The Ben Shapiro Show - The UK’s Free Speech CRACKDOWN

00:00:00.000 Alrighty, folks, the president of the United States orders a Venezuelan drug cartel ship blown out of the water.

00:00:05.000 Plus, Zar Mamdani finally receives that magical Bill de Blasio endorsement that he has been desperately waiting for, and the UK is arresting people for bad tweets.

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00:00:47.000 Well, folks, President Trump announced yesterday that the United States carried out a strike in the Southern Caribbean against a drug carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela.

00:00:56.000 He didn't offer a lot of details on all of this, but we know that the President has been very strong on the idea that Venezuela should not be exporting either illegal immigrants or drugs to American shores.

00:01:05.000 He does have authority under the Constitution of the United States to take immediate action on threats to national security and enter international maritime law.

00:01:15.000 Drug boats that are essentially in international waters not flying, say a Venezuelan government flag, can in fact be confronted by American military forces and, if necessary, can be struck.

00:01:25.000 Apparently it was a lethal event.

00:01:26.000 Here's what the president had to say.

00:01:27.000 When you come out and when you leave the room, you'll see that we just over the last few minutes literally shot out a.

00:01:37.000 A boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat.

00:01:41.000 And you'll be seeing that and you'll be reading about that.

00:01:44.000 It just happened moments ago and uh our great general, head of the joint chiefs of staff, who's been so uh incredible, including what took place in Iran, knocking out uh potential nuclear power for long time to come.

00:02:03.000 I think within a month they would have had it if we didn't do what we did.

00:02:06.000 Uh but uh he gave us a little bit of a uh briefing.

00:02:10.000 Uh and you'll see.

00:02:11.000 And there's more where that came from.

00:02:13.000 Uh we have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time.

00:02:18.000 And we just uh these came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela.

00:02:23.000 A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela, so uh we took it out, and you'll get to see that after this uh after this meeting is over.

00:02:32.000 The president said the military had shot out the boat moments ago.

00:02:35.000 He said his team had been briefed on the strike by General Dan Raisin Kane, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State among other jobs, said the military carried out a lethal strike in the Southern Caribbean Sea.

00:02:47.000 Again, pointing out that this was a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.

00:02:55.000 This is a good thing.

00:02:56.000 A stronger America on the world stage is a good thing.

00:03:00.000 Strikes designed to minimize threats to Americans.

00:03:03.000 That is in fact a good thing.

00:03:04.000 The strike, according to CBS News, came after the United States confirmed last month that the Navy would boost its presence near Venezuela, deploying three warships to the waters off the South American country as part of an anti-drug cartel mission.

00:03:16.000 The Venezuelan president, who is in fact a dictator, Nicolas Maduro called the ships an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral, and absolutely criminal and bloody threat, and then deployed military forces to the country's coastline, suggesting the United States was about to launch a full-scale invasion of Venezuela.

00:03:30.000 That of course is untrue, as far as we know.

00:03:33.000 What we do know is that the Trump administration is not going to sit back and wait while a vast influx of drugs continues across our border.

00:03:40.000 The president came into office suggesting that he was going to end the fentanyl epidemic in the United States.

00:03:44.000 One of the chief ways that he did that was preventing the importation of drugs across our southern border, preventing Venezuelan drug cartel ships from landing on American shores by stopping them in international waters or blowing them up.

00:03:57.000 That of course actually is quite good policy, so good on the president of the United States for all of that.

00:04:02.000 Meanwhile, the UK continues to absolutely melt down.

00:04:06.000 So thank God we fought a revolution in this country, so that we were not ruled by the idiot rules of the modern UK.

00:04:13.000 Graham Line is a comedian and comedy writer, and apparently he was just arrested in the UK for tweets.

00:04:21.000 And this unfortunately is not uncommon in the UK at this point.

00:04:25.000 If you flash back just a couple of weeks, according to the New York Post, the UK is now engaged in a free speech crackdown that was seeing up to thirty people a day arrested for petty offenses like retweets and cartoons.

00:04:39.000 According to the New York Post, Bernadette Spaforth lay in jail on a blue gym mattress in a daze, finding it difficult to move, even breathe. 0.99

00:04:45.000 She remembers noticing you can't drown yourself in the toilet because there's no standing water in it, and the flesh button is too far to reach if your head were in the bowl.

00:04:52.000 She'd end up being detained for 36 hours in July 2024.

00:04:55.000 Three girls had just been murdered in Southport, England at a Taylor Swift themed dance party, but Spotforth was not under suspicion for the crime, according to the New York Post.

00:05:03.000 Instead, she had reposted on X and other users' content, blaming newly arrived migrants for the ghastly crime, and even clarified in her retweet if this is true. 0.99

00:05:12.000 Hours later, she realized that that post was bad information.

00:05:15.000 She deleted it.

00:05:16.000 Too late, it was seen thousands of times.

00:05:18.000 Four police vehicles arrived at her home days later.

00:05:21.000 She's a successful businesswoman from Chester and was placed immediately under arrest.

00:05:25.000 Apparently, according to the New York Post, her stories, one repeated almost hourly in the UK, where data suggests over 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes, about 12,000 a year, under laws written well before the age of social media to make crimes of sending grossly offensive messages or sharing content of an indecent,

00:05:42.000 obscene, or menacing character, presumably that was meant to stop people from mailing to each other things that were indecent or threatening, and now the UK is using that as a way of cracking down on people it disagrees with, which is insane.

00:05:55.000 So back to Graham Lynan.

00:05:58.000 Apparently, according to his substack, quote, something odd happened before I even aborted the flight in Arizona.

00:06:04.000 When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be reticketed.

00:06:08.000 At the time, I thought it was just the sort of innocent snafu that makes air travel such a joy, but in hindsight, it was clear I'd been flagged.

00:06:14.000 Somewhere, someone, probably wearing unconvincing makeup, and his sister's wife's mom's underwear had made a phone call.

00:06:20.000 The moment I stepped off the plane in Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting.

00:06:24.000 Not one, not two, five, Rice Line.

00:06:27.000 They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets.

00:06:31.000 In a country where pedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak.

00:06:38.000 The state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet.

00:06:42.000 And here's what the tweet said, quote, if a trans identified male is in a female only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act.

00:06:49.000 Make a scene.

00:06:50.000 Call the cops.

00:06:51.000 And if all else fails, punch him in the balls.

00:06:54.000 So he was arrested for that tweet.

00:06:55.000 He was also arrested, apparently, for another tweet in which there was some sort of a gigantic trans protest or mid-sized trans protest in London.

00:07:04.000 And he tweeted a photo you can smell.

00:07:08.000 Fact check true, fair.

00:07:10.000 And then a follow-up.

00:07:12.000 I hate them.

00:07:12.000 Misogynists and homophobes.

00:07:14.000 F them.

00:07:16.000 And he was arrested for those tweets in the UK.

00:07:19.000 Quote, when I first saw the cops, I actually laughed.

00:07:21.000 I couldn't help myself.

00:07:22.000 Don't tell me you've been sent by trans activists.

00:07:24.000 The officers gave no reaction, and this was the theme throughout most of the day.

00:07:27.000 Among the rank and file, there was a sort of polite bafflement, entirely professional and even kind, but most had absolutely no idea what any of this was about.

00:07:34.000 Kind, because the officers saw how upset I was.

00:07:37.000 When they began reading me my rights, the red mist ascended, I came close to becoming one of those police body cam videos where you can't believe the perp isn't just doing what he's told.

00:07:43.000 And they treated me gently after that.

00:07:45.000 They arranged for a van to meet on the tarmac so I didn't have to be perp walked through the airport like a terrorist.

00:07:49.000 Small mercies.

00:07:51.000 So his belt bag devices were confiscated.

00:07:54.000 He was thrown into a small green-tiled cell with a bunk, a silver toilet, and a message from crime stoppers on the ceiling next to a concave mirror that was presumably there to make you reflect on your life choices.

00:08:05.000 Apparently, during his interview, the officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn, with a sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious, like I don't know, crime.

00:08:15.000 I explained the punch tweet was making it was a serious point made with the joke.

00:08:18.000 Men who enter women's faces are abusers, and they need to be challenged every time.

00:08:22.000 The punch in the bollocks bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call to violence.

00:08:30.000 He mentioned trans people.

00:08:31.000 I asked what he meant by the phrase.

00:08:32.000 People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.

00:08:35.000 I said assigned at birth, our sex isn't assigned.

00:08:37.000 He called it semantics.

00:08:38.000 I told him he was using activist language.

00:08:40.000 Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure over 200 stroke territory.

00:08:45.000 The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life.

00:08:49.000 So he was escorted to AE, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation.

00:08:55.000 So just unbelievable.

00:08:58.000 Unbelievable.

00:08:59.000 Apparently, he believes that the person who referred him to the cops was a Lindsay Watson, who he calls a demented ex copper truon who was fired for his online conduct.

00:09:11.000 Watson is also involved in another case on Thursday and Friday at London Westminster magistrates court that trans activists are planning to protest.

00:09:17.000 So, welcome to England, the birthplace of Magna Carta, where, again, tearing down the institutions that make a functional society.

00:09:27.000 That's the thing.

00:09:28.000 That's the thing.

00:09:31.000 And it's not just that these folks in the UK are interested in tearing away free speech and saying that you're not allowed to tweet a bad thing, that bad tweets might land you in jail.

00:09:41.000 They are importing people from parts of the planet who hate all of those centralizing Western principles like free speech. 0.74

00:09:49.000 despise them when i talk in lines and scavengers about the coalition of scavengers about the idea that you have barbarians you know the people from outside who hate our civilization and they join forces with the lecturers inside our civilization who believe that they are marginalized by our traditional institutions and values and they make common clause together that's the uk in a nutshell

00:10:11.000 Because it is no coincidence that just yesterday, the home secretary of the UK, Yvette Cooper, said that the UK is going to take in refugees from Gaza.

00:10:20.000 So congrats to the people of Great Britain.

00:10:23.000 They don't just have to contend with the insanity inside their borders.

00:10:26.000 They are going to be importing people who almost certainly do not share their values. 0.97

00:10:31.000 Out of some sort of misplaced sympathy, I suppose, because there are plenty of other countries on planet Earth that are more akin ideologically and culturally to the people of Gaza.

00:10:41.000 But apparently not according to the wonderful folks in the UK.

00:10:45.000 I can't imagine why Nigel Farage's party is doing so well over in the UK.

00:10:48.000 Here's Home Secretary Yvette Cooper just yesterday.

00:10:50.000 The Home Office has put in place systems to issue expedited visas with biometric checks conducted prior to arrival for children and their immediate accompanying family members.

00:11:04.000 And we have done the same for all the cheating scholars and are in the process of doing so now for the next group of students from Gaza who have been awarded fully funded scholarships and places at UK universities so they can start their studies in autumn this year. 0.70

00:11:22.000 Oh, congrats.

00:11:23.000 I mean, by the way, fully funded.

00:11:25.000 So that means somebody else is paying the bill.

00:11:26.000 Cooper said that the government would be opening a broader scheme for refugee students to quote come and study in the UK so we can help more talented young people fleeing war and persecution to find a better future alongside captain managed ways for refugees to work here in the UK.

00:11:40.000 So once again, congrats to the people of the UK who are now going to be forced to accept, presumably thousands of people from Gaza, one of the most radical places on planet Earth. 1.00

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00:14:10.000 Shortly after Cooper spoke, the foreign secretary David Lamy said that these Gazans would arrive in the UK in the coming weeks.

00:14:19.000 There's been some opposition within Westminster to the move to take in refugees from Gaza.

00:14:23.000 Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Genrik expressed apprehension at the idea of resettling Palestinians in the UK.

00:14:29.000 He wrote in the telegraph quote, the truth is that Gaza's Arab neighbors are prepared to offer humanitarian support, but consider the idea of inviting Gazans into the country at any scale a risk only a fool would take, which of course is true. 1.00

00:14:40.000 Egypt is accepting zero people from Gaza, but Britain is accepting thousands from Gaza.

00:14:45.000 A strange move, a very, very strange move by the UK.

00:14:48.000 Except this is a misapplied sense of guilt directed at the third world by the labor party in the UK, a belief that in the oppressor-oppressed matrix, the UK is an oppressor, Israel is an oppressor, the people of Gaza are the oppressed, and therefore the people of the UK must accept into the place where they live people who believe that Western civilization is in and of itself wrong and terrible.

00:15:14.000 Cooper, by the way, also made more announcements about the UK's border and asylum policy.

00:15:22.000 That included loosening some of the restrictions on immigration.

00:15:25.000 So, well done.

00:15:26.000 Now, we should point out at this point here that Qatar, which is, of course, essentially Hamas with nicer suits, that Qatar sponsors an enormous amount of business in the UK, like truly an incredible amount of business in the UK.

00:15:42.000 There's a columnist named Dr. Naftali Hirsch, who points out exactly how much Qatar owns in the UK.

00:15:51.000 It's amazing.

00:15:52.000 I mean, it's a country of 400,000 citizens.

00:15:55.000 And they spend their money like water over there.

00:15:58.000 A non-exhaustive list of the companies that Qatar, primarily through its Qatar Investment Authority, owns giant chunks of, include in the UK, Barclays, the London Stock Exchange, Heathrow Airport, Herod's, the Canary Wharf Group, Rolls-Royce, and the International Airlines Group.

00:16:14.000 That includes British Airways, Iberia, Viewing, and Erlingus.

00:16:19.000 So if you ever wonder why it is that Europe is so warm, why so many people in the upper echelons of Europe seem so warm toward importing people who truly hate their civilization, part of the answer is money.

00:16:31.000 As always, is always.

00:16:32.000 Speaking of which, you know who else, Qatar has historically paid?

00:16:37.000 Zorn Mamdani's mama.

00:16:39.000 According to the New York Post, Hamas backing Qatar has bankrolled film and stage projects by socialist Zorn Mamdani's Israel-bashing movie director mom.

00:16:48.000 And one of its royals is now pushing her son's mayoral bid, according to the New York Post.

00:16:52.000 Shecha Al-Mayasa bind Khaman Althani, sister to the ruling Emir, and the state-funded cultural institutions she controls, have supported Mira Naiir and her creative projects since at least 2009.

00:17:02.000 So it's great.

00:17:03.000 You have Qatar pay for the mayor of New York. 0.65

00:17:05.000 That's exciting.

00:17:06.000 Even extending a personal invitation to participate in the cultural program the country organized as part of the festivities around hosting the 2022 World Cup.

00:17:14.000 Since mid-June, Sheikha Alfani has taken to promoting Mamdani's mayoral candidacy on social media, boosting news of favorable polling on Instagram, and posting fire emojis under a TikTok video of him embracing Nair.

00:17:27.000 Daniel Pletka, foreign policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute says, quote, they're buying somebody who's willing to be bought, and in a time of their choosing, they will ask for what they want.

00:17:35.000 They need a rainbow coalition of people who will support the ideology they promote.

00:17:38.000 Sometimes it will be Islamism, sometimes it will be anti-Semitism, sometimes it will just be anti-Israel.

00:17:44.000 According to the New York Post, there are extensive ties between Zorn Mamdani's mama and the Qatari elite.

00:17:51.000 Including from 2010 until 2014, the Doha Film Institute, founded by Sheikha Alfani, underwrote a boot camp to train Qatari students In screenwriting and filmmaking at Nair's MySha Film Labs in East Africa and in Doha.

00:18:04.000 The Doha Film Institute paid the entire $15 million budget of Nair's 2012 film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, one of the first movies it produced.

00:18:13.000 That flick is all about how America was mean to a Pakistani immigrant suffering mistreatment after 9-11.

00:18:21.000 So we're talking about like millions of dollars funded from Qatar to the Mamdani Mama. 0.94

00:18:28.000 And then it turns out they are promoting Zor Mamdani also via social media.

00:18:33.000 Shocker.

00:18:34.000 I can't believe it.

00:18:37.000 It turns out that the accusation that money may have something to do with the success of the socialist candidate.

00:18:44.000 Well, not totally untrue.

00:18:46.000 That coalition of scavengers at rides high, radical Islamists, trans advocates, Marxists, all willing to join together to fight the civilization they believe is the problem. 0.91

00:18:58.000 Speaking of that New York mayoral race, I'm in New York right now, I gotta say.

00:19:01.000 It's an amazing city.

00:19:02.000 I mean, truly, the world capital of commerce.

00:19:05.000 And now the person that they are talking about making mayor believes that he can single-handedly centralize the economy.

00:19:11.000 Good luck with that.

00:19:12.000 Czar Mamdani, just yesterday, suggested he was going to freeze rent for 250,000 rent-controlled units.

00:19:18.000 I can't imagine how that's going to lead to housing shortages.

00:19:21.000 Spoiler alert, it leads to housing shortages.

00:19:26.000 As your next mayor of this city, I will freeze the rent for more than 250,000 rent stabilized apartments.

00:19:36.000 Well, I mean, good luck to uh all the developers in New York City.

00:19:40.000 And I know developers, people who are looking to buy space in New York because obviously, lots of commerce here, lots of people working here.

00:19:46.000 But virtually all of them have now added closing conditions based on Mamdani's possible mayoralty.

00:19:53.000 People who are thinking about pulling out of, we're talking like large multimillion dollar deals because they are afraid that Mamdani is simply going to come in and bootstomp any free market with regard to real estate.

00:20:05.000 Meanwhile, you know you're in good hands when Bill de Blasio, the recent worst mayor in the history of New York, endorses Zoran Mamdani.

00:20:13.000 Yesterday, he claimed in a New York Daily News op-ed, quote, we don't just need Zoran Mamdani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas or because they can be achieved.

00:20:21.000 We need him because in his heart and in his bones, he cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.

00:20:27.000 One of my favorite things about the left is that they never have to actually argue for why their policies might be effective.

00:20:32.000 They simply say, well, you know, his heart is in the right place.

00:20:35.000 We need him because in his heart and in his bones, he cannot accept a city that prices people out.

00:20:40.000 Well, I mean, if he feels bad about rent, then that means he probably should be mayor.

00:20:43.000 Just like that homeless guy that I spotted coming in here.

00:20:46.000 He also seemed pissed about rent, so probably he should be mayor.

00:20:48.000 The ex-mayor, who served two terms from 2014 to 2021, demonstrating full scale the idiocy of many New Yorkers, insisted that Mamdani's promise for affordability, including rent freezes, free childcare, and free city buses, was the reason he cinched the June Democratic primary.

00:21:04.000 He wrote, quote, yet, though many New Yorkers agree with him, many others are skeptical, so others have lost faith in the city government's ability to not only talk but deliver.

00:21:11.000 They want to know one fundamental truth.

00:21:13.000 Can it be done?

00:21:14.000 I can say definitely, and I know better than anyone, the answer is yes.

00:21:18.000 Yeah, that none so many people loved Bill de Blasio as mayor.

00:21:22.000 People just thought he did an amazing job lowering costs, making the city more livable.

00:21:27.000 Nobody believes this.

00:21:29.000 Well, de Blasio is actually talking up Mamdani's idea.

00:21:32.000 You know, credits to Blasio.

00:21:34.000 The man actually says the quiet part out loud.

00:21:35.000 He just full scale endorses the worst ideas of Zoran Mamdani.

00:21:38.000 So he's on Morning Joe, Bill de Blasio, that giant groundhog killing weirdo.

00:21:42.000 And uh, and he said that government-run grocery stores sound actually quite awesome.

00:21:47.000 Zoran says, for example, look at the fact that people need right now, they need relief.

00:21:54.000 They need to be able to live in this city.

00:21:56.000 Right.

00:21:57.000 So, for example, you know, here's a great one the grocery stores.

00:22:00.000 It's been a lot of attempts to mangle what that is.

00:22:03.000 We have food deserts in New York City.

00:22:05.000 Right.

00:22:06.000 We have places where people cannot get decent quality food.

00:22:08.000 We have an obesity crisis that's part of that.

00:22:10.000 Right.

00:22:10.000 He says, okay, let's have the government come in and set up some grocery stores where the private sector is not putting in grocery stores and help get people quality food at a reasonable price.

00:22:19.000 Makes a lot of sense to me.

00:22:20.000 Free business.

00:22:21.000 And who runs that?

00:22:22.000 The City of New York runs it just like we run so many other services.

00:22:27.000 It'll be amazing, guys.

00:22:28.000 It'll be amazing.

00:22:29.000 If only it Had been tried somewhere else, and we could see whether it worked.

00:22:32.000 Wait, it was tried in Kansas City, and um it turns out that it went bankrupt.

00:22:36.000 According to the New York Post, again, this is just a few weeks ago.

00:22:39.000 Sun Fresh Market in Kansas City, which opened in 2018 as part of a million dollar revitalization plan.

00:22:45.000 Mysteriously shuddered just weeks after viral footage exposed the struggling stores at Bearshells, foul odor, and frustrated customers.

00:22:51.000 That was a publicly funded grocery store in Missouri.

00:22:54.000 They left a note on the entrance stating it can no longer serve residents due to circumstances, quote, beyond our control.

00:23:00.000 Oh no.

00:23:01.000 How sad.

00:23:02.000 The store was located in a city-owned building.

00:23:04.000 It was open as part of a $15 million revitalization project.

00:23:08.000 But as it turns out, government owned, it turned into a crime center.

00:23:12.000 And uh and then it yeah, basically got emptied out.

00:23:15.000 So probably it'll work out great.

00:23:16.000 You know, other things that might work out great that have never been tried for sure would be like free busing.

00:23:19.000 Free busing would be great.

00:23:21.000 Because, you know, it's not as though the New York City buses are smelly and terrible enough with people actually paying for some level of upkeep.

00:23:27.000 If you get rid of the upkeep, probably it'll be even better, even freer, even more awesome.

00:23:32.000 If you like the BO on New York buses, get ready for like 10 times that.

00:23:36.000 It'll be amazing.

00:23:38.000 Think about the free buses again.

00:23:39.000 Free buses has been proven to work in many parts of the country.

00:23:43.000 Where it's I'll get to a list of cities, but the bottom line is it is something that allows people to one, reduce their costs, which people are overwhelmed by to get into mass transit more.

00:23:55.000 It works because we know that if people are given a quality alternative they could afford, they'll use it.

00:24:03.000 Um, well, actually, they I mean the question is not whether they will use the free buses.

00:24:08.000 The question is who will pay for the free buses and why won't they just wreck the free buses?

00:24:12.000 And the answer is they will.

00:24:14.000 If only this had been tried somewhere before.

00:24:16.000 It was, it was tried in Kansas City, which apparently is like the testing ground.

00:24:19.000 Basically, it seems like the relationship between Kansas City and New York is sort of like the baseball relationship between Kansas City and New York back in the late 1950s, early 1960s, where essentially the Kansas City Athletics, the A's used to be in Kansas City, were a farm team for the New York Yankees.

00:24:33.000 They would cultivate a player, like for example, Roger Maris, and then they would trade him for beans to the New York Yankees.

00:24:40.000 It seems like that's kind of what happens in Kansas City.

00:24:42.000 It looks like they they workshop all the bad ideas and then they come to New York.

00:24:45.000 According to the New York Post, Kansas City's $50 million experiment with free bus fare is hitting the brakes because the city can't afford it.

00:24:51.000 The Midwest City used federal COVID-19 relief money in 2020 to become the first in the country to institute free buses.

00:24:57.000 But local funding dried up.

00:24:59.000 Riders and conductors slammed the buses as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters.

00:25:03.000 Something critics say could easily happen in Gotham.

00:25:06.000 Ken Gerardin, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said if you go from charging a fair to not charging a fair, ridership goes up, you end up with degradation of the service.

00:25:13.000 Well, duh.

00:25:16.000 So again, New York apparently wishes to play with fire, and they will get burned.

00:25:21.000 And frankly, I'm here for it.

00:25:23.000 I'm I'm here to watch.

00:25:23.000 I think it'll be great.

00:25:24.000 Especially because it'll all be part of the resistance, right?

00:25:27.000 That's the thing that matters, is it's the resistance.

00:25:29.000 So Letitia James, most famous for getting a ridiculous fraud conviction against President Trump in civil court, and then getting the penalty knocked all the way down. 1.00

00:25:39.000 Letitia James, who's made a mess of her career at this point, well, she's out there also enduring, endorsing Zoran Mom Donnie.

00:25:46.000 Exciting, exciting stuff from Letitia James.

00:25:49.000 He got his political career starting here.

00:25:52.000 He was a student at Bronx Science.

00:25:54.000 Yeah, science.

00:25:56.000 Wait a minute.

00:25:58.000 He was the vice president of the Bronx Science Student Body.

00:26:04.000 So that qualifies him.

00:26:07.000 In addition to that, Zorron, he had a brief hip hop career.

00:26:12.000 Yes.

00:26:15.000 And although and although I may Jamani and I may disagree, but hip hop started in the Bronx.

00:26:24.000 1520 Technic Avenue.

00:26:28.000 In my district.

00:26:30.000 Now I won't say that in Brooklyn, but so he is born and raised.

00:26:37.000 Um I have been born and raised in Brooklyn, but I know the power of the Bronx.

00:26:41.000 That's right.

00:26:43.000 And I know that all of us need to be standing in purpose today and in support of my good friend.

00:26:52.000 Well, I mean, with that kind of sterling resume, like being a failed rapper, I mean, how could this go wrong?

00:26:57.000 It definitely won't.

00:26:58.000 And if somebody knows something about Victory, it's Letitia James, who once thought of being governor and then was actually just a terrible AJ. 0.97

00:27:04.000 Here's saying victory will be R. Sounding like a movie villain here.

00:27:09.000 And I'm still standing.

00:27:12.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:13.000 Still standing.

00:27:15.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:16.000 Okay, okay.

00:27:18.000 Brooklyn, check.

00:27:20.000 Manhattan, check.

00:27:22.000 Staten Island.

00:27:24.000 Check.

00:27:25.000 And now the Bronx.

00:27:27.000 Check! 0.66

00:27:32.000 And there's one left.

00:27:34.000 But the bottom line is that we're closing in on victory.

00:27:38.000 That's right.

00:27:38.000 And victory is clear.

00:27:41.000 Yes.

00:27:41.000 And victory will be ours.

00:27:45.000 Victory will be ours.

00:27:47.000 And they just cut two.

00:27:49.000 Escape from Manhattan.

00:27:50.000 Kurt Russell wandering through the burning blocks of New York.

00:27:54.000 Yeah, things are gonna be great in New York, guys.

00:27:56.000 You're doing an amazing job.

00:27:57.000 Smart job.

00:27:58.000 Already coming up.

00:27:59.000 The left for some reason over the weekend thought that President Trump was dead.

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00:30:11.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are focused like a laser beam on defeating President Trump.

00:30:17.000 And that means basically just doing really, really dumb things.

00:30:20.000 So over the weekend, you may have missed it.

00:30:22.000 If you weren't too online, you actually had a life and you were hanging out with your kids, you missed it.

00:30:26.000 But it turns out over the weekend, Democrats thought that Trump was dead.

00:30:29.000 Why?

00:30:29.000 Well, because he didn't have a public schedule for a couple of days.

00:30:32.000 Now I understand that President Trump has become just a part of all of our lives.

00:30:37.000 That basically every five minutes, President Trump pops not only into the headlines, but into our consciousness.

00:30:41.000 I get it.

00:30:42.000 I do.

00:30:42.000 The man is ubiquitous.

00:30:44.000 But if he goes, you know, not in the headlines for a couple of days, doesn't mean he's dead.

00:30:48.000 I also understand the Democrats are desperately attempting to now replay every Republican hit in reverse.

00:30:54.000 So if Republicans have a very provocative presidential candidate who trolls people online, then Gavin Newsom just does the same thing, but in reverse.

00:31:03.000 If the Democrats run a dead person and Republicans point that out, and then the Republicans win, now Democrats are gonna try and claim the president Trump is in fact dead.

00:31:12.000 Well, rumors of President Trump's death were greatly exaggerated over the weekend.

00:31:16.000 And that led to this exchange between Peter Ducey of Fox News and the president of the United States on the subject.

00:31:22.000 Something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend.

00:31:27.000 How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?

00:31:32.000 You see that?

00:31:33.000 No.

00:31:33.000 People didn't see you for a couple days.

00:31:35.000 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.

00:31:40.000 Really?

00:31:40.000 I didn't see that.

00:31:42.000 You know, I I have heard it's uh sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful.

00:31:48.000 They went very well, like this is going very well.

00:31:51.000 And then I didn't do any for two days, and they said there must be something wrong with him.

00:31:56.000 Biden wouldn't do him for months.

00:31:58.000 You wouldn't see him.

00:31:59.000 And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him, and we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape.

00:32:04.000 No, I heard that.

00:32:05.000 I I get reports.

00:32:07.000 Now you knew I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody, and everybody saw that was on one of your competitors.

00:32:15.000 Uh I did numerous uh shows and uh also did a number of truths, long truths, I think pretty poignant truths.

00:32:23.000 No, I was very active over the weekend.

00:32:27.000 Well, that's true.

00:32:28.000 He was active over the weekend, and he was truthing it up.

00:32:31.000 But, you know, Democrats, when in doubt, just claim that the guy is dead.

00:32:35.000 By the way, they are hoping.

00:32:37.000 They are very much hoping.

00:32:38.000 So Tim Walls, again, that guy, it's amazing that he became for a moment a national name because a weirder person I have yet to find in American politics.

00:32:47.000 I say a lot.

00:32:48.000 There are a lot of weirdos in American politics.

00:32:49.000 Tim Walls, who is most reminiscent of the inflatable man who's kind of waving bizarrely off the side of the freeway at a used car lot.

00:32:58.000 Well, he over the weekend decided to imply the president was dead, and then say, well, if he's not, maybe he will be soon.

00:33:04.000 Goodness gracious.

00:33:07.000 You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things, and although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news.

00:33:16.000 Um just saying.

00:33:18.000 Just saying.

00:33:20.000 There will be news sometime.

00:33:21.000 Just so you know, there will be news.

00:33:23.000 And then, of course, you have the performative oppositionality of people like Jasmine Crockett, the Texas Congresswoman.

00:33:29.000 I will admit that I'm enjoying Jasmine Crockett's changes of dialect almost as much as I enjoyed the tour through dialect that we got from Hillary Clinton.

00:33:37.000 You remember Hillary Clinton had like a bunch of different accents that you would just randomly unleash. 1.00

00:33:41.000 Well, I just want to show you a flashback.

00:33:42.000 This is Jasmine Crockett before she was in Congress and what she talked like, because you really have to know that in order to understand what she is doing now.

00:33:50.000 Absolutely.

00:33:51.000 First of all, it's good to see you in the new year.

00:33:54.000 You know, um, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin, now looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress.

00:34:07.000 I mean, she sounds like you know, like a normal human.

00:34:09.000 Um, you know, who speaks as though she went to uh she went to college.

00:34:13.000 And um, and then she just switches code switches in into this. 1.00

00:34:19.000 Man, because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is.

00:34:23.000 Yeah, I don't know how many of them on their side are getting divorced because they're getting caught up, sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things.

00:34:32.000 Yeah, you ain't gotta believe me.

00:34:34.000 Just go Google, you'll find some of it.

00:34:35.000 I'm telling you, and the wives is being messy and petty. 1.00

00:34:38.000 They putting it in the divorce.

00:34:40.000 I'm like, whoa, that's gotta be true, because your lawyer would know that they're gonna lose it if they um I feel like I feel like Beaver Cleaver's mother is going to show up in a moment and explain that she speaks jive.

00:34:58.000 Like this is this is something directly out of airplane.

00:35:01.000 Like that that wild switch in dialect is crazy.

00:35:05.000 And that, again, has nothing to do with race.

00:35:07.000 Because if a white person did that, like Hillary Clinton, it would also be crazy. 1.00

00:35:11.000 That is crazy.

00:35:12.000 I don't know what's happening, but it that's that this is a person who is seen as an up-and-coming democratic voice.

00:35:18.000 Okay, good good luck to you guys.

00:35:20.000 Good luck to you.

00:35:22.000 And I and I have to say, the the up-and-coming democratic class, it's filled with stellar people.

00:35:27.000 In breaking news, it turns out that representative Illihan Omar is worth an absolute frickin' fortune.

00:35:33.000 Which is insane.

00:35:34.000 Because of course, if you listen to her, you realize America is deeply unfair, terrible, racist, exploitative, and yet somehow she may be worth up to 30 million dollars.

00:35:44.000 I have no idea how.

00:35:46.000 I didn't realize that an informal ISIS recruiter paid that much.

00:35:48.000 Anyway, Ilhan Omar reported a net worth of up to 30 million dollars in her latest financial disclosure, a document filed just months after she dismissed claims she was a millionaire as ridiculous and categorically false.

00:36:00.000 The disclosure filed in May shows the far-left squad lawmaker and her husband, Tim Minette, experienced a roughly 3,500 percent increase in net worth last year compared to 2023.

00:36:10.000 23.

00:36:11.000 Well, I mean, I suppose that uh marrying not your brother has some benefits.

00:36:15.000 The surge in the couple's wealth was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday.

00:36:20.000 The financial gains came from my net two businesses, a Santa Rosa California-based winery and a venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, DC.

00:36:27.000 Seems like somebody's benefiting off some American-style free market exploitation.

00:36:34.000 Apparently, my net's adventure capital firm, Roselake Capital LLC.

00:36:38.000 Its assets were valued at between five million and twenty-five million by the end of 2024.

00:36:43.000 Roseley Capital claims to have sixty billion dollars in assets under management, according to the company's website.

00:36:49.000 So, yeah, that that seems like a person who's benefited, you know, an awful lot from living in the United States and yet still thinks the United States sucks.

00:36:56.000 Because again, our country is filled with terrible people who have come from abroad and then have decided that they're going to crap on the place that has made them free and prosperous and fight against all the systems that did precisely that. 1.00

00:37:07.000 They are indeed scavengers.

00:37:09.000 Alrighty, coming up, Greta Thunberg.

00:37:11.000 Yeah, I know, she's in the headlines again, but she's our scavenger of the day. 0.87

00:37:14.000 I will explain why.

00:37:15.000 First, I love movies about real heroes who have the courage to stand up against evil.

00:37:18.000 We need those stories today.

00:37:19.000 That's exactly why the incredible story told in Bao, artist at war, caught my attention.

00:37:24.000 The film opens September 26th.

00:37:25.000 You can visit BaoMovie.com to see the trailers.

00:37:28.000 Bell, artist at war, tells the remarkable true story of Joseph Bao, a gifted artist and forger who risked his life to save others during the Holocaust.

00:37:35.000 There, he found not only the strength to survive, but unexpected love with Rebecca.

00:37:38.000 A gripping story of survival, love, and courage.

00:37:41.000 The movie's awesome.

00:37:42.000 It really stays with you.

00:37:43.000 It's not just another Holocaust movie.

00:37:45.000 It's a film really about art and love, how they save lives literally and spiritually.

00:37:48.000 Joseph Bao was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.

00:37:51.000 He forged documents to help other people escape.

00:37:53.000 He was also a poet, an animator, and a romantic.

00:37:55.000 His story, his love, and his resilience, it feels like fiction, but it's an actual real true story.

00:37:59.000 If you love Chindler's List or Jojo Rabbit, films that show not just what was lost, but what was fought for, you need to see Bao.

00:38:04.000 Bao, artist at war, opens only in theaters for a limited run beginning September 26th.

00:38:09.000 Go to BaoMovie.com to watch the trailer, read about Joseph's real life journey, and find Showtimes near you.

00:38:14.000 Again, that's BaoMovie.com.

00:38:17.000 B A U Movie.com.

00:38:18.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of scavengers, I have to point out today's scavenger, scavenger of the day.

00:38:28.000 Greta Thunberg.

00:38:30.000 So I don't know when she decided to become either Lord Farquad from Shrek, torturing the gingerbread man, or when she decided to just take He-Man's hair and plunk it on her head.

00:38:44.000 It was she's made a lot of bad decisions recently.

00:38:47.000 And listen, I'm just happy that Greta Thunberg is now over the age of 18, so I can make fun of her.

00:38:51.000 Because I know the rules.

00:38:52.000 The rules are that if you have a complete dullard, a person who is posted by the left as the voice of a generation, but they're under 18, and then you mock them.

00:39:02.000 Like political human shields.

00:39:04.000 Like, what if I what if I think this child soldier and put the child soldier there?

00:39:07.000 And then if you make fun of the child, it's because you hate children.

00:39:09.000 Okay, but now she's, you know, age of majority. 0.99

00:39:12.000 She's older than I am at this point.

00:39:13.000 She's certainly aged more quickly.

00:39:15.000 And so I can mock her as much as I damned well please.

00:39:17.000 She is a moron.

00:39:18.000 She was always a moron. 0.81

00:39:20.000 But when you're a child and you're a moron, it's somewhat amusing.

00:39:22.000 When you're an adult and you're a moron, then you're just annoying now.

00:39:24.000 Now you're just a draw on the public wheel.

00:39:27.000 Well, Greta Thunberg has made her cause the Gaza Strip. 1.00

00:39:32.000 This is after global warming fails.

00:39:33.000 So it turns out she couldn't stop global warming, so now she's going to take a bunch of diesel-powered boats and try to float her way to Gaza for the second time. 0.85

00:39:39.000 You'll remember the first time she was stopped and handed a sandwich, and then claimed that she had been kidnapped.

00:39:45.000 Um, she was not kidnapped.

00:39:46.000 She was handed a sandwich, and then she was put in the worst possible position for any human being ever.

00:39:51.000 The back row of an LL flight next to the bathrooms.

00:39:55.000 I will say, not great.

00:39:56.000 Done it before.

00:39:57.000 Not amazing.

00:39:58.000 But Greta Thunberg, this is this is her.

00:40:01.000 Not all that long ago complaining about her cruel fate.

00:40:06.000 My name is Gita Timbe, and I am from Sweden.

00:40:09.000 If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or forces that support Israel.

00:40:19.000 I urge all my friends, family, and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.

00:40:31.000 Yeah, because that's usually what happens for those who are who are kidnapped is that you cut a clip on your own phone and then you post it to social media immediately.

00:40:40.000 That's typically what happened by the way, the gall of her to claim that she was kidnapped while there are still hostages being starved to death by the people she sympathizes with Hamas.

00:40:48.000 Truly astonishing.

00:40:50.000 But that is who Greta Thunberg is. 0.99

00:40:53.000 Here she was not all that long ago, not that many years ago, ripping soccer players and celebrities getting attention when she is legitimately one of the great um attention. 0.54

00:41:03.000 There's a word here that I'm not going to use of all time.

00:41:05.000 Here we go.

00:41:07.000 Where celebrities, film and pop stars who have stood up against all injustices, will not stand up for the environment and for climate justice, because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world visiting their favorite restaurants, beaches, and yoga retreats.

00:41:28.000 Well, the good news is that now she's on the boat again.

00:41:30.000 So she got on a boat a couple of days ago, and then the winds turned it around.

00:41:34.000 And uh, and so now she has gotten on the diesel power boats again.

00:41:38.000 And the reason I point her out is because she is so indicative of this entire generation, an entire generation of young morons in the West.

00:41:46.000 Here's something I write about this in my book Lions and Scavengers.

00:41:50.000 Quote, scavengers are plentiful among those for whom life is too easy.

00:41:53.000 It is one of the great ironies of history that revolutionaries are typically drawn not from the ranks of the abject poor, but the idle bourgeois. 0.82

00:42:00.000 The poor are those who need not struggle for their daily bread, who are not dedicated to the demands of family, who are disengaged from the larger community.

00:42:07.000 They seek a feeling of meaning that can be found in either building or tearing down, and finding themselves incapable of building, they choose the latter option.

00:42:14.000 University students are all too often the seedbed for revolution for precisely this reason.

00:42:18.000 They have no families to support.

00:42:19.000 They are often supported by their parents, and they have intellectual pretensions of their own.

00:42:23.000 And that is Greta Thunberg in a nutshell. 0.97

00:42:25.000 It is also why younger Americans, by like a 60-40 margin, now say that they support Hamas, because this is what we are raising here in the West, a bunch of spoiled brats who have no connection with reality, and so they will vote for Zoran Mamdani and then pretend their own virtue.

00:42:40.000 Okay, meanwhile, in other news, the President of the United States announced yesterday that he would in fact be deploying National Guard troops to Chicago.

00:42:48.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:42:52.000 If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up.

00:42:57.000 I would love to do it.

00:42:58.000 Now, we're going to do it anyway.

00:43:00.000 We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country.

00:43:05.000 And that includes Baltimore.

00:43:06.000 I saw where Governor Moore was uh asking me to take a walk down the street of Baltimore.

00:43:12.000 Well, Baltimore is a very unsafe place.

00:43:14.000 It's rated number four in the city, one of the worst, one of the most unsafe places anywhere in the world.

00:43:22.000 Okay, so he's not wrong about that.

00:43:24.000 The Democrats have decided this is a problem.

00:43:27.000 Not only that, apparently, a judge has now decided that President Trump's use of troops in Los Angeles was unlawful.

00:43:34.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration's deployment of troops to LA in response to protests over immigration policies violated a 19th century law prohibiting the use of federal forces for domestic law enforcement.

00:43:46.000 So he claimed, Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, that the administration did not comply with the so-called Posicomitatus Act, which was an 1878 statute that restricts the use of U.S. armed forces on America's streets.

00:43:57.000 Now, by the way, the history of the Posse Comitatus Act is actually quite fascinating because it actually had to do with trying to prohibit federal in enforcement of civil rights law in the South.

00:44:05.000 But put that aside.

00:44:06.000 The judge wrote there were indeed protests in L.A. and some individuals engaged in violence.

00:44:11.000 Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.

00:44:16.000 White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement, while far left courts try to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate to make America safe again, the president is committed to protecting law abiding citizens and this will not be the final say on the issue.

00:44:28.000 Now, again, there are a couple of different grounds that were claimed by the federal government to send the National Guard troops in the first place.

00:44:35.000 Yes.

00:44:37.000 One of them was immigration-based.

00:44:39.000 The idea being that ICE agents had to be supported, because if they were not, they would be assaulted.

00:44:45.000 And there is authority for the president to do that sort of thing.

00:44:48.000 The purpose, according to the federal government, wasn't to make arrest, but to quote, demonstrate through a show of presence the capacity and freedom of maneuver of federal law enforcement.

00:44:58.000 The demonstrations did turn violent, the president issued an order declaring that protests and violence inhibiting immigration enforcement, quote, constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States and invoked emergency authority to call state National Guard units into federal service.

00:45:14.000 So, you know, if this makes it to the Supreme Court, I think it gets reversed pretty clearly.

00:45:20.000 But on a political level, this is such a loser for Democrats.

00:45:23.000 I mean, it is such a loser for Democrats.

00:45:27.000 When Democrats, like, for example, Chicago Alderman, Byron Sidcho Lopez says the real problem in Chicago is not massive numbers of people being shot, but Trump normalizing violence, he got a problem.

00:45:39.000 Trump is a dictator.

00:45:41.000 I think we've got to be very clear.

00:45:42.000 He's trying to normalize violence.

00:45:44.000 He's trying to normalize military deployment in American cities like uh LA, DC, Chicago, and many others to come.

00:45:52.000 But what we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues.

00:46:00.000 Okay, well, again, if you keep saying the problem is Trump's authoritarianism and not, you know, your crime problem, good luck to you politically.

00:46:07.000 What an absolute political loser.

00:46:09.000 Now, meanwhile, there's a poll out that I think is quite bad for the country.

00:46:13.000 Okay, this is a poll about the state of the economy and what people feel about the economy, and it's kind of fascinating.

00:46:18.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a new Wall Street Journal, NORC poll, finds the share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25%.

00:46:26.000 That is a record low in surveys dating to 1987.

00:46:29.000 More than three-quarters said they lack confidence that life for the next generation will be better than their own, according to the poll.

00:46:34.000 Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream that if you work hard, you'll get ahead no longer holds true or never did the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.

00:46:43.000 By large majorities, both women and men held a pessimistic view in the combined question.

00:46:47.000 So did both younger and older adults, those with and without a college degree, and respondents with more than 100,000 dollars in household income, as well as those with less.

00:46:56.000 And if you look statistically, when this dropped off, all the way up till about 2017, 60 plus percent of Americans believed that they had a good chance of improving their standard of living.

00:47:07.000 And then it started to decline.

00:47:10.000 And then it fell absolutely off a cliff during the pandemic, which is kind of astonishing because that's when the federal government was fire hosing money at people.

00:47:17.000 So if the idea was that fire hosing money at people and generating massive inflation was going to make people feel like they had more income mobility, well, well done, Joe Biden.

00:47:25.000 Well done, Biden administration.

00:47:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the evidence suggests that Americans are worried about rising prices, that inflation particularly is cooking people.

00:47:38.000 Carolyn Bowman, a senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said the public mood probably reflects that Americans have been buffeted by various economic forces for years, among them the financial crisis of 2008, 2009 and the COVID pandemic.

00:47:51.000 Now they face inflation, labor market concerns, and tariffs, a triple whammy, she said.

00:47:57.000 So people are worried about AI.

00:47:59.000 They're feeling unsettled.

00:48:01.000 However, I think that it is important to note here that upward mobility is still really strong in the United States, like much stronger than pretty much anywhere else.

00:48:11.000 There's a piece in the Wall Street Journal, early in 2023 by John Early and Phil Graham pointing out the statistics.

00:48:19.000 Analysts for the Pew Charitable Trust in 2012 quantified the economic advancement of American families.

00:48:24.000 They compared the inflation adjusted income of parents with that of their children some 30 years later.

00:48:28.000 Measured by inflation adjusted household income, 93% of children who grew up in the bottom income quintile were better off than their parents.

00:48:36.000 Of children in the middle three-fifths, 86% grew up to live in families with higher incomes than their parents.

00:48:42.000 Even among those in the top income quintile, 70% were better off.

00:48:46.000 Real median family income rose over the 35 years of the study by 89%.

00:48:53.000 Also, they point out three independent research efforts have measured relative mobility, the extent to which kids reared in families in one income quintile, stayed in that same income quintile, rose to a higher one or fell to a lower one.

00:49:05.000 The first looked at parental income from 1967 to 71, when the kids were under 18, and then 2000 to 2008, when the kids were between 32 and 58.

00:49:14.000 Then there was another study by Raj Chetty of Harvard.

00:49:17.000 And then there's another study from American Enterprise Institute.

00:49:21.000 And so the average shows that a huge percentage, a huge percentage, of people who grew up, for example, in the bottom quintile, ended up not in the bottom quintile over the course of time.

00:49:38.000 In fact, for people in the middle three quintiles, less than a quarter remained in their parents' quintile.

00:49:46.000 Of children reared in the top quintile, 62% fell to one of the lower quintiles, actually.

00:49:51.000 So even if you were born rich, there's a good shot that you were going to fall off.

00:49:55.000 Meanwhile, 63% of kids who grew up in the bottom quintile rose to a higher quintile.

00:50:00.000 And 6.1% went all the way to the top quintile.

00:50:05.000 But again, that actually understates real income mobility in the United States because that's all relative.

00:50:11.000 Right?

00:50:11.000 Meaning if the lowest quintile made $20,000, just to pick a number out of a hat in 1990, then today that lowest quintile would be making 45,000.

00:50:23.000 So everybody went up.

00:50:27.000 So when the income of children is compared with the inflation adjusted income of their parents using real income quintiles of their childhood, rather than the later income quintiles that had already inflated, measured mobility is dramatically greater.

00:50:40.000 Only 28% of children reared in the bottom quintile had adult incomes that would put them in the bottom childhood quintile.

00:50:46.000 26% went all the way to the top.

00:50:50.000 So again, this kind of basic idea that upward mobility in America is dead is wrong.

00:50:54.000 Now, inflation does make people feel as though they cannot get ahead.

00:50:57.000 It makes you feel like you are spinning your wheels.

00:50:58.000 It's one of the big problems with inflation.

00:51:00.000 Tariffs make people feel as though they are not sure what's coming next.

00:51:04.000 Uncertainty in the economy is its own negative force.

00:51:08.000 And the kind of back and forth that's happening where you have positive forces in deregulation and tax cuts, but negative forces in the form of government interventionism and central planning.

00:51:17.000 The net impact of that is uncertainty and a feeling of unease.

00:51:22.000 And so President Trump is not wrong when he says that the country should be surging ahead.

00:51:28.000 But people don't feel like that right now.

00:51:30.000 And that unease, when combined with the unease surrounding AI and the impact of AI, what that's going to do to the job market, that's leading people to feel pretty negative.

00:51:37.000 Well, what does that mean?

00:51:38.000 Well, it's kind of a problem because the party in power is the one that suffers when people feel negative about the economy.

00:51:43.000 That was true for Joe Biden.

00:51:44.000 It is also true for President Trump.

00:51:47.000 Now, as we mentioned, a federal appellate court struck down President Trump's tariffs over the last couple of days on the grounds that they were violative of the emergency powers of the federal government.

00:51:59.000 It's not an emergency.

00:52:00.000 So President Trump couldn't do that.

00:52:01.000 President Trump announced yesterday that he'd be appealing that to the Supreme Court, no surprise there.

00:52:05.000 The president says we're going in as an emergency.

00:52:07.000 We'll probably be doing it tomorrow.

00:52:09.000 You see, the stock market, this decision is an emergency.

00:52:12.000 There's a poll over the country waiting for the Supreme Court.

00:52:15.000 Now, again, uncertainty is happening a lot here.

00:52:17.000 So whether you like the tariffs, don't like the tariffs.

00:52:19.000 This is definitely uncertainty.

00:52:20.000 Stocks dropped on Tuesday afternoon.

00:52:22.000 Bond yields rose because of concerns that all that tariff revenue that supposedly was coming in, that'll have to be returned if it turns out that these were illegal levies, essentially.

00:52:32.000 President Trump said on Tuesday, if that decision would be lost, it'd be an economic disaster for the United States is that our country will be weak, pathetic, and not rich if the tariffs are reversed.

00:52:42.000 I mean, first of all, I think that setting those sorts of expectations is a mistake.

00:52:46.000 Because if they're reverse, what are you going to now claim?

00:52:48.000 That the economy sucks while you're while you're the president.

00:52:51.000 That seems like not a particularly great pitch.

00:52:54.000 By the way, the president did, or the White House at least, tweeted out an image suggesting that if the tariffs were reversed, that that would amount to a reversible of $8 trillion in new American investment.

00:53:07.000 Um I don't know where that number is coming from.

00:53:09.000 I do not know where that number is coming from.

00:53:12.000 So again, there are a lot of pledges for people to put money into the American economy.

00:53:18.000 Those pledges have not actually materialized as of yet.

00:53:21.000 And the idea that tariff revenue is going to heal the American economy, that seems flawed at best.

00:53:29.000 The reality is that what has made America the envy of the world economically speaking is in fact property rights.

00:53:35.000 It is in fact free trade.

00:53:37.000 These are good things for a competitive country, a risk-seeking and risk-taking country for the United States, like the United States.

00:53:44.000 That is a good thing.

00:53:47.000 Not centralized economic planning.

00:53:53.000 What's going to happen in Ukraine?

00:53:55.000 This remains an open question.

00:53:57.000 We'll get to it.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 03, 2025

The UK’s Free Speech CRACKDOWN

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