The Ben Shapiro Show - October 13, 2026


You Won't Believe What Hasan Piker Said on Camera

Hosted by
Ben Shapiro
Mentioned
Hassan Piker Jennifer Welch Marjorie Taylor Greene Malcolm X Ziwei Ho Chi Minh Hillary Clinton Jonathan Chait Alyssa Slotkin Steve Scalise Fidel Castro Charlie Kirk Ken Martin Pure Talk Tim Walz Mussolini Lenin Karen Dylan Trump
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Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

193.38

Word count

2,153

Sentence count

206


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Okay, so all of this is downstream of even greater societal failure.
00:00:02.000 The treatment of fellow human beings as objects, right?
00:00:05.000 Men treating women like objects, women treating men like objects.
00:00:09.000 Nobody has the ability to discern what human nature looks like.
00:00:11.000 It's true sexually, as we've been talking about, but it's also true politically.
00:00:15.000 And this is why the left has no problem upholding the violent misogynist, Hassan Piker.
00:00:19.000 So, Hassan Piker, again, has become a crucial figure to the left.
00:00:24.000 And he hates democracy and he hates American principles.
00:00:28.000 Jonathan Chait writes at the Atlantic the most important problem.
00:00:30.000 With inviting Piker to join the pro democracy coalition, is that by any reasonable definition of the term, he doesn't believe in democracy.
00:00:37.000 Piker declared at a debate this year I say we put the power back in the hands of the many rather than the power in the hands of the few.
00:00:42.000 If a dictatorship is inevitable, I'd rather have it be a dictatorship of the proletariat than one that is designed around the needs of the bourgeois class.
00:00:49.000 He says, I love Lenin.
00:00:50.000 I love Fidel Castro.
00:00:51.000 I love Che.
00:00:52.000 They are genuinely effing heroes.
00:00:54.000 Now, he was on a podcast with a person named Ziwe, an American comedian from Massachusetts with Nigerian immigrant parents.
00:01:03.000 She went to Northwestern University and then she interned at Comedy Central.
00:01:07.000 And she has a bunch of celebrities on the show.
00:01:09.000 Well, she had on Hassan Piker.
00:01:11.000 And here he was, not being able to say, don't be violent to the cameras while wearing a Mao outfit.
00:01:17.000 Why don't you encourage your audience to like get pitchforks and overthrow the government?
00:01:22.000 We would all collectively go to prison.
00:01:25.000 I feel like there is a time and place for labor militancy, organized labor in general.
00:01:30.000 We're not there yet.
00:01:31.000 Got it.
00:01:32.000 To the audience, pacify, don't be violent.
00:01:35.000 If you could just say that to Cameron, yeah, pacify, don't be violent.
00:01:42.000 What?
00:01:46.000 So, again, he's perfectly fine with violence.
00:01:48.000 That is his thing.
00:01:49.000 And this is a treasured member of the Democratic Party at this point.
00:01:51.000 Ziwe listed a bunch of horrible things Piker has said.
00:01:54.000 And again, he agrees with all of them.
00:01:59.000 You said that America deserved 9 11.
00:02:02.000 You said that your favorite flag is Hezbollah's.
00:02:04.000 I didn't get.
00:02:05.000 Suspended for that one.
00:02:06.000 You said, I'm just listing this.
00:02:07.000 Oh, okay.
00:02:08.000 You said that a Vietnamese communist refugee should suck a dick.
00:02:08.000 Sorry.
00:02:12.000 You said that Mussolini has a fat ass.
00:02:15.000 You said that you joked that can we go back to a better time when lynchings were happening?
00:02:21.000 You said, You got me.
00:02:22.000 I'm a racist.
00:02:23.000 You said that billionaire fail sons should rape billionaire fail daughters from a utilitarian perspective.
00:02:30.000 What's wrong with you?
00:02:34.000 And of course, um, What Ziwei is trying to do is actually normalize him, right?
00:02:34.000 Okay.
00:02:37.000 Because the idea is that she's asking this in mocking fashion.
00:02:40.000 But, like, that would really be the question is what is wrong with you?
00:02:42.000 Now, the answer is that he is a terrible person, Hassan Piker.
00:02:46.000 So, Ziwei asked him about that clip where he suggested that a Vietnamese woman perform a sexual act on him.
00:02:56.000 You, old lady.
00:02:58.000 Ho Chi Minh, suck my old lady.
00:03:00.000 Why don't you go back and live in South Vietnam in the same conditions, if that's your perspective?
00:03:04.000 Well, because I feel like if you're.
00:03:07.000 If you're MAGA, if you're right wing, if you're a Nazi, you know, I'm going to be vulgar with you.
00:03:13.000 It just doesn't matter.
00:03:14.000 I don't think you get to do identity politics at that point.
00:03:18.000 You can't utilize your background to say that you're under attack when the policies that you're advancing and advocating for are unbelievably harmful for not only the Asian American population, but every black and brown person in this country and immigrants and refugees alike.
00:03:39.000 So he gets to say whatever he wants about women.
00:03:41.000 He's not arguing with her argument, right?
00:03:43.000 He's telling her that she should perform a sexual act on him.
00:03:46.000 And that's totally fine with the left.
00:03:48.000 Well, listen, maybe that's the way they do it in Turkey, which is where he is from.
00:03:51.000 Because it turns out, according to a journal of sex research from Turkey at public universities in Ankara, 30% of respondents reported perpetrating at least one act of sexual aggression since age 15.
00:04:02.000 So maybe this is commonplace in places that Hassan Piker is actually from.
00:04:08.000 But here in America, we shouldn't be doing this sort of thing.
00:04:12.000 But again, Hassan Piker is totally excused from the media.
00:04:15.000 It's totally excused.
00:04:17.000 He openly says, by the way, that he would like a USSR here in the United States.
00:04:25.000 Now, what is your dream for America?
00:04:27.000 Full blown, united Soviet Republic of the United States.
00:04:33.000 And what's your favorite Malcolm X quote?
00:04:36.000 I don't have one.
00:04:36.000 Okay.
00:04:39.000 Actually, you know what?
00:04:40.000 I'm going to redo that.
00:04:41.000 I do have a Malcolm X quote.
00:04:42.000 Okay, please.
00:04:43.000 If you don't pay close attention, newspapers will have you thinking that those who are victims of injustice are your enemies, and those who are doing the injustice are not the oppressors.
00:04:57.000 Something along those lines.
00:04:58.000 I'm not very good with recall.
00:04:58.000 I paraphrased it.
00:05:02.000 Yeah, he's not very good with recall because he is both stupid and also a terror supporting communist.
00:05:07.000 And again, the Democratic Party loves this.
00:05:10.000 Jennifer Welch, who, again, I will never understand why anyone would watch Jennifer Welch.
00:05:14.000 It makes no sense to me.
00:05:16.000 If you had to create an obnoxious human being in a lab, if you wanted to create like a Karen in a lab, it would be Jennifer Welch.
00:05:23.000 But here she was with Hassan Piker, bragging that he has turned her son into the president of Antifa.
00:05:30.000 Because the toughest progressive people in this country are the boots on the ground in red states.
00:05:38.000 It makes you more liberal, it makes you more progressive.
00:05:41.000 And just like tying it back to my mother, my politics weren't completely fixed.
00:05:47.000 I did the best I could in this red hellscape.
00:05:50.000 And I thought, I remember my son who listens to you all the time.
00:05:53.000 I put up a Hillary Clinton sign.
00:05:55.000 He was like, God, mom, you're a moderate.
00:05:56.000 And I was like, a moderate?
00:06:00.000 Are you kidding me?
00:06:01.000 I am so liberal, Dylan.
00:06:03.000 He's like, exactly, a liberal.
00:06:06.000 Right?
00:06:07.000 Because Hassan indoctrinated him, and now he's the president.
00:06:10.000 And now my son's the president of Antifa.
00:06:17.000 But the people, red dots in blue dots in red states.
00:06:25.000 But again, this is what the Democratic Party is all about.
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00:07:33.000 The DNC chair, Ken Martin, was asked about the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:07:36.000 That's Hassan Piker's group, basically.
00:07:38.000 Are they an ally or a liability?
00:07:39.000 And his answer was: oh, they're our friends.
00:07:41.000 We love them.
00:07:42.000 They're great.
00:07:45.000 Last question.
00:07:46.000 DSA, Democratic Socialists.
00:07:47.000 An ally or a liability for the Democrats as you've seen the way they've been branded?
00:07:51.000 This party's being branded by Republican opponents.
00:07:54.000 Well, let me just say I've always taken a big tent approach on how you build a party.
00:07:58.000 That's why I was successful for all these years in Minnesota.
00:08:01.000 I believe you win through addition, not subtraction.
00:08:03.000 You win by growing your coalition, not shrinking it.
00:08:05.000 And sometimes.
00:08:06.000 You're not in the middle, though, when Americans see that.
00:08:08.000 No, not at all, because that's where the vast majority of Americans are at.
00:08:12.000 Maybe right in the middle or.
00:08:13.000 The little center of the left.
00:08:14.000 Americans love the DSA, according to the Democratic Party.
00:08:17.000 Now, listen, Hassan Piker and crew are out redefining the left into a violent group of anarchic thugs and cretins.
00:08:23.000 And the Democratic Party is very into this.
00:08:25.000 And this is how violence gets mainstreamed.
00:08:28.000 It's a permission structure for violence.
00:08:28.000 It does.
00:08:30.000 I mean, he's openly joking about violence and treating women horribly and all of this.
00:08:34.000 And it's not a shock, right?
00:08:35.000 I mean, we saw gigantic leftist riots in 2020 that did billions of dollars in property damage and cost some actual lives.
00:08:41.000 And we see it even in sleepy little towns like Livingston, Montana.
00:08:44.000 We were filming our new film there.
00:08:46.000 And there are a wide variety of threats, including a man driving a pickup truck through barricades toward our production crew at 30 miles an hour, screaming, You guys are fascists, F you.
00:08:56.000 And a man with a fraudulent tag on his vehicle, pinning two of our security managers against a wall, only stopping when one of the security places hand on his sidearm, and all the rest.
00:09:05.000 Again, this is what left wing violence is.
00:09:07.000 And it's becoming totally normalized in America.
00:09:09.000 It is quite real.
00:09:10.000 But according to the media, by the way, the only true political violence in America comes from, wait for it, MAGA.
00:09:16.000 So the New York Times did a big article yesterday talking about.
00:09:19.000 about the evils of MAGA and violent threats.
00:09:22.000 And here's what the New York Times says.
00:09:24.000 Serving in public office in the United States is dangerous.
00:09:26.000 From state and local government to Congress, an unending river of violent threats is washing through the mailboxes, offices, voicemail and texts of those who govern the nation.
00:09:33.000 Thousands of public servants are living, working, and in the final weeks of election season, campaigning in a state of fear.
00:09:38.000 And it's getting worse, office holders said in dozens of interviews.
00:09:42.000 So who are the main characters in this particular New York Times story?
00:09:46.000 You'll be unsurprised to find that the main victims, according to the New York Times, are Marjorie Taylor Greene, Remember, they hated her until she turned anti Trump, then they loved her.
00:09:54.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene is the big victim.
00:09:57.000 Tim Walz, who's the big victim.
00:10:00.000 And Senator Alyssa Slotkin, who is the big victim.
00:10:04.000 It must be Trump's fault.
00:10:05.000 It's all the MAGA of it.
00:10:06.000 Now, ignore the fact that Steve Scalise was nearly shot to death on a baseball field.
00:10:10.000 Ignore the fact that Charlie Kirk was shot to death.
00:10:13.000 Ignore the fact that, again, the numbers that they cite here, by the way, are kind of hilarious.
00:10:17.000 They say that there were, quote unquote, thousands of threats to something like 200 Congress people over the course of two years.
00:10:24.000 Okay, folks, that's amateur hour.
00:10:26.000 I gotta say, like, gotta up those numbers.
00:10:28.000 My security clocks as a threat to my safety or that of my family over 5,000 threats per year.
00:10:35.000 I'm one human.
00:10:36.000 Okay, so when I talk about where the threats are coming from, let me just say an enormous number of threats come from the left.
00:10:41.000 An enormous number.
00:10:42.000 Not all.
00:10:43.000 There are people who are part of the neo-fascist right who do issue threats.
00:10:48.000 That is a real thing.
00:10:49.000 But the attempt by the media to spin political violence as though it is emerging only From sort of mainstream MAGA is totally insane and not backed by the statistics.
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