F (2:45)

When you come out and when you leave the room, you'll see that we just over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. And you'll be seeing that and you'll be reading about that. It just happened moments ago. And our great general, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran, knocking out potential nuclear power for a long time to come, I think within a month they would have had it if we didn't do what we did. But he gave us a little bit of a briefing and you'll see. And there's more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country coming in for a long time. And we just. These came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela. A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela. So we took it out. And you'll get to see that after this, after this meeting is over.

B (3:50)

The President said the military had shot out the boat moments ago. He said his team had been briefed on the strike by General Dan Raisin Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And then Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, among other jobs, said the military carried out a lethal strike in the southern Caribbean Sea, again pointing out that this was a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco terrorist organization. This is a good thing. A stronger America on the world stage is a good thing. Strikes designed to minimize threats to Americans, that is in fact a good thing. The strike, according to CBS News, came after the United States confirmed last month that the Navy would boost its presence near Venezuela, deploying three warships to the waters off the South American country as part of an anti drug cartel mission. The Venezuelan president, who is in fact a dictator, Nicolas Maduro, called the ships an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat, and then deployed military forces to the country's coastline, suggesting the United States was about to launch a full scale invasion of Venezuela. That, of course, is untrue, as far as we know. What we do know is that the Trump administration is not going to sit back and wait while a vast influx of drugs continues across our border. The President came into office suggesting that he was going to end the fentanyl epidemic in the United States. One of the chief ways that he did that was preventing the importation of drugs across our southern border, preventing Venezuelan drug cartel ships from landing on American shores by stopping them in international waters or blowing them up. That, of course, actually is quite good policy. So good on the President of the United States for all of that. Meanwhile, the UK continues to absolutely melt down. So thank God we fought a revolution in this country so that we are not ruled by the idiot rules of the modern uk. Graham Linehan is a comedian and comedy writer and apparently he was just arrested in the UK for tweets and this unfortunately is not uncommon in the UK at this point. If you flash back just a couple of weeks, according to the New York Post, the UK is now engaged in a free speech crackdown that was seeing up to 30 people a day arrested for petty offenses like retweets and cartoons. According to the New York Post, Bernadette Spotforth lay in jail on a blue gym mattress in a daze, finding it difficult to move, even breathe. She remembers noticing you can't drown yourself in the toilet because there's no standing water in it and the flush button is too far to reach for your head were in the bowl, she'd end up being detained for 36 hours. In July 2024, three girls had just been murdered in Southport, England at a Taylor Swift themed dance party. But Spot Forth was not under suspicion for the crime, according to the New York Post. Instead, she had reposted on X and other users content blaming newly arrived migrants for the ghastly crime and even clarified in her retweet if this is true. Hours later, she realized that that post was bad information. She deleted it too late. It was seen thousands of times. Four police vehicles arrived at her home days later. She's a successful businesswoman from Chester and was placed immediately under arrest, apparently, according to the New York post, her story is one repeated almost hourly in the UK, where data suggests over 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes, about 12,000 a year under laws written well before the age of social media to make crimes of sending grossly offensive messages or sharing content of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. Presumably that was meant to stop people from mailing to each other things that were indecent or threatening. And now the UK is using that as a way of cracking down on people it disagrees with, which is insane. So back to Graham Linen. Apparently, according to his substack quote, something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona. When I handed over my passport to Gay. The official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be reticketed. At the time, I thought it was just the sort of innocence nephew that makes air travel such a joy. But in hindsight, it was clear I'd been flagged somewhere. Someone, probably wearing unconvincing makeup and his sister's wife's mom's underwear, had made a phone call. The moment I stepped off the plane in Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two. Five rice linen. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where pedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet. And here's what the tweet said. Quote, if a trans identified male is in a female only space, he's committing a violent abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails, punch him in the balls. So he was arrested for that tweet. He was also arrested apparently for another tweet in which there was some sort of a gigantic trans protest or mid sized trans protest in London. And he tweeted a photo you can smell Fact check, True, Fair. And then a follow up, I hate them misogynists and homophobes. Fm. And he was arrested for those tweets in the uk. Quote When I first saw the cops, I actually laughed. I couldn't help myself. Don't tell me you've been sent by trans activists. The officers gave no reaction. And this was the theme throughout most of the day. Among the rank and file there was a sort of polite bafflement, entirely professional and even kind, but most had absolutely no idea what any of this was about. Kind because the officers saw how upset I was when they began reading me my rights. The red mist ascended. I came close to becoming one of those police body cam videos where you can't believe the perp isn't just doing what he's told. And they treated me gently after that. They arranged for a van to meet me on the tarmac so I didn't have to be. Perp walked through the airport like a terrorist. Small mercies. So his belt, bag devices were confiscated. He was thrown into a small green tiled salt with a bunk, a silver toilet and a message from Crime Stoppers on the ceiling next to a concave mirror that was presumably there to make you reflect on your life choices. Apparently during his interview, the officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn with a sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like, I don't know, crime. I explained the punch tweet was making. It was a serious point made with a joke. Men who enter women's faces are abusers and they need to be challenged every time. The punch in the bollocks bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call and to violence. He mentioned trans people. I asked what he meant by the phrase people who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth. I said, assigned at birth. Our sex isn't assigned. He called it semantics. I told him he was using activist language. Eventually a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure over 200 stroke territory. The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life. So he was escorted to A and E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation. So just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Apparently he believes that the person who referred him to the cops was a Lindsey Watson, who he calls a demented ex copper Trune, who was fired for his online conduct. Watson was also involved in another case on Thursday and Friday at London Westminster Magistrates Court that trans activists are planning to protest. So welcome to England, the birthplace of Magna Carta, where again, tearing down the institutions that make a functional society. That's the thing. That's the thing. And it's not just that these folks in the UK are interested in tearing away free speech and saying they're not allowed to tweet a bad thing, that bad tweets might land you in jail. They are importing people from parts of the planet who hate all of those centralizing Western principles like free speech. Despise them. When I talk in lines and scavengers about the coalition of scavengers, about the idea that you have barbarians, you know, the people from outside who hate our civilization and they join forces with the lechers inside our civilization who believe that they are marginalized by our traditional institutions and values and they make common clause together. That's the UK in a nutshell. Because it is no coincidence that just yesterday the Home Secretary of the uk, Yvette Cooper, said that the UK is going to take in refugees from Gaza. So congrats to the people of Great Britain. They don't just have to contend with the insanity inside their borders. They are going to be importing people who almost certainly do not share their values out of some sort of misplaced sympathy, I suppose, because there are plenty of other countries on planet Earth that are more akin ideologically and culturally to the people of Gaza, but apparently not according to the wonderful folks in the uk. I can't imagine why Nigel Farage's party is doing so well over in the uk. Here's Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Just yesterday.

C (12:10)

The Home Office has put in place systems to issue expedited visas with biometric checks conducted prior to arrival for children and their immediate accompanying family members. And we have done the same for all the Chevening scholars and are in the process of doing so. Now for the next group of students from Gaza who have been awarded fully funded scholarships and and places at UK universities so they can start their studies in autumn this year.

B (12:39)

Oh, congrats. I mean, by the way, fully funded, so that means somebody else is paying the bill. Cooper said that the government would be opening a broader scheme for refugee students to, quote, come and study in the UK so we can help more talented young people fleeing war and persecution to find a better future alongside Captain managed ways for refugees to work here in the uk. So once again, congrats to the people of the uk, who are now going to be forced to accept, presumably thousands of people from Gaza, one of the most radical places on planet Earth. Already coming up, more on the UK arresting people for bad tweets. Also, Zoramdani, endorsed by another terrible New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, and much more. First, your online activity is in private. Data brokers track everything you do online. Your browsing, shopping habits, even your beliefs. In the United States, they can legally sell that information. Companies buy this data to target you with ads. 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There's been some opposition within Westminster to the move to take in refugees from Gaza. Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick expressed apprehension at the idea of resettling Palestinians in the uk. He wrote in the Telegraph, quote, the truth is that Gaza's Arab neighbors are prepared to offer humanitarian support. But consider the idea of inviting Gazans into the country at any scale of risk only a fool would take. Which of course is true. Egypt is accepting zero people from Gaza, but Britain is accepting thousands from Gaza. A strange move. A very, very strange move by the uk. Except this is a misapplied sense of guilt directed at the third World by the Labor Party in the uk. A belief than the oppressor oppressed matrix. The UK is an oppressor, Israel is an oppressor. The people of Gaza are the oppressed and therefore the people of the UK must accept into the place where they live people who believe that Western civilization is in and of itself wrong and terrible. Cooper, by the way, also made more announcements about the UK's border and asylum policy that included loosening some of the restrictions on immigration. So well done. Now we should point out at this point here that Qatar, which is of course essentially Hamas with nicer suits, that Qatar sponsors an enormous amount of business in the UK, like truly an incredible amount of business in the UK. There's a columnist named Dr. Naftali Hirsch who points out exactly how much Qatar owns in the it's amazing. I mean it's a country of 400,000 citizens and they, they spend their money like water over there. A non exhaustive list of the companies that Qatar primarily through its Qatar Investment Authority owns giant chunks of include in the UK Barclays, the London Stock Exchange, Heathrow Airport, Harrods, the Canary Wharf Group, Rolls Royce, and the International Airlines group that includes British Airways, Iberia fueling and Aer Lingus. So if you ever wonder why it is that Europe is is so warm, why so many people in the upper echelons of Europe seem so warm toward importing people who truly hate their civilization, part of the answer is money. As always. As always. Speaking of which, you know who else Qatar has historically paid? Zoran Mamdani's mama. According to the New York Post, Hamas backing Qatar has bankrolled film and stage projects by socialist Zorn Mamdani's Israel bashing movie director mom and one of its royals is now pushing her son's mayoral bid. According to the New York Post, Sheikha Al Mayasa Bin Khaman Al Thani, sister to the ruling emir and the state funded cultural institutions she controls, have supported Mira Nair and her creative projects since at least 2009. So that's great. You have Qatar pay for the mayor of New York. That's exciting. Even extending a personal invitation to participate in the cultural program the country organized as part of the festivities around hosting the 2022 World Cup. Since mid June, Sheikha Al Thani has taken to promoting Mamdani's mayoral candidacy on social media, boosting News of favorable polling on Instagram and posting fire emojis under a TikTok video of him embracing Nair. Daniel Pletka, foreign policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, says, quote, they're buying somebody who's willing to be bought. And in a time of their choosing, they will ask for what they want. They need a rainbow coalition of people who will support the ideology they promote. Sometimes it will be Islamism, sometimes it will be anti Semitism, sometimes it will just be anti Israel. According to the New York Post, there are extensive ties between Zoran Mandani's Mama and the Qatari elite, including from 2010 until 2014, the Doha film Institute, founded by Sheikha Al Thani, underwrote a boot camp to train Qatari students in screenwriting and filmmaking. And Nair's Maisha film labs in East Africa and in Doha. The Doha Film Institute paid the entire $15 million budget of Nair's 2012 film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, one of the first movies it produced. That flick is all about how America was mean to a Pakistani immigrant suffering mistreatment after 9 11. So we're talking about like millions of dollars funded from Qatar to the Mamdani Mama. And then it turns out they are promoting Zor Momdani also via social media. Shocker. I can't believe. Turns out that the accusation that money may have something to do with the success of the socialist candidate. Well, not totally untrue. That coalition of scavengers, it rides high. Radical Islamists, trans advocates, Marxists, all willing to join together to fight the civilization they believe is the problem. Speaking of that New York mayoral race, I'm in New York right now. I gotta say, it's an amazing city. I mean truly the world capital of commerce. And now the person that they are talking about making mayor believes that he can single handedly centralize the economy. Good luck with that. Zor Momdani just yesterday suggested he was going to freeze rent for 250,000 rent controlled units. I can't imagine how that's going to lead to housing shortages. Spoiler alert. It leads to housing shortages. As your next mayor of this city, I will freeze the rent for more than 250,000 rent stabilized apartments. Well, I mean, good luck to all the developers in New York City. And I know developers, people who are looking to buy space in New York because obviously lots of commerce here, lots of people working here, but virtually all of them have now added closing conditions based on Mamdani's possible mayoralty. People who are thinking about pulling out of we're talking like large multimillion dollar deals because they are afraid that Mamdani is simply going to come in and bootstomp any free market with regard to real estate. Meanwhile, you know you're in good hands when Bill de Blasio, the recent worst mayor in the history of New York, endorses Zoran Mandani. Yesterday, he claimed in a New York Daily News op ed, quote, we don't just need Zoram Ondani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas or because they can be achieved. We need him because in his heart and in his bones, he cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running. One of my favorite things about the left is that they never have to actually argue for why their policies might be effective. They simply say, well, you know, his heart is in the right place. We need him because in his heart and in his bones, he cannot accept a city that prices people out. Well, I mean, if he feels bad about rent, then that means he probably should be mayor. Just like that homeless guy that I spotted coming in here, he also seemed about rent, so probably he should be mayor. The ex mayor who served two terms from 2014 to 2021, demonstrating full scale the idiocy of many New Yorkers, insisted the Mamdani's promise for affordability, including rent freezes, free child care, and free city buses, was the reason he cinched the June Democratic primary. He wrote, quote. Yet though many New Yorkers agree with him, many others are skeptical. Still others have lost faith in the city government's ability to not only talk, but deliver. They want to know one fundamental truth. Can it be done? I can say definitely, and I know better than anyone the answer is yes. Yeah. So many people loved Bill de Blasio as mayor. People just thought he did an amazing job lowering costs, making the city more livable. Nobody believes this. Well, de Blasio is actually talking up mom Donnie's idea. You know, credit to de Blasio, the man actually says the quiet part out loud. He just full scale endorses the worst ideas of Zoran Mamdani. So he's on Morning Joe, Bill de Blasio, that giant groundhog killing weirdo, and he said that government run grocery stores sound actually quite awesome.

E (23:05)

Zoran says, for example, look at the fact that people need right now. They need relief. They need to be able to live in this city.

F (23:13)

Right?

E (23:14)

So, for example, you know, here's a great one. The grocery stores and a lot of attempts to mangle what that is we have food deserts in New York City. We have places where people cannot get decent quality food. We have an obesity crisis. That's part of that. He says, okay, let's have the government come in, set up some grocery stores where the private sector is not putting in grocery stores and help get people quality food at a reasonable price. Makes a lot of sense to me. Free bus.

F (23:38)

And who runs that?

E (23:39)

The city of New York runs it. Just like we run so many other services.

B (23:45)

It'll be amazing, guys. It'll be amazing. If only had been tried somewhere else and we could see whether it worked. Wait, it was tried in Kansas City and it turns out that it went bankrupt. According to the New York Post, Again, this is just a few weeks ago. Sun Fresh Market in Kansas City, which opened in 2018 as part of a million dollar revitalization plan, mysteriously shuttered just weeks after viral footage exposed the struggling stores at bare shelves, foul odor and frustrated customers. That was a publicly funded grocery store in Missouri. They left a note on the entrance stating it can no longer serve residents due to circumstances, quote, beyond our control. Oh, no. How sad. The store was located in a city owned building. It was open as part of a $15 million revitalization project, but as it turns out, government owned, it turned into a crime center and. And then it basically got emptied out. So probably it'll work out great. You know, other things that might work out great that have never been tried for sure would be like free busing. Free busing would be great because, you know, it's not as though the New York City buses are smelly and terrible enough with people actually paying for some level of upkeep. If you get rid of the upkeep, probably it'll be even better, even freer, even more awesome. If you like the BO on New York buses, get ready for like 10 times that. It'll be amazing.

E (24:55)

Think about the free buses again. Free buses has been proven to work in many parts of the country where it's get your list of cities. But the bottom line is it is something that allows people to one, reduce their costs, which people are overwhelmed by. Two, get into mass transit more. It works because we know that if people are given a quality alternative they can afford, they'll use it.

B (25:21)

Well, actually, I mean, the question is not whether they will use the free buses. The question is who will pay for the free buses and why won't they just wreck the free buses? And the answer is they will. If only this had been tried somewhere before. It was. It was tried in Kansas City. Which apparently is like the testing ground, basically. It seems like the relationship between Kansas City and New York is sort of like the baseball relationship between Kansas City and New York back in the late 1950s, early 1960s, where essentially the Kansas City Athletics, the A's used to be in Kansas City, were a farm team for the New York Yankees. They. They would cultivate a player like, for example, Roger Maris, and then they would trade him for beans to the New York Yankees. It seems like that's kind of what happens in Kansas City. It looks like they. They workshop all the bad ideas, and then they come to New York. According to the New York Post, Kansas City's $50 million experiment with free bus fare is hitting the brakes because the city can't afford it. The Midwest city used federal COVID 19 relief money in 2020 to become the first in the country to institute free buses. But local funding dried up. Riders and conductors slammed the buses as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters, something critics say could easily happen in Gotham. Ken Girardin, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said, if you go from charging affair to not charging a fair ridership goes up, you end up degradation of the service. Well, duh. So again, New York apparently wishes to play with fire, and they will get burned. And frankly, I'm here for it. I'm here to watch. I think it'll be great, especially because it'll all be part of the resistance. Right? That's the thing that matters is it's the resistance. So Letitia James, most famous for getting a ridiculous fraud conviction against President Trump in civil court and then getting the penalty knocked all the way down. Letitia James, who's made a mess of her career at this point while she's out there also endorsing Zoran Mamdani. Exciting, exciting stuff from Letitia James.

G (27:07)

He got his political career starting here. He was a student at Bronx Science.

B (27:12)

Yeah, Science.

G (27:13)

Wait a minute. He was the vice president of the. Of the Bronx Science student body. So that qualifies him. In addition to that, Zoran, he had a brief hip hop career.

A (27:29)

Yes.

G (27:31)

Yeah. And although. And although I may. Jumani and I may disagree, but hip hop started in the Bronx.

B (27:42)

1520 Segwick Avenue in my district.

G (27:48)

Now, I won't say say that in Brooklyn, but. And so he is born and raised. I have been born and raised in Brooklyn, but I know the power of the Bronx.

B (27:58)

That's right.

G (28:00)

And I know that all of us need to be standing in purpose today and in support of my good friend.

B (28:09)

Well, I mean, with that kind of sterling resume, like being a failed rapper. I mean, how could this go wrong? It definitely won't. And if somebody knows something about victory, it's Letitia James, who once thought of being governor and then was actually just a terrible ag. Here she was saying victory will be our. Sounding like a movie villain here.

G (28:26)

And I'm still standing.

B (28:29)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

G (28:31)

Still standing.

B (28:32)

Yeah, yeah. Okay.

G (28:35)

Brooklyn, check. Manhattan, check. Staten island, check. And now the Bronx, check. And there's one left. But the bottom line is, is that we're closing in on Victory.

B (28:55)

That's right.

G (28:56)

And victory is near.

A (28:58)

Yes.

G (28:59)

And victory will be ours.

B (29:02)

Victory will be ours. They just cut to escape from Manhattan. Kurt Russell wandering through the burning blocks of New York. Yeah, things are going to be great in New York, guys. You're doing an amazing job. Smart job. Already coming up the left for some reason over the weekend, thought that President Trump was dead. We'll get to that first. You know, most kids vitamins out there are loaded with teaspoons of sugar, artificial ingredients kids don't really need. This is where Haya comes in. They've created an amazing chewable vitamin that kids actually love. The best part, zero sugar. Still totally delicious. Even the pickiest eaters would approve. They've packed in 12 organic fruits and veggies, plus 15 essential vitamins and minerals. It's non GMO, vegan, allergen free, thoroughly tested for safety. Which means you and I can both feel confident giving our kids vitamins made to this high quality standard. Are you tired of battling with your kids to eat their greens? Haiya now has kids at Daily Greens plus Superfoods, a chocolate flavored greens powder designed specifically for kids. Packed with more than 55 whole food ingredients to support brain power development and digestion. Just scoop, shake, sip with milk or any non dairy beverage for a delicious and nutritious boost your kids are actually going to enjoy. They even send stickers with your first order so your kids can decorate the bottle and make it they're very, very own. We've worked out a special deal with Haya for their best selling children's vitamin. Receive 50 off your first order. To claim this deal, you have to go to hyahealth.com Shapiro this deal is not available on their regular website. Go to H I-Y-A H-E-A-L-T-.com Shapiro get your kids the full body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults. Also feeling overwhelmed by back taxes. Well, you're not alone. Maybe you missed that April deadline or your financial records are all over the place. Whatever the situation, don't put it off any longer. The IRS is not getting any friendlier. Those penalties, they pile up fast. We're talking 5% every month you don't file maxing out at 25%, which adds up really, really quickly. Here's the thing. You don't have to handle this alone. Tax Network USA specializes in exactly these kinds of situations. They've worked with thousands of Americans, employees, small business owners, people who haven't filed in years, messy books. They've literally seen it all, and they know how to sort it out. What sets them apart is their direct access to IRS programs most people don't even know exist. Plus, they have expert negotiators who actually know how to get results. They'll start with a free consultation to assess your situation. If you qualify, they may be able to reduce or even eliminate what you owe. More importantly, they can protect you from the really scary stuff like wage garnishments and bank levies. The bottom line? Don't wait for that next IRS letter to show up in your mailbox. The sooner you act, the more options you'll have. Call 800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.comshapiro to talk to a real expert at Tax Network USA. Take the pressure off, but Tax Network USA handle your tax issues. Meanwhile, the Democrats are focused like a laser beam on defeating President Trump. And that means basically just doing really, really dumb things. So over the weekend, you may have missed it. If you weren't too online, you actually had a life and you were hanging out with your kids, you missed it. But it turns out over the weekend, Democrats thought that Trump was dead. Why? Well, because he didn't have a public schedule for a couple of days. Now, I understand that President Trump has become, you know, just a part of all of our lives that basically every five minutes, President Trump pops not only into the headlines, but into our consciousness. I get it. I do. The man is ubiquitous. But if he goes, you know, not in the headlines for a couple of days, doesn't mean he's dead. I also understand the Democrats are desperately attempting to now replay every Republican hit in reverse. So if Republicans have a very provocative presidential candidate who trolls people online, then Gavin Newsom just does the same thing, but in reverse. If the Democrats run a dead person and Republicans point that out, and then the Republicans win, now Democrats are going to try and claim that President Trump is, in fact, dead. Well, rumors of President Trump's death were greatly exaggerated over the weekend, and that led to this exchange between Peter Doocy of Fox News and the President of the United States on the subject, something.

E (32:40)

Completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend. How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?

B (32:49)

You see that?

E (32:50)

No, people didn't see you for a couple days. 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.

F (32:57)

Really? I didn't see that. You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful. They went very well. Like this is going very well. And then I didn't do any for two days. And they said there must be something wrong with him. Biden wouldn't do him for months. You wouldn't see him. And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him. And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape. No, I heard that. I get reports now. You knew. I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody and everybody saw that was on one of your competitors. I did numerous shows and also did a number of truths, long truths, I think pretty poignant truths. No, he's very active over the weekend.

B (33:44)

Well, that's true. He was active over the weekend and he was truthing it up. But you know, Democrats, when in doubt, just claim that the guy is dead. By the way, they are hoping. They are very much hoping. So, Tim Walls again, that guy, it's amazing that he became for a moment a national name, because a weirder person I have yet to find in American politics. It's saying a lot. There are a lot of weirdos in American politics. Tim Walls, who is most reminiscent of the inflatable man who's kind of waving bizarrely off the side of the freeway at a used car lot. Well, he over the weekend decided to imply the president was dead and then say, well, if he's not, maybe he will be soon. Goodness gracious. You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things. And although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying. Just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news. And then of course, you have the performative oppositionality of people like Jasmine Crockett, the Texas congresswoman. I will admit that I'm enjoying Jasmine Crockett's changes of dialect almost as much as I enjoyed the tour through dialect that we got from Hillary Clinton. You remember, Hillary Clinton had like a bunch of different accents that you would just randomly unleash. Well, I just want to show You a flashback. This is Jasmine Crockett before she was in Congress and what she talked like. Because you really have to know that in order to understand what she is doing now.

A (35:07)

Absolutely. First of all, it's good to see you in the new year. You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin. Now looks like a little bit over a year ago that I would be running for Congress. It's just not what my plan was.

B (35:24)

I mean, she sounds like, you know, like a normal human who speaks as though she went to, she went to college and then she just code switches into this.

A (35:36)

Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their co workers, staffers, interns, all the things. Yeah, you ain't got to believe me. Just go Google, you'll find some of it, I'm telling you. And the wives is being messy and petty. They put it in the divorce. I'm like, oh, that's got to be true. Cuz your lawyer would know that they going to lose it if they.

B (36:08)

I feel like, I feel like Beaver Cleaver's mother is going to show up in a moment and explain that she speaks jive like this, this is something directly out of airplane. Like that, that wild switch in dialect is crazy. And that again has nothing to do with race because if a white person did that, like Hillary Clinton, it would also be crazy. That is crazy. I don't know what's happening, but that's that this is a person who is seen as an up and coming Democratic voice. Okay, good, good luck to you guys. Good luck to you. And I. And I have to say the, the up and coming Democratic class, it's filled with stellar people. In breaking news, it turns out that Representative Ilhan Omar is worth an absolute fricking fortune. Which is insane because of course if you listen to her, you realize America is deeply unfair, terrible, racist, exploitative, and yet somehow she may be worth up to $30 million. I have no idea how I didn't realize that informal ISIS recruiter paid that much. Anyway, Ilhan Omar reported a net worth of up to $30 million in her latest financial disclosure. A document filed just months after she dismissed claimed she was a millionaire as ridiculous and categorically false. The disclosure filed in May, shows the far left squad lawmaker and her husband, Tim Minette experienced a roughly 3,500% increase in net worth last year compared to 2020 through 23. Well, I mean, I suppose that marrying not your brother has some benefits. The surge in the couple's wealth was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday. The financial gains came from my nets two businesses, a Santa Rosa, California based winery and a venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. seems like somebody's benefiting off some American style free market exploitation. Apparently. Minet's venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital LLC, its assets were valued at between 5 million and 25 million by the end of 2024. Rosely Capital claims to have $60 billion in assets under management, according to the company's website. So, yeah, that that seems like a person who's benefited, you know, an awful lot from living in the United States and yet still thinks the United States sucks because again, our country is filled with terrible people who have come from abroad and then have decided that they're going to crap on the place that has made them free and prosperous and fight against all the systems that did precisely that. They are indeed scavengers. Alrighty. Coming up, Greta Thunberg. Yeah, I know she's in the headlines again, but she's our scavenger of the day. I will explain why. First, I love movies about real heroes who have the courage to stand up against evil. We need those stories today. That's exactly why the incredible story told in Artist at War caught my attention. The film opens September 26th. You can visit bowmovie.com to see the trailers. Artist at War tells the remarkable true story of Joseph Bao, a gifted artist and forger who risked his life to save others during the Holocaust. There he found not only the strength to survive, but unexpected love With Rebecca. A gripping story of survival, love and courage. The movie's awesome. It really stays with you. It's not just another Holocaust movie. It's a film really about art and love. How they save lives, literally and spiritually. Joseph Bao was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. He forged documents to help other people escape. He was also a poet, an animator and a romantic. His story, his love and his resilience. It feels like fiction, but it's an actual, real, true story. If you love Schindler's List or Jojo Rabbit films that show not just what was lost, but what was fought for. You need to see Bao Bao. Artist at War opens only in theaters for a limited run beginning September 26th. Go to Baomovie.com to watch the trailer, read about Joseph's real life journey and find showtimes near you. Again, that's baomovie.com b a u movie.com okay. Meanwhile, speaking of scavengers, I have to point out today's scavenger scavenger of the day, Greta Thunberg. So I don't know when she decided to become either Lord Farquaad from Shrek Torturing the Gingerbread man or when she decided to just take he man's hair and plunk it on her head. It was. She's made a lot of bad decisions recently. And listen, I'm just happy that Greta Thunberg is now over the age of 18 so I can make fun of her because I know the rules. The rules are that if you have a complete dullard, a person who is posted by the left as the voice of a generation, but they're under 18, and then you mock them, there's like, how dare you pick on the children? Like political human shields. Like, what if I, what if I take this child soldier and put the child soldier there and then if you make fun of the child, it's because you hate children. Okay, but now she's, you know, age of majority. She's older than I am at this point. She's certainly aged more quickly and so I can mock her as much as I damned well please. She is a moron. She was always a moron. But when you're a child and you're a moron, it's somewhat amusing. When you're an adult and you're a moron, then you're just annoying. Now, now you're just a. A draw on the public wheel. Well, Greta Thunberg has made her cause the Gaza Strip. This is after global warming fails. So it turns out she couldn't stop global warming. So now she's going to take a bunch of diesel powered boats and try to float her way to Gaza for the second time. You'll remember the first time she was stopped and handed a sandwich and then claimed that she had been kidnapped. She was not kidnapped. She was handed a sandwich. And then she was put in the worst possible position for any human being ever. The back row of an LL flight next to the bathrooms. I will say, not great, done it before. Not amazing. But Greta Thunberg, this is, this is her not all that long ago complaining about her cruel fate.

C (41:23)

My name is Griffa Timber and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others. As soon as possible.

B (41:49)

Yeah, because that's, that's usually what happens for those who are. Who are kidnapped is that you cut a. A clip on your own phone and then you post it to social media immediately. That. That's typically what happened. By the way, the gall of her to claim that she was kidnapped while there are still hostages being starved to death by the people she sympathizes with. Hamas. Truly astonishing. But that is who Greta Thunberg is. Here she was not all that long ago, not that many years ago, ripping soccer players and celebrities, getting attention, when she is legitimately one of the great attention. There's a word here that I'm not going to use of all time. Here we go.

C (42:25)

Where celebrities, film and pop stars who have stood up against all injustices will not stand up for the environment and for climate justice, because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world visiting their favorite restaurants, beaches and yoga retreats.

B (42:46)

Well, the good news is that now she's on the boat again. So she got on boat a couple of days ago, and then the winds turned it around and. And so now she's gotten on the diesel power boats again. And the reason I point her out is because she is so indicative of this entire generation, an entire generation of young morons in the West. Here's something. I write about this in my book Lines and scavengers, quote, scavengers are plentiful among those for whom life is too easy. It is one of the great ironies of history that revolutionaries are typically drawn not from the ranks of the abject poor, but the idle bourgeois. The poor are those who need not struggle for their daily bread, who are not dedicated to the demands of family or disengaged from the larger community. They seek a feeling of meaning that can be found in either building or tearing down and finding themselves incapable of building. They choose the latter option. University students are all too often the seedbed for revolution for precisely this reason. They have no families to support. They are often supported by their parents, and they have intellectual pretensions of their own. And that is Greta Thunberg in a nutshell. It is also why younger Americans by like a 60, 40 margin now say that they support Hamas. Because this is what we are raising here in the West, a bunch of spoiled brats who have no connection with reality. And so they will vote for Zoran Mamdani and then pretend their own virtue. Okay? Meanwhile, in other news, the President of the United States announced yesterday that he would in fact be deploying National Guard Troops to Chicago. Here's what he had to say.

F (44:08)

Can't walk outside. We're petrified. If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country. And that includes Baltimore. I saw where Governor Moore was asking me to take a walk down the street of Baltimore. Well, Baltimore is a very unsafe place. It's rated number four in the city, one of the worst, one of the most unsafe places anywhere in the world.

B (44:39)

And so he's not wrong about that. The Democrats have decided this is a problem. Not only that, apparently a judge has now decided that President Trump's use of troops in Los Angeles was unlawful. According to the Wall Street Journal, a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration's deployment of troops to LA in response to protests over immigration policies violated a 19th century law prohibiting the use of federal forces for domestic law enforcement. So he claimed, Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, that the administration did not comply with the so called Posy Comitatus act, which was an 1878 statute that restricts the use of US armed forces on America's streets. Now, by the way, the history of the Posy Comitatus act is actually quite fascinating because it actually had to do with trying to prohibit federal in enforcement of civil rights law in the South. But put that aside. The judge wrote there were indeed protests in LA and some individuals engaged in violence, yet there was no rebellion. Nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement. While far left courts try to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate to make America safe again. The President is committed to protecting law abiding citizens and this will not be the final say on the issue. Now, again, there are a couple of different grounds that were claimed by the federal government to send the National Guard troops in the first place. One of them was immigration based. The idea being that ICE agents had to be supported because if they were not, they would be assaulted and there is authority for the President to do that sort of thing. The purpose, according to the federal government wasn't to make arrests but to, quote, demonstrate through a show of presence the capacity and freedom of maneuver of federal law enforcement. The demonstrations did turn violent. The president issued an order declaring the protests and violence inhibiting immigration enforcement, quote, unquote, constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States and invoked Emergency authority to call state National Guard units into federal service. So, you know, if this makes it to the Supreme Court, I think it gets reversed pretty clearly. But on a political level, this is such a loser for Democrats. I mean, it is such a loser for Democrats. When Democrats, like, for example, Chicago Alderman Byron Sidcho Lopez says the real problem in Chicago is not massive numbers of people being shot, but Trump normalizing violence, you got a problem.

F (46:57)

Trump is a dictator.

B (46:58)

I think we've got to be very clear. He's trying to normalize violence.

F (47:01)

He's trying to normalize military deployment in American cities like la, dc, Chicago, and.

B (47:08)

Many others to come.

F (47:09)

But what we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues.

B (47:18)

Okay, well, again, if you keep saying the problem is Trump's authoritarianism and not, you know, your crime problem, good luck to you politically. What an absolute political loser. Now, meanwhile, there's a poll out that I think is quite bad for the country. Okay. This is a poll about the state of the economy and what people feel about the economy. And it's kind of fascinating. According to the Wall Street Journal, a new Wall Street Journal NORC poll finds the share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25%. That is a record low. In surveys dating to 1987, more than three quarters said they lack confidence that life for the next generation will be better than their own. According to the poll, nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream, that if you work hard, you'll get ahead. No longer holds true or never did. The highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys by large majorities, both women and men held the pessimistic view in the combined question. So did both younger and older adults, those with and without a college degree and respondents with more than $100,000 in household income and as well as those with less. And if you look statistically at when this dropped off, all the way up till about 2017, 60 plus percent of Americans believed that they had a good chance of improving their standard of living. And then it started to decline, and then it fell absolutely off a cliff during the pandemic, which is kind of astonishing because that's when the federal government was fire hosing money at people. So if the idea was that fire hosing money at people and generating massive inflation was going to make people feel like they had more income mobility, well, well done, Joe Biden. Well done, Biden administration. According to the Wall Street Journal, the evidence suggests that Americans are worried about rising prices, that inflation particularly is cooking people. Carolyn Bowman, a senior fellow at the right leaning American Enterprise Institute, said the sour public mood probably reflects that Americans have been buffeted by various economic forces for years, among them the financial crisis of 2008, 2009 and the COVID pandemic. Now they face inflation, labor market concerns and tariffs, a triple whammy, she said. So people are worried about AI. They're feeling unsettled. However, I think that it is important to note here that upward mobility is still really strong in the United States, like much stronger than pretty much anywhere else. There's a piece in the Wall street journal early in 2023 by John early and Phil Graham pointing out the statistics analysts for the Pew charitable trust in 2012 quantified the economic advancement of American families. They compared the inflation adjusted income of parents with that of their children some 30 years later. Measured by inflation adjusted household income, 93% of children who grew up in the bottom income quintile were better off than their parents. Of children in the middle3/5, 86% grew up to live in families with higher incomes than their parents. Even among those in the top income quintile, 70% were better off. Real median family income rose over the 35 years of the study by 89%. Also, they point out, three independent research efforts have measured relative mobility, the extent to which kids reared in families in one income quintile stayed in that same income quintile rose to a higher one or fell to a lower one. The first looked at parental income from 1967-71 when the kids were under 18, and then 2008-2008 when the kids were between 32 and 58. Then there was another study by Raj Chetty of Harvard, and then there's another study from American Enterprise Institute. And so the average shows that a huge percentage, a huge percentage of people who grew up, for example, in the bottom quintile ended up not in the bottom quintile over the course of time. In fact, for people in the middle of three quintiles, less than a quarter remained in their parents quintile. Of children reared in the top quintile, 62% fell to one of the lower quintiles, actually. So even if you were born rich, there was a good shot that you were going to fall off. Meanwhile, 63% of kids who grew up in the bottom quintile rose to a higher quintile and 6.1% went all the way to the top quintile. But again, that actually understates Real income mobility in the United States, because that's all relative, right? Meaning if the lowest quintile made $20,000 just to pick a number out of a hat in 1990, then today that lowest quintile would be making $45,000. So everybody went up. So when the income of children is compared with the inflation adjusted income of their parents, using real income quintiles of their childhood rather than the later income quintiles that had already inflated, measured mobility is dramatically greater. Only 28% of children reared in the bottom quintile had adult incomes. That would put them in the bottom childhood quintile. 26% went all the way to the top. So, again, this kind of basic idea that upward mobility in America is dead is wrong. Now, inflation does make people feel as though they cannot get ahead. It makes you feel like you're spinning your wheels. It's one of the big problems with inflation. Tariffs make people feel as though they are not sure what's coming next. Uncertainty in the economy is its own negative force. And the kind of back and forth that's happening where you have positive forces in deregulation and tax cuts, but negative forces in the form of government interventionism and central planning, the net impact of that is uncertainty and a feeling of unease. And so President Trump is not wrong when he says that the country should be surging ahead, but people don't feel like that right now. And that unease, when combined with the unease surrounding AI and the impact of AI, what that's going to do to the job market, that's leading people to feel pretty negative. Well, what does that mean? Well, it's kind of a problem because the party in power is the one that suffers when people feel negative about the economy. That was true for Joe Biden. It is also true for President Trump. Now, as we mentioned, a federal appellate court struck down President Trump's tariffs over the last couple of days on the grounds that they were violative of the emergency powers of the federal government. It's not an emergency. So President Trump couldn't do that. President Trump announced yesterday that he'd be appealing that to the Supreme Court. No surprise there. The President says, we're going in as an emergency. We'll probably be doing it tomorrow. You see the stock market, this decision is an emergency. There's a poll over the country waiting for the Supreme Court. Now, again, uncertainty is happening a lot here. So whether you like the tariffs, don't like the tariffs, this is definitely uncertainty. Stocks dropped on Tuesday afternoon. Bond yields rose because of concerns that all that tariff revenue that supposedly was coming in, they'll have to be returned if it turns out that these were illegal levies, essentially. President Trump said on Tuesday if that decision would be lost, it'd be an economic disaster for the United States. He said our country will be weak, pathetic and not rich if the tariffs are reversed. I mean, first of all, I think that setting those sorts of expectations is a mistake. Because if they're reversed, what are you going to now claim that the economy sucks while you're, while you're the President? That. That seems like not a particularly great pitch, by the way. The President did, or the White House at least tweeted out an image suggesting that if the tariffs were reversed, that that would amount to a reversal of $8 trillion in new American investment. I don't know where that number's coming from. I do not know where that number is coming from. So again, there are a lot of pledges for people to put money into the American economy. Those pledges have not actually materialized as of yet. And the idea that tariff revenue is going to heal the American economy, that seems flawed at best. The reality is that what has made America the envy of the world, economically speaking, is in fact property rights. It is in fact, free trade. These are good things for a competitive country, a risk seeking and risk taking country for the United States, like the United States, that is it. That is a good thing, not centralized economic planning. Alrighty, folks. The show is continuing right now for our members. What's going to happen in Ukraine? This remains an open question. We'll get to it. Remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member. If you're not a member, become member. Use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.