The Ben Shapiro Show - July 20, 2026


Why Hasan Piker Is Cosplaying a Mass Murderer

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Ben Shapiro
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Zoran Mamdani Bernie Sanders Ayatollah Khomeini Hassan Piker Gustavo Gordillo Nick Fuentes Jake Tapper Netanyahu Trump Graham Plattner Abdul El-Sayed Tucker Carlson Hassan Piper Zoram Amdani Andrew Tate Mike Wallace Guy Purin Carrillo Khamenei Cartier and 2 more
How to Steal a House — From the Man Who Did It This Shouldn't Be Hard: Andrew Tate Is Not a Hero

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42

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22

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In the wake of losing elections, the left is now embracing the photo negative of the right s transgressive evil, like the DSA, the far-left, and the radical right. We'll also get to the craven mayor of New York, Zarn Mamdani, who seems to think if he just smiles a lot while spewing commie propaganda, people won't notice that he's just spewing Commie propaganda.

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00:00:00.000 Well, the dirtbag left and the dirtbag right are basically the same.
00:00:03.000 Hassan Piker, Nick Fuentes, same transgressiveness. 0.98
00:00:05.000 Graham Plattner, Andrew Tate, both alleged rapists, same evil, same scam.
00:00:10.000 We're here pointing it out so you can see what's going on on both the far right and the radical left. 0.75
00:00:14.000 We'll also get to the craven mayor of New York, Zarn Mamdani, who seems to think if he just smiles a lot while spewing commie propaganda, people won't notice that he's just spewing commie propaganda. 0.79
00:00:24.000 And we're doing a lot of noticing these days. 0.78
00:00:26.000 See, in the wake of losing elections, the left is now embracing the photo negative of the right's transgressive evil.
00:00:32.000 Like the dirtbag left is taking the four.
00:00:33.000 The Tates and Graham Platner, same category.
00:00:36.000 Nick Fuentes and Hassan Piker, same category.
00:00:39.000 Again, sin is always fun.
00:00:40.000 Being transgressive is always fun.
00:00:42.000 Saying things that are immoral for shock effect, always fun and edgy.
00:00:48.000 Being the bully, not anchoring anything you have to say to evidence or fact, it's super duper fun.
00:00:52.000 Hell, it's probably fun to go to a college Democrats of America convention dressed as Chairman Mao.
00:00:57.000 I mean, I assume it's fun for Hassan Piker when he's not putting on his Cartier jewelry.
00:01:01.000 I assume it's fun for him to go dressed as a mass murderer responsible for the death of 40 million people. 1.00
00:01:06.000 At the College Democratic of America convention, explaining we don't need Democrats anymore and the kulaks must burn. 0.98
00:01:14.000 But no more to the Democrats who compromise, who conciliate, and who betray us. 0.96
00:01:27.000 No more to the fascist reactionaries, but no more to the Democrats who will collaborate and cooperate with the fascists, who will fund ICE, who will fund Israel, who will help poison the planet, who will stiff workers and help bosses.
00:01:41.000 We don't need those Democrats anymore.
00:01:48.000 In fact, I know we have a message.
00:01:52.000 We are coming.
00:01:53.000 We are on boss, we're on bought, we're on bound, and we will become undeniable.
00:02:03.000 Only blood will grease the wheels of history. 0.83
00:02:05.000 Seeing the full Mussolini Dwight Schrute routine. 0.99
00:02:08.000 Hassan Piper, that guy is welcome in all of the Democratic circles.
00:02:10.000 He is, he is an intellectual elite among the Democrats.
00:02:12.000 Again, the dressing as the Mao is the point. 0.76
00:02:15.000 Deciding with Hamas is the point. 0.53
00:02:17.000 The DSA is fun and incredibly sinful, and it's enjoyable for the left. 0.79
00:02:21.000 They enjoy it because it's the id.
00:02:23.000 It's the thing that you want to say, but you just, you know, you shouldn't, but you really want to say it.
00:02:27.000 And when they say it, it's fun.
00:02:29.000 Here's the New York City DSA co chair, Gustavo Cordillo, on landlords.
00:02:33.000 Saying that basically he should decide what happens to those horrible, horrible bourgeois.
00:02:40.000 The problem we're facing in our housing system is that we talk about tenants and we say they have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
00:02:50.000 They have to be responsible financially.
00:02:53.000 But when we look at the landlords, we don't use those same standards.
00:02:58.000 Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment for, on average.
00:03:03.000 How much should they make?
00:03:04.000 What's fair for the landlord to make if you don't like 12%?
00:03:08.000 They're complaining that 12 is not enough.
00:03:10.000 And we don't think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double digit returns on their investment.
00:03:16.000 That's why we've implemented.
00:03:17.000 No one should have a right to a double digit return on their investment.
00:03:20.000 No one has a right.
00:03:21.000 What are you talking about?
00:03:23.000 That's not in the Constitution.
00:03:24.000 But what we see is that when we implement a rent freeze, we have landlords who are crying that the government is going to put them out of business.
00:03:33.000 Well, they're trying to run a business, and they're trying to do it effectively. 0.97
00:03:36.000 Look at that useless communist. 0.96
00:03:39.000 But again, the failure here, don't discuss this in terms of utilitarian concerns. 0.99
00:03:43.000 What he's saying is immoral.
00:03:44.000 He says, you say people should pick themselves up by their bootstraps and play by the rules.
00:03:48.000 But this guy's making a profit.
00:03:49.000 Do you understand that what that person is doing right there is a shift from the language of morality to the language of profit without any sort of actual connection?
00:04:00.000 It makes no sense.
00:04:01.000 That's like saying to my kids, you know, kids, you should be virtuous.
00:04:05.000 You should be good.
00:04:07.000 Also, cheese is too expensive.
00:04:09.000 What does that have to do with anything?
00:04:11.000 What does A have to do with B?
00:04:13.000 But the idea is that cheese being too expensive must be a reflection of some sort of societal immorality, obviously.
00:04:18.000 That is the thing that's happening there. 0.99
00:04:19.000 And the left loves this sort of crap. 1.00
00:04:22.000 What does this mean for a useless person? 1.00
00:04:23.000 Again, the DSA, these are useless scavengers. 1.00
00:04:26.000 They are feasting on the hide of the civilization that bore them. 0.94
00:04:31.000 We are not a civilization worth our salt if we can't draw lines against the people who wish to tear down basic property rights in the name of their peculiar control oriented tyranny.
00:04:40.000 Here is Cordillo saying that, you know, if we put you out of business because we have government funded grocery stores, well, then I suppose we put you out of business.
00:04:48.000 If you're the bodega owner, how would you feel?
00:04:51.000 If the government opened a big grocery store right next to your bodega, if one publicly owned grocery store that brings prices down in the neighborhood is enough to put someone out of business, then maybe they shouldn't have been in that business in the first place.
00:05:09.000 Interesting.
00:05:09.000 They shouldn't be in business in the first place.
00:05:11.000 Again, they shouldn't be able, if you can't compete with the government subsidizing your destruction, then clearly you shouldn't have competed in the first place.
00:05:16.000 They're just communists.
00:05:17.000 That's all.
00:05:18.000 By the way, he's an actual communist.
00:05:19.000 His family, there were Maoist communist guerrillas in Peru, and they fled and somehow ended up in America.
00:05:24.000 We want to talk about failure of immigration policy.
00:05:25.000 How do these people end up in our country? 1.00
00:05:27.000 How do they end up in our country? 1.00
00:05:28.000 Get the hell out of our country. 1.00
00:05:30.000 Why are they in our country? 0.99
00:05:32.000 I understand that we have many people in the United States who are homegrown commies. 1.00
00:05:36.000 That's bad enough. 1.00
00:05:37.000 Importing the commies is a whole different thing.
00:05:39.000 Here is Carrillo. 0.98
00:05:42.000 Why did your family come to America?
00:05:44.000 The economic situation in South America and in Peru was in a really bad place.
00:05:50.000 But I think that much of what we could say is responsible for that actually was the. 0.69
00:05:58.000 The imposition of capitalism and American imperialism in many cases is actually what brings immigrants to the US outside, coming out of Latin America.
00:06:11.000 And so they come here because they don't like the imposition of American imperialism in the country that they're in?
00:06:17.000 Yes, in many countries.
00:06:19.000 So they come here?
00:06:20.000 In many countries, you know, there have been undemocratic coups that have destabilized countries and that's pushed people out.
00:06:29.000 Oh, well, you would think they would want to go somewhere that wasn't imposing that on them if that were the case.
00:06:35.000 Yes, that would be the idea, right?
00:06:36.000 That if you are a true believer in malice communism, why would you go to the country that is against the malice communists?
00:06:42.000 Never should have let these people in.
00:06:43.000 Never should have let them in.
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00:07:49.000 Zorn Momdani, the mayor of New York.
00:07:52.000 You want to know why these people are being let in?
00:07:54.000 Because there are people actively letting them in who do not like this country.
00:07:58.000 Zorn Momdani, he admits that he's never been to the border, but that doesn't matter because he wants an open border policy anyway.
00:08:05.000 Here he was talking about our international obligations, his international obligations.
00:08:09.000 My favorite thing is that Zoram Amdani ran as mayor, claiming he only cared about New York City.
00:08:12.000 And all he does is talk about international affairs and communism with the smarmiest smile you could possibly hope to imagine.
00:08:18.000 The guy has got.
00:08:20.000 He fell into the same vat of toxic waste as the Joker because he can't wipe that smile off his face.
00:08:25.000 He's just determined to wipe it off of everybody else's face in New York City.
00:08:28.000 Here he was talking about his international obligations vis a vis border policy.
00:08:34.000 I don't believe that secure and humane are at odds.
00:08:38.000 I don't believe that.
00:08:40.000 The only way to provide immigration enforcement is through ICE.
00:08:44.000 I think oftentimes we are forced into these false choices.
00:08:46.000 But would you have asylum seekers be able to, for example, ask for asylum at the US Mexico border?
00:08:52.000 What is the law today?
00:08:53.000 What are they legally entitled to do?
00:08:55.000 I mean, the law today, I mean, under President Trump, the law today is that they're not.
00:09:00.000 But in terms of international obligations, in terms of the United States.
00:09:04.000 And that has meant that the border has seen a dramatic drop in illegal crossings.
00:09:11.000 So, I guess that is the tension that a lot of people see.
00:09:14.000 I think that what we've found from the Republican administration has been a desire to make any and all immigration illegal.
00:09:25.000 Oh, is that my bad? 0.99
00:09:28.000 This clown, this absolute clown. 0.98
00:09:29.000 By the way, I love how he always talks about international obligations. 1.00
00:09:33.000 International for the left is a code word for anarchic, pro terrorist, anti border crap. 0.96
00:09:38.000 That's what they want. 0.91
00:09:39.000 That's what they want, which is why Zoran Momdani, remember, this guy pledged that he only cared about New York.
00:09:43.000 When Tucker Carlson was out there touting Zoran Momdani, it was because Zoran Momdani supposedly didn't care about the Middle East.
00:09:48.000 Weird, because now Zoran Momdani is threatening to illegally arrest the prime minister of Israel if he arrives in New York.
00:09:53.000 That is illegal, by the way.
00:09:55.000 He does not run the federal government. 0.98
00:09:58.000 And the ICC is not governing law in the United States because we refuse to accept it because it's trash. 0.95
00:10:02.000 But here is Zorhan Mamdani, international communist. 0.86
00:10:07.000 I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague.
00:10:11.000 He's a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court.
00:10:16.000 And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years. 0.66
00:10:25.000 I've also said that I will follow.
00:10:28.000 The laws that we have here in New York City, because I believe that there's an importance in following the law as a leader who presides over our city, and that's something that I plan to do.
00:10:38.000 Meaning?
00:10:38.000 I'm sorry, I don't understand what that means.
00:10:40.000 Meaning that whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that's what we will do, but we won't be writing our own laws to that end.
00:10:46.000 What does the law allow you to do?
00:10:48.000 That's an active conversation with our legal department in seeing what the prospects are we have here in our municipality.
00:10:57.000 He's such a poser spoiled brat theater kid, this guy.
00:11:00.000 I'm going to arrest him. 0.98
00:11:00.000 It's unbelievable. 0.98
00:11:01.000 Well, but you can't arrest him.
00:11:02.000 But I'm going to do what the law allows, but you're not allowed to arrest him.
00:11:06.000 Ambassador Mike Walls, our ambassador to the UN, points out actually, it's illegal for you to arrest Netanyahu.
00:11:11.000 Because it turns out the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute that underlies the ICC.
00:11:16.000 The UN Headquarters Agreement grants diplomatic protections to visiting heads of state.
00:11:20.000 Head of state immunity applies, and federal authority trumps any local mayor's wishes. 0.96
00:11:25.000 But again, it's all performative, id driven junk. 0.98
00:11:28.000 It's transgressive crap that the left is embracing full scale. 1.00
00:11:31.000 So you have Bernie Sanders again, complete, useless human being, Bernie Sanders. 0.99
00:11:35.000 I've been railing for at least a decade on how the left has decided Bernie Sanders was some sort of moral exemplar, being a deadbeat dad from the time he was young, working his way through local Vermont politics to be the most useless senator in America, and then railing against the clouds. 0.96
00:11:55.000 The clouds are unfair.
00:11:56.000 There are some that are cumulus, and there are others that are serious clouds.
00:11:58.000 Why are they not all cumulus?
00:12:00.000 Clearly, something has to be done.
00:12:03.000 This is because of capitalism.
00:12:05.000 So he put out a tweet over the weekend. 0.99
00:12:07.000 It's the usual crap. 0.99
00:12:10.000 So, Guy Brin is worth $276 billion. 0.99
00:12:13.000 He could save healthcare for 3 million people.
00:12:16.000 No, he couldn't. 0.88
00:12:17.000 This, this pure idiocy of if we took all this guy's money and we spent it on the thing I want, that would fix all the problems. 0.98
00:12:24.000 No, it most assuredly would not. 1.00
00:12:27.000 First of all, you don't know how wealth works, you schmuck. 0.99
00:12:29.000 His worth is built into the Google stock. 0.98
00:12:33.000 He can't liquidate all $276 billion of his Google stock without the stock going down.
00:12:38.000 But again, financial literacy is not Bernie Sanders' strong suit. 0.99
00:12:43.000 Which is why he has been a complete ass for his entire career. 0.95
00:12:48.000 Instead, says Bernie Sanders, he's spending $82 million against California's 5% billionaire wealth tax. 0.99
00:12:54.000 He'd rather see low income Americans die and suffer than pay his fair share of taxes.
00:12:58.000 That is a moral obscenity.
00:12:59.000 You know what's a moral obscenity?
00:13:00.000 Claiming that you have a right to wealth you did not create and then suggesting that the person who opposes you wants Americans to die and suffer.
00:13:08.000 You want to talk about permission structures for violence and moral obscenities?
00:13:11.000 This man, Bernie Sanders, he is a moral blot.
00:13:15.000 All he does is create permission structures for violence.
00:13:17.000 It is not a coincidence it was his fan who shot up a congressional baseball game.
00:13:21.000 He has spent his entire career claiming that anyone who opposes his particular and peculiar form of socialism wants people to die.
00:13:29.000 And then he's shocked when nutcases with the screw loose take him seriously.
00:13:34.000 But again, this is the it of the left.
00:13:35.000 When we talk about the transgressive left, this is where they are.
00:13:38.000 How bad is the left? 0.94
00:13:40.000 In Michigan, a guy running for the United States Senate in Michigan is a Democrat, Abdul El Sayed, who is a liar, but also a terrorist supporter, but apparently also rich. 0.88
00:13:50.000 And it's the rich thing that is getting him in trouble with Michigan Democratic voters, which is insane. 0.79
00:13:54.000 He was on with Jake Tapper on CNN.
00:13:56.000 And once again, once again, he refused to say that it's good that Ayatollah Khomeini is dead.
00:14:02.000 The reason he was asked is because there was leaked audio of El Sayed saying he would not address Khomeini's death because his constituents were too upset about the death of a mass murdering dictator.
00:14:12.000 Well, Tapper asked him about it.
00:14:14.000 And by the way, in that tape, he had said, if I'm asked about it, I'm going to redirect to the Epstein files and Trump.
00:14:18.000 So Tapper asks him about it.
00:14:21.000 He redirects to Trump, of course.
00:14:26.000 20 weeks ago, when Iran's supreme leader was killed, you told your staff, according to audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, There are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today, so I just don't want to comment on Khamenei at all.
00:14:39.000 I thought that quote was interesting because the Ayatollah has killed tens of thousands of innocent Iranians, not to mention the proxies that Iran has funded that have killed innocent civilians all over the Middle East.
00:14:53.000 Why were you worried about offending people who support the Ayatollah?
00:14:58.000 Jake, on a day where we're mourning the loss of two more service members in a war we never should have fought, I think all of us ought to step back and ask whether or not everybody in Michigan, frankly, everybody in America, shouldn't be sad about the fact that this president, backed by the prime minister of a foreign government, took us to a war we had no business fighting in.
00:15:16.000 So, yeah, I didn't want to comment on it then because it's a ridiculous pretext.
00:15:20.000 And now you're asking me about the Ayatollah, who's dead, by the way, and you're not asking me about the service members who've died. 0.60
00:15:25.000 You're not asking me about whether or not this war should have ever been fought.
00:15:29.000 Well, I noticed what you're avoiding is saying that it's hilarious.
00:15:33.000 The guy literally says his tactic and then he does his tactic.
00:15:35.000 Like, this is what the left is.
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