The Ben Shapiro Show - October 19, 2026


Larry David Just Destroyed the DSA — and It's Hilarious

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00:00:00.000 So Larry David, who is about as far left as it is possible to be in Hollywood, typically speaking, even he is now annoyed with the democratic socialists of America.
00:00:08.000 So he has a piece that he wrote, quote, in our socialist America, everyone will be so fulfilled spiritually and financially that the police department will be dramatically reduced to where an officer's only job will be to adjudicate domestic disputes.
00:00:20.000 Toward that end, stands will be set up at local farmers markets where they will work to resolve marital issues in a folksy farm to table manner.
00:00:26.000 Fresh berries will be provided.
00:00:28.000 Let's never forget we're all in this together.
00:00:30.000 Therefore, we have determined that all doors to private homes must remain unlocked at all times.
00:00:34.000 Strangers may enter as they please to open your fridge, use your bathroom, floss, or just relax and watch a ball game.
00:00:39.000 This open door policy is the perfect way to get to know our fellow Americans.
00:00:43.000 Our open door policy will also extend to our borders, where anyone will be able to enter our country if they choose to do so and will be welcomed by a marching band performing a medley of John Philip Souza Americana classics. 0.52
00:00:53.000 Now that's how you make a person feel at home.
00:00:57.000 Again, this is Larry David.
00:00:59.000 I'm shocked.
00:00:59.000 I'm a little shocked.
00:01:01.000 He also writes We contend that the only way anyone Can be rehabilitated is through the simple act of love.
00:01:07.000 When the DSA takes over, it will be our policy to close the jails and release all prisoners.
00:01:12.000 Once released, the former prisoners will continue to walk around in their orange jumpsuits.
00:01:15.000 Be easier to spot them.
00:01:16.000 People will be encouraged to give them a pat on the back, offer some words of encouragement, and maybe even get to get them to open up about their crimes.
00:01:22.000 Imagine how upsetting it must be to know you've taken a life, to err as human, to forgive divine.
00:01:29.000 There's a bunch of other proposals here, including reparations for slavery, along with a lottery system in which white people will be selected to serve as slaves to black families for one year. 0.62
00:01:39.000 Lashings are encouraged for excessive whining, and government issued whips will be distributed at no cost. 0.73
00:01:45.000 Also, there will be two siestas every business day.
00:01:49.000 Employers required to provide cots.
00:01:51.000 Quote The DSA has great respect for religious traditions.
00:01:54.000 Because of our burgeoning Muslim population, we want to take all measures that give these people a strong sense of belonging in America.
00:01:59.000 Along these lines, we'll require that all Caucasian women wear a hijab on weekends in solidarity with their Muslim sisters.
00:02:05.000 In addition, Jews will no longer be allowed to refer themselves as the chosen people. 0.93
00:02:09.000 Henceforth, their new nickname will be the bagel people. 0.69
00:02:13.000 We strongly believe in a two state solution to this end. 0.97
00:02:15.000 We propose that Palestinians should be given all the land currently occupied by Israel and that Israel should be given Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, where the weather is beautiful and grapefruits are aplenty. 0.89
00:02:24.000 We think the bagel people will be very happy there. 0.70
00:02:28.000 Firing will also be prohibited in socialist America.
00:02:31.000 We socialist Democrats love to laugh, says Larry David, but not at the expense of others.
00:02:34.000 The last thing we want is for any person to be offended by a joke that targets them or someone they know.
00:02:39.000 No one should ever have their feelings hurt.
00:02:41.000 Consequently, any comedian who is responsible for causing emotional discomfort in any way will be sent to a facility.
00:02:46.000 Where they will be reprogrammed and hopefully emerge with a greater awareness of the sensitivities of their fellow citizens. 1.00
00:02:51.000 If, however, the reprogramming is unsuccessful, the repeat offender will be sent to Pitcairn Island to live with the Bagel people. 1.00
00:02:58.000 Wow. 1.00
00:02:59.000 I mean, apparently, Larry David has now been hit by DSA reality.
00:03:06.000 Good for him.
00:03:07.000 Kind of shocking.
00:03:09.000 It's more on this in a moment.
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00:04:12.000 Meanwhile, in the culture, Matthew McConaughey is out there claiming that he's disaffected with our politics.
00:04:18.000 Listen, I get it.
00:04:19.000 Lots of people are disaffected with our politics right now, right?
00:04:22.000 I mean, a lot.
00:04:23.000 And justifiably so.
00:04:24.000 Matthew McConaughey is now calling for an independent party and calling for people to vote independent this November.
00:04:33.000 The number one political identity in America today is not Republican.
00:04:38.000 It is not Democrat.
00:04:39.000 It is independent.
00:04:41.000 More of us than either party.
00:04:43.000 So independents belong in the fight, not as a protest, not as a spoiler, but as a real and potential winner on the ballot and considered seriously by us.
00:04:57.000 This Congress is one of the narrowest in modern history.
00:05:01.000 In a Congress as close as this one, three to five true independents, ones who don't caucus with either side, Well, they're not a minority.
00:05:10.000 They're the majority maker.
00:05:13.000 Nothing passes without them.
00:05:15.000 Every bill has to come through the middle, which means both parties would finally have to compete for the middle.
00:05:22.000 Most of us think of it like football the two parties want to play the whole game in their own end zones, right?
00:05:28.000 Well, independents keep the game between the 40s, where most of America actually lives.
00:05:34.000 Independents don't just have leverage, they actually are the leverage.
00:05:40.000 Okay, so, um, he is not wrong.
00:05:43.000 Theoretically, there could be an independent block of votes in Congress.
00:05:46.000 He is wrong that practically that's how this works.
00:05:49.000 I get it.
00:05:49.000 I get it.
00:05:49.000 People are really disaffected with both parties.
00:05:51.000 That is increasing.
00:05:52.000 People don't like the Democrats and they don't like the Republicans.
00:05:54.000 They don't like either of them.
00:05:56.000 I understand.
00:05:57.000 People are unhappy with the people who govern them, largely because everybody believes that the government's going to solve all of their problems, as I have said before.
00:06:04.000 And so McConaughey is basically saying, what if there was sort of a middle block that helped sort of broker truces between the two sides?
00:06:10.000 That is not historically how it has worked.
00:06:11.000 Number one, the parties have extraordinary power. in local elections.
00:06:15.000 Very difficult for independents to win.
00:06:17.000 Easier to capture a party as the DSA is currently doing to the Democrats or as President Trump did to the Republican party than it is to start a new party and then have that party win in a variety of congressional seats.
00:06:28.000 Very tough to defeat either of those machines.
00:06:31.000 Even if you were to do so, the reality is that when people are independent in Congress, they very rarely vote independent.
00:06:36.000 So right now, there are two members of the United States Senate who are registered independents.
00:06:40.000 One of them is Bernie Sanders, who of course is basically a de facto leader of the Democratic party.
00:06:45.000 And votes with the Democrats 91% of the time.
00:06:48.000 And Angus King in Maine, a registered independent who votes with the Democrats and caucuses with the Democrats and votes Democrat 95% of the time.
00:06:55.000 So, realistically speaking, these independents are very rarely independents.
00:06:59.000 They're rarely a separate block.
00:07:01.000 We have yet to see a truly independent voice rise in Congress.
00:07:05.000 It used to be, by the way, that the parties were less monolithic.
00:07:07.000 And so you would have a sort of independent block in Congress of moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats, sort of left wing Republicans and blue dog Democrats, and they would get together and moderate a lot of these bills.
00:07:18.000 Both parties have bifurcated.
00:07:20.000 And so, what you've seen is that both parties have become significantly more monolithic.
00:07:25.000 So, the crossover between the parties has gone away in large part.
00:07:28.000 I understand why McConaughey is saying what he's saying.
00:07:30.000 Systematically, it doesn't tend to work that way.
00:07:33.000 He says that independents could do this with five to 10 seats.
00:07:36.000 No, they would probably need 20 in order for this to work in Congress.
00:07:41.000 And also, getting people to vote in local congressional elections against the congressperson that they like or the insurgent candidate across the country.
00:07:51.000 Very, very difficult, honestly.
00:07:52.000 I think it's a comfortable place for McConaughey.
00:07:54.000 You see this from a lot of celebrity politicos.
00:07:57.000 McConaughey is a little political.
00:07:59.000 It is a safe place to be.
00:08:00.000 If you say, I'm neither of these parties, a pox on all your houses, that puts you in safe space.
00:08:06.000 The rule in celebrity land is if you are a Democrat, then you're pretty safe.
00:08:09.000 If you are an independent, you are definitely safe.
00:08:11.000 If you are a Republican, you are very unsafe.
00:08:12.000 That typically is the way that this works.
00:08:15.000 So McConaughey is occupying that singularly popular space, which is I don't like anyone.
00:08:20.000 Okay, fair enough.
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