Classical liberal grifter, Dave Rubin joined Bill Maher for
a two hour long podcast of ass kissing and also endless book promotions.
And apparently the book promotions finally got under Bill Maher's skin,
which is what you're about to watch in this next clip.
>> Would I rather be with a lot of people who are different or
in a room full of Tucker girls?
>> So think about it, Bill, I just finish my book tour where I did stand up,
you know, all over the country.
>> You mention this book again, I'm gonna throw this, bottle.
>> I signed it for you gonna freaking love it man.
>> I don't even think I said the name of the book,
it wasn't a heavy promotion that I was doing here but anyway, it's a great book.
You're gonna really love it.
I think you're reading it.
>> My favorite part of that clip is actually the very end where he's like,
I think you're reading it.
I mean, I don't know because I didn't actually write it, but
I think you're reading it.
You're gonna love it, I signed it by the way, aren't you so happy to have my,
my signed book, my autograph, everyone wants that.
So I didn't even know he wrote another book.
His first book, by the way was such a colossal failure that like
just go back and read the reviews.
They were amazing.
I really enjoyed it.
Got to be fair and honest here.
Apparently based on Amazon reviews, not so bad this time around.
Don't burn this country is the latest iteration
of Dave Rubin's ghostwriters mind, I guess.
>> He had an issue with January 6th, then wasn't a fan of mob violence?
>> Of course it has nothing to do with that.
>> I even read it, I don't know, maybe that's what it's about.
>> No they can burn the country.
>> That seems super critical.
Does he know about January 6th?
He might have to add an extra chapter.
>> That's a little bit of an inconvenient truth that he might not wanna talk about.
But the people in his mind who are burning the country are those
who fought to get him the right to marry another man.
Let me just state that, it's the woke mob, the book is about the woke mob.
>> Finally, there's a right winger that's doing substance free stuff about the woke
stirs at long last.
>> What are we gonna do there?
There are like really this absence of anti-woke content.
>> It's a savvy business choice of his to call his ghostwriter and
have him write a book about the woke up, why not?
It's just money in the bank.
I have no doubt that it's getting good reviews,
especially because I'm almost certain that an actual writer wrote it.
But it probably says that like the true problems in America cancel culture or
something and they're eating it up, I would guess.
It says it has nothing to do with the actual state of America.
The problems that are facing regular Americans and the idea
that Joe Biden's Democratic party, which over the last two years, what has it done?
They did mild Covid stimulus, did an infrastructure bill and
they cancel some student loan debt, with a little bit of climate stuff.
My God, they're radicals.
But like as easy as it is to mock him, and I know that you regularly do,
I do wanna give him credit for one time, being really current in something.
And not in this book, but it was in the first book when he decided that his stick
was gonna be writing a book that he would say don't burn this book,
desperately hoping that someone would, but nobody cared and nobody did.
So his whole thing was don't censor books and he put that out a year before.
Like the default position of every right winger in the country was we need to ban
as many books as possible.
Oops, he's got nothing to say about that by the way.
It's one of the most cowardly backtrackings I've ever seen in my life.
But it doesn't matter.
And it's specifically books by LGBT authors by the thousands,
they're throwing them on the pile to burn.
>> And Black authors. >> And he's got nothing to say.
>> Yep 100% because it doesn't matter.
I can't imagine loving money as much as Dave Rubin does.
>> I don't need that much money.
You don't wanna be on the verge of losing everything.
Okay, you wanna be comfortable, I guess.
>> But don't you also wanna be surrounded by friends and loved ones, like friends.
>> Well, friends and loved ones or maybe Ben Shapiro,
either one is probably just as good, Charlie Kirk or something like that.
>> My God,Charlie Kirk.
>> I guess that's just as good.
>> Can you imagine you've surrounded yourself with the Charlie Kirk's of
America?
>> Marjorie Greene, maybe you can hang out Jim Jordans or something.
>> I mean he made his bed. >> Go to Luau with Louie Gohmert.
>> I feel terrible for his kids cuz.
>> Louie Gohmert is what I've nicknamed them.
He loves Luaus Louie Gohmert, these are the people, like,
all you have to do is sell your soul and everything you've ever stood for.
If you ever stood for anything at all.
>> It ain't worth it, man.
One day you're gonna die.
The only thing that matters is how much you make your life worth it,
how much you experience in this short time, you're on this planet.
One day you're gonna be dead and that money will mean nothing,
it'll mean nothing.
The whole point of life like at the very end, it's the memories that you've built
the times that you've shared with the ones you love.
>> And hopefully what you've left behind.
>> And what you've like sure, whatever, who cares right?
I know, I know people go crazy about that.
>> Doing good works?
>> Yes, yes, yes, of course like, but like okay,
the way I took it was like people who are obsessed with their legacy.
That's, what I was thinking about when you said that.
>> Hopefully you made the world a better place you actually cared about.
>> No, 100%.
I mean yes, I would like to make the world a better place.
However, I have finally accepted that if I don't, it's not, it's okay.
It's okay. >> You already have.
>> I'm trying, right?
But if I don't, it's okay anyway.
All right, let's keep going.
This is getting like weirdly like- >> Existential?
>> Yes and I don't wanna get there or go there.
>> We're already there.
>> I know, I know John, why are you doing this to me?
So let's go to some of the statements about his book.
First of all, the book is described as follows, a guide for anyone who wants to
revive the American dream while the woke mob tries to burn down the country.
Yes, because it's the woke mob.
It's the annoying nagging individuals on Twitter that for some reason the right
wing think have all the power in the world that are destroying the American dream.
It's not the corporate interests that they enable and serve as mouthpieces for,
it's not any of that right.
It's not the private equity firms who took money from the federal reserve and
proceeded to buy up all the available single family homes
in neighborhoods across the country.
It's not that, it's not that that destroyed the American dream.
It's not the redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.
Money being taken from workers and distributed to private military
contractors so they can start endless wars abroad, it's not that.
It's the woke mob that destroyed the American dream according to top
American idiot, Dave Rubin wholly.
>> Well that's the facade.
But who's behind all of that, college lesbians?
>> Obviously.
>> Something like that, probably.
No, it's just like yeah,
I'm sure the book is that sentence 10,000 times, it means nothing.
And this is coming from a guy who writes stories about animals going on
magical adventures.
That means nothing [LAUGH].
There's literally nothing to it.
You literally don't have to be paying attention as you write it.
You just say the word woke over, over and over and over again.
Okay, good.
And by the way I have no, I don't even know,
maybe he did write it may be a ghost or maybe he did write it doesn't matter.
I hope for his sake that he gotta go straight to do it,
that's less embarrassing.
And I have no doubt that it's gonna do well I'm sure there are right wingers that
will eat it up and if not the think tanks will buy it by the tens of thousands, but
it won't mean anything.
It will not have any positive effect whatsoever in the country.
And that's on him.
>> Finally Maher did not hold back in calling Ruben stupid during this
interaction.
I haven't seen this video yet, so I'm excited.
Let's take a look.
>> That's what people love about him.
He's authentic in that it's- >> Who do you say he's authentic him or
Joe Biden?
>> Him because- >> Who is more authentic him or
Elizabeth Warren?
>> But authentic doesn't mean good if you're authentically a crazy
person is authentically a moron and a crazy person, yes he is authentic.
>> But in a world of liars a little authenticity goes a long way.
>> So that's ridiculous.
That's such a dumb thing.
>> They're talking about Trump.
>> Of course. >> In that interaction.
>> Look I would say Bill Maher was also in the beginning of the clip being a moron.
>> Jeffrey Dhamer was pretty authentic.
Yeah, yeah.
>> He should run for president.
>> But authentic, the only thing that it means in the context they're using it is
that he occasionally says something awful.
That doesn't mean he's being honest.
He's a New York city billionaire pretending that he's a man of the people.
He's a guy who's- >> Pretending to be a billionaire.
>> Well that that also too, like that's not being honest.
Can we be clear about that Dave Rubin has spun this narrative of well,
I guess if you just have the aura of someone who's probably used the N word,
then you're being authentic.
That's not what authenticity means.
He's not being honest.
The dude drew another path to a hurricane on a map, he's authentic?
What the hell do you even think that word means and this is a best selling author.
So you'd think he'd have a mastery of language