The Ben Shapiro Show - September 08, 2026


What Really Happened at Mamdani's 9-11 Ceremony


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00:00:00.000 Well, all the fat masked socialists got together for a big commie conference in Chicago over Labor Day weekend.
00:00:05.000 It turns out they're just as race-obsessed and delusional as ever.
00:00:08.000 Woke one never died.
00:00:10.000 It just transformed.
00:00:11.000 The scary part is, gang, these are the future leaders of your Democratic Party.
00:00:14.000 Critical theory, abolitionist, African-American studies of liberation, colonization, occupation, genocide scholars.
00:00:20.000 They're literally the Democratic Party right now.
00:00:22.000 They're not going away.
00:00:23.000 From Zorhan Mamdani allying himself with an Al-Qaeda legal counsel to Hassan Piker lamenting DSA's whiteness, here is the best of America's socialist movement today.
00:00:32.000 So, 9 11 is coming up this week, the 25th anniversary of 9 11.
00:00:35.000 Those of us who are old enough to remember, remember it was the worst day in modern American history by a long shot, no close second. 0.98
00:00:42.000 And the mayor of New York is now pro jihadi, which is just awesome. 0.99
00:00:44.000 Great job, New Yorkers. 1.00
00:00:45.000 You did an amazing job. 0.93
00:00:46.000 We've all raised a generation of people who hate our country, and they're electing people who are migrants to America who hate our country. 0.81
00:00:53.000 So, Mamdani, who hates America, is out there proclaiming actually he loves America.
00:00:58.000 But I have some proof that that's not the case.
00:01:02.000 I'm proud to be the mayor of this city.
00:01:04.000 I love this city.
00:01:05.000 I love this country.
00:01:06.000 And what I want this week to be a focus on is on the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25 years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11th.
00:01:16.000 And a focus also on the first responders who gave everything they could to this city and to the people who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers.
00:01:24.000 And so in the days to come, my focus will be on attending events that memorialize that incredible courage.
00:01:29.000 And I will be there on Friday at the memorial just as I was last year.
00:01:34.000 Well, I mean, the families aren't going to want him there.
00:01:37.000 So, I mean, just as proof of who he is, this is insane.
00:01:40.000 I mean, it's truly insane.
00:01:41.000 New Yorkers, what have you done?
00:01:42.000 What the F did you do?
00:01:43.000 Seriously, what did you do?
00:01:45.000 The hell is wrong with the people who voted for this guy?
00:01:48.000 He's signing a 9 11 remembrance.
00:01:50.000 And you'll see he hands a pen to a person, right?
00:01:52.000 He has a bunch of ceremonial pens.
00:01:53.000 And one of the people he hands a pen to is a person named Ramzi Qasim.
00:01:56.000 Okay, here it goes to Ramzi Qasim.
00:02:00.000 Ramzi Qasim accepts the pen.
00:02:02.000 And there he is signing a 9 11 memorial.
00:02:05.000 Okay.
00:02:08.000 So, according to the New York Post, the symbolic pen was given to Ramzi Qasem.
00:02:14.000 Ramzi Qasem is a controversial aide who once represented an Al Qaeda terrorist named Ahmed Al Darbi.
00:02:20.000 Al Darbi was sent to Gitmo after he was convicted of terrorism in the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker in the Middle East, part of an Al Qaeda plot to hijack the global oil trade after 9 11.
00:02:29.000 His sister married Khalid Al Mindhar, one of the 9 11 hijackers of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
00:02:34.000 So, he signs the 9 11 memorial.
00:02:39.000 Bill or whatever it is. 0.87
00:02:41.000 And then he hands the pen to the lawyer for Al Qaeda.
00:02:45.000 Yeah, guys, you did a great job.
00:02:46.000 Great job, New York.
00:02:47.000 Awesome job.
00:02:48.000 You've done great. 1.00
00:02:49.000 Importing all these people to the country was such a boon.
00:02:51.000 It's been so awesome.
00:02:53.000 Other people we have imported are just as awesome, including, of course, Hassan Piker, beloved of the Democratic Party these days.
00:02:59.000 So over the weekend, there was a socialism conference in Chicago.
00:03:03.000 A socialism conference in Chicago, which sounds like a terrible place to be. 0.75
00:03:08.000 While there, Hassan Piker acknowledged that the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, Is heavily white.
00:03:14.000 But he said, don't worry, we're going to change that.
00:03:18.000 The demographic makeup of the organization is still heavily white. 1.00
00:03:21.000 This is true.
00:03:23.000 But I think it's important for us to continue making inroads to address the material inequities that black communities face.
00:03:33.000 And I know for a fact from my experience going all around the country at this point and speaking to voters that ended up voting for DSA candidates.
00:03:46.000 Like Donovan McKinney and also Chris Rab, of course, in Philadelphia.
00:03:51.000 Shout out to Chris Rab.
00:03:52.000 Come on.
00:03:53.000 Donovan.
00:03:54.000 All of them, really, even Angie.
00:03:57.000 That there is a real appetite for this change, and that appetite especially exists in the black community as well.
00:04:05.000 So, yeah, the black community is definitely into the DSA, despite the fact that by every poll, they're definitely not into the DSA.
00:04:10.000 But don't worry, there are a wide variety of diverse peoples with enormous numbers of bumper stickers on their laptop.
00:04:18.000 And here's my rule about bumper stickers if you've got a bunch of them on your car or on your laptop, you're doing life wrong.
00:04:23.000 Here is one of these socialists named Raven Schwam Curtis.
00:04:27.000 It's not enough to say things are settler colonialist.
00:04:27.000 Who says, you know what?
00:04:30.000 We have to say white settler colonialism. 0.82
00:04:32.000 Well, that's what we have to say, white settler colonialism, because if we actually started talking about settler colonialism, we might have to talk about, you know, the spread of Islam, which is uncomfortable. 0.59
00:04:41.000 It started in Arabia and then it kind of settled a lot of different places by the sword, but okay.
00:04:52.000 And so I think that querying, right?
00:04:54.000 What do we mean when we say settler colonialism?
00:04:56.000 Do we mean settler colonialism or do we mean white settler colonialism?
00:04:59.000 Colonialism, I guess, is really the core question I'm inviting us into.
00:05:01.000 So I think that precision is also how we enact care towards one another, right? 0.89
00:05:07.000 Because if we can't be precise in our analysis, how can we be precise in diagnosing what the problems are and remedying them? 0.84
00:05:14.000 Yeah, you do have to be precise because it turns out that settler colonialism is only bad when white people do it. 0.85
00:05:18.000 When non white people do it, it's apparently good or okay. 0.74
00:05:21.000 Okay, that's the standard. 0.83
00:05:22.000 Meanwhile, one panelist at this socialism conference, and again, these are your future leaders, folks.
00:05:28.000 So get used to seeing them and hearing from them.
00:05:31.000 Oh, good lord.
00:05:32.000 Here is a panelist Beatrice Adler Bolton saying the left must become more dysgenic.
00:05:40.000 Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism.
00:05:45.000 Our task is not to become less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order.
00:05:52.000 What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability in all of its forms.
00:05:58.000 The point is not to beat the fascists at their own game.
00:06:03.000 It is not to lay a better claim on their own territory by being fitter, more eugenic. 0.87
00:06:10.000 In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think.
00:06:17.000 So, this crazy person wearing a mask in the year 2026 is literally saying that in order to defeat capitalism, you should be fat and ugly.
00:06:27.000 We'll see how this works out for them.
00:06:30.000 She wasn't the only one.
00:06:31.000 First of all, she went on to make the claim, believe it or not, that.
00:06:36.000 That we need people who are dysgenic and disabled because those are our revolutionaries.
00:06:41.000 And then she proceeds to cite a series of revolutionaries who she calls disabled.
00:06:49.000 Ahmed Yassin, who was an important revolutionary Palestinian leader and one of the founders and early leaders of Hamas, was paralyzed at 16.
00:06:58.000 He was quadriplegic.
00:07:01.000 Show me a leader in the Palestinian resistance who does not encounter debility at one point in their life.
00:07:09.000 Che Guevara had debilitating asthma.
00:07:13.000 He carried really heavy duty inhalers with him into battle, into combat in the jungle because the humidity made his asthma worse.
00:07:21.000 Cabral, too, same thing.
00:07:24.000 Rosa Luxemburg had hip dysplasia.
00:07:27.000 Mao had ALS.
00:07:29.000 Fanon had terminal myeloid leukemia, and he wrote some of his best work under the knowledge that that diagnosis was hanging over his head.
00:07:41.000 Asthma?
00:07:43.000 Really?
00:07:44.000 I mean, listen, I hope they all take her advice. 1.00
00:07:45.000 I hope they all become dysgenic as humanly possible to defeat the man. 1.00
00:07:50.000 I mean, I feel like that's not going to work out well for them, either personally or politically. 1.00
00:07:53.000 But I mean, I suppose they could.
00:07:55.000 She wasn't the only one saying this.
00:07:56.000 A person named Deshaun Harrison, also masked, said that borders are body fascism.
00:08:02.000 Okay.
00:08:05.000 Diet culture has always linked food to morality, framing restraint as virtue and pleasure as danger through language like guilty pleasure.
00:08:13.000 Abstaining from pleasure becomes a way to train obedience, to train self denial, and to train discipline in service of a broader political order.
00:08:23.000 Body fascism is not some relic of the past.
00:08:26.000 It's an active feature of modern imperial regimes.
00:08:29.000 Every time a government decides whose body must be protected and whose bodies must be erased for the sake of national imagery, this is body fascism.
00:08:37.000 Every time there is a call for sovereignty by state powers with the intent to maintain borders, this is body fascism.
00:08:46.000 So, all I'm hearing is somebody paid $200,000 for a degree to make excuses for the fact he really, really, really wants to eat that last donut.
00:08:57.000 That's all this is.
00:08:59.000 These are your future leaders.
00:09:00.000 These are your future leaders, folks.
00:09:01.000 These are the people.
00:09:03.000 Now, what is this really about in the end?
00:09:04.000 What is the DSA?
00:09:05.000 What is all of this really about?
00:09:06.000 It's about the same.
00:09:08.000 It all comes back to the same thing.
00:09:10.000 It comes back to why we are not having kids in our society or getting married in our society, why people are following complete dullers and crazies.
00:09:16.000 And the answer is because people are trying to fill a spiritual hole with literally anything and failing.
00:09:21.000 Here is one of the panelists basically admitting as much.
00:09:26.000 I believe there are aspects of the divine that are experienced in every part of life, right?
00:09:32.000 Like in being in water, in cooking food, in song.
00:09:36.000 And so it must be so that there are expressions of the divine emerging from movement work that is not experienceable anywhere else.
00:09:44.000 Like we get a taste of ultimate meaning and mystery and a face of the divine through organizing.
00:09:52.000 And if we don't give language to it, it will go unexpressed.
00:09:56.000 You know, at least a point of honesty.
00:09:59.000 Lack of spirituality being filled with this kind of crap.
00:10:02.000 And their leadership class, of course, is people who hate America, are fond of terrorism, but their children belong to you.
00:10:10.000 Here's Abdullah Syed saying he's not a socialist, but every child is our child.
00:10:13.000 No, mother, my child is not your child.
00:10:18.000 In fact, I have a feeling that if somebody, if some of your friends drew a truck into my kids' preschool, you'd be making excuses for them.
00:10:25.000 So, no on that one.
00:10:26.000 I'm going to go no on this.
00:10:30.000 You know, the number of times people debate whether I'm a socialist or a capitalist, I'm not a socialist.
00:10:36.000 I'm a scientist.
00:10:37.000 I'm a doctor.
00:10:38.000 But if I have one political philosophy, right, it's that I want us to build what we would build if we took seriously the idea that all of our kids were all of our kids.
00:10:47.000 If we started with that idea, every child is our child, we would build incredible public schools.
00:10:54.000 We would guarantee everybody health care.
00:10:55.000 We would guarantee child care.
00:10:57.000 We would stop putting money in bombs and tanks that kill kids and we would start investing them in infrastructure.
00:11:04.000 An opportunity for kids.
00:11:06.000 I don't want this America hating person defining my kid's life.
00:11:10.000 I don't think that's his job, and I don't want him anywhere near my children.
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00:11:24.000 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.
00:11:26.000 Now it's traitor.
00:11:27.000 It's Uncle Tom.
00:11:28.000 This is our generation's civil rights.
00:11:30.000 I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:11:32.000 Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
00:11:32.000 Bingo.
00:11:38.000 Can you hear me okay?
00:11:39.000 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:11:41.000 This is a decision I cannot fight. 1.00
00:11:43.000 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:11:45.000 Assalamualaikum. 1.00
00:11:50.000 Are we paying attention?
00:11:52.000 They've taken over the building.
00:11:53.000 They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
00:11:56.000 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:12:00.000 You cannot run and hide.
00:12:02.000 Muhammad is the messenger of God.
00:12:06.000 There is no God but Allah.
00:12:08.000 What do you say? 1.00
00:12:10.000 You turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 1.00
00:12:15.000 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00
00:12:18.000 They call that leapfrog.
00:12:19.000 Stretch them out and listen.
00:12:22.000 You need a course in safe weapons handling.