The Ben Shapiro Show - August 05, 2026


Ben Reacting to the Dumbest Anti-Capitalist TikTok


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148

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00:00:00.000 Today, we're going to contend with some TikTokers who seem to think that they know better than the free market, including, by the way, a contender for Wisconsin governor. 0.99
00:00:07.000 And the smoothest brain of them all, Andrew Tate, is writing bizarre haikus, poetry, strange statements from his prison cell, posting it to X. 0.99
00:00:16.000 And we are perusing his latest works of genius right here on the Ben Shapiro show. 0.97
00:00:20.000 There's a bipartisan anti capitalism idiocy that has washed over our country. 0.69
00:00:24.000 It is led on the left by people like Francesca Hong. 0.98
00:00:26.000 Francesca Hong is, of course, the Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate. 1.00
00:00:31.000 Who is a part time bartender, part time chef, and full time moron. 0.99
00:00:35.000 And she is, you know, unlikely to become Wisconsin governor, but she could. 1.00
00:00:39.000 She's blaming capitalism for global warming as opposed to, you know, China, which is the number one polluter on planet Earth by far. 1.00
00:00:47.000 Global warming is an evil product of capitalism.
00:00:50.000 It's wrapped up in buzzwords like technological advancement, market competitiveness, or my favorite, fiscal responsibility.
00:01:02.000 What we've learned is that the climate crisis is America's. 0.78
00:01:05.000 Steadfast celebration of white supremacy.
00:01:08.000 It is a testament to the same values that motivated Jim Crow, enslavement, redlining, settler colonialism, and the violent theft of indigenous lands and lives. 0.98
00:01:21.000 So she's a total psychotic, and that's the person Democrats are going to choose to run for governor in Wisconsin. 0.79
00:01:27.000 I mean, that's basically every buzzword that you could possibly come up with off the buzzword tree. 1.00
00:01:31.000 I mean, she's just running around like a crazy person, picking every buzzword off that tree. 0.87
00:01:35.000 Settler colonialism, white supremacy, racism, global warming, climate change. 0.97
00:01:40.000 And what is she standing against?
00:01:41.000 She's standing against market competitiveness and fiscal responsibility. 1.00
00:01:45.000 Yeah, probably capitalism is the problem, not you nut jobs. 0.99
00:01:48.000 And on the TikToks, this of course is, is hot talk on the TikToks.
00:01:52.000 All the youngsters who've had their brains addled at this point.
00:01:55.000 Here's one TikToker saying that capitalism stifles innovation, she said into a microphone sold by a company.
00:02:02.000 So one of the biggest defenses of capitalism I hear is that capitalism generates ingenuity. 0.98
00:02:07.000 This is a dumb take.
00:02:08.000 Inventions are not based solely on a monetary incentive. 0.97
00:02:11.000 I think capitalism actually slows ingenuity.
00:02:14.000 So, check this out.
00:02:16.000 Even if we didn't have money, we still have a need for transportation, food, shelter, medicine, energy.
00:02:23.000 But under capitalism, these inventions are based around maximizing profit and not maximizing things like efficiency, safety, convenience.
00:02:32.000 Right now, the priority is money.
00:02:35.000 So, if it would make someone more money to stall progress or delay innovation, that can happen under a capitalist system too.
00:02:42.000 And it does.
00:02:43.000 We have been actively blocked from inventing solutions to climate change.
00:02:47.000 And most of the inventions we have right now are actively worse under capitalism.
00:02:53.000 But you say that it's not driven by money.
00:02:54.000 So go invent it right now, lady.
00:02:56.000 You could do it.
00:02:57.000 It's all you.
00:02:58.000 It's all you.
00:02:59.000 She says, money shouldn't be the great driving factor behind innovation.
00:03:03.000 So we've been actively blocked from stopping climate change through our inventions.
00:03:06.000 You know, you could put down the TikToks and you could go invent a device that ends climate change, but I don't see you doing that right now.
00:03:12.000 Do I?
00:03:13.000 I love when people are like, you know, innovation.
00:03:15.000 You don't need capitalism for innovation.
00:03:17.000 I mean, sure, pretty much all human innovation happened after the year 1800, just comparatively speaking.
00:03:23.000 And people lived pretty horrible lives up until about 1800 in a lot of ways. 0.92
00:03:27.000 But, you know, technologically speaking, what you really need is some lady yelling at you on TikTok, and that will create innovation. 0.97
00:03:33.000 But here's the problem it's bleeding over. 1.00
00:03:35.000 That lady, by the way, has half a million followers on TikTok who praise her for her political takes in the comments.
00:03:40.000 So this is not just a Miranda we're picking off of TikTok.
00:03:43.000 And unfortunately, this sort of Luddite.
00:03:46.000 Simplicity has bled over to the right as well.
00:03:49.000 It stands behind a lot of the so called common good conservatism.
00:03:52.000 This argument that the only way, the only way for us to truly feed our souls is for us to take capitalism and shove it in the wood chipper.
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00:05:14.000 Okay, well, it has become a daily feature of our show that we must check in with the imprisoned hero, Andrew Tate.
00:05:25.000 Andrew Tate.
00:05:27.000 Of course, he is being held in prison because he is alleged to have been a sex trafficker and child pornographer, among other things.
00:05:34.000 And he is tweeting from jail.
00:05:38.000 And his wisdom guides all of us, I think.
00:05:40.000 I think it's fair to say.
00:05:42.000 So let me read you his latest tweets, just so you can feel a little strength for the day.
00:05:45.000 You know, a little pick me up The adult world is a bloody place which annihilates the weak.
00:05:50.000 But if you love war more than you love winning or losing, you'll have a great time.
00:05:54.000 You cannot always win.
00:05:56.000 You will not always lose.
00:05:57.000 But if you simply love to fight for fighting's sake, life is a great time.
00:06:00.000 Is one serious adventure.
00:06:02.000 Wow.
00:06:05.000 Deep thoughts by Jack Handy over here.
00:06:06.000 You know, the real irony is that when pirates were searching for buried treasure, the real treasure was the memories they were creating.
00:06:18.000 These are the important things to remember.
00:06:22.000 Andrew Tate also tweeted out from his jail cell The corpse of your previous self is the necessary stepping stone to higher callings.
00:06:32.000 Are we being reincarnated?
00:06:33.000 Are you actually dead?
00:06:34.000 Is this a metaphor?
00:06:35.000 I assume this is a metaphor.
00:06:38.000 Well, I don't know, man.
00:06:39.000 Too much, too many deep statements there from Andrew Tate.
00:06:43.000 But I just thought that now you know things you didn't know before.
00:06:47.000 Do you feel inspired? 0.98
00:06:50.000 Do you feel so inspired that you would intervene with a Romanian court to get him freed from his criminal situation so he could tour the United States like a schmuck? 0.99
00:06:57.000 Are you one of those people? 0.99
00:06:58.000 Well, now you know why.
00:06:59.000 Because without the kind of wisdom bestowed upon all of us by Andrew Tate, how much poorer our life would actually be, our lives.
00:07:06.000 It would just be so sad. 1.00
00:07:08.000 Meanwhile, speaking of wisdom, the WNBA continues along the lines of its own stupidity. 1.00
00:07:16.000 Hilariously, there's a WNBA coach who the other night wore a trans kids matter shirt or some such nonsense. 0.99
00:07:22.000 Well, it turns out that in the recent past, she was complaining there are too many male NBA coaches.
00:07:27.000 So
00:07:29.000 does sex exist or does it not?
00:07:32.000 How do you know they're male?
00:07:34.000 I mean, are there too many male NBA players? 0.99
00:07:38.000 Should there be a female NBA player? 0.99
00:07:40.000 These are all open questions to this coach in the WNBA.
00:07:45.000 What happened was, and again, history repeats itself.
00:07:48.000 When it happened in Title IX in 1972, we had more women coaching college basketball before Title IX, after Title IX, when it became more important and more investment that was code for. 1.00
00:08:00.000 And you got paid. 0.99
00:08:01.000 It's a man's job. 1.00
00:08:02.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:08:02.000 Got paid. 0.99
00:08:03.000 Became a man's job. 1.00
00:08:04.000 And so to this day, we still don't have more women coaching in college basketball than we do men. 0.99
00:08:08.000 Two years ago, we lost seven WNBA coaches, right? 0.99
00:08:12.000 They got fired because all of a sudden, this money became more, the WNBA blew up valuations of franchises, right?
00:08:20.000 In comes the NBA folks again, who had cast us aside for many years.
00:08:25.000 In they come again, right?
00:08:27.000 Now they want their franchises back and that sort of thing.
00:08:30.000 It's more important again.
00:08:32.000 And then we have more men.
00:08:36.000 This is the Minnesota Lynx coach, Cheryl Reeve.
00:08:38.000 This is the Protect Trans Kids t shirt lady. 0.99
00:08:41.000 So she's very upset that men are in coaching because that's her profession. 0.89
00:08:45.000 But she wanted men in playing, which is not her profession.
00:08:49.000 Oh, the irony.
00:08:50.000 It's too rich. 1.00
00:08:51.000 But don't worry, the politics of the WNBA continue to be stupid through and through. 1.00
00:08:55.000 Angel Reese, who is sourced, she's kind of like the WWE heel to Caitlyn Clark. 1.00
00:09:06.000 Well, she was out there. 1.00
00:09:08.000 She now has some sort of advertising deal with Barbie, I guess.
00:09:11.000 And she says that she never played with dolls because they didn't look like her when she was a child.
00:09:17.000 What were some of the dolls you played with when you were little?
00:09:20.000 Honestly, I didn't have a lot of dolls because I didn't have dolls that really looked like me much.
00:09:24.000 And that's why I kind of really wanted to make sure this was super intentional because.
00:09:28.000 Now that they have a doll that looks like you and nails and hair, but also you can be a killer on the court as well.
00:09:36.000 So that was part of the report for me when getting the doll.
00:09:41.000 Why didn't she have a doll that looked like her when she was growing up?
00:09:43.000 I mean, how old is Angel Reese?
00:09:45.000 Is she 80?
00:09:46.000 What are we talking about right now? 0.80
00:09:47.000 Angel Reese is 24 years old, which means that she was born in 2002. 0.99
00:09:57.000 I'm pretty sure there were black Barbies in 2008. 0.82
00:10:01.000 I'm pretty sure. 0.93
00:10:02.000 In fact, there was a black president in 2008. 0.98
00:10:04.000 So, yeah, man, I'm the myth making, the victimhood. 0.66
00:10:09.000 It just never stops.
00:10:10.000 It just never stops. 0.50
00:10:11.000 The first black Barbie, by the way, is 1980, four years before I was born.
00:10:14.000 And I'm old by Angel Reese standards.
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