The Ben Shapiro Show - May 28, 2026


Inside The Left’s Radical Cos-Playbook To Destroy America


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Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez puts on a hijab at an Islamic event in America. What does that say about the Democratic Party and what it stands for? And why is she wearing a hijab in the first place?

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00:00:00.000 Democrats love wearing costumes. 0.96
00:00:01.000 It's their thing. 1.00
00:00:02.000 Think of Hillary Clinton walking around talking about hot sauce or Kamala Harris changing her accent depending on where she is. 0.79
00:00:09.000 It's rare that a Democrat wins, particularly in a red or a purple area, by preaching openly weakness on foreign policy or say transing the kids or raising your taxes.
00:00:18.000 Cause honesty doesn't tend to work out too well for people who push this kind of stuff.
00:00:22.000 So instead, Democrats frequently put on costumes and they pretend and they lie.
00:00:26.000 What's really fascinating is how they decide to pretend.
00:00:30.000 What are they deciding to dress up?
00:00:32.000 So, yesterday, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez did something kind of fascinating. 0.99
00:00:37.000 She, of course, wants to run for president in 2028. 0.88
00:00:40.000 Now, AOC's a chameleon. 1.00
00:00:42.000 She'll go to a historically black church and she will start dropping her G's. 1.00
00:00:45.000 She will show up outside an immigration facility and then cry at an empty parking lot. 1.00
00:00:49.000 Yesterday, she did something I have never seen before in American federal politics. 1.00
00:00:54.000 She put on a hijab at an event in America.
00:00:57.000 And that's important.
00:00:58.000 It says something.
00:00:59.000 It says something about her, about where the left is going, about where America is going.
00:01:04.000 See, it used to be. 0.67
00:01:05.000 That if you were a terror supporting radical Muslim, you had to cosplay as a mainstream American, or at least get the media to do your dirty work for you. 0.80
00:01:13.000 Now, Democrats are cosplaying as Muslims or as fellow travelers to radicals. 0.81
00:01:19.000 Because here's the thing the radical Islamists in America aren't cosplaying anymore.
00:01:23.000 Ilhan Omar doesn't cosplay.
00:01:25.000 Neither does Zorhan Mamdani.
00:01:27.000 Neither does Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El Sayed.
00:01:31.000 They may sometimes pretend to weigh some of their more radical Islamist edges, but they're not really trying to hide the ball very hard.
00:01:38.000 And AOC is now cosplaying as one of those types.
00:01:41.000 We'll explain why that is important in a moment. 0.80
00:01:44.000 And of course, we'll get to some other Democrats playing dress up.
00:01:46.000 You got Graham Plattner, the Senate Democratic candidate in Maine, who is wearing a Trump voter costume, at least what the left thinks Trump voters are like. 0.53
00:01:53.000 Or James Tallarico, the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas, who's pretending to be a Bible thumping Christian who loves ribs, when actually he just loves transing the kids. 0.51
00:02:01.000 We'll get into all of that.
00:02:02.000 Plus, Joe Biden admitting the truth about her husband's apparent mental incompetence on the campaign trail.
00:02:06.000 Now she can finally say it.
00:02:07.000 The New York governor bricking a dunk.
00:02:09.000 On Donald Trump and the Pope going after AI.
00:02:11.000 All of that on today's Ben Shapiro show.
00:02:22.000 So, yesterday marked the conclusion of Ramadan that is in Islamic culture, signaled by a celebration and a feast and some services called Ayid.
00:02:32.000 That's the end of Ramadan.
00:02:34.000 It's also a time when, if any sort of military activity takes place, then radical Muslims pretend that that is not allowed because of Ayid. 0.84
00:02:41.000 Well, it's a Jewish holiday, mandatory that there's a war launched on it. 0.78
00:02:44.000 In any case, Alexander Ocasio Cortez showed up to an Ayid dinner with Zorhan Mamdani. 0.98
00:02:50.000 Now, Mamdani is at least.
00:02:53.000 Somewhat consistent here. 0.99
00:02:54.000 During the campaign, he showed up a couple of times in a thobe.
00:02:58.000 Kind of strange that he showed up in a thobe, which is the long robe marked by an Arsenal jersey.
00:03:05.000 It says on it, Emirates.
00:03:07.000 And it says on the sleeve, Visit Rwanda.
00:03:10.000 Again, I'm not sure you could possibly signal your various allegiances to foreign interests better than this, but sort of fascinating.
00:03:17.000 But Momdani is Momdani.
00:03:19.000 Momdani is precisely what you think Momdani is. 0.90
00:03:20.000 He is a radical Islamist who is masquerading as a Gen Z TikToker. 0.91
00:03:27.000 He's a socialist who wants to bring down the country. 0.99
00:03:29.000 I mean, like, I don't think that you can really sort of hide what Mom Dhani is. 0.89
00:03:34.000 And he's not trying too hard to hide what he is.
00:03:36.000 He's not the story.
00:03:36.000 The story is what AOC is doing here.
00:03:40.000 So AOC is wearing hijab. 1.00
00:03:41.000 That's what she's doing. 0.99
00:03:43.000 Now, I've heard some people saying, well, she's just wearing a scarf.
00:03:44.000 Okay. 0.97
00:03:45.000 You can wear a scarf in a way that is not a hijab. 1.00
00:03:49.000 She is clearly wearing a scarf to look like hijab. 0.99
00:03:52.000 There's no question that's what she is doing. 1.00
00:03:54.000 It is indistinguishable from hijab. 1.00
00:03:56.000 And we should say at this point what hijab is.
00:03:58.000 Hijab in Muslim countries all over the world is mandatory.
00:04:01.000 It is mandatory head covering. 1.00
00:04:02.000 And if you do not wear it in places like Iran, they will kill you. 0.95
00:04:06.000 If you do not wear it mandatorily in radical Islamist countries, you will be punished. 0.62
00:04:10.000 And again, you can see there is a Muslim woman who's taking a selfie with AOC and they are wearing precisely the same head covering.
00:04:18.000 She is wearing precisely the same kind of scarf in the same kind of way. 0.51
00:04:20.000 That is what she is doing.
00:04:21.000 And that is on purpose.
00:04:23.000 It is not some sort of strange, aberrant behavior by AOC.
00:04:28.000 She is doing that for a reason.
00:04:30.000 I can give you a contrast, by the way.
00:04:32.000 Nancy Pelosi, way back in 2007, it was controversial for her to do this at the time.
00:04:36.000 Way back in 2007, she showed up in Syria.
00:04:41.000 And in Syria, she had a scarf.
00:04:44.000 And she wore the scarf kind of like a regular scarf, right?
00:04:47.000 That just looks like your grandma going out in the rain to go down to the local market. 0.55
00:04:51.000 That is not looking, no one would look at a woman like Nancy Pelosi wearing that head covering and imagine that she was in an Islamic country wearing hijab.
00:05:00.000 No one would look at AOC dressed as she is dressed, wearing what she is wearing, and not think hijab. 0.97
00:05:04.000 Clearly, she is wearing hijab.
00:05:06.000 And that matters because there has been sort of a long standing policy in the United States, bipartisan policy, by the way, that when women even go to the Middle East in the United States in politics, they don't wear hijab.
00:05:18.000 Laura Bush in 2007 went to Saudi Arabia, no hijab.
00:05:23.000 Honolisa Rice in 2007, no hijab.
00:05:28.000 Nancy Pelosi went to Saudi, actually, no hijab.
00:05:30.000 That's why it was a controversy when she went to Syria and she put on the scarf.
00:05:35.000 Hillary Clinton in 2012. 0.75
00:05:37.000 No hijab.
00:05:39.000 Michelle Obama in 2015.
00:05:41.000 No hijab. 1.00
00:05:43.000 Why does that matter? 0.97
00:05:44.000 The reason that that matters is because when Western women go to the Islamic world, they are making a point very often, which is I am not going to be forced into a traditional Islamic hair covering that has been used for hundreds of years as a way to treat women as second class citizens.
00:06:00.000 That's just a reality.
00:06:01.000 Ursula von der Leyen, again, not a right winger, former German defense minister in 2016.
00:06:06.000 She went to the Middle East.
00:06:07.000 She did not cover her hair this way.
00:06:09.000 And she said, No woman in my delegation has to wear the abaya.
00:06:12.000 Abaya is a different kind of head covering.
00:06:14.000 The right to choose your own clothing is a right shared by men and women alike.
00:06:16.000 It annoys me when women are pushed into wearing the abaya.
00:06:20.000 Condi Rice wrote in her memoir about the time she went to Saudi Arabia and the crown prince handed her an abaya.
00:06:27.000 And here is what she wrote at the time.
00:06:31.000 She wrote, The crown prince pulled out a gift wrapped package.
00:06:34.000 I have a gift for you, he said.
00:06:35.000 It was a full length, beautifully embroidered abaya, the black robe and veil Saudi women traditionally wear.
00:06:41.000 I had it made especially for you, he said tenderly.
00:06:42.000 Our women wear them.
00:06:44.000 Yes, as a sign of oppression, I thought. 1.00
00:06:46.000 Which is correct.
00:06:47.000 I mean, realistically speaking, millions. 0.99
00:06:49.000 Hundreds of millions of women all over the world are forced into these sorts of head coverings.
00:06:54.000 And so it's kind of strange that AOC would don one in the United States.
00:06:58.000 Now, I know the response that's coming here, right?
00:07:00.000 Because I wear a funny head covering, right?
00:07:01.000 I'm an Orthodox Jew.
00:07:02.000 I wear a kippah or a yarmulke. 0.99
00:07:04.000 How dare I talk about AOC wearing hijab? 0.87
00:07:06.000 Now, you'll notice I'm not talking about Ilhan Omar wearing hijab. 1.00
00:07:09.000 She's a Muslim woman. 0.99
00:07:10.000 She wants to wear a hijab. 1.00
00:07:11.000 Her business. 0.99
00:07:12.000 But let me start with the dumb and wrong comparison politicians who will put on a yarmulke at Jewish events. 0.99
00:07:17.000 So, first of all, no Jew has ever asked a politician. 0.98
00:07:21.000 To put on a kippah. 1.00
00:07:22.000 It is not a thing.
00:07:24.000 As an Orthodox Jew, okay, let me just say this. 1.00
00:07:27.000 Don't do this.
00:07:28.000 No one's asking you to do this. 0.97
00:07:29.000 It's silly. 1.00
00:07:30.000 It's really stupid. 1.00
00:07:31.000 You have no religious or moral obligation to wear a kippah or to cover your head in a synagogue if you are a non Jewish man. 1.00
00:07:38.000 There's literally no reason to do it. 1.00
00:07:40.000 So don't do it. 1.00
00:07:41.000 It's stupid. 1.00
00:07:42.000 It's dumb and you look dumb. 1.00
00:07:44.000 Also, as an Orthodox Jew, I have never, never seen an Orthodox Jew ask a woman to wear what's called a shetal, right, which is the most religious hair covering. 1.00
00:07:54.000 It's essentially a wig to cover your hair, or a tichel, which is another sort of very religious hair covering.
00:08:00.000 If Nancy Pelosi came to my synagogue, I mean, first of all, she wouldn't be very popular, but if she did, not a single woman at the synagogue would come up to her and say, Here is a tichel or a shaitel, you need to put it on.
00:08:11.000 It would be really weird.
00:08:13.000 I've never heard anybody doing something like that.
00:08:16.000 Okay, there's a category here that's like generic hair covering at a religious site.
00:08:20.000 Again, that would be like theoretically Nancy Pelosi putting on a normal scarf in 2007, or the fact that lots of women will put on a veil to cover their hair.
00:08:28.000 If they visit the Vatican, right?
00:08:29.000 It's sort of a cross religious thing.
00:08:30.000 You go to a religious site and you want to cover your hair out of respect.
00:08:35.000 But that's not what AOC was doing.
00:08:36.000 Again, she didn't just cover her hair out of respect for the religious ceremony. 0.72
00:08:40.000 She, look at the picture.
00:08:42.000 The picture is there.
00:08:43.000 It is not distinguishable how she is wearing her scarf from hijab.
00:08:47.000 And I don't think that that's an accident.
00:08:49.000 That is a choice.
00:08:51.000 It is an overt choice. 1.00
00:08:52.000 She put on hijab for a reason. 0.98
00:08:55.000 And so we should ask what that reason is. 0.99
00:08:57.000 Because again, hijab is a different thing. 0.98
00:08:59.000 All over the world, it is a sign of submission of women. 0.98
00:09:02.000 That's a reason why France has banned particular types of head coverings in public spaces because France sees certain types of head coverings as submission to radicalism. 0.99
00:09:13.000 And this is why AOC did it.
00:09:15.000 That's why she did it.
00:09:17.000 This is not a bug, it is not a mistake, it is a feature.
00:09:20.000 AOC is cosplaying in solidarity with foreign radicalism.
00:09:23.000 It's that simple.
00:09:24.000 That is why she did it.
00:09:26.000 She's not covering her hair in some sort of perfunctory fashion as a sign of religious respect, which, again, is cross religious and happens all the time.
00:09:33.000 And I wouldn't be talking about this if she had just put a scarf on the way that Nancy Pelosi put a scarf on.
00:09:38.000 And this is not a minor thing.
00:09:39.000 She is cosplaying as a member of the supposedly oppressed foreign contingent in the United States.
00:09:43.000 That is what she is doing because she believes this is the rising tide in the Democratic Party. 0.99
00:09:48.000 She believes the rising tide in the Democratic Party is foreigners who come to the United States and say that America sucks. 0.65
00:09:54.000 She believes that Ilhan Omar is the rising tide and that Rashida Tlaib is the rising tide and that Zoramam Dhani is the rising tide. 0.93
00:10:00.000 People who come here as immigrants to the United States or the children of immigrants and decide that America is horrible.
00:10:05.000 And that the problems of the world must be laid at America's feet, and she is signaling solidarity with all of that.
00:10:11.000 That's the idea.
00:10:13.000 That is why she is doing that.
00:10:14.000 This is not a sign of generic religious respect for Muslims.
00:10:16.000 That is not what she is doing.
00:10:17.000 If it were that, it would not be newsworthy.
00:10:20.000 The reason people were commenting on this is for a reason. 1.00
00:10:22.000 Everything that lady does is scripted. 1.00
00:10:24.000 Everything she does is thought out in advance. 1.00
00:10:26.000 That is a deliberate choice. 0.98
00:10:28.000 AOC is the most practiced actress slash politician of her era.
00:10:33.000 If you truly believe she got up that morning and just grabbed a scarf from the shelf and decided that she was going to wear it and it just coincidentally looked like hijab, you're wrong. 1.00
00:10:41.000 You're wrong and you're ignorant and you're being deliberately ignorant. 0.99
00:10:44.000 She is doing that for a reason. 0.99
00:10:45.000 It is a virtue signal to the people who believe that America is responsible for all the problems of the world, that third world cultures all over the world have been put upon by the United States, and she is signaling her solidarity with that. 0.50
00:11:00.000 It is why she is doing that.
00:11:01.000 And that's what's fascinating the left increasingly thinks that it is not worth cosplaying as sort of normie Americans.
00:11:08.000 Instead, it is worth cosplaying as something else. 0.68
00:11:12.000 In fact, if you're going to make a Nancy Pelosi comparison, the better Nancy Pelosi comparison here would be the time that she decided to wear a Kensing cloth. 0.87
00:11:19.000 At that time, after George Floyd's death, when she decided to kneel in the Capitol building while wearing a kente cloth, because the idea was submission to a particular way of thought. 0.94
00:11:28.000 That's what that was.
00:11:31.000 It was not a generic symbol.
00:11:32.000 Politics is all about the symbolic.
00:11:34.000 It's all about how we use speech, it's about how people act, and it's about the symbols that they choose to identify around.
00:11:41.000 AOC would not wear garb that was redolent of Trumpism.
00:11:45.000 She wouldn't.
00:11:47.000 AOC is not going to walk out of her house wearing an American flag t shirt.
00:11:51.000 It is not a thing that she is going to do. 0.89
00:11:52.000 She's going to dress in particular ways.
00:11:54.000 And she's going to do that in order to signal particular ideas.
00:11:57.000 And what's fascinating again is that inside the Democratic Party, there is a deliberate attempt now to steer toward a third worldist ideology.
00:12:05.000 Third worldism is the concept that there is a third world because the first world screwed the third world. 0.57
00:12:10.000 That basically people are poor in other cultures and other cultures are what they are because America is responsible for their problems. 0.75
00:12:16.000 And the only way to break that cycle is for America to subjugate itself to the desires of people from those cultures.
00:12:23.000 That is the basic concept of anti colonialism and third worldism. 0.77
00:12:26.000 And AOC is in full solidarity with that.
00:12:28.000 The fact that she is willing to put on particular costumes in order to demonstrate that is fascinating.
00:12:34.000 Because again, there's nothing new about the costuming, there's nothing new about the cosplay. 0.69
00:12:38.000 Democrats do it all the time.
00:12:39.000 But it's how people are trying to cosplay that's really, really fascinating.
00:12:42.000 Because again, AOC is not running a local campaign.
00:12:46.000 AOC is clearly preparing for a presidential run. 0.94
00:12:49.000 She wants to run nationally on this ticket.
00:12:51.000 And she believes that there is a rising majority in the country.
00:12:55.000 Of people who despise the country, think the country is responsible for all the ills of the world, and that she can activate the most passionate base in primaries in order to get her over the top, and that's why she's doing what she's doing.
00:13:07.000 That's what was said yesterday. 0.88
00:13:08.000 And not a shock that somebody like Hazar Mamdani is Donning Thob. 0.96
00:13:12.000 He's a religious Muslim. 0.86
00:13:14.000 I mean, to some people, maybe it's shocking because they've ignored the fact that he is a religious Muslim with extraordinarily radical leanings when it comes to terrorism.
00:13:22.000 His wife, by the way, the same.
00:13:24.000 But that's just because you've decided to deceive yourself.
00:13:27.000 You decided to hit yourself in the face with an ideological frying pan for some reason or other.
00:13:31.000 He is exactly what he is.
00:13:33.000 It's the cosplay that matters.
00:13:37.000 It says something aspirational.
00:13:38.000 How you dress says something aspirational about you.
00:13:41.000 This has always been true.
00:13:43.000 If you go in for an interview at a big business firm and you put on a really nice suit, you're doing so because you are demonstrating your aspiration to be part of that culture.
00:13:52.000 And if you do it, AOC is doing it for a reason.
00:13:55.000 Coming up, we'll get into other cosplaying Democrats.
00:13:58.000 AOC is cosplaying as a Third worldist, but other Democrats are cosplaying as blue collar oyster farmers and Bible thumping gentlemen from Texas.
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00:16:48.000 Okay, meanwhile, other people who are cosplaying.
00:16:50.000 Now, Graham Platner is, in fact, a silver spoon socialist. 0.76
00:16:56.000 He's White Hassan Piker, basically.
00:16:59.000 And Graham Platner is cosplaying as what the left thinks Trump voters are.
00:17:04.000 It's always fascinating.
00:17:05.000 Reading the signals is really interesting.
00:17:07.000 I think it's really interesting because you get to see what people are trying to play at.
00:17:12.000 AOC is dressing a certain way because she believes the rising tide in the Democratic Party is third worldism.
00:17:17.000 Graham Platner is trying to steer into what the left believes Trump voters are like.
00:17:21.000 So it's like they built a stereotype of a Trump voter in their mind.
00:17:24.000 And now Graham Platner is going to be that economically dispossessed.
00:17:29.000 Yeah.
00:17:30.000 Hirsute, you know, just a very, very, you know, like big facial hair, hirsute.
00:17:35.000 And also, you're going to speak like this, down, down your stomach.
00:17:40.000 Kind of like Rolf the dog from the Muppets.
00:17:42.000 You're going to speak like this because that's, that's, because that's, you know, he's a bro.
00:17:46.000 He's a, because Trump voters are bros. 0.95
00:17:48.000 And also, Trump voters are complete derelicts, kind of Nazi adjacent. 0.78
00:17:53.000 So actually, the Nazi tattoo, that's just part of the, it's part of the thing. 0.97
00:17:56.000 It makes Graham Platon are attractive that, you know, Trump voters are like big Nazis.
00:18:01.000 So, if we run a guy who's kind of like a big Nazi, then probably the Trump voters in Maine will love that.
00:18:06.000 They'll identify with it. 0.75
00:18:07.000 Yeah.
00:18:09.000 And Graham Platner is what the left thinks Trump voters actually are, but not what Trump voters actually are.
00:18:15.000 That's what he is.
00:18:16.000 He is cosplaying as a Trump voter. 0.90
00:18:19.000 He's an impoverished oyster farmer.
00:18:20.000 No, he's not.
00:18:21.000 His father is a Dartmouth College educated attorney and a former ADA, like assistant district attorney.
00:18:28.000 His mom owns an upscale restaurant.
00:18:29.000 His grandpa was a guy named Warren Platner, who was a world renowned architect and interior designer.
00:18:35.000 Dude grew up rich.
00:18:36.000 He went to a school that cost $75,000 a year, the Hotchkiss School.
00:18:41.000 His parents gave him a $200,000 loan to buy a home in 2017, which is not that long ago.
00:18:47.000 But again, the cosplay is what matters.
00:18:48.000 Here he is on the cover of Time magazine.
00:18:52.000 You can see it's Party Crasher.
00:18:53.000 And there he is, man.
00:18:54.000 Look at him.
00:18:55.000 He's wearing a hoodie.
00:18:58.000 And he looks like he's going to go oyster farming.
00:19:01.000 My hair's not really messed up.
00:19:04.000 And I'm like a bro.
00:19:05.000 I'm like you, just like you, with my Nazi tattoo.
00:19:08.000 Yeah.
00:19:11.000 The reason he's dressing up like this is because this is how Democrats think.
00:19:14.000 Trump voters are.
00:19:15.000 Trump voters are not all this, by the way.
00:19:18.000 Turns out Trump voters are not Nazis.
00:19:20.000 It turns out that Trump voters are not silver spoon people pretending to be oyster farmers.
00:19:26.000 That is not what they are.
00:19:27.000 Meanwhile, again, he continues to cosplay as some sort of economic populist.
00:19:35.000 His parents were very wealthy.
00:19:37.000 But here he is.
00:19:39.000 He ran an ad trying to make, again, he's trying to pretend that he's like, I'm a Boston Red Sox fan, just like you.
00:19:46.000 I like a brewski.
00:19:47.000 I like to park the car. 0.99
00:19:50.000 Here's his dumb ad about the evils of private equity. 0.99
00:19:53.000 Graham Platner. 0.99
00:19:55.000 Private equity has destroyed our favorite baseball team, stripping them for parts.
00:19:59.000 Private equity is buying up our homes, our sports, and our lives.
00:20:03.000 I will reverse the private equity curse.
00:20:06.000 I'm Graham Platner, and I approve this message because I miss Mookie Betts.
00:20:12.000 Oh, give me a break.
00:20:14.000 I approve that.
00:20:15.000 I'm a socialist because I approve Mookie Betts.
00:20:18.000 Can I just point out that the owners of the Red Sox are very, very wealthy?
00:20:21.000 And they were very wealthy before, and they've been very wealthy always. 0.96
00:20:26.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.58
00:20:28.000 Well, here is Scott Jennings properly going off on Graham Platner. 0.92
00:20:34.000 I think Taya Kyle had it just right.
00:20:36.000 I think Graham Platner lashes out against these other veterans, against a hero like Chris Kyle, because Graham Platner knows deep down that he, Graham Platner, is a complete and total failure, a ne'er do well who has never done anything. 0.65
00:20:52.000 Anything meaningful with his life whatsoever. 0.90
00:20:55.000 He stands for a bunch of nonsense.
00:20:58.000 He's been created, a narrative about him has been created by the Democratic Party so he can run for the United States Senate.
00:21:06.000 But none of it's real. 0.82
00:21:07.000 He's not some up by the bootstraps oyster farmer.
00:21:12.000 He's not some, you know, working class heroic story.
00:21:20.000 None of that is true. 0.75
00:21:21.000 It is completely fabricated the way they're billing.
00:21:24.000 Graham Platner.
00:21:25.000 And the thing is, he knows that.
00:21:28.000 He knows that he's a joke. 0.77
00:21:29.000 He knows that he's a lie. 0.97
00:21:33.000 And Democrats continue to gather around him.
00:21:37.000 Now, the New York Post says that there are some Democrats who are trying to break with him.
00:21:41.000 I'm not seeing a ton of it, to be honest with you.
00:21:44.000 Now, they're going a little quieter because it turns out every day there is a worse headline about Graham Platner, ranging from his peculiar habits in porta potties to terrible things he said about.
00:21:55.000 People who have been shot while serving in the military.
00:21:58.000 But Democrats are not going to disown him.
00:22:01.000 But again, this is what it is fascinating. 0.59
00:22:03.000 Democrats believe that Trump voters are either Nazis with beards or Bible thumpers, like true Bible thumpers, not people who actually have a biblical worldview, but Bible thumpers. 0.54
00:22:14.000 And so if you just hold up a Bible and cosplay as a biblical believer, then magically they will resonate to you. 0.99
00:22:19.000 If you play a Sunday school teacher, then suddenly all the dumb Trump voters will just go, oh, that guy, he's holding a Bible. 0.79
00:22:27.000 Sure, he's pushing the transing of the kids, but he's holding a Bible, which brings us to James Tallarico. 0.96
00:22:31.000 This is the Senate Democrat candidate in Texas.
00:22:34.000 Again, I think that Ken Paxton is a worse candidate than John Cornyn on a statewide level.
00:22:38.000 That does not matter.
00:22:38.000 Ken Paxton is going to swamp Tellerico in Texas.
00:22:41.000 The Democrats are going to spend extraordinary cash in Texas.
00:22:44.000 Tellerico is so far outside the mainstream of what Texans actually believe because the projection that Democrats have of Republicans is so wildly wrong.
00:22:53.000 So Ken Paxton put out his first ad against Tellerico yesterday.
00:22:56.000 Here's what that looked like This is Texas.
00:23:00.000 This is not. 1.00
00:23:01.000 There are many more than two biological sexes.
00:23:05.000 In fact, there are six.
00:23:06.000 This is Texas.
00:23:08.000 This is not.
00:23:09.000 The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us.
00:23:12.000 This is Texas.
00:23:14.000 This is not.
00:23:15.000 They're going to call me a radical leftist.
00:23:18.000 This is Texas.
00:23:19.000 This is not.
00:23:21.000 Something that you love that's not family or friends.
00:23:25.000 I love, and just say this because it's on my mind, the trans children.
00:23:32.000 This is Texas. 1.00
00:23:34.000 This is not.
00:23:35.000 Our southern border should be like our front porch.
00:23:38.000 There should be a giant welcome mat out front. 0.95
00:23:41.000 This is Texas.
00:23:43.000 This is not.
00:23:44.000 It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption.
00:23:48.000 I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign.
00:23:54.000 This is Texas. 0.94
00:23:56.000 This is not.
00:23:56.000 Okay, Tellerico, again, is going to have such serious problems here.
00:24:02.000 And it is fun to watch left wing political strategists trying to say that he's just going to be able to hold up a Bible and say a bunch of left wing crap and that this will somehow work out for them. 0.54
00:24:11.000 On MS Now, one political strategist was saying just he's wearing a cowboy hat badly, by the way, really, really poorly. 0.60
00:24:19.000 But since he's wearing a cowboy hat and looks like he's in a trailer, this political strategist must know Texas.
00:24:26.000 I think a really unpopular Republican nominee in Ken Paxton.
00:24:30.000 This is going to be a good versus evil.
00:24:32.000 And I think that Talarico is just a different kind of candidate.
00:24:35.000 He talks about values and he can outbible the Republicans.
00:24:42.000 That's Mark McKinnon.
00:24:43.000 He can outbible the Republicans. 0.93
00:24:44.000 Well, That might be a little bit difficult when you go to a church that actually distributes God is queer books. 0.71
00:24:51.000 According to the Daily Wire, the Texas church, where Democrat James Tellerico has delivered his radical sermons, is pushing radical gender ideology on children, featuring books filled with sexually explicit content and transgender ideology.
00:25:03.000 Tellerico, the Democrat nominee for the crucial Senate election in November, attends a church called St. Andrew's Presbyterian in Austin. 0.92
00:25:10.000 And there, children have access to a library stocked with banned books that promote ideas rejected by most Christians, including books that contain descriptions of anal rape, incest, and oral sex. 0.88
00:25:20.000 Books include Gender Queer and All Boys Aren't Blue. 0.95
00:25:25.000 Also, this book is Gay and Becoming Nicole and The Courage to Be Queer, in which the author claims that God is queer, which is going to come as a gigantic surprise to God, among others.
00:25:37.000 So, Taylorico is trying to fight back against this by putting out a tweet of himself eating ribs.
00:25:42.000 So, yesterday, because there was an ad going around pointing out that he said he would have a non meat campaign, which is about the worst thing you could say in Texas.
00:25:51.000 So, here he is again, the cosplay is so straw.
00:25:54.000 So he's wearing a Lone Star shirt that he bought at the local Army Navy Surplus or something.
00:25:59.000 And he's eating ribs.
00:26:01.000 But what is he doing wrong here, guys?
00:26:03.000 It's always fun to watch Democrats try to cook meat.
00:26:07.000 Remember, Chuck Schumer tried to do this quite poorly.
00:26:09.000 What's he doing wrong?
00:26:10.000 Quick quiz question for all those who can see.
00:26:12.000 What is James Tallarico doing wrong in this photo?
00:26:16.000 He's eating a gigantic rib with a napkin around it.
00:26:21.000 No one in Texas has ever eaten ribs this way.
00:26:24.000 No one.
00:26:25.000 There's not a single human in Texas who, it's honestly, it's like eating pizza with a fork and knife.
00:26:33.000 What is this dude doing?
00:26:34.000 What is he doing?
00:26:36.000 Well, it's all culminated yesterday in Stephen Miller, an advisor to the president, calling him transgender.
00:26:44.000 Things got pretty spicy pretty quickly online.
00:26:47.000 Tallarico put out a photo of himself next to a Texas flag, in which he looks somewhat like maybe missing actress Ellen Page, actually.
00:26:56.000 We're still looking for Ellen Page.
00:26:58.000 If anyone has a hint on where Ellen Page is, please call that one in.
00:27:02.000 In any case, Stephen Miller.
00:27:04.000 Then tweeted out, the Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate, which is not a nice thing to tweet. 1.00
00:27:13.000 And the Democrats responded by putting out a tweet saying, Shut up, you ugly F. 0.99
00:27:19.000 Yes, folks, we have reached the heights of American politics, a land that once blessed us with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, has been reduced to your candidate looks like a transgender and shut up, you ugly F. Slow clap for America and social media. 1.00
00:27:40.000 Social media has not rotted us at all. 0.98
00:27:44.000 Well, Republicans are getting behind Paxton.
00:27:46.000 They understand that he's got a problem in terms of some of the allegations around corruption, but they also recognize that they can't let James Tallarico win that Senate seat.
00:27:55.000 John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader who had backed John Cornyn, he spoke to Paxton on the phone, apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, and publicly backed him.
00:28:06.000 He said, Ken Paxton is our nominee heading into November.
00:28:09.000 We've got to pivot and go all in to make sure we keep Texas red, that he wins.
00:28:12.000 That would keep a far left liberal out of the United States Senate.
00:28:15.000 And then he called on donors to defend Texas.
00:28:18.000 And so, again, it is just funny to watch as Democrats cosplay.
00:28:22.000 Now, I will say it is more traditional cosplaying what Platner is doing in Maine.
00:28:26.000 Cosplaying is the gruff oyster farmer, or James Tallarico, a Sunday school teacher.
00:28:34.000 That's sort of typical.
00:28:35.000 Democrat stuff.
00:28:36.000 The AOC stuff is really telling because it shows you where Democrats think things are going, where AOC and the progressive wing think things are going.
00:28:42.000 Already coming up, it turns out that Joe Biden knew the entire time that Joe Biden had brain problems.
00:28:46.000 I know you're shocked.
00:28:47.000 Plus, Kathy Hochul had a dunk attempt on President Trump.
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00:31:10.000 Jill Biden, they were lying to you the whole time, gang.
00:31:13.000 They were lying to you the entire time, the entire time.
00:31:16.000 To understand just how badly they were lying to you, I want to point out that Jill Biden, right at you, remember that debate?
00:31:24.000 We all remember the debate, the debate where the president of the United States literally went brain non functional in the middle of the debate and started staring off into the wings.
00:31:34.000 As though the grim reaper was awaiting him.
00:31:38.000 We all remember it.
00:31:39.000 It was the end of his campaign.
00:31:39.000 It was real weird.
00:31:43.000 And Joe Biden, right afterward, congratulating him publicly, saying, Joe, you did great.
00:31:48.000 Joe, it was just great.
00:31:49.000 I just want to flash back to that so you know how much she lied to you for years, because Joe Biden is a truly nefarious political figure.
00:31:57.000 Taking her addled husband and shoving him up there again to be president because you want to be a powerful person is pretty bad behavior.
00:32:04.000 Here was Joe Biden at the time.
00:32:08.000 Joe, you did such a great job.
00:32:09.000 You answered every question.
00:32:11.000 You knew all the facts.
00:32:16.000 And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do?
00:32:25.000 And Joe just standing there, not knowing what the hell is going on.
00:32:27.000 Where am I?
00:32:28.000 Why am I here?
00:32:30.000 Who are you?
00:32:33.000 You did such a great job.
00:32:34.000 Okay. 1.00
00:32:34.000 Fuck. 1.00
00:32:36.000 Well, yesterday, hmm, it came out online. 1.00
00:32:40.000 She did an interview.
00:32:41.000 CBS Sunday morning.
00:32:43.000 And here she was admitting that she was scared by Joe Biden's debate performance.
00:32:47.000 You could sense that fear in that clip, like from the time.
00:32:50.000 But apparently she was lying.
00:32:52.000 She was lying to you and to everyone.
00:32:54.000 Remember, she was very mad the Democrats moved him aside.
00:32:57.000 But here she is saying she was scared.
00:32:59.000 She was scared.
00:33:02.000 Were you horrified as you saw it unfold?
00:33:07.000 I wasn't horrified.
00:33:08.000 I was frightened because I had never, ever.
00:33:13.000 Seen Joe like that before or since?
00:33:18.000 Or since?
00:33:18.000 Never.
00:33:19.000 Yes.
00:33:20.000 Or since?
00:33:20.000 Never seen him like that.
00:33:21.000 Never.
00:33:22.000 No.
00:33:23.000 What happened?
00:33:24.000 I don't know what happened.
00:33:26.000 I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my God, he's having a stroke.
00:33:32.000 But then you got up and said he did a great job.
00:33:36.000 So you thought he was having a stroke, and it took you like a week for him to drop out of the race, and you were pushing against it, lady.
00:33:44.000 Pretty astonishing.
00:33:45.000 And just to note, again, people lie in politics all the time.
00:33:47.000 This was, I think, truly, there have been many defining lies over the course of the last 10 years.
00:33:53.000 It's one of the reasons why trust in our institutions and our political rivals is just gone.
00:33:57.000 Between the lies of BLM and the lies surrounding COVID and the lies surrounding Russiagate, and then the biggest lie of all, which is that the president, who we could all see was falling apart mentally, was totally fine.
00:34:09.000 You wonder why people have lost trust and faith in institutions and sometimes people who disagree with them.
00:34:13.000 This would be the reason.
00:34:14.000 Remember, Jen Psaki literally said that she did not see Joe Biden's decline, she didn't see it.
00:34:20.000 It was unclear to her.
00:34:21.000 This was the White House press secretary.
00:34:25.000 I never saw that person, not a single time, and I was in the Oval Office every day that was on that debate stage.
00:34:33.000 I'm not a doctor.
00:34:34.000 Aging happens quite quickly.
00:34:35.000 Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would have been in a category of that?
00:34:41.000 I don't know, possibly, right?
00:34:43.000 And all these books are going to tell us.
00:34:47.000 Okay, so yeah, it was all a mystery.
00:34:49.000 It was all a gigantic mystery.
00:34:51.000 Here was Corinne Jean Pierre at the time blaming his debate performance on a cold because when you have a cold, you also go brain dead.
00:35:00.000 There are growing calls from Democrats, including members of Congress, for the president to step aside for the 2024 election because he's not capable of serving another four years.
00:35:09.000 What is his response to this?
00:35:10.000 So let me just step back for a minute and I guess deal with the questions that have come in about the debate.
00:35:18.000 And honestly, this is something that the president has addressed himself multiple times since this past Thursday.
00:35:24.000 And first of all, I want to say we understand the concerns.
00:35:27.000 We get it.
00:35:28.000 The president did not have a great night.
00:35:31.000 As you all know, and many of you reached out during the debate, the president had a cold.
00:35:36.000 He had a hoarse voice.
00:35:37.000 You all heard it.
00:35:38.000 That's why you reached out.
00:35:41.000 Yeah, it was because he had a cold that everybody reached out.
00:35:44.000 I just want to point out they now admit the thing.
00:35:46.000 It's amazing.
00:35:46.000 It always takes a couple of years for them to just admit the thing out loud.
00:35:50.000 They just, they lied.
00:35:52.000 They lied and they lied and they lied.
00:35:53.000 They lied like it was not a big deal.
00:35:55.000 They lied.
00:35:55.000 It's crazy how much they lied.
00:35:59.000 I mean, Corinne Jean Pierre literally defended his mental state on TV.
00:36:03.000 Okay, and she did this later.
00:36:05.000 This is after the election, she defended his mental state.
00:36:05.000 This is later.
00:36:10.000 The apparent decline of Joe Biden, and you said you're a member of the inner circle and you never saw the decline.
00:36:16.000 And after that, I wrote, How?
00:36:18.000 You even write, Corrine, that you were on the plane with him going to the debate and you didn't see anything.
00:36:24.000 Well, when we were on the air force one going to the debate, you got to remember his campaign people were on the team, his family was on the team.
00:36:31.000 I actually was one of those rare trips that I didn't really see him.
00:36:36.000 until after the debate, even though I was on the plane.
00:36:38.000 So really, I take, I want everybody to know that I take this question incredibly seriously.
00:36:45.000 I do.
00:36:46.000 I was his White House press secretary, which means I had a role that saw him practically every day and traveled with him for more than 95%.
00:36:53.000 We've always said, we're not going to say, oh, he didn't age.
00:36:57.000 He aged.
00:36:58.000 And he poked fun at it.
00:36:59.000 We always owned up.
00:37:00.000 And with age comes what happens when you get older.
00:37:04.000 Which is?
00:37:05.000 I, but when we talk about the mental acuity, and again, I take this very, very seriously.
00:37:11.000 I never saw anyone who wasn't there.
00:37:15.000 I saw someone who was always engaged.
00:37:17.000 I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on the policy, and also understood history.
00:37:23.000 And there were times, I'll tell you the story, there were times where he would call me into the Oval Office, and I would be like, oh no, oh no, because I knew whatever he was going to ask me was going to be direct, was going to be about a story he read, about how we're pushing back, how we're pushing a message forward.
00:37:39.000 All lied.
00:37:40.000 They all lied.
00:37:41.000 They lied and they lied and they lied.
00:37:43.000 Again, they lie and they cosplay and they cosplay and they lie.
00:37:46.000 And sometimes it gets exposed.
00:37:47.000 Sometimes too late.
00:37:48.000 Sometimes in time because the American people could see through it.
00:37:51.000 I will say it is funny when there is a cosplay that just goes wrong.
00:37:55.000 So, Kathy Hochul is the governor of New York, and she does not know anything about basketball, like nothing about basketball.
00:38:00.000 This is, it's reminiscent of that time that Barack Obama, one of my, there are many things that annoyed me about the former president, many, many things.
00:38:08.000 But there was a broadcast.
00:38:09.000 Barack Obama tried to pretend he was a Chicago White Sox fan.
00:38:11.000 Now, as a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, which is, you know, something you don't do for fun, you don't become a Chicago White Sox fan for fun.
00:38:19.000 Barack Obama did it because the Chicago White Sox play on the South side.
00:38:23.000 Which is a largely black area of Chicago.
00:38:25.000 And he pretended he was a White Sox fan.
00:38:26.000 And one time he goes to a Chicago White Sox game and he's asked on the broadcast, Name your favorite White Sox player, present or past.
00:38:34.000 Now, that's not a hard question.
00:38:36.000 If you ask me, I could name off the top of my head several dozen White Sox players, even players right now.
00:38:43.000 Murakami having a massive season, by the way.
00:38:44.000 But Barack Obama's answer at the time was all of them, which is the same answer my wife would give when asked her favorite Chicago White Sox player because she doesn't know how baseball works, no matter how many times I explain it to her.
00:38:57.000 Okay, well, this is kind of what Kathy Hochul did yesterday.
00:38:59.000 So, Kathy Hochul is the failed upward, inherited her position, governor of New York. 1.00
00:39:04.000 You gotta love politics, a game where you just get to climb the chain by the person above you getting caught in a sexual harassment scandal.
00:39:13.000 It's pretty wonderful.
00:39:15.000 Anyway, Kathy Hochul was attempting to dunk on President Trump because the New York Knicks have made the finals. 0.99
00:39:21.000 And she tried to smack President Trump over the Knicks and blows this dunk. 0.99
00:39:26.000 I mean, just.
00:39:29.000 Truly, truly screws this up. 1.00
00:39:31.000 It's a wide open dunk, and she just blows it.
00:39:36.000 What do you think of him saying he's a lifelong News fan?
00:39:38.000 I think that's how the Times reported it.
00:39:43.000 I asked him to name the starting lineup from the 1993 championship team and see how he does.
00:39:49.000 There was no championship New York next team in 1993.
00:39:54.000 They weren't even in the finals in 93.
00:39:55.000 They were in the finals in 94, and they didn't win.
00:40:00.000 So, yeah, great job.
00:40:03.000 By the way, you know who was at the 1994 finals?
00:40:06.000 This is the best thing about President Trump.
00:40:08.000 President Trump is like the forest gump of politics, he's just everywhere.
00:40:11.000 You go back in time and you're watching newsreels from 1923, and there's President Trump in the background just waving at you.
00:40:20.000 Whether it is a Home Alone movie or whether it is a 1994 finals appearance, the President of the United States has been everywhere at all times, the most ubiquitous man in human history.
00:40:30.000 There he was back in the 1994 finals, the much younger Marv Albert.
00:40:36.000 I'm just emotionally crushed by this.
00:40:38.000 It should be pointed out.
00:40:40.000 43.
00:40:41.000 It's your good friend, Donald Trump.
00:40:44.000 Yes.
00:40:44.000 I've been good fighter.
00:40:45.000 What does it say?
00:40:46.000 Walk on.
00:40:49.000 It's very nice.
00:40:52.000 By the way, Charles Oakley fell in his lap, actually, at that game, I believe.
00:40:57.000 President Trump says he's going to actually go to the game, which will be hilarious.
00:41:00.000 I'm sure people in Manhattan will love him.
00:41:02.000 I'm not so sure.
00:41:03.000 Some will love him, some will hate him.
00:41:04.000 Anyway, here he was.
00:41:10.000 No, I was invited to the.
00:41:11.000 I was going to go on Wednesday, but they closed it out very quickly.
00:41:15.000 They're great.
00:41:15.000 And Jim Dolan's a great guy.
00:41:17.000 He's, as you know, owns and in charge of Madison Square Garden.
00:41:21.000 He's having a good year.
00:41:24.000 Boy, what a team.
00:41:25.000 They win all their games.
00:41:26.000 They really have some great players.
00:41:29.000 I think I'll be going to one of the games.
00:41:30.000 Yeah, I was invited by numerous people.
00:41:33.000 And Jim, and I think it's great.
00:41:36.000 Great to see it.
00:41:39.000 For what it's worth, I hope that the Spurs beat the Thunder.
00:41:43.000 I would much rather see a Spurs final against the Knicks than a Thunder final against the Knicks, mainly because I don't like flopping.
00:41:48.000 I know.
00:41:48.000 This is the biggest controversy of the day is that I'm going to call the OKC team a bunch of floppers because they're flopping like nobody's business.
00:41:54.000 Stop it.
00:41:55.000 This is in soccer.
00:41:56.000 Anyway, the same New York that, again, cosplays as, pretends to be the place where if you make it here, you can make it anywhere.
00:42:04.000 They're just continuing to drive out all investors.
00:42:07.000 So New York did pass their pied-a-terre tax, which is their tax on second homes in New York.
00:42:12.000 All this is going to do is drive people out of New York.
00:42:15.000 Because if you're rich enough to afford a place in New York, you're certainly rich enough to afford a place elsewhere.
00:42:18.000 And why would you want to sponsor?
00:42:20.000 I think there's actually a moral question as to whether you should buy a home in New York at this point, unless you have to.
00:42:25.000 Because sponsoring the predations of Zoran Momdani's government, it seems to me that that may become a moral issue at a certain point.
00:42:31.000 If you are to legitimately, you know that you have a choice and your tax dollars are subsidizing the horrible policy of Zoran Momdani.
00:42:38.000 I think you.
00:42:40.000 There's an actual moral question as to whether you should be buying a home in New York at this point.
00:42:45.000 New York, by the way, continues to go as radical as humanly possible.
00:42:49.000 Big controversy.
00:42:51.000 In Park Slope, where the Park Slope Food Co op voted to ban all Israeli products from the shelves and then got rid of their five products because the grocery store.
00:43:04.000 So it's like hummus.
00:43:06.000 That's what they got rid of.
00:43:08.000 Good luck to you over in New York.
00:43:09.000 Things are going beautifully.
00:43:10.000 Okay, on a more important level.
00:43:12.000 So we've been discussing for a while on the program the importance of AI.
00:43:16.000 Now, there are lots of honest questions to be asked about AI.
00:43:19.000 How do humans interact with it?
00:43:20.000 How do you best use it so that?
00:43:22.000 It doesn't sort of rot your brain because you've become so reliant on AI that you stop reading books and thinking for yourself.
00:43:29.000 How do we ensure that the power of AI is not given to people who are terrible or that people don't use it for terrible things?
00:43:36.000 What sort of restrictions need to be placed on the data capacity or investigative limits of AI?
00:43:43.000 And these are all open questions.
00:43:45.000 All of that makes some sense. 0.73
00:43:47.000 But the overall anti AI campaign or the idea that there should be significant Overall restrictions on AI, putting us way behind the Chinese, or that the best thing we can do for the economy is somehow a gigantic redistributionist scheme because of AI, that's foolish. 0.73
00:44:04.000 And it's foolish whether you are a left wing politician, or whether you are Tucker Carlson, or whether you're Publio.
00:44:11.000 Policy is policy is policy. 0.52
00:44:13.000 A bad political line pursued by anyone remains bad no matter what office you hold.
00:44:19.000 And that is said with all due respect to the papacy.
00:44:22.000 Again, as someone who gave the Pope a baseball and traveled to the Vatican to do so.
00:44:25.000 I have a lot of respect for the office of the papacy because of the historic role of the papacy in preserving many of the pillars of Western civilization.
00:44:33.000 With that said, that doesn't mean that the Pope knows what he is talking about when it comes to economics.
00:44:38.000 I do not think that the Pope is coding on Claude.
00:44:41.000 I do not think that the Pope is using ChatGPT.
00:44:43.000 I do not think that the Pope has any idea how any of this stuff works, frankly.
00:44:48.000 And religious knowledge and understanding, religious wisdom, that applies to human nature and the nature of things sinful.
00:44:57.000 It does not mean you understand how economics works.
00:44:59.000 Pretty clearly.
00:45:01.000 So, over the past few days, the Pope presented an AI focused encyclical.
00:45:07.000 Now, I should point out, first of all, that an encyclical from the Pope is not Catholic doctrine.
00:45:12.000 It does not fall under the rubric of papal infallibility.
00:45:15.000 It is not as though what the Pope says in these encyclicals becomes kind of black letter Catholic law.
00:45:20.000 That's not how it works.
00:45:21.000 So, he's up for criticism just as much as anybody, or at least his ideas are up for criticism just as much as anyone.
00:45:28.000 So, he said that AI needs to be disarmed like nuclear energy.
00:45:32.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:45:35.000 Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.
00:45:40.000 The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.
00:45:55.000 The church has long been working for nuclear disarmament, aware that every great technical power can affect people's lives and so must be accompanied by adequate moral discernment and public control.
00:46:10.000 Nuclear disarmament remains a service to peace and the dignity of the human family.
00:46:16.000 In a similar sense, artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.
00:46:30.000 Like nuclear energy, it must be at the service of all and of the common good.
00:46:36.000 Decisions about technology must never be separated from conscience and responsibility.
00:46:44.000 Okay, all of this is platitudinous.
00:46:46.000 Yes, we would like for AI not to be used as a weapon against others.
00:46:48.000 With that said, should AI be a part of our supply chain when it comes to development of military capacity?
00:46:55.000 Of course.
00:46:56.000 Should it be a part of how we actually perform war services?
00:46:59.000 Absolutely. 0.89
00:47:00.000 It is very important, actually, that we do that.
00:47:02.000 Now, no, it's very easy to say, I don't want bad things to happen with AI.
00:47:05.000 Nobody wants bad things to happen with AI.
00:47:07.000 But this is where we get to the distinction between matters spiritual and matters practical.
00:47:13.000 So, the Pope's encyclical is called Magnifica Humanitas.
00:47:16.000 On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.
00:47:21.000 And in this encyclical, he says that he compares AI to the Tower of Babel.
00:47:30.000 He says, in the abstract, technology in and of itself is not a solution to humanity's problems, just as it is not inherently evil.
00:47:36.000 In practice, however, technology is never neutral because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate, and use it.
00:47:42.000 Therefore, the primary choice is not between a yes or no to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem.
00:47:48.000 Now, again, I would prefer that good people with whom I agree build the AI.
00:47:51.000 I get it, but that's not where he goes.
00:47:54.000 And when it comes to sort of his general statements about how we have to remain human and how that's necessary to us, obviously that's true.
00:48:04.000 When he says, in the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.
00:48:13.000 We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity.
00:48:16.000 Sure, fine.
00:48:17.000 But it's when he gets to the practical that I start to get a little queasy.
00:48:21.000 Because this pope, like Pope Francis, has a tendency toward big government redistributionism and global government redistributionism.
00:48:28.000 And my answer to that is no.
00:48:29.000 Nope.
00:48:30.000 Ain't going to be no global government redistributionism.
00:48:32.000 Not into it.
00:48:33.000 Not interested in it.
00:48:34.000 Don't want to hear it from any authority, secular like the UN or religious like the pope.
00:48:39.000 Not interested.
00:48:40.000 That's going to be a big no from me, dog.
00:48:41.000 Okay, so he says here in this encyclical it is necessary to establish adequate regulatory tools capable of upholding justice and curbing the distorting effects of technological power.
00:48:56.000 In the past, it was largely up to the state to guide and direct innovation.
00:49:00.000 Today, however, the main drivers of development are private, often transnational parties that are endowed with resources and the capacity to intervene that surpass those of many governments.
00:49:09.000 For this reason, it is necessary to begin a shared discernment process for identifying the spiritual and cultural roots of ongoing transformations.
00:49:16.000 And then, he says, that communities and intermediary organizations must be involved, and he calls for more diffuse technological property.
00:49:28.000 Quote Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure, and data.
00:49:37.000 In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods.
00:49:50.000 In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins.
00:49:56.000 Okay, first of all, This is just rote Marxist nonsense.
00:49:59.000 It's not true.
00:50:01.000 Every time a technology is developed, the people at the top end up developing the technology and then it disseminates across a society.
00:50:07.000 Literally every product that you consider commonplace today and necessary today started off as a luxury good.
00:50:13.000 Because when you first develop an innovative product, the per unit costs are very high.
00:50:13.000 Why?
00:50:18.000 That means only rich people can afford them.
00:50:20.000 Then, as a profit margin is developed, other competitors come into the space and the price begins to drop.
00:50:27.000 This is why the original microwaves.
00:50:29.000 We're rather expensive, and the microwave today is very inexpensive.
00:50:33.000 This is why the cell phone that you hold in your hand that has more technology than that which we use to put a man on the moon, that cell phone, far more sophisticated than any computer that was around at the time of Gordon Gekko, the really, really basic equivalent would have been Gordon Gekko on the beach in Wall Street holding a shoebox to his head, and only he would have had one.
00:50:56.000 Every necessity starts off as a luxury, basically.
00:51:00.000 That is the way that all of this works.
00:51:01.000 And so the idea that you cut short the innovation for redistributionist purposes is just economic nonsense.
00:51:07.000 And again, it doesn't matter who says it.
00:51:08.000 If a proposition is wrong, it remains wrong regardless of the mouth from which it springs.
00:51:14.000 The Pope says, today, he says, when it comes to decisions regarding economic flows and digital platforms, as well as the governance of data and algorithms, we cannot allow a handful of actors to dictate these processes on their own.
00:51:25.000 Instead, we must build forms of cooperation that respect the various levels of the global community and make them jointly responsible for the common good.
00:51:32.000 Who would be doing this?
00:51:34.000 Who? 1.00
00:51:35.000 Are we supposed to take into account the desires of Zimbabwe?
00:51:37.000 How about China?
00:51:39.000 How about Iran?
00:51:39.000 How about Pakistan?
00:51:41.000 Should we take into account their deep thoughts on AI?
00:51:46.000 In the digital age, a just social order guarantees everyone equal access to opportunities, protects the youngest and weakest members of society, combats hate and misinformation, and subjects the use of data and technology to public oversight so that the guiding principle is not solely profit, but the dignity of every person and the common good of all people.
00:52:02.000 See, this is where you start to smuggle in a bunch of stuff that ends up actually being immoral.
00:52:07.000 Very often, When people want a centralized tyranny, they never propose a centralized tyranny in the name of injustice.
00:52:14.000 They always do it in the name of the common good of all people.
00:52:18.000 That's always how it starts, always.
00:52:20.000 I would rather have diffuse mechanisms in competition with one another than centralized government control under the auspices of any organization.
00:52:31.000 I particularly bridle at some of this stuff because Pope Leo has refused to call out governments.
00:52:38.000 He's big on government control and centralized oversight and all of this.
00:52:42.000 But he has been reticent, shall we say, to criticize governments that have slaughtered Christians in Africa, that are slaughtering Christians in the Middle East right now.
00:52:52.000 He has been extraordinarily shy in condemning Iranian aggression.
00:52:58.000 He has traveled literally to countries that oppress Christians in order to, I don't even know, try to go along to get along.
00:53:08.000 And it seems to me that if you are going to demand global rules, Then maybe we ought to articulate what those rules look like.
00:53:16.000 Maybe we ought to articulate what your desired regime would be, as opposed to these sort of broad statements that private industry and diffuse dissemination of knowledge is unjust and we need centralized control.
00:53:27.000 Centralized control always sounds more fun to people and more understandable to people than diffuse knowledge, than lots of people knowing things, or the ugliness of competition.
00:53:37.000 It always sounds better to say, we'll just put this guy in charge and then he'll run it, or this group of people in charge.
00:53:41.000 But that's precisely what you say you're fighting.
00:53:45.000 And frankly, The lack of understanding of free market mechanisms and technological development here, I think, is a problem.
00:53:58.000 I think it's a problem, regardless of whether you speak with the mantle of religious authority or not.
00:54:02.000 And in some ways, worse if you're speaking with the mantle of religious authority but outside your area of expertise.
00:54:08.000 I think there are lots of places where the Pope's wisdom is useful.
00:54:11.000 I think when it comes to his questions about how human beings adjust to technological change, all of that is fine and dandy.
00:54:20.000 But the Pope literally calls for gigantic redistributionist mechanisms here.
00:54:27.000 He says in this encyclical While AI promises to boost productivity by taking over mundane tasks, it frequently forces workers to adapt to the speed and demands of machines.
00:54:35.000 More than ever, in the age of AI and robotics, it is no longer possible to rely solely on the invisible hand of the market.
00:54:42.000 Well, what are we supposed to rely on?
00:54:45.000 A bunch of people in a closed room somewhere figuring it out for the rest of us?
00:54:49.000 The free market, I will trust every single time on matters of technological development and innovation over the centralized control of anybody, no matter what mantle they claim to speak under.
00:55:00.000 Because freedom remains a basic necessity for human innovation and development.
00:55:07.000 And this is a broader conversation that requires, I think, explication inside the right, is a battle that is clearly emerging on the right between values of liberty and freedom and people who believe that virtue must be.
00:55:22.000 Instituted by centralized control.
00:55:24.000 You can be a big believer in both virtue and freedom.
00:55:28.000 It's the structures in which both exist that need to be talked about.
00:55:31.000 And once you have religious authorities calling for government involvement, I start to get a little skittish, a little skittish.
00:55:38.000 I believe very strongly in the power of social institutions, in the teaching function of churches.
00:55:44.000 I think it's deeply important.
00:55:46.000 But once you start claiming it's time for the government to grab the reins, I'm going to get very cold on that very quickly.
00:55:54.000 All right, coming up, we'll get to the latest in Iran.
00:55:56.000 Will there be a deal?
00:55:57.000 Will there not be a deal?
00:55:57.000 Every day, it seems like there might be, there might not be.
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