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25:13Call 866-685-6604. That's 866-685-6604. Or visit TNUSA.com slash Dave. Okay, so there was a major Supreme Court decision yesterday related to the Voting Rights Act. Let me get you caught up. This is from Fox. The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the scope of a key Voting Rights Act provision that restricts how states draw districts affecting minority voters, constraining states' use of race as a factor when drawing congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms. Justices ruled 6-3 that Louisiana's 2024 congressional map, which was redrawn to create a second majority black district, constituted an illegal racial gerrymander.

26:00The court's decision sharply narrows states' use of race as a factor when drawing their congressional districts, effectively watering down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in question designed to protect minority voters. While Wednesday's ruling does not overturn the Voting Rights Act or Section 2, it's likely to narrow how minorities' representation influences multiple states' congressional maps and trigger a new wave of legal challenges over congressional boundaries. It will also make it harder for plaintiffs to challenge the maps in question as it requires them to prove a racially discriminatory motive.

26:35Okay, before I comment on this, and I think you can broadly see that I'm in agreement with the Supreme Court because they are removing racism from the system. We shouldn't draw congressional maps based on race. That's how you end up hating people based on, oh, they live in that neighborhood. Here's Donald Trump's feelings on the matter. Today's 6-3 Supreme Court decision in the Callas case was a big win for equal protection under the law. as it returns the Voting Rights Act to its original intent, which was to protect against intentional racial discrimination. Thank you to the brilliant Justice Samuel Alito for authoring this important and appropriate opinion.

27:16Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump. So the idea here is that the way we were doing it before certain states, and this specifically is about Louisiana, but now obviously it's been hit by the Supreme Court, so the states are gonna have to fall in line with this. You can't just look at an area and be like, black people live over there, white people live over there. We're going to draw the map right down the middle and that in essence will keep the black areas Democrat and probably keep the white areas Republican. You just can't do that anymore. As Trump references, equal protection under the law.

27:51We should have nothing in the system that is about race. It is the only way to make the playing field equal. And the hope would be, the hope would be that ultimately your race should have nothing to do with your voting habits, right? And the irony is the Democrats, we'll have more on this in a second, the Democrats who get something like 90 plus percent of the black vote, well, if you just vote for a party as a monolith, eventually, no matter what the party does for you, even if the party's harming you, which I would argue the Democrats through big government programs for decades now have really harmed the black community, they will do nothing for you because they're like, oh, we don't have to do anything for these guys.

28:33No matter how much, no matter how bad we screw them, they're going to vote for us. What a bunch of clowns. Here's Fox talking about Clarence Thomas on, well, take a look.

28:43Dave Rubin:I would go further and hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.

28:54Dave Rubin:The they fear section two is essentially, quote, a dead letter following today's decision. The consequences are likely to be far reaching and grave. If other states follow Louisiana's lead, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. Okay, so this is super interesting to me. And this really, in some sense, is like, boy, everything we've been fighting against the last 10 plus years with wokeism and the hyper-racialization of everything. It's like the only way you get to a fair system is to ignore color. And the very people who've been telling us that we're all racist, they're obsessed with color.

29:36What the Supreme Court just decided was color will not play a role in how congressional maps were drawn. I'd like to get back to that quote, though, that they just showed right there from Kagan. Listen to this, really. The consequences of this decision are likely to be far-reaching and grave If other states follow Louisiana's lead, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect the candidates of their choice. What does that last sentence mean? You can vote for whoever. They will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect the candidates of their choice.

30:10That's completely wrong. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but that's completely wrong. anyone can run regardless of color of their skin, and anyone regardless of color of skin can vote for them. The equal opportunity remains. That's the thing that you're promised in the United States. What you're not promised is to be treated better based on the color of your skin, and we are removing the racial element from this. So I guess I should probably send a letter to Elena Kagan explaining basic constitutional law to her. Here is Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, and he didn't get a win here, so you know the whole system must be blown up.

30:49We're not here to step back. We're here to fight back. Now, when this decision came out earlier today, it's an unacceptable decision, but not an unexpected decision, because this isn't even really the Roberts court. It's the Trump court. Yes. And what we would expect from the Trump court is an effort to continue their scheme to suppress the vote and rig the midterm elections and beyond. Because these extremists have failed America in every possible way. They failed on the economy. They failed on health care. They're failing as it relates to this reckless and costly war of choice. the extremists have completely and totally failed America.

31:42So they've concluded, aided and abetted by the Trump court, that they have to cheat to win. God, he is just so fake and robotic. I'm pretty sure that his battery was running low and they had him plugged into the podium there. I love the woman. Yes. Have you seen these videos? It's like this thing online on TikTok now when kids are playing basketball, like high school kids are playing basketball. And as someone's about to you shoot a free throw, you get like a random guy to yell, that's my man. Can you grab one of those? It's just great. That's basically what she did right there. Listen, dude, you're calling us all extremists.

32:15It's Trump's court. So they hate the courts when the courts don't make decisions they like. Like if the Supreme Court made a decision that I didn't like, I would be critical of the Supreme Court. I would, no, it's not even that I'd be critical of them. I would just tell you what I think. And then I would hope that over time, the better idea would work. But what they want you to think is the court is illegitimate. And then repeatedly, I mean, how many times did he say extremists there? This is, we're not even five days. I think we're literally five days off the third assassination attempt on Trump.

32:45And you're trying to make it seem like the court. The court, it's just so idiotic. What you're saying is every time the court does something that you don't like, they're Trump's court. Had they gone the other way, would they be Trump's court? Like sometimes they go the other way. Actually, some of the, you know, So like John Roberts actually is kind of wishy-washy on some of his decisions and even Amy Comey Barrett, who everyone thought was gonna be like hardcore, hardcore conservative. So when they do things you want, then they're okay. And when they do things you don't want, then they're extremists and everything else.

33:13But what this is really about, put aside the court for the moment, what this is really about is that the Democrats are losing the argument when it comes to the hyper-racialization of everything. For 10 years, they have pushed this on all of us. Well, for many, many years, they pushed affirmative action. Then it morphed into DEI. They wanted everything to be racialized. They literally wanted quotas. The people who were supposedly against racism wanted quotas. They discriminated at colleges against Asians and Jews and whites. We know all this stuff. And it's disappearing. And here is Timo Obama admitting that it's disappearing.

33:51And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone. Diversity is gone. equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone, the Voting Rights Act largely gone. But guess what, extremists? We're still here. And we're not going anywhere. So yeah, we're getting rid of all of those crazy racist things that you want. And then you call us extremists and tell us you're still here. These are not good people. I don't like these I mean, it's just endless with these guys. We are trying, Timo Obama, nobody cares about anyone's skin color, nobody. You know, I'm pretty, I would say I'm pretty embedded in what's going on in right wing circles these days.

34:39I have never, literally never once been at a dinner or an event where I heard anyone on the right be like, let's discriminate against black people.

34:52Come on, Bob, make a better argument. No, I've never. All people talk about equality, equality under law. This guy is just ridiculous. Now, I mentioned at the top of the show, I was trying to teach these young fellas here a little bit about comedy before the program today. And I watched that video that we just showed you there. He's very upset. We're not gonna have DEI. We're not gonna have these racist things anymore. And I said, can we do this quick edit? This is the first time I'm seeing it. It was my idea. Let's see how it worked out. And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone.

35:24diversity is gone equity gone inclusion gone racial tolerance gone the voting rights act largely gone can I get a amen can I get a amen can I get a amen yes I don't know what you come to do but I come to praise me that's funny that's funny we're in agreement Yeah, that's funny. That's funny. It's like, okay, you want all these things gone? Can I get an amen? If you haven't seen Coming to America, the second one sucked. You remember that one? They put that out on Amazon or something a couple of years ago, but the first one is just everything great about Eddie Murphy and the 80s and the joke, the soup joke at the end.

36:11Oh, it's just perfect. Chuck Schumer, another guy I'm not a huge fan of. You're not gonna believe it. Well, it didn't go his way and well, Jim Crow. And today we're ramping up our efforts. We see the need for it just today in today's Supreme Court decision, which is a despicable decision that is a return to Jim Crow, taking decades of hard work, sweat, blood and tears and even people dying for the right to vote to prevent racial discrimination in the right to vote. We see what they're doing in the SAVE Act, which would disenfranchise 20 million people. And we are fighting that every step of the way.

36:53And as I said today, we're ramping up our efforts. All right, first off, I should note, there's some sort of technical issue with the audio there. So the reason he sounds like a robot, it's kind of funny because he had a huge bandage on his head. It made it seem like someone hit him in the head and then the robot started breaking down. We don't know what happened to his head and the audio was just screwed up there. but no, no one's taking anyone's right to vote away. Can someone get a black guy in Louisiana on the phone? Who's the most famous black guy out of Louisiana? Who's on the, do they still have a basketball team in New Orleans?

37:25Oh, yeah. Who do they got? Who do they got over there? You get me Zion, what's his name? Zion, you get me a black guy in Louisiana on the phone right now and I want to find out if they, Zion Williamson, you're still, and they're on the Pelicans over there in New Orleans? Okay, the New Orleans, get me a New Orleans Pelican who's black, and I wanna find out if he is able to vote. It has nothing to do with voting rights. They are removing the racial component because if you just district based on black people live there, give them a district. Well, okay, yes, I suppose you might get more black representatives because people do have a weird thing where they wanna vote for people, I guess, who are the same color.

38:03I don't even think that's true. But that's not how the America, equal rights, Equality under the law. Here's Chuck just comparing everything to Jim Crow. Typically associated with slavery and Jim Crow stretching into the 21st century. What's the rationale? Stop it. Jim Crow in the 21st century, rearing its ugly head once again. Shame on them. These laws are anathema to the very spirit of our democracy. They are Jim Crow, too. And it is the Republican Party. It's very reminiscent of Jim Crow. That's what Republicans want to do. They want to restore, they want to not only restore Jim Crow in the South, they want to have Jim Crow spread from one end of this country to the other.

38:53Most Republicans are choosing to spend their time this week on federalizing Jim Crow. You know, the more Chuck talks about this Jim guy, I'm starting to think this Jim Crow is pretty great. According to Schumer, if I understand this correctly, Jim Crow didn't care about race whatsoever, right? Like Jim, if this thing that just happened is Jim Crow related, it's bringing us back to Jim Crow. Well, this thing removed racism. So Jim Crow, get this guy an NAACP image award. I mean, Jim Crow, pretty, pretty, pretty great. Let's continue for just a second. I'm not even going to bother. Should I, you want, should we give some information about Jim Crow here?

39:30You guys know it's all, it's all completely absurd. The point of all of this is that the Democrats are not getting something they want. Here over on CNN, the implication is that somehow this is going to trick people into voting for Republicans.

39:44Dave Rubin:It could have an impact on the midterms and beyond here. There's no doubt about it. An early voting, to Joan's point, does begin on Saturday in Louisiana. This Saturday, the overseas ballots have already been shipped out. So that explains the timing here. And I think it's important to look at this in a couple different ways, the short-term effect and the long-term effect. And Joan is absolutely right. There is no doubt in years beyond this is going to majorly change representation largely across the South and elsewhere, likely opening the door for more Republican seats, certainly in Southern states.

40:18Okay, so that's interesting, Zelensky. So what you're saying is if we remove race from districting, Republicans will win more. my guess is that's probably true. Because it seems to, but if you were, let's say you were a black person in one of these districts in Louisiana that is now gonna be redistricted in essence because they're gonna remove the racial component related to this. I'm gonna guess that you don't think the government's doing that much for you. I'm gonna guess you don't think the Democrats are that great. You vote for Democrats. But if they'd be doing that much more for you, if that's what you want the government to do, then you'd probably be much better off.

40:59So I would probably argue here that Zelensky, Zelensky, Zelani, whatever your name is, you're probably right. This ends up, if you deracialize everything, if we just have equality, I think more people will realize that the ideas of limited government and lower taxes and having a border, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, the general ideas that happen to be Republican these days will lead to more people voting Republican. So this is probably, in the end of the day, going to be good for the very black people that you're purporting to defend here. Let's take a look at this. This is a potential map of the South if we remove racial gerrymandering, which is seriously interesting.

41:38So the way most of this stuff is gerrymandered right now does have to do with race. Now, the court's decision is as it relates to Louisiana at the moment. But if you removed that, that is a pretty freaking significant swing. Now, to the backdrop of all of this, you might be thinking, you know, on election night.

41:58Dave Rubin:Hey, Chicagoland, the Wayfair store is in your neighborhood at Edens Plaza and Wilmette. Finally, you can feel the fabric, sit on the sectionals and even open the refrigerators. Plus, our in-store designers will help you bring it all together with free one-on-one design support for any project on any budget. Yep, we said free. Oh, and did we mention the cafe? So what are you waiting for? Come see all that's in store. Visit the Wayfair store today at Edens Plaza and Wilmette. Wayfair, every style, every home. This is what I was thinking this morning. On election night, when they get, you know, they get on CNN, they get the guys up there with the big freaking map, and they're always, and then it's like, you know, in this district in Ohio, which is white, whatever, and then they're like, and over here where it's black, and they make everything about race.

42:46Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? Well, Scott Jennings asked that very question on CNN yesterday.

42:58There are 58 members of the House who are black. It's a record, actually. A majority are actually elected from plurality white districts. We're so racist in America, you've got white people electing African-Americans to Congress in record numbers. Are those people in the South? They are not in the South.

43:16Dave Rubin:Well, Tim Scott is. As far as I know, Tim Scott is. That's one. That's one example. That's one example. And so. That's not 58. And so the issue is racism. It is inherently racist to draw lines and divide people up by race. I mean, the definition of it would be we're going to divide ourselves up by race and say only a black congressman can represent black people. Only a Hispanic congressman can represent Hispanic people. That is patently illegal under U.S. law. It's not only illegal, it's immoral, and it's counter and antithetical to everything that this country was set up on, right? And I love how the woman, you know, he mentions, who was it, the South Carolina senator, Tim Scott.

44:00He mentions Tim Scott, and it's like, that's one, that's one. Okay, so how many would make you happy? Like, at the end of the day, is that what you're saying? That in every district that previously to this was majority black, should they only elect black people? how is it that America, a predominantly white country that you guys aren't big fans of, how did we vote Barack Obama in to be president twice? So we are trying to remove racism from this. Now, interestingly, this case feels very similar because we're talking about redistricting to what happened in Virginia last week where they had a referendum.

44:39They previously, before the referendum on redistricting, they had the fairest map in the nation, as Scott Jennings pointed out, because they're basically a 51 to 49 state. They're as purple as you can get, and their map was six to five Democrats to Republicans. So it quite literally was the fairest congressional map in the entire nation. The referendum passed, which then would have put it at 10 to one Democrats, which was psychotic. It's suddenly hung up now by a judge in Virginia court. So we'll see where that lands. But in response to this, and this is the position that I think Republicans all over the nation are being put in right now, will you sit back while everywhere Democrats have power, they try to take more power?

45:21You know, I read a tweet from Clay Travis a week ago that Indiana, which is red, red, red, they didn't do redistricting and all of this. So if the red states are just gonna sit back and just, well, we like to play by the rules because we think that constitution's pretty darn okay. And we're, you know, we're more conservative, so we don't like doing a lot of crazy things. You will lose because they are on the march. That's what Tmul Obama and Chuck Schumer and the rest of them are telling you constantly. One place that we don't just sit back and take it is right here, the free state of Florida.

45:51And listen to this from Town Hall. Breaking, the new Florida map has passed in the state Senate. It now heads to DeSantis' desk to be signed into law. And look at those teeny tiny little blue pockets of nothingness. Basically, I think that's Fort Lauderdale down there and a little bit outside of Disney where all the furries go when they're done working. and yes, DeSantis will likely sign this thing today. Do we have any info on that? I mean, I'm guessing he will probably sign it maybe by the end of today's show, who knows? And what happens when we push back against leftist lunacy here in Florida?

46:25Well, we do have a couple Democrats in this state and they're always screaming and sometimes they have a bullhorn. Here is House member Angie Nixon. This is a violation of the Constitution. It is! It's a violation of the Transitution of Outer orders, but y 'all are doing illegal! Representative Persons Mullica has waved closed. The question now recurs on final passage of HB1D. The clerk will unlock the machine and the members will proceed to vote. Have all members voted? Have all members voted? The clerk will lock the machine and announce the vote. 83 yeas, 28 nays, Mr. Speaker. Show the bill passes.

47:10Read the next bill. None on the desk, Mr. Speaker.

47:20Lady, this is a Wendy's. Do you see how these people behave? Like, I'm sorry. We are we have a super majority. We are the reddest state in the nation. We got two point three million people since covid, many of them former Democrats who I can damn well tell you. because I meet them all the time. They are the most red-pilled right-wing lunatics. Half of them, it doesn't even matter what their thoughts are on abortion or anything else. They got down here and they're like, this place is free and safe and we're gonna keep it that way. And DeSantis, who, what's the line I always use? DeSantis always says it, decline is a choice.

47:59He refuses to let this place decline. We just checked, he is expected to sign it today. I would love if it happens in the next 15 minutes or so. That would be great. And just as a quick reminder, why not? I will be up in Miami Beach on June 11th with Ron DeSantis. Do we have an image? Put up an image and Ben Shapiro will be there and Adam Carolla will be there and Jillian Michaels will be there. DaveRubin.com slash events. And we will try to make this red state even more red. Here's a bit more from Scott Jennings explaining to these people that you don't have to think about everything in black or white terms, literally and figuratively.

48:38The issue is here, the map that they were fixing put all of the black people in Florida in one district. Right? That's not right either. You can't do that and say you have fair representation now. Yes, white people should vote for black people. Black people are going to vote for white people. And they should. But you also shouldn't put all of one race in a whole state in one district and say, we're going to allow you to operate here and we're going to operate outside of you everywhere else. Interesting debating point. So your issue is with percentages and representation. So you're saying that you can't put all the people who effectively have the same political persuasion in one district.

49:14Let's take it. Let's take it. All black people don't think. Well, but by voting historically recently, they voted 80, 90 percent Democrat. I think we can all acknowledge that. No, you should not. That is not an assumption you should make. Well, it's a statistic that I can read. Yeah, it is a statistic. We just checked it. So the percentage of black people who voted for Kamala in 2024, 83%. So if you are black and you are upset about whatever the government is or isn't doing for you, you might want to think, why is it that when I keep voting in for these people, so let's say Chicago for the last 80 plus years has had Democrat mayors, and then it gets the murder rates, the general crime, black people being killed, blah, blah, blah.

49:56Why is that? Like all the blue cities and states. Why is it that if one group votes as a monolith for a party, they don't do more for that party? And it's obvious. If someone is basically willing to follow you no matter what you do to them, you offer them some crumbs every now and again. And they'll just keep taking it. Thank you, sir. May I have another? You realize you don't have to do anything for these people. Now, in general, I don't want the government doing anything specifically for black people or white people or anything else. I want the government treating us all equally, which is exactly what we are trying to do here.

50:32But his point, what Scott's point is, okay, he's talking about that area right outside Orlando. That, I guess, is the predominantly black part, let's say, of Florida. That might be right, but what Scott's saying is it's the voting habits. It doesn't matter that there are black people there. It doesn't matter. Black people might want to think about why they are voting for Democrats in such large numbers. If the map wouldn't have been redrawn that way, if it wasn't so obvious that this is what is happening right now. 83 % to Kamala Harris. Explain that to me, explain that to me. But now I wanna focus a little more on the positive side of some of the things that are happening here, because yes, Democrats are going nutty.

51:16But as I've been illustrating for quite some time, The Republicans are doing pretty damn good right now, and they are competent, and they are trying to do good, and they're doing it in the face of an awful lot of endless insanity. I saw this clip yesterday. I was, like, actually annoyed. It really takes a lot to actually get me annoyed. But I had never heard of this woman before. She is California representative. I think it's from the San Diego area, Sarah Jacobs, and they're at a congressional hearing. And here she is asking Pete Hegseth if Donald Trump is mentally stable.

51:45Dave Rubin:Do you believe that the president is mentally stable enough to be the commander in chief? Did you ask the same question of Joe Biden for four years? Mr. Secretary, Joe Biden is not the president. Mr. Trump has been president for a year and a half, and I'm asking you right now. And I won't even engage with the level of disparagement that you're putting on the commander in chief, who indeed is, I mean, every single day. Mr. Secretary, Biden is not the president. He's the sharpest, most insightful commander in chief we've had in generations. and you want to compare, I mean, you want to ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended Joe Biden, who could barely speak and didn't know what day of the week it was?

52:20Mr. Secretary, as you know, as you know. He governed through an auto pen. He had a Secretary of Defense who went AWOL for a week. I can't be gone for 10 minutes without... I will reclaim my time. Thank you so much. She is awful. Lady, Sarah Jacobs, you are absolutely awful. And man, did that illustrate what I have said for two plus years about Pete Hegseth or what? What were they afraid of? Pedigree and ability to communicate. And that question was ridiculous. He did not play by, he didn't just sit there and take it. He pushed back. Look, you buffoons and you frauds what you did with Joe Biden, who was basically in effect an auto pen and truly did not know what day it was and everything else, right?

53:01That's one part of it. But then Donald Trump, Donald Trump, who's out there every day, no matter what, flying all over the world, taking press conferences on the plane, doing off the cuff Q and A's, doing the rallies, leading this war, fighting with NATO. Like the guy, whether you agree with all the things he is doing or not, the idea that he is somehow not mentally fit while he is fighting for the American people is completely absurd. And that is just A plus stuff out of Hegseth right there. Here's a little more from Hegseth. This is to Massachusetts, Massachusetts representative, Seth Moulton.

53:37And they got into it about the Iran situation. Did you advise the president that we should attack Iran? We were, first of all, in this position in the cabinet. We never talk about what we would advise the president to do or not. Do you think the president or you deserve more? I've been in every meeting. I understand that, Mr. Secretary. With the chairman and everybody else as those decisions were made. And he got every perspective possible when it came to this. I'm just asking what your perspective is. Are you afraid to take ownership of this? Do you think it was a good idea or not? My when I as I have consulted the president, do I think it's a good idea to confront a nuclear bomb in the hands of the Imagine what the world would look like right now if Iran had a nuclear weapon Okay, so let's just just imagine which by the listen.

54:17How is this war going? Do you think we're winning? Militarily on the battlefield. It's been an astounding military success, but are we winning the war? Absolutely, okay So do you call Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz winning? Well, I would say the blockade that we hold that doesn't allow anything to come in or out of Iranian ports. OK, so always. So we blockaded their blockade. So they blockaded us and then we blockaded their blockade. That's like saying tag, you're it. Or, you know, if President Madison had said, well, the British just burned down Washington. But don't worry, we're going to burn it down as well.

54:50I have a thought. But if you're a black guy in Louisiana and that's your white guy choice, vote for the black guy. These people are so—he's not from Louisiana—but these people are so thin and dim and ridiculous. And once again, there is Hegseth absolutely illustrating everything that I'm talking about right there. The high level of competency, not taking the BS, talking about how Trump took advice from everybody, then also making—and then that Moulton doesn't—he doesn't understand what the blockade is right now. Do you understand right now, Iran is losing$500 million a day. They are quite literally shutting off their oil refineries right now because they don't have anything to do with the oil.

55:29They cannot get the oil out. So do you know if we do this for another month where they will be, they'll be sitting on this oil, they will have no cash, China will be pissed, and it will further the destabilization of the regime. And I love how Hegseth is like, what did Moulton say, did we win this war? Are we winning this war? It's like militarily, this thing, there has never been a war like this before. We went across the world to a massive country with crazy geography, and we completely took out their military basically in 48 hours. And then they were randomly firing rockets all over the place.

56:02But the idea that we didn't... It's so weird, because it's like, Moulton, would you prefer we lost this war? Would you prefer that Iran maybe has a nuke right now, and we would have lost? Would then things be better, because you would be able to pin that on Trump? Perhaps you would be happier, because here's video 10 years ago of Seth Moulton, and you're We're not gonna believe who he compares Trump to. It starts with an H and it's got six letters and it ain't Houdini, although I think that's more than six letters, go. People should read the history of how Germany elected Hitler. Read that history and just try to understand the analogies.

56:38And I think that's important at this time. I'm not saying that Donald Trump is necessarily Hitler. I'm not saying that. But you ought to understand how an unbelievably educated, advanced society can elect a demagogue and how bad it can get as a result. I think we've got to be really concerned when someone, regardless of his stature as a reality TV star or whatever else, says things that are fundamentally opposed to our values and to who we are as Americans. For several million reasons, the comparison to Hitler is a pretty inflammatory one. I'm curious if you think that if he were elected president, he would be capable of doing the same kinds of things that Adolf Hitler.

57:16I don't know him. I don't know that he would. But he certainly talked about carpet bombing the Middle East. That's his approach to ISIS, which, by the way, it's just fundamentally stupid. He obviously has absolutely no idea how to fight terrorism. That's kind of funny, Moulton, because Trump eliminated ISIS. It basically doesn't exist. He did that in about two years. They tried to reconstitute themselves under Biden, and that didn't work out very well. And now that Trump's back, ISIS is, to whatever extent it even exists, it's nothing. Right, so everything. I'm not saying he's Hitler, but he's pretty Hitler-y.

57:52Hitler had Jewish grandchildren, right? Did I read that in an alternate history? Maybe that was in like a What If, a Marvel What If book or something. Here's one more from Hegseth. Because these guys, they want everyone to think we lost this war. It's completely absurd. Here he is going at it with California Representative John Garamendi. The way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, Congressman, you should know better. Shame on you. Calling this a quagmire two months in. The effort, what they've undertaken, what they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield that could create strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies, shame on you for that statement.

58:37And statements like that are reckless to our troops. Don't say I support the troops on one hand, and then a two-month mission is a quagmire. That's a false equivalence. Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for? Your hatred for President Trump blinds you to the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing, which the American people support. Iran's been at war with us for 47 years. You want to talk about a forever war? For two months, this president has stared them down. He's going to get a better deal than anyone ever has and ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon.

59:11You know, people don't talk about Hegseth as a presidential candidate, like everybody's kind of focused on J.D. and Rubio. I would vote for Hegseth in a second. Hegseth, if you're looking for your first guy supporting you, right here. He understands it. He has what Trump has. He has television presence. He knows how to fight. He has deep command of what's going on here. And think about the absurdity of the question. A quagmire. You know what a quagmire would be? We've had quagmires. We had quagmires in Iraq. We had quagmires in Vietnam over the years. A quagmire would be a war that's kind of intractable and we've got soldiers and we keep dumping in more money.

59:47A quagmire, Ukraine, Russia, that's a quagmire. This sort of intractable, never ending. We just keep putting in more, they keep putting in more and that's, it's stuck. Can I get the actual definition of quagmire? You're stuck, that's what it means, right? It's kind of like being stuck in tar and you're slowly sinking. That's a quagmire. The idea that we had a 40 day military war where we completely took over the country and now we control their entire energy sector is not a quagmire. It doesn't have its complete finality yet, right? We're waiting for the last chapter of this thing of how it will fully end, but the idea it's a quagmire is absolutely freaking ridiculous.

1:00:31Here's Fox reporting that Trump has rejected Iran's last offer and the blockade, not quagmire, will remain. Hey, John. Well, today is the 16th day of the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, and President Trump now says that he's going to extend that blockade until Iran agrees to a deal that ends its nuclear program. President Trump telling Axios just moments ago, quote, the blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing. They are choking like a stuffed pig, and it's going to be worse for them. They can't have a nuclear weapon. Iran's economy is tanking since the start of the war 60 days ago.

1:01:11So far, two million jobs have been lost. Half of Iran's jobs are at risk. The value of Iran's real currency has dropped 98 percent to a record low. Annual inflation is up 67 percent, with the price of chicken up 75 percent. Iran's daily oil shipments are also down 70%. That's not a quagmire, guys. That's Iran in deep doo-doo. We took out their...

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1:02:11The new Ayatollah, who supposedly is a closeted gay, has his leg blown off or something in one eye. Like, what is his leg blown off? And not only did we win militarily, what they just showed you right there is we are exerting pressure on their economy right now so that the regime will have less. At some point, there's just nothing. We don't have a military. Our economy sucks. Everybody hates us. Maybe we got to negotiate with this guy. And Trump, who still has a sense of humor despite, I don't know, the third, well, the third assassination attempt this week. He put up this yesterday. That is the Trump, that is the straight of Trump.

1:02:51And I wouldn't put it past him. I wouldn't put him past him. You know, we've got the Gulf of America now instead of the Gulf of Mexico. And it's like, you know what, maybe at the end, Trump's gonna be like, they're gonna finally come in. You know, these Iranian guys, they're all gonna limp in there into the meeting in Pakistan, all banged up, one guy without the leg. And they're gonna be like, all right, all right, we can't take it anymore, we have no military. And you know, we got no money and we're just screwed, we'll sign the deal. And then JD is gonna be like, oh, there's one other thing. IT'S GOING TO BE THE STRAIGHT OF TRUMP.

1:03:23LIKE, IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME. IT REALLY WOULDN'T. HERE'S NATIONAL TREASURER JOHN KENNEDY ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IRAN. WHAT I 'VE LEARNED FROM OUR CONFLICT WITH IRAN. NUMBER ONE, WITH IRAN, IF YOU TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, THEY JUST STAB YOU IN THE NECK. YOU CAN'T TRUST THEM. NUMBER TWO, WHETHER YOU LIKE HIM OR NOT, ANY FAIR-MINDED PERSON WOULD HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT President Trump has oranges the size of beach balls. He truly is tough as a pine knot. He's like a cartoon character anyway, but he's just great. He's just great. Like, look, Trump is doing what he thinks is best. And that's obvious.

1:04:10And that's why for the 40 days of the war, when there were certain pundits on the right who loved Trump before, and then suddenly, oh my God, he's horrible. He's controlled by other people. He doesn't know what he's doing. He has dementia, all these things. Like, no, how about he has balls and he has a consistent track record for 40 years saying what he's gonna do. And he's doing exactly what Obama said he was gonna do. And Kamala said she would do. And Biden said he would do. And Obama, you know, like all of it, right? Like this has been going on forever and Trump just has the balls to do it.

1:04:39That's true. Let's just do a bit more here because I just told you, there's just a ton going on right now. You know, one of the things that's happening right now, of course, is the, we closed the border, we've got the deportations, but we are going to have to deal with people who came here legally, who I would say there's two versions of it. One, are holding deeply anti-American beliefs and they're out on the streets, you know, protesting and supporting terrorist groups and everything else. That's one version of, let's say, an American citizen, someone who became an American, who is here doing anti-American activities.

1:05:11And the other version of it is, people who were naturalized citizens, so they became citizens of the United States, like first-generation people, who then are operating, I don't know, fraudulent learning centers, fraudulent hospices. They're involved in money laundering and a whole bunch more that we are going to have to start going after some of these people too, which if you think they started freaking out when we went after illegals, that was one thing. When we start denaturalizing people, they're going to go bananas. But here's JD saying we're doing it. We know, for example, as you mentioned with the Quality Leering Center, that much of this was located within the Somali community in Minneapolis.

1:05:49Could the law lead you to a place where we'd see accountability in the form of denaturalization or deportation from people that come to this country legally or illegally and take advantage of America?

1:06:04Yeah, well, absolutely. And that's one of the angles that we're looking at is the people who committed immigration fraud against our system. And how do we denaturalize those people and send them back to where they came from. I think that is an important statement right there. He is now officially saying, if you committed fraud, we will denaturalize you. We will boot you out of the country. Now, you may remember a couple of weeks ago when he was in an interview with Benny Johnson, and he said that we know that Ilhan Omar committed a federal violation of immigration law when she married her brother.

1:06:41Nobody's perfect. Here's an image. of that marriage license and yeah, she married her brother. So Ilhan, I'd watch out, because it's not just the money laundering that you did there with the Somali community and it's not just your tax return, which is off by$30 million and your fraudulent winery and everything else. You also married your brother and JD is looking at you, lady, so you may wanna watch out. So how do we wrap this whole show together? Because there really was a little bit of everything here. Well, might we turn to the words of Donald Trump. He wrote a book in the 80s called The Art of the Deal.

1:07:16It explains his philosophy on absolutely everything. It is why when he says things that are a little over the top, I don't freak out. It is why I'm able to analyze a lot of this stuff with clear eyes because he told us what his map is. He told us what his plans are. He told us how he thinks about things. And he's moving things along in a very positive way. and it has all the worst people completely apoplectic about everything. Might I offer you a quote from page 98 of The Art of the Deal? My philosophy has always been that if you ever catch someone stealing, you have to go after him very hard, even if it costs you 10 times more than he stole.

1:07:57That strikes me as what Donald Trump is doing right now. He knows there is a high cost to closing the border. People will call you a racist. He knows there is a high cost to sending ICE into the cities. People will call him Hitler and everything else. He knows there is a cost to looking at the Somali community, specifically in Minnesota, where fraud is running rampant and people will say all of the worst things. He knows that if he goes into Iran, people will say he's a warmonger when he ran anti-war. He knows all of those things. But he's hitting, he's not only doing those things, he's hitting them back 10 times harder.

1:08:31He is showing we will not play by your rules anymore. And that's why they hate him. I however love you guys which is why we do a post game show every day at the end of the show and we'll be doing one today in 30 seconds at rubinreport.locals.com I thank you for watching and don't forget daverubin.com slash events me, The Gov, Ben Shapiro, Adam Carolla, Jillian Michaels, June 11th, Miami Beach let's roll I'm hearing there's free tequila just a rumor can't comment just a rumor see ya

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