Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. The government shuts down -- no one notices. The government shuts down the rest of the economy -- riots.
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  2. The man is Churchillian enough to know when magnanimity is called for.
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  3. The Democrats aren't cowering in the face of the ideas of the Left wing, they're cowering in the face of blackmail threats by the Left wing.
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  4. The 40 million Americans who voted for Biden should be ashamed of how clueless they are.
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  5. Why does it happen everywhere when it happens here? Well, think about all the places where unrest is happening. Do we have common enemies who are interested in provoking that kind of response?
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  6. Young men aren't making friends with each other because they don't want to give anyone the wrong idea. At some point we're going to have to ask if societal awareness and acceptance of people like Dave comes at too high a price.
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  7. "At some point the ship has sailed on all this" Well, no. When King George III was locking down Boston Harbor, did we say, "Well, that ship has sailed"? The question is never, will we win. We will win. The only question is, how much damage can the enemy do in the meantime, and that depends on how hard we're willing to work.
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  8. Yeah, it's in section 2A.
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  9. Isn't that good advice to give to minorities though, if they want to be successful in STEM fields? There are a number of resources available at very low cost to gain a STEM education, with the lowest cost options being the most self-directed.
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  10. Here from June 2021, to say that it's getting worse, but the opposition to it is also rising.
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  11.  @AlexanderMichelson  For one, we need to stop accommodating what we know is wrong. For every Dave Rubin who just wants to live and let live, who just want freedom to be left alone, there are hundreds that want to pass laws and make every point of view other than their own, illegal. We need to stop pretending this isn't so -- Dave even talks about how much crap he catches from the Left. It's clear that he's an outlier, and it's getting worse, not better. We need to find and unapologetically support political candidates, judges, and similar, that know right from wrong and are willing to speak about it in public, even if people try to smear them as "fundamentalist". We need to drop Twitter, and seriously boycott institutions that bend the knee to the Woke Twitter mob. Even if that means there's only a very slim list of services we can use, that list will grow. And yeah, maybe it will mean taking to the streets. Antifa's just rabble. When we all stand up and stand together, they'll fold. Most of all, we just have to get together and say just how SICK we are of all this degeneracy. It's not going to get better until we do. People like Dave who just want freedom are allright, but the rest need to be pushed back into the margins. Do you honestly think it will get any easier in the future, if we fail to act? Do you honestly think it won't get thousands of times worse, if we keep accommodating it?
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  12. Consider online forms of education as well.
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  13. "Jon Stewart, why don't you give up your show to a black dude?" Two words: Trevor Noah.
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  14.  @Cmz083  Depends on the church. The pastor at the churches I've been to aren't even in most of the Bible studies.
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  15. VIVA FREI!
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  16.  @harbingertheheretic3541  At some point the courts will turn around too. We have to keep fighting.
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  17. "What are we defending at this point?" The right of teenage girls to be able to use the bathroom without fear. I'm very happy Rufo is doing this, but CRT is our second priority here.
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  18. Thank you for chasing this down -- does your team have the investigative bandwidth to get to the bottom of who these people were, why they were doing what they were doing, what laws we might have or new laws we might need to get them to face consequences for this fakery? Figuring out who else is on their team and what they've been up to, would be useful as well. If you don't have the bandwidth, do you know anyone who does?
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  19. Both parents related to the children in the household > every other situation.
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  20.  @nevrcm3261  Kids only ever have one father. Stepfathers (unrelated men in a household; stepmothers too, for that matter) are actually a risk to kids.
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  21. So guys, is this a CCP plot to drive America into a Chinese-style civil war? The government gets corrupt, they pull in their fat paychecks while they oppress the people and make it impossible for them to make a living, after which point everything explodes... it's a familiar tale, on the other side of the Pacific.
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  22.  @harrymills2770  Get rid of public school tenure, and let the firings commence.
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  23. At the time Wilie Brown was Speaker of the House in California, which he turned into an incredibly powerful position. He was mayor of SF as a retirement gig.
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  24. A couple of pieces of fake news: First, the womens' World Cup team has just been offered the same salary as the men's team. Second, there's this team of under-15 boys from FC Dallas that have just identified as women, and they're asking for their paychecks...
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  25. So when will it be time we realize that jokes aren't helping, and only a backlash will?
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  26. Yes, they're coming for the children.
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  27. At a certain point, stores are going to start marking every item $900, with a discount taken at the register, so every shoplifter can be prosecuted. (Or, we could just see everything cost $900 due to inflation. About even odds, which one happens first.)
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  28. The Empire Strikes Back, guys. They're trying to manipulate us. And, they're being exposed, which is highly entertaining.
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  29. The ratchet is only supposed to click in one direction. Hey Dave -- to strike a blow against Cancel Culture you should have its original victim, Brendan Eich, on your show.
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  30. I'm absolutely opposed to how media outlets, over time, delete parts of books and movies that we buy. Get your hands on a 2018 edition of "The Mind of Joe Biden", and get it in hardcopy.
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  31.  @louiss.w1944  I think that power fantasies are the problem, whether you're a cop on the street, a petty bureaucrat keen to put his narrow interests above all others, a student in the grips of a fashionable (yet stupid) theory, or a protester with nothing better to do than wave around some cardboard on a stick. There's a reason that all this happened when it did. We've got an economic shutdown that has cost the livelihoods and the hopes of tens of millions of people in this country and billions around the world. THAT is driving the protests, more than anything -- the dashing of legitimate hopes that black lives would continue to improve as they were improving, which in reality were eroding and given time would finally eliminate disparate economic outcomes in a fully constructive way. What would I do? I would renounce the destructive power of the day -- I would end the government health mandates that have led directly to the economic suffering we're seeing now without improving health outcomes significantly. I would get the government out of the way of people's natural freedom, and leave people to go about their business according to their own sense of prudence. What is the role of the police? To maintain order to make this possible; so I would have them arrest and jail the destructive rioters and the looters. Getting people back to work would renew their hopes and improve their real prospects. This would wipe out short, medium, and long-term financial disasters that are fueling unrest. It would reduce the drug problem to manageable levels. (People who are busy with constructive life do not need drugs; and if your life really does suck, psychologists really can't help.) Looking at the numbers, we could talk with the police about their tendency to rough up black suspects, and get them to cool that down. There is no evidence that police disproportionately kill black suspects of a given crime, quite the contrary. The tendency to use lower levels of force too often probably feeds the misconception that black suspects are more at risk of death, where they are in reality only at more risk of what in any other situation would be called assault. The higher risk of assault is bad and should stop. So, that's my two cents. Fewer power fantasies, more letting people get back to their individual constructive lives.
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  32. See Gad Saad and Tim Pool for a different perspective on whether to stand up. Gad: "There are casualties even on the winning side." And the victory could not have been achieved without them. Tim: "I've lived out of a van. I know how far down you can go, and I can take it." Once the victory has been won, we will remember anyone who suffered for it.
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  33. He's the love child of Mitt Romney and Patrick Bateman.
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  34. It's fascinating to listen to Peter's moral outrage against morally-motivated zealots in universities.
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  35. "She was allowed to rise without any vetting from the media" Or from the electorate. Her primary performance was a disaster.
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  36. The definition of words changes to whatever will let a Leftist win an argument. It all started going downhill when we let Clinton redefine "Is".
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  37. Equity means "getting even".
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  38.  The Modern Stoic  I know, I just don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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  39. "Marshall fired the leaders who didn't cut it" Well, he shuffled people around a lot. Getting "fired" wasn't the end of your career, since there was usually somewhere else you could serve productively.
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  40. There are people out there who would gladly risk their lives, simply to *matter*.
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  41. "The Administrative State only began during the Progressive Era" In Europe, it began during the Enlightenment, with figures like Frederick the Great.
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  42. Are you aware that for some users, YouTube is not allowing videos to be viewed within some period (an hour or a day) of the video being uploaded? This is happening to political channels, but not to non-political channels.
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  43. "We know that a huge percentage of people are going to follow Zuckerberg into his Metaverse" Probably not. Second Life never really caught on, beyond a dedicated fanbase. Same with 3d chat programs. Zuckerberg is likely going to run Facebook into the ground with this (not really so) new endeavor. He and Facebook peaked years ago, it's all downhill from here.
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  44. Dave, at the risk of telling you exactly what you want to hear, you're a better forum for the kind of conversation Niall wants to have, than Harvard / Oxford / Cambridge. Hey, you should ask Niall who he ought to be conversing with, and on what subject, and invite them both!
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  45. It isn't hard to see people fed up with the shutdowns in Massachusetts... people are just ignoring it. =)
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  46.  @MarthaGonzalez-jm3vn  Eh, there are people who can excel at some jobs and just not know where to turn, in other jobs. This is one problem with ambition like Kamala's, is they don't listen to feedback from others about which jobs work well for them, if the job isn't high-status enough.
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  47. It's good to remember Martin Luther's essential precursor to Kant's view of Enlightenment ("Throw off the guardians of your intellect")-- "Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. Here I stand. May God help me. Amen." In these days, evidence has replaced Scripture, and the Authorities who demand our attention and obedience are experts and studies rather than "popes and councils" -- although there is seemingly not much change in error and contradiction among them. Our own reaction MUST be the same as Luther's if we want to maintain Enlightenment philosophy of freedom from the "guardians of our intellect". Unless convinced by evidence and clear reason, we should not be swayed by talking heads on TV.
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  48. What has happened is the very worst of the "find your bliss" Boomers have ended up in control of the culture. The Generation Gap (between the awful experiences of the Greatest Generation and the comparatively paradisaical experiences of the Boomers) disrupted the passing-on of wisdom from that generation. The lack of that kind of encouragement is the void that Peterson is trying to fill.
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  49. "Our institutions are starting to crumble" Says one atheist to another. Huh. I couldn't possibly imagine how our moral foundations got so badly damaged. Could it have something to do with relentless, generations-long attacks on our religious institutions? Nah.....
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  50. I'm not sure China would, anymore -- a lot of people are talking about paying for the consequences of the Wuhan virus by cancelling our debt that the Chinese hold.
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