💬 Supreme Court justice made my JAW DROP with galactically stupid comment

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As this email arrives in your inbox, it’s Good Friday and we’re a few days into Passover. If you’re celebrating — I wish you a happy Easter and a joyous passover this year. Come Sunday, you may have an Easter egg hunt on your hands that culminates with a golden Easter egg for the kiddos or the grandkids. Imagine if that golden egg had a little bit of real gold in it — or maybe you’re just imagining your investment portfolio with something historically stable anchoring it. Now’s the time to check out Patriot Gold for all the intel you need on investing in gold.

Gold evokes thoughts of strength, wealth, wisdom. I’m trying to think of what type of metal conjures the opposite of that. Ah, yes — tin foil. Sure it’s useful in certain situations, but you’re not going to bank on it over the long-term, or for the important things.

Well, that’s what the autopen president did when he nominated a piece of tin foil to the Supreme Court. Biden picked Ketanji Brown Jackson because she’s a black woman. Not because of her intellect or her judicial accomplishments. It was DEI. He said that. To me, skin color’s not a qualification for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Knowledge of the Constitution — I’d say that’s more important than skin color. But what do I know? I just host a show on the internet.

And now we’re all dealing with the consequences, because what Ketanji Brown Jackson said the other day during oral arguments over Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship might be one of the dumbest things ever said by a Supreme Court justice. It’s so wild, I’m using one of these fancy quote blocks the email tool has to emphasize it. Read every word. And remember: she did some “thinking about this.”

I was thinking about this you and I think they there are various sources that say this -- that you can have you obviously have permanent allegiance uh based on being born in whatever country you're from. That's what everybody recognizes. 

But you also have local allegiance when you are on the soil of this other other sovereign. And I was thinking, you know, I'm a U.S. citizen am visiting Japan. And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, um the the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. Um it's allegiance, meaning they can control you as a matter of law. 

Even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan, I'm still locally owing allegiance.

Oh, boy. Now that you’ve lost a few points from your IQ from that word salad, let’s examine how stupid this really is. Birth tourism is a real problem in the U.S. In 2023 alone, 300,000 babies were born on American soil to mothers who weren’t U.S. citizens. That’s nearly 10% of all births in the U.S. that year. Trump is right to be challenging birthright citizenship.

And Ketanji Brown Jackson’s take on all of this is to compare birthright citizenship with pickpocketing while in another country. To quote one of my favorite ‘90s movie lines, “Thank you for playing should we or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid!”

Gold star for anyone who replies to this email with what movie that quote comes from (and no help from Google or ChatGPT). Next a word from Patriot Gold, then the difference between Trump and Obama when it comes to Iran — and was it April Fool’s Day this week at The Rubin Report, or April Ghoul’s Day? Plus, the results of last week’s poll and more.

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I want to point out the difference between Trump’s approach to Iran with Obama’s. I realize you instinctively can recognize it, but it’s good to highlight tangible differences. In 2016 — the very year Trump would be elected to his first term — Obama’s big idea was to slow down Iran’s potential development of a nuclear weapon from a couple of months to a year. And then to send boatloads of cash to Iran, which they then used to fund terrorism throughout the Middle East and against the U.S.

Trump’s approach: “From the very first day I announced my campaign for president in 2015, I have vowed that I would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” By the way, Trump was saying that all the way back in the ‘80s. And now he’s acting on it.

I know which approach I prefer.

Switching gears, April Fool’s Day came and went this year on Wednesday. Pranks didn’t make much of a splash on social media the way they have in the past, but my staff here at The Rubin Report got me. These sick-in-the-head people showed me a photo of Morgan Freeman in a hospital bed, with a bandage on his head and told me the legendary actor had died. For a hot second, I believed it. Call it April Ghoul’s Day at The Rubin Report.

I’m happy to report that beloved actor Morgan Freeman is doing just fine and is alive and well and hopefully will be for a long time.

Rubio dominates Top Trump Peeps poll … again

One thing that I think separates my subscribers and viewers apart from others is how perceptive they are. Before we get to who won last week’s power rankings poll, take a look above at who got zero votes. Pam Bondi. And what happened on Thursday? Trump moved on from Bondi, naming her deputy, Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general. Ruh-roh — not sure what that might mean for Kash Patel, who also got zero votes in last week’s poll. More on that below.

But the winner again is none other than Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And the love for Rubio in the comments was profuse this week. So many comments to choose from, but I thought the three below say it well.

Meanwhile, with Trump shaking up his cabinet for the second time in a matter of a month, it got me wondering which Trump official might be next to go. After all, we’re more than a year into Trump’s second term and he may be looking to refresh in certain spots as the midterms approach. And given how perceptive you guys are, I want to get your take. Weigh in below ⬇️

• A very sharp-eyed viewer named Meg noticed it — did you? During this week’s Community Q&A, Meg asked, “Did you get new cameras? Everything’s crisper.” Yes, we just got some of what I'm told are the fanciest Sony cameras in the biz and started using them this week. They were not cheap, I promise you that. But I am constantly invest in making The Rubin Report the best-looking show that hopefully enlightens you and makes you chuckle every now and again.

• In case you missed it, I made an appearance on The Will Cain Show on Fox News this week to talk about taxes — contrasting places like New York and California with the free state of Florida, where we have no income tax. As always with Will, it was an interesting conversation and you can check out a clip right here.

• Take four hours this weekend and watch what I think is one of the best movie’s ever made — The Ten Commandments starring the great Charlton Heston as Moses. It was made in 1956 and tells the story of the Jews flight out of slavery in Egypt. It’s just a great way to absorb the Passover story.

•Head over to the Rubin Report merch store to peruse our “Make America Florida” collection, which we rolled out last week. The reaction to the new merch has been great. Don’t miss your chance to get it before it’s all gone.

• Haven’t tasted the official tequila of free speech yet? Why not? It’s the smoothest reposado you will ever taste. All you need to do is place an order here. If you buy three, we’ll send them for free.

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Until Sunday … — Dave