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Hard to watch a Hollywood legend torch his legacy with extreme TDS, and why is Jen Psaki suddenly taking shots at JD Vance?

On the first leg of the flight to Australia, I watched The Godfather II. I hadn’t seen it in six, maybe seven years, but came away thinking the same thing I thought the last time I saw it. Great. Movie. One of the best ever.

Why am I telling you this? Because one of the most compelling things about the movie was Robert DeNiro’s performance as a young Vito Corleone. And at almost the same time I was watching the movie, DeNiro was on MSNBC absolutely losing his mind, spewing all types of TDS insanity.

Maybe the most unhinged thing DeNiro said during the segment was that White House adviser Stephen Miller is a Nazi. He actually said that about a Jewish man, while acknowledging that Miller is Jewish. That’s not just your garden-variety crazy — that’s batshit crazy.

What’s even crazier is that MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart didn’t push back. At all. He just gave DeNiro free rein to say whatever maniacal thought came into his head.

And what is this really accomplishing? For one thing, it’s a great example of the artist ruining the art. I cannot watch DeNiro at this point — who’s been in many great movies, Godfather II, Goodfellas, Casino, the list goes on — without thinking about his deranged political views. I bet you can’t either. Heat, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver — not fully ruined, but all tarnished.

It’s sad on some level, and it’s hard to watch. And not only did DeNiro smear Trump and people in his administration — he smeared everyday Americans. Ordinarily, I would type out the full quote for you, but it was just too incoherent. Better to just watch it. Essentially, he went on to make strange hand gestures and rant about Middle America voters who don’t know better than to support Trump. DeNiro’s legacy should be his movies. Instead, he’s become a pawn of the far left who is trotted out from time to time to spread propaganda and bash Trump and his supporters.

Frankly, it’s so bad I don’t think they’re going to be able to cast DeNiro when they make the movie about this NBA-mafia-linked poker gambling scandal that the FBI just busted. What a wild story. I’m sure Scorsese will direct the movie based on it in a few years, but DeNiro would just ruin it, so they’ll probably have to go with Al Pacino instead.

I have no idea what’s going on over at the televised mental institution known as MSNBC. You obviously can’t get any news there, but take a look at our sponsor today. It’s an emerging newsletter — it’s important for me to make you all aware of new and good things — and it’s pretty much the opposite of MSNBC. No propaganda. Just political news. Check it out, and then more below, including — wait, what?! — two sit-down interviews of the week.

Speaking of MSNBC crazies, did you see former White House press secretary Jen Psaki this week was suddenly taking nasty and unprovoked shots at JD and Usha Vance? Same playbook, btw, the Dems and media tried with DeSantis when he was running for president, and they thought he might be the nominee. Here’s what she said during a podcast appearance this week:

“I think the little Manchurian candidate —JD Vance — wants to be president more than anything else,” she started, before taking a U-turn and slamming first lady Usha Vance. “I always wonder what's going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you okay? Please blink four times. We'll come over here. We'll save you.”

Talk about a classless way to treat the first lady, acting as though she’s some sort of hostage. And totally unprovoked. Usha Vance seems lovely, she appears to be a loving mother of two kids. Even MSNBC viewers were turned off by that attack.

Here’s the rest of Psaki’s remarks about JD:

“He's scarier [than Trump] in certain ways. He's smarter in some ways, and he's young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he is a chameleon who makes himself into whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him. But I don’t know that he can take the whole movement with him,” she said, concluding, “He’s got no rizz. He’s just a little odd.”

Wowwwwwww. How about that expert analysis from Jen Psaki? He’s got no rizz. I guess he’s got no drip, and no motion. Probably doesn’t know what 6 7 is.

You can see what’s happening, people. The Democrats are going to try to do this to whoever ends up making a bid to succeed Trump. They’ll try to define that person as “scary” and “uncool.” At this point, most likely, it’ll be JD Vance running in 2028 — and how do you know that? By the fact that people like Jen Psaki are doing these unprovoked attacks on Vance, and it’s not even 2026 yet. Fear is all they’ve got. Remember that.

If you’re paying attention at all to the NYC race, there’s finally some good news to report. At the debate on Thursday night, Andrew Cuomotose (as I like to call him, because it seems like he’s been walking around in a coma this entire race) finally woke up out of whatever stupor he’s been in and went on the attack against communist candidate Zohran Mamdani.

You gotta watch this highlight because, for the first time, Cuomo really summed up what Mamdani actually is — and he did it all in under one minute. Might be too little too late, but it might also be the beginning of the miracle that NYC needs. And trust me — NYC is in need of a miracle right now.

That’s right, people, we’ve got not one but two sit-down interviews of the week for you this week. Bill O’Reilly and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. And after that, the Top Trump Peeps poll and a roundup of some of the other appearances I’ve made while “down under.”

Vance jumps back to top of power rankings

Ya take Donald Trump out of the power rankings and suddenly things get very interesting again. Rubin Recap readers really spread the love around this week to various Trump admin officials, and JD Vance came out on top, narrowly winning over Marco Rubio. I don’t know if Jen Psaki subscribes to this newsletter, but if she does and has been seeing Vance at or near the top of these rankings week in and week out, maybe that explains her coming out with that wild attack on JD this week.

Also, I saw one of you commented and said, “I would like to nominate Sean Duffy for keeping air travel working and safe” amid the Schumer shutdown, so I put him in this week’s poll. Something tells me you’re all going to put JD on top again next week. We’ll see. Get your vote in ⬇️

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• There’s one stop left on the Don’t Burn This World tour — in Brisbane on Monday, Oct. 27. There are still a few tickets available. Click here for more info and to reserve tickets.

• It’s been nonstop since we’ve been in Australia and, in addition to The Rubin Report and the live shows, I’ve been trying to make some appearances on Australian media. Also, the team and I found some time to do a little bowling. Here’s a quick roundup of appearances, ICYMI:

→ I visited Sky News’ The Rita Panahi Show where we talked about Kamala Harris's funniest lie yet.

→ On Paul Murray Live, we broke down the most bizarre and hilarious moments from the “No Kings” protests that went on across the U.S. last weekend.

→ Phoenix and I got up close with a koala — hopefully not too close.

→ And, on The Rubin Report, Joseph and Joey helped me correctly pronounce the name of the new prime minister of Japan, the first woman elected to the post in the country’s history.

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Until next week … — Dave