The Ben Shapiro Show - Here's What The Future of America Looks Like… If DEMOCRATS Win

00:00:00.000 You thought woke was dead.

00:00:01.000 That's what we were told, after all.

00:00:03.000 But the modern Democratic Party has a big problem.

00:00:06.000 They can only win if they continue to go woke.

00:00:09.000 And so they are doubling down and tripling down and quadrupling down.

00:00:12.000 All of which means just one thing.

00:00:14.000 If Democrats regain control of the United States government, the insanity of the Biden era is only just the beginning.

00:00:20.000 I'll explain what I mean in just a moment.

00:00:22.000 Plus, we'll get to a massive anti-mass migration march in the UK, the latest on Iran, and whether Cuba is planning a drone assault on the United States military.

00:00:29.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.

00:00:36.000 All righty.

00:00:37.000 So over the weekend, the Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats' emergency request to revive their congressional map.

00:00:44.000 So you recall that the Virginia Democrats tried to draw a congressional map that basically reduced Republican representation to nil.

00:00:52.000 It turned a map that was fairly evenly divided into a map with just one Republican seat in the entire state.

00:00:57.000 And then the Virginia Supreme Court decided that that was unconstitutional because of the process that had been followed.

00:01:02.000 The Supreme Court upheld the Virginia Supreme Court's ruling.

00:01:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision puts an end to Democrats' long shot bid to reverse a ruling by Virginia's highest court that voided the map.

00:01:14.000 It was issued by the court in the form of a one line order with no explanation and no recorded dissent.

00:01:19.000 This, of course, is not a shock.

00:01:21.000 It was not really a federal case, it was a state case, and the state voted in a particular way.

00:01:26.000 Well, Democrats immediately jumped into action to claim that this is all just part of the broader evil racism of the American system.

00:01:34.000 Governor Abigail Spanberger was sort of forced into this position by the left wing of her party.

00:01:38.000 And thus is undermining her popularity as a pseudo moderate governor.

00:01:42.000 She came out and suggested that the Supreme Court had chosen to nullify an election, which is not, of course, true.

00:01:49.000 No election was nullified.

00:01:50.000 In fact, this entire referendum was an attempt to nullify future elections by destroying the congressional map that would have allowed some Republicans to get representation in Congress.

00:02:00.000 Here was the governor of Virginia.

00:02:01.000 She said, The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election and the votes of more than 3 million Virginians.

00:02:10.000 Again, this is part and parcel of the Goal of Democrats, which is to claim falsely that there is gigantic voter suppression of Democrats happening all over the country.

00:02:18.000 And this all quickly turns racial. 1.00

00:02:20.000 So Kamala Harris, who still for some reason wants to run for president. 0.79

00:02:24.000 I know, I know. 1.00

00:02:25.000 Me neither.

00:02:26.000 In any case, she was speaking with a Tennessee representative named Justin Pearson.

00:02:30.000 Justin Pearson spends his days cosplaying as Martin Luther King Jr.

00:02:36.000 If you look at his tapes from when he was younger, he was really kind of doing the Carlton routine from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. 0.61

00:02:45.000 The way that he spoke was like a besweatered young black man with no accent at all. 0.99

00:02:50.000 And now, of course, he's playing everything to the hilt. 1.00

00:02:53.000 Everything to the hilt.

00:02:54.000 So he's sitting across from Kamala Harris. 0.93

00:02:56.000 And the suggestion is that America is suffering because of deep institutional racism.

00:03:04.000 The only way it can be cured, by the way, is if Kamala becomes president.

00:03:08.000 Hey there. 0.95

00:03:11.000 Representative Harrison.

00:03:12.000 So, you know, in the wake of the Cali decision, immediately Donald Trump, Marsha Blackburn, Governor Lee called for a special session.

00:03:18.000 We had to be back by Tuesday, and by the following Thursday, they've taken it.

00:03:23.000 The only black majority district in the entire state. 0.87

00:03:26.000 They're basically backdooring racism through politics.

00:03:29.000 They know the power of the people, and it scares them.

00:03:31.000 Because if they thought on merit that they would win, they wouldn't have to resort to this cheating.

00:03:39.000 Okay, so again, they're being deprived of the votes. 0.90

00:03:41.000 You understand it's all part of the American project to deprive black people of the vote.

00:03:45.000 Representative Ayanna Presley, the Ringo star of the squad, you never hear her mentioned anymore, which is sad for her.

00:03:50.000 She's a Democrat from Massachusetts.

00:03:52.000 She says that this administration would rather have black Americans pick cotton than pick the president, which is kind of a strange thing to say.

00:04:01.000 I don't feel like that's true.

00:04:02.000 I mean, I think that actually that hasn't been the practice in the United States for quite a while, last I checked, actually.

00:04:10.000 I mean, I'm unaware of why Anna Presley would think that, but here we go. 0.70

00:04:14.000 There are people in this hostile anti black administration that would rather black Americans pick cotton than pick the president. 0.95

00:04:24.000 Hmm. 0.99

00:04:25.000 Hmm.

00:04:27.000 I feel like that's not true.

00:04:28.000 But again, the goal is to ramp up the rhetoric so as to get the vote out for minority voters, for Democrats.

00:04:35.000 I have to say, they're not sending their best.

00:04:37.000 The Democrats are not sending their best.

00:04:38.000 AOC, who is, of course, the John Lennon of the squad, she's by far the biggest star in the squad.

00:04:45.000 Well, she says that it was only after civil rights that we got the great society.

00:04:48.000 So do you see that the idea here is you're not going to get democratic socialism until you get.

00:04:55.000 Mandatory racism by law.

00:04:57.000 That's what she's pushing for. 1.00

00:04:58.000 She's pushing for affirmative action programs and forced minority majority districts and all the rest of it. 0.97

00:05:03.000 Here she is saying a bunch of dumb things all at once, which is her way.

00:05:07.000 It is not a coincidence, and our whole country must understand that it was not until voting rights were ratified in this country that we got the great society. 0.96

00:05:19.000 Because when black Americans have the right to vote and that vote is protected, our schools get funded.

00:05:27.000 When voting rights are protected.

00:05:29.000 Healthcare gets expanded.

00:05:32.000 When voting rights are protected, our country moves forward.

00:05:37.000 And Montgomery, that's what they're actually afraid of.

00:05:41.000 They're afraid of us coming together.

00:05:43.000 They're afraid of us protecting one another.

00:05:46.000 Alabama is the crucible.

00:05:49.000 Georgia is the crucible.

00:05:51.000 Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi is the crucible. 0.87

00:05:55.000 So if you are not from here, it is time to pull up.

00:06:00.000 Because what they thought was the final blow is actually just.

00:06:03.000 The opening silo.

00:06:06.000 It's the opening silo, guys.

00:06:09.000 She means salvo.

00:06:11.000 She does not mean the opening silo.

00:06:12.000 Like, what, a grain silo?

00:06:13.000 It's the opening grain silo, guys.

00:06:15.000 She's going to open a grain silo or she's going to open the silo, you know, like the show on Apple TV.

00:06:20.000 It's the opening Apple TV silo.

00:06:23.000 By the way, she's totally wrong on the facts.

00:06:24.000 The idea that the Voting Rights Act preceded the Great Society programs is not true.

00:06:28.000 That is a falsehood.

00:06:30.000 The Great Society programs began in 1964.

00:06:34.000 With things like the Food Stamp Act of 1964 and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act, was wait for it, wait for it, 1965.

00:06:43.000 So, yeah, no, she's just wrong about that.

00:06:46.000 Again, this is not to make the case against voting rights.

00:06:48.000 Voting rights are great. 0.99

00:06:49.000 I'm very, very glad that black people can vote in outsized numbers in the United States as they do, which is why it is so stupid that we keep hearing that black people are somehow not represented in the United States government. 1.00

00:06:59.000 That is incredibly dumb. 1.00

00:07:01.000 Senator Cory Booker was doing the same thing over the weekend. 0.99

00:07:03.000 After all, it was the anniversary of the march on Selma on the Edmund Pettus Bridge over in Selma.

00:07:09.000 And so Cory Booker showed up with his angry eyes in tow.

00:07:12.000 He popped them in and he got very angry.

00:07:15.000 He got very angry, his angry eyes.

00:07:19.000 Because if we in our generation do not now do our duty, we will lose the gains and the rights and the liberties that our ancestors afforded us.

00:07:30.000 Now is our generation's time to prove worthy of the blessings.

00:07:35.000 Now is our generation's time to respond to the assaults.

00:07:40.000 You see, we have seen this before where some people in black robes try to deny or take away our rights.

00:07:49.000 We saw it with Dred Scott.

00:07:51.000 We saw it with Plessy versus Ferguson.

00:07:54.000 We even saw it with Korematsu.

00:07:57.000 But the solution in those days was not to sit back and agonize, it was to stand up and organize and mobilize.

00:08:07.000 Because we still live in a democracy no matter how much they try to undermine it.

00:08:12.000 We still live in a nation where the power of the people is greater than the people in power.

00:08:18.000 I'm just going to point out here that.

00:08:20.000 His history is a little flawed once again.

00:08:22.000 So, comparing what the Supreme Court has said about the drawing of particular districts in the South in 2026 to Dred Scott, which ruled that under the Constitution, black Americans weren't people.

00:08:32.000 That's what Dred Scott says.

00:08:33.000 Or Plessy versus Ferguson, which ruled segregation legal.

00:08:36.000 Or Korematsu, which argued that Japanese Americans could be interned in times of war.

00:08:41.000 I have a feeling it's not quite the same thing. 0.63

00:08:43.000 But again, the goal here is they're all addicted to this Obama program from 2012.

00:08:48.000 In 2008, Barack Obama ran as a broad liberal.

00:08:52.000 Who's going to bring Americans together without regard for race? 0.97

00:08:54.000 And then in 2012, he decided he was going to create a majority minority coalition with some college educated white ladies.

00:09:00.000 And this was the new majority going forward.

00:09:02.000 Democrats can never let go of it, they will not let go of it.

00:09:05.000 And so they continue to push this forward.

00:09:08.000 We'll get to more on the third worldism of the Democratic Party and what's been happening over in London in a moment.

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00:10:30.000 Again, all this sort of This whole racial narrative is false.

00:10:34.000 It's not true on the merits.

00:10:35.000 Black Americans are not deprived of the vote in the United States. 0.98

00:10:38.000 That is a silly contention. 0.97

00:10:40.000 There is no statistical evidence that black people are being deprived of the vote in the United States. 0.98

00:10:44.000 But you know what's even sillier is this idea that Democrats are wholesale in favor of pure democracy.

00:10:52.000 Gavin Newsom is out there openly saying that in the California primaries, there's an open primary system in California.

00:10:58.000 The way that it works is the top two candidates make the runoff.

00:11:00.000 Right now, there's a possibility that Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton.

00:11:04.000 Both Republicans end up at the top of the heap because there are 1 million Democrats running.

00:11:08.000 And Gavin Newsom says that that process must be thwarted.

00:11:12.000 In fact, there's a break the glass scenario to thwart democracy, according to Gavin Newsom.

00:11:17.000 So just remember, folks, when it comes to a Democratic republic, there are lots of different systems, lots of different checks and balances.

00:11:23.000 And that doesn't mean that anyone is, quote unquote, opposing democracy per se.

00:11:27.000 We all have agencies.

00:11:28.000 We can shape the future.

00:11:29.000 There's still a lot.

00:11:31.000 Look, I've said this before, so I'll repeat it.

00:11:34.000 I don't anticipate.

00:11:35.000 This needs to be the case, but there is a break the glass scenario.

00:11:39.000 And there's many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out.

00:11:45.000 And we're going to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.

00:11:50.000 Oh, well, they're going to take, you might say, undemocratic means in order to thwart their own rules, which will be very exciting stuff, I feel like.

00:11:57.000 The pro democracy party, not so pro democracy when it comes up against their priors.

00:12:01.000 But all of this, again, is part of their gigantic view of the universe in which everyone can be broken down by racial group.

00:12:07.000 And we can determine by that group whether they are, in fact, victims or victimizers.

00:12:13.000 Democrats are growing more and more radical day by day.

00:12:17.000 Day by day.

00:12:18.000 This is why, for example, they're very much in favor of Graham Platner.

00:12:22.000 Graham Platner is the Maine Senate Democratic candidate who's running against Susan Collins. 0.63

00:12:28.000 I think he will lose there because I don't think that the people of Maine are ready to elect a Nazi tattooed socialist to high office.

00:12:35.000 But at least he's not hiding the ball particularly much.

00:12:38.000 He is now claiming that there must be armed resistance for economic justice to the New York Times.

00:12:44.000 You said, quote, an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice.

00:12:50.000 How do you think about that now?

00:12:52.000 As a student of history, it is difficult for me to not see elements of that as being like a reality, especially in resistance to fascism.

00:13:04.000 We didn't beat the Nazis with smiles, we did beat them with a war.

00:13:10.000 I don't think it's a very controversial statement, to tell you the truth. 0.82

00:13:16.000 I'm just going to point out that you know what's one way we didn't defeat the Nazis is by getting Nazi tattoos on our chest or by going on Nazi podcasts. 0.68

00:13:23.000 Also, not a way that we defeated the Nazis. 0.55

00:13:25.000 Listening to Graham Platner talking about defeating the Nazis is like listening to Hassan Piker talk about defeating the communists.

00:13:31.000 What are we talking about right now?

00:13:33.000 But Graham Platner, again, is emblematic of the new Democratic Party, more and more radical.

00:13:39.000 He's out there apologizing for Iraq, apologizing for Afghanistan, and of course, blaming everybody else for the fact that he actually joined the United States military voluntarily.

00:13:47.000 Apparently, he was bamboozled, he was suckered into it.

00:13:51.000 We destroyed Iraq and we destroyed Afghanistan and all the suffering, all the killing, all the dying, all the displacement, all of it was. 0.90

00:14:03.000 We brought that. 0.99

00:14:04.000 We, the United States, did that.

00:14:07.000 And it is a.

00:14:11.000 And that I'm ashamed of. 0.96

00:14:15.000 I'm just going to point out once again Iraq was a hellhole tyranny governed by Saddam Hussein before we got there.

00:14:21.000 Their GDP is now multiple times. 0.82

00:14:23.000 What it was before with all of the problems that Iraq is experiencing.

00:14:26.000 And as for Afghanistan, it turns out that before we got there, the Taliban was running it and head chopping people.

00:14:31.000 And after we left, the Taliban is running it and head chopping people.

00:14:33.000 So things aren't so great in Afghanistan without us there either.

00:14:37.000 But Graham Plattner, again, the new Democratic Party, he says that what we really need to do is we need to basically end America's involvement in the world in order so we can spend the money here at home. 0.95

00:14:48.000 And these are some of the dumbest talking points. 0.95

00:14:50.000 These talking points drive me up a wall. 1.00

00:14:52.000 They are so stupid, but they're part and parcel of the Democrats trying to sell dumb talking points to people. 1.00

00:14:57.000 Because what they really want is a weaker America on the world stage. 1.00

00:15:00.000 This is actually what they want.

00:15:02.000 So we just spent $50 billion in two months in the war in Iran.

00:15:06.000 And I haven't heard a single question of where it came from.

00:15:10.000 I am always amazed that this nation can just expend billions, trillions of dollars on wars that enrich the military industrial complex, protect people in power.

00:15:23.000 And we never have to have a conversation about where the money came from.

00:15:26.000 But the moment you say that Americans deserve to see housing costs come down, Or energy costs come down.

00:15:34.000 The moment we have to talk about health care, suddenly we have to pull our pockets out and pretend like we're paupers.

00:15:42.000 What in the world is he talking about?

00:15:43.000 We spend multiple times the amount of money on our social welfare programs that we spend on the United States military.

00:15:49.000 As a percentage of GDP, we've been basically flat in terms of our military spending for many, many years.

00:15:54.000 That is not true of our social spending.

00:15:56.000 But again, this is one of these dumb talking points the left likes to repeat because what they actually want is a weaker America in the world.

00:16:02.000 Zarnamdani is doing the same thing, by the way. 0.80

00:16:04.000 Again, Zar Mamdani, the brand new hero of the Democratic Party, he's now quoting Tupac Shakur on the Iran war. 0.99

00:16:11.000 Again, maybe voters are just dumb who vote for these people. 1.00

00:16:15.000 If you're the kind of politician who finds yourself quoting Tupac Shakur, I don't even know what to make of you other than you are appealing to idiots. 1.00

00:16:24.000 Not because Tupac Shakur wasn't a great rapper, but I don't think he was a great political commentator. 0.99

00:16:28.000 I don't think that he had tremendous wisdom when it came to his global view of foreign policy.

00:16:28.000 I'll just put it out there.

00:16:34.000 But here is Mamdani. 0.94

00:16:36.000 Quoting Tupac Shakur's wise advice on the Iraq war, I've made clear my very deep opposition to this war in Iran. 0.88

00:16:43.000 It is an opposition not just of a procedural nature or a political nature, but frankly, of a moral nature. 0.64

00:16:49.000 We are speaking about a war that has killed thousands of civilians, a war that is deeply unpopular across the city and across this country, not just because of what we are seeing it result in, but also because it is utilizing tens of billions of dollars to kill people, money that Could otherwise be spent on making life easier for people across the city in this country.

00:17:11.000 You know, I mean, Tupac said it decades ago.

00:17:13.000 It continues to be true about the fact that we always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor.

00:17:18.000 And that is not the way that politics should be.

00:17:21.000 That is not what Americans want politics to be.

00:17:24.000 For Zoran Momdani, obviously, this anti American involvement in the world is part and parcel of a broader third worldist view in which America and its allies are guilty for literally everything bad that happens on planet Earth.

00:17:35.000 So, Zoran Momdani, remember that time that Zoran Momdani said in a New York City debate.

00:17:39.000 For mayor, he was asked about policies of Israel.

00:17:41.000 He said, I don't want to talk about that.

00:17:43.000 I'm not interested in that because I'm the mayor of New York.

00:17:45.000 I'm not the mayor of the Middle East.

00:17:46.000 Remember, he said this?

00:17:47.000 And then he spends pretty much every day just talking about the politics in the Middle East.

00:17:51.000 It really is astonishing. 0.54

00:17:53.000 It's pretty much the only thing he truly cares about sinking America into the mire in honor of third world peoples who he believes have been victimized in some way.

00:18:04.000 So over the weekend, Momdani decided he was going to honor what anti Israel.

00:18:11.000 People and Israel exterminationists who wish to see Israel exterminated call Nakba Day.

00:18:16.000 Now, in order to understand what Nakba Day is, you have to understand.

00:18:18.000 Nakba means disaster in Arabic.

00:18:20.000 It was a term that was originally coined by a Syrian historian to refer to the failure of the Arab countries to destroy Israel in 1948.

00:18:28.000 That's what Nakba meant.

00:18:29.000 The Nakba was the failure to destroy Israel.

00:18:31.000 Then there was an agitprop effort by anti Israel forces to claim that Nakba didn't refer to the failure to destroy Israel.

00:18:40.000 It referred instead to the refugee problem that emerged from the war between.

00:18:45.000 The Arab states, which remember attacked Israel upon its establishment in 1948, and Israel.

00:18:50.000 And the idea was that was the Nakba. 0.70

00:18:52.000 The Nakba was the expulsion of Palestinians from Israeli areas.

00:18:55.000 Now, we should be clear the Israeli Declaration of Independence offered citizenship to Arabs living in Israeli areas, which is why there are 2 million Israeli Arabs today. 0.59

00:19:05.000 There are villages directly around Jerusalem, like Abu Ghosh, that have been there since before 1948, Arabic villages since before 1948, that decided not to pick up arms and fight the Israelis, and they're still there. 0.78

00:19:16.000 Weird how that works because there are no Jews anywhere in the Middle East because the Arab nations expelled pretty much all of them. 0.84

00:19:22.000 850,000 Jews were expelled in the next decade and a half after the establishment of the state of Israel.

00:19:29.000 Israel took all of them in.

00:19:32.000 In fact, Azam Pasha, the secretary general of the Arab League, said in early 1948 that Arabs should move out of the areas where battle would take place because, quote, this war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades.

00:19:48.000 The Iraqi prime minister at the time called on the Jews to pack their bags and leave while there was still time.

00:19:55.000 And there were broadcasts that went out from Arab leadership, from the Arab League, telling people to leave those areas because there was going to be a war.

00:20:01.000 In any case, part of the propaganda effort by Anti Israel people is to claim that Israel purposefully expelled some 500,000 Palestinians or more during the 1948 war.

00:20:11.000 And so the mayor of New York, this is why it's important, otherwise, this is just obscure Middle Eastern history.

00:20:16.000 The reason this is important is because Zoram Mamdani believes that the foundation of the state of Israel was fundamentally illegitimate, and he is using his office as mayor of New York in order to push eliminationist rhetoric with regard to Israel.

00:20:29.000 Here was Mamdani over the weekend.

00:20:31.000 Yeah, I was nine years old.

00:20:33.000 It was nighttime, and my father came into our bedroom and told us, surprisingly, To get on all fours and make our way to the staircase that goes in to the roof.

00:20:46.000 There were no windows on the staircase because bullets had come in through the wood shutters at that stage.

00:20:53.000 And next day, we just took what we could carry and went to my uncle Hussein's house in Nablus because there was no fighting in Nablus. 0.95

00:21:03.000 The Zionists were, you know, coming into Jerusalem.

00:21:09.000 Nablus, by the way, is located in, wait for it, Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, which is in Israel. 0.57

00:21:16.000 And it was controlled by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.

00:21:21.000 So, again, the only reason this is important is because this is the democratic ideology that has taken the front an ideology that says that the West is guilty for every single thing in the world.

00:21:30.000 And that domestically, America needs to believe that racism has won the day and the only solve is democratic socialism.

00:21:38.000 That is the way the Democratic Party is moving.

00:21:41.000 In just a second, we will get into.

00:21:43.000 What the UK is looking like this weekend, because the future of America looks like that if the Democrats win.

00:21:47.000 Plus, we'll get to Iran and China and Cuba and all the rest first.

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00:23:00.000 James Tallarico over in Texas singing from the same hymnal.

00:23:03.000 He says, actually, the Christianity says that all power must be shared.

00:23:08.000 Actually, I guess Christianity is communist in some way, according to James Tallarico.

00:23:13.000 In my mind, as a Christian, power that is not shared is. 0.61

00:23:20.000 Is also domination.

00:23:23.000 And in a democracy, it's all about sharing power.

00:23:26.000 We acknowledge that power is real and that it has consequences, and we commit to sharing that together as a nation, as communities.

00:23:36.000 I'm just going to point out that that is not anti capitalism.

00:23:41.000 It is not anti right.

00:23:42.000 The right also would like for people to vote.

00:23:45.000 It is only the left that wishes to see centralization of power.

00:23:47.000 But again, if you want to see what the Democratic Party wants, just look at Britain.

00:23:51.000 Britain is about 10 years ahead of us.

00:23:53.000 The direction that Britain is moving is a very, very bad direction, and that is the direction the left in America would love us to move.

00:23:58.000 So over the weekend in Britain, According to the BBC, tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in London on Saturday the Unite the Kingdom rally, organized by Tommy Robinson, and a pro Palestinian demonstration.

00:24:11.000 In the Tommy Robinson rally, many could be seen waving Union flags, with some wearing Make England Great Again, mega red hats, chants of We Want Starmer Out.

00:24:20.000 Here Starmer is the Prime Minister of Great Britain, could also be heard.

00:24:24.000 The separate pro Palestinian march, marking Nakba Day, there it is, started in Kensington before heading to Waterloo Place via Piccadilly.

00:24:31.000 So, what happened at these various rallies?

00:24:32.000 Well, at one, At one, the government tried to shut it down.

00:24:36.000 That would be the United Kingdom rally.

00:24:38.000 They spoke out against it.

00:24:39.000 Kira Starmer warned that there would be hate at the march.

00:24:42.000 The march, again, was a march against mass migration into Great Britain of radical Muslims. 0.95

00:24:48.000 That's what the march was about. 0.76

00:24:49.000 Kira Starmer warned about the extremism and horror of the march.

00:24:54.000 My government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest, but we will act decisively against hatred.

00:25:01.000 We will use the full force of the law.

00:25:04.000 When that hatred manifests as violence.

00:25:07.000 And we will ban those coming into the UK who seek to stir it up, as we have done already.

00:25:14.000 Because this country belongs to all of us.

00:25:18.000 And I will not tolerate anyone who seeks to stand in the way of that.

00:25:23.000 He's not going to tolerate hatred.

00:25:24.000 He's not going to tolerate hatred. 0.98

00:25:25.000 You know, like hatred of London protesters who showed up to protest the United Kingdom rally, chanting about Tommy Robinson that he should be shot in the neck like Charlie Kirk.

00:25:35.000 Apparently, Keir Starmer has no problem with that kind of hatred.

00:25:37.000 That kind of hatred is okay.

00:25:40.000 I'm gonna go on it.

00:25:51.000 That kind of hatred, totally fine. 0.98

00:25:52.000 That's a crowd singing it, by the way, at the Nakba march. 0.87

00:25:56.000 Also, Nakba Day protests, screams for Intifada revolution.

00:25:59.000 Intifada would be an armed uprising.

00:26:00.000 That's what Intifada means. 1.00

00:26:02.000 This kind of stuff, totally okay, according to Kirstarmer.

00:26:04.000 The real threat is the Unite the Kingdom march that oppose this stuff.

00:26:18.000 A very, very large crowd calling for armed uprisings and revolution.

00:26:25.000 One of the speakers on the stage suggested that actually Great Britain had planted the Zionist cancer, as though Jewish presence in the Middle East is solely due to Great Britain, which would come as a surprise to, you know, all of Jewish history, but okay. 0.58

00:26:40.000 Here in the capital of the country that planted the Zionist cancer, hundreds of thousands would march in solidarity with them. 0.65

00:26:51.000 Never would they have imagined that people from all corners of the globe, in their hundreds of thousands, no, in their millions, would march in solidarity with them. 0.93

00:27:05.000 From every corner, people of all walks of life, of all religions and none, opened their eyes to the evils of Zionism and decided to take a stand.

00:27:15.000 And for that, the Palestinian people thank you.

00:27:19.000 The UK government imported all of this.

00:27:21.000 They imported all of this.

00:27:23.000 This is the future the Democratic Party wants a socialized medicine, socialized healthcare, socialized everything system.

00:27:31.000 They want an open borders, green revolution.

00:27:33.000 They would like to look like the UK.

00:27:35.000 So if you look at London and you think that's being governed well, then wait until Democrats have charge again.

00:27:40.000 They will do it.

00:27:41.000 This is a thing they want.

00:27:43.000 And pretending that away is not going to make it go away.

00:27:47.000 So I know there are a lot of people in the Republican Party these days who have heartburn over things that they don't like about President Trump.

00:27:53.000 There are a lot of Americans who are independents who are thinking, well, you know, the Democrats, maybe they won't be that bad.

00:27:58.000 I would just like you to look across the water and see what this will become.

00:28:01.000 Zoran Manzani and the mayor and Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, the same.

00:28:07.000 They have the same ideology, they have the same belief system.

00:28:11.000 If you want to see what is happening in London happen more broadly in the United States, then please give Democrats power.

00:28:17.000 If not, maybe we should have some second thoughts.

00:28:19.000 All right, meanwhile, when it comes to Iran, it turns out that once again, the Iranians are not going to just give up the ghost and hand over their nuclear program. 0.78

00:28:28.000 That always seemed far fetched to me.

00:28:30.000 According to Iran International, the United States had set five conditions in response to Iran's current proposals, including no payments of damages and the transfer of 400 kilograms of uranium.

00:28:42.000 Iran apparently, instead, is saying that they want a cessation of all violence on all fronts, the lifting of sanctions, the release of all frozen funds, compensation for war damages, and recognition of Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

00:28:52.000 So it's a non starter.

00:28:54.000 It's a non starter. 0.59

00:28:55.000 But the actual harsh reality is beginning to sink in Iran.

00:28:58.000 Their economy is in serious trouble.

00:29:01.000 The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Miyad Maliki, writes Multiple officials have now openly acknowledged Iran's structural gasoline deficit, war damaged energy infrastructure, and the urgent need for consumption management.

00:29:12.000 Fuel shortages and tightened rationing are pushing drivers across the country into a rapidly growing gasoline black market.

00:29:18.000 Citizens are describing hours long lines of filling stations and sharply inflated under the table prices, a clear sign the official quota system is breaking down on the ground.

00:29:26.000 Iranian crude exports have collapsed by more than 80% between mid March and late April, measured against a March baseline of 23.4 million barrels.

00:29:36.000 Again, Iran is in trouble.

00:29:37.000 And the only thing that Iran can do right now is try to rally all of those members of the left, all of the people on the left in the United States and the Horseshoe Right, all of the people protesting in London to their support. 0.63

00:29:48.000 It is just third worldism. 0.69

00:29:50.000 It's third worldists unite. 0.73

00:29:51.000 Mohammed Khalibaf, who is the head of the Iranian parliament, which is a fake organization in the first place, he tweeted out the world stands at the cusp of a new order. 0.81

00:29:59.000 As President Xi said, the transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe.

00:30:03.000 And I emphasize that the Iranian nation's 70 day resistance has accelerated this transformation.

00:30:08.000 The future belongs to the global south.

00:30:11.000 He's trying to make common cause with China, trying to make common cause with the Russians, obviously, and obviously trying to unite the third world. 0.56

00:30:18.000 This is not the first time we have seen this sort of tactic happen.

00:30:20.000 This happened also in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War when the Soviet Union decided to promote third worldism as an alternative to Arab countries who were thinking about uniting with the United States.

00:30:31.000 Meanwhile, Mahmoud Pazeshkian, who is the president of Iran, he praised Iran's communications and IT services on World Communication Day.

00:30:40.000 We should note at this point that Iran is on day 79 of its internet blackout.

00:30:44.000 So things are not going particularly well for the Iranians.

00:30:47.000 There is the possibility that this war goes kinetic sometime in the near future again.

00:30:51.000 Obviously, that's up to the president.

00:30:52.000 Right now, this blockade is doing terrible harm to the Iranian economy.

00:30:55.000 They're going to have to cap wells soon.

00:30:57.000 They're going to have to take refineries offline because they just do not have any place to put all of the oil that they have since it's not going out anywhere. 0.91

00:31:05.000 But as I've said before, the real solution here would be to reopen the Strait of Hormuz through force and bomb Iran's oil facilities. 0.84

00:31:12.000 Defenestrating their economy and making it impossible for the regime to recover in the near, mid, or far term. 0.74

00:31:18.000 That is what Iran is risking right now.

00:31:20.000 And the president of the United States keeps saying that over and over.

00:31:23.000 At a certain point, he will run out of patience.

00:31:25.000 The president of the United States went on Truth Social over the weekend and put out a statement to that effect.

00:31:32.000 He said, For Iran, the clock is ticking and they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them.

00:31:37.000 Time is of the essence. 1.00

00:31:39.000 Well, we'll find out in short order. 0.92

00:31:41.000 When it comes to China, The president has taken an awful lot of measures, as I've pointed out, to basically cut off the tentacles of Chinese power. 0.90

00:31:50.000 That's what Venezuela is largely about.

00:31:52.000 It's what Cuba, as we'll get to, is about.

00:31:54.000 It is also what the closing of the Iranian shipments from the Strait of Hormuz is about. 0.57

00:32:00.000 Zinebra Boy of Hudson Institute points out that the president has made a number of strategic moves to box in the Chinese, ranging from the building of AI infrastructure in the UAE to maximizing U.S. India trade with an LNG deal.

00:32:17.000 To U.S. government industrial enclaves in the Philippines, the president has always seen China as a serious geopolitical enemy.

00:32:25.000 Now, with that said, the president does want to reshore key resources for the United States.

00:32:29.000 That includes, for example, the production of sophisticated microchips.

00:32:33.000 The president, I'm not sure I love his language here with regard to Taiwan, but obviously it is in the United States' interest not to be totally reliant on Taiwanese microchip manufacturing at this point, considering how vital those supplies are to pretty much everything in our economy.

00:32:48.000 Here was the president over the weekend.

00:32:50.000 If you look at the history of Taiwan, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing.

00:32:58.000 Because if they would have put tariffs on chips coming in, they would have never left.

00:33:02.000 Everything was about Intel and everything was about our chip companies.

00:33:06.000 They stole our chip industry.

00:33:08.000 So I've said that for years.

00:33:10.000 I said, you know, for years they stole our chip.

00:33:12.000 If we would have had one of our presidents just say, we're going to say, we're going to put 100% chip.

00:33:18.000 You can leave, you can build in Taiwan, but you sell it back into the United States, we're going to put 100% or 200% tariff.

00:33:24.000 We would have never lost a chip.

00:33:26.000 We lost a chip industry.

00:33:27.000 It's all coming back. 0.98

00:33:30.000 So, that should not be a reason for us to give up Taiwan to the Chinese. 0.99

00:33:34.000 But it is good, of course, that the United States is making our resources safer, obviously, so long as we are not basically giving a green light to the Chinese. 0.94

00:33:42.000 The truth is, it's not just about Taiwan. 0.96

00:33:43.000 The Taiwan Strait is a bottleneck when it comes to shipping supply that we cannot allow China to drive control over.

00:33:52.000 Other areas where China has an interest.

00:33:55.000 That may be on their last legs.

00:33:56.000 Cuba, obviously, is on the menu.

00:33:58.000 A report from Axio says that Cuba has now acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels, and possibly even Key West, which of course is in Florida.

00:34:13.000 The intelligence shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisors in Havana.

00:34:22.000 According to U.S. officials, Cuba has been acquiring attack drones of varying capabilities from Russia and Iran since 2023 and has actually stashed them in strategic locations across the island. 0.51

00:34:33.000 And they are working with the Chinese in order to facilitate all of this.

00:34:37.000 Cuba may be on its last legs. 1.00

00:34:38.000 That doesn't mean that they are not dangerous.

00:34:42.000 I do want to give a shout out to producer Savvy, by the way. 1.00

00:34:44.000 She has a fantastic piece over at Daily Wire that everybody should read, all about growing up as a Cuban American, talking about being raised by Cuban exile parents.

00:34:54.000 She writes about what it means for the left to take over in America.

00:35:00.000 She said that her grandparents, for example, watched in anguish.

00:35:03.000 When Barack Obama was elected president, quote, my abuelo Ernesto was tapping his foot uncontrollably.

00:35:08.000 My abuela Norma had one tear lightly streaming down her face.

00:35:11.000 Then she leaned over to me and said something I will never forget.

00:35:13.000 That sounds exactly like Fidel Castro. 0.97

00:35:15.000 I thought she was absolutely insane.

00:35:17.000 Socialism does not arrive all at once.

00:35:19.000 It seeps in through rhetoric that reshapes how people think about success, fairness, and their own country.

00:35:23.000 Go check out the piece over at DailyWire.com.

00:35:26.000 Now, speaking of anti market forces, left wing billionaires, according to reporting at the Daily Wire, are now funding groups attempting to cripple AI infrastructure, as we've been talking about on the program.

00:35:36.000 The AI race is imperative for the United States.

00:35:38.000 It's imperative for our economy, and it's also imperative for our military. 0.86

00:35:42.000 If we lose to China, we just become more dependent on their supply and manufacture, and their military makes leaps and bounds beyond our own. 0.91

00:35:50.000 We cannot lose the AI race. 0.67

00:35:52.000 And as far as the notion that AI is going to cripple the United States economy, that is absolutely untrue.

00:35:57.000 We are beginning to see, by the way, the gains in American productivity materializing in actual profit margins for places like Anthropic.

00:36:06.000 Well, according to the Daily Wire, a report from The American Energy Institute found the anti AI data center movement, which has been billed as organic, received more than $39 million in funding from left wing foreign billionaire donors.

00:36:18.000 Among the major donors are Swiss billionaire Hans Jörg Weiss, known for donating to left wing advocacy groups, as well as a major fiscal sponsor and dark money hub for liberal causes.

00:36:29.000 Top recipients for those $40 million are Indivisible 350.org, Oil Change International, Gaia, and the Sierra Club.

00:36:36.000 So, again, left wing billionaires from abroad are using America's openness to turn against.

00:36:41.000 The things that actually make America more innovative.

00:36:44.000 And it has a bleed down effect.

00:36:46.000 I've said this a thousand times.

00:36:47.000 I'll say it a thousand more.

00:36:48.000 There are a lot of people my age and above who think of the online world as unreal because it is.

00:36:53.000 And I've said, go touch grass, go talk with real people.

00:36:55.000 The problem is for young people, online is real.

00:36:58.000 They spend a massive amount of time interfacing with, in many cases, bots, in some cases, people who they've never met, experiencing things that they really don't experience in real life, and developing thought patterns that are totally at odds with reality.

00:37:14.000 This is how you end up with.

00:37:16.000 A university commencement speaker being booed for making pro AI comments over at the University of Central Florida.

00:37:22.000 And if this is any indicator of where we go economically in the United States, we got a problem.

00:37:28.000 The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.

00:37:36.000 Oh, whoa.

00:37:46.000 I struck a chord.

00:37:48.000 Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.

00:38:04.000 Okay, so people cheering the idea that AI is bad.

00:38:07.000 I promise you, every one of those students is using AI to get their information about AI.

00:38:11.000 It's pretty impressive how brains can be captured this way.

00:38:15.000 Now, this is not to say that there aren't risks to AI.

00:38:18.000 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi says that we could have high GDP growth and also high unemployment.

00:38:23.000 My view is the signature of this technology is it's going to take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment.

00:38:36.000 Unemployment and inequality.

00:38:37.000 Now, that's not a combination we've almost ever seen before, right?

00:38:41.000 You think of it as high GDP growth, that's lots of stuff to do, lots of jobs for everyone.

00:38:45.000 It's always been like that in the past.

00:38:47.000 We've never had a technology that's this disruptive.

00:38:50.000 So the idea that we could have 5% or 10% GDP growth, but also 10% unemployment, it's not logically inconsistent at all.

00:39:00.000 It's just never happened that way before.

00:39:04.000 Now, again, I think he's wrong.

00:39:06.000 I think that AI is going to cause temporary dislocation in the job markets, but it is going to open up way more ways for you to do your job than ever before.

00:39:14.000 You might not have to work as many hours because you're more productive in the hours that you are working.

00:39:19.000 Secretary Doug Burgum, the U.S. Interior Secretary, I think says this well.

00:39:22.000 He says, We are now converting electricity into intelligence, which, again, if you said to everybody on Earth, we can make you 15 IQ points smarter today, would that be a bad thing or a good thing?

00:39:33.000 You would imagine that would be a pretty good thing.

00:39:35.000 That's essentially what AI is doing.

00:39:38.000 You're actually manufacturing intelligence for the first time.

00:39:41.000 You could turn electricity into light, like these bright lights that are facing us.

00:39:46.000 They're very bright, by the way.

00:39:47.000 That's right.

00:39:49.000 Or heat, I mean, that's a miracle.

00:39:51.000 I mean, thank you, Edison, Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, I mean, thank you for harnessing electricity.

00:39:56.000 But now, for the first time in our lifetimes in history, human history, you could convert electricity into intelligence.

00:40:02.000 That changes everything.

00:40:04.000 Now, the administration is doing good work in tamping down some of the concerns about AI.

00:40:08.000 So, for example, the White House.

00:40:10.000 Has pushed in March of 2026, the so called rate payer protection pledge, in which he called on leading US hyperscalers and AI companies to build, bring, or buy all the energy necessary for building and operating data centers and pay the full cost of their energy and infrastructure no matter what.

00:40:25.000 And that is good because obviously we don't want to tax everybody else with higher power prices because the data centers are eating too much power.

00:40:33.000 It turns out actually the biggest price disruption we saw last year occurred when a data center went off the grid and that overtaxed the regime.

00:40:39.000 The truth also is that it really isn't about AI data centers.

00:40:43.000 Energy pricing, it is that red states just regulate energy far less than blue states.

00:40:47.000 Here's a chart of median residential electricity rates in red states versus blue states.

00:40:52.000 Look at those blue states.

00:40:53.000 I mean, just skyrocketing since 2021, just up and up and up.

00:40:58.000 And as for the argument that data centers are going to disproportionately consume water, we should look at what actually disproportionately consumes water in the United States.

00:41:06.000 It turns out the answer is wait for it, wait for it.

00:41:08.000 Almonds.

00:41:09.000 Almonds consume an enormous amount of water.

00:41:12.000 But you don't, by the way, many of the people who are very much against the water usage for data centers.

00:41:17.000 Are very much in favor of the almond growing because it's agricultural in nature.

00:41:22.000 And an enormous amount of the anger at AI is being driven either by people who are anti capitalism or by people who actually have an interest in America losing the AI race, which is why you are seeing the Singham projects of the world funding enormous anti AI propaganda.

00:41:43.000 Okay, back to politics.

00:41:44.000 So the big political story over the weekend Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, lost his Senate primary.

00:41:49.000 According to Politico, Cassidy is the first previously elected senator of either party to lose in a primary since 2012.

00:41:59.000 Now he was defeated.

00:41:59.000 He didn't even make the runoff.

00:42:01.000 He finished third in the actual election.

00:42:02.000 President Trump had loudly opposed him.

00:42:06.000 His two rivals benefited from the fact that Cassidy voted in 2021 to convict President Trump on impeachment charges related to that January 6th insurrection.

00:42:15.000 It was really about that.

00:42:17.000 He also opposed RFK as Health and Human Services Secretary rhetorically.

00:42:21.000 He ended up, I believe, voting for him in the end.

00:42:23.000 He may have voted against him, but I think he voted against Casey Means.

00:42:26.000 In any case, Cassidy had crossed swords with the president one too many times, and the president really ripped him.

00:42:31.000 It was really more about the impeachment.

00:42:32.000 Impeachment came to be seen.

00:42:34.000 As a sort of litmus test on whether you were an effective Republican or whether you just wanted to win some brownie points with the left, I am amused that some Democrats are now claiming that they love Bill Cassidy.

00:42:46.000 Pete Buttigieg, who is playing now in the movie Bearded Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg 2.0, the same but slightly more masculine, he now says that Cassidy was a normal, honest Republican and we like him now.

00:42:59.000 One of my favorite games the Democrats play is when suddenly Republicans who they hated for years become good.

00:43:05.000 So, they can contrast them with other Republicans.

00:43:07.000 It's the whole Mitt Romney.

00:43:09.000 Man, I miss Mitt Romney after they destroyed Mitt Romney.

00:43:11.000 Here's Pete Buttigieg doing the usual routine.

00:43:15.000 My experience, Senator Cassidy is a normal, honest, and very conservative Republican.

00:43:21.000 And it turns out people like that have less and less of a home in Donald Trump's Republican Party.

00:43:28.000 Well, I mean, one could say that perhaps your own party has basically thrown out anyone who is purportedly moderate.

00:43:35.000 Bill Cassidy, on his way out, mocked President Trump's election.

00:43:39.000 Take in 2020.

00:43:42.000 I've been able to participate in democracy.

00:43:45.000 And when you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn't turn out the way you want it to.

00:43:51.000 But you don't pout, you don't whine, you don't claim the election was stolen, you don't find a reason why.

00:44:01.000 Now, again, I have a lot of sympathy for Bill Cassidy continuing to claim correctly that the election of 2020 was not stolen, like through voter fraud or whatever.

00:44:11.000 It also happens to be the case that if you vote for the impeachment of the president of your party, it is probably not going to go well for you.

00:44:17.000 Well, we'll see the extent of the president's reach.

00:44:19.000 He's going after a wide variety of Republicans who have crossed him at this point.

00:44:22.000 That includes Thomas Massey, the wayward congressman from Kentucky, who spends most of his time ripping the president's foreign policy and making time with rather unpleasant people in the podcast sphere.

00:44:35.000 The president put out a statement.

00:44:37.000 Tom Massey of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican congressman in the history of our country, is an even bigger insult to our nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered an unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican primary.

00:44:49.000 This is the first time such a thing has ever happened to a sitting U.S. Senator.

00:44:52.000 That's what you get by voting to impeach an innocent man, especially one who made it possible for Cassidy's Senate win.

00:44:57.000 Very disloyal, but Tom Massey, a major sleeves bag, is even worse. 0.95

00:45:00.000 Kentucky, get this loser out of politics in Tuesday's election. 0.95

00:45:03.000 His nickname, Rand Paul Jr., another real beauty because of his absolutely terrible voting habits. 0.92

00:45:07.000 Vote for Ed Galrine, a successful Kentucky farmer and American war hero who only ran because he thought Massey was so disloyal and disrespectful to your president, me.

00:45:14.000 By the way, We should point out that Massey's been running ads in his district trying to claim he's an ally of President Trump while President Trump dunks on him.

00:45:22.000 President Trump says, This is a great man in Gal Ryan's central casting, in fact, who truly deserves to represent the fantastic people of Kentucky, a Commonwealth I am proud to have won all three times in record fashion.

00:45:31.000 Ed will never let you down.

00:45:32.000 Make America great again.

00:45:34.000 This House primary battle is drawing tons and tons of spending.

00:45:38.000 It has drawn almost $26 million in TV, radio, and digital advertising.

00:45:44.000 Massey's campaign has outspent Gal Ryan's $5.8 million to $2.6 million.

00:45:48.000 But super PACs heavily favor Gal Ryan at this point.

00:45:53.000 Again, it'll be fascinating to see what happens in Tuesday's primary in Kentucky. 0.98

00:45:58.000 All righty, over to culture.

00:45:59.000 So, I have to say, the funniest moment of the weekend came when Clavicular, you remember Clavicular?

00:46:03.000 That's this young streamer who has been a lot in the headlines for almost overdosing on drugs and smashing himself in the face with a hammer and suggesting that Gavin Newsom would mog JD Vance.

00:46:14.000 Mog means to apparently defeat someone visually.

00:46:18.000 Well, he had an unfortunate experience over the weekend.

00:46:20.000 No, not that he had to show up in court for shooting a dead alligator, which is a thing he had to show up in court for in Florida.

00:46:26.000 No, he had the unfortunate experience of being mogged himself. 0.64

00:46:30.000 See, The problem with being a looks maxer is that, like an old school Western gunfighter, except significantly more gay, you might run up against a faster gunfighter who is less gay but also more handsome. 0.66

00:46:42.000 And that apparently is what happened to Clavicular over the weekend. 0.61

00:46:45.000 And it would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

00:46:47.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:46:50.000 Social media streamers accused of firing a gun in the Everglades during a live stream.

00:46:54.000 They have now pleaded no contest to the charges.

00:46:57.000 Andrew Morales, known online as Cuban Tarzan, and Braden Peters, who goes by Clavicular, were each charged with unlawful discharge of a Fire on the judge.

00:47:06.000 This case stems from a March live stream that appeared to show a dead alligator being shot in the Everglades.

00:47:12.000 As part of their sentence, both men received six months.

00:47:15.000 The internet went crazy over the judge because the judge appears to be better looking than clavicular.

00:47:19.000 So, man, must be hard to be frame mugged consistently by the people who are out to get you.

00:47:26.000 Clavicular, having a rough time of it. 0.72

00:47:29.000 Well, over the weekend, Chelsea Handler also decided to sound off on politics. 0.99

00:47:34.000 She's going after Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles with her usual brand of. 0.90

00:47:38.000 Bizarre non comedy.

00:47:41.000 Oh, hi.

00:47:41.000 If you're seeing this video, this is a reminder that a straight white male former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate.

00:47:51.000 Have we learned anything yet?

00:47:54.000 The bar is on the floor, people, and I need you to jump over it.

00:47:58.000 Okay, thank you.

00:47:59.000 Have a nice day.

00:48:00.000 She seems pleasant.

00:48:01.000 She seems pleasant and somehow even less pleasant when she's drunk.

00:48:06.000 That's a thing.

00:48:08.000 I will bring you what was the most pleasant story of the weekend.

00:48:10.000 The most pleasant story of the weekend.

00:48:12.000 Is ironic.

00:48:13.000 So remember that New York Magazine piece that we talked about on Friday of last week?

00:48:16.000 Well, it turns out that the writer of that piece is now under investigation for, wait for it, plagiarism.

00:48:23.000 Oh, no.

00:48:24.000 It turns out that NPR found at least two other instances in which the writer, Ross Barkin, apparently pulled partial paragraphs from other stories that appeared in the publications The Intercept and Compact Magazine.

00:48:35.000 Hmm.

00:48:37.000 Well, isn't that sad?

00:48:39.000 After he plagiarized a piece about the downfall of The Daily Wire from The Washington Post.

00:48:43.000 Huh?

00:48:45.000 You know, karma.

00:48:47.000 Over the weekend, Bill Maher on his HBO show gave a tremendous monologue on anti Semitism, specifically ripping the Democratic Party for its embrace of anti Semitism.

00:48:55.000 It's worth noting here's what it sounded like.

00:48:59.000 Now, it's everyone's right in a free country to be anti Semitic, but enough with hiding behind Israel or Zionism or Netanyahu. 0.97

00:49:08.000 If you think, as so many do now, that when it comes to human rights, Israel is the monster country of all time, you either don't read or you don't care about your own hypocrisy. 0.97

00:49:19.000 Because there are so many worse places. 0.97

00:49:21.000 But that's where we are these days. 1.00

00:49:23.000 No Jews, no news.

00:49:26.000 Okay, so he went off, and he went off on the Democratic Party specifically, which I have to say, Megyn Kelly, whoo, gotta hunt those clicks.

00:49:36.000 Girl, go get them.

00:49:37.000 Whoo.

00:49:38.000 She put out a tweet. 0.99

00:49:38.000 He's such a hypocrite, anti woke warrior, except when it comes to the one identity he shares, and then he's full BLM 2020. 0.99

00:49:43.000 Well, no, actually. 1.00

00:49:45.000 BLM claims that the entire system is rigged against black people. 0.66

00:49:48.000 Bill Maher is claiming that the Democratic Party has gone heavily anti Semitic because it has. 0.66

00:49:54.000 And also that there are people on the right who have been promoting that anti Semitism, which they also have.

00:50:00.000 But I guess if you string words together in something that appears semi coherent fashion and you invoke BLM, then that makes you, you know, girl power or some such.

00:50:08.000 All righty, folks, the show continues for our members right now.

00:50:10.000 We'll jump into the mailbag and answer some of your questions.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 18, 2026

Here's What The Future of America Looks Like… If DEMOCRATS Win

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