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00:00:46.000 Alrighty, folks, so it came off of Yom Kippur last night to find out that there had been another terror attack against Jews, this time in Manchester, England.

00:00:54.000 So to understand why this is happening, first you have to understand the demographics of Manchester.

00:00:59.000 Manchester in the UK has a fairly large Jewish community.

00:01:02.000 Something like 22% of the entire population of Manchester is Muslim.

00:01:07.000 This is very similar to London.

00:01:09.000 15% of the entire population of London is Muslim.

00:01:12.000 Why does this matter?

00:01:13.000 Well, because if there is a shooting or stabbing attack at a synagogue in London or in Manchester, it's pretty clear where that is going to come from.

00:01:19.000 And lo and behold, we now find that the suspect's name is, I kid you not, Jihad.

00:01:25.000 That is the person's first name is Jihad, which, again, I will say is a little on the nose.

00:01:31.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, two people were killed and several injured in a ramming and stabbing attack outside a British synagogue, and what police described as a terrorist incident during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, the attacker drove a car into a group of people in the northern English city of Manchester just after 9 30 a.m. local time on Thursday before getting out and stabbing a member of the public.

00:01:50.000 Security guards and worshippers stopped the man who is wearing what looked like explosive devices from entering the temple.

00:01:55.000 Within minutes, armed officers arrived and shot the suspect dead.

00:01:58.000 Four other people suffered serious injuries, according to the police.

00:02:02.000 Now again, none of this is surprising.

00:02:04.000 None of this is surprising.

00:02:06.000 It's not surprising because Britain has decided to import gigantic populations of people who are extraordinarily warm toward anti-Jew terrorism and toward terrorism in general.

00:02:15.000 And that requires some explication.

00:02:17.000 Why exactly is that happening?

00:02:19.000 Number one, why do all these people have a view of the world that ends in violence?

00:02:24.000 And number two, why has the West decided en masse to import these people and then march along with those people, join those people?

00:02:32.000 Because it wasn't just that there was a terrorist attack in Manchester yesterday.

00:02:36.000 It was accompanied by a massive protest in Manchester, literally a couple of hours later, in solidarity with the Palestinians.

00:02:44.000 There's also a giant protest in London.

00:02:47.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, a woman attending a pro-Palestine protest on the day of the horrific knife attack outside a synagogue has said she quote, doesn't give up about the Jewish community.

00:02:57.000 Hundreds of activists have gathered outside the gates of Downing Street in Westminster as part of a protest against the detention of members of the global Sumud Flotilla, which included Greta Thunberg. 0.72

00:03:06.000 This is this idiot flotilla where a bunch of left-wing ideologues decided to float their boats toward Gaza just to get arrested by the IDF and then presumably sent in the back of an LL plane next to the bathrooms back to Europe. 0.76

00:03:18.000 The march taking place just hours after two people were killed in a barbaric knife attack outside Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, has been criticized for its poor timing and described as disgraceful and disrespectful behavior. 0.99

00:03:27.000 Well, apparently it's only the disrespect that is upsetting to many members of the public over in Britain.

00:03:33.000 It is not the fact that they are marching in solidarity with, you know, Hamas, because it turns out that that flotilla was in fact financially associated with groups that do business with Hamas.

00:03:41.000 Fiona Smith, 42, was among those taking part in the demonstration during which she was heard saying, I don't give a bleep about the Jewish community right now.

00:03:48.000 I thought about it.

00:03:49.000 I'm sorry about what happened, but the whole story and why we're here is because of what happened yesterday with the flotilla.

00:03:54.000 Now I just want to note something.

00:03:56.000 Jihad, the guy who actually committed the terrorist attack, and Fiona, 42.

00:04:01.000 Fiona does not sound like a radical Muslim, Fiona sounds like a normal leftist millennial. 1.00

00:04:08.000 They are on the same page.

00:04:10.000 And so this becomes a question: why are they on the same page?

00:04:13.000 And the reason that they are on the same page is because they are part of the same movement.

00:04:17.000 They're part of the same broad movement.

00:04:19.000 I talk about this in my book Lions and Scavengers at length.

00:04:22.000 This is basically what the entire book is about.

00:04:25.000 Here's what I wrote in the book.

00:04:26.000 Okay, and again, I wrote this starting two years ago.

00:04:28.000 Quote: The scavengers Have gathered here in the beating heart of what was once the center of Western civilization to bay for more blood and to scream at a West which insists that defense against terror is the first right of all men.

00:04:38.000 The spirit of the scavenger is the spirit of envy.

00:04:41.000 That spirit animates those who destroy successful men and civilizations.

00:04:44.000 The scavenger is driven by a burning impulse, the impulse to escape his own failures and shortcomings by blaming others.

00:04:50.000 The scavenger believes that his own failure is the fault of the stars of the fates, but mostly of the lion.

00:04:55.000 The scavenger is a creature of frustration, alienation, and vengeance.

00:04:58.000 If the lions fail their children, their own children join the scavengers.

00:05:03.000 Unmoored from a civilization their parents refuse to defend, they become rabid and go in search of revenge on those who left them adrift.

00:05:09.000 They lead a rebellion of privilege, bred into unarned prosperity, but taught ignorance and dependency.

00:05:14.000 They look close at hand for monsters to destroy.

00:05:16.000 They become the hellish mutation of a spend culture. 1.00

00:05:18.000 The children of lions can become scavengers.

00:05:21.000 And what we are watching here is precisely that. 0.60

00:05:24.000 We are watching the children of lions, British millennials marching alongside people who are incredibly sympathetic to mass terrorism against Jews.

00:05:34.000 And this has been a long time in coming in Europe.

00:05:36.000 It goes all the way back to the days of the nihilist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who suggested that the West should join in on its own cultural suicide.

00:05:45.000 He literally wrote, quote, it's our turn to tread the path step by step, which leads down to native level.

00:05:50.000 But to become natives altogether, our soil must be occupied by a formerly colonized people, and we must starve of hunger. 1.00

00:05:56.000 And that is something that he wrote back during the 1960s.

00:06:01.000 And it is not a shock that many of the people who march in solidarity with terrorism are again some of the richest people in the history of Western civilization.

00:06:10.000 As I write in the book, scavengers are plentiful among those for whom life is too easy.

00:06:14.000 Is one of the great ironies of history that revolutionaries are typically drawn not from the ranks of the abject poor, but the idle bourgeois. 0.94

00:06:20.000 The bored are those who need not struggle for their daily bread, who are not dedicated to the demands of family, who are disengaged from the larger community.

00:06:27.000 They seek a feeling of meaning that can be found in either building or tearing down, and finding themselves incapable of building, they choose the latter option.

00:06:34.000 University students are all too often the seabed for revolution for precisely this reason.

00:06:38.000 They have no families to support, they are often supported by their parents, and they have intellectual pretensions of their own.

00:06:43.000 The frisson of blood often excites the scavengers.

00:06:46.000 In the name of pseudo justice, the scavenger becomes a hero to the group by expressing his willingness to do violence.

00:06:51.000 That is what we are watching in the West.

00:06:54.000 That is what we are watching.

00:06:56.000 Now, when Charlie Kirk was shot, I talked about permission structures for violence.

00:07:00.000 I talked about the kinds of structures that lead people to do violence and the people who actually foment those ideologies.

00:07:08.000 Some ideologies are worse than other ideologies.

00:07:11.000 Not all ideologies are the same.

00:07:13.000 Radical Islam is one of those ideologies that is just worse than other ideologies. 1.00

00:07:17.000 Some ideologies are toxic and breed violence.

00:07:20.000 And as I mentioned, again, when I was talking about the ideology that led to the shooting of Charlie, these ideologies share three basic underpinnings.

00:07:28.000 First, a conspiratorial view of the universe, in which some shadowy cabal of powerful people are responsible for your shortcomings and your unhappiness, and in which the arguments they make are not arguments at all, they're just a facade for power.

00:07:41.000 These are people who believe that the system, the system is rigged and bad, and a conspiracy is at the root of that system.

00:07:48.000 Second, a belief that your specific group is targeted for destruction by that system run by that shadowy cabal.

00:07:55.000 And that leads to the third belief, which is that violence is a form of self-defense.

00:07:59.000 So for radical Muslims, that translates as my civilization's failures, my own failures are not my failures or my civilization's failures.

00:08:07.000 They're a result of imperialism or colonialism or the nefarious Jew, and their success is a genocidal threat to me. 1.00

00:08:14.000 But it's not enough for radical Muslims to have a terrible ideological system. 0.95

00:08:18.000 There have to be permission structures from major players.

00:08:22.000 And in Britain, there are.

00:08:23.000 There are permission structures on the left in Britain.

00:08:26.000 And broadly speaking, permission structures come from fellow travelers, people who broadly agree that all the systems condemned by these radical ideologues are indeed bad and need to be torn down, that Western systems are bad and flawed and conspiratorial.

00:08:39.000 Even if they think all that for a different reason, they still believe that the system and its conspiracy-laden coterie of elites must be torn to the ground.

00:08:47.000 And there are lots of people in the West who give this sort of nonsense credence, because it allows them to join in the attack on the conspiratorial system.

00:08:54.000 You know, the people who spend every day talking about a non existent genocide in Gaza, or who attribute Israel's success To a conspiracy of evil Jews in the United States who manipulate the system in order to achieve foreign aid and then cover for their genocidal sex rings, all while depriving American citizens of health care and housing. 0.84

00:09:11.000 Those same people have little or nothing to say about radical Islam because, again, they are allied with radical Islam in order to take down the ally with anybody. 0.68

00:09:19.000 It doesn't matter.

00:09:20.000 They'll ignore the sins of their fellow travelers because what matters more is taking down the conspiratorial system.

00:09:27.000 And this is why you are seeing an eruption of violence.

00:09:29.000 That eruption of violence is not relegated across the water.

00:09:33.000 That outbreak of violence has happened in the United States.

00:09:37.000 There was an attack on two members of the Israeli embassy just a few months ago in Washington, D.C. Two people were shot to death by a man shouting free Palestine.

00:09:45.000 There's a woman who's burned to death in Colorado by a man shouting free Palestine.

00:09:50.000 Okay, this is not some sort of gigantic shock.

00:09:53.000 It is happening, and it is happening because of the permission structures for violence.

00:09:56.000 It is happening because some ideologies are worse than other ideologies.

00:10:00.000 Members of these bad ideologies have been imported by fellow travelers and then massaged by fellow travelers.

00:10:06.000 That is why this is becoming more common.

00:10:08.000 No, who is surprised?

00:10:09.000 Seriously, who was surprised?

00:10:11.000 Question.

00:10:12.000 I was not surprised.

00:10:14.000 I'm not sure that there's anybody who went to synagogue on Yom Kippur, who emerged after Yom Kippur and went on their phone and saw what had happened and was surprised.

00:10:22.000 Because every synagogue on planet Earth right now has extra security.

00:10:27.000 All of them.

00:10:29.000 Okay, that is not happening because of delusion that it's happening because of additional threat.

00:10:33.000 And of course, it isn't relegated to just synagogues. 0.69

00:10:36.000 There are churches that are being targeted by people of radical ideologies like radical Islam or radical LGBTQ plus ideology.

00:10:44.000 Again, scavengers who are seeking to tear down the system that also have to have extra security.

00:10:49.000 And the battle between lions and scavengers, the scavengers are coalition of people who don't get along with each other on anything else except for these things are bad.

00:10:57.000 The systems have to be torn down.

00:10:59.000 And so spare me when I hear the British government making expressions of sympathy.

00:11:04.000 The British government has made this possible.

00:11:07.000 The British government is at least morally responsible for this sort of stuff.

00:11:12.000 Because not only are they massaging it, they're bolstering it, they're inflating it.

00:11:16.000 Okay, in just a few minutes, we're going to get into why is all of this happening.

00:11:19.000 Why has the West taken in so many people who truly hate the West, hate Jews and all the rest, and we'll get to the government.

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00:13:33.000 Keir Starmer, the awful Prime Minister of the UK, who just five minutes ago was saying that Palestinians should be given a state after the worst terror assault on Jews since World War II.

00:13:44.000 This guy was out there saying they're going to do everything they can to keep our Jewish community safe.

00:13:47.000 Apparently, that does not include stopping the importation of gigantic numbers of people who hate Western civilization and Jews and then massaging all of their viewpoints.

00:13:57.000 I mean, literally, literally Keir Starmer's labor party, three days ago voted to call what's going on in Gaza a genocide, which is a lie. 0.96

00:14:05.000 It is a full-scale, ridiculous lie.

00:14:08.000 There is no definition of genocide by which what's going on in Gaza is genocide, but that lie gets done what needs to get done, which is it feeds the conspiratorial ideology. 0.94

00:14:17.000 It feeds that terrible ideology of conspiracy that leads to murder.

00:14:22.000 Here's Kirstarmer lying.

00:14:25.000 The attack hit Master this morning is absolutely shocking.

00:14:29.000 and all of our thoughts with those affected.

00:14:32.000 I'm on my way back to London.

00:14:33.000 When I arrive, I will chair an emergency COBRA meeting I'm already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country, and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe. 0.83

00:14:47.000 You know, they'll do everything except for, you know, expel the gigantic number of foreigners in Britain who hate Jews and hate Britain. 0.99

00:14:54.000 That they'll continue. 0.97

00:14:56.000 That they'll they're not going to touch that.

00:14:58.000 By the way, notice in that statement, there's not a mention of Jews.

00:15:01.000 His heart's go out, his heart goes out to everybody who was injured.

00:15:04.000 Everybody, I mean, everybody.

00:15:06.000 It was a specifically anti-Jewish attack in Manchester.

00:15:08.000 That's what it was.

00:15:10.000 But don't worry, he has a vague statement for that.

00:15:12.000 So does the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who himself has expressed support for radical Islam.

00:15:17.000 Quote, I'm horrified by the violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester.

00:15:20.000 I've been in contact with the mayor of Great Manchester and the home secretary, and would like to reassure Londoners that the Met Police are stepping up patrols in Jewish communities and synagogues across London.

00:15:29.000 My thoughts are with those affected on the Holiest Day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.

00:15:33.000 London stands ready to help in any way we can, except for, you know, stopping the tacit and open support for people who love terrorism.

00:15:40.000 That they're not going to do.

00:15:42.000 The British home secretary is a person named Shabana Mahmoud.

00:15:46.000 She's the person who is charged.

00:15:47.000 She's in charge of the home secretary of immigration policy.

00:15:50.000 She literally marched with the Palestine Solidarity campaign.

00:15:55.000 Britain has been overtaken by the scavengers.

00:15:58.000 And they've imported a huge number of people who are totally fine with and support, in fact, terrorism. 0.87

00:16:05.000 A poll just back in April of 2024, conducted in the UK, revealed that British Muslims, 46% of them expressed their backing for Hamas.

00:16:17.000 Not for the Palestinians, for Hamas, like the actual terror group, 46%.

00:16:23.000 Also, only 25% of UK Muslims believed that Hamas terrorists committed murder and during the October 7th attacks in Israel, which means truly three-quarters of them are quasi supporters of Hamas.

00:16:33.000 Because if you don't believe that Hamas committed murder and during October 7th, that's like people who say that Al-Qaeda didn't do 9-11. 0.51

00:16:42.000 There's a reason for that.

00:16:44.000 Okay, part of this is just Western blindness.

00:16:46.000 Okay, not all of it is full fellow traveling. 1.00

00:16:48.000 Some of it is just Western stupidity. 1.00

00:16:50.000 Suicidal empathy, as Godzad says. 1.00

00:16:53.000 An unwillingness to understand other cultures.

00:16:55.000 Not every culture works in the same way the West works.

00:16:58.000 Some cultures are just worse. 0.99

00:17:00.000 Radical Islam is a worse culture. 1.00

00:17:02.000 It is an awful, terrible, evil culture. 1.00

00:17:04.000 It is a bad culture. 1.00

00:17:05.000 Not all of Islam, radical Islam. 0.98

00:17:08.000 Unfortunately, there are a lot of radical Muslims on planet Earth. 0.71

00:17:11.000 Leland Vitter, formerly of Fox News, sat down with the free press and explained an experience he had interviewing a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber. 0.90

00:17:18.000 Listen to this.

00:17:20.000 And Wafa had been a woman in the West Bank, a woman in Gaza, she had pulled a pot of boiling water over herself when she was like five or six years old.

00:17:30.000 The Israelis treat most of the people out of Gaza who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries.

00:17:37.000 She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four or five years in Israel, but has a pass to get in and out of Israel.

00:17:44.000 Which very few people in Gaza did at the time.

00:17:46.000 So she gets recruited to be a suicide bomber.

00:17:49.000 This is in the second intifada, so mid-2000s.

00:17:54.000 And there's the video of her coming to the checkpoint to get Into Israel wearing her suicide vest.

00:18:02.000 And she'd been given three target options by the Alaska Martyrs Brigade, a bus, a cafe, or the hospital that had treated her and saved her life.

00:18:12.000 She chose the hospital that had treated her and saved her life.

00:18:16.000 She gets to the checkpoint.

00:18:18.000 They discover that she has a bomb or they think she does.

00:18:21.000 She tries to detonate it. 0.79

00:18:23.000 It doesn't go off.

00:18:24.000 She gets thrown in jail.

00:18:25.000 Again, the Israelis treat her. 0.99

00:18:27.000 They help her with her burns.

00:18:29.000 They educate her.

00:18:29.000 They give her a college degree.

00:18:31.000 And now in the Glodschlate deal, she goes back to Gaza. 0.87

00:18:34.000 So I go to Gaza to interview her, thinking this is going to be a redemption story.

00:18:37.000 It was before Christmas, right?

00:18:38.000 That she is going to say Perfect Christmas story.

00:18:41.000 I am going to be the one to try and forge peace, and I believe in peace, and I've seen that the Israelis are not evil, that I don't want to kill them anymore.

00:18:49.000 Fine.

00:18:50.000 So I get into Gaza and I bring with me an iPad that has the video of her trying to blow herself up. 0.98

00:18:55.000 So we're sitting across from each other like this.

00:18:57.000 She's wearing a hijab in a very junky Gazan apartment. 1.00

00:19:04.000 It is an awful place in every sense of the word.

00:19:08.000 And I show her the video.

00:19:12.000 And I said, What are you thinking?

00:19:14.000 Watching this.

00:19:14.000 She goes, Oh, oh, oh, has all this reaction.

00:19:18.000 And she goes, Oh, she goes, I'm thinking I almost tasted paradise.

00:19:25.000 Okay.

00:19:28.000 Would you do it again?

00:19:31.000 Absolutely in a minute.

00:19:33.000 This is my calling in life.

00:19:36.000 So, as you can see, that is a very different ideology from the kind of ideology that Americans or Europeans have.

00:19:42.000 But either we are blind to it or we are perfectly willing, at least in large part in the West, to humor this idea and import it and import it.

00:19:49.000 These are people who live within our borders.

00:19:51.000 We brought them in.

00:19:52.000 Here is San Francisco State Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, literally this week, saying at a pro-Palestine conference in the United States that there is a very rich debate inside the Palestinian movement over hijacking planes.

00:20:06.000 Historically, until now, Palestinians have no agreement over hijacking planes.

00:20:12.000 Nobody until now, since 68 until now, there is no agreement whether extended operations are okay or not.

00:20:19.000 Nobody, not until now, there is a big debate in the Palestinian movement, right?

00:20:23.000 In very rich debate, whether it is okay or it's not okay.

00:20:27.000 So it's like why we're having debates about that too.

00:20:31.000 It's a very different kind of debate in the and the in the eyes of the of the of the fascists.

00:20:39.000 In the eyes of the fascists, the fascists be you and me, people who don't like hijacking of planes.

00:20:43.000 It's a very, very different debate.

00:20:45.000 Okay, we imported this, and then the people that we import try to tear down our civilization. 0.88

00:20:51.000 Representative Ilhan Omar, who is warm rhetorically to pretty much all radical Islam.

00:20:58.000 There is not a question why she says that we should abolish ice.

00:21:01.000 This is not a shock.

00:21:03.000 This is not a surprise.

00:21:05.000 Here was Ilhan Omar, not very long ago, like in the last 48 hours talking about abolishing ice.

00:21:12.000 Is ice too entrenched to even be abolished at this point?

00:21:16.000 I mean, nothing is so entrenched to be abolished.

00:21:19.000 Um we just need uh the the will of the people and the will of Congress.

00:21:25.000 Wow.

00:21:25.000 I mean, so abolishing ice from people who are imported to the country from some of the worst parts of planet Earth, but we need to abolish ice because we have to make sure there are no immigration standards.

00:21:34.000 I can't, I can't imagine what that's about.

00:21:36.000 It seems like a giant shock.

00:21:38.000 Or take, for example, Hassan Piker, the New York Times beloved Hassan Piker, who himself has talked over and over and over again about the violence that he wishes to be done to his political enemies.

00:21:48.000 Now he's trying to walk that back sort of, kind of, by randomly declaring that what he's talking about is structural violence.

00:21:54.000 Here he was being intellectually pants by Ross Delphette over at the New York Times.

00:22:00.000 All politics in my worldview revolves around the distribution of resources and the distribution of power.

00:22:07.000 And a big part of that component is, of course, violence as well.

00:22:10.000 Revolutionary violence, for example.

00:22:13.000 And it just simply means like who gets to do the violence and who gets to be on the receiving end of that violence that we have normalized.

00:22:21.000 Because the systems that we exist under are inherently violent.

00:22:24.000 political systems are.

00:22:26.000 It's just more so about redirecting that.

00:22:31.000 And I know violence is such a scary concept in this, when we're discussing in this way, but we're talking about it in an academic context.

00:22:39.000 But, But basically, the the idea is that instead of having a system that currently benefits the very few, uh, I I want a system that benefits as many people as possible that has more, like I said, egalitarian outcomes.

00:22:59.000 Ah, permission structures for revolutionary violence, for revolutionary violence.

00:23:03.000 Don't worry, he's just talking about structural, he's talking about intellectually.

00:23:06.000 Well, every member of the scavenger coterie will say that it's intellectual right up until the point it's not intellectual anymore.

00:23:13.000 And when you're talking about spewing people's intestines across stages, which is the kind of stuff that Assan Piker has talked about, I don't believe you.

00:23:21.000 This is the permission structure for violence, and it has real victims, real actual victims.

00:23:25.000 But we are a West that is so we are so in our own heads. 0.99

00:23:31.000 We are we are so weak and pathetic that we are willing to go to other countries to talk about how weak and pathetic we are. 1.00

00:23:40.000 Show the neck. 0.98

00:23:42.000 I mean, uh again, the the thing that is happening right now in the West, aside from the importation of what I call the barbarians in Lions and Scavengers, is the fellow travelers who are walking with them, who like what they are doing, who like where they are directing their violence, who share the same general conspiracy theory, even if they don't share the exact pathway toward that conspiracy theory. 0.97

00:24:03.000 The people who are willing to redirect violence toward that supposed conspiracy of power, and the fools, the fools who are perfectly willing to go abroad ripping into the values of the West for money. 0.84

00:24:17.000 Already coming up, our bravest Americans, you know, the comedians, the ones who speak truth to power. 0.99

00:24:22.000 They went to Riyadh, where they did not speak any truth to power. 0.98

00:24:25.000 They did rip on the United States, however, because they are cowards. 0.97

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00:26:32.000 For at this point, literally years, we've been hearing about the power and magic of the comedians, right?

00:26:37.000 They're the comedians who are not just telling jokes.

00:26:39.000 And they're not just telling, they are speaking truth to power.

00:26:42.000 And they're going for the clapter.

00:26:43.000 They're the ones who will say the things no one else will say.

00:26:47.000 They're the ones who are breaking open the Overton window.

00:26:50.000 They're the ones who are really saying the unsayable.

00:26:53.000 And traditionally, comedians have done that.

00:26:56.000 Traditionally, comedians violate taboos because when you violate a taboo, it's just inherently funny.

00:27:00.000 Or at least transgressivism can be funny because it shocks your sensibilities.

00:27:04.000 doesn't have to be funny, but it shocks your sensibilities, and the natural reaction when someone does something that is transgressive is to laugh.

00:27:10.000 Okay, so comedians have always had this sort of role in society.

00:27:14.000 And sometimes that role can be properly directed because the things they're attacking are worthwhile.

00:27:18.000 But sometimes it turns it turns out that the transgressivism of these comedians is really just about the clicks.

00:27:24.000 It's really just about faux transgressivism. 0.91

00:27:27.000 Because when it comes down to it, they are perfectly willing to take money from some of the world's most repressive human beings, and then crap on America in the process.

00:27:37.000 And here, I mention Dave Chappelle.

00:27:40.000 So Dave Chappelle, along with Bill Burr, along with Andrew Schultz, and a bunch of other top brand, top shelf American comedians, went over to Riyadh for the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

00:27:52.000 Now, if that sounds like an Orwellian contradiction in terms, the Riyadh comedy festival sounds sort of like the North Korean dance festival, then that's because it is. 0.88

00:28:01.000 It's ridiculous.

00:28:02.000 What Riyadh is attempting to do right now, what Mohammed bin Salman is attempting to do is create tourist traps in Saudi Arabia, because effectively Saudi has no economy other than oil, right?

00:28:14.000 That is still the massive driver of its economy.

00:28:16.000 He is trying to diversify, he's trying to get into tech, he's trying to get into travel and tourism, all of which is fine and dandy.

00:28:23.000 But let's be very clear.

00:28:24.000 Saudi Arabia is an unbelievably repressive country.

00:28:26.000 It remains today an unbelievably repressive country, except for kind of certain touristy areas that are being opened to Westerners so they can come and spend their money.

00:28:34.000 you So a bunch of comedians who are vol they're constantly violating the taboo.

00:28:40.000 They are the ones who are so brave.

00:28:41.000 They're so brave when there are no consequences to their bravery, by the way.

00:28:45.000 Very, very brave when when the consequence to their bravery is claptor and money in the United States.

00:28:50.000 Not so brave when they go over to Saudi Arabia and abide by every single rule set by the Saudi government for millions of dollars.

00:28:56.000 So Dave Chappelle, a again, a faux, a faux brave person.

00:29:05.000 He goes to Saudi Arabia and he says, right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, you'll get canceled.

00:29:10.000 I don't know if that's true, but I'm gonna find out.

00:29:13.000 Wow, look at the bravery of that man.

00:29:15.000 He's going over to Saudi Arabia to rip on Charlie Kirk.

00:29:19.000 What to make jokes about Charlie Kirk.

00:29:21.000 Look at that bravery.

00:29:22.000 Look at that bravery.

00:29:23.000 Perfectly happy to take the money from the Islamic dictatorship. 0.99

00:29:30.000 Perfectly happy to take that cash.

00:29:32.000 And rip on Charlie Kirk in the process.

00:29:34.000 Like what a brave man.

00:29:35.000 What a truly brave man.

00:29:38.000 According to the New York Times, Chappelle was performing in Riyadh at the same time as a divisive free speech debate was rolling the United States.

00:29:45.000 Chappelle has talked frequently about being canceled after an uproar caused by his jokes mocking trans people.

00:29:49.000 But in Riyadh, he took aim at the recent suspension of Mr. Kimmel.

00:29:53.000 Like other comedians at the event who said they felt muzzled by American political correctness, Mr. Chappelle reveled in making uncouth jokes in Saudi Arabia. 0.90

00:30:00.000 Yet he overlooked an eight-year crackdown that has led to many of the country's writers, business people, activist clerics, and social media influencers being arrested.

00:30:09.000 So he goes there to rip on the United States because Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from the air for five minutes.

00:30:18.000 That's where he's putting his ire.

00:30:20.000 What a brave person.

00:30:21.000 What a brave person. 0.98

00:30:22.000 And speaking of brave people, Bill Burr, who's out there saying, free Luigi, kill the rich.

00:30:28.000 He's a rich comedian, Bill Burr. 0.99

00:30:31.000 Bill Burr, who believes that the systems of the United States are deeply corrupt, so corrupt that he is a man speaking truth to power when he appears on every late night television shows to the hoots and hollers of a bunch of morons in Manhattan. 0.95

00:30:41.000 He went over to Riyadh to pick up a giant check. 0.95

00:30:43.000 And then he talked about how he found out that over in Riyadh, you know, it's people just like us because there's a Starbucks over there.

00:30:51.000 Great job, Bill.

00:30:53.000 You really are a warrior for truth.

00:30:55.000 What a brave man is Bill Burr.

00:30:58.000 Truly, truly an incredible person.

00:31:00.000 Here he was.

00:31:01.000 And like my whole idea of Saudi Arabia is what I've seen on the news.

00:31:07.000 I've literally think I'm gonna land, you know, and everybody's gonna be screaming, death to America! 0.96

00:31:13.000 And they're gonna have like machetes and want to like chop my head off, right? 0.98

00:31:16.000 Because this is what I've been fed about that part of the world, right?

00:31:20.000 When they first went to set it up over there, the rules on what they had about what you could say and what you couldn't say in Saudi Arabia, the people around the festivals will be like, all right, well, man, that's game set match.

00:31:31.000 If this is like all you can talk about, and you want some good comedians, like this isn't gonna work.

00:31:38.000 And then to their credit, they said, all right, what do we got to do?

00:31:41.000 And they just negotiated it all the way down to like you can talk about anything, you know, other than a couple things, which was basically, you know, you know, religion, don't make fun of the royals.

00:31:53.000 And other than that, it was all everything was like open.

00:31:59.000 The Royals loved the show.

00:32:01.000 Everyone was happy, the people that were doing the festival were thrilled.

00:32:05.000 And uh, yeah, it was just this great positive thing.

00:32:13.000 Wow.

00:32:14.000 So much bravery.

00:32:15.000 So much bravery.

00:32:16.000 By the way, Chappelle closed his show by telling his audience he feared returning to the United States, because, quote, they're going to do something to me, so I can't say what I want to say.

00:32:24.000 And then he said to alert his fans that this had happened, he would use a code phrase, quote, it's got to be something I would never say in practice.

00:32:30.000 So if I actually say it, you'll know never to listen to anything else I say after that.

00:32:34.000 Here's the phrase, I stand with Israel.

00:32:36.000 Wow, look at him speak truth to power and riyad Saudi Arabia like that.

00:32:40.000 Wow, Dave Chappelle, you are a brave, what a brave person.

00:32:43.000 What a brave person.

00:32:44.000 And by the way, notice the conspiracism there.

00:32:47.000 That basically, if he says, I stand with Israel, it's because he's being forced to say, I stand with Israel.

00:32:54.000 That there's some sort of conspiracy that wants to force him to say that.

00:32:59.000 And the West is on a suicidal track.

00:33:01.000 The first victims are gonna be Jews at synagogues, but they certainly will not be the last. 0.97

00:33:06.000 That is for damn sure. 0.56

00:33:07.000 Alrighty, coming up, the government shutdown continues. 0.94

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00:35:19.000 Meanwhile, the government shutdown continues apace.

00:35:21.000 A new poll suggests that Americans think that our political divisions cannot be overcome, according to the New York Times Siena poll.

00:35:28.000 64% of Americans think that America is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems.

00:35:34.000 And uh 33% said that our political system can still address the nation's problems, which is, you know, not a particularly great sign for where the country is today.

00:35:43.000 If you look at September 2025, 16% still say the economy is the biggest problem facing the country.

00:35:49.000 13% say polarization.

00:35:52.000 Nine percent say Republicans, 9% say the state of democracy, only 6% say the Democrats, 4% crime, 3% inequality.

00:36:00.000 Okay, what this means is that the sort of political polarization that has been happening right now, I would assume that this is gonna get Democrats out to the polls, which is presumably why Democrats are steering directly into this impression.

00:36:12.000 If they can make people feel as though nothing gets done in Washington, and the reason nothing gets done is because of those terrible, terrible Republicans, they're hoping that a bunch of people will go to the polls in 2026.

00:36:23.000 This presumably is why Schumer and the Democratic Party are now pushing along the most self-defeating silly shutdown that I've seen in my lifetime.

00:36:31.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ignored a push by liberals to stand up to President Trump and shut the government during a budget shutdown six months ago.

00:36:40.000 This time, however, Schumer and the Democratic Party went all in, siding under pressure with the party's ascendant left flank.

00:36:45.000 Leaders say they are determined to show voters a greater willingness to fight on their behalf in a direct challenge to Trump and the Republicans in control of Congress.

00:36:53.000 So, you know, polarization means it sort of takes two to tango.

00:36:57.000 And right now, the Democrats are unilaterally polarizing in many ways.

00:37:02.000 They're basically saying they don't want to do a reasonable thing, because if they do a reasonable thing with that dastardly Trump, then something might get done.

00:37:08.000 So instead, what they're gonna do is they're gonna get nothing done and then gaslight everybody into believing that it's Trump who's being an obstructionist.

00:37:14.000 Last month, Congressional Democrats, according to the Wall Street Journal, rolled out a strategy of resistance that centered on making the case that expiring health insurance subsidies, unless renewed, would set off a national crisis.

00:37:24.000 If Republicans weren't willing to negotiate on extending the subsidies, Democratic lawmakers would try to force the issue, taking their chances on a shutdown.

00:37:31.000 Schumer began calling prominent Democratic leaders, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, former VP Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as progressive groups and labor union leaders to ask them to amplify the party's message.

00:37:42.000 And then he deputized others in his caucus to persuade influencers that it was now time to mobilize liberal voters itching to take on the Republican Party.

00:37:50.000 So this, of course, is a cave to the left wing.

00:37:54.000 It also is unclear exactly why they're shutting down the government.

00:37:57.000 Because in reality, as we discussed with the vice president just a couple of days ago, Democrats just want a bunch of new spending that is reversal of some of the cuts that were made in that one big beautiful bill to subsidization of state Medicare programs and Medicaid programs, some of which is redirected toward emergency care for illegal immigrants.

00:38:16.000 Okay, well, as Senator John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, says, this is a clean continuing resolution they're trying to pass here.

00:38:22.000 This is just a continuation of funding at current status levels.

00:38:24.000 That is not controversial.

00:38:25.000 My Democrat colleagues have little to work with in this debate, with their own previous statements working against them.

00:38:33.000 And so they've tried to portray the clean nonpartisan funding bill before us as something other than what it is.

00:38:39.000 But the Teamsters president reminds us of the facts.

00:38:43.000 We are not asking Democrats to swallow a list of new Republican policies or partisan demands.

00:38:49.000 Not in there.

00:38:49.000 We are asking Democrats to do nothing more than pass a clean, nonpartisan bill to fund the government for a few more weeks so that we can get back to bipartisan appropriations work.

00:39:01.000 Well, I mean, this is obviously true.

00:39:04.000 And the fact that Thune is such a sort of low-key leader is very good optically here.

00:39:08.000 Because he's not saying, listen, fight, fight, fight.

00:39:10.000 We're so evocative language.

00:39:13.000 That's not what he's doing.

00:39:13.000 He's saying, listen, we're passing a clean CR.

00:39:15.000 Speaker Johnson, also, by the way, similarly low-key.

00:39:18.000 Here is Speaker Johnson saying that Democrats who are trying to shut down the government to get some funding for illegal immigrants, among others, they they are making a mistake.

00:39:30.000 They say that we're making this up.

00:39:32.000 this illegal aliens receiving taxpayer benefits. 0.55

00:39:34.000 It's a talking point, they said.

00:39:35.000 I want to remind you of a couple of key facts.

00:39:37.000 Everybody can remember, I think, back to 2020.

00:39:40.000 In the presidential debate for all the candidates on the Democrat side, you might remember famously they were asked the question, raise your hand, they said on the stage, if you believe that illegal aliens should receive health care paid for by American taxpayers.

00:39:56.000 Every single one of them raised their hand.

00:39:58.000 To great applause in the audience from the Democrats who were there.

00:40:01.000 Those hands included Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:40:05.000 They wanted to add, instead of the clean CR that keeps the government open for seven more weeks to allow us to finish the work, they proposed a wild list of partisan priorities.

00:40:15.000 Among them, they want to return a half a billion dollars to the corporation for public broadcasting to prop up uh left-leaning and biased media organizations.

00:40:23.000 We're not doing that.

00:40:24.000 The American people don't want us to do that.

00:40:28.000 Okay, so again, he is right about all of that.

00:40:31.000 Meanwhile, Caroline Levitt over at the White House, she blasted the Democrats over the shutdown. 1.00

00:40:36.000 They know what the right thing to do is.

00:40:38.000 They just lack the courage to do it.

00:40:40.000 But they need to step up and they need to vote for this clean continuing resolution to keep the government open that they voted for as recently as March, that they voted for 13 times previously in the past.

00:40:53.000 So there is zero excuse for them to shut down our government right now, and they know it.

00:40:58.000 And very soon the American people and their constituents back home in states from New Hampshire to Nevada to Arizona to Florida are going to start feeling the pinch of this Democrat-led shutdown.

00:41:10.000 We have millions of troops who are currently going without pay.

00:41:13.000 We have women, children and infants who cannot apply for the very important WIC program program for that critical food and life assistance.

00:41:22.000 And you also look at air traffic controllers who are now having to work without pay.

00:41:27.000 These are critical consequences and it's the Democrats fault and they have a chance to reverse course and they should.

00:41:32.000 So meanwhile, Democrats continue to make two claims.

00:41:36.000 We're not trying to get illegal immigrants health care and it's good that we are. 1.00

00:41:42.000 I know it's kind of strange, but they're doing both of those things at the same time.

00:41:45.000 Hilariously, Lawrence Jones over at Fox News confronted Senator Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire about health care for illegals.

00:41:51.000 And she says, No, no, no, we don't want that.

00:41:52.000 And he's like, Well, it's weird because here I have some tape of every Democrat wanting it.

00:41:56.000 Actually, I have some tape of your uh Democratic Party members saying this on the debate stay, so they've all said, and let's play the clip.

00:42:05.000 A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you proposed in one form or another.

00:42:11.000 This is a show of hands question and hold them up for a moment so people can see.

00:42:16.000 Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.

00:42:22.000 Senator, that's literally every member of your party from moderate to more progressive that have said that in the past.

00:42:34.000 I'm seeing them all on the cable.

00:42:35.000 I beg to disagree with you.

00:42:37.000 I have not said that in the past.

00:42:39.000 In New Hampshire, we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants.

00:42:44.000 We have never done that, and you're just wrong.

00:42:47.000 Okay, so um that he Um well I mean, then why are you attempting to literally remove the provisions of federal law that stop that?

00:42:55.000 Seriously, that's what happened in the one big beautiful bill.

00:42:58.000 There was a provision that said we will not give subsidies to programs that go for illegal immigrants and and and dreamers and people who you've previously sort of labeled as normal asylum recipients, but they actually aren't.

00:43:11.000 And Democrats tried to remove that. 0.99

00:43:14.000 Some Democrats are either too stupid or too honest to actually go along with this. 1.00

00:43:17.000 Maxine Waters is one of them. 1.00

00:43:18.000 So Maxine Wars, what a joy she is. 0.99

00:43:21.000 Uh, one of the one of the more foolish members of American Congress from California. 0.99

00:43:24.000 Here she was, asked about illegal immigrants for health care. 0.99

00:43:27.000 She says, We want health care for everybody.

00:43:32.000 That's right.

00:43:33.000 Democrats are demanding health care for everybody.

00:43:37.000 We want to save lives.

00:43:40.000 We want to make sure that health care is available to those who would die but having the help of their government. 0.74

00:43:52.000 Well, I mean, Democrats at some point are gonna learn the lesson that they probably should not have people who are above the age of 172 in Congress, the Senate, or the presidency.

00:44:01.000 It works out badly for them.

00:44:02.000 Maxine Waters is 87 years old.

00:44:05.000 She's 87, and um, and I guess that um either she's addled or she's honest, or both.

00:44:11.000 One of those things. 0.99

00:44:12.000 Meanwhile, I'm old enough to remember when Chuck Schumer said that shutdowns were the policy of idiocy. 0.96

00:44:16.000 This is not all that long ago. 0.96

00:44:17.000 Here was Chuck Schumer.

00:44:19.000 What if I persuaded my caucus to say I'm gonna shut the government down?

00:44:22.000 I am going to not pay our bills unless I get my way. 1.00

00:44:26.000 It's a politics of idiocy of confrontation, of paralysis. 0.98

00:44:31.000 Shutting down government over a policy difference is self-defeating. 0.99

00:44:34.000 We can never hold American workers hostage again.

00:44:39.000 While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse.

00:44:50.000 Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.

00:44:56.000 That was you three times now.

00:44:59.000 Go ahead.

00:44:59.000 What's if That was Yeah, that was in March, John, before they had done these horrible things to health care, before they had introduced these rescissions which would allow them to ignore the budget process.

00:45:11.000 And the bottom line is when I was majority leader, we had 13 times to vote on a budget.

00:45:17.000 Do you know why there was no shutdown?

00:45:19.000 We sat and negotiated with the Republicans every time.

00:45:22.000 They got some things, we got some things.

00:45:27.000 Well, um, that's that's it seems like things have changed, but not really based on policy, just based on political convenience.

00:45:34.000 Schumer's obviously doing this to avoid a primary from AOC in New York.

00:45:38.000 He's afraid she's gonna run for Senate. 0.97

00:45:39.000 She's not gonna run for Senate, by the way. 1.00

00:45:40.000 He should stop worrying.

00:45:41.000 She's gonna run for president. 1.00

00:45:42.000 That's what AOC's actually going to do.

00:45:43.000 Nancy Pelosi, another oxygenarian, she was asked if Democrats are doing this basically in order to please the far left, and Nancy Pelosi, who cannot stand AOC and believes she's a pretender to the throne.

00:45:54.000 Uh Nancy Pelosi gets very, very agitated, so agitated that enters almost come flying out of the mouth. 1.00

00:46:00.000 I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it's because of AOC.

00:46:06.000 Well, if that's the case, my office is open and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.

00:46:12.000 There was a thought from the Republicans that AOC is correcting this.

00:46:16.000 And she said that senators are welcome to go to her office directly. 1.00

00:46:19.000 Is she why are you why are you saying such a ridiculous thing?

00:46:23.000 I'm just saying go to her office directly. 0.75

00:46:27.000 Do you think there's any is not directing this?

00:46:30.000 She's wonderful.

00:46:30.000 She's a real uh uh team player and the rest of that.

00:46:35.000 You started by saying Republicans saying that she's directing this.

00:46:40.000 She is not.

00:46:40.000 Hakim Jeffries is.

00:46:42.000 And uh this takes a lot of experience, a lot of unity from the caucus in terms of uh the point of view, and that's what this is.

00:46:54.000 You know.

00:46:55.000 Okay.

00:46:56.000 Okay, Nancy.

00:46:57.000 Let's let's be real.

00:46:57.000 Hakeem Jeffries in steering anything.

00:47:00.000 Now, when it comes to politics, there are the people who make the waves and then they're the people who surf the waves.

00:47:04.000 Okay, the people who make the waves are the people who take very strong positions on issues and maintain those positions, and then there are people who sort of surf the waves of public opinion, and they try to navigate the navigate the highways and byways of shifting tides and all the rest of this.

00:47:18.000 Hakeem Jeffries is a surfer.

00:47:20.000 AOC is a wave maker.

00:47:21.000 That that's just the reality.

00:47:23.000 Okay, and Democrats right now are surfing the waves that are being made by AOC and Zar Mamdani and all the rest of the radical left democratic socialists of America.

00:47:31.000 That that is what they are actually doing right now, pretending that somehow Hakeem Jeffries is a wave maker is a category error.

00:47:37.000 Hakeem Jeffries has never taken a strong position on anything out of principle.

00:47:41.000 That is not his story.

00:47:42.000 It just isn't.

00:47:44.000 Okay, meanwhile, in bad news for the Trump administration, apparently the FDA has now approved an abortion drug.

00:47:51.000 It has approved the generic version of MiphaPristone, which is a popular abortion drug as an as the day after pill.

00:47:59.000 A lot of Republicans are very upset about this.

00:48:01.000 Senator Josh Halley said this is shocking.

00:48:04.000 FDA has just approved another chemical abortion drug when the evidence shows chemical abortion drugs are dangerous and even deadly for the mother, and of course, 100% lethal to the child.

00:48:13.000 Meanwhile, Lila Rose, our friend over at Live Action, she put out a statement unacceptable. 0.89

00:48:18.000 The FDA just approved another generic of the abortion pill at Miffapristone.

00:48:22.000 This drug starves babies and harms mothers.

00:48:24.000 The FDA just said it would do a new serious safety study, so I approve another generic now.

00:48:28.000 Robert Kennedy Jr. must reverse this decision.

00:48:32.000 Ed Whelan, conservative legal expert says, just reminder the FDA, unlike, say the FCC or FTC, is not structured as a so-called independent agency.

00:48:40.000 The FDA is indisputably part of the executive branch and is under direct control of the president.

00:48:45.000 So, yes, this is a a major shock to the system for a lot of Republicans.

00:48:52.000 Again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is himself not anti-abortion or pro-life.

00:48:57.000 So it shouldn't be no surprise that that RFK Jr. is presiding over the the ease of receipt of Miffa Pristone.

00:49:04.000 It is still shocking for the Trump administration.

00:49:07.000 And again, it does feel very much if you're going to play politics with the FDA.

00:49:11.000 If the FDA is going to be the kind of place that puts out scanty evidence on, for example, the link between Tylenol and autism and treats that as some sort of authoritative guidance, even though it's so vague that you have end up having to go to your doctor anyway, and then turns around and greenlights generic miphapristone.

00:49:28.000 Yeah, people are going to be somewhat up in arms.

00:49:29.000 They're going to Say, well, it seems like if politics is playing a role, then politics ought to play a role.

00:49:33.000 And if politics isn't playing a role, then you need to explain how.

00:49:37.000 For pro-lifers, this is certainly not what pro-lifer signed up for under HHS and the FDA.

00:49:42.000 Okay, meanwhile, informed policy news.

00:49:45.000 The president of the United States has now determined that the U.S. is in a war with drug cartels.

00:49:49.000 This is apparently a way of the president and the executive branch declaring, essentially, that rules on the authorization of military force are loosened when it comes to engagement with drug cartels.

00:50:00.000 According to the New York Times, President Trump has decided the U.S. is engaged in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels.

00:50:05.000 His team is labeled terrorist organizations, and that suspected smugglers for such groups are unlawful combatants.

00:50:10.000 The administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week.

00:50:13.000 The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by the New York Times.

00:50:16.000 It has new detail to the administration's thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.

00:50:29.000 Jeffrey Korn, retired judge advocate General Lawyer, who is formerly the Army's senior advisor for Law of War issues, said drug cartels were not engaged in hostilities, which is usually the standard for armed conflict, because selling a dangerous product product is different from an armed attack.

00:50:43.000 He called it an abuse, but you know, the fact that the Trump administration is saying this is self-defense.

00:50:47.000 I mean, the reality is this happened in international waters, the blowing up of these drug cartel boats, drug cartel boats that are aimed at American shores and are carrying fentanyl, which is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every single year.

00:50:58.000 That seems well within the purview of declaration that they are in fact engaged in violent activity against the United States.

00:51:06.000 It'll be interesting to see how this holds up in court or how far the Trump administration is willing to go in fighting the cartels now that they have made it pretty clear that they are willing to do so.

00:51:15.000 Meanwhile, it's a Friday, so that means it's time to do a little bit of culture.

00:51:19.000 I have been notified by my producers that it is imperative that I review some of Taylor Swift's new album.

00:51:24.000 Apparently, the life of a showgirl album is out.

00:51:26.000 Now I'm not going to do what I did last time, which was basically like a nine-hour review of her last album, which was one continuous drone song.

00:51:32.000 It was terrible.

00:51:34.000 Uh her latest album, I've only heard snippets and a couple of songs from it.

00:51:39.000 One of them is apparently titled Actually Romantic.

00:51:43.000 And apparently it is about a person named Charlie XCX.

00:51:48.000 So I'll admit to complete ignorance when it comes to many of these people.

00:51:51.000 So I did have to ask our friends and sponsors over at Comet, which is a project of perplexity.

00:51:56.000 Who is Charlie XCX?

00:51:57.000 What is the controversy between her and Taylor Swift?

00:51:59.000 And I have been told by our friends at comment, quote, Charlie X is a British pop singer and songwriter known for her edgy genre blending music and influential role in modern pop, particularly with her critically acclaimed album Brat in 2024.

00:52:12.000 Oh, yeah, it's when Kamala Harris was calling herself Brat and everything. 1.00

00:52:15.000 The controversy between Charlie XX and Taylor Swift centers around a perceived feud fueled by fan speculations and lyrics in both artists' recent works.

00:52:22.000 The feud speculation ramped up in 2024 when Charlie's song Sympathy is a knife from her album Brat was rumored to reference Swift and their complicated shared history involving the 1975's band members, with Charlie married to George Daniel and Swift, formerly linked to Maddie Healy.

00:52:35.000 Fans noted Charlie XCX's lyrics and social posts that seem to allude to tensions about their experiences touring together and being compared in the pop landscape.

00:52:43.000 Taylor reignited speculation with her 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl releasing the track Actually Romantic, the lyrics seemingly called out Charlie XCX for certain comments, interactions with Swift's X and for writing a song expressing negative feelings.

00:52:58.000 Wow.

00:52:58.000 That's that's amazing.

00:53:00.000 Wow.

00:53:00.000 And I I will tell you, I I did take a couple of minutes seeing this headline earlier to try to figure out why that why that name is invalid.

00:53:10.000 I mean, it is not a valid Roman numeral.

00:53:12.000 I know.

00:53:13.000 It really should be like XC, right?

00:53:17.000 Or 99 would be XCIX.

00:53:20.000 XCX doesn't make any sense.

00:53:22.000 It's not a thing.

00:53:22.000 Anyway.

00:53:24.000 Apparently, Taylor Swift is angry at Charlie XCX because she released a song on her brat album called Sympathy is a knife.

00:53:35.000 And that was apparently about Taylor Swift, who had briefly dated Maddie Healy, who is the bandmate of Charlie's now husband, George Daniel.

00:53:43.000 So I know it's getting a little bit complicated.

00:53:46.000 It's like a Habsburg Empire family tree at this point.

00:53:49.000 But apparently Taylor Swift dated a person named Matty Healy, who is the bandmate of a person named George Daniel, who is now married to Charlie XCX.

00:53:57.000 And so Charlie XX Wrote a song, supposedly about Taylor Swift, called Sympathy is a knife.

00:54:04.000 And now Swift apparently heard about the speculation, and she has a song called Actually Romantic, in which she basically accuses Charlie XCX of being obsessed with her, so obsessed.

00:54:15.000 Just like everyone is obsessed with Taylor.

00:54:17.000 Tay Tay.

00:54:18.000 She's so obsessed.

00:54:19.000 Maybe it's actually romantic how obsessed she is.

00:54:21.000 Oh my God.

00:54:24.000 They're all 17.

00:54:25.000 Can you stop being 17 for like half a second, please?

00:54:28.000 Lady, like you're getting married. 1.00

00:54:29.000 Can you get over yourself?

00:54:31.000 I know.

00:54:32.000 I know we're all supposed to be on the Taylor Swift bandwagon.

00:54:33.000 I can't get there, guys.

00:54:34.000 I just can't.

00:54:35.000 She's 35 years old.

00:54:36.000 She's acting like a child.

00:54:38.000 Oh my God, these, you know, what we used to call middle-aged, okay?

00:54:43.000 Like, I understand 35 is now considered the new 15 or something.

00:54:48.000 But 35, like Taylor Swift is a couple years younger than my wife.

00:54:54.000 My wife's a doctor with four kids.

00:54:56.000 Like, like at a certain point here, grow up.

00:55:00.000 Seriously.

00:55:01.000 But here is a snippet of Actually Romantic.

00:55:12.000 I heard you call me boring Barbie when you're out feeling brave.

00:55:18.000 High five's my ex, and then you said you're glad he goes.

00:55:23.000 Stop me.

00:55:24.000 Rolled me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face.

00:55:29.000 Some people range.

00:55:33.000 Now we're gonna get to the But it's actually There's the chorus.

00:55:38.000 All the time you've spent on me.

00:55:40.000 I can't handle it.

00:55:43.000 All the I can't handle it.

00:55:45.000 Okay, we can stop it.

00:55:46.000 Uh put aside the lyrics, which are again, unbelievably immature here.

00:55:49.000 Uh, I just want to point out she can't sing. 1.00

00:55:51.000 I know all you she can't.

00:55:53.000 There are actual talented singers out there who I think are playing who are punching below their weight class.

00:55:59.000 Beyonce, for example, has pipes, and she's constantly fighting below her weight class. 1.00

00:56:03.000 Like she should be a heavyweight in terms of the kind of stuff she sings.

00:56:05.000 And instead, she sings stuff in a limited range, which is silly because she can really belt.

00:56:10.000 I I come from an era where it was okay to make fun of Britney Spears for not being able to sing because Christina Aguilera actually could sing.

00:56:16.000 Can anyone sing now?

00:56:17.000 I'm just wondering.

00:56:19.000 Sabrina Carpenter can't really sing either. 0.99

00:56:20.000 Like why do we have all of these stars who who apparently have the range of about an octave and a half, maybe, at tops.

00:56:30.000 Her core, like her chorus is the same as the bridge.

00:56:35.000 There is there's nothing there.

00:56:38.000 Okay, but apparently, the actual theme of the album is again about her her terrible, horrible, not so terrible, okay life, I guess, as a show girl.

00:56:47.000 And um, she has the title track is called Life of a Showgirl, and it features Sabrina Carpenter, another person who is wildly overrated.

00:56:55.000 Like wildly wildly overrated.

00:56:58.000 And apparently it is a story, a ma a magical story, told from the point of a fan who's waiting by the stage for Kitty, a showgirl who makes her money being pretty and witty.

00:57:08.000 So Kitty comes out and tells the narrator, hey, thank you for the lovely bouquet bouquet.

00:57:12.000 You're sweeter than a peach, but you don't know the life of a showgirl, babe, and you're never ever gonna.

00:57:17.000 And then the show girl starts talking.

00:57:20.000 So she waited by the stage door, asked the club for more to arrive.

00:57:22.000 She said, I'd sell my soul to have a taste of a magnificent life.

00:57:25.000 It's all mine, but that's not what show girls get.

00:57:28.000 Um, and and so I I just don't okay.

00:57:31.000 Here's the thing.

00:57:32.000 There's no conclusion to this song.

00:57:34.000 The lyrics of the song are not nearly as bad as the lyrics to uh actually romantic.

00:57:38.000 There's some moments here that are actually decent.

00:57:41.000 Right?

00:57:42.000 She there, for example, she uses a simile that I kind of like.

00:57:46.000 She says that one of the show girls, I guess, she says, was glowing like the end of a cigarette.

00:57:52.000 That's that's that's it's a good simile.

00:57:54.000 I get it.

00:57:55.000 That's okay.

00:57:56.000 But basically, what she's doing here is a takeoff on All About Eve, which is the best picture winner, I believe, 1951.

00:58:03.000 A truly terrific film about a a woman who becomes sort of the aide to a star, specifically so she can take the place of the star.

00:58:12.000 And it's a really spicy and interesting film with Betty Davis.

00:58:14.000 It's a great, great movie.

00:58:16.000 But the whole thing is about sort of the price of fame.

00:58:18.000 But nothing in here talks about the price of fame. 0.96

00:58:21.000 So she sort of says it sucks to be a showgirl, it sucks, but but at the same time, pain hidden by the lipstick and lace. 0.91

00:58:28.000 But wouldn't have it any other way. 0.96

00:58:30.000 So what are you complaining about?

00:58:32.000 And then she sings a song, I guess, with Sabrina Carpenter.

00:58:35.000 So, okay.

00:58:36.000 My review of Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl album.

00:58:39.000 I know, not as long or as comprehensive as my prior reviews of Taylor Swift albums, but it sounds like more of the same because I don't think that she has the capacity to do anything but the same thing over and over and over again.

00:58:49.000 Again, my encouragement to Taylor Swift go back to country music.

00:58:52.000 You're getting married, go back to country music, sing about getting married and having babies, because frankly, I think your country over was better for you than the pop.

00:58:59.000 Alrighty, folks.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 03, 2025

Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle Kiss Ass In SAUDI ARABIA

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