The Ben Shapiro Show - April 24, 2026


The RADICAL Third World Invasion Of The Democratic Party


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Ben Shapiro explains why radical left wingers are the new leading core of the Democratic Party. Plus, Iran, insider trading, and Megyn Kelly's new take on a dude who admits to having sex with a 16-year-old when he was 30.

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00:00:00.000 Hassan Piker grew up in Istanbul, Turkey.
00:00:03.000 Zarn Mandani spent his early childhood in Uganda and South Africa.
00:00:07.000 Ilhan Omar grew up in Somalia.
00:00:09.000 These people hate America. 1.00
00:00:10.000 They should love it.
00:00:11.000 They hate it. 1.00
00:00:12.000 Clearly, they're all from the third world. 1.00
00:00:15.000 All of these are major political figures on the left. 0.97
00:00:18.000 In fact, realistically, they are the new leading core of the Democratic Party.
00:00:23.000 We have been importing the people who hate our country and wish to destroy it, who believe in third worldism, the philosophy that all the problems of all the third world can be laid at the feet Of us here in the West.
00:00:35.000 But there's more. 0.88
00:00:37.000 The people in the Democratic Party elite who apparently believe that the West owes it to the third world to destroy itself, or who see the third worldists as fellow travelers helping them to accomplish that goal Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, Ezra Klein in the New York Times, the Pod Save America bros.
00:00:53.000 These people could cast out the radicals.
00:00:55.000 They could fight them in favor of a conversation with those of us who love America.
00:01:00.000 Instead, they choose to side with those who despise the country in order to defeat us, anybody who is remotely center or right.
00:01:08.000 Today, it's time to talk about the seemingly irreversible slide of the Democratic Party toward deep radicalism that will destroy the country.
00:01:14.000 But to understand that, we have to understand the existential crisis facing our civilization.
00:01:19.000 The threat is now coming from inside the house.
00:01:21.000 I'll explain in just a moment.
00:01:22.000 Plus, we'll get to the latest on Iran, insider trading on Venezuela, and Megyn Kelly's new take on a dude who admits to having sex with a 16-year-old when he was 30.
00:01:31.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:01:39.000 So, for the past 24 hours or so, the internet has been on fire with that Hassan Piker interview that we played yesterday.
00:01:44.000 Again, for those who don't know, Hassan Piker is a popular Twitch streamer who's been featured on pretty much every major left wing podcast over the past few months.
00:01:52.000 He's been on the cover of the New York Times, I believe, multiple times.
00:01:56.000 He's constantly being profiled by major legacy media.
00:01:58.000 He's the it boy of radical third worldism.
00:02:02.000 He is a mansion Marxist.
00:02:04.000 And he is the kind of guy who full on defends terror groups like Hamas.
00:02:09.000 This is with Pod Save America and Jon Favreau. 0.50
00:02:12.000 So, my question is when you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you actually mean that?
00:02:17.000 Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal?
00:02:21.000 Like, what?
00:02:22.000 I mean, it's all of the above.
00:02:23.000 I do mean it.
00:02:24.000 I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.
00:02:27.000 I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter. 0.90
00:02:29.000 I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time. 0.96
00:02:35.000 Again, that's just evil. 0.62
00:02:37.000 Now, Hassan Piker grew up in Istanbul, rich, as in like dressage horse.
00:02:42.000 Rich.
00:02:43.000 There he was on his pony.
00:02:45.000 And then he came to the United States and he is very rich here as well.
00:02:48.000 He has a mansion.
00:02:49.000 He has nice jewelry.
00:02:51.000 He's also the kind of person who believes that violence against political opposition is totally appropriate.
00:02:57.000 It's as radical as radical can be.
00:02:59.000 Defends Mao, the whole deal. 0.62
00:03:02.000 Any kind of Zionist tendency should be treated in the same way as being a rabid neo Nazi. 0.65
00:03:09.000 Hezbollah is a paramilitary organization.
00:03:12.000 That is also a part of the Lebanese parliament.
00:03:16.000 Do we like them or no?
00:03:20.000 I think as a resistance group, they're pretty successful against Israel. 0.98
00:03:23.000 I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart for any. 0.99
00:03:27.000 Yeah, for America, but just in general.
00:03:29.000 Liberals, you need to be showing your opponents' guts on there, okay? 0.96
00:03:35.000 You need to be gutting them. 1.00
00:03:37.000 You need to be shanking these and letting their intestines just ride on stage. 0.99
00:03:45.000 You have 1950s Soviet era building blocks next to the Gucci store.
00:03:54.000 If there was more, if there was ever a country that represented the synthesis, the things that I enjoy so much personally.
00:04:09.000 What a delightful human being.
00:04:11.000 And of course, all of that led up to this interview that he did on the Opinions podcast with the New York Times, where he explained that actually Americans get why United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered by Luigi Mangione.
00:04:26.000 Engels wrote about the concept of social murder and Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO.
00:04:36.000 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.
00:04:54.000 And the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.
00:05:02.000 And that was a fascinating story for me because America is very draconian.
00:05:08.000 About crime and punishment.
00:05:10.000 They're very black and white on this issue.
00:05:12.000 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 why this death had taken place.
00:05:32.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:05:33.000 So, this well-coiffed, terror-supporting Marxist piece of trash. 0.99
00:05:39.000 He also suggested that he is pro stealing and he likes the theft. 0.99
00:05:43.000 And again, being treated with all the available sympathy and joy by the New York Times.
00:05:50.000 I'm pro stealing from big corporations because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers.
00:05:58.000 However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they design, these companies know will increase shrink, right?
00:06:13.000 So, it's actually factored in.
00:06:14.000 The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line 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.
00:06:39.000 Again, stealing is good.
00:06:41.000 Terrorism is good.
00:06:43.000 Hatred of America is good. 0.81
00:06:44.000 So, Hassan Piker grew up in Istanbul and then he came back to the United States, where he was originally born, in order to cosplay communism and burn it all down. 0.82
00:06:52.000 But Hassan Piker is emblematic of a far deeper problem because the left is mainstreaming him actively, just as they have mainstreamed and praised Zarim Amdani and Elhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed.
00:07:05.000 The future of the Democratic Party is radical third worldism.
00:07:09.000 Now, they moved over from wokeness to radical third worldism.
00:07:12.000 So, wokeness, which of course we're all familiar with, was basically at its essence the idea that all inequality of result is inequity in the system.
00:07:20.000 That if there's a difference in result, if somebody ends up poor and somebody ends up rich, it's because the system itself is evil and discriminatory.
00:07:26.000 And we know who are the people in charge because they're the ones who are successful.
00:07:31.000 Third worldism is basically that same idea, but internationally.
00:07:35.000 So, the idea is that all inequality globally is the result of Western exploitation.
00:07:40.000 The West is successful. 0.95
00:07:41.000 Third world countries are unsuccessful. 1.00
00:07:43.000 The only reason that is, is because the West must have exploited the third world. 1.00
00:07:48.000 Already coming up, I want to talk about where this third worldism is beginning. 0.81
00:07:52.000 Why are we importing millions of people who hate America into America and into the West more broadly?
00:07:57.000 Plus, we'll get to a very strange take from our friend Megan Kelly.
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00:09:07.000 So to understand this philosophy more thoroughly, you need to look at this rap song that is now becoming incredibly popular on the internet.
00:09:13.000 It's actually a rap song that is, I believe, in.
00:09:17.000 I'm not sure which language this is.
00:09:18.000 It was written by a Syrian born artist named Siba Al Khayami.
00:09:23.000 And she is rapping here.
00:09:25.000 I'll read you the subtitles because she is a Syrian born artist who lives in Germany. 1.00
00:09:32.000 Just falsify our origins, separate our loved ones, and slaughter our children, take our blood for granted, demonize our revolutionaries, steal our knowledge, keep our people oblivious, torture our spirits, denounce us our rights, colonize our countries, appoint our rulers, appropriate our goods, and burn down our trees. 1.00
00:09:48.000 But who would you be without us?
00:09:51.000 Bomb our roofs, make us out as liars, and watch our pains, and belittle our agony, ignore our tears, and close our eyes, mutilate our faces, and deny our feelings, destroy our dreams, objectify our bodies.
00:10:03.000 And darken our skies and kill our peace.
00:10:06.000 We will keep standing still.
00:10:08.000 Our love stands in us.
00:10:09.000 But who would you be without us?
00:10:11.000 You would not be without us.
00:10:12.000 You will not be without us.
00:10:14.000 And then it goes along these lines. 0.83
00:10:15.000 And the video, for those who can't see, is this very angry young woman who is marching, you know, with bare sleeves.
00:10:23.000 And then behind her are marching a bunch of other people from what appear to be various countries that are clearly not Germany.
00:10:30.000 I assume largely third world countries, many of them Muslim countries.
00:10:34.000 Some of them are wearing kafiyas and all the rest of it.
00:10:36.000 So.
00:10:37.000 Why is that important?
00:10:38.000 Well, because this is, in its essence, what we have imported.
00:10:43.000 We in the West, we have imported people who hate our guts.
00:10:47.000 And then there are a group of people in the United States who hate the systems who have allied with those people in order to create a mass movement.
00:10:54.000 That is what is happening with people like Hassan Piker and people like Rashida Tlaib and people like Elhan Omar and people like Zorhan Mamdani.
00:11:03.000 There's a writer named Zineb Raboya over at the Hudson Institute who has a great piece called The Colonial.
00:11:09.000 The decolonial delusion.
00:11:11.000 And here is what she says.
00:11:13.000 She says, What began as a framework for analyzing colonial legacies has ossified into a secular theology.
00:11:18.000 In Western universities, NGOs, and activist spaces, it no longer questions power as it replaces thought with posture.
00:11:24.000 History is flattened into morality and politics reduced to grievance. 0.70
00:11:29.000 The appeal of decolonial ideology is often strongest among diaspora communities in the West. 0.64
00:11:34.000 Second and third generation Arabs and North Africans, caught between inherited identity and modern liberal norms, often adopt decolonialism as a moral anchor.
00:11:42.000 It offers instant purpose, social legitimacy, and a ready made narrative of justice. 0.95
00:11:47.000 So, again, the basic idea here is that the reason that other countries suffer is because the West owes them something.
00:11:53.000 The West did something wrong to them.
00:11:55.000 And therefore, if you are living in the West and you realize that the West is pretty great and pretty prosperous, but you feel alienated because your parents are from somewhere else, you blame your parents' problems on the West that took them in.
00:12:08.000 And you blame colonialism and colonization.
00:12:12.000 Now, the reality is this is a great example.
00:12:14.000 Of how insane this philosophy is.
00:12:16.000 This particular rapper, again, this person named Siba Al Khayyami, right, she is from Syria, apparently, and she is in Germany.
00:12:26.000 Syria was never colonized by Germany, ever.
00:12:31.000 And in fact, if you're going to talk about the colonization history of Syria, you can talk about Islamic colonization of Syria.
00:12:37.000 Syria, of course, used to be a Christian country long before it was a Muslim country, so then it was colonized by Muslims, and then the Ottoman Empire controlled it for 400 years.
00:12:46.000 And then France controlled Syria for 26 years. 0.73
00:12:49.000 That's the only Western country to control Syria in the last, in the last millennium.
00:12:56.000 The Assad regime controlled Syria for twice as long as France did.
00:13:02.000 So Europe was not even the predominant player with regard to Syria. 0.80
00:13:07.000 The Ottoman Empire was, the Assad regime was.
00:13:10.000 And of course, what did Germany do with regard to Syria?
00:13:13.000 You may have noticed that in that entire description of Syrian history, Germany never came up.
00:13:17.000 Germany just took in multiple millions of Syrian immigrants and migrants during the Syrian Civil War.
00:13:23.000 So this person's family or she, all of them, they entered Germany because Germany under Angela Merkel decided to import a bunch of third world refugees out of some sort of misplaced sense of guilt, I suppose.
00:13:36.000 And again, that sense of guilt is misplaced.
00:13:41.000 The narrative that is told by the third worldists is far too simplistic.
00:13:45.000 The reality is that colonization has been a routine part of human history.
00:13:50.000 It is not merely done by the West.
00:13:51.000 Islamic colonization took over the entire Middle East, still controls large swaths of Africa, moved into Europe.
00:13:58.000 There are all sorts of colonization efforts.
00:14:01.000 And even with regard to European colonization, the reality is that European colonization had very real human costs, but also it is worthwhile noting that the institutions set up by colonizers in these areas.
00:14:14.000 Mean that they are more prosperous.
00:14:16.000 In fact, the countries that retained British institutions in particular are the most prosperous countries in Africa.
00:14:24.000 And the ones that reject those British institutions, those Western institutions, completely fail.
00:14:30.000 To take an example, Zimbabwe used to be controlled by Britain.
00:14:35.000 It had 90 years of British colonization and it completely collapsed.
00:14:38.000 Why?
00:14:38.000 Because they decided to basically get rid of all of those institutions and rule as a dictatorship.
00:14:45.000 Not only that, colonization, European colonization is responsible for the end of slavery in the areas where there is no slavery.
00:14:54.000 And it is responsible for the institution of systems of things like private property.
00:14:59.000 Okay, so the innate colonization and decolonial sort of philosophy itself is wrong.
00:15:05.000 But put that aside, something worse happened.
00:15:08.000 The philosophy was spread largely by Marxist educational institutions, but also by terrorist groups in a lot of these areas that ended up taking power.
00:15:18.000 The philosophy was spread that the West is responsible for all the problems here.
00:15:21.000 The West is responsible for every problem in Syria, for every problem in Iraq, for every problem in South Africa or Uganda or Turkey.
00:15:30.000 The idea is that all the problems all over the world are the responsibility of the West. 0.91
00:15:34.000 And then we decided that we should import all of those people. 0.97
00:15:38.000 So, some 6 to 7% of the German population today is Muslim, including over 10% of the population of Berlin.
00:15:46.000 Again, that Syrian rapper is from Frankfurt.
00:15:49.000 Something like 9 to 10% of the entire French population is now Muslim, including 15% of Paris.
00:15:59.000 Remember, leftists in the West greeted it as a triumph when France pulled out of Algeria.
00:16:04.000 So France colonized Algeria, and something like 10 to 13% of the population of Algeria was actual Pied Noirs, meaning French citizens. 0.63
00:16:13.000 And when Algeria went independent in 1962 and France gave up the ghosts there, all of those French people were forced out.
00:16:19.000 Over a million people left and went back to France.
00:16:22.000 Now, About 13% of the Muslim population of France is Muslim.
00:16:29.000 So the same population, percentage wise, that was French in Algeria is now Muslim in France. 0.96
00:16:35.000 But that's somehow considered a good thing because it's the reverse colonization. 0.99
00:16:41.000 Something like 6% to 7% of the UK's population, including 15% of the population of London, is Muslim. 0.96
00:16:48.000 Somewhere between 10 and 15% of the entire voting base of the Labour Party in the UK is Muslim, which explains why the Labour Party is what the Labour Party is in large part.
00:16:56.000 In the United States, much closer to home.
00:16:59.000 There are about 4.5 million Muslims in the United States.
00:17:01.000 That is up from 1.1 million in the year 2000.
00:17:04.000 So a 400% increase.
00:17:06.000 That includes over 10% of the population of New York.
00:17:10.000 As many Muslims as Jews live in New York City, which is why Zarnam Dhani is now mayor of New York.
00:17:14.000 Now, many of those people, many of those Muslims are undoubtedly decent citizens.
00:17:19.000 But how many of them sympathize with the decolonial ideology of somebody like Siba Al Khayyami? 0.92
00:17:25.000 How many of them agree with that rap song?
00:17:29.000 Well, according to the polls, the answer is a lot.
00:17:32.000 There's one recent poll that came out.
00:17:33.000 It showed the question was in Britain, how many British Muslims believe Al Qaeda planned 9 11?
00:17:39.000 The answer 4%. 0.82
00:17:42.000 Does that sound like a de radicalized population that loves the West?
00:17:47.000 Another poll at the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre a decade ago showed that two thirds of French Muslims wanted Charlie Hebdo prosecuted for cartoons of Muhammad.
00:17:57.000 Does that sound like a philosophy that is in keeping with French standards of speech?
00:18:04.000 Today, some 57% of American Muslims believe that October 7th was at least somewhat justified.
00:18:09.000 You know, we can pretend away these ideological conflicts, it doesn't make them disappear. 0.85
00:18:14.000 We've imported a lot of people who do not like Western civilization.
00:18:19.000 Again, that doesn't mean all Muslims in the West don't like Western civilization.
00:18:22.000 I know a lot of Muslims who do. 0.94
00:18:23.000 But the notion that importing millions of Muslims from third world countries or people from other cultures that don't appreciate Western civilization, that somehow this would be a good idea. 1.00
00:18:37.000 That's idiocy. 0.99
00:18:39.000 So that raises the question of why the West imported all of this in the first place. 1.00
00:18:43.000 And the answer is that there are a bunch of people in the West, homegrown, who believe that our civilization is inherently guilty and ought to be torn down.
00:18:50.000 They tend toward the Marxist left.
00:18:51.000 The Marxist left believes, of course, that America was founded in sin, that America's foreign policy and the West's foreign policy more broadly has been about exploitation and evil.
00:19:01.000 A really good example of this, again, almost a pure example of this, is the French existentialist and Marxist Jean Paul Sartre.
00:19:10.000 So, he wrote the foreword to one of the most important anti colonial books of the 20th century about the French occupation of Algeria.
00:19:18.000 It's a book called Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon.
00:19:23.000 So, Sartre wrote the introduction to that.
00:19:25.000 And Sartre argued that the West was fundamentally evil and cruel. 1.00
00:19:29.000 And he agreed that European civilization should be destroyed, that the third worldists were right. 0.70
00:19:36.000 And the only way for Europe to appease the gods of justice was to destroy itself. 0.91
00:19:43.000 Quote, we are all complicit in a thousand year old depression.
00:19:47.000 You know well enough that we are exploiters.
00:19:49.000 Our precious sets of values begin to molt.
00:19:51.000 On closer scrutiny, you won't see one that isn't stained with blood.
00:19:55.000 Sartre argued that we actually needed to import people from the third world to destroy us.
00:20:00.000 It's our turn to tread the path step by step, which leads down to native level. 0.86
00:20:04.000 To become natives altogether, our soil must be occupied by a formerly colonized people and we must starve of hunger. 0.79
00:20:11.000 Again, the Marxists of the left love this stuff. 0.99
00:20:13.000 They are into this stuff. 0.98
00:20:14.000 Suicide is the answer. 1.00
00:20:16.000 Western values are evil and they have to be destroyed. 0.96
00:20:19.000 So, in the United States, this is the coalition that's taking over the Democratic Party. 0.99
00:20:23.000 The third worldists themselves, people like the Zorhan Mamdanis, people like the Hassan Pikers, and their fellow travelers. 0.99
00:20:31.000 That is the idea. 0.99
00:20:31.000 And their fellow travelers. 0.99
00:20:34.000 So, this is what the Democratic Party is now trying.
00:20:37.000 Wokeness didn't really work on Americans.
00:20:39.000 We didn't like that sort of thing.
00:20:40.000 So, now they're trying a different version of wokeness, a different flavor of wokeness, third worldism, which is basically the same poison poured into a slightly different bottle.
00:20:49.000 So, less Stacey Abrams and more Zoran Momdani.
00:20:52.000 And the Democratic Party is handing the party directly over to these people.
00:20:55.000 That is what is happening right now.
00:20:58.000 Ezra Klein is a supposed moderate.
00:20:59.000 Again, Ezra's been on my podcast, I've been on his.
00:21:02.000 He is a supposed Democratic moderate.
00:21:03.000 He wrote a book.
00:21:05.000 Called Abundance, which was about how the Democratic Party needed to embrace deregulation in certain areas and efficacy of government.
00:21:14.000 And now he's out there defending Hassan Piker, calling him not a Jew hater, apparently.
00:21:20.000 He says, I have deep disagreements with Piker, but he isn't a Jew hater.
00:21:23.000 I don't know. 0.92
00:21:23.000 I have a feeling that people who say that they would take Hamas over Israel, I have a feeling that they're kind of. 0.92
00:21:31.000 They definitely buy into conspiracy theories about Jews, that is for sure.
00:21:35.000 If you are siding with the actual genocidal anti Jewish group, Over Israel, I have a feeling that maybe, maybe you might cross that line into Jew hater.
00:21:42.000 Just going to put that out there. 0.95
00:21:43.000 And you out there proclaiming that you hate anti Semitism, you just love Hamas. 0.98
00:21:50.000 Yeah, I'm going to go no on that one. 1.00
00:21:52.000 I'm going to go no on that.
00:21:53.000 Really. 1.00
00:21:55.000 It's sort of like saying, listen, I love black people.
00:21:58.000 Black people are just wonderful.
00:21:59.000 They're great.
00:22:00.000 I just happen to love the KKK.
00:22:03.000 The answer there is no.
00:22:06.000 The answer there is no.
00:22:07.000 John Favreau of Pods of America, again, they have him on.
00:22:10.000 And then he's like, oh, well, no, he's not.
00:22:11.000 Just because you think he's a leader in the Democratic Party?
00:22:13.000 Yes, I do think he's a leader in the Democratic Party because you let him get away with this stuff.
00:22:18.000 You let him get away with this stuff.
00:22:21.000 And so, why is the Democratic Party doing this?
00:22:24.000 Well, again, some are doing this because they are actual Marxists and they're happy to fellow travel with third worldism as a front for their destructive goals.
00:22:32.000 And again, there's a long history of that. 0.58
00:22:33.000 Marxists in Africa worked along with the third worldists to fight the West.
00:22:37.000 And then there are other Democrats who just hate the right so much that they will find any ally.
00:22:43.000 And they will, and they will side with those people.
00:22:45.000 And they will treat any Democrat who works with Republicans, or at least any Democrat who doesn't want to burn every single thing down as a traitor.
00:22:52.000 So Jennifer Welch, who I, for the love of my, I will never understand how Jennifer Welch people listen to this.
00:23:00.000 But here she was.
00:23:01.000 She's a podcaster, for those who don't know, a relatively popular podcaster, from what I understand.
00:23:06.000 She says that Chuck Schumer and Jeffries and Hakeem Jeffries, the Senate minority leader and the House minority leader, are fascist collaborators. 0.93
00:23:16.000 And basically, you have a bunch of dirty cops in the Oval Office right now, and the entire executive branch is a crime syndicate. 0.88
00:23:23.000 And Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should be building the biggest opposition to this. 0.92
00:23:30.000 And oftentimes, they appear more like fascist collaborators than they do a full blown opposition to it.
00:23:37.000 So there's no attaboy for me to Chuck Schumer. 0.51
00:23:41.000 Again, fascist collaborators, this is how you end up with the third world running your party. 0.91
00:23:45.000 Because if the idea is you prefer the revolutionaries who burn everything down, To the pretty left wing Democrats who just aren't burning everything down, well, then you end up with the crazies in charge. 0.93
00:23:57.000 So, the big question for the Democratic Party can the moderates actually fight back?
00:24:02.000 Very, very unlikely. 0.58
00:24:03.000 This is why the future of the Democratic Party, I've been saying it for a long time, it is the Bernie Sanders Marxist left hand in hand with the Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib Islamist left.
00:24:14.000 That is the coalition, and that is the leadership base of the coalition.
00:24:18.000 Well, because if you're a Democrat, you cannot be half in and half out.
00:24:18.000 Why?
00:24:21.000 You can't be a party so extreme that you say for fully a decade, boys are girls and Trump is Hitler, and then say that your solution is to gradually win elections and effectuate larger government spending programs.
00:24:32.000 It doesn't work that way.
00:24:34.000 You can't simultaneously say that America is an existential threat and also we're going to abide by all the rules of the road.
00:24:40.000 You can't really do that.
00:24:42.000 This is why Hakeem Jeffries has no answer to a basic question.
00:24:46.000 Why do some kid ask him, why do Democrats have such poor approval ratings?
00:24:51.000 And Jeffries couldn't give the answer.
00:24:53.000 Now, the answer is because they are way too radical.
00:24:56.000 They're perceived as way too radical by the American public on key questions.
00:24:59.000 And at the same time, they're perceived as moderate by their own radicals.
00:25:02.000 And so everyone sort of hates them.
00:25:03.000 That's the answer.
00:25:04.000 But he has no idea how to answer the question.
00:25:05.000 You got a question there.
00:25:08.000 Why do voters do Democrats so poorly?
00:25:14.000 Did your dad give you that question?
00:25:21.000 It's a great question.
00:25:23.000 I'm going to have words with you after this, Mario.
00:25:34.000 Listen, I think that we exist in an era right now where the American people are understandably frustrated with institutions.
00:25:45.000 Okay, well, he is that last part there is right.
00:25:48.000 But Democrats, instead of standing up for institutions and then working with Republicans to fight against the radicals, have decided that they are going to make room for the radicals because that is the jet fuel in their airplane.
00:26:00.000 Again, you can't say for a decade that Donald Trump is Hitler and that boys are girls and that America is systemically racist and irredeemably racist and then turn around and pretend that it has no impact.
00:26:15.000 You can't do that.
00:26:17.000 It is not possible.
00:26:19.000 So, Democrats are embracing total radicalism.
00:26:21.000 So, how are they going to get away with this and still win?
00:26:23.000 We'll get into that.
00:26:24.000 Plus, Iran and a strange take from Meghan and Kelly first.
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00:27:32.000 So the question becomes now, how do Democrats sell this radicalism as non radicalism?
00:27:37.000 Because again, if you ask the vast majority of Americans, do they like Hassan Piker?
00:27:40.000 The answer is no.
00:27:42.000 Do they like his views?
00:27:43.000 No, they think it's crazy.
00:27:44.000 How do they sell this?
00:27:45.000 Well, they lie about it.
00:27:46.000 They're two faced.
00:27:47.000 So the key to not alienating Americans is to lie about your own radicalism.
00:27:51.000 So this is Zoran Momtani, right?
00:27:53.000 You slap on the smarmy face.
00:27:54.000 And you leave the screaming in Tom Homan's face Zoramam Dhani in the background.
00:27:58.000 That is to get all of the people out in the primaries.
00:28:00.000 And then when you get to the general, then you start pretending they were actually some sort of moderate.
00:28:05.000 That's when you grin into the camera.
00:28:08.000 If you're Zoram Dhani, you say that the NYPD is laced, its boot is laced by the IDF. 0.74
00:28:14.000 But then when it comes time to actually interview, you say, no, no, no, I hate anti Semitism. 0.79
00:28:18.000 I just don't like Israel. 0.87
00:28:19.000 That's the game that you play. 1.00
00:28:21.000 Barack Obama was the best practitioner of this game, by the way.
00:28:25.000 And this is why so many Americans felt gaslighted by Barack Obama because they were.
00:28:31.000 Barack Obama would go out there and he would say, There are no red sites, there are no blue sites, just the United States.
00:28:37.000 And then he would literally go, his first major speech after he was elected, he would literally go to Cairo for his first major speech in Egypt, a speech titled A New Beginning.
00:28:48.000 And he would talk about how America and the West more broadly were deeply guilty for all the problems of the third world.
00:28:58.000 And this guy was the president.
00:28:59.000 So this is nothing new.
00:29:00.000 We're just watching a new and more radical iteration publicly of what the kind of stuff that Barack Obama was doing very early on in his administration.
00:29:08.000 Here he was in Egypt in 2009.
00:29:10.000 9 11 was an enormous trauma to our country.
00:29:16.000 The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable.
00:29:20.000 But in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals.
00:29:28.000 We are taking concrete actions to change course.
00:29:32.000 I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year.
00:29:41.000 More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
00:30:00.000 Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
00:30:12.000 Again, this is radicalism in a moderate bottle, and that is what Democrats are trying to sell.
00:30:17.000 They're trying to sell Hassan Piker in a grinning Zorn Mamdani bottle.
00:30:21.000 They're trying to sell Ilhan Omar in an Alexander Ocasio Cortez bottle.
00:30:28.000 That is the idea here.
00:30:31.000 That is always so when we talk about do politics matter, does it matter who you vote for?
00:30:35.000 Yes, of course it does.
00:30:37.000 Because the reality is the Democratic Party are giving into these people day by day by day.
00:30:41.000 If you don't like the idea that politically motivated murder is okay, then maybe you should think about the party that is justifying politically motivated murder and massaging the people who are promoting it.
00:30:55.000 If you don't like the idea that just randomly stealing from places is okay, maybe you should question why more Democratic politicians aren't calling that out.
00:31:03.000 Why are they campaigning with people like Hassan Piker?
00:31:03.000 Where are they?
00:31:07.000 I understand the temptation.
00:31:08.000 Look, I get the temptation.
00:31:09.000 For people of the right, people who are moderate, I get the temptation.
00:31:12.000 It's just New York.
00:31:13.000 Who cares?
00:31:13.000 Hassan Piker is just a podcaster, whatever.
00:31:15.000 Rashid Talib is just a congressperson from Michigan.
00:31:18.000 Abdul El Sayed, maybe he'll be a senator from Michigan, but whatever.
00:31:21.000 Here's the thing it starts off with a core.
00:31:23.000 Every revolution starts with a core.
00:31:26.000 And then, if you have enough weak and venal people surrounding that core, you get a movement.
00:31:30.000 And then, if that movement takes over an entire party, you got a 50% shot that that thing runs the country.
00:31:36.000 That's the problem.
00:31:39.000 And so, all of these people, these pseudo moderates, ranging from the Ezra Kleins to the John Favreau's, where are you?
00:31:48.000 Where are you?
00:31:49.000 I don't blame Hassan Piker for being Hassan Piker or Zoran Momdani for being Zoran Momdani.
00:31:54.000 I blame you for failing to stop the takeover of your party by this.
00:32:00.000 Why is it, and we all know it, why is it that John Fetterman is more of an outcast from the Democratic Party at this point than Zoran Momdani, Ilhan Omar, or Hassan Piker?
00:32:09.000 Why?
00:32:11.000 I think we all know the answer because we know which direction that party is moving, and that is a disaster area for the country. 0.58
00:32:18.000 All right, meanwhile, over in Iran, and there are a lot of questions to be asked, obviously, about the war in Iran what's the strategy, what are we doing over there, and all the rest. 0.58
00:32:27.000 But I will say an enormous amount of the opposition to the war in Iran is not rooted in honest questions about strategy and tactics.
00:32:35.000 A lot of it, particularly on the part of the left, is rooted in the idea that Iran is an innocent country that's being attacked. 0.88
00:32:43.000 That third world countries like Iran don't have any agency of their own.
00:32:46.000 They don't have any goals of their own. 0.97
00:32:47.000 The only reason that they are angry at us is because of Mohammed Mossadegh not being the prime minister in 1953. 0.90
00:32:55.000 That really, if it had not been for America and our interventionism in the Middle East, Iran would be totally great. 0.95
00:33:01.000 Third worldism, that's the reason for a lot of this. 1.00
00:33:03.000 On the right as well, by the way.
00:33:04.000 And there's basically no difference between the viewpoints of Howard Zinn and John Mearsheimer.
00:33:10.000 They're basically the same when it comes to American history and foreign policy.
00:33:14.000 That is why, again, Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker are holding hands here.
00:33:19.000 Because third worldism exists on the part of some parts of the right side of the aisle as well.
00:33:26.000 But the reality is that Americans are not on board with any of that third worldism.
00:33:32.000 As a general rule, they are not on board with it, which is why Democrats have to lie about it.
00:33:37.000 There's a brand new poll out from Echelon Insights, and it shows that Americans are willing to pay higher gas prices to achieve a set of outcomes.
00:33:44.000 49% say that they are very or somewhat willing.
00:33:51.000 To pay higher gas prices to stop Iran from having a nuclear program or to set back the Iranian nuclear capabilities or to degrade their military capabilities or to replace their leader with something more sympathetic.
00:34:05.000 That is as opposed to 39% who say they're not very willing or not at all willing to have higher gas prices for any of those things.
00:34:13.000 So a plurality of Americans, again, have their heads screwed on straight when it comes to American foreign policy.
00:34:17.000 That is why President Trump says he put out a truth social saying, I have all the time in the world.
00:34:22.000 And what Trump is doing here is actually quite smart.
00:34:24.000 People are saying, oh, he extended the ceasefire because he's backing down. 0.93
00:34:27.000 Again, the Iranians are trying to taunt him into military action again because they wish for the United States to light up with objection. 0.99
00:34:38.000 That is their goal. 0.92
00:34:40.000 What they are dying from right now, the Iranian government, is the blockade.
00:34:44.000 The blockade is destroying them.
00:34:47.000 The president is correct. 1.00
00:34:48.000 He says, quote, I have all the time in the world, but Iran doesn't. 1.00
00:34:50.000 The clock is ticking. 1.00
00:34:52.000 Correct.
00:34:53.000 Time is not on their side.
00:34:55.000 A deal will only be made when it's appropriate and good for the United States of America, our allies, and in fact, the rest of the world, President Trump.
00:35:02.000 He is correct about this.
00:35:03.000 That is right.
00:35:04.000 Time is on our side. 0.76
00:35:05.000 It is not on the side of the Iranian mullahs.
00:35:07.000 And the president has three more years to be president.
00:35:10.000 How long does the Iranian economy have to hold up the IRGC? 0.80
00:35:13.000 Here is President Trump saying that he says, don't rush me, gang.
00:35:21.000 Don't rush me.
00:35:22.000 Don't rush me, Jeff.
00:35:24.000 You know, guys like you, you want to say, oh, So we were in Vietnam for 18 years.
00:35:28.000 We were in Iraq for many, many years.
00:35:31.000 We're in for all the, I don't like to say World War II because that was a biggie, but we were four and a half, almost five years in World War II.
00:35:40.000 We were in the Korean War for seven years.
00:35:42.000 I've been doing this for six weeks. 1.00
00:35:47.000 Again, he is not wrong.
00:35:49.000 And CENTCOM put up an image of the blockade showing that the United States has been stopping 30 plus vessels.
00:35:58.000 The majority of those vessels have complied with U.S. directions.
00:36:01.000 Most of the ones that were turned around have been oil tankers.
00:36:05.000 The president says, Listen, I'm holding out for an actual good deal.
00:36:07.000 He says, I could make a deal right this very instant, but he wants it to be a lasting deal.
00:36:10.000 Again, what we're watching right now from President Trump, I've said it before, I'll say it again, is an act of true political courage.
00:36:16.000 Yes, it is a political risk because democracies tend not to favor conflict, even if that conflict heads off a further conflict.
00:36:24.000 It's one of the problems that democracies have generally.
00:36:27.000 Winston Churchill talks about this at the beginning of his history of World War II.
00:36:30.000 When he's describing what led from World War I to World War II, he says, listen, if the democracies had held the line between World War I and World War II, there wouldn't have been a World War II.
00:36:39.000 Very difficult in democracies to get people to put aside short term interest in favor of long term interest.
00:36:45.000 The president is trying to do that, and that takes actual courage.
00:36:48.000 Here he was yesterday.
00:36:49.000 It's the president weeks that the U.S. now has been involved with Iran.
00:36:52.000 You had initially said it would be four to six months.
00:36:54.000 Well, I know that, but I also took a little break.
00:36:57.000 I gave them a break.
00:36:58.000 And remember this.
00:37:02.000 I want to make the best deal.
00:37:03.000 I could make a deal right now.
00:37:04.000 Do you know that if I left right now, we had a tremendous success.
00:37:08.000 It would take them 20 years to rebuild, but I don't want to do that.
00:37:11.000 I want to have it everlasting.
00:37:15.000 He is right.
00:37:17.000 And he points out that the leadership there is already fracturing.
00:37:19.000 So President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social. 1.00
00:37:22.000 He says Iran doesn't even know who their leader is, which is correct, actually. 1.00
00:37:26.000 He says Iran is having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is. 0.87
00:37:28.000 They just don't know.
00:37:29.000 The infighting is between the hardliners who have been losing badly on the battlefield and the moderates who are not very moderate at all but gaining respect.
00:37:35.000 It's crazy.
00:37:36.000 We have total control over the Strait of Hormuz.
00:37:38.000 No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the United States Navy. 0.84
00:37:41.000 It is sealed up tight until such time as Iran is able to make a deal.
00:37:43.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter. 0.98
00:37:47.000 Now, the Iranians are trying to claim the opposite.
00:37:49.000 Abbas Araki, who is the foreign minister of Iran, put out a statement saying, No, no, no, no, it's not true.
00:37:55.000 Iranians are all united more than ever before.
00:37:57.000 Mm mm.
00:37:58.000 Mm mm.
00:37:59.000 Mohammed Khalibaf, who is the speaker of parliament and an IRGC cutout, he put out a tweet saying the same thing.
00:37:59.000 Not true.
00:38:05.000 He says, In Iran, there are no radicals or moderates.
00:38:08.000 We are all Iranian and revolutionary.
00:38:09.000 And with the iron unity of the nation and government, and with complete obedience to the supreme leader of the revolution, we will make the aggressor criminal regret his actions.
00:38:17.000 One God, one leader, one nation, one path.
00:38:20.000 Okay, so there's only one problem.
00:38:22.000 It's not really true.
00:38:23.000 There is massive conflict inside the Iranian regime, according to the New York Times.
00:38:27.000 The New York Times interviewed, on the basis of anonymity, six senior officials, two former officials, two IRGC members, a senior cleric, three individuals who know Moshtaba Khamenei well, nine individuals with ties to the IRGC.
00:38:39.000 And the New York Times reports that Ayatollah Khamenei is a complete figurehead, that he's been badly hurt, that he's been communicating with the IRGC via courier handwritten messages.
00:38:54.000 One leg was operated on three times.
00:38:55.000 He's waiting for a prosthetic.
00:38:57.000 He had surgery on one hand.
00:38:58.000 He's slowly regaining function.
00:38:59.000 His face and lips have been severely burned, which is why you haven't seen a picture of him at all.
00:39:04.000 And he is not in charge.
00:39:06.000 The IRGC is in charge.
00:39:09.000 According to the New York Times, the elected president and his cabinet have been sidelined and told to focus only on domestic affairs, like providing a steady flow of food and fuel, and to make sure the country is functioning according to knowledgeable officials.
00:39:20.000 The foreign minister, Abbasarawi, has been marginalized in the negotiations he led with the United States before the war.
00:39:25.000 Instead, Muhammad Khalibaf, who is a cutout for the IRGC, has taken the lead instead.
00:39:32.000 So, again, the IRGC is in charge.
00:39:34.000 The question is, for how long?
00:39:36.000 And when they can't pay their folks, do things start to hit the end of the road for them?
00:39:40.000 Meanwhile, the president has been continuing to broker a ceasefire in Lebanon.
00:39:44.000 So, Hezbollah has been harassing Israel for legitimately decades at this point, firing thousands of rockets into the north of Israel.
00:39:51.000 The population of northern Israel was for two years not living in their homes.
00:39:55.000 And so, Israel, over the course of the Iran war, also went into Lebanon to clean Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon.
00:40:01.000 And then a ceasefire was declared, brokered by President Trump. 0.52
00:40:05.000 The president put out a statement yesterday saying that the United States will work with Lebanon to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.
00:40:12.000 The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by three weeks.
00:40:14.000 I look forward in the near future to hosting the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun.
00:40:19.000 Now, the reality, of course, is that the Lebanese government is insanely weak.
00:40:23.000 They've never been able to disarm Hezbollah, so the reality will be Israel disarming Hezbollah with, presumably, the help of the Lebanese government.
00:40:30.000 That's the only way a deal actually works here.
00:40:34.000 President Trump.
00:40:35.000 Was asked about whether Iran would have to stop funding Hezbollah as part of any deal.
00:40:41.000 He said yes.
00:40:43.000 He says there's a good chance of a deal between Israel and Lebanon.
00:40:46.000 Here is the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, who says that Israel would like peace with Lebanon and vice versa.
00:40:54.000 Thank you, Mr. President, for your hospitality, for bringing Israel and Lebanon together here in the Oval Office.
00:41:02.000 Israel wants peace with Lebanon, and Israel wants security for its citizens.
00:41:07.000 We're united with the Lebanese government. 0.97
00:41:10.000 And wanting to rid the country of this malign influence called Hezbollah. 0.94
00:41:14.000 And now that, Mr. President, under your leadership, Iran has been so degraded, the possibility of degrading Hezbollah and liberating Lebanon from their occupation is real. 0.64
00:41:26.000 So we hope that together under your leadership, we can formalize peace between Israel and Lebanon in the very near future. 0.99
00:41:34.000 Secretary of State Rubio, who was there at that meeting as well, he said that both of these countries are being victimized by the same terrorist organization, which of course is true. 0.79
00:41:43.000 The president wanted to be personally involved, and I'm glad he was because it made it possible to get this extension, and it gives everybody time to continue to work on what's going to be a permanent peace.
00:41:52.000 Between two countries that want to be at peace, both are victimized by the same terrorist organization.
00:41:57.000 A terrorist organization that no doubt has victimized Israel, but has also victimized the people of Lebanon.
00:42:02.000 The people of Lebanon deserve to live.
00:42:04.000 In a country that's peaceful and prosperous, they have an opportunity to do that.
00:42:07.000 They have a history of that.
00:42:09.000 And what's standing in the way is an organization that operates, a terrorist organization that operates within their national territory, that threat needs to be eliminated.
00:42:18.000 And so thank you, Mr. President, for this gathering today and for convening it and being a key part of it.
00:42:23.000 And it spies this time to continue to work.
00:42:25.000 I'm very optimistic that in a few weeks we'll be even closer to the kind of permanent peace that the people of Israel and Lebanon deserve.
00:42:33.000 I do have to say, one of the most astonishing things about the online discourse.
00:42:36.000 Surrounding, for example, Israel and Christianity is the complete unwillingness to ever mention what Lebanon was.
00:42:43.000 Lebanon was a Christian country that was taken over in large part by the Palestine Liberation Organization and used as a base to launch attacks, and then was taken over by Iran and Hezbollah.
00:42:53.000 And many of the people who hate Israel and claim that Israel is anti Christian literally are defending groups that turned Lebanon from a Christian paradise into a complete hellhole. 0.81
00:43:05.000 Well done. 1.00
00:43:05.000 Great job, guys. 1.00
00:43:07.000 Well, meanwhile, And there's been a lot of consternation about insider trading on betting markets, on futures markets.
00:43:16.000 Apparently, one dude made $37,000 on PolyMarket by making a weather bet.
00:43:22.000 And what he did is he bet that temperature would rise to a certain degree.
00:43:25.000 And then he took a hair dryer and went over to one of the temperature measuring devices and hit it with a hair dryer so as to raise the temperature.
00:43:34.000 Kind of smart, I guess.
00:43:35.000 So here is some video of this.
00:43:39.000 MCM is approaching this temperature monitor and hitting it with the hairdryer, the portable hairdryer, so as to raise the temperature a little bit.
00:43:48.000 He checks to make sure that the temperature rose so he can collect his winnings.
00:43:52.000 He put in $2,000.
00:43:54.000 He walked away with a profit of nearly $37,000.
00:43:59.000 Now the sensor has a security guard and the guy is in the wind.
00:44:02.000 So, you know, points for human beings, very resourceful when it comes to skipping over the rules.
00:44:10.000 Now, that is the sort of version of this that doesn't matter.
00:44:14.000 Then there's the version of this that does matter.
00:44:16.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Gannon Ken Van Dyke was charged in Manhattan federal court with commodity and wire fraud, according to the DOJ.
00:44:23.000 Apparently, he's a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, and he misused information about the operation to grab Nicolas Maduro to make well time bets on the poly market that Maduro would lose power by the end of January.
00:44:36.000 He took part in the planning and execution of the mission.
00:44:39.000 He received a classified briefing on December 8th.
00:44:43.000 He spends about 33 grand in long shot contracts that netted him a profit of $409,000.
00:44:50.000 Kalshi, by the way, has announced that they have fined and suspended three congressional candidates for betting on their own races.
00:44:56.000 President Trump was asked about this.
00:44:58.000 He said he's not happy with it.
00:45:01.000 Against his team, that would be no good, but he bet on his own team.
00:45:04.000 I'll look into it.
00:45:06.000 There are also bets that are being placed as well on the Iran conflict, too, and there have been some tracking where people suspect that there's insider trading happening on these prediction markets around the war.
00:45:17.000 Well, you know, the whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino.
00:45:24.000 And you look at what's going on all over the world, in Europe and every place they're doing these betting things.
00:45:29.000 I was never much in favor of it.
00:45:30.000 I don't like it conceptually, but it is what it is.
00:45:34.000 No, I think that I'm not happy with any of that stuff, but they have all these different sites.
00:45:40.000 They have predictive markets.
00:45:42.000 It's a crazy world.
00:45:44.000 It's a much different world than it was.
00:45:46.000 Please.
00:45:49.000 Well, you know, the world of online, it is not the real world.
00:45:52.000 And if you get caught up in it, you might end up in jail.
00:45:54.000 Well, speaking of the world of the online, obviously, I've been at odds with Megan Kelly.
00:46:00.000 We were friends at one point.
00:46:02.000 And she objected to me calling her out for continuing, like still eight months later, to pretend that Candace Owens is not doing anything wrong by attacking Erica Kirk.
00:46:11.000 She instead lies and says that I'm telling her something about Israel or something, which is weird because that's not what I'm talking about.
00:46:17.000 In any case, Megan be clowned herself yesterday.
00:46:20.000 Because she had on Russell Brand.
00:46:23.000 Now, Russell Brand was a guest on this show in March 2023, I believe.
00:46:27.000 That was before there were widespread allegations of him engaging in pretty significant sexual misconduct.
00:46:35.000 Well, back in September 2023, which is when a lot of these allegations came up, Megan had some things to say about Russell Brand.
00:46:42.000 In fact, here she was in September of 2023, saying that she would condemn Russell Brand if the allegations were true.
00:46:53.000 Before they rush to defend somebody like this, they need to pause and think about their own honor code and their daughters and their wives and their sisters.
00:47:03.000 Because if you can't do it for yourself, if you could just remove your own skin from the game, think about your daughter.
00:47:09.000 That's who I think about.
00:47:10.000 I don't give a damn whether Russell Brand actually sexually assaulted in this instance or that.
00:47:16.000 I mean, I care, but what I'm trying to say is I don't care whether it's true. 0.70
00:47:19.000 I'm done. 0.96
00:47:19.000 If he had sex with a 16 year old when he was 31, I'm done. 0.96
00:47:23.000 I'm not his fan.
00:47:24.000 I'm perfectly comfortable condemning that.
00:47:27.000 Full force.
00:47:29.000 I have a 12 year old daughter.
00:47:30.000 Any man comes near her in four years who's 31 years old, and we are going to have a serious problem that goes well beyond his demonetization on YouTube.
00:47:41.000 That's wrong.
00:47:42.000 And anybody with two cents in between their ears knows it's wrong.
00:47:47.000 It went on allegedly for three months.
00:47:50.000 If the whole thing's a lie, we should find out.
00:47:53.000 If he admits to just that alone, it's over.
00:47:57.000 And I don't care how many sponsors he loses.
00:48:01.000 Okay, at that same time, she said that the right was being morally hypocritical for not disowning him.
00:48:10.000 We don't need him.
00:48:12.000 In fact, he's a hindrance.
00:48:14.000 Think about the message that you're sending to young women, young women who might be thinking about leaning conservative or voting Republican.
00:48:20.000 Do you think this is a good recruiting method after all of the years that we've been through where the Republican brand has been so damaged?
00:48:28.000 Do you think they're wanting to sign up with a brand where it's like, hey, as I'm now seeing online, she was 16.
00:48:34.000 What about her culpability? 1.00
00:48:35.000 Oh my God, shut up. 1.00
00:48:37.000 If that's your position, I can't even engage in a good faith argument with you. 1.00
00:48:42.000 She was a minor. 0.99
00:48:43.000 She was a child.
00:48:44.000 To even equate the two on this scale is an absurdity that shows you, if you're making the argument, probably have some skeleton in your closet that you don't want me to know about.
00:48:53.000 So I want more men like you to say, guys, we don't need every willing soldier on this team, even if he happens to be a massive celebrity and has 6 million YouTube followers.
00:49:05.000 Because what I'm seeing is too many conservatives who are supposed to.
00:49:10.000 Eschew celebrity, and we're supposed to be, you know, the ones who are like, no, we're not into the celebrity culture.
00:49:15.000 Fawn over this guy because every time one of these guys deigns to look their way or say something they like, they're like, oh, he likes me.
00:49:23.000 Oh, he had me on.
00:49:24.000 Or, oh, he's on my side.
00:49:26.000 Would you grow up?
00:49:27.000 We don't care about Russell Brand.
00:49:28.000 We care about message.
00:49:29.000 We care about truth.
00:49:30.000 We used to care about honor.
00:49:33.000 Let's not lose that when we need it most.
00:49:41.000 Strange.
00:49:43.000 Fast forward a couple of years, you know, to like yesterday.
00:49:47.000 And guess who was on Megan's show?
00:49:50.000 It was Russell Brand.
00:49:52.000 He's pumping a new book that he's publishing via Tucker Carlson all about his conversion to Christianity, which has, you know, been interestingly timed as all the prosecutions come up.
00:50:04.000 And here was Megan Kelly, you know, she's face to face with the guy.
00:50:08.000 And he literally talks about sleeping with that 16 year old when he was 30.
00:50:12.000 And.
00:50:13.000 Hmm.
00:50:14.000 Hmm.
00:50:17.000 E hold.
00:50:19.000 In Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I'm from, the age of consent is 16.
00:50:24.000 And I did sleep with a 16 year old when I was 30.
00:50:28.000 But when I was 30, I was a very different person.
00:50:32.000 I was a lot younger and I was an immature 30 year old.
00:50:35.000 Consensual sex, actually, with a variety of people, when there is a strong power differential, as there is when you're a famous man that has the ability to attract women that I had at that time.
00:50:47.000 I think it involves exploitation.
00:50:50.000 I think it is exploitative.
00:50:52.000 I recognized that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish and I didn't apply enough consideration, barely any, I suppose, really, to how that sex was affecting other people.
00:51:12.000 Megan seems very accepting of this.
00:51:14.000 So, okay.
00:51:16.000 Okay. 0.91
00:51:17.000 Probably it's just, you know, consistency of principle and not click whoring. 0.88
00:51:20.000 Probably it's that, as it has been the whole time. 0.95
00:51:24.000 All righty.
00:51:24.000 Well, moving on to more important matters.
00:51:27.000 The economy continues to concern Americans.
00:51:31.000 Gallup has a poll out talking about America's economic confidence right now.
00:51:37.000 It's dropping pretty significantly.
00:51:40.000 When it comes to confidence rates, It has dropped to 38% negative, essentially.
00:51:48.000 The plus minus is 38% negative.
00:51:50.000 Now, again, this isn't historically low.
00:51:53.000 It's the lowest that it's been since probably the beginning of 2024.
00:51:57.000 And that is because of the spike in the gas prices.
00:52:00.000 And it is because of uncertainty about AI and all the rest of it.
00:52:04.000 I will say that I'm amused by people like Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, complaining about high gas prices.
00:52:08.000 So I was in California last week.
00:52:10.000 And one of the things I noticed is that the difference in gas price between Florida and where I was in Los Angeles.
00:52:16.000 Was something like $3 a gallon.
00:52:18.000 That is not because of Iran.
00:52:20.000 That is because of the regulatory environment in California that makes it almost impossible to provide gas to the population at scale at an affordable price.
00:52:29.000 But here is Gavin Newsom complaining about Trump and Iran, not his own policies.
00:52:33.000 The price spikes in this state are directly attributable to the actions of the President of the United States. 0.60
00:52:41.000 And the President of the United States needs to be held to account not only to those actions and the consequences of it, but he needs to end this war.
00:52:50.000 And he needs to address the growing crisis at the pump that he has exacerbated.
00:52:57.000 Now, again, we should point out here that California has the highest gas prices in the United States, that boutique state taxes and environmental fees amount to something like $1.20 to $1.50 a gallon, that some 360 energy companies have left California since 2018 alone.
00:53:13.000 That includes Chevron.
00:53:14.000 Tesla moved to Austin in 2021.
00:53:16.000 Oracle moved to Austin in 2020.
00:53:19.000 Refineries are closing all over the state.
00:53:23.000 So, Yeah, I mean, when Democrats complain about high gas prices and then simultaneously undercut the entire energy market, it's a little bit awkward.
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