer, Right? What it's. The, the analogy I can give you is you've been digging out a basement for your house with a shovel, and somebody's about to hand you a bulldozer.
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You know what this is starting to feel like to me? It's starting to feel like the new climate change. You know, now that climate change is not. It's not flying anymore. Right. Like, people have realized, oh, AOC said, we have 12 years, eight years ago, and Al Gore. And they all said, the sky is falling and the sky isn't falling. And yes, we all want clean air, but it's not. That's not. You don't give up your very existence to the government so that they can clean up the air as if they could clean it up. Whereas if America did something that it would stop Pakistan and China and India and all these other countries from putting all the. The carbon into the air and all that stuff. But it's starting to feel the same thing because, you know, they created one of the reasons that the young generation now is so filled with anxiety and everything is they were fed for decades. The doomerism around climate. The world is gonna blow up. Everything's gonna be on fire. We'll all be underwater, all of these things. Because that's not playing anymore, right? It doesn't feel that culturally important anymore. We're not talking about it. People have realized it's largely been a hoax. And the rest of it, they're moving on to the next doomerism thing because all they have is fear. So it's interesting the what they're saying there is at this confirmation, at this commencement speech that Schmidt gave, that every time he brought up AI, they're booing, and it's like, how sad. It's so sad what they've done to young people in that sense. Like, they should all be like, whoa, how cool. I could do all these. Whatever it is that I want to do. I have all of these tools to now help me do it. I want to be a movie writer. I have all of these incredible things that can help me come up with stories and invent new characters and all of these things. Like, that would be one version. There's all the technical versions, and we went through medicinal versions a moment ago. And how it's going to quite literally revolutionize everything. We won't need troops during a war anymore because we will have robots. So do we want to stifle our ability to do that while our enemies? While China just starts stacking robots? Is that what we want to do? And again, whatever it is you do right now, you can incorporate a little bit of it into your life, and I think that's just fine. One thing I do with Grok is I've been basically tracking my macros. So I track. I tell it what I'm eating every day. I tell it how much I'm working out. And it's tracking, and we're looking at different things. I did a blood test. I asked a few questions about that. And it's not to say it's the end all, be all. I still had to go to a doctor, a nurse still had to put a needle in my arm. And all of those things, but figure out how to incorporate in your life. Stop being so afraid. But they want you to be afraid so that they can come in and say, oh, we must regulate it. And of course tax it. And as Bezos points out, once you're doing that, really you're just helping the political class. Another guy who's really been leading on the white pill version of this is a guy I play videos of all the time, Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, Kevin O', Leary, who's building all these AI data centers and he's leaning into this stuff. And here he is talking about the coordinated campaigns to make you fear AI.
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I got a call from one of our IT guys and he said, there's something wrong here. There's a massive influx in DMs going on on two specific platforms, X, formerly Twitter and Instagram. Not a small increase, tens of thousands of percent increase. Next morning we hired and started working with a very advanced data science team. And what we learned was, to me, shocking, just stunning. I and lo and behold, multiple filings through multiple entities all over the world, all going back to something called Arabella Neville Singham under investigation. Multiple branches of the government shares offices with the cpp. So then I said, I want more. Can you tell me the exact amounts? And we got those the next day. We're talking about millions, hundreds of millions of dollars here. It's not just Utah. These guys are doing campaigns everywhere. There's a proposed increase in power and or a data center. There's a war going on, I guess a PR war or whatever you want to call it.
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Does he own the company? I was just asking the guys. It's interesting the way he does these split videos. Does he literally own the company of those sandals? He probably does. That's what's going on here. Apparently he wants people to see his sandals or something. You can see the reason why I showed you that. It's not only. It's obviously applicable to exactly what I was talking about with AI, but the name Neville Roy Singham has come up a lot in the last little bit. Asri Nomani wrote a great piece on Fox News about this guy who is a CCP linked billionaire who I'll give you a little more information. He's a Shanghai billionaire with deep ties to the CCP who has poured money into groups like Code Pink, the People's Forum and many more to influence Americans. So he's one of the guys who is funding all of these crazy people on the street and Code Pink and yes, Hasan Piker from the Young Turks who we played the video of yesterday, who's now in this federal indictment over going to Cuba. He, in the video that he did was basically like, oh, I was doing it at the behest of. Of Neville Roy Singham. So there is something very, very weird in the system here. But, okay, we've shown you the negative version of it. I've tried to explain a bit of the positive version of it. But let's talk to somebody who's a bit more of an expert when it comes to AI than Dave Rubin. Yeah, how about that Elon Musk guy here talking to Ted Cruz. How likely is America to win the race for AI vis a vis China
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or anyone else else for the next few years? I think America is likely to win. Then it will be a function of who controls the AI chip fabrication, the factories that make the AI chips. Who controls them if they are controlled. If more of them are controlled by China, then China will win more.
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The factories that are making the AI chips, you think that will determine it?
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Yes.
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And how are we doing versus China on that front?
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Well, right now, almost all the advanced AI chip factories, they call them fabs, are in Taiwan.
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And what if China invades nine miles away from. Yeah, if what. What happens if China, if China invades Taiwan, what happens to the world?
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Well, if they were to invade in the near term, the world would be cut off from advanced AI chips.
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Okay, so now I think you can see a bigger geopolitical thing that's been happening here that I actually think is connected to Venezuela. I think it's connected to what likely is going to happen to Cuba. I think it's connected to what's been going on with Iran, which I kept saying is deeply connected to China because they get a huge amount of their energy from Iran. But do you see what he's saying? So right now, right now, we're basically doing okay. We might get a Democrat administration. He didn't. This isn't exactly what he was saying there, but we might get a Democrat administration that will take the advice of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and all of these people and start regulating the hell out of these AI companies, and we will be completely screwed. But Elon's point is beyond that, that you literally need the physical chips, and Taiwan is where they make the best of the best and the most of these chips. And for years, China has been threatening to take Taiwan. Now, what is it that America should do then? And why? Maybe, do you think it's possible that Trump, when he's done some of these military adventures, was signaling to China. Boy, we do some stuff still. Yeah, we've got a pretty effective army still. And maybe you shouldn't take Taiwan because Elon is basically saying if China takes Taiwan, they will jump ahead of us in very, very short order if they have access to all of those chips. So I would say we need to start building more factories and chips here, and we need to be building more AI Factories, too, and server farms and all of those things. And that's what Mr. Wonderful is trying to do. But also, this is where there might be some things that we don't quite see as it pertains to Trump and what he is doing with the military and what happened with Iran and signals to China. Okay, let's leave that there. I want to do one other thing before we get to the, to the community. Q and A because I thought this was rather interesting. Dr. She is a doctor of what? We have no idea. Dr. Jill Biden went on CBS Sunday Morning and said something that was rather striking. And I don't know why it didn't get more coverage, although I guess I do know why she said that. You remember that 2024 debate against Trump that didn't go well? Apparently she thought that Joe had a stroke during the debate.
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Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since? Never or since? Yes. Or since. Never seen one? Never? No. What happened? I don't know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh, my God, he's having a stroke. And it scared me to death.
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You know, I don't like calling people evil. I call Gavin Newsom evil. There are some evil people. There's some confused people. There's some people who are wrong. People have good intentions, blah, blah, blah. I don't know how to describe this woman. Lady, you're telling me that you had never seen Joe Biden like that before. How did we all see it? Are we wizards from the future? How is it that we all basically knew what was going to happen that night and that all Donald Trump had to do was stand there, which is pretty much all he did that night. And Joe Biden completely broke down, Completely and utterly broke down. And she's pretending she'd never seen him like that and it was a shock and that maybe he had a stroke? That is completely insane. You may remember this right after the debate, they went back in to celebrate how great he did after that abject disaster. And this was just a gem out of Jill.
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Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question.
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You knew all the facts.
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And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do?
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How absolutely insane. Pandering. And that is what you say to a child. You answered all the questions. You ate all your lunch. Do you want dessert? Joseph, come here. You did all your tasks today. I'm really, really proud of you. You're really, really great. Go sit down. Okay. Like if I talk to him like that, people would say, what's wrong with these people? Like and you pretend. And then the thing is that of course, as you guys know, it was then that night where the airlock broke. Suddenly all of us, that for four years, cuz it was starting before Biden took office, were saying, something's rotten in Stink town. Suddenly everybody was like, my God, there is something wrong here. Little compilation for you. Start your tape right now, cuz I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden is the best Biden ever. Gino lost. He knew so long as he was denied. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been President Biden has a photographic memory. His understanding and mastery of a complicated geopolitical situation remarkable. He is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused. Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I didn't think she was going to be here. It was sitting, you know, of two feet from him across the table and he was, you know, intense. Have trouble walking sometimes? Yeah, so did fdr. He wanted GD war, but he's totally focused. He's very sharp, they say he's sharp in meetings and so on. Very lucid, well, very well informed. Biden is stately and he comes with gravitas. There hasn't been, as far as I know, a single claim that Biden made a mistake. Who is that guy? That New York Times guy at the end? There hasn't been a single claim that. Not. It's not Tom Friedman, it's the other loser from the New York Times. What's his name? Phoenix. He's the op Ed guy. I saw him once on the Upper west side at a coffee shop and he was sitting there and he was just like a sniveling little. These people. So guys, again, why did I get all that right? And it's not that I get everything right. And it's not that you get everything, everything right. But we see things and we talk about them as they're happening. And these People were all running cover for a man who clearly was not there because they had Trump derangement syndrome. And then suddenly that night, where apparently Jill saw it for the first time and thought he had a stroke. And it's odd, she thought he had a stroke that night. And she didn't ask him to go to the doctor the next day or suspend the campaign or anything else, because that didn't happen for a couple weeks after that. So it's all just nonsense. And it's not that we can do anything about it. It's just that you should just know it's nonsense so that it gives you a little bit of the equipment necessary that the next time they throw more nonsense on you, you're like, oh, fool me once, George Bush, I don't get food again. Okay, let's just do one other thing. And then the Q and A. So this Talarico guy is running for Senate in Texas and he thinks that Jesus is non binary and he thinks that there are six genders. And he thinks he is evil because of his white skin. And it's not just him that's evil because of his white skin. He might be evil, but it's all white people are evil because of their white skin and all that. And the Dems are pushing this guy. It is so wild. They had Jasmine Crockett and they were like, lady, get out of the way. You think you're nuts, we'll show you nuts. So they're all in on this guy and he's gonna run against Ken Paxton in Texas. And we will see if this flies. So this tweet from the Democrats. November, here we come. And there he is. He's such a man's man, you know, and he's eaten. Apparently he's running a vegan campaign, so a lot of people thought he was vegan. It's just the campaign that's vegan. Apparently he will eat. He has definitely had his mouth around a piece of meat like that before. You can see that there he is with his turkey leg being all Texan, but here he is in stark contrast, announcing, despite his desire to swallow the giant turkey leg, that he's running a non meat campaign to save the environment.
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We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare. I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society. And so I, I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign. So we have, we are, we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.
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Am I missing something here? Has something happened in Texas where a man in a mask saying he's going to run a non meat campaign could possibly win? What has happened? Texas barbecue. Austin, Dallas. What's the one we like? It's the famous one. Terry Black's man. Go to Terry Blacks in Dallas. Did we go to the one in Austin too? Yeah, we went to the one in Austin too. Yeah, I know people say it's a little too commercial. It's freaking awesome. Or what's the other one I like in Dallas is cedar. No, we went there. We went there. We sat in the. Yeah, Connor, you went there. It was called not cedar. It's what, oaked? Not oaked. Ah, come on. Yeah, it's like peak pecan or something. Is it pecan lodge? Something like that, yeah. Anyway, they got great barbecue in Dallas. That's the point. So you're gonna tell these people, don't eat meat on this. Like what is going. There are six genders and don't eat meat. And I'm wearing a mask. And I'm running for Texas Senate. Here's another tweet from the Democrats. Texas. James Talarico is the only candidate who will put you first. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. What's interesting, a lot of people are saying that they're really trying to turn him into the next Beto o', Rourke, which would be fine by me because Beto o' Rourke did lose his Senate race against Ted Cruz. Here's an image that. Well, here's two images that show you that they're really trying to look at him. I put my hands on my butt. I'm running for Senate in Texas. Vote for me, eat tofu. But they're gonna try to make this guy a star, which is exactly what they did to Beto. Look at this from 2018. And I'm telling you guys, this is coming.
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You can't go 10ft without an interruption from a Beto backer.
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I love you too. Thank you all.
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You're a rock star.
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No, no. There's just so many great people who are.
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O', Rourke, a three term congressman from El Paso, has certainly captured the entire nation's attention as well.
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You're a rock star. I'm doing journalism. Can I blow you right now? But the point is, that guy crashed and burned and that Is may we pray to the Lord. A lot of big churches in Texas pray to the big man that this guy loses. I just don't understand how this is the road Democrats are gonna go down. But obviously there's just. They're looking at numbers and they're saying, we're going all in this guy and maybe we can zombify enough people before the election. It's worth noting that Beto is now out of politics. He runs a Texas based voting rights organization called Powered by People. He's such a big. Can you imagine walking down the street there's, oh my God, it's Beto o'. Rourke. Sign my boob. The guy that Talarico will be running against is Ken Paxton. As I said yesterday, Ken, he's not the most enigmatic guy. He's, you know, he's. I think he'll probably be just fine. It doesn't even matter. He's just not a bananas lefty. However, he did put out a pretty good ad. This is Texas. This is not.
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There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.
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This is Texas. This is not.
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The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us.
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This is Texas. This is not.
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They're gonna call me a radical leftist.
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This is Texas.
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This is not something that you love.
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That's not family or friends.
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I love. I'm just saying this because it's on my mind. The trans children.
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This is Texas. This is not.
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Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.
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This is Texas. This is not.
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It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption. I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign.
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This is Texas. This is not. Man. My main takeaway from that is it's been too long since we did a smoked brisket around here. We're gonna do a 16 hour smoked brisket in the next couple days for you guys like that. That gets it right there. That should end the campaign. And let's really just hope that, look, the mainstream is gonna push this guy. They're gonna push him the same thing they did with Beto. And as I've pointed out repeatedly, you know, Beto, I think lost by, what was it, 2.3 points, if I'm not mistaken. Taken to Ted. To Ted Cruz, who's an all star, right? So it's like things do get closer than they should be. So I think the people of Texas. 2.3 points. 2.6 points. Okay, that's Pretty damn close. Like way too close. So we'll see what. And Ted Cruz is obviously, I would say, a better campaigner and a better orator, let's say, than Paxton. So this thing could get weirdly close. We shall see. But the media will push this guy, I promise you. Here he is with Tapper cleaning up his remarks about God being non binary. National Republican Senate Committee is already highlighting comments that you've made as a state representative. For example. They're highlighting this
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God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non binary.
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What is your response to them using data and explain what you were talking about?
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Well, I understand that that comment is a little provocative. I said it on the House floor when the extremists in the Republican legislature were picking on school kids who were different. But I don't think it's controversial theologically. Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender. In fact, the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatians said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul.
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So the reason I wanted to show you that clip, look, everyone can have their own personal beliefs in God and whether God is male or female. And I would leave that to people at their individual church to talk to their pastor or synagogue or whatever it might be that it was the other part that he said the reason he was doing that was because he was on the floor of the House in Texas state legislature because extremists were picking on school kids. Except extremists weren't picking on school kids. There were legislators that didn't want boys in girls bathrooms, that didn't want boys competing with girls in sports. They are not extremists. They are the same people. So I would say, Talarico, you can have whatever your theological belief is about God being a man or a woman or having a little bit of both or just having a good time. But when it comes to children and girls being crushed by boys in high school wrestling, that's not really up for debate. All right, so let's end all of this and get to the community Q and A by pointing out that maybe we just need more good people to get involved. That's part of the problem here. Politics has become so toxic that we're just pulling people out of a very thin pool right now. Right. It's a very shallow pool that we can get people out of because people don't Want to get involved. But here's one more from Elon on how he decides who he's going to work with.
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The biggest mistake in general that I've made, and I'm trying to correct for that, is to put too much of a weight in on somebody's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times, in fact, then I'd say I'm not going to make that mistake again. Then I would make it again. And I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart. It really does. And I've made the mistake of thinking that sometimes it's just about.
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I think that's an important piece, and it's something I try to do. Here, here, Joseph, why don't you come here? Again, Joseph. When we brought him on board, completely unskilled, this guy had no skills. Always smiling, thumbs up constantly. No discernible skills that we could figure out. But I felt he had a good smile to these people. Again, look at that. Look at that. He's happy to be here. You're happy to be here, right? Yes. All right, go down. He's happy to be here. And that's what you want around you, right? And we should have more of that. No, he's good on email. Right? He knows how to send and all that kind of stuff. Great kid. Great kid. That's the point, guys. We just got to find more good people right now we can hit the crazies and the loonies, and it's easy, and they're there and they're multiplying and it's like gremlins in water and all that stuff. But, like more good people. Some skilled people, too, but find some people that are of good heart. And actually, I can tell you that when I hire people, usually it's, yeah, we're going to look at a resume and can you do the job? But it's like, do I want to be around you? Literally, do I want to be around you every day? Are you the type of person I want to talk to? I want to be in a meeting with, I want to welcome to my home, I want to break bread with. And if we do a little more of that, find people that are really trying to do cool things, that are decent people. That's how we'll defeat this thing. Let's talk about Tax Network usa, and then we'll get to the community Q and A. And on the other side, do you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns? No matter how it started, the problem's only going to get worse. Penalties grow, interest adds up. And the IRS is already taking action through wage garnishments, bank levies and more. That's where Tax Network USA can help. With over 15 years of experience, they specialize in resolving back taxes and unfiled returns. They've handled thousands of cases and resolved over 1 billion in tax debt nationwide. Right now, they're offering a free investigation call with the IRS to review your situation and create a clear path to get you back on track. Don't wait for another IRS notice or worse. Call 866-685-6604, that's 866-685-6604 or visit tnusa.com Dave okay. Rubenreport.locals.com Community Q&A if you want to get a question in live. All jokes aside, Joseph is very skilled and he's right there at a computer right now. And if you're on our locals page right now, you can comment and perhaps he will give me a question on the fly. Morgan says, how much do you think the Horseshoe Right crowd will affect how the Republicans do in the midterms? And what you're talking about is people call it the horseshoe theory that these far right people are kind of colliding with the far left people. Some people are calling the woke right. It's the Megyn Kelly Tucker crowd. Look, proof is in the pudding. Donald Trump is 118 for his last 118 endorsements. So the idea that he doesn't have a lock on this party is just crazy. The disconnect, what is happening to a lot of people, and I am not impervious to it either, is that it is very hard to figure out how much of what happens online and the fighting on X and all of that is translating into reality. And I would say beyond reality, translating into the way people vote. And from every bit, from every data point, CNN literally two weeks ago, Trump has 97% approval in MAGA. Then you look at his 118 for 118, you take a guy like Thomas Massie again, a guy who I basically liked until this last year. I thought he started going crazy, but I never went after once until the day before the election. But he was saying Trump's an Epstein guy and covering for pedophiles and blah blah, blah. And then the people of Kentucky were just like, no, we like Trump. We're not doing this. Massie, you don't vote for Trump. You didn't help him with the border wall. You didn't help him with the big beautiful bill, you're out. So I get it that these guys are loud and, you know, I don't know what the answer is. I think about this all the time. I talk to. I talk to people I like and respect and admire about this all the time. When these people are saying crazy things and hacking away at MAGA and lying about things and lying about people, how much should we push back to some extent, should we just ignore them? I don't know exactly what the right answer is, but right now, as is it stands, I don't think they're kind of hyper libertarian and hyper online. I don't think that represents a lot of actual people, but we shall see. Mark says, Dave, have you started a plan for August travel yet? Where have you gone in the past? Have you ever heard of the Fogo Island Inn? It's an amazing place. I think the guys pulled up some pictures of the Fogo Island Inn, which looks quite spectacular. That looks like in the Marvel movies when they had to come create the new Asgard after the whole. What happened? The whole planet blew up or something went down with Thanos and whatever, and they had to create that. That does look gorgeous. It's in Canada. No, I've never been. That does look super interesting. So we actually don't know what we're doing yet. We just have been so damn busy, we just haven't had a moment to discuss. You know, before we had kids, we did crazy things. We went to Bora Bora. I think he got some pictures of. Yeah, like, we did this a couple times. Which is literally, you feel like you're at the edge of the universe and if you get one of those units right there at the end, you're just facing infinity. And I've said it a bunch of times, people don't believe me. Like, I don't need much when I'm there. I don't need to read. I don't need to do anything. I can just sit basically all day long. I usually go to the gym or I'll take a bike ride or something, just do something physical, eat some food. But then I can just sit and I just purge my mind of all the. Of the nonsense. And I really do think that's one of the reasons that after 14 years of this show, if I can humbly say I think I'm better than I have ever been. But I don't mean that as a brag. I mean that as like, I've done work so that I don't go crazy with all of this stuff, like, I get rid of a lot of the nonsense. It gives me fresh eyes to come back every year and do it. So we've done that a couple times then over the last couple years with kids, we just haven't wanted to travel as far, so we've done little smaller things in Mexico. I love Mexico and I love Mexican culture. And as you know, I love tequila. So that's really where I fell in love with tequila a couple years ago. By the way, Hope Pal just won another award. Can we get the image for the other award? Every award that we have applied for, I think now six. We are six for six in winning awards from these big tequila competitions and magazines. We just won another one yesterday. But I love Mexican culture. I love the Mexican people. There's just such a warmth and kindness, and I love Mexican food and I love spicy stuff and all that stuff. So we've done that a couple times this year. My guess, we may not even do anything. Like, I could be here and be very happy and that would be fine too. And just do some house projects and fiddle around and whatever, you know. We'll work on the award in just a sec. Tom says, what can we do as supporters of the real truth, AKA common sense, to help the independent voters see the Republican candidates are the better choice for the usa? I mean, man, that was the theme of the show today. And it is, I would say, a consistent theme that I'm always talking about here. I think it's be a little less hysterical. I think it's point out the obvious difference if you look at a show like today. So, okay, so what's happening as it pertains to housing in New York, high taxes, government control, regulations, and at the exact same time, what's happening in Florida? Oh, we're trying to eliminate property tax, make sure that you can have more of your money. Talk to people about, okay, so you have someone who's a lefty or they're woke or whatever. So say to them, so, okay, Karen, we'll call her Karen. For the sake of the argument. Karen. All our political differences aside, do you know that 2.3 million people have moved to Florida since COVID and over a million people have fled California? What do you think that's about? Now they're gonna tell you people were brainwashed by Trump and everything else, but I think if you give them some literal things, like, to me, that's the best one. Where are people going to and where are people fleeing from? That's just the. At the end of the day, Shows you that. It shows you what a certain set of people will do when push comes to shove. And I don't know anybody, I literally don't know one person that fled California, came to Florida and was like, I can't hack it here. I'm going back. I wish I had those high taxes and crime again. That would be a pleasure. Like, it just. I'm not saying it's never happened, but it doesn't happen. And still in my neighborhood here, they're knocking down houses every day and building new ones, right? And then at the same time, DeSantis is trying to take care of the property tax situation. So I think we just have to be calmer. But again, it's why I think there is a certain white pill that's hard to fully see yet around what's going on with these Democrats. Like, the more that the Democrats hand this. Okay, so Mamdami will be your face, right? Mamdani will be your face. And Talarico will be your face. And Gavin Newsom will be your face. Well, all right. Then people will see that America is not a communist nation. We are not. We love freedom. And again, I keep saying it, I don't like repeating myself, but I keep saying the 250 thing that we're rolling into on July 4th, there's going to be a burst of patriotism. And maybe we can get enough people to realize that what we have had here is so extraordinarily precious. And so the dream of what humanity could be, that it might be worth protecting. Robert says, okay, Dave and family, now that the boys are showing personality, what do you see them doing later in life? What would you like to see them do right now? I think I mentioned it last week. We got some crazy wars going on with Transformers and Spider Man. We got some Star wars guys in there, and then some various dinosaurs and trucks. It's a massive war that is taking place constantly in the living room. I love it. I can fully get back to that. And we're building pillow forts and Magna tiles, which are pretty awesome, and build space spaceships and all that stuff. I have no idea. I want them to do whatever will make them feel fully actualized and get a sense of purpose and everything else. It's so hard. It's sort of the backdrop of what we talked about with robotics and AI on today's show. It's so hard to think about what the world will look like in 10 years. Try to think what the world looked like before the printing press and then 10 years after, before rating. And then 10 years after. And this is going to be even more than that, actually, because things are speeding up now in a different way. Right. A newspaper. Okay, so the newspaper appeared. That was pretty awesome. Like, average people could get news and share things, but there was a speed. It could still only spread so fast. Now things. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I think that's one of the problems we're having. We're all becoming impatient by everything because we're just hit with an algorithm in a feed that's just hitting you all the time. So I have no idea what. There's nothing I would want them to do. I would want them to do whatever would make them feel fulfilled and passionate and all that stuff. You know, the show is called the Rubin Report. And I'm gonna have to hand this thing to somebody one day. So who knows? Who knows? But why would I subject them to that? You're right. Okay, David says, what do you think the October Surprise will be this year? There's always an October Surprise. I don't know. They've gone as far. I don't think there's any more that they can throw at Trump at this point. What else could they throw at Trump that we haven't been through at this point? I don't know. I don't even know that I can guess on this one. Truly. What will every October Surprise be? There'll always be something. There will be something. How about that? It's not the best answer, but there will be something. I wanted to read one question. We've been putting out our newsletter. What's the link to send people for the newsletter? Is it davrubin.com Newsletter daverubin.com Newsletter See, I belittled him before and he knows. Even the link to that, to our newsletter, it's really, really great. I think you'll really enjoy it. People really love it. It's nice. We do a nice recap of everything going on. But I wanted to just read one comment to the backdrop of Memorial Day. This is from Terry. It's not a question, it's just a comment. My father served in World War II. Two brothers served a Desert Storm. Only three army. An uncle was a Marine. Would have been Vietnam era. My cousin served in the Navy. My father in law and brother in law were both career Air Force and are now retired. And I have a nephew currently serving in the Army. Amazingly enough, we did not lose anybody in service. I mean, that is a gold star family right there. And I hope you're very, very. I have no Doubt you are very, very proud of all of those people. And God bless you guys and thank you. Please thank them from me for their service. And that's incredible. So that nobody was lost in all of that. Final question. This is something that's been on my mind lately. Elizabeth, are you dreading turning 50 or is it just another birthday? You know, I gotta tell you, it's the complete reverse of dread. My 40s were my best decade by far. By far. Personally, professionally, every which way. I'm basically in the best shape I. I've been in as an adult right now. I have the things that I want. I feel good about my work and my colleagues and my family and all those things. And I just think if you're doing it right, 50. In a weird way, I feel younger at 50 than I did at 40. I was thinking of. I don't know that we're going to do this, but I was thinking I have a picture of me at, I think a day or two before my. My 40th birthday. Just like a shirtless picture on the beach or something. And like, I just. I look much better now. And I'm not saying it's not that the look thing is the most important thing, but it shows a degree of taking care of yourself, of getting your shit in order and all those things. And so 50. 50 seems young to me. Like when I played ball for three hours last night, and I'm playing with guys that are in their 20s and then a couple guys that are in their 60s, and when. And I'm right in the middle of that. So some days I could be the best one out there. Some days I'm the worst one out there. But I'm still trying to push myself and better myself, not only physically, but mentally and do good things in this room and feel like as long as things are. As long as things are, like, moving in the right direction. I guess If I was 50, if I was turning 50 and it felt like, well, my best days are behind me, I guess I would be depressed. But I don't feel I had a great decade, and I think this decade will be even better. I was a late bloomer. I think my 20s were more messed up, my 30s were more messed up. So, you know, I'm really looking forward to it. So we shall see. I'm the oldest guy, you guys know. That's sad. That's sad. How do we end this now?
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Oh, tequila. Yes. We did get another award this week. Do we have an image? Yeah. So these are a couple so we have applied for, I guess it's five awards, and we have won in all five. And which was the new one? Oh, the new one is the upper left there. It's the Agabos Awards. We just won silver. And I just love what we're doing with Copal. It's so great everywhere we go that people are serving it, people are just loving it. And if you want a little bit, if you're either trying to drink a little bit less or you don't. You don't want sugary drinks or anything else. Like if you're on your own little glow up and you don't want to go out and you end up going to dinner and having a half a bottle of wine, because that's just how it is. You could sip on just a little bit of tequila and it's going to be way, way better for you. I'm not selling it. I'm not promoting it as somehow alcohol is healthy, per se, but it's just exquisite and light and refreshing and good, and I think you'll dig it. Drinkcopal.com and just a reminder, our friends at Prageru have a allowed us to extend that Memorial Day sale. We were often 25% off all the tickets for our big show. And you can go to daverubin.com events and if you enter code PRAGERU, you can get 25% off general admission or the VIP. That's all the talking I'm gonna do for the next 10 minutes or so, and then I gotta do something else, I'm sure. Thank you for watching. See you tomorrow. Hey, Isaiah, how you doing? Thank you so much. Melania.
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How you doing? It is so good to see you. Now this is a winner. I think y' all should make the Donald Shoe, the freestyle. Oh, oh. And the precious. Oh, oh. We got a sub. We got a sub. We got a sub. Yeah, you got a pretty cheerleader. This. This definitely is going in. It.