The Ben Shapiro Show - All The Haters Can Kiss My Ass

00:00:00.000 Well, hello, everybody.

00:00:01.000 You know, sometimes here on the Ben Shapiro show, we cover the news and sometimes we are the news here at the Daily Wire.

00:00:08.000 Well, over the past few weeks, the Daily Wire, you might have noticed, has been the subject of a bunch of hit pieces, like a veritable cornucopia of hit pieces.

00:00:17.000 There was one from the Washington Post and there was one from Puck.

00:00:20.000 And then finally, there was an especially ridiculous one from the stellar journalist at New York Magazine who literally plagiarized their hit piece from the Washington Post.

00:00:29.000 So much journalisming.

00:00:31.000 High level journalism.

00:00:32.000 Well, this morning, that New York Magazine piece is lighting up the interwebs.

00:00:36.000 It's lighting up X.

00:00:38.000 Well, New York Magazine claims there was a time when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media.

00:00:43.000 I don't remember that time, but it sounds cool.

00:00:45.000 They say that's all over now.

00:00:47.000 The Daily Wire is instituting significant layoffs.

00:00:49.000 Well, according to New York Magazine, the future of conservatism isn't traditional conservatism, you know, like free markets, like equal rights before law, like checks and balances, like traditional virtue.

00:01:02.000 That's done.

00:01:03.000 The future, according to New York Magazine, is.

00:01:06.000 Nick Fuentes, confirmed Nazi stand and woman hater and man who will never be able to get a human woman pregnant through natural means.

00:01:12.000 Or Tucker Carlson, confirmed anti-capitalist and Muslim apologist and victim of demon scratching. 1.00

00:01:18.000 Or maybe Candace Owens, he confirmed slanderer of widows and connoisseur of French testicles. 1.00

00:01:23.000 Or maybe Megan Kelly, click-horing grandma griper over there. 0.99

00:01:26.000 Well, New York Magazine writes, quote, the collapse of the Daily Wire can be seen as a dire warning for traditional Republicans.

00:01:33.000 There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026.

00:01:36.000 It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is being fast rejected by the future grassroots of the parties. 0.52

00:01:43.000 First of all, that's just wrong.

00:01:44.000 By the polling data, the positions that we take here on the show are reflective of the broad majority of Republicans.

00:01:51.000 That's just the reality.

00:01:52.000 But I figured that we should address all of this head on.

00:01:56.000 So it's true.

00:01:57.000 The Daily Wire laid off some 13% of our workforce since the beginning of the year.

00:02:01.000 And that really sucked.

00:02:02.000 It was truly sad because all those people are great. 0.97

00:02:05.000 And anytime, you know, we're in business, anytime you lay people off as a business, That really sucks.

00:02:10.000 It's tough.

00:02:11.000 It's bad for them.

00:02:12.000 It's bad for us.

00:02:13.000 And I'm personally working to find other places of employment for as many of these people as I possibly can because everybody who we let go deserves a job somewhere else.

00:02:22.000 They're great folks.

00:02:23.000 But for our critics, this was all cause for massive celebration.

00:02:26.000 You know, the joyful popping of the corks, or maybe in the case of Nick Fuentes, a victory celebration with Catboys and lubricant.

00:02:33.000 And listen, we're honored by the attention.

00:02:36.000 See, here's the thing.

00:02:37.000 People only tend to write stories like this about major American institutions, right?

00:02:41.000 Like Amazon dumps people.

00:02:42.000 It's a big story or the Washington Post.

00:02:44.000 Dumps people.

00:02:45.000 And that's a big story. 0.56

00:02:46.000 And thank God we are a major American institution.

00:02:48.000 According to PodTrack, our podcast reach is 41 million people per month.

00:02:52.000 We're ranked sixth globally.

00:02:53.000 We have a total of 11 shows.

00:02:55.000 Paramount, to take an example from that same chart, is ranked fourth globally.

00:02:59.000 They have 145 shows.

00:03:01.000 So on a per capita basis, we're killing it.

00:03:03.000 We are responsible for the two most successful conservative documentaries in history Matt Walsh's Am I Racist? And What is a Woman?

00:03:09.000 Just this week, Vice President Vance was quoting our reporting in his fraud investigations, and our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olihan, is in the press room asking questions.

00:03:18.000 See, here's the thing.

00:03:19.000 There's no national media coverage.

00:03:21.000 If a top Candace Owens producer and her manager quit, or if Megyn Kelly's YouTube account starts shedding tens of thousands of subscribers a month, or if Tucker Carlson's traffic is disproportionately drawn from Pakistan.

00:03:31.000 We all have our fan base.

00:03:33.000 Those are all things that actually happen, by the way, but nobody really cares very much because, yeah, those people have significant audience numbers, but they don't have any real institutional influence.

00:03:42.000 They are not institutions.

00:03:43.000 That's not true of the Daily Wire.

00:03:45.000 We're big enough that people care when we trip up.

00:03:48.000 And of course, like any business, we have our ups, we have our downs.

00:03:51.000 But as Mark Twain put it, the reports of our death are greatly exaggerated.

00:03:54.000 But here's the thing.

00:03:55.000 There is something else going on here, something very clear going on here.

00:04:00.000 The media left and the woke right, that'd be like Candace and Fuentes and Tucker and Megan, all of them, together, the new left, they are attempting to destroy traditional conservatism.

00:04:11.000 That's the whole thing here.

00:04:12.000 See, the Daily Wire is the largest traditional conservative media company in the digital space by like a ton, by leaps and bounds.

00:04:19.000 We are multiple times the size of any of these others.

00:04:22.000 We have lots of conversations on our platform between our various hosts about topics ranging from AI to the Middle East.

00:04:29.000 Catholicism and Judaism and all of it.

00:04:31.000 There's a lot of rich disagreement here at the Daily Wire.

00:04:33.000 But in the end, what we stand for here at the Daily Wire is pretty simple truth and virtue and freedom.

00:04:40.000 And that is what the new left, meaning the old left and the horseshoe right, would love to destroy.

00:04:46.000 It's why the attacks have been coming fast and furious for weeks now.

00:04:49.000 They want to destroy traditional conservatism.

00:04:51.000 It is their goal in life.

00:04:53.000 They want to destroy it for a couple of different reasons the left for one reason, the woke right for another.

00:04:58.000 In our supposed vulnerability, people from Nick Fuentes to Tucker, from Candace Owens to New York Magazine, from the Washington Post to Megyn Kelly, they see an opportunity, an opportunity to supplant traditional conservatism with a conspiratorial, grievance addled, nutty version of populism.

00:05:14.000 Or, in Megyn's case, just make some quick clicks and cash.

00:05:17.000 It's a lucrative grift.

00:05:18.000 It's a dangerous grift for America.

00:05:21.000 So, why is this happening?

00:05:22.000 Well, obviously, for the media left, we get it.

00:05:24.000 We get it.

00:05:25.000 For the media left, we get it.

00:05:26.000 They're always happy to run this grift because they love a right that is crazy.

00:05:30.000 They don't want a right that is characterized by normy beliefs.

00:05:33.000 They want a right that's nuts. 1.00

00:05:35.000 Because the easiest way to make AOC president in the 2028 election is to have that nutty lady run against a conservative movement that is focused on Brigitte Macron's testicles or demon attacks in the wilds of Maine or why the Jews are responsible for your incurable gingivitis and horrific body odor and inability to get a date. 0.98

00:05:56.000 Now, as for the woke right, you know, the new left, again, that would be Fuentes and Tucker and Candace and company. 0.88

00:06:02.000 They're ecstatic about all of this for both business and political reasons.

00:06:05.000 One, there are competition, but second, They want to tear down traditional conservatism.

00:06:10.000 Their whole goal is to cannibalize the traditional conservative audience.

00:06:14.000 There are, by all available metrics, a hell of a lot more traditional conservatives and rational people in this country than nuts.

00:06:21.000 But their goal is to gut the conservative movement and then turn it into a skin suit for their own perverse politics.

00:06:26.000 That's the whole thing, which is why many of them are now coming out as Democrats. 0.61

00:06:31.000 That unity is the thing.

00:06:33.000 That unity is the thing.

00:06:34.000 This is why Russia Today is the official outlet for the Kremlin.

00:06:38.000 It is run by the Russian government.

00:06:40.000 It is retweeting Nick Fuentes' triumphalism today.

00:06:43.000 Fuentes tweeted out, I won after that New York Magazine piece came out.

00:06:47.000 And Fuentes won.

00:06:49.000 Well, I don't know.

00:06:50.000 Living in your basement and streaming for eight hours a day while jacking off to the Catboys, it's a form of winning?

00:06:55.000 I said, mate.

00:06:57.000 All right.

00:06:58.000 Whatever floats your boat, my dude.

00:07:00.000 You might call the Russia Today Fuentes get together an online Molotov Ribbentrop pact. 1.00

00:07:07.000 Well, it's also why the Washington Post is happy to quote Candace Owens, the ranting bag lady of the internet.

00:07:12.000 To explain that the Daily Wire's numbers are down.

00:07:15.000 Again, that alliance between the left and the woke right is totally real and it's active.

00:07:19.000 This is why they are getting together to formulate stories.

00:07:22.000 It is why they are repeating the same talking points.

00:07:24.000 Now, Candace says that the Daily Wire's numbers are down because people don't want to be lectured.

00:07:30.000 This is the teenage point of view from Candace and Megan and Tucker.

00:07:33.000 They're all saying the same thing.

00:07:34.000 They don't want to be lectured.

00:07:36.000 Don't lecture me. 0.99

00:07:37.000 Megan tweeted in March 2026 You're the coward, Ben, and you're moral preening, priggish lectures, and holier than thou judgments. 0.98

00:07:45.000 Are the reason you are losing fans and more than that, friends at a record rate? 0.98

00:07:51.000 All these people are on the same script.

00:07:53.000 They're all on the same script.

00:07:55.000 And also, because as people who traffic and crap for sweet, sweet lucre, they would love to be spared the lecture. 0.78

00:08:02.000 They don't want to be lectured as they grift. 0.95

00:08:05.000 So they're going to do the same thing that, you know, a 13 year old boy would do if caught doing naughty things on his iPad.

00:08:11.000 They don't want to be lectured.

00:08:12.000 Don't you lecture me.

00:08:13.000 Well, it turns out sometimes in life, people need lectures in decency, in reason, and in truth.

00:08:19.000 You know, people who smear the wives of murdered men or cover for people who smear for the wives of murdered men.

00:08:25.000 Those people deserve lectures. 0.70

00:08:26.000 Maybe the people who revive Nazi propaganda. 0.99

00:08:29.000 Maybe the people who have a weird interest in the non existent testicles of these spouses of French politicians. 0.90

00:08:36.000 Or maybe the people who make a cause with, you know, actual Nazi stance. 0.97

00:08:41.000 Maybe those people deserve lectures.

00:08:43.000 Maybe the people who are repeating talking points from Hassan Piker and mimicking the propaganda of Vladimir Putin. 0.98

00:08:49.000 Or people who just randomly start cursing so much and are hanging out with the Groeper adjacent. 1.00

00:08:54.000 And embracing Islam, maybe those people deserve lectures. 1.00

00:08:58.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:08:59.000 Well, listen, there's always a big YouTube audience for that sort of crap. 0.97

00:09:03.000 But let's be real there's a massive online audience for pornography as well. 0.97

00:09:07.000 People addicted to both deserve a bit of a lecture.

00:09:09.000 But let's get back to the central issue.

00:09:11.000 The point of the attacks on the Daily Wire is, of course, not just to attack the Daily Wire, it's to destroy traditional conservatism.

00:09:17.000 That's the whole thing, the entire thing, all of it, every bit of it.

00:09:22.000 That's the whole thing.

00:09:23.000 The reason they're coming after the Daily Wire. Is because they want to come after you.

00:09:27.000 They want to come after traditional conservatives who believe traditionally conservative things.

00:09:31.000 It is no coincidence that at the same time, the Washington Post and New York Magazine and all the rest of these legacy left publications are attacking the Daily Wire.

00:09:39.000 They are also writing strange new respect features on Neg Fuentes and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson.

00:09:45.000 The left wants those people to win.

00:09:48.000 By the way, they're not hiding it very well.

00:09:50.000 New York Magazine's piece says, quote, Entirely.

00:09:57.000 That's what they want.

00:09:59.000 They want traditional normie Republicans to go away.

00:10:02.000 It's what they want and it's what they hope for.

00:10:04.000 And listen, maybe it will turn out that all these people who hate conservatism and what I consider to be traditional American principles maybe they're right.

00:10:13.000 Maybe it'll turn out that the future of the right, perverted by the algorithmic insanity of the internet, is sloppulism.

00:10:21.000 You know, the Tucker style grievance conspiracism complete with the night scratching demons, or Candace Owens' usual brand of cookery, or Nick Fuentes' transgressive Nazi cosplay.

00:10:31.000 Or Theo Vaughn's Man Child Podcast Illiteracy.

00:10:33.000 Maybe that's where the right goes.

00:10:35.000 Maybe that's what comes next. 0.62

00:10:36.000 Maybe that's all facilitated by the click whoring of the Megyn Kellys of the world and justified by an appeal to audience numbers because none of these people ever appeal to morality. 0.78

00:10:44.000 They just point to their clicks. 0.55

00:10:46.000 Maybe Idiocracy wasn't a satire.

00:10:48.000 Maybe it was a prophetic documentary.

00:10:50.000 But here is the thing from where I sit that does not change one single thing for me.

00:10:56.000 Not a single thing.

00:10:58.000 See, here's the thing.

00:10:59.000 I've been doing this since I was 17 years old.

00:11:01.000 I started off when I was 17 years old writing.

00:11:03.000 A syndicated column on politics.

00:11:05.000 I didn't do that because I wanted to get rich that way.

00:11:06.000 That's not how you get rich.

00:11:08.000 I got into politics because I cared about the truth, about saying things that I believe to be eternal and true, because I care about the ideas of conservatism.

00:11:19.000 It's why I've done that for all these years.

00:11:22.000 I care about free markets and I care about private property and I care about equal rights before the law and checks and balances and the Constitution.

00:11:28.000 I care about all of those things.

00:11:31.000 I care about the America that the founders promised us and the America that our parents and grandparents Fought and worked for.

00:11:38.000 And I'm not going to lie for cash.

00:11:40.000 I'm not going to do it.

00:11:41.000 I'm not going to tell you about the wonders of Moscow supermarkets or the glories of Sharia law in Qatar.

00:11:46.000 I'm not going to pander for clicks by pretending that Erica Kirk might have been complicit in Charlie Kirk's murder, or that perverse and malicious questions about TPUSA's cover up are somehow a bizarre form of investigative journalism.

00:11:59.000 I'm not going to wink and nod at the transgressiveness of the Nazi incels, or chuckle along with people who pretend that a conspiratorial elite are the reason your life isn't everything that you want it to be.

00:12:11.000 In the freest and most prosperous country in world history, I'm going to be grateful for America, and I'm going to point out what's great about America and what our principles are.

00:12:18.000 I'm not going to do any of that other stuff.

00:12:20.000 Because here's the thing.

00:12:21.000 I got into this business to do precisely the opposite.

00:12:25.000 I haven't changed my principles.

00:12:27.000 I've been doing this for 25 years.

00:12:28.000 I have not changed my principles.

00:12:30.000 Now, there's a question that I get a lot these days, a lot.

00:12:33.000 From friends, from family.

00:12:35.000 People will come up and they'll say, what happened to all these people?

00:12:38.000 Yeah, they understand New York Magazine and Washington Post and what they are, but what happened to, you know, Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly and all the rest?

00:12:45.000 And I don't know the answer because I'm not a psychiatrist.

00:12:48.000 But here's what I do know.

00:12:49.000 Nobody has ever asked that question about me.

00:12:53.000 No one, because my worldview has not changed.

00:12:56.000 It has not changed.

00:12:57.000 My principles haven't changed because I think those principles are true and good.

00:13:02.000 And those principles are not going to change.

00:13:04.000 So, in the end, take it or leave it.

00:13:08.000 If people decide they don't want to hear it, it's a free country.

00:13:10.000 That's their choice.

00:13:12.000 But I am willing to bet my future and the future of America that more Americans agree with me than agree with the people who want to destroy the Daily Wire.

00:13:20.000 I'm betting there are a lot more rational people in this country than conspiracy mongering nutjobs. 0.99

00:13:26.000 I'm betting that there are way more people in America who believe in truth and virtue and freedom than people who revel in grievance and demoralization and stupidity. 0.99

00:13:35.000 And again, maybe I'm wrong. 0.99

00:13:37.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:13:38.000 Maybe we lose.

00:13:39.000 But here's the thing that also doesn't change a thing.

00:13:42.000 It doesn't change a thing.

00:13:43.000 It doesn't matter.

00:13:44.000 Because the only thing that matters is the only thing that has ever mattered to me speaking the truth, whether people like it or whether they don't.

00:13:53.000 Because facts still don't care about your feelings.

00:13:56.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:14:06.000 Now, speaking of people who would love for the West to fall apart, and again, I think that the attack on the Daily Wire is in large part that.

00:14:11.000 I think that this coordinated assault on the Daily Wire, if you can take out the leading conservative online institution in America, you do an awful lot of damage.

00:14:19.000 There are a lot of people all over the world who really dislike the fundamental principles of the West.

00:14:25.000 That is particularly true of the left, of course.

00:14:27.000 Greta Thunberg yesterday spent her day protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants in Sweden. 0.99

00:14:34.000 Again, it is amazing to me.

00:14:36.000 That the entire legacy media treated Greta Thunberg. 0.99

00:14:38.000 I'm allowed to make fun of her now because she's over 18. 1.00

00:14:40.000 When she was a child, she was basically a child soldier for the left.

00:14:44.000 She'd go out there, and if you pointed out that what she was saying made no sense, you were attacking a child. 1.00

00:14:48.000 Well, now she's an adult, which means that I can mock her and her stupid beliefs. 0.99

00:14:52.000 But the movement to destroy the West is not relegated just to the United States, obviously. 1.00

00:14:57.000 Here is Greta Thunberg protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants in Sweden.

00:15:03.000 In Sweden, people who came here as children grew up here and built their entire lives here.

00:15:08.000 Are now increasingly being deported without their families to countries they have no connection to and that are very much not safe for them to be in.

00:15:16.000 And these young people did not do anything wrong. 0.96

00:15:19.000 They followed the path given to them and are especially children of labor migrants who, upon turning 18, now risk losing their right to stay here.

00:15:28.000 And this is in light of Sweden becoming increasingly hostile and racist in its migration politics, like so, so many other parts of the world. 0.96

00:15:37.000 Again, this is a woman who has lived off the largesse of the richness of Western society.

00:15:42.000 And she has spent her entire teenage years and now young adulthood protesting the West that made her famous in the first place.

00:15:49.000 This is a lady who gets on boats and floats her way across the Mediterranean to try to enter Israel, whereupon she's immediately put back on an LL flight out of the country, or she's the one who is getting herself fake arrested for the cameras.

00:16:01.000 And yet she's there saying that what really needs to happen is, again, the mass migration invasion of the West. 0.57

00:16:06.000 Not relegated to Europe, of course.

00:16:08.000 You got Hassan Piker over here in the United States, embraced by a wide variety of top level Democrats.

00:16:14.000 He spent yesterday lecturing Democrats not to engage in what he called China hawkery.

00:16:19.000 Quote Democrats, do not try to engage in China hawkery.

00:16:22.000 Please do not repeat your mistakes.

00:16:23.000 The best and only path forward is peaceful coexistence and cooperation.

00:16:27.000 Yes, love your new masters. 0.78

00:16:29.000 Love your new Chinese masters, says the guy who was literally in China talking about the glories of Mao Zedong.

00:16:35.000 And there are a lot of people in the West, homegrown and imported, who really, really do not like the West, do not like it one little bit, like at all.

00:16:46.000 Now, Democrats are imbibing from this well.

00:16:49.000 They have decided that it's important to redo all the institutions of America to enforce these political principles from above.

00:16:56.000 Kamala Harris, yesterday, who again will not go away, it's kind of amazing.

00:16:59.000 I don't know why she thinks she's going to be president because, again, she ran and she lost, but she ain't going away.

00:17:05.000 She says she wants to have a no bad ideas brainstorm.

00:17:08.000 Just going to point out at this point, there are tons of bad ideas.

00:17:11.000 Truly, there are a lot of bad ideas. 0.99

00:17:12.000 Whenever a teacher says there are no stupid questions, there are. 1.00

00:17:16.000 There are stupid questions, and there are also stupid people, and there are also bad ideas. 1.00

00:17:20.000 And they're also bad people. 1.00

00:17:21.000 And turns out all of them come together in this little clip from Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:17:27.000 This is a moment where there are no bad ideas.

00:17:30.000 A no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it.

00:17:33.000 And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College.

00:17:43.000 We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.

00:17:50.000 We invite a conversation about multi members districts.

00:17:53.000 Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.

00:17:58.000 These are the things I think that we've got to do. 0.81

00:18:00.000 We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue states expanding their maps. 0.81

00:18:09.000 And all of this, I think, is look, we got to fight fire with fire.

00:18:15.000 These folks are playing to win.

00:18:16.000 We got to play to win, too.

00:18:19.000 Again, the idea that the far left is going to implement its vision through terrible ideas like Supreme Court expansion or randomly adding states in order to remake the Senate.

00:18:31.000 Now, this is dangerous stuff, truly dangerous stuff.

00:18:33.000 All righty, coming up, we'll get to the Democrats' race baiting and President Trump's China visit.

00:18:37.000 And is Cuba about to fall?

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00:20:01.000 And the Democratic Party continues in the end to use whatever is at hand.

00:20:06.000 It is not about principle for them.

00:20:08.000 It is simply about power.

00:20:09.000 I think the best example today is their use of the race card.

00:20:12.000 So, this is pretty funny. 0.58

00:20:13.000 The Democrats have decided that the way they are going to run in the midterm elections is to claim that Republicans are racist for redrawing electoral maps. 0.93

00:20:20.000 Representative Sean Kasten of Illinois is comparing the Supreme Court to the KKK, including presumably Clarence Thomas, the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court who is black.

00:20:33.000 Now, Chief Justice Roberts has said that we now live in a colorblind society to which I would ask you all.

00:20:38.000 Does your answer to those questions depend on whether their robe is white or black?

00:20:44.000 Because make absolutely no mistake, the agenda of this Supreme Court and the agenda of the Klan are far too similar.

00:20:53.000 The Supreme Court and the Klan have the same agenda.

00:20:55.000 This is what Democrats are going to run on.

00:20:57.000 Gavin Newsom saying the same thing.

00:20:59.000 Gavin Newsom, who will say anything to anybody, the governor of California, he says that Republicans right now are engaged in Jim Crow 2.0.

00:21:06.000 They need a new line, by the way. 0.98

00:21:08.000 They've been using this Jim Crow 2.0 crap for decades.

00:21:11.000 Aren't we at least at like three or 4.0? 0.84

00:21:13.000 When's the next upgrade?

00:21:15.000 When do we get Jim Crow 5.0?

00:21:16.000 How does this work? 0.74

00:21:18.000 And then he says anti woke is anti black.

00:21:20.000 So you thought woke was dead. 0.97

00:21:21.000 Wrong you are.

00:21:22.000 Democrats are going to bring it back with a vengeance.

00:21:25.000 This is Jim Crow 2.0. 0.93

00:21:26.000 It's sick.

00:21:29.000 Stone cold racism in a scale I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.

00:21:33.000 Never have seen in my lifetime.

00:21:34.000 It's all happening, bringing us back to a pre 1960s world.

00:21:38.000 It's jaw dropping what's happening.

00:21:39.000 It was jaw dropping what Governor Landry did.

00:21:41.000 He suspended.

00:21:43.000 A primary election where tens of thousands of people had already voted.

00:21:46.000 Why? 1.00

00:21:47.000 To redistrict two districts to eliminate black representation. 0.71

00:21:52.000 I can't believe that we're experiencing this.

00:21:55.000 My parents talked to me about this.

00:21:56.000 I said, Well, thank God it's not going to happen in my lifetime.

00:22:00.000 And it's happening in real time. 0.70

00:22:02.000 Anti woke is anti black. 0.99

00:22:05.000 Anti woke is anti black. 0.99

00:22:06.000 Again, you thought the wokeness had gone. 0.89

00:22:08.000 Wrong you are.

00:22:10.000 The threat is ever present.

00:22:12.000 But here's the thing it's all a power play.

00:22:13.000 It's all a power play.

00:22:15.000 Hilarious article in Politico today about whether Democrats really care all that much about black voting power.

00:22:21.000 And here is what the article says.

00:22:22.000 Apparently, in theory, Democrats would love to maintain majority minority districts.

00:22:28.000 However, if they're reminded about the Context of the Supreme Court ruling that said that you're not supposed to be drawing racial districts and Republican gerrymandering, which is to say the drawing of more Republican districts.

00:22:40.000 Suddenly, a 45% plurality of Democrats say that Democrats must counter GOP efforts, quote, even if it means reducing the number of majority minority districts.

00:22:51.000 So it turns out that if power comes up against principle, power wins every time for the Democrats.

00:22:58.000 Democratic governance, not going to be great.

00:23:00.000 Speaking of which, we now have new details.

00:23:03.000 Remember just a couple of days ago, Zorhan Mamdani was bragging about the magic that he had performed, the magic he had performed with regard to the New York City budget.

00:23:10.000 Remember, he said that he was going to do an amazing job with the New York City budget, that he had closed the budget gap.

00:23:15.000 Well, it turns out what actually happened is that he just got a bailout from the state.

00:23:20.000 And also, according to the New York Post, that pied-a-terre tax, that would be the tax on the second homes in New York, which again is a ridiculous tax, immediately the threshold for taxation has been lowered.

00:23:32.000 According to the New York Post, a controversial new tax on second homes in New York City was quietly lowered.

00:23:36.000 From $5 million to a market value of $1 million, increasing the number of homeowners who will get squeezed as part of Governor Kathy Hochul's never ending budget negotiations.

00:23:45.000 Hochul's office finally released details of her and Mayor Zorhan Mamdani's new tax on second homes in New York City to the New York Times on Thursday, the latest concession to the Democratic Socialist mayor and his liberal followers on a tax site crusade they say will target the rich.

00:23:58.000 The Democratic program, it never sleeps.

00:24:01.000 The open borders, high taxation, woke program, it never sleeps and it never stops.

00:24:07.000 Okay, on over to China.

00:24:08.000 So the president of the United States completed his China visit.

00:24:13.000 Not much of a tremendous outcome from the China visit.

00:24:16.000 I wasn't expecting much to come out of it.

00:24:17.000 I wasn't expecting a giant Trump win or a giant Trump loss.

00:24:22.000 And that seems to be what has merged in all of this.

00:24:25.000 The president of the United States mainly went over there and was nice to Xi, and Xi was nice to him, and we'll have to see how the negotiations play out.

00:24:32.000 When it came to the issue of Taiwan, basically we are where we started.

00:24:37.000 Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, Says that the United States will oppose any forced change in the status quo, in other words, China simply annexing or invading Taiwan.

00:24:49.000 From our perspective, any forced change in the status quo and the situation that's there now would be bad for both countries.

00:24:55.000 One of the things the Chinese emphasize, which we agree, is strategic stability in our relationship, a constructive relationship, but also one that establishes strategic stability so that we don't have misunderstandings that could lead to broader conflict.

00:25:08.000 And so we always reiterate the point.

00:25:09.000 We hear them when they say this.

00:25:11.000 We always respond by saying anything that would compel or force a change in what we have now would be problematic.

00:25:17.000 And that we would certainly, our policies on that have not changed.

00:25:20.000 It's been pretty consistent across multiple presidential administrations and remains consistent now.

00:25:25.000 So, again, Democrats were claiming that Trump was going to give up the ghost on Taiwan, and that's not true.

00:25:30.000 As the Secretary of State said, strategic ambiguity remains the policy of the United States.

00:25:35.000 Well, how about on Iran?

00:25:36.000 So, the president had claimed that China was making some moves to help us out with regard to Iran.

00:25:40.000 Again, unclear whether that's going to materialize in any real way.

00:25:43.000 We should say at this point that according to Iran International, the Iranian leadership is becoming increasingly frustrated with their economic situation.

00:25:51.000 Iran International reports that senior Iranian officials have grown frustrated with the plan to generate revenue from shipping in the Strait of Hormuz with little money collected, despite expectations of significant income.

00:26:02.000 Again, Iran was trying to toll the Straits, and it turns out everybody is just kind of waiting around and nobody's paying those tolls.

00:26:07.000 Meanwhile, the CENTCOM chief, Brad Cooper, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that U.S. forces have destroyed more than 90%.

00:26:15.000 Of Iran's inventory of 8,000 naval mines to prevent their deployment in the Strait.

00:26:20.000 And in his written testimony, he said that Operation Epic Fury had damaged or destroyed more than 85% of Iran's ballistic missile drone and naval industrial base through more than 1,450 strikes on weapons grade manufacturing facilities.

00:26:32.000 He said it would take Iran a generation to recover its navy and years for its drone and missile production to recover.

00:26:37.000 So remember, there was a story earlier this week suggesting that Iran's missile silos were still fully intact and all that.

00:26:43.000 Well, again, there might be a few missiles that are intact.

00:26:46.000 The reality is their entire missile production base is gone.

00:26:50.000 Not only that, according to Admiral Cooper, we have basically blown all of their fast boats out of the water, too.

00:26:55.000 So their control over the Strait of Hormuz is weakening.

00:27:00.000 Their capability has been significantly degraded.

00:27:03.000 If I just use my own professional experience in 100 transits through the Strait of Hormuz, you would typically see 20 to 40 fast boats, and lately we've seen two or three.

00:27:15.000 So again, the United States is winning.

00:27:17.000 We are winning.

00:27:18.000 Not just that.

00:27:19.000 This is, I think, the biggest story that's been undercover.

00:27:21.000 He says the United States has now flipped the cost curve on drone warfare.

00:27:24.000 So you saw all those propagandistic pieces from people like Congressman Roh Khanna suggesting that every time a drone went up on the Iranian side, we had to fire a $45,000 missile at the thing.

00:27:34.000 That's not true.

00:27:36.000 Here is Cooper explaining.

00:27:38.000 I'd like to use the opportunity to myth bust on drones.

00:27:42.000 The days of $35,000 drones that we saw in the last couple of years, particularly in the fight against the Houthis in Yemen, those days are behind us.

00:27:50.000 Today, we face An increased threat from drones that are highly sophisticated.

00:27:55.000 They're jet powered.

00:27:57.000 They have high end sensors.

00:27:59.000 They have electronic warfare.

00:28:00.000 They have signals intelligence.

00:28:02.000 So, those days of using high value defenses to shoot down cheap targets are behind us. 0.93

00:28:08.000 Quite the contrary, what we have been doing lately is using our own low cost one way attack drones, attacking Iran, making them use higher and more expensive weapons. 0.88

00:28:20.000 So, I can confidently tell you we have flipped the cost curve in many ways, always work to be done, but I like where we are in this regard. 0.78

00:28:27.000 I mean, again, that's big news that was totally undercovered.

00:28:31.000 Well, how's it going with China?

00:28:32.000 Well, the president, of course, was in China.

00:28:34.000 He said that Xi has said he's not going to give military equipment to Iran.

00:28:34.000 He spoke with Xi.

00:28:38.000 There was the president.

00:28:41.000 You've been asked about it, and you've spoken about it, and that is China's support of Iran.

00:28:47.000 How big a discussion was that today?

00:28:49.000 We discussed it.

00:28:51.000 I mean, when you say support, they're not fighting a war with us or anything.

00:28:56.000 No.

00:28:57.000 He said he's not going to give military equipment.

00:28:59.000 That's a big statement.

00:29:00.000 He said that today.

00:29:01.000 That's a big statement.

00:29:04.000 Okay, so again, if that's the case, then that's a great thing.

00:29:07.000 Trump says that she also wants a deal made with regard to Iran and said that they would like to be of help.

00:29:11.000 I'm sure they want to be of help.

00:29:12.000 The question is, what kind of help?

00:29:15.000 She would like to see a deal made.

00:29:18.000 And he did offer, he said, if I can be of any help at all, I would like to be of help.

00:29:23.000 He did say that.

00:29:24.000 Yeah, he did say that.

00:29:25.000 And look, anybody that buys that much oil has obviously got some kind of a relationship with them.

00:29:31.000 But he said, I would love to be a help.

00:29:33.000 If I could be of any help whatsoever, he'd like to see the Hormuz Strait open.

00:29:39.000 Now, again, what does that mean?

00:29:41.000 I think it's totally unclear at this point.

00:29:42.000 The China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs put out a statement suggesting China's position on the Iran situation is very clear.

00:29:48.000 The conflict has initiated severe losses on the people in Iran and other regional countries, but the spillover is still expanding.

00:29:54.000 The conflict has put a heavy strain on global economic growth, supply chains, international trade order, et cetera, et cetera.

00:29:59.000 There's no point in continuing the conflict.

00:30:00.000 Okay, guys, you know what you could do? 0.97

00:30:02.000 You could force the Iranians to give up the ghost. 0.90

00:30:04.000 You could cut off your support for the Iranians, and you could tell them that they receive no support from you absent them turning over their nuclear materials and opening the strait. 0.99

00:30:12.000 That's what needs to happen. 0.87

00:30:13.000 It doesn't appear that is going to happen, by the way.

00:30:15.000 China is still giving low level support to the Iranians.

00:30:18.000 According to the New York Times, Chinese companies have been discussing arms sales with Iran, plotting to send the weapons through other countries to mask the origins of the military aid.

00:30:26.000 Presumably, they use Pakistan as a cutout, just another reason why we should not be using Pakistan as our place of negotiations in any of this.

00:30:34.000 And I've said it before, I'll say it again. 0.76

00:30:35.000 It seems to me the clear path out of this, if you want China to actually flip, the clear path out of this is to destroy Iran's energy facilities. 0.82

00:30:42.000 Once they have nothing that they can actually export to the Chinese, the Chinese will be greatly annoyed. 0.72

00:30:47.000 With the Iranians shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.

00:30:50.000 If the Iranians can't provide the Chinese what they want, of what use are they to the Chinese? 0.70

00:30:54.000 That would be the big question. 0.98

00:30:56.000 Okay, then there is the issue of the economy.

00:30:58.000 Again, there were multiple issues that came up with regard to China and the United States in the president's trip.

00:31:04.000 Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, was in the room for a lot of these meetings.

00:31:08.000 And he says that we are going to be discussing guardrails on AI with the Chinese, but I guarantee you, Secretary Besant is not going to hand over leadership of AI to the Chinese on the basis of some specious perception that the Chinese are interested in safety.

00:31:23.000 First of all, the good news is the US is the undisputed leader in the world here.

00:31:28.000 We have the greatest AI companies.

00:31:31.000 We're actually going to be discussing the AI guardrails with the Chinese.

00:31:38.000 It will, because the Chinese are substantially behind us, but they have a very advanced AI industry here.

00:31:46.000 So the two AI superpowers are going to start talking. 0.93

00:31:50.000 We're going to set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward.

00:31:55.000 With best practices for AI to make sure non state actors don't get a hold of these models.

00:32:03.000 Again, does that mean that we're actually going to be cooperating much with the Chinese?

00:32:05.000 I think not.

00:32:06.000 Again, I think most of this visit was just pro forma.

00:32:09.000 I don't think much came out of it.

00:32:11.000 Besson talked about the formation of a board of trade or a board of investment for U.S. China negotiations.

00:32:17.000 He said there are lots of things China could invest in.

00:32:20.000 We just want to make sure that those things don't get referred to CFIUS.

00:32:25.000 To make sure that they're not trying to invest in sensitive economic areas and security areas for us.

00:32:29.000 Here is the Treasury Secretary.

00:32:33.000 We talked about purchases.

00:32:36.000 We talked about some issues that the Chinese side had.

00:32:40.000 And we're going to talk about forming a board of trade for the bilateral trade between the U.S. and China.

00:32:50.000 And we're going to talk about a board of investment that will be responsible for investment in non sensitive areas.

00:32:59.000 Okay, whatever.

00:32:59.000 Again, I don't think this is much of a big deal.

00:33:01.000 The only thing that happened on this trip that I find troubling, truly the only thing that I find really troubling, is what the president had to say about Chinese students coming to the United States.

00:33:08.000 Now, I made the case earlier this week that the United States should ban Chinese foreign exchange students. 0.97

00:33:13.000 They're an enemy regime. 0.99

00:33:15.000 When they send hundreds of thousands of students here, they're not doing so in order to enrich America.

00:33:20.000 They're not doing so in order to immigrate to the United States.

00:33:23.000 If they want to immigrate to the United States, they should apply for immigration papers. 0.99

00:33:26.000 Coming here on a student visa to learn about our tech and then going back and stealing our tech. 1.00

00:33:31.000 Or going back and strengthening our enemies.

00:33:33.000 I don't see the purpose of this.

00:33:35.000 The truth is that our university system is heavily reliant on foreign exchange students who are paying full freight as opposed to many students locally who are paying discounted freight.

00:33:44.000 It doesn't matter.

00:33:45.000 If the universities have to take it on the chin, frankly, they should, given the amount of fraud they've perpetuated against their own students.

00:33:51.000 But if the universities have to take it on the chin, I guess that should be a consequence of national security.

00:33:57.000 There's one area where I think the president is just wrong.

00:33:59.000 Here he was telling Sean Hannity that there would be a brain drain if we ban Chinese students from the United States.

00:34:05.000 I mean, I'm sure there are smart people who would not come to American universities, but the point is they're going back where they came from and bringing all our stuff with them.

00:34:17.000 I could tell them, I don't want any students, is a very insulting thing to say to a country. 0.96

00:34:26.000 They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China. 0.79

00:34:31.000 But if you don't have those students, good students, by the way, and we do another thing, you know, if they're good and they want to stay in America, we won't give them a green card.

00:34:39.000 Things like that.

00:34:42.000 Not only them, but other countries.

00:34:45.000 But if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it.

00:34:53.000 So, again, you want to see the American university system die?

00:34:56.000 I mean, don't threaten me with a good time, Mr. President.

00:34:58.000 You want to see the American university system die?

00:35:00.000 I mean, the university system, aside from STEM, is really kind of a trash heap at this point. 0.99

00:35:05.000 Admitting hundreds of thousands of Chinese students to American universities in order to keep Yale alive seems like bad policy to me. 0.91

00:35:12.000 How about the Democrats?

00:35:13.000 Well, the Democrats, of course, responded to President Trump in China with all of their usual panic.

00:35:18.000 Chuck Schumer made the case that Trump was going to sell out America.

00:35:20.000 No evidence that he did that, of course.

00:35:24.000 Just a day into Trump's trip to China, and he hasn't done anything to ease concerns that he might sell out America.

00:35:31.000 He arrived with a posse of billionaires in tow, including his own son, who oversees the family business.

00:35:38.000 This kind of stuff is just incredible. 0.65

00:35:41.000 So much for fighting against how China is hurting American workers. 0.95

00:35:45.000 And poisoning our communities with fentanyl.

00:35:49.000 That would get in the way of Donald Trump and his family profiting off doing business with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:35:58.000 I mean, it's so exaggerated. 0.98

00:36:00.000 It's so silly. 0.80

00:36:02.000 And it is amazing to watch as Democrats suddenly become hawkish on China. 0.94

00:36:06.000 So hawkish that Hassan Piker has to tweet out at them not to do it.

00:36:10.000 The bottom line is did anything get done in China?

00:36:12.000 Was it a giant fail?

00:36:12.000 Not much.

00:36:13.000 No.

00:36:13.000 Was it a giant success?

00:36:14.000 Not really, because there wasn't that much.

00:36:16.000 For the president to actually get done, status quo ante seems to be where we are in the end.

00:36:21.000 All right, coming up, we keep hearing over and over and over that developers, they're the ones who are causing all of the housing costs to go up. 0.95

00:36:28.000 I have some bad news for people with this dumb theory.

00:36:31.000 First, at this point, running a household with children basically requires the organizational structure of a mid sized government. 0.97

00:36:37.000 As parents, we need calendars and backup calendars and coordinated transportation schedules.

00:36:42.000 Somebody apparently has to know where every shoe is in the house at all times.

00:36:46.000 I mean, that is literally my life.

00:36:47.000 This is a thing that I have to do all the time.

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00:37:33.000 In other news, there's been a lot of talk, obviously, about housing affordability in the United States.

00:37:37.000 And as we've been discussing, there are a lot of areas of the United States where actually the cost of housing has been precipitously dropping over the course of the last couple of years.

00:37:45.000 Not the heavily regulated areas, but a lot of other areas.

00:37:49.000 And people are moving to those areas.

00:37:50.000 I know, I know this is verboten.

00:37:51.000 You're not allowed to say that if you're a young person and you're living in a place that is too expensive to live, that perhaps you might consider moving, even temporarily, somewhere else where it is cheaper to live to grant you an upward economic trajectory.

00:38:03.000 I know we're not allowed to talk about that.

00:38:04.000 We're supposed to pretend.

00:38:05.000 That the best policy is for you to sit in an apartment too expensive for you until you are foreclosed upon and lose your house.

00:38:12.000 And then you can sit there watching the grievance mongers on the right tell you that it's all the fault of the Illuminati or something.

00:38:18.000 But the reality is that Americans are using their feet to go to the places where they are likely to be more successful, which is a thing that Americans historically have done.

00:38:28.000 There's a fascinating chart from the Wall Street Journal talking about the fastest growing cities in America.

00:38:33.000 It turns out, where are they?

00:38:34.000 They are in the excerpts.

00:38:36.000 The exurbs are, you know, the suburbs, but slightly further out.

00:38:39.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the latest Census Bureau data show that some of the fastest growing cities are often sitting in the distant orbit of a larger city and centered on booming master plan communities.

00:38:48.000 Wait, did you say master plan communities?

00:38:52.000 Who's building those master plan communities?

00:38:54.000 Would those be corporations building the master plan communities and bringing down the prices so people can move there?

00:39:01.000 But I thought the corporations were bad and terrible and horrible and raising the price of real estate. 0.99

00:39:07.000 But wait, if it turns out the corporations are the ones building the house, then oh no, what do we do about the fact that that entire narrative is stupid? 0.96

00:39:15.000 Speaking of which, I'm just going to point out I always talk about corporate landlords buying up houses, increasing the rental stock, but decreasing the housing stock for sale. 0.66

00:39:26.000 It turns out that corporate landlords basically own almost none of the American housing market, a very, very small percentage.

00:39:34.000 As this chart from John Burns Research and Consulting demonstrates, the vast majority of Of homes in the United States are purchased by the owner occupant.

00:39:43.000 And then there's a pretty heavy share people who own one to nine units.

00:39:47.000 But the people who own like a ton of units, meaning like a thousand plus units, extremely small.

00:39:53.000 100 to 999 units, also extremely small.

00:39:57.000 Turns out that the best policy when it comes to housing and affordability is to let the free market work its magic.

00:40:02.000 As with all products and goods and services, private property and protection of property rights and low regulation leads to more production of the products and services people want.

00:40:13.000 Okay, we do have an update for you on Luke Rosiak's fraud series, which is making waves.

00:40:19.000 Again, Daily Wire does a lot of things.

00:40:20.000 One of the reasons the critiques have been leveled at the Daily Wire more broadly, not just against me personally, but at our institution, is because we actually are doing things in the world.

00:40:28.000 Luke Rosiak's investigative journalism in Ohio is making a lot of waves.

00:40:32.000 The latest installment of his series on Medicaid fraud and waste in Ohio shows that Ohio's Medicaid paid almost $6 million to a home health company that was owned by a convicted felon.

00:40:45.000 Our government programs run with enormous amounts of bloat in them.

00:40:49.000 According to Luke's piece, Omega Healthcare Services is based in a black windowless building in Columbus, a city that boasts one of the largest African immigrant populations in the country and also gets the bulk of the state's Medicaid dollars.

00:41:00.000 When the Daily Wire visited its office during business hours, the door was locked and no one was there.

00:41:05.000 The same building houses other home healthcare companies.

00:41:07.000 One company collected seven and a half million bucks since 2018.

00:41:12.000 Omega was certified to begin receiving Medicaid dollars for home health in November 2020.

00:41:17.000 And they ended up receiving almost $6 million.

00:41:19.000 The owners are people named Esther and Robert at Chiampong.

00:41:24.000 Robert pled guilty to stealing $19,000 in 2005 from the IRS and also a priest.

00:41:29.000 Stealing from a priest.

00:41:31.000 Seems great.

00:41:32.000 He received house arrest, by the way, ended up in probation for 10 years after he got another felony conviction.

00:41:37.000 The feds put out a $15,000 lien against him that was never collected.

00:41:41.000 His accounting firm received $25,000 in forgivable COVID loans in the interim.

00:41:46.000 And people who are willing to take government money and just abuse it, turns out they're willing to take it from all sorts of sources COVID funding, Medicaid fraud, all of it.

00:41:55.000 The vice president of the United States, who's been put in charge of rooting out waste and fraud, In the federal government programs.

00:42:02.000 He's out there making the case that we need to change the situation.

00:42:06.000 He was out campaigning in Maine.

00:42:07.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:42:09.000 Something that we've seen in Minneapolis, but also in Maine, we have seen people go out there and say that they're providing services to autistic children when in reality they maybe don't have any children at all or they certainly don't have autistic children.

00:42:24.000 So they get paid millions and millions of your dollars to provide services that they're not actually providing.

00:42:32.000 And oh, by the way, what happened to the autistic children and their families who actually need those services and need a competent government to ensure that they're doing the right thing?

00:42:41.000 My friends, this has gone on for far too long.

00:42:44.000 You have been fleeced by your own government for far too long, and we are stopping it every single day.

00:42:52.000 And again, we are proud to be reporting on this sort of stuff.

00:42:54.000 Luke is doing amazing work.

00:42:56.000 Meanwhile, CMS Administrator Dr. Oz is detailing that there are tons of red flags in California, where Governor Gavin Newsom is pretending everything is hunky dory.

00:43:06.000 California Medicaid deferral that the Vice President mentioned is $1.34 billion.

00:43:12.000 Their submissions of Medicare records in the backup estimates are generating major red flags for us.

00:43:20.000 And we have looked carefully at these records.

00:43:21.000 We are allowed to audit looking back for a quarter.

00:43:25.000 Dan Brillman Caprice Knapp, who leads the Medicaid program, spearheaded this effort and with a great team.

00:43:32.000 We've discovered $630 million in billing from the folks who are egregiously the top 5% of outliers in billing.

00:43:40.000 Numbers so big, you can't imagine anyone billing for these numbers of patients and that much for each patient.

00:43:45.000 And so we're asking California to clarify for us how it got there.

00:43:49.000 I have a feeling California is not going to clarify.

00:43:52.000 Back to foreign policy.

00:43:53.000 Cuba seems to be on its last legs.

00:43:56.000 Apparently, the CIA chief, John Ratcliffe, met with officials in Havana on Thursday.

00:44:01.000 He met with the Cuban interior minister and the head of the country's intelligence service.

00:44:06.000 Cuba's government said the meeting took place at the request of the United States.

00:44:10.000 And Ratcliffe said that Cuba needed to make fundamental changes to work with the United States.

00:44:13.000 He warned.

00:44:14.000 That President Trump should be taken seriously.

00:44:17.000 He referred to a U.S. military raid that deposed Nicolas Maduro, of course.

00:44:21.000 And by the way, charges are now coming down for Raul Castro in American courts.

00:44:26.000 So is that the predicate to a raid on the Castro family?

00:44:30.000 The Cuban president, Miguel Diaz Canal, says that the deterioration of the island's electricity grid had a single cause the genocidal energy blockade imposed on our country by the United States.

00:44:43.000 He says, If there is truly a willingness, On the part of the United States government to provide aid in the amounts it announces and in full conformity with universally recognized practices for humanitarian assistance, it will encounter no obstacles or ingratitude from Cuba.

00:44:56.000 The damage could be alleviated in a much easier and more expeditious way by lifting or easing the blockade.

00:45:01.000 Okay, so there is a limitation, by the way.

00:45:03.000 In the end, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, in the end, the economic measures that we have taken in order to cut the legs out from under these regimes, someone is going to have to rise up and overturn the regimes.

00:45:15.000 If you want the Castro regime and his successors to be gone, you need to literally overturn the regime.

00:45:21.000 Yes, right now we are strangling the Venezuelan regime.

00:45:23.000 They can't do what they want.

00:45:24.000 But if a Democrat gets in power, you think they're going to keep that up?

00:45:28.000 We need to be moving swiftly toward a replacement of the regime in Venezuela.

00:45:33.000 Because otherwise, all the gains that we have earned by arresting Maduro and stationing some ships off the coast will be lost.

00:45:41.000 We should be pressing the regime to hold elections in Venezuela.

00:45:44.000 That is a thing that should be happening.

00:45:45.000 There should be a form of regime change pushed on the Venezuelans, not using military force, but using that economic power.

00:45:52.000 And if not, then there needs to be facilitation of a movement inside Venezuela to overthrow the government.

00:45:58.000 The same thing needs to happen in Cuba.

00:46:01.000 Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, he says we can't have a failed state 90 miles from our shore, obviously.

00:46:08.000 Our plan for Cuba is a prosperous future.

00:46:09.000 That's what we want.

00:46:10.000 It's in our national interest.

00:46:12.000 And to have a prosperous Cuba, not to have a failed state 90 miles from our shores. 0.99

00:46:18.000 Marco Rubio went on to suggest that Cuba will never be successful with the regime, which of course is true. 0.73

00:46:24.000 Cubans are successful everywhere in the world except one place Cuba. 1.00

00:46:29.000 And so that's what we want.

00:46:30.000 We want Cubans not to have to leave that island in order to be successful. 0.98

00:46:33.000 But they can't. 1.00

00:46:34.000 Because the current model they have is, it's not just them, it's broken.

00:46:37.000 It doesn't work.

00:46:38.000 And it'll never change as long as the people that are there now are running it.

00:46:41.000 They are closed minded, unfortunately.

00:46:44.000 Okay, so the question is going to be what replaces and how does that replacement happen?

00:46:47.000 How does that happen?

00:46:49.000 It's going to require some domestic opposition, a domestic uprising in all likelihood.

00:46:53.000 That is the purpose of the blockade, which is effective.

00:46:56.000 It is the purpose of strangleholding all of the oil supplies in Venezuela or of the Strait of Hormuz blockade that we now have working there.

00:47:05.000 I know that regime change has become a dirty word, but not all regime change has to happen at the cost of American lives.

00:47:11.000 There's been lots of regime change historically that has happened because domestic opponents rose up and did something about it.

00:47:16.000 The conditions precedent have been put in place in Venezuela, in Cuba, and yes, in Iran.

00:47:22.000 The time is coming when the people are going to have to do something about it.

00:47:24.000 Already coming up, we're going to jump into the mailbag.

00:47:26.000 I want to answer some of your questions, but remember, in order to have your questions answered or even to watch this part of the show, you have to become a subscriber.

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00:47:48.000 Martin Luther King Jr. is an American icon, widely considered one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

00:47:54.000 A man who had a vision for a colorblind society, a post racial America.

00:48:00.000 He had a dream. 0.83

00:48:01.000 It's just not the dream you thought it was.

00:48:03.000 Were his true aims a colorblind society or something far more radical?

00:48:08.000 Who bankrolled him?

00:48:10.000 What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama? in 1963.

00:48:14.000 Was civil disobedience actually peaceful?

00:48:19.000 We wanted to show you a clip of the I Have a Dream speech, but according to our lawyers, we can't.

00:48:24.000 In fact, King's family has made a lot of money suing media outlets.

00:48:27.000 They want to silence critics like us.

00:48:29.000 What they're doing makes it very difficult to judge Martin Luther King Jr., not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

00:48:37.000 Is America today stronger, more unified, and racially equal than before King's rise?

00:48:43.000 These questions demand answers, and as Americans, we are entitled to a full accounting of the Civil Rights Movement and its consequences.

00:48:49.000 King's Movement fundamentally transformed our country and our system of government.

00:48:53.000 I speak as a citizen of the world.

00:48:56.000 Each day the war goes on, the hatred increases, though the cause of evil prosper.

00:49:03.000 The first part of our two-part special on the Civil Rights Movement, A New Constitution, available now on Daily Wire Plus.

The Ben Shapiro Show - May 15, 2026

All The Haters Can Kiss My Ass

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