The Rubin Report: Milei vs. the UN, Iran, ICE, and the Left's Collapse

Dave Rubin (0:01)

Let's talk about Javier Milei's speech at the UN General Assembly, because this was absolutely explosive. He essentially exposed the UN as a useless organization sustained by arrogantly parasitic bureaucrats. What's your take on that? It really was the defining moment of the day. The through line here is about power, hypocrisy, and political collapse all coming together.

These institutions claim moral authority, but they've become platforms for nonsense, double standards, and political theater. Exactly. The UN was founded to improve human life, but instead it's become a place that empowers bad actors. They obsess over Israel while ignoring terror, repression, and abuse everywhere else.

Which leads directly into Iran, right? Iranian leaders and their allies have absolutely no standing to lecture anyone about human rights while they're violating sovereignty, crushing dissent, and threatening neighbors. The regime's aggression toward Israel and the region is well documented. And that's where people like Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent come in, pushing back through both diplomacy and financial pressure. But here's what concerns me more—this connects to a much bigger warning about the Democratic Party itself.

You mean how old-school figures like James Carville and Chuck Schumer are being overtaken by radicals? Precisely. The party's center has been hollowed out. These radicals now speak openly in socialist and communist terms. The inmates are running the asylum while decent liberals fail to stop the drift.

Michigan politics really illustrates this point. Take Abdul El-Sayed refusing to condemn the IRGC when confronted by an Iranian-American student. Then you have figures like Hasan Piker and Delia Ramirez revealing how far left the rhetoric has gone.

That's the problem—the party's rhetoric about justice and freedom collapses when tested against actual oppression. And nowhere is this clearer than in immigration enforcement. Right, because people praise Tom Homan and ICE for arresting hundreds of thousands of public safety threats. The agency handles far more than border cases. But then you have politicians calling to abolish ICE entirely.

Which is absurd. If you want to abolish ICE, start by abolishing Congress, because Congress wrote the laws ICE enforces. This is about political language versus reality. Building on that point, the larger warning is that political extremism doesn't stay theoretical. Social disorder, radical ideology, and elite denial can quickly become real-world danger.

If the country keeps moving left in blue states and cities, the result will be deeper dysfunction and emboldened bad actors everywhere.

So what's the path forward here? Change cannot be stopped, even when it feels unsettling. Whether we're talking about robots, media, or politics, the message is the same: people need to recognize the moment, confront reality, and stop pretending the old system will protect itself. That's the only honest way forward.