The Ben Shapiro Show - October 20, 2026


This One Clip Explains Why France Is Burning

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00:00:11.000 She's saying, Why are you doing this?
00:00:13.000 Stop.
00:00:13.000 This is darkness.
00:00:14.000 This isn't the cause.
00:00:16.000 This woman, that one right there, that lady is the face of the West. 0.97
00:00:20.000 She voted for this, she marched for this, and now, well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of her own decisions. 1.00
00:00:36.000 Do three to four generations of socialistic welfare policy. 1.00
00:00:39.000 Add a gigantic helping of third world immigration, heavily Muslim. 1.00
00:00:42.000 Toss in some self hating spice, bake for a few decades. 1.00
00:00:45.000 And this is what you get.
00:00:47.000 What is going on across France and also across Italy over the course of the last week or so?
00:00:52.000 We have yet more footage emerging over the course of the day yesterday and into today, looting, burning, all the rest.
00:00:58.000 Here are some of the looters, you know, gathering the stuff they've looted.
00:01:01.000 Because here's the thing when you don't have proper funding for your school, when you don't have air conditioning, what you do.
00:01:09.000 Is you loot, obviously.
00:01:11.000 That's what I've always done.
00:01:12.000 You know, when I have a problem with something going on in my life, I go down to the local Best Buy and I just grab a TV.
00:01:18.000 Seems to make things better.
00:01:20.000 Or maybe looting is a way of life for a lot of people and now they have liberty to actually do it.
00:01:25.000 So looters are organizing their stolen goods in front of priests.
00:01:29.000 That's a thing that happened.
00:01:31.000 Also, here's a shopkeeper defending his store, but then getting kicked in the back by rioters because why not?
00:01:36.000 I mean, he's a bad guy, he owns a shop.
00:01:46.000 There's the shopkeeper who's coming in.
00:01:47.000 Oh.
00:01:49.000 And then you see a youth, a French youth, one of the good hearted French youths coming in to dropkick him.
00:01:58.000 Or maybe you'd like this picture.
00:02:01.000 Again, we're not just doing Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
00:02:05.000 There's a shopkeeper who lives above his store, and a bunch of looters below are trying to break into his store.
00:02:10.000 So he boiled some water and is now pouring it on them and shouting that their father smelt of elderberries.
00:02:20.000 And believe it or not, the people on the left are very angry at this man.
00:02:22.000 Here is the deal.
00:02:23.000 If you're breaking into somebody's store and they pour hot water onto you, you have that coming.
00:02:26.000 You earned every bit of that hot water. 0.63
00:02:30.000 Here is an injured Asian restaurant owner showing her burnt storefront.
00:02:41.000 She says, a life of work.
00:02:51.000 We felt completely safe with the gates closed.
00:02:55.000 And then we heard the gates being lifted from all sides.
00:02:58.000 I don't know if someone hit me or how it happened.
00:03:02.000 And then Iron Bar, I think.
00:03:03.000 So she was hit.
00:03:04.000 Okay, by the way, again, a metaphor for the West.
00:03:06.000 We felt safe with our gates closed.
00:03:08.000 And we heard them open. 1.00
00:03:10.000 But, you know, the French are going to French. 1.00
00:03:11.000 So here's a French couple smoking and drinking while the streets behind them burn. 0.99
00:03:21.000 I mean, we're basically just doing the dog in burning room meme now. 0.94
00:03:25.000 But, like, for all of France.
00:03:28.000 For all of France.
00:03:29.000 Okay, so what is happening here?
00:03:31.000 What is happening here?
00:03:32.000 Well, you know, as Bill Maher says, the progressives out there, the progressives out there, they are not the same as the traditional left.
00:03:42.000 They believe full stop in the evil of Western civilization and they are ready to burn things down.
00:03:47.000 Here's Bill Maher.
00:03:50.000 I mean, the English put out a pamphlet a couple of weeks ago about asylum seekers and they had to tell them, like, we don't do rape here.
00:03:58.000 We don't do child molestation here. 0.63
00:04:00.000 We don't do female genital mutilation here. 1.00
00:04:03.000 There are people coming from countries where we do not really share much cultural heritage.
00:04:09.000 And there are beliefs that just are not compatible with liberal beliefs, which is what's so weird.
00:04:14.000 I was getting a little into a little in the editorial that the liberal progressive ideas are somehow the ones that wound up on the other side of the tracks from where the progressives are supporting.
00:04:27.000 Well, yes, because the progressives.
00:04:29.000 Hate the civilization.
00:04:31.000 At the root of all of this in France, in the UK, in America, is civilizational self-hatred. 1.00
00:04:37.000 That is the thing that unites everybody under the flag of loserdom, the Palestinian flag. 0.97
00:04:42.000 Hatred of the West. 1.00
00:04:43.000 That's the whole thing.
00:04:45.000 Now, listen, welfarism, it's not the end of the world.
00:04:48.000 It's possible for robust civilizations to pursue a certain amount of welfarism.
00:04:52.000 Many states have done this over the course of time.
00:04:54.000 But that's not what we're seeing right now.
00:04:56.000 What we're seeing right now is something different.
00:04:58.000 The voluntary self-abnegation of once powerful civilizations.
00:05:03.000 See, here's the thing.
00:05:04.000 Robust civilizations, civilizations that work, would like for their civilizational values to predominate.
00:05:09.000 Hopefully, those robust civilizations are sharing the same traditions as those of America.
00:05:14.000 You know, the traditions of free speech and liberty and private property, all those things, we want those to spread around the world.
00:05:19.000 Robust civilizations defend their values and wish for those values to be spread elsewhere.
00:05:19.000 That's good.
00:05:24.000 It doesn't always have to be done at point of gun, but you want those values to spread.
00:05:28.000 You want your culture to spread.
00:05:30.000 But as civilizations weaken, they turn inward.
00:05:33.000 And they decide they're guilty for all the problems of the world.
00:05:36.000 And they decide what is really necessary on planet Earth is for them to withdraw from the world and work on building utopia at home.
00:05:44.000 They convince themselves that endless welfarism is a substitute for civilizational confidence, for national greatness.
00:05:52.000 There have been some great indicators of this over time.
00:05:54.000 Remember back in 2012, the Olympics happened at the UK.
00:05:58.000 And every time there is an Olympics, the host nation does a sort of entire show about what makes their nation special.
00:06:08.000 If you recall back to 2012, the UK did an entire routine about the National Health Service during the Olympics opening.
00:06:16.000 Nothing about the spread of British civilization around the globe, the spread of liberty around the globe, or Anglo American law around the globe, or the end of slavery.
00:06:24.000 What the UK was pushing during the Olympics opening was their welfarism, the National Health Service.
00:06:24.000 No.
00:06:30.000 This is a flashback to 2012 in the UK.
00:06:37.000 Literally, people dancing on giant beds.
00:06:40.000 With the gigantic insignia NHS.
00:06:49.000 They literally did an entire dedicated segment to the National Health Service.
00:07:01.000 Totally insane, right?
00:07:02.000 This was supposed to be the greatness of the UK, right?
00:07:05.000 Is that basically it was Mary Poppins and the National Health Service.
00:07:10.000 Okay, it's not just the welfarism, it is. 0.65
00:07:13.000 Welfarism plus a belief that the sins of the past mean that you are guilty and thus you must import the third world, open your borders, and all the rest. 0.94
00:07:20.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment. 0.98
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00:08:20.000 Neil Ferguson has a great piece over at the Free Press explaining why Europe is burning.
00:08:26.000 He says, quote, a clue for the European young.
00:08:28.000 It's not Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu or whoever else you want to burn in effigy.
00:08:32.000 Mais non, it's your grandparents.
00:08:34.000 The French and British and Italian fiscal crisis is at root due to generational imbalances in welfare and tax systems exacerbated by reflexive Keynesian spending every time anything nasty happens. 0.78
00:08:46.000 These are no country for young men. 0.97
00:08:48.000 The same, by the way, is true of most of East Asia. 0.79
00:08:50.000 Since 1960, across the 38 advanced economies, That belong to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the old age dependency ratio, people aged 65 and over, per 100 people aged 15 to 64, has doubled from around 15 to 30, while fertility has plunged from 3.3 to 1.5, and the aging trend is not about to stop.
00:09:10.000 Across the OECD, the dependency ratio is forecast to rise from 32.6 seniors per 100 people of working age in 2024 to 55.2 in 2054, meaning for every 100 people of working age in 2054, there will be 55 who are of retirement age.
00:09:28.000 The working age population will decline by 13% over the next four decades across the OECD.
00:09:33.000 In certain countries like Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the decline will exceed 35%.
00:09:37.000 You're seeing the same thing happening in the United States.
00:09:43.000 So add to gigantic welfarism, mass migration, and what you end up with is this thing.
00:09:49.000 You end up with this.
00:09:51.000 Europe decided they were civilizationally guilty, and therefore they were going to combine high level welfarism with mass migration.
00:09:59.000 So we made a chart using Grokba, which is an awesome, awesome AI or SI, as the kids now say, looking at international migrants as a percentage of overall population in European countries 1990 to 2024.
00:10:13.000 There is literally only one outlier in this chart.
00:10:15.000 It's Poland, which has basically banned migration.
00:10:19.000 But every other major Western country in Europe has imported vast numbers of immigrants from the third world, from radical Muslim areas. 0.96
00:10:31.000 So you go back to 1990.
00:10:33.000 And again, these stats are drawn directly from the United Nations.
00:10:37.000 About 9% of Sweden was international migrants as a percentage of their population.
00:10:43.000 In Germany, that number was 8.7%.
00:10:45.000 In Spain, it was 2%.
00:10:46.000 In the UK, it was 6.3%.
00:10:49.000 In France, it was 10%.
00:10:50.000 In Italy, it was 2.6%.
00:10:53.000 Now, fast forward to 2024.
00:10:56.000 21.4% of Sweden's entire population is international migrants.
00:11:01.000 21.4%.
00:11:03.000 So since 1990, that means more than doubling.
00:11:06.000 The same thing is true in Germany.
00:11:08.000 Almost 20% of the population is international migrants.
00:11:12.000 In Spain, 18.5%.
00:11:14.000 In Norway, 18.1%.
00:11:15.000 In the UK, 17.1%.
00:11:19.000 In France, almost 14%.
00:11:22.000 In Italy, 11%.
00:11:24.000 Again, Poland is the big outlier here. 0.51
00:11:26.000 So this is what you get. 0.93
00:11:28.000 This is what you get.
00:11:31.000 What we are looking at here is the importation of people who hate us at home, plus a gigantic welfare state that acts as a magnet for those people.
00:11:40.000 And that is supposed to palliate the rest of us about the transformation of our culture and the destruction of our fundamental values.
00:11:49.000 Welfare will pay for all of it.
00:11:50.000 Now, who pays for it in the end?
00:11:53.000 Who really pays for it?
00:11:53.000 And the answer is no one.
00:11:55.000 The answer is no one because the young people don't want to pay for it. 1.00
00:11:58.000 The old people don't want to pay for it. 1.00
00:12:00.000 Nobody wants to pay for it. 1.00
00:12:01.000 The future will pay for it.
00:12:02.000 Well, you are just asking for civilizational collapse at this rate.
00:12:05.000 That is what you are asking for.
00:12:06.000 And you're watching it happen in real time in France.
00:12:09.000 What are they going to do?
00:12:10.000 More socialism, more communism, more social welfareism?
00:12:13.000 It's not possible.
00:12:15.000 France is already one of the most spendthrift countries when it comes to government expenditure on planet Earth.
00:12:21.000 The same thing is true of Italy.
00:12:22.000 The same thing is true of the UK. 0.98
00:12:24.000 Where do they go from here?
00:12:25.000 What is the thing that is being asked for?
00:12:27.000 And the answer is nothing is being asked for, everything is being demanded.
00:12:31.000 This is why you are seeing statues being defaced.
00:12:34.000 This is why, again, you see the flag of demand, the Palestinian flag, flying at every one of these rallies.
00:12:41.000 This one is not just a protest over union pension or pay. 0.89
00:12:46.000 This is a protest that the civilization itself must be torn to the ground.
00:12:51.000 That the civilization itself is fundamentally corrupt.
00:12:54.000 And the question is whether we are going to do that here at home as well.
00:12:57.000 Is that something we need here in the United States?
00:12:59.000 Because again, this is not restricted to what's going on in Europe.
00:13:03.000 It's happening right here at home.
00:13:05.000 A great test case is Mahmoud Khalil.
00:13:07.000 Mahmoud Khalil is an anti Semitic, anti Israel, anti American activist who was imported to the United States to a major university to essentially make trouble. 0.83
00:13:20.000 To fight Western civilization. 0.88
00:13:21.000 He literally was a founder of a group that called for the destruction of Western civilization.
00:13:26.000 The Trump administration wants to deport him.
00:13:29.000 He was arrested.
00:13:31.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously said that Khalil's presence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest and vowed to strip the immigration status of foreign Hamas supporters.
00:13:42.000 In June 2025, according to the Daily Wire, a federal judge in New Jersey ordered Khalil's release from ICE detention.
00:13:50.000 Now, Khalil is asking for the Supreme Court to save him because he's about to be deported.
00:13:55.000 So he tweeted out that actually he has rights.
00:13:59.000 He has rights.
00:14:01.000 And reminiscent of the old 19th century French saw that says, When I am weak, I demand that you abide by your principles of liberty because you are strong.
00:14:10.000 When I am strong, I destroy your freedom and liberty because I am strong and you are weak.
00:14:15.000 Mahmoud Khalil writes, Today, I asked the Supreme Court to affirm that federal courts have the power to hear my case.
00:14:21.000 The government knows all too well that its baseless allegations and smears against me cannot survive the slightest scrutiny in federal court.
00:14:27.000 That's why it's doing everything it can to keep those courts from looking at my case and to channel it into its kangaroo immigration courts.
00:14:32.000 So, the question is simple.
00:14:33.000 Can the government weaponize immigration laws to punish someone's speech, then tell federal courts they have no power to step in? 0.94
00:14:38.000 You see, we owe it to foreigners to come to our country and hate us. 0.90
00:14:42.000 We owe it to them. 1.00
00:14:42.000 That's the central argument on a moral level that Mahmoud Khalil is making. 1.00
00:14:46.000 And sure, he can couch that in legalese. 0.97
00:14:50.000 He can pretend that what he's actually arguing is about the various rights held by green card holders. 0.90
00:14:54.000 But at root, the question for the civilization is do we owe it to Mahmoud Khalil to import him? 0.87
00:15:00.000 Do we owe it to Ilhan Omar to import her and keep her here and her entire family? 0.91
00:15:04.000 Do we owe it? 0.81
00:15:05.000 To the parents of Zorhan Mamdani or the parents of Abdul El Sayed? 0.99
00:15:10.000 Do we owe it to these people to import them here? 1.00
00:15:13.000 Is our civilization guilty? 1.00
00:15:15.000 And so, because our civilization is guilty, we're going to import a bunch of people here and then we're going to welfare everybody to death. 0.97
00:15:22.000 And we'll blame capitalism and we'll blame the American system and we'll blame colonialism to compensate for all of that. 0.96
00:15:29.000 That is the big question for our civilization.
00:15:32.000 No civilization can survive the kind of self destruction that we are currently undergoing.
00:15:38.000 Now, the Trump administration, to its credit, is trying to reverse some of this.
00:15:41.000 There's a reason they're trying to deport Mahmoud Khalil.
00:15:43.000 And now it turns out that the feds have DNA evidence to prove that Ilhan Omar wed her brother, according to the New York Post.
00:15:50.000 One source says DNA evidence was critical to proving an allegation that Ilhan Omar married her brother when she wed Ahmed Nur Saeed Elmi in 2009 because she was trying to get him a green card, which never came to fruition.
00:16:02.000 It's unclear whether the DNA was taken before or after Homeland Security investigations searched the Congresswoman's home in Washington, D.C. last Monday.
00:16:09.000 When federal agents were seen exiting the bungalow with boxes marked seized property evidence.
00:16:14.000 Previously, sources said the immigration fraud pertained to either Omar or her father, nor Omar Mohammed, allegedly misrepresenting the future congresswoman's birth date so she could become a U.S. citizen when her dad naturalized in 2000.
00:16:24.000 Now, again, why her dad was naturalized in 2000 is beyond me.
00:16:30.000 But, bottom line is, should she ever have been imported? 0.96
00:16:33.000 The answer, of course, is no. 0.98
00:16:37.000 Meanwhile, again, import the third world, become the third world. 0.98
00:16:41.000 Free Palestine and mean chain the West. 1.00
00:16:43.000 That's what you mean. 0.94
00:16:46.000 The flag, the Palestinian flag, flies over every failed anti Western cause, every single one. 0.83
00:16:53.000 It used to be the Pride Progress flag, the uni cause. 0.77
00:16:56.000 Well, now it's the Palestinian flag, which presumably is why you are now seeing Palestinian activists disabling the Brooklyn subway fare machines to protest Israel. 0.76
00:17:05.000 I'm not sure why disabling the subway machines has anything to do with the Udin, but somehow these people discovered it. 0.79
00:17:12.000 They somehow figured it out.
00:17:15.000 Here's some of the footage. 0.77
00:17:22.000 Again, these are pro Palestine activists who are spray painting cameras to try and prevent them from seeing things, drilling into the subway machines, literally destroying them, and then putting up a sign that says, Free Palestine.
00:17:39.000 Live free, ride free, F the NYPD.
00:17:44.000 This is what this fight is about.
00:17:46.000 It is all the same fight.
00:17:48.000 Everywhere, it is the forces of civilization against the forces of anti civilization.
00:17:53.000 A person named Callow Walsh published this footage on X. Walsh is an American leftist from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who worked on Gen Z outreach for Democratic senators, then joined the Democratic Socialists of America, and now has several arrests and a record of traveling to Tehran and Lebanon.
00:18:09.000 She appeared on state media chanting, Death to America. 0.60
00:18:13.000 And again, the goal here was to destroy the subway system.
00:18:20.000 Quote, every tap funds a war profiteer.
00:18:23.000 OMNY is operated by Cubic, a military equipment company making combat simulators.
00:18:27.000 They sell the F 35 fighter jet training system to imperialist Zionist entities like Israel.
00:18:31.000 The F 35 is a key weapon in Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and all of the U.S.'s imperialist wars, responsible for massacring millions of people. 0.81
00:18:40.000 Take action, smash your reader, jump the turnstile, hold the gate for others, ride free, F the NYPD, and free Palestine. 0.80
00:18:47.000 It's always the same bleep. 1.00
00:18:49.000 It's always the same stuff. 0.81
00:18:51.000 Palestine Action, by the way, also decided it was necessary to vandalize the Capitol 1 branch on the Upper East Side.
00:18:56.000 You see the images?
00:18:58.000 Smashed the windows of the Capitol One branch.
00:19:00.000 They're fighting Capitol One in order to fight for a free Palestine.
00:19:07.000 The cause is the cause, folks.
00:19:10.000 According to NBC New York, quote, a Capitol One branch in the Upper East Side was vandalized with pro Palestinian messages on Monday.
00:19:16.000 The alleged group behind the vandalism has already claimed credit.
00:19:19.000 The NYPD said the act of vandalism happened around 7 40 a.m.
00:19:23.000 Responding officers met with graffiti reading PAL Action and drop Elbit.
00:19:28.000 Elbit is an Israeli defense company.
00:19:31.000 The pro Palestinian group, Palestine Action, has railed against Elbit for its role in the conflict in Gaza and companies such as Capital One that do business with it.
00:19:39.000 Quote, Today our actionists showed Capital One the price of their complicity in genocide.
00:19:43.000 Do business with Elbit and we will cost you money.
00:19:47.000 And this is the fight.
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