00:00:34.000Car wrecks, like they like to watch car wrecks.
00:00:35.000A lot of these people get pretty good numbers, and then they use those numbers to proclaim that they are on the cutting edge of populist politics, and then actual political figures follow them.
00:01:13.000Now, listen, I get that even by talking about these terrible people, I'm giving a lot of them more attention than any of them deserve.
00:01:19.000But here's the thing they already have a lot of attention, and pointing out and warning you that they deserve not that attention is the idea.
00:01:27.000If you don't know what they're doing and if you don't know how they're rigging the game, then you're not going to be able to avoid it.
00:01:32.000The verse from Deuteronomy has come true.
00:01:35.000Each evening, I go to sleep thinking it certainly cannot be more retarded than it was this morning.
00:01:40.000And then I wake up in the morning and I think, oh God, I just wish it were as retarded as it were last night.
00:01:45.000So, for those who don't know, there is a human named Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:01:50.000And he was pretty popular for a short period of time back in 2015, 2016, as a flamboyantly gay man saying transgressively edgelord things.
00:01:59.000He was a brainchild of Steve Bannon, another political grifter.
00:02:02.000And then it turned out that Milo Yiannopoulos was very much in favor of priesting underage boys as a sort of maturation process.
00:02:17.000He interned for Marjorie Taylor Greene, another great intellect of our time, because the retarded Griffin Employment Network is alive and well.
00:02:24.000He appeared as a guest on Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens because, well, you know, he ran a campaign with Kanye West.
00:02:31.000And, oh, yes, he became a supposedly ex gay man who was militantly Christian.
00:02:37.000And then it turns out he overstayed his visa and he was deported because he was here illegally.
00:02:43.000And now he's showing up on Piers Morgan's show because.
00:02:49.000Because Piers Morgan is the Bonnie Blue of politics, a total click whore who revels in the fact that he has thousands upon thousands of Johns and he will put it on video for you to watch and monetize.
00:02:59.000And this brings us to last night's hilarious, entertaining multiple clown car crash on Piers Morgan's show.
00:03:10.000And again, I'm not somebody who tends to revel in the suffering of people who are deported.
00:03:16.000I've not been in favor of much of the triumphalist.
00:03:19.000Rhetoric online when it comes to deportation.
00:03:21.000But when you spend your entire political career being the worst human being possible, and then you get deported in pretty quick fashion, and then you go on Piers Morgan's clickbordello in order to lament your own tragic mistreatment, I'm sorry, Scheudenfreude's a thing.
00:03:42.000So you know who Milo Yiannopoulos is, so that you understand just what a terrible person he is.
00:03:47.000Back in February of 2025, Milo tweeted this I effing love tyranny.
00:03:55.000Again, he was a person who was very much in favor of the brutal treatment of pretty much everybody.
00:04:01.000He's also the kind of person who, after Dennis Prager had his tragic accident in which he broke his spine and ended up paralyzed, he tweeted God's wrath has found Dennis Prager and his many and terrible sins.
00:04:11.000I gather he fell recently out of the shower and severed his spinal column, paralyzed, quivering, drooling, silenced.
00:04:17.000Such a freakish accident worthy of final destination.
00:04:35.000But here's the thing you only have so many things you can pay attention to.
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00:06:11.000I tripped and kind of tumbled down the stairs a night or two ago.
00:06:13.000And, you know, I'm a clumsy person, so that it's not the rarest thing in the world.
00:06:18.000But it set something off from when I'd been kind of, you know, shoved down a couple of steps.
00:06:24.000And I was weeping like an old woman for an hour.
00:06:26.000And I was like, oh, I really have got to get this out of my system.
00:06:30.000I think maybe in the past I've been a little bit blase when people talked about their trauma, a little bit kind of cavalier when people talked about.
00:06:41.000You know, stuff kind of lingering with them, but I get it now.
00:07:29.000I was promised a nurse that never came.
00:07:31.000I was promised a phone call that never came.
00:07:33.000I was promised all kinds of things that never came.
00:07:34.000I mean, just about everything that you hear that people are supposed to have as far as rights and abilities when they get arrested, I did not have.
00:07:52.000And then Milo says that actually, two of the agents were so offended that they walked off the job, which I don't believe for one solid, single, solitary second.
00:08:02.000Two of the ICE agents during this process recognized me from 2016 when I was a big supporter of the president.
00:08:10.000And one of them said something along the lines of, yeah, I'm not doing this.
00:08:17.000And the other one said something along the lines of, this is not what I got into this for.
00:08:21.000And at least one of them, and I think two of them, walked off the job because they didn't want to do it.
00:08:26.000And another pairing of vice agents who took me to the airport in Houston told me that they were getting calls from Washington every 20 minutes.
00:10:42.000I miss my Bengals more than any American person.
00:10:45.000There, see, still again, but not so cruel as America still wedded at age 250 to brazen corruption and barbarism.
00:10:52.000Here is the thing if I did the show using news from three weeks ago, you would notice that immediately because information is only useful if you get it in time to actually do something with it.
00:11:00.000But a lot of businesses manage their expenses.
00:11:02.000By looking at old info, they wait until the end of the month, close the books, and then they discover where the money went, which is a bad idea.
00:11:08.000RAMP lets you see every dollar moving through your business in real time.
00:11:55.000Well, unfortunately, it feels like the scavengers are on the rise.
00:11:58.000One year ago today, my book Lions and Scavengers was released.
00:12:01.000It's the story of America and of the West and of the people trying to tear it down who are very, very active right now.
00:12:07.000I make the case in the book that success in this country comes down to talent and work ethic and that lions build and they defend freedom and they give people a real shot at prosperity.
00:12:15.000And scavengers are the people who want to rip down the entire civilization.
00:12:18.000When I wrote the book, I was more optimistic.
00:12:22.000Now it feels like the Scavengers are winning, which is why the book is now probably more relevant than when I wrote it, because it is a warning as to what comes next.
00:12:29.000If you don't have the book yet, go to dailywire.comslash Ben right now and get your signed copy for the anniversary.
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00:12:42.000Okay, so why are we paying attention to all of this, right?
00:12:44.000I mean, why aren't we just ignoring all this?
00:12:47.000Okay, the reason we have to pay attention to this is because lots of people pay attention to this stuff.
00:12:50.000And I would like to point out at this point that we should all collectively make the decision not to.
00:12:56.000The reality is this the political incentive structure in this country has been skewed by the attention economy.
00:13:02.000There's a book called Collective Illusions, where psychology professor Todd Rose talks about how people tend to follow people based on how many people they think are following that person.
00:13:14.000He says if people can see one another's choices, and if they're merely copying each other, wisdom becomes stupidity in a hurry.
00:13:21.000In doubting our own judgment and defaulting to conformity, we transform ourselves from individuals into members of the herd.
00:13:26.000And before we know it, the seed of error can become a copying cascade that devours all other knowledge and leaves a collective illusion in its wake.
00:13:32.000It's terrifyingly easy to start a copying cascade.
00:13:35.000And well, the copying cascade online is extraordinarily easy to start.
00:13:41.000This is, by the way, the reason why, for example, Piers Morgan's defense to literally every charge of immorality is that he gets lots of clicks.
00:13:47.000Because his idea is that if he gets lots of clicks, then that means other people will agree with him because he's getting a lot of the clicks.
00:13:53.000Now, listen, it turns out. that political pornography involving rubber chickens and Milo Yiannopoulos' chased gay marriage will probably get some clicks.
00:14:02.000But that doesn't mean that you should follow that.
00:14:05.000It doesn't mean that the attention economy ought to dictate politics.
00:14:09.000And if people fall for that intellectual trap, you got a problem.
00:14:12.000It turns out that when the public starts to substitute clicks for judgment, then people end up following some of the most idiotic and immoral people internationally and in America.
00:14:22.000Well, you know, the grifter industrial complex is Quite real.
00:14:25.000And it includes a bunch of people who have some level of popularity on the right.
00:14:28.000That includes people like, say, Andrew Tate or Alex Jones.
00:14:31.000So, sort of fascinating investigation into Andrew Tate's little fake empire.
00:14:37.000It turns out his own defense lawyers are now claiming that he was renting all those expensive cars and all the rest.
00:14:42.000Well, according to Straight Arrow News, a leak of sensitive information from the Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate's online empire reveals his war room program teaches men to accumulate wealth, attract and control women, and penetrate the elite, including by exploiting the sexual misbehavior of wealthy acquaintances.
00:15:00.000So, apparently, his penetrating the elite class in his war room program offers espionage training for subscribers aimed at digging up secrets on wealthy individuals for leverage in business deals.
00:15:11.000So, literally running an Epstein scam by literally trying to find information to blackmail people.
00:15:17.000And this person was, again, touted by people who are fairly highly respected on the conservative right.
00:15:25.000The attention economy creates an incentive for retardation, and the retardation then affects your politics, which is why.
00:15:33.000You have people like Alex Jones and Sneeko, who are somehow part of our political conversation.
00:15:39.000Sneeko, who literally took an online IQ test and got a 95.
00:16:38.000Really, for the sake of your own brain cells, which are being wiped out at an extraordinary rate in the attention economy of today, do not follow these people.
00:16:51.000All these shows should come with a warning label that you're about to annihilate entire segments of your prefrontal cortex and make yourself actively dumber.
00:16:58.000And in the process, by the way, make politics dumber because politicians follow incentives.
00:17:02.000And if they see that people get a lot of clicks, they tend to follow those people.
00:17:07.000And spending a lot of time ripping on the left for their unwillingness to divide off from, say, Hassan Piker, which of course is shocking and astonishing and indicative of where they are politically.
00:17:17.000But if the right does the same thing by embracing all of these figures, again, Milo was traveling in these circles, interned for Marjorie Taylor Greene, frequent guest on people like Tucker Carlson.
00:17:27.000Tucker Carlson himself, a grifter extraordinaire, very close to the vice president of the United States.
00:17:31.000People in positions of power on the right.
00:17:33.000Who continue to pat on the head or hug many of the members of the grift industrial complex of the retardosphere.
00:17:40.000This is a bad and stupid way to do politics.
00:17:44.000And here's what you can do as an American you cannot give your attention in an attention economy to these sorts of folks because when you do, you're creating a political incentive for people to follow them.
00:19:25.000But again, we're not going to spend our time with Hunter Biden, although he continues to wander the wasteland and landscape of American politics.
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