I love how everyone laughs when he gives some BS hedge as an answer. I feel that there should be a left track, inserted onto all such comments by Mike Johnson, JD Vance, etc., etc..
One thing Republicans are good at is assigning prominence to people with below-average abilities, who are proud of their ignorance. It's like some kind of anti-American, embarrassing Affirmative Action, or Welfare for man-children who make bad choices over and over, who don't want to learn, and have decided to remain clueless. Talk about rewarding the unfit. That's some strange meritocracy you got there, GOP.
If I were in charge, anyone naive enough to believe in gods would not even be allowed to use the word “reality” let alone accuse others of not living in it.
Ta, Robyn. The only video I watched was Maebe A. Girl, and she was FABULOUS. Trans rights are human rights, period/full stop, and nothing less, nothing else will do. EVER.
They used to put people in jail for teaching that the sun was in the center of the solar system, and that the earth revolves around the sun. That's because a guy in Egypt that Catholics liked, Claudius Ptolemy, said it wasn't that way, and that the earth is at the center of the solar system. But the guy had been dead for over 1200 years. Didn't matter.
Oh really, Dave? Which side of the spectrum denies evolution because it’s a godless materialistic refutation of the inerrant word of their magical space wizard? Which side of the spectrum continues to claim that climate change not only isn’t happening, but was concocted by communists to undermine the free market? Which side listened to medical experts during the recent pandemic and which side claimed that it either a Chinese bio-weapon or a “(((globalist)))” hoax while sucking down tubes of Ivermectin like Go-gurt?
It ain’t the left, you backstabbing token! Speaking of which…
Yes, progressives are soooo ideologically rigid! They have the gall to not allow racists, misogynists, capitalists, religious loons or other fascistic scum in our ranks. Meanwhile MAGA has such a rich diversity of ideas ranging from anti-LGBTQ+ zealots that want them stoned to death and rich gay quislings willing to sell out other queer people for money and a pat on the head from the straights.
Awwww… the poor superstitious mouth breathers who believe in the supernatural like some Paleolithic barbarian sacrificing a virgin to the local thunder or volcano god.
I don’t care how “nice” someone is or, more likely, pretends to be. The nanosecond someone seriously invokes some deity or spiritual nonsense, they’ve just signaled that their thoughts and opinions NOT worthy of consideration. All the performative “charity” (also known as PR) does wash away the tyranny, bloodshed, and ignorance created and used by religion.
You mean the reality that trumpy only cuts taxes for corporations and the rich? Or that trumpy started a war for no good reason that he has no chance to win? Or that we currently have the most corrupt federal government in a long, long time? Or the reality that Repubs are really into voter suppression? I'm afraid you have to be a little more specific in your slurs.
Sorry. I misread your comment based on the quote at the top. What follows I interpreted as continuing to rail against the Left.
To a large extent I agree with your content, but not with what I do consider slurs. It is possible to believe in the Bible (one version or another, since we don't have the original and what we do have has been translated and edited to pieces) and still be a good person--not illiterate, not racist. I know some them. They accept that I am an atheist and I accept that they aren't. I do have a problem with organized religion, but that's because it's usually more political than religious.
There are Christians and there are HYPOchristians. The latter are usually the loudest.
“But may I just point out here that Michael Knowles repeatedly claims that gay people — gay parents especially — are a threat to society not because of ‘reality’…”
Point taken, but I may posit that Knowles does not really give a rat’s ass about reality or ideology, but rather, that he is just another lying hypocritical fascist asshole who makes a damn good living being a lying hypocritical fascist asshole and so he continues to be so.
Is this the guy who had Ben Shapiro on his show and right off the bat lovable Ben just slammed him and his GAY marriage. Dude was all ok we all have our differences of opinion but I guess we can agree to disagree, I'm a gay Trumper - that's my thing!
It's honestly surprising to me that Rubin allowed himself to be put in a place where he has to discuss these things with people who *actually* disagree with them. For all the talk of bubbles, a lot of right-wing pundits keep themselves walled off from anyone on the left so that they are never challenged.
Dave must have thought a lot of his debating skills to do this. Mistakenly.
"no Republicans or conservative activists were trying to legislate against trans rights for adults" Legislate? Maybe no. REGULATE? OH, HELL YES. (cf. gender on passports)
I love how everyone laughs when he gives some BS hedge as an answer. I feel that there should be a left track, inserted onto all such comments by Mike Johnson, JD Vance, etc., etc..
David is such a projector 📽️ he could work as one at the movie theater.
One thing Republicans are good at is assigning prominence to people with below-average abilities, who are proud of their ignorance. It's like some kind of anti-American, embarrassing Affirmative Action, or Welfare for man-children who make bad choices over and over, who don't want to learn, and have decided to remain clueless. Talk about rewarding the unfit. That's some strange meritocracy you got there, GOP.
Dave's brain is nearly as smooth as Tim Pool's, and that's saying something...
“I left the Left.”
Rube, the Left thanks you.
The last people - the very last people - who will be defending Donald Trump into prison or the grave will be transphobes.
If I were in charge, anyone naive enough to believe in gods would not even be allowed to use the word “reality” let alone accuse others of not living in it.
Ta, Robyn. The only video I watched was Maebe A. Girl, and she was FABULOUS. Trans rights are human rights, period/full stop, and nothing less, nothing else will do. EVER.
They used to put people in jail for teaching that the sun was in the center of the solar system, and that the earth revolves around the sun. That's because a guy in Egypt that Catholics liked, Claudius Ptolemy, said it wasn't that way, and that the earth is at the center of the solar system. But the guy had been dead for over 1200 years. Didn't matter.
“The modern Left chooses ideology over reality.”
Oh really, Dave? Which side of the spectrum denies evolution because it’s a godless materialistic refutation of the inerrant word of their magical space wizard? Which side of the spectrum continues to claim that climate change not only isn’t happening, but was concocted by communists to undermine the free market? Which side listened to medical experts during the recent pandemic and which side claimed that it either a Chinese bio-weapon or a “(((globalist)))” hoax while sucking down tubes of Ivermectin like Go-gurt?
It ain’t the left, you backstabbing token! Speaking of which…
Yes, progressives are soooo ideologically rigid! They have the gall to not allow racists, misogynists, capitalists, religious loons or other fascistic scum in our ranks. Meanwhile MAGA has such a rich diversity of ideas ranging from anti-LGBTQ+ zealots that want them stoned to death and rich gay quislings willing to sell out other queer people for money and a pat on the head from the straights.
Awwww… the poor superstitious mouth breathers who believe in the supernatural like some Paleolithic barbarian sacrificing a virgin to the local thunder or volcano god.
I don’t care how “nice” someone is or, more likely, pretends to be. The nanosecond someone seriously invokes some deity or spiritual nonsense, they’ve just signaled that their thoughts and opinions NOT worthy of consideration. All the performative “charity” (also known as PR) does wash away the tyranny, bloodshed, and ignorance created and used by religion.
So spare me the no-true-Scotsman bullshit!
You mean the reality that trumpy only cuts taxes for corporations and the rich? Or that trumpy started a war for no good reason that he has no chance to win? Or that we currently have the most corrupt federal government in a long, long time? Or the reality that Repubs are really into voter suppression? I'm afraid you have to be a little more specific in your slurs.
None of which I deny as reality.
Also, “slurs.” Are you mad I’m calling Bible-fucking, illiterate, racist knuckle-draggers “Bible-fucking, illiterate, racist knuckle-draggers?”
Sorry. I misread your comment based on the quote at the top. What follows I interpreted as continuing to rail against the Left.
To a large extent I agree with your content, but not with what I do consider slurs. It is possible to believe in the Bible (one version or another, since we don't have the original and what we do have has been translated and edited to pieces) and still be a good person--not illiterate, not racist. I know some them. They accept that I am an atheist and I accept that they aren't. I do have a problem with organized religion, but that's because it's usually more political than religious.
There are Christians and there are HYPOchristians. The latter are usually the loudest.
“But may I just point out here that Michael Knowles repeatedly claims that gay people — gay parents especially — are a threat to society not because of ‘reality’…”
Point taken, but I may posit that Knowles does not really give a rat’s ass about reality or ideology, but rather, that he is just another lying hypocritical fascist asshole who makes a damn good living being a lying hypocritical fascist asshole and so he continues to be so.
When genocidal lunatics fall out, it ain't pretty.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/trump-shouted-and-cursed-netanyahu-over-threat-to-resume-beirut-bombing
Is this the guy who had Ben Shapiro on his show and right off the bat lovable Ben just slammed him and his GAY marriage. Dude was all ok we all have our differences of opinion but I guess we can agree to disagree, I'm a gay Trumper - that's my thing!
Treasury Secretary bessent and Thiel are also gay Republicans very close to Republicans and Trump.
I’m not sure why they think the religious fanatics will spare them.
the all-mighty dollah
This was terribly stupid of me, but I used to sometimes confuse Dave Rubin with Dave Zirin. Hoo boy, do I no longer have this problem.
It's honestly surprising to me that Rubin allowed himself to be put in a place where he has to discuss these things with people who *actually* disagree with them. For all the talk of bubbles, a lot of right-wing pundits keep themselves walled off from anyone on the left so that they are never challenged.
Dave must have thought a lot of his debating skills to do this. Mistakenly.
"no Republicans or conservative activists were trying to legislate against trans rights for adults" Legislate? Maybe no. REGULATE? OH, HELL YES. (cf. gender on passports)