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00:01:51.000 Well, we have reached the point now where the entire leftist program is performative outrage.

00:01:56.000 It's performative outrage all the way, even at things that actually they should not only not be outraged by, they should actually be on the side of.

00:02:04.000 So as today's example, I give you this raid by ICE at a large pot farm in Southern California.

00:02:11.000 So according to the New York Times, federal agents raided a large cannabis farm in Southern California on Thursday, clashing with protesters and arresting multiple people.

00:02:19.000 Okay, so that sounds like these are just normal people.

00:02:22.000 Sure, they're illegal immigrants, but they're picking the pot that America needs. 1.00

00:02:25.000 First of all, let's point out they're not raiding a tomato farm.

00:02:29.000 It's a pot farm.

00:02:30.000 A pot actually is quite a damaging product on the American market.

00:02:33.000 And if you don't believe me, visit LA, visit Denver, visit any major American city where cannabis has become recreationally heavy.

00:02:41.000 Footage taken by local news media from helicopters showed the agents firing tear gas and crowd control munitions during the operation in Camarillo, California.

00:02:49.000 The agents were executing criminal search warrants, according to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.

00:02:55.000 So what exactly were they doing there?

00:02:56.000 Well, Rodney Scott, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said on social media, 10 juveniles, eight of them unaccompanied, were found at one of the facilities raided on Thursday.

00:03:05.000 All of them were in the country illegally.

00:03:07.000 So this would have been illegal underage labor.

00:03:10.000 This was a pot farm using illegal underage labor.

00:03:12.000 It's hard to think of a place that is more deserving, actually, of a federal law enforcement raid than a pot farm that is engaging in illegal underage labor.

00:03:21.000 I mean, seriously, like pick a place of work in America that deserves a raid more than that one.

00:03:27.000 Not a granary, not a normal vegetable farm.

00:03:32.000 We're talking about a cannabis farm that produces what is still a federally illegal drug and does so with illegal child labor.

00:03:42.000 And the left was protesting.

00:03:44.000 The left freaked out.

00:03:46.000 So the protesters showed up because they heard that ICE was showing up.

00:03:49.000 And basically, this is the way that things now work.

00:03:51.000 If ICE shows up at a place, the protesters get together and decide that they're going to then obstruct ICE from doing its job.

00:03:58.000 So here is some of the video of some of these pathetic folks trying to obstruct an ICE vehicle.

00:04:05.000 This is happening at Wood and Laguna, and you now see the military vehicles advancing despite those protesters trying to make a stance and trying to stop the military vehicle from continuing on.

00:04:19.000 And there's cameras rolling, cell phone cameras rolling.

00:04:24.000 And this group of people are really trying to get this military vehicle to stop.

00:04:28.000 And they just have to be a little bit more.

00:04:29.000 It's a large pink-haired lady who keeps trying to poke the wheels with the Mexican flag. 1.00

00:04:33.000 Good luck with that.

00:04:34.000 That's a Humvee.

00:04:36.000 You're not exactly holding an IED over there.

00:04:38.000 She's literally taking a flagpole with a Mexican flag on it and trying to poke at the tires feebly in the attempt to stop ICE. 1.00

00:04:45.000 So great job there.

00:04:46.000 But it wasn't just idiots who showed up with Mexican flags trying to poke at the tires of ICE vehicles.

00:04:51.000 It was also at least one person who showed up with a gun and then actually fired at an ICE agent is what it appears to be in this particular video.

00:05:00.000 Here is the person spotlit here.

00:05:04.000 Take a look at this video right here.

00:05:06.000 It appears a protester fired some kind of gun at federal agents.

00:05:09.000 This happened this afternoon.

00:05:11.000 It was a really chaotic scene at the time.

00:05:13.000 A lot of smoke was being launched at the protesters.

00:05:16.000 And again, it appears a protester fired back with that weapon.

00:05:19.000 It looks like he fired at least a couple of times.

00:05:22.000 We have not heard about any agents being hurt.

00:05:27.000 Okay, so you are no longer a protester.

00:05:29.000 You are now an attempted murderer if you fire a gun at a federal agent.

00:05:33.000 I mean, and treating this as though this is sort of normie protest, of course, is untrue.

00:05:39.000 Well, the video that was then put out and went viral on social media was not the video of the so-called protester shooting a gun or the idiots who are attempting to stop an ICE vehicle using flagpoles.

00:05:50.000 It was children protesters running from tear gas because it turns out that ICE fired some tear gas in order to disperse the crowd so they could get the job done of raiding the pot farm using the illegal immigrant child labor. 0.80

00:06:03.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:06:05.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:06:12.000 There's a woman with kids running away.

00:06:22.000 So you can see the tear gas and people kind of walking away.

00:06:26.000 Half of them are wearing sandals.

00:06:28.000 These are not people who are all getting arrested Or being brutalized or something.

00:06:32.000 When they say children are running away, number one, they should point out that some of the children who are running away were presumably brought there as protesters, because if they were there as child labor, the parents should be in jail.

00:06:42.000 It's a violation of both federal and state law to use your small children as child labor at a cannabis farm.

00:06:47.000 We should point out.

00:06:48.000 But this caused Gavin Newsom.

00:06:50.000 Again, we're talking about performative politics.

00:06:52.000 This caused Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who desperately wants to run for president of the United States, to tweet out, quote, kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.

00:07:03.000 Trump calls me new scum, but he's the real scum.

00:07:07.000 Wow.

00:07:08.000 With that sort of performative outrage, that dude might win half a primary in the presidential race for the Democratic nomination in 28. 0.71

00:07:17.000 Kids running away from, what are they doing there in the first place?

00:07:20.000 What are kids doing at an immigration raid?

00:07:23.000 Why are they there?

00:07:24.000 I mean, that would be the real question.

00:07:26.000 Why have you and the left incentivized parents to bring small children to protest immigration raids at a cannabis farm employing underage labor? 0.74

00:07:36.000 That's question number one.

00:07:37.000 Question number two is, he's suggesting that kids are crying because mom is being taken away.

00:07:42.000 That the only person on tape I can see who's crying about this appears to be a young man whose mom was taken away.

00:07:48.000 We don't know the details of why she was arrested or what her immigration status was or anything like that.

00:07:55.000 But this is the way that the media have covered all these illegal immigration raids.

00:07:59.000 They are covering it as though ICE is randomly showing up at Home Depot and just driving people away on an overall basis.

00:08:08.000 It's happening all the time.

00:08:09.000 The problem is that the numbers don't actually justify that.

00:08:13.000 Right now, the Trump administration is actually not doing heavy removal.

00:08:17.000 According to NBC News, ICE agents last month arrested the most people in at least five years, but deportations are still lagging far behind what President Trump has promised, and even those in the Obama administration, according to data obtained by NBC News.

00:08:30.000 The discrepancy between arrests and deportations highlights the challenges the Trump administration faces to make good on President Trump's inauguration day vow to deport millions and millions of illegal immigrants.

00:08:41.000 According to ICE data, the agents arrested roughly 30,000 immigrants last month.

00:08:45.000 The most since monthly data was made publicly available in November 2020.

00:08:48.000 By the way, I love how NBC News, I'm adding the word illegal here, NBC News just calls them immigrants. 0.51

00:08:54.000 Quote, according to ICE data, its agents arrested roughly 30,000 immigrants last month.

00:08:59.000 Well, why would they be able to just arrest immigrants? 1.00

00:09:02.000 If you're a legal immigrant, the administration is not going to and cannot arrest you.

00:09:06.000 You have to have violated the law in some way that calls for your deportation in order for them to pursue the arrest.

00:09:11.000 So they're just obscuring the actual story by ignoring the actual story in the media.

00:09:16.000 And they keep doing that.

00:09:17.000 This entire article just refers to everyone being arrested as an immigrant, not even undocumented, not even kind of the mushwords that they like to use.

00:09:25.000 The number of immigrants deported in June, illegal immigrants, more than 18,000 amounts to roughly half the number of arrests, according to internal figures obtained by NBC News.

00:09:35.000 So again, this kind of idea that ICE is going around and then randomly arresting mass numbers of illegal immigrants at church, for example.

00:09:44.000 There's pretty much no evidence that that is happening at the moment.

00:09:48.000 In fact, there's so little evidence that that is happening that many in the MAGA base are quite upset with President Trump because they believe that he might amnesty farm workers.

00:09:56.000 President Trump has mentioned the idea of providing some sort of temporary shield for illegal immigrant farm workers and hospitality workers, people working in hotels, for example.

00:10:08.000 He's insisted there will be no amnesty, but also suggested that some workers might be allowed to stay if their employers take responsibility for them.

00:10:14.000 That's according to Axios.

00:10:15.000 He said, what we're doing is getting rid of criminals, but we are doing a work program.

00:10:19.000 He said at a cabinet meeting this week.

00:10:21.000 So again, the policy that the media are saying that Trump is pursuing is not actually the policy that he is pursuing.

00:10:28.000 But because the media are fibbing about the actual policy, and because there are people on social media who are able to blow those fibs up into full-fledged stories, because of that, you end up with violence against ICE agents, people showing up en masse to stop what are clearly legitimate law enforcement raids.

00:10:44.000 People are telling lies about ICE all the time.

00:10:46.000 Here, for example, is the acting ICE director, Todd Lyons, who points out that Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, who keeps claiming that members of ICE aren't showing ID, he's like, that's false.

00:10:56.000 That's not even true.

00:10:58.000 Well, I mean, David, you can see from all the video too, right?

00:11:01.000 They say the ICE agents, they're not properly marked.

00:11:05.000 You see them in their tactical gear, in their vest, where, you know, you see blamely see FBI, ATF, ICE, HSI, ERO, whoever's out with us.

00:11:14.000 So the mayor's claims are just totally false.

00:11:16.000 And what she's doing is making people afraid of us. 0.91

00:11:21.000 And that, by the way, is true.

00:11:22.000 It's why the violence against ICE agents is dramatically up.

00:11:25.000 Because when you retail false narratives about any entity, like truly false narratives about any entity, you are raising the temperature with regards to that entity and the people who staff it.

00:11:34.000 And that is particularly true with regard to ICE.

00:11:38.000 And again, this is the sort of false narrative that is being retailed by the entire media.

00:11:42.000 So there's been a lot of coverage, for example, of Alligator Alcatraz, right?

00:11:45.000 That, of course, is the holding facility for criminal illegal immigrants in Florida.

00:11:49.000 And the suggestion is that basically the Trump administration and the state of Florida have decided to take normal illegal immigrant farm workers, drag them out to the Everglades, and toss them in with the alligators for dinner, which, of course, is not what is happening.

00:12:03.000 What you have is a runway that is sometimes used by law enforcement that's being converted into a temporary holding facility with air-conditioned vehicles there, big trailers that people are being held in.

00:12:15.000 Who is actually being held there?

00:12:17.000 Well, the media are suggesting that, again, it's Abuela.

00:12:20.000 The reality is that it probably is not Abuela.

00:12:23.000 Bill Malugan, reporting for Fox News, points out that the people being held at Allegator Alcatraz include multiple murderers, including a Cuban man who slit the throat of an elderly woman in Florida and set her house on fire, a Venezuelan alien wanted for murder and aggravated robbery in Venezuela, a Honduran MS-13 gang member known as Satan, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in New York, and a Cuban alien convicted of sexual assault in Texas.

00:12:49.000 Jeremy Redfern, who's the attorney general of Florida's communications director, said, the left-wing press continues to spend their time amplifying false reports.

00:12:56.000 The reality is there are monsters awaiting deportation within Alligator Alcatraz, far worse than the monsters lurking in the surrounding Everglades.

00:13:03.000 This group of murderers, rapists, and gang members are just a small sample of the deranged psychopaths that Florida is helping President Trump and his administration remove from our country.

00:13:12.000 Hey, well, I mean, that all sounds reasonable to me, but that is not the way that the story is being told.

00:13:17.000 That is not the way that the story is being told at all.

00:13:20.000 And again, the performative outrage is the entire shtick here.

00:13:23.000 For the left, it's all performative outrage.

00:13:25.000 Can you find a point of opposition to President Trump that allows you to push back?

00:13:30.000 Because frankly, the left has been relegated to really terrible arguments with regard to President Trump.

00:13:35.000 President Trump's policies thus far have been extraordinarily effective.

00:13:39.000 Even the policies I don't particularly like, like his tariff policies, he has mostly backed off a lot of those tariff policies and is now trying to massage those into something more palatable to the economy.

00:13:48.000 Overall, this has been a highly successful first several months of the Trump second term.

00:13:53.000 So the Democrats, the left, is now relegated to more and more ridiculous, performative resistance.

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00:16:37.000 Here I should mention, I think, the most ridiculous performative resistance.

00:16:41.000 And that is a piece in the Washington Post titled, Donald Trump is Not a Clown.

00:16:46.000 I should know I am a clown.

00:16:49.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:16:50.000 That's an actual, real piece in the Washington Post.

00:16:54.000 Tim Cunningham, board president of Clowns Without Borders, wrote this piece.

00:17:00.000 Quote, allegations that President Trump is a clownish figure are not hard to come by.

00:17:04.000 Political strategist James Carville referred to Trump's administration as the clown show after Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam gave an incorrect definition of habeas corpus during a Senate hearing.

00:17:14.000 But none of this qualifies Trump for such a title.

00:17:17.000 I am a clown and board president of the nonprofit Clowns Without Borders, and I'm here to set the record straight.

00:17:24.000 Honk honk.

00:17:28.000 Oh my gosh, this is what they're relegated to.

00:17:30.000 They're relegated to Trump isn't the clown because real clowns make children laugh.

00:17:35.000 Quote, I have performed as a professional clown for 24 years.

00:17:38.000 Clown, capital C, is a valuable and varied art form.

00:17:41.000 Pantomimes, acrobats, magicians, dancers, Santa comedians, vaudeville artists, and jugglers are all examples of artists who incorporate clown into their work.

00:17:49.000 Whether you know it as clown or not, you've likely seen it.

00:17:51.000 From stage clowns such as Bill Irwin to the characters of Cirque de Soleil, created by masters such as Michelle Matlock and Mookie Cornish, from pedagogical ensembles such as Pigiron or SpyMonkey to healthcare clown organizations such as Laughter League and Healthy Humor, clown is huge.

00:18:05.000 Clown demands years, if not a lifetime, of study.

00:18:08.000 And he just goes on talking about the magic of clown.

00:18:11.000 But here's the key point.

00:18:13.000 All clown shares the common values of healing, empathy, and reflection.

00:18:17.000 Our work touches people in need of joy everywhere.

00:18:22.000 Clowns are more than children's birthday party performers.

00:18:25.000 We help people relax, heal, and prompt others to think differently about the world.

00:18:29.000 Let's find a better metaphor to despise and depose fascism.

00:18:32.000 Keep clown out of Trump comparisons, and for that matter, all politics.

00:18:36.000 Offer clown the respect it deserves.

00:18:41.000 I will admit this clown is making me laugh.

00:18:43.000 He is making me laugh.

00:18:44.000 That is a funny clown.

00:18:45.000 That is some funny clown right there.

00:18:48.000 But again, the entire left wing response to President Trump is not to promote good policy, is to be performatively angry.

00:18:56.000 That is why you have Gavin Newsom putting on his angry face or Corey Booker popping in the angry ass and speaking for 25 hours.

00:19:04.000 Or why you have Hakeem Jeffries doing a seven-hour speech.

00:19:07.000 Yay, Hakeem, you talked for seven hours.

00:19:10.000 And everybody, oh my gosh, look at that resistance.

00:19:12.000 Look, so much resisting.

00:19:15.000 Well, the latest iteration of this is Jasmine Crockett. 1.00

00:19:18.000 So Jasmine Crockett is not a smart human. 1.00

00:19:20.000 And I'm sorry, she just isn't.

00:19:23.000 I have seen no evidence of Jasmine Crockett ever saying anything halfway intelligent.

00:19:27.000 She wants to run for Senate in Texas now, Which, like, please do it. 1.00

00:19:34.000 Do it.

00:19:35.000 Cannot wait.

00:19:37.000 Apparently, if she does run, according to the polling, she would be at the forefront of likely Democratic voters' preferences in the race for that U.S. Senate seat in Texas. 0.71

00:19:47.000 Now, we'll get to the Republican response in Texas, which is a bit of a mess in terms of who is running.

00:19:51.000 It should be John Cornyn, who is the current senator.

00:19:53.000 Ken Paxton, who's the attorney general of the state of Texas, also would like to run, but he has a bunch of skeletons in his closet.

00:20:00.000 He's kind of a mess.

00:20:01.000 In any case, Crockett led with 35% support among surveyed Democratic voters ahead of Colin Allred, who you remember ran for Senate against Ted Cruz and lost.

00:20:10.000 He's a 20.

00:20:11.000 Beto O'Rourke, Beto, might want to make a comeback.

00:20:15.000 Bong rip, kick flip, Beto.

00:20:18.000 I want him back because I can bring back the Beto Stoner voice, which I really did enjoy for several years there.

00:20:25.000 And we miss Beto.

00:20:26.000 He's been out in the New Mexican desert eating dirt in order to find his spirit animal or something.

00:20:31.000 And Texas Representative Joaquin Castro are both at 13%, according to a survey conducted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

00:20:39.000 So it would be fascinating to see if Crockett also jumps in.

00:20:44.000 Crockett was the top choice for shared values among likely Democratic voters, garnering 30% support.

00:20:52.000 So if she jumps in, I mean, good luck to you.

00:20:55.000 Again, the reason she's become famous is because she is a newer, fresher AOC. 0.98

00:21:00.000 AOC was so fresh, SoFace at one point, but she is no longer so fresh, SoFace.

00:21:04.000 She is slightly withered.

00:21:06.000 And so Jasmine Crockett is the freshest of the facest and also says many curse words and uses incredibly evocative language. 0.99

00:21:15.000 And thus, she has become famous for being a resistance hero because we can't have nice things in this country.

00:21:21.000 We just can't.

00:21:21.000 In any case, here was Jasmine Crockett literally yesterday claiming that Joe Biden was totally fine during his entire term.

00:21:28.000 Good luck to you guys, you Democrats.

00:21:31.000 No, I had none.

00:21:32.000 Now, granted, I didn't see Joe Biden every single day, but I did have an opportunity to interact with the president.

00:21:39.000 I never had a concern.

00:21:41.000 If there's anyone that I am concerned about their mental acuity, it is the current occupant.

00:21:48.000 Oh, wow.

00:21:49.000 She's not concerned with the mental acuity of Joe Biden, who is on a beach somewhere with a feeding tube in him.

00:21:55.000 She's really concerned about Donald Trump.

00:21:57.000 Run her for Senate. 1.00

00:21:58.000 But again, this is the entire shtick for the Democratic Party.

00:22:00.000 The more performative you are, the more you are beloved.

00:22:03.000 I'm not going to pretend this doesn't exist in the Republican Party too, but there are some forces pushing back in the Republican Party.

00:22:08.000 I see zero forces of any weight or size pushing back against this in the Democratic Party.

00:22:13.000 It's a disaster area for them and for the country because the Democratic Party is a major party, which means if these performative schmucks ever gain power, what comes next for the country is truly horrifyingly ugly.

00:22:25.000 Speaking of which, over in New York, there's new polling out surrounding the mayoral race.

00:22:30.000 Democratic nominee Zoran Montani, the socialist jihad-friendly candidate of New York.

00:22:36.000 I say jihad-friendly because he literally rapped about wanting to release the Holy Land Five who were put in jail for funding Hamas. 0.70

00:22:44.000 So that is said with full understanding of what that means.

00:22:48.000 He holds a 10-point lead right now in the New York City general election for mayor.

00:22:52.000 Now, it is important to recognize here that he's at 35%.

00:22:56.000 This dude is not at 50%.

00:22:57.000 He is not at 70%.

00:22:58.000 He's at 35%.

00:22:59.000 Andrew Cuomo, who just lost his Democratic mayoral primary to Momdani, is at 25%.

00:23:06.000 Curtis Sliwa, who's the Republican nominee who's now run several times.

00:23:10.000 I know Curtis.

00:23:10.000 I like Curtis.

00:23:11.000 Curtis has done cool things with the Guardian Angels.

00:23:13.000 He's not going to be the next mayor of New York.

00:23:15.000 It's not happening.

00:23:16.000 So what really should happen is consolidation behind an anti-Momdani candidate.

00:23:20.000 Sliwa's at 14%.

00:23:22.000 Adams is at 11%, which means that if you combine the support of Cuomo Sliwa and Adams, right, everybody who is not Momdani here, you are talking about a 50 to 35 race against Momdani.

00:23:34.000 So apparently one-third of the voters in New York support Momdani in New York City.

00:23:39.000 And the other two-thirds are like, not so much.

00:23:41.000 13% of respondents said they weren't sure.

00:23:43.000 1% picked another candidate.

00:23:44.000 If you say you're not sure about Momdani, hard to read that.

00:23:48.000 Could mean that there's some shy Momdani voters, people who actually want to vote for him, but don't want to say so out loud.

00:23:52.000 Could be that people don't want to say they don't want to vote for Momdani because they're afraid of being labeled Islamophobic or whatever.

00:23:57.000 Eric Adams should not be the consolidation candidate.

00:24:00.000 He should not.

00:24:01.000 Eric Adams, again, I have nothing against Mayor Adams.

00:24:05.000 The man has more baggage than an entire trailer car from Anna Karenina.

00:24:10.000 I mean, the dude just has skeletons in his closets like pirates of the Caribbean.

00:24:14.000 And the voters of New York don't like him, period.

00:24:17.000 His net approval rating is at negative 34.

00:24:19.000 28% of respondents are favorable.

00:24:22.000 62% unfavorable.

00:24:24.000 Cuomo is at negative 2.

00:24:25.000 So listen, I think Andrew Cuomo is a schmuck of schmucks.

00:24:28.000 I think that Andrew Cuomo is awful.

00:24:29.000 I think he's a terrible governor of New York.

00:24:31.000 I think he is pathologically cruel in his politics.

00:24:37.000 I don't think he's a good candidate.

00:24:39.000 I also think he's going to do better than Eric Adams is going to do if Cuomo drops out of the race.

00:24:44.000 Some of that support goes over to Eric Adams.

00:24:46.000 Some of those people stay home, probably.

00:24:48.000 Some may even move over to Mamzani.

00:24:50.000 And as far as Curtis, Curtis should look for a position within the administration of somebody else because, again, he is not going to be the next mayor of New York.

00:24:57.000 It's not going to happen.

00:24:58.000 I wish it would.

00:24:59.000 He'd be a great mayor of New York, but it's not going to happen.

00:25:03.000 Adams trails Mamdani and Cuomo among even black voters.

00:25:07.000 Momdani currently leads at 35, followed by Cuomo at 32, Adams at 14, and Slibwa at 3.

00:25:13.000 So, again, it is possible to stop Mamdani, but not within the Democratic Party.

00:25:19.000 The Democratic Party is perfectly fine with Mamdani.

00:25:22.000 Again, they are constantly doing this thing in the Democratic Party where they find the craziest members of their caucus, and then they pat them on the head, they hug them close, and they try to use them as jet fuel.

00:25:31.000 They never seem to understand that when you feed the revolutionaries, eventually you're first to the guillotine.

00:25:36.000 That feeding AOC didn't lead to AOC becoming mainstream.

00:25:40.000 It led to AOC's radical philosophy becoming mainstream, and now she's endangering Chuck Schumer in a Senate race in New York.

00:25:48.000 That's what always happens.

00:25:49.000 When you feed the alligator, the alligator doesn't actually eat you last.

00:25:53.000 It actually eats you sometimes first.

00:25:55.000 And that is what's happening right now inside the Democratic Party.

00:25:58.000 And let's be clear about how radical Zorin Mamdani is.

00:26:01.000 You can tell by many of the people that he was associated with and continues to associate with.

00:26:05.000 So, for example, here is a former Mamdani intern named Hadika Arzumalik openly calling for jihad the other day.

00:26:15.000 How do we, you know, we don't want to get doxxed and we don't want to get suspended and we don't want to get arrested.

00:26:21.000 How gangsta are you?

00:26:23.000 That's just my question.

00:26:24.000 How much are you willing to do it?

00:26:26.000 And I know everyone has their own risk levels, but at the end of the day, that's a question to ask ourselves.

00:26:32.000 How committed am I to this?

00:26:34.000 To what extent of my personal material gains am I willing to sacrifice for this bigger noble cause?

00:26:43.000 And subhanAllah, I truly believe that when your heart is in the right place, if you get suspended, if you get doxed because it's bound to happen when you're doing a righteous cause and when you're doing something for the sake of Allah here in the West, it will never ever be in vain.

00:26:58.000 And the true believer does not fear that because the true believer knows that the akhira is a promise.

00:27:03.000 And the true believer knows that none of this is in vain, that this is all jihad, that this is all ibadah, and that this is all counted for by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:27:13.000 And so the conversation of doxing, the conversation of getting arrested and suspended, I think it's time for Muslims to start to say, all right, all right, so what? 0.91

00:27:23.000 Do what you want.

00:27:24.000 I'm going to do what I got to do because it's about time to do that.

00:27:28.000 And I know everybody has their own families and has an education and everything.

00:27:35.000 Just a question.

00:27:36.000 And a question that I think, inshallah, we can all go home with and to self-reflect and ask ourselves.

00:27:42.000 What are we willing to give for this cause?

00:27:46.000 Okay, so just going to point out this person was a former intern for Montani.

00:27:50.000 Now, not all interns speak for the person, but that is reflective of a large strain inside Montani's philosophy.

00:27:58.000 He speaks about this sort of stuff in similar cadences fairly frequently.

00:28:02.000 I mean, there's a reason the man won't denounce the globalize the intifada stuff because he would love to globalize the intifada.

00:28:08.000 And he doesn't mean in the jihad as an internal struggle way.

00:28:12.000 The left has been incentivizing jihadi violence for quite a long time at this point, from college campuses to the Middle East.

00:28:19.000 And so this is not a shock, but the DNC has no capacity to separate off from it.

00:28:22.000 Already coming up, Michelle Obama is still somehow complaining about her life.

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00:30:30.000 The Democratic National Committee's Ken Martin, who is just a mess.

00:30:35.000 I mean, just a complete mess.

00:30:36.000 He says that, you know, Mamdani's refusal to condemn globalized the Intifada, that's fine.

00:30:40.000 We're a Big Ten party, a Big Ten party that includes people who, you know, like Hamas and also people who only sort of like Hamas.

00:30:49.000 There's no candidate in this party that I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you.

00:30:54.000 There's things that I don't agree with Mom Dani that he said.

00:30:58.000 But at the end of the day, I always believe as a Democratic Party chair in Minnesota for the last 14 years and now the chair of the DNC that you win through addition.

00:31:06.000 You win by bringing people into your coalition.

00:31:09.000 We have conservative Democrats, we have centrist Democrats, we have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftists.

00:31:18.000 And we win by bringing people into that coalition.

00:31:21.000 And at the end of the day, for me, that's the type of party we're going to lead.

00:31:25.000 We are a big tent party.

00:31:26.000 Yes, it leads to dissent and debate, and there's differences of opinions on a whole host of issues, but we should celebrate that as a party and recognize at the end of the day, we're better because of it.

00:31:38.000 Well, they're better because they have people who are kind of warm toward jihad in their party, obviously.

00:31:43.000 I mean, that obviously is what makes a party stronger.

00:31:46.000 See, this sort of idea, and it exists, I will say, across the political spectrum, that the big tent is bigger than the small tent.

00:31:52.000 Well, Grover Norquist once said, the problem with the big tent is you let in a lot of clowns.

00:31:56.000 You know, I don't mean to, you know, again, bring up the clown, offend clown guy, but the problem with a big tent is that you have to have some limits to who you let in your tent.

00:32:06.000 Otherwise, you let in some pretty evil people into your tent.

00:32:08.000 And that's what the DNC is doing right now.

00:32:12.000 The Democratic Party is studiously avoiding the consequences of bringing in people who believe, like Zora Mamdani believes, into the Democratic Party.

00:32:19.000 Hakeem Jeffries is too much of a coward to even answer questions about Zora Mamdani.

00:32:23.000 Here he was, avoiding the question the other day.

00:32:27.000 Asked whether Mamdani thinks those House incumbent challenges should happen.

00:32:32.000 His press secretary told CNN he was declining to comment, at least for now.

00:32:36.000 How do you respond?

00:32:39.000 I have no idea what these people are talking about.

00:32:41.000 We are going to continue to focus our efforts as we did on the House floor in connection with Donald Trump's one big ugly bill on pushing back against the extremism that has been unleashed on the American people.

00:32:55.000 It's clear to us as House Democrats, it's clear to us as members of the New York City delegation that the problem is Donald Trump and House Republicans who have launched this unprecedented assault on the American way of life, an assault on health care.

00:33:09.000 They're ripping food out of the mouths of children, veterans, and seniors.

00:33:13.000 They're exploding the national debt.

00:33:15.000 They're unleashing mass agents on law-abiding immigrant communities.

00:33:20.000 It shouldn't be too difficult for some people to figure out who the problem is in the United States of America.

00:33:29.000 I noticed that you avoided the question, sir.

00:33:32.000 Meanwhile, the other Democrats, you know, good-hearted Democrats, people like Richie Torres, right, Democratic representative from New York, he is trying to defend his party from the predations of Momdani. 0.97

00:33:44.000 So what does he do?

00:33:45.000 He tries to say, well, the real reason that Mamdani won is because he focused on affordability, not on all these other issues.

00:33:50.000 Again, I wish that were true.

00:33:51.000 The reality is that Mamdani didn't just talk about affordability.

00:33:54.000 He did talk about all of the virtue signaling radical points in the Democratic Party platform.

00:34:00.000 That was his goal, right?

00:34:01.000 His goal was to virtue signal about things like the Gaza Strip, to virtue signal about spending money to trans the children. 0.95

00:34:10.000 Those were not drawbacks to his campaign.

00:34:12.000 They were helpful to his campaign among the radicals in the party.

00:34:15.000 And I think Richie is doing his best with this, but this is not factually accurate.

00:34:21.000 I acknowledge your point about Israel, but Mamdani did not run on Israel.

00:34:27.000 He did not even run on Defund the Police.

00:34:29.000 In fact, he ran away from it.

00:34:30.000 He ran on affordability.

00:34:32.000 And the fact is, there is a generation of young voters who are struggling with the crushing cost of housing and higher education and health care and who want to hear candidates speak to their anxieties about the affordability crisis.

00:34:45.000 And so that, to me, is the greatest lesson learned is that we as Democrats have to create an agenda that speaks to the affordability crisis.

00:34:53.000 Okay, but let's be clear.

00:34:54.000 He didn't just run on those things.

00:34:57.000 He didn't just run on those things.

00:34:58.000 And even if he ran on those things, shouldn't the Democratic Party be like, okay, so you're right about affordability, but you're wrong about Hamas? 0.59

00:35:04.000 You're wrong about transing the kids? 1.00

00:35:05.000 But the Democratic Party can never seem to do that.

00:35:08.000 Scott Jennings of CNN made that point to you, Richie Torres, saying, like, the people who are attacking you are attacking you because you support Israel.

00:35:15.000 Are you being honest when you say you don't know why they're targeting you?

00:35:18.000 You know why they're targeting you.

00:35:19.000 Oh, no, I'm not.

00:35:20.000 I know why they're targeting you.

00:35:20.000 You know why they're targeting you?

00:35:21.000 But I don't care that they're targeting you.

00:35:23.000 Well, why don't you say it?

00:35:24.000 You know why they're targeting me.

00:35:25.000 I think they're targeting me because I'm pro-Israel.

00:35:26.000 That's 100%.

00:35:27.000 Yeah, that's the issue.

00:35:28.000 So are you saying they're targeting you and all of these other individuals?

00:35:31.000 You've got Clark, Tucky, and I'm not sure.

00:35:32.000 I mean, I think I am specifically targeted because of my position on Israel.

00:35:38.000 He is right.

00:35:40.000 He is correct.

00:35:41.000 He is targeted because of his position on Israel in the Democratic Party.

00:35:45.000 That is exactly, exactly right.

00:35:47.000 And the Democratic Party is not going to do anything about that.

00:35:49.000 Chuck Schumer, coward of cowards, he says, you know, I will meet with Dorn Mondani.

00:35:53.000 We'll do that really soon, actually.

00:35:56.000 It's been a couple months since the New York City primary, but you'll get to endorse the Democratic nominee.

00:36:02.000 What is holding you back?

00:36:03.000 And hopefully it's tape for you to get to that.

00:36:05.000 I'll be meeting with them soon.

00:36:09.000 Well, I'm sure you will, because again, the Democratic Party cannot divide itself off from the performative, cosplaying radical leftists.

00:36:15.000 They cannot.

00:36:16.000 Well, there are a few Democrats who are attempting to fight back against this, but they are in short supply and they are being ripped up by their own party.

00:36:22.000 So John Fetterman, the senator from Pennsylvania, is a great example of this.

00:36:25.000 Apparently, the only last reasonable Democrat in the Senate, or at least one of the very few.

00:36:30.000 And basically, the Democrats turned on him not when they believed that he actually had a serious issue, a serious brain issue when he was first elected.

00:36:37.000 They turned on him when it turned out that he wasn't a full-scale nut job in line with poo-pooing Zar Mamdani and company. 0.98

00:36:44.000 Here's John Fetterman saying Mamdani isn't even a Democrat.

00:36:46.000 What are we doing here?

00:36:50.000 I'm not a voter in New York City, and so I have no dog in that fight.

00:36:56.000 And everything that I've read on him, I don't really agree with virtually any of it politically.

00:37:02.000 So that's just where I'm at as a Democrat.

00:37:04.000 I mean, so he's not even a Democrat, honestly.

00:37:10.000 Good for Federman.

00:37:11.000 But again, this puts him on the outs with his own party, which is trying to make nice with Mom Dani.

00:37:16.000 Because again, every legit party always tries to make peace with its revolutionaries, and then the revolutionaries end up eating them.

00:37:23.000 Now, there's sort of a last-ditch effort to try and get somebody to drop out.

00:37:26.000 Nobody's dropping out of the New York race right now.

00:37:29.000 Some of New York's wealthiest financiers, according to the Wall Street Journal, are trying to build out a network of outside groups planning to go to war against Mom Dani.

00:37:34.000 But unless there is some sort of consolidation around somebody who is not Mom Dani, the vote's going to get split and Mom Dani is going to end up being the mayor of New York. 1.00

00:37:43.000 So they're trying to raise $20 million for this sort of thing.

00:37:46.000 And I don't think that that is going to be the key factor.

00:37:50.000 Negative campaigning will work against Mom Dani if people have an alternative.

00:37:53.000 But if there are several alternatives and nobody likes any of them, then that is going to be a major, major problem.

00:37:58.000 But again, speaking of the Democratic Party, what is the sort of jet fuel for the Democratic Party?

00:38:03.000 The jet fuel is an unending victim ideology, an unending sense of perennial victimhood.

00:38:09.000 No matter how successful you are, you are a victim.

00:38:11.000 And if you're not a victim, you're speaking on behalf of the victimized.

00:38:15.000 And this is, again, why you see the coalitional scavengers. 0.93

00:38:18.000 When I talk about my new book, Lions and Scavengers, available at the Daily Wire store, signed for pre-sale right now.

00:38:25.000 When you're talking about the scavengers, the people who spend their lives complaining about how rough they have it and how rough everybody has it, who's a member of a quote-unquote marginalized community while they sit there in their air-conditioned studios being worth tens of millions of dollars.

00:38:39.000 These are the people that we are talking about.

00:38:41.000 Because frequently, the people who lead revolutions are not, in fact, the people who grow up dirt poor, come from nothing.

00:38:49.000 That's sort of a movie trope.

00:38:50.000 The people who tend to lead revolutions are generally somewhat privileged members of the middle or upper middle class who then rise to fame and fortune on the back Of complaining about their societies.

00:39:02.000 This is true of pretty much every revolutionary, every serious revolutionary in modern history.

00:39:07.000 It doesn't come from the people who are the poorest.

00:39:09.000 It's a point made by the philosopher Eric Hoffer.

00:39:13.000 But Michelle Obama is just a beautiful example of this. 0.94

00:39:16.000 So, Michelle Obama did not grow up dirt poor.

00:39:19.000 She went to Princeton University.

00:39:21.000 She then went to Harvard Law School.

00:39:23.000 She then married Barack Obama and got a bunch of cush jobs at places like the University of Chicago Healthcare Board.

00:39:29.000 And then she was First Lady of the United States.

00:39:32.000 So this is not someone who has been suffering at the traumatic hands of a deeply rooted evil in American society.

00:39:40.000 But she spends all day just complaining.

00:39:42.000 It's just what she does for a living. 1.00

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00:42:50.000 Baked in without our knowing it.

00:42:55.000 So many rules that women have to pay, as opposed to rules for men. 1.00

00:42:59.000 There are so many rules for women. 1.00

00:43:00.000 It's so brutal and difficult.

00:43:01.000 In fact, Michelle Obama is very, by the way, she's talking with Julia Louis Dreyfus, you know, like the very, very famous and wealthy actress, complaining about how rough life is for women in a beautifully turned out studio drinking from porcelain mugs.

00:43:15.000 I just, I can't with these people.

00:43:17.000 I can't.

00:43:17.000 Here she was talking about how she doesn't have the certainty of maleness.

00:43:20.000 Women don't have the certainty of maleness. 1.00

00:43:25.000 We're always hedging, you know, because in the back of our minds, we weren't raised with the certainty of maleness that, you know, kind of the confidence that young men in their 30s have, which they haven't earned.

00:43:38.000 They just have it.

00:43:39.000 You know, we don't start feeling that and owning that until our 50s and 60s at a time when we start to be treated as invisible in society.

00:43:55.000 You don't have the certainty of maleness.

00:43:57.000 It's true.

00:43:57.000 Men face such great certainty as opposed to women who face tremendous uncertainty.

00:44:02.000 Okay, so I asked our friends and sponsors at Perplexity a couple of easy questions.

00:44:07.000 What percentage of women versus men graduate from college and from graduate school? 0.98

00:44:10.000 Who is more likely to die young, men or women?

00:44:14.000 Answer, women are more likely than men to graduate from college in the United States. 0.78

00:44:17.000 In 2024, the six-year graduation rate for women at four-year colleges was 67% compared to 60% for men.

00:44:24.000 Among adults aged 25 to 34, 47% of women have a bachelor's degree compared to 37% of men.

00:44:31.000 The gender gap is consistent across all major racial and ethnic groups.

00:44:35.000 Women also outpace men in graduate study completion.

00:44:38.000 Women earn about 54 to 56% of all doctoral degrees and 62 to 67% of all master's degrees.

00:44:45.000 Who is likely to die young, men or women?

00:44:47.000 In the United States, life expectancy for men is about five to six years shorter than for women.

00:44:52.000 A larger percentage of men die before age 65 compared to women.

00:44:55.000 31% of men who died in 2023 were under 65 versus only 19% of women.

00:45:01.000 Men have a higher mortality rate from nearly all major causes of death, including accidents, heart disease, suicide, and drug overdoses.

00:45:10.000 So when we're talking about women don't have the certainty of maleness, if by this you mean testosterone gives people a greater feeling of risk-taking, that of course is true, but that's a biological rationale.

00:45:22.000 That is not a societal construct.

00:45:24.000 Testosterone makes people more confident.

00:45:26.000 It does.

00:45:27.000 It makes people more aggressive.

00:45:29.000 That's what the hormone does. 1.00

00:45:31.000 Estrogen does not do those things?

00:45:33.000 So, is that the fault of society?

00:45:35.000 Or is that just the way that human biology works?

00:45:38.000 Like, if you feel less certain, is that because society is mean to you specifically, or is that because reality dictates that the hormones that you have in your body are making you less aggressive than that heavily muscled dude down the hallway who works out twice a day and eats nothing but red meat?

00:45:53.000 Like that biology has something to do with this, but again, this idea is that you're victimized, you're victimized.

00:45:58.000 And the reason Michelle Obama is talking about this is not because she believes that you're victimized by biology.

00:46:03.000 She believes that you are victimized by the deep-rooted evil of American society that somehow makes women less than, that somehow throws obstacles in the way of women.

00:46:13.000 Now, never in human history has there been a group of women as privileged as American women in 2025. 0.90

00:46:17.000 It just does not exist.

00:46:19.000 Again, you can make the argument that men had it better than women do in 2025 100 years ago. 0.98

00:46:26.000 But the argument that women of today are the deeply suffering class in American society is not statistically true.

00:46:35.000 That is not to denigrate the struggles of any specific woman.

00:46:38.000 It is not to denigrate the fact that women have to make life choices that men don't have to make because of their biology, including when to have kids, when not to have kids, how to balance career and kids.

00:46:48.000 All that is, of course, true.

00:46:49.000 That's just natural to human biology.

00:46:51.000 The question is not women compared to men.

00:46:53.000 It's women compared to women of the past or women compared to some ideal of what womanhood should be. 0.99

00:46:59.000 What choices are unavailable to women in 2025 in America? 1.00

00:47:03.000 Please name them.

00:47:05.000 Really, name the choices that women do not have because they are women, not based on biology, but based on societal restriction.

00:47:13.000 You can't.

00:47:14.000 They don't exist.

00:47:16.000 And if you say abortion, that is not about the woman.

00:47:18.000 That is about the protection of the child growing inside the woman. 0.99

00:47:21.000 That is a completely separate issue.

00:47:24.000 By the way, we'll still mention that abortion on demand is available in New York and California, for example, and Massachusetts and a wide variety of other states across the country.

00:47:32.000 But this perennial victimhood ideology spreads out beyond the boundaries of just womanhood. 1.00

00:47:36.000 You hear it with regard to DEI sort of, it's about blackness or brownness or gayness or whatever the subgroup may be.

00:47:45.000 You declare yourself a member of a marginalized community, and then you suggest the entire superstructure of power is designed in order to put you down. 0.97

00:47:51.000 And then you can join with all the other people who consider themselves marginalized in order to tear down the system.

00:47:56.000 That is the only coalitional point.

00:47:58.000 It's a point J.D. Vance made beautifully the other day at the Claremont Institute.

00:48:02.000 When you have a consolidated group of people who disagree with each other on pretty much everything, except the idea that the system must be torn out by its roots, this is what you end up with.

00:48:09.000 And everybody becomes a victim.

00:48:11.000 Michelle Obama is a victim.

00:48:14.000 Supposedly, Mahmoud Khalil is a victim.

00:48:17.000 Mahmoud Khalil is, of course, the person who basically immigrated to the United States in order to become a protest leader on behalf of terrorism.

00:48:25.000 And then the federal government arrested him and was going to deport him because of his associations and deep involvement with the violent Colombia protests.

00:48:37.000 And then a federal judge ordered him freed.

00:48:38.000 And now he's suggesting that he wants to sue the federal government for $20 million in damage.

00:48:43.000 They're alleging that he was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as an anti-Semite.

00:48:48.000 I'm afraid that you were not smeared, my friend.

00:48:50.000 All you did was hang out and stand for a group that promotes the most vicious anti-Semitism in American life.

00:48:59.000 Well, here is Mahmoud Khalil, again, victim of American society. 0.61

00:49:04.000 Today, we filed for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration because of the unconstitutional and unlawful arrest and all these conditions that I was put under.

00:49:21.000 It's clear to me it's either the $20 million or an official apology from the administration.

00:49:26.000 Because ultimately, my goal is not self-enrichment.

00:49:30.000 I don't want this money just because I need money.

00:49:33.000 What I want is actually accountability, real accountability.

00:49:36.000 So if President Trump apologized, would you accept that?

00:49:40.000 If it's a formal apology that, of course, would reverse his fascist agenda, then definitely I would accept that.

00:49:51.000 Now, again, this idea that he is some sort of moderate immigrant to the United States who just wishes to live the American life.

00:49:57.000 No, he's not.

00:49:57.000 He's a victim, just like everybody else.

00:49:59.000 We should not import people who believe that they are part of a gigantic coalition of victims directed at tearing down Western institutions.

00:50:05.000 It's just not a good idea.

00:50:06.000 It's not a good idea.

00:50:07.000 But this is why the left is in favor of illegal immigrant child labor at pot farms in California over ICE.

00:50:16.000 This is why they are in favor of Zoran Mamdani over even what used to be a mainstream Democrat.

00:50:22.000 This is why, because of all of this, because of all of this.

00:50:25.000 Now, how are Republicans responding to this sort of stuff?

00:50:29.000 Well, President Trump has responded by actually pursuing a wide variety of successful policies.

00:50:34.000 However, polarization is a two-party game.

00:50:37.000 And one of the things that's happening in terms of our performative social media-driven politics is that if the left comes up with performative politicians and figures, then so does the right.

00:50:46.000 And that performative politics is now making its way to the Texas Senate race.

00:50:52.000 So Ken Paxton, who takes an awful lot of very loud positions as the attorney general of the state of Texas, some of which I agree with, some of which I don't.

00:51:04.000 Ken Paxton wants to run for the Senate in Texas in a primary against John Cornyn.

00:51:10.000 Well, that dude has a lot of skeletons and a lot of baggage, as we've talked about.

00:51:14.000 Some of that baggage includes an impeachment in the Texas House.

00:51:17.000 He was then acquitted by the Senate.

00:51:18.000 An impeachment in the Texas House on charges of corruption, in which he was effectively alleged to have directed government monies toward particular sources who are then providing employment for a woman, not his wife, with whom he was having an affair, for example.

00:51:37.000 And there are some other allegations surrounding Ken Paxton.

00:51:39.000 And let's put it this way.

00:51:40.000 Ken Paxton is significantly less likely to win a general election than John Cornyn is in the state of Texas.

00:51:45.000 And Republicans cannot afford to lose Senate seats at this point.

00:51:48.000 They have a very narrow majority as it is.

00:51:50.000 Well, yesterday, Angela Paxton, his wife, who is a Texas state senator herself, announced that she had filed for divorce from Ken Paxton.

00:51:58.000 Quote, today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.

00:52:02.000 On biblical grounds, the euphemism for he's committing adultery.

00:52:05.000 I believe marriage is a sacred covenant, and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation.

00:52:08.000 But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or ken to remain in the marriage.

00:52:13.000 I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.

00:52:21.000 He then released his own statement, pointing blame at countless political attacks and public scrutiny.

00:52:28.000 Now, again, he was impeached for corruption allegations in the Texas House of Representatives, accused of using his position to help a real estate developer who allegedly was providing work to a girl who he was having an affair with.

00:52:41.000 So again, this sort of stuff, is this where Republicans want to go?

00:52:45.000 How many Republican Senate seats have now been lost to bad Republican Senate candidates?

00:52:50.000 The answer is a lot.

00:52:52.000 Hey, there are at least four Senate seats that should be in Republican hands right now that are in Democratic hands.

00:52:56.000 At least four.

00:52:58.000 Probably more, but at least four.

00:53:00.000 Two in Georgia, two in Arizona.

00:53:02.000 Those are both states that Donald Trump won running away in the last election cycle.

00:53:06.000 And both states have two Democratic senators because Republicans keep running idiots for these various seats.

00:53:11.000 Or people who at least are not able to translate their appeal to the base into a general election appeal.

00:53:18.000 So my guidance for the Republican Party, at some point, put your foot down and actually say who can win.

00:53:26.000 See, I like winners, not losers, as the president might say.

00:53:30.000 And I'm fond of actually achieving policy goals rather than the performative.

00:53:35.000 Well, folks, we do have some exciting news here at Daily Wire Plus, a brand new documentary titled Journey to the UFC.

00:53:41.000 It's the true story of Joe Pfeiffer, who went from an abusive home and living on the streets to breaking bones, breaking odds, earning a UFC contract the hard way.

00:53:48.000 That documentary, Journey to the UFC, premieres July 25th on Daily Wire Plus.

00:53:53.000 And Joe Pfeiffer joins us on the line right now.

00:53:56.000 He's racked up to 14-3 pro record with nine wins by knockout, three by submission.

00:54:00.000 And again, he's subject of that new Daily Wire documentary, Journey to the UFC.

00:54:04.000 Joe, thanks so much for taking the time.

00:54:05.000 Really appreciate it.

00:54:06.000 Yeah, thanks for having me.

00:54:07.000 It's a cool opportunity going from watching the show to now being on the show.

00:54:13.000 Well, thanks for watching.

00:54:14.000 So let's talk about what UFC means to so many young men.

00:54:17.000 Your story is a great story of why UFC has become such an iconic part of American life.

00:54:22.000 So much so the president of the United States is going to hold UFC fights at the White House, actually.

00:54:26.000 What is your story?

00:54:27.000 How did UFC play into that?

00:54:29.000 Yeah, my story starts out super young.

00:54:31.000 You know, I started jiu-jitsu at four and a half years old.

00:54:35.000 Abuse happened in my family pretty early on.

00:54:38.000 So it was definitely a difficult learning introduction into MMA.

00:54:42.000 And I never let go of it.

00:54:44.000 You know, no matter how bad my home situation had gotten, running away from home, dealing with abuse from an abusive father to, you know, still pursuing this, going into a wrestling career with high school, and then immediately fighting out of high school.

00:54:59.000 So it's been a long journey.

00:55:01.000 And I think the testimony as to how big MMA is getting is simply because you are as hard as you work.

00:55:11.000 Whatever your work ethic is, and no matter the circumstances of your life, as long as you put some effort into something that you're willing to get better at any time of the day, you can always turn your life around.

00:55:22.000 So I would say that's what I've done with my career, avoiding a lot of the big details in your question.

00:55:28.000 But yeah, I mean, I essentially fought back from circumstances I wasn't supposed to win against.

00:55:36.000 Yeah, and I think that that is the key to the UFC's popularity is that in essence, it's a pure meritocracy.

00:55:42.000 And it happens to be a sort of anti-woke meritocracy because Dana White has done a really good job of keeping himself out of the politics.

00:55:49.000 He says, listen, I don't agree with much of the stuff that my fighters say.

00:55:51.000 My fighters are fighters and they get to say what they want to say.

00:55:55.000 I don't have to agree with it.

00:55:56.000 But as long as they're in the ring fighting, well, that's what they're supposed to do.

00:56:00.000 How do you prep?

00:56:02.000 What is your day like?

00:56:03.000 Because obviously, having a job of fighting people is a pretty difficult job.

00:56:07.000 What does that look like for you?

00:56:09.000 Yeah, I mean, so my day will start out pretty early.

00:56:11.000 I'll go and I'll hit a training session.

00:56:13.000 And I train in Philadelphia at Marquez MMA, my lead coach being John Marquez.

00:56:17.000 And we have some other really top UFC guys up there like Sean Brady, who's on his title run at 170.

00:56:25.000 But yeah, I'll go, I'll hit a training session from 9 to about 11, come home, eat, sleep, wake up, go do it again.

00:56:33.000 And in between that, sometimes we'll get a run or we'll get an Echo Bike workout, but that's six days a week.

00:56:40.000 And then obviously diet, we count our macros, everything like that, especially, you know, I used to make fun of it because I usually did not like counting the things I was eating.

00:56:49.000 I would eat healthy, but it really is at this level, man.

00:56:52.000 If you want to make a real title run and you want to be one of the best in the world, you really have to do those extra tiny details, which is counting macros, going to sleep, you know, tracking your sleep, things of that matter.

00:57:04.000 So it's definitely hard on the body.

00:57:05.000 It's definitely hard on the mental health, especially being in a training camp.

00:57:10.000 You don't have a life.

00:57:10.000 You don't get to go out with friends.

00:57:12.000 You don't get to enjoy a summer.

00:57:15.000 But, you know, it's all worth it, man.

00:57:17.000 And to go back to what you were saying as far as like, I guess, a censorship with the UFC, it's why I also chose this sport.

00:57:24.000 I'm a very blunt, outspoken person, and I like having the freedom of speech.

00:57:29.000 There's been some things that I have said that they weren't happy with, but nonetheless, I still have a job and they keep me.

00:57:35.000 But I will say this, what they didn't like, I understand, but I didn't tell a lie.

00:57:43.000 So let's talk about what it means to young men that you have seen.

00:57:47.000 So the left has sort of tried to portray UFC as the embodiment of toxic masculinity.

00:57:52.000 I think not really understanding that what makes UFC popular among young men is that far from it being a sort of emblem of male uselessness, it actually is telling men that they ought to go out and achieve, that they actually ought to go out and do something.

00:58:05.000 When you describe your daily schedule and the stuff that you're doing, that is, as you say, unbelievably hard work.

00:58:10.000 I mean, that is stuff that the vast majority of humans can't do.

00:58:12.000 And if you want to be the best at a thing, you really have to throw yourself into it and put yourself into a situation, a risky situation where you might even get hurt in order to achieve.

00:58:20.000 What do you think is the connection between UFC and what young males, particularly young males who may have been sort of abandoned by the culture, are looking for?

00:58:28.000 Yeah, I mean, I think they're looking for a Way to come up.

00:58:30.000 I mean, there's a way to get paid while doing what you love.

00:58:33.000 I mean, I don't think people understand that there's boxing training, there's wrestling training, there's jiu-jitsu training, there's strength and conditioning training.

00:58:40.000 And if you are missing any of those, then you're probably not going to make it, right?

00:58:45.000 So this isn't just for anybody to pick it up and go and make the UFC.

00:58:49.000 You know, I tried to make the UFC and my elbow broke, things like that.

00:58:53.000 I had to come back.

00:58:53.000 I was out two years.

00:58:54.000 I had no money, right?

00:58:56.000 And I had no family support.

00:58:58.000 I was taken in by my wrestling coach so I could be able to make it to this level.

00:59:03.000 And so, you know, it's a relentless work ethic.

00:59:06.000 And sometimes the margin for error at this level is so small, but even trying to get to this level is very, very difficult in itself.

00:59:15.000 So for anybody that, you know, thinks that this is toxic masculinity, this is a sport like any other that you are going to train aimlessly to achieve perfection and you never will.

00:59:27.000 So it's a never-ending goal.

00:59:28.000 And it's just, it's a little crazy to me.

00:59:33.000 I just think that there's too many soft people that think their feelings matter.

00:59:37.000 And not everybody's feelings matter in my opinion, especially when it's not life-changing.

00:59:42.000 So yeah, this sport is given me a way.

00:59:45.000 Look at my situation.

00:59:46.000 It's given me a way to have my freedom with my own life and my own choices where I don't have to answer to a boss every day.

00:59:54.000 I get to train and go fight and do my best and get paid.

00:59:57.000 I live a pretty quiet life outside of fighting, you know?

01:00:02.000 So I love it.

01:00:04.000 And it's a blessing to be able to do it.

01:00:08.000 Well, that's Joe Pfeiffer.

01:00:09.000 He's the subject of the new Daily Wire documentary, Journey to the UFC.

01:00:12.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

01:00:13.000 It comes out July 25th over at Daily Wire Plus.

01:00:15.000 Joe, thanks so much for the time and good luck in everything.

01:00:17.000 Thanks, man.

01:00:18.000 And meanwhile, I'd say credit to Lee Zeldon.

01:00:21.000 Lee Zeldon is the head of the EPA.

01:00:23.000 So obviously on the heels of the Jeffrey Epstein non-revelation or quasi-revelation or the Jeffrey Epstein DOJ FBI letter that basically said no evidence that he was an intelligence agent, no evidence that there was a blackmail scheme, no evidence that he was trafficking young girls to third parties.

01:00:38.000 And that was kind of the end of it, which is a very bad approach.

01:00:40.000 Okay.

01:00:40.000 Even if you believe the government when they say that, and again, I've laid out my reasons for believing that, including Dan Bongino is the person who's the deputy director of the FBI who's overseeing this case in large part.

01:00:52.000 And I don't think Dan is lying to me.

01:00:53.000 And I do think it would behoove many of the people who keep claiming that there's a conspiracy and that people in the Trump administration are lying to just say out loud what they actually want to say.

01:01:01.000 If you want to say that the Trump administration is now complicit in a pedophile cover-up, that Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Cash Patel, Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, and all the rest are actually now part of a child rape gang and covering up for it, or at least covering for it, or providing excuses for it, or using the mechanisms of law to let them off.

01:01:21.000 If you want to say that, just say it out loud.

01:01:23.000 I find it kind of cowardly.

01:01:25.000 You know, there are some people who will say it out loud, right?

01:01:27.000 Nick Fuentes is of the world will just say it.

01:01:29.000 Okay, well, at least he's being honest.

01:01:31.000 There are a bunch of people who will simply imply it without just saying it because they're afraid of pissing off the Trump administration while effectively calling them publicly complicit in pedophilia.

01:01:39.000 If you want to say it, just say the thing.

01:01:41.000 Seriously, just say the thing and stand by the courage of your own convictions.

01:01:45.000 In any case, Pam Boni has handled this just in a horrible fashion, building up and building up and building up expectations and then immediately cutting the legs out from underneath her own expectations without even a press conference. 1.00

01:01:56.000 Pamboni has handled this just horribly.

01:01:58.000 Somebody who's handling this sort of stuff better would be the head of the EPA, Lee Zeldon.

01:02:02.000 So Lee Zeldon yesterday put out a video in which he said, listen, I understand that people have a lot of questions about geoengineering and contrails.

01:02:10.000 And instead of just sort of hand-waving that away, you should go to our website.

01:02:13.000 We've put together all the information.

01:02:15.000 Here's what Lise Eldon had to say.

01:02:17.000 The American public deserves and expects honesty and transparency from their government when seeking answers.

01:02:25.000 But for years, people who asked questions in good faith were dismissed, even vilified by the media and their own government.

01:02:36.000 That era is over.

01:02:39.000 The Trump EPA is committed to total transparency.

01:02:43.000 As a result, I tasked my team at EPA to compile a list of everything we know about contrails and geoengineering for the purpose of releasing it to you now publicly.

01:02:57.000 That means anyone who reads through this information will know as much about these topics as I do as EPA administrator.

01:03:07.000 And many people on the left were upset with Zeldin for putting this out.

01:03:10.000 Oh, you're giving steam to the opposite.

01:03:12.000 He is saying, listen, you have questions.

01:03:14.000 Instead of just dismissing the questions, let me give you the answers to your questions.

01:03:17.000 And when you go over to the EPA website, it legitimately lays out all the information that we have about everything on contrails and geoengineering.

01:03:25.000 How do contrails form?

01:03:27.000 How long do they last?

01:03:28.000 What are chemtrails?

01:03:30.000 What is the sort of relationship between contrails and chemtrails and all the rest?

01:03:36.000 Just good, solid scientific information.

01:03:37.000 That is the way, by the way, that the Trump administration should approach the Epstein case from here on out.

01:03:41.000 Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, Donald Trump.

01:03:44.000 Somebody needs to go out on Monday, later today, hell, and do a two-hour press conference where they just field questions.

01:03:51.000 That's it.

01:03:52.000 And answer the questions.

01:03:54.000 Because again, I don't think that Dan Bongino is part of a child rape cover-up conspiracy.

01:03:58.000 And I don't think Cash Patel is.

01:04:00.000 And I don't think Pam Bondi is. 0.99

01:04:01.000 I think this is retailed like crap, but I don't think that that's what's happening here.

01:04:05.000 I think what happened is a bunch of people who had the same suspicions that many of the people today who are crying conspiracy had until five minutes ago saw all the evidence, analyzed all the evidence, went through the videos that none of the speculators have seen, went through the documents that none of the speculators have seen, went through all the evidence that none of the speculators have seen, and then came to another conclusion.

01:04:23.000 Because those are the only two possibilities.

01:04:25.000 The two possibilities are that either they are now complicit in a cover-up of a child rape gang or they are telling the truth about what they found.

01:04:34.000 But they should answer the questions anyway.

01:04:35.000 Because again, public disclosure is a better strategy than sort of putting out a two-page memo and declaring the whole thing dead.

01:04:42.000 And meanwhile, the Trump administration is still seeking a way forward with regard to Russia and Ukraine.

01:04:50.000 Marco Rubio had a meeting yesterday in Malaysia with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

01:04:58.000 He did convey the White House's disappointment and Frustration at the continuation of the war.

01:05:02.000 After a 50-minute conversation with Lavrov, Rubio said he would tell President Trump about a new and different approach to peace talks that was raised in the meeting.

01:05:09.000 Here's what the Secretary of State had to say.

01:05:13.000 I would say that the overwhelming majority of defense of military aid that the United States provides Ukraine has never been paused and continues along the same schedules that it's been.

01:05:22.000 I think there's a broader issue unrelated to the pause, and that involves the defense productive capabilities of the West, not just us, but of Europe as an example.

01:05:32.000 He's saying we need to ramp up our own production.

01:05:34.000 He also said we're going to send some more weapons.

01:05:35.000 President Trump said, we'll send some more weapons.

01:05:37.000 We have to, because they have to defend themselves.

01:05:39.000 The question is whether this is just another Russian gambit to waste time. 0.52

01:05:43.000 Until I see otherwise, I'm going to assume that's what it is, because again, the Russians have demonstrated no actual interest thus far in pursuing an end to this war at all.

01:05:53.000 Well, the good news is that the U.S. is now taking the defense production problems fairly seriously.

01:05:59.000 The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon is making a big investment in rare earth magnets, striking an unusual deal with a private sector company aimed at undercutting China's dominance.

01:06:07.000 This is smart.

01:06:08.000 MP Materials, America's largest rare earths miner, said Thursday it has reached a deal under which the Defense Department will take a 15% stake in the company.

01:06:15.000 The government is committed to spending billions of dollars investing in MP Materials and purchasing its output.

01:06:20.000 The deal calls for MP Materials to build a new factory to make rare earth magnets at a scale that vastly exceeds current U.S. magnet production is expected to come online in 2028.

01:06:29.000 The company's shares surged around 50% after the deal was announced.

01:06:33.000 Now, do I love the idea of the Defense Department or the Pentagon directly owning firms?

01:06:37.000 I'm not a big fan of this sort of activity generally.

01:06:40.000 With that said, anything that ups our production of rare earth minerals and magnets, that is a national security issue at this point, like a major national security issue.

01:06:48.000 It's used in all of our defense tech.

01:06:50.000 And so anything that gets us off the Chinese supply chain is a worthwhile thing. 1.00

01:06:55.000 A better alternative might be to simply sign a long-term guaranteed contract.

01:06:59.000 I think one of the reasons that the Trump administration is doing this is because they are hopeful that if a Democrat ever takes over, if the government owns 15% of the company, they're going to fulfill their contracts.

01:07:09.000 They just don't want the government walking this stuff back.

01:07:11.000 In a deal with MP Materials, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Defense is guaranteeing a price floor for rare earth minerals and magnets.

01:07:17.000 This means the company is protected against a scenario in which China fully withdraws its restrictive export policies and the minerals flood into the market, thus lowering global prices.

01:07:27.000 The government will guarantee all magnets produced at the new magnet-making facility will be purchased either by the government or by commercial consumers.

01:07:35.000 So, again, this is, I think, a smart move.

01:07:38.000 I think it's necessary, unfortunately, because of where these rare earth minerals are mined and good for the Trump administration along these lines.

01:07:47.000 Now, meanwhile, President Trump, the anniversary is coming up of the Butler assassination attempt against President Trump.

01:07:55.000 On the back of that attempt, the government has now suspended six Secret Service agents without pay based on the attack last July.

01:08:03.000 The disciplinary action took place in February, according to the Secret Service, which confirmed the news because the Senate report is set to be released any day now.

01:08:12.000 No agents were fired because the entire agency failed, not just the specific agents in this particular case, but the agency came under heavy criticism as well.

01:08:18.000 It should have, given the fact that there was a man lying on a roof, shooting a gun directly at the head of the next president and former president of the United States, and that they had not cleared the roof.

01:08:29.000 Here is President Trump recalling what happened during the Butler assassination attempt.

01:08:35.000 Well, it was unforgettable.

01:08:37.000 I didn't know exactly what was going on.

01:08:41.000 I got a whack.

01:08:42.000 There's no question about that.

01:08:44.000 And fortunately, got down quickly.

01:08:47.000 People were screaming, and I got down quickly, fortunately, because I think they shot eight bullets.

01:08:53.000 And one got me, and one got another one, and one got another one, and one killed Corey, the firefighter.

01:09:00.000 Great guy.

01:09:03.000 And so, again, it was a moment that changed American history forever because that bullet moves half an inch one way, and all of American history has changed in a much, much darker direction.

01:09:14.000 Thank God.

01:09:15.000 Thank God the president of the United States survived that assassination attempt.

01:09:20.000 Alrighty, coming up, we'll jump into economic measures that President Trump is pursuing.

01:09:24.000 Some good, some not so good.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 11, 2025

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