The Ben Shapiro Show - The Radical Left’s Hostile Takeover Is Here

00:00:00.000 Theft is virtue.

00:00:02.000 Stealing is altruism.

00:00:03.000 Murder might be excusable. 0.92

00:00:06.000 Burn it all down.

00:00:07.000 These are the principles of the radical left.

00:00:09.000 And that radical left is increasingly embraced by the mainstream Democratic Party.

00:00:14.000 Today, we're going to talk about a podcaster named Hassan Piker.

00:00:16.000 You may have heard of him.

00:00:17.000 And the collapse of the moderate faction of the Democratic Party into total mewling cowardice.

00:00:23.000 And remember, folks, we are just a couple of elections away from those radical leftists taking power, which means true existential threat to the United States of America.

00:00:31.000 Plus, We will get to the question of whether God is non binary.

00:00:34.000 We'll explore Iran's bold strategy of mocking the president and whether the Trump administration ought to bail out Spirit Airlines.

00:00:41.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:49.000 Hey, so you may have heard of Hassan Piker.

00:00:51.000 There are about a thousand New York Times profiles of this guy.

00:00:54.000 He's associated with pretty much all the major left-wing Democrats.

00:00:58.000 He's a podcaster, of course.

00:01:00.000 He has a, he's a Twitch streamer. 0.84

00:01:02.000 He's also monstrously evil.

00:01:03.000 He advocates publicly in favor of hatred of America. 0.96

00:01:07.000 There's not a terrorist group, an anti-American, anti-Israel terrorist group he doesn't support.

00:01:11.000 He has advocated for violence against his opponents and the mainstream left loves him.

00:01:17.000 I think that's because they think that he is bro-coded, meaning that he works out a lot.

00:01:22.000 And he speaks the way that your friends from high school might after they read the Communist Manifesto and smoked a little bit of pot.

00:01:27.000 Also, he zaps his dog.

00:01:30.000 Also, he's a socialist who is really, really, really rich. 0.72

00:01:33.000 So, again, hypocrisy does not matter to these folks, not one iota. 0.51

00:01:36.000 When you speak of limousine liberals, this dude is a mansion Marxist.

00:01:40.000 He is not a limousine liberal, he's a mansion Marxist.

00:01:44.000 How much money is he worth?

00:01:45.000 I mean, he's worth millions and millions of dollars, is the answer to that particular question.

00:01:50.000 Massive Twitch hack some years ago in 2021.

00:01:55.000 And it found that since 2019, between 2019 and 2021, he had been paid almost $3 million from his streaming on Twitch.

00:02:03.000 And of course, he has a really terrific mansion in Los Angeles.

00:02:09.000 He purchased it in 2021 for a little under $3 million, apparently.

00:02:12.000 I mean, look at that.

00:02:14.000 That's a nice place.

00:02:15.000 That is a nice place.

00:02:17.000 Apparently, it's about 3,800 square feet in Brentwood, I believe, somewhere in the nicer area of LA.

00:02:25.000 And of course, he's also willing to travel to Cuba, a communist hellhole where the average annual income is something like $150. 0.60

00:02:34.000 He's happy to travel there to party it up and explain why he should have air conditioning in his nice five star hotel, but everyone else is just enjoying the weather outside, having a great time. 0.91

00:02:45.000 His outfits that he was wearing around over there, well, it turns out that they were costing maybe four times the annual income of a normal Cuban. 0.55

00:02:53.000 $690 shirt from a brand called Glass Cypress. 0.97

00:02:56.000 Hideous shirt, by the way.

00:02:57.000 Really, really, truly ugly.

00:02:58.000 And also, in that same image, he is wearing a ring from Cartier that costs $1,480, and he is also wearing Cartier sunglasses that cost $1,300.

00:03:11.000 Remember, folks, he is a good Marxist.

00:03:15.000 And he represents certain principles on the far left wing.

00:03:20.000 That America is evil, that private property is inherently bad, that violence is often justified, and as a sort of self-defense mechanism so he can do whatever the hell he wants, no principles of morality Must be adhered to as long as you are fighting the system.

00:03:35.000 It turns out that not only do the ends of Marxist anarchism justify the means, they justify literally any behavior so long as you are aligned with the ends.

00:03:44.000 So you can have a really nice mansion, you can wear a $1,400 Cartier ring and $1,300 Cartier sunglasses in Cuba with all of the poor's, so long as you say that you are in favor of communism.

00:03:57.000 Now, here's the thing what we are watching right now on the left, the rise of this radical leftist nonsense, and again, he is not unique.

00:04:02.000 We'll get to his connections inside the Democratic Party in a moment.

00:04:06.000 Because they are thoroughgoing.

00:04:07.000 The legacy media love him.

00:04:09.000 The New York Times are trying to turn Hassan Piker into a totally mainstream figure.

00:04:14.000 And inside the Democratic Party, they are succeeding.

00:04:17.000 But what we're watching right now at the Democratic Party is beyond woke.

00:04:20.000 The idea that intersectional wokeism was the way of the future for Democrats, that's not quite where we are.

00:04:25.000 We are well beyond it.

00:04:27.000 When people on the right say woke is dead, woke may have died, but it's been replaced by something else.

00:04:33.000 And that is something older third worldism.

00:04:35.000 Third worldism is the philosophy. 0.63

00:04:38.000 That basically every country on earth that is poor is poor because of the West. 0.52

00:04:42.000 That the solution to that is to tear down the West from the inside.

00:04:46.000 That global redistributionism, destruction of private property, and violence are all justified by the evils of the Western system.

00:04:52.000 That's not something new.

00:04:54.000 That's something that is quite old. 0.97

00:04:56.000 Again, it's just revolutionary left wing violence being now rebuttaled as progressive democratic politics by Cenk Uyghur's Nepo baby. 0.88

00:05:05.000 It is the mainstreaming of Beider Meinhof ideology.

00:05:08.000 So back in the 1970s, there's something called the Beider Meinhof gang.

00:05:12.000 They were also called the Red Army Faction.

00:05:14.000 And their whole goal was to tear down the world of capitalism on behalf of Marxism.

00:05:14.000 They were communists.

00:05:19.000 And they routinely quoted people like Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Gramsci.

00:05:24.000 They called for revolution.

00:05:25.000 Ulrike Meinhof, who was a left wing radical journalist who founded the group, famously said Protest is when I say this does not please me.

00:05:34.000 Resistance is when I ensure that what does not please me occurs no more.

00:05:38.000 And resistance, of course, is good.

00:05:40.000 Protest is enough.

00:05:41.000 You need resistance.

00:05:42.000 Manifested itself in actual violence, like actual terrorism by the Beider Meinhof group.

00:05:49.000 Again, they were Marxists in orientation.

00:05:50.000 They'd been influenced by radical race riots in the United States, by, for example, the Black Panthers in the United States.

00:05:55.000 They were allied with terrorist groups and radicals all over the globe.

00:05:59.000 Ulrike Meinhof actually wrote an essay defending the Munich massacre of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists. 0.53

00:06:04.000 Does this sound familiar? 0.52

00:06:06.000 All these same people defending Hamas' massacre of Jews on October 7th, defending Hezbollah, which, of course, he has done, Hassan Piker. 0.51

00:06:14.000 Stephen Oust. Who wrote a book on the Beider Meinhof gang? 0.59

00:06:19.000 He pointed out that a poll at the time that they were active showed that a quarter of West Germans under 40 felt sympathy for the gang.

00:06:26.000 One tenth said they would hide a gang member from the police.

00:06:29.000 And prominent intellectuals spoke up for the gang's righteousness.

00:06:33.000 When the gang started robbing banks, newscasts compared its members to Bonnie and Clyde.

00:06:37.000 Okay, so again, this is nothing new.

00:06:38.000 There's an impulse in human beings that when they do not like the system, they believe it justifies violence and theft of property and evil and terrorism.

00:06:48.000 And Hassan Piker is just one of these types.

00:06:51.000 He's just one of these types.

00:06:53.000 I mean, first of all, he has spoken routinely.

00:06:55.000 We've played clips of him on the show, routinely talking about violence against his political opponents.

00:07:01.000 But he has now done an interview with the New York Times in which he was interviewed by one Gia Tolentino and one Nadia Spiegelman.

00:07:12.000 And there, He talked about stealing.

00:07:17.000 He explained that he fully endorses cool crimes like robbing banks and stealing artifacts.

00:07:23.000 That's cool.

00:07:24.000 The crime is cool. 1.00

00:07:26.000 Here is this truly despicable piece of shit. 1.00

00:07:31.000 Would you steal from the Louvre? 1.00

00:07:35.000 Yes.

00:07:37.000 I would not be logistically capable of executing such a fact, but would I cheer on every news story of people that I see doing it?

00:07:43.000 Absolutely.

00:07:44.000 Absolutely.

00:07:45.000 Yeah, I think it's cool.

00:07:47.000 We gotta, we gotta get back to cool crimes like that.

00:07:50.000 Like, you know, bank robberies, right?

00:07:52.000 Stealing, uh, stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature.

00:07:57.000 I feel like that's way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in. 0.97

00:08:06.000 What a despicable human being.

00:08:09.000 He also went on to suggest that you should steal from corporations. 0.98

00:08:14.000 In fact, your stealing is factored into their bottom line.

00:08:18.000 They have a breakage policy, so you should just be the breakage policy, says Hassan Piker.

00:08:23.000 When you actively advocate for violations of basic Ten Commandments type stuff, like thou shalt not steal, no, you should steal because truly the corporations are stealing from you.

00:08:34.000 You should do violence because they're doing social violence to you.

00:08:37.000 Here was Hassan Piker saying he is pro stealing.

00:08:42.000 I'm pro stealing from big corporations because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers.

00:08:49.000 However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they designed, these companies know will increase shrink, right?

00:09:05.000 So it's actually factored in.

00:09:07.000 The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line.

00:09:10.000 Of these mega corporations, regardless, and they still end up having increased profit margins because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire, as opposed to this automated system, knowing full well that people are still going to be able to steal, still steal a lot more efficiently, as a matter of fact, through the automated process.

00:09:32.000 So, because you go to Target and there's an automated checkout counter, you should steal because they know you're going to do it.

00:09:39.000 So, stealing is now okay.

00:09:41.000 In fact, it's good, it's an active good for you to steal.

00:09:43.000 Of course, he then says.

00:09:45.000 He would not suggest stealing from taxpayer-funded grocery stores in New York City because their workers would be unionized.

00:09:50.000 They're on the right side of his political divide.

00:09:53.000 By the way, his, his fandom of theft goes beyond that.

00:09:58.000 He was asked specifically what's one thing he should be okay.

00:10:02.000 And he said intellectual property theft, which is quite, again, it's despicable.

00:10:08.000 This is just despicable stuff.

00:10:10.000 And the fact that this person is being mainstreamed by the Democratic, and he is, he is being totally mainstreamed.

00:10:15.000 By the Democratic Party shows you what the Democratic Party has become a full scale destructive force in American life.

00:10:21.000 You've mainstreamed this nonsense.

00:10:23.000 You are standing in favor. 0.97

00:10:24.000 It is an evil.

00:10:26.000 Stealing from people is evil.

00:10:27.000 You should not.

00:10:28.000 The fact that we have to say this, the fact that we have to say that a corporation charging you for a product at a price that you wish to pay is not theft, but you stealing that product is in fact theft, you know, like basic human morality.

00:10:43.000 The fact we even have to repeat that shows where we are in American life.

00:10:46.000 Here's Hassan Piker saying you should be able to steal IP.

00:10:49.000 Intellectual property.

00:10:52.000 Yeah, no, I'm pro piracy all the way.

00:10:53.000 Like across the board, would you pirate a car?

00:10:57.000 Yes.

00:10:58.000 You know, if you could.

00:10:59.000 If one could pirate a car.

00:11:01.000 It was just a classic thing back in the day.

00:11:04.000 The government funded anti piracy initiatives would be like, dude, would you steal a car?

00:11:10.000 Yeah, sure.

00:11:11.000 If I could get away with it, if it was as easy as, you know, pirating IP, I would do it.

00:11:20.000 Stealing is great.

00:11:21.000 Why not pirate it?

00:11:23.000 The answer, by the way, is that no one will make movies if you just pirate their IP.

00:11:27.000 No one will make things if you just steal those things.

00:11:31.000 And of course, this all culminates in Hassan Piker's justification of murder.

00:11:35.000 That's what he is doing.

00:11:37.000 He's not in favor of murder, you see, but he totally understands why United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered.

00:11:44.000 Like, he wouldn't himself be in favor of murder because that's even beyond stealing.

00:11:48.000 Like, one of the Ten Commandments, like, okay, but like two, I don't know.

00:11:52.000 Okay, but also, wasn't the real murderer Brian Thompson?

00:11:57.000 Wasn't he the real murderer?

00:11:58.000 Sasa Sandpiker.

00:12:02.000 Engels wrote about the concept of social murder.

00:12:08.000 And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder, the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for profit, paywalled system of healthcare in this country.

00:12:27.000 And the consequences of that are.

00:12:33.000 Tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.

00:12:38.000 And that was a fascinating story for me because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment.

00:12:46.000 They're very black and white on this issue.

00:12:48.000 And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand.

00:13:04.000 Why this death had taken place.

00:13:08.000 Permission structures for murder.

00:13:09.000 Permission structures for murder.

00:13:11.000 Of course, I understand why people were so okay with a man being murdered because, of course, it's just social violence if you're the head of an insurance company.

00:13:19.000 It's social violence.

00:13:20.000 And in fact, if you're working in the capital markets, that's also social violence.

00:13:24.000 And it turns out everything Hassan Piker doesn't like is social violence.

00:13:28.000 And social violence justifies real violence, actual violence, obviously.

00:13:32.000 It excuses it.

00:13:33.000 He can pretend he's not excusing it as much as he wants.

00:13:36.000 That's, of course, exactly what he is doing.

00:13:39.000 That's exactly what, and of course, he has no problem doing that in general.

00:13:42.000 They're some of his greatest hits. 0.77

00:13:45.000 Any kind of Zionist tendency should be treated in the same way as being a rabid neo Nazi.

00:13:52.000 Hezbollah is a paramilitary organization that is also a part of the Lebanese parliament.

00:13:59.000 Do we like them or no?

00:14:00.000 I think as a resistance group, they're pretty successful against Israel. 0.90

00:14:06.000 I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart for any, yeah, for America, but just in general.

00:14:12.000 Liberals, you need to be showing your opponents' guts on there, okay?

00:14:18.000 You need to be gutting them. 1.00

00:14:20.000 You need to be shanking these and letting their intestines just ride on stage. 0.99

00:14:28.000 You have 1950s Soviet era building blocks next to the Gucci store.

00:14:37.000 If there was more, if there was ever a country that represented the synthesis, the, the, The things that I enjoy so much personally.

00:14:49.000 That guy.

00:14:49.000 That's the one they're mainstreaming.

00:14:52.000 And by the way, his ideology is already mainstream.

00:14:55.000 I mean, here he is with his ideological buddy, his ideological twin, Zorhan Mamdani, on his show.

00:14:55.000 It is.

00:15:02.000 And then, of course, he's been on with other ideological friends like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

00:15:07.000 Again, these are all of his friends.

00:15:12.000 And by the way, Zorhan Mamdani, Is the same ideologically as Hassan Piker.

00:15:16.000 They are exactly the same.

00:15:18.000 Nothing Hassan Piker says is radically different from anything Zoran Momdani says.

00:15:21.000 And Zoran Momdani is now the mayor of New York.

00:15:24.000 Here is Zoran Momdani, and you might notice his language is pretty reminiscent, actually, of Hassan Piker's language.

00:15:31.000 Here are some of Momdani's greatest hits.

00:15:41.000 We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores, whose mission is lower prices.

00:15:48.000 But we will not be ashamed of using government to fight for the many, not simply the few.

00:15:52.000 If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by a judge, you have the right to say, I do not consent to entry, and the right to keep your door closed.

00:16:07.000 We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

00:16:13.000 When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.

00:16:20.000 Do you still believe in democratic socialism?

00:16:22.000 Do you still think it can be effective?

00:16:24.000 I believe in it even more than I did the day before.

00:16:27.000 That's just smarmy, Hassan Piker, right there. 0.78

00:16:30.000 Okay, and here, just a couple of days ago, was Barack Obama hanging out with Momdani and singing to the kiddies.

00:16:36.000 This is a picture of the former president of the United States and the so called ideological thought leader of the Democratic Party sitting with Zor Momdani.

00:16:45.000 This is all fully mainstreamed in the Democratic Party.

00:16:49.000 There are some jazz hands.

00:16:50.000 The jazz hands of theft and excuse making for terrorism and murder.

00:16:58.000 Really, really strong stuff here from the Democratic Party.

00:17:01.000 All righty, folks, coming up, we'll get to the other radical Democrats who are taking over the party, why that's happening, how it's happening, and all the rest.

00:17:09.000 Plus, updates on Iran and Democrats trying to defund ICE.

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00:19:27.000 And again, it is throughout the Democratic Party now.

00:19:31.000 Hassan Pike or Bernie Sanders, they have campaigned together.

00:19:35.000 And it has bled down all the way to the AOC level.

00:19:40.000 Here is AOC.

00:19:42.000 She's talking about how the DOJ is now investigating UnitedHealthcare stealing from Medicare.

00:19:46.000 Now, the thing that she is actually talking about, so you understand how she's lying, the thing she is talking about is an antitrust probe from February 2024.

00:19:54.000 And the investigation specifically pertained to Medicare Advantage plans.

00:19:58.000 Those plans are designed so that the government pays more if a patient has a severe health condition.

00:20:04.000 So, if you diagnose more conditions, then the insurance company is paid more, right?

00:20:12.000 The Medicare enrollee is paid for more if the more health conditions you document.

00:20:18.000 So, if doctors under UnitedHealth's corporate umbrella were up coding or over documenting diagnoses, then UnitedHealth's Medicare plans become more lucrative.

00:20:26.000 That is a perverse incentive designed by government.

00:20:31.000 And the fact is, the Biden antitrust case was about UnitedHealth being a dominant player in the space.

00:20:36.000 But the real problem, and this is why when you hear Hassan Piker talks about United Healthcare and they're creating social violence or whatever nonsense term he wants to use to justify murder.

00:20:47.000 Whenever you hear him say that, understand the system under which United Health works is a heavily regulated, heavily subsidized federal government driven system.

00:20:55.000 But here is AOC, of course, going after United Health the other day.

00:20:58.000 And she, of course, is a fellow traveler with Hassan Piker.

00:21:00.000 They think the same things, they campaign together, the whole deal.

00:21:04.000 The Department of Justice has a criminal case open on United Healthcare for stealing money.

00:21:11.000 from Medicare.

00:21:13.000 And we're in a time where all of our health care is getting defunded.

00:21:17.000 People are committing crimes and people are getting denied their health insurance.

00:21:22.000 People are getting denied surgeries, medicines, prescriptions are super expensive.

00:21:26.000 And this administration is responsible for it and rewarding them for it.

00:21:30.000 And we have to bring it to a stop.

00:21:33.000 Like these companies that are running Medicare Advantage are stealing from people and we need to be honest about it and we have to, it's got to come to an end.

00:21:44.000 Okay, and by the way, where does all this end for them?

00:21:46.000 It ends with, wait for it, communist centralization of power.

00:21:50.000 This is why Representative Pamela Jayapal, the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she says that actually what we should be emulating in the area of healthcare is the apparently non socially violent state of Cuba with regard to their remarkable healthcare system.

00:22:07.000 Cuba has a remarkable public health system, lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality, sort of the opposite of what the United States has.

00:22:15.000 Higher life expectancy, higher life expectancy, early cancer diagnosis, right?

00:22:20.000 Until the blockade happened, and over the course of the embargo, 60 year embargo, illegal embargo, they were actually detecting cancer.

00:22:31.000 70% of cancer cases were detected in stage zero or one.

00:22:34.000 Now, today that's flipped to 70% in stage three because they have not been able to invest in their public health system. 1.00

00:22:43.000 We need to be like Cuba. 0.99

00:22:44.000 You understand? 0.98

00:22:46.000 You understand?

00:22:47.000 Hassan Piker's philosophy is the mainstream philosophy increasingly of the Democratic Party.

00:22:52.000 How does this infiltration take place?

00:22:53.000 Well, the truth is that it really starts with fake empathy.

00:22:57.000 So, Rob Henderson has a really good piece over at the Wall Street Journal.

00:23:02.000 Obviously, he works also with our friends over at Manhattan Institute.

00:23:06.000 And he points out that there's a newly published paper by Samuel Pratt at UCLA.

00:23:10.000 They built what they called a words can harm scale, which was a survey asking people how much they agree with statements like, I could be left emotionally scarred by something I read.

00:23:19.000 And the first finding from this study was that that belief is stable, meaning that people who believed it two weeks ago still believe it today.

00:23:26.000 That I could be left emotionally scarred by something I read.

00:23:29.000 Who holds that view?

00:23:30.000 People who are higher in the belief that words can harm tend to be young, female, non-white, politically liberal. 0.69

00:23:37.000 They rated themselves as higher in intellectual humility, empathy, moral grandstanding, and the belief in the importance of silencing others.

00:23:43.000 They also exhibited lower emotional stability and a greater tendency to see themselves as victims in everyday conflicts.

00:23:50.000 Moreover, they report higher levels of anxiety and depression.

00:23:53.000 So, in other words, the two women who are interviewing Hassan Piker from the New York Times there seem to fit squarely within this model.

00:24:00.000 And the takeaway here is that good motives, you know, empathy, can have some pretty mixed effects.

00:24:08.000 The finding here is that the most empathetic people support the least tolerant policies, of course, because you believe that if you're empathetic, you understand why somebody bad did the bad thing and it must be somebody else's fault. 0.74

00:24:22.000 And that ends with the kind of tyranny that is being espoused by people like Hassan Piker and like Zar Mamdani and all of the rest. 0.60

00:24:28.000 You can see this in action pretty much every day.

00:24:30.000 Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

00:24:32.000 For example, there was a California gubernatorial debate the other night, and Katie Porter, who is going to lose, she's out there claiming that basically we ought to leave homeless people on the street essentially because it turns out that homeless people work.

00:24:44.000 Now, that's not true.

00:24:44.000 Homeless people are working.

00:24:46.000 It's not true. 1.00

00:24:48.000 But here we go.

00:24:50.000 If you were in my class, Mr. Hilton, you would learn in my bankruptcy and consumer protection class that the majority of homeless people in California are actually working.

00:25:01.000 They're not just people on the streets.

00:25:02.000 It's not just people with mental illness or people with drug or substance use problems.

00:25:06.000 It's also families who are fleeing intimate partner and domestic violence.

00:25:11.000 It's people who are double and tripled up.

00:25:13.000 It's people who are living in their cars on our college campuses.

00:25:17.000 Homelessness comes in a lot of different ways.

00:25:19.000 And if we don't see the whole problem, if we demonize them from one perspective, we'll never be able to solve this problem. 0.53

00:25:19.000 Forms. 0.53

00:25:26.000 Okay. 1.00

00:25:26.000 And the solution to the problem that is promoted by people like the Katie Porters of the world is, of course, more government funding to let people stay on the streets and wallow in their own filth. 1.00

00:25:36.000 And that is the Democratic policy. 0.66

00:25:37.000 We had empathy leading to horrible policy.

00:25:39.000 By the way, she happens to be wrong on the fact it is not true that the vast majority of homeless people are working.

00:25:45.000 There was a CBS News 2020 survey on the homeless population of LA, and it found that.

00:25:52.000 Nearly 47% were found to have worked within four years of becoming homeless.

00:25:58.000 Only 19% had done any work in the calendar quarter they became homeless.

00:26:02.000 A 2017 survey in San Francisco found that only 13% of homeless people were working part or full time.

00:26:09.000 Why?

00:26:09.000 Because it turns out actually a shockingly high percentage of homeless people have mental illness or are regular drug abusers.

00:26:17.000 That is the reality. 0.70

00:26:18.000 And it's not empathetic to leave people like that on the streets to wallow in their own feces.

00:26:23.000 It's actually quite terrible to people.

00:26:24.000 So here's the question How did all of this happen?

00:26:27.000 How is it that a fringe viewpoint, a viewpoint that I think most Americans, when they hear it, think that it's being facetious or that it's just crazy?

00:26:33.000 People openly advocating theft, people openly excusing full scale murder.

00:26:38.000 How exactly does that become a mainstream swath of the Democratic Party?

00:26:44.000 The answer is what the scholar Nicolaus Telep has called renormalization.

00:26:48.000 Here's how renormalization works if you have an intransigent minority of people who refuse to abide by the rules, they can get everybody else to abide by their rules.

00:26:57.000 So he gives the example of let's say you have a family of four.

00:27:01.000 And you have like two parents, a son, and a daughter.

00:27:03.000 And the daughter only eats organic. 0.53

00:27:05.000 So when it comes time to make dinner, mom now has a choice.

00:27:09.000 She can either cook two meals, one for the non organic family members and one for her daughter, or she can cook one meal with only organic ingredients.

00:27:16.000 So it's easier, it's less fuss to just cook one meal. 0.99

00:27:20.000 So that's renormalization of the family unit.

00:27:21.000 Now everybody is doing what the daughter, who's only 25% of the family, wants to do.

00:27:27.000 And then you can extend that out.

00:27:28.000 Now the family, which only eats organic now, They decide to go to a barbecue attended by three other families, and now the host has to make the same choice that mom did.

00:27:37.000 And the host does the same thing.

00:27:39.000 You know, we don't want to offend this family.

00:27:41.000 It's just easier to renormalize toward organic food.

00:27:46.000 The renormalization, creating a new normal, gets broader and broader just because there was one intransigent person in the beginning.

00:27:53.000 Now, there are limits to that.

00:27:54.000 If the demand made by the intransigent person is something super duper crazy, people just might say no.

00:27:59.000 But the process applies in politics the same way that it Does in life.

00:28:06.000 So, for example, Talib says, You think that just because some fringe party only has the support of 10% of the population, that their candidate will always get 10% of the votes?

00:28:19.000 He says, No.

00:28:20.000 Those baseline voters should be classified as inflexible.

00:28:23.000 They'll always vote for their faction, but some flexible voters can also vote for the extremists.

00:28:29.000 And those are the people you have to watch out for.

00:28:30.000 You have to watch out for the allies.

00:28:32.000 Meaning, Hassan Piker is a crazy radical, but he's not the actual threat to the country.

00:28:37.000 The threat to the country is all of the people who will side with him. 0.61

00:28:41.000 That's the actual threat.

00:28:43.000 There's a physicist named Serge Gallam.

00:28:45.000 He has posited that in some cases, it takes about 20% of a population to support an extreme view in order to cause radical renormalization.

00:28:52.000 And there is an easy way to do it.

00:28:55.000 He says that what you do is you activate what he calls frozen prejudices at the risk of appearing intolerant or immoderate to a broad majority while still maintaining a solid.

00:29:04.000 Core base.

00:29:05.000 So, what you do is you start with a motivated core group.

00:29:07.000 You don't worry about alienating people.

00:29:09.000 And then you appeal to the prejudices of vulnerable groups and they join you.

00:29:13.000 You make the choice binary. 0.99

00:29:14.000 So, what you do is you say, the system sucks. 0.99

00:29:16.000 It's terrible. 0.98

00:29:16.000 I will never travel with the system. 0.98

00:29:18.000 Stealing is good.

00:29:19.000 Violence is fine. 0.96

00:29:20.000 Terrorism, all good.

00:29:22.000 And I'm never moving from that position. 0.86

00:29:24.000 And then you go to, say, a supposedly marginalized group and you say, hey, you can either side with me, the person rebelling against the system, or you can side with the system that is victimizing you.

00:29:34.000 That's the binary choice.

00:29:35.000 And it turns out a bunch of pseudo moderates.

00:29:38.000 Will join on, intimidated by you.

00:29:40.000 They'll say, What?

00:29:41.000 Yeah, sure, he believes some crazy things, but we're on the same page on the bigger thing. 0.89

00:29:45.000 Sure, they believe some crazy things about Hezbollah, and sure, they're kind of justifying murder, but on the really important thing, like whether the healthcare system is failing us, he's right.

00:29:54.000 He's just too passionate, but he's right.

00:29:57.000 And that's how you take over an entire party.

00:29:59.000 All righty, in just a second, we'll get to the manifestation of this takeover of the Democratic Party by the radicals.

00:30:04.000 A supposedly moderate Democrat booed offstage at a Michigan Senate Democratic primary event.

00:30:10.000 Pretty incredible stuff.

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00:31:13.000 You can see this playing out, by the way, in real time in the Michigan Democratic primary.

00:31:18.000 It's a fascinating primary.

00:31:19.000 There are basically three candidates in that Michigan Senate Democratic primary.

00:31:22.000 The first candidate is Abdul El Sayed.

00:31:24.000 We played clips of him on the show.

00:31:26.000 He is a Hassan Piker fan, they've campaigned together.

00:31:28.000 He is a radical Islamist Marxist.

00:31:30.000 That is what he is.

00:31:32.000 He is somebody who refuses to condemn terrorist groups. 0.54

00:31:34.000 He is somebody who says that Israel and Hamas are exactly the same.

00:31:37.000 He thinks Hamas is superior to Israel.

00:31:37.000 He doesn't actually mean that.

00:31:39.000 But he is like full scale, insanely radical, pro terrorism, the whole deal.

00:31:46.000 And he right now is probably the frontrunner to win the Democratic primary.

00:31:49.000 A person who is tied with him is a woman named Mallory McMorrow.

00:31:52.000 So what she does is she condemns Hassan Piker and she says he's extreme and El Sayed shouldn't campaign, but then she mirrors a lot of his positions.

00:32:01.000 She basically says, yeah, I don't like Hassan Piker. 0.99

00:32:03.000 I don't like the things that he says, but in reality, many of the kind of broader points he's making, those are kind of true. 0.99

00:32:09.000 So she will go along with the lie that Israel committed a genocide because she is trying to make hay with the Abdul El Sayed voters. 0.99

00:32:17.000 And then coming in third right now is Haley Stevens, who is a moderate progressive Democrat. 0.65

00:32:20.000 Now, again, by any stretch of the imagination, she is a normal, very, very left person, but But she also was supported by AIPAC, mainly because her opponent is somebody who is radically anti Israel. 0.60

00:32:35.000 And so there are a lot of pro Israel people who would rather.

00:32:37.000 She's not an Israel should be disestablished, Israel committed genocide, Israel should be wiped off the map Democrat, which I guess is now the minority position among Democrats.

00:32:46.000 So much so that at the Michigan Democratic Convention last week, she was literally booed off the stage.

00:32:53.000 She couldn't finish her speech.

00:32:54.000 She's a sitting congresswoman right now.

00:32:58.000 What I did for Michigan when I served as chief of staff on the U.S. Auto Rescue. 1.00

00:33:14.000 She was basically booed off the stage for the crime of not being radical enough.

00:33:19.000 The Democratic Party is eating this up.

00:33:21.000 They are moving in this direction.

00:33:25.000 Even the ones who are masquerading as moderate are not, in fact, moderate.

00:33:27.000 James Tallarico, who again is being trotted out by Joe Rogan, said he'd vote for James Tallarico for president, which is pretty insane, pretty crazy.

00:33:37.000 Well, James Tallarico is now saying that putting the Ten Commandments in Texas schools is a form of theocracy.

00:33:42.000 No, it isn't.

00:33:44.000 No one says.

00:33:46.000 That you must actually become a practicing Jew or an observant Christian in order to go to Texas school.

00:33:51.000 Taking the foundational text of Western civilization, the Ten Commandments, and putting it on the wall in a Texas school is not, in fact, theocracy.

00:34:02.000 By the way, having a Christmas pageant in a public school is also not theocracy.

00:34:06.000 When I went to public school when I was a kid, I was in the Christmas pageant.

00:34:10.000 So was my younger sister, who's now married to a rabbi.

00:34:13.000 But one of the reasons, by the way, we might want to put the Ten Commandments in Texas.

00:34:17.000 Of schools or in public schools in general is because it says a couple of things that now seem to be in controversy.

00:34:23.000 Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property.

00:34:29.000 There are at least three commandments that Democrats are very much against these days, apparently.

00:34:33.000 Here's James Tallarico, pseudo moderate.

00:34:37.000 I'm called to love all of my neighbors the way I love myself.

00:34:40.000 That includes my Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, agnostic, and atheist neighbors.

00:34:48.000 I don't want anyone forcing their religion down my throats.

00:34:51.000 I certainly don't want the government forcing a religion down my throat.

00:34:56.000 And so, why would I do that to any of my neighbors?

00:34:59.000 In the Texas House of Representatives, I have been a vocal critic of Christian nationalism.

00:35:05.000 I'm a Christian, but I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God. 0.79

00:35:17.000 Again, the idea that putting the Ten Commandments in Texas schools is full scale theocracy.

00:35:23.000 Is totally insane. 1.00

00:35:25.000 Of course, it comes from the same person, the pseudo Christian. 1.00

00:35:27.000 I say pseudo Christian because it seems to me that every Christian that I know, and again, I'll let Christians speak for themselves here. 0.80

00:35:36.000 It seems to me that if you say that you believe in Jesus as a Christian and then you proceed to overthrow every single principle that he stood for while misciting the New Testament, that doesn't seem like amazing practice.

00:35:49.000 Well, here's James Tallarico explaining to Jake Tapper on CNN that God is non binary, which is just.

00:35:56.000 Can we say category error?

00:35:59.000 I feel like it's a bit of a category error.

00:36:01.000 You mean God does not have a gender?

00:36:02.000 Does not mean God is non binary, that God is trapped between being a man and a woman. 0.98

00:36:07.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:36:09.000 What are you even talking about? 1.00

00:36:11.000 That God is trans.

00:36:13.000 That's where we are now. 0.92

00:36:16.000 Slow clap for the Democrat, who's obviously a very, very religious Christian.

00:36:22.000 But I don't think it's controversial theologically.

00:36:25.000 Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender.

00:36:29.000 In fact, the Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female.

00:36:37.000 And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me.

00:36:40.000 They should take it up with the Apostle Paul.

00:36:43.000 Well, I'm pretty sure that the Apostle Paul would not have described God as non binary because that's a nonsensical term.

00:36:49.000 As applied to God, also a nonsensical term is applied to human beings, by the way.

00:36:53.000 But the Democrats are so radical at this point.

00:36:55.000 They are so radical at this point, truly.

00:37:00.000 So the president has been pushing forward a reconciliation bill to reopen DHS and ICE.

00:37:06.000 The president endorsed that yesterday.

00:37:08.000 He said Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Lindsey Graham have taken a critical first step to passing another reconciliation bill to fund our great border patrol and ICE agents.

00:37:16.000 The radical left Democrats and their so called leader, Cryon Chuck Schumer, one of the most incompetent senators in American history, Will try to offer amendments during this process to divide Republicans.

00:37:26.000 Republicans must stick together and unify to get this done and to keep America safe.

00:37:29.000 Okay, so meanwhile, Democrats continue to stand in the way of just funding ICE and Border Patrol.

00:37:36.000 Senator Tina Smith, she is out there saying that actually Congress should fund everything except ICE and Border Patrol.

00:37:47.000 What we have achieved is our unified vote to fund everything in the Department of Homeland Security except for these illegal.

00:37:55.000 Agencies and Customs AND Border Patrol and ICE.

00:37:58.000 And again, I want to remind everybody who's listening to this that What we wanted was to put some basic common-sense, safe guardrails on how these agents have been acting, To stop the worst of the abuses, like we saw in my home state of Minnesota, And we weren't able to even get our Republican colleagues to agree to that.

00:38:17.000 So we might not have power in Congress, but we are not powerless to carry forward What we believe is the best thing for this country.

00:38:27.000 Again, they're not asking for policy changes.

00:38:30.000 That are moderate in scope and orientation.

00:38:33.000 What they're asking for is to defund the agencies that make sure that the border is closed and that illegal immigration is actually penalized. 0.55

00:38:42.000 Senator Alyssa Slotkin from Michigan, she's doing the same.

00:38:45.000 She compared ICE agents to redcoats.

00:38:49.000 When people turned on the TV and saw these things happening with their own eyes, they understood it as something that ran completely contrary to who we are as a people and certainly spit in the face of how we became a nation in the first place.

00:39:04.000 The rebellion.

00:39:05.000 That our American forefathers launched not too far north of here because of an oppressive government, because of an oppressive regime that was using brutal tactics in the streets and in people's homes.

00:39:21.000 Yes, the ICE is just like the British Redcoats.

00:39:23.000 Exactly. 0.60

00:39:24.000 Nailed it.

00:39:24.000 Meanwhile, Congressman Ro Khanna, again, a charter member of the extraordinary Hassan Piker Radicalism Caucus, he says that we need to tear ICE all the way down.

00:39:36.000 Not another dollar needs to go to ICE.

00:39:39.000 They have abused American citizens.

00:39:41.000 They have abused immigrants who are law abiding and creating jobs here.

00:39:46.000 We need to actually tear down the agency and start again, have an immigration agency under the Justice Department.

00:39:55.000 Again, this is where Democrats are.

00:39:58.000 When I say that the radicals have eaten the face of the Democratic Party, that is correct.

00:40:02.000 That is absolutely right.

00:40:03.000 Now, there are still some who are trying to play at halves.

00:40:05.000 Back in January, I was on Gavin Newsom's podcast, and I got him to suggest that he actually cooperates with ICE.

00:40:10.000 Actually, he wants to work with ICE.

00:40:12.000 This is, again, the governor of California.

00:40:16.000 That's exactly what they do in California.

00:40:18.000 And we have over 10,000 that I've cooperated with since I've been governor of California.

00:40:21.000 We work very directly with ICE as it relates to CDCR, our state prison.

00:40:27.000 California has cooperated with more.

00:40:29.000 Uh, ice transfers probably than any other state in the country.

00:40:32.000 And I vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that.

00:40:40.000 So when it comes to the issues of violent criminals, when it comes to felons, people that are being released from the largest state system in the United States of America, California cooperates with ice.

00:40:50.000 Okay.

00:40:50.000 But why is it then what makes it a sanctuary state?

00:40:56.000 And you didn't have like a great answer to that one.

00:40:58.000 I mean, what makes it a sanctuary state?

00:41:00.000 Because basically, what it's saying is that California does not have to cooperate with ICE, and in fact, in local areas, should not cooperate with ICE.

00:41:07.000 He's talking about the transfer from prison to ICE.

00:41:10.000 But at the same exact time that he's talking about the magic of that, it turns out that according to our friends Chris Ruffo and Susan Crabtree over at City Journal, Governor Newsom has granted approximately $1 billion of government funding to an army of nonprofits that have encouraged unchecked numbers of migrants to enter the country, fought deportation orders in the courts, and led street protests against ICE.

00:41:31.000 That includes apparently more than $250 million to Catholic charities, another $85 million to Jewish Family Services, $12 million to Centro Legal de la Raza, $23 million to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area, and more.

00:41:45.000 Al otro lado, a nonprofit that has been awarded more than $2 million from California since Newsom took office, helps migrants enter the United States, hence the group's name, To the Other Side.

00:41:57.000 The Democratic Party is deeply radical, incredibly, incredibly radical at this point.

00:42:04.000 Now, Democrats are going to use whatever means that they have at their disposal, obviously, to gain power and then enact their radical principles.

00:42:12.000 They were celebrating yesterday over the redistricting effort in Virginia, which, of course, disenfranchised something like 40% of the population of Virginia since it was a 55 45 Democrat state.

00:42:22.000 And now the congressional districts will be split 10 to 1 in favor of the Democrats.

00:42:28.000 By the way, we should point out here that Abigail Spanberger, who campaigned as moderates, when we say that the moderates are being erased in the Democratic Party, I mean many of the people who campaign as moderates just flip.

00:42:38.000 Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate, and here is what she had to say about redistricting Virginia less than one year ago.

00:42:48.000 Short answer is no.

00:42:50.000 Certainly, Virginia, by constitutional amendment, has a new redistricting effort that was put in place and first utilized in the 2021 redistricting.

00:43:00.000 Certainly, I've been watching with interest what other states are doing, but I have no plans to redistrict Virginia.

00:43:09.000 She was lying, as it turns out.

00:43:11.000 She was lying.

00:43:12.000 And again, there's a reason why her approval ratings in Virginia have tanked.

00:43:16.000 You campaign as a moderate, you govern as a left winger.

00:43:18.000 Eventually, the American people may reject you.

00:43:20.000 But it's pretty dangerous when one of the parties has been taken over full scale by its radicals.

00:43:26.000 Meanwhile, on the foreign front, President Trump continues to sort of allow things to percolate.

00:43:33.000 So, in order to understand what he's doing, the biggest thing you have to understand is that Iran is losing tons and tons of money.

00:43:39.000 The blockade right now, which will not continue indefinitely, That blockade is destroying Iran's capacity, destroying it.

00:43:48.000 Miyad Maleki of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies points out pre war, Iran earned about $45.7 billion from oil annually.

00:43:55.000 Oil and gas together account for 65 to 75% of Iran's total export revenue and roughly 25% of its GDP.

00:44:04.000 If you lose oil and the blockade also cuts petrochemicals and all other Gulf routed exports, that's not a 10% GDP hit alone, but a wipeout of the entire hard currency earnings base.

00:44:15.000 Also, 70% of steel production capacity has been destroyed.

00:44:18.000 85% of petrochemical export capacity is offline.

00:44:23.000 The total direct damage done to Iran in 45 days is 38% to 48% of their entire pre war GDP.

00:44:30.000 And it's getting worse every single day.

00:44:33.000 Every single day, Iran is losing $400 to $500 million in oil export revenue.

00:44:38.000 So the Iranians think time is on their side because the pressure will force the Trump administration to cave.

00:44:46.000 I'm not sure why time would be on their side, since again, it's a very, very impoverished country and they're making themselves ever poorer.

00:44:52.000 Well, President Trump last night put out a statement saying that he had succeeded in staying the execution of eight Iranian women.

00:44:58.000 He had called on Iran as a sign of good faith not to execute eight Iranian women.

00:45:02.000 And he said, I've been informed that the eight women protesters who are going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed.

00:45:08.000 Four will be released immediately, four will be sentenced to one month in prison.

00:45:11.000 I very much appreciate that Iran and its leaders respected my request. 0.63

00:45:14.000 Okay, so if Iran really wants this war to continue, then why are they doing that?

00:45:19.000 And the answer is that they are doing that because they are trying to get Trump back to the table.

00:45:23.000 They are trying to squirrel him out of his actual red lines by offering sort of small olive branches.

00:45:32.000 Carol, I love it.

00:45:33.000 But the White House says that the United States is still awaiting Iran's response with regard to negotiation.

00:45:39.000 Let's level set on where we are.

00:45:41.000 As you all saw yesterday, President Trump announced an extension of the ceasefire.

00:45:45.000 He's maintaining and generously offering a bit of flexibility to a regime who has been completely tarnished because of Operation Epic Fury.

00:45:54.000 There's obviously a lot of internal division.

00:45:56.000 This is a battle between the pragmatists and the hardliners in Iran right now, and the president wants a unified response.

00:46:02.000 And so, as we await that response, there's a ceasefire with the military and kinetic strikes.

00:46:08.000 But Operation Economic Fury continues, and the effective and successful naval blockade continues as well of ships and vessels that are moving to and from Iranian ports.

00:46:21.000 We are completely strangling their economy through this blockade.

00:46:25.000 They're losing $500 million a day.

00:46:27.000 The Karg Island is completely full.

00:46:29.000 They can't move oil in and out.

00:46:30.000 They can't even pay their own people as a result of this economic leverage that President Trump has inflicted over them.

00:46:37.000 She's correct about that.

00:46:38.000 She also adds, Caroline Levitt, that what Iran is saying publicly is very different from what they are saying privately to the administration.

00:46:44.000 You guys all see a lot of different messaging coming out of Iran, a lot of different rhetoric and language from them.

00:46:52.000 I would caution you to take anything that they say at face value.

00:46:55.000 What we've seen is that what they say publicly is much different than what they concede to the United States and our negotiating team privately.

00:47:02.000 I've said that repeatedly to all of you in the news media, and you should take our word.

00:47:07.000 Now, meanwhile, the IRGC is attempting to.

00:47:10.000 pursue what would probably be classified as small scale military actions in order to, in order to demonstrate that they are not totally defenestrated.

00:47:19.000 So they put out some agitprop showing their speedboats seizing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, which is a thing that happened over the course of the last 24 hours.

00:47:26.000 There are a couple of ships that were attacked and stopped by the IRGC.

00:47:30.000 They said they collected tolls from these ships.

00:47:33.000 And then they released tapes of the IRGC speedboats seizing vessels that are kind of floating aimlessly in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:47:40.000 You can see the speedboats doing that.

00:47:41.000 The president responded to this, by the way, by saying that we'll probably start shooting those small boats, particularly the ones that are dropping mines.

00:47:50.000 We obviously should be doing that, clearly.

00:47:52.000 We should be destroying their speedboats that are harassing shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. 0.99

00:47:56.000 He said, I've ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be. 0.97

00:48:00.000 That is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. 0.98

00:48:02.000 There is no hesitation.

00:48:03.000 Additionally, our minesweepers are clearing the Strait right now.

00:48:06.000 I'm ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level.

00:48:08.000 We should also be blowing their speedboats out of the water if they're going to stop shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:48:14.000 Because that, of course, is a military action.

00:48:17.000 The president has not been doing that, presumably because he wants this quote unquote ceasefire to continue.

00:48:21.000 He figures that they are going to give before he does, considering the tremendous loss of money, that their economy is basically grinding to a complete and utter halt. 0.76

00:48:30.000 Well, the Iranians do have one capacity, and that is to appeal to all of their friends in media to do propaganda on their behalf.

00:48:38.000 So CNN did a full scale propaganda report on behalf of the IRGC about Iran putting together Lego videos. 0.87

00:48:45.000 I'm not kidding, this is one of the things Iran does.

00:48:47.000 They have put together videos showing the war as sort of Lego battles. 0.97

00:48:53.000 And so CNN decided they were going to do a full story speaking to the creators behind Iranian Lego style videos. 0.65

00:49:02.000 Just doing propaganda work on behalf of Iran. 0.53

00:49:05.000 CNN, great job, guys. 0.78

00:49:06.000 You're doing great.

00:49:09.000 If you're on the internet, you've likely seen these highly popular Iranian Lego style videos.

00:49:15.000 Published almost daily, these detailed videos with American and Western cultural references have taken the world by storm.

00:49:28.000 Turns out, Explosive Media is a small team of Gen Z creators.

00:49:32.000 18 to 25 years old, they say they all reside in Iran, and most, Have never left the country.

00:49:39.000 Their spokesperson who requested anonymity said the initial goal of these videos was to show the outside world what Iranians are like educated, culturally relevant, and funny.

00:49:50.000 We know that the West has a bad perception of us.

00:49:55.000 They don't know us at all.

00:49:56.000 We wanted to break down this wall of censorship.

00:49:59.000 We wanted to say that we're funny, funnier than you, even.

00:50:02.000 We understand culture and the arts, and we are incredibly educated.

00:50:05.000 We know and understand your American culture well.

00:50:09.000 You don't unfortunately know as much about our culture. 0.53

00:50:14.000 So that's just CNN doing full scale, soft, soft focus stories on Iranian propagandists on behalf of the worst regime on planet Earth.

00:50:24.000 Great job, CNN. 0.90

00:50:25.000 Meanwhile, Iran, they seem to think that their best strategy here is to mock the president. 0.98

00:50:25.000 You're doing great. 0.98

00:50:29.000 We'll see how that works out for them.

00:50:30.000 It is indeed a bold strategy.

00:50:31.000 They put together an AI video mocking President Trump for what?

00:50:34.000 Not attacking them?

00:50:45.000 We are having very great negotiations with Iran. 0.98

00:50:51.000 If Iran doesn't come to negotiate, we're going to bomb them. 0.98

00:50:56.000 2,000 years later. 1.00

00:50:59.000 So where are the Iranians? 0.92

00:51:01.000 This is from Iran. 1.00

00:51:04.000 Yeah, it's not very good. 1.00

00:51:12.000 All right. 1.00

00:51:14.000 Then I will extend the ceasefire at Pakistan's request. 1.00

00:51:18.000 I mean, my goodness. 1.00

00:51:25.000 So, I have a question.

00:51:26.000 Iran's putting out videos mocking Trump.

00:51:29.000 Why are they doing that?

00:51:30.000 What would be the interest?

00:51:31.000 The only reason, the only reason to do that is because what Iran does not want, what they don't want, is for the president to just continue the blockade.

00:51:40.000 That's the reason you put up that video.

00:51:42.000 Think about the logic of this.

00:51:43.000 They're putting out a video mocking Trump. 0.66

00:51:45.000 For extending the ceasefire that supposedly Iran likes and wants.

00:51:49.000 But clearly, they don't like the ceasefire because the ceasefire is basically a time where their economy is collapsing and they can't even show that they're, quote unquote, fighting back against a violent enemy.

00:51:59.000 I mean, Iran isn't, they have a problem.

00:52:02.000 They have a real problem here.

00:52:05.000 But they will always have the love of people like Representative Ted Liu of California, who says that the United States is going to lose any prolonged conflict.

00:52:14.000 We're only the most powerful military force in human history.

00:52:16.000 We are going to have a problem.

00:52:19.000 Any prolonged conflict that the United States has, the United States will lose.

00:52:25.000 And that is because we will run out of munitions.

00:52:29.000 In this unconstitutional war in Iran, based on new media reporting, the United States has already expended 50% of our THAAD interceptor missiles, 50% of our Patriot missiles, and 30% of our Tomahawk missiles.

00:52:46.000 And this is only about a month and a half.

00:52:50.000 And so China and Russia are looking at this, knowing they can just stockpile up on drones and ballistic missiles.

00:52:57.000 And after a few months, the United States will run out of munitions to defend against that.

00:53:03.000 A Patriot missile costs between four and four and a half million dollars. 0.72

00:53:07.000 An Iranian drone costs about $30,000 to $50,000. 0.97

00:53:10.000 It's like shooting Ferraris at Frisbees. 0.91

00:53:14.000 Okay, there's only one problem with that, which is that we are not actually using Patriot missiles to shoot down most of these drones.

00:53:21.000 Most of them are being shot down by our planes in the air.

00:53:23.000 So there's that as well.

00:53:24.000 But again, Undermining American morale is the goal here.

00:53:27.000 That is the entire purpose of this particular exercise.

00:53:31.000 And, you know, they'll always have people like Sonny Hostin over at The View. 1.00

00:53:35.000 This line that is constantly used that what is being spent in the Middle East is somehow depriving Americans of health care here is so stupid. 0.97

00:53:47.000 You know how much money we spend on health care in the United States? 0.99

00:53:50.000 Legitimately, trillions of dollars on health care in the United States.

00:53:55.000 If you don't like the war, just say you don't like the war, but don't pretend that you're suddenly fiscally responsible and that you just want to spend the money on butter, not on guns.

00:54:01.000 It's just such, it's such nonsense. 1.00

00:54:03.000 It's just low IQ trash. 1.00

00:54:08.000 I just read that this war is estimated to have already cost us $50 billion. 0.99

00:54:13.000 $50 billion, which is more money than this country has spent since World War II.

00:54:19.000 And then in 2027, this president is asking for $1.5 trillion for defense, which would be more money spent in modern history on war. 0.99

00:54:32.000 Why don't they just get rid of Honduras? 0.91

00:54:33.000 It's unbelievable. 0.98

00:54:34.000 I think what the American people want is.

00:54:35.000 Good health.

00:54:37.000 They want good health care.

00:54:37.000 They want, right?

00:54:39.000 They want good education.

00:54:42.000 They want good health care. 0.90

00:54:43.000 It's idiocracy. 0.65

00:54:44.000 We're just living in idiocracy now.

00:54:45.000 I can't.

00:54:46.000 It's so tiring.

00:54:48.000 It's so tiring. 1.00

00:54:49.000 These people are so stupid, truly dumb. 1.00

00:54:52.000 Congress appropriated more than $800 billion for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere since 2001. 1.00

00:54:59.000 And that is exclusive, by the way, of other military spending because we spend in this country something like $800 billion to a trillion every year on our defense. 0.98

00:55:11.000 It's just, but again, stupidity is the order of the day. 1.00

00:55:14.000 Speaking of stupidity and moral idiocy, we'll bring it all the way back home. 1.00

00:55:18.000 Cenk Uygur's nephew is Hassan Piker. 1.00

00:55:21.000 Cenk Uygur is the original Hassan Piker, but fatter and less fashionable.

00:55:27.000 And Cenk Uygur is making common cause, as you know, now with Tucker Carlson.

00:55:31.000 They're hugging each other tight in the night.

00:55:33.000 Cenk Uygur put out a statement after Tucker Carlson said that he regrets having backed President Trump, mainly because it seems that Tucker assumed that President Trump was an isolationist, anti American.

00:55:44.000 Multipolarity fan, the way he is.

00:55:46.000 So, Chen Kuiger is now coming out in defense of his friend.

00:55:49.000 I'm a little disgusted by the lack of grace some people on our side are showing people like Tucker Carlson for not only opposing Trump, but apologizing for supporting him. 0.58

00:55:56.000 They definitely don't speak for Muslim Americans who are grateful for our new allies.

00:56:00.000 Aww, that's so nice. 0.98

00:56:04.000 Wow.

00:56:05.000 Well, at least this bromance is finally being consummated.

00:56:08.000 That's the important thing.

00:56:10.000 Alrighty, folks, the show continues right now for our members, and we're going to get to Your questions, as always.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 23, 2026

The Radical Left’s Hostile Takeover Is Here

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