Dave Rubin

Comedian & Media Host · 1 appearance on the record.

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 7 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dave argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Rubin: Patreon deleted creator accounts overnight without warning over content
“They started having really highly censored censorship policies that I was not happy with. they were blowing up accounts. You know, if you said something they didn't like, they would just delete you overnight. No warning, no chance for reconciliation.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 9:35 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale

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Everything Dave Rubin said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Rubin: Tucker Carlson goes out of his way to promote antisemitic narratives
“Like, he's bringing on people always to kind of further, yeah, it's the Jews. Like, it's just one thing after another. He goes out of his way to do it.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 32:37 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Rubin: Oxford Is No Longer a Place of Rigorous Study
“I didn't get a great sense of, like, this is a place of real, like, rigorous study anymore, or we're really gonna do things. I got the feeling of, this is like a place where, It's politically correct now, and wokeness is here.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 3:35 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Rubin: Casamigos and Clase Azul Are Low Quality and Use Additives
“In light of the fact that Casamigos is now going through this little thing, it's not a great tequila anyway. It really is not. And even Class Azul, which, you know, it's the white and blue bottle that everybody loves. That's what really got me into tequila bec…”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 15:11 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Rubin: Tucker Carlson is wrong to blame Winston Churchill for modern Britain
“So Tucker said that line that basically was like, well, Churchill's the bad guy because look at Britain now. And it's like, dude, he stopped Hitler. Now I get, let's put aside the Hitler thing for a second, but you can't blame someone for some stuff that's hap…”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 26:38 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Rubin: Trump's Second Term Has Been 'Basically Flawless'
“I think it's basically been flawless. It's been as good as you could possibly imagine.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 42:16 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Rubin: UATX Is the Physical Embodiment of the Intellectual Dark Web
“And as I said also last night, you know, I was part of this IDW intellectual dark web thing online when we, when it was, you know, seven or eight years ago when people were first online talking about things that were not in the mainstream, and to see like a br…”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 4:14 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Rubin: Patreon deleted creator accounts overnight without warning over content
“They started having really highly censored censorship policies that I was not happy with. they were blowing up accounts. You know, if you said something they didn't like, they would just delete you overnight. No warning, no chance for reconciliation.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 9:35 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rubin: The Rubin Report Was Demonetized on YouTube for Months During COVID
“There were years, especially during the COVID years that we were demonetized for months at a time.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 18:09 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Rubin: Censorship on Facebook and YouTube Was Likely Worse Than Twitter
“I would argue Facebook was probably even worse. YouTube may have been worse. We don't even know, but.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 21:06 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
Rubin: Tucker Carlson praised Douglas Murray years ago, now mocks him weekly
“There's videos of him two years ago saying Douglas Murray is the most important public intellectual we have, and nobody knows more about anything. And now he's mocking him every week.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 34:26 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Rubin: American economic success and safety dissipate political toxicity and conspiracy theories
“For the stuff that you're concerned about as it pertains to this set of people that are blaming everything on the Jews or whatever weird things happening on the right, combined with the toxicity of the left, the best antidote to all of it is American success. …”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 46:28 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Rubin: Production team is building an AI avatar to guest host his show
“As I mentioned last night, we're working on an AI version of me. So when I go away, Dave Rubin can actually guest host my show, which will be pretty cool.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 5:34 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rubin: Rumble's Lawsuit Against Google Will Yield Major Discovery on Search Algorithms
“Rumble's in a lawsuit with Google. That's going to end up with a lot of discovery. We'll see what they've been doing with their with their search algorithm.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 20:07 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rubin: Locals generated $30,000 in monthly revenue overnight upon launch
“Long story short though, we launch it the next day, and overnight we had about 30,000 dollars of revenue a month.”
Dave Rubin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 11:29 Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale

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Appearances (1)

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Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale Jun 26, 2025 34m
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