The Ben Shapiro Show - The Left's Failing Attempt to Create Their Own "Manosphere"

00:00:00.000 Apparently, the left genuinely believes there are only two types of Trump voting men in the entire United States. 0.97

00:00:05.000 Type number one, Ned Flanders, a hyper-religious, archaic traditionalist with a few strangely gay vibes. 0.99

00:00:11.000 Type number two, a character straight out of Starship Troopers, a militant, hyper-nationalist authoritarian who probably wants to rape home invaders. 0.68

00:00:20.000 You know, James Tallarico is type number one, or maybe Graham Platner as type number two.

00:00:27.000 For a long time, the left has not been able to answer the question, what is a woman?

00:00:31.000 It now turns out they also cannot answer the question, what is a man?

00:00:35.000 We'll get to the left's fraudulent picture of masculinity, plus the reactionary right's own ugly picture of what men ought to be.

00:00:40.000 And we'll get to President Trump at the next game, where, believe it or not, he may have just saved America.

00:00:45.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:55.000 Alrighty, so one of the most amusing aspects of the 2024 election was the Democratic Party's realization that it had lost men, that men were increasingly trending toward the political right.

00:01:05.000 And there's a reason for that. 0.96

00:01:07.000 Men are not really fond of a party that calls them toxic and sees them as at best superfluous or treats them as dumb hicks or as rapey bros or as Bible thumping elders from the handmaid's tale. 0.95

00:01:18.000 Men aren't fond of a party that says that women can be men, that men can be women, and that the world would be better off without men in positions of power. 0.94

00:01:25.000 Pretty much openly campaigned against men and then they lost.

00:01:28.000 And so now they're trying to win men back over.

00:01:30.000 The problem is the left has alienated men for so long, they don't even know how to talk to men anymore.

00:01:37.000 They don't know men.

00:01:37.000 They don't know what men act like, how men behave, what men are interested in.

00:01:41.000 To the left, men are sort of a foreign population and the left treats them that way.

00:01:45.000 And this is why leftists, you keep hearing them ask this ridiculous question Where is the left wing Joe Rogan?

00:01:49.000 Where is he?

00:01:50.000 And the answer is obvious it's Joe Rogan.

00:01:53.000 Joe is not a right winger, like at all.

00:01:56.000 He voted for Bernie Sanders.

00:01:57.000 He humors conspiracy nuts and socialists.

00:02:00.000 He's not socially conservative.

00:02:01.000 He's not economically conservative.

00:02:03.000 He's not a foreign policy hawk.

00:02:05.000 Joe would vote Democrat in pretty much any election in which Democrats weren't totally crazy and didn't demonstrate their hatred and alienation of men.

00:02:12.000 But that is way too much for the left.

00:02:13.000 So instead, they are trotting out Jennifer Welch, a screechy left wing lady, as the answer to Joe Rogan.

00:02:19.000 Or maybe Hassan Piker, a commie who wears Cartier and pearl necklaces and loves terrorists and foreign dictatorships.

00:02:24.000 Or maybe the bros from Podsave America.

00:02:27.000 Men are now foreigners in the land of the left.

00:02:29.000 When the left thinks of men, they think of stereotypes. 0.77

00:02:32.000 And when they appeal to men, they try to play on those stereotypes.

00:02:35.000 And this is why you get the bizarre contrast between James Tallarico and Graham Plattner.

00:02:41.000 So, James Tallarico is stereotype number one.

00:02:45.000 Ned Flanders, ultra bad.

00:02:48.000 So, the left has been sort of off put by the fact that they ran this guy who claims to thump the Bible, but also doesn't believe in anything remotely biblical.

00:02:56.000 Like, that basically biblical values are passe.

00:02:59.000 And so he takes a bunch of radical left wing values and then reads them into the vaguest statements from the Bible.

00:03:04.000 And they're surprised that the right doesn't love this.

00:03:07.000 And that the right is kind of annoyed by James Tallarico's ridiculous cosplay as biblical man because the guy says that God has no gender or is gender free or is trans, or he talks about trans kids, or he talks about how his campaign is vegan. 0.78

00:03:26.000 And then men go, oh no, this is not it, my dudes.

00:03:31.000 And so now, basically, Tallarico, who is the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas, where Democrats are going to waste an awful lot of money trying to defeat Ken Paxton and they're going to lose anyway.

00:03:41.000 Well, now they're trying to trans Tallarico's positions.

00:03:46.000 So remember, Tallarico is incredibly far left, incredibly far left.

00:03:49.000 So here he was with a person named Dan Cogdell recently explaining this is Ken Paxton's defense lawyer lying about his view on transing the kids.

00:04:02.000 I hear consistent tropes about you being way too liberal for Texas, that you're pro sex surgery for minors, and on and on and on.

00:04:10.000 How do you respond to that?

00:04:11.000 Well, just on that particular accusation, I oppose. 1.00

00:04:14.000 Gender reassignment surgeries for minors.

00:04:19.000 Well, that's weird because you'll recall that he also talked about the magic of trans kids not that long ago.

00:04:28.000 Something that you hate.

00:04:31.000 I hate people who are not willing to change their mind.

00:04:36.000 Something that you love that's not family or friends.

00:04:41.000 I love, and just say this because it's on my mind, the.

00:04:46.000 Trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity.

00:04:51.000 They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.

00:04:56.000 This is also the same guy who said that God was non binary.

00:04:59.000 Not that God has no gender, which of course is true because he's God, but that God is non binary. 0.89

00:05:05.000 Like in a sort of bizarre LGBTQ divided by a sign way. 0.97

00:05:11.000 The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines in Genesis use two different Hebrew words to describe God.

00:05:23.000 One, Is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity.

00:05:28.000 The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit.

00:05:33.000 God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.

00:05:40.000 God is non binary.

00:05:46.000 Oh, good Lord.

00:05:47.000 You will also recall that James Tallarica voted against SB 14 in 2023, that banned gender affirming care, which would be, you know, like puberty blockers, hormone therapies. 0.85

00:05:56.000 Butchering the children for kids under 18 years old.

00:05:58.000 He also voted against HB 25 in 2021, which required K 12 students at public schools to compete exclusively on the sports teams, you know, where they have their biological sex.

00:06:09.000 So, like boys with boys, girls with girls.

00:06:10.000 He voted against that.

00:06:12.000 His church funds abortions and transgender summer camps. 0.99

00:06:17.000 This is what he is doing.

00:06:18.000 He's now trying to trans his own politics.

00:06:20.000 James Tellerico.

00:06:23.000 Here he was with Dan Cockdell, lying about his views on border security as well.

00:06:29.000 I called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border.

00:06:33.000 And I got a lot of heat in my own party for doing that.

00:06:36.000 But I remember talking with my colleagues in the legislature who represent border communities.

00:06:42.000 And they told me about the utter chaos caused by President Biden's policies.

00:06:47.000 And the Democratic Party, we're the ones that should be about making government work for people.

00:06:51.000 And our immigration system is a prime example of government not working for people.

00:06:56.000 And so I'm a border security Democrat. 0.77

00:06:57.000 I believe we've got to have a sane, orderly process to ensure that we know who's coming into our country. 0.93

00:07:04.000 And I'm all for welcoming immigrants who want to work hard and live the American dream, who want to make us richer and stronger, as immigrants have always done. 1.00

00:07:13.000 But I also think we have to keep out folks who mean to do us harm. 1.00

00:07:16.000 And public safety is the most important thing the government does more important than public education, more important than public health.

00:07:22.000 Nothing matters if we're not keeping people safe.

00:07:26.000 I mean, Teller goes just lying and lying and lying.

00:07:28.000 Here he was explaining that the border should have a welcome match just a couple of years ago.

00:07:33.000 My family is from the border.

00:07:35.000 My mom grew up in Laredo, Texas.

00:07:37.000 I feel like Texans understand this issue of immigration more so than people in other states because we live with it, both the benefits and the challenges.

00:07:46.000 So, what I've said is that our southern border should be like our front porch.

00:07:51.000 There should be a giant welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.

00:07:57.000 He was so tough on border security that in 2021, he voted against House Bill 9, which appropriated $1.8 billion for border security operations.

00:07:57.000 Yes.

00:08:06.000 And then in 2023, he also voted against SB4, which authorized Texas law enforcement to arrest and detain illegal immigrants.

00:08:13.000 He also says that he's a Second Amendment defender.

00:08:15.000 Again, he's transing his entire politics right now. 0.84

00:08:18.000 He is pretending to be a thing that he is not.

00:08:20.000 He's trying to run as a moderate Republican, which of course he is not.

00:08:22.000 He's a very, very far left Democrat.

00:08:27.000 I'm a believer in the Second Amendment.

00:08:28.000 I don't pick and choose between the Bill of Rights.

00:08:31.000 I believe in the Second Amendment just as much as I believe in the First.

00:08:35.000 We have a right to bear arms, to protect ourselves, our families.

00:08:39.000 We have a right to own weapons for sport or for hunting.

00:08:42.000 But like any freedom in the Bill of Rights, it's not absolute.

00:08:47.000 Okay.

00:08:50.000 In 2021, he voted against HB 1927.

00:08:52.000 That's a constitutional carry bill that allowed Texans 21 plus to carry handguns without obtaining a state permit.

00:08:58.000 Again, constitutional carry.

00:09:00.000 And now Tallarico's pretending that he wants to protect oil and gas jobs, which, no, he absolutely does not.

00:09:08.000 We have to protect good paying oil and gas jobs.

00:09:11.000 You know, I've had family members who have worked in the oil and gas industry.

00:09:15.000 I went to Texas public schools funded by Texas oil and gas.

00:09:20.000 So, I owe a lot to the industry, and I know that some of these jobs keep whole families afloat.

00:09:26.000 And so, I want to protect our status as an energy leader here in Texas.

00:09:31.000 Well, yeah, I mean, flashback.

00:09:34.000 Here he was explaining that you can't call yourself a Christian.

00:09:36.000 Again, this is the thing that drew Democrats to him the Ned Flanders cosplay.

00:09:40.000 You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases.

00:09:44.000 You can't be in favor of oil and natural gas and also be a Christian, according to James Tellerico.

00:09:51.000 You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases.

00:09:58.000 In 2023, this guy voted against HB 1500, which was an energy bill that would overhaul the Texas electrical grid and restrict renewable energy expansion.

00:10:07.000 So, again, he's a down the line Democrat, and now he's trying to flip himself into a Republican.

00:10:10.000 But the key to understand about James Tallarico is why Democrats were so high on this guy in the first place.

00:10:16.000 Why did they think that this was the guy?

00:10:17.000 And the answer was the affect.

00:10:20.000 They think that Republicans in Texas. 0.78

00:10:23.000 Are basically Bible thumpers who look like they come straight out of howdy doody. 0.51

00:10:29.000 And if they just cosplay as that thing, if they pretend to be that thing, then Republicans will be happy. 0.94

00:10:36.000 And that's really, really silly because, again, manliness in the sort of traditional conservative way of thinking about manliness is about fulfilling the duties of men.

00:10:46.000 That is what manliness is. 0.61

00:10:48.000 I say the left doesn't understand manliness.

00:10:49.000 We'll get to the right's misunderstanding of manliness, the reactionary right's misunderstanding.

00:10:54.000 But there is a traditional definition of masculinity.

00:10:57.000 And that traditional definition is fulfilling the duties of men.

00:11:00.000 So, what are the things that men ought to do? 0.99

00:11:02.000 Well, they ought to get married to a woman. 0.95

00:11:05.000 And they ought to protect that woman. 0.98

00:11:07.000 And then they ought to protect the children that they have and bring up with that woman.

00:11:13.000 And that means not only physical defense, it also means protecting and providing for that family.

00:11:17.000 And it means they ought to do their duty in the community to defend their community and build the social fabric of that community.

00:11:22.000 These are the things that men traditionally do.

00:11:26.000 And a man is defined by the things that he does.

00:11:29.000 But according to the left, which doesn't believe any of those things, they don't believe it is the duty of a man to get married.

00:11:33.000 They don't believe it's the duty of a man to create children and bring those children up.

00:11:39.000 They do not believe it's the job of a man to build the social fabric of his community.

00:11:43.000 These are all duties.

00:11:44.000 And the left traditionally does not believe in social duties.

00:11:47.000 They believe in quote unquote rights, which means liberation from duties in their view, but they do not believe in duties.

00:11:52.000 And so what they do is they sort of wear the mask of masculinity.

00:11:56.000 They're happy with the guy who thumps the Bible so long as he doesn't read any of the parts, namely 95% of it, that talks about human rights.

00:12:02.000 Responsibilities.

00:12:05.000 They like the little bit where it talks about being nice to the stranger, but they don't care about the rest of the Bible at all.

00:12:11.000 In fact, they don't like the rest of the Bible at all.

00:12:13.000 And so what they do is they grab the trappings of masculinity, and then they're surprised when the right doesn't respond to those trappings because we can see that you are pretending.

00:12:22.000 We can see that it's a Halloween costume.

00:12:25.000 And it all comes off as fake from James Tallarico.

00:12:28.000 When James Tallarico is trotting around the landscape a couple of years ago, wearing a mask and explaining that his campaign is now vegan, and this is the moral.

00:12:37.000 Standard.

00:12:38.000 And then he flips and he's eating ribs, but with a napkin.

00:12:41.000 We can all see the costume.

00:12:43.000 We can all see it.

00:12:44.000 And again, this is only happening because the left does not understand what traditional masculinity looks like.

00:12:49.000 In just a second, we'll get to Democrats' other stereotype.

00:12:51.000 They have the Bible thumping Ned Flanders type. 0.98

00:12:53.000 The other stereotype is manly men who may, in fact, want to rape home invaders and all the rest. 0.65

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00:14:14.000 And then there is stereotype number two that the left believes about men, which is they are toxic starship trooper dudes.

00:14:20.000 That basically, what men are is rough and tumble. 0.99

00:14:24.000 They talk of Graham Platner, you know, they don't never shave and look kind of messy and treat women like trash. 0.96

00:14:33.000 And that's what the right things men are, is like a Graham Platner. 0.70

00:14:37.000 So again, they have two pictures of what men look like one is Ned Flanders and the other is Starship Troopers.

00:14:43.000 And neither one is what men look like in the traditional conservative viewpoint because the trappings aren't what matters, it's the duties that matter.

00:14:50.000 So traditional conservative men can look like A lawyer who works at the office but provides for his family and his kids and is a ranking member of the church and gives charity and does all those things.

00:15:00.000 Or a traditional man can look like a member of the military who is out defending the country and comes home to his wife and his kids and works a blue collar job.

00:15:10.000 It can run the gamut.

00:15:11.000 As long as you fulfill the basic duties of a man, you are a man.

00:15:13.000 But the left doesn't believe in those duties.

00:15:15.000 So instead, again, they come up with the aesthetics.

00:15:17.000 And so they look at Graham Plattner and they say, This is what a man looks like.

00:15:20.000 A man looks like this toxic dude. 1.00

00:15:25.000 And again, Graham Platner is a ridiculous figure. 0.99

00:15:27.000 This is the Senate main candidate. 0.98

00:15:31.000 They only come in two flavors for the Democrats the toxic male like Graham Platner or the quasi effeminate Bible thumper, Talarico. 0.70

00:15:42.000 And again, every day, worse stuff comes out about Graham Platner, the Senate main candidate. 0.61

00:15:48.000 It turns out that one of the apps that he was on called Kick.

00:15:54.000 It was one of the top 10 apps used by teens in America.

00:15:56.000 According to Search Logistics, one third of American teens use Kik.

00:16:01.000 According to Mark Thiessen, writing in the Washington Post, in 2023, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation set up a fake teen account on Kik for a girl named Jenny and reported that within hours, she was contacted not by one, not two, but dozens of adult men who knew the user was purportedly a minor, but still sent her pornography and graphic messages demanding she send nude images of herself.

00:16:22.000 And his Kik account, Platner's Kik account, was still active.

00:16:27.000 As of just yesterday.

00:16:32.000 But again, the idea for the left is what if we grab the costume of masculinity and then we pour a bunch of socialist nonsense into it?

00:16:38.000 So there is a socialist duo that helped groom Plattner into a working class candidate. 0.96

00:16:42.000 Now, it is so obviously a costume for him, it's ridiculous.

00:16:46.000 Again, the man went to private school when he was growing up. 0.75

00:16:50.000 His parents bought a house for him.

00:16:52.000 He runs an oyster farm that basically solely supplies his mom's restaurant.

00:16:57.000 And they had to somehow turn this guy into blue collar hero of the day.

00:17:02.000 So who did that?

00:17:03.000 Precisely who you would think.

00:17:04.000 According to the New York Post, Yale law school grad Daniel Moraff and his fiancee, Leanne Fan, an academic with stints at Harvard and the proudly radical University of California, Berkeley, are the under the radar team who shaped Plattner's candidacy.

00:17:17.000 They had originally met while working for Bernie Sanders in 2020.

00:17:20.000 They are hardcore members of the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:17:25.000 They had previously been behind candidates like Dan Osborne running for Senate in Nebraska and Summer Leah, Pennsylvania, who is part of the squad.

00:17:35.000 Moraf's ideas were hatched in 2017.

00:17:37.000 He pens a now deleted essay in the progressive magazine in These Times titled Want to Elect Socialists, Run Them in Democratic Primaries.

00:17:46.000 And they knew full well.

00:17:48.000 About exactly who Graham Platner was.

00:17:50.000 This is why they picked him because these people who have no relationship with traditional masculinity I mean, you can watch the tape and see it.

00:17:56.000 These folks who have no relationship with traditional masculinity looked at him and they saw the cosplay.

00:18:05.000 Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial?

00:18:10.000 No.

00:18:12.000 The Reddit posts, did that turn up?

00:18:13.000 These are the people wearing Graham Platner as a flesh mask.

00:18:20.000 The firm sent us a thing and it had some of the posts, but it didn't have all of them.

00:18:29.000 And what did you think about that?

00:18:32.000 How did you think your way through the fact that he had posted these things on social media?

00:18:38.000 I said none of this will or should stop him from becoming a US senator.

00:18:44.000 Well, I mean, these two, these two people should probably tell you. about what Trump fans are looking for in masculinity.

00:18:53.000 Those two. 1.00

00:18:56.000 Captain effeminate McVocal Fry and the woman next to him wearing the baggy sweatshirt and the glasses.

00:19:04.000 They should tell you about what, what manly men are looking for.

00:19:09.000 Platner's mask is falling away day by day. 0.98

00:19:11.000 It turns out he's just a nut.

00:19:13.000 The main wire is now reporting that Platner registered his oyster business Online domain nine months after he registered his Senate domain. 0.87

00:19:26.000 So he ramped up his entire shtick here in order to run.

00:19:32.000 Graham Plattner says this is false and defamatory.

00:19:34.000 I would have thought Fox News learned their lesson after paying Dominion $787.5 million.

00:19:40.000 He's saying that in response to a mainwire reporter saying that the oyster business was totally fake.

00:19:47.000 Now, I don't know whether the oyster business was fake or not.

00:19:49.000 I have no clue, but it appears.

00:19:52.000 That Graham for Senate was registered as a website in April 2023.

00:19:55.000 And nine months later, his oyster company farm domain, wakigneckoystercompany.com, was registered, which doesn't sound like the livest business in the entire world.

00:20:08.000 Meanwhile, Genevieve McDonald, who was a campaign manager for Platner, explains why she dropped out of representing him.

00:20:17.000 Quote, I became Graham Platner's political director in August 2025 as he launched a bid for the Democratic Senate primary in Maine.

00:20:24.000 I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party's prospects in my home state.

00:20:33.000 She says, when I raised concerns to anyone in the campaign, Platner would call me and convince me that everything was fine and his intentions were noble.

00:20:41.000 When his Reddit comments in 2013 downplaying sexual assault were revealed by the Post on October 17th, I submitted my resignation and made it public I would no longer validate Platner.

00:20:50.000 The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

00:20:53.000 I refused.

00:20:55.000 Platner's campaign attacked me instead of confronting his shortcomings.

00:21:00.000 Over the past eight months, women have come to me with their own disturbing stories about Platner.

00:21:06.000 Now, Democrats, of course, are coming out and endorsing him still.

00:21:10.000 Bernie Sanders, who himself was a derelict.

00:21:13.000 I mean, in his personal life, you want to talk about men who are not traditionally male?

00:21:17.000 Bernie Sanders, go read about his younger life where he basically abandoned a child he sired.

00:21:22.000 Here is Bernie Sanders talking about the magic of Graham Platner.

00:21:28.000 And what he has admitted is that he came back home with serious problems.

00:21:35.000 Talks about the VA care that he got in the VA for PTSD, which went a long way to giving him the strength that he has right now.

00:21:48.000 He is now married to a very, I've met her several times, very nice young woman, Amy, and has gotten his life together.

00:21:59.000 So to my mind, I don't know what is true or not true.

00:22:03.000 He denies it, she says something else. 0.91

00:22:07.000 But what I do know is that What about Believe All Women?

00:22:11.000 There are people in the United States Senate right now who are not saints.

00:22:17.000 I can tell you that.

00:22:20.000 Well, I mean, that means it's totally okay, according to Bernie Sanders, because again, Bernie Sanders has no standards. 0.97

00:22:26.000 Jennifer Welch, the left wing response to Joe Rogan, insanely, she, of course, misdirects by saying that MAGA is the party of sexual abuse and pedophilia. 0.99

00:22:34.000 Well, you know, if you want to make that case, then probably you should eliminate the people in your party who are fans of sexual abuse and pedophilia. 0.99

00:22:40.000 You might want to do that. 1.00

00:22:44.000 MAGA is the party of sexual abuse and pedophilia. 1.00

00:22:48.000 MAGA is the party that props up sexual predators. 1.00

00:22:52.000 It is trickle down sexual predation from Donald Trump all the way down to people in Congress, all the way down to his voters. 1.00

00:23:01.000 So every time you see a MAGA Republican tell you they're about law and order and they're pro family, it is a goddamn lie. 1.00

00:23:09.000 The Republican Party doesn't give a fuck. 1.00

00:23:13.000 About families. 1.00

00:23:15.000 They do not give a about children.

00:23:17.000 They do not give a about life.

00:23:19.000 Their policies always lead to death. 0.95

00:23:22.000 And now we have a Republican Party that is a pedophile enabler movement. 0.95

00:23:29.000 So, this is the psychotic, the ambulatory psychotic that Democrats have put forth as the answer to Joe Rogan. 0.90

00:23:36.000 Now, what's amazing about this is what she says about men there.

00:23:39.000 She's saying that it bleeds all the way down to the voters. 0.99

00:23:41.000 So, she thinks that Trump voters are, in fact, sexual abusers who don't care about family and who like pedophilia. 0.98

00:23:48.000 That is what she's saying about the not just Trump, which of course is a lie, but she's also saying about Trump voters all the way down. 0.94

00:23:54.000 So, this is why Democrats look at Trump voters.

00:23:55.000 They go, Who could we get to appeal to those voters?

00:23:58.000 What if we got our own guy who has sexual abuse problems, but he talks like this and he doesn't shave and also he pretends that he's a manly, manly man? 0.54

00:23:58.000 Maybe. 0.54

00:24:08.000 What if we do that?

00:24:09.000 And the picture of masculinity for Democrats is completely stereotypical because they have no idea of what masculinity ought to look like.

00:24:16.000 That is the entire game here, that is the entire shtick.

00:24:20.000 Now, wearing masculinity around as a costume, unfortunately, is not relegated to the left because this is what happens.

00:24:27.000 If you didn't like the traditional Republican Party, wait until you get to the post traditional Republican Party.

00:24:32.000 It turns out it's got some problems.

00:24:34.000 You didn't like traditional morality, wait until you get to post traditional morality.

00:24:39.000 See, when you do away with the definition of manliness as a series of duties, duties to wife, duties to children, duties to community, duties to state and country, when you do away with all of those matrices for what it means to be a man, what you end up with is a bunch of costumes.

00:24:56.000 In just a second, we'll get to the reactionary rights idea of what masculinity is. 0.57

00:25:00.000 Apparently, It involves walking around bare chested and having women pose for pornography and such. 0.99

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00:26:12.000 So, Andrew Tate is back in the news today because there is an extraordinary piece over at New Yorker Magazine by Heidi Blake, a very long investigative piece about Andrew Tate's extraordinary abuse of women, tremendous abuse of women, well documented abuse of women.

00:26:27.000 And it is sickening and it is gross.

00:26:29.000 And it was well accepted and treated by people on the right. 0.54

00:26:33.000 Because when you don't think of masculinity as the duty to go find a woman and marry her and have children with her and take care of those children and lead a traditionally moral life, what you end up with is the cosplay of masculinity.

00:26:33.000 Why?

00:26:47.000 Great big bustles and sports cars and beautiful women who don't give a damn about you, but who are there for the clout and maybe for the money because you're their pimp. 1.00

00:26:58.000 That's what you end up with.

00:27:00.000 The question is not why people like Andrew Tate exist.

00:27:02.000 We know why they take advantage of opportunity.

00:27:04.000 The question is why there were so many people on the right. 1.00

00:27:07.000 Who were taken in and continue to be taken in by people like Andrew Tate, who is a scumbag. 1.00

00:27:13.000 Andrew Tate is a grifter. 1.00

00:27:16.000 Andrew Tate takes money from ignorant people and he abuses human beings. 1.00

00:27:21.000 And somehow he is treated with a level of respect. 0.95

00:27:23.000 And the only reason I can explain this is a post traditionally moral right.

00:27:28.000 And it turns out that you ditch traditional morality and some pretty terrible downstream effects occur.

00:27:32.000 So if the stereotype on the left is that men are either James Tallarico or Graham Platner, The stereotype on the reactionary right, people who are not ensconced in traditional morality, is that manhood is really working out shirtless in your made over warehouse in Romania while being surrounded by women who don't give a damn about you and pose in pornography.

00:27:53.000 That's what masculinity really looks like.

00:27:57.000 And traditional morality was a good thing.

00:27:58.000 You're going to miss it when it's gone.

00:28:01.000 So, according to Heidi Blake, the Tates moved to Romania from the UK in 2015 after three British women accused Tate of rape and strangulation.

00:28:11.000 She writes, Court records show that local police sat on at least two reports indicating that the Tates were coercing Romanian women into sex work.

00:28:18.000 Andrew openly discussed bribing law enforcement officials in war room chats and bragged on social media about his connections.

00:28:24.000 Everyone wants to be friends with the pimp, he wrote in a since deleted tweet.

00:28:27.000 Now, again, why is Andrew Tate relevant?

00:28:29.000 Well, he is one of the most watched people on planet Earth, as he will tell you himself.

00:28:33.000 Now, for those who listen to the show who are unaware of Tate's social media presence, it's enormous and it's been enormous for years.

00:28:39.000 And he's been promoted by some of the top people in right wing politics.

00:28:44.000 He is also, as stated, one of the worst people in public life.

00:28:50.000 According to the article, Tate's representatives claimed he hadn't really meant what he'd said online about sexually exploiting women.

00:28:55.000 He had simply been playing a character for entertainment. 0.99

00:28:58.000 He would have sex with women on webcam for a price. 0.96

00:29:01.000 One of the webcam girls, the article calls her Maya Navarro, alleged that Tate raped her multiple times and strangled her and also another woman multiple times. 0.83

00:29:09.000 Another woman, who the article calls Hannah Price, showed UK police a series of messages from Tate discussing the alleged assault. 0.84

00:29:15.000 I love raping you, he had written to her. 0.99

00:29:17.000 Monsters are monsters. 1.00

00:29:20.000 Tate is literally on tape whipping one woman who ended up as a procurer for him, sort of like Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein. 0.89

00:29:29.000 He is whipping her on belt as she lies in the fetal position on tape, sobbing. 0.99

00:29:33.000 And he says, Bitch, look at the camera. 1.00

00:29:35.000 This is what happens when you don't effing listen. 0.99

00:29:37.000 Tate said that the belt video was made in 2012 when he had begun a relationship with her.

00:29:41.000 That year, she turned 15. 15.

00:29:47.000 Tate is preaching to young men who are not being given.

00:29:50.000 A dose of traditional masculinity, expectations, and duties in the world.

00:29:54.000 And you can see where he got it. 0.96

00:29:55.000 Tate got it from his dad, Emery, who was a philanderer, an abuser, and a drunk.

00:30:03.000 Tate points out that his dad basically abandoned him.

00:30:08.000 He says, You're a better role model to your son if you barely see him and live life on your terms. 0.99

00:30:12.000 Andrew later wrote, A dad is a superhero, not a full time carer, doesn't sit and become a bitch like the woman wants. 0.98

00:30:20.000 Both he and his brother Tristan have double digit children. 0.99

00:30:22.000 He says, I'm the big gorilla.

00:30:23.000 I take the fertile females and I impregnate them. 1.00

00:30:26.000 Some of the moms were moved to their own apartments where they kept working on camera. 1.00

00:30:30.000 By working on camera, we mean posing nude for other men.

00:30:34.000 The brothers sometimes visited, and Andrew has described meeting out harsh discipline.

00:30:39.000 My kids obey me like effing soldiers, he said.

00:30:42.000 On his orders, his five year old son would sit for hours in silence.

00:30:44.000 Doesn't effing move, doesn't say an effing word because he's scared for his effing life.

00:30:49.000 Now, how does he make his money? 0.98

00:30:50.000 He makes his money by getting losers. 1.00

00:30:53.000 who have not been given any sort of guidance by their parents or by their communities to pay him money to promote his crap. 0.98

00:31:01.000 Tate presided over an online network called the War Room, in which for a fee of about $8,000 a year, he promised to free the modern man from socially induced incarceration. 0.98

00:31:10.000 Members learned how to recruit women into sexual slavery in a series of tutorials Tate called his pimping hose degree.

00:31:16.000 He had used one woman named Yasmina Penkoff as a teaching case, reporting on her subjugation over the secure messaging app Telegram.

00:31:23.000 He said, I've done this with over 100 girls.

00:31:25.000 I almost sound evil, but I'm not.

00:31:26.000 I'm a shepherd leading the sheep.

00:31:30.000 He had also created a nonsense enterprise called Hustlers University that basically you paid him in order for him to allow you to clip his stuff and attract new subscribers.

00:31:43.000 It was basically a pyramid scheme.

00:31:48.000 He brought women into webcam modeling, which is to say pornography, and he would sleep with them in order to get them to do this. 0.99

00:31:57.000 He would personally, again, have sex with women on webcam for a price. 0.61

00:32:01.000 Tate has claimed that in his first month with Hroskova, that is the woman who he is on camera hitting with a belt when she was 15, he made more than $100,000 and the brothers bought an Aston Martin. 0.50

00:32:12.000 At the peak of the webcam business, according to the brothers, they had 75 women working for them.

00:32:17.000 And Andrew said that more than 30 women had his name tattooed on their skin.

00:32:21.000 Each brother had a personal harem.

00:32:23.000 Tate called the women his wives and ordered them to address him as king.

00:32:25.000 Okay, now, the question here is not why Andrew Tate did what he did.

00:32:30.000 There have been horrible men for all of human history.

00:32:32.000 The question is why he is rich and why he is famous, and more importantly, why he is so well accepted on parts of the right, the fringy parts of the right.

00:32:41.000 According to the New Yorker, Rick Grinnell, who is President Trump's presidential envoy, worked in order to free them so they could travel.

00:32:53.000 Grinnell met at Mar-a-Lago with Romanian politician Victor Ponta, who later told The Times they discussed the Tate's case.

00:33:00.000 Grinnell has denied aiding the Tate's or speaking about their case, though he has publicly affirmed, I support the Tate brothers.

00:33:05.000 Based on what?

00:33:06.000 Naturally, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have been huge supporters of Andrew Tate.

00:33:13.000 Carlson released a documentary recently.

00:33:16.000 Called the end of men about the decline of masculinity.

00:33:19.000 He has spent hours of airtime proclaiming Tate's innocence.

00:33:23.000 The same is true of Candace Owens, who went to Romania to interview him and hugged him and said he was innocent and falsified all the accusations against him.

00:33:36.000 JD Vance followed the brothers on X. Donald Trump selected one of their lawyers, Paul Ingracia, to serve as the White House liaison to the Department of Justice.

00:33:43.000 Ingracia had previously tweeted that Tate was, quote, the embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence.

00:33:49.000 Which is why he had been targeted by, quote, the satanic elite that attempt to systematically program and oppress all men.

00:33:55.000 And of course, we talked about it at the time.

00:33:58.000 The president's lawyer, Alina Habba, appeared on a podcast with Tate and said she was a big fan and said that she had his back.

00:34:04.000 She later walked that back.

00:34:06.000 The question is why?

00:34:07.000 Why?

00:34:07.000 And the answer is when you get beyond traditional morality, you end up with just the cosplay of morality.

00:34:14.000 You end up with the cosplay of masculinity.

00:34:18.000 You end up with the picture on the left again of Tala Rico, the Ned Flanders, or Starship Troopers, Graham Platner.

00:34:23.000 Or you end up with this bizarre pyramid scheming pornographer, sort of Hugh Hefnerization, but with some MMA overtones.

00:34:35.000 And that's supposed to be masculinity.

00:34:36.000 But it turns out that masculinity is, again, about performance of duty in the world.

00:34:42.000 Performance of duty, that is what masculinity always was.

00:34:45.000 And if you don't do those things, you are not masculine.

00:34:47.000 You are something else, but you are not masculine.

00:34:51.000 Because righteousness is a masculine quality, it is a thing that you must pursue.

00:34:57.000 And when you rob men of their initiative, when you rob men of their roles and you rob them of their duties, they end up cosplaying manhood.

00:35:04.000 Which brings us to what I think is actually the most important story, probably of the last couple of decades.

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00:35:58.000 The New York Times has a fascinating piece today talking about why birth rates are declining in the West.

00:36:04.000 And it surveys a couple of new papers.

00:36:06.000 And the answer is basically iPhone pornography.

00:36:09.000 That is the real answer.

00:36:10.000 It's social media and iPhone pornography.

00:36:12.000 That is what happened.

00:36:14.000 According to the New York Times, two new papers, one published Monday, the other in May, are the first academic endeavors that test whether the smartphone was a cause.

00:36:21.000 Proving phones caused the decline is a tricky endeavor.

00:36:23.000 There were a number of major events in those years, including the Great Recession.

00:36:26.000 Isolating smartphone use is difficult.

00:36:28.000 One theory that an economist at Middlebury College named Myers said is young people began to socialize more on their phones and less in person.

00:36:36.000 Consequently, they were less likely to have sex and become pregnant.

00:36:38.000 Professor Myers said iPhones may also have made pornography more accessible.

00:36:42.000 Which led young people to substitute it for sex, or young people may have used them to obtain better information on avoiding pregnancy, including contraception and abortion.

00:36:49.000 The answer is the former.

00:36:50.000 Young people are having far less sex these days.

00:36:52.000 And the reason is the availability of pornography that is on their phone at all times.

00:36:56.000 The average age of first use of pornography in the United States for boys, and it is boys, is barely pubescent.

00:37:04.000 It is extraordinarily young.

00:37:06.000 And so what we have done is we have emptied out social standards, we have emptied out responsibilities, and we have given access to hacking your dopamine centers to kids.

00:37:16.000 And as a society, we pretended all of that was fine.

00:37:19.000 Now, some of us have been warning for literally decades that when you abandon traditional standards of morality and you do the live and let live, what does it matter if kids watch pornography?

00:37:27.000 What does it matter if we obliterate the traditional masculine duties?

00:37:31.000 What does it matter?

00:37:32.000 Some of us have been saying for literally decades that this would destroy the society.

00:37:36.000 So, in 2005, I was 21 years old.

00:37:40.000 I brought out a book called Porn Generation How Social Liberalism is Corrupting Our Future.

00:37:43.000 And it was widely mocked at the time and derided because.

00:37:46.000 I was promoting traditional societal moral standards, including things like virginity until marriage.

00:37:51.000 Because the idea was don't watch pornography.

00:37:54.000 Don't be taken in by a bunch of elite cultural standards that degrade the essence of what it means to be a productive human being.

00:38:02.000 And instead, live a traditionally bound life, and you will be happier, and society will be better.

00:38:06.000 And this was mocked at the time, widely derided.

00:38:09.000 Why was I even saying?

00:38:10.000 Cato instituted a whole thing.

00:38:11.000 Why am I even saying that pornography would be bad?

00:38:13.000 It might be good, actually.

00:38:15.000 What would be the problem?

00:38:17.000 Here is what I was writing at 21.

00:38:18.000 Quote, As societal standards and traditional values have declined, the crassest elements of sexual deviancy and pornography have taken over the public square.

00:38:26.000 It is the youngest generations who have paid the price.

00:38:28.000 Never in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged, and yet so empty.

00:38:36.000 The old faith in traditional morality was too bourgeois, archaic, sexist, and close minded for this brave new world.

00:38:40.000 Our new God is tolerance of all behavior.

00:38:42.000 Our new credo, live and let live.

00:38:44.000 But the live and let live societal model is a recipe for societal disaster.

00:38:47.000 The myopic question posed by advocates of the new tolerant morality is, How does this immoral behavior hurt you?

00:38:53.000 But the overwhelming truth is that these are not individual acts, but inherently social acts with social consequences.

00:38:58.000 If millions of people accept the deviance as normal, that reshapes society in vastly destructive ways.

00:39:04.000 Moral self-destruction may seem to have no consequences for an individual, but the destruction of societal standards has always had consequences. 0.66

00:39:12.000 Again, this is me writing at 21.

00:39:13.000 Quote, if you build the world to your own specifications, and everyone else does as well, social contact becomes nearly impossible.

00:39:20.000 Love, the attempt to reach out to another person to bring that person into your world requires a faith To which the jaded can never aspire.

00:39:27.000 It is becoming rarer and rarer to find true romantics.

00:39:30.000 Again, all of this was foreseeable.

00:39:32.000 You know, all of this was foreseen thousands of years ago.

00:39:35.000 If you read the warnings of the Bible about what happens if you vitiate traditional moral standards, it ain't great.

00:39:43.000 And so, what have we been left with in the sphere of men?

00:39:43.000 It ain't great.

00:39:46.000 Why do we have a crisis of masculinity? 1.00

00:39:48.000 And by the way, a crisis of femininity because masculinity and femininity are, in fact, gender roles. 0.98

00:39:54.000 And gender roles are good. 0.99

00:39:56.000 They are a good thing. 0.66

00:39:58.000 Men have duties in the world, and women also have duties in the world. 1.00

00:40:02.000 It is good for a woman to get married. 0.97

00:40:04.000 It is good for a woman to bear children. 1.00

00:40:06.000 It is good for a woman to raise her children. 0.96

00:40:08.000 It is good for a woman to nurture and care for people. 0.99

00:40:10.000 It is good for a woman to build social fabric. 1.00

00:40:13.000 Again, none of that says a woman can't get a job. 1.00

00:40:15.000 She can do that. 1.00

00:40:16.000 That's great.

00:40:18.000 Again, my wife's a doctor with going on five children, and we've been married for almost 20 years.

00:40:23.000 That is a good thing.

00:40:25.000 Those are good things.

00:40:26.000 Those are happy things.

00:40:27.000 They make for a better society.

00:40:30.000 And the symptoms of an unhappy society are written all over our politics and our culture. 0.70

00:40:37.000 When you have a reactionary right embracing disgusting, disgusting, Of Andrew Tate and his imitators and his publicizers and the people who defend him.

00:40:52.000 And when you have a left that similarly believes that's what men are and then tries to channel that toward candidates, again, one of the things that you will notice is the number of these people who, number one, are unhappy, the answer is extraordinarily high.

00:41:03.000 And number two, the number of these figures who are leading traditional lives, and the answer is virtually none.

00:41:09.000 Virtually none.

00:41:11.000 And there's a reason for that.

00:41:13.000 Because again, when the society declares war on men, it is not just that they're declaring war on the traditional sort of trappings of masculinity.

00:41:21.000 And you can't fix that war by putting the trappings back.

00:41:26.000 When you obliterate the duties, when you obliterate what it means to be a man or what it means to be a woman, that is very, very difficult to rebuild.

00:41:32.000 And the only way to rebuild that is ground up. 0.58

00:41:34.000 The only way to rebuild that is by re inculcating the idea that virtue matters and that duty matters and that roles matter.

00:41:40.000 You want to raise your kids right?

00:41:41.000 Raise them with the idea they have duties in the world and things to do. 0.56

00:41:44.000 And yes, those things are in fact connected to their gender because boys and girls are different.

00:41:48.000 That is how you have happy boys and happy girls and happy men and happy women going forward.

00:41:52.000 Okay, in later news.

00:41:54.000 So, a lot of people are very angry at President Trump because President Trump showed up last night at Madison Square Garden.

00:42:01.000 Stephen A. Smith, again, I like Stephen A. Stephen A. was very, very upset because it meant that people had to wait outside the state.

00:42:06.000 Now, let's just be clear.

00:42:08.000 If Barack Obama showed up at an NBA Finals game, I don't think Stephen A. would be upset.

00:42:12.000 If Joe Biden showed up, I don't think he'd be particularly upset.

00:42:15.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:42:16.000 I doubt it.

00:42:17.000 But here is Stephen A going after the president for showing up at MSG.

00:42:19.000 And again, the president's been going to Knicks games for decades at this point.

00:42:24.000 This president has no business showing up in New York City.

00:42:28.000 I am dead serious. 0.57

00:42:30.000 It is selfish.

00:42:31.000 It is narcissistic. 0.99

00:42:34.000 It is ridiculous that he is coming to this game. 0.97

00:42:38.000 I would say the same thing if it were Obama, George W. Clinton. 0.99

00:42:42.000 I don't give a damn. 0.91

00:42:43.000 We went back to Reagan. 0.84

00:42:45.000 This is not a football stadium in some space in Texas where you got a whole bunch of outlays and all of this stuff.

00:42:50.000 This is the garden.

00:42:51.000 This is midtown Manhattan.

00:42:53.000 You have any idea what the congestion is going to be like in New York City here?

00:42:58.000 Okay, I feel bad.

00:43:00.000 0% for the New Yorkers.

00:43:01.000 I mean, maybe that's because I just have no sympathy for New Yorkers.

00:43:04.000 I have a lot of friends in New York.

00:43:04.000 Possible.

00:43:06.000 But, you know, I mean, let's be real.

00:43:08.000 The New York fans, not loving it.

00:43:12.000 Anyway, here was President Trump responding to Stephen A. ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who was talking about running for president, said he would blame you if the Knicks lost.

00:43:25.000 The game.

00:43:25.000 How do you respond to that?

00:43:27.000 I think he's a nice guy.

00:43:28.000 But you need a certain aptitude to run for president.

00:43:31.000 You need a high IQ.

00:43:31.000 I'm not sure that Stephen has that.

00:43:34.000 I don't think he does, actually.

00:43:38.000 Okay, so, yeah, the president and Stephen A going back and forth.

00:43:41.000 So, President Trump did, in fact, show up at the game, and he was booed during the national.

00:43:44.000 Well, again, he's in New York.

00:43:46.000 In New York, they voted for his or her mom dying.

00:43:48.000 I'm not going to cheer him.

00:43:49.000 I'm not sure that the president expected anything different.

00:43:51.000 And then the president apparently was tired from the trip, and he appears to fall asleep.

00:43:55.000 In the suite.

00:43:56.000 He was in James Dolan's suite, the owner.

00:43:59.000 And here he was.

00:44:00.000 He does not appear to be the most awake I've ever seen him.

00:44:19.000 Yeah, he appears to be pretty out there.

00:44:21.000 And then he appears to shake himself away.

00:44:28.000 Okay.

00:44:31.000 So people were just enraged about this.

00:44:33.000 Enraged.

00:44:34.000 I mean, not so enraged that the riots were not about Trump's appearance.

00:44:37.000 I mean, that's just New York Knicks fans being New York Knicks fans.

00:44:39.000 Let's be real.

00:44:39.000 But AOC was very upset.

00:44:41.000 She said that his attendance was a vibe killer.

00:44:45.000 It already has been a vibe killer because now the city has to shut down.

00:44:53.000 Down all the MSG watch parties that happen outside of the arena that have been the source of like so much fun for everybody, both if you're there and if you're watching it after the clips are posted.

00:45:06.000 Now, all of that's going to get shut down tomorrow because Trump wants to show up.

00:45:13.000 Now, my understanding is that's not even true that the watch parties were happening outside MSG when the Knicks were on the road, not when they were at home, but doesn't really matter.

00:45:20.000 Hakeem Jeffries showed up wearing a Knicks hat again.

00:45:24.000 The sudden Knicks fandom is a little much for me.

00:45:27.000 I mean, maybe Hakeem Jeffries has been a long time Knicks fan.

00:45:29.000 He's never worn a Knicks hat, but here we are.

00:45:33.000 So I've had a few things to say about Donald Trump going to the Knicks game.

00:45:38.000 And, you know, at this point is game day.

00:45:42.000 And I think Knicks fans just want to enjoy game three, the first home game that we've had in 27 years.

00:45:51.000 But it also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan.

00:45:55.000 I mean, does this guy even know the difference between Karl Rove and Karl Anthony Towns?

00:46:03.000 I don't think so.

00:46:06.000 He's just injecting himself into the NBA Finals because he always has to bring the MAGA circus into town.

00:46:21.000 And that's unfortunate.

00:46:24.000 I feel like he doesn't know the difference between Karl Rove, a five foot. 11 bald white guy and Carl Anthony Townsend, a seven foot tall, large black man who plays center for the New York.

00:46:35.000 I feel like he probably knows the difference.

00:46:37.000 I mean, probably.

00:46:39.000 But I will say this for the president.

00:46:41.000 So I will agree.

00:46:42.000 I think that the Knicks lost last night because President Trump showed up.

00:46:45.000 And you know why that happened?

00:46:46.000 Because President Trump loves America.

00:46:48.000 That's why he went.

00:46:49.000 He went so that they would lose because it is imperative that the Knicks lose.

00:46:53.000 It is imperative because Zoramam Dhani cannot be allowed to be happy.

00:46:58.000 It's not a thing.

00:46:59.000 America only wins if the Knicks lose.

00:47:01.000 I'm sorry, Knicks fans.

00:47:03.000 I'm sorry, longtime Knicks fans, especially the ones who didn't vote for Mom Dhani, but you brought this upon yourself.

00:47:09.000 The justice of the divine will only be served if the Knicks lose.

00:47:13.000 And especially if they lose a 2 0 lead after winning a couple on the road in San Antonio.

00:47:17.000 That is the only way that justice, cosmic justice, will be performed here.

00:47:20.000 So if the president was a tool in that cosmic justice, then I'm all for it.

00:47:25.000 The president may have just saved America, I guess, is what I'm saying right now.

00:47:28.000 And if, in fact, the Knicks lose because President Trump showed up for game three, then I will support a change to the Constitution that.

00:47:35.000 Allows for him to run for a third term because I mean, there are just things that have to be done here.

00:47:41.000 Also, just going to say if you're going to blame Trump for the Knicks losing, I seem to remember another political figure who was in the stadium last night who has a far more correlative record with regard to New York sports teams losing when he shows up.

00:47:57.000 That dude's name is Zoran Momdani.

00:47:59.000 You might recall that Zoran Momdani did an event with Mr. and Mrs. Mett, and the Mets proceeded to lose every game for the rest of time.

00:48:08.000 So maybe it was Mamdani up in the rafters that did it.

00:48:10.000 Maybe it wasn't Trump in the luxury box.

00:48:11.000 Maybe it was Mamdani up in the rafters.

00:48:14.000 Maybe it was that.

00:48:15.000 Well, it doesn't really matter.

00:48:16.000 My son was very happy.

00:48:17.000 I've been talking about him all week long about who he's rooting for.

00:48:22.000 Of course, he's a Wemby fan, and he goes to school with a bunch of Knicks fans.

00:48:25.000 And it turns out that tiny Knicks fans are just as obnoxious as large Knicks fans, apparently.

00:48:31.000 And so he was very, very happy this morning.

00:48:34.000 That's really my stake in this thing my son is happier when the Knicks lose in this particular series.

00:48:39.000 But apparently, the Knicks fans were unhappy, and so they decided to riot in New York City, which, again, do I find this particularly supportive?

00:48:47.000 Not so much.

00:48:48.000 They had themselves an evening.

00:48:49.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:48:53.000 Oh, things are going well.

00:49:01.000 Apparently, Spurs fans were being attacked.

00:49:05.000 Taunting the cops.

00:49:06.000 That's what Knicks fans do.

00:49:06.000 This is why they have to lose.

00:49:07.000 I'm sorry.

00:49:09.000 It's not our fault.

00:49:09.000 You guys brought this on yourselves.

00:49:12.000 Your fan base is the one attacking cops.

00:49:14.000 That would be you guys.

00:49:20.000 Now, listen, I'll admit.

00:49:21.000 I have some sympathy for the Knicks players because it's not their fault.

00:49:25.000 It's not Jalen Brunson's fault. 1.00

00:49:26.000 The Knicks fans are jackasses. 1.00

00:49:30.000 They're attacking trees now. 1.00

00:49:31.000 What did that tree ever do to them?

00:49:32.000 I don't understand.

00:49:34.000 Why are they upset with the tree?

00:49:36.000 Knicks fans.

00:49:38.000 Also, the sight of Spike Lee next to Timothy Chalamet, next to Ben Stiller, all at the front of the court.

00:49:48.000 Blue collar men, all with their $200,000 tickets.

00:49:52.000 Oh boy. 0.99

00:49:54.000 Well, at least this morning was a fun morning.

00:49:56.000 Again, I still think the Knicks are and should be favored in this.

00:49:58.000 The Knicks are playing some good ball.

00:50:00.000 The ball movement is tremendous.

00:50:01.000 Cat played pretty badly last night, and the calls did not go the Knicks' way.

00:50:06.000 But this series gets very, very fun.

00:50:09.000 If the Spurs win the next game, this series gets super fun.

00:50:11.000 And game four will be a rock fight.

00:50:13.000 Anyway, away from basketball and to other absurdity California voting, a complete absurdity, as we discussed yesterday on the program.

00:50:22.000 The votes that are being tabulated are fraudulent.

00:50:24.000 I am saying that ballot harvesting in California is a disaster area.

00:50:28.000 And the fact that you have people who literally go house to house to every Democratic registered voter or go to homeless shelters and pick up votes from there is a problem.

00:50:37.000 Here's Speaker Mike Johnson saying substantially the same thing.

00:50:41.000 They are counting votes weeks after the election.

00:50:43.000 We have entire nations with huge populations like India that can count their votes in 24 to 47.

00:50:49.000 You're saying it's rigged like the president?

00:50:50.000 I'm not saying it's rigged.

00:50:51.000 I'm saying it stinks to high heaven and everybody knows that.

00:50:56.000 Well, I mean, it is definitely a thing that has all of my California friends very, very upset.

00:51:03.000 Bill Asale, who is a district attorney for the Central District of California, he is asking for witnesses or information on voter fraud in California.

00:51:11.000 Again, it's going to be very difficult to find voter fraud.

00:51:14.000 The problem is the procedure, it's legal.

00:51:16.000 It's not voter fraud, it's just legal.

00:51:17.000 It's legalized ballot harvesting that provides the opportunity to find people who are not with it or who normally wouldn't vote or who don't care.

00:51:26.000 And you go to them, and there's no limit.

00:51:27.000 As long as you're paying your vote getters enough, they can go to Rando on a street corner and get his ballot tabulated.

00:51:36.000 Here's Bill Asaley.

00:51:39.000 But we will be charging some people.

00:51:41.000 I can't get in too much.

00:51:42.000 And mostly, Glenn, I mean, it's not just DOJ rules, but we also want to protect innocent people.

00:51:47.000 If we get something wrong, we don't want someone to be tainted with the stain of an investigation until we're able to prove that in court.

00:51:56.000 So I can't get into too much, but just know that at this point right now, We're wide open for investigations.

00:52:02.000 If anyone knows anything, direct evidence.

00:52:06.000 I know people have theories and they have ideas, and what we need right now are witnesses.

00:52:12.000 If you've witnessed anything, if someone voted in your name and you found out someone voted for you, we want to know about that.

00:52:20.000 If you saw someone collecting ballots in a suspicious way or doing something odd with ballots, we want to know about that.

00:52:30.000 Again, the length of the count for Democrats is not a bug, it is a feature.

00:52:33.000 They want more people voting by mail, they want more people voting by ballot harvesting.

00:52:36.000 It's what they want.

00:52:38.000 Sonny Hostin made that pretty clear on The View yesterday.

00:52:43.000 It makes people feel like, oh, something's off, but there's not.

00:52:46.000 That's how their rules are.

00:52:47.000 I did really the exact opposite.

00:52:49.000 I think if someone is taking their time to count the votes, I think if someone is looking at every single thing, because in California, it's the most populous state.

00:52:57.000 We all know that.

00:52:59.000 And they actually have signature verification.

00:53:01.000 So they look at every single signature.

00:53:04.000 And if those signatures do not match what they have on file, they then go back to the person and they say, Was this you?

00:53:11.000 And so it does take a long time to be right.

00:53:15.000 Why do you want to do it right in one night, though?

00:53:18.000 I don't think you can do it when you have 23 million registered voters.

00:53:23.000 It's just not possible.

00:53:26.000 It absolutely is possible.

00:53:28.000 It absolutely is possible.

00:53:30.000 Now, with that said, Harry Anton makes a good point over at CNN.

00:53:33.000 He says this idea that Democrats were trying to rig it so Spencer Pratt wouldn't make the runoff.

00:53:37.000 He's like, well, no, because the reality is that Karen Bass would rather run against Spencer Pratt than against. 0.92

00:53:43.000 Nithya Rahman, which is probably true.

00:53:45.000 Here's Harry Anson pointing this out. 0.84

00:53:48.000 This is the dumbest conspiracy theory I have ever heard because the Democratic establishment and Karen Bass wanted Spencer Pratt in the runoff. 0.57

00:53:56.000 They don't want any part to do with Nithya Rahman. 0.97

00:53:58.000 Why is that?

00:53:59.000 Because just take a look here.

00:54:00.000 Okay, Mayor Randall's runoff polls, Bass versus opponent versus Pratt.

00:54:04.000 Bass would have crushed Pratt by 18 points.

00:54:07.000 That's what the polling showed. 0.99

00:54:08.000 Look at how she does against Nithya Rahman, on the other hand. 0.98

00:54:11.000 Rahman is ahead by four points.

00:54:13.000 Bass has a real race on her hand if, in fact, Rahman is the one who advances.

00:54:17.000 And of course, the Democratic establishment is backing Karen Bass, but versus Spencer Pratt, she was crushing him.

00:54:24.000 She wanted to face Pratt.

00:54:25.000 She wanted nothing to do with Rahman.

00:54:26.000 That's why these conspiracy theories simply put make no sense, people.

00:54:32.000 Okay, but it's not the Democratic Party that has to do that.

00:54:35.000 Nithya Rahman can do it, right?

00:54:36.000 Ballot harvesting is quite possible with your organized friends from the DSA. 0.82

00:54:40.000 So that's not a conspiracy theory that makes sense, but again, it doesn't require conspiracies to say ballot harvesting is inherently.

00:54:46.000 All righty, in just one second, we are going to jump into truly dumb conspiracy theories, which are now being promulgated on the right. 0.97

00:54:46.000 Corrupt. 0.97

00:54:53.000 Again, it is astonishing how conspiracism has taken over the woke right, the horseshoe right.

00:54:58.000 It is the course of their grievance in politics.

00:55:00.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 09, 2026

The Left's Failing Attempt to Create Their Own "Manosphere"

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