The Ben Shapiro Show - The Scavenger Left and The Cuck Democrats

00:00:00.000 Alrighty, folks, tons coming up on today's show.

00:00:02.000 It was the end of Pride Month yesterday and over the weekend, which meant that you saw all the scavengers together again, including Zoran Mamdani, will talk about the fallout from his New York mayoralty Democratic nomination, why the Democratic Party is in serious trouble, plus the latest on the big, beautiful bill, and also Iran. 0.75

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00:00:51.000 Well, folks, obviously we are keeping tabs on this horrifying situation out of Idaho during which at least two Idaho firefighters were murdered during an ambush on Sunday.

00:01:00.000 The man suspected of killing those Idaho firefighters, of course, was found dead on Sunday with a gunshot wound, according to Daily Wire.

00:01:08.000 The man was believed to have deliberately set a grass fire at Canfield Mountain in northern Idaho and then started shooting at firefighters when they responded.

00:01:14.000 Two firefighters were killed.

00:01:15.000 A third is fighting for his life after sustaining serious injuries.

00:01:18.000 The Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris didn't release any identifying information on the suspect.

00:01:23.000 Here is what he had to say originally.

00:01:27.000 Okay, my name is Robert Norris.

00:01:28.000 I am the sheriff of Kootenai County.

00:01:30.000 This information is very preliminary and is subject to change.

00:01:35.000 We want to give you and the public as much information as quickly as possible.

00:01:39.000 So at approximately 1.21 p.m. this afternoon, we received reports of a fire on the east side of Canfield Mountain.

00:01:48.000 Fire assets responded to the scene and at approximately 2 p.m. this afternoon, it was reported that firefighters were receiving shots fired at them.

00:02:03.000 We now have two deaths.

00:02:06.000 We have an unknown amount of casualties.

00:02:08.000 We still have civilians that are coming off of that mountain.

00:02:12.000 We might have civilians that are stuck or in shock on that mountain.

00:02:18.000 So this is a very, very fresh situation.

00:02:24.000 We are actively taking sniper fire as we speak.

00:02:30.000 This is an active situation.

00:02:32.000 So again, apparently what happened here is that there was a report of a fire.

00:02:37.000 Once that fire was set, firefighters began arriving, and then this shooter started murdering the fire department officials and shooting at the rest of law enforcement as they were arriving.

00:02:47.000 Norris said this is a total ambush.

00:02:49.000 These firefighters did not have a chance.

00:02:51.000 At one point, there were more than 300 law enforcement officers on the scene Sunday afternoon, including FBI agents.

00:02:57.000 Law enforcement exchanged gunfire with the suspect.

00:02:59.000 It was not known at that point whether he was killed by law enforcement or if he shot himself.

00:03:03.000 The New York Post now has more information on the identity of the shooter.

00:03:08.000 We don't mention the names of mass shooters on the program because people who engage in mass shootings love nothing better than the publicity.

00:03:15.000 However, what we do know is we have an eerie photo.

00:03:18.000 It's a white guy, eerie photo showing him aiming a sinister stare into the camera.

00:03:24.000 And again, unclear at this point if he was killed by the cops or whether he shot himself.

00:03:30.000 Obviously, the tragedy for the state of Idaho, for the country, is quite real and quite shocking.

00:03:39.000 Here's footage of a procession of law enforcement vehicles for the slain firefighters.

00:03:49.000 you you Apparently, firefighters were calling 911.

00:03:57.000 One firefighter said in a frantic call, I'm pinned down.

00:03:59.000 It's clear to me this fire was set intentionally to draw us in.

00:04:02.000 We need law enforcement up here immediately.

00:04:03.000 We have another Corps de Lene firefighter down.

00:04:06.000 We've got two unresponsive battalion shoots down, multiple gunshot wounds.

00:04:09.000 Two Corps de Lene are down.

00:04:11.000 And then the fire was eventually left to burn as reinforcements battled to root out the unseen gunmen.

00:04:16.000 And then the body was tracked down using cell phone information.

00:04:20.000 Again, unclear what the motive is here.

00:04:23.000 There is some coincidence suggesting, at the very least, that there may be an association between this particular shooting, and it's a terrorist attack, and a decades-old incident, according to the New York Post, involving the fire department and neo-Nazis.

00:04:37.000 Sunday's incident happened 24 years to the day after the 2001 burning of an Aryan nations compound in Hayden Lake, just seven miles north of Cordeline during a fire training operation.

00:04:47.000 That's because the cabin and the compound had been sold to the department after the Aryan Nations national leader, Richard Butler, filed for bankruptcy over a settlement involving the shooting of a Native American woman and her son.

00:04:57.000 And then the site was torched by the fire department during a training exercise.

00:05:00.000 So could these two things be associated?

00:05:02.000 We don't know at this point.

00:05:02.000 We'll continue to bring you information as it emerges.

00:05:06.000 Obviously, acts of evil are acts of evil.

00:05:08.000 This is a tremendous act of evil.

00:05:11.000 And we do live in a sick time when, depending on the justification of the shooter, some people will celebrate it.

00:05:20.000 We know this.

00:05:21.000 We know that if the fire department officials were murdered because someone had a complaint about systemic racism in America, there'd be a cadre of Americans who would rise behind that.

00:05:32.000 We know that because Luigi Manchion is now a household name.

00:05:35.000 If they're a complaint about capitalism, if, however, this was a person who is either psychotic or a white supremacist, you're not going to find anybody coming out in their defense.

00:05:46.000 Now, the rule should be no one comes out in defense of this sort of activity, no matter the supposed justification or excuse making by the shooter and or any sympathizers.

00:05:56.000 Meanwhile, we need to talk about the fact that the scavengers are on the move.

00:06:01.000 So I've talked to you about this fact.

00:06:03.000 I have this book, Lines and Scavengers.

00:06:04.000 It's coming out very shortly.

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00:06:10.000 Scavengers are people who wish to simply tear down the society in which they live. 1.00

00:06:13.000 And they have very little in common with one another other than that simple fact.

00:06:16.000 They just want to tear down everything.

00:06:18.000 And it explains the bizarre agglomeration of radicals from across the political spectrum who seem to gather together to rally against our civilization.

00:06:29.000 And we saw a lot Of that this weekend, so for example, here is a march that took place to end Pride Month in Ireland.

00:06:37.000 A drag queen with flags of Arab countries and children marching in Ireland.

00:06:47.000 That is a Palestinian flag being waved by a drag queen in Ireland.

00:06:53.000 And now, again, how do you put all that together?

00:06:55.000 And there are children in the crowd and all the rest.

00:06:56.000 How do you put all that together?

00:06:58.000 I mean, obviously, there are no queers in Palestine. 1.00

00:07:02.000 So queers for Palestine is a very weird look. 0.98

00:07:05.000 Or how about Toronto Pride?

00:07:07.000 So Toronto Pride had a parade in which they were flying Iranian flags.

00:07:11.000 Remember, Iran is a place that hangs gay people from cranes. 1.00

00:07:16.000 And yet here were people running around with flags reading Free Iran, presumably from American and Israeli intervention against their nuclear program.

00:07:26.000 Thank you.

00:07:32.000 I assume that these Freedom for Iran stands are not actually calling for the fall of the Ayatollahs.

00:07:40.000 It'd be rather a shock if they were at this point.

00:07:45.000 Okay, or maybe this particular Omni-Cause flag.

00:07:50.000 So this one has been making the rounds.

00:07:52.000 So you remember the Rainbow Pride flag, the one that we used to recognize 10, 15 years ago?

00:07:56.000 This is a rainbow flag.

00:07:58.000 And then there is the Pride Progress flag, in which you had sort of from the side, arrows coming in in the form of the trans flag, the white, pink, and blue.

00:08:07.000 And then added to that were black and brown, because of course there are trans people who are black and brown.

00:08:14.000 And then you had intersex people who were added as a yellow. 0.54

00:08:17.000 And now they've added on top of that a heart containing the Palestinian flag because all the causes are one. 0.61

00:08:24.000 The omni-cause finally come together.

00:08:27.000 And that omni-cause is just the scavenger mentality.

00:08:29.000 It's all the people from the Jean-Paul Sartre hate for Western civilization left to the queer pride left who have decided that they are going to band together to destroy the civilization that we all share. 1.00

00:08:45.000 And you can see it in action a little bit earlier over the weekend during the so-called Glastonbury Festival when a member of the British rap punk duo Bob Villen got up and started chanting, as we talked about on yesterday's show, deaf, deaf to the IDF and suggesting you want your country back.

00:09:05.000 Well, basically F off.

00:09:06.000 You don't get to get your country back. 0.96

00:09:09.000 So the State Department of the United States has now taken a measure with regard to this.

00:09:15.000 And the measure is that visas for Bob Villen have been revoked in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants.

00:09:26.000 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.

00:09:33.000 Now, again, that makes perfect sense.

00:09:34.000 There's no reason why we should be importing these people to our country, especially when they may end up as mayor of New York.

00:09:39.000 Which brings us to Zoran Mamdani.

00:09:42.000 So for all of those who keep pretending that Zorin Mamdani is sort of a normie Democrat who just has some progressive leanings, no, he is not.

00:09:49.000 He is the apex predator of the intersectional scavenger coalition.

00:09:54.000 He is a person who's perfectly comfortable talking about spending $65 million in New York City to trans the kids, but also talking about free, free Palestine and globalize the intifada, but also talking about how it is deeply important and deeply necessary to seize the means of production.

00:10:12.000 He's not hiding the ball at all here.

00:10:14.000 He is a representative of a left that has lost touch with reality and is now running specifically and solely in order to denigrate and destroy the civilization in which it lives.

00:10:26.000 That is the goal of this thing.

00:10:30.000 Here is Zoram Mamdani marching in New York City Pride with Letitia James.

00:10:33.000 Again, Letitia James is the extraordinarily corrupt attorney general of the state of New York who decided before even investigating Donald Trump that he needed to be prosecuted. 0.61

00:10:49.000 There he is, walking the Pride Parade, your next mayor of New York, a person who also says that quote unquote Palestine must be free, by which he means ruled presumably by Hamas, for whom he has sympathy. 0.52

00:11:02.000 And none of these pieces fit together unless you understand that they are all directed toward destroying a thing, not actually building a thing.

00:11:10.000 We'll get to Zoran Mamdani and the radicalization of the Democratic Party in a moment.

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00:13:29.000 So over the weekend, he was on NBC with Kristen Walker, and he was asked about the phrase globalize the intifada, which he continues to seize upon and use.

00:13:36.000 Now, understand, the term intifada means violent uprising.

00:13:41.000 That is how the term was coined.

00:13:43.000 It is a term for a violent uprising, particularly against Israel.

00:13:46.000 Globalizing the intifada means that you want an extension of a violent uprising all across the West.

00:13:53.000 That is what you want.

00:13:54.000 Intifada means what it means.

00:13:56.000 And this sort of retconning that you're seeing now where intifada just means, you know, some sort of nice, gentle struggle in the same way that jihad.

00:14:03.000 You remember this, if you're old enough, that in the early 2000s, when jihadis were calling for jihad, there are a whole group of moron Westerners who are suggesting that jihad just meant internal struggle.

00:14:14.000 There are some people who are trying to recast globalizing the intifada as a nonviolent event as well.

00:14:19.000 Mamdani was asked, why don't you stop saying globalize the intifada?

00:14:23.000 And he said he's not going to because free speech.

00:14:25.000 Now, by the way, I'm just going to point out, no one is saying he can't say globalize the intifada.

00:14:30.000 He can say whatever he wants.

00:14:31.000 It's a free country and shame on us.

00:14:34.000 He's a citizen of the country.

00:14:35.000 He didn't have to be, but he is.

00:14:36.000 He's a citizen of the country.

00:14:38.000 So that's not the question.

00:14:40.000 The question is not whether he ought to be allowed to say globalize the intifada as an American citizen.

00:14:45.000 He is allowed to say globalize the intifada as an American citizen.

00:14:48.000 The question is, is it a good or moral thing to say?

00:14:51.000 And one of the last refuges of cowards these days is to pretend that your free speech is being violated when you are criticized for saying something bad. 0.99

00:14:59.000 And anyway, here's Mamdani trying to defend himself again and again, three separate times in this interview.

00:15:03.000 He says that he's not going to walk away from globalizing the intifada, a call for violent uprising against Western civilization.

00:15:10.000 So I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now.

00:15:14.000 Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?

00:15:18.000 That's not language that I use.

00:15:19.000 The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.

00:15:30.000 Do you condemn that phase, globalize the intifada, which a lot of people hear is a call to violence against Jews?

00:15:35.000 I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti-Semitism in our country and in our city.

00:15:50.000 Why not just condemn it?

00:15:52.000 My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting.

00:16:13.000 Ultimately, it's not language that I use.

00:16:14.000 It's language I understand there are concerns about.

00:16:17.000 And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions.

00:16:22.000 Utter nonsense.

00:16:23.000 Utter nonsense.

00:16:24.000 It's not language that he uses, but he won't condemn that language because then he would be in the same, he'd be in the same universe as, God forbid, Donald Trump, who says that actually it's bad to use that kind of language.

00:16:34.000 By the way, his own father has suggested 2021, quote, the resistance this time began in Jerusalem and spread to Gaza.

00:16:41.000 Now the West Bank and Palestinian communities beyond. 0.97

00:16:43.000 This is not a conflict between Israel and Hamas.

00:16:45.000 We are witnessing something far more meaningful, the birth of the third intifada against settler colonialism.

00:16:50.000 And this guy's a professor at Columbia University, so you can see exactly where Zoran Mamdani came from.

00:16:56.000 But again, what is he?

00:16:57.000 He is a merger of pro-jihadi leftism, a sort of cultural Maoism, a communist vision of economics, and an anti-traditional virtue version of social politics.

00:17:12.000 All of those things combine together in a sort of witch's brew of nastiness designed, again, against the civilization that has made him now a famous person and made his parents very wealthy, famous left-wingers.

00:17:27.000 Zora Mamzani believes, for example, that the third world is essentially our God.

00:17:32.000 He grew up in the third world, so he has a different vision of what things like free Palestine mean.

00:17:39.000 So the third holy grail of taboos in American politics, you have socialism, you have Islam, and then you have Palestine. 0.95

00:17:46.000 And you are really going for the trifecta.

00:17:48.000 Let's go, baby.

00:17:49.000 Let's go.

00:17:50.000 Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics?

00:17:53.000 When you grow up as someone especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.

00:18:01.000 Okay, first of all, he moved to the United States when he was either seven or eight years old.

00:18:05.000 Second of all, the kind of pathetic attempt to reach out to fellow third worlders, as he puts it, by eating rice with his hands, as though this is a necessity in American politics, because he is from a, I mean, he is claiming, essentially, membership in a foreign vision.

00:18:26.000 That's what he's doing.

00:18:27.000 And he's embracing Islam, socialism, and free, free Palestine.

00:18:30.000 But by the way, he's marching in pride parades in the same way that Ilhan Omar will do that.

00:18:34.000 You think that Ilhan Omar is very fond of pride parades?

00:18:37.000 Or Zora Mamzani, if he really is a religious Muslim in any serious way?

00:18:41.000 Because religious Muslims typically not so hot, as it turns out, on Pride Progress flags.

00:18:46.000 What it really is about in the end, as always, as always, is scavengers seek to tear things down.

00:18:51.000 This is what they want to do.

00:18:52.000 Again, Mamzani isn't hiding the ball here.

00:18:55.000 He says that people ought to be unapologetic about their socialism and BDS and seizing the means of production.

00:19:00.000 So for all those who keep saying he's not a communist, seizing the means of production is literal communism.

00:19:05.000 That is literal Marxism.

00:19:08.000 And we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.

00:19:13.000 There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.

00:19:27.000 And what I want to say is that it is critical that in the way that we organize, the way that we set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other.

00:19:40.000 Right.

00:19:41.000 All the issues have to be brought together.

00:19:42.000 All of them.

00:19:43.000 BDS, meaning boycott divesting and sanctioning Israel, seizing the means of production, full-scale communism, socialism, all those things have to be advanced together, according to Zoran Mamtani.

00:19:56.000 He appeared again on MBC with Christian Welker, and he said, I don't think that New York City should have billionaires.

00:20:02.000 Should not have billionaires.

00:20:03.000 Well, that's weird because I think that New York City shouldn't have socialists.

00:20:06.000 In fact, I think America shouldn't have socialists.

00:20:08.000 I think that socialism is an evil philosophy, a philosophy that is rooted in jealousy, envy, hatred for people who earn, a bizarre belief that the good things in life naturally occur in the world and are not made by human hands and human innovation.

00:20:22.000 But Zora Mamzani believes that you have sinned by dint of being too successful in your business, and therefore you need to be punished.

00:20:31.000 Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?

00:20:35.000 I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.

00:20:41.000 And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.

00:20:47.000 And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.

00:20:53.000 Okay, he is so vicious.

00:20:55.000 And I got to say, the kind of smarmy smile that he pastes on his face when he is saying some of the most evil things in human history, when you say there shouldn't be billionaires, what you are saying is that you have the right, Zora Mamdani, to steal the money of people who have worked hard for that money and built businesses that have helped presumably millions of other people.

00:21:16.000 And you get to steal it and take it for yourself so that you can then distribute it as you see fit.

00:21:20.000 Now, listen, everybody can be equal.

00:21:22.000 We can have no billionaires.

00:21:23.000 You know, there are lots of places on earth that have no billionaires because everyone's poor.

00:21:27.000 If you're not talking about an oligarchy like Russia, where actual resources were physically distributed from the government to specific friends of the government, if you're very much just a free market system where certain people earn more than other people, yeah, you're going to have some billionaires.

00:21:43.000 And those billionaires are going to create jobs for millions of other people and products and services that lots of other people want to buy.

00:21:49.000 They're going to create new innovations.

00:21:51.000 They're going to bring costs down.

00:21:52.000 They're going to bring wages up through competition. 0.99

00:21:54.000 That is the history of capitalism.

00:21:56.000 But according to Zorn Mamdani, he needs to personally seize the means of production and destroy the billionaires, destroy them.

00:22:03.000 And that sits very comfortably along the same kinds of people who wish to destroy traditional morality, destroy churches, because again, it's all about the destruction.

00:22:11.000 The same kinds of people who wish to destroy successful countries because those countries are doing too well in other parts of the world.

00:22:18.000 And that's why Israel has to be stopped because it's too successful. 0.99

00:22:22.000 It's all part of that same ugly mosaic of anti-Westernism.

00:22:28.000 And it's hideous.

00:22:30.000 And I'm not sure what's more pathetic, frankly.

00:22:32.000 Zorin Mamdani winning a New York City primary by winning a bunch of college-educated white dolts or the very highly educated and intelligent Democrats, moderate Democrats, who are being cucked by Zorin Mamdani.

00:22:48.000 And I mean that in the most colloquial sense, that are being cuckolded by him because they're watching their party stolen from them by Zoran Mamdani and they are cheering it.

00:22:58.000 They are sitting there and they are watching it and they are cheering it because God forbid they should have to stand up against Zoran Mamdani and his vicious agenda for even a smidgen of a moment and lose the support of the passionate advocates for social justice like the Zoran Mamdanis.

00:23:16.000 And here I'm calling out Ezra Klein.

00:23:18.000 So Ezra Klein's been a guest on this program.

00:23:20.000 He was recently a guest for his book Abundance.

00:23:22.000 His book Abundance is all about the idea that if Democrats wish to win, what they should be talking about is getting rid of things like over-regulation.

00:23:31.000 They should be ensuring that people can develop more freely and easily to bring down housing costs, for example.

00:23:37.000 They should get rid of the bureaucracy.

00:23:39.000 He's sounding very much like a Republican.

00:23:41.000 But Ezra Klein is declining to criticize Zoran Mamdani.

00:23:44.000 Why?

00:23:45.000 Well, because Zoran Mamdani, after all, has stood up against the powers that be.

00:23:51.000 Ezra Klein was very upset because Andrew Cuomo in the primary debate called out the fact that Zoran Mamdani is anti-Israel.

00:23:58.000 And Ezra Klein says, how dare you polarize the Democratic Party on this issue?

00:24:02.000 Okay, Andrew Cuomo would not have any ground to stand on, quote unquote, polarizing the party if there were not a gigantic anti-Semitic wing of the Democratic Party that has now emerged and is seeking to take control.

00:24:13.000 And Ezra Klein is angry that Andrew Cuomo even brought that up.

00:24:16.000 What absolute moral cowardice, truly, true moral cowardice.

00:24:20.000 And I'm disappointed to say that because again, I think Ezra's a smart guy, but this is really quite, it's not only vacuous, it's morally imbecilic.

00:24:32.000 But the other thing that like actually closed it, that made for me that I would not rank him, was the way he used Israel in the campaign.

00:24:40.000 Like I'm a Jewish person.

00:24:42.000 I have very, very deep feelings about what is happening in Israel and Gaza.

00:24:45.000 And I found it so cynical, so repulsive, just such a vicious way to weaponize, I thought, both sort of Mamdani's ethnicity, but also, I don't know, what's happening in Gaza is a horror.

00:25:04.000 People should be horrified.

00:25:08.000 Like the whole thing just struck me as great.

00:25:10.000 And I knew a lot of people for whom it read that way.

00:25:14.000 Okay, let me explain.

00:25:15.000 Ezra Klein does not get to play the as a Jew card for the first time only when he is talking about defending a person who's wildly anti-Israel and uses phrases that talk about the destruction of the state of Israel, which is to say the murder of millions of Jews.

00:25:29.000 That's not when Ezra Klein gets to bring out the as a Jew card.

00:25:33.000 Ridiculous.

00:25:34.000 He's offended by that.

00:25:35.000 I'm more offended by the fact that Zora Mamdani sides with people who wish to murder Jews.

00:25:38.000 That seems more offensive to me.

00:25:39.000 And Andrew Cuomo pointing that out is significantly less offensive to me than Zora Mamdani being in favor of those people.

00:25:46.000 The guy literally did a rap in favor of the Holy Land Five, members of the Holy Land Foundation, who fundraised for Hamas.

00:25:53.000 This is a person who on October 8th condemned Israel.

00:25:56.000 But Ezra Klein is very upset.

00:25:57.000 And Andrew Cuomo called out Zoramdani because, you know, it read as an attack on his ethnicity.

00:26:02.000 That's what it read as.

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00:26:07.000 Alrighty, coming up.

00:26:08.000 It is amazing to see how many supposedly moderate Democrats are now making the case for Mamdani mainly because they're cowards.

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00:28:50.000 So Ezra Klein used to be the young hot thing inside the Democratic Party.

00:28:53.000 Ezra Klein and I are the same age.

00:28:54.000 We're both 41 years old.

00:28:56.000 41 is middle-aged.

00:28:57.000 41, I'm married.

00:28:59.000 I've been married for almost 20 years.

00:29:00.000 I've got four kids.

00:29:01.000 Ezra is exactly my age.

00:29:03.000 We grew up, same generation.

00:29:05.000 And now he's looking at people like Zoran Mamdani, who is legitimately almost a decade younger than we are.

00:29:11.000 And he's looking at the young Democrats, and he's really looking at 20-year-old Democrats.

00:29:15.000 And he's saying, I don't want to be on the outs with these people.

00:29:18.000 I need their love.

00:29:19.000 I need them to think I'm one of the cool kids.

00:29:21.000 I don't want to be one of these institutional Democrats who looks down their nose at the hot new socialist thing.

00:29:28.000 I don't want to be one of those people who says no to the cool kids.

00:29:32.000 I want to be, you know, kind of like the cool older brother figure who massages them and says, no, you know, sure, he's got a little excessive from time to time, but, you know, what's wrong with that?

00:29:41.000 He's young and he's full of pep and vinegar.

00:29:44.000 And what I'm really offended by is people like Andrew Cuomo using these tropes, saying things like, why are you so anti-Israel to Zoran Mamdani, knowing he's a Muslim?

00:29:53.000 Like, so?

00:29:55.000 So?

00:29:56.000 I mean, New York City happens to be one of the more Jewish cities in the country, just by demographics, obviously.

00:30:02.000 Is that of no consequence when you're talking about the person who's going to run the city, which has a huge problem with hate crimes against Jews in it right now?

00:30:10.000 Absolutely pathetic, but he's not the only one.

00:30:12.000 Molly Jongfast is doing the same thing. 0.73

00:30:15.000 She's out there claiming that Mom Dani's messaging on economic populism is just great.

00:30:19.000 It's just great.

00:30:21.000 Again, she's supposed to be the voice of what?

00:30:23.000 The moderates, Molly Zhangfast?

00:30:26.000 And what I've been really surprised by is how Democrats have had so much trouble messaging on economic populism when in fact, most of their proposals are actual economic populism.

00:30:38.000 And we're watching this Votorama right now, which will give, I mean, by the way, the numbers in this bill, $150 billion boost to military spending, okay?

00:30:49.000 Cutting food stamps and Medicaid, closing rural hospitals.

00:30:53.000 I mean, so like Republicans are not doing economic populism at all.

00:30:58.000 Well, I mean, she writes for the bull, so we should take her seriously as a sort of moderate voice for Democrats.

00:31:05.000 The moderate voice for Democrats are running for the hills.

00:31:07.000 They're running for the hills.

00:31:09.000 Instead, the hot new thing on MSNBC and CNN is people openly embracing the radicalism of Zoran Mamtani, because if you don't embrace the scavenger movement, then that means you have to oppose it.

00:31:22.000 You have to actually oppose the scavengers.

00:31:23.000 And opposing the scavengers means defending your civilization.

00:31:26.000 And too many on the left are unwilling to do this.

00:31:28.000 Pablo Torre, who I have no idea, again, why Pablo Torre is now being asked about his politics.

00:31:32.000 Pablo Torre, last I checked, is some sort of sports commentator.

00:31:38.000 But here he was on MSNBC praising the incredibly savvy Momdani for refusing to condemn globalized the intivada.

00:31:47.000 I found him to be incredibly savvy, actually, in how he answered that, Caddy, both for the reasons you said, but also because of clearly who he's talking to.

00:31:55.000 He's trying to build a coalition, to use that word, a cohesiveness on the left.

00:32:00.000 And he knows that the people he's trying to persuade that, look, I'm not your typical candidate, is in fact a population of people that do not see the ideological, or in this case, the verbal, the rhetorical purity test in the same way that I think people who understandably, by the way, just wanted to condemn it, right?

00:32:20.000 I understand that completely, but Molly, he is playing a bit of chess here.

00:32:24.000 It's chess now.

00:32:26.000 He's sophisticated by being a complete garbage heap.

00:32:29.000 It's just sophistication.

00:32:31.000 Over at the New Yorker, John Cassidy has a piece about the magic of the economics of Zoronomics.

00:32:37.000 Do you mean like the Cuban-style socialism that he is now proposing?

00:32:42.000 Well, apparently, according to the New Yorker, again, this is the voice of mainstream Democrats.

00:32:46.000 The answer is that he's doing an amazing job.

00:32:50.000 Isabella Weber is quoted, a professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, who signed a public letter endorsing Momdani's campaign proposals, said that Momdani is right.

00:33:03.000 In an open letter, which the nation published a few days before the primary, more than two dozen progressive economists from the United States and other countries described Momdani's policy platform as a, quote, bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City's most urgent challenges.

00:33:15.000 Above all, the cost of living.

00:33:20.000 Again, the idea here is that if you provide a bold socialist critique of capitalism, somehow socialism becomes better.

00:33:28.000 So what are mainstream Democrats doing?

00:33:30.000 Well, either they're doing the Ezra Klein thing and saying, well, you know, they're anti-anti-Momdani.

00:33:35.000 Even if they're not pro-Momdani, they're anti-anti-Momdani.

00:33:38.000 The people attacking Mom Dani are the real problem, not Mom Dani.

00:33:42.000 Or they're simply dodging.

00:33:44.000 So MSNBC's Katie Kaye notes that Democrat after Democrat is giving a sort of generic dodge when asked about Zora Mamdani.

00:33:54.000 Okay, similar to what we just heard from Congresswoman Stevens, we spoke with a pair of Democrats last week, both of whom gave a strikingly similar answer when asked about Zora Mamdani.

00:34:03.000 There is a pattern emerging here.

00:34:05.000 Okay, well, yes, there is a pattern.

00:34:06.000 The pattern is they're going to avoid because they don't actually have the stones to stand up against this thing.

00:34:11.000 Okay, fine.

00:34:12.000 Well, you will be eaten by that thing and you deserve to be eaten by that thing. 0.99

00:34:16.000 You do.

00:34:17.000 And by the way, the Republicans are going to continue to gain ground if you guys decide to follow Zora Mamdani and AOC down this rabbit hole.

00:34:24.000 President Trump isn't missing a beat.

00:34:25.000 President Trump says, listen, if Zora Mamdani becomes mayor of New York, and if he decides, for example, that he's going to obstruct ICE agents in their pursuing the enforcement of the law, well, then I'll just withhold federal funds from New York City.

00:34:38.000 And by the way, I'm in favor.

00:34:41.000 Good, good.

00:34:43.000 Because I'm not sure why my taxpayer money should go to fund a city that chose Zorn Mamdani precisely.

00:34:49.000 What did you make of the New York Democrat primary?

00:34:53.000 Mamdani.

00:34:54.000 He's a communist.

00:34:55.000 I think it's very bad for New York.

00:34:58.000 I don't know that he's going to get in.

00:34:59.000 It's inconceivable that he's, but he's a communist and he's a pure communist.

00:35:03.000 I think he admits it.

00:35:05.000 But I can't imagine it.

00:35:07.000 But let's say this.

00:35:09.000 If he does get in, I'm going to be president and he's going to have to do the right thing.

00:35:13.000 They're not getting any money.

00:35:15.000 He's got to do the right thing.

00:35:17.000 It's shocking that I would have assumed that I never, I used to say we will never have a socialist in this country.

00:35:23.000 No, but we'll have a communist.

00:35:24.000 I mean, he's a communist and going to be mayor of New York.

00:35:28.000 So I was very surprised when I saw, I never heard of him.

00:35:31.000 I don't know who he is.

00:35:32.000 Well, he said he's going to fight ICE.

00:35:35.000 He's not going to allow ICE to Benjamin Netanyahu comes to New York, he's going to have him arrested.

00:35:42.000 Oh, he's a radical left lunatic.

00:35:44.000 Yes.

00:35:45.000 Yes, he is.

00:35:46.000 And if Democrats want to do this, well, they're going to get exactly what they're paying for.

00:35:51.000 They break it.

00:35:52.000 They bought it.

00:35:54.000 And by the way, it is worthwhile noting, this is just another reason why the Trump administration is cracking down on the world of education, because the left has taken over the institutions of both higher education as well as public education.

00:36:06.000 And this is how you end up with Zarin Mamdanis all over the political landscape.

00:36:10.000 It's how you end up with young people who don't understand how capitalism works, who believe that somehow free Palestine is a slogan that is morally worthwhile as it calls for the rule of an entire group of people by terrorists who believe that somehow it's better for the American people for drag queens to read to children. 0.53

00:36:31.000 It takes a group of very highly educated idiots, as my friend Dennis Prager used to say, in order to believe this sort of stuff.

00:36:37.000 It's also why these teachers unions, which promote this sort of stuff, are deeply ensconced in the belief that they own your children.

00:36:43.000 Here, for example, is teachers' union president in Chicago, Stacey Davis Gates, saying that teachers own your kids.

00:36:51.000 Baldwin says the children are always ours.

00:36:57.000 Always.

00:36:58.000 Always.

00:36:59.000 Every single one of them, all over the globe.

00:37:05.000 And what comes next is, CTU thinks your children are its children.

00:37:15.000 Yes, we do.

00:37:18.000 They just say it right out loud.

00:37:19.000 They think that your children are their children and they're going to indoctrinate your children in the same kind of crap that Zora Mamzani has been educated by, by both his parents and by his educational institutions.

00:37:29.000 That is why I'm so very much on board with the Trump administration using the tools of the Civil Rights Act to slap down these institutions of higher education that have become propaganda factories on behalf of the radical left.

00:37:41.000 So yesterday, the Trump administration DOJ notified Harvard that they were still in violation of the Civil Rights Act in a letter sent by the DOJ, particularly Harmee Dillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, who's terrific.

00:37:56.000 Of course, full disclosure, Harmit has acted as our lawyer in the past here at Daily Wire, particularly in the case in which we actually sued the Biden administration for violation of the law by using OSHA to try to cram down a vax mandate on 80 million people.

00:38:08.000 In that letter, Harmit wrote, Harvard holds the regrettable distinction of being among the most prominent and visible breeding grounds for race discrimination.

00:38:15.000 That legacy of discrimination persists with Harvard's continued anti-Semitism.

00:38:19.000 Any institution that refuses to meet its duties under federal law may not receive a wide range of federal privileges.

00:38:25.000 Today, the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is notifying you that the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has concluded its Title VI investigation regarding anti-Semitism at Harvard University.

00:38:36.000 After a thorough investigation, HHS OCR finds that Harvard University is in violent violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin.

00:38:48.000 The enclosed notice of violation details the findings of facts supporting that conclusion.

00:38:53.000 For example, the majority of Jewish students reported experiencing negative bias or discrimination on campus.

00:38:58.000 A quarter felt physically unsafe.

00:38:59.000 Jewish and Israeli students were assaulted and spit on.

00:39:02.000 They hid their keepahs for fear of being harassed and concealed their Jewish identity from classmates for fear of ostracization.

00:39:07.000 Images were widely circulated among the Harvard community trafficking in obvious various anti-Semitic tropes, including one showing a dollar sign inside a Star of David and all the rest.

00:39:16.000 Harvard did not dispute our findings in fact, by the way, says the DOJ, nor could it.

00:39:20.000 Harvard's inaction in the face of these civil rights violations is a clear example of the demographic hierarchy that has taken hold of the university, and this is exactly right. 0.99

00:39:29.000 Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights Army Dylan also said that University of Virginia is acting in violation of the Civil Rights Act.

00:39:37.000 Here she was.

00:39:39.000 I haven't gotten anything in writing from UVA.

00:39:41.000 Unlike many of the other institutions of higher learning, I've had chancellors come meet me.

00:39:45.000 I've had lawyers come meet me.

00:39:47.000 They've given us reams and reams of documents, not UVA.

00:39:50.000 They just didn't respond at all?

00:39:51.000 They've asked for extensions and extensions and extensions.

00:39:54.000 And so that's one of the troubling aspects here.

00:39:57.000 And I think the concern, and we began to hear from people we're negotiating with, that UVA was unable to certify that it was in compliance with these laws.

00:40:05.000 And so, but to your point, they actually did, I would call it using a series of euphemisms to simply rebrand and repackage the exact same discriminatory programs that are illegal under federal law.

00:40:17.000 And my job as the top federal civil rights law enforcer in the country is to make sure that every school that receives federal funding is compliant with federal law.

00:40:27.000 All of this, of course, has international connotations.

00:40:30.000 We mentioned that punk duob villain and the Glastonbury Festival, in which, again, they were chanting death to the IDF and yelling at people saying, so you say you want to keep your country?

00:40:40.000 And we say, F you, essentially.

00:40:43.000 Ayan Hirsi Ali, who grew up with Islamists, has a fabulous piece over at the Free Press pointing out what is happening worldwide.

00:40:52.000 She says, what happened at Glastonbury over the weekend is part of a coordinated ideological insurgency against the Jewish people, not just against the Israeli military, not just against Israel, not just against Zionism, against Jews.

00:41:03.000 Jews are no strangers to accusations of secret plots, banking plots, media plots, world domination. 1.00

00:41:08.000 They're always scheming according to the people who can't stop obsessing over them.

00:41:11.000 What's unfolding now is a real plot, not being orchestrated by Jews, but against them, and it's happening in broad daylight. 0.89

00:41:17.000 Ayan Hersi Ali writes, she says, what makes this moment uniquely dangerous is the merging of two ideologies that historically have operated in very different arenas, Islamism and Maoism.

00:41:26.000 The former is fueled by absolutist theocracy and tribal vengeance, the latter by class war and ideological conformity.

00:41:32.000 One invokes the divine, the other pretends to be secular.

00:41:35.000 Both demand submission.

00:41:37.000 Islamism seeks to restore a 7th century caliphate through bombs, blood, and barbarity. 1.00

00:41:41.000 Maoism seeks to flatten all hierarchies under the boot of equity, enforced through surveillance, humiliation, and fear.

00:41:47.000 One dreams of paradise after death.

00:41:48.000 The other promises utopia after sufficient political and social purges.

00:41:52.000 But both share a core instinct.

00:41:54.000 Crush the infidel, purge the impure, seize control of the narrative. 1.00

00:41:59.000 Islamism brings the fire, holy rage of fixation on martyrdom, a visceral hatred for Jews that predates the state of Israel by centuries. 0.99

00:42:05.000 Maoism brings the strategy, the long march through institutions, the cultural struggle sessions, the rewriting of history, the reframing of reality through social media and soundbites.

00:42:16.000 And she is right about this.

00:42:18.000 She says Maoist frameworks like decolonization and privilege provide the ideological cover, abstract enough to sound academic, blunt enough to justify destruction.

00:42:27.000 And again, this is why the sort of free Palestine movement is the tip of the spear here.

00:42:32.000 It is the consolidation point for all of these things.

00:42:36.000 Because in the hatred of Israel, in that hatred is hatred of what so many people on the left see as the point of the spear of Western civilization in a non-Western part of the world.

00:42:49.000 That's what Israel is to the so-called anti-colonialists.

00:42:53.000 That is why you are seeing the scavengers marching together.

00:42:57.000 It's why Zorin Mamzani is their candidate of choice.

00:43:00.000 And it's why a Democratic left that can't stand up to it has no business retaining power, even inside its own party.

00:43:06.000 And so it won't.

00:43:07.000 It will fall apart.

00:43:08.000 And the scavengers will take complete control of the Democratic Party because there are no lions left inside the Democratic Party to stand up against them. 0.89

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00:45:50.000 Meanwhile, sometime this week, Republicans are going to pass the big, beautiful bill.

00:45:54.000 I understand there's a lot of heartburn over voteramas and negotiations.

00:45:58.000 It's going to pass.

00:45:59.000 The reason it's going to pass is because if it doesn't pass, Republicans are in serious, serious trouble.

00:46:04.000 That's just the reality.

00:46:05.000 So there's going to be a lot of swapping, a lot of bargaining in the Senate.

00:46:09.000 It'll go to the House, and House Speaker Johnson is going to find a way to ram that through.

00:46:13.000 Because if that doesn't happen, then President Trump's presidency is in serious, serious trouble.

00:46:18.000 The Treasury Secretary Scott Besson makes the point that the big, beautiful bill represents an 11% cut in discretionary spending.

00:46:24.000 Here he was defending the bill.

00:46:27.000 I think everyone believes that this is a start.

00:46:30.000 So it's an 11% cut in non-discretionary spending.

00:46:35.000 And we're going to go from there.

00:46:37.000 So we didn't get here all at once.

00:46:40.000 We've gotten here 20 or 40 years.

00:46:43.000 And we are going to bend the curve, bring the debt levels down.

00:46:48.000 I'm a fiscal hawk.

00:46:49.000 I've had a lot of very good meetings with that group.

00:46:55.000 And I think we're all on the same page on how to grow the economy while controlling and bringing down expenses.

00:47:03.000 And so, again, he's right about this.

00:47:06.000 And I will say it again.

00:47:08.000 The reality is there is not support inside the United States Senate sufficient to radically reduce spending in terms of reshaping Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, which is where the real spending is going on in the American budget.

00:47:21.000 National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is also, of course, touting the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

00:47:26.000 Here he was explaining.

00:47:29.000 What America gets for the Big Beautiful Bill is border security, national security, an extra $10,000 in the pocket of the typical American family, no tax on overtime, no tax on tips.

00:47:42.000 We've got 90 million American workers that are hourly workers that are going to see that extra overtime that they're getting paid go straight into their pockets.

00:47:51.000 And all of this is going to happen if we pass the bill.

00:47:54.000 If we don't pass the bill, the Council of Economic Advisors here at the White House has said that it's going to cause GDP to drop 4%, one of the biggest recessions in history because of a massive tax hike.

00:48:04.000 And honestly, that's why this bill is going to pass.

00:48:07.000 Okay.

00:48:08.000 And again, he's not wrong about this.

00:48:10.000 The threat of the bill going under, meaning a radical increase in taxes on Americans and American business, that enough is going to scare Republicans into compliance.

00:48:18.000 Senator Ron Johnson, who, of course, is a longtime holdout on this bill.

00:48:22.000 He has now switched his vote.

00:48:23.000 He's in favor.

00:48:24.000 Here he was explaining that to Fox News.

00:48:27.000 My biggest problem is that we really weren't returning spending to a reasonable pre-pandemic level.

00:48:33.000 But through multiple meetings with the president, his economic advisors, I'm convinced that they are committed to returning to a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending.

00:48:41.000 And I'll be highly involved in a process to achieve and maintain it.

00:48:44.000 So that's at the crux.

00:48:45.000 But specifically on Saturday night, Rick Scott, who is an expert at healthcare, I don't think anybody knows more about it than he, has an amendment that wasn't included in the base bill.

00:48:55.000 And we're fighting to get it in there to remove the most damaging part of Obamacare on a Medicaid.

00:49:01.000 Nobody in the Republican Party is trying to impact Medicaid for the disabled children.

00:49:05.000 We're concerned about the Obamacare addition to it.

00:49:09.000 Okay, so again, there are plenty of good reasons for him to switch his vote.

00:49:12.000 I'll just point out that Senator Johnson has not radically restructured the spending.

00:49:19.000 That was never going to happen.

00:49:21.000 That is not the direction in which this is going to move.

00:49:23.000 There were not the votes sufficient for that.

00:49:25.000 Now, Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina has announced that he will be stepping down, which means he's no longer interested in being leveraged by President Trump or by the Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:49:35.000 So he's out against the so-called Big Beautiful bill.

00:49:39.000 Here he was slamming it.

00:49:41.000 It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the cabinet room when I was there with finance where he said we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any programs.

00:50:01.000 Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz, I'm talking about White House health care experts, refuse to tell him that those instructions that were to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse all of a sudden eliminates a government program that's called the provider tax.

00:50:23.000 We have morphed a legal construct that admittedly has been abused and should be eliminated into waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:50:33.000 Okay, so he went on a long tirade to Tom Tillis against the so-called big beautiful bill.

00:50:39.000 Is that going to kill the bill?

00:50:40.000 In all likelihood, no.

00:50:42.000 The president can afford to lose three votes.

00:50:44.000 He will lose Tillis.

00:50:46.000 He may lose Rand Paul.

00:50:47.000 That's two.

00:50:48.000 Now the question is Murkowski, McConnell, a couple of the senators who are on the fence.

00:50:53.000 Now, Tillis stepping down, he stepped out largely because of pressure from President Trump.

00:50:58.000 That could have some long-term effects.

00:51:01.000 North Carolina is, of course, a purple state.

00:51:03.000 It has a Democratic governor in Josh Stein.

00:51:05.000 And recently, a North Carolina Senate seat was lost because Republicans decided to run somebody with a really, really checkered pass in Mark Robinson.

00:51:15.000 Tom Tillis, stepping down means that is a very competitive seat suddenly.

00:51:21.000 So if we ask our friends and sponsors at Perplexity, which are the most competitive seats in the 2026 race for the Senate, and what are the likely outcomes going to be?

00:51:33.000 So as Perplexity answers, the most competitive Senate races for 2026 are in Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Maine, and North Carolina.

00:51:42.000 Now, those battlegrounds, again, favor Republicans because the Senate races in Georgia, for example, that's a Democrat-held seat.

00:51:50.000 The race in Michigan was a Democrat-held seat.

00:51:55.000 New Hampshire was a Democrat-held seat.

00:51:58.000 However, Maine is a Republican-held seat.

00:52:01.000 Susan Collins is running there.

00:52:02.000 That could be very competitive again.

00:52:05.000 That state has been trending blue.

00:52:06.000 Collins has been holding onto her seat relatively narrowly for the past couple of election cycles in which he was involved.

00:52:11.000 So that is one seat that could switch over to the Democrats.

00:52:13.000 And North Carolina is now a rare open seat in a purple seat.

00:52:19.000 There's some other states that are up, Ohio, Alaska, Texas, Iowa, South Carolina, but those are states that President Trump won by double digits, as Perplexity points out.

00:52:27.000 They're considered long shots.

00:52:30.000 So let's assume for a second the Democrats maintain Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota.

00:52:36.000 Let's say they win Maine and North Carolina.

00:52:39.000 Republicans still retain control of the Senate because, again, they need to flip four Republican-held Senate seats.

00:52:47.000 It's possible in a sort of wild world that Democrats could challenge in maybe Ohio or Alaska or Texas or something, but that would be a pretty wild world.

00:52:56.000 However, it does leave the Senate in a lot dicier situation because, again, every vote counts.

00:53:02.000 And so if that vote margin comes down to 52, now you're looking, for example, at a cadre of three Republicans who can kill any bill.

00:53:10.000 If Republicans lose a couple of seats and now they're down to 51, well, now they're in real trouble because you lose two seats and you can't pass anything.

00:53:18.000 And that's assuming Republicans hold the House, which they may very well not.

00:53:23.000 So again, herein lies one of the big problems.

00:53:26.000 However, as far as the big beautiful bill is concerned, again, if it does not pass, it is going to be a serious, serious problem for President Trump, for sure, for sure.

00:53:37.000 Speaking of which, again, it looks like the economy is still holding up because most investors seem to be betting that President Trump's tariff regime is coming to an end, that it's moving in the right direction.

00:53:47.000 According to Axios, the S ⁇ P 500 was on track to hit a new record on Friday.

00:53:51.000 It sank when President Trump announced the termination of trade talks with Canada over a controversial digital services tax.

00:53:57.000 But within an hour, investors decided not to care and stocks closed at an all-time high for the first time since February.

00:54:02.000 Why?

00:54:03.000 Well, because the market is looking at President Trump's tariff record and saying it's probably likely that he's going to move away from those sorts of tariffs anyway.

00:54:12.000 According to Axios, headline-driven volatility is a given under this administration, so don't let it impact your portfolio, advisors say.

00:54:19.000 And on Sunday night, Canada did indeed scrap the tax that caused President Trump to withdraw from the negotiations.

00:54:26.000 Jay Pulaski of TPW Advisors says he pays no attention to tariff policy anymore.

00:54:31.000 Torsten Slock, the chief economist at Apollo, indicated President Trump might even be outsmarting everyone in a recent note, arguing any extension of the 90-day tariff pause, which Trump has signaled, would decrease uncertainty.

00:54:43.000 So again, there was a lot of uncertainty that set in when President Trump announced Liberation Day, but it appears that the direction is all toward free trade and away from tariffs at this point, from those gigantic announced tariffs.

00:54:55.000 And so the markets seem a lot more sanguine, all of which is leading the White House to press Jerome Powell over at the Federal Reserve to lower the interest rates again.

00:55:03.000 So Caroline Lovitt went after Jay Powell again today. 0.98

00:55:07.000 And if you look at this chart, this is a chart of all of the interest rates of many countries throughout the world.

00:55:13.000 At the top is Switzerland.

00:55:15.000 They're only paying a quarter for interest rates.

00:55:17.000 Cambodia, Japan, Denmark, Thailand, Botswana, Barbados, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Sweden, Morocco, Cabo Verde, South Korea, Algeria, Canada, Albania, Libya, Malaysia, China, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago,

00:55:34.000 Czechia, Bolivia, Australia, Costa Rica, the Bahamas, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia, United Kingdom, and the UAE are all paying lower interest rates than the United States of America, which has one of the hottest and strongest economies in the world.

00:55:50.000 The President sent this note to the Fed chair.

00:55:52.000 It says, Jerome, you are, as usual, too late.

00:55:55.000 You have cost the USA a fortune and continue to do so.

00:55:58.000 You should lower the rate by a lot.

00:56:00.000 Hundreds of billions of dollars are being lost, and there is no inflation.

00:56:04.000 And the president is right.

00:56:05.000 There is historically low inflation thanks to his policies.

00:56:09.000 Okay, now, again, the president of the United States, he's calling for those lower interest rates.

00:56:15.000 Powell is saying, listen, those may come, but I want to be a little cautious because I don't want to actually open the monetary floodgates here while tariffs may in fact kick in.

00:56:25.000 All the president has to do to end all of this and get the lower interest rates is actually just negotiate those offer amps.

00:56:30.000 That's it.

00:56:30.000 And I assume that Scott Besant is hard at work doing that right now.

00:56:33.000 That plus the Big Beautiful bill, meaning the maintenance of current tax rates, means solidity in the economy, a belief by investors that they're not going to be regulated out of existence, taxed out of existence or inflated out of existence, and you will, in fact, see serious economic growth as a result.

00:56:49.000 And meanwhile, the President of the United States continues to push forward with his immigration agenda.

00:56:55.000 He is heading down to so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida to tour this controversial new detention facility in the Everglades.

00:57:04.000 So according to Axios, the $450 million 1,000 bed facility of trailers and tents is the largest of its kind and solidifies Florida's position as the top state, cooperating with President Trump's immigration crackdown.

00:57:14.000 Of course, Governor DeSantis has been wanting to do that.

00:57:18.000 The name and idea for Alligator Alcatraz is the brainchild of the Florida AG, James Uthmeier, who was appointed by DeSantis after serving as his chief of staff.

00:57:26.000 He hashed the plan for Alligator Alcatraz in near-secret and worked with DeSantis' office and DHS to avoid any opposition before it was too late for significant opposition to actually materialize.

00:57:36.000 It's surrounded by the wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve next to Everglades at National Park.

00:57:41.000 It's basically dead center between the east and west coasts of Florida.

00:57:44.000 It's a one-runway airplane facility called the Dave Collier Training and Transition Airport.

00:57:48.000 It's not actually just like in the middle of the wetlands, for example.

00:57:52.000 Environmentalists are upset because they say that it's going to affect the Florida Panther or whatever.

00:57:58.000 But the federal and state governments say the environmental impacts will be minimal and somewhere has to be the place for these folks.

00:58:04.000 So President Trump is going to head down and visit, again, campaigning strong on the idea that he closed the border and now he's going to be deporting criminal, illegal immigrants. 0.90

00:58:14.000 Meanwhile, the president of the United States continues to stand strong with regard to Iran and what happens next in the Middle East.

00:58:21.000 So yesterday, the president reiterated, you guys keep saying over and over and over that we didn't really destroy those Iranian nuclear facilities over at Fordo.

00:58:30.000 Wrong, you are.

00:58:30.000 The bomb went through it like butter, says the president of the United States.

00:58:34.000 Do you think that the Iranian regime hid some of the enriched uranium before the strikes?

00:58:41.000 No.

00:58:42.000 You mean did they take it out of the deep one?

00:58:44.000 No.

00:58:44.000 Because you were pretty clear.

00:58:45.000 You can't have a weapon.

00:58:47.000 You're going to have to come to the talk.

00:58:48.000 Something's going to happen.

00:58:49.000 I don't think they did.

00:58:50.000 No, I think, first of all, it's very hard to do.

00:58:52.000 It's very dangerous to do.

00:58:53.000 It's very heavy, very, very heavy.

00:58:56.000 It's a very hard thing to do.

00:58:57.000 Plus, we didn't give much notice because they didn't know we were coming until just, you know, then.

00:59:02.000 And nobody thought we'd go after that site because everybody said that site is impenetrable.

00:59:07.000 You can't, you know, you're not going to bear this way.

00:59:09.000 It's at the bottom of a mountain.

00:59:11.000 And it's granite.

00:59:12.000 You know, granite's the hardest stone and it's granite.

00:59:15.000 So, no, they didn't.

00:59:16.000 But I do believe they had people there because you had cars.

00:59:19.000 You know, they were saying cars.

00:59:20.000 And those were masons.

00:59:21.000 Those were people working with concrete.

00:59:23.000 They were trying to seal up the entrance to where the bomb would most likely go in.

00:59:28.000 And they did that.

00:59:29.000 They were working on that.

00:59:30.000 And the bomb went through it like it was butter.

00:59:33.000 He's not wrong about that.

00:59:35.000 He then adds that the new Middle East, wherein Iran's nuclear program has been defenestrated, means that there are a lot of countries that want to join the Abraham Accords.

00:59:43.000 Actually, the country that is being mentioned most often at this point is Syria.

00:59:46.000 Syria is now negotiating, apparently, with the Israelis and the Americans to join the Abraham Accords, the provisos being that Israel will give up some of the territory that it's currently holding in southern Syria as a bulwark against HTS and other terrorist groups in Syria, and that the United States will essentially guarantee any deal.

01:00:03.000 Here's President Trump.

01:00:05.000 Has any other country suggested to you recently as a result of this that they want to join the Abraham Accords?

01:00:12.000 Yes.

01:00:14.000 So we have some really great countries in there right now, and I think we're going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem. 0.99

01:00:23.000 I actually thought Iran would, I actually thought we had a period of time where I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else. 0.97

01:00:29.000 And frankly, they would have been better off than where they are right now.

01:00:33.000 And what about the Abraham Accords? 0.78

01:00:35.000 Would Syria enter?

01:00:37.000 Well, I don't know, but I did take off the sanctions at the request of some of the other countries in the area that are friends of ours.

01:00:43.000 I took off the sanctions on Syria to give them a chance that, you know, the sanctions are biting.

01:00:48.000 They're very strong.

01:00:49.000 Okay, so, again, President Trump transforming the Middle East.

01:00:53.000 Meanwhile, Iran's ambassador to the UN says that Iran's nuclear enrichment will never stop.

01:00:57.000 So Iran's going to continue talking about all this.

01:00:59.000 But as President Trump has made clear, as the Israelis have made clear, listen, if they get wind, this is happening.

01:01:03.000 There are more bombs coming.

01:01:06.000 So the enrichment is our right, an enable right, and we want to implement this right.

01:01:13.000 So you do plan to restart enrichment, that sounds like.

01:01:18.000 I think that enrichment will not never stop.

01:01:22.000 Okay, so again, claiming that they're never going to stop.

01:01:25.000 Okay, well, good luck to you.

01:01:27.000 But the reality is the Mossad is quite active inside Iran.

01:01:30.000 President Trump's threats remain extremely credible.

01:01:33.000 And as the IAE chief Rafael Mariano-Grossi pointed out, Iran's capabilities have been destroyed to an important degree.

01:01:39.000 It is clear that what happened, in particular in Fordo, Natans, Isfahan, where Iran used to have and still has to some degree capabilities in terms of treatment, conversion and enrichment of uranium have been destroyed to an important degree.

01:02:04.000 Some is still standing.

01:02:07.000 So there is, of course, an important setback in terms of those capabilities.

01:02:14.000 So again, the president of the United States has transformed the Middle East.

01:02:18.000 Next on the list, he's going to have to find a way for an off-ramp to be found between Russia and Ukraine.

01:02:22.000 Of course, that was a pledge of the president.

01:02:24.000 In order for that to happen, Europe is going to have to step up in terms of its funding of Ukraine.

01:02:28.000 The United States is going to have to make clear that Ukraine will be funded sufficient to deter further Russian aggression, or Russia will continue to be aggressive.

01:02:36.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Russian forces are now 12 miles from Sumy, Ukraine, a northern Ukrainian regional capital and a new target for Moscow, as the Kremlin presses its manpower advantage at a growing number of places along the front.

01:02:48.000 Having almost entirely ejected Ukrainian forces from the Russian Kursk region earlier this year, Russian forces have now poured over the border in the opposite direction towards Sumy.

01:02:56.000 With 50,000 troops in the area, they now outnumbered the Ukrainians roughly three to one, according to the soldiers fighting there.

01:03:02.000 Their main strategy, says General Oleksandr Sirsky, Ukraine's top military commander, is to wear us down with their numbers.

01:03:10.000 The Russian advance towards Sumy comes as President Trump has begun voicing growing frustration with the Kremlin's unwillingness to broker a ceasefire.

01:03:17.000 Through meetings between Ukrainian and Russian officials have continued in Turkey throughout recent weeks, Moscow is stepping up its missile and drone attacks.

01:03:23.000 Overnight on Sunday, Ukraine actually lost an F-16 jet fighter and its pilot during an aerial bombardment, the largest since the start of the war in terms of the number of munitions launched.

01:03:33.000 So the front line has now grown by more than 100 miles.

01:03:35.000 It now stretches more than 750 miles in an arc from the northeast all the way down to the south.

01:03:43.000 And so again, the Russians have sort of been stopped for the moment in Sumy, but now they're pouring in tens of thousands of more troops.

01:03:51.000 And this is going to continue up until the point where Russia figures that they're not going to be able to dissuade the West from fighting back against Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

01:04:01.000 President Trump has been moving in that direction.

01:04:03.000 More movement would be absolutely salutary for the United States.

01:04:08.000 That'd be a good thing.

01:04:10.000 All righty, folks, so July 4th is coming up.

01:04:11.000 And so one of the things that we've been doing is analyzing some of the myths about July 4th, about the early state of America.

01:04:18.000 Today's myth we're going to debunk is the so-called separation of church and state.

01:04:21.000 So first of all, you hear this all the time from people who are big advocates of radical left-wing secularism.

01:04:27.000 America was designed with separation of church and state.

01:04:31.000 Okay, so first of all, we should point out that the separation of church and state is not a phrase that appears anywhere in the United States Constitution or in the Declaration of Independence.

01:04:40.000 It appears in a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802.

01:04:46.000 The First Amendment bars the establishment of a national religion.

01:04:49.000 So the Constitution of the United States says that essentially you can't be a Catholic doctrinal country.

01:04:59.000 That is not What the Constitution of the United States stands for.

01:05:04.000 At the same time, you are supposed to be able to rely on your religious faith to inform your values, which then informs your vote.

01:05:12.000 Of course, of course.

01:05:13.000 And this is the thing the left has said.

01:05:14.000 They've said, well, you know, if you believe, for example, in the Ten Commandments, then the Ten Commandments being a part of schooling is bad in and of itself.

01:05:22.000 It's a violation of the separation of church and state.

01:05:24.000 No, it isn't.

01:05:25.000 Not unless I'm telling you that you have to keep Jewish Sabbath or Christian Sabbath. 0.99

01:05:30.000 Otherwise, that is not a violation of church and state.

01:05:33.000 Okay, when it comes to church and state, the First Amendment governs.

01:05:37.000 Here's the language of the First Amendment.

01:05:38.000 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

01:05:44.000 Okay, now, there are people who have tried to separate those two clauses.

01:05:48.000 Clause number one, Congress shouldn't make a law that establishes religion.

01:05:52.000 And two, Congress shouldn't prohibit people from performing their religion.

01:05:56.000 But they're actually part of the same overall clause.

01:05:59.000 The idea is the reason you are not establishing a religion, like say Catholicism or Protestantism or whatever, the reason you don't have a state church at the national level is because if you did, it would prohibit the free exercise of religion by people who are not members of that religion.

01:06:16.000 That is why, but it was not meant to disestablish religion in general under American law.

01:06:22.000 That's ridiculously silly.

01:06:24.000 In fact, a huge number of states at the time of the founding had official religions.

01:06:31.000 Remember, the federal government didn't have an official religion because the First Amendment was only supposed to apply to the federal government.

01:06:37.000 Congress shall make no law abridging.

01:06:41.000 That is about the federal government.

01:06:42.000 There were many state governments at the time of the founding that actually did have official religions.

01:06:46.000 So as Perplexity points out, nine out of 13 had some form of religious test for officeholders in their constitutions during the revolutionary period.

01:06:54.000 Typically, that meant that office holders had to affirm belief in Christianity, in many cases, specifically Protestant Christianity.

01:07:00.000 So in Delaware, for example, office holders had to profess faith in the Trinity and the divine inspiration of both the Old and the New Testament.

01:07:07.000 Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vermont all limited office holding to Protestants.

01:07:14.000 Virginia and New York did not require religious oaths in their new constitution, but New York maintained a Protestant test oath by statute until the early 1800s.

01:07:23.000 And there were several states that had officially established churches or provided government support directly to particular denominations, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, in which the Congregational Church was established.

01:07:34.000 Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York, where the Church of England or Protestantism was established in general.

01:07:44.000 South Carolina explicitly declared the Christian Protestant religion as the state's established religion and required Christian confessions of faith for church incorporation.

01:07:53.000 So again, the idea of disestablishment entirely at the state level, the idea that none of this could be part of American law, it's not true.

01:08:00.000 It's not true.

01:08:01.000 And why?

01:08:02.000 Because it turns out that the founding fathers knew quite well that while they didn't want the federal government to establish a gigantic federal state religion, because there were states that actually disagreed with each other on these matters, they did not want to disestablish religion generally speaking.

01:08:17.000 They understood the importance of religion.

01:08:20.000 John Adams, 1798, our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

01:08:25.000 It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

01:08:27.000 One of my favorite quotes.

01:08:28.000 George Washington Farewell's address in 1796, quote, of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable support.

01:08:39.000 So this idea the founders were just wildly anti-religion, that the early America was wildly anti-religion, obviously untrue on the basis of all verifiable fact.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 01, 2025

The Scavenger Left and The Cuck Democrats

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