The Ben Shapiro Show - Will AI End America?

00:00:00.000 America must win.

00:00:01.000 We have to win economically.

00:00:02.000 We have to win militarily.

00:00:04.000 And that means that we do have to win technologically. 0.84

00:00:07.000 But there's a movement afoot in our country that will destroy all of that, that will let China win economically, militarily, technologically. 0.90

00:00:14.000 And that will, if it wins, sink America into poverty and dependence. 0.64

00:00:19.000 That movement's fringes are pretty violent.

00:00:21.000 But the problem isn't just the violent fringes.

00:00:23.000 The philosophical moorings for that movement are pretty broad and pretty popular.

00:00:27.000 And if that movement wins, that spells catastrophe for the country.

00:00:31.000 I'll explain in a moment.

00:00:32.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.

00:00:40.000 So I understand all the questions about artificial intelligence.

00:00:40.000 All right, folks.

00:00:43.000 I understand there are serious questions to be asked about AI, that it's scary, that it's uncertain.

00:00:48.000 We know all of that, right?

00:00:50.000 I mean, we, we understand that we are in not just a transition economically, but a revolution economically.

00:00:55.000 And revolutions are typically not stayed and steady.

00:00:58.000 They happen suddenly and they are disquieting and they create unintended consequences and all the rest.

00:01:05.000 And that's very real.

00:01:07.000 So three things about AI.

00:01:09.000 First, one, we understand that it's scary and uncertain, that we don't know exactly what's going to happen next.

00:01:14.000 Two, artificial intelligence is generating an outsized portion of economic growth.

00:01:20.000 And that is happening not because there are some tech bros who are sitting in a room somewhere magically generating economic growth.

00:01:26.000 It's because there is a market for AI, because AI makes things significantly more productive, because AI makes things more efficient, because AI is going to be the future of everything from robotics to military tech.

00:01:38.000 In other words, AI is generating an outsized portion of economic growth because we want it.

00:01:44.000 Not necessarily we intellectually want AI.

00:01:46.000 Everyone who is currently Yelling about AI and the dangers of AI.

00:01:51.000 And I don't just mean people who are asking questions.

00:01:53.000 I mean people who are anti AI.

00:01:55.000 A huge number of those people use AI, whether they are searching on Google or whether they're on ChatGPT, which is why it's generating this huge, outsized economic growth AI.

00:02:05.000 Because as it turns out, free markets reward people for creating things that generally people want.

00:02:11.000 And three, finally, if we choose to let our fear and uncertainty destroy our technological future in the country, and the only way to do that really is to destroy free markets.

00:02:20.000 We won't save our civilization.

00:02:22.000 We will lose to China. 0.96

00:02:23.000 Okay, so why am I bringing all of this up?

00:02:25.000 Because there's a brand new Quinnipiac poll, and it talks about Americans' use of AI, which is increasing, while the viewers of AI sour.

00:02:34.000 The number of people who like AI is going down.

00:02:35.000 The number of people using AI is going up.

00:02:37.000 So many of the people using it are saying they simultaneously don't like it, which, by the way, is very often common with the free market.

00:02:44.000 Pretty much everybody who complains about the free market is a beneficiary of the free market in the United States.

00:02:49.000 So, according to this new poll, 51% of Americans say that they use AI to research topics they are curious about.

00:02:56.000 That is up from 37% in April 2025.

00:02:59.000 By the way, a huge number of people who say they're not using AI to research topics probably are because every time you go to Google and you put in a question, the answer that comes up on Google is being driven by Gemini.

00:03:11.000 Same poll whether people are using it to analyze data.

00:03:15.000 27% say yes.

00:03:16.000 That is up from 17% in April 2025.

00:03:19.000 And people are using AI in increasingly thorough ways.

00:03:23.000 The advent of cloud.

00:03:26.000 Has been extraordinary for a huge number of people that I know who are in business.

00:03:29.000 They're using AI in pretty much every task every day.

00:03:32.000 Now, at the same time that a huge number of people are using AI, people are very, very disquieted about AI, which again, I understand it's a new tech.

00:03:40.000 It is rare to find a new tech in the history of technology that does not make people feel uneasy.

00:03:45.000 If you go all the way back to the invention of the automobile, people were very, very upset about the automobile.

00:03:49.000 It wasn't as safe and as thorough as, for example, a horse drawn carriage.

00:03:54.000 So, when asked whether AI will do more harm than good in your day to day life, in March 2026, 55% Said more harm versus 34% said more good.

00:04:05.000 That is up significantly from last year when only 44% said that it would do more harm than good.

00:04:11.000 How about whether AI is going to lead to a decrease in job opportunities?

00:04:17.000 As of March 2026, 70% of Americans think advancements in AI are likely to lead to a decrease in the number of job opportunities for people.

00:04:24.000 That is up from 56% of Americans in April 2025.

00:04:27.000 And again, that is because people's awareness of AI is becoming increasingly clear.

00:04:34.000 People understand that AI is making its way through the market and that there will be some fairly significant short term disruptions in the job market.

00:04:41.000 And by the way, there is a massive difference between age groups in their perception of AI and job opportunity.

00:04:50.000 81% of Gen Zers believe that AI is going to decrease job opportunities versus only 4% who believe it will increase jobs.

00:04:58.000 Boomers, 66% believe that it will decrease jobs.

00:05:01.000 So you can see the disquiet, right?

00:05:03.000 It's scary.

00:05:03.000 It's uncertain.

00:05:04.000 We're not sure what's going to happen next.

00:05:05.000 Now, at the same exact time that is happening, the reality is that economic growth in the United States is being disproportionately driven by AI.

00:05:13.000 According to Forbes, in August of last year, Renaissance Macro Research estimated that to date in 2025, The dollar value contributed to GDP growth by AI data center build out.

00:05:24.000 So that's just AI data center build out.

00:05:26.000 Had surpassed U.S. consumer spending for the first time ever.

00:05:30.000 Apparently, according to Jason Furman, who we've had on the show, professor of economics at Harvard, investment in information processing equipment and software was only 4% of US GDP for the first half of 2025, but it accounted for 92% of all GDP growth over that period.

00:05:46.000 So these companies are investing heavily in data centers because that is the basis for all of the compute that is necessary for AI.

00:05:54.000 They're building these giant data centers everywhere.

00:05:56.000 And as we'll talk about, this is becoming the target for people who are not just upset over AI, but seemingly upset about the economic future of the United States more generally.

00:06:05.000 According to Boston Consulting Group, over the next two to three years, 50 to 55% of all jobs in the United States will be reshaped by AI.

00:06:13.000 Not replaced, reshaped.

00:06:15.000 They say, quote, for many employees, this will mean they retain the same or similar role, but face radically new expectations for how they work and what they produce.

00:06:23.000 Mark Andreessen, who is, of course, a major investor in this area, was on a podcast a couple of months ago explaining how AI growth is going to impact the economy.

00:06:33.000 Well, look, if we didn't have AI, we'd be in a panic right now about what's going to happen to the economy, right?

00:06:39.000 Because what we would be staring at is a future of depopulation.

00:06:42.000 And like, depopulation without new technology would just mean that the economy shrinks, right?

00:06:47.000 So it would mean that the economy kind of itself kind of shrinks over time.

00:06:49.000 You know, the opportunity diminishes.

00:06:51.000 There are no new jobs.

00:06:53.000 There are no new fields.

00:06:54.000 There's no new source of consumer demand for spending on things.

00:06:58.000 And so you would be very worried about going into a period of like severe decline and stagnation.

00:07:03.000 And, you know, essentially, you'd be looking at these like very dystopian scenarios of like an economy kind of self euthanizing itself.

00:07:10.000 Over time.

00:07:12.000 And so you'd be very worried about like the opposite of what everybody thinks that they're worried about.

00:07:16.000 The only reason we're not worried about that is because we now know that we have the technology that can substitute for the lack of population growth and then also for the lack of immigration that's likely.

00:07:25.000 And so I would say the timing has worked out miraculously well in the sense that we're going to have AI and robots precisely when we actually need them to keep the economy from actually shrinking.

00:07:35.000 So the point that Andreessen is making here is that we have a shrinking population.

00:07:39.000 That means that we have fewer workers.

00:07:40.000 And so if you're going to increase productivity, how do you do that?

00:07:43.000 AI is what does that.

00:07:45.000 Chen Sen Huang over at NVIDIA makes the case at the Stanford School of Business that the question is not your job being replaced by AI, it is your job being replaced by someone who uses AI.

00:07:56.000 So that person could be you if you learn to use AI.

00:08:01.000 There's no question that bringing everybody along is really the single most important thing to do.

00:08:07.000 And the fact of the matter is, it is unlikely most people will lose a job to AI.

00:08:15.000 It is most likely that most people will lose a job to somebody who uses AI.

00:08:21.000 And so we have to make sure that everybody uses AI.

00:08:24.000 It is also the case, you hear many examples of this, where somebody used to be a carpenter, but because of AI, they're now an architect.

00:08:33.000 You know, you could describe things into AI, and it comes out with an incredible design, incredible draft.

00:08:39.000 And they can be interior designers.

00:08:42.000 And so they elevate their craft, they elevate their service, and they elevate their business to a level to be able to offer more.

00:08:52.000 And again, one of the reasons why we are betting on American economic growth is because of AI productivity.

00:08:57.000 So, for example, people who are worried about inflation, one of the things that makes things cheaper is more productivity, more productivity means more supply.

00:09:05.000 More supply, same demand means lower prices.

00:09:07.000 So, Kevin Walsh, who's being nominated for FedShare and who's having his hearings today, back in December 2025, he says that a large part of his mandate, if he becomes FedShare, is going to be about bringing inflation down.

00:09:20.000 But one of the ways to bring inflation down is to bet on AI productivity, meaning investment in the private sector.

00:09:26.000 I think the difficulty of this for policymakers, let's say central bankers, let's say fiscal authorities, is the economy is going to be growing, but it will not show up in the productivity statistics.

00:09:39.000 So, they're going to have to make a bet.

00:09:41.000 Is the economy becoming much more productive?

00:09:44.000 Is the technology hitting more sectors?

00:09:46.000 And what should they do about it?

00:09:48.000 As a first approximation, my simple version of this is everything technology touches gets cheaper.

00:09:56.000 Okay.

00:09:56.000 And that is exactly right.

00:09:58.000 And of course, Warsh is also saying that it's very important that America lead AI development.

00:10:02.000 Like, we need to win that race.

00:10:05.000 Question economics is Is it an 18 month head start and everyone catches up, or can they permanently build a moat?

00:10:12.000 So I think it's super exciting for the United States.

00:10:15.000 And my bet would be that we're at the early innings, but the relative growth of the United States at the cutting edge of this productivity wave relative to the rest of the world will gap out even further in the next five years than it has in the past.

00:10:30.000 So it's an incredibly exciting opportunity.

00:10:33.000 And it's one where the U.S. plays its cards right.

00:10:37.000 We'll end up with A stronger workforce, more important companies, and that prosperity will have in economics will find its way into national security so the rest of the world can look at the US again as a shining city on the hill.

00:10:54.000 Okay, so again, three things that are important here about AI.

00:10:57.000 One, it's scary, it's uncertain.

00:10:59.000 We don't know enough about where things are going because we never know enough about where things are going.

00:11:04.000 And again, the sort of less intelligent take.

00:11:09.000 On economics, is that whenever there's a technological transition, people believe there will be mass and permanent job loss, and that is not what happens.

00:11:15.000 People find jobs in other arenas or they find jobs in other ways. 0.99

00:11:18.000 There is a transition, and pretending that transition doesn't exist is stupid.

00:11:22.000 Second, AI is part of our future, whether we like it or whether we don't, is where the economy is going, and it is going there because AI is an extraordinary tool, truly an extraordinary tool.

00:11:33.000 And that doesn't mean it doesn't have downsides.

00:11:35.000 The internet's an extraordinary tool as well, and that obviously has had some pretty significant downsides.

00:11:39.000 But this leads us to the third.

00:11:41.000 Important point about AI.

00:11:43.000 If we let our fear govern us, if we, at the violent fringes, attack the places that are generating our prosperity, if we go full Luddite and try to break the machines, if we turn against free markets because we're afraid of what's going to come next, then the answer is not going to be American prosperity.

00:12:01.000 It's going to be American poverty and loss to China. 0.68

00:12:04.000 Are you coming up?

00:12:04.000 Let's get into the free markets and why people are blaming them and why they should stop that first.

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00:13:11.000 So, David Friedberg over at the All In podcast, he made what I thought was a really good point on All In the other day.

00:13:18.000 Where he was talking about the tendency to blame free markets and blame technology for dyspepsia with the economy.

00:13:28.000 The suggestion being that it's this group of nefarious people who are destroying your way of life.

00:13:32.000 And he says the data center has become the symbol of that.

00:13:35.000 And he's saying that because people are literally attempting to attack data centers now.

00:13:40.000 Most people in America really are starting to really hate rich people.

00:13:46.000 And there's no physical space that better represents the wealth in America, the wealth creation that's happened that a lot of people feel left behind from than the data center.

00:13:55.000 What other physical space is there to go to?

00:13:58.000 It is the temple of the wealthy.

00:14:00.000 It is the mechanism, the tool, the machinery of the wealthy.

00:14:04.000 It is the way that the rich, elite, tech kind of political connected billionaires that we're obviously all attached to are.

00:14:15.000 Taking from the poor, getting themselves ahead, shooting themselves to space, leaving everyone else behind.

00:14:25.000 David Fribourg's explanation there is exactly right.

00:14:28.000 This is the way that economic populists have been pushing.

00:14:31.000 Now, again, I want to separate here between moral populism and economic populism.

00:14:34.000 Moral populism is the basic idea put forward by, say, William F. Buckley back in the 1960s that he would trust the first 100 names in the Harvard phone book on matters of public policy more than he would trust 100 professors at Harvard.

00:14:46.000 The idea being that the common man in the United States, shaped as he or she is by the institutions of church and family and community, has a better moral compass on average than the elites.

00:14:56.000 That I totally agree with because elites very often believe that they have been freed from the systems of morality.

00:15:02.000 However, when it comes to the economy, economic populism is almost the inverse.

00:15:07.000 Economic populism assumes that there should be some sort of centralized control placed into the hands of that central power by quote unquote the people, and that that centralized control should overwhelm.

00:15:18.000 The disseminated knowledge that is implicit in free markets and capital markets.

00:15:22.000 Again, the basic principle of capitalism is that disparate views on things lead to better outcomes.

00:15:30.000 That differential knowledge and the diffusion of knowledge is actually significantly more effective than one guy at the top with a stick beating people into submission.

00:15:39.000 Economic populism says that free markets are bad if the product of the free market is something I don't like.

00:15:44.000 Therefore, we should take power away from the free market to destroy it.

00:15:48.000 And right now, again, whenever there is economic unease, People tend to attack free market capitalism or what they see as the symbols of free market capitalism.

00:15:58.000 And they tend to blame people who are wealthy.

00:16:00.000 And again, the great lie about that is that people in the United States are wealthy because they are stealing from poor people.

00:16:05.000 It is a lie.

00:16:06.000 It is a full scale lie.

00:16:08.000 It is not true.

00:16:09.000 The only place in the world in which people are rich because they steal from the poor are communist countries and other forms of tyranny.

00:16:15.000 In a free market economy, the reason that people are rich is because they are providing products and services at a price that someone wants, and it turns out lots of people want.

00:16:23.000 That product or service, and that's how they make their money in a free market economy.

00:16:27.000 But if you can somehow recast the economy of the United States as quote unquote rigged on behalf of the wealthy, and then you can go after the means of production, right?

00:16:39.000 In this case, AI data centers, for example, then what you are going to end up doing in this view is overthrowing the capitalist system.

00:16:47.000 Of course, the outcome of that will be quite dire.

00:16:48.000 So, here, for example, is a DC activist named Ariana Evans telling people they should destroy AI data centers.

00:16:54.000 I understand that there is a sort of horseshoe theory, grievance based economic right that also is wildly upset about AI data centers because they're big and ugly.

00:17:03.000 You know what else is big and ugly?

00:17:05.000 Walmart.

00:17:06.000 Kind of big, kind of ugly, kind of wonderful for the vast majority of consumers.

00:17:10.000 In any case, here is DC activist Ariana Evans.

00:17:14.000 Cause property damage is not violent protest.

00:17:17.000 Because property is not people.

00:17:19.000 Okay? 0.99

00:17:20.000 We should absolutely, absolutely keep this trend going.

00:17:25.000 AI data centers next. 1.00

00:17:27.000 White people, get on your job. 1.00

00:17:30.000 Okay? 0.97

00:17:30.000 All the white leftists need to learn from the folks that burn Kimberly Clark, the people that are burning the logging, the people that are burning the Amazon warehouses. 0.97

00:17:30.000 Alright now. 0.97

00:17:37.000 All the white leftists who be having a whole lot of this stuff on the internet.

00:17:41.000 Y'all need to take notes.

00:17:42.000 Because not only is it your time to step up, It is your time to organize your people.

00:17:47.000 Hey, you know, some folks don't want to do the past MAGA three time Trump voters.

00:17:51.000 It is your job, actually, to deprogram those people.

00:17:54.000 I don't give a about how you feel because you're not directly impacted. 0.98

00:17:59.000 You're not black. 1.00

00:18:00.000 You're not indigenous. 0.99

00:18:01.000 You're not, you are white. 0.99

00:18:04.000 So the white folks should be organizing the other white folks, deprogramming the other white folks, dismantling the system of whiteness within the other white folks so they can continue to burn down. 0.99

00:18:15.000 Right. 0.99

00:18:15.000 Burn this bleep down. 0.99

00:18:16.000 Right. 0.76

00:18:16.000 Is always and forever the coalition. 0.76

00:18:18.000 Of the supposedly dispossessed in the richest country in world history. 0.96

00:18:23.000 You can see, by the way, that her hat in this particular clip says, Immigrants forever, ICE agents never. 0.86

00:18:26.000 So it's all part of the uniclause. 0.89

00:18:29.000 All of this is part and parcel of why, for example, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home has allegedly been targeted in the second attack in just two days.

00:18:37.000 According to the New York Post, Daniel Alejandro Morena Gama, 20, was arrested after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Altman's home, which caused a fire.

00:18:45.000 He then fled the scene before heading to OpenAI offices, allegedly threatening to burn down the building, according to San Francisco cops.

00:18:51.000 In a separate incident last week, a Honda car had been near Altman's $27 million Russian Hill mansion early Sunday morning before pulling up outside, and a shot was fired from the vehicle's passenger window.

00:19:01.000 And two people, one Amanda Tom and one Mohammed Tariq Hussein, were arrested at the property.

00:19:07.000 Again, this is part and parcel of a broader movement.

00:19:11.000 And that broader movement is targeting technology more generally, including technologies that are required for the United States to win wars.

00:19:19.000 So Stu Smith writes over at City Journal, a project of Manhattan Institute, over the weekend.

00:19:24.000 That there is a campaign against Palantir.

00:19:26.000 Palantir is a military contractor that generates extraordinary technologies in terms of intelligence gathering, in terms of capacity to target, and in terms of much of the actual technology that goes into the machines that we actually use.

00:19:43.000 And there's a charge being led against Palantir.

00:19:45.000 According to Stu Smith, while the Anti War Action Network presents itself as a broad, generic coalition, it operates as an umbrella organization that overlaps significantly with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization ecosystem.

00:19:57.000 Many of its affiliated groups, often branded as local anti war committees, have been linked to more confrontational forms of activism.

00:20:03.000 Clearly, the word is spreading.

00:20:04.000 Palantir is the new bete noir of far left activists.

00:20:07.000 Jewish Voice for Peace, which, of course, is neither Jewish nor a voice for peace, recently mobilized in the lobby of Palantir's New York City office alongside the Sunrise Movement and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. 0.66

00:20:17.000 Again, whenever you hear these groups that are led by quote unquote Jews, those Jews are not people who keep kosher, who keep Shabbat, who care about Judaism at all. 0.59

00:20:23.000 They're people who slap the name Jews on themselves so that they can pretend that they're an aggrieved minority. 0.91

00:20:28.000 That's what's happening. 0.69

00:20:30.000 The militant AIDS activist group Act Up New York even staged a die in outside Palantir's office.

00:20:35.000 And of course, this cross paths was all of America's enemies.

00:20:38.000 America's enemies are happy to watch us destroy ourselves by taking down the technologies that allow us to win.

00:20:44.000 This is why Alexander Dugan, again, Alexander Dugan is a Russian philosopher slash agent of Vladimir Putin who spreads anti-American trash on podcasts like, for example, Tucker Carlson's podcast.

00:20:58.000 He put out a word salad attacking Palantir.

00:21:02.000 Palantir Manifesto, illiberal, anti humanist, post globalist, the techno state of the global West as hegemonic pole.

00:21:09.000 Unipolarity, technological racism, individualism, Epstein style, quite compatible with Israelism, Tucker Carlson definition.

00:21:16.000 Of course, Alexander Dugan always name checks his buddy. 0.92

00:21:19.000 Absolutely disgusting antichrist.

00:21:20.000 So Palantir is the antichrist.

00:21:22.000 And now, if you buy into this entire shtick, if you buy into the idea that AI as a technology must be destroyed, It won't be destroyed.

00:21:34.000 We'll just lose. 1.00

00:21:35.000 If you think that China is going to forego AI, you're a fool. 1.00

00:21:39.000 They're not. 0.94

00:21:40.000 If the United States were to heavily restrict AI, not just in terms of preventing its gravest harms, but restricting the development of AI, or if there were to be a political party that attempts to prevent the building of data centers, not for any sort of understandable economic reason, like, for example, make the data centers pay their fair share of electricity production, which I think is a fair argument.

00:22:03.000 If really there's a broad scale movement.

00:22:05.000 To destroy the AI industry overall, out of either some sort of misplaced agrarianism, the idea that we must all live in villages free of AI, which of course is not how things work in the modern world.

00:22:20.000 Everybody in a village in the United States is still using ChatGPT, or out of a deep and abiding hatred for capitalism, or the generalized belief that capitalism rots the human soul as opposed to, you know, lack of traditional institutions preventing the rot of the human soul.

00:22:35.000 If we lose, China wins.

00:22:37.000 This is not a vacuum.

00:22:40.000 It is not as though if the United States just foregoes AI, magically we continue to have a burgeoning, wealthy economy.

00:22:47.000 And also, China just goes weapons down.

00:22:49.000 Alex Karpo Palantir pointed out in June 2025 AI is dangerous, and either we win or China wins.

00:22:57.000 If we didn't have the adversaries we'd have, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely.

00:23:04.000 But we do.

00:23:06.000 And that's why pausing is just, you can't pause it because it's a structural advantage.

00:23:12.000 We're not doing this in a vacuum.

00:23:14.000 We are going to be the dominant player, or China's going to be the dominant player, and there will just be very different rules depending on who wins.

00:23:21.000 And we cannot rely on anyone else to do this in our network of allies because Europe has given up on technology.

00:23:29.000 And he is right about all of this.

00:23:31.000 Again, when it comes to AI, yes, there are problems.

00:23:34.000 There are dangers.

00:23:35.000 And we should all recognize those dangers and not whistle past the graveyard on all of that.

00:23:39.000 At the same time, it is a tremendous opportunity. 0.95

00:23:41.000 And again, the reality is that we are pursuing it because if we do not pursue it, then China will pursue it.

00:23:46.000 And let's say that China were to run ahead of us in terms of AI development.

00:23:50.000 So what would that mean?

00:23:51.000 It would mean economic and military ruin for the United States. 0.68

00:23:54.000 A China in dominant AI position means a China in dominant military position.

00:23:59.000 The amount of AI that is being used right now, for example, by the United States military.

00:24:04.000 In the conflict in Iran, the amount of AI that is used in, say, an operation in Venezuela is tremendous and growing and growing.

00:24:14.000 If China outdevelops us, that means their military is now superior to ours. 0.51

00:24:17.000 If their military is superior to ours, that means they can not only effectuate change in their region, it means they can spread that technology throughout the world and make other countries dependent on the receipt of that technology. 0.90

00:24:29.000 It means that many, many other countries all over planet Earth suddenly become China's dependents. 0.83

00:24:35.000 That is a huge problem.

00:24:36.000 And it also leaves China in a dominant economic position because AI means more productivity.

00:24:44.000 If productivity goes up for China but remains stagnant for the United States, they outcompete us. 0.52

00:24:48.000 And then, if they outcompete us, one of two things happens either we block off our economy and we become backwards and protectionist, meaning we don't have any of the best goods and products and services at the best price, and so we're all poorer and we slide into poverty and stagnation, or we have to be dependent on Chinese products and our kids work for Chinese companies, and China is able to spread its influence that way. 0.78

00:25:11.000 When it comes to the game of economics, you must win. 0.88

00:25:13.000 When it comes to the game of military dominance, you must win.

00:25:16.000 And when it comes to the technological game, you must win.

00:25:18.000 Now, again, it may be and it should be that we have serious conversations with people who actually know enough about AI to know what they're talking about, about what are the real relevant dangers of AI and how do we curb those.

00:25:32.000 But the kind of broad scale economic populism that's been rising that says that we ought to tariff our way out of all problems, that we ought to attack technological development, that wouldn't it be great if we were making t-shirts, an economy based on t-shirts.

00:25:45.000 None of this is going to solve the bigger problem.

00:25:47.000 And it plays into right now what is a part of a broader grievance culture.

00:25:51.000 Again, there is a reason why you saw that activist complaining about black and indigenous voices and illegal immigration being curbed by the Trump administration. 1.00

00:25:59.000 In the same sentence, she's trying to burn down data centers. 1.00

00:26:02.000 There's a reason for that.

00:26:04.000 Because it turns out that attacking tech CEOs or healthcare CEOs the way Luigi Mangi owns it, or burning up Teslas and attacking Tesla's showrooms, or, say, shooting Charlie Kirk, or attempting to shoot President Trump, all of these are the most extreme manifestations of an ideology that says that you are a victim of American society, and therefore you get to do bad things.

00:26:26.000 And on a broader political level, you are a victim of American society, and therefore you ought to get together with the other victims, take over the government, and use centralized tyrannical power.

00:26:35.000 In order to cram down your view of the world, this is where Momdaniism comes from on a political level. 0.73

00:26:41.000 It's where grievance culture left comes from and grievance culture right.

00:26:46.000 Momdani is the avatar of this entire grievance culture.

00:26:49.000 So he's not making life better for anyone in New York City.

00:26:52.000 Instead, he's going around posturing as though he is.

00:26:55.000 Already coming up, Zoran Momdani is making all the problems worse, but at least he is making individuals feel better by getting them to show him violations of fire code and such.

00:27:05.000 I'll explain in a moment.

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00:28:11.000 It's kind of amazing to watch Hugo Chavez come to New York City.

00:28:14.000 So Hugo Chavez, the former dictator of Venezuela before Maduro, he was famous for doing this routine where he would, he would do a TV show that was hours long on Venezuelan TV, where he would basically have people come and bring him specific problems in front of the camera.

00:28:28.000 And then he would quote unquote solve the problem.

00:28:30.000 Now, the overall system of Venezuela meant impoverishment of the population.

00:28:33.000 It meant tyrannical control of every part of Venezuelan life up to and including the economy.

00:28:38.000 It meant people eating dog in the street.

00:28:41.000 But as long as Hugo Chavez was on the TV telling people that he was solving their specific housing problem, he felt this would make him popular.

00:28:48.000 Well, Zoramamdani is doing the same thing.

00:28:50.000 Zoramamdani is doing the same thing.

00:28:52.000 So, one of the things that Mamdani has been pushing is this idea that developers in New York City are rampantly cheating their tenants.

00:29:02.000 You know, number one, there's a lot of law on this.

00:29:04.000 There's a lot of law, including in New York City, about the requirement for hospitable tenements, that you have to have habitable tenements, rather, that you must have.

00:29:14.000 Habitability as a condition to paying rent.

00:29:17.000 So you can't just leave the place crappy.

00:29:19.000 Additional regulation, additional cost means less building.

00:29:23.000 That means higher costs.

00:29:25.000 But what is Mamdani going to do?

00:29:26.000 He's going to ignore the bigger problem and, in fact, exacerbate the bigger problem a lot.

00:29:31.000 But he will go conduct housing inspections himself, thus, to find violations and then claim that he is some sort of hero while simultaneously making housing significantly more expensive in the city.

00:29:42.000 How are you doing, sir?

00:29:43.000 How are you?

00:29:44.000 I'm all right.

00:29:45.000 Pleasure to meet you.

00:29:46.000 Mayor Maldani, we're here to inspect the home and to make sure everything's up to code.

00:29:49.000 You're in charge now.

00:29:50.000 All right, where do you go?

00:29:52.000 You want to check the window guard?

00:29:55.000 Okay.

00:29:56.000 11 is a negative.

00:29:57.000 Let's find that one.

00:29:58.000 It's broken.

00:30:00.000 We're also going to hit him with a window guard violation.

00:30:02.000 And then we have here the one violation for the local law 86.

00:30:06.000 Which is the incomplete information on the side?

00:30:09.000 No, that's another one.

00:30:10.000 That's a different one.

00:30:10.000 That's another one.

00:30:11.000 So that's two.

00:30:12.000 That's another one.

00:30:13.000 Yes, so that's two.

00:30:14.000 Okay.

00:30:14.000 It was a pleasure to be here at this building with a number of inspectors.

00:30:17.000 From HPD to ensure that these conditions are up to code.

00:30:22.000 They didn't put up their acquired information on the side of the building.

00:30:26.000 And therefore, the mayor of New York will show up in order to, of course, make the broader point that all over New York, renters are the victims of the people they are renting from.

00:30:36.000 What developer in their right mind would build in New York right now?

00:30:38.000 What developer in their right mind?

00:30:40.000 But again, it's never about a better life for the people you pretend to represent.

00:30:43.000 It is all about tearing down the system.

00:30:44.000 That is the entire goal of all of this.

00:30:46.000 The same thing.

00:30:47.000 Happens on the right.

00:30:48.000 Fascinating article in the Washington Post about Nick Fuentes. 1.00

00:30:52.000 Fuentes, as you know, is a white supremacist, Nazi loving piece of dreck. 0.99

00:30:58.000 He's also making a lot of money. 0.99

00:31:00.000 So a lot of his fans are donating money to him.

00:31:02.000 He will go on Kickstreet, I guess, for long periods of time, or Rumble, he will go on there for long periods of time and people will just give him money.

00:31:13.000 And how much money did he make?

00:31:14.000 Well, apparently, since the start of 2025, about $900,000.

00:31:17.000 People just donating.

00:31:18.000 Now, again, it's a free country.

00:31:19.000 If you wish to donate money to Nick Fuentes, That is your prerogative. 0.87

00:31:23.000 I think that that is a foolish move, but okay.

00:31:25.000 But the fascinating part of this story is not how much money Fuentes is making from his super chatters, and how many of those people are actually poor and are giving him money in order to promote an ideology that actually is less likely to lead them to success.

00:31:41.000 The story is the people who are doing it.

00:31:43.000 So this Washington Post story centers on a person named Ryan Kasabiansky.

00:31:48.000 And here is what his story is.

00:31:50.000 Quote, living in Ohio on full-time disability, Ryan, now 36, spent so many hours at home immersed in the streamer's show that he said he began thinking of Fuentes as a little brother.

00:31:59.000 The heart of Fuentes' message was that young men in the United States have gotten a raw deal.

00:32:03.000 In his telling, a nation of entitled baby boomers, like those leading the Republican Party, had poisoned American society with bad jobs, unbearable women, and a racially diverse population intent on depriving white people of what they're owed.

00:32:14.000 Now, why do you think that people are watching that stuff? 0.86

00:32:18.000 Well, because as it turns out, always and forever, there's a part of every human being, this is essentially the premise of my book, Lions and Scavengers, that wants to blame other people for your problems and not solve the problems.

00:32:31.000 Again, you got to feel terrible for this person who is donating serious amounts of money to Fuentes.

00:32:38.000 This guy lives in Ohio on full time disability, which means that you, the taxpayer, are supporting him.

00:32:42.000 Now, maybe he has an actual real disability.

00:32:44.000 That's possible.

00:32:46.000 I will say that the disability system of the United States is widely abused.

00:32:49.000 A huge number of young people who do not have full scale disability are on disability in the United States.

00:32:54.000 It is one of the most abused and wasteful programs in the United States. 0.97

00:32:59.000 So this person is living at home on full time disability, and he's being told that that's the reason why he can't get a good job and why women are unbearable, and it must be racially diverse populations that are really creating all of this. 0.91

00:33:12.000 Grievance culture is the source of pretty much. 0.92

00:33:16.000 All the existential threats to the United States.

00:33:18.000 This grievance based culture that suggests, again, that the problems that people experience in their daily life is the fault of these broader systems.

00:33:26.000 And those systems just happen to be very often the systems that actually create the preconditions for prosperity and flourishing in the United States.

00:33:34.000 That is the danger.

00:33:36.000 What's the cure?

00:33:37.000 The cure is self starting, the cure is gratitude, the cure is an understanding that the vast majority of decisions in our life are up to us.

00:33:48.000 And that you are not being victimized by an AI data center.

00:33:51.000 And that you burning down the AI data center is not going to fix the problem.

00:33:54.000 It's going to make the United States markedly worse off.

00:33:58.000 The answer is, as always, adjusting to the circumstances of life and also recognizing that the great prosperity that we enjoy, this is the other side, the great prosperity that we enjoy, the fact that you have any fact in human history at your disposal, the fact that you can push a button and magically a car or a drone will arrive carrying the product you ordered for cheaper than any human being has ever been able to buy that product will arrive at your door.

00:34:19.000 All of that is the result of the very systems that a lot of folks are blaming for their individual problems.

00:34:25.000 And if you blame the system and you tear down the system, you know who wins?

00:34:28.000 Not you.

00:34:30.000 Not you, America's enemies win.

00:34:32.000 That is the danger here.

00:34:33.000 That is the broader danger to the United States.

00:34:35.000 It manifests in domestic policy.

00:34:37.000 It manifests in a view on foreign policy that says that America exercising her strength to protect our interests abroad is somehow a great evil and that we're better off if we surrender the world to China and Russia, a perspective of, again, Tucker Carlson on the right and people like Hassan Piker on the left. 0.50

00:34:53.000 That is the danger existentially to the United States.

00:34:57.000 A great power like the United States does not die by homicide, it dies by suicide.

00:35:01.000 And that suicide is generally the result of a population deciding that the systems that made America great in the first place are the problem themselves and must be torn to the ground. 0.93

00:35:09.000 Okay, meanwhile, Democrats being wildly hypocritical, it is pretty amazing how Democrats have decided that they are the ones who stand for democracy.

00:35:17.000 And then meanwhile, they apply as much anti institutional power as they can in order to enshrine themselves permanently in power. 0.95

00:35:26.000 Cory Booker, who wants to run for president for some godforsaken reason, no one understands why, he was speaking to a Michigan Democratic women's group over the weekend.

00:35:34.000 And he popped in the crazy eyes. 0.86

00:35:36.000 Cory Booker, Mr. Potato Hitter went crazy eyes. 0.66

00:35:39.000 And he, will you stand for our democracy?

00:35:41.000 I mean, he stood for 27 hours without going pee pee.

00:35:44.000 And that means that he's a special dude.

00:35:46.000 So here he was.

00:35:47.000 Again, why Cory Booker thinks he's a presidential candidate remains a mystery beyond reckoning.

00:35:53.000 Ladies and gentlemen, there is a storm in our nation.

00:35:57.000 There is darkness and wind.

00:35:59.000 People are getting hurt.

00:36:01.000 What we need is not from on high.

00:36:04.000 Soldiers of our democracy who, in times of trial, are willing to stand up.

00:36:10.000 Will you stand for our democracy?

00:36:13.000 Will you stand to get out the vote?

00:36:15.000 Will you stand for our children?

00:36:18.000 Will you stand up for our elders?

00:36:21.000 And will you stand together, unified, strong, be the hope that people need?

00:36:28.000 We are Democrats.

00:36:29.000 It's time for a new deal.

00:36:32.000 It's time to redeem the dream of America.

00:36:36.000 Thank you.

00:36:41.000 The wheels of history will be greased.

00:36:45.000 Going full Dwight Truth there.

00:36:46.000 Cory Booker.

00:36:47.000 Strong stuff.

00:36:48.000 Well, of course he loves democracy.

00:36:49.000 Democrats love democracy, which is why they're putting on the ballot in Virginia a ballot proposition that would give 91% of all House seats in Virginia to the Democrats in a state where Kamala Harris won 52%.

00:37:04.000 So Virginia is a fairly purple state.

00:37:08.000 The new Virginia congressional district map would turn a state That is fairly evenly divided in terms of its districting right now into a full on Democratic state.

00:37:20.000 There would be one giant Republican district and all the rest would be Democratic districts.

00:37:25.000 Right now, Democrats have 55% of the current House seats and they own 52% of the Democratic vote.

00:37:31.000 So that's pretty proportional.

00:37:34.000 And so now Democrats are trying, apparently, to enshrine in the law, because they love democracy, you see, that essentially 45% of the population of Virginia should go completely without.

00:37:47.000 Any sort of representation, which is astonishing.

00:37:51.000 Here is a chart of the popular House vote versus the House seat disparity by state.

00:37:57.000 As you can see, Virginia will be a wild outlier.

00:38:00.000 So, Democrats, of course, are pointing to Texas.

00:38:03.000 Texas redistricting means that that state is split 60 40 somewhere in that neighborhood Republican Democrat.

00:38:10.000 Texas is moving more heavily in the direction of Republican redistricting, and that, of course, created a counter movement in California and now a vast counter movement in Virginia.

00:38:20.000 Yeah, again, all of this is within play.

00:38:22.000 I mean, this is all legal.

00:38:23.000 You're allowed to do it.

00:38:24.000 But don't complain about redistricting on the right if you're then going to turn around and say that redistricting on the left is totally appropriate, which is what's hilarious.

00:38:32.000 Senator Tim Kaine, who you may recall from that time he ran for vice president, I know you don't recall it.

00:38:36.000 But he was actually Hillary Clinton's VP candidate.

00:38:36.000 No one remembers.

00:38:39.000 Great quiz questions of history.

00:38:40.000 Well, he was on Fox News Sunday trying to explain why it was the most democratic thing in the world to disenfranchise half your population.

00:38:49.000 90% of Virginians are not Democrats.

00:38:50.000 That's true.

00:38:51.000 But about 100% of Virginians want. election results to be respected. 0.88

00:38:56.000 We're deeply worried that Donald Trump will try to interfere with the election results this November or in 2028 because we saw him do it before.

00:39:04.000 And we have to have a Congress that will stand up to it.

00:39:07.000 In 2021, all five Republicans in Virginia went along with Donald Trump in his effort to overturn election results.

00:39:15.000 And so we're giving Virginians a chance to vote, which Republican states have not done, about whether they want to have a congressional delegation that will stand up against Donald Trump's tyranny.

00:39:27.000 The essence of democracy is that a state split about 50-50 should actually be 91% represented by Democrats.

00:39:34.000 Again, all of this is well within boundaries with regard to gerrymandering and all the rest.

00:39:37.000 I just can't deal with the hypocrisy of Democrats who are whining about it.

00:39:40.000 Eric Holder, who again, threat to democracy.

00:39:43.000 Remember, Eric Holder actually launched a group in 2017 to combat Republican gerrymandering.

00:39:48.000 So now he's standing in favor of Democratic gerrymandering.

00:39:50.000 Again, what's good for the goose is never good for the gander.

00:39:55.000 The Democrats can certainly win if it's a fair fight.

00:39:58.000 And the question I have it wasn't going to be a fair fight in Virginia?

00:40:01.000 No, it wasn't going to be a fair fight nationally if you try to steal seats in Texas, in North Carolina, and in Missouri.

00:40:09.000 And so the question I have for people who are critical of that which we're doing is what were we supposed to do?

00:40:14.000 Nothing?

00:40:14.000 Just allow them to try to stack the deck, to try to steal seats?

00:40:18.000 And all we're trying to do is meet them and try to make the system as fair as it possibly can be.

00:40:25.000 That is not what they are trying to do.

00:40:26.000 Let's be very, very clear.

00:40:28.000 Democrats who have been lecturing Americans about the threats to democracy, very often the threat is coming from inside.

00:40:34.000 The House.

00:40:34.000 James Carville is pretty open about this.

00:40:36.000 He says that if Democrats were to win the House and the Senate and then they were to win the presidency, the very first thing they would do is add states like Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., thus to stack the Senate against Republicans and to pack the Supreme Court, thus breaking the institution.

00:40:51.000 The Democrats win the presidency in both houses of Congress.

00:40:54.000 I think on day one, this should make Puerto Rico, D.C., a state, and it should expand the Supreme Court to 13.

00:41:00.000 Eat our dust.

00:41:02.000 They've done everything they could that they held up to the 2000 election.

00:41:07.000 They stole it.

00:41:08.000 They've stolen Supreme Court seats.

00:41:12.000 They've gerrymandered everything that you can.

00:41:14.000 And the only way to fight this is don't run on it.

00:41:17.000 Don't talk about it.

00:41:18.000 Just do it.

00:41:20.000 Amazing.

00:41:21.000 Amazing.

00:41:21.000 The Democratic Party is wildly radical, not only in their actual methodologies for retaining power, but increasingly in their very bones.

00:41:31.000 The Michigan Democratic Party convention is pandering to radical Islam. 0.82

00:41:35.000 Of course, they are. 1.00

00:41:36.000 That, of course, is not a shock at all, considering it's very, very likely.

00:41:39.000 That the Michigan Senate candidate is going to be a pro terrorist candidate named Abdul El Sayed.

00:41:44.000 Here is a clip from the Michigan Democratic Party convention.

00:41:56.000 The Times at the Michigan Democratic Party convention.

00:41:59.000 And here was Abdul Al Sayed, who was criticizing JD Vance, suggesting that JD Vance is an anti Brown kid, which is weird since he has a few of them.

00:42:09.000 That's the thing. 0.95

00:42:09.000 JD Vance is not a dumbass. 0.95

00:42:11.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:42:11.000 You know, he graduated from Yale, no? 0.99

00:42:13.000 He graduated from Yale Law.

00:42:14.000 He's a smart guy. 0.88

00:42:16.000 The thing about it is he's like soul corrupt. 1.00

00:42:18.000 So, like, you got Donald Trump, who's just an ego with no brain. 0.99

00:42:21.000 Then you've got a brain, like, with this, like, soul corruption for power. 0.98

00:42:25.000 Right.

00:42:26.000 And I don't know which worse. 0.56

00:42:28.000 Part of me is like, it must suck to live inside your head to know that your entire politics is incoherent with the way you live your life.

00:42:36.000 How do you deal with that every day?

00:42:37.000 Like, there's a cognitive dissonance that comes out, and like, maybe it just sucks out his charisma.

00:42:40.000 I don't know.

00:42:41.000 Huge cognitive dissonance.

00:42:42.000 Just absolutely. 1.00

00:42:43.000 He's got to look at his kids and be like, yeah, those are brown kids.

00:42:45.000 They're mine.

00:42:46.000 You know what I mean?

00:42:47.000 And I had brown kids.

00:42:49.000 I have brown kids.

00:42:49.000 I love my brown kids.

00:42:50.000 And I think my brown kids are just as American as everyone else.

00:42:54.000 JD Vance has brown kids who thinks he thinks are less American than everyone else.

00:42:58.000 That's wild to look at your own kids and be like, you don't actually belong as much in this country that I brought you into.

00:43:04.000 This is the, this is, this is the guy that Democrats are going to run for the Senate.

00:43:07.000 He also happens to be a sympathizer with his terror supporters in Dearborn, Michigan.

00:43:11.000 Speaking of which, apparently, he is not the only one in Michigan who has such feelings.

00:43:16.000 According to the Free Beacon, Dearborn, Michigan attorney Amir Makled, who shared since deleted social media posts praising Hezbollah terrorists as martyrs and urging Iran to show no laxity in the sacred war against the enemy, just won the Michigan Democratic Party's nomination for the University of Michigan Board of Regents.

00:43:32.000 During the party's convention on Sunday.

00:43:34.000 Well, you can see why that happened.

00:43:37.000 So, the Democratic Party, full in line more and more with fairly open terror supporters. 0.74

00:43:43.000 And meanwhile, speaking of international terrorism, Iran continues to play around with the President of the United States.

00:43:50.000 Over the weekend, the President put out a statement on Truth Social The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran.

00:43:59.000 Despite World War I lasting four years, three months, and 14 days, World War II lasting six years and one day, and the Korean War lasting three years, one month, and two days.

00:44:06.000 The Vietnam War lasting 19 years, 5 months and 29 days, and Iraq lasting 8 years, 8 months and 28 days. 0.95

00:44:11.000 They like to say that I promised 6 weeks to defeat Iran. 0.75

00:44:14.000 And actually, from the military standpoint, it was far faster than that. 0.96

00:44:17.000 But I'm not going to let them rush the United States into making a deal that is not as good as it could have been.

00:44:21.000 I read the fake news saying I'm under pressure to make a deal.

00:44:24.000 This is not true.

00:44:25.000 I am under no pressure whatsoever, although it will happen relatively quickly.

00:44:28.000 Time is not my adversary. 0.63

00:44:29.000 The only thing that matters is that we finally, after 47 years, straighten out the mess that other presidents let happen because they didn't have the courage or foresight to do what had to be done with respect to Iran. 0.65

00:44:39.000 We're in it. 0.51

00:44:39.000 And it will be done right. 0.51

00:44:40.000 We won't let the weak and pathetic Democrats, traitors all, who for years have been talking about the dangers of Iran and that something has to be done, but now since I'm the one doing it, belittle the accomplishments of our military and the Trump administration. 0.97

00:44:51.000 This is being perfectly executed on the scale of Venezuela, just a bigger, more complex operation, and the result will be the same. 0.97

00:44:57.000 Which may, in fact, be a hint, because obviously the way that things have gone in Venezuela is we ended up in control of their oil supply and we are dictating terms to the regime.

00:45:04.000 Perhaps that is a hint at a move against Karga Island or against the oil supplies of Iran more directly.

00:45:11.000 He says, In my first term, I built the greatest military our country has ever seen, including adding Space Force.

00:45:15.000 In my second term, I am properly and judiciously using our military to solve problems left to us by others of far less understanding or competence, make America great again.

00:45:24.000 And of course, that is exactly right.

00:45:26.000 Now, the UAE has been asking for a financial lifeline from the United States because obviously the Persian Gulf has been shut down by Iran.

00:45:34.000 And so the UAE's government has been suffering.

00:45:36.000 They are very much allied with the United States.

00:45:38.000 They're also allied with Israel in this fight against Iran.

00:45:40.000 The UAE Central Bank governor, according to the Wall Street Journal, Khaled Mohammed Bellama, Raised the idea of a currency swap line with Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Treasury and Federal Reserve officials in meetings in Washington last week.

00:45:53.000 Usually, those swap lines are reserved for relieving severe funding market pressures that could spill back into the United States economy.

00:46:00.000 We have arrangements with banks in the UK, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, the EU.

00:46:04.000 Basically, during periods of acute stress, we extend swap lines to other central banks to sort of prop them up.

00:46:11.000 So, you know, that's not a terrible ask by the Emiratis.

00:46:14.000 And again, this thing is going to be over sooner rather than later.

00:46:19.000 Either way.

00:46:21.000 Now, Iran continues to violate the ceasefire.

00:46:23.000 On Tuesday, he put forward a post, the president saying Iran has violated the ceasefire numerous times.

00:46:28.000 And then he appeared on Squawkbox and he explained that either they will make a deal and be rational or they will not.

00:46:37.000 Iran can get themselves on a very good footing if they make a deal.

00:46:41.000 They can make themselves into a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again.

00:46:45.000 They have incredible people.

00:46:47.000 But they seem to be, you know, bloodthirsty.

00:46:51.000 They're led by some.

00:46:53.000 Very, very unfortunately tough people.

00:46:55.000 And I don't mean tough in a good way.

00:46:56.000 I think it's very negative for the country because we're much tougher than they are, like not even close.

00:47:02.000 But they have to use reason and they have to use common sense and they can get themselves into a great position to make themselves into a great country.

00:47:12.000 Now, again, what appears to be happening here is that there are more moderate factions.

00:47:16.000 I say moderate sort of in scare quotes here because they ain't that moderate.

00:47:18.000 Mahmoud Pazeshkin, the president of Iran, or Mohammed Khalifa, the speaker of parliament.

00:47:23.000 And they're not in control of the country right now.

00:47:25.000 The IRGC is in control of the country. 0.78

00:47:27.000 Pesezhkian put out a statement via Twitter, quote, honoring commitments is the basis of meaningful dialogue, which is hilarious from the Iranian government, which has yet to ever honor a serious commitment.

00:47:36.000 Deep historical mistrust in Iran toward U.S. government conduct remains.

00:47:41.000 And then Abbasaraki, the foreign minister, also said the exact same thing, essentially.

00:47:46.000 They seek Iran's surrender.

00:47:47.000 Iranians do not submit to force. 0.91

00:47:49.000 Well, I mean, we'll find out if this continues for a very long time.

00:47:53.000 I mean, let's be clear.

00:47:54.000 Right now, the embargo on Iranian oil supplies, which is what is happening, is depriving the government of Iran of some $400 million a day.

00:48:01.000 That is crippling their economy.

00:48:03.000 And that includes CENTCOM footage that has been released of Marines repelling onto an Iranian flagged ship called the Tuska.

00:48:10.000 Here is some of that footage.

00:48:15.000 Can see here, American helicopter taking off and then hovering over the Tuska as American Marines rappel down onto this Iranian ship.

00:48:27.000 That ship had already been essentially disabled by one shot through the engine room.

00:48:33.000 It turns out, by the way, that that ship was carrying propellants and materials from China.

00:48:38.000 The President of the United States said that that was happening here, and honestly, we should very seriously, he's letting China get away with it for now, presumably because there are negotiations that will happen.

00:48:48.000 China in the near future, and because he doesn't wish for our sort of anti China arrangement to go hot in the middle of trying to finish the war with Iran.

00:48:59.000 Meanwhile, Mohammed Khalibaf put out a statement saying, We are prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield.

00:49:05.000 Well, first of all, I don't know why you'd reveal new cards on the battlefield.

00:49:08.000 It's a weird thing to like an ace of spades.

00:49:10.000 What are we talking about here?

00:49:11.000 They keep threatening this.

00:49:12.000 They've been threatening this for a long time.

00:49:14.000 I find that highly, highly doubtful. 0.96

00:49:16.000 But the president, in going after Democrats over all this, saying they're undermining the war, he is right about that. 0.56

00:49:22.000 There's no question. 0.66

00:49:23.000 They're just repeating propaganda that is being put out there by the Iranian government itself.

00:49:28.000 Like literally doing that.

00:49:29.000 Chris Murphy, for example, the Senate Democrat from Connecticut, there's a piece of fake news, it was not true, about Iranian tankers continuing to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

00:49:39.000 And he literally tweeted back, awesome.

00:49:42.000 I mean, that's literal Iranian propaganda, and he's tweeting awesome to it.

00:49:45.000 So when I say they're mirroring Iranian propaganda, I literally mean they are mirroring Iranian propaganda.

00:49:52.000 Meanwhile, Representative Adam Smith. Of Washington says that Iran is somehow more truthful than the White House, which is a weird take.

00:49:58.000 It's a weird take to say about the leading terror sponsor on planet Earth, but Democrats hate Trump so much and they believe so much in a grievance about the United States that they're willing to even make common cause with the Iranians.

00:50:11.000 I would think it quite likely that Iran will not show up and negotiate because what they've said about where negotiations are at has turned out to be a lot closer to the truth than anything coming out of the White House.

00:50:23.000 So you believe Iran over the White House?

00:50:27.000 Well, I wouldn't put it that way.

00:50:29.000 I would put it exactly the way I just put it. 0.99

00:50:34.000 So, um, that is ridiculous, but Democrats are increasingly ridiculous and hysterical here. 0.97

00:50:41.000 This, of course, includes people like Mehdi Hassan, who was for many years a Qatari mouthpiece at Al Jazeera. 0.98

00:50:47.000 He says that we are on the verge of nuclear Armageddon.

00:50:50.000 Uh, no, we're not.

00:50:51.000 No, we're not.

00:50:52.000 Uh, like he doesn't believe that.

00:50:54.000 If he were, he'd be in a bunker.

00:50:55.000 It's not, it's not true, but here we are.

00:50:59.000 I didn't think that we would be, you know, on the verge of a nuclear Armageddon in the Middle East, uh, as much as I didn't buy this. 0.99

00:51:06.000 That he was a dove and I knew he was a warmonger. 0.98

00:51:08.000 But this Iran war, I think, is even beyond what I thought we'd be at 14, 15 months in. 0.90

00:51:13.000 So everything is worse. 0.91

00:51:15.000 I can't think of a single area of public life where things are not as bad as we thought they would be and are, in fact, worse than they would be.

00:51:22.000 And I think that's also partly to do with the fact that he surrounded himself with the worst people, right? 0.99

00:51:27.000 We are in a truly cacistocratic age, governed by the worst people, worst people morally, worst people intellectually, worst people politically. 0.93

00:51:36.000 Well, I mean, when you sympathize with the other side of every war that America has fought in the Middle East, that tends to be how it goes. 0.98

00:51:43.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, I still can't believe she's trying to make a comeback. 0.99

00:51:46.000 It is insane. 1.00

00:51:47.000 Now, again, she's doing pretty well in the Democratic primary polls, mainly because people still remember her, kind of.

00:51:54.000 She's not going to win the nomination, though.

00:51:56.000 I mean, if she did, I mean, listen, my mouth to God's ears.

00:52:00.000 If she were to win the nomination, that is the best thing that could happen for Republicans. 0.83

00:52:03.000 Here is Kamala Harris speaking at the Michigan Women's Democratic Group and the utter charmlessness. 0.99

00:52:09.000 I can't imagine why she lost. 1.00

00:52:11.000 We are dealing with the most corrupt, callous, and incompetent presidential administration in the history of the United States. 0.95

00:52:25.000 Period. 0.87

00:52:29.000 I really like the faux seriousness where she kind of stares into the camera when she says that sort of stares out at the crowd.

00:52:34.000 You were in the Biden administration.

00:52:37.000 Your boss pardoned his entire family on his way out of office after running a scam with his son to go pick up the bags of cash.

00:52:44.000 Abroad.

00:52:45.000 And in terms of incompetence, dude left the entire southern border open for four years and brought us 40 year highs in inflation.

00:52:51.000 So, yeah, sure.

00:52:52.000 Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg out there claiming that you will be drafted for the Iran war. 0.97

00:52:57.000 If you believe this, I'm sorry, but you really, really, really require some sort of checkup or you're just a dummy. 0.65

00:53:05.000 No one is getting drafted. 0.76

00:53:06.000 We're not going to nuclear war and no one's getting drafted.

00:53:09.000 Can we start there?

00:53:10.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg. 0.95

00:53:12.000 Keep in mind, the Iranian regime is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism. 0.98

00:53:16.000 Ten years from now, 20 years from now, they may try to strike the homeland.

00:53:20.000 They may try to strike troops in the region.

00:53:21.000 This doesn't go away just because you said you're a terrorist.

00:53:23.000 None of it goes away.

00:53:24.000 And that's why they are planning on a draft.

00:53:28.000 They're planning on a draft. 0.99

00:53:29.000 And you're bitching and moaning that there are women who are part of the Army, Navy, and you're getting rid of people and you're talking about who shouldn't be.

00:53:39.000 What the hell are you people doing?

00:53:41.000 What it is, is they're changing that you no longer have to operate.

00:53:44.000 You used to have to opt into the draft.

00:53:45.000 Now it makes it automatic.

00:53:47.000 It's a draft.

00:53:48.000 I'm sorry, it's a draft.

00:53:50.000 Because if you're 18 to 25, they're looking at you.

00:53:54.000 Well, they're increasing that age too.

00:53:56.000 You are obligated by law to register. 1.00

00:53:59.000 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:54:00.000 You are obligated by law to register for the draft. 1.00

00:54:03.000 And if you don't, you're in violation of law.

00:54:05.000 Now the rule is you're automatically registered for the draft because if you didn't, you would be in violation of the law.

00:54:10.000 But now it's just automatic.

00:54:12.000 This is an administrative issue and they're trying to turn it off. 1.00

00:54:15.000 It's just, it's also stupid. 1.00

00:54:16.000 It's also stupid. 1.00

00:54:17.000 But, The stupidity extends to all sides of the aisle. 1.00

00:54:20.000 Over the weekend, Tucker Carlson had on his insipid brother, Buckley, a bizarro world version of Tucker. 1.00

00:54:29.000 He's like the bad Superman, like kryptonite Superman, except that in this case, both Supermans are bad.

00:54:34.000 One is just significantly more, say, impaired than the other.

00:54:40.000 Buckley and Tucker sat there and talked about how they are sorry that they helped get Trump elected.

00:54:44.000 Presumably, they would like Kamala Harris as president of the United States.

00:54:47.000 That's how much they are upset about the war. 0.92

00:54:49.000 In Iran and Israelism, because Tucker is too cowardly to say what he actually wants to say.

00:54:55.000 You and I, and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him.

00:55:00.000 I mean, we're implicated in this for sure.

00:55:02.000 Yes.

00:55:03.000 It's not enough to say, well, I changed my mind or like, oh, this is bad, I'm out.

00:55:08.000 It's like in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.

00:55:17.000 Yes.

00:55:18.000 So I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences.

00:55:25.000 We'll be tormented by it for a long time.

00:55:28.000 I will be.

00:55:29.000 And I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people.

00:55:33.000 It was not intentional.

00:55:34.000 That's all I'll say.

00:55:38.000 What a good-hearted person he is. 0.99

00:55:41.000 So you're all suckers and you're suckered by Tucker Carlson, but he apologizes for suckering you. 0.98

00:55:46.000 Or alternatively, something else is going on. 0.97

00:55:49.000 Alternatively, he is bought into a widely now apparent view that the United States is bad, that President Trump standing up for American interests is bad.

00:56:00.000 It's also gut-churningly ugly, truthfully.

00:56:02.000 Truthfully, he's such a propagandist for terrible things at this point.

00:56:05.000 Okay, meanwhile, in other news around the United States, Tim Cook has now stepped down as the Apple CEO.

00:56:10.000 John Turnis is the head of the hardware division.

00:56:12.000 He's going to take over as chief executive.

00:56:15.000 Now, there's been a lot of critique of Tim Cook's tenure at Apple because he wasn't as transformative in some ways as Steve Jobs.

00:56:22.000 I will say that he radically increased the market cap of the company.

00:56:25.000 And the reason is because he focused in on the hardware.

00:56:28.000 And while the company is not focusing in tremendously on AI, there's a reason for that.

00:56:34.000 They're basically letting all other companies compete on the AI front, and they're developing all the hardware on which the AI will live inside phones, which frankly is pretty smart.

00:56:42.000 They're zigging while everybody else is zagging.

00:56:45.000 The company's App Store AI revenue is set to top $1 billion this year simply by collecting subscription fees from companies like OpenAI.

00:56:55.000 So, again, Tim Cook is out.

00:56:56.000 Meanwhile, in other sort of political news, Lori Chavez Duremmer is out.

00:57:00.000 She was the labor secretary who never should have been selected in the first place for the Trump administration. 1.00

00:57:06.000 She's a left wing anti markets person who's basically selected for her temporary support for President Trump. 0.94

00:57:13.000 And it turns out that she was, she quit amid a bunch of investigations into her activity.

00:57:20.000 According to CNN, for months, the Labor Department's Inspector General's office has been investigating a complaint that Chavez de Remer was having a sexual relationship with a member of her security team, as well as other allegations of inappropriate behavior, such as sending staff to pick up liquor and attempting to use business trips as an excuse for personal travel, according to a Department of Labor source with knowledge of the situation.

00:57:43.000 So that's great. 0.80

00:57:45.000 Maybe she'll start a business with Christine.

00:57:47.000 You never know.

00:57:47.000 I mean, everyone has a future.

00:57:50.000 In other administration news, Kash Patel is now suing The Atlantic for $250 million.

00:57:55.000 The reason being there's an article from The Atlantic suggesting that he was quote unquote MIA.

00:58:01.000 That Atlantic piece suggested that Patel is a drunk, essentially, that he has been known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned's in Washington, D.C.

00:58:11.000 And he's also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, where he goes for the weekends.

00:58:17.000 And so basically, they're calling him an alcoholic.

00:58:19.000 So Patel is suing them for $250 million.

00:58:22.000 He accused the defendants of publishing an article replete with false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel's reputation and to drive him from office.

00:58:32.000 And they were warned, he says, that the central allegations were categorically false.

00:58:35.000 So it'll be interesting to see how all of that plays out as well.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 21, 2026

Will AI End America?

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