Exposing the Previously Hidden Police State | Dinesh D'Souza
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 29 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Dinesh D'Souza about his new film "Police State"; the Middle East and its impact on the U.S.; the Left's global presence; why Republicans need to be more proactive legally without resorting to lawlessness to fight the police state; the only way that the the modern police state can be defeated; the ongoing issues related to Hamas, Israel, and recent protests; the factors that have united police states around the world and throughout history; the complexities of safeguarding freedoms while addressing security concerns; if institutions can self-correct and express concerns about the expanding power of the state; strategies to ensure that Americans have faith in the results of the 2024 election; the need for comprehensive surveillance at drop boxes and potential solutions to secure the voting process; why Ron DeSantis can't defeat Donald Trump; the role of different states in testing different governmental policies; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dave Rubin. We're here at the local studios in Miami and joining me as an author, a podcast, |
| 0:12.8 | host, and creator of the new film, Police State in Eshtasuzo. Welcome back to the Rubin |
| 0:17.9 | report. Thank you. Good to be on. I have to say you've been on a couple times, but this |
| 0:22.2 | is a particularly fitting, I suppose, because your last movie, 2000 Mules, was the first movie |
| 0:30.5 | that we ever released in such a way on locals. I did create locals. We are here at the local studio, |
| 0:37.8 | and now you're doing the same thing with the new film. So this feels not only politically, |
| 0:42.6 | obviously we've kind of come together in a lot of ways, but technologically and everything else. |
| 0:46.9 | So it's a nice moment for me personally, I suppose. You know, the release of |
| 0:52.1 | Mules on locals was a kind of radical step, because my old distribution model was to put the |
| 0:59.0 | movie in the theater, let it run for three or four weeks, then there was typically a two-month |
| 1:04.8 | interval. Theaters would control when you could release it in digital, and then you'd sell it on |
| 1:10.5 | Amazon Prime or iTunes. So when locals approached me and we talked about this, the idea of doing |
| 1:17.5 | something totally different, and offering the film through locals, and making locals an effect |
| 1:23.7 | into a movie platform, it was sort of a wild idea, but it turned out to be a great idea. |
| 1:29.6 | It worked out okay from that mistake. It worked out. |
| 1:31.8 | Not coming to all the numbers anymore, but I think you did all right. |
| 1:34.1 | It was awesome, and it convinced us that that is the new way to do it. And so we're doing what |
| 1:40.5 | kind of replicating the same distribution for the new film. And I don't know if excited is the |
| 1:47.0 | right word, because as I've said about this film, it's not a film I wanted to make, because I never |
| 1:51.0 | wanted the country to be in a spot where you need to make a film like this. |
| 1:54.7 | Yeah. And frankly, if I'd made this film even five years ago, I think people would be like, |
| 1:58.9 | is this a film on North Korea, Dinesh, or Iran, or China? No, it's a film about how a lot of the |
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