Bill Maher Explains to 'Real Time' Crowd How He Was Tricked by Lying Media

20 Apr 2026 · 1 h 2 min · 22 chapters

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In short

Dave Rubin’s show reacts to Bill Maher’s “Real Time” clips, arguing mainstream media “tricked” Maher and that reality is catching up. The episode then pivots to U.S.-Iran negotiations and pressure tactics, followed by criticism of New York City Democratic leadership and anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party.

Guests (named in the transcript)

  1. Bill Maher (host of “Real Time”): comedian/TV host; Maher is presented as admitting he was misled by media narratives about Viktor Orbán and other issues.
  2. Rahm Emanuel: former Chicago mayor; former Obama adviser; described as a Democrat who is “not the worst,” appearing on Maher’s show discussing Iran.
  3. Viktor Orbán: referenced as the Hungarian election subject (not a guest in this episode).
  4. Zorhan Mamdami (Zorhan Mamdami): described as socialist/NYC figure interviewed by NBC’s Kirsten Welker (guest via clip).
  5. Kirsten Welker (NBC News): interviewer in the Mamdami clip.
  6. Elise Stefanik (Republican): appears via commentary/clip about anti-Semitism in Democrats.
  7. Alex Hogan and Trey Yingst (Fox News): referenced via clips about Iran negotiations and ship incidents.
  8. J.D. Vance, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner: referenced as negotiation delegation figures (not interviewed here).

Key claims

  • Maher was “used” by media portrayals calling Orbán a fascist/authoritarian; Rubin argues Orbán conceded and stepped down peacefully after losing.
  • “Airlock” moments: online debunkings (e.g., “very fine people” hoax) eventually reach mainstream via Maher.
  • U.S. should prefer economic pressure over military escalation with Iran; Rubin praises Trump’s leverage.
  • NYC Democratic socialism is blamed for deficits, crime, and failed policies; Mamdami is criticized for pushing a pied-à-terre tax and “free” promises not delivered.
  • Democrats are accused of enabling anti-Semitism and courting Hamas-supporting figures.

Notable examples

  • Maher clip: Maher says media portrayed Orbán as “second coming of Stalin,” but Orbán lost and conceded.
  • Emanuel/Maher clip: Emanuel and Maher discuss Iran; Rubin highlights Maher pushing “economic war” rather than bombing.
  • Iran examples: Strait of Hormuz incidents; Trump/Truth Social threats; U.S. Navy stopping an Iranian cargo ship (“Tuska”) and seizing it.
  • NYC examples: pied-à-terre tax push; allegations of anti-Semitism and pro-Hamas activism; “ring of fire” car incident in Queens described from a New York Post report.

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Bill Maher's Mea Culpa on Viktor Orban

0:00 to 1:04

Dave discusses Bill Maher's recent acknowledgment regarding Viktor Orban's election defeat.

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Bill Maher's Mea Culpa on Viktor Orban

2:25 to 4:36

Dave discusses Bill Maher's recent acknowledgment regarding Viktor Orban's election defeat.

“Like, you don't eat carbs, like basically don't eat carbs for a couple months, and then you go to the Northeast where all they eat is bagels and pizza and pizza bagels.”

Media Misrepresentation of Authoritarianism

4:36 to 7:15

Exploring how the media has misrepresented figures like Viktor Orban and their political realities.

“And there's Bill saying that for years he was worried about Orban and all of these things, and he's an authoritarian and he's a fascist.”

Shifting Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy

7:15 to 11:03

Discussion on Bill Maher's interview with Rahm Emanuel regarding U.S. foreign policy and economic war.

“So I want to just illustrate one more part of this, which is the very fine people hoax.”

Negotiation Strategies with Iran

11:03 to 14:00

Insights into Trump's negotiation tactics regarding Iran's actions and the implications for U.S. foreign relations.

“And then of course, Rahm Emanuel, who again, he's not the worst of the worst type of jihadist Democrat, but he's not great.”

Trump's Stance on Iran Negotiations

14:00 to 20:51

Discussion on Trump's approach to Iran and military negotiations in the Strait of Hormuz.

“On Truth Social, Iran decides to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz, was a total violation of our ceasefire agreement.”

Trump's Stance on Iran Negotiations

20:52 to 21:35

Discussion on Trump's approach to Iran and military negotiations in the Strait of Hormuz.

“Everyone's talking about weight loss injections because the results can be dramatic.”

Critique of New York City's Leadership

21:43 to 28:01

Examination of the implications of New York City's crime rates and budget shortfall under current leadership.

“crime up, taxes up, urban mayhem up, Dasha Jihad up, couple terrorists attacks, et cetera, et cetera.”

Dependency on Government Programs

28:01 to 29:50

Exploration of government assistance and its impact on generational dependency.

“family is under$20 ,000 in New York City.”

Critique of Political Leadership

29:51 to 31:36

Discussion on political leadership failures and public dissatisfaction in New York City.

“The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.”
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Rising Anti-Semitism in Politics

31:37 to 33:36

Examination of the increasing anti-Semitism within the Democratic Party.

“and you've also got the pink hair and they chopped your genitals off and you're holding a Hamas flag and you gave it all.”

Controversial Figures in Politics

33:37 to 36:34

Analysis of controversial political figures and their influence on public perception.

“Demonize relentlessly one group of people.”

Freedom of Speech vs. Cancel Culture

36:35 to 42:01

Discussion on the implications of cancel culture and freedom of speech in political campaigns.

“I'd like to ask you a few questions about the interview that your wife gave recently.”

Discussing Hassan Piker's Controversial Views

42:01 to 43:11

Explore the implications of Hassan Piker's extreme views on America.

“taught kids on Twitch how to build suicide drones.”

The Democratic Party's Shift and Its Consequences

43:12 to 44:44

Examine the evolving ideologies within the Democratic Party and their impact.

“to at least directly calling for violence and some other things.”

Critique of American Immigration Narratives

44:45 to 46:48

Analyze the narratives surrounding immigration and the true builders of America.

“And then I'm not even gonna bother with the whole Medicaid for all right now, but it's like, okay, just another giant government program.”

Debating Reparations and Historical Accountability

46:49 to 48:10

Discuss the complexities and implications of reparations in modern America.

“Who's the main guy in Gangs of New York?”

Ilhan Omar and Allegations of Fraud

48:11 to 50:28

Investigate allegations surrounding Ilhan Omar and financial misconduct.

“And even if they did, I wouldn't be guilty for that.”

California's Legislative Battles Over Fraud

50:29 to 56:06

Explore Califonia's legislative attempts to address fraud and its implications.

“It makes it hard for the average immigrant business owner.”

Analyzing Political Fraud in California

56:06 to 58:25

Explore the implications of political connections and fraud in California's governance.

“Very interesting connections with her husband being an attorney general of California.”

Transgender Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants

58:25 to 1:01:09

Discuss the experiences of an undocumented transgender individual accessing healthcare benefits.

“It's not like they're actually having the government pay to chop people's wangs off and put boobs on them.”

Critique of Government Spending on Gender Surgery

1:01:09 to 1:03:01

Examine the controversy surrounding taxpayer funding for gender reassignment surgeries.

“It's the 50-year-old guy who's been married, has his kids, and then realizes that he wants to be a woman.”
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1:56Hello, people on the other side of the screen. I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. It is Monday, April 20th, 2026. That's right. It is 420, you dirty hippies. Clean up your room. Like, subscribe, comment on the program. Happy to have you here. We got a big show. A lot happened over the weekend. Does anyone want to add anything before I dive right in? Everyone's okay. Everyone's okay. I was in New York for the weekend. I had a lot of bagels. I haven't been eating that many carbs lately, and I'll tell you, it's a miracle I'm even alive right now. Like, you don't eat carbs, like basically don't eat carbs for a couple months, and then you go to the Northeast where all they eat is bagels and pizza and pizza bagels.

2:37It could take you out. But here I am, feeling good, ready to roll. So let's dive in. You know on Mondays we often start with my friend Bill Maher. Something interesting happened on his show. Actually, we're going to show you a couple clips here because a few interesting things happened. You know, one of the things that I say about Bill Maher's real-time show is that it's sort of the airlock for what the mainstream can deal with, meaning all of us online, we talk about things. Like during COVID, we were talking about vaccine skepticism earlier, that masks don't work early. Or we were talking about the Hunter Biden laptop way before it got to mainstream.

3:09Or very fine people before it got to mainstream. You know, just Russia, Russia, Russia. All of these things sort of happen online for a while. And then eventually something happens that allows them to get to mainstream. And often the thing that allows them to get to mainstream is somebody saying something on real time. There are many, many examples of this. We're going to show you a couple of interesting things here. So first off, on Friday night, Bill Maher talked about how Viktor Orban lost the Hungarian election. And you may say, Dave, why are you starting with a clip about Hungary and Orban?

3:41You will see, I promise. Work with me at the top here. talking about how he even fell for some of the propaganda around Orban, how he was a fascist and authoritarian and all of these things. And this is a nice little mea culpa by Bill. Take a look.

4:05Has the media overstated the rise of authoritarians in Europe and around the world? What do you think of Viktor Orban's defeat last week? I did have that exact thought. Like, again, the media kind of played me. I mean, for years, all I've been reading about is he's the second coming of Stalin. There will never be democracy again in Hungary. And then, oh, actually, well, people got tired of a guy just like they do in every democracy. They didn't like him. And they wanted somebody with different policies. And they voted him out. And he went and conceded the next day. So I do feel a little used. Well, I'll say one thing about this.

4:40This guy will hurt. This guy. All right, so it doesn't even matter what the guest said there, but the point of it, to prime the show today, is that there's Bill, it's very important, I think, and I try to do it to the best of my ability when I get something wrong or if I missed something or whatever, to acknowledge that you did. And there's Bill saying that for years he was worried about Orban and all of these things, and he's an authoritarian and he's a fascist. And then suddenly, what happened? Orban was in power for 16 years, kept his country strong and clean and safe, and didn't allow the onslaught of immigration and everything else.

5:15And then when he lost an election last week, he packed up and went away. You've seen this video before, but I want to flash back to about two years ago where I tried to explain to Bill and the audience that Viktor Orban was not a far right, authoritarian, fascist, scary dude. So most of these people are not far right by any way that we would think of far right in that they like that. They're racist. I actually met with Orban in Budapest and I talked to him for a little while. And all he kept saying was, you know, I love Hungary. That's all. I love my people. I love my country. That's it. I don't know what accent that was, but that basically...

5:51That's a dead-on impression of him. Can you do it? Okay, I promise you I am not showing you that clip to glaze myself like, oh, look at me, I got everything right. There's a reason. You'll see. We're going to connect it to everything else. But I want to just give you a little more context on what happened with the election last week. And this is from Joey Manorino, who's the co-founder of Overton. and it's an online news outlet. Viktor Orban didn't cancel any elections and never arrested people for social media posts. He also stepped down after his election loss and is partaking in a peaceful transfer of power.

6:23But don't forget, he was a dictator. Keir Starmer attempted to cancel about 1 ,000 local council elections next month and arrested about 12 ,000 people a year for social media posts. He also refused to let a rival run for a seat in a bi-election because he was worried it would be a threat to his leadership. But don't forget, he's a Democratic leader. So that's the point here. And I will get it to the daily events in just a second. That the liberals, the Bill Maher-style liberals, I think are starting to realize that not only has the media lied about so much, but that the quote-unquote authoritarians, the Victor, the scary Victor Orbans and the scary Donald Trump types, those are the people that are actually defending national sovereignty, classical liberalism, etc., etc.

7:16So I want to just illustrate one more part of this, which is the very fine people hoax. I know you've seen it before, but this is, I just want to show you an airlock moment. There were years went by where all of us online were debunking the very fine people hoax. and it never got to mainstream for some reason. They all knew it, but they were just sitting on it. And I'm very proud. I think when I retire one day and they say, what are some of the moments that you're proud of in your career, this will be a top one. Are there good people on both sides at Charlottesville? I don't know. Did I hear that or did I make that up?

7:49That Trump said there are good people on both sides. He didn't say that. He did not. Well, he said it, but a sentence later, he said, I'm not talking about the white supremacists and the neo-Nazis. Yeah, I have to.

8:02And then Bill went on to say, oh, well, I guess it wasn't elegantly said. And now I'm going to connect this to what happened this weekend. And you will see why we did all of that. And again, it was not to pat myself on the back. That there are moments where things get through to reality, where sort of the narrative and reality finally connect. And I think what's happening to Bill now is because he is awake and sees reality for what it is and now is on the outs with his party, he's realizing that he, basically is gonna have to take the position with the ding dong leftists who are slowly waking up, whoever's left that's not insane, he's gonna end up doing the me part, which was trying to wake people up a little bit early.

8:42So on Friday nights real time with Bill Maher, I think I did that all correctly. On Friday nights real time, he had Rahm Emanuel, former Obama staffer, and I think he was, was he mayor of Chicago? He was US ambassador to Japan, but wasn't he also mayor of Chicago? Mike, I think he was mayor of Chicago as well. but he had Rahm Emanuel on. Rahm Emanuel is, he's not a total psycho Democrat. Not great, but he's not, you know, I'd put him in the Josh Shapiro, you know, the Josh Shapiro kind of thing. He was, yeah, he was the mayor of Chicago. Anyway, here they are talking about the war and Maher is trying to give Trump credit.

9:22Watch. I don't want this to go on forever now. Okay, we tried. It didn't work. Let's pivot. He did. I'm going to take the good news. We are, it's better that we're in an economic war than a bombing war at this point. Can we agree on that? Yes. Oh, f***. You know, I mean, just, we can definitely agree. Just say yes. No, it's definitely better. Okay, great. It's definitely better, but like my view, where do we go back and get our reputation? Where do we go back and get actually where America was beforehand? So it comes, this decision doesn't come cost-free. It does not come cost-free. So it's better that we have an economic conflict rather than just military and kinetic.

10:01At worst, it might come out that what we have done is said to Iran after 47 years of this nonsense, you just can't do it with impunity. Okay, maybe we didn't get rid of the regime, but at least we put you on notice. You just can't do the s*** you've been doing. Now I think if you've been playing along, you see why I played you those earlier clips. Bill is now taking the completely sane position and trying to drag the lefties to see reality. It doesn't matter what side of any of the Iran thing you've been on this entire time. Would we all argue, would any sane person argue that it is better to now be in an economic war, meaning we're in a blockade war, we're trying to work economic pressures to stop the regime and everything else, rather than a military war?

10:50Any sane person that values human life would be for that. So the fact that you have these, and the other guy, it's just you have these two Democrats, these two Democrats, and Bill has to drag them. And that's why he basically was like F you to them, right? And then of course, Rahm Emanuel, who again, he's not the worst of the worst type of jihadist Democrat, but he's not great. Well, how are we gonna get our reputation back? I actually think our reputation in America is pretty damn good right now. And it's actually better. ask all of those Gulf states who we just defended, whether they like Iran more or us more, right?

11:25Ask all the European nations who are suddenly like, boy, America, you know, they aren't exactly going to be totally reliable when we just take, take, take, take, take, and maybe we're gonna have to give a little bit more. Like, peace through strength, I don't know, showing people we're serious again, leading the world again. It's respect, we're getting respect on the world stage again, as opposed to just sending money to people. So Bill is completely, completely right there. And I'm really glad to see the shrinkening of the gap between what is really happening right now, right? Which is we've gone from the military part of the war to the economic part.

12:04And we might get a military part again. We'll have more on that in just a second. But we're shrinking the gap of time it takes for reality to hit that airlock. Here's Fox News' Trey Yinkst on where we're at right now, that if Iran does not sign the peace deal, we could jump back into the military part. Spoke with President Trump today who said if the Iranians don't sign the deal, their whole country is going to get blown up. The president went on to tell Fox News, we're preparing to hit them harder than any country has ever been hit before because you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is set to end in under 72 hours, and Iran is already testing the agreement.

12:42Over the weekend, two vessels attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz reported gunfire toward their ships. Other vessels were able to pass, but the Iranians say the strait is closed once again and in their control. Oh, oh, can you hear it in the distance? It's the Panikins. And they're going, oh my God, he wants to start the war again. World War III, thermonuclear war, all hell will break loose. And it's like, no, we've done this once, twice, 10 times before. This is Donald Trump now exerting leverage during negotiations. You guys are going to meet again in Pakistan. Poor J.D. has to keep going.

13:18Where do you want to go on vacation, honey? Let's go to Pakistan. He has to keep going back there. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio is showing up at the MMA fights. I don't know what fuel they brokered over there. But anyway, what you do during negotiations is you put pressure. So the Iranians walk in there and they're like, oh, if we don't negotiate, he's going to blow us up again. And boy, this guy has a track record of doing that sort of thing. And let's not forget, only a week ago, the Iranians had said no to everything. And then Donald Trump put out that Truth Social post that said a civilization will die.

13:55And then what happened two hours later? The Iranians came to the table and then we've had subsequently some meetings. Let's do a little bit more from Trump. On Truth Social, Iran decides to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz, was a total violation of our ceasefire agreement. Many of them were aimed at a French ship and a freighter from the UK. That wasn't nice, was it? My representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan. They will be there tomorrow evening for negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the strait, which is strange because our blockade has already closed it.

14:26They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that will lose with the closed passage$500 million a day. The United States loses nothing. In fact, many ships are headed right now of the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, Alaska to load up compliments of the IRGC always wanting to be the tough guy. We're offering a very fair and reasonable deal, and I hope they'll take it, because if they don't, the U.S. is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice Guy. They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy, and if they don't take our deal, it will be my honor to do what has been done, which should have been done to Iran by other presidents for the last 47 years.

15:03It's time for the Iran killing machine to end. So, Rahm Emanuel, if you're watching today's program, what I would say is, you see what Donald Trump's doing right there? He's using leverage. He's trying to show that America's a serious nation again. He's actually backing up what 40-plus years of presidents have said they were going to do, which is completely consistent with what Donald Trump said he was going to do for 40 years before he was president. So you're worried about our world reputation. I don't know. our world reputation might get hit when, say, about 10 years ago when Barack Obama said that if Syria uses chemical weapons, it's our red line, and then they used chemical weapons and we did absolutely nothing.

15:42Like, that doesn't really help our worldwide reputation, does it? And what do you think? You know, if it's a French ship that got shot at and something out of the UK, you think they're going to do anything? No, they're going to sit there with their little pieces of paper, and we don't like it if you do those things. That's what accent is that? That's what we're going to do. And that's all they'll do. So we, the British and the French and Western Europe is basically what the Democrats are, right? They like to say things, but they don't like to do things. Donald Trump likes to do things. Here's Fox's Alex Hogan talking about how JD is headed to another vacation in Pakistan.

16:20So negotiations are back on despite some back and forth reporting that we had seen earlier on in the day. White House tells Fox that Vice President J.D. Vance will be in attendance and he will be leading the delegation back in Pakistan once again. And it comes as the clock is ticking to reach a new deal because we know that this current ceasefire deal, this two-week deal, is set to expire on Wednesday. So there's a lot of diplomatic efforts ramping back up once again to land a new deal before then. After those historic face-to-face talks last weekend, Vice President Vance will be joined once again by Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

16:55All right, so we will see what happens with the negotiations. This is how these things go. But again, to get back to what Bill said, it is better to be having this economic negotiation rather than a fighting negotiation, which is basically what we had before, right? I think most sane people would agree with that. And by the way, we have all the leverage here. Not only do we have the military threat, which just sits there, But Iran, we are in control of the Strait of Hormuz. It does not affect our energy prices at all. Countries are sending ships to us to get more energy from us. Plus we now have Venezuelan oil.

17:30So there is no threat to American energy. It doesn't mean gas prices can't temporarily go up. And sometimes to do good things, you have to pay a little bit of a price, that's it. But the point is by exerting maximum pressure, the hope is we get a real peace deal. I thought this was interesting from Polymarket, just tracking where people are thinking this thing will end. 15 % of people say by April 22nd, 40%, that's quite a jump. Just a week later, April 30th, by the end of May, 65 % think this thing will be over. And by June 30th, so beginning of summer, basically 72 % think that we will have a permanent peace deal.

18:06So you don't just get a deal overnight. I think a lot of people also, this is something I was thinking about a lot over the weekend, a bunch of conversations with people. Maybe we're entering a phase where, you know, back in the day, you could fight a war and win a war, right? There were sides that would concede defeat and wars could end cleanly. And we are done. We have signed a piece of paper. We will retreat. You get this. Like it used to be, whether it's World War II, whether it's the Revolutionary War. I mean, think of any war basically up to World War II. And suddenly in the last couple of decades, we have these wars that sort of never end.

18:45There's never an acknowledgement of a winner or a loser or anything else. So with that as the backdrop, it's going to take a little time to get some sort of deal here. And by the way, for everyone that wants this perfect bow on a perfect deal and everything else, it's like, there's a decent chance we have a Democrat president in two years. They could tear the whole freaking thing up. Who knows what the Iranian leadership will look like in a couple of years. So there's a lot of moving parts here to say the least, but the fact that they keep sending JD to Pakistan is hilarious. A little bit more from Alex Hogan over on Fox, talking about this cargo ship, an Iranian cargo ship that was trying to pass the blockade and don't mess with America, you fools.

19:25And just throughout the day, as we monitor the situation with no vessels passing through the strait, President Trump now posting this on Truth Social writing in part. Today, an Iranian flagged cargo ship named Tuska, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, trying to get past our naval blockade, and it did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy-guided missile destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Tuska in the Gulf of Oman and gave them fair warning to stop. The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room.

20:01Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel. The Tuska is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and we are seeing what is on board. That seems like a fairly obvious illustration of who's in charge right now. The Iranians tried to get a ship through the Strait of Hormuz, which was under Iranian control before all this. Now it's under American control, and an Iranian ship can't even get through. We've now got the ship, and we're sending a message, right? We didn't start thermonuclear World War III. We didn't end a civilization or anything else.

20:37We just used pressure to bring them back to the table. Okay, let's leave war right there and come back and deal with some of the people we have in this country, including the socialist running New York City in just a moment. But first, lean. Everyone's talking about weight loss injections because the results can be dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. But what if you want to lose weight and don't want painful weekly injections or the risk of serious side effects? That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean, and the numbers are impressive. The studied ingredients in Lean is shown to help lower blood sugar, support fat burning by converting it into energy, and curb appetite and cravings so you feel less hungry throughout the day.

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21:55And what does Zorhan Mamdami want more than anything else? For now, it's your money. Eventually, it'll be your head. But here he is with NBC News' Kirsten Welker. And yes, they've got a$5.4 billion deficit, but if he just had some more of your money, he could figure it out. Now that you've bumped up against the hard realities of a$5.4 billion budget shortfall and the other red tape that you have to go through, do you still believe in democratic socialism? Do you still think it can be effective? I believe in it even more than I did the day before. And that's because of the fact that it is focused on the needs of working people.

22:33And working people need that focus, that fight from politicians more than ever. Let's try a little mental game. I haven't done this in a while. I don't want to say the word I'm thinking right now, but I'm going to send it through the computer. I'm thinking that man is a... You did it. Good for you guys. Great. See, we are deeply, deeply connected. That's how we do it over here at the Rubin Report. I don't even have to use the adjectives. He, now that things are not, she basically said, you have this massive deficit. Reality is here. Things aren't working. Do you believe in it? And he said, I believe in it more.

23:11That's actually the definition of insanity. if you keep doing something over and over again that has the same results, that is what an insane person does. And that he does it with a smile. And again, if he just had more, guys, he just needs a little bit more. And do you think there will ever be a day where he's like, you know, we looked at the numbers. We don't need any more. Thank you very much. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That day never comes. Here he is. As you know, last week he got major pushback because the governor announced that New York City would be pushing, Hochul, who is just, she's just awful, that they were going to be pushing this pied-de-terre tax, which is, you know, if you have a second home, in this case, they were saying over$5 million in New York City, they were going to throw another tax on you, even though you're taxed to the nth degree like everybody else and paying all of the highest rates and everything else.

24:03And all of those people who have those homes, they usually come there for business purposes, which business is now fleeing the city. And when they're there, they go to fancy restaurants, they go to shows, they spend tons and tons of money, but he wants to really punish those people and have them feel the pain, which of course the pain then leaks down to everybody else because you don't have their money. He's very excited still about all of that. Governor Kathy Hochul has been adamant about not raising income taxes on the wealthy, which is key to getting much of your agenda accomplished. How do you get her on board for what you're trying to accomplish?

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24:35Well, I'm actually really excited that you asked that question. Just a few days ago, the governor announced that we are going to be pursuing the city's first ever pied -à-terre-tac. So I'm still into it. I'm still into it. Yeah, nothing's working, and we're still going to do all of it. What this guy wants is government to control every part of your life, and because of his constant smile and the lo-fi music, they just want to make it seem like he's cool. And what do cool kids do? They use Nintendo references. I like to think of it this way. Government is driving the race car, and philanthropy is there to give it that turbo boost to cross the finish line.

25:14Or, if you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the golden mushroom. That edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario. Can we do it again? I really... That guy. Yeah, you got that too. First off, you know, when I make all my silly references, like, you know they're coming right out of my brain. Like, that was focus group. That was pre-written. Rainbow Road and everything else. Like, it was just, it's all so fake. But I ask my guys, I'm a little out of the loop with what's going on with the Nintendo characters these days, and I ask young Joseph over here, who could we compare him to?

25:55Is there a Nintendo, someone in that Wii world that we can compare him to? And I've been told that it's this guy. Waluigi is Luigi's lanky, scheming rival in the Mario universe, portrayed as evil mainly because he's jealous, bitter about being overshadowed, and always looking for sneaky ways to win. There he is. He's up to no good. He's bitter. He's jealous. He wants your money, and he's going to take it, that evil. Can I just say on a complete side note, since we're talking about video games for a second, so I went to New York this weekend. and it was my niece's bat mitzvah, and I'm playing my nephew, 16-year-old.

26:35This kid's in the prime of his video game life, playing him in NBA 2K, and he's messing. You know, I'm playing as hard as I can. You know, like my fingers are starting to, the joints stop working and pressing every button. I keep forgetting what R1, which is turbo. Nothing, my hands are crippled and like this, and I'm playing as hard as I can, and I'm dripping with sweat, and he's just messing around. You know, he's shooting crazy fadeaway threes, whatever. Anyway, I'm down by three with 10 seconds to go. Hakeem Olajuwon hits a three. Tie game, he inbounds. James Harden steals it. I'm using the Rockets all-time team.

27:11Hit a buzzer beater and won. I beat a 16-year-old in NBA 2K. But I'm telling you, yeah, thank you guys. Thank you, that was pretty. But my hands, my hand, like this. They just, all right. Here he is, he's also racist. You've talked about things that we all care about. You mentioned the disparity between white New Yorkers and black New Yorkers and how those communities have historically had that disparity. What does policy look like for you to address that? I think first and foremost, you have to acknowledge the truth. And it's not an indictment of anyone New Yorker. It's an indictment of politics and policies.

27:43There's no way that we can accept a New York City where the median household wealth of a black family is less than$20 ,000. For sure. In the most expensive city in the United States of America. Yeah. And you know what that really means. First off, again, they keep saying this thing, the median value, the median wealth of a black family is under$20 ,000 in New York City. That is basically impossible unless you were saying that all black people, virtually all black people are on welfare. They're on big government programs in subsidized housing and everything else. And if you're saying that, then what you're saying is that those programs that have existed since basically mid-70s, that none of them work.

28:22because if those programs worked, those people would be off those programs and part of the economy and doing well. But instead you created dependency. You created generational dependency so that people who get subsidized housing, you know, you have these big high rises in New York where let's say a two bedroom, you get a two bedroom for like six grand maybe, right? In a decent area. That sounds like an awful lot, but that's probably about right. Six grand for a two bedroom in a decent area and half the building, people are paying market value for that. And then they do subsidized housing. So then some other people have the exact same apartment in the same building, but they usually are black or brown people.

29:03That is how these systems work. They get subsidized housing. So they pay say$400 for that and they get food stamps and other assistance. So then think about it. Now you've been in that apartment for a long time and it's a nice building, might have a doorman. And you're looking at these schmucks, you're going up the elevator and you're in this elevator with some schmuck who's paying$6 ,000 for the same thing. You're paying$450 ,000 and you're getting government assistance. Do you think, and your family's been living there and your grandma gave it to your mom and your mom gave it to you, you think you're gonna be like, you know what, I'd like to go get some.

29:33I'm gonna go get a job and get off this welfare and I'm gonna pay$6 ,000 like this schmuck. No, and that has nothing to do with race. They created a system that allowed people to become dependent and then eventually blew apart their ability to get off the teat. That's what they did. At least he's doing this. The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round, all to the town. That's very impressive with that other guy there, that the wheels on the bus, he knows all the words to wheels on the bus. Wario and Luigi, he knows all that stuff.

30:20I actually, we found the cover of his favorite book for children, The Bus That Blew Up. Yeah, you see what we did there. By Sally McBoom. Did you add that one yourself or that was purely AI? God, AI is good. We just did that right before the show. That is because he's a jihadist, you get it. A little bit more, here he is. And he just does not like people who work for the government, who do what the government asked them to do. I believe that ICE is a cruel and inhumane agency that does nothing to serve in the interests of public safety. Actually wrong, buddy. What ICE does is get illegals out and illegals are bringing drugs in and they're raping people.

30:57And by the very nature of coming here illegally, they've already broken the law. And you are the one, you should be deported for a thousand different reasons. You should, first off, just the fact that he couldn't get the, he promised the free buses and the free grocery stores. And just the fact that he couldn't get those done and now has punted the grocery store thing to 2029. and it's gonna cost$30 million to build one of these stores and there's only gonna be five of them in all the boroughs and I'm gonna guess that basically one of them will even ever come to fruition. He should have already stepped down in shame.

31:26Like if you vote, imagine you're one of these pink haired, you're in, what do these people wear? You're in some furry costume, whatever. You look like a dragon or something and you've also got the pink hair and they chopped your genitals off and you're holding a Hamas flag and you gave it all. for mom Dami and then he comes in and within three months he announces no free buses. And you wanted to get on the bus to go to your furry Hamas rally. How else are you gonna get there? I'd be pissed. I'd be pissed if I was one of them. I'd also be pissed if I lived in Queens because well check this video out from Queens over the weekend and I will read a little, give you a little subtext here.

32:06A mob took over Queens, New York intersection Saturday morning setting up a ring of fire while a car with a man waving a Palestinian flag drifted around it, nearly hitting other participants. And this from the New York Post, last night was a zoo, one neighbor who didn't share her name told the Post. When that ring of fire came out, that scared the hell out of me. New York City Council member Phil Wong said, I've seen the videos of the car takeover at 69th and Elliott Ave, and it's disgusting. We are not putting up with this garbage in our neighborhood. You can replay that if you want, just keep it playing for a second while I'm talking, because yes, you morons will put up with this.

32:41This is it, a car running around a ring of fire with a Palestinian flag while a bunch of thugs videotape it and decent people have to hide in their home. Yes, Conor, come back to me. You morons damn well will put up with it. This is what you voted in. This is what you ushered in. You handicapped and incapacitated the law enforcement. You forced out all of the good people. And congratulations, you've turned it into Mad Max. I didn't know it was gonna, I knew it was gonna go bad pretty quick. I didn't know it was gonna go into Mad Max that quickly. like when the Thunderdome goes up, two men enter, one man leaves.

33:17Good luck with all of that. Let's continue with the craziness of the Democrats because it never ends with these freaking people. They don't like the Jews very much. And you don't have to like the Jews. That's fine. You don't have to like anybody. But what you can't do or what you shouldn't do, let's say, as an American, is obsessively focus on one group of people, right? Demonize relentlessly one group of people. And the Democrats have fully embraced first under the guise of just hating Israel, the only place that has anything close to progressive values in the Middle East. And that's the place they hate most, which really tells you that they hate themselves.

33:54But they've really shifted this into now it's they just kind of hate the Jews and we got to push them all out of the party. They're ushered. Look, there's just not a lot of Jews, right? One percent of America, basically. And they're just looking at the numbers like what would be the what would be the least cynical version of what's going on here? They're like, could they all just be like evil haters and jihadists and everything? Yeah, and I think there's a certain portion of it, but it also may just be that the Democrat party is simply looking at the numbers and they're like looking at the numbers and they're going, look, Jews, there's not that many of them.

34:23So whether they vote for us doesn't matter. And we've imported all of these new people, they're gonna vote for us anyway. Oh, and a lot of them come from places that hate the Jews. So let's get on board that. Anyway, that doesn't seem like a long-term strategy for a healthy society to me. Here is New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who's fantastic. She jumps all over Jake Tapper talking about what's happened to the Democrat Party. She's a Republican, of course. You look at the left. The anti-Semites have taken over the Democrat Party. It's the majority of the votes. And in New York, we see this firsthand when you have a high-ranking official in Zoram Mamdami whose top campaign aides are anti-Semitic, who has made anti-Semitic statements in his past.

35:00So yes, there can be, you can ask about questions about podcasters. The reality is the elected officials on the Republican side have been crystal clear in condemning and combating anti-Semitism. And I've been proud to lead that effort at the highest level. Yeah. Look, I don't think I think if you went back to the 13th. So I think this is our 13th season of the show. If you went back in all of the videos and maybe I can do this, like how many people have I actually called anti-Semites over the years? Right. Not that many, actually. I would say Tucker is an anti-Semite at this point. That's fairly obvious.

35:31an obsession every day. If you have an endless obsession with Jews and Israel every day, no matter what's going on, that's a little bit of a hint. Let's put it there. The Democrat Party now has an endless obsession with this tiny little place the size of New Jersey and anyone who supports it. That would lead you to believe when there are, I think, 50 some odd Muslim nations. They don't have a problem with those, even though it's not that great for the women and the gays and the minorities there. and the Christians and everything else, basically no Christians in any of those countries anymore, tells you a little something.

36:08Zorhan, who also is for River to the Sea and the rest of it, his wife is a Hamas supporter. October 7th happened, she did all of these pro-Hamas posts. She liked a lot of the posts and everything else. And now he's getting hit on that. And people, you know, the story sort of broke a couple of weeks ago. People were surprised. It's like, this isn't surprising to me at all. But don't worry, don't worry. Maybe she supports Hamas. And yes, Hamas did kill 47 Americans, whether you care about Israelis or not. But she's an artist. And I remember Picasso. Picasso loved jihad, didn't he? I think I read that somewhere.

36:39I'd like to ask you a few questions about the interview that your wife gave recently. Specifically, do you know which tweets she's apologizing for? Was it for using the N-word or saying Tel Aviv shouldn't exist? And more recently, she liked posts that celebrated October 7th. She's continued to remain silent on that. My wife made the decision to be an artist. and I think that this these kinds of questions are part and parcel of what is coming with myself being the mayor of the city but at the end of the day it is my decision to be in this position it is my responsibility to the people of New York City I am grateful that much of the questions that she faces are also questions about her artistry and the work that she does because that is also who she is he's such an evil yeah you got it there too pretty, that's three for three for you.

37:32Like, dude, okay, she's an artist to whatever extent she's an artist. Can we find a picture that she's painted? Or I assume she just makes probably, you know, ceramic bombs or what is she? I don't know what she makes exactly. We'll see if we can find some of her art. But that's just fine. But what you were being asked was her support for a violent jihadist organization. But the thing is he supports it too as he smiles when he answers the question. These people have completely lost their minds. Of course, one Democrat hasn't. He used to have brain damage, but he's healed and he's out there and he wears a hoodie.

38:10Do you think that the left of your party, do you think that your party, I'll just amend my statement, do you think your party has a problem with anti-Semitism?

38:22Sure, definitely. I mean, the guy that's going to win the primary in Maine has a Nazi tattoo on his chest. And that's no problem for a lot of voters. So I don't know why. That's crazy. All right. So, well, first off, before I comment on that, do we have an image of some of, I don't even know what Mandami's wife's name is, but whatever her art is. All right, we'll get to that in just a second. So let me comment on that. Yes, there is a guy named Graham Plattner and he's running as a Democrat and it appears that he likely will win. And for the Democrats and the lefties, who they've for 10 years, for the last 10 years, they've been calling us all Nazis.

39:00We're all far right. We're all alt right. Joseph, take the picture off the wall. I like to show this every now and again. We keep this on our wall. It's one of my most prized possessions. You got it. You got it. This is the front page of the New York Times calling me and Jordan Peterson and Milton Friedman. Oh, and he just broke a light. Don't worry about that. We'll take that out of your salary. Not a problem, but front page of the New York Times calling us the leaders of the alt-right, there I am pre-beared a long time ago. So we've all been Nazis for the last 10 years. I'll charge you half price for that.

39:33Don't worry about that. We've all been Nazis for the last 10 years. Then this Democrat comes out and he quite literally has a giant Nazi tattoo on his chest, and they're supporting him. So here is Graham Plattner, and what you are seeing there are the before and after. And the before there, because then he got called out on it, so he modified the tattoo. The before there is the skull and crossbones Totenkopf symbol, which was adopted by Nazi Germany's SS military. When he got called out on it, once he wanted to be in public life, he turned it into a squid. So there you go. The funny part is that's such like low on the level of where I think they're at with hating people and being against the Jews and everything else.

40:14And by the way, again, if you don't care about the Jews, that really is just fine. But if you think that if a political party turns against the Jews or a country turns against the Jews, it's going to end up well for that country. No, like look at history. Look at history. It's just, it's baked into the thing, man. The Jews are the canary in the coal mine. And when they go for the Jews first, it's not going to end well for anyone else. Let's continue. Phoenix, scroll up for me, would you? This is Plattner. Here is Plattner. Whether he's a Nazi or not, I'll leave that for you to decide. Maybe he's just obsessed with squids now.

40:51But one thing is for sure, he is a socialist communist. Take a look. It is long past time for reasonable direct taxes on extreme wealth. We must pass such a tax in America. So look, whether I'm a Nazi, you know, the skull and bones, the squid, whatever. Just give me your money. At the end of the day, we just want more of your money. I really don't know at this point. I don't know how brainbroken you would have to be to support these people. Between the jihad, the communism, the car with the Palestinian flag burning the circle in the middle of Queens, the I want more of your money, the everything we touch we destroy, Oh, look at all of our cities with the filth and the drugs and everything else.

41:44And we'll get to the sex changes in a minute. It is just endless. And there's more of them. They're coming. They are multiplying like gremlins in water. And don't you feed them after midnight. Here is Michigan Senate candidate Abdul Al-Sayed comparing Hassan Piker. You know about Hassan Piker. He's this Twitch streamer. Said that America deserved 9-11. He's not proud of America. taught kids on Twitch how to build suicide drones. Real, real piece of work. Here he is comparing Hassan Piker to people joining Fox & Friends. My understanding of America is it's a place where we have freedom of speech.

42:20My understanding of America is it's a place where we're willing to have conversations with folks with whom we disagree. I went on Fox & Friends this morning. Is it un-American to go and speak on Fox & Friends? Or are we drawing certain kinds of lines? And it's that penchant for cancel culture that I think people hate about Democrats. But you're actively campaigning with them. This is a choice you're making. For sure. So why make that choice to actively campaign with them? Because I know that he's having a conversation with a number of folks who feel locked out. You see how they're using our freedoms against us?

42:50You really, really need to understand this. That he makes this a free speech issue. He's campaigning with a guy who is a complete leftist lunatic, who has called for violence, who literally went to China and said he's not proud of America, who thinks America deserves 9-11 and everything else. This is not a free speech issue. No one's saying that the guy can't do those things. I mean, he's gotten pretty damn close on Twitch to at least directly calling for violence and some other things. But no one's saying he can't do those things. I haven't heard people even really call him to be deplatformed or anything else.

43:21They're saying, why are you campaigning with someone with these ideas? And he's saying it's free speech. Well, okay, we all have free speech and we have freedom of association. And you're saying, I really want his audience, so I will campaign with him. So you think when these guys have power, they're going to respect free speech? And also this idea that no one should ever draw lines of what is acceptable or not. No one should ever do that. It means that nothing would ever exist, right? If you have a political party, which is just a set of ideas, well, then there are some ideas that are outside of the norm of that party.

43:57But I would argue at this point, saying America deserved 9-11, saying globalize the Intifada, calling to abolish the billionaires, the laundry list of things that they do, these are all baked into what the party believes at this point. So when he's basically like, I'm not going to push anyone out, it's because you've taken the fringe and already brought it to the center. Here's proof from Abdul himself. It's just the same lack of courage that Democrats deploy to argue as to why they should be taking money from corporations or why they should be hedging their bets on clear, obvious policies like abolishing ICE or guaranteeing healthcare through Medicare for All.

44:37And I think what you're seeing in this race right now is that people are sick and tired of the same old Democrats who lack courage. Clear obvious policies like abolish ICE. So what he's telling you, this guy, who undoubtedly is a Hamas supporter and a Hezbollah supporter and the rest of it, what he's saying is, it's clear, I'm a Democrat, and it's clear that what our policy is, is that if you are here illegally, we will not have any system to get rid of you. And then I'm not even gonna bother with the whole Medicaid for all right now, but it's like, okay, just another giant government program.

45:06Will it work? Will it make healthcare better or more efficient or anything else? But who knows? Probably not, because the government's not good at anything. But we just say we want it, and then a bunch of people who've had their brains broken by public education are like, oh, they said free healthcare, I want free healthcare. Where's my fish? That's what they do. They are not good people. And there's a lot of them. Here we go. A woman who I often say she won most likely to scare small children in the Congress from 2021 to 2024. Premier Jayapal. Here she is explaining who America was built by. And you're going to have to write this one out with me.

45:45Let's go. The majority of Americans across the country, regardless of political party, know that immigrants from all over the world, Somalia, India, wherever they're from, Latin America, Africa, that immigrants have built this country and make this country what it is today. Oh, so it was the Somalis and the Indians and the Africans who built this country. Lady, lady. Let's do it again. What am I thinking? She is a. Oh, you got it. Damn. This is, you know, if I'm proud of one thing that I've done in my life, it's that I've trained my audience to make me better. And now we are so deeply connected that I don't have to finish sentences.

46:26It's great. I would like you to watch Gangs of New York, lady. And it's about America, New York specifically, at the beginning of America. And I know you think the beginning of America was all racist and everything else. But if you want to see who built New York, that would be a good. and DiCaprio's in it, and what's his name, who's a great actor. That guy's just awesome. Who's the main guy in Gangs of New York? You know, the bad guy. Oh, he's a great actor. He's like the Daniel Day-Lewis. He's just the best. See who built America. See if it had anything to do with Italians, but I know they're white, so you don't like them.

47:01See if it had anything to do with Irish, but they're white, and you don't like them. See if it had anything to do with some of those people and how they actually built America. Although, maybe, I don't remember. You know, I know they're rebooting Little House on the Prairie. Was it Somalis that were going out west that were in the covered wagons and everything? We're gonna check on that after. Oh, do we have an image here of, yes, oh, right. Yes, it was the Somalis. And this is, unless this is AI, I don't think so. This is the Somalis and the Africans and the Indians who, that's George Washington.

47:33And there's Thomas Jefferson and there's George Jefferson and there's Wheezy's brother. Another one of these, man, I'm feeling good today. I really maybe the bagels actually worked for me like I needed some carbs. Yeah, you're right. You didn't say that to me this morning. I should have some carbs every now and again. Here's this racist lunatic who's running Chicago right now, Brandon Johnson and well watch. And you just watched the entire city council in transparency try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its tithes to slavery. Nobody's hiding from that.

48:07I am boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city and that's why I'm funding it. You'll get nothing and you'll like it. That was Ted Knight in Caddyshack. Like, no, reparations, no, no, no. No one in my family owned slaves. And even if they did, I wouldn't be guilty for that. You're not guilty for your parents' sins, but you want restaurant, what, what, what? Like everything you people do is designed to make us all racist. Imagine if you're just like, so you're in Chicago and you're a, let's do one of their favorites. You're a Somali. No, no, no. You can't be a Somali though in this case.

48:45You're an Indian and you've come from India and you've come and you open up a small store and your name is, I don't know, Apu Nahasapimapetalan. And you're opening your store and you're selling all of these different items and most of them on Tuesdays get a Slurpee one for half price, two for a dollar, whatever it is. And then the government comes in and says, because Apu, you have to pay more in taxes so the black guy who has the same store as you down the block gets a little bit of your cash. You would become racist. So if you want to turn Apu into a racist, then you are doing it quite well, Brandon Johnson.

49:24Here's Lenny, some people call him Charlemagne the God, I just can't do it, it's Lenny over there with his radio show and he had Ilhan Omar, a woman who married her brother, which was in violation of federal immigration law, that'll burst forth eventually. People just keep sitting on it. The exact perfect example of what I was talking about at the top of the show. Lenny asked her about some of the fraud in Minnesota. I think it's, what, now 230 million that has been... Well, 250 is what they say. Yeah, yeah. 250 misused funds meant for child nutrition. Yeah, 230 to 250. There's been about 77 or so.

50:06that have been indicted. Many of them have taken plea agreements. That makes it, they got to make it hard for you, right? Just in general. Not because you got anything to do with it. Yeah. But when he can point and say, well, this actually happened. I mean, it doesn't make it hard for me, but it does make it hard for, you know, the average Somali business owner. There you go. It makes it hard for the average immigrant business owner. You all caught with the best moment there was, right? He's going on and on about the front. That's got to make it hard for you. Whoa, not you, because you didn't have anything to do with it.

50:45Except she did. We know that she is part and parcel of this giant money laundering scheme. And it's not just her and it's not just the Somalis because Tim Walls, a man who almost vice president, who's now not even running for governor again because he's caught up in this scandal. He's part of it, too. But lady, she's admitting it here. I mean, that's something, that is actually a little something. She's admitting at least$250 million worth of fraud has been found and about 70 Somalis are in trouble for it. And it turns out that nobody learned anything at the Quality Leering Center, like what? And then he asked her, of course, this was pretty good, Lenny, I'll give you credit.

51:25He asked her about how she went from having virtually no money, about$50 ,000, to filing taxes that say she's worth about 30 mil. And watch this little doozy. They said you reported a net worth between 6 million and 30 million. And they said your 2023 disclosure was roughly 40 ,000, between$40 ,000 and a quarter million. Yeah, but they're not net worths. They're like the asset things for the companies. And so I don't know what percentage of it my husband actually has investment in. Like that's not, you know what I mean? it's not a full picture of the numbers in the way that it is presented in the document, because in the documents, we have to do ranges and we have to like report in a way that is not detailed.

52:11It's not like your tax return that you're submitting for the public record to see. But that is a big increase. So you could understand why people would. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure it'll get like adjusted at some level when those ranges are looked at. I hope she ends up in jail. I don't say it that often. And I don't mean in an American jail. I mean in a Somali jail. Or I don't even care what jail. Pick a jail. What's the one in El Salvador? What do they call it? Seacock. You throw that one. Seacock? Seacock. Seacock. Seacock is something else. Seacock. You throw that one. Seacock. That's where we're throwing her.

52:50Seacock. Throw her. I don't care where you put her. That woman is a criminal. She married her brother. She broke federal immigration law. She went from having$40 ,000 to claiming she had 30 million. Then I love her line. What was her line? Those are asset things. You can, I want to talk to my accountant later. I just have a bunch of asset things. By the way, pretending that it's a range and all of that, it's like, lady, you are the ones who want to tax people for unrealized gains, right? That's what you guys want to do. You understand what an unrealized gain is? Meaning you invest in a company.

53:20The company might become worth a lot more. That's the hope of investing, right? A lot of times when you invest in something, it becomes nothing and you lose your money. It's sort of a gamble. You guys wanna tax people on unrealized gains, meaning that if the company hasn't actually done what it thinks it's gonna do, but it thinks it's gonna go there, you wanna tax people on that even though they don't even have that cash liquid. But meanwhile, these are just estimates,$30 million. And a lot of it came from her winery, which so Punchdown Sellers is the address of S. Crew Winery, which is her winery, apparently.

53:53No one can find a bottle of this wine anywhere. It is the most exclusive bottle of wine that you have ever had because no one has ever drank it. I would pay an awful, no one has ever drank it before. It's incredible. I mean, the woman, send her to Seacock. All right, a little bit more. Who don't they like in California? Well, they don't like Nick Shirley. And as you know, Nick Shirley is a kid with a sweatshirt and a phone. And he went out there and he broke the Minnesota story around the fraud scandal. and now he's doing it in Cali. So, Cali, what do you do if they start exposing the light on how deeply awful and evil and corrupt you are?

54:30We're gonna pass a law to stop you. So here is Nick Shirley confronting Sasha Renee Perez, California State Senator, Sasha Renee Perez over the Stop Nick Shirley Act. The bill AB 2624, why would you sign off on that? It's a direct violation of the First Amendment and it makes it harder for people to expose fraud here. We have Ledge Council. They check the constitutionality of all our bills as we're writing them. I work on fraud issues. You'd know that if you look at some of the work I did on the budget subcommittee. Okay, amazing. So Mia Bonta, her husband's the Attorney General of California, and it was only until I exposed fraud that they actually cracked down on the fraud and made some arrests here, especially with the hospices.

55:15And do you know that if this bill were to pass, it'd make it illegal for someone to go after fraud, especially if it's based off of immigrants, for instance, Armenians in California. No, no, I think that that's misinterpretation. I'm gonna just start wearing a hoodie. Maybe there's something about the hoodie that gives you some kind of special power, right? That's all he's doing, that's what Fetterman's doing. But his point is you guys are now pushing forward a bill to quite literally stop people, and it's not just journalists, it's basically going to be everyone from looking into fraud, right?

55:47So, well, we'll do a little bit more. Here he is explaining a bit further that Mia Bonta, as he just said, the woman who's behind the bill, is the wife of the attorney general. Do you think that's a conflict of interest? What do you make of the fact that the person really pushing this is Assemblywoman Mia Bonta? She's got some interesting connections, doesn't she, Nick? Very interesting connections with her husband being an attorney general of California. their goal as a family should be to prosecute and take care and make sure that there is so little fraud in the state that they can have such a peaceful night of sleep.

56:24However, while the attorney general is supposed to be prosecuting fraud, his wife is creating laws to let fraud continue. They're specifically saying that NGOs who receive money based off immigrant services don't have to disclose their money. The level of fraudulence here is so in your face that it almost, it's almost too much in a way. The attorney general, attorney general, top attorney, that's what his job is. You're supposed to be the number one lawyer in the state of Cali. He is married to a woman that is pushing forth a bill that will stop people from looking into fraud. As the attorney general, one of his main jobs, you know, it would be also to jail people that are breaking the law.

57:07and I don't know, maybe perhaps work with ICE, but not in that town, not in that country, in that state. But one of his main jobs would be to make sure people don't do illegal things. That's generally what lawyers have thought of doing. And he's literally, you've got the woman pushing a bill who's married to the guy that's upset that Nick Shirley is going around and exposing fraud. It is completely insane. There was also some confusion whether it just applies to journalists, but actually it applies to everyone. And that's their whole goal, is to make it as open-ended as possible so they can then crack down on anybody who's working to expose them.

57:41And this bill doesn't say journalist. It actually says people or business. It doesn't say journalist. So this is actually an attack on not just me, but an attack on the entire country because they're trying to literally make it harder for fraud to be exposed. And so when they say it's an attack on journalists, it's actually an attack on everyone. Now, you might be watching this and going, Dave, stop overstating it. Here, I will give this one away today. This will be the one we're going to send. People are really into these. They want to frame them and do all sorts of stuff. That'll be the one that we're going to give away today.

58:16You might be watching this and going, Dave, how much fraud could there actually be? Okay, sure. Maybe there were a couple hospices where there weren't people. Maybe there were a couple children daycare centers where there just weren't any children. It's not like they're actually having the government pay to chop people's wangs off and put boobs on them. That would be completely insane. illegal immigration is exacerbating san francisco's homeless drug crisis take care guys be safe out here the shelters are packed with undocumented migrants from all over the world and more people like lisa are confidently coming forward to say they're taking advantage of all the taxpayer funded benefits to meet their unique needs she feels yeah she's on the committee and she feels stayed here.

59:02With the help of a Spanish translator, Liza says he's staying in a homeless shelter, identifies as transgender, and is undergoing hormone therapy to become more like a biological woman after entering the U.S. illegally from Honduras. I'm sorry guys, I don't know how much longer I can do this. You guys are gonna have to get other jobs. This is insane. This is insane. someone is coming to America. You get here illegally as a man. Then you say, I would like a vagina and I want some double Ds, okay? And then the government says, we will gladly chop your genitals off and give you boobs. Senor, senor, quiero, quiero, necesito las, I can't think of it.

59:53How do you say a watermelon in Spanish? Someone Google it quickly. Melones. Necesito melones. Y me pepino. No es bueno. Necesito otro tingi over. Here's a little bit more. What is your name again? Jacqueline. Jacqueline. This is the first time I live in a shelter. Yeah. A lot of Latino here. So definitely some are migrant or undocumented. I think, yeah. And me as a trans woman. Yeah. I feel safe. Were you able to get the hormones or, you know? Yeah, I did that with my doctor. So Medi-Cal, you got the breast implants? Yes. Wow, taxpayer funded. So here in California, they gave you the breast implants here?

1:00:40Yes. Free? Yeah. Wow, congratulations. Do you feel like that's a good benefit for other migrants here in California? Yeah, even though you're undocumented, you can get it. Did you do bottom surgery too? I'm waiting for that one. Wow, you're waiting for bottom surgery. You know who this is a real insult to? It's not us, the taxpayer. And we don't live in Cali, so thank God our taxes aren't going to this. It's not the tax. It's the husband. It's the 50-year-old guy who's been married, has his kids, and then realizes that he wants to be a woman. He has to pay for his surgery. But not only does he have to pay for his boobs and his vagina, he has to pay for that other dude's boobs and vagina.

1:01:31Necesito melones, el pepino no es bueno.

1:01:39You know, I also haven't had breakfast today so I think it's the last bit of the carbs are working through me right now. All right, let's finish the program guys. They're frauds. They're liars. They're buffoons. They hate all of us. They're raping us in every which way possible. And they're also the ones who complain. So maybe we should focus on them a little bit more. I think you may remember this one from about a year ago from Elon. You know who complains the loudest and with the most amount of fake righteous indignation? The fraudsters. It's a tell. This is NGOs that are crazy. Like the$2 billion to Stacey Abrams an NGO that basically didn't exist, and suddenly gets$2 billion awarded from the federal government.

1:02:19She says, why? And there are many such cases like that. And that's it, guys, right? Like, who's concerned about the fraud? It's the fraudsters. Why is it that a state senator who's married to the attorney general would be pushing forward a bill that would stop the fraud? The entire thing is a giant slush fund. If you want a penis and you're a woman, pay for it yourself. If you want to chop off your boobs and you're a woman, pay for it yourself. If you're a man and you want to, we could do every version of this. Y es el programa por today. I thank you for watching. We do it again tomorrow. That was a different accent right there.

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