The Ben Shapiro Show - Iranian Regime Signs Its Own DEATH WARRANT?

00:00:00.000 Well, the Iranian government may in fact have a death wish.

00:00:03.000 President Trump has offered them pretty much every way out.

00:00:06.000 He's created room for negotiation with a ceasefire.

00:00:08.000 He's talked up their pliability.

00:00:10.000 He sent his vice president and his top negotiators to Islamabad, Pakistan, just to hear them out.

00:00:15.000 And they pledged that they would deal.

00:00:17.000 And then they walked it back.

00:00:19.000 So what the hell comes next?

00:00:21.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.

00:00:28.000 So, before we actually get to the latest with regard to Iran, obviously we have to send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of this horrific shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana.

00:00:37.000 Apparently, according to the Daily Wire, a gunman who appeared to be targeting his own descendants opened fire in three different homes across Shreveport, Louisiana on Saturday night.

00:00:45.000 He was then shot and killed after he attempted to carjack a vehicle in order to escape.

00:00:50.000 The suspect was later identified as a 31 year old U.S. Army veteran.

00:00:54.000 He shot 10 people, killing eight children ranging from one to 14 years old.

00:00:59.000 Some of the kids are apparently his.

00:01:01.000 Horrific all the way through.

00:01:02.000 We will bring you additional details as they become available, but obviously terrible stuff.

00:01:07.000 And we're praying for the family and all the loved ones.

00:01:10.000 So, all hell seems like it's about to break loose again with regard to the Middle East. 1.00

00:01:10.000 All right. 1.00

00:01:14.000 Well, because you have to review the timeline.

00:01:14.000 Why?

00:01:17.000 Basically, the United States went into a ceasefire with the Iranians. 0.54

00:01:22.000 And the idea was two weeks to open negotiations and to move toward a solution on nuclear weapons and Iran giving up its nukes and on ballistic missiles and on support for terrorist proxies.

00:01:33.000 And it seemed as though there was some pretty significant movement.

00:01:35.000 The president deployed JD Vance, as well as Steve Witkopf and Jared Kushner, to Islamabad, Pakistan.

00:01:40.000 Originally, they came back and they said there was no deal to be made.

00:01:44.000 And then it appeared as though there might be actually some movement because the United States, you'll remember last week, put a blockade on Iran's blockade.

00:01:53.000 So Iran had basically been putting a blockade on goods in the Strait of Hormuz, harassing shipping, preventing oil from exiting the Persian Gulf.

00:02:00.000 Well, the United States, in the aftermath of the failure of the first round of talks, then blockaded Iranian ships.

00:02:06.000 Coming in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:02:08.000 And this put the Iranian government in significant economic trouble, and that apparently led to back channel negotiations.

00:02:14.000 And on Friday, it was announced by both the United States government and the Iranian government that the Strait of Hormuz was open.

00:02:20.000 So on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbasarrahi tweeted In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire on the coordinated route as already announced by the Ports and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

00:02:39.000 Here is a map of Hormuz.

00:02:40.000 You can see the areas here that show where Iran was attempting to exert control.

00:02:46.000 Iran asserted a hazardous area, which covered a pretty significant chunk of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:02:52.000 Basically, Iran was using its projective power from an island called Iraq Island in order to prevent shipping from moving through.

00:02:58.000 And the idea was that Iran was going to let up on all that.

00:03:02.000 Well, as soon as Iraqi announced this, the president of the United States put out a bunch of statements talking about the movement in the negotiations, saying, Essentially, the Strait of Hormuz is now open.

00:03:13.000 The American blockade would remain on Iranian shipping until such time as Iran gave up the ghost on its nuclear program.

00:03:18.000 The president said that that was very close that Iran would ship its nuclear dust out, making a deal with the United States to end permanently their nuclear program, that they would stop supporting foreign terrorist organizations and all the rest.

00:03:30.000 Well, this led to what appears to be a pretty open split between some of the negotiators and the people actually in charge in Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is essentially the Praetorian Guard for the mullahs.

00:03:43.000 And there have been a lot of rumors about the split.

00:03:45.000 In fact, one of the reasons why the negotiations in Islamabad led by Vance didn't succeed, according to Vance and members of the American side of that negotiation, is that the foreign ministry was making promises they couldn't keep.

00:03:57.000 They would go back and the IRGC would then pretend that none of that ever happened.

00:04:01.000 So, Araki had put out that statement saying that the Strait of Hormuz was open.

00:04:05.000 And then, according to Iran International, Araki's post was widely criticized by hardliners and their outlets, including the state-run Mare News, which said that Araki's tweet Provided the best opportunity for Trump to go beyond reality, declare himself the winner of the war, and celebrate victory.

00:04:20.000 Mare News said it is clear that ceasefire related negotiations are not being handled solely by the foreign ministry.

00:04:26.000 And then another news agency, again, any news agency in Iran is basically being run with the approval of the authorities in Iran, namely the IRGC.

00:04:34.000 Taznim News Agency described the post as a bad and incomplete tweet that created misleading ambiguity about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:04:42.000 And then another IRGC ally called Fars News Agency. Quoted an informed source close to the Supreme National Security Council as saying that Iran considered the continuation of a U.S. naval blockade a violation of the ceasefire and would close the Strait of Hormuz again.

00:04:57.000 And true to form, the IRGC Navy command then put forward a tweet saying the same thing.

00:05:02.000 They said, A new order has been imposed on the Strait of Hormuz.

00:05:05.000 Civilian vessels are permitted to transit solely through Iran's designated route.

00:05:09.000 Transit of military vessels through the Strait remains prohibited.

00:05:12.000 All transits require permission from the IRGC Navy.

00:05:16.000 This transit is in accordance with the agreement for the period of silence on the battlefield and follows the implementation of the Lebanon ceasefire.

00:05:23.000 So, Iran, as you'll recall, we discussed this last week that Israel and Lebanon were kind of at war.

00:05:29.000 I say kind of because Israel was at war with Hezbollah, which is not the Lebanese government.

00:05:33.000 And Iran tried to tie its own ceasefire with the United States into Israel stopping its attacks on Hezbollah in retaliation for Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel.

00:05:44.000 They tried to claim the reason that they had.

00:05:46.000 Open the Strait of Hormuz was because Israel had stopped its action in Lebanon as opposed to the real reason, which is because the United States was blockading all of the oil going in and out of Iran.

00:05:56.000 Okay, but the bottom line is there's pretty openly a split between the IRGC and members of the foreign ministry in Iran.

00:06:03.000 President Trump on Friday was interviewed aboard Air Force One and he said there would not be any tolls on the Strait of Hormuz.

00:06:10.000 The thing was going to be open.

00:06:11.000 Sir, in the Strait, are there going to be restrictions and tolls managed by Iran for ships and vessels passing through?

00:06:17.000 No way.

00:06:19.000 None at all?

00:06:19.000 Nope.

00:06:19.000 No restrictions.

00:06:21.000 You talked about FISA, Mr. President.

00:06:24.000 Restrictions, yeah, there'll be restrictions.

00:06:25.000 You can't do the tolls.

00:06:27.000 No, they're not going to be tolls.

00:06:29.000 Okay, so he then continued by suggesting that we would get the nuclear dust, that there would be an agreement, or if there wasn't an agreement, then we would go and get it done.

00:06:37.000 Here's the president.

00:06:40.000 You said that the U.S. was going to take the nuclear dust from Iran.

00:06:45.000 What's the timeline on that?

00:06:46.000 How long will that be?

00:06:47.000 Do you want me to give you the time and date and everything else?

00:06:49.000 Is it like you've been negotiating how long that process is?

00:06:52.000 I'm not going to give you the time, other than if we sign the agreement, then I can give you a time somewhere after the signing of the agreement.

00:06:59.000 And you're going to have a voluntary. 0.89

00:07:01.000 We'll go in with Iran and we will take it together and we will bring it back, 100% of it, back to the United States. 1.00

00:07:09.000 If we don't do that, We will get it in a different form, in a much more unfriendly form. 1.00

00:07:17.000 But in any event, excuse me, excuse me, but in any event, we'll get it.

00:07:21.000 Okay, so he had also put out a series of claims about the nuclear deal moving forward and the United States ending the nuclear program and all the rest.

00:07:29.000 So Mohammed Khalibaf was the Speaker of the Parliament in Iran, again, appointed by the Malas and a former member of the IRGC himself, then put out two tweets on Friday claiming that nothing Trump was saying was true.

00:07:41.000 He said, The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false.

00:07:46.000 They did not win the war with these lies.

00:07:47.000 They will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either.

00:07:50.000 With the continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open.

00:07:53.000 Passage through the Strait will be conducted based on the designated route with Iranian authorization.

00:07:57.000 Whether the Strait is open or closed and the regulations governing it will be determined by the field, not by social media.

00:08:04.000 And he said, Media warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of the war.

00:08:08.000 The Iranian nation is not affected by these tricks. 0.74

00:08:09.000 Khalibaf would later tweet that.

00:08:11.000 The true heroism was martyrdom on behalf of the Iranian Republic, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

00:08:19.000 So clearly, people were clubbed back into place at the very, very, very least. 0.86

00:08:25.000 Now, let's be clear Iran is still targeting civilians.

00:08:30.000 On Saturday, things got heated again.

00:08:33.000 They got heated because the Iranian Navy informed ships that Hormuz was shut.

00:08:37.000 And then two vessels reported gunfire.

00:08:39.000 According to Reuters, merchant vessels attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday received radio messages from Iran's Navy.

00:08:45.000 Telling them they were not allowed to pass, while two ships reported being hit by gunfire, shipping sources said.

00:08:51.000 The incidents were reported in waters between the Keshem and Larak Islands.

00:08:55.000 The vessels turned back without completing the crossing, the sources said.

00:08:57.000 The captain of a tanker said it had been approached by two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats that fired on the vessel.

00:09:02.000 The tanker and its crew were safe.

00:09:04.000 Some vessels reported that Iran's Navy had been broadcasting a VHF message saying the Strait of Hormuz was closed again.

00:09:11.000 Apparently, the radio message said Attention all ships regarding the failure of the U.S. government to fulfill its commitment in the negotiation.

00:09:17.000 Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely closed again.

00:09:19.000 No vessel of any type or nationality is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:09:24.000 And again, they were sending that radio signal out.

00:09:27.000 Well, on Sunday, the president got up early and he immediately started putting out notices.

00:09:31.000 So he began by pointing out that the United States would, in fact, be taking cargo ships that were Iranian flagged and that that had already happened.

00:09:41.000 Quote Today, an Iranian flagged cargo ship named T O U S K A Tauska.

00:09:47.000 Nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier tried to get past our naval blockade.

00:09:52.000 It did not go well for them.

00:09:53.000 The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Tuska in the Gulf of Oman and gave them fair warning to stop. 0.97

00:10:00.000 The Iranian crew refused to listen. 0.84

00:10:02.000 So our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room. 0.97

00:10:05.000 Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.

00:10:08.000 The Tuska is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity.

00:10:13.000 We have full custody of the ship and we are seeing what's on board.

00:10:16.000 President Trump.

00:10:16.000 And here is some CENTCOM footage of the rounds that were fired at the Tuska.

00:10:21.000 Motor Vessel Tosca, Motor Vessel Tosca, vacate your engine room.

00:10:26.000 Vacate your engine room.

00:10:27.000 We're prepared to subject you to disabling fire.

00:10:32.000 Okay, we gave the flare.

00:10:36.000 Now we're getting. 0.81

00:10:49.000 And of course, all of this is in retaliation for Iran, again, attempting to shut the Straits of Hormuz.

00:10:54.000 In just a moment, we'll get to President Trump announcing that the Iranians had violated the ceasefire.

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00:12:04.000 The president also put out a statement Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz, a total violation of our ceasefire agreement.

00:12:10.000 Many of them were aimed at a French ship and a freighter from the United Kingdom.

00:12:13.000 That wasn't nice, was it?

00:12:15.000 My representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan.

00:12:17.000 They will be there tomorrow evening for negotiations.

00:12:19.000 Iran recently announced they were closing the strait, which is strange because our blockade has already closed it.

00:12:24.000 They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose, with the closed passage, $500 million a day. 0.96

00:12:28.000 He's right about this, by the way. 0.88

00:12:29.000 Again, as we've discussed, it is true that Iran can harm China by preventing shipping from coming out. 0.95

00:12:35.000 It's true they can harm Saudi Arabia. 0.93

00:12:37.000 They can harm Iraq.

00:12:38.000 They can harm any of the countries that are shipping oil via the Persian Gulf, UAE, Bahrain, all the rest.

00:12:44.000 But is the United States the party hardest hit by what's going on in the strait?

00:12:49.000 Not even remotely.

00:12:50.000 And when the United States blockades Iranian ships, it's significantly worse for Iran.

00:12:55.000 The reality is that the United States government spends something like $7 trillion.

00:13:00.000 A year, we could lose $50 million every single day, and it would not amount to one third of our federal budget.

00:13:09.000 So, again, we are a very, very wealthy country. 0.85

00:13:12.000 Iran is a very, very not wealthy country.

00:13:13.000 And when Iran, their industries are shut down, their export and import becomes impossible, their economy is basically on its last legs. 0.85

00:13:21.000 The president is right. 0.85

00:13:22.000 He says, in fact, many ships are headed right now to the US, Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska to load up compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be the tough guy.

00:13:29.000 We're offering a very fair and reasonable deal. 0.74

00:13:31.000 I hope they take it because if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. 0.54

00:13:37.000 No more Mr. Nice Guy. 0.99

00:13:38.000 They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy.

00:13:40.000 And if they don't take the deal, it will be my honor to do what has to be done. 0.86

00:13:43.000 Which should have been done to Iran by other presidents for the last 47 years. 1.00

00:13:46.000 It's time for the Iran killing machine to end.

00:13:50.000 The UN ambassador, Mike Walsh, was on ABC News on Sunday, and he said, Listen, IRGC's command and control is in disarray.

00:13:56.000 They are still in incredibly rough shape.

00:13:58.000 The Iranian command and control and government is in absolute disarray because of the devastating attacks across its leadership.

00:14:07.000 You're right.

00:14:08.000 You heard the Iranian foreign minister say it's open, and then the IRGC step in and say, No, it's closed.

00:14:15.000 Regardless, It's the blockade, the U.S. Navy, and President Trump who's ultimately deciding what gets in and out. 0.98

00:14:23.000 Now, again, that is true. 0.70

00:14:25.000 The Iranian foreign affairs spokesperson, a person named Ismail Bakai, then started whining online about the blockade.

00:14:32.000 So apparently, it is a blockade and a ceasefire violation for the United States to blockade Iran's ports and coastline.

00:14:38.000 But it's not a violation or a war crime for Iran to do that to everyone in the Persian Gulf.

00:14:43.000 President Trump says he's still sending negotiators to Pakistan.

00:14:46.000 There was some confusion on Sunday about whether JD Vance would go or not go.

00:14:49.000 The president had suggested.

00:14:50.000 Maybe for safety reasons, the vice president would not go.

00:14:53.000 And then later he said he would go.

00:14:55.000 According to Axios, Vice President Vance will lead a U.S. delegation for another round of talks with Iran in Islamabad before the ceasefire is scheduled to end on Tuesday night.

00:15:03.000 The Iranians are lowering expectations and appear suspicious that Trump's talk of a deal could be covered for U.S. surprise attack.

00:15:09.000 By the way, what's the surprise?

00:15:11.000 Where would the surprise be?

00:15:12.000 The president says over and over if you don't get a deal, you might be under attack again.

00:15:17.000 All the stuff you have left might be blown away.

00:15:20.000 And the reality is that Iran is actually even more vulnerable in many ways than they were before the ceasefire.

00:15:25.000 For one example, Iran has been digging out an enormous number of its missile launchers because so many of its overground missile launchers were destroyed in the first round of fighting.

00:15:35.000 They now have to resurface.

00:15:36.000 They're digging out missile launchers that were put underground specifically for reserve purposes.

00:15:41.000 Well, now we know exactly where those are because we have satellites that are over Iran.

00:15:45.000 And so, in the first wave of any sort of American and Israeli action, presumably those missile launchers go bye bye as well.

00:15:52.000 Beyond that, all of the options are still on the table for the United States here.

00:15:56.000 Karga Island, which, of course, I'd spoken of.

00:15:58.000 Ad nauseam before the ceasefire, the possibility of an American or Israeli takeover of Kharga Island, which provides 90% of the refining export capacity of Iran, that's still very much on the table.

00:16:10.000 And the United States doesn't even need to take it.

00:16:12.000 We could effectively permanently embargo Iran's oil supply by just blowing up Kharga Island. 0.91

00:16:17.000 If we wish to grab it and then bargain it back for nuclear materials, we could do that. 0.94

00:16:21.000 Or we could just destroy their economy.

00:16:23.000 We could just make it so the IRGC can't pay its people.

00:16:27.000 That is very much on the table.

00:16:29.000 Hitting energy facilities, hitting bridges, hitting infrastructure that is vital to the Iranian government.

00:16:35.000 And again, that is not a war crime.

00:16:37.000 If you hit infrastructure that is dual use, civilian and military, and there's a military purpose to doing it, that is not in any way, shape, or form a war crime, all of that is still very much on the table.

00:16:47.000 The Iranians have been saying they're not going to be sending negotiators, so they're basically daring President Trump to do it.

00:16:51.000 Again, it is amazing to watch as these folks move toward what appears to be some form of regime suicide. 0.64

00:16:58.000 Now, again, they may survive.

00:17:01.000 Again, that's pretty incredible.

00:17:03.000 Like they may survive, but not for very long. 0.87

00:17:09.000 I mean, the maximalist demands that Iran is making, they're claiming America is taking maximalist positions here. 0.68

00:17:14.000 It is Iran that's taking a maximalist position. 0.66

00:17:16.000 They will not turn over their nukes. 0.63

00:17:17.000 They will not turn over their future nuclear program.

00:17:19.000 They will not disarm their ballistic missiles.

00:17:21.000 They will not stop surrendering, stop supporting terrorist groups all over the region.

00:17:25.000 Again, this is the thing that's amazing.

00:17:26.000 Whenever you hear that the United States started this, if Iran just acted like a normal country, like a normal, normal country, none of this would have been happening for the last 50 years. 0.70

00:17:37.000 At all. 0.71

00:17:38.000 But Iran seems like they are buckled in for the ride.

00:17:41.000 And again, this is not a giant shock to me. 0.72

00:17:43.000 I notice there are a lot of people out there who are saying, you know, President Trump was championing reopening the Straits and it was open before we ever got involved.

00:17:51.000 Well, I mean, that's kind of true in the sense that Iran had not formally flexed its power in the Strait of Hormuz. 0.52

00:17:59.000 But it turns out that when you go to war in order to forestall a country from doing a bad thing, that country sometimes responds by doing another bad thing and then you have to stop them from doing that bad thing. 0.59

00:18:09.000 So, Just to take an example, it turns out that Germany wasn't really attacking tons of American shipping prior to the United States getting into World War II against Germany.

00:18:18.000 Germany declared war against the United States.

00:18:19.000 The United States declared war on Germany.

00:18:21.000 The United States starts mobilizing for war, and the Germans start attacking American shipping.

00:18:25.000 Well, when we restored security on the high seas to our own shipping, are we supposed to treat that as though, well, you know, if we had never gone to war with Germany, then it turns out that there never would have been a shipping problem?

00:18:36.000 You can do this with literally any conflict.

00:18:38.000 Literally any conflict.

00:18:39.000 So the question is whether the conflict is justified and removing a piece from the board your enemy was using.

00:18:45.000 Is in fact a victory, even if they weren't using that piece before the conflict began, because obviously the math changes once you decide you're going to stop them from doing a really bad thing.

00:18:55.000 They might do another bad thing, and then you have to stop that.

00:18:58.000 And when you do, that is called a victory. 1.00

00:19:00.000 If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that the Iranian government is basically stuck between a rock and a hard place. 0.71

00:19:06.000 If they give up their future nuclear program, the nuclear program is basically their main guarantee that the regime doesn't fall, because theoretically they could turn themselves into a sort of hermit state like North Korea.

00:19:17.000 They have a nuke, and so you can't take them down, and they just sit there and keep under repression 90 million people.

00:19:25.000 So, they can't give that up.

00:19:27.000 They also can't give up their terror proxy groups because that is their only forward capacity. 0.69

00:19:31.000 It appears that the Iranian army, for example, the Iranian military is a paper tiger.

00:19:36.000 Their air force is basically non existent.

00:19:39.000 Their navy is no longer existent.

00:19:41.000 And their ballistic missile capacity has been wildly degraded.

00:19:44.000 So, what exactly could they give up and survive?

00:19:46.000 The answer at this point is not a lot, which is probably why they're saying, come and get us.

00:19:50.000 It's like the end of Scarface.

00:19:52.000 They're barricaded up in Tony Montana's office, snorting coke off the desk.

00:19:57.000 And asking people to say hello to their little friend.

00:19:59.000 Well, it didn't work out all that great for Tony Montana, as it turned out. 0.83

00:20:04.000 So, what is likely to happen next year is that Iran is likely to remain intransigent.

00:20:08.000 The president is likely to authorize further military action to both significantly hamper or destroy Iran's economic capacity and to either bomb into complete rubble every nuclear facility possible or to unleash some special operations in line with the Israelis and go get the nuclear material or both. 0.65

00:20:25.000 That is the very likely next step, and it will probably be happening. 0.81

00:20:27.000 Sooner rather than later, if the Iranians don't get on the clock and start negotiating right fast. 0.79

00:20:33.000 Coming up, Iranian agents being arrested abroad, like here in the United States. 0.99

00:20:36.000 I wonder who let them in and let them stay. 0.99

00:20:38.000 We'll get to it in a moment.

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00:21:57.000 Now, meanwhile, while all of this has been happening, the federal government arrested an Iranian woman at LAX.

00:22:05.000 For allegedly brokering weapon sales for Iran.

00:22:09.000 So it's not as though Iran is not active around the world.

00:22:11.000 They still are.

00:22:12.000 According to Fox News, Shamim Mafi, 44 of Woodland Hills, was arrested at LAX for trafficking arms on behalf of the government of Iran.

00:22:19.000 Fox reports that she was granted permanent U.S. residency under Barack Obama.

00:22:24.000 There you go.

00:22:25.000 And she was working with others on behalf of Iran and was preparing to board an LAX flight to Turkey when she was taken into custody.

00:22:31.000 Apparently, she brokered a contract worth more than $70.6 million for the sale of Iranian made Mohair 6 armed drones to Sudan's Ministry of Defense.

00:22:41.000 And was also trying to sell 55,000 bomb fuses to the Sudanese military and multiple ammunition deals, including 10 million rounds of AK 47 ammo and a separate proposed contract for 240 million rounds.

00:22:52.000 And they're using Oman and Turkey to facilitate all of this. 0.94

00:22:57.000 So, Iran, again, nefariously promoting terrorism and horror all over the world, all over the world. 0.97

00:23:03.000 But who likes Iran?

00:23:05.000 It turns out very, very liberal voters and young Democratic voters.

00:23:11.000 Are not all that, they're not all that anti Iran, actually, as it turns out.

00:23:15.000 So, brand new poll from Echelon Insights.

00:23:17.000 And it shows that overall, Americans, there's been a lot of heartburn over Israel's position with Americans.

00:23:23.000 But overall, Americans hold a positive versus an unfavorable view of Israel 44 to 38.

00:23:30.000 China, only 17% of Americans have a positive view of China, as opposed to 67% who have a somewhat unfavorable view.

00:23:38.000 Only 7% of Americans have a positive view of Iran, compared to 77% who have a negative view of Iran.

00:23:44.000 But, If you look at very liberal voters, only 14% of very liberal voters have a positive view of Israel.

00:23:52.000 70% have a negative view of Israel.

00:23:55.000 26% of very liberal voters have a favorable view of China.

00:24:00.000 So nearly twice as many liberals have a positive view of China as have a positive view of Israel.

00:24:06.000 And Iran, 12% have a positive view of Iran.

00:24:11.000 65% have a negative view of Iran.

00:24:13.000 So Iran among very liberal voters is, is just a little bit more like marginally more unpopular than Israel with very liberal voters.

00:24:23.000 Also, young Democrats in particular are totally radical on this stuff.

00:24:27.000 Democrats under 50, only 17% have a positive view of Israel.

00:24:32.000 29% have a positive view of China and 14% have a Positive view of Iran.

00:24:37.000 And actually, fewer liberals, fewer Democrats under 50 have a negative view of Iran than have a negative view of Israel.

00:24:44.000 54% of Democrats under the age of 50 have a negative view of Iran.

00:24:49.000 62% have a negative view of Israel.

00:24:51.000 And so this requires some explication.

00:24:53.000 There's been a lot of heartburn on the pro Israel right and among pro Israel Americans in general, which represent a plurality of Americans over this sort of stuff.

00:25:01.000 What's happened here? 0.92

00:25:02.000 Is it because of what Israel is doing?

00:25:04.000 Although, let's be clear about what's happening here.

00:25:06.000 There's been a rising tide of anti Americanism.

00:25:08.000 On the left, a third worldism on the left that has basically taken over the Democratic Party.

00:25:13.000 A belief that the United States is inherently terrible, that the United States is unjust, that American values spread abroad are evil and wrong, and that virtually every country on earth, the more horrible the country, the more victimized they must have been at the hands of the United States.

00:25:29.000 That is the actual ideology of the left.

00:25:30.000 And it's infected some of the right as well.

00:25:33.000 The grievance right, which believes that their constituents in the United States are being ground under the boot heel of a terrible American system.

00:25:42.000 A system that promotes neoliberalism and foreign interests at the expense of the American people.

00:25:48.000 And that terrible regime is having impacts outside the United States.

00:25:53.000 Third worldism and grievance party right wing nonsense.

00:25:57.000 They end up being the same thing.

00:25:58.000 Again, Tucker Carlson, Hassan Pike are hugging it out in the corner.

00:26:02.000 The president is having none of this.

00:26:03.000 He put out a statement whether people like Israel or not, they have proven to be a great ally of the United States in America.

00:26:09.000 They are courageous, bold, loyal, and smart.

00:26:11.000 And unlike others that have shown their true colors in a moment of conflict and stress, Israel fights hard and knows how to win.

00:26:16.000 This, of course, is true.

00:26:18.000 For all the talk of our vaunted allies all over the world, which of our vaunted allies in the recent past, I'm talking like the last 15 years, have joined any serious operation by the United States to make the world a better place? 0.99

00:26:32.000 The answer is no one but Israel.

00:26:35.000 The United States has been roundly condemned for taking serious action against nefarious regimes.

00:26:41.000 That presumably is why US Democrats joined.

00:26:43.000 A progressive rally in Barcelona alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

00:26:48.000 Pedro Sanchez is a wild radical.

00:26:50.000 He's expressed solidarity with the regime in Iran pretty directly.

00:26:54.000 There's a reason why the Iranian regime is a fan of Sanchez.

00:26:57.000 So is Hamas, by the way.

00:26:59.000 Democrat Senator Chris Murphy and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz actually showed up for this thing.

00:27:05.000 South African President Ciro Ramaphosa, who's presided over the continuing racism in the policy of his country, proposed a resolution at this event to establish an international panel on inequality between nations.

00:27:17.000 So, the United States being prosperous means other nations are poor.

00:27:20.000 Again, this is just third worldism.

00:27:22.000 Democrats are third worldist increasingly.

00:27:25.000 That is a third worldist notion that somehow the United States owes something or Europe owes something to South Africa.

00:27:30.000 That's why you need an international panel on inequality.

00:27:34.000 Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum proposed that governments spend 10% of their military budget on reforestation.

00:27:41.000 And the Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez argued to tax the ultra rich.

00:27:48.000 And again, he suggested, They know their vision of how the world should be ordered is falling apart due to tariffs and wars.

00:27:53.000 Their embrace of climate change denial of xenophobia or sexism is their greatest error.

00:27:57.000 They have tried again and again to make us ashamed of our beliefs.

00:28:00.000 That ends now.

00:28:02.000 So here you have Senator Chris Murphy going abroad and calling the President of the United States the biggest threat to American democracy since the Civil War.

00:28:09.000 Well, I do recall a couple of other threats to American democracy since the Civil War.

00:28:15.000 Like there was a gigantic world war, you may recall, in which the United States had to fight off two.

00:28:19.000 Count them two fascist empires.

00:28:21.000 And also, there was the threat of the Soviet empire as well.

00:28:23.000 But according to Chris Murphy, it's Trump, of course, who's the problem.

00:28:28.000 I'm not going to sugarcoat the gravity of what we face right now in the United States.

00:28:32.000 This is the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War.

00:28:38.000 Donald Trump in our country is trying to end our democracy.

00:28:43.000 We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover.

00:28:47.000 We are in the middle of it.

00:28:50.000 Seize control of our courts, of our law enforcement, of our media, of our elections.

00:28:55.000 His goal is oligarchic capture. 0.81

00:29:01.000 That is like you're broad with a socialist psycho saying this sort of stuff as a Democrat.

00:29:07.000 And this is considered fully in line with how Democrats think these days, which presumably is why Abdul El Sayed, who is a radical terror supporter in Michigan, is now, I think, likely to win the Democrat Senate primary.

00:29:20.000 In Michigan.

00:29:21.000 Now, if he does, then that seat is very much open to Republican victory.

00:29:24.000 Mike Rogers, who's run a close race there before, would be the Republican candidate.

00:29:28.000 El Sayed is not in line with moderates at all.

00:29:31.000 Over the weekend, he suggested that Israel is just as evil as Hamas.

00:29:35.000 And of course, there's a reason why he's saying this sort of stuff.

00:29:37.000 If you go back to that poll, it shows that Democrats overall are wildly unfavorable on Israel.

00:29:45.000 So he believes that Democrats being anti Israel is a way for him to signal that he is a supporter of their priorities.

00:29:52.000 Again, Democrats overall, Democrats who are 50 plus, only 33% support Israel.

00:29:57.000 Democrats under 50, only 17% support Israel.

00:30:02.000 So, again, Democrats overall, wildly unsupportive of Israel, and he knows that.

00:30:06.000 And so he's just going to go ahead and equate Israel with a terror group.

00:30:09.000 Here we go.

00:30:10.000 You said the Israeli government is evil.

00:30:12.000 Do you think they're just as evil as Hamas? 0.99

00:30:14.000 Yes, killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil. 0.91

00:30:17.000 It's not how evil is this one versus that one. 0.99

00:30:19.000 Hamas, evil. 0.89

00:30:20.000 Israeli government, evil. 0.99

00:30:21.000 We could say both. 0.71

00:30:22.000 Is Netanyahu, in your view, a war criminal?

00:30:24.000 He's a war criminal.

00:30:25.000 Absolutely.

00:30:26.000 Do you not think he is?

00:30:27.000 When you conduct a genocide, you're a war criminal.

00:30:29.000 What do you make of the fact that Haley Stevens is backed by AIPAT?

00:30:32.000 I find that disastrous for our politics.

00:30:36.000 And you should be more interested in what's happening in Michigan than you are interested in what's happening in Tel Aviv.

00:30:40.000 Okay, he literally just gave a whole disquisition about how Hamas and Israel are the same.

00:30:44.000 And he has said that he would not come out in favor of the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini because he is afraid that if he did, Dearborn would abandon him.

00:30:52.000 And this person is a frontrunner for the Democrats.

00:30:54.000 The Democratic Party is a third worldist party.

00:30:56.000 Kamala Harris, now making clear what she always wanted to say.

00:30:59.000 Joe Biden was the moderate in that administration, believe it or not.

00:31:01.000 Kamala Harris always wanted to go full scale, Mamdani. 0.99

00:31:04.000 Here she was over the weekend doing just that. 0.88

00:31:07.000 Let's talk about this war.

00:31:10.000 He entered a war, got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu.

00:31:15.000 Let's be clear about that.

00:31:17.000 Entered a war that the American people do not want, putting at risk American service members.

00:31:27.000 Okay, so again, the idea that America was pulled into this by Israel, the president himself has rejected that only about 1,000 times here. 0.58

00:31:35.000 And I've explained on the show exactly why the United States went when we went.

00:31:39.000 And the answer is the Iranian economy had collapsed, there were millions of people in the streets.

00:31:42.000 The Iranian government started mowing down people by the tens of thousands.

00:31:45.000 Simultaneously, they were building up ballistic missile capacity sufficient to create a military umbrella for the development of their nuclear program.

00:31:53.000 And it became clear to the United States there was a target of opportunity that was in the crosshairs. 0.88

00:31:57.000 This notion that President Trump gets pulled into anything is ridiculous.

00:32:01.000 The president makes his own decisions. 0.86

00:32:02.000 But again, this is how much Democrats despise Israel now.

00:32:06.000 They're now making excuses for the person they hate the most, Donald Trump, by ripping into Israel.

00:32:11.000 They see this as a way of garnering support in Democratic primaries.

00:32:14.000 Why?

00:32:14.000 Because Democratic primary voters have a picture of the world.

00:32:17.000 Where the West is bad, America is bad, our actual fighting allies are bad.

00:32:22.000 Israel joining with the United States to go after Iran makes Israel worse in their view.

00:32:27.000 The fact that the United States and Israel are on the same side automatically means something worse for Israel than if Israel opposed the United States.

00:32:35.000 Because in the end, the reason why so many Democrats are warm toward China or warm toward Iran or making excuses for Venezuela and Cuba right now is because there is one common thread.

00:32:45.000 Any country that opposes the United States is considered a country victimized by the United States.

00:32:51.000 The United States is guilty of their behavior.

00:32:53.000 And it is a referendum on the evil of the United States that these countries don't like us.

00:32:58.000 And thus, we must give up the ghost.

00:33:00.000 That is the nature of the Democratic Party increasingly these days.

00:33:03.000 And domestically, what does that mean?

00:33:04.000 The only way to carry yourself, to purge yourself, Of this sinful status, where everyone else's problems are because of you, the only way to purge yourself is to impose a socialist top down economic system in the United States and to withdraw from the world internationally in favor of countries that hate us.

00:33:21.000 That is the only way to atone.

00:33:23.000 We must repent before the altar of left wing Howard Zinn history.

00:33:27.000 Alrighty, coming up.

00:33:28.000 The Democrats, they are all Zoran Momdani now. 0.67

00:33:30.000 That is the direction that they have embraced full scale, which is why Barack Obama is back and he's sitting with Zoran Momdani first.

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00:34:39.000 And again, the Democratic Party is all in on this.

00:34:41.000 This is not a fringe thing.

00:34:43.000 There are fringes in the Republican Party.

00:34:44.000 They remain fringes in the Republican Party.

00:34:46.000 Tucker Carlson is, by the numbers, a fringe figure in the Republican Party.

00:34:51.000 Candace Owens is, by the numbers, a fringe figure in the Republican Party.

00:34:55.000 Again, you can have a lot of viewers and still be a fringe figure.

00:34:58.000 Alex Jones has a lot of viewers.

00:34:59.000 I don't think anyone thinks he represents the vast middle of the Republican Party.

00:35:03.000 But the vast middle of the Democratic Party, the upper echelon of leadership, Either there's a disconnect between the middle and the leadership, or the leadership is reflecting the middle.

00:35:12.000 In any case, the leadership of the Democratic Party is full scale, embracing the third worldism.

00:35:18.000 Barack Obama, who's been kind of publicly missing from the debate for a while, he sounds off on Twitter every so often when he's not busy making crappy Netflix documentaries for too much money. 0.94

00:35:28.000 He was out there campaigning basically with Zoran Momdani.

00:35:31.000 Why?

00:35:31.000 Because Momdani and Obama are of a piece.

00:35:34.000 The thing that drove Barack Obama, I have said this literally his entire career, the thing that drove Barack Obama.

00:35:40.000 Was the feeling that America was inherently guilty for all the problems of the world?

00:35:45.000 This sort of post colonial viewpoint was always Barack Obama's viewpoint.

00:35:50.000 You'll remember that Barack Obama, in his memoir, Dreams for My Father, wrote this I know, I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side.

00:36:04.000 How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair.

00:36:10.000 I know the response of the powerful to this disorder, alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, longer prison sentences, and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task.

00:36:26.000 Okay, that is third worldism in a nutshell.

00:36:28.000 People are impoverished in Jakarta and Nairobi because of unfeeling elites who are doing capitalism and militarism and all the rest of this.

00:36:38.000 That was always his position.

00:36:38.000 Right.

00:36:39.000 So it's not a surprise to see him with Zoramam Dhani, who believes precisely the same thing.

00:36:43.000 It is Zoramam Dhani who says things like the NYPD boot is laced up by the IDF. 0.63

00:36:47.000 It's all the same thing for them. 0.76

00:36:49.000 This is what people need to understand.

00:36:49.000 The hatred.

00:36:51.000 Hatred of Israel in the United States.

00:36:53.000 Hatred of it.

00:36:54.000 Not opposition to Israel's actions, which again, that's all debatable, of course, as it is for any country, but true hatred of Israel, the kind that's now being mainstreamed in the Democratic party and hatred of the United States, meaning hatred of our free market system.

00:37:09.000 Hatred of our Constitution, hatred of the fundamental principles upon which the United States is built, as opposed to third world countries everywhere, that hatred is coming from the same place.

00:37:22.000 These are not separate issues, they are the same issue. 0.55

00:37:25.000 Obama and Mom Dhani have always been on the same page, and they were over the weekend when they decided to get together to read to pre K students in the South Bronx.

00:37:34.000 The show, the wheels on the bus go round.

00:37:53.000 The fact that Obama is even doing that with Momdani shows where the Democratic Party is. 0.59

00:37:57.000 The Democratic Party had a choice to make Do you embrace Zoran Momdaniism, this third world nonsense, or do you run away from it because it is not representative of the vast bulk of Americans? 0.78

00:38:06.000 And the answer is they ran toward it, they grabbed it, and they hugged it. 0.85

00:38:10.000 And this is why when Zoran Momdani says he's never running for president, which of course he can't, he wasn't born in the United States, that should be of cold comfort because the entire point here is that this is a movement and he is just one member of that movement.

00:38:25.000 Democrats have discovered.

00:38:26.000 Bernie Sanders' socialism fronted by people who are of diverse background, often from third world countries. 0.77

00:38:34.000 This is the new formula. 0.93

00:38:36.000 Here is Zar Mamdani claiming he's not a threat because he can never run for president.

00:38:41.000 Would you like to see former Vice President Kamala Harris run for president again?

00:38:45.000 I have to be honest, I haven't thought about the candidacies for president this time.

00:38:48.000 My focus is 2026.

00:38:50.000 You're the only Democrat who hasn't thought about that.

00:38:53.000 And I'm proud to say that I am not and will never be running for president.

00:38:57.000 He says he's the only one.

00:38:58.000 Well, again, all that matters to him, God, the smarm, the smarm, the pasted on smile, the grinning joker nonsense from this third world is pretty incredible stuff.

00:39:08.000 And of course, he told Kristen Welker that he believes in democratic socialism even more than he ever did before, based on its grand success over the past three months.

00:39:17.000 Success yet to be determined.

00:39:19.000 Do you still believe in democratic socialism?

00:39:22.000 Do you still think it can be effective?

00:39:23.000 I believe in it even more than I did the day before.

00:39:26.000 And that's because of the fact that it is focused.

00:39:28.000 On the needs of working people.

00:39:30.000 And working people need that focus, that fight from politicians more than ever.

00:39:35.000 Wow.

00:39:36.000 Wow.

00:39:37.000 Okay.

00:39:37.000 That's just one word.

00:39:38.000 Bernie Sanders took over the heart of the party.

00:39:40.000 And then he combined it with Barack Obama's diverse background. 0.99

00:39:43.000 And that's how you end up with Mamdaniism. 0.96

00:39:45.000 And Bernie is out there doing his usual shtick. 0.98

00:39:47.000 Over the weekend, he put out If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than Walt Disney, Citigroup, CVS, Kohl's, Ticketmaster, Tesla, United Airlines, et cetera.

00:39:56.000 Okay.

00:39:56.000 So we should just put forward.

00:39:59.000 The notion that there is, in fact, corporate tax law.

00:40:01.000 Some people have realized losses and they apply those losses forward to their corporate tax position.

00:40:08.000 Also, every single person paid by those companies paid income tax.

00:40:14.000 That's just the way that it works.

00:40:15.000 But again, all of this is tied back to this bizarre notion that free markets are unfair.

00:40:22.000 And then, of course, that ties into what I always find totally hypocritical Democrats claiming that military spending is the thing that is keeping.

00:40:30.000 Education underfunded.

00:40:31.000 Madude, we are spending $7 trillion per year in the United States.

00:40:36.000 I can promise you, promise you, we do not have a lack of federal funding for anything.

00:40:40.000 The question is whether those federal programs actually work as advertised.

00:40:45.000 And the answer, of course, is no.

00:40:46.000 But here is John Assoff, who, again, he'd like to run for president also.

00:40:49.000 I think not.

00:40:51.000 It's not possible, the president said, for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, or Medicare.

00:41:02.000 He said, He said we can only afford to fund war.

00:41:08.000 Then released a budget demanding $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon next year alone, paid for by ending utility assistance for families, canceling affordable housing programs, and cutting cancer research.

00:41:23.000 All to fund a huge increase for the military industrial complex.

00:41:36.000 Because draft dodging Donald loves sending other people's children to war.

00:41:42.000 Again, this line, again, you hear this from the same people, the same people who are promoting the lie for some reason that people in the military are not volunteers, that there is a draft.

00:41:54.000 They're using the same sort of shtick that was being used in 1969 when it was actually accurate, when people actually were being drafted into the military and sent overseas.

00:42:04.000 And this is all part and parcel of a deep and abiding dislike for the United States.

00:42:09.000 Meanwhile, by the way, I will say that the dishonesty of a lot of these folks is pretty astonishing.

00:42:14.000 Ilhan Omar, who again, you want to talk about third worldist politicians? 0.91

00:42:18.000 She is definitely one.

00:42:19.000 It is amazing to watch her run around talking about how she comes from a country where there was tremendous political repression.

00:42:25.000 So she knows how important freedom is.

00:42:27.000 Her parents were literally involved.

00:42:28.000 Her dad was a general in the political repression.

00:42:31.000 In any case, she now says that she is not a multimillionaire.

00:42:34.000 There was a disclosure filed last year showing that she and her husband held assets between $6 million and $30 million.

00:42:40.000 Now, there's an amended filing, and it says that the couple's assets are $18,000 to $95,000 a year, which that's a big change right there.

00:42:49.000 That seems like a big change.

00:42:51.000 Wonder where that is coming from.

00:42:53.000 Meanwhile, again, it seems to me that the importance of a conservative and Republican victory when it comes to the broader philosophical battle here is the important thing.

00:43:00.000 The president was speaking at a TPUSA event over the weekend, and he said, We have a country based on merit.

00:43:04.000 That's going to be the question.

00:43:05.000 That is going to be the question.

00:43:07.000 Do we have a country and also an international sphere based on merit?

00:43:12.000 Based on the capacity to do good things and remain powerful enough to do those things?

00:43:17.000 Or do we have third worldism?

00:43:18.000 Here's the president.

00:43:20.000 If you get great marks and have great scores and your boards are good, everything is good, you're getting in.

00:43:27.000 People can't go before.

00:43:30.000 We have a country now that again is based on merit.

00:43:36.000 That's the way we became great.

00:43:41.000 Again, he is right about that.

00:43:43.000 Will we be a meritocracy?

00:43:45.000 Will we be a country that defends our own priorities and our own values, or will we surrender to this third worldist anti Americanism?

00:43:51.000 And what's happening in Iran is just one manifestation of that broader question.

00:43:51.000 That's the question.

00:43:56.000 And meanwhile, this Make America Healthy Again segment is sponsored by our friends over at Balance of Nature.

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00:44:03.000 The president over the weekend signed an executive order accelerating treatments for serious mental illness.

00:44:08.000 This is good stuff.

00:44:09.000 It cuts down some red tape.

00:44:10.000 The executive order apparently instructs the FDA.

00:44:12.000 To treat psychedelic medicines as top review priority if they already have a breakthrough therapy designation and meet criteria for the national priority voucher program.

00:44:20.000 And he ordered the HHS to put 50 million bucks of existing funds into partnerships with states that are already building psychedelic treatment programs.

00:44:29.000 And all of this is positive.

00:44:31.000 Here was the president talking about the tragedy of veteran suicide.

00:44:35.000 It's for a lot of people, but it's for our military in particular.

00:44:38.000 The suicide epidemic among veterans is a national tragedy.

00:44:42.000 Since 9 11, we've lost over.

00:44:45.000 21 times more veteran lives to suicide than on the battlefield.

00:44:49.000 So we lose, think of that, 21 times more.

00:44:53.000 And today we're bringing them new hope.

00:44:56.000 I think you're going to see a big difference and a big reduction in that number.

00:45:00.000 God willing, that will be the case.

00:45:02.000 And, you know, Joe Rogan has been very, very critical of the president.

00:45:05.000 Joe Rogan showed up for the signing of this EO praising President Trump, which is great.

00:45:10.000 I want to tell everybody how this happened.

00:45:12.000 I sent President Trump some information.

00:45:15.000 We have a gigantic opiate problem in this country, obviously.

00:45:19.000 In 2024, more than 80,000 people died of overdoses.

00:45:23.000 It's a horrible number.

00:45:25.000 And there are more than 5 million people that are addicted to opiates right now in this country.

00:45:30.000 With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction.

00:45:35.000 With two doses, it's more than 90%.

00:45:38.000 I sent him that information.

00:45:40.000 The text message came back Sounds great.

00:45:43.000 Do you want FDA approval?

00:45:45.000 Let's do it.

00:45:46.000 It was literally that quick.

00:45:50.000 Again, that is the difference between President Trump and some others.

00:45:54.000 So that is very, very good stuff.

00:45:56.000 All righty.

00:45:56.000 Meanwhile, great piece by Brad Wilcox over at the Wall Street Journal talking about the supposed lack of ability to buy a house in the United States.

00:46:05.000 Again, I think so much of what's happening, this sort of third worldist perspective that is building up on the left, basically has taken over the left, but is building on the right as well.

00:46:13.000 An enormous amount of that is predicated on a sense of disappointment in America.

00:46:17.000 The idea that America is somehow failing people, and it's failing you because there's a conspiratorial elite with different priorities and systems rigged against you.

00:46:24.000 Well, Brad Wilcox has a great piece pointing out that actually, real wages are up, a record share of Americans have moved into the upper middle class, and millennials have more wealth than baby boomers did at their age.

00:46:34.000 So, what gives?

00:46:36.000 He points out the shift in home ownership and marriage.

00:46:39.000 Those shifts are connected because while home ownership itself has trended downward, married Americans have been largely immune to the trend.

00:46:45.000 In fact, there remains a consistent and monumental gap between married and unmarried Americans.

00:46:49.000 71% of married adults aged 25 to 54 own their own home today, compared with only 21% of their unmarried peers.

00:46:56.000 But marriage doesn't merely make it easier to afford a home.

00:46:59.000 It motivates people to earn more and save more in pursuit of one.

00:47:02.000 And this is such a key.

00:47:05.000 Meritocracy relies on virtue always.

00:47:07.000 Freedom has always relied on a baseline of virtue.

00:47:10.000 If people are taught from a young age to pursue virtue, it makes it easier for them to make the decisions that lead to success.

00:47:16.000 The point Wilcox is making is you can earn a lot of money as a single person.

00:47:19.000 If you're still living in mommy's basement, you're going to talk about how hard it is to buy a home, but you don't have a drive to buy a home if you don't have a wife and kids.

00:47:28.000 Pursue the virtuous, pursue the good, and you are significantly more likely to achieve financial success.

00:47:34.000 That is one of the great things about the United States, and it's just statistically accurate.

00:47:38.000 All righty, folks, the show continues right now for our members.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 20, 2026

Iranian Regime Signs Its Own DEATH WARRANT?

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