The Ben Shapiro Show - June 29, 2026


The Left Isn’t Just Anti-America, They’re Anti-Bible

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Ben Shapiro explains why the left increasingly hates the American Flag and why it s time for them to learn to love it. Plus, why Texas wants to teach school kids the Bible, why a radically anti-Israel, militantly gay San Francisco congressional candidate is under fire from the left, and the latest in Iran, where President Trump launched some bombs.

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00:00:00 The left increasingly hates the American flag.
00:00:02 Why?
00:00:03 That's an obvious question.
00:00:04 The American flag stands for freedom and prosperity and victory.
00:00:08 No matter how many problems you have with America, you ought to be grateful God gave you the opportunity, as He did for me, to live in the greatest country in the history of humanity.
00:00:16 So, why do so many people hate the flag?
00:00:18 The answer well, that's just how much the left hates President Trump.
00:00:21 And now they hate Trump so much, they even hate wait for it AOC.
00:00:28 I'll explain in just a moment.
00:00:28 Really?
00:00:30 We'll also get to why Texas wants to teach school kids the Bible.
00:00:33 Why a radically anti Israel, militantly gay San Francisco congressional candidate is under fire from the left and the latest in Iran, where President Trump launched some bombs over the weekend.
00:00:42 This is the Ben Shapiro Show. 0.86
00:00:51 So it's been true forever.
00:00:51 President Trump's magic power is that whatever he touches, his opposition disowns.
00:00:56 So if he takes an 80% position, his opposition will take the 20% position just because they hate him so much.
00:01:03 If he decides that he likes rock music and MMA and fighter jets, the left will say all of those things are awful.
00:01:10 If he decides that, you know, it'd be awesome, a really cool fair on the Washington Mall, the left will decide that the fair is really, really bad just because they hate him that much.
00:01:18 If he decides that we need a better lining for the reflecting pool, the left will go nuts and say it's better if the place is essentially a swamp.
00:01:25 So, if President Trump hugs an American flag, the left will just by necessity want to burn it. 1.00
00:01:31 Now, the left should stop doing this because it's really, really bad and really, really stupid. 0.98
00:01:35 If we are going to share anything in this country, we should love the American flag. 0.98
00:01:38 And again, if you go back historically, the people who most had reason not to like the American flag still found a way to love the American flag because it turns out that if you root for the principles of America, eventually the American flag ends up flying for those principles.
00:01:52 To take the most famous example, Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave, back in the 1850s gave a speech.
00:01:58 On July 4th, asking what July 4th was to the slave.
00:02:02 The whole thing was a critique, this speech, of the idea that the Declaration of Independence did not properly apply to black people.
00:02:09 And his complaint was not that the Declaration of Independence was wrong or bad or the American flag was wrong or bad, but why were black people not included in that promise?
00:02:18 And then, of course, a civil war was fought.
00:02:20 And over the course of 100 years, Jim Crow was extirpated specifically to fulfill Frederick Douglass's vision of a July 4th that stood for all Americans.
00:02:29 That's the best way to approach the American flag because that same American flag that was flying over in America that tolerated slavery flew with the troops wearing blue as they fought the Confederates in favor of abolishing slavery.
00:02:43 Hey, but today the left has decided apparently in large scale that the American flag is just too uncomfortable.
00:02:49 There's a large piece at NBC news today titled, many Americans say stars and stripes is now a red flag.
00:02:56 Quote, to fly or not to fly an American flag.
00:02:58 That was never a question for Bruce Watson, who has put his national pride on display for years.
00:03:02 And he nudges neighbors in his small New England town to do the same.
00:03:05 But as the polarized nation marks its 250th birthday, Watson, 72, worries his stars and stripes may now need an asterisk.
00:03:12 If we do fly the flag, we will also put out signs to make it clear that we are not MAGA, he said.
00:03:15 So, first of all, it's unbelievable, truly amazing, that the left has allowed the right to basically treat the flag as a right wing symbol.
00:03:24 The American flag is not a right wing symbol, it is a symbol of all of the values of America.
00:03:28 And if the left wishes to surrender that to the right, I suppose they can, but it's a bold move, Cotton.
00:03:33 Not sure why they would do it.
00:03:36 So, apparently, a bunch of people on the left are going to fly the flag, but upside down to protest President Trump.
00:03:45 Apparently, one person interviewed by NBC News is replacing the U.S. flag with the state flag of Pennsylvania.
00:03:53 Erin Beltel, 22, who lives outside Philadelphia with her parents, said her father will be flying the American flag, but she says if it were up to me and my mom, we'd be flying the Pride flag or the Philadelphia Eagles flag instead.
00:04:04 I love our country, but I'm not feeling very proud of our country right now.
00:04:08 Which, again, is an insane proposition.
00:04:10 That's insane.
00:04:13 You feel more loyalty and love for the Philadelphia Eagles than you do for the country?
00:04:17 The Philadelphia Eagles, do you play for the Philadelphia Eagles?
00:04:20 And by the way, even if you do play for the Philadelphia Eagles, you should still love the American flag more than you love the symbol of the Philadelphia Eagles.
00:04:27 The pride flag as a replacement for the American flag?
00:04:31 We'll get to that in a moment because that is, in fact, the default replacement flag for the American flag.
00:04:36 According to NBC News, some readers said they were motivated by peer pressure more than patriotism.
00:04:41 I display my flag outside my home mainly because everyone else around my neighborhood does it, even though I'm not 100% proud to be an American, said a Newtown, Pennsylvania woman, who also asked to remain anonymous.
00:04:50 I feel if I don't have a flag displayed somewhere, people will think I'm against our country or something.
00:04:53 Well, I mean, kind of.
00:04:58 Why would it be bad to fly the American flag?
00:05:02 A Rhode Island teacher said she too is flying alternate flags the Rainbow Pride flag and the banner of her beloved New England Patriots.
00:05:09 The teacher said she had not flown the flag since 2024 when Trump was elected for a second term.
00:05:13 I have a gay son and a trans son, and felt that the flag was now a symbol flown by people who don't want my children to exist.
00:05:20 So herein lies the problem.
00:05:22 Again, the American flag is a symbol.
00:05:24 Symbols have underlying meanings.
00:05:26 Those symbols stand for things.
00:05:29 The swastika stands for something different than the American flag, stands for something different than the Pride Progress flag.
00:05:35 So, what does the American flag stand for historically?
00:05:38 Well, most obviously, the promise of the Declaration of Independence, whose 250th anniversary we are celebrating this year.
00:05:45 The greatness of the American Constitution, the greatest system of government ever devised by man.
00:05:50 And yes, a set of values rooted in the Bible.
00:05:53 Because it turns out that the Declaration and the Constitution were not born out of arid soil.
00:05:59 They didn't spring full blown from the heads of the men who wrote them.
00:06:04 They are the apex of a system of values that was rooted thousands of years beforehand.
00:06:10 So if you don't like those things, then you probably are doing Americanism wrong.
00:06:14 You're failing to understand what it is that makes America great.
00:06:17 And makes America awesome, regardless of your politics.
00:06:19 And this is why it is bizarre that there's a gigantic controversy that is now broken out in the state of Texas over whether or not kids should learn about the Bible.
00:06:28 Not that kids should be preached to, that they must believe in Christ, or that they must believe that Moses brought laws down from Mount Sinai or something.
00:06:37 But there are people who are very upset that people are being taught the Bible in public schools.
00:06:41 Well, coming up, we'll get to why the left hates America oh so much and what they want to replace the American flag with.
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00:08:00 Patriotism isn't just something you feel on the 4th of July.
00:08:02 It's how you choose to support the people who have served this country when they come home.
00:08:07 So President Trump on Friday, he was in the Oval Office and he was talking about religious liberty because the Religious Liberty Commission for President Trump issued a draft report saying that the separation of church and state is a legal error and that Americans should view religion as an essential support and remember the creator who made us and bestows our rights. 0.94
00:08:27 And that, by the way, is correct.
00:08:28 Because, again, the Constitution does not mean that you are supposed to separate religion completely out of daily life, that government can have no admixture at all with anything baseline religious.
00:08:41 That is not what the First Amendment says.
00:08:43 Here's the president talking about this.
00:08:47 America was founded by people of faith, and it was settled as a haven for religious freedom.
00:08:52 So important as we prepare to celebrate the 200th. 50th anniversary of our founding next week.
00:08:59 It is only appropriate that we work to strengthen this fundamental right and to most essentially have liberty for generations to come.
00:09:07 We want religious liberty.
00:09:11 Okay, so what does religious liberty mean?
00:09:14 Well, obviously, the verbiage of the First Amendment says the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or abridging the free exercise thereof.
00:09:23 Historically speaking, a lot of people have read this wrong.
00:09:26 There's a letter of Thomas Jefferson's in which he talks about a wall of separation between church and state.
00:09:31 But Thomas Jefferson himself saw biblical thinking as undergirding Western values.
00:09:37 He wrote the 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
00:09:40 And Jefferson, who was himself a deist, but who also wrote a version of the New Testament in which he stripped out all the miracles.
00:09:47 He said, Almighty God hath created the mind free, that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment or burdens or by civil incapacitations tend only to be at habits of hypocrisy and meanness and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.
00:09:59 who being lord of both body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercians on either, as was his almighty power to do.
00:10:05 So again, that is in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
00:10:07 So basically, because Christian values suggest that you are supposed to allow for the free exercise of mind, that is why there should be free exercise of religion.
00:10:15 But understand, the basic supposition of a First Amendment that allows for freedom of religion is a religious assessment of the world.
00:10:26 That God created individuals with freedom of mind and inherent value.
00:10:30 And that it would be an abridgment of that mind and freedom of choice for the government to cram down religion on you.
00:10:37 It should also be worth noting that actually many of the original states did have an established religion.
00:10:42 But again, what are those clauses meant to do?
00:10:45 Well, those clauses are supposed to be read in tandem.
00:10:49 The idea is that Congress should not make a law respecting the establishment of religion.
00:10:52 So Congress should not, for example, force you to go and receive communion, Congress should not force you to go pray three times a day.
00:11:02 But that's to be read in the context of abridging the free exercise thereof.
00:11:05 Why?
00:11:06 Because the idea was that if Congress establishes one form of religion, it would bar all the other forms of religion, and this would inhibit your free exercise.
00:11:14 And notice the words free exercise, that does not mean free thought, because thought is different from exercise.
00:11:20 Religion does not just exist in the private sphere, it's not just something that you do in your church and in your home, it's something you do your whole life.
00:11:26 And this is something that the founders understood being largely religious and growing up in a religious society.
00:11:32 The sociologist Emil Durkheim wrote, quote, a religious society does not exist without a collective credo, and it is more or less strong and united according to whether this credo is widely held.
00:11:43 And all the founders understood this, by the way, including the most secular leaning of the founders.
00:11:48 President John Adams, my favorite founder, wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts militia famously, quote, we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
00:11:59 Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net.
00:12:05 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
00:12:08 George Washington said the same The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality.
00:12:15 There exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
00:12:21 Even James Madison, who authored provisions in the state of Virginia banning the establishment of religion, said he did so in order to strengthen religion because he believed that religious discrimination would lead people to abandon religion.
00:12:34 Jefferson himself recognized The moral branch of religion instructs us how to live well and worthily in society.
00:12:40 Also, by the way, you are just not a literate Western citizen if you don't know the Bible.
00:12:44 You are not literate.
00:12:45 That is not opinion, that is fact.
00:12:46 Virtually all of the Western canon, everything from Dickens to Shakespeare, everything from the works of the founding fathers to the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, cannot be understood without some reference point in the Bible.
00:13:00 This is particularly true for the founding era, by the way.
00:13:02 There's a political scientist named Donald Lutz, and he actually went through 15,000 sources of political writing from the founding era.
00:13:08 He cataloged all of them.
00:13:10 What is the single most cited source in the founding literature?
00:13:14 Not Locke, like you heard in school, or Montesquieu.
00:13:17 It's the Bible, of course, like a third of all citations.
00:13:20 And the single most cited book was the book of Deuteronomy, which makes perfect sense because the book of Deuteronomy is how do you govern a nation?
00:13:26 What is the moral law that you use to govern a nation?
00:13:30 So, why is this relevant?
00:13:31 Well, because a lot of people today are pretending that we're about to live in a theocracy because the Texas State Board of Education has voted to require students to study the Bible stories, which, by the way, again, you should.
00:13:42 If you wish to have any basic literacy in your civilization, you need to know the Bible.
00:13:46 You may notice I am not a Christian, I am a Jew.
00:13:49 I know the New Testament because in order for you to understand the literature that you are reading, you must understand the New Testament.
00:13:56 It is not possible to read anything from Victor Hugo to Dostoevsky without understanding the New Testament.
00:14:01 Not a possibility.
00:14:02 You cannot do it.
00:14:04 Educated, literate, literate citizens have to know this stuff.
00:14:09 And they have to know it not because we are saying that the state must force you to go to church.
00:14:14 You have to know it because otherwise you literally don't understand the roots of your own civilization.
00:14:17 You just don't.
00:14:18 So what exactly is the Tech State Board Of education doing.
00:14:21 So you've heard from all your left wing friends that they are now forcing everybody to kneel, essentially.
00:14:27 That is not right.
00:14:28 That is not right.
00:14:29 They have approved a proposal that establishes a list of required reading, according to CNN, and includes Bible verses alongside classic titles for its K 12 English and Literature curriculum.
00:14:40 Texas is prescribing a literary canon for every public school student.
00:14:45 Many Texas students are already familiar with at least some Christian teachings.
00:14:48 The state last year became the largest state to require classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
00:14:51 First of all, I find it funny that CNN is so illiterate that they say, That those are Christian teachings.
00:14:57 I mean, to be fair, the Ten Commandments is part of the Old Testament.
00:15:01 Okay, so you want to talk about truly Judeo Christian?
00:15:03 Ten Commandments would fall squarely in the Judeo Christian category since, you know, it arrived on the scene some thousand years before Christ.
00:15:11 In any case, the new list of required titles will include a picture book adaptation of the David and Goliath story for elementary students, which, of course, again, how are you even literate?
00:15:20 How are you literate if you don't know the David and Goliath story?
00:15:22 It is referenced in an enormous percentage of Western literature, all the founders knew it.
00:15:28 Okay, biblical passages about Adam and Eve for older students.
00:15:31 Well, yes, duh, because you have to know that stuff.
00:15:34 You can't read Shakespeare without understanding these biblical references.
00:15:38 The actual proposals include a bunch of other texts from the Bible, including verses from the book of Luke about the necessity of humility.
00:15:46 For fifth graders, the burning bush and the parting of the Red Sea.
00:15:48 Again, Benjamin Franklin, not exactly a deeply religious person, wanted the parting of the Red Sea to be put on the official seal of the United States.
00:15:56 You cannot understand the anti slavery movement without understanding the book of Exodus.
00:16:00 It is not possible to do so.
00:16:02 All, all of the anti slavery advocates were quoting the book of Exodus.
00:16:06 Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the book of Exodus all the time.
00:16:06 All of them.
00:16:11 Sections from the books of Matthew and Psalms and Ecclesiastes.
00:16:15 And again, all of this stuff is stuff that you should just know.
00:16:18 A section from Matthew about anxiousness or the Shepherd's Psalm from Psalms.
00:16:23 I mean, come on.
00:16:25 You know, it's in every movie.
00:16:27 What did you think they were saying in the movie at every single grave sightseeing?
00:16:30 What do you think that they're quoting right there?
00:16:33 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
00:16:34 What do you think they're quoting?
00:16:36 They just like made it up?
00:16:37 What?
00:16:38 Or Ecclesiastes, to everything there is a season?
00:16:40 I mean, the Beatles were writing songs to some of this stuff.
00:16:45 And then the book of Job for high school standardized testing expectations.
00:16:49 I mean, like, what, what is remotely controversial about all of this?
00:16:52 What is remotely controversial?
00:16:53 The answer is nothing.
00:16:55 By the way, also, the curriculum includes the book of lamentations from the Torah, right, which is the book, it's Jeremiah is writing that.
00:17:06 And then high school world history includes beliefs of the Quran and the actual history of slavery globally.
00:17:11 And Washington's letter to a Hebrew congregation at Newport, which basically talks about religious freedom in the United States, and Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank. 0.61
00:17:18 Like the idea that there's some gigantic establishment of a Christian theocracy because you're literate is insane.
00:17:24 But again, the reason that the left is fighting this is because if you're unfamiliar with the roots of the American flag, then you get to replace it with anything.
00:17:32 If you stand for nothing, then you will stand for anything.
00:17:35 And that is where we are going next.
00:17:37 If the American flag stands for the Declaration and the Constitution and a set of biblical values that undergird all of that, And you reject all of that.
00:17:46 Well, where do you end up?
00:17:47 Well, we have an opposite flag.
00:17:49 And that opposite flag is the representation of the radical left these days.
00:17:53 This flag is pretty much everything.
00:17:55 All righty, coming up, we'll get to the radicals' replacement for the American flag.
00:17:59 It's really quite hideous.
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00:19:06 This is from the Seattle Pride March, a hybrid Palestine trans flag. 0.70
00:19:11 Yes, radical Islam and radical transgenderism all in one flag. 0.68
00:19:16 Now, of course, It would be weird for that to sit in one flag. 0.60
00:19:19 In fact, if you tried to fly this in Gaza, you would immediately be shoved off the top of a building or dragged behind a motorcycle.
00:19:25 That's how things would end for you in the Gaza Strip or, for that matter, in Ramallah.
00:19:31 But the idea is that this is the set of values.
00:19:33 The set of values is opposed to all the things.
00:19:36 It's opposed to all the things.
00:19:39 It turns out that's not enough to fly a Philadelphia Eagles flag or New England Patriots flag instead of the American flag. 0.93
00:19:45 If you actively do not like the American flag and the things it stands for, sooner or later you will end up At the hybrid Palestine trans flag. 0.70
00:19:53 That's where you will end up. 0.52
00:19:54 And in terms of governing, this is where we are going.
00:19:57 This is where we are going. 0.52
00:19:58 So Zorhan Mamdani is the Palestine trans flag in a human. 0.80
00:20:03 In a human.
00:20:04 That is Zorhan Mamdani.
00:20:06 He despises America and the principles that it stands for, despises them, believes that all of the founding principles of America are wrong. 0.56
00:20:13 And so he unifies in his very personage radical Islam and trans Pride Progress. 0.80
00:20:19 That is who Mom Dhani is.
00:20:20 That is the future of the left.
00:20:22 So over the weekend, Mom Dhani played tribute to Ashura.
00:20:27 He put out a tweet saying Ashura is a time, it shows him at mosque. 0.67
00:20:32 Again, you should know that when he does this routine where he's a religious Muslim and then immediately goes to a Pride Progress, Protest? 0.96
00:20:39 If you are a deeply religious Muslim, that is not a thing you do. 0.99
00:20:41 That is not a thing. 1.00
00:20:43 It's all takiyah. 1.00
00:20:44 It's a lie.
00:20:46 Imam Dhani says Ashura is a time of remembrance, sacrifice, and reflection.
00:20:49 Today, on the 10th day of Muharram, we are reminded of Imam Hussein's unwavering commitment to truth and dignity.
00:20:54 His timeless legacy reminds us of the enduring values of faith, service to one another, and the belief that justice is always worth fighting for.
00:21:00 Our city's strength comes from the many faith traditions that shape it and our shared struggle against injustice and oppression.
00:21:05 Again, that's the coalition.
00:21:08 Free Palestine, trans.
00:21:10 That's the coalition.
00:21:12 May we carry these values forward as we continue building a more just city for every New Yorker.
00:21:16 Again, I'm going to need to see the work.
00:21:18 Honestly, I want to see, I want to show the work.
00:21:20 How did Ashura shape America?
00:21:23 Also, by the way, we should point out that Ashura is a sectarian holiday.
00:21:27 It is not even a general Islamic holiday, like Ramadan or something.
00:21:30 It is sectarian.
00:21:32 Shia Muslims mourn Ashura because it commemorates what they call the martyrdom of Hussein ibn Ali, who was Muhammad's grandson at the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE.
00:21:44 Sunni Islam observes it as a day of gratitude and fasting to celebrate the day that Allah saved the prophet Moses from Pharaoh.
00:21:52 So again, two different and sectarian views of even that holiday. 0.50
00:21:56 So we're bringing like Islamic sectarianism to New York and then pretending that it's in unison with Pride Progress. 0.78
00:22:02 So here was Zoran Momdani, who again praises every radical Islamic group he can find being cheered at the Pride March. 0.72
00:22:10 The Pride Progress flag, the Free Palestine flag, they're the same. 0.82
00:22:13 Because what do they share?
00:22:13 Why?
00:22:14 What do they share?
00:22:16 In the end, the thing they hate is the American flag.
00:22:20 Dari Lisa Chevalier, when she said that she wanted to wipe her hands on the American flag, she was not lying.
00:22:26 She was not lying.
00:22:27 Here's some footage from New York over the weekend.
00:22:38 There he is walking.
00:22:39 They're all so excited.
00:22:40 They're so excited. 1.00
00:22:41 Oh, what happens to gay people in Uganda? 1.00
00:22:44 Nothing pleasant where he is from. 1.00
00:22:47 Meanwhile, the New York City pride chanted, Bottoms, Tops, we all hate cops, which is really the important thing.
00:22:54 It's, man, hating the system that the cops are literally standing there protecting this.
00:23:01 People running around chanting about whether they wish to pitch or catch.
00:23:05 Great stuff happening in New York.
00:23:23 With the trans pride progress flag.
00:23:25 Just wonderful, wonderful stuff here.
00:23:28 But to our mom, Dani says, Hey, you know what?
00:23:30 The Democratic Party is a big tent.
00:23:31 It's a big tent.
00:23:33 As it turns out, it's not that big.
00:23:34 We'll get to the smallness of the tent in a second, but this is what a takeover looks like.
00:23:40 But they're saying that if you're a socialist, you're not a Democrat.
00:23:43 I mean, is there room in the party for both of these views?
00:23:49 Yes, here I am.
00:23:50 And here are so many more.
00:23:52 And I think what makes our party a beautiful party is the fact that it's a big tent.
00:23:57 We have.
00:23:57 But you've also said it has to be a party with a spine, with a backbone.
00:24:00 Yes.
00:24:01 Even a tent has to stay up.
00:24:05 Okay, what's the tent pole?
00:24:06 God, the smugness, the smugness of this anti American jacket.
00:24:11 It's unbelievable.
00:24:13 Then he denies that he wants to run for president.
00:24:14 Well, I mean, first of all, he can't. 0.98
00:24:15 There's a constitutional bar to people who are born abroad running for president. 0.95
00:24:20 But, you know, Democrats would love to get rid of that for sure.
00:24:22 For Zoran Mondani, for Zoran Mondani specifically, not for somebody who actually, you know, likes America.
00:24:30 I noticed that you're turning 35 soon, right?
00:24:34 In a few months, yes.
00:24:35 So you now hit one of the constitutional requirements to run for president.
00:24:39 But there's another one that says you have to be a natural born citizen. 0.97
00:24:41 You were not born here.
00:24:43 Yes.
00:24:44 But do you think that's something that should be changed in the Constitution?
00:24:48 It would take an amendment, but do you think that we should change that?
00:24:52 No.
00:24:53 I think the Constitution looks good the way it is.
00:24:55 Just the way it is.
00:24:56 Just the way it is.
00:24:57 I'm very excited to focus on New York City.
00:24:59 But thank you for reminding me of my upcoming career.
00:25:02 35 years old.
00:25:05 He's lying, by the way.
00:25:06 I'm just going to put it out there.
00:25:08 That is not true.
00:25:08 He would absolutely love for them to change the constitution in this direction.
00:25:13 Meanwhile, Zarnamdani, it's amazing. 0.99
00:25:16 While he is tweeting about Ashura, and by the way, while he is literally going to the Pakistan Day parade in Brooklyn, okay, Pakistan is an Islamist hellhole. 0.99
00:25:25 Pakistan is a Sharia law country. 0.99
00:25:26 I'm going to flash back to August 2025. 1.00
00:25:30 Zarnamdani marching at the Pakistan Day parade in Brooklyn. 0.87
00:25:34 Okay, Pakistan Day, again. 0.98
00:25:36 Pakistan is an Islamist country that punishes homosexuality by law. 0.99
00:25:40 This is how you know he's a liar. 1.00
00:25:42 He's a liar. 1.00
00:25:44 Here he was celebrating Pakistan Independence Day. 1.00
00:25:58 Look, he's so happy.
00:26:00 He's so much happier than he is at Pride Parade.
00:26:03 He is overjoyed walking at the Pakistan Day Parade. 0.95
00:26:06 Now, Momdani famously did not show up at the Israel Day Parade, which you would assume since he hates Jews.
00:26:12 But here he was explaining to John Carl that the reason he actually doesn't like the Jewish state is because he just doesn't like any state that has religion attached to it. 0.73
00:26:20 Because he's lying. 1.00
00:26:22 He is a liar. 0.98
00:26:26 And the idea of a Jewish state, Israel is a Jewish state that's in the charter. 0.98
00:26:29 That's the way it is now.
00:26:32 Do you support that?
00:26:33 I've said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.
00:26:37 I believe that any state that privileges.
00:26:39 What is a Jewish state? 0.72
00:26:40 Is the question. 0.97
00:26:40 I think any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can't tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. 0.97
00:26:48 And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal no matter what our faith is.
00:26:55 He's lying.
00:26:57 He's absolutely lying. 1.00
00:26:58 But if you believe him, then you're a stupid person, a truly stupid person. 1.00
00:27:02 You must have been dropped as a baby multiple times. 1.00
00:27:04 But apparently.
00:27:05 God filled the world with people who have been dropped as babies.
00:27:09 There's no other way to explain it.
00:27:10 The Democratic Party, again, this is their flag.
00:27:12 Their flag is the Pride, Progress, Free Palestine flag.
00:27:14 One of their other candidates, Abdul El Sayed, he is likely to be the nominee in Michigan for Senate.
00:27:22 And here he is ripping simultaneously on Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, as well as, of course, AIPAC, which, again, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is just AIPAC. 0.92
00:27:36 Jews and Christians give to in favor of the existence of the state of Israel.
00:27:40 And of course, a healthcare CEO.
00:27:41 He says he's dangerous to healthcare CEOs.
00:27:43 Do you understand?
00:27:44 It's so crazy.
00:27:45 Saying this kind of stuff, a healthcare CEO was just shot last year to death.
00:27:49 Don't worry, he's dangerous to healthcare CEOs, though.
00:27:51 That's the important thing.
00:27:54 I'm not dangerous if you need government to work for you.
00:27:57 I'll tell you what.
00:27:58 I sure am dangerous if you're one of those folks who's a corporation or a special interest.
00:28:08 Or a politician who does their bidding who's stopping government from working for you.
00:28:12 So, yeah, if you're Chuck Schumer, I'm dangerous.
00:28:19 If you're APAC, I'm dangerous.
00:28:21 If you're a corporate PAC, I'm dangerous. 0.53
00:28:26 If you're Blue Cross Mushroom CEO, I'm pretty damn dangerous.
00:28:37 If you're an American who loves America, these people are dangerous.
00:28:45 Dangerous. 0.98
00:28:47 The Democratic Socialists of America, of course, stand behind Momdani. 0.96
00:28:50 They stand behind Abdul El Sayed and all the rest of this nonsense.
00:28:53 National Steering Committee member David Jenkins explains what their goal is.
00:28:57 The answer is communism. 0.98
00:28:59 By the way, he is a mime.
00:29:02 He is a mime.
00:29:03 The theater kids have taken over. 0.99
00:29:05 These dorks. 1.00
00:29:06 You're going to give these dorks power. 1.00
00:29:08 This is your choice, America.
00:29:10 According to the New York Post, Flatbush theater kid David Jenkins was elected last year to the DSA's National Political Committee.
00:29:17 He's a self avowed anti capitalist, which you could imagine. 0.53
00:29:20 I understand why you'd be anti capitalist if you're a mime, because ain't nobody paying you to be a mime. 0.66
00:29:23 So you got to find some other economic system where someone will pay you to be a professional, useless person who can't get out of even imaginary box.
00:29:31 He apparently is a proud founder of the Broken Box Mime Theater, where he performs pantomime to a heart thumping soundtrack in full mime makeup, like something out of Tangled.
00:29:41 Here he is explaining what America should do.
00:29:44 I mean, our goal is liberation.
00:29:48 Our goal is communism.
00:29:49 My name is David Jenkins.
00:29:50 I'm a lifelong New Yorker.
00:29:51 And today I am again calling on the City Council to disband the NYPD's brutal, unnecessary strategic response group and directly divert its funding to any, any of the public services fellow New Yorkers have called for today.
00:30:03 I'm planning to run for the MPC at convention under the banner of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus.
00:30:07 We're a diverse body of Libertarian Socialists, Libertarian Marxists, Anarchists, Left Communists, and other schools of thought within the sort of left wing socialist movement.
00:30:17 This is what they are.
00:30:18 This is what they are, and this is what they're going to be.
00:30:21 And it's coming to a city near you.
00:30:24 Over in Colorado, there is a congressional candidate, Emilat Kiros, who's supported, of course, by Hassan Piker and the DSA.
00:30:30 This person is running against a 15 term member of the House Progressive Caucus named Diana DeJet.
00:30:38 That lady is so wildly to the left DeJet that her platform includes abolishing ICE, expanding affordable housing and childcare, Medicare for all, authoring Of defending all energy and climate regulation and endorsed by Planned Parenthood. 0.95
00:30:51 And it doesn't matter because Malat Kirosh is outflanking her.
00:30:56 Okay, because again, what it comes down to for the radical left is hatred of the country.
00:31:01 Understand, that is the feature, not the bug.
00:31:04 I know, normie Americans, we look at this and we're like, what the hell?
00:31:08 How is it that somebody like Zar Mamdani could win despite being radically anti American, radically pro Islamic terrorism, radically pro trans radicalism? 0.56
00:31:18 How could he win? 0.63
00:31:19 He won because of those things.
00:31:21 Understand, whatever is most opposed to the fundamental bases of America and Western civilization, whatever is most opposed to those things, that is the reason that they are winning.
00:31:31 Because for generations, we have ceded a deep hatred of the country.
00:31:36 A deep hatred of the country. 0.89
00:31:39 Here is Milat Kirosh running through her platform, which, by the way, is psychotic, of course.
00:31:48 What are your five main policy proposals?
00:31:51 Medicare for all, housing first, universal child care, abolishing ICE.
00:31:56 And more than anything, the thing that I'm the most focused on is publicly financed elections.
00:32:01 Okay.
00:32:02 That's cool.
00:32:02 Wow.
00:32:03 Now we're going to do rapid fire.
00:32:03 All right.
00:32:05 Okay.
00:32:06 Do you support Medicare for all?
00:32:08 Yes.
00:32:09 Do you support universal child care?
00:32:10 Yes.
00:32:11 And elder care?
00:32:12 And elder care?
00:32:14 Okay. 1.00
00:32:15 You know, I'm not in favor of giving boomers anything, but that's fine. 0.99
00:32:20 You know, that's the difference between you and I, I guess. 0.62
00:32:25 The abolition of ICE.
00:32:26 Yes.
00:32:27 The Green New Deal.
00:32:28 Yes.
00:32:29 National rent control.
00:32:30 Yes.
00:32:31 Interesting.
00:32:32 Ending the embargo on Cuba.
00:32:33 Yes.
00:32:34 Ending the embargo on ending the war in Iran.
00:32:38 Yes.
00:32:39 Ending aid to Israel. 0.58
00:32:40 Sanctioning Israel.
00:32:40 Yes.
00:32:41 Yes.
00:32:42 A free Palestine.
00:32:43 Yes. 0.61
00:32:44 Okay. 0.99
00:32:45 That's who she is probably going to win in Colorado.
00:32:47 This is a lady who says openly that the 9 11 attacks were inevitable. 0.81
00:32:50 Okay. 0.92
00:32:51 This is just Osama bin Laden.
00:32:53 She just sounds like Osama bin Laden.
00:32:53 Okay.
00:32:55 If you just read the quotes back to back, she and bin Laden saying the same thing.
00:32:59 Period.
00:33:00 By the way, also said by Jeremiah Wright, Obama sat in his church for 20 years.
00:33:03 Here we go.
00:33:05 Do you believe that the 9 11 terrorist attacks on America were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy?
00:33:14 I believe that the quote in which that is probably being referenced by, in the context in which it was happening, was referencing a Pentagon official who was talking about the acts that America was taking in parts of the Middle East.
00:33:30 I want to clarify I'm just asking you about your own words, your frame of the October 7th attacks.
00:33:35 Attacks was that that was an inevitable consequence for Israel based on its actions. 0.72
00:33:39 And I'm asking you, was 9 11 an inevitable consequence for America based on U.S. foreign policy? 0.65
00:33:47 Inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East, that forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response.
00:33:58 And again, just like I said before, our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place.
00:34:06 Okay. 0.99
00:34:06 This is just Osama bin Laden crap. 0.99
00:34:08 It's just Osama bin Laden's letter. 0.98
00:34:11 Remember a few years ago went viral on TikTok when a bunch of Gen Zers discovered Osama bin Laden's letter and then they said they agreed with it. 0.99
00:34:17 That is the future if the DSA candidates continue to win. 0.91
00:34:20 If you replace the American flag with something, it's got to be replaced by, it doesn't get replaced by the Philadelphia Eagles flag because people cannot find solidarity enough in a Philadelphia Eagles flag.
00:34:30 They can only find solidarity across this coalition of the supposedly dispossessed.
00:34:36 In hatred for the American flag. 0.90
00:34:38 And so the symbol of burning the American flag is that trans Palestine flag. 0.89
00:34:42 That's what it is.
00:34:43 Emilat Kirosh is exactly this thing.
00:34:45 What an amazing video you just watched.
00:34:47 Wasn't that amazing?
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