The Ben Shapiro Show - August 21, 2026


Democrats Are Done Hiding the Socialism


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8 minutes

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180.6

Word count

1,505

Sentence count

121

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3

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8

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26

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00:00:00.000 Here is the question. 1.00
00:00:01.000 Why is it the Democrats seem to have zero immune response to the threat of Islamism? 1.00
00:00:05.000 We examine why. 1.00
00:00:06.000 The reason is super important to understand.
00:00:07.000 We're going to break it down.
00:00:09.000 From Hassan Piker is feigning kindness with a literal picture of the Twin Towers on fire behind him in his studio.
00:00:14.000 Chuck Schumer is going belly up.
00:00:16.000 And insufferable wine mom Jennifer Welch is whining about the Christians. 1.00
00:00:19.000 So, Senator Chuck Schumer, who is a disgrace, he's a disgrace of a human. 0.99
00:00:23.000 I have particular ire for Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer pretends to be a high ranking Jewish senator from New York. 0.99
00:00:28.000 I say pretends to be because no Jew worth his salt. 0.87
00:00:34.000 Ought to be defending Abdul El Sayed, a defender of Islamic terrorism and sympathizer with it. 0.79
00:00:41.000 No one ought to be doing this.
00:00:42.000 But again, Chuck Schumer is all about the power.
00:00:43.000 He has always been about the power. 0.81
00:00:46.000 In practice, he's as Jewish as a ham sandwich. 0.94
00:00:49.000 Here is Chuck Schumer trying to praise the guy who, by the way, wants to defenestrate him as the Senate minority leader, praising El Sayed for bringing new energy and talent into the Democratic Party. 1.00
00:00:59.000 You pathetic cock, honestly. 0.99
00:01:03.000 Bottom line is, we're going to win Michigan. 1.00
00:01:05.000 Let me tell you why we're going to win Michigan.
00:01:08.000 First, El Sayed has brought in new energy and new talent into the Democratic Party, but also in Michigan itself.
00:01:17.000 But second, Michigan, Trump has so bungled the Michigan economy.
00:01:24.000 You know, the numbers for Trump on how well he's doing in keeping costs down in the economy is in the low 30s in the country, it's in the high 20s in Michigan.
00:01:33.000 Why?
00:01:34.000 He created a trade war with Canada.
00:01:37.000 Anyone who's halfway decent as president knows that the Michigan economy and the Canadian economy are totally intertwined.
00:01:46.000 And he's blown it.
00:01:47.000 We're going to win Michigan. 0.80
00:01:50.000 Again, he's perfectly happy to win Michigan, even with a guy who is pretty overtly pro radical Islam. 0.99
00:01:59.000 Amazing stuff there. 0.98
00:02:00.000 And of course, the Democrats, they refuse to acknowledge, again, all the ladies who wore handmaid's tail outfits to protest Trump. 0.86
00:02:05.000 Are out there saying that the real threat to America is Christian fundamentalism while celebrating Islamic fundamentalism. 0.98
00:02:10.000 Truly amazing stuff. 1.00
00:02:11.000 Jennifer Welch, the fact that this woman has an audience demonstrates the old P.G. Barnum suggestion that you'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
00:02:24.000 Here's Jennifer Welch.
00:02:25.000 My goodness.
00:02:26.000 I guess, you know, to each his own, I suppose. 1.00
00:02:30.000 But the biggest threat I see to the United States right now is not the religion of Islam. 0.98
00:02:36.000 It is fundamental Christianity and the batshit sect of Christianity that Eric Kirk belongs in, where you have firework funerals where grinder crashes and you dress up like an assassin and do a batshit crazy video after your husband was violently murdered by an assassin. 1.00
00:02:59.000 These people, these people, man, I hope, I truly hope that they live in a place where they get to enjoy Sharia law. 0.99
00:03:06.000 I really hope they do. 0.94
00:03:08.000 Again, there must be some sort of constituency here.
00:03:10.000 Like, I don't know what Jennifer Welch's numbers are. 0.99
00:03:12.000 And I assume that her audience is disproportionately female, maybe, maybe.
00:03:18.000 But I got to say, I don't understand the appeal.
00:03:20.000 And if she truly believes that Erica Kirk is the great threat to America, Jennifer Welch believes, like, who does Jennifer Welch think that she has more in common with?
00:03:27.000 Just as an American?
00:03:28.000 Erica Kirk, like an American woman, or some lady from Afghanistan who's coming here, hates America, and is wearing, like, the full outfit and sympathizing with. 0.85
00:03:40.000 Like, who does she think are her friends? 1.00
00:03:42.000 This is the part that's totally crazy. 1.00
00:03:43.000 You have all these liberal wine moms, and they're walking around as though the true threat is the lady who just goes to church all the time.
00:03:50.000 There's an episode of White Lotus that is basically this where a bunch of liberals meet a conservative woman from Texas and they're just shocked to learn that she's kind of a normal person because she was normal and then they learn she's conservative.
00:04:00.000 This is one of the kind of bizarre things about American society.
00:04:03.000 Most conservatives know a bunch of liberals, most liberals do not know very many conservatives.
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00:05:20.000 And again, it is hilarious because Hassan Piker, who just despises America, he says, Well, if I'm the enemy of America, why do I want you to have health care?
00:05:29.000 Because, like, what?
00:05:32.000 What?
00:05:32.000 I mean, the Soviet Union would have said the same thing to Americans in 1970.
00:05:39.000 If we hate America, why do we just want a more even redistribution of wealth?
00:05:46.000 If you buy, again, there he is, with the actual newspaper of the buildings falling on 9 11 over his shoulder and a Chinese flag over the other shoulder saying that he's not an enemy of America because he just wants you to have health care.
00:06:00.000 A lot of people call me.
00:06:02.000 A radical, un American, anti American, Islamist, jihadist, which is, you know, obviously Islamophobia is very funny that they say that.
00:06:12.000 But regardless, they think I'm an enemy of America.
00:06:15.000 And I always ask them, like, if I'm an enemy of America, why do I live here?
00:06:18.000 If I'm an enemy of America, why do I want you to have health care?
00:06:21.000 Like, who's the real enemy of America?
00:06:24.000 You live here to take advantage of us.
00:06:33.000 I don't know.
00:06:37.000 Who's the real enemy of America?
00:06:38.000 The guy who has a Chinese flag over one shoulder, 9 11 over the other shoulder, a Cuban flag behind him. 0.51
00:06:44.000 Who's the enemy of America? 0.64
00:06:46.000 You.
00:06:46.000 And why do you live here to take advantage of it?
00:06:49.000 You should go back to Turkey, where you were raised and where you seem to have much more in common with the belief system of the government.
00:06:56.000 This is absurd.
00:06:57.000 It's absurd, but I guess this is the game that we are going to play.
00:07:00.000 This is the game we are going to play.
00:07:01.000 And again, Hassan Piker is, in fact, propping up a wide variety of Democrats at this point.
00:07:07.000 A woman named Aisha Wahab.
00:07:09.000 Won the California 14 special election yesterday to fill the seat for Eric Swalwell. 0.96
00:07:14.000 And unsurprising, she is a Hassan Piker Stan. 0.90
00:07:19.000 Rapid fire. 1.00
00:07:20.000 Do you support Medicare for all?
00:07:22.000 Yes.
00:07:23.000 Raising taxes on billionaires? Yes.
00:07:26.000 Breaking up corporate monopolies? Yes.
00:07:28.000 Canceling student debt? Yes.
00:07:31.000 A data center moratorium? Yes.
00:07:34.000 Codifying abortion? Yes.
00:07:37.000 Abolishing and prosecuting ICE? Yes.
00:07:39.000 Banning congressional stock trading? Yes.
00:07:42.000 Ending Citizens United?
00:07:44.000 Yes.
00:07:45.000 Yes.
00:07:45.000 Ending America's permanent wars. Yes.
00:07:48.000 Ending all U.S. aid to Israel.
00:07:52.000 Yes.
00:07:53.000 But like I said, humanitarian aid is important to me, too.
00:07:56.000 Okay.
00:07:56.000 A free Palestine.
00:07:58.000 Yes.
00:08:01.000 What a great, great.
00:08:04.000 I'm so glad we're doing this entire exercise as a country.
00:08:07.000 It can't go wrong in any way.
00:08:08.000 It'll all be fine.
00:08:09.000 We'll probably just pretend it'll be fine.
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