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24:29And then you just look under it and you go, well, Trump was kind of pro-America, that's pretty good. And these guys wanna destroy America, which is why there's no American flags at their thing. All they should just run around if there were any journalists left. Just ask all these guys, are you proud to be, July 4th is coming, are you proud to be an American? Yes or no? Do you love America? Yes or no? And if any of them said yes, they'd be kicked out because their whole modus operandi is to destroy America. That's what they say, that's what they are for. Guys, let's talk about relief factor, which if I had taken it earlier this morning, maybe I wouldn't have cursed so much today.

25:02As you know, banged up the AC joint, it's healing. Oh, it's all right. But I am taking my Relief Factor every day, which I was taking before, and it does help with all the aches and pains, your back, your shoulder, your knees, just general muscle soreness and all this stuff. Alexa, can you please bring over the Relief Factor? Alexa has the Relief Factor. Can you open the packet of Relief Factor for me? She will open the packet. It's like Price is Right. 1987, you can pour the Relief Factor. Look at that, excellent. Thank you. Make sure she gets lunch today. That's why I've been taking Relief Factor, guys.

25:37It's a 100 % drug-free research-based formula. It's got omega-3s, turmeric, resveratrol, icarine, black pepper, all the good stuff. And it really does help. There you go.

25:51Maybe they can get it in liquid form and I can just inject it on the show. That would be good. You can jump over to relief, well, and to celebrate America's 250th. They right now are dropping the price for their starter pack, their quick start pack. It's just$17.76 for a three-week trial. you can visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4, the number four, relief. All right, so let's continue with the theme that we're on, which is that they are going down this path and it is not going to stop, at least for now. We'll see how much of the country they have to destroy before a phoenix rises from the ashes.

26:27But here is Peter Doocy asking Trump about the state of the Democrats between Zorhan and Hakeem right now. President Trump, great night for Democratic socialist candidates last night. In the New York primaries, they swept and knocked out two incumbents. You're from New York. Why do you think it is that now the endorsement of Zoran Mamdani means more than the endorsement of Hakeem Jeffries? Well, they're going radical left. They're going, and really, you know, you talk about the Democrat socialists. you took really it's really communist that's these people i watched that woman last night that's not a socialist i know socialists that's a that woman is a communist they beat a guy named dan goldman who's you know loser he was one of my prosecutors one of my many prosecutors that they used on me dan goldman not a good prosecutor fortunately but he's now looking for a job i would i was very surprised to see you know because he's a pretty liberal guy when they go more liberal than Dan Goldman, they're really into Never Never Land.

27:37Yeah, he's making a couple interesting points. First off, on the Dan Goldman controller race with that lunatic, that pathetic, slimy, sniveling, snot on your shoe, Brad Lander, who's singing Islamic verses while right after the imams talking about beheading the infidels, and you're an infidel, Lander. The whole point is that Dan Goldman was a far lefty who was a prosecutor against Trump, and he wasn't lefty enough. How many times have we gone through this? The crazy lefties are never crazy enough. Oh, you're crazy? I'll show you crazy. So that's what happened with Jasmine Crockett. Then they get Tallarico.

28:12You know that happened with Lori Lightfoot. Then they get Brandon Johnson in Chicago. We had de Blasio in New York. Now we have Zorhan. Like it just, oh, you think you're crazy? I'll show you crazy. And then of course he points out, I'm glad that Trump did it because Peter said they're democratic socialists. Peter, I don't think you need to say that anymore. They don't even say it. They are socialists and communists with the dash of jihad, okay? So you don't have to say it. So I like that Trump was like, they're not socialists, they're communists. That's what they are. Now watch this clip. Watch this clip.

28:44They're, here is the one that they were talking about, Duralzalzia Avila-Chevalyeh. She's on with Ali Velshi, who, Ali Velshi's the MSNBC host who during the BLM riots told us that they were, what was it? Not, what did he say? They're mostly peaceful protests as buildings were exploding behind him. Get me the screenshot on that. You remember him. And then he's also a few weeks ago, even though he's a first generation immigrant into the United States, was talking about how he's struggling to celebrate our 250th anniversary. Anyway, he asked her about communism and whether she's a communist. And you're gonna appear in all sorts of people's ads, all sorts of Republicans' ads to say, this is what you're gonna get if you vote for the Democrats, a communist.

29:25You know, I think that is that framing is one that I've been very proud to be able to say I don't respond to one in which I have been very intentional to say I won't be reactive. We are presenting a vision of what we're fighting for. And I think for far too long, we have had politics that is reactive to what Republicans are doing. What we need is Democrats who are actually going to present a positive vision, one that sets the tone for what we should be talking about, which is the issue of affordability, which is the issue of how our budgets are moral documents. If we say that we want to invest in working people in this country, then we need to do that and our budgets need to reflect that.

30:07Our budgets are moral documents. Phoenix, did you know that when we come up with the budget for the show every year that that's a moral document that we're putting together? It's a moral document, really interesting. I thought it was a financial document with like profit and loss on it. I didn't realize it was a moral document. That's interesting. Yeah, he's like, Bible? I got the Rubin Report budget right here. I'll show you a moral document. Okay, everything. He basically gave her a softball. Are you a communist or not? And the framing of it. She loves government. That's what they love. By the way, if you wanna get a sense of where the city is at, she got 33 ,000 votes.

30:54About 0.9 % of all registered Democrats in the city voted. Is that correct? For her. Voted for her. She wasn't running citywide, just in her district, but it's just this tiny amount of people. 33 ,000 people voted for her, for her little district in 13th. But the reason she's gonna now become AOC and Ilhar and Rashida, There's gonna be these new women that you're gonna just see everywhere and they're the future, right? And so it will make it seem like they are larger than their real influences, but good luck with them all marching to Palestine. Also, she's been in college for like 14 years. The girls never accomplish anything.

31:28For literal 14 years, right? 14 years, incredible, incredible. Here's their leader, Ayatollah Zorhan Mamdami, talking about how they've taken over the Democrat party. For the DSA members, You know, they had to apologize for past social media commentary, the way they phrase things, talking about policies that didn't have anything to do with making it in the city. And I wanted to get your opinion on it. Are you going to take them to Mamdani School of Politics and to avoid having their worst moments be the face of the Democratic Party in a contested midterm election around the country? I think we can see from each of these candidates that they have exactly what it takes to succeed.

32:09and we've heard from Republicans time and again that they're going to try and make these candidates the face of the Democratic Party. To them, I say that we are ready for that. Yeah, and they are ready, guys. Again, you just have to give the devil his due. They are ready. They are radicals. There's nothing that's too extreme. There's nothing too extreme. That bitch was out there celebrating 1 ,200 murders, 1 ,200 murders and 250 people, including women and children who were kidnapped, and she was out there celebrating the next day before Israel even responded. So this is what they are. They're embracing it.

32:44And we better get ready because they're getting ready for a fight. Here's Slimebag Ro Khanna again. The reality is that our platform of a new deal for our time is resonating. It's a platform that says no to foreign wars, no to genocide. But it's also a platform that says yes. Yes to Medicare for all. Yes to childcare for all. yes to unions for all, and yes to a tax on billionaires and trillionaires. It turns out that when you stand up for the working class over the Epstein class, over the billionaire class, the American people respond in huge numbers. But we shouldn't be naive. The oligarchs are going to come after us.

33:29We have a simple message for these oligarchs. Channeling FDR, we should say to them, bring it on. He's such a slimy, he's just like a sleazeball. Oh, you want to go after the billionaires and the trillionaires? Well, first off, we didn't even have a trillionaire until Elon started doing incredible things. And I think Elon should just announce, because Elon's been going after him. Elon should just announce, hey, Roe, you know, when Earth explodes because of climate change, which isn't even real, but you people all pretend to believe in it, when that happens, you're not allowed to get on one of my ships.

34:00How about that? And then we'll see how quickly his tune changes. That would be one way Elon could deal with it. But notice he's very concerned about the billionaires and the trillionaires. He's not concerned about the 200 millionaires, which again is an awful lot of money. They are coming to get you Roe, and we will cover it on the show the day that that happens. Like it is obvious. There's no amount that you can give them. It's the same thing they did with Tom Steyer. You can pretend to be a socialist while you're worth a billion dollars in Steyer's case, 200 million in your case. But when they endorsed him, they said, and if he doesn't behave the way we want, we'll come for him.

34:33So good luck with that. You guys are quite literally pouring gasoline all over your new$10 million house in D.C. That's one part of it. The rest of it is, oh, Americans voted for this. Well, 33 ,000 people in New York District 13 voted for it. I suppose that's true. Again, that's 0.9 % of the totality of New York City. It's a small district, obviously. But then it's just free one, free this, and free that, and free everything. again, Roe, toss up 30 million bucks, you'll have a cool 200 million, and let's see if any of it works. How about that as just a little bit of a test run? Anyway, I thought this was good.

35:11This is Delaware Senator Lisa Blunt talking about how, well, she can't answer the question as to whether socialism has ever worked before. Where has socialism ever worked, Senator? Is that another question, or is that for the next interview? That's definitely for you. You said fish doesn't work everywhere. I just want to know one place where socialism has been beneficial. Well, when you have me come back on, we can talk about all the races across the country.

35:48We don't deserve this. Like we, you watching this, me, these guys, we don't deserve this. These people, they are destroying the country right in our face. and we're like live streaming the destruction. She can't name one place. She jokes it off. Oh, I'll come back. How about one place that socialism has worked, that communism has worked? Why is it that when I go down to Little Havana over here, there are Cubans all day long that will literally come up to you on the street and just wanna talk about capitalism? Why is that? Partly it's because they're so hopped up on the cafecitos with that shot of caffeine and then the sugar.

36:26The sugar will really do it. and they just wanna talk about capitalism. They know what they fled. The Venezuelans who are here know what they fled. Talk to some Russians who fled the Soviet Union in the 80s, right? Find out what communism is. Find out what socialism is. But these people are ushering it in and they can't, but none of it matters. They're only here for the revolution. She doesn't know what, think about it. My whole ideology is socialism. I think that good governance of centralized power and making sure you have this and it's, you have this, and it doesn't matter how hard you work, we'll constantly rejigger everything.

37:03Yeah, we're gonna have to throw a couple people off the boat and whatever. That's the way to do it. I'm so sure of that, even though I've never built a business or done anything. Sir, could you give me one example of how that worked? Can we cut to commercial? You see what they're doing? Do you see what they're doing? We'll shift, talk a little bit about what Trump is trying to do, which actually are some pro-American policies in just a sec, but first Angel Studios. In a world where everything seems to cost more and deliver less, Angel's doing something pretty special for America's 250th birthday.

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38:43Okay, enough for the most part about these crazy people trying to destroy everything that is good. Let's talk about Donald Trump and what he's trying to accomplish right now. Now, obviously the big thing that Trump, I think one way or another has to make happen is the SAVE Act. It looms so large and it really is the key to everything. Like if we don't have elections we can trust, we're screwed. It's obvious the Democrats wanna flood the country, wanna flood the voter rolls, they want fraud and all of the shenanigans that come with it. That's one thing. And Trump is now using the SAVE Act in some sense as a point of pressure on Republicans when it comes to other things that hopefully he can accomplish.

39:21So listen to this from Fox. The Senate was left in a state of confusion and anger in the wake of President Donald Trump's last minute declaration that he would not sign into law a colossal housing package filled with his own priorities. It comes as Trump is expected to have a closed door lunch with Senate Republicans who are already frustrated with a laundry list of his recent decisions that have either derailed or blown up in their attempts to move forward with his agenda. Trump said he wouldn't sign the 21st century road to housing package into law, which passed both chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support unless Republicans ram through the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Save Act, a voter ID and citizenship verification package that doesn't have the votes to succeed in the Senate.

40:08Today's housing news conference and signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency, Trump said on Truth Social. When asked if Trump would be any more successful in generating the votes to pass the legislation, Cornyn acknowledged that the president had a lot of sway, but if the solution was to eliminate the filibuster, the votes simply weren't there. At some point, we've got to deal with reality. Okay, so what Trump, Trump is trying to do everything he can to get the SAVE Act passed. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I know everything about this Housing Act, but let's say this Housing Act, it comes from the Trump, a lot of Republicans are on board.

40:46Let's say it's roughly good. We'll do a little more of a dive into it next week. Trump is saying, I need some point of leverage over you people because even the Republicans suck. And if we don't blow up the filibuster right now and just use our majority, which we also have, if it ever became a tie, because there are some wishy-washy people, we've also got JD who gets the decider, the tie break decider. It's like, we've got to make this thing happen. So Trump is trying desperately to do something that something like 97 % of Republicans are four, and it's something, what was the number we pulled from CNN like two weeks ago?

41:21It's something like 80 % of Americans overall are four national voter ID. So it's only radical left lunatics and their media cohorts that are against this thing. Anyway, here's Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville saying that Trump is just trying to save us from communism. Could you get on board this freaking thing? I'm proud of what he did today. He spoke up, he called people out. They had a very good conversation back and forth, but people need to be called out if you're not going to vote for this country. My God, folks, we are in trouble. And President Trump needs help and we're not giving him 100 % help that he needs.

41:54President Trump's right here. You know, again, I travel the country. If we don't do something with the filibuster and we don't get things passed, it'll be the last time we'll have a Republican president or a Republican Senate or a House. That's how fast this country is going down to communism. And we need to stop it. We can stop it. It's it's balls in our court. President Trump said that balls in your court. You know, I'm here to support you. Let me know if there's anything I can do. But this is what we have to do to save the United States of America from communism. He's exactly right. You know, I agree with every word of that.

42:30I just do imagine whether it was next election. Imagine, OK, midterms go the other way. Trump's hung up, done. We've talked about this a million times. The Republicans start jumping ship, he's lame duck, they'll impeach him again. The Republican party will implode in ways you cannot even imagine the infighting of who's gonna be next and everything else. It will be a disastrous two years ahead of us. But then imagine the communists, these people that we're now talking about, imagine they get into power. Do you think they will ever give up power? Would they not do, these radical left lunatics, would they not do everything they've said they do so that they could stay in power forever?

43:04Would they not pack the court? Would they not make DC a state? Would they not try to make Puerto Rico a state? Would they not do everything so that they would get more senators, they'd get more Supreme Court justices? And then they'll have all the branches of government. Why would they not do it? First off, they're telling us they would do it and they don't even care about our systems and our checks and balances in the first place. They only care about revolution and power. Republicans, although they often suck, generally like the country and like the system and like the way we were founded, right?

43:32So they're less inclined to do things, which is why you're getting some of these squishy of Republicans right now that don't wanna nuke the filibuster and do this by a simple majority as opposed to 60 votes. But if they don't now, this will be it, because even the Democrats who aren't the total psycho-jihadists, they're awful. They're just awful. Here's Chuck Schumer. Now on the housing bill, Trump's clown car gets more and more laughable, ridiculous. Here's what he just did. he cancelled his bill signing on the housing bill. It's utterly amazing. Trump is running away from one of the very few accomplishments that could actually help the American people.

44:19Anytime there's an opportunity for Trump to help the American people, he runs the other way. Comes up with some idiot thing in his head that this may hurt this one or help this one. His pettiness with his enemies. Americans want to know what Republicans are doing to bring down costs. Americans want to know how Trump plans to end his disastrous war with Iran. Americans want to know whether the GOP will continue going along with Trump's all-out assault on voting rights with legislation like the SAVE Act. You know what I'd like to know for television hosts on the left, which is virtually all mainstream media television hosts, and for Democrats, I'd like it for everybody, but but in this case, we're showing Schumer clips over Democrats.

45:01When these guys get up there and they just read things, Schumer is just reading that entire thing. Who wrote that? Because he didn't write it. So Schumer is just a body bag up there, right? Like he's just a body that's reading words. Who wrote it? You know, when Trump is up there giving his speeches, obviously someone else wrote the speech, but you know Trump is, he's off the cuff. He's seeing parts of the speech that he likes and you know he believes in what he's saying and what he's doing and he can kind of go with it. Schumer, you're just reading someone else's words up there. What are the Republicans trying to do for the economy?

45:32I don't know, lower taxes, lower regulation, get fairer trade deals, which are coming in. Like there are things that the Republicans are trying to do and maybe they're not working to the extent that everyone would love, but you guys are giving him no help in doing that, right? And I guess Chuck Schumer, you did want the Iranians and the mullahs and the Ayatollah to get a nuclear bomb. Now at least they won't have one for two and a half years until you guys are in power again, and then you're gonna build one for them. But it's just endless fear and backwards circuitous logic with these people. Here's Scott Jennings one more time.

46:05And he does a nice job here. He does something that I try to do all the time, which is play the devil's advocate on some of these things. And we did check the numbers on it. It's virtually 100 % of Republicans are for the Save Act, and it's over 80 % of Americans overall. That's a huge swath of Democrats. So this is the easiest lift for the Republicans, and they seem unable to do it. Anyway, here's Jennings on some of the strategy that Trump may be employing here. Well, I don't think this is just his instinct. I've been all over the country lately and talked to a lot of people out there. This Save America Act, it's not just him thinking about it.

46:41Millions of Republicans across the country are worried about it. They're asking about it. They're asking their members of Congress about it. You talk to a member of Congress, they'll tell you the number of calls they're getting on it. I'm sure he's hearing about it. So I think I'll just play devil's advocate on the strategy. I'm not arguing the housing bill is bad. In fact, it might be good to campaign on. But you could see a world where if Republicans who love President Trump perceive that he was giving up on this thing that they actually really care about, that would be politically depressive to them heading into a midterm where, you know, mid off your turn is already in.

47:17Yeah, I think that's completely right. He's basically saying what I said before. or like, let's put aside the housing bill for a second. Let's say it's basically good. It sort of doesn't matter. And yes, next week, I promise you, we'll unpack it a little bit more. Let's assume it's basically good and that Republicans should be for it and everything else. It does not matter. Two days before the midterms roll around, if the SAVE Act has not been passed, the thing that Donald Trump said was the most important thing that I believe is the most important thing that I assume you believe is probably the most important thing or let's say the top two was more thing, He just wouldn't have been able to do it.

47:51He would not have been able to push his guys forward to make it happen via the filibuster. And it won't matter. So, all right, congratulations, Donald Trump, right? But you need some major magic, right? So that you don't lose the midterms, right? Which we know 70 % of the incumbent presidents lose the midterms, their party loses the midterms. You need some magic and the magic will be, well, we got the housing bill package through. No, it needs to be something in an all-star shiny golden package. And Donald Trump knows something about that. So he's doing everything he can. And again, unfortunately, most of the Republicans just suck.

48:24So we'll see what happens. If you look at polymarket, this is just the betting markets right now. Balance of power, what's gonna happen for the midterms? I mean, it's not looking good. 43 % say Democrat sweep, 20 % say Republican sweep. Look, again, you guys know I'm not as, and maybe this is because I am fundamentally just an optimist and maybe that's kind of stupid in this business. But I just think the further they keep going with this communist jihadist nonsense over the next five months or whatever we've got till November, the more it'll just push normies towards us. So that is the silver lining here.

48:57Like Americans love America and they don't like this Hamas omni cause and all of this stuff. So there is some silver lining here and we'll have to see how the next few months shake out. Let's talk about Shopify and then we'll get to some rubinreport.locals.com community Q and A questions. Starting something new can be intimidating. There's always that voice asking, what if this fails? What if nobody notices? That's why having the right tools matters, and that's where Shopify comes in. Shopify powers millions of businesses around the world, giving entrepreneurs everything they need in one place.

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50:04I've got double pillows here, and I'm propped up, and I'm trying to keep it up as much as possible. But I've got today's show. I've got our pre-taped for tomorrow. I've got actual friends. and then actually on Monday, we're also pre-taping our Monday show because on Sunday night, I'm thrilled for this, I was invited to go to Bill Maher, as you know, he's getting the Kennedy Center Award. Well, now it's the Trump Kennedy Center Award and they're honoring Bill in DC. So I'm gonna be going to that on Sunday night and I'll get back a little bit late on Monday, or Monday afternoon, so we'll pre-tape with Michael Malice, who's fantastic, so you'll enjoy that show.

50:35Anyway, so I got a long, long day today to deal with this nonsense. Crafty Cat says, what are some trips and ticks? you learned that help overcome the nerves when speaking to people you respect or are in authority? You know, I never really was nervous about talking to anybody. The only interview, I've mentioned this once or twice before, the only interview where I was ever nervous, and I've interviewed Trump and I've interviewed prime ministers and things like that, if you watch that Thomas Sowell interview from whatever year that was, it's gotta be seven years ago now, something crazy like that, maybe even more, I knew he was such a living legend who I wanted to interview so badly, who doesn't do so many interviews, who's also of a certain age, that if you listen to that interview, the first five minutes, my voice is trembling a little bit or cracking or I'm almost whispering in a weird way.

51:28Like I was nervous. And then once it started, then I kind of locked in and it was, I think, one of the best interviews, not for me to say, but I think it was one of the best and most influential interviews I've ever done. and that moment where I said to him, you know, you woke up out of communism, what happened? And he goes, uh, facts. Like that thing went so mega viral, it's crazy. But I've never, you know, well, I'll give you one for public speaking maybe. When Jordan and I were touring together, he used to, people would ask him about, similar question to that, like how do you talk to audiences without getting nervous and I have to give a speech at a, you know, for a conference or, you know, a couple of people at work or something and I'm freaking out.

52:07And Jordan and I actually had very different approaches on this, and this is why you have to figure out your own approach. Jordan would say, you know, if you're speaking to a thousand people in a crowd, he always would say, find one person and kind of talk to them. And I could see Jordan doing it during the show. He'd find one person over here, and then he would look this way and he would try to lock in with one person over here. And that was his way of just, it would, it would kind of take away that he was talking to a thousand people. I actually do it the other way. Like when I'm up, we did the show with DeSantis, probably by a thousand people there last week at the Fillmore.

52:38And to me, if I'm just looking in a sea of people, it doesn't matter if there's a million people there or 50 people there or anywhere in between. Like I'm just sort of seeing the sea. I, sometimes you can't even see all the people. And depending on the lighting, you literally might not be able to because sometimes the stage lights are so bright, you can't even see the people. But I would just say more than anything else, if you know what you're gonna, not what you're gonna say, if you just know what you believe, if they say like a lot of times I'll get a call, oh, Dave, could you do a 15 or half hour speech at this, that, the other thing?

53:08And I never have a fully prepared speech. What I have is usually like three or four. I have some line that I wanna open with, or I usually try to watch the speaker before me so I can say something about that. And then I go from there. But then I just kind of bullet it out. I'm just like, all right, I got four things that I wanna say. I don't know what I'm gonna say for this whole half hour, but I know wanna get to these things. And then I just, it's sort of how I do the show here. And then I just kind of tell a story around that. But you just have to find your own mechanism, really, is the answer.

53:32Carlton says, Dave, any insight into why in the world the mainstream media would go along with these commies on the left? It's their country too that's being destroyed. I mean, I think it's largely what I was saying about energy chasing. And it's like we're all narrating the end of the country if we don't fix this thing. But everyone's just, I don't think Ro Khanna, who made$230 million in investments and whatever whatever his family did and everything else, believes in any of this nonsense, but he's energy chasing. That's a political version of it. In the mainstream media version of it, so that ding dong, wait, do we get the picture of him from the mostly peaceful protests?

54:11What's his name again? Ali Velshi. It's like, yeah, he's like, yeah, look at him. Those were most, that was at the height of like the BLM insanity, and there's building blowing up behind him, and they're mostly peaceful protests, like these clowns. Why do they go along with any of it? They're just going where they think the energy is. They are literally chasing a shiny thing. And whether it drags us all to the abyss or not, in some sense is irrelevant. And I would also say a lot of these people, particularly the media people, they're not that bright. They don't even realize what they're doing in some sense.

54:39I think some of them are very cynical and doing it purely for clicks and money, say Tucker, but others are just doing whatever. That's why I think it's so interesting when Chuck just gets up there and reads something. Who gives a shit who Chuck Schumer is? Who wrote the thing that you're reading? That would be way more interesting to me. Glenn says, when you voted for a Barry Hussein, what was your reasoning? Was it because you agreed with most of his politics and opponents McCain and Romney were terrible candidates or because like many who voted for him, you felt it was the right time for a black president?

55:09You know, it's hard to remember myself back then because so much has changed since then. But I will say I was, well, first off, I was a lefty at the time. You know, I was, there was a time, there's a video somewhere, people that hate me keep posting it. there's a video from me like 12 years ago talking about how I was a Bernie supporter and they think they're getting me. It's like, no, I woke up out of that stuff. So I was a lefty and the progressives at the time were sort of just, they were kind of liberals on steroids. So there was something that worked, there was some energy around it. They weren't full on communist jihadists yet.

55:42I started realizing that's what they were gonna become. So that's why none of this is surprising to me right now. But with Obama, I mean, I think like most people, I was caught up in the hope and change thing, the positivity, this guy, he looks the part and he's a great speaker. And it was like McCain was, McCain who was a decent human being, who I think over the years, his legacy will probably be better and better, who never, never went below the belt to attack Obama or anything else. You know, he was kind of old and whatever. and it was just like, ah, here's this exciting thing. So again, it was like the shiny thing and most people are just chasing a shiny thing.

56:24So I don't think it was much more than that. And then when it came to the one with Romney, I didn't love Obama for those four years, but there was still enough shine on it. There just was. I know you probably want some real like, was there something too okay in America to have a black president? Yeah, probably, probably a little of that the first time around. We're so racist. We had a two-time black president. I know no European country that's existed way longer than us has had a black prime minister, but you know, we're racist over here. I was just as factory settings, man. Most people are just brought up factory settings.

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58:34Like I could, I got a little something there. And it kind of sucks and I haven't been able to work out. I'm just trying to take like short walks in the morning and everything. We haven't fully figured out what we're doing for August yet, but I'm also going away for a couple of days with two of my best childhood friends to celebrate all of our 50th together. And I want to be able to do stuff, right? Like I really want to be able to, you know, like run around or jump in a pool and whatever, whatever it is like that a normal person does. I want to be able to do those things again. The doc said to me that I'm already, I had the checkup on Monday.

59:05He said I'm healing ahead of schedule, which was nice to see. This freaking bump though, the ligaments just have to strengthen and pull it down. That's the only way it's gonna get fixed and it may never go fully down without surgery, but I can deal with like a little bump here, that's okay. What I can't deal with is not having a functional arm. He said I'm ahead of schedule and I am doing stem cells on July 1st. So I'm seeing Dr. Richie Striano who did what I think was like miracle work on my knee after I had 14 tears in my knee a couple of years ago and then I was playing ball, I think six weeks later and I thought I was never gonna be able to play again.

59:38So if he can work some magic here on that, I think I'll be off the sling in probably two weeks and then you just get into PT and I'm just gonna do, I'm gonna literally do everything I can possibly do to ensure that whatever we do for August, I don't think I'm gonna be doing any major mountain climbing, let's put it that way. Mark says, but it shouldn't affect my ability to lay on the beach. I would imagine that I will have to use my right hand for the tequila, but I can make that work. Mark says, do you think JD asked Trump to let him lead the Iran PR, perhaps to regain some of the spotlight from Rubio?

1:00:13If so, I think it's backfired, your thoughts? It's a good question. I mean, I think there's a couple things going on here. You know, Rubio actually has been in the Gulf the last couple of days, and it seems like he's trying to tie the last few things together, particularly what's going on with Hezbollah in Lebanon. That's the last part of this that's still kind of a hot war. So if Rubio deals with that and JD deals with the big stuff, yes, as I pointed out, like there were some moments with JD that did not seem great, but overall they're managing a whole bunch of things. And as well, look, Trump said it himself.

1:00:47Trump was like, look, I sent JD there. And if it doesn't work, I'll blame it on him. And if it does work, I'm gonna take the credit. And I think that is, those are the off cuff remarks from Trump where that's it. I think he's giving JD a chance here to see how statesman like he is, to see how presidential he is. There's no, look, Trump is a unicorn. He's one of a kind. He walks into a room, there's nothing like it. Could Rubio walk into a room and command the presence or have the presence and command the respect that a US president could have? I think it's pretty obvious that he can and has grown into it and can communicate that stuff really well.

1:01:20I think Trump was using this as a little bit of a test for JD. And everyone can decide whether they, whether they think it has worked or not. But if at the end of this, we get some rough deal that stops the nukes, at least while Trump's in office, they're all gonna say it's gonna stop it forever. That's just, I just don't buy that. I don't see how we can trust these people, nor can we trust a future Democrat administration. But if the nukes are done and Iran's gonna stop funding terror, at least for now, we got something pretty decent, right? And it wasn't at major cost. It wasn't at major cost for America.

1:01:53And I think that overall would be good. So he's got them both working on it. and we'll see, we'll see where it shakes out. But again, I still think, and it's so early to talk about any of this, but I think Trump wants a contested convention. I don't think he's gonna endorse anybody right out of the gate when he's getting ready to go off into the sunset. I think he wants a show and we're gonna get Rubio, we're gonna get JD, there's gonna be 10 other guys, who knows who they'll be. But I think that's what he's gonna want. James says, I know you're not a huge soccer guy, but what's the energy like in Miami with the World Cup going on and it being a predominantly Hispanic city that loves soccer.

1:02:31I did watch my first ever soccer game. Last week, I watched Mexico versus South Korea. It was one nothing Mexico. The Mexican goalie had a freaking sick, sick save with like a minute to go. I find soccer, it's kind of boring. It's a little too slow. Who's playing in Miami right now? Connor just put this together. Saudi Arabia, love them, love them. Uruguay, who I guess played last, did Uruguay play last night? How was that? No, two nights ago, I think. Yeah, Cabo Verde, Brazil, Scotland, Portugal, Columbus. Yeah, the energy here, I mean, yesterday I went, all I've been told for my birthday is I have to get a new suit.

1:03:10So I went yesterday to the Brickell City Center and I got myself a new suit. And the amount of jerseys, soccer jerseys everywhere. Everyone's wearing a soccer jersey. Lot of, oh, and I'm in here, look at some of this video of just the flags that are being flown. Yeah, so there's great energy in the city, obviously, and tons of people are coming. And there's also been so many beautiful videos of people that are coming to America for the first time that hear all these horrible things about America, how racist we are and how awful everything is. And they're coming and they're like, boy, this place is pretty freaking spectacular.

1:03:40So that's pretty beautiful. I guess Brazil beat Scotland 3-0 yesterday. Was that yesterday? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, cool. Yeah. All right, guys, that is our show for today. I thank you for watching. Tomorrow we've got, who's on tomorrow? Sarah Gonzalez. Sarah Gonzalez and Chad Prather, former colleagues at The Blaze. Chad's not over there anymore, but I do enjoy chatting with both of them. Reminder, if you want 50 % off Copal against my accountant and business managers' wishes, you go to drinkcopal.com. I don't know how many bottles we even have left at this point. Michael Malice on Monday.

1:04:14And again, I thank you for all the birthday wishes and all that good stuff. And I assume we'll, I just don't know what I'm doing or what they're doing with me, but I assume we'll take some pictures and post that in Locals and all that good stuff. Post game show 30 seconds. RubenReport.Locals.com. Adios.