The Ben Shapiro Show - DISASTER: Gen Z Hates Babies, Likes Socialism

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00:00:53.000 Well, folks, the kids are not okay.

00:00:54.000 We now have an enormous amount of poll data suggesting that Generation Z has some very serious problems.

00:01:00.000 And those are problems that they didn't create for themselves.

00:01:02.000 These are problems created by honestly generations of bad parenting in the United States of America.

00:01:08.000 There are brand new poll numbers out from NBC News.

00:01:10.000 And what it shows is basically young people not into getting married or having babies, also kind of like socialism.

00:01:17.000 This is not good.

00:01:18.000 It is incredibly not good.

00:01:20.000 So according to this NBC News poll, results among respondents aged 18 to 29.

00:01:25.000 They were asked about 13 different options of top priorities.

00:01:29.000 And this is overall, and we'll get to sort of the political divisions in a moment, which showed the difference between Trump's America and Kamala Harris's America.

00:01:37.000 But overall, people 18 to 29, for women, the number one priority, number one priority in life was having a job or career you find fulfilling.

00:01:47.000 Number two, having enough money to do the things that you want to do.

00:01:50.000 Three, achieving financial independence.

00:01:53.000 Four, having emotional stability.

00:01:55.000 And then, if you go all the way down the list, all the way down the list, number 10, having children.

00:02:01.000 Number 11, being married.

00:02:04.000 That's a problem.

00:02:05.000 That is a massive problem.

00:02:07.000 If young women between the ages of 18 and 29 believe that is a tenth priority to have kids and an 11th priority to get married.

00:02:15.000 And their number one priority is having a job or a career.

00:02:19.000 That is a gigantic mistake when it comes to the purpose of life.

00:02:23.000 How about for men?

00:02:24.000 So for men, they agree. 0.67

00:02:26.000 Number one, having a job or career you find fulfilling.

00:02:28.000 And number two, they also agree with women.

00:02:30.000 Having enough money to do the things you want to do.

00:02:33.000 You have to go all the way down to number seven to get to being married. 0.65

00:02:37.000 And number eight, having children.

00:02:39.000 Again, massive, massive problem.

00:02:42.000 Any society that does not make its number one focus, not number two, not number three.

00:02:47.000 Number one, getting married and having kids is a society that is doomed to failure.

00:02:52.000 Because that is, in fact, the priority of any society.

00:02:55.000 You cannot pass your values on to the next generation if there is no next generation.

00:03:00.000 Also, you can't pass your values on to the next generation if you have no values.

00:03:03.000 And the reality is that central purpose in life comes from the book of Genesis, leaving your father and mother, marrying a member of the opposite sex, and having kids. 0.76

00:03:13.000 And that's not just because it's in the book of Genesis.

00:03:15.000 The book of Genesis has lasted.

00:03:18.000 Age is immemorial, specifically because that happens to be true.

00:03:22.000 Any society that believes that earning for I suppose individualistic pursuits, because literally the number two priority here is having enough money to do the things you want to do.

00:03:32.000 Any society that is focused on hedonistic personal fulfillment is a society that is doomed to failure.

00:03:39.000 People will stop having kids, people will stop getting married, people will not be happy.

00:03:44.000 And then when they are not happy, because it turns out that the fruits of economics are not enough to make you happy, they turn on the economics themselves.

00:03:52.000 Because you cannot fill that family-shaped hole in the heart with cash.

00:03:56.000 It is not possible to do it.

00:03:58.000 You can't.

00:04:00.000 The thing that gives fulfillment in life to human beings is getting married and having kids.

00:04:04.000 And I know that in our radically individualistic society, we're supposed to believe that all forms of familial formation, that all forms of sexual behavior are equally admirable and equally the target of aspiration for society.

00:04:19.000 That is wrong and untrue.

00:04:21.000 We should be teaching our kids that it is important to marry a member of the opposite sex and have kids with those people. 1.00

00:04:26.000 Now, will there be people for whom this doesn't apply?

00:04:28.000 Sure.

00:04:29.000 Because for every rule there are exceptions.

00:04:31.000 But if that is not the societal aspiration, what you end up with is people who are inward focused, because the thing that chiefly takes you out of your own emotional narcissism is getting married and having children.

00:04:44.000 I talk about this in the book in Lions and Scavengers, I talk about this, but the word in Hebrew for love is ahava.

00:04:51.000 The root of the word ahava is hav, to give.

00:04:56.000 And it is that giving that is at the root of love.

00:04:58.000 If you have no one to give yourself to, if you do not have, as it says in the Bible, Azer connecto, right?

00:05:05.000 Meaning a help meet is the way it's usually translated, but that's not what it means.

00:05:08.000 Okay, when it says that God is going to create for Adam a helpmate or help meet, Azer connecto is the term that is used in Hebrew.

00:05:17.000 What that literally means is a helper against him.

00:05:20.000 The point is that a woman completes a man and a man completes a woman, and yes, they do need each other, and that is not a bad thing. 0.94

00:05:26.000 That is quite a beautiful thing.

00:05:27.000 And when they come together, they have children.

00:05:29.000 And that is the most beautiful thing.

00:05:31.000 And any society that vitiates that purpose and treats that purpose as not only secondary or tertiary, but tenth on the list of priorities is a society that is not only doomed not to have kids, it is a society that is doomed for unhappiness.

00:05:47.000 And then when that unhappiness materializes, people blame the economic system.

00:05:52.000 These two things are connected.

00:05:53.000 There's polling data, as we'll get to in a moment, showing that young people, particularly, are warming towards socialism.

00:05:58.000 Why?

00:05:59.000 The answer is if you can't get what you want in the form of economics, then you tend to blame the economic system.

00:06:07.000 And it used to be that so long as you are able to earn for your family, that was the purpose of earning, to earn for your family, to be able to buy a house for your family, not just for you, for your family to provide a better life for your kids.

00:06:21.000 If you separate off family and kids from that purpose, no amount of money that you earn will ever be enough to have enough money to do the things you want to do.

00:06:29.000 Because there are always new things that you want to do.

00:06:32.000 That is something that Adam Smith, the great proponent of capitalism, talked about.

00:06:35.000 There are always new things you want to do with your money.

00:06:38.000 That is not where fulfillment is found.

00:06:40.000 And now, there is a political valence to all of this.

00:06:43.000 As pointed out by Steve Kornaki.

00:06:45.000 So, according to the NBC News decision desk poll about Generation Z, again, I don't blame young people for this, I blame their parents.

00:06:51.000 Parents did not hand down the values that they were taught by their parents to their kids.

00:06:56.000 We now have three generations in American life that have degraded the value of family and childbearing and rearing in favor of atomistic individualism that was supposed to provide a sort of libertine fulfillment.

00:07:09.000 And you know what?

00:07:10.000 It's just empty.

00:07:11.000 It's just empty, and people are unhappy, particularly women, by the way.

00:07:14.000 Because, well, men, it is their responsibility to be fathers and have babies.

00:07:20.000 The reality of the world is that it is women, traditionally speaking, and yes, naturally speaking, biologically speaking, who long to have children.

00:07:30.000 This pretend nonsense, made up world in which women are taught that they ought not want to have children, is unnatural.

00:07:38.000 Like in the purest biological sense, it is unnatural.

00:07:42.000 There's a reason why every study of Reesus monkeys shows that female rhesus monkeys, if you give them a truck, will literally take the truck and start cradling the truck. 1.00

00:07:52.000 And male Reesus monkeys, if you give them a baby, the men will, the male Reese's monkeys will start hitting each other with it. 0.98

00:07:58.000 Men and women, different. 0.83

00:07:59.000 When you tell women they don't want the thing that they absolutely do want, what you end up with is unhappy women. 1.00

00:08:05.000 And when men can't fulfill their highest purpose, because many women don't want to fulfill that purpose either, they get angry at women and they become counterproductive and bad citizens of society. 0.50

00:08:14.000 So here's how this breaks down politically, and it is fascinating, as I as I mentioned, Steve Kornacki points this out.

00:08:19.000 Among men who voted for President Trump, the number one priority, and it's still not high enough, but the number one priority is having children, 34%.

00:08:28.000 Number two is financial independence.

00:08:30.000 Number three is fulfilling job and career, and number four is being married.

00:08:35.000 Last on the list, tied for last, able to retire early, and having emotional stability.

00:08:41.000 And that's not because people don't want emotional stability.

00:08:44.000 It's because that's not typically the way that men think.

00:08:47.000 As a man, I tell you, we don't walk around saying, man, am I emotionally stable today?

00:08:51.000 What how am I feeling emotionally?

00:08:53.000 That that is just a non-masculine attitude toward the world as a general rule.

00:08:58.000 Already coming up, we'll get more into the polling debt is showing that Generation Z has a major, major problem. 0.98

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00:11:19.000 Okay, now contrast men who voted for Trump with men who voted for Harris.

00:11:24.000 54% of men who voted for Kamala Harris say their number one priority is fulfilling job or career.

00:11:30.000 Forty-two percent say that it's a priority for them to have money to do the things that they want.

00:11:36.000 Being married, 11%, having children, 9%.

00:11:42.000 So men who voted for Kamala Harris don't care about getting married.

00:11:45.000 They don't care about having kids.

00:11:46.000 This is mirrored by women who voted for Kamala Harris. 0.59

00:11:49.000 So women who voted for Kamala Harris, 51% said it was a priority to have a fulfilling job or career. 0.98

00:11:54.000 46% said it was a priority to have money to do the things they want to do.

00:11:57.000 39% said having emotional stability, which, again, emotional stability is a byproduct of purpose in the world.

00:12:04.000 Emotional stability is not something you get by going to your therapist.

00:12:08.000 The way that emotional stability is actually materialized in the world, realized in the world is by doing duty-bound things every day that make the world better, make your family better, make your community better.

00:12:19.000 That is where mental health lives.

00:12:21.000 Mental health lives in getting off your ass and stopping with the naval gazing and going and doing something productive with your day, something that is meaningful in the world, performing a duty, helping your community, building social, those are the things that make you emotionally stable. 0.98

00:12:36.000 If you just have a goal of emotional stability, you're going to be tilting at windmills out there because no drug is going to provide you emotional stability in the deepest and truest sense. 0.99

00:12:46.000 And neither is any amount of therapy.

00:12:48.000 The best those can do is act as palliatives against your depression, but they cannot actually solve your underlying malaise.

00:12:56.000 A purpose-filled life, a meaning-filled life is the best counteractive to that Malays. 1.00

00:13:02.000 Okay, so again, women who voted for Kamala Harris, literally last on the list, last is being married and having kids. 1.00

00:13:09.000 Only 6% of women who voted for Kamala Harris said that it was important to a successful life to be married or have kids. 0.98

00:13:16.000 That is simply the result of generations of propaganda directed at liberal women. 1.00

00:13:20.000 That's all.

00:13:22.000 That's all.

00:13:23.000 Because convincing women that their magical superpower, which is to be able to actually grow another human in them, and then To nurse that human toward maturity. 0.99

00:13:33.000 And saying to women, that actually that's the last that's the last thing that you're about. 0.99

00:13:36.000 That's the last.

00:13:37.000 No, it actively is not.

00:13:39.000 It truly, fundamentally is not.

00:13:41.000 And when you alienate women from the thing that is their magical superpower, and you tell them that's the thing they shouldn't want, what they actually should want is to be more like the men working 2200 billable hours at a law firm, what you're going to end up with is an enormous amount of unhappiness on both the part of women who have now been alienated from a central purpose in life, the central purpose of life, and men who actively would like to form families with women and then fulfill their central purpose in life.

00:14:06.000 Okay, how about women who voted for Trump? 0.99

00:14:08.000 So amazingly, even for women who voted for Trump, and again, I think that a lot of this is just the result of a feminist movement that has degraded childbearing and rearing, truly degraded it.

00:14:18.000 Even women who voted for Trump put getting married and having kids lower on their priority list.

00:14:23.000 Their number one in terms of having a fulfilling life is financial independence.

00:14:28.000 Number two is fulfilling job and career.

00:14:30.000 Number three is owning their own home.

00:14:32.000 Only 26% say having children, only 20% say being married.

00:14:38.000 This is a failure.

00:14:39.000 It is a gigantic societal failure, a massive societal failure.

00:14:43.000 And it is not unconnected with our broken politics.

00:14:46.000 Because if you find fulfillment in your family, in your home, in your community, you're significantly less likely to then start searching for shadowy reasons why you're unfulfilled, blaming quote unquote the systems for your personal lack of fulfillment for the fact that, yeah, you got that job at the law firm and you're working 2200 billable hours and you're making a really good solid living and you're still unhappy.

00:15:07.000 And so what you do is you start blaming the systems that have created more prosperity than any system in human history, free market capitalism.

00:15:13.000 These two things are not disconnected in any way, shape, or form.

00:15:17.000 So there's another poll that is out from Gallup.

00:15:20.000 Do you have a positive or negative view of socialism?

00:15:23.000 Positive, 39%, negative, 57%.

00:15:26.000 Okay, fine.

00:15:28.000 So the views of capitalism are down.

00:15:31.000 Right now, capitalism only has a 54% approval rating as opposed to 42% negative rating.

00:15:38.000 And that is really low.

00:15:39.000 And frankly, that's because people simply do not understand that their wealth, their prosperity, and their freedom are reliant on a private property system in which you are freely able to alienate your labor.

00:15:49.000 That's all.

00:15:50.000 People don't understand free markets because they don't take the time to understand free markets.

00:15:53.000 People have a general belief that prosperity is the natural state of the world, and that anything that strays from that natural state is the system.

00:16:03.000 That there's some sort of edenic paradise where you could pick fruit off the tree and everything grew wild and you were rich. 0.99

00:16:10.000 And then capitalism intervened, this sort of Rousseauian view of the state of nature, which is total trash, not true at all, either factually or theoretically, just stupidity. 0.99

00:16:19.000 Okay, but fair enough, Americans like capitalism more than socialism. 0.98

00:16:23.000 But you get to the younger generation and things start to go pretty haywire.

00:16:27.000 Ages 18 to 34, 49% of Americans, 18 to 34, are positive about socialism.

00:16:35.000 46% are negative about socialism.

00:16:39.000 How about capitalism?

00:16:41.000 Age 18 to 34, same poll.

00:16:43.000 43% positive about capitalism, 54% negative about capitalism.

00:16:49.000 These two things are not unassociated.

00:16:51.000 If you go looking for meaning in all the wrong places, you are likely to not find meaning.

00:16:55.000 You're likely to find grievance and anger and rage at the system.

00:17:01.000 The Marxist materialist view of the world, which is that happiness is simply a result of material prosperity or material distribution, and that you are generated by your economic system is a lie.

00:17:13.000 It is not true, and it can't be solved.

00:17:15.000 The problems with the human heart cannot be solved by the government cutting you a check or by the government taking money from Elon Musk and handing it to you.

00:17:22.000 It doesn't solve the problem.

00:17:24.000 Now, what this really does do is it puts free market capitalism on extraordinarily shoddy footing.

00:17:29.000 Why?

00:17:30.000 Because in any system that has a vibrant social fabric where you have healthy families and healthy kids and healthy communities and healthy churches, the economy is going to go up, the economy is going to go down, but the root of your happiness lies in that, in that relationship with your family and with your community.

00:17:45.000 And yes, with your country.

00:17:46.000 In a society where all those bonds are broken, you end up relying on material prosperity as the thing that is going to buy you happiness.

00:17:54.000 And so if the economy goes down, you wish to wreck the entire system.

00:17:58.000 Right?

00:18:00.000 If there's a if there's some sort of economic depression, you end up with a massive political crisis in which all of the actual machinery that provides all of the prosperity upon which the entire social welfare state relies, because social welfare states do not function in nationalized economy countries.

00:18:16.000 They don't.

00:18:17.000 Because they jump, they don't generate enough prosperity.

00:18:20.000 Basically, social welfare systems are the weight that gets to live atop the foundation of actual free market capitalism and commerce and trade and innovation and risk taking and all the rest and the creative destructive process that is free market capitalism.

00:18:35.000 That's what generates all the wealth.

00:18:37.000 No socialist program ever generated wealth.

00:18:40.000 All socialist programs can do is try to redistribute the wealth, and typically that also means over time quashing innovation, destroying risk taking, and making the general economy significantly worse.

00:18:50.000 But if you are looking at your life situation, and you basically, your philosophy is now if line go up and to the right, happy, if line go down and to the right, sad, then if the line goes down into the right and you find your meaning somewhere else, outside of church or family or having kids, the only thing you care about is your job.

00:19:09.000 That's like your biggest thing.

00:19:10.000 And then you lose your job.

00:19:12.000 What do you do?

00:19:13.000 What do you feel about the system?

00:19:15.000 You start to blame capitalism in general, and you start hoping for a great savior, a great socialist savior from the sky who is going to descend Zarmam Dani like and fix all of your problems.

00:19:25.000 And that's when free market capitalism really is in trouble, and if free market capitalism dies, so do millions of people.

00:19:32.000 That is the history of communism.

00:19:33.000 That is the history of socialism.

00:19:36.000 This is why I've been saying, and I will continue to say, the single greatest risk to the Trump era is a sinking economy.

00:19:43.000 It is why good economic policy is really, really, really important because we are now living in an extraordinarily high risk era, a truly high-risk era.

00:19:52.000 It used to be that economies could survive vicissitudes.

00:19:56.000 Free market capitalism could survive vicissitudes because, again, people didn't find their chief level of meaning in the economy.

00:20:02.000 The economy mattered an awful lot.

00:20:04.000 It will always matter an awful lot.

00:20:05.000 Of course, material prosperity and conditions matter.

00:20:08.000 But the way that you found your personal meaning in life when you got up in the morning was your wife or your husband and your kids and your church and your community.

00:20:16.000 And as that's gone away, as this been exploded over the course of the last 60, 70 years in this country, what you end up with is line go down and to the right.

00:20:24.000 I hate the system.

00:20:25.000 Let's tear it all down.

00:20:26.000 Bernie Sanders or one of his acolytes ought to run the country.

00:20:29.000 And that's why that line better keep going up and to the right.

00:20:33.000 So the Trump administration has now apparently released a report or is going to release a report, laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs data.

00:20:42.000 This is according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:20:44.000 The report takes a critical look at the BLS and lays out a historical overview of the agency's jobs data revision.

00:20:50.000 This, of course, comes amid President Trump's move to fire the BLS commissioner Erica McIntar.

00:20:57.000 His now nominated longtime BLS critic E.J. Antoni to run the agency.

00:21:02.000 So here is the rule.

00:21:03.000 The last couple of labor reports have been extremely weak.

00:21:06.000 Hiring seems to be slowing or even in decline in the United States because of all of the uncertainties surrounding things like tariffs, surrounding AI, surrounding interest rates, and all the rest.

00:21:17.000 Well, if you are arguing with the ref, the rule goes in sports, you are losing.

00:21:21.000 If you're arguing with the BLS, you're losing.

00:21:24.000 Presidents who are who are presiding over growing, healthy, burgeoning economies are not arguing with BLS.

00:21:30.000 They're just not wasting their time there.

00:21:32.000 That doesn't mean that Trump is wrong about BLS or the stats.

00:21:34.000 He may very well be right.

00:21:36.000 But the idea that basically, if you jerry-rig a new system of numbers, that that really is just a problem in the measurement technique.

00:21:46.000 That's not what people feel.

00:21:48.000 It's not what people feel.

00:21:50.000 Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, falling lumber prices are sounding an alarm on Wall Street about potential problems on main street.

00:21:55.000 Wood markets have been whipsawed of late by trade uncertainty and a deteriorating housing market.

00:22:00.000 Futures have dropped 24% since hitting a three-year high at the beginning of August and ended Monday at 526.50 per thousand feet of board.

00:22:09.000 That price drop might have been greater, but two of America's biggest Sawyers said last week that they would curtail output, slowing the decline.

00:22:17.000 Well, the crashing wood prices are troubling because they're an indicator that there is a slowing housing market as well as slowing in the broader economic activity.

00:22:25.000 This is a problem.

00:22:27.000 Scott Bessant, the treasurer secretary, has been deployed To virtually all of the Sunday shows in order to promote the economy, suggesting that things are strong and growing.

00:22:38.000 And he is in fact very competent.

00:22:40.000 But the whip sawing around tariffs, the bizarre sort of statism implicit in taking stakes and ownership in particular companies, sponsorship of particular ownership in companies.

00:22:52.000 none of that is likely to lead to short, mid, or even real long-term growth.

00:22:59.000 It just isn't.

00:23:01.000 And so the question becomes if you screw around with the free market, and this is the history of the anti-free market movement in the United States, typically what happens is the free market works pretty well.

00:23:10.000 And every so often there's a crash.

00:23:12.000 And typically, the free market does a pretty good job of getting us out of a crash.

00:23:15.000 Go look up the non-existent depression of the 1920s.

00:23:18.000 There's a vast stock market crash in 1920, 21, and it healed within months because the government basically stayed out of it.

00:23:25.000 Unlike 1929, when after the stock market crash, we got the most interventionist public policy from both the Hoover and FDR administrations in American history by far.

00:23:34.000 Or the gigantic failed recovery of Barack Obama, the slowest economic recovery in American history because of his vast statism and government interventionism.

00:23:43.000 But the history of America's feelings about capitalism is if there is a crash, and if the government is responsible for that crash, and then if the government gets very involved, capitalism gets blamed.

00:23:52.000 That is a problem.

00:23:53.000 The economy must continue to move forward on solid footing.

00:23:57.000 Otherwise, the socialists are waiting.

00:24:00.000 They are.

00:24:01.000 And what they are waiting for is something really, really, really bad.

00:24:05.000 The Bernie Sanders movement is waiting in the wings.

00:24:07.000 I know that everybody on the right that we are all very optimistic.

00:24:09.000 I know Donald Trump won the last election.

00:24:11.000 Republicans have been pretty effective in getting through vast policy priorities, and that's wonderful.

00:24:17.000 But things reverse quite quickly in this country, particularly upon economic stagnation.

00:24:23.000 And so I would just warn everybody don't get high on your own supply.

00:24:26.000 The reality is that things can change very quickly.

00:24:29.000 And being foolish about policy out of a sort of misplaced optimism that the left will never recover ignores the history of all American electoral politics, literally ever.

00:24:38.000 Okay, that doesn't mean that the left can't find a way to blow it. 0.94

00:24:41.000 They certainly can.

00:24:41.000 And right now, the momentum is certainly with the right.

00:24:45.000 But with that said, the economy is pretty much everything right now, the Trump economy.

00:24:50.000 Already coming up, Democrats continue to defend criminals and illegal immigrants led by people like Zoran Mamdani. 0.70

00:24:55.000 Again, they want to make this guy the hero of the story, and he absolutely is the villain first.

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00:26:59.000 All right, Meanwhile, speaking of the left blowing it, the left continues to take a bizarre perspective when it comes to crime.

00:27:06.000 Absolutely non understandable, unless you understand that for the hard radical left, crime is merely symptomatic of America's supposed racism.

00:27:14.000 And so anybody who commits a crime really is a victim of the system.

00:27:18.000 And anybody who's a victim of the victim is an unfortunate byproduct of the system as well.

00:27:22.000 So if you go a couple layers deep, it turns out that it's Thomas Jefferson's fault that a deranged homeless man who is black stabbed an innocent Ukrainian woman on a on a light train in Charlotte. 0.60

00:27:32.000 That seems to be the leftist case. 0.98

00:27:34.000 This is why you hear dumb comments like we can't incarcerate our way out of this. 0.96

00:27:37.000 No, absolutely we can incarcerate our way out of crime. 0.97

00:27:40.000 Actually, there's a very long history of people incarcerating their way out of crime.

00:27:44.000 See, when when people commit crimes and you put them in jail, you know what they can't do?

00:27:47.000 Commit crimes against people again on the streets, because they're in jail.

00:27:50.000 In any case, we now have new details about the murder suspect in this horrifying case, in which a young Ukrainian refugee was murdered in cold blood, sitting there.

00:28:03.000 According to the New York Post, the deranged homeless man charged with butchering a 23 year old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train, was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released him with just a written promise to show up for court, despite a nearly two decade history of violence and mental illness.

00:28:18.000 and only public policy insanity can be to blame for this.

00:28:24.000 I mean, insanity is actually a way of getting people off the hook.

00:28:26.000 It actually is public policy evil.

00:28:27.000 If you are giving cashless bail to people who are violent schizophrenics and letting them off onto the street, that is not an act of insanity.

00:28:34.000 That is an act of ideological evil, truly.

00:28:36.000 That is evil.

00:28:38.000 Freeing violent criminals onto the streets out of a misplaced sympathy for them is cruelty to the innocent.

00:28:46.000 The suspect in this case, De Carlos Brown, was arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery and larceny dating back to 2007.

00:28:57.000 His own mother told a local TV station her son was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed to roam the streets.

00:29:03.000 But Brown was a free man right up until the moment the cops said he viciously stabbed Irina Zarutska in an unprovoked and cowardly sneak attack as she rode the train home from her job at the local pizzeria.

00:29:14.000 Again, the system failed Zerutzka every turn.

00:29:18.000 The killing has exposed major safety flaws on Charlotte's mass transit system.

00:29:22.000 Apparently, Brown was a fair beater.

00:29:24.000 He took both the bus and the Lynch Blue Line train without ever paying a cent.

00:29:27.000 So again, even a basic sort of broken windows theory, a turnstyle policy, would have stopped this from happening.

00:29:33.000 It turns out local cops don't even police the Charlotte area transit system.

00:29:37.000 Instead, everything was outsourced to professional security services since last December. 0.93

00:29:45.000 Again, this is truly ridiculous. 0.98

00:29:47.000 The mayor of Charlotte, a person named Vi Lyles, issued a tone-deaf statement demanding compassion for people with mental illness. 0.96

00:29:54.000 And then put out a statement, quote, as I reflect on the tragic murder of Arena Zarutska, my heart continues to go out to her family and our community as we try to make sense of this horrific and senseless loss.

00:30:04.000 This is a tragic failure by the courts and magistrates.

00:30:06.000 Our police officers arrest people only to have them quickly released, which undermines our ability to protect our community and ensure safety.

00:30:12.000 We need a bipartisan solution to address repeat offenders who do not face consequences for their actions, and those who cannot get their treatment for mental illness and are allowed to be on the streets.

00:30:20.000 That is true.

00:30:21.000 I'm glad that you got it on second try, mayor.

00:30:24.000 Again, Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes released him with a written promise to appear for his next court date.

00:30:29.000 The guy couldn't even promise to take his drugs for a schizophrenia. 0.95

00:30:33.000 Totally ridiculous. 0.87

00:30:35.000 President Trump yesterday issued a statement giving his love to the family of the young woman who was stabbed to death. 0.99

00:30:42.000 I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman, a lunatic, just got up and started it's right on the tape.

00:30:55.000 Not really watchable because it's so horrible.

00:30:58.000 But uh just viciously stabbed.

00:31:00.000 She's just sitting there. 0.97

00:31:01.000 So they're evil people.

00:31:03.000 We have to be able to handle that.

00:31:05.000 If we don't handle that, we don't have a country.

00:31:09.000 President Trump then put out a statement on Truth Social as well, pointing out that it's democratic crime policy that leads to horrific circumstances like this.

00:31:16.000 Quote, I've seen the horrific video of a beautiful young Ukrainian refugee who came to America to escape the vicious war in Ukraine and was innocently riding the Metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed by a mentally deranged lunatic.

00:31:28.000 The perpetrator was a well known Career criminal who had been previously arrested and released on cashless bail in January a total of 14 times.

00:31:34.000 What the hell was he doing?

00:31:35.000 Riding the train and walking the streets. 0.97

00:31:38.000 Criminals like this need to be locked up.

00:31:40.000 The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer's knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including former disgraced governor and wannabe Senator Roy Cooper.

00:31:50.000 North Carolina and every state needs law and order, and only Republicans will deliver it.

00:31:55.000 Additionally, where's the outrage from the mainstream media on this horrible tragedy?

00:31:58.000 Vote for Michael Watley for United States Senate.

00:32:00.000 He won't let this happen again.

00:32:02.000 Well, you might think that President Trump is speaking hyperbolically here.

00:32:06.000 There's only one problem.

00:32:07.000 He absolutely is not.

00:32:08.000 Zoram Mamdani wants to be mayor of New York.

00:32:10.000 And if the polls are any sort of guide, then he will be the next mayor of New York, mainly because young people, generations of people in New York, appear to have some sort of mental deficiency.

00:32:22.000 Zor Mamdani recently said that his goal is to reduce the jail population.

00:32:27.000 Yes, we are that great idea because people in jail are famous for not being criminals.

00:32:32.000 Oh, wait, they're in prison for a reason.

00:32:34.000 Again, this is not a call for everybody who smokes a joint to go to jail, obviously. 0.95

00:32:39.000 But the basic idea that there are too many people in prison, as opposed to too many people walking the streets who are criminals and doing crime is silly. 0.93

00:32:48.000 Here is Zoran Mamdani being just a terrible human being, because that's effectively what he is.

00:32:54.000 The jail population of Rikers has increased since Eric Adams has come into office by more than a thousand additional incarcerated New Yorkers.

00:33:03.000 And what is quite staggering to me is that we know that we can reduce that jail population to less than 4,000.

00:33:12.000 I mean, Vital City had an article about a number of different proposals that could reduce it to 3,700.

00:33:18.000 And some of this also just has to look at the average stay on Rikers in the 90s was 50 days.

00:33:28.000 Now it's more than a hundred.

00:33:30.000 There are more than 1,500 people on Rikers who have been held there for more than a year.

00:33:34.000 So I do think many of the reforms that have to be made are also reforms around the court system.

00:33:42.000 Well, I mean, obviously the top priority for New Yorkers is making sure that more criminals get out of Rikers early.

00:33:46.000 Not just that, Mamdani also says he would like to abolish the gang database.

00:33:50.000 So basically he's just going to allow every criminal in New York City to roam free.

00:33:54.000 Congrats to you, New Yorkers.

00:33:56.000 I mean, you break it, you bought it, gang.

00:33:58.000 You are fulfilling the H. L. Mancken statement.

00:34:00.000 The democracy is the theory that the people should get what they want, good and hard.

00:34:03.000 Get ready, because you're going to get it good and hard from Zoran Mamdani.

00:34:08.000 Let me ask you about a bunch of different policies just to kind of get you your thinking out there.

00:34:13.000 Um, if City Council legislation to abolish the NYPD gang database were to pass, would you support and sign that?

00:34:21.000 I have supported that proposal.

00:34:24.000 It's one I've supported because of the vast drag net has meant the inclusion of New Yorkers on the basis of whether they go out late, photos they put on social media, so much of the facts of life of being a young New Yorker, and yet it then becomes a mark of suspicion.

00:34:50.000 And it is a concern of mine that we do not live up to of all people, Eric Adams' words in 2021, who said that New Yorkers need not choose between safety and justice.

00:35:03.000 There's no question that we have to take uh gangs extremely seriously.

00:35:09.000 And yet I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases is one that that doesn't actually do exactly that.

00:35:18.000 So we need to take gang violence seriously, but we also need to destroy the gang database.

00:35:23.000 He has no replacement for it, by the way.

00:35:25.000 He doesn't care.

00:35:26.000 Again, the goal of scavengers like Zoran Mamdani, and that dude is a scavenger.

00:35:29.000 He has not produced a single thing of value his entire life, literally his entire life.

00:35:33.000 He has lived high on the American hog since he arrived in this country with his extremely well-educated and wealthy parents, who, by the way, were subsidized by the government of Qatar.

00:35:43.000 And uh, and here he is, now telling Americans that they ought to be subjected to criminals on the streets of New York, because you know, he has vague standards about who should and should not be in the gang database.

00:35:53.000 And then you wonder why most Americans are perfectly fine with President Trump trying to use the National Guard to quash crime just on a political level.

00:36:03.000 Democrats wrong footing themselves all over the place on this stuff.

00:36:06.000 It really is amazing.

00:36:06.000 Ram Emanuel, who's trying to pose himself as sort of the rational democratic alternative to Mamdaniism.

00:36:12.000 He says that when President Trump says that he's going to send the National Guard to Chicago, it's performative violence.

00:36:17.000 Well, you know it's not performative violence.

00:36:19.000 Actual violence in the city of Chicago, former mayor, Ram Manuel.

00:36:25.000 This is a president who's doing performative violence on a city, violence on its veterans, driving a wedge without the effort to actually stop this senseless gun violence.

00:36:37.000 And he he would have a welcome hand from every city of every mayor of every political stripe of every size city if he would partner rather than cut the funding for police rather than cut the funding that helps us dealing with carjacking.

00:36:49.000 So I just think that you see it what it is.

00:36:52.000 It's performative.

00:36:53.000 It's a distraction from the failed economic policies of Donald Trump.

00:36:56.000 What a failure by Democrats.

00:36:59.000 What they should be saying is, sure, we'd love help from the National Guard.

00:37:02.000 And also, here are the other things that we would love to help decrease crime from the federal level.

00:37:07.000 All of those things and the above.

00:37:08.000 And that's the thing they should be doing.

00:37:10.000 But again, they are too wedded to the idea that everything Donald Trump does is wrong, and therefore they must do the opposite.

00:37:16.000 Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, he was asked by a reporter about crime, and he basically just tried to blow it off.

00:37:23.000 Why is it that Democrats don't want to hold that particular Capitol Hill police officer with any sort of accountability?

00:37:31.000 Yet, as far as the cities in which the states that you're from, you don't want to deal with the crime that's that's actually going on in your own states.

00:37:41.000 And Mr. Raskin, you're not sure.

00:37:43.000 Is there a question there?

00:37:45.000 You're laughing, but a woman was just killed in your state, and you don't want to address that either.

00:37:50.000 Yeah, I uh I'm not gonna address the ad hominem uh foolishness that was just articulated.

00:37:56.000 But what I will say very clearly is that we have, as Democrats been very clear that we're gonna support local law enforcement, which includes law enforcement on January 6th, the NYPD's Chicago Police Department, the Metropolitan Police Department, and do what is necessary to help them do their jobs.

00:38:20.000 Well, actually, that that that is not what you have said.

00:38:22.000 That has not been your consistent position.

00:38:24.000 I mean, I'm old enough to remember Nancy Pelosi kneeling in Kente Cloth to protest the evils of police and the consent decrease rammed down by the Biden administration in the aftermath of George Floyd Mania and by the Obama administration the aftermath of Ferguson and Trayvon Martin, attempting to prevent police from actually doing their jobs.

00:38:43.000 And again, these are the people that the Democrats choose to elevate Jasmine Crockett.

00:38:48.000 She decided to take off her fake accent and put on her normal voice to talk about Republicans and their anti-small government beliefs with regards to law enforcement.

00:38:56.000 It is so rich that the Republicans believe in small government.

00:39:01.000 And this is the biggest government that I've ever seen.

00:39:04.000 Because they have decided that now they are going to somehow be the local police that is going to solve local crime as the federal level.

00:39:13.000 That is not what we're supposed to do, especially on our level.

00:39:17.000 What we do is we write federal laws.

00:39:19.000 That is our job, and that is the lane that we're going to stay in.

00:39:22.000 And the only reason we're talking about January 6th is because the Republicans are the ones bringing this, not us.

00:39:30.000 Okay, so uh listen, listening to Jasmine Crockett lecture people about small government and federalism is definitely amusing.

00:39:36.000 And it seems like Democrats really only do that when they are talking about, you know, protecting criminals and illegal immigrants.

00:39:42.000 And meanwhile, speaking of Democrats protecting criminals, Democrats continue to try to obstruct ICE.

00:39:48.000 ICE is apparently going to launch an operation there titling Midway Blitz, which I assume will be better defense than the Chicago Bears presented last night.

00:39:56.000 Truly an awful I'm a Bears fan.

00:39:58.000 Truly an awful game for the Chicago Bears, as per usual arrangement.

00:40:00.000 In any case, according to the Washington Post, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday it has launched an immigration enforcement operation here as part of the Trump administration's effort to target sanctuary cities.

00:40:10.000 Immigrant advocates say several people in heavily Hispanic communities have been detained.

00:40:14.000 The agency did not provide details of the scale or duration of the undertaking in Chicago, which will be led by ICE.

00:40:19.000 The announcement came after President Trump vowed for weeks his administration would send federal law enforcement officers to the city as part of an effort to crack down on crime.

00:40:26.000 Now, again, ICE does have the plenary capacity to actually enforce immigration Law, including inside states, because there's federal law that prevents you from being an immigrant lawbreaker.

00:40:36.000 You're not supposed to come here without your visa, not supposed to overstay your visa.

00:40:39.000 And yes, the federal government does have the power of enforcement there.

00:40:42.000 Apparently, according to the Washington Post, local officials and immigrant advocates said federal immigration officers began making arrests in Chicago on Sunday and had taken at least five people into custody, including a well-known flower vendor and people waiting at a bus stop and on the sidewalk.

00:40:56.000 The advocate said there had been an escalation in enforcement actions and reported several sightings of ICE vehicles.

00:41:02.000 While this is happening, the Supreme Court did lift limits on immigration raids in LA.

00:41:06.000 There'd been a federal judge who had attempted to stop the president from enforcing immigration law.

00:41:10.000 The Supreme Court said no.

00:41:12.000 In a brief unsigned order, according to the Wall Street Journal, they granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to remove the limits while the litigation continues.

00:41:20.000 Government lawyers argued that the lower court had improperly interfered with agents' ability to conduct immigration enforcement in a high priority metro area that harbors a large population of immigrants who are in the United States without permission.

00:41:31.000 Justice Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence to explain his view.

00:41:34.000 He said it was common sense that federal officers can conduct immigration checks where violations are most likely.

00:41:40.000 Quote, if the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after a brief encounter.

00:41:46.000 Liberals on the court, of course, wrote a dissent.

00:41:49.000 Justice Sonia Sotemayor, who is the second dumbest justice on the court after Katanji Brown Jackson now, which is saying an awful lot because Sotomayor is an awful justice. 0.86

00:41:56.000 She wrote, quote, We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job. 0.92

00:42:03.000 Well, I mean, that's not what's happening.

00:42:05.000 I mean, they're allowed to question you, and then um they will release you. 0.94

00:42:10.000 That is silly.

00:42:12.000 But Democrats continue to attempt to avoid the reality of immigration enforcement and pretend that this is some sort of grand scheme. 0.50

00:42:19.000 It is amazing.

00:42:20.000 Democrats actually have some fertile ground to go after President Trump.

00:42:23.000 And they could be going after him on the economy.

00:42:26.000 They could be going after him on allegations about drawdowns and foreign policy.

00:42:30.000 There are a lot of areas where where the Trump administration, like any administration, is vulnerable.

00:42:34.000 Instead, they've chosen crime is actually not a problem, and illegal immigrants should be allowed to live freely without being bothered by ice.

00:42:41.000 Good luck with all of that.

00:42:43.000 Okay, meanwhile, back to that original topic that we took up.

00:42:47.000 Young people who seem to be completely unmoored from actual values. 1.00

00:42:51.000 Celebrity culture has something to do with this.

00:42:52.000 It really does.

00:42:53.000 So again, I only dabble my toe in celebrity culture. 1.00

00:42:58.000 I don't spend a lot of time there because it is an incredibly stupid place filled with morally venal and shallow human beings. 0.99

00:43:05.000 However, I am an exception. 0.99

00:43:07.000 The vast majority of young people are deeply engaged in pop culture.

00:43:11.000 They spend an awful lot of time on social media, and they idolize and emulate people like, for example, Sabrina Carpenter.

00:43:18.000 And so the politics of people like Sabrina Carpenter actually matter.

00:43:21.000 While I think the VMAs is tired and old and basically wore out its welcome during the Britney Spears days 20 years ago, it's still going on.

00:43:28.000 And it's still promoting the same sort of libertanism and social leftism that it was 20 years ago.

00:43:35.000 So Sabrina Carpenter, who is basically playing a version of Madonna in the early 80s. 0.81

00:43:42.000 He sort of weirdly virginal and yet over-sexualized pop star.

00:43:49.000 Well, she did a performance of the MAs that was complete with a full-on drag queenslash transgender protest, like with signs and everything. 1.00

00:43:58.000 And this is the sort of stuff that, again, inculcates in young people a belief that the sole purpose of life is both political protest and the sexual feelings inside of you and the vicissitudes thereof on a day-to-day level, which is why something like one quarter of all of Generation Z now identifies as LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, even though the revealed preference in terms of actual sexual behavior is significantly different from that. 0.69

00:44:21.000 Anyway, here's Sabrina Carpenter doing her ridiculous routine. 1.00

00:44:23.000 For those who can't say, it is a It is a bunch of drag queens and then um Sabrina Carpenter is about to emerge on stage from a manhole. 1.00

00:44:42.000 And she's about to sing what would have been, you know, basically uh a very blasé pop song from 1998.

00:44:49.000 Uh though that's a lot of uh drag queens with very, very large shoulders behind uh behind Sabrina Carpenter, and they're all dancing together, of course. 1.00

00:44:59.000 And uh this is, of course, a match to her song Tears, the entire music video for that.

00:45:03.000 It's also drag queens in a haunted house. 1.00

00:45:05.000 That's not ideal.

00:45:08.000 So, you know, it's a lot of this.

00:45:10.000 It's a lot of this.

00:45:11.000 And then eventually they bring out protests, signs, and the whole thing.

00:45:14.000 So there's some of that at the VMAs.

00:45:17.000 You also had uh the VMAs do a gay Romeo and Juliet.

00:45:20.000 So I guess it's just Romeo and Romeo, starring a Corey Fogel Manis, I suppose is the name of this human.

00:45:27.000 Again, I'm not with it, as the kids say.

00:45:31.000 So uh here is if this is your type of thing, then you must be a member of Gen Z. So here we have dead dude and um, and then we have the singer who is also playing Romeo.

00:45:55.000 And being sad that his boyfriend just committed suicide.

00:45:58.000 So it's a good idea.

00:46:04.000 Well, if this is this is wow. 0.97

00:46:07.000 Um, how truly pathetic. 0.96

00:46:10.000 Bad high school drama and poor vocals together all at once. 0.99

00:46:15.000 Oh my goodness.

00:46:16.000 Well, I guess this is what Gen Z is going. 0.97

00:46:18.000 I can't imagine why they are coming out all screwed up. 0.94

00:46:20.000 The good news is they have both therapy and gay people to help them, according to Ariana Grande, who um seems to have fallen off the wagon. 0.87

00:46:26.000 I mean, honestly, it's very sad.

00:46:28.000 She's incredibly talented.

00:46:29.000 And here she is explaining how happy she is because she has both extensive therapy and also gay people.

00:46:36.000 Max and Ilya, I loved making this album with you more than anything in the entire world.

00:46:40.000 This was life-changing.

00:46:45.000 Thank you for championing me as a songwriter and producer as well.

00:46:50.000 I love you so much.

00:46:51.000 And thank you to my therapists and gay people.

00:46:55.000 I love you.

00:46:58.000 Thank you to my therapist and gay people.

00:47:00.000 I love you.

00:47:00.000 This seems like a deeply happy and fulfilled human being.

00:47:03.000 As most of our celebrities are, and that's why we should take all of our moral and political guidance from them.

00:47:08.000 Speaking of which, apparently, some 1,200 members of the Hollywood community have decided that they're not going to work with Jews anymore, effectively speaking.

00:47:17.000 I mean, that's essentially what they're saying.

00:47:19.000 There's a list of signatories, figures from across the film and TV world, including Oscar, BAFTA, Emi, and Palm Deor winners whoo who have signed a pledge saying they will refuse to work with all Israeli institutions and companies that are, quote, implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

00:47:34.000 Amazing, because every single one of these people if dropped into the Gaza Strip would be dead within 24 hours.

00:47:40.000 But not because of Israel, like because of Hamas, and because of the Palestinian people who are extraordinarily politically radicalized.

00:47:48.000 The list of signatories, which includes filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthamos, I think one of the most overrated filmmakers of our time, Anna DeVerne, who's also up for that title, Adam McKay, who may also be up for that title.

00:47:57.000 Boots Riley, Emma Seligman, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Mike Leigh, and actors, including Emma Stone, Olivia Coleman, Ayo Edabiri, Lily Gladstone, Mark Ruffalo, of course, Mark Ruffalo.

00:48:07.000 Of course, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Sarsgaard, and a bunch of other people.

00:48:11.000 They all signed this pledge statement.

00:48:13.000 It states that examples of complicity include, quote, whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and or partnering with the government committing them.

00:48:20.000 This would include the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Haifa International Film Festival, Zakhaviv, and TLV Fest. 0.55

00:48:26.000 Now, what's hilarious about all of this is number one, these people are brutally ignorant of everything, including basic human morality.

00:48:32.000 In a fight between Israel and Hamas, there is no question that one of those sides is significantly closer to, say, the freedom-loving values of the West than the other side. 0.55

00:48:43.000 But it's not about that.

00:48:44.000 It's about the oppressor-oppressed matrix, and all of these people believe themselves to be marginalized artists from a system that is cruel.

00:48:52.000 Again, scavengers living high on the hog in American and Western societies, while tearing away at the very fabric of the principles that undergird those societies by siding with the world's worst human beings in the form of Hamas. 0.98

00:49:05.000 It is worth noting, by the way, that the Israeli film industry is not famously right-wing.

00:49:11.000 Just to point that out.

00:49:14.000 So the Mass Declaration was inspired by filmmakers united against apartheid, which was founded by Jonathan Temi, Martin Scorsese, and a hundred other prominent filmmakers in 1987 to demand that the US film industry refuse to distribute films in apartheid South Africa.

00:49:26.000 Again, the goal of attempting to slur Israel as an apartheid state, Despite the fact that there are Arab parties that sit in Knesset, despite the fact there are Arab judges on the Supreme Court, despite the fact that Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights with Israeli citizens of Israel.

00:49:41.000 It's insane, but perfectly predictable from the same group of people who believe that Kamala Harris is an absolute political genius and that the height of human fulfillment is transgender identification.

00:49:53.000 Well, the Democratic Party has also taken up the call.

00:49:56.000 Zoran Mamdani has now said that he wants to divest the New York City pension investments from everything related to Israel.

00:50:03.000 I think you should go further.

00:50:03.000 I think that Zoran Mamdani should personally stop using any technology that spurred from Israel or from Jews, period.

00:50:08.000 I think that he should stop using any medical treatment that came from Israel or from Jews, period. 1.00

00:50:13.000 He should really go all the way, like whole hog.

00:50:14.000 He should only, in fact, take products and services that were produced by colonized people in the third world. 1.00

00:50:20.000 And then we can we can see how that all goes for him and for the city of New York.

00:50:25.000 Here he was yesterday explaining this to Al Sharpton, a man who once suggested in New York City that people who were Jewish should pin their Yarmica back and come back to come to his house after an Orthodox Jew accidentally hit a black kid with his car, spurring or at least contributing to the Crown Heights riots of 1991 that ended with the murder of an Orthodox Jew Yankel Rosenbaum.

00:50:51.000 Somehow that guy has a show on MSNBC.

00:50:53.000 So here is uh old Zoran Mamdani with new Zoran Mamdani.

00:50:58.000 Has your personal views on the phrase of global infratter changed since you've been running for mayor?

00:51:07.000 Do you understand those that see it in a more threatening way than saying I'm just not going to please other people's language?

00:51:14.000 Yes, they have.

00:51:15.000 And you know, when when we won the primary election, I said on that stage that I know that millions of New Yorkers care deeply about what happens in Israel and Palestine, and I'm one of those New Yorkers.

00:51:27.000 And I commit to reaching even further to understand disagreement to wrestle with the complexities of those differing viewpoints.

00:51:36.000 Because what this city deserves is a mayor that looks not only to represent the close to 600,000 New Yorkers that voted for me, but rather the eight and a half million people that call this city home.

00:51:47.000 So now he says that he is moving away from, you know, but you won't personally, he he won't personally say globalizing, I don't believe him for one single solitary second.

00:51:56.000 Of course, he believes everything he prior believed that he believed a moment ago.

00:51:59.000 And this is the game that Democrats are increasingly going to play, is they are going to humor every single radical anti-Israel idea while claiming that they're not actually anti-Israel.

00:52:07.000 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, another liar from the state of New York, she's doing this as well. 0.96

00:52:10.000 She says, Don't worry, nine out of ten senators are actually pro-Israel.

00:52:14.000 Well, that's weird because about half of the Democratic senators in the Senate voted for an arms embargo on Israel in the middle of a war.

00:52:19.000 So I don't believe you, Kirsten Gillibrand. 0.99

00:52:21.000 I think you are a liar. 0.90

00:52:24.000 I will use my expertise to give them his perspective. 0.95

00:52:28.000 So they at least know how they're being received.

00:52:30.000 Because nine times out of ten, they aren't trying to be anti-Semitic or even trying to be anti-Israel.

00:52:37.000 They think they're just fighting for human rights, or they're fighting for peace, or they're fighting for some other aid.

00:52:43.000 But the words they often choose to use are very hurtful and harmful and undermining.

00:52:49.000 She's a little hard to hear, which actually makes her more palatable. 0.51

00:52:52.000 Um, but she's basically making the case.

00:52:54.000 It doesn't matter how anti-Israel Democrats appear to be, they actually are pro-Israel. 0.70

00:52:57.000 Well, you can either believe her or your lying eyes.

00:52:59.000 Those are your choices.

00:53:01.000 Meanwhile, the scavengers continue to march over in the UK.

00:53:04.000 The UK police have arrested over 800 people at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

00:53:08.000 By the way, they um were not just at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

00:53:12.000 They were specifically showing support for a group called Palestine Action, which was designated a terrorist organization in July in Great Britain.

00:53:21.000 More than 1,000 people showed up with the sign saying I support Palestine action, and many of them were arrested.

00:53:28.000 The reason that they, of course, were actually listed this way is because, quote, they had orchestrated a nationwide campaign of direct criminal action against businesses and key national infrastructure and defense firms.

00:53:41.000 The government cited an incident in the Thales military manufacturing factory in Glasgow in 2022, in which five protesters scaled the factory's roof and caused what officials said was more than a million pounds of damage using pyrotechnics and smoke bombs.

00:53:53.000 They also attacked Israeli defense firm Elbut Systems in Bristol and one of the company's subsidiaries in Kent.

00:54:01.000 So Britain arrested a bunch of people, but don't worry, the left will attempt to free them and then tell us about how this is the height of Western freedom is people who hate the West being able to do property damage.

00:54:11.000 Meanwhile, the French government, which has come out in favor of a Palestinian state because the reward that you get for the worst terror attack on Jews since World War II is a state, according to the French morality.

00:54:24.000 I'm sorry, contradiction in terms, the French version of morality.

00:54:28.000 Then the reward for a gigantic terror assault is a state, obviously.

00:54:34.000 Well, the French government is about to fall again.

00:54:37.000 And I would suggest, honestly, at this point for France a two-state solution.

00:54:39.000 They need a two-state solution.

00:54:41.000 I think that there ought to be a second state of France.

00:54:45.000 There can be the state of France for people who actually like the country and are patriotic about it.

00:54:48.000 And then there can be a state of France that is just for the people who wish to import third worlders and their ideology that hates the West, actually. 1.00

00:54:56.000 That seems like a good solution.

00:54:57.000 Why not?

00:54:58.000 Territorial integrity for the pro-Camas advocates in France. 0.81

00:55:02.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, President Emmanuel Macron has lost his second government in less than a year.

00:55:07.000 A measure of how France is caught in a spiral of political dysfunction that is draining its public finances.

00:55:12.000 A no confidence motion against the government of Prime Minister Francois Beirut won the support of 364 lawmakers in the 577 seat National Assembly, forcing him to tender his resignation.

00:55:22.000 The fall of Beirut, a centrist ally of Macron, after less than nine months in office, deepens the country's paralysis at a time when investors are questioning whether France can muster the political will to rein in its ballooning budget deficit.

00:55:32.000 The answer there, of course, is no.

00:55:34.000 Beyond which, France has basically fallen victim to what Michelle Holobeck suggested was a version of submission.

00:55:41.000 And so, you know, good luck to France, which has essentially signed its own death warrant by importing legitimately millions of people who hate its values.

00:55:49.000 And we'll see how it works out for them.

00:55:51.000 Well, meanwhile, in other news, the media continue to make a big deal out of Jeffrey Epstein non-revelations, which is which is kind of amazing.

00:55:58.000 So apparently, the Epstein birthday letter with Donald Trump's signature has been revealed.

00:56:03.000 And whoa boy.

00:56:05.000 Amazing.

00:56:05.000 Remember, we were told that basically Donald Trump drew a sexy silhouette.

00:56:09.000 I gotta say, he's not good at drawing silhouettes.

00:56:10.000 If this is a thing that the President Trump drew, uh, then it is not, in fact, a uh sexy silhouette.

00:56:16.000 He says that it is fake and that that is not, in fact, his signature.

00:56:20.000 Uh, I will say that the the Donald there does look like Donald Trump's signature.

00:56:23.000 That doesn't mean that Donald Trump actually wrote this thing.

00:56:27.000 Uh it also, I will say that if Donald Trump drew uh this silhouette, I feel like that is not properly proportioned for for Donald Trump and his tastes.

00:56:38.000 Let's just say it's underwhelming in a variety of ways.

00:56:42.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, lawyers for Epstein's estate have given Congress a copy of the birthday book put together for the financier's 50th birthday, which includes a letter with President Trump's signature he has said doesn't exist.

00:56:52.000 On Monday, House Oversight Committee members confirmed they received a copy of that birthday book, and it had a crude joke about a woman and uh and an outline of a naked woman.

00:57:02.000 And the signature was a squiggly donald below the waist mimicking pubic hair.

00:57:06.000 Uh, I mean, I think honestly, that's kind of a stretch looking at this.

00:57:10.000 Um, but I okay.

00:57:13.000 And I mean, like, like really, and people are like, oh no, Donald Trump lied about you.

00:57:19.000 You mean Donald Trump fibbed that he didn't write a note that he wrote that really doesn't say anything?

00:57:23.000 I can't believe it.

00:57:23.000 You mean he denied a thing?

00:57:25.000 Wow.

00:57:26.000 Shock me more, world.

00:57:28.000 I don't know how I'm gonna take this shock.

00:57:30.000 My heart just can't take it.

00:57:32.000 The attempt to continue to whip up hysteria about Donald Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is just at this point, it's an op, seriously.

00:57:39.000 Like, make a claim.

00:57:40.000 Make a claim.

00:57:42.000 Like a serious, well-substantiated claim.

00:57:45.000 Not not a not a sort of speculative what if, or just asking questions, like a serious well evidenced claim about the president.

00:57:54.000 If you want to say it, say it out loud. 0.96

00:57:55.000 Don't hide behind your pathetic question asking. 0.99

00:58:00.000 Just make the accusation and then we'll see where we stand. 0.97

00:58:02.000 Alrighty, folks, coming up, we'll jump into the vaunted Ben Shapiro show mailbag.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 09, 2025

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