The Ben Shapiro Show - September 02, 2025


The Hate-America Barbarians Inside The Gates

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Pro-American and anti-American forces hold a giant gathering in Detroit. The President of the United States may be on the outs with India. And India may be making some sort of common cause with China. Plus, we ll get to all the controversy over the Health and Human Services Department. But first, folks, my brand new book, Lions and the True Story of America and Her Critics, is out now. It s about the ongoing war between those who cherish our nation and those who seek to undermine it. The question is simple: Will we be lions who build and defend, or scavengers who burn and destroy?

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00:00:00.000 Anti American and Pro Homose forces hold a giant gathering in Detroit.
00:00:04.000 The President of the United States may be on the outs with India and India may be making some sort of common cause with China.
00:00:11.000 Plus, we'll get to all the controversy over the Health and Human Services Department.
00:00:15.000 But first, today is the day, folks.
00:00:16.000 My brand new book, Lions and The True Story of America and Her Critics, is out now.
00:00:21.000 It's about the ongoing war between those who cherish our nation and those who seek to undermine it.
00:00:26.000 The question is simple.
00:00:27.000 Will we be lions who build and defend or scavengers who burn and destroy?
00:00:30.000 Lions and scavengers is part history and part battle plan.
00:00:33.000 How America became great, why it faltered, how we can continue to rebuild.
00:00:37.000 It's also my most personal book., drawn from years in the fight from testifying before Congress to raising a family in a country under cultural assault from Rome to Jerusalem to London, get your copy today at dailywire dot com slash Ben.
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00:01:06.000 Okay.
00:01:07.000 So speaking of Lions and Scavenger, I'm going to start today with a quote from the book because it is relevant to the fact that there was a giant gathering apparently of people who just hate the our civilization in Detroit, posing itself as a human rights gathering, of course, but it wasn't because it rarely is.
00:01:24.000 So in the book, I discussed various types of scavenger.
00:01:28.000 There are the leeches, people who seek to tear down the institutions of free markets because they believe that they are entitled to the gains of others.
00:01:35.000 There are the letchers, people who believe that the traditional family, the church, they have to be torn asunder because those things are an imposition from the outside.
00:01:42.000 And then there are the barbarians. 0.97
00:01:43.000 The barbarians are people who really emanate from places outside the United States, outside the West, and they see themselves as representatives of civilizations that they have been laid low by the West. 0.90
00:01:57.000 They believe that all of their failures are the fault of Western civilizations.
00:02:01.000 Here's what I write in the book.
00:02:02.000 The barbarian is an outsider to Western civilization who believes that all of his own maladies and ills can be laid at the feet of the colonizers of the West. 0.99
00:02:10.000 In fact, the barbarian argues only violence against his purported victimizers can free him from the servile mentality that these very colonizers have instilled in him.
00:02:18.000 The barbarian speaks in the language of mass murdering communist monster Che Guevara, whose visage still graces the t shirts of thousands of misbegotten American college students championing the power of hatred. 0.90
00:02:28.000 Hatred as an element of struggle, unbending hatred for the enemy which pushes a human being beyond. 0.93
00:02:33.000 his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective and cold blooded killing machine.
00:02:38.000 The barbarians never pose a moral justification for how the destruction of the Western order ought to operate at their hands. 0.97
00:02:44.000 They never explain just how, for example, a Palestinian state is somehow a burgeoning wellspring of human rights or how an America without American values would make the world a better place.
00:02:53.000 The only thing that matters is the destruction of the West, for in that destruction lies the supposed reclamation of the barbaric identity. 0.75
00:02:59.000 Well, there is a big gathering of the barbarians over in Detroit, Michigan, as I pointed out. 0.90
00:03:04.000 There was something called the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit on Friday, and it was attended by a sitting member of Congress, Rashida Talib.
00:03:12.000 It was attended by a wide variety of people who talked about the evils of America, the country they were sitting in.
00:03:18.000 How America is an awful place, a place that has given them prosperity, that has given them freedom.
00:03:23.000 And this place is supposedly just awful. 0.99
00:03:25.000 All of its core values are evil and terrible and need to be destroyed. 0.99
00:03:29.000 Because again, America is a bad place. 0.96
00:03:31.000 Western civilization is responsible for all the ills of the rest of the world.
00:03:36.000 And so you saw, for example, a research coordinator at Progressive International named Shashin Padada saying that the very idea of America needed to be destroyed.
00:03:45.000 Remember, this is in Detroit.
00:03:47.000 This is in Detroit.
00:03:48.000 This is in America.
00:03:49.000 If you're wondering why there are so many members of the West right now who are moving toward right-wing parties, it is because those right-wing parties are saying, We don't need more of these in our civilization.
00:03:58.000 We don't. 0.89
00:03:58.000 Okay, here's Sashin Padatta explaining that America is evil and needs to be destroyed. 0.89
00:04:04.000 The idea of it needs to be completely wrecked.
00:04:08.000 I'm reminded of this Basil Alaraj quote where he basically says that the average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the State of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States.
00:04:22.000 And therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans' heads so that they can see the humanity of everyone outside of the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.
00:04:36.000 We have to dismantle this idea of American exceptionalism, of supremacy, of being beyond reproach.
00:04:45.000 And then he continued, we live in an evil country, so get out, so you can leave anytime now.
00:04:51.000 Now remember, the people who are being defended here by this particular research coordinator at the Progressive International, the people being defended here.
00:04:58.000 are Hamas.
00:04:59.000 There is not a single speaker at this event who said that Hamas should surrender, go into exile and disarm, thus ending the war in Gaza and simultaneously the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
00:05:10.000 That is never mentioned by any of these people because, of course, the fault always lies with America.
00:05:14.000 It lies with the West.
00:05:15.000 Obviously, it lies with Israel. 0.92
00:05:17.000 Anybody who is successful in the world is apparently supposed to be a repository of exploitation.
00:05:24.000 And anybody who is unsuccessful has been exploited by these great oppressors.
00:05:28.000 This was also put forth by a supposed human rights activist named Huaydah Araf, who, again, essentially argued that America is awful.
00:05:40.000 We wanted to globalize the interfather to expose to the world that That Israel's policies have nothing to do with security, that Israel tries to tell the world, and that our governments also regurgitate gaslighting us. 0.88
00:05:55.000 We thought, we thought that if we could get this message out, the world would wake up and not allow Israel to do this, to do what it's doing, and I must admit that was a bit of naivety on our part. 0.93
00:06:12.000 But we have and we will continue to globalize the Intifada.
00:06:17.000 And we will force our governments to listen to us because they want us to accept a world that is unacceptable.
00:06:31.000 Unacceptable.
00:06:32.000 You mean unacceptable.
00:06:33.000 But in any case, putting aside the grammar, I think the bigger problem here is the fact that globalize the Intifada is a phrase that calls for widespread violence.
00:06:41.000 That is what Intifada is, is a violent uprising.
00:06:43.000 Anybody who claims otherwise is lying to you.
00:06:45.000 Again, this is happening on the soil of America.
00:06:47.000 As I talk about lions and scavengers, it's not just that barbarians come from abroad and they enter our gates because we are soft-headed and soft-hearted.
00:06:54.000 It's also that an enormous number of Americans then side with the barbarians because they don't have the confidence in their own civilization.
00:07:01.000 They don't have the belief in their own ideas to actually stand up to this sort of nonsense.
00:07:07.000 See, lions are reflexively self-critical.
00:07:10.000 What I mean by that is that in the West, there is actual moral merit to admitting your mistakes, to exposing yourself to the shame and ridicule of acknowledging guilt.
00:07:21.000 That is something that good people tend to do.
00:07:24.000 Lions tend to do that. 0.65
00:07:25.000 Because after all, We live in a civilization, a Judeo-Christian civilization, a biblically based civilization in which repentance is part of life, in which you're supposed to acknowledge your sins so you can get stronger and get better. 0.61
00:07:36.000 The problem is that the barbarians and their allies are not interested in your proclamations of guilt.
00:07:42.000 They're not interested except to use it as a way to destroy you.
00:07:48.000 But they are interested in you shaming yourself.
00:07:49.000 They want you shaming yourself and kneeling before them so they can claim dominance. 1.00
00:07:53.000 That's the entire goal.
00:07:55.000 And you can hear, I mean, the kind of language that is spread at conferences like the Scavenger Conference over in Detroit.
00:08:01.000 Like the co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide, Dr. Nidal Chabour, last seen being ushered out of Congress after yelling at Marco Rubio during his confirmation hearings.
00:08:09.000 I mean, this is just violent language.
00:08:11.000 I mean, he's absolutely calling for the quote unquote taking out of anyone who opposes his pro-terrorism agenda.
00:08:22.000 Gaza needs to be saved now.
00:08:24.000 It saved all of us, liberated all of us.
00:08:29.000 It is time for us to pay back and stop the criminals, the perpetrators, the child murderers.
00:08:36.000 And we all know who they are.
00:08:40.000 We all know who they are, whether they are in Israel, in Tel Aviv, in Washington, in Germany, in Europe.
00:08:46.000 We all need them.
00:08:47.000 We all know them.
00:08:49.000 They need to be locked up.
00:08:50.000 They need to be taken out.
00:08:52.000 They need to be neutralized to save children. 0.70
00:08:55.000 To save children, to save the humanity.
00:09:01.000 Taken out and neutralized.
00:09:03.000 And this is being said in Detroit.
00:09:05.000 In Detroit, it's not being said in Qatar, it's not being said in Gaza.
00:09:10.000 By the way, then the idea that Gaza saved all in what way?
00:09:15.000 And presumably he's talking about, you know, Hamas, because that's what's in Gaza.
00:09:19.000 Already coming up, Rashida Tlaib is a member of Congress who also really, really hates the United States like a lot. 1.00
00:09:24.000 Plus a court strikes down President Trump's tariffs and India seems to be tilting now toward China.
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00:11:54.000 Now, this all culminated in Rashida Tlaib, a sitting congresswoman from Michigan, ripping America and saying, We are in your Congress. 1.00
00:12:00.000 Yeah, we know.
00:12:01.000 We know.
00:12:01.000 We understand that the barbaric mentality is quite prevalent in our Congress, actually.
00:12:08.000 They thought they could kill us. 0.71
00:12:10.000 Rip us. 1.00
00:12:10.000 rape us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear. 1.00
00:12:19.000 Well, guess what?
00:12:21.000 Now we're in Congress, and we're every corner of the United States.
00:12:27.000 Y'all, they just don't get it.
00:12:29.000 They just don't get it.
00:12:31.000 They will never truly comprehend, even after seven decades, that we aren't going anywhere.
00:12:39.000 We are just getting started.
00:12:42.000 Yes, we understand that you have infiltrated Congress.
00:12:45.000 We understand that.
00:12:46.000 We understand that a wide variety of people who have decided to stand in solidarity with all of this.
00:12:51.000 And that is what is going to tear down the West, is a West not confronted by the scavengers, but a West that allows the scavengers in, that somehow believes that as an aspect of its own greatness to allow the supremacy of people who wish to destroy its civilization, that is the danger.
00:13:09.000 It's a danger that lies within, and it's a danger that is matched by a danger outside.
00:13:14.000 Speaking of that danger outside, we're at a very tenuous moment internationally right now.
00:13:19.000 Over the weekend, there was a big tet-a-tet between China, Russia, and India.
00:13:27.000 A get-together in which, according to the Wall Street Journal, the leaders of China, Russia, and India held hands at a regional summit and promised to cooperate.
00:13:35.000 A display of unity that aimed in part at President Trump and that underscores the challenges faced by his unorthodox approach to world affairs.
00:13:42.000 There were no major decisions that were adopted at the Tianjin Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which was also attended by, wait for it, leaders of Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Belarus, and Central Asian and Caucasus states.
00:13:55.000 Okay, so that is the axis of opposition to the United States.
00:13:59.000 China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Belarus.
00:14:02.000 Belarus is just a stand-in state for Russia.
00:14:04.000 And India.
00:14:05.000 India is the one that matters here. 0.99
00:14:07.000 India is the one that matters, the world's most populous country, a rising economic power, strategically placed.
00:14:13.000 I mean, a place that America has been attempting to woo away from its Cold War neutrality and toward a pro-America anti-Chinese view for the last decade.
00:14:22.000 And it seems though India is now open to swinging the other way.
00:14:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the carefully choreographed imagery of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian President Vladimir Putin embracing each other sends a powerful message to Washington as President Trump seeks to contain Beijing to break Russia's bond with China and to pry India away from Russian oil.
00:14:42.000 This is a major problem.
00:14:44.000 It is a major problem.
00:14:46.000 So.
00:14:46.000 So, Chinese-Indian relations have been extremely fraught since 2020.
00:14:52.000 Modi traveled to China for the first time in seven years after President Trump moved to impose 50% tariffs on India, half of them as punishment for New Delhi buying cheap Russian oil, the other half just because we run a trade deficit with India.
00:15:04.000 Those tariffs are actually higher than the tariffs that we have on China. 0.96
00:15:09.000 And then, President Trump's idiot trade advisor, Peter Navarro, who truly is bad at his job. 0.99
00:15:13.000 I mean really bad at his job. 0.99
00:15:15.000 He apparently caused particular outcry by using cased terminology as he said that Indian, quote, Brahmins are profiteering at the expense of the Indian people with the Russia oil trade.
00:15:24.000 By the way, weird take considering that if you're going to make the case for India, you're going to steal man that case, they get cheap oil from Russia.
00:15:30.000 That's what they do.
00:15:31.000 The people who are mostly going to benefit from that are, in fact, the people at the lower end of the economic spectrum in India.
00:15:38.000 Now, Putin, Xi, drawing India into their orbit would totally shift the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific in a massive, massive way. 0.52
00:15:49.000 So the United States has been working.
00:15:52.000 on burgeoning relations with India for, again, about the past couple of decades that really accelerated over the course of the last eight years or so.
00:15:59.000 After there was an Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, you recall, the United States organized something that was called the Quad for Disaster Relief.
00:16:07.000 That was the United States, Japan, Australia, and India.
00:16:10.000 And to understand what was happening here, you have to look at a map of the region.
00:16:15.000 Maps, very useful.
00:16:15.000 So if you take a look at the map of the region, what you see, of course, is that India is incredibly strategically located.
00:16:23.000 Not only does India border Pakistan, of course, but India also oversees the Bay of bengal It is a relatively short trip to the Straits of Malacca, where a huge amount of world trade passes.
00:16:38.000 India has a very long border with China via Tibet.
00:16:42.000 India is relatively closely located to the old Soviet Union, of course, and it was oriented toward the Soviet Union.
00:16:49.000 For those who don't know their history of India, basically during the Cold War, India declared neutrality but developed very warm relations with the Soviet Union.
00:16:58.000 And then after the Soviet Union fell, there was a lot of turmoil.
00:17:01.000 And then by the mid-2000s, the United States was attempting to really move India.
00:17:05.000 toward it.
00:17:05.000 Actually, this goes even back to the Clinton administration.
00:17:07.000 The Clinton administration tried to drive better relations with India.
00:17:11.000 And we'd been pretty successful over the course of the last decade in orienting India away from China because there are border clashes between India and China and China.
00:17:19.000 is also a sponsor state of Pakistan, which of course is an Islamic extremist state.
00:17:25.000 We still have a military intelligence relationship with Pakistan, but that's been waning in the aftermath of the Afghanistan war.
00:17:30.000 Now, again, if you look at this map, what you see is not only that India has a gigantic landmass that juts into the Bay of Bengal on one side and the Arabian Sea on the other, but if you look at the quad, I mentioned the quad a moment ago, that quad on the map looks like the United States and then India, Australia, Japan that is ringing China, right?
00:17:52.000 If you wish to restrict Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacicific, you want strong allies that ring China. 0.74
00:18:00.000 And so when you look at the map, what you see is the strong allies that ring China right now amount to India, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, right?
00:18:10.000 Those are the big allies that we have in the region.
00:18:12.000 And we've been developing a closer relationship with the Vietnamese government as well.
00:18:17.000 If India flips the other way, it basically isolates both Japan and Australia.
00:18:24.000 It strengthens China radically.
00:18:26.000 Now you have the two most populous countries on planet Earth allied with one another with two rather large nuclear missile arsenals.
00:18:33.000 That is a problem.
00:18:35.000 The United States, again, has been attempting to woo India into a stronger military relationship.
00:18:39.000 And so in 2017, the quad was strengthened by President Trump on the sidelines of the Asian, that would be the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference.
00:18:50.000 The goals included things like maritime stability and regional stability and technology and supply chains.
00:18:55.000 And so getting India to be a counterweight to China is actually very much in America's interest. 0.78
00:19:01.000 That's why if you're going to tariff the hell out of China, what you actually want to do is lower the tariffs on India and make India a stronger trade partner with the United States and a weaker trade partner with the United States.
00:19:11.000 Right now, India is the top military exercise partner of the United States who do more military exercises with India than we do with NATO.
00:19:19.000 We have been attempting to move, again, India away from Russia, where it has a historic good relationship, and toward the United States. 0.58
00:19:28.000 We have been supplying them with better weaponry, for example.
00:19:32.000 As far as the economy, and this is where President Trump's attempts to curb the trade deficit with India are pushing, those things are pushing India toward China and Russia.
00:19:44.000 Because think of it again, from the steel-manned Indian perspective, India receives an enormous amount of oil from Russia, like a lot of oil from Russia.
00:19:53.000 In fact, of India's crude imports, Russia represents 36%.
00:19:59.000 It could be all the way up to 50%, and they're getting it at a discount because of the sanctions on Russian oil, which has pushed the price down.
00:20:06.000 Reuters estimates that India has saved something like $17 billion since 2022 by importing Russian crude.
00:20:14.000 In fact, India is the second largest intaker of Russian oil after China.
00:20:20.000 China represents 47% of Russia's crude oil exports.
00:20:24.000 India represents 38%, which means, if you do your math, that 85% of all Russian crude exports are going to China and India.
00:20:32.000 So when the United States slaps India with a gigantic tariff, a tariff higher than China, in order to go after Russia, you have to wonder, is India going to go along with it?
00:20:44.000 And the answer there is probably not.
00:20:46.000 Why?
00:20:46.000 Well, because if that's where they're getting their oil, and it turns out that they have pretty significant trade relations with other countries, India is only America's ninth or tenth largest trade partner.
00:20:56.000 We do approximately $212 billion in trade with India in goods and services.
00:21:01.000 India does approximately $128 billion in trade with China.
00:21:06.000 Again, trying to box India in for some reason is likely to lead to them reorienting and trying to counter pressure especially because they also have access to some of the things that we need like rare earth minerals they have access to those things as a counterweight to China so alienating India because of some sort of trade dispute is bad policy it doesn't make a lot of sense and you can see that the Chinese and the Russians are ecstatic about all of this because again look at that map if suddenly when you look at that map what you see is a 0.58
00:21:37.000 continuous line of support for the anti-American coalition spanning from China through India and then up to Russia continuing through Iran., you're starting to look at a pretty solid, consolidated anti-American alliance that is being built right there.
00:21:57.000 India is a key to all of that.
00:22:00.000 That's why what's happening right now is quite dangerous.
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00:24:19.000 Well, according to Walter Russell Meade, this is the whole thing.
00:24:23.000 Trying to box in China, which is not a geopolitical opponent of the United States.
00:24:27.000 It is a geopolitical enemy of the United States.
00:24:29.000 Xi Jinping's regime hates the United States, believes the United States is evil, believes the United States must be defeated.
00:24:37.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Meade writing, Chinese President Xi Jinping is doing something unusual this week.
00:24:44.000 He's driving Donald Trump off the front page.
00:24:47.000 The story the world is watching isn't datelined Washington.
00:24:49.000 Instead, Tianjin, China was front and center, as Mr. Xi held the largest summit to date of the China-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
00:24:56.000 It was a big event.
00:24:57.000 Mr. Putin's presence showed that despite Trump administration attempts to drive wedges between China and its allies, the two Eurasian supergiants are still presenting a united front.
00:25:06.000 The presence of Iran's president, at a time when Germany, Britain, and France are pushing for tightened UN sanctions on the embattled Islamic Republic, underscored Tehran's continued commitment to the cause of resistance.
00:25:16.000 And the presence of Mr. Modi, whose once special relationship with Mr. Trump has become strained, was a hint to Washington not to take India for granted.
00:25:23.000 The meeting was a significant move.
00:25:27.000 Mr. Xi Jinping's summit highlights what China sees as the limits of Mr. Trump's power.
00:25:31.000 The American president's efforts to drive wedges between Russia and China have so far failed.
00:25:35.000 Mr. Putin is resisting Mr. Trump's mediation over Ukraine, and the Russian leader's presence at the summit reaffirms his strategic choice to align with the East to fight the West.
00:25:44.000 Mr. Trump hasn't given up, says Walter Russell Meade, but China, for now, seems to be outbidding Washington in the Russia auction, and Mr. Xi is rubbing it in.
00:25:54.000 Now, again, it may be that the Russian-Chinese alliance is significantly weaker than America and her allies, but push more populous, growing economies into the orbit of the enemy, and that is a problem.
00:26:07.000 That is not something that you actually want to do.
00:26:10.000 And you can see, obviously, that all the overtures toward Russia have been absolutely useless.
00:26:16.000 I mean, I wish that weren't the case.
00:26:18.000 It just happens to be the case.
00:26:20.000 Over the weekend, according to the Wall Street Journal, Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded his strikes on Ukrainian cities, threatening escalation against Kiev's backers and pressing for further military gains in defiance of President Trump's deadlines to answer serious peace talks.
00:26:34.000 Kiev's allies in Europe are coming under increasing pressure too, as Russia intensifies its campaign to demoralize Ukrainians and their backers.
00:26:41.000 Russia this week published exaggerated claims about its gains at the front, demonstrating an underlying insecurity about the speed of its progress in the war, according to certain analysts.
00:26:49.000 But again, what's happening here is that Russia is getting together with China.
00:26:52.000 They're both trying to get together with India.
00:26:55.000 And the sort of Eurasian dream of moving prominence away from the so-called Atlanticists, that would be America and her European allies, and tipping the balance of power toward China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, because Erdogan has moved Turkey in the direction of China.
00:27:12.000 all this is super problematic.
00:27:14.000 We're moving into a multipolar world.
00:27:17.000 Now the best way for the United States to fight that multipolar world as opposed to the hegemonic world that the United States has dominated since the end of World War II, essentially.
00:27:26.000 Yes, there was a USSR block, but that block was significantly weaker than the United States.
00:27:30.000 And certainly in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, it was a unipolar unipolar world.
00:27:35.000 The United States was the dominant power on planet Earth by far.
00:27:38.000 By far, no real close competitors.
00:27:41.000 Well, the attempt to put together a bipolar arrangement on the part of America's enemies is really bad.
00:27:48.000 America's greatest weapon in this is to take heretofore neutral countries like India and to draw them in with not only American military power, but also American economic largesse.
00:28:00.000 Free markets are great.
00:28:01.000 Free markets can't turn a communist into a capitalist.
00:28:04.000 They can't turn China into a capitalist country.
00:28:06.000 That was a mistake the United States tried over the 80s, 90s and 2000s.
00:28:10.000 What it can do is take a country like India that was already tipping toward the United States and draw it closer.
00:28:18.000 And so it makes very little sense to go after countries like India or go after South Korea or go after Japan.
00:28:24.000 These are countries America needs in our orbit because otherwise the consequences are going to be a significantly fragmented global trading system, a significantly more violent world as all of our opponents seek to move against our allies.
00:28:38.000 That is not a good thing.
00:28:39.000 This is why...
00:28:44.000 They may be against our actual allies.
00:28:45.000 Like we can cram it down on the Europeans probably willy-nilly. 1.00
00:28:49.000 But even that is not exactly a gigantic win.
00:28:52.000 So the big story of the weekend is that a federal appellate court on Friday struck down many of President Trump's historic tariffs, saying he unlawfully leaned on emergency powers to impose the import taxes.
00:29:03.000 The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize tariffs like the one Trump used the law for earlier this year.
00:29:09.000 According to the Federal Circuit in an unsigned opinion, it will go to the Supreme Court.
00:29:14.000 The court delayed implementation of its order until October, which gives the Trump administration time to file an appeal with the Supreme Court.
00:29:21.000 President Trump posted late Friday on social media, All tariffs are still in effect.
00:29:25.000 If these tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for our country.
00:29:29.000 That is not remotely true.
00:29:30.000 If the tariffs went away, the stock market would explode if the tariffs went away and free trade were back on the table, particularly with our allies.
00:29:37.000 That would be a good thing, not a bad thing.
00:29:40.000 Actually, by the way, just going to point out, I said from the very beginning, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act is not, in fact, meant to allow the President of the United States to randomly declare tariffs because of trade deficits.
00:29:52.000 That's silly.
00:29:53.000 There was never the emergency power to do this thing. 0.85
00:29:55.000 I don't care whether it's a Democrat or whether it's a Republican.
00:29:58.000 The idea of declaring a national emergency every time you want to accomplish something or other is anti-constitutional.
00:30:06.000 There are certain things, like, for example, a gigantic wide open border that are a national emergency.
00:30:11.000 Certain other things are not, like trade deficits.
00:30:15.000 And if we are just going to elect random executive branch dictators who declare emergencies and do what they want, then I wonder why we bother to have a legislature at all in the country at a certain point.
00:30:26.000 Again, these are powers that pre-existed Trump.
00:30:28.000 He's not the one who started this ball rolling, but it is certainly not a good thing that the executive branch should be able to just randomly declare gigantic tariff wars across the entire West without the input of, you know, the elected branch of Congress.
00:30:41.000 Well, meanwhile, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, who again is the sort of markets whisperer.
00:30:46.000 He's the person who's been keeping the market floating, he says that, you know, this idea that tariffs are a tax on American consumers is wrong.
00:30:54.000 That is not true.
00:30:57.000 If they're so bad and the American consumer is paying them, why do we hear the European companies or the Chinese companies or the Chinese complaining about tariffs if it's all being borne by the American people?
00:31:11.000 It's just not happening.
00:31:14.000 Well, I mean, that is a terrible argument.
00:31:16.000 The reason they are complaining is because the costs are in fact borne by the American people, and then the American people start substituting American products, which means that we no longer buy from foreign suppliers.
00:31:27.000 That's the entire purpose of the tariff.
00:31:29.000 So yes, foreign suppliers are going to complain that their more competitive products are barred from the markets, except with a gigantic upward tax.
00:31:37.000 And by the way, I don't even think that the Treasury Secretary believes this.
00:31:40.000 How do I know that?
00:31:41.000 Well, because on Monday, he said that President Trump may grant some exclusions on tariffs for home construction supplies.
00:31:48.000 So he told the Washington Examiner that the President was considering, quote, declaring a housing emergency in the fall.
00:31:53.000 This is great.
00:31:53.000 We can just declare emergencies for everything.
00:31:55.000 Why not?
00:31:56.000 He echoed President Trump's talking point that interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve would help the housing market and suggested that the Trump administration is looking at ways to standardize building and zoning codes and to decrease closing costs for home buyers.
00:32:10.000 and then he also suggested that perhaps there would be some relief on the tariff front potential tariffs wait hold up a second i thought that american consumers and producers were not paying the cost of the tariffs so if you are seeking to lower home prices by getting rid of tariffs it seems like you're arguing with yourself here is the treasury secretary with the washington or washington examiner We may declare national housing emergency.
00:32:37.000 Oh, wow.
00:32:38.000 Is there a timeline for that?
00:32:40.000 Or is there a full?
00:32:41.000 Okay.
00:32:44.000 Okay, so again, you know it's a great way to avoid all of this?
00:32:47.000 Free markets.
00:32:48.000 Free markets are wonderful.
00:32:49.000 And I understand that people, for whatever reason, are not in love with free markets these days, which is bizarre to me.
00:32:55.000 Because if you wanted to look at sort of state industrial policy over the course of time, at the very beginning, it looks great.
00:33:01.000 Always.
00:33:02.000 This is true for Japan in the 1980s, for example.
00:33:04.000 Heavily regulated, heavily subsidized, government-involved industries, at the very beginning, they look really good and really dynamic.
00:33:11.000 And then, over time, they go bankrupt.
00:33:13.000 and they have real problems.
00:33:15.000 This has been true every time corporatism is is tried basically communism is the system that works worst second worst is corporatism and best is free markets And this is why America, I know everyone wants to rip on the American economy.
00:33:27.000 Oh my God, it's so terrible.
00:33:29.000 It's so unequal.
00:33:29.000 It's so awful to be an American.
00:33:32.000 I would just like to point out at this point the difference between the Japanese economy, which if you go back to the 1980s, everyone in America was talking about how Japan was going to overcome the United States, how Japan was going to race right past us and take on global economic dominance.
00:33:46.000 And by the 1990s, no one was talking about that anymore.
00:33:49.000 In 1990, the Japanese GDP per capita was approximately, according to our sponsors and friends at Comet, 25,801 dollars is 1990.
00:33:58.000 The US GDP per capita was 23,97 dollars.
00:34:01.000 Okay.
00:34:01.000 So actually Japan had.
00:34:03.000 a higher per capita GDP in 1990 than the United States.
00:34:07.000 As of 2024, the Japanese GDP per capita was $32,472.
00:34:14.000 The United States GDP per capita was roughly $67,000.
00:34:20.000 Okay, so somebody stalled out.
00:34:22.000 And the reason that somebody stalled out is because capitalism is fan fricantastic, because capitalism is great.
00:34:27.000 Free markets are great.
00:34:29.000 Liquid.
00:34:30.000 Capital markets are excellent.
00:34:32.000 These are very good things.
00:34:33.000 Innovation, risk taking, better tax structures, property rights, equal application of the law, non-corporatism.
00:34:40.000 That's great.
00:34:41.000 And so if the United States wishes to dominate the coming century, it should not engage in Japanese corporatism, mercantilism, tariff-based foreign policy.
00:34:51.000 The United States should instead engage in the sort of free trade that allowed us to wildly surpass all of our geopolitical opponents, all of our geopolitical competition over the course of the last three decades.
00:35:04.000 It is truly amazing to me that we continue to crap on the greatest engine for generating wealth in the history of humanity in favor of kind of experimental theories about how the economy should work.
00:35:15.000 Roger Lowenstein has a great piece over the Wall Street Journal titled How and Why US Capitalism is Unlike Any Other?
00:35:22.000 And he says, American capitalism was created by American democracy, wrote Gordon Wood, the Depression Born historian.
00:35:28.000 One can go further.
00:35:29.000 The unique strength of our capitalist system mirrors that of our political ideal.
00:35:32.000 By offering opportunity to all, it fosters vigorous competition.
00:35:36.000 By permitting merit to trump entrenched elites, it motivates individuals with the plum of fortune.
00:35:41.000 Nowhere else is risk taking so encouraged, and not coincidentally, nowhere else has innovation thrived as it has here.
00:35:46.000 Both law and culture helped to shape our capitalism in ways that reflect the spirit of the American Revolution.
00:35:52.000 No taxation was famously a cry of the colonials in Boston.
00:35:56.000 Declaration of Independence charged George III with obstructing immigration To state the most basic fact of political democracy, it permits the popular will to override the establishment, merely another name for what the business professors call creative destruction.
00:36:09.000 So it is market centric.
00:36:12.000 American capitalism is highly transactional.
00:36:16.000 It means that risk is both punished and rewarded, and that is a good thing because what you actually want is a commerce based economy that is going to increase innovation, that is going to make Americans across the board wealthier.
00:36:33.000 Doesn't mean that capitalism doesn't have downsides, that that everybody benefits equally, but everybody does benefitit from capitalism.
00:36:40.000 And this constant attempt to tear away at private property rights, to tear away at capitalism, to say that if only we had a sovereign wealth fund, if only we had a more centralized industrial policy, if only, if only, if only, that way lies economic stagnation supported by a growing welfare state, which is going to simply eat the American economy alive.
00:37:02.000 If you would like for America to succeed on the geopolitical stage and on the domestic front, then you actually need to unleash the innovative risk-taking capacity of the American people instead of hamstringing it with government regulation, with a bizarre.
00:37:17.000 sort of by fiat government policy.
00:37:21.000 Let the American people cook. 0.97
00:37:23.000 Already coming up RFK is under fire from former heads of the CDC among others.
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00:38:31.000 Well, meanwhile, apparently.
00:38:32.000 Apparently, RFK Jr. has fallen under the scrutiny of some nine former heads of the CDC.
00:38:37.000 And I would be warmer to this if they had not blown out their own credibility, but they are attacking RFK Jr.'s CDC.
00:38:45.000 Now, again, the CDC came under scrutiny because the head of the CDC just last week was fired.
00:38:52.000 presumably for running up against RFK Jr.'s guidance with regard to COVID vaccinations because one of the pieces of advice that was going out from the CDC was that the vaccine should not be used for kids or for pregnant women, which again, I think the data tend to support that judgment.
00:39:08.000 I was saying all along in the pandemic that it was not affecting kids in the same way that it was older adults.
00:39:13.000 And the best case for the vaccines is that for people who are significantly overweight, people who are obese, people who are elderly, that it lowered the death rates for those people.
00:39:21.000 But for people who are 30, it didn't do anything.
00:39:23.000 For people who are five, it certainly didn't do anything.
00:39:27.000 This idea that it was mandatory for children to take it to go to school was always insipid and insane.
00:39:33.000 So there's now an essay in the New York Times and it demonstrates why the faith was lost in the CDC.
00:39:38.000 Because there are really two questions here.
00:39:40.000 One, is RFK Jr. running the CDC the way it should be run?
00:39:43.000 And two is, how do we get here?
00:39:46.000 And you have to understand one in order to get to the other.
00:39:48.000 So how do we get here?
00:39:49.000 Is the CDC blew out its own credibility?
00:39:50.000 Is RFK junior running the CDC the way it should be run?
00:39:53.000 I think it's still very much an open question.
00:39:55.000 And I think that what's amazing to me is that these former public health officials are not focusing in on the seriously questionable activities within the CDC.
00:40:04.000 For example, the attempt to cut down on research for mRNA vaccines because they didn't like the COVID mRNA vaccine.
00:40:10.000 Okay, you don't shut down entire lines of scientific research because the product of one of those pieces of research done in record time, Operation Warp Speed, was not as successful as it should have been.
00:40:20.000 You don't shut down the entire mRNA vaccine industry, particularly when it comes to research.
00:40:25.000 I'm not talking about retailing it to the public, the research.
00:40:29.000 I mean the polio vaccine, which is wildly effective.
00:40:32.000 The The first attempt at a polio vaccine was actually a failure.
00:40:35.000 People forget this.
00:40:36.000 The first rollout to the American public actually used a tainted polio vaccine and a bunch of people were injured.
00:40:40.000 That doesn't mean that your kid doesn't get a polio vaccine now.
00:40:44.000 Okay, but in any case, all of this is sort of implicit in this article from these nine former CDC heads, quote, we have each had the honor and privilege of serving as director of the CDC and prevention either in a permanent or acting capacity dating back to 1977.
00:40:59.000 Collectively, we spent more than a hundred years working at the CDC, the world's preeminent public health agency.
00:41:04.000 We served under multiple Republican and Democratic administrations, every president from Carter to Trump, alongside thousands of dedicated staff members who share our commitment to saving lives and improving health.
00:41:14.000 What the health and human services secretary RFK Jr. has done to the CDC and to our nation's public health system over the past several months is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced.
00:41:25.000 Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakened programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence, and more.
00:41:36.000 Now, again, the idea that there were no cutbacks to be had inside the CDC is sort of silly.
00:41:43.000 If you're going to make the argument that certain people should not have.
00:41:47.000 been fired.
00:41:47.000 You really should name the branch.
00:41:49.000 You really should name the people and the kinds of research that should be funded.
00:41:53.000 Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, he's focused on unproven treatments while downplaying vaccines.
00:42:00.000 Well, again, I'm not a fan of this particular move by RFK Jr.
00:42:05.000 Measles vaccines are incredibly effective.
00:42:07.000 MMR is a very effective vaccine.
00:42:11.000 Bobby Kennedy, back in May.
00:42:14.000 directed federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles, including vitamins, which again, makes very little sense to me.
00:42:23.000 So again, here, I don't think this the CDC heads are on sort of the wrong footing, but where they get to the wrong footing is where they say, quote, he championed federal legislation that will cause millions of people with health insurance through Medicaid to lose their coverage.
00:42:37.000 Okay, now.
00:42:39.000 Okay.
00:42:39.000 So you are now linking together things that actually are a problem, like for example directing resources away from measles vaccinations, which are good, and instead you are now criticizing him for backing a piece of legislation that President Trump was pushing and that you don't like.
00:42:54.000 So you have moved over from the realm of science to the political, and this is how you get Bobby Kennedy as the head of HHS.
00:43:01.000 This is how.
00:43:02.000 And that means people are willing to give him more leeway when he does things that are heterodox on health.
00:43:09.000 So when they attack RFK Jr., again, the sort of attempt to attack him not on the basis of the public health failings, but to attack him on the basis of politics, that's the part that's incredible.
00:43:22.000 And it's self-discrediting.
00:43:24.000 So for example, you saw that Dr. Dmitry Daskalakis was one of the people who was fired.
00:43:32.000 And he resigned, actually.
00:43:35.000 He was the person who was at the head of the MPOCs campaign under Joe Biden.
00:43:40.000 It was called M-pox because it was originally monkeypox.
00:43:42.000 He said that that was actually homophobic. 0.96
00:43:45.000 Somehow it created rumors about gay men spreading monkeypox, which, by the way, gay men were spreading monkeypox. 0.97
00:43:51.000 I mean, that's just the reality. 0.99
00:43:52.000 That doesn't mean every gay man had monkeypox or every gay man was engaging in orgies, but monkeypox was being spread at gay orgies. 0.98
00:43:58.000 I mean, that's just the reality of the science. 0.98
00:44:01.000 But he was very upset about that.
00:44:02.000 He talked in his...
00:44:11.000 And so what we end up with is lack of trust on all sides.
00:44:15.000 If these scientists simply focused on, you know, the science.
00:44:19.000 and not the politics, they would certainly be on better footing.
00:44:21.000 President Trump took what I think is actually quite a reasonable stand on all of this.
00:44:25.000 He put out a statement on Truth Social saying, It is very important that the drug companies justify the success of their various COVID drugs.
00:44:32.000 Many people think they are a miracle that saved millions of lives.
00:44:35.000 Others disagree.
00:44:36.000 With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer and I want it now.
00:44:39.000 I have been shown information from Pfizer and others that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public.
00:44:44.000 Why not?
00:44:45.000 They go off to the next hunt and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the drug company's COVID work.
00:44:53.000 They show me great numbers and results.
00:44:55.000 They don't seem to be showing them to many others.
00:44:57.000 I want them to show them now to CDC and the public and clear up this mess one way or the other.
00:45:01.000 I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant as many say it was.
00:45:04.000 If not, we all want to know about it and why.
00:45:06.000 Thank you for your attention to this very important matter, President Donald J. Trump.
00:45:09.000 Well, I mean, first of all, the president should take whatever data Pfizer is providing to him and just release it.
00:45:14.000 If there really is data they're showing him that has not been revealed to the public, he should release it right now so we can have an open investigation about all of this.
00:45:23.000 But the biggest problem when it comes to these medical institutions criticizing Bobby Kennedy or President Trump or whomever else is the leg they don't have to stand on.
00:45:33.000 I mean, literally today, Politico has a piece talking about the American Medical Association and its.
00:45:39.000 attacks on RFK junior.
00:45:41.000 Quote, it's up to AMA leaders like its new president, Dr. Bobby Makamala, to strike the balance between rebuffing the administration and building relationships within it.
00:45:49.000 On Monday, we might have to say, we disagree.
00:45:52.000 They shouldn't be doing this.
00:45:53.000 On Tuesday, we love this and congratulations, Makamala said.
00:45:55.000 That's what I think the year is going to be like.
00:45:58.000 Now again, here is the problem.
00:46:00.000 It's that same Dr. Bobby Makamala, who we were quoting on the show last week promoting transmedical propaganda fraud.
00:46:08.000 Right, this is the part that's amazing.
00:46:11.000 All these institutions blew out their credibility.
00:46:13.000 That's how you end up with people who they believe are not credible in charge of these institutions.
00:46:17.000 The only way back is honesty and transparency and openness.
00:46:20.000 And I think that's what the president is pushing.
00:46:24.000 But when you condemn the entire institution, the entire administration, I'm not a huge fan of that on any side.
00:46:31.000 Dr. Fauci was bad at his job.
00:46:33.000 He fibbed to the American people at best.
00:46:36.000 He attempted to quash alternative theories on how to deal with the pandemic from people like Dr. J. Bhattacharya, who's now at NIH.
00:46:44.000 But people who said you should never trust anything coming from the CDC.
00:46:47.000 Well, I don't see how that's much different from any of these other former CDC heads who are now saying you should never trust any anything from the CDC.
00:46:56.000 So, for example, Dr. Paul Offit from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he says we can no longer trust the CDC.
00:47:04.000 Where should they be going for easily accessible medical information and guidelines now?
00:47:10.000 So I think right now the professional societies like the American Academy of Pediatrics to get good information about childhood vaccines or the American College of Obstetrics and Ginecology to get good information about vaccines in pregnancy.
00:47:22.000 But right now, I agree with Dr. Friedan.
00:47:24.000 I think that we can no longer trust the CDC.
00:47:27.000 We certainly can no longer trust the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stopped that committee.
00:47:33.000 with people who really aren't experts in the field, don't have expertise, and aren't going to be giving us very good advice.
00:47:40.000 Okay, if you just throw around expertise as sort of the slang term as opposed to, you know, actually debunking the individual things coming out of the administration, you're going to end up with nobody trusting anybody, which is basically where we are right now.
00:47:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, when it comes to crime, President Trump continues to succeed.
00:47:55.000 Why?
00:47:56.000 Well, because crime continues to be something that normally Americans worry about.
00:48:00.000 Even Larry Sabato, a pollster from University of Virginia, who does not like President Trump, even he admits that Republicans are going to win this argument over crime.
00:48:12.000 It's a plus for Trump and Republicans.
00:48:15.000 If you have a sense of history, you already know that because consistently the crime issue, law and order, has been a plus for Republicans since Richard Nixon first put the emphasis on it in 1968 and had a famous TV ad on that subject.
00:48:31.000 Look, elections are about a lot of things.
00:48:34.000 Democrats are not going to win this argument.
00:48:36.000 They never win the argument.
00:48:37.000 In fact, partly because, correctly, they're worried about due process and what's happening to the cities and whether it's improving the situation or not.
00:48:46.000 That isn't a winning argument.
00:48:49.000 They're much better off changing the subject and talking about prices.
00:48:53.000 Nobody ever wants to give up an argument, but sometimes you have to do it.
00:48:59.000 Okay, so the reality is the Democrats are losing this particular argument.
00:49:03.000 Why?
00:49:03.000 Well, because places like Chicago are still seeing a gigantic spate of shootings.
00:49:07.000 According to Breitbart, at least fifty three people were shot, five of them fatally as of Monday morning on Labor Day weekend 2025 in Chicago.
00:49:15.000 That is a lot of people getting shot.
00:49:18.000 Meanwhile, you have the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, the least popular mayor in America, rejecting federal interventions and treating himself as a hero.
00:49:25.000 Here he was over the weekend.
00:49:28.000 No federal troops in the city of Chicago.
00:49:33.000 No militarized force in the city of Chicago.
00:49:38.000 We're going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago.
00:49:42.000 We're going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.
00:49:48.000 Wow.
00:49:49.000 I mean, how inspiring.
00:49:50.000 I mean, sure, a lot more people are going to get shot, but you know, at least you're resisting.
00:49:54.000 Here he was talking about the necessity of resistance.
00:49:57.000 This sweeping executive order directs our Department of Law to pursue any and every legal mechanism to hold this administration accountable for violating the rights of Chicagoans.
00:50:08.000 This order affirms that the Chicago Police Department will not collaborate with military personnel on police patrols or civil immigration enforcement.
00:50:18.000 We will not have our police officers who are working hard every single day to drive down crime deputized to do traffic stops and checkpoints for the president.
00:50:32.000 I'm sorry. 0.65
00:50:33.000 It's just ridiculous.
00:50:33.000 But okay, keep going with this, Democrats.
00:50:35.000 See how it works out for you.
00:50:37.000 The left wing of the Democratic Party cannot let go of this for come hell or high water.
00:50:40.000 Ro Khanna, the California congressman, he says, you know, President Trump should let the crime wave continue.
00:50:46.000 He should have run for mayor if he wants to worry about crime.
00:50:48.000 Now, on a sort of general constitutional level, I agree that crime in Chicago is a local problem.
00:50:54.000 On a political level, this is a big loser for Democrats.
00:50:58.000 We didn't fight a revolution in this country that had militarized streets.
00:51:02.000 And if Donald Trump really wanted to fight crime in cities, he should have run for mayor, not president of the United States.
00:51:08.000 While he's doing these antics, consumer confidence is down.
00:51:12.000 Manufacturing is down.
00:51:14.000 Forums are closing.
00:51:15.000 The unemployment rate for recent college graduates is spiking to twelve percent.
00:51:19.000 It's a failed economic record.
00:51:22.000 And all he's doing is trying to militarize the their states.
00:51:27.000 Globally speaking, if the left continues along these lines, they're going to lose.
00:51:30.000 It's a massive problem for them.
00:51:31.000 It's not just in the United States.
00:51:33.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, for the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading in the polls in the UK, France, and Germany, the latest sign of growing voter discontent in much of the continent following years of high immigration and inflation.
00:51:46.000 Far-right and anti-immigration parties have already entered government in countries such as Italy, Finland, and the Netherlands.
00:51:53.000 This year marks the first time they've been ahead in Europe's biggest economies all at the same time.
00:51:57.000 That could provoke a period of political turbulence in all three countries, even if national elections are still likely a few years away.
00:52:05.000 France's anti-immigration national rally has had a consistent lead in polls this year.
00:52:09.000 A poll last month showed Jordan Bardella, the protege of Marine Le Pen, was the most popular with an approval rating of 36 percent.
00:52:17.000 Polling for the next presidential vote suggests that national rally's candidate, whether it's Bardella or Le Pen, you remember, Le Pen was barred from running by the European courts for no reason really would lead the first round.
00:52:27.000 Now, leading the first round doesn't mean that you end up as the actual president of France.
00:52:31.000 This has happened before where Le Pen's party has run strong in the first round.
00:52:34.000 Then there's a consolidation around the quote unquote moderate candidate like Emmanuel Macron and Bardella or Le Pen ends outside the governing coalition.
00:52:42.000 However, if you keep ignoring the actual anti-immigration demands of your people, you're going to keep getting chipped away at.
00:52:49.000 In the UK, the Reform Party is now basically drinking the milkshake of the conservatives.
00:52:55.000 It's now comfortably ahead in opinion polls of the ruling Labour Party and the opposition conservatives in Germany.
00:53:02.000 Alternative for Germany, AFD has been neck in neck with the ruling center-right Christian Democratic Union in polls since the start of the year.
00:53:10.000 The AFD has also pulled slightly ahead in recent weeks.
00:53:14.000 And the choice of many of these sort of center-right parties to make common cause with left-wing parties. 0.86
00:53:19.000 This is true in France with Emmanuel Macron deciding to basically forge a coalition with the actual communist trash bucket, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
00:53:29.000 It happened in Germany as well, where the center-right party decided to marginalize AFD and instead move toward the center-left.
00:53:36.000 It's happened in Austria too.
00:53:38.000 The temptation for a lot of these parties is to sort of ignore the demands of the quote-unquote far right, and then the far right just continues to grow.
00:53:45.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, like the U.S., much of Europe has experienced two things at the same time since the pandemic.
00:53:51.000 Record levels of immigration that have caused a voter backlash and a surge in inflation that has now eased the left prices.
00:53:57.000 for many goods much higher than before, leaving many voters feel worse off.
00:54:00.000 Social media has also polarized opinions.
00:54:03.000 Unlike the US, much of Europe has almost no economic growth.
00:54:06.000 This is why capitalism is magic.
00:54:09.000 All the Europeans decided to move away from it toward a state-run economy, and it has not worked out particularly well for them.
00:54:16.000 In recent years, both Germany and the U.K. saw the biggest surges in immigration in their history.
00:54:20.000 In Germany, the share of residents born outside the country surged from just over 15% in 2017 to a record high of 22% in 2024.
00:54:30.000 That compares with about 16% in the United States.
00:54:32.000 Meanwhile, the U.K. has grappled with a record rise in legal and illegal immigration.
00:54:37.000 Some 4.5 million people arrived legally between 2021 and 2024, primarily from India, Nigeria, and China.
00:54:44.000 That's actually more than people who legally entered the United States.
00:54:47.000 Plus, tens of thousands of people have illegally crossed the British Channels on flimsy boats each year to claim asylum.
00:54:55.000 Even Kir Starmer has had to call it out.
00:54:59.000 So, again, it turns out that the sort of disconnect with reality held by so many at the upper echelons of left-wing politics are leading to serious turmoil in all of these countries.
00:55:11.000 France particularly is about to fall into a serious situation governmentally.
00:55:16.000 Apparently, if French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou loses a September 8 confidence vote on his efforts to rein in the country's budget deficit with 44 billion euros in cuts, he'll become the fourth head of government to lose his job in a year and a half.
00:55:29.000 Massive turnover in the Prime Minister's office.
00:55:33.000 The reason being France is ungovernable.
00:55:35.000 There's too much support.
00:55:37.000 in the National Assembly for the right wing.
00:55:40.000 Left-wing parties don't want any cuts to the French welfare state.
00:55:43.000 According to the Journal, centrist lawmakers allied with Beirut and Macron want to boost military spending to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine without raising taxes.
00:55:52.000 Marine Le Pen says the government should cut spending by reducing immigration and payments to the EU.
00:55:58.000 And so France, instead of doing what it should and siding with Jordan Bardella and Le Pen, they've decided to try and split the baby.
00:56:04.000 And what they're going to end up doing is making the country completely unworkable.
00:56:09.000 So, amazing.
00:56:11.000 But by the way, the actual attempt apparently to shrink the deficit is going to involve from the Prime Minister's office there, eliminating Easter Monday and May 8th, which is when France celebrates the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, which is an absurdity.
00:56:29.000 So yeah, congrats.
00:56:31.000 You're doing a wonderful job over there in Europe, seriously.
00:56:34.000 And if Democrats continue to imitate their friends in Europe, it's going to go the same way for them as well.
00:56:40.000 All righty, folks, the show is continuing for our members right now.
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