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23:31They went from a 6-5 state, a 51-49 % voting state had 6-5 representation in Congress. It was the fairest state in the union. Then they vote on it. It goes 10 to 1. Now it's hung up in the Virginia court, as everyone knows. But Ron DeSantis decided, you know what, we're going to get ahead of something. If these guys are going to try to cheat. We are going to get ahead of something. And well, signed, sealed, delivered the new Florida congressional map, which will add four seats for the Republicans. John, I know you're a fight fire with fire guy. So this is all good, right? I think Ron DeSantis is the most brilliant political strategist we've seen in my lifetime.

24:10He's always three steps ahead of them. I mean, full disclosure, Dave, you and I know him pretty well he he uh he just sees what others don't he keeps his finger on the pulse and he understands more important than anything more importantly than anything exactly what floridians want what florida voters want and what also creates a much better quality of life in the state i mean i've been down here 23 years now in south florida i'm in actually in lakewood in florida right now i want to give a little shout out to the cleveland heights golf course the manager let me use his office really nice guy to do this in lakeland look at you doxing yourself all over the place But yeah, I think this was a great move and it represents and it reflects the Florida electorate, right?

24:49We have a 1.5 million GOP voter advantage. We have hundreds of people moving to the state every day. Preliminary data shows most of them are Republican voters. Many of them are former Democrats who switched parties and they saw how DeSantis performed under COVID. So I don't think all this nonsense about how this redistricting was a Republican power grab. Absolutely not. This is fair. This is equitable. And it's representative of our electorate and voter base. And by the way, if Cali is going to purge people and New York's going to purge people, well, they're going to lose representation. And 2.3 million people have moved to Florida since 2020.

25:23Fact. Ultimately, that's going to get us more representatives. I want to jump quickly to the other elections that happened around the country. And this Indiana thing was sort of interesting, these primaries, because it's a red state. But there was there was some sort of push like, oh, does Trump still have a handle on what's going on with the Republicans? And well, yeah, we found out he certainly does. President Trump has been seeking revenge and tonight he is getting it. He is had a successful effort in at least three of the Indiana state Senate primary races. And one of the the Trump challengers has failed.

26:03So right now, the scorecard that the White House is watching very carefully is three to one, and the Trump-backed candidates is leading in the other two. What are we talking about here? Why are we talking about the Indiana State Senate? Because the senators, the Republicans, who have served for nearly 20 years, each one of them who lost, voted against the president's redistricting plan last December. They said that they did not believe it was appropriate to redraw those maps. The White House has said, we are going to throw you out of office, and that is what is happening this evening. All right.

26:32So you can see there are two reasons I wanted to show you guys that clip. One is it goes to the redistricting thing and even Republicans that seem to not want to yield power when they have it. But the more key part of it is that for whatever faction of what we could say is like the Tucker right right now that is saying Trump has lost the base or something like that. No, Trump got a clean sweep in all of the primaries across the country for everyone he endorsed. Nick. I also think the media is totally misreading this. I think they're making this all about Trump's revenge. No, this is about Republican grassroots that are tired with weak, feckless Republicans that don't know what time it is.

27:07And they showed up in the primaries, which, thank God, that's what they should be doing. And I noticed this too. The same people on the right who are constantly complaining about the administration, constantly complaining about the Uniparty or rhinos. They never do anything to defeat rhinos. The people of Indiana just did something to defeat rhinos. And it's going to have a ripple effect across the entire country because I served 10 years in a state legislature and I would tell people your worst Republicans are in your safest districts. They are part of the good old boy crew. They get on the appropriations committee and they just sit there forever.

27:45They never do anything difficult. They're in seats where they never get a contest. I said, if you would just primary these guys, the message you would send to everybody that you didn't primary would be so significant that you would get much better representation. But that's what this was. This wasn't as simple as Trump being mad at somebody. This was righteous anger and indignation at a bunch of, again, weak, feckless Republicans that didn't know what time it was. And now they got replaced by people that are going to fight, which is good because that's exactly what we need right now. The left have been treating us like they're enemies, not their fellow citizens that we have disagreements with.

28:21No, they treat us like they're enemies. And when we have guys up there that are not willing to fight back, they win at our expense while we sit around going, well, it's just not the way we do things in Indiana. Well, it is now. So thank you. That's right. And to your point, Indiana could have done redistricting. They were solidly red state that could have gone even redder. And they didn't because they didn't have people doing exactly what you called for right there. We're kind of bouncing around from crazy to not crazy. So we were in crazy Minnesota, then we're in not crazy Florida. Let's go to crazy New York right now where, you know, Zorhan put out this ad on the PA de Terre tax.

28:54We've covered this a couple of times, but I want to get your take on this, where he literally stood in front of Ken Griffin's house and basically said, burn this thing down, people. Grab his wife and dog. And well, he's doubling down. So I'll first just start by saying that I want all New Yorkers to succeed. That includes business owners and entrepreneurs who create good paying jobs, who make this city the economic engine not just of our state, but frankly of our country. And that also includes Ken Griffin, who is a major employer in our city. That does not negate the fact, however, that our tax system is fundamentally broken.

29:31It rewards extreme wealth while working people are pushed to the brink. It is a status quo that is unsustainable, that is unjust. And if we want the city to be one that working people can actually afford to live in, then we need meaningful tax reform that includes the wealthiest New Yorkers paying their fair share. John, one percent, the top one percent pay 46 percent in taxes. What do you think he would consider the fair amount on that? Ninety nine point nine. He's nine nine nine. I mean, this guy's out of his mind. Right. it. He is a full-blown communist. Some of our friends, Dave, are optimistic about the future in New York.

30:14I grew up there. I policed the city. I watched the city go through many iterations. And one common thread was always, even a Democrat, going back to Ed Koch, they left the NYPD alone. Bill de Blasio started to destroy it. Eric Adams let it happen. And Mamdani has put it into high speed and they're going to soon have a generational problem with the quality of people they're hiring the the qualified people are retiring attrition is happening at a much greater pace than they can even hire and what they're hiring the quality is terrible so now you can lower the fitness standards non-existent non-existent because those fitness standards only really ever applied to white male that's the dirty little secret everybody else got to pass everybody else even white women got to pass but now you've got a situation where you've got a communist mayor that wants to bankrupt the wealthy.

31:01Well, what are they going to do? They're going to move out. So you're going to be left with a non-affluent base in New York City. You're going to be left at the lowest common denominator. You're going to have rampant crime. And you're going to have a police department that for generation, generation and a half, 20 to 25 years, doesn't have the people working there, wearing the badge, carrying the gun, who can do anything about it. So his financial proposals, as insanely left-wing as they are, are only one part of what I think is going to be a devastating hit for New York City. De Blasio primed it, and this guy, man, he is putting the final nails in the coffin, in my opinion.

31:39Nick, I think you're going to agree with me on this, but I truly believe he is trying to implode the city. I don't think he thinks this stuff works. I think it's the communist part, but it's also with the dash of jihad, and I think he's trying to push out every good person, destroy it, and then rebuild it into something that will look completely unlike New York and far closer to Gotham. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not entirely sure. I'll put it this way. Yeah. I never thought the thing that didn't make communism work was that it lacked jihad, but here we are, give another shot at New York. But here's the part that I don't know if he gets this or not.

32:20Margaret Thatcher is famous for saying that the problem with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other people's money. Well, you could get away with that longer in totalitarian communist countries because they could build walls and keep you in it with machine guns. And I disagree. I don't think he wants 99 % of Ken's money. I think he wants to take all of Ken's assets that he wants to kill Ken and sell his organs on the black market, right? I don't think he's happy with anything. I think he sees them as the enemy. The problem that he's going to run into almost immediately is just your point.

32:50People have no concept of who actually pays taxes in the United States in general and specifically in New York City. And all it would take is for maybe 50 to 100, some of the top earners in New York City, to John Gulp that place and go somewhere else. And he's screwed. Forget his$30 million crappy grocery store. Forget his free bus rides. He doesn't have enough to keep the lights on. He's going to be begging New York state for a bailout. He's already going to him begging for a bailout. He's going to, he's going to bake the feds for a bailout. And, and to, to John's point, when you don't have a police force that can actually maintain order, when the police force is now being staffed by people who are likely to gain you to join in on the rioting and the looting, it did become Mondani is about to turn New York's escape from New York city into a documentary.

33:43Yeah. Like it's no longer wild entertainment in the eighties. It's a documentary under his leadership because the infrastructure is not there to even sustain this to a reasonable amount of time. You're going to start to see a crisis come very, very quickly. What I would encourage Ken and all these other guys, don't threaten it. Move. Leave. Because the only way that New York City is going to correct at this point is if they feel the full weight of these policies. and because Momdani, unlike so many other Democrats, comes right out and says he's a socialist and right out and says he wants to seize the means of production.

34:17Great. Let that be the tagline for what happens next in New York. Yeah, and by the way, Ken Griffin has said they still are moving a huge amount of the operations to Miami, which is galls gulch to go with your reference there. Let me throw to this, though, because the other thing that's going on is it's not just that Momdani's trying to take out New York City. The communist ideas seem to be bursting forth absolutely everywhere that the Democrats are right now. There just are no more old school Democrats. They have morphed into this new thing. Here is AOC with, I guess, comedian. I used to do stand-up with her, believe it or not, a lifetime ago, Ilana Glazer.

34:54And they just don't like rich people. There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right? You can't earn a billion dollars. That's right. You just can't earn that. That's exactly correct. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they're worth. But you can't earn that, right? And so you have to create a myth that since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it. Oh, I think we're going to have fun with this one. So to get that level of wealth, you have to break rules, abuse labor laws, pay people less than they are worth.

35:47We checked it on my show yesterday. Elon employs 146 ,000 people across his companies. I am pretty sure that does not involve breaking rules. It's actually getting life to go interstellar. I'm pretty sure he's not abusing labor laws. He's building tunnels under the earth and he's got quadriplegics playing chess with their mind and paying less than they're worth. I'm pretty sure the people of Tesla and SpaceX, et cetera, are compensated fairly. John, this woman's an idiot. I don't have a question. He's a moron. I mean, look, great example with Elon, right? You take companies like Home Depot, the founders of billionaires, how many hundreds of thousands do they employ?

36:22UPS during Christmas has something like 800 ,000 to a million employees worldwide. The shareholders are really wealthy, the founders of the company, the main equity holders, as they should be for what they're contributing. I mean, this is stupidity beyond, but I don't think she really believes that. I think she knows full well this just plays well to her base. This is good red meat for her base. Her district, if you know her district, is a pretty low-income district. English is primarily the second language. So for her, this makes perfect sense. It positions her to be a presidential candidate, To your point in this new insane Democratic Party, and it ensures she will keep her district forever if she wants it.

37:02Nick, I mean, everything she said there is what you've been illustrating throughout the show, right? Well, I think most billionaires in America wish they were as rich as Hugo Chavez's daughter. Right. Nobody knows wealth like a communist dictator, right? Right. No, again, it's absurd because it's coming from someone that has no conception of how economic supply and demand markets actually work. She doesn't need to. She doesn't care. She's trying to win votes, not actually build a company or manage anything productive. And one of the best ways to build votes is to actually appeal to envy and appeal to disgust.

37:36And so, you know, she talks about like you can't earn a billion dollars, so you have to create a myth. Well, no, she believes in a myth and she didn't need to create it. She just needed to have about$100 ,000 in college debt to attain it. Because to your point, one of the biggest problems that we have on the right is we've been incredibly effective in the marketplace. We've been incredibly effective on using scarce resources that have alternative purposes to meet the needs, wants, and demands of the marketplace. But at the same time, we've given up on so many culturally shaping institutions, whether it's Hollywood, whether it's journalism, whether it's academia.

38:09And now it's within our public school system as well, because in order to get a teaching degree, where do you got to go? Higher education. What's the most leftist element of almost any college university campus? The education department. This is the whole Antonio Gramsci march through the institutions. Gramsci understood this. Gramsci was an Italian socialist in the 30s. He was imprisoned and he said, you know what? I really like Karl Marx, but nothing is going the way Marx promised it would. And he even pointed out, he's like, the capitalists seem to do a pretty good job of actually providing laborers with good jobs and a good life and a good wage So how do we fix that?

38:46How do we change that? And his whole thing was cultural Marxism. Well, how do you do that? You have to take over the culturally shaping institutions, and then you have to influence culture to think about reality in a very, very different way. And it's not hard to see why in some of these environments, it's not hard to see why socialists thrive within the university system. Why? Because they can get tenure and they never pay any price for being wrong about anything. In fact, they get promoted, right? And so this is what she is a product of. This is what they've been continuously pushing and everything from our university system to kids' cartoons to you name it.

39:23And so it's not difficult when you have a generation of young people that look at this and go, oh yeah, that's why I'm not succeeding is because Elon Musk is holding me down. Like it's absurd on its face. Right, and by the way, I don't remember the exact, I don't remember the exact numbers, but let's not forget that Elon's pay package with Tesla, his reward basically was only if he hit numbers that were so insane, the entire board was like, yeah, let him do it. He'll never hit these numbers. And they sold so many cars that he got a huge package. And then of course, what happened? Elizabeth Warren tried to stop that too.

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40:30Premium members also get two free tickets to every theatrical release. Go to angel.com slash Ruben to check it out. Let's jump. I got two more things for you. One on the crazy side, and then we'll end on a positive note before we hit the weekend here. But Megyn Kelly, you guys have both talked quite a bit about her and Tucker and what's going on with this strange portion of the right. This edited video that shows her talking in January 26 versus quite literally just days ago, to me, seems like the most damaging piece of evidence of her dissent that you could possibly put out there. Take a look.

41:05Islam is not consistent with the values of America, of the West. They should stay in countries that don't care about keeping church and state separated. They should stay in countries that don't care about protecting free speech. They should stay in countries that don't care about women's rights. That's where Islam can fester and grow. It's great. I mean, I'm sure if that's like your thing and you don't care about like genital mutilation, you might really enjoy living in an Islamic country. I think he's understanding there may be some new listeners over here. You know, like he's gotten very, very popular lately, I read, with Muslim viewers because he's been standing up for Islam.

41:46You know, and I have to tell you, Mark, it's been something I've noticed just since I've gotten sort of more clear-eyed on Israel that a lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that's put out there originates with people who are very, very pro-Israel who kind of need us to demonize them? Yeah, I didn't need Israel to demonize Islam when I saw the planes hit the World Trade Center. I was pretty much like, hey, you know, that seems pretty bad in and of itself. I didn't require additional introspection or influence from anyone else. You know, can I say some of this real quick, David? Dinesh D'Souza did the best breakdown of this I've seen so far.

42:25It would be one thing. It would be one thing if Megyn Kelly or Tucker Carlson or any of these guys had come out and said, I'm going to systematically explain why 47 seconds ago I believed one thing and now I believe the polar and complete opposite. it. And here is the logically consistent argument I'm going to make with the supporting evidence and facts in order to sustain it. None of them did that. None of them. It was just overnight, Israel explains everything. Look, you want to be skeptical of the Israeli government? Good. I'm skeptical of all governments. But the degree of hostility and animosity here is completely out of proportion.

43:11And there has been no effective explanation for any of it. And that leads people to wonder like, okay, what's going on right here? Have you converted? Are you getting paid? What is it? Like, I'm willing to hear the argument, but what I hear is vibes. And what I hear is to the extent that arguments are made, they're completely devoid of logical consistency or actual evidence. Like the perfect example of this is Tucker Carlson going, well, there's far more Christians in Qatar. Yeah, they're part of an imported workforce that lives on a specialized compound, Tucker. What do you think happens? What do you think happens if the Filipino plumber goes down and starts proselytizing in the name of Jesus?

43:51Well, if they do that in Jerusalem, nothing happens. And if they do that in Qatar, they can be imprisoned. Do you not know this? Do you not understand this? Do you not care about this? That's the intellectual dishonesty. I'm just so tired. And the fact that Megan is now doing this, I'm like, I don't, I don't know how to explain it because they won't. And so I'm assuming the worst at this point. So John, it seems to me there's two things going on here. One is what sort of Nick is talking about, which is that there's this obvious flip on something she seemed to be very clear about in January. She now is a hundred percent the other way.

44:23That's one portion. But the other part is that she's basically like, well, Tucker is just reading the room and the room says there's a lot of Muslims and he wants clicks. And in essence, what she's really saying is I want clicks. That's what she's really saying. I want clicks. And yeah, there are 2 billion Muslims and there's only 16 mil pesky Jews. So let's do this. Fucker's demon obviously jumped over to Megan because I mean, this is just preposterous, right? This whole thing. But we know why they're doing this, Dave. We know you and I saw since what? Late 15, early 16, the Qatari influence op in DC.

44:56I mean, they would hang around the lobby at Trump DC when it was a Trump hotel, walking up to influencers out in the open, offering them 10, 15,$20 ,000 a month to spew pro-cutter messaging. So I wonder how much. They denied they got paid by cutters. So I'll ask the question. I don't personally believe that. I think you can be paid by a proxy. You can be paid by a cutout. We all know that. But I think it's highly plausible and highly likely that a lot of money flowed to people like Tucker and Megan to take these preposterous positions. I asked one of their supporters one day, I said, what has Israel done to you?

45:28Don't tell me about the world. Is Israel coming to your house at night and woken you up when you needed a good sleep. What has Israel done to you? And they said, are you kidding me? I said, just give me an answer. And they hung the phone up on me. So this is what you're dealing with. You can't have dialogue with these people. You can't have discourse. They just scream Israel Jews and hang the phone up or run away. And they're not normal human beings. So it's all for money, clearly. Nick, have you ever seen anyone burn up their credibility as quickly as Megan? It's one thing that Tucker for the last year has been slowly going down this path and we've all been kind of seeing it.

46:01And I reached out to him privately before I ever said a word publicly and he did not bite. But Megan, it seems to me, what happened with Megan was the day she saw Fuentes with Tucker, she saw the energy and she's like, I'm going for that. And that's why she was quiet on Candace, if not outright defending Candace, while she'll go after other young mothers like Meghan Markle or Meghan McCain. But I've never seen anyone just burn up all of their cred with so many decent people and just turn on so many friends just just like that no i haven't either i mean again i was someone where once upon a time tucker candace megan all of them i i enjoyed the reporting i enjoyed their analysis um and then but slowly over time and again it's not like i threw everyone overboard the moment we had a disagreement right like i i stood by and listened i said well look okay we agree on all these other things but we don't agree on this thing.

46:51They were the ones that chose to make one thing, everything. And the biggest part that bothered me is that the moment I would offer any criticism, I didn't even say like, oh, I really like Megan, but this, or, you know, I really appreciate all the work Tucker's done, but I don't agree with this. And then I would watch the comments section and it was instantly, you've been paid off. Did you get your 7 ,000 shekels? You're a traitor to your country. And I'm like, wait a second here. Like I fought overseas for my country. I have done nothing but fight for conservative values since I was 15. And now because I question one thing about what Tucker said, I am a traitor.

47:27I'm like, no, no, no, that's manufactured. And I've seen this before. I've seen this line of argumentation and ostracization before. I see it on the left. This is the way the left argues. It's like, oh, you don't agree with everything I want, or you don't agree with what, I may say I care about all these other things, but this is the thing I really care about. Well, the moment you present any counter argument, I don't engage with your argument. I engage in ad hominem attack. I attack you. I attack your character. I attack your motivations. I'm like, you're not getting this over on me. For 10 years, I sat in the General Assembly and watched as the Democrats did this every dang day.

48:02I'm not about to let my own side start to do it and get away with it as if this is normal or okay. It isn't. Again, as Dinesh said, if you want to go and make a good, comprehensive, well-thought-out argument that you are willing to allow someone else to scrutinize and combat with, Fine, I'm happy to hear that discussion. Of course. But they won't. They won't do it. And they know why they won't do it. It's because they'd lose. And that's the ultimate irony of all of this. If they were making those arguments and they were open to the discussions as they used to at least pretend to be, I would be all about having those discussions.

48:36And I would literally welcome Megan to my home for dinner. She loves David's chicken parm and she could have it. And we would talk it out over some tequila. But she's chosen another path. But I don't want to end on that. I want to end on something very pro-America, positive, that illustrates all of the goodness of this country and that things aren't, I don't think, as bad as the Panikins and the Black Pillars believe. And as you guys know, you probably saw this video, Marco Rubio stepped in for the day as if the guy is not wearing enough hats and the meme about him taking all the jobs and all the stuff.

49:05He decided, or somebody decided, maybe it was Trump decided, that he would be press secretary for a day as Caroline Levitt took the day off. And here is Rubio being asked about the greatness of America. And this is an edited version that his team put out. And it's just spectacular. Take a look. I got to ask you, what is your hope for America at a time such as this? My hope for America? My hope for America is what it's always been. I think it's the hope I hope we all share. We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. Where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity.

49:42but frankly it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential. I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, but I think in the U.S. we're not perfect. Our history is not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody else's history. Ours is a story of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal as well. And as we come upon this 250 year anniversary, I think we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history. It is one of perpetual and continuous improvement where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding.

50:17I mean, guys, I don't know if you could see, even though I've seen it five times already, I don't know if you could see me scribbling during that, but just if I go with the buzzwords that he threw it in there, my hope, we share, achieve, not limited, overcome, not perfect, better than anywhere else, freer, freer generation, learn, improvement, like everything there, it's positive. It's positive and And it's affirming and it's giving you something so you will have some autonomy in your life. It's quite literally the reverse of every lefty thing that we have portrayed in this show. John, this guy, I mean, he's the all-star of the show right now.

50:52He's outstanding. You know, this is the Marco Rubio I saw 20 years ago when he was Speaker of the Florida House. Then he went to the Senate and deluded himself down. So I'm not surprised by this because I saw this guy and I always knew he was this guy. John McCain got his hooks in him. Marco was a young senator and he started to pivot to a place I didn't like, but man, is he back? And is he back hard? And I just love it. I think he's, I think he has become a rock star in his own right. And, uh, he's going to be formidable in 28 as we sit here right now. Yeah. Uh, Nick, final word on all this. It seems to me that there were obviously the media is going to try to put some kind of wedge between him and JD.

51:28Cause JD is the heir apparent as VP. They're going to want all that fighting. I just don't think it matters right now. I just think let's just all keep doing good stuff. Let's wrap Iran up nicely. Let's get some economic wins. Maybe we get an expansion of the Abraham Accords. Gas price goes down. And then maybe, maybe the midterms go okay and we've got at least two more years in this country. What do you think? I think for a few years now, the right has largely been defined by what we oppose. And that makes sense because I think just as humans, we're designed to see threats. We're designed to see danger.

52:01And when we see it, it motivates us to action in a way that sometimes good news does not. But what I love so much about what Rubio said there is that it reminds us what we're fighting for, not just what we're fighting against. And ultimately, ultimately, if you really want people to be motivated and passionate, I can tell you as a former soldier, the best soldiers are the ones that love what they're fighting for more than they hate what they're fighting against. and I think Rubio perfectly articulated it there in such a way to where that's a guy I want to charge a hill with and it's a guy that I think, it's a statement and it's a vision that I think most Americans deep down yearn for and recognize and they haven't been able to hear it much lately because of all the fighting and that fighting is necessary by the way but ultimately I want to know what I'm fighting for and I'm very grateful for Marco Rubio for doing such a brilliant job of articulating it.

52:56Gentlemen, you are welcome back anytime. I thank you for playing along. We've got a little this week. Oh, wait, John, you wanted to mention, by the way, you're doing a little work with our lieutenant governor right now. Let me give you 30 seconds to toss that up. Jay Collins. It's jayforflorida.com. He's running for governor, a lot like what Rubio spoke about. The guy grew up on a failed farm, grew up on welfare, became a Green Beret, and lost a leg in Afghanistan, and now he's lieutenant governor of Florida. So it's really the American dream, but I encourage people to check him out. But on the senior advisor to his gubernatorial campaign, born in a way just an awesome candidate, and we have really high hopes.

53:32He is, I know him personally. He's been on the show. He is a great, great human being. I thank you guys. We've got this week on the internet coming up in just moments. And we have canned laughter as if we were a mainstream show because the audience in those shows don't know when to laugh, so they have to pump laughter in. We're going to do that too. Thanks, guys. See ya.

53:58Thank you. Thank you. Great to be here once again, guys. This week on the Internet, you know, we're in an era of rebranding. Facebook became meta. Twitter became X. Dunkin' Donuts became Dunkin'. And in the most unshocking rebrand of all, Nick Fuentes became a moderate Democrat. I'm a non-woke moderate Democrat. I think the GOP needs to be destroyed. I think the corrupt criminal government of Trump needs to be slowed down. Good luck, John Fetterman. You're our only hope. Of course, more surprising than that was that Megyn Kelly this week became an imam. And Tucker, well, he became an Islamic gigolo.

54:36So, actually, nothing's changed there. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted a press briefing in lieu of Caroline LeVette. One reporter asked Rubio what his DJ name would be after a video emerged of him DJing at a family wedding. Rubio replied to the reporter, you're not ready for my DJ name. But I actually think we already know his DJ name. Little Marco, Little Marco. Speaking of the spotlight, the Met Gala happened this week and nowhere was the disconnect from reality stronger. Actress Sarah Paulson wore a dollar bill over her eyes to call out the 1%. The actress, who's worth an estimated$12 million, used her outfit to call out the world's elite while attending the$100 ,000 per person Met Gala.

55:22To quote Benjamin Franklin, we are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. This kind of virtue signaling reminds me of Anne Hathaway last week calling for skinny models in Devil Wears Prada 2 to be replaced by fatter ones. So when I came on the set and I saw that the models, who were very lovely, were all a bit traditionally sized, I kind of went to the producers and was like, wouldn't it be great if there were just more bodies, more types of bodies? And they looked around and they said, we're so annoyed at ourselves that we didn't notice that. And they made the change in like two seconds.

55:55So all credit to them. She's so body positive that she has to be surrounded by fat chicks all the time. I mean, come on. It's the devil wears Prada, not the devil wears a FUPA. It's also not Louis Widerton. Orbit Outfitters. Vicky does. Hermesive. Or Dolce and Gigabana. I think that made sense. You get it, maybe, as much as I do. This week on the internet, a poll from Gavin Newsom's office asked Californians whether illegal immigration is a serious problem. 35 % of respondents answered, yes, it is a serious problem. And 65 % of respondents answered, no es una problema seriosa. ¿Dónde está la biblioteca?

56:41And speaking of people struggling with English and numbers, I still can't believe that Ilhan Omar mistook the Roman numeral II in World War II to mean XI. The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War XI. To think that woman graduated the top of her class at the Quality Leering Center. You know, my team went undercover in Minneapolis and got footage of the Leering Center's graduation ceremony. Check it out. My plan is that I will be pilot, and I will help everyone. Pilot. Yeah, he's a pilot. Great!

57:22Look, I love dunking on Ilhan as much as the next guy, but it's fairly obvious to any observer that she was just including other wars like the Greco-Persian, Parthian Wars, Shang-Zu War, and, of course, the Bananas and Rice War. Jokes aside, isn't it a little ironic she's the one calling us stupid? These people are just idiots. I really, you know, I'm at the point where it's become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any of these people. The dumbing of the United States has arrived because how else do we get a Trump presidency again? That woman is calling us dumb. Is irony truly dead?

58:02that would be like O.J. Simpson writing a book about how he would have killed his wife. Oh, wait. He did do that. Or if Tiger Woods became a DEA agent. Or a driver's ed instructor. This week on the internet, news emerged that the gates to hell are starting to burn out. The gates to hell is a giant crater in the Turkmenistan desert that has been burning continuously for more than 50 years. When contacted about why the crater's finally starting to burn out after all these years, the devil cited high gas prices, which is also the reason why Spirit Airlines went out of business earlier this week. Unless it was really this.

58:42Go suck another dirty deal. Okay, that's funny. That's funny. Speaking of the devil, Zorhan Mamdami effed around and found out when billionaire CEO Ken Griffin decided to expand Citadel's offices in Miami, Florida, adding thousands of jobs, citing Zorhan's video outside his penthouse that is a deciding factor. And that's the same thing Elizabeth Warren did with Spirit Airlines. She blocked their merger with JetBlue because she said she didn't want four giant airlines controlling everything. Yada, yada, yada. The next time you go suck a dirty dick, it'll have to be on a United flight out of Newark.

59:17Go suck another United... Yeah, that's progressive logic for you. It's like trying to ace the SATs, but you're being tutored at the Quality Leering Center. So if you're looking for something to do this weekend to avoid the insanity of the internet, I always recommend revisiting a classic movie you haven't seen in a while. And this week, my pick is Rocky 11. You fought the double Russian in that one. Movies have a way of pulling you out of reality for a couple hours. You stop thinking about the internet, politics, Zorhan, and just become invested in the characters. And look at our Hero of the Week, Spencer Pratt, running for mayor of Los Angeles.

59:57The guy watched Batman once and never came back. And that is This Week on the Internet. Now log off.