In short
The host argues that Democrats used Virginia redistricting to massively tilt congressional seats (from 6-5 to 10-1) under a “restore fairness” ballot framing, then pivots to a claim that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is involved in fraud and hypocrisy—allegedly funding extremist groups while targeting critics for deplatforming/debanking. He also discusses a Trump-Iran ceasefire/blockade pause and briefly mentions Elon Musk retweeting a Virginia redistricting critique.
Guest backgrounds
No guests appear in the provided transcript (it’s a solo monologue/podcast host segment).
Key claims
Virginia Democrats “shredded” norms via temporary redistricting that becomes effectively permanent; Elon Musk amplified the critique. SPLC was indicted (wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering conspiracy) and allegedly paid leadership of groups it claimed to dismantle (including KKK-related groups and “Unite the Right”). The host claims SPLC helped suppress conservatives online (YouTube/PayPal) and used false racism accusations against him and others.
Notable examples
Geiger Capital on X tweet; Obama’s “very fine people”/Virginia redistricting framing; Unite the Right receiving $270,000 (per host); SPLC outreach email to Dave Rubin about a Newsweek podcast; references to PayPal blacklist and YouTube algorithm suppression.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOCurrent Events and Virginia Redistricting
0:00 to 1:04
Discussion on the redistricting results in Virginia and its implications.
“I've tried a lot of seafood over the years, guys, and truly it's been hit or miss.”
Current Events and Virginia Redistricting
2:50 to 4:00
Discussion on the redistricting results in Virginia and its implications.
“because we're really not focusing on the war today.”
Elon Musk's Reaction to Redistricting
4:00 to 5:10
Elon Musk's tweet highlights the absurdity of the new Virginia map.
“Like this is a legit, you know, sometimes we see these scandals and it's always like, well, is anything gonna ever come of this thing?”
Trump and Iran Situation
5:10 to 6:12
An analysis of Trump's approach to the Iran situation amid the ceasefire.
“or as we've been talking about for weeks, it's a little bit hard to know who really has the power in Iran right now because we've taken out so many layers of the leadership.”
Democratic Strategy and Hypocrisy
6:12 to 7:39
Exploration of Democratic strategies and the hypocrisy in politics.
“People approaching me four days ago saying, sir, Iran wants to open the strait immediately.”
Virginia Redistricting Details
7:39 to 7:50
Further details on the implications of Virginia's redistricting decision.
“This is an image showing how basically Democrats would control 90 % of the districts, right?”
Abigail Spanberger's Contradictions
7:50 to 9:32
Discussion on Abigail Spanberger's shift in stance regarding redistricting.
“Does that seem what democracy is all about?”
Political Trends and Elections
9:32 to 14:00
Reflections on the current political climate and party behaviors in elections.
“Like this, this is what, it's not only what the Democrats do, but then they flip reality on its head.”
Democrats vs. Republicans: Political Strategy and Ideology
14:00 to 18:50
Discussion on the perceived failures and strategies of Democrats compared to Republicans.
“who's a moderate Dem, just understand this.”
Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment
20:09 to 28:01
In-depth analysis of the SPLC indictment and its implications.
“Here is Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing that a federal grand jury has indicted the SPLC on 11 counts, and they've done an awful lot of bad stuff.”
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The Southern Poverty Law Center's Influence
28:01 to 34:41
Learn about the SPLC's tactics and their impact on conservative voices.
“Southern Poverty Law Center confirms they're helping police videos on YouTube.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Influence
34:42 to 35:03
Learn about the SPLC's tactics and their impact on conservative voices.
“There's a type of real estate fraud called title theft, and your home equity is the target.”
Media Narratives and Political Hoaxes
35:24 to 42:06
Explore how media narratives shape public perception and political outcomes.
“SPLC, getting all of this money, then funding the bad guys and trying to get people deplatformed and debanked and everything else who are not racist or anything, just see the world a little bit differently, right?”
Critique of Media Presentation
42:06 to 43:08
Discussion on the prepackaged nature of media interviews and the irony in journalism.
“Like, Colbert is just like, oh, I happen to like your pocket square.”
Defamation Lawsuit Against The Atlantic
43:08 to 44:29
Analysis of Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and media criticism.
“with actual malice and seeks$250 million in damages.”
RFK's Public Health Initiatives
44:29 to 45:55
Discussion on RFK's stance on vaccines and public health issues related to immigration.
“He offers no pushback against what Kash is accusing.”
Vaccination Skepticism and Accountability
47:03 to 48:16
Discussion on vaccination rates, government misinformation, and public trust.
“God, the Democrats, they're all so hysterical.”
Fraud in Autism Services
48:16 to 49:38
Examination of financial fraud in autism services funding in Minnesota.
“Out in Minnesota, or this analytical behavioral analysis, the ABA therapy, people with high school diplomas and nothing else were being paid$600 an hour.”
Sheila McCormick's Resignation
49:38 to 53:15
Details surrounding Sheila McCormick's resignation and the allegations against her.
“and then chopping off a child's genitals.”
Ilhan Omar's Financial Discrepancies
53:15 to 56:03
Discussion of Ilhan Omar's financial disclosure errors and public accountability.
“but it's kind of very much like Swalwell.”
Ilhan Omar's Financial Disclosure Controversy
56:03 to 57:16
Discussing the questions surrounding Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures and drop in net worth.
“It worked again, it's flawless, it's incredible.”
Ilhan Omar's Financial Disclosure Controversy
57:19 to 57:37
Discussing the questions surrounding Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures and drop in net worth.
“Over 4 million businesses have skipped the line with Stamps.com.”
Ron DeSantis' Political Future
57:47 to 59:48
Analyzing Ron DeSantis' potential positions and influence post-governorship.
“But the reason I'm showing you that there is that it's something starting to break through the airlock.”
Trump's Political Standing and Criticism
59:49 to 1:02:54
Discussing the implications of Trump's leadership and the criticisms from Democratic senators.
“If the state was like 10 million bucks to DeSantis, thank you very much, take a year off, I would be a hundred percent for that.”
American Pride and Political Divides
1:02:55 to 1:07:25
Examining the differences in pride among Americans based on political affiliation.
“Meaning our bases that they wouldn't let us use.”
Transcript
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1:46Barack Obama was a great statesman. What has happened to you, man? And the sky is not falling. Will you stand for our democracy? And it helps if you're a homosexual who's in the closet to marry a woman. I'm gonna get mine also. Man, did we dodge a bullet?
2:26Ahoy matey, I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin Report. It is April 22nd, 2026. Subscribe, comment, like. How many different ways can I say that sort of thing? Thank you for all of you who have done those things. Some of you just hear me say it every day and don't do it. What's the deal with that? We have a slightly different show than we've had over the last couple of weeks because we're really not focusing on the war today. We're gonna do a little bit up top because we're in a sort of momentary pause, I would say, on the ceasefire situation. And then we're diving into a whole bunch of other stuff happening here domestically.
3:02there was a horrific result out of Virginia yesterday related to their redistricting. I mean, if you wanna see how the Democrats will game the system in the way the Republicans won't, well, we got an awful lot on that. We got a Democrat Senator stepping down in shame, so that's pretty good. We got some stuff about DeSantis' future, which is interesting. He's wrapping up his second term here in Florida and is gonna be looking for a new gig. And then an awful lot on the Southern Poverty Law Center, which I have not talked about on this show, probably for, could be two or three years, but we used to talk about all the time because around 2017, 18, 19, at the height of when woke was just exploding into the mainstream, when people were being censored and deplatformed and everything else, the SPLC was going after me.
3:48It was going after Jordan Peterson. It was going after all sorts of people trying to get us kicked off all of these platforms, sometimes successfully. And now, thanks to Kash Patel, they are in a huge amount of trouble. and there is a massive scandal. Like this is a legit, you know, sometimes we see these scandals and it's always like, well, is anything gonna ever come of this thing? The SPLC is caught in a major, major scandal. So this is just a jam-packed show. I drank some water before. I feel good. My lips, this is not a sponsor at the moment, but my lips are lubricated and I'm ready to go.
4:22And that's obviously what they're gonna cut from today's show. All right, all right. We got a 9-9 coming. I'm calling it right now. Real quick, just to get you caught up on where we're at with Iran, which is very much consistent with some of the things I said yesterday. Truth from Donald Trump, based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, and upon the request of field marsher Asim Manur, that's a great name, and Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.
4:56I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade, and in all other respects, remain ready and able and will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or another, President Donald Trump. So as we talked about yesterday, or as we've been talking about for weeks, it's a little bit hard to know who really has the power in Iran right now because we've taken out so many layers of the leadership. So they're sending these guys there and can they speak for the entire country? Could the guys who show up there with Shabazz and Sharif and Manur, or if they sign something, does it even matter?
5:30So basically we're in a slight pause right now. The ceasefire is holding, we're in a slight pause, but in some sense you could argue a pause is good for us because the blockade remains in place. So we're in charge of everything and Iran is not getting any money because they're not getting any oil out of the Strait of Hormuz, that's$500 million a day. So the longer we just sit with nothing signed, it's in essence costing America nothing, right? And it's costing Iran an awful lot. I'll read you one more and then we'll move on from Trump. Iran does not want the Strait of Hormuz closed. They want it open so they can make$500 million a day, which is therefore what they are losing if it's closed.
6:07They only say they want it closed because I have it totally blockaded closed. So they merely want to save face. People approaching me four days ago saying, sir, Iran wants to open the strait immediately. But if we do that, there can never be a deal with Iran unless we blow up the rest of their country, their leaders included President Donald J. Trump. We are going to miss that guy one day. So yes, negotiations 101, art of the deal 101, that is standard Trump stuff. We have the leverage. We are not gonna reopen the strait. You guys figure out what you need to do. If you need to send some new people in, you need to look at the paperwork again.
6:44You gotta figure out how many of the bullet points you like. But in the meantime, China, you're losing about 14 % of your oil. Iran, you're losing$500 million a day and we will see what happens. So to the panic-ins, calm the F down. All right, now let's jump back to our shores because what happened in Virginia last night is an absolute disaster. So first, let me show you an image of the current map of Virginia compared to the proposed map and the proposed map unfortunately is no longer proposed. It passed last night. So until last night, yesterday, the map looked like this. The congressional map was six seats for Democrats, five for Republicans.
7:28They redistrict, they voted on the redistricting last night, and it is now 10 for Democrats and one for Republicans. This is bad. Let me show you something else here. This is an image showing how basically Democrats would control 90 % of the districts, right? They're gonna have 10 seats, Republicans will have one, but it's a state that the Democrats only won by 5%. Does that seem right to you? Does that seem what democracy is all about? Does that seem like one person, one vote, and everything else? And this is once again, where the Democrats are willing to break things. They are willing to do things that the Republicans who generally believe in law and order and believe in the constitution and the norms, because it's baked into the idea of conservatism.
8:16We're trying to conserve something that came before us. Republicans tend not to do these things. Progressives are always trying to progress. Now, it's usually off a chasm. However, what they're doing in this case is just saying, hey, we'll shred the whole thing. We want power. We're gonna go ahead and get it any way possible. Geiger Capital on X said this. I thought this summed it up quite well. This is insane. The Virginia redistricting amendment on the ballot today is framed as a vote to restore fairness in the upcoming elections. In reality, it turns a state that Kamala barely won by five points from six to five, Democrat to Republican, to 10 to one.
8:54I mean, really look at that. So when people went into the ballot box and voted, look what it said. Question, you know, because they give you a little information because a lot of people don't know what the amendments are, some of these extra things. Look at the way it was phrased. should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in upcoming elections? Well, first off, I think it was Ronald Reagan who said there's nothing more permanent than a government temporary program. So temporarily, it's gonna be 10 to one.
9:28Elon saw that tweet and he retweeted it and it caught fire, which is why it's important and why I'm mentioning it. And he just wrote terrible. Like this, this is what, it's not only what the Democrats do, but then they flip reality on its head. Listen to this tweet after the results came in by Barack Obama. Congratulations, Virginia. Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven't done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back. Republicans are trying to tilt the elections. How? Well, are Republicans doing this?
10:04As a matter of fact, we have evidence from some other states, we're going to show you in a little bit, that Republicans who have the power to do the exact same thing are not doing it. So it's democracy when the Democrats pass a referendum that's temporary, wink, wink, that gets them from six to five in the lead, congressionally, to 10 to one. That's democracy. I wonder if Barack Obama ever met Barack Obama from 2016.
10:58free. That's upwork.com. Upwork.com. I think we've got to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters and not the other way around.
11:14Yeah, I mean, we showed you that yesterday and it's just incredible. So every principle that they have, and look, people are hypocrites in politics. People flip, people change their opinions. Sometimes you honestly and earnestly change your opinions. I've changed my opinions on things over the years, but you should be able to explain it. But if you're changing your opinion on something just because you now see it as the winner, as your ability to win, well, that's how we will all end up right in front of the gates of hell as a country. Now, Abigail Spanberger is the governor of Virginia, and she is a far-left wackadoodle who ran as a not completely far-left wackadoodle, mostly, I think it said under her name, mostly far-left wackadoodle, and she completely pulled the rug out from any moderate dem that voted for her thinking she wasn't a nutbag.
12:02She completely pulled the rug out under them. So this is what she tweeted out yesterday. Today's redistricting referendum is about one thing, President Trump's power grab. Last summer, he said he's entitled to more seats in Congress and states across the country got to work to give him what he demanded. You can push back Virginia vote yes. Now, nobody voted to get Republicans more seats. simply has not happened. And again, we have evidence of the reverse of that, which I'll show you in a moment. But it's interesting that she, that Spanberger, would be for redistricting here because, well, we've got this from ABC7 in August of 25 when she was running.
12:41Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger said she has no plans to redraw the lines if elected. Short answer is no, Spanberger said. Virginia, by constitutional amendment, has a new redistricting effort that was put in place and first utilized in the 2021 redistricting. I've been watching with interest what other states are doing, but I have no plans to redistrict Virginia. Oh, and then suddenly within a couple months of her becoming governor, she did exactly that. You know, so interesting. If you look at some of the high profile Democrats who have been voted in lately, obviously the number one is Mom Domi.
13:13And what did Mom Domi run on? Mom Domi ran basically on free buses. Eventually it'll be free buses that explode, but for now it was just free buses. Then he gets in and he immediately says he can't do it, right? To me, that's completely disqualifying. I know a mechanism, I guess, isn't in place unless they had a recall to get rid of him, but like you would step down in shame. This is the thing I'm running on. Oh, I get an office. Now I can't do it. Like go home, go back to Uganda or wherever you're from. That would be if he had even the tiniest sliver of shame. But then Spanberger, last summer, lady, you're not for redistricting.
13:52Then you get power, and then you go completely against it. So I would say, and this is what every moderate Democrat, your Aunt Karen, who's ironically named Karen, who's a moderate Dem, just understand this. If you vote for Democrats thinking that they are moderates, every single time except the guy who had brain damage, who wears the hoodie, they will turn into a radical lunatic. I thought this was interesting because Tim Walls, you remember Tim Walls, He was the guy who wanted to be vice president from under the lady who knew that Russia was big and Ukraine was small. He's also a guy who is not running for reelection as governor of Minnesota because he's caught in a massive scandal there.
14:33Here he is talking about who has better ideas. Is it the Republicans or the Democrats? We keep thinking we're gonna have, catch lightning in a bottle and the next great orator's gonna come along. If it were about having the best ideas, Democrats would win every election. You know this better than anybody, Michael, that it is about, it's about infrastructure. It's about organization. It's about getting out and having people authentically. What are you saying? It's about infrastructure. It's about organization. What are you talking about? How about it's about closing the border? You guys were for open borders.
15:05How about it's for getting rid of crime in our cities? You guys are completely for that. How about getting rid of drugs, making sure fentanyl can't come across the border? How about getting rid of illegals? How about getting rid of modern neo-racism, our schools, DEI? I like literally every, how about lowering taxes so people have more of their own money? How about looking into fraud? I can keep going if you'd like, Tim Walz. Every single policy that the Democrats have has made America worse. And you don't even have to believe any of those things if you just looked at the map of where people are going and where they are leaving from.
15:40Nobody moves to blue states anymore. Everyone is moving to red states, millions and millions of people. Does anyone know anyone that has moved to a blue state? Anyone, anyone, you know anyone that has moved? But they're all idiots. Oh, Phoenix knows several, but they're total idiots. That's the point. Okay, so the morons are moving to the blue states and the decent, hardworking people who know what America is and who wanna pursue their happiness and wanna live amongst sane people are moving to Republican states. I want that full list of idiots, by the way.
16:14Joy Reid, remember Joy Reid? She was on MSNBC. She was the blonde lady on MSNBC. Then they fired her because she was a racist and a buffoon and an idiot and the rest of it. Here she is explaining that Democrats are just not as good at politics as Republicans. Of course, this is ironic considering the Democrats just did the nastiest possible thing, running on not redistricting and then going to redistrict. but somehow it's the Republicans who don't play by the rules. Watch this. Well, first of all, Democrats do not play politics the way Republicans do. The difference between the party, they do not.
16:50They do not. Democrats play by the Marquis de Queensberry rules. I think they do not. They're not rule breakers. What's been... You're trying to tell me... I wish Maury would have done like an old Maury Povich been right there and been like, listen, lady, I don't know what you're talking about, but this guy thinks he's your son. You're nuts. You're absolutely nuts. I don't want to play clips of her anymore. She's irrelevant at this point. But like the idea that Republicans play politics better is completely insane. The Democrats are the ones that are constantly trying to redistrict, that are trying to pack courts, that are telling you they're going to haul in all of their political opponents into the courts and everything else.
17:30And now let me, I referenced this several times already, but if you want to see that Democrats are willing to do things that Republicans are not willing to do, you need only look at Indiana. Listen to this from my friend, Clay Travis. While Indiana Republicans worried about redistricting norms in a state Trump won by 20 points and refused to do anything, Virginia Democrats took a 6-5 Democrat House lead in a state Kamala won by five points and turned it into a 10-to-1 Democrat state. Stop being pussies, Republicans. That's right. So for anyone, anyone that's in a conversation today where your friend or your colleague or your wife or whatever says, but Republicans do the same things, ask them about Indiana.
18:15Trump won Indiana by 20 points. A lot of Republicans over there in Indiana. And they could have redistricted, but they didn't because as I said earlier, Republicans like norms. And the Democrats don't like norms, which is why they're willing to pack the Supreme Court. It's why they would like to make D.C. a state and all the other things that they would like to shred, because what they are on is the quest for power. And the Republicans, generally speaking, are on a quest to make sure that whatever we had that was pretty good doesn't get totally destroyed. And how you negotiate between those two things, I'm not quite sure.
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20:44According to the charges in the indictment, the SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred. Did you catch that? People thought, I never thought, and we'll explain why in a little bit because they've gone after me many times, but the general idea behind the SPLC is that Southern Poverty Law Center, It's something to do with the South and poverty and law.
21:33They must be going after bad guys, right? So people thought, oh, you know, they're finding racist people and they're getting them in trouble or they're exposing them or trying to deplatform them or whatever. Now, of course, as they were doing that, they were finding anyone that disagreed with any progressive orthodoxy and they would try to destroy their lives and careers and everything else. But what they really were doing were funding. This is so insane. What they actually were doing were funding the very groups they purported to be going after. Look at this from the Justice Department. The Justice Department announces indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center.
22:12So what they're showing you now is that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying quote-unquote white supremacy groups and KKK things and everything else. They were paying the money to gin up the hate. They paid one over a million dollars to the National Alliance affiliate. They paid Aryan Nations, those guys throw a great party. They paid them over 300 ,000. Unite the right, remember them? They paid them over 270K. Former National Alliance chairman over 140K. Former KKK members got 73 ,000. Why can't we get a dime on any of this? It's crazy. And the American front president, and Fallon got over$19 ,000.
22:48So you understand, it is not just that they were falsely accusing people of racism and trying to destroy businesses and people. It is also that they were funding the very groups they were claiming to destroy. So they artificially made it seem like these groups had influence. And when you think back to the last 10 years, the accusations of racism, very fine people on both sides and Charlottesville and everyone's a racist and kick this person off YouTube and he's a white supremacist and everything else. They were in many cases, it was them and Media Matters, and I suspect Media Matters will be next.
23:23They were the engines for this thing, and they were funding the freaking stuff they were supposed to be going after. Here's Cash Patel with a bit more. The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertised to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They used their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups. I just want to say that again. They used the fraudulently raised money by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups.
24:12The groups, as the general laid out, include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, Unite to Right, National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle Club, and the National Socialist Party of America, and also the American Front. Okay, so now we're going to do a little story time here, because I'm telling you, this thing is massive. So they gave$270 ,000 to the Unite the Right organization. Does that ring a bell to you? It might because that was the organization of you know quote-unquote white supremacists and neo-Nazis and everything else who did the the Charlottesville what turned out to be you know in essence the Charlottesville riot that's where the very fine people hoax came in.
25:03That means that the guys who are out there with the pitchforks and everything they took said 270 plus thousand dollars from an organization that was designed to destroy people like them. Do you see what the money laundering grift is? Oh, and a guy whose brain was basically pudding told us that he ran for president in 2020 because of Charlottesville. I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Extremist, coming out of the woods, carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks, carrying Nazi swastikas, and chanting the same exact anti-Semitic bile that was heard in Germany in the early 30s.
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25:55Guys, really think how insane this is. So there you have Biden saying that's why he ran for president. And we've shown it before. We're not going to show it today. Maybe we'll add it tomorrow. When Joe Biden announced he was running for president, the pre-packaged video that he put up, he says the exact same thing. That's why I'm running for president. I didn't run when Barack went out, right? I didn't run that first time, but I'm running now because of Charlottesville. You understand that? So it turns out that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid that group, Unite the Right,$270 ,000. And then it created the craziest, Well, you'd say it's the craziest scandal of our time, but we also went through Russia, Russia, Russia and 100 Biden laptop and COVID and everything else.
26:37But let's just say a top 10 scandal. The top 10 scandal of our time. Here's Kamala Harris in the second debate in 2024, pushing the hoax that Southern Poverty Law Center literally paid the bad guys to do. Let's remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate. And what did the president then at the time say? There were fine people on each side. So there she goes, very fine people hoax. Now it's also ironic, and that seems like so long ago, doesn't it? It's only two years ago. But the idea that she's upset that people were chanting anti-Semitic hate, it's like, look what your entire party has become only two years later, lady, right?
27:23Like river to the sea, calling for genocide, like all of the stuff. But that's a sidebar on all of this. So now what do we know? The Southern Poverty Law Center, a lefty nonprofit, is now funding these crazy far right groups that then create one of the scandals of the century. Right. Can you have one of the scandals of the century? Usually there's one. But let's say top 10 scandal of the century. Not only were they doing that, but then at the same time, they were also targeting people, many online influencers who were pushing back against this nonsense to get them booted off big tech. Look at this headline from Daily Caller back in 2018.
28:01Southern Poverty Law Center confirms they're helping police videos on YouTube. And you know it's fairly interesting because the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was going after me and Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro and that whole crew, we were having huge problems with the algorithm back then. Our videos weren't being seen by people. Every day I was getting emails from people saying they don't see videos in their feed. We knew that things were being algorithmically depressed. They were being demonetized left and right and everything else. There they were admitting they were working with YouTube.
28:33Okay, and this one from Breitbart in 2019. PayPal CEO admits partnership with far left Southern Poverty Law Center to blacklist conservatives. So there were certain people that could not use PayPal because this nonprofit left the organization, which was secretly funneling money to quote unquote far right organizations was taking out everybody. This story is, this is like chef's kiss on top of a cherry, on top of a whipped cream. Here's Charlie Kirk in 2025. Look at this on Twitter, what he said about the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC has added turning point to their ridiculous hate group list right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis.
29:19a cheap smear from a washed up organization that's been fleecing scared grandmas for decades. They still somehow rake in over 100 million a year, peddling their hate map nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery poverty palace while crying about hate to line their pockets. Even former staffers call their racket a con. Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us. We just pointed that out with PayPal. Pressure schools to cancel us and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them.
29:58They'd love nothing more than to see Turning Point USA in the crosshairs. Jesus. But it's 2025 and nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore. The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed out husk of an organization that's been exposed as a grift time and time again. They're just not irrelevant. They're a cautionary tale on how to torture your own credibility. Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that nonprofit money is really going. Being on their list is a badge of honor. It means they're terrified that we're so effective. Keep crying, SPLC, America's done with your scam.
30:32I mean, when he talks about crosshairs and everything else, and how would you gin up a whole bunch of people to hate Charlie Kirk and hate Turning Point and everything else. So now I wanna show you, there were many examples of this. And you know, last night when the story was breaking, I was talking to Joseph, I was like, we gotta scour the internet for all the times at SPLC went after me. They've subsequently deleted a bunch of things, but I wanna show you one. This is, you're gonna love this one. Like, this is just great. So this is back in 2022. I tweeted this out. Hey, Southern Poverty Law Center, my comment is that you are a far left hate group.
31:04That's not at the center of what I'm working on, but I will continue to expose you as a slanderous bunch of dirtbags that you are. Also, this loser who reached out to me has me blocked. Please print that. And what am I talking about? Well, I got an email in 2022 from a guy by the name of Mike Edison Hayden, who I had never heard of. He wrote, hi, this message is for Dave Rubin. My name is Mike Hayden, and I'm a senior investigative reporter for the Southern Poverty Law Center. We're a civil rights organization based out of Alabama. I'm reaching out for comment about an alleged incident that is described in some reporting I'm doing.
31:38Does Mr. Rubin recall appearing on an episode of Newsweek-branded podcast called The Debate with Josh Hammer and Celeste Headley? and does he recall asking Hedley what color she was? Again, this incident, oh he had a typo there, is not the center of what I'm working on, but it does come up and I wanted to give Mr. Rubin a chance to respond. Thanks so much, my contact info is below. Okay, this is where the story is gonna get a little bit hilarious. So this guy keeps going after me and you might be wondering why was I asking about somebody's skin color in a debate? This is rather curious, but here we go.
32:12I wrote, LOL, this SPLC loser is still going after me because of a convo, a conversation I had with Josh Hammer and this woman. That's the Celeste lady. In the middle of the conversation, she said she was a woman of color. So I asked her what color, not that it matters. What color should I have presumed she is and isn't white a color? Now, so just think about what's going on here. You have, I was in a debate with this woman. I had never heard of her before, knew nothing about her. By the way, this episode of the podcast, the Newsweek podcast, has been completely scrubbed from the internet. We tried to find it today.
32:44It's gone completely. I think perhaps she may have ended up suing Newsweek. But in that debate, we were having a debate about wokeism. It was the height of the entire thing. And she said, as a woman of color, and I looked at her, Connor, could you put the image up? And as our contrast out of whack here, that's her legit color. If you bumped into this woman on the street, would you say she's white or black? I'm fairly certain you would say white. So I just asked her what color she was. And then because of that, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had nothing to do with the episode that Newsweek was putting out there, reached out to me because what they wanted to do was write a piece that would show that I was racist for asking a white woman who claimed to be a woman of color what color she was.
33:28And you might say, Dave, this is a little in the weeds or a little whatever. But it's a perfect example of how psychotic the machine is. So then this loser, Mike Hayden, and he wrote this, he blocked, again, this guy blocked me before he even reached out to me via email. One reason I block internet performers like Dave Rubin is that they are in the business of chasing engagement and I want no part of it. The girl he mocks here is an adult woman of color and a veteran reporter who has hosted several NPR shows. Pretty grim stuff. And that white woman right there eventually sued, apparently, Newsweek.
34:02So you get it. The reason I'm showing you that, It's just a personal example of how corrupt the entire system is. They falsely accuse people. What was he doing there? He was falsely accusing me of racism so he could put me on some list, which they had done before, and they've done to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sam Harris and many other people, right? They've done that before. But not only were they falsely accusing a whole bunch of us of being racists to ultimately try to make sure that we couldn't get on PayPal or YouTube would depress us in the algorithm, they were also funding the very groups that they claimed to be going against It's such a crazy story.
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35:11That's 24-7 monitoring, urgent alerts, and if you're a victim of fraud, they'll spend up to a million dollars to fix it. Don't let someone steal your equity. Go to hometitlelock.com and use promo code Ruben or click the link below. Okay, so what happened here? Let's just recap real quick. SPLC, getting all of this money, then funding the bad guys and trying to get people deplatformed and debanked and everything else who are not racist or anything, just see the world a little bit differently, right? Case in point, me. But what happens? They fund Unite to Right and then it creates the scandal, again, scandal of the century, whatever you want to call it.
35:50It creates the very fine people hoax that makes it all the way up to mainstream media and almost destroyed the entire first term of Donald Trump's presidency. Here's Jake Tapper. Do you have it? Okay, I'm being told we have it. Thank you. Run it, please. Excuse me, to protest. And you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. That was President Trump saying that very fine people were marching alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads and white supremacists. This is a president who said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides in a Charlottesville neo-Nazi clan march in Charlottesville and his infamous reference to very fine people.
36:35There were, quote, very fine people on both sides of that Charlottesville, Virginia march. Of course, that's not what Donald Trump said. He actually said this. I've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neo-Nazis. believe me, not all of those people were white supremacists. And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists who should be condemned totally.
37:12He's talked, when he says very fine people on both sides, you guys know this, he was talking about very fine people on both sides of the argument about what do you do with a statue of Robert E. Lee, right? So someone who was in the Confederacy, and by our modern times, not a great guy, but what do you do about that? And you can absolutely have very fine people on a debate about that. Do you leave the statue up? Do you put a placard next to it? Do you move it into a museum? 10 other things. But Tapper knew what he was doing, the entire mainstream media knew what they were doing, and they thought they could use that as the mechanism to destroy Trump the first time around.
37:49and that ran for years. And we showed it to you again this week, but I'm gonna keep hitting this. I'm going to keep hitting this until these MFers decide to completely concede on this. It ran through the mainstream media and the first time it was ever debunked was when I was on real time with Bill Maher. Are there good people on both sides at Charlottesville? I don't know. Did I hear that or did I make that up? That 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-Nazi.
38:21Yeah, I have to. And then what happened? Even once it got debunked, once it got debunked, what happened? You remember this one, the day before our last presidential election, Barack Obama pushed it again. Why would you place your faith in somebody who instituted a so-called Muslim ban? who sat down for pleasantries with Holocaust deniers, who said that there were very fine people on both sides of a white supremacist rally. So as I said when that video went up, and the day before the election, Elon retweeted it, was that what is Barack Obama doing there? He cannot be so dim and so out of touch that he doesn't know it's a scam, that it's a hoax, right?
39:11He has to know the truth. So let's say there's 2 % chance he has no idea what the truth is and he's just complete checked out moron who reads the telecompter, which actually I'll up that to 8%. Okay, that's one version of it. But the other version of it is he knows it's a lie, but he believes it is a useful tool to a bunch of people who have been brainwashed, who don't watch shows that will actually show you the truth, that only watch CNN and the rest of it, so he can run with that lie. So he went up there the day before the election and basically said Donald Trump's a racist. And he knew, he knew, it's not 8%.
39:49He knew that that is not what he said. But let's connect this to something else because Tapper has pushed all of the hoaxes, right? He pushed the Biden dementia hoax that, well, it wasn't a hoax because we weren't allowed to talk about it. So the non-hoax, I suppose you could call it. And then, of course, he also pushed the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. President Trump has gone to quote extraordinary lengths to keep specifics about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin secret, even keeping them from top members of his own administration. Take a listen to how President Trump responded Saturday night when asked directly if he has ever worked for Russia.
40:22The president did not directly answer the question. It's a stunning turn of events. Do you think the president of the United States ever worked on behalf of the Russians against American interests? All right, so this is interesting now. So what really is going on here, Jake Tapper? You push the very fine people hoax. You push the Russia Russia hoax. You pushed COVID nonsense. You quite literally helped hide Biden's mental acuity stuff and then wrote a book about it. But what happens when you are a useful tool for the system? The system loves you. It loves you. It will lick you up and down, left and right.
41:00And it will put you on, I'm doing this as if I'm in, I'm from Alabama right now. I'll do it this way. What the system will do for you, if you are a good, I'm a lawyer now in the South and I've got my hands on my lapel also. If you are a good tool for the system, what the system will do is the system will then put you on all the TV shows and it'll glaze you. That's a phrase that the young people are using. It'll make you look like a real fine chap even when you're a sold out douche bag. So for example, last night, Jake Tapper went on the Stephen Colbert program. Now, Stephen Colbert about to be canceled, but they put him on the show nonetheless.
41:38Enjoy your work, but what I forget, when I haven't seen you in a while, is how damn handsome you are. Oh, you're so kind. Thank you. And dapper. And dapper, I like the pocket square. Thank you. Oh, yeah. So this is a special freedom of the press and freedom of speech pocket square. What's he saying? Are you gonna show them over there?
42:06It is so nauseating how prepackaged that is. Like, Colbert is just like, oh, I happen to like your pocket square. I just happened to comment on that thing and you're ready to pull it out. Dave, I like your pocket square. Oh, wait a minute. I have a pocket square too? What could be, what does it say on my pockets? Whoa, it's a whole message here. I better read it. Dave Rubin is the most handsome, smart, and funny host of all time. He is easy to listen to, asks the best questions, and always knows how to keep his show interesting. His ability to mix humor with serious topics should be studied by every aspiring host.
42:46What are the chances that I had that in my pocket while we were doing a... Here's a man who got fired by CNN and then went to teach journalism after being fired by CNN at Harvard and then got rehired by CNN because irony is dead. What do we know about this lawsuit, Brian? Yeah, this defamation lawsuit charges the Atlantic with actual malice and seeks$250 million in damages. Patel vowed to sue in the hours before this article came out on Friday. So now this morning, his lawyers are following up, filing this lawsuit in D.C. and really, you know, performing what Patel knows his boss, President Trump, wants to see, a very aggressive response to these charges in the Atlantic.
43:33All right. So, look, Stelter is just a more portly, jelly-filled version of Jake Tapper. That's all he is. And it's just really, you really understand, he hosted a show called Reliable Sources, which, as I always said, if they would have just called it Unreliable Sources, it would have made more sense. He got fired because everyone knew he was a pansy and a putz. and then he went to teach journalism at Harvard and then they were like, boy, he's so bad, but at least people talk about him. That's literally why they brought him back. The chair that he sits at, at the desk on the show, the chair is worth something.
44:04You could put any idiot at the chair, but they tried a couple other hosts and it didn't work. And then they were like, just put the fat guy back because at least people talk about him. That is 100 % what happened there. Stelter, I hope you're watching and understand why you have the gig. So now, and also if you note the reporting there, he never says that Kash Patel is a liar. He never says that there is any evidence that Kash Patel was wasted and on drugs and anything else. So Kash Patel is suing for$250 million, The Atlantic, because they are accusing him of that. Stelter offers no contrast to that.
44:36He offers no pushback against what Kash is accusing. He just says, well, he's doing Trump's bidding. Now, would Trump be happy if an organization like The Atlantic, which has lied about him and lied about all of us in America and everything else, if they got sued into oblivion because they've been lying? And again, we have very strict libel and slander laws, so you're gonna have to really, and especially as it pertains to public people and people in government, so you're gonna have to really hit some high bars to make this thing work. Would Trump be happy about that? Yes, but is Kash Patel doing it to please Trump, or is it because he believes that he has an actual case?
45:07I mean, I would leave that for you to decide. But let's go to some of the other decent people that are in government right now, and I would say in top five of that list, can be reordered every now and again, and usually Rubio's at the top, would be RFK. And RFK, of course, came in with Maha and got beef tallow to be used in some of the fryers in our fast food restaurants. And he got a lot of us off seed oils and he's looking into early causes of autism and vaccine schedules, all things that the hippie lefties of 20 years ago would have been all about, but now they really hate him because he works with Donald Trump.
45:40Here he is getting into it with Michigan representative Debbie Dingell, great name, over vaccines. And I said, why didn't you get immunized? And they said, we're listening to our government. Our government tells us not to. So you may think that you're pro-vaccine, but people aren't hearing that. And I'm talking to the people that are actually sick right now. It has to do that we have a global epidemic. If you're asking why people stop vaccinating, it's because the government lied to them during COVID. That's when the vaccinations rates dropped. because if you're worried about polio and tuberculosis, you should look at the immigration policies in this country because the place where it's occurring are the place where the immigrants are going because they're not vaccinated and they got tuberculosis.
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47:05They are emotionally dysregulated children. They argue like they are in seventh grade. That is what they do. She's upset because less people are getting vaccinated right now across the board. Now, is that true? Yes. But she wants to blame RFK for it. As he points out, it's because you guys lied to us for years. If you get the vaccine, you will not get nor transmit COVID, blah, blah, blah. And then suddenly they were like, well, it's not really a vaccine. We're going to have to change the dictionary definition of a vaccine. It's more of a therapeutic and forget about herd immunity and forget about antibodies and everything else.
47:37So people became skeptical. And I love what he did right there where he connected it to polio and tuberculosis. because the Democrats then, while we're going through this crazy once in a generation pandemic and everyone wear a mask, unless you're standing at a restaurant and then you can take it off and then you can put it on. If you wanna have a French fry while you're sitting at a, okay, he then connects it to the point that you morons let in 20 million people and where those people are being congregated, because we don't know, some of them are coming from Africa and they're coming from Mexico and they're coming from Guatemala and they're coming from all over this.
48:07And we don't know what vaxes they have because we don't even know who they are. So you're all terrible people. Here's a little bit more from RFK on how all of this has led to also the other thing that we've been talking about over the last couple of months, which is a massive fraud scandal, particularly in Minnesota. Out in Minnesota, or this analytical behavioral analysis, the ABA therapy, people with high school diplomas and nothing else were being paid$600 an hour. We went from paying$7 million a year for autism services in Minneapolis to$200 million a year, and most of that was stolen. What?
48:56Did you catch that? we were paying people seven bucks an hour and that suddenly exploded to do autism, to have, I don't know, if it was after school training with kids with autism or whatever. There is a massive scandal here. And it's not just that the Democrats never wanna look at that. What does the Democrat answer to everything always? It's throw money at it. Does the money make anything better? We have no idea. Is there crazy amounts of fraud in all of that cash that you're just throwing to all these organizations? Well, it appears so, but we don't wanna look at that. We wanna feel good. We're Democrats and how, what makes a Democrat get a boner?
49:31It's taking someone else's money and putting it into some crappy program that doesn't work, patting themselves on the head and then chopping off a child's genitals. That's how it works. I thought this image summed up the whole thing. Here is, look at these, look at the hatred that AOC, look at the hatred she has for Bobby Kennedy. For those of you listening on the audio podcast, you gotta just try to Google this image, AOC and Bobby Kennedy, and she just hates him. a man who is trying to make us healthier again, a man who has, his last name is Kennedy, he put it all on the line to leave his party, to work with Donald Trump, and look at things like why are rates of autism spiking with women who take Tylenol in early pregnancies and all of these things, and bringing in incredible people into the NIH like Jay Bhattacharya and Dr.
50:22Oz, and it's like, who does she, well, she hates Trump most, but who's in her top 10 of hates, it's him. Here is the lady who from 2022 to 2024 won most likely to scare small children in a dark alley, Pramia Jayapal. I worked on global health for 10 years before coming to Congress. So it's an area that I'm very interested in. Cuba has a remarkable public health system, lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality, sort of the opposite of what the United States has. Cuba has a remarkable health system. That comment is so idiotic. Here's the sheet that I'll give away today. I'll sign this one and give it away.
50:56That comment is so idiotic and so moronic that I am actually punting my job right now. I'm not going to comment on it. I'm going to show you a scene from a 2008 movie called American Carol by the great David Zucker, my friend who also created Airplane and Naked Gun and did a bunch of the scary movies, with a bit more on the Cuban health care system. As we can clearly see, Cubans have the very best health care in the world. Not like in America where it can kill you. Doctor, we just want the same care you give your own people. Okay, then get in line. Comrades! Pal, there you go. Free. That'll make you feel better, huh?
51:33There you go. Free. You know, in America, that'd cost you an arm and a leg. Ah, jeez. Dude. Sorry. That's okay, Paco. You'll be back in your feet a long time. Cuba! So much harder than the jewel of the Caribbean. A country that truly cares for its citizens. The Pramaya Jalabal should have to be like, not eyes wide shut, orange, what's the movie? Where they type the eyes open, clockwork orange. She should have to watch that movie with her eyes like this. That would, I'm not even gonna bother commenting any further on the Cuban healthcare system. Let's dive into some other deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply corrupt Democrats.
52:12Sheila McCormick, Democrat, she's on her way out. She resigned yesterday. She wrote this, Sheila, her name is Sheila, a surefulist, McCormick. This was not a fair process. The ethics committee refused my new attorney's reasonable request for time to prepare my defense. By going forward with this process, while a criminal indictment is pending, the committee is preventing me from defending myself. I will not stand by and pretend that this has been anything other than a witch hunt. I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on and my good name to be tarnished. Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away so I can devote my time to fighting for my neighbors in Florida's 20th district.
52:48I hereby resign for the 119th Congress, effective immediately, but let me say this plainly. We should be very careful about the precedent we are setting. In this country, we do not punish people before due process is complete. We do not allow allegations alone to override the will of the people. That is a dangerous path and one that should concern every American in regards to party. To my constituents, it's been the honor of my life fighting for you in the House of Representatives. Thank you for standing with me and fighting alongside me. This fight is far from over. Interesting, so we'll tell you a bit more about what happened with her, but it's kind of very much like Swalwell.
53:18I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything, but I am gonna step down, which I don't know why you would do if you didn't do anything. She put that up on the Twitter machine and then Community Notes, which is their fact-checking apparatus. Well, they cleaned it up for her. Representative Sheila Sherfalis McCormick was investigated for carrying out a multimillion-dollar laundering scheme involving FEMA funds, rerouting much of the proceeds to fund her 2021 congressional campaign. Nearly all of the counts against her have been proven. So she literally took FEMA money to her own campaign. That's why she's stepping down.
53:53She's a liar. And thank God Elon Musk bought X, then Twitter, and created the community notes feature. Interestingly, back in November, here she is responding to those very serious allegations. Hi. Any thoughts on the indictment please? Well it's an unjust indictment and it seems like these intimidation tactics have been pervasive. We spent all week seeing different members getting censured all in hopes of intimidating and kind of distracting from the Epstein files and I look forward to my day in court so I can prove myself and actually state the truth but if this is what Congress is becoming where they're always trying to intimidate you scare tactics especially attacking minorities black and brown people then we're going to have to keep fighting for the district and everybody has been giving me so much support, and we're gonna keep fighting until the district gets what it needs, which is fair prices, housing, and fair representation of Congress.
54:47So thank you so much. I love it. She brings up Epstein, has nothing to do with this. She brings up the fact that she's black and or brown, has nothing to do with this. It doesn't matter if you're white, blue, black, and or brown, you're not allowed to take federal emergency money and put it into your campaign. That's pretty simple stuff. Now, the beauty of all of this is something is happening. You know, a lot of times I talk about how, You know, we feel like these scandals happen. Nobody ever pays the price. It's like people, but something is happening. We, you know, Swalwell is gone. Now this lady is gone.
55:18What was it? Two and a half weeks ago, J.D. was interviewed and said that we know that Ilhan Omar violated federal immigration law. Here she is losing her temper just a little bit after Alison Steinberg from Lindell TV asked her about how she got a little confused because on her financial report, It said she was worth about 30 mil. How did she get there from the 100 ,000? The last time I spoke to you, you said that I was stupid for asking you about your financial disclosure, but there's some discrepancies on there. Would you like to explain that? How did you make such a big mistake? Absolutely.
55:57You're stupid for asking me anything. I have given it. What about the American people who are wondering how you made such a big mistake? I have explained it to the American people. What's the explanation? I have given them the explanation. Do you want to tell our viewers? I don't want to tell you, Josh. How about that? Okay, okay. Have a good day. Thank you for asking. Deport that.
56:20It worked again, it's flawless, it's incredible. We're doing something that no one has ever done before. It's amazing. Here's a Fox reporter asking Ilhan about the mild, it's roughly a$30 million dollar error. I mean, I got a meeting with my accountant today. I'm hoping she's carrying the one, but we'll see what happens. Here's a Fox reporter asking Ilhan about the mild accounting mistake. Tell us about your net worth dropping down to about$100 ,000. Could you just elaborate on what mistake was made, Congresswoman? What mistake was made on your financial disclosure forms to bring it down to$100 ,000 from up to$30 million?
57:01Just want to give you a chance to clear it up because people are wondering why it dropped so far down. Does your husband still have the consulting business worth about$8 million? Still waiting in line? Again? That's time you'll never get back. Save time and money with Stamps.com. Over 4 million businesses have skipped the line with Stamps.com. Join them to save up to 90 % off carrier rates from your computer or phone right now. Print postage for certified mail, registered mail, and packages in seconds. Then schedule a pickup right from your home or office. For a limited time, go to stamps.com and use code podcast for a free welcome gift.
57:42Taxes and fees apply. Does your husband brother have the consulting business worth$8 million? Could you just send me a bottle of Pinot Grigio from your little S winery or whatever it was called that nobody's ever seen a bottle of wine from? I'm like, awful human being. But the reason I'm showing you that there is that it's something starting to break through the airlock. Swalwell's gone. This other lady's gone. Ilhan, you are next. There is just no doubt in my mind, we are gonna find out that Rashida Tlaib is working with terrorist organizations like she obviously is. That's even lower hanging fruit.
58:14But let's now connect this to something. Oh, and Jasmine Crockett's gone. That wasn't a scandal. That was just because the lefties decided she wasn't as insane enough for them. Jamal Bowman, the guy who pulled the fire alarm during the vote, he's gone also because they decided he was too insane. So there's some good things happening and it's important we acknowledge when they happen. But now let's talk about the positive side of things. Much of it emanates right here from Florida. And there are a lot of discussions right now about what Ron DeSantis' future is. This is from Ryan Savadra on X. Axios reports that President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have spoken in recent days about DeSantis' future.
58:50DeSantis says his dream job would be a US Supreme Court justice and that he is very close with Clarence Thomas. DeSantis on the Supreme Court would be huge. Here's a little bit more from the Axios piece. DeSantis is 100 % not interested in the attorney general job, but he would be interested in two things, war secretary or Supreme Court, which would be his dream job, said another source familiar with the discussions. DeSantis and conservative justice Clarence Thomas, that source said almost have a father son relationship and would be a hell of a legacy for Trump. Now, I should say, you have to take all these things with a little bit of grain of salt because they're obviously anonymously sourced.
59:24So when they go the other way, I would be skeptical of them and I would be skeptical of them when they say things that I broadly agree with 100%. Also, Axios is a lot of crap. But the point is DeSantis is almost done. He's almost done. And he's gonna have to figure out what he wants to do after this. And he could go in, you know, he's not worth a lot of money, a couple hundred grand, which I know most people would love a couple hundred grand, but you know, to be as influential and I mean, what he has done to this state, like to me, if Florida was like, you know what, we're giving the guy a$10 million leaving bonus, like just thank you for what you have done to this state and quite literally in some sense, save the entire union by fighting the way you did during COVID and then doing all of the things that he has done over these years.
1:00:08If the state was like 10 million bucks to DeSantis, thank you very much, take a year off, I would be a hundred percent for that. I would gladly put money in on that. But putting that aside for a second, he has to decide what he's going to do. So does he want to go into the private sector and lead an organization where he would, he's obviously an incredibly effective leader. That's possible. Does he wanna go into the administration? Maybe in a department of, if he doesn't want attorney general, which strikes me as just an endless headache right now, and I would understand why someone wouldn't want that.
1:00:35Maybe Department of War, but Hegseth is there. Hegseth has been amazing. I don't sense he's going anywhere. So Supreme Court does sound like something. Here's DeSantis sharing some of his feelings about Clarence Thomas. The only thing I will say, Clarence Thomas, greatest living justice and one of the greatest public servants in America. Now, what I would say about Ron DeSantis, the only thing I want to say is, does he strike you as someone, if he was on the Supreme Court, would offer up opinions on cases that would be 100 % completely in line with the Constitution? Not an activist judge, not somebody putting his opinion into it or anything else, but looking at the law, the way it is written, and putting out statements and policies regarding that.
1:01:20I think that is very, very obvious. So we will see what his future will be. But of course, much of what we still have to deal with, regardless of what happens with DeSantis, is what is going to happen with Trump. And Trump, if the Republicans lose the midterms, is basically cooked, because it's not only that he'll impeach him, as I've been saying, the Republicans will start jumping ship. It will be a disaster for, not only for his legacy, more importantly, it'll be a disaster for the country. Here is Connecticut's senator, Democrat. He's just awful. So of course he showed up in Spain, which is now run by a communist and did not help us during the war and is radically anti-America right now.
1:01:58Chris Murphy talking about Trump in Spain. I want to bring you greetings as well from a nation that is in crisis. I'm not going to sugarcoat the gravity of what we face right now in the United States. This is the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War. Donald Trump in our country is trying to end our democracy. We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. What an unbelievably horrible human. Like, I don't even, I just, I really mean it. It's hard sometimes to comment on these guys effectively. Like, how am I supposed to watch that? You're thinking the same things I'm thinking.
1:02:39Like, it's not that I can just send the word to you and you know what we're talking about. Like, what? You're going to Spain, a communist nation, to talk about how authoritarian we are and it's the worst since the Civil War and all these things. You're a liar, you're a buffoon. Everything you've done in your career is aimed at destroying America and Donald Trump's trying to save it. And you go to what has now in essence become a communist country who does not help America in a time of war, actively tries to hamper America, although as Donald Trump said, if we wanted to just take the air bases, what the hell is Spain gonna do?
1:03:09Meaning our bases that they wouldn't let us use. like we could just land there and do whatever the hell we want. What are they gonna do? They're gonna throw a jamon sandwich at us? Like, no, they can't do anything. But you're a terrible person, Goldman, and you're perfectly representative of the Democrat party. Now, interesting, this is good. This is CNN, where Cassie Hunt is on, and there's an NBC poll claiming that only 23 % of Americans say the US, sorry, let me start that over. There's an NBC poll claiming that 23 % of Americans and say the U.S. isn't the greatest country in the world and watch Scott Jennings clean it up.
1:03:44Right, and even if we look at, like, what the United States is the greatest country in the world, 36 % of people said that was true. 41 % said it's one of, but only 23%, but 23 % of people said we're not one of the greatest countries. And if you look at the splits on that by politics, what would you find? I don't have that slide to hand, Scott. If you look at this, but if you look at the splits on how people feel about America, the promise of America, if you look at whether they're proud of their country or not, Gallup has measured this. Republicans and conservatives are proud to be Americans.
1:04:12And it's Democrats and liberals who are not. And I think if you look at the splits in that, you'd find the lines on the graph going this way. And honestly, I mean, I think there's a political movement in this country right now built on telling people that America's rockin' at its core. And it's not the Republican ideology. Yeah. Once again, great work, Scott. Can we pull the stats up there again? Because think about this. Think about this for a second. We'll put it up. So 36 % of Americans right now, according to this NBC News decision desk poll. So again, you take all these things with a little bit of a grain of salt, but 36 % say America is the greatest country in the world.
1:04:48Those people are obviously all Republicans and or conservative or whatever it is that I and you are, you know, let's say right leaning people. What lefty, do you think Barack Obama would say that? His wife literally said she was never proud of America until Barack Obama got elected. What Democrat, right? You think AOC would say America's the greatest country in the world? would say America's greatest country in the world. One of the greatest countries. I don't think Bernie Sanders would say that. I don't think AOC would say that. Certainly that Dan Goldman wouldn't say that. They don't think America is great.
1:05:16As a matter of fact, they think we're an authoritarian hellhole. Ironically, everyone still wants to come here. But if you add up the 36 and the 41, you get 77%. That's an awful lot of people who think we're at least pretty good, right? Like pretty good. And not one of the greatest countries. Well, it's 23%. And that's probably guys in line with how many truly wackadoodle progressives there are. The Democrat party has been hijacked by an extremist group that now represents almost all of them in Congress and in the Senate, but it's not representative of the American people. And it's only because the good liberals didn't know how to stand up.
1:05:49So I don't know how you fully quantify that, but if I think if you were to walk around America for the next year, maybe I'll take a year off and we'll do like a Forrest Gump thing and I'll just walk America and talk to people. It's actually kind of interesting. I think you would find that eight out of 10 Americans love this freaking country and love our foundation and love our founding and our documents and all those things. And it may be, I bet you it's actually less than 20%, but they are loud and they are scary and they are extortionists and terrorists. And we're gonna have to figure out what to do with them.
1:06:18Jennings did reference a Gallup poll there and I thought this was interesting. This is pride in being an American by political party from 2001 to 2025. So this is a pretty robust study. In the early 2000s, pride in being American, Republicans, 90 % were proud, but here's the key. 87 % of Democrats were proud. So that's probably within the margin of error. So basically everyone, and independence is roughly the same thing. So basically in early 2000s, everybody in America, regardless of political party, was at least proud of America. Now let's flash 25 years later. Republicans, 92 % are proud of America.
1:06:56independents 53 % and Democrats 36%. That illustrates Scott Jennings point perfectly. The Democrat party is not only radically against all of the things that made America great, they're not even proud of America in the first place. What they want is a country that if they control, if you cede all of your decisions and money and autonomy to them, so that they, via central planning, can tell you how to live, then they'll like the country a little bit more. Of course, the rub in that is that you probably won't like it at all, although the irony is that they won't give an F. I'm calling it. It was a nine-nine today.
1:07:41I did everything I could do. Thank you for watching. Post Game Show, 30 Seconds, RubenReport.Locals.com.
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