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All right, so we've got funny news and stupid news. Here's the stupidest news of the day. Yeah, there's some news that you can't label any other way. It's like, well, this is stupid news.

So you probably all know Dave Rubin from the Rubin Report. I think I'm gonna be on his show talking about my upcoming book in several weeks. But Dave Rubin — and if there's anybody here who doesn't know Dave Rubin, he identifies as liberal, as gay, and Jewish. This is important to the following story, otherwise not important, but important to the following story.

He was going to do an event with Maxime Bernier, who I don't know anything about but maybe is a little controversial, and it was gonna be at Mohawk College. Then the local newspaper got into it, and here's what they say about Dave Rubin. Now remember, Dave Rubin is a liberal, gay, Jewish guy. Important to know before I tell you what the local paper said.

The local paper said Dave Rubin is a far-right YouTube personality that plays a significant part in the radicalization process, ushering people into the neo-Nazi movement. Are you effing kidding me? According to a recently published study out of Cornell University which analyzed 79 million comments and 300 of the videos below, blah blah blah.

Now, do you believe that Dave Rubin is recruiting people into the neo-Nazis? That is the most insanely stupid, defamatory, slanderous, libelous — I don't know, all those words sound like to me. It is so bad. That is so bad. I thought I had it bad.

Yeah, poor Bill Pulte — I think he's on Periscope today. You heard what happened to him? He tries to give away money, give away money. He's trying to give away his own money and help other people become part of the process of charity, just trying to create some kind of virtuous energy toward giving money. What happened to Bill Pulte for being a charitable, good person? He got doxxed. His wife is getting threatening calls on her cell phone. Are you kidding me? What happened to the world? What happened?

Now I'll give you a little bit of an update on my situation. So you know it was a John Cook — I can't remember his name — but just say that I'm pursuing some action against somebody who's just as bad, but you know that story.

All right, Bill Gates has a special on Netflix. It's a special on Netflix about Bill Gates. I think it's called "Bill Gates' Mind." And Netflix — this is important. Remember, Netflix is the Obama kind of a production company. Obama is working with Netflix. So nobody would say Netflix is some conservative outlet, right? It's clearly identified a little bit more with the left.

And so Netflix decides that one of the portions that they're going to tweet out to promote the Bill Gates show on Netflix — the Bill Gates, it's not a show, it's one piece of content called "Bill Gates' Mind," I think — and they tweeted out the part where Bill Gates is saying that nuclear is the solution to climate change. I'm simplifying, but that's the sense of it.

Now think about that. There was Netflix. This isn't some far-right "hey, we like nuclear power." It's Netflix and it's Bill Gates. And Netflix has decided that what the world needs to see — because Netflix has a big footprint, right — what the world needs to see is that Bill Gates says that the new technologies and new developments in nuclear are going to be the way.

I think that feels like a turning point, doesn't it? Because you've got Booker and Yang and Biden. They're all pro-nuclear. And of course Republicans are almost all pro-nuclear. So I feel like climate change is largely solved now. But I don't mean fixed. I mean that the path to fixing it is known. It's possible. Not just possible, it's doable. Completely doable. So we know how to do it. It's completely practical. We can get there. It's a lot of work, but we know how to get there.

And here's the hard part. The left and the right largely agree now. What you're watching is the left convincing itself. So there are elements of the political left who are completely in agreement with the right on this, on how to save the world. And I don't think you would see this much agreement except that the left has also scared themselves into action.

So as many people have pointed out, if you're saying that climate change is real in the sense that it's a real near-extinction risk — so that's the real part, whether it's an extinction-level horrible cataclysmic future — if you believe that and you've scared your own side into believing it, suddenly the risk of nuclear seems irrelevant. Because you could actually, let me put it in direct terms, you could lose two or three nuclear plants. You know, just something bad happens and it would still be totally worth it. Even if a 10 or 20 mile piece of land wasn't usable at some point, still the cost-benefit would be totally worth it.

Now I shouldn't have even said that because, as you know, the risk for the new technologies, the most current types of nuclear plants, have never had any kind of bad event. Zero. Never. It's only the older technologies that have ever had a bad event. So everybody's on board now.

Enough about that. Let's talk about Ukraine. Everybody wants to talk about Ukraine. I've got an angle on Ukraine that you haven't heard. So you're gonna be hearing all the same stories everywhere, but let me get into it. It'll take me a while to work into it here. But here's the first thing.

Didn't we elect President Trump to pressure other leaders for things that we want? Am I wrong that the reason Trump was elected — and indeed really that the job description of the president — they should be p

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ushing other leaders? Isn't that exactly why we hired him? So I was rereading the Ukrainian transcript of the phone call. It's not exact, because it's not a transcript. And what I saw was the president who was using all the tools of his office and all the tools of being the president basically. And he was building a persuasive kind of a mode because he did mention things such as Ukraine's future…

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