The Ben Shapiro Show - October 12, 2026


I Watched All the Midterm Debates So You Don’t Have To

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00:00:00.000 USA, Israel, Trump the pedophile, me and you on the stage in a boxing match. 1.00
00:00:08.000 Okay, I'm gonna need you to shut the up. 1.00
00:00:12.000 Yep, that's me. 0.93
00:00:13.000 You're probably wondering how I ended up telling a college student here to shut the up.
00:00:16.000 Well, here's the story.
00:00:24.000 Okay, so I spoke at a couple of campuses last week University of Texas at Austin and University of Iowa with TPUSA.
00:00:29.000 Great events, a lot of fun, huge energy, really terrific.
00:00:32.000 Well, Immediately after I spoke at the University of Iowa, I did what I always do.
00:00:36.000 I've been doing this for literally two decades.
00:00:38.000 I open up for questions, and then I was the arbitrator of this rule.
00:00:41.000 If you disagree, you go to the front of the line.
00:00:43.000 I've been doing this for two decades.
00:00:44.000 Again, that's usually an undergrad student or a professor, a grad student, or something who shows up, and then we have some sort of polite exchange about one issue or another.
00:00:52.000 Well, not this time.
00:00:54.000 This dude, and again, I have no idea who this guy was, decided it was time to scream into the void while filming himself for legitimately a long stretch of time.
00:01:04.000 So I tried to have a conversation.
00:01:06.000 I really, really did.
00:01:08.000 I did.
00:01:09.000 But here's how it went The Prince of Madison here.
00:01:15.000 Ben Shapiro, or should I call you Ben Israelo?
00:01:18.000 My friend, the enemy here is not the left. 0.62
00:01:23.000 The enemy are the Epstein cabal who works for Israel. 0.86
00:01:26.000 And we know who you are loyal to, my friend. 0.97
00:01:29.000 The enemy are the people who are taking our tax dollars to shoot Hendradeb.
00:01:35.000 A Palestinian five years old girl shot by 600 bullets funded by American taxpayer. 0.79
00:01:44.000 This is 1948. 0.54
00:01:45.000 We are no longer welcoming aid to Israel. 0.99
00:01:50.000 You are the enemy. 1.00
00:01:52.000 Trump is a pedophile and he's not releasing the Epstein file. 1.00
00:01:57.000 Let's not lie to ourselves, my friend. 1.00
00:02:00.000 Everything is clear.
00:02:01.000 Everything is obvious.
00:02:03.000 Who are you loyal to, Ben Shapiro?
00:02:06.000 Israel or America?
00:02:07.000 Say it right now.
00:02:10.000 America?
00:02:11.000 USA against Israel. 0.78
00:02:13.000 Israel. 0.74
00:02:14.000 Israel. 0.53
00:02:15.000 We are United States of America and we are not United States of Israel. 0.93
00:02:21.000 Israel, under my leg right now. 0.98
00:02:23.000 Israel will not win. 0.97
00:02:25.000 America, USA, USA, Israel. 0.99
00:02:29.000 Trump, the pedophile who is hiding the Epstein's list. 0.97
00:02:35.000 I mean, well, that was a deeply convincing argument. 0.98
00:02:41.000 I must say that you screaming over and over. 1.00
00:02:44.000 Israel, Trump, Trump's a pedophile. 1.00
00:02:47.000 I don't find it wildly convincing. 1.00
00:02:51.000 What I do think is that you are demonstrating a complete lack of any sort of knowledge about anything and screaming like a schmuck performatively is not actually a form of convincing anyone. 0.99
00:03:09.000 There's no, listen, there's no response to people who are going to get up there and just yell like assholes. 0.99
00:03:12.000 Let me be very clear about this. 0.99
00:03:14.000 Okay.
00:03:15.000 Let's settle this right now.
00:03:16.000 Okay.
00:03:17.000 Me and you on the stage in a boxing match.
00:03:21.000 USA versus Israel.
00:03:26.000 Okay. 0.86
00:03:27.000 Here's.
00:03:28.000 Okay, so here is my response.
00:03:33.000 See, again.
00:03:33.000 I have.
00:03:35.000 See. 0.99
00:03:36.000 Okay, I'm going to need you to shut the f up. 0.98
00:03:39.000 You have nothing of relevance to say. 0.99
00:03:43.000 You have no argument to make. 1.00
00:03:49.000 You have sloganeering bullshit. 1.00
00:03:50.000 You're spewing about me, about the United States, about the presidents of the United States. 1.00
00:03:54.000 You have nothing of merit.
00:03:56.000 So here's what I would recommend.
00:03:58.000 Go read a book, get a job, do something useful with your life.
00:04:05.000 They're not sending their best.
00:04:10.000 Don't chant in the name of my country while you call the President of the United States without basis a pedophile, scream in support of terror groups, and pretend that somehow you've made a meritorious point.
00:04:22.000 Enjoy your earned obscurity.
00:04:29.000 Again, why do I play that?
00:04:30.000 Well, first of all, I should point out that any of the issues that this person has talked about, I've handled in a multiplicity of settings, including literally the night before, University of Texas at Austin.
00:04:40.000 We talked about Hyndra Hobb at length with one of the students.
00:04:43.000 All these can be raised in a normal context, but this is important.
00:04:46.000 Why?
00:04:46.000 Because it's indicative of the nature of our political debate at this moment.
00:04:50.000 Let us be clear the hard left does not want to argue.
00:04:52.000 They do not want to discuss.
00:04:53.000 They do not want to debate.
00:04:54.000 They do not want to talk about facts.
00:04:56.000 They want to impose.
00:04:57.000 They want to shout Epstein files.
00:04:59.000 They want to shout F Israel, F the U.S.
00:05:01.000 They want to shout genocide and ignore literally all evidence.
00:05:04.000 They want to ignore reality.
00:05:06.000 And they're sending people who can barely speak English to lecture us about America while chanting USI while simultaneously sympathizing with terrorists, which is what's going on here. 1.00
00:05:14.000 By the way, I'm not talking here just about idiot students. 0.99
00:05:16.000 I'm talking about United States Senate candidates. 0.99
00:05:18.000 Like, for example, Abdurrahman El Sayed in Michigan.
00:05:23.000 So, end of last week, Abdurrahman El Sayed, and yes, I can pronounce his name, he had a debate with Mike Rogers over in Michigan.
00:05:31.000 And right now, the calcium markets suggest that, unbelievably enough, There's a high likelihood that El Sayed is going to win.
00:05:39.000 Now, that likelihood has been dropping a little bit, according to the Calcium markets.
00:05:42.000 They're some of our sponsors.
00:05:44.000 El Sayed is about 68%.
00:05:45.000 Rogers is about 32%.
00:05:49.000 With that said, the polling data on this particular race does not suggest a blowout election for El Sayed.
00:05:56.000 In fact, I think that in all likelihood, El Sayed has significantly less of a lead than the Calcium markets are implying.
00:06:05.000 The last three polls have El Sayed.
00:06:07.000 Not only within the margin of error, but essentially in a dead heat with Mike Rogers, which is kind of amazing because Michigan is a very purpley state and it is an off year election. 0.93
00:06:15.000 And the person whose seat is being filled is a Democrat. 0.97
00:06:18.000 But there's a reason for that.
00:06:19.000 And that is because Abdurrahman El Sayed is a terror supporter. 0.83
00:06:23.000 He and his entire family are Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers. 0.71
00:06:27.000 And this goes back a long time.
00:06:29.000 Well, Mike Rogers shellacked El Sayed in this debate.
00:06:32.000 He pointed out he has a very difficult time condemning terrorists.
00:06:36.000 Every single situation, Iraq, Iran, and what other awards is he going to?
00:06:40.000 That is dangerous.
00:06:40.000 To cheerlead.
00:06:41.000 We cannot have that.
00:06:42.000 Can I tell you what's important?
00:06:42.000 All right, hold on.
00:06:43.000 This is important.
00:06:44.000 15 seconds, please.
00:06:45.000 He can't condemn a terrorist act that happened on our soil in the state of Michigan.
00:06:50.000 He can't bring himself to condemn the head of a horrible guy.
00:06:54.000 You absolutely did not.
00:06:54.000 You don't make stuff up.
00:06:55.000 You don't make stuff up.
00:06:56.000 Talking about making stuff up.
00:06:58.000 I literally condemned this guy.
00:06:59.000 You know it. 0.99
00:07:00.000 He can't condemn Hamas. 0.95
00:07:02.000 He can't condemn the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.88
00:07:04.000 He says his home is Egypt. 0.99
00:07:06.000 This all starts with Hamas. 0.92
00:07:06.000 We are going toward a long. 0.92
00:07:09.000 And again, Al-Sayed's response to this is not to actually condemn any of those terror groups.
00:07:13.000 His response to this is to say that he just wants to talk about prices, which again is the entire game.
00:07:17.000 The entire game is misdirect.
00:07:19.000 Abdurrahman El-Sayed is a candidate who literally justified terrorism at a Jewish day school by claiming that it was the same as the IDF hitting a member of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:07:29.000 During this debate, Abdurrahman El-Sayed would not answer who is a bigger threat to America, Israel or Iran. 0.87
00:07:34.000 Now, this is a pretty obvious answer.
00:07:36.000 This is a pretty obvious answer. 0.95
00:07:38.000 I don't care what you think about Israel. 0.92
00:07:40.000 Iran has been antithetical to American interests for half a century. 0.99
00:07:45.000 They literally chant death to America. 1.00
00:07:46.000 They spread anti American terror all over the region.
00:07:49.000 They have been directly and indirectly responsible for the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of American troops in the Middle East, responsible for terror acts across the globe. 0.66
00:07:57.000 And Al Said won't answer the question because we know what he thinks. 0.92
00:08:00.000 He's in sympathy with radical Muslims all over planet Earth.
00:08:04.000 Not because he has arguments.
00:08:05.000 He doesn't have arguments.
00:08:06.000 But because he wishes you never to see what he actually believes.
00:08:10.000 I mean, at least credit to that student for saying what he actually thinks. 0.97
00:08:13.000 Al Said is just a liar. 0.96
00:08:15.000 I'm just going to say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now. 0.97
00:08:19.000 Our Ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran.
00:08:26.000 We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply.
00:08:35.000 So, this is a situation in which I don't think we should be apart. 0.73
00:08:39.000 I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel, and I don't want to be in a war with Iran.
00:08:44.000 I want our money spent here to buy schools and healthcare and childcare here. 0.84
00:08:49.000 I don't understand why that is so inconceivable. 0.99
00:08:52.000 Okay, again, he is a liar. 1.00
00:08:54.000 He's a liar. 1.00
00:08:55.000 Trying to deflect from a very obvious question where he, by the way, is blaming Israel for Iran shutting the Strait of Hormuz is pretty astonishing. 0.99
00:09:02.000 And then El Sayed was asked about the fact that his entire family is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which they are, by the way.
00:09:08.000 His entire in law family, his entire actual family are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, apparently.
00:09:15.000 He is backed by $115,000 from members of the Council on American Islamic Relations, which is an unindicted co conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
00:09:25.000 Abdul El Sayed's mom worked for a global terrorist group accused of funding Osama bin Laden, Hamas, and the Taliban. 0.77
00:09:31.000 That's his mom, Fathi El Komi.
00:09:34.000 She worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency from 1999 until 2004, when the U.S. Department of Treasury linked the group to terrorism.
00:09:41.000 Abdul El Sayed's father in law is a founding member of the Islamic Society for North America, another unindicted co conspirator in funding terrorism associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:09:51.000 He literally wrote a letter, he was a signatory to a letter.
00:09:54.000 When Mohammed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member, took over Egypt, remember after the so called Arab Spring, when the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt, Al Said was a signatory to a letter asking Mohammed Morsi to crack down on dissidents, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
00:10:10.000 But here he was denying connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:10:14.000 For Michigan voters who are hearing those attacks against you, who are looking to separate fact from fiction, can you set the record straight about whether you or your family have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
00:10:28.000 No, but let's talk about this.
00:10:31.000 No, you don't have any ties.
00:10:32.000 No.
00:10:33.000 And your family doesn't.
00:10:34.000 No.
00:10:34.000 Let me ask you, though, why this is even a subjective debate?
00:10:40.000 Because his only strategy is to point to me and my name and my faith and to say that we're different and that you should suspect people simply because they are different than you in how they pray.
00:10:55.000 But there are so many more ways that we're the same.
00:10:57.000 No, I'm pretty sure it's not that.
00:10:59.000 Oh, there's so many more ways that we're the same.
00:11:00.000 Like, for example, we all love the Muslim Brotherhood, apparently. 1.00
00:11:03.000 Again, this is insane, and if you believe it, you're a shill and a moron. 1.00
00:11:06.000 Truly. 1.00
00:11:07.000 If you believe what he is selling you, if you're one of these dumbass mainstream Democrats supporting Abdul Al Sayed while telling yourself that he is not an Islamic extremist, you're out of your mind. 1.00
00:11:16.000 You're out of your mind. 0.98
00:11:18.000 Al Sayed's sister, Iman Abdul Hadi, in 2012 openly tweeted My family has long been Muslim Brotherhood, but I've always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly or destructively. 0.87
00:11:32.000 That's his sister. 0.90
00:11:34.000 2013.
00:11:36.000 Quote praying for all my family that support the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. 0.99
00:11:40.000 Lie low, stay safe. 0.99
00:11:44.000 I mean, this is who the Democrats are putting up for the job.
00:11:47.000 It's the same exact guy as the guy screaming F Israel, F Trump, Epstein files, USA, USA, USA. 1.00
00:11:53.000 If you're dumb enough to fall for this op, you are a moron, truly. 1.00
00:11:57.000 If you're a Michigander and you're sitting there thinking Abdullah Sayyid truly cares about cost of living, that is his top priority. 1.00
00:12:03.000 It has never been his top priority. 0.99
00:12:05.000 That is the same crap that radical Muslims have always said to get into power. 1.00
00:12:09.000 They always pretend that what they are for. is some sort of left-wing social justice movement. 1.00
00:12:13.000 And then the minute they gain power, it is full on to the radical Islamism. 0.97
00:12:18.000 Always. 1.00
00:12:19.000 It is all taqiyah. 1.00
00:12:20.000 It is all lies. 0.99
00:12:21.000 And Abdullah Syed is a master at telling these lies.
00:12:24.000 Well, look, I've been saying the Democrats are not sending their best, but you're a small business.
00:12:28.000 And that means you need to be at your best all the time.
00:12:31.000 Well, one of the difficulties in running a small business is that sometimes, you know, your payroll outstrips your receipts.
00:12:36.000 You have kind of a lumpy income.
00:12:38.000 Sometimes you just need that short-term cash swing.
00:12:40.000 Sometimes you need an actual loan.
00:12:42.000 Well, Cardiff can help you out with all that.
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00:13:03.000 Real growth, fast funding, Cardiff, borrow better.
00:13:07.000 Again, small businesses, you need this.
00:13:09.000 And sometimes you need it on short notice.
00:13:10.000 Well, Cardiff can make that happen for you in a way that's not going to lock you up in paperwork, take you forever.
00:13:16.000 Again, Cardiff is the best in the business at this.
00:13:19.000 If your business has been operating for at least a year and generates at least 20 grand a month in revenue, it's time to visit cardiff.co slash Shapiro.
00:13:25.000 That's cardiff.co slash Shapiro.
00:13:27.000 By the way, speaking of liars who are now being exposed, presumably, breaking news today is that Ilhan Omar's house has now been raided in Washington, D.C. According to the UK Daily Mail, federal agents swooped into the Washington home of Ilhan Omar early Monday as part of a criminal investigation into how the Congresswoman got into America.
00:13:46.000 Homeland Security investigations carried out the raid.
00:13:48.000 A source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
00:13:51.000 A DOJ spokesperson said, Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the DOJ.
00:14:00.000 This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation, the spokesperson added.
00:14:04.000 Homeland Security, under the leadership of Mark Wayne Mullen, the secretary, are zeroing in on immigration paperwork the Somali born Democrats' late father filled out on her behalf when she was a child.
00:14:14.000 The raid is a major escalation of a case, Border Zar Tom Homan first revealed in mid September.
00:14:20.000 Homan refused.
00:14:21.000 To rule out stripping her of her American citizenship, apparently for immigration fraud.
00:14:25.000 Days earlier, Mullen said the probe reached beyond her disputed 2009 marriage and warned that removal actions could follow if wrongdoing is proven.
00:14:32.000 And there are long standing allegations that are fairly well supported that she married her own brother to get him into the country, legally speaking.
00:14:39.000 Elhan Omar is another import from a foreign country who hates the country, despises America, and somehow has been given free reign of our Congress. 0.62
00:14:49.000 This is what the Democratic Party is becoming. 0.96
00:14:51.000 And it's totally insane.
00:14:53.000 Totally, totally crazy.
00:14:57.000 But don't worry.
00:14:58.000 The Democrats across America had a rough week of it in terms of debate.
00:15:03.000 There was also a New York Attorney General debate that happened last week.
00:15:09.000 And again, the Democrats are just, they are now the id.
00:15:11.000 The reason, again, that I started with this clip is because the id of the Democratic Party is on full display.
00:15:15.000 I mean, Freud suggested that every human being is composed of the psyche of the ego, the superego, and the id.
00:15:22.000 The id is sort of the animalistic part of you that just wants to do the thing.
00:15:26.000 The Democratic id is out there running.
00:15:28.000 And there is no higher functional thought happening.
00:15:31.000 So, Letitia James, who is unbelievably enough still the attorney general of New York, she's running for reelect. 1.00
00:15:38.000 And the debate was all about how she is totally incapable of cracking down on crime. 0.99
00:15:45.000 The only thing that she talked about during this debate was Donald Trump.
00:15:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, she named Trump or the president about a dozen and a half times in an hour long debate on Thursday night.
00:15:58.000 She said, What New York needs is someone who gets results.
00:16:02.000 Her opponent is a person named Saritha Komateredi, who's an Indian American.
00:16:09.000 She faces an uphill political climb because the people of New York apparently were all frontally lobotomized some years ago, which is how you end up with Kathy Hochul as governor and Zarn Mamdani as the mayor of the greatest capitalist city in the history of the world.
00:16:22.000 Comatareti actually understands the law and understands her job.
00:16:25.000 Letitia James does not.
00:16:27.000 Here is Saritha Comatareti explaining that Letitia James can't defend her record at all, which of course is true.
00:16:34.000 Every time Letitia James mentions Donald Trump, just remember it's because she can't defend her failing record.
00:16:39.000 She just admitted. that the Medicaid fraud unit went from first to worst under her watch.
00:16:44.000 And she has no good explanation for that.
00:16:47.000 The reality is, I have gotten the president's endorsement.
00:16:50.000 And I've gotten the endorsement of people who are very critical of the president.
00:16:53.000 People like Alicia Wiesel, the son of Ellie Wiesel, who endorsed me because we are dealing with a surge of anti-Semitic hate crimes under Tish James, and she's doing nothing about it.
00:17:03.000 I've gotten the endorsement of 42 sheriffs across New York.
00:17:07.000 That's an overwhelming majority.
00:17:08.000 That's stunning.
00:17:11.000 She, of course, is exactly right about this.
00:17:12.000 In fact, she cut an ad on subway crime in New York.
00:17:15.000 Here's what that ad looked like If you don't pay, you don't get in.
00:17:20.000 And no, that doesn't mean putting everyone who skips a fare in jail.
00:17:25.000 Enforcement can be simple a ticket, a fine, turn them around.
00:17:30.000 And if they're wanted or carrying a weapon, stop them before they ever get on a train.
00:17:36.000 This isn't about criminalizing poverty.
00:17:38.000 There are reduced fares for people who need them.
00:17:41.000 And that program is actually.
00:17:43.000 Being expanded.
00:17:44.000 This is about stopping violent crime, especially for the millions of New Yorkers who have no choice but to take the train.
00:17:53.000 Look at the Paris Metro.
00:17:55.000 Look at Tokyo.
00:17:56.000 Look at other major transit systems around the world.
00:17:59.000 New York can do better.
00:18:01.000 And it starts right here.
00:18:04.000 Okay, she's going to lose.
00:18:06.000 Like she's almost certain to lose to Letitia James because she's reasonable.
00:18:10.000 And apparently, over in New York, you're not allowed to be reasonable.
00:18:14.000 You have to vote for people like the id of the NFL.
00:18:16.000 As long as she just says Trump over and over and over, then apparently her reelection appears in the mirror like Beetlejuice.
00:18:22.000 Here she is explaining you don't have to look at the facts in the law when determining how to make decisions. 0.99
00:18:26.000 Letitia James. 1.00
00:18:28.000 The quality of our public servants, they're not sending their best. 1.00
00:18:30.000 Or maybe this is their best.
00:18:31.000 Maybe this is the best they can do, truly.
00:18:34.000 I have to look at the facts in the law.
00:18:35.000 When I'm attorney general on January 1, I'll do that.
00:18:37.000 You don't have to look at the facts in the law.
00:18:39.000 All you have to do is study what they do.
00:18:40.000 It is illegal in the state of New York.
00:18:42.000 Well, there you go.
00:18:43.000 You don't have to look at the facts in the law, gentlemen.
00:18:44.000 You're attorney general.
00:18:45.000 Ms. Comet's ready.
00:18:46.000 Again, it's just insane. 1.00
00:18:48.000 Letitia James is going to win anyway. 1.00
00:18:49.000 It's just insane.
00:18:50.000 I'm sorry.
00:18:50.000 This is all crazy.
00:18:52.000 Democracy, folks.
00:18:53.000 Please use your head when you vote.
00:18:56.000 Meanwhile, in another fraught Senate race, we talked about Michigan.
00:18:59.000 Texas is the other fraught Senate race.
00:19:00.000 So the big rumor over the weekend is that James Tallarico had a mental health crisis.
00:19:06.000 Now, again, there is no actual factual support for this at this point.
00:19:10.000 All we know really is that James Tallarico went missing for like two weeks.
00:19:13.000 Now, that's weird.
00:19:15.000 I will say, I think it's extremely weird.
00:19:17.000 I do not believe that he just had the flu.
00:19:19.000 I don't.
00:19:19.000 I'm sorry.
00:19:20.000 I don't believe it.
00:19:21.000 And you're going to have a hard time convincing me that a man in the middle of the race of his life in Texas just came down with a two week flu.
00:19:30.000 I've been doing this show for well over 10 years at this point, and I'm not sure I've ever taken off more than three days consecutively, including when I had the flu.
00:19:40.000 So, the idea that James Tallarico was in a flu state for two full weeks, no explanation, I find that very, very difficult to believe.
00:19:47.000 And again, I don't have a problem with people doubting the official story on this, considering that for two years we were told that Joe Biden was mentally able and well, when of course Joe Biden was effectively brain defunct.
00:20:00.000 Well, still, there were a bunch of people who were pushing the theory that Tallarico jetted from Texas to Ohio for sort of a mental wellness stay at a particular mental health facility.
00:20:12.000 The facts on the ground do not support that.
00:20:14.000 At this point, Tallarico himself put out a tweet saying, I've never been to Ohio.
00:20:20.000 The Linder Center, which is, again, this mental wellness center in Ohio, they put out a statement saying, Representative James Tallarico has never received treatment from Linder Center of Hope.
00:20:30.000 So again, folks, do not put out easily debunkable theories, please.
00:20:35.000 Please.
00:20:35.000 I mean, I think you can ask honest questions about where the guy went for two weeks.
00:20:38.000 And obviously he is a super giant weirdo. 0.99
00:20:41.000 I don't know a lot of people who can name their favorite drag queen off the top of their head. 1.00
00:20:44.000 That's a weird thing to be able to.
00:20:45.000 It's not like, what's your favorite band or what's your favorite movie?
00:20:49.000 Who's your favorite drag queen is a weird question to be able to name off the top of your head.
00:20:52.000 And I would refer you if you want more about the weirdness of the man they call James Telefrico, go check out our YouTube video over the weekend, which has hundreds and hundreds of thousands of views at this point that kind of spells out his record.
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00:23:10.000 Here at Tallarico, however, saying he just had the flu.
00:23:13.000 You've talked about how you're a diabetic and that has when diabetics get the flu it could get really bad.
00:23:22.000 How bad was it for somebody who wants to know?
00:23:23.000 Is this just like in bed rest or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital?
00:23:27.000 I just went to my primary care physician, but it wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu.
00:23:35.000 And so I was in bed and drinking lots of liquids.
00:23:38.000 Unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home.
00:23:40.000 So I didn't even get full days off, but didn't want to be out on the trail and didn't want to get anyone else sick.
00:23:45.000 It's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments.
00:23:49.000 And I'm glad to be back, feeling much better.
00:23:53.000 Okay.
00:23:53.000 Now, again, I don't believe the story.
00:23:55.000 I don't.
00:23:55.000 I think that there's something else going on, but follow the evidence.
00:23:58.000 Okay.
00:23:58.000 Now, here's the problem for Republicans Republicans tend to follow the shiny object.
00:24:02.000 And basically, when it comes to Democratic campaigns, very often Republicans are like a cat with a laser pointer and they're easily distracted.
00:24:10.000 And so, for example, there were like fully years where Republicans bought into the theory that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
00:24:16.000 This was a big thing leading up to the 2012 election.
00:24:19.000 And there was this entire birther movement, so called birther movement, suggesting that his birth certificate had been falsified, that he was actually born in Kenya.
00:24:27.000 And Barack Obama was smart enough to play into it because he figured okay, if they're talking about my birth certificate, which I can debunk just by dropping a short form birth certificate. 0.89
00:24:35.000 Then they're not talking about the fact I'm a crappy president who has horrible policies.
00:24:39.000 And so he was perfectly happy to string everybody along for like a year and a half, not dropping his birth certificate. 0.91
00:24:45.000 And Republicans, again, we have a habit of doing this.
00:24:47.000 You remember that Senate race where John Fetterman, who again has had the wildest political switch in my lifetime, but John Fetterman was a very, very radical left candidate when he was running in Pennsylvania.
00:24:57.000 And then he essentially had a stroke in the middle of the campaign.
00:25:00.000 And the entire media tried to cover up the severity of the stroke.
00:25:04.000 And the assumption by Republicans was if you talk about the fact that he has, you know, brain issues, And that he can't get through a debate, then he'll lose.
00:25:11.000 And he ended up winning because instead of talking about his policies, you talked about the brain issues.
00:25:15.000 Here is the thing about James Tallarico.
00:25:18.000 You don't need to focus, please don't, on where he was for the last two weeks.
00:25:21.000 It doesn't matter.
00:25:21.000 Unless you have hard evidence of where he was, don't do this.
00:25:25.000 Instead, you should be focusing on the fact that he's a nut. 0.98
00:25:29.000 Okay? 1.00
00:25:29.000 Put aside mental illness or anything, he's just nutty. 1.00
00:25:33.000 He believes crazy things. 0.98
00:25:34.000 It is insane for Texas to think about electing a man who believes that capitalism must be dismantled.
00:25:40.000 Not like when he was a kid, like five years ago.
00:25:43.000 Here is James Tallarico saying that capitalism, climate change, and white supremacy are oppressive systems that need to be dismantled.
00:25:50.000 This is in 2020.
00:25:51.000 This is not when he was like 18.
00:25:52.000 This is when the man was 31.
00:25:55.000 Okay, here's James Tallarico.
00:25:59.000 Yeah, and I'm so thankful that you asked this question, and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country.
00:26:10.000 And I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together.
00:26:16.000 Are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them?
00:26:20.000 Okay, again, there is a left wing taquilla that takes place also.
00:26:22.000 People who just lie about their positions in order to achieve high office, and James Tallarico is doing it.
00:26:26.000 He's going to have to explain why he no longer believes that capitalism is an oppressive system that needs to be dismantled.
00:26:31.000 See, here's my thing about you changing your mind.
00:26:34.000 If you're going to change your mind, you must explain why you changed your mind.
00:26:38.000 Well, you can't just say, I changed my mind randomly.
00:26:40.000 You have to explain what you did wrong and why you changed it.
00:26:42.000 If you can't explain that, I don't believe you.
00:26:44.000 I don't believe that you ever changed your mind.
00:26:45.000 There's plenty, again, there's plenty of material on James Tallarico.
00:26:49.000 He should lose on the basis of that material.
00:26:51.000 He should lose on the basis that he believes that God has multiple genders or that there are six genders or that you should trans the kids, right? 0.69
00:27:00.000 Those are reasons why he should lose.
00:27:01.000 And Republicans are making a mistake if they focus on the shiny object over here, the laser pointer on the wall.
00:27:07.000 Okay, now, as we say, right now, if you look at the state of the race, there is a better than average shot that Republicans are going to lose the Senate, which again, I don't think is actually going to happen.
00:27:19.000 I think the Republicans are going to maintain the Senate.
00:27:21.000 I know that I'm an outlier in this particular.
00:27:23.000 In this particular belief.
00:27:25.000 But right now, according to the Calchie markets, Democrats have a 61% chance to control the Senate at this point because they are giving Democrats a 60% shot in Ohio, a 68% shot in Michigan, a 64% shot in Texas, and an 86% shot in Minnesota, as well as a 73% shot in Alaska.
00:27:46.000 Now, again, I don't think these are right.
00:27:49.000 These markets, again, are the prediction markets and they change day by day.
00:27:52.000 So obviously, this could change as we move closer to the election.
00:27:54.000 But If Republicans do poorly, I will say one of the reasons that Republicans are not doing as well as they should is because they will not muscularly defend the best things that the Trump administration has done.
00:28:05.000 They won't.
00:28:05.000 They're so divided over what the Trump administration has done that even the best stuff the Trump administration is doing, they refuse to explain or defend.
00:28:13.000 And so here I have to give some props to a guy who's going to lose.
00:28:15.000 He's in New Jersey.
00:28:16.000 So not a giant shock.
00:28:17.000 But there is a GOP Senate candidate named Justin Murphy.
00:28:21.000 And he is debating Cory Booker, who took out his confused eyes for this one.
00:28:26.000 Cory Booker is Mr. Potato Head.
00:28:28.000 And every day he decides which eyes is going to pop in.
00:28:32.000 And so here he puts in his confused eyes for the New Jersey Senate debate.
00:28:35.000 But here is the former Tabernacle Deputy Mayor, Justin Murphy, talking about what he would do with regard to Iran.
00:28:43.000 This is the case Republicans should be making all over the country.
00:28:46.000 President Trump calls you and says, I'll do whatever you want.
00:28:50.000 What do I do in Iran?
00:28:51.000 What's your answer?
00:28:52.000 Finish it. 0.90
00:28:54.000 Finish that war in a positive manner.
00:28:56.000 We can't wait halfway through and decide we don't want to do this anymore.
00:28:59.000 The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a radical terrorist organization that has deprived the Iranian people and the Persian people of their history and of a decent life.
00:29:10.000 They have murdered, raped, tortured, assassinated, promoted, and promoted terrorism all throughout the world, especially in the region of the Middle East. 0.99
00:29:17.000 They are a cancer on human existence. 0.98
00:29:19.000 I remember as a young boy watching those walls of our, November of 1979, watching the radical Islamic terrorists storm over the walls of our embassy and 52 Americans held for 444 days. 0.96
00:29:30.000 And ever since November of 79, The IRGC in Iran has done nothing but export terror, murder, rape, oppression, and assassination to the region and to the world, and it's time it stops. 0.75
00:29:42.000 Four decades is enough. 0.99
00:29:43.000 The Iranian people have suffered enough, and I would say, Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some ass and get this done and done right. 0.96
00:29:53.000 And you can see Cory Booker acting all skeptical about this. 0.97
00:29:56.000 What is the part of it he disagrees with? 0.67
00:29:58.000 And Republicans should be defending the best parts of the Trump administration, and believe it or not, one of the best parts of the Trump administration is the willingness to face down an actual Foe who has declared its desire to wipe us off the face of the earth. 0.66
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