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That's why over 1 million small businesses trust stamps.com go to stamps.com and use code podcast to try stamps.com risk free for 60 days. Well, the Iranian government may in fact have a death wish. President Trump has offered them pretty much every way out. He's created room for negotiation with a ceasefire. He's talked up their pliability. He sends his vice president and his top negotiators to Islamabad, Pakistan just to hear them out. And they pledged that they would deal with and then they walked it back. So what the hell comes next? This is the Ben Shapiro Show. So before we actually get to the latest with regard to Iran, obviously we have to send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of this horrific shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana. Apparently, according to the Daily Wire, a gunman who appeared to be targeting his own descendants, opened fire in three different homes across Shreveport, Louisiana on Saturday night. He was then shot and killed after he attempted to carjack a vehicle in order to escape. The suspect was later identified as a 31 year old U.S. army veteran. He shot 10 people, killing eight children ranging from one to 14 years old. Some of the kids are apparently his horrific all the way through. We will bring you additional details as they become available, but obviously terrible stuff and we're praying for the family and, and all the loved ones. All right, so all hell seems like it's about to break loose again with regards to the Middle East. Why? Well, because you have to review the timeline. Basically the United States went into a ceasefire with the Iranians and the idea was two weeks to open negotiations and to move toward a solution on nuclear weapons and Iran giving up its nukes and on ballistic missiles and on support for terrorist proxies. And it seemed as though there was some pretty significant movement. The President deployed J.D. vance as well as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad, Pakistan. Originally they came back and they said there was no deal to be made. And then it appeared as though there might be actually some movement because the United States, you'll remember, last week put a blockade on Iran's blockade. So Iran had basically been putting a blockade on goods in the straight of Horo, harassing shipping, preventing oil from exiting the Persian Gulf. Well, the United States in the aftermath of the failure of the first round of talks, then blockaded Iranian ships coming in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. And this put the Iranian government in significant economic trouble. And that apparently led to back channel negotiations. And on Friday it was announced by both the United States government and the Iranian government that the Strait of Hormuz was open. So on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Rahi, he tweeted, quote, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire on the coordinated route is already announced by Ports and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Rep. Republic of Iran. Here is a map of Hormuz. You can see the areas here that show where Iran was attempting to exert control. Iran asserted hazardous area which covered a pretty significant chunk of the Strait of Hormuz. Basically, Iran was using its projective power from an island called Iraq island in order to prevent shipping from moving through. And the idea was that Iran was going to let up on all that. Well, as soon as Iraqi announced this, the President of The United States put out a bunch of statements talking about the movement in the negotiations, saying essentially the Strait of Hormuz is now open. The American blockade would remain on Iranian shipping until such time as Iran gave up the ghost on its nuclear program. The President said that that was very close, that Iran would ship its nuclear dust out, making a deal with the United States to, to end permanently their nuclear program, that they would stop supporting foreign terrorist organizations and all the rest. Well, this led to what appears to be a pretty open split between some of the negotiators and the people actually in charge in Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is essentially the Praetorian Guard for the mullahs. And there have been a lot of rumors about the split. In fact, one of the reasons why the negotiations in Islamabad led by Vance didn't succeed, according to Vance and members of the American Civil War side of that negotiation, is that the Foreign Ministry was making promises they couldn't keep. They would go back and the IRGC would then pretend that none of that ever happened. So Araki had put out that statement saying that the Strait of Hormuz was open. And then according to Iran International, Araki's post was widely criticized by hardliners and their outlets, including the state run. Mayor News, which said that Iraqi's tweet quote, provided the best opportunity for Trump to go beyond reality, declare himself the winner of the war and celebrate victory. Mayor News said it is clear that ceasefire related negotiations are not being handled solely by the Foreign Ministry. And then another news agency, again, any news agency in Iran is basically being run with the approval of the authorities in Iran, namely the irgc. Tasnim News Agency described the post as, quote, a bad and incomplete tweet that created misleading ambiguity about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. And then another IRGC outlet called Fars News Agency quoted an informed source close to the Supreme National Security Council as saying that Iran considered the continuation of a US Naval blockade a violation of the ceasefire and would close the Strait of Hormuz again. And true to form, the IRGC Navy Command then put forward a tweet saying the same thing. They said, quote, a new order has been imposed on the Strait of Hormuz. Civilian vessels are permitted to translate solely through Iran's designated route. Transitive military vessels through the strait remains prohibited. All transits require permission from the IRGC Navy. This transit is in accordance with the agreement for the period of silence on the battlefield and follows the implementation of the Lebanon ceasefire. So Iran, as you'll recall we discussed this last week, that Israel and Lebanon were kind of at war. I say kind of because Israel was at war with Hisbah, which is not the Lebanese government. And Iran tried to tie its own ceasefire with the United States into Israel, stopping its attacks on Hezbollah in retaliation for Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel. They tried to claim the reason that they had opened the Strait of Hormuz was because Israel had stopped its action in Lebanon, as opposed to the real reason, which is because the United States was blockading all of the oil going in and out of Iran. Okay. But the bottom line is there's pretty openly a split between the IRGC and members of the Foreign Ministry in Iran. President Trump on Friday was interviewed aboard Air Force One, and he said there would no, that there would not be any tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. The thing was going to be open, sir, in the street. Are there going to be restrictions and tolls managed by Iran for ships and vessels passing through? No way. None at all? Nope. No restrictions, Mr. President. Restrictions? Yeah, the restrictions. You can't do the tolls? No, they're not going to be tolls. Okay. So he then continued by suggesting that we would get the nuclear dust, that there would be an agreement, or if there wasn't an agreement, then we would go and get it done. Here's the president. So you said that the US Was going to take the nuclear dust from Iran. What's the time? What's the timeline on that? How long do you want me to give you the time and date and everything else? Like you've been negotiated. How long that process? I'm not going to give you the time other than if we sign the agreement, then I can give you time. Somewhere after the signing that agreement, we'll go in with Iran. We'll go in with Iran and we will take it together and we will bring it back, 100% of it back to the United States. If we don't do that, we will get it in a different form, in a much more unfriendly form. But in any event, excuse me, excuse me, but in any event, we'll get it. So he had also put out a series of claims about the nuclear deal moving forward and United States ending the nuclear program and all the rest. So Mohammed Khaliba was the speaker of the parliament in Iran, again appointed by the mullahs and a former member of the IRGC himself, then put out two tweets on Friday claiming that nothing Trump was saying was true. He said, quote, the president of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false. They did not win the war with these lies. They will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either. The continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Horus will not remain open. Passage through the straight will be conducted based on the designated route with Iranian authorization. Whether the straight is open or closed and the regulations governing it will be determined by the field, not by social media. And he said media warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of the war. The Iranian nation is not affected by these strikes. Khaliba would later tweet that the true heroism was martyrdom on behalf of the Iranian Republic, the Islamic Republic of Iran. So clearly people were clubbed back into place at the very, very, very least. Now, let's be clear. Iran is still targeting civilians. On Saturday, things got heated again. They got heated because the Iranian navy informed ships that Hormuz was shot and then two vessels reported gunfire. According to Reuters, merchant vessels attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday reported received radio messages from Iran's navy telling them they were not allowed to pass. While two ships reported being hit by gunfire. Shipping sources said the incidents were reported in waters between the Keshem and Larak islands. The vessels turned back without completing the crossing, the sources said. The captain of a tanker said it had been approached by two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats that fired on the vessel. The tanker and its crew were safe. Some vessels reported that Iran's navy had been broadcasting a VHF message saying the Strait of Hormuz was closed again. Apparently the radio message said, attention all ships. Regarding the failure of the US Government to fulfill its commitment in the negotiation. Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely closed Again, no vessel of any type or nationality is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. And again, they were sending that radio signal out. Well, on Sunday, the president got up early and he immediately started putting out notices. So he began by pointing out that the United States would in fact be taking cargo ships that were Iranian flag and that that had already happened. Quote, Today, an Iranian flag cargo ship named T O U S K A Tosca, nearly 900ft long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our naval blockade. It did not go well for them. The U S Navy guided missile destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Tuska in the Gulf of Oman and gave them fair warning to stop. The Iranian crew refused to listen. So our navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room. Right now, U.S. marines have custody of the vessel. The Tuska is under U.S. treasury sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship and we are seeing what's on board President Trump. And here is some CENTCOM footage of the rounds that were fired at the Toska motor vessel Tosca. Motor vessel Tosca, vacate your engine room. Vacate your engine room. We are prepared to subject you to disabling fire. And of course, all of this is in retaliation for Iran again attempting to shut the Straits of Hormuz. In just a moment, we'll get to President Trump announcing that the Iranians had violated the ceasefire. First, let's just be honest for a second. Paying 70, 80, 90 bucks a month for wireless? Bad idea. It doesn't make any sense. It's bloated pricing from companies that assume you're not going to bother to look elsewhere. Meanwhile, My wireless company, PureTalk, is offering unlimited high speed data for just 34.99amonth. It's not a gimmick. That's the actual price. And here's what's really interesting. That same unlimited plan used to start at 55 bucks, but PureTalk keeps pushing in the opposite direction of the big carriers, trying to give you more value, not less. So now it's 34.99. If you checked them out before and past. Check again. The math has now changed. Again, I love Pure Talk. I'm traveling right now. 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My representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan. They will be there tomorrow evening for negotiations. Iran recently announced they were closing the strait, which is strange because our blockade has already closed it. They're helping us without knowing. And they are the ones that lose with the closed passage. $500 million a day. He's right about this, by the way. Again, as we've discussed, it is true that Iran can harm China by preventing shipping from coming out. It's true. They can harm Saudi Arabia, they can harm Iraq, they can harm any of the countries that are shipping oil via the Persian Gulf, uae, Bahrain, all the rest. But is the United States the party hardest hit by what's going on in the street? Not even remotely. And when the United States blockades Iranian ships, it's significantly worse for Iran. The reality is that the United States government spends something like $7 trillion a year. We could lose $50 million every single day, and it would not amount to one third of our federal budget. So, again, we are. We are a very, very wealthy country. Iran is a very, very not wealthy country. And when Iran, their industries are shut down, their export and import becomes impossible. Their economy is basically on its last legs. The President is right. He says, in fact, many ships are headed right now to the U.S. texas, Louisiana and Alaska to load up. Compliments of the irgc. Always wanting to be the tough guy. We're offering a very fair and reasonable deal. I hope they take it. Because if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant in every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice Guy. They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy. And if they don't take the deal, they'll. It will be my honor to do what has to be done, what should have been done to Iran by other presidents for the last 47 years. It's time for the Iran killing machine to end. The UN Ambassador, Mike Walsh, was on ABC News on Sunday, and he said, Listen, IRGC's Command and Control is in disarray. They are still in incredibly rough shape. The Iranian command and control and government is in absolute disarray because of the devastating attacks across its leadership. You're right. You. You heard the Iranian foreign minister say, it's open, and then the IRGC step in and say, no, it's closed. Regardless, it's the blockade, the US Navy, and President Trump who's ultimately deciding what gets in and out. Now, again, that is true. The Iranian Foreign affairs spokesperson, a person named Ismail Bakai, then started whining online about the blockade. So apparently it is a blockade and a ceasefire violation from the United States to blockade Iran's ports and coastline. But it's not a violation or a war crime for Iran. To that to everyone in the Persian Gulf. President Trump says he's still sending negotiators to Pakistan. There was some confusion on Sunday about whether JD Vance would go or not go. The President had suggested maybe for safety reasons the Vice President would not go. And then later he said he would go. According to Axios, Vice President Vance will lead a U.S. delegation for another round of talks with Iran in Islamabad before the ceasefire is scheduled to end on Tuesday night. The Iranians are lowering expectations and appear suspicious that Trump's talk of a deal could be covered for us surprise attack. By the way, what's the surprise? Where would the surprise be? The President says over and over, if you don't get a deal, you might be under attack again. All the stuff you have left might be blown away. And the reality is that Iran is actually even more vulnerable in many ways than they were before the ceasefire. For one example, Iran has been digging out an enormous number of its missile launchers because so many of its overground missile launchers were destroyed in the first round of fighting. They have. They now have to resurface. They're digging out missile launchers that were put underground specifically for reserve purposes. Well, now we know exactly where those are because we have satellites that are over Iran. And so in the first wave of any sort of American and Israeli action, presumably those missile launchers go bye bye as well. Beyond that, all of the options are still on the table for the United States here. Kharga island, which of course I'd spoken of ad nauseam before the ceasefire. The possibility of an American or Israeli takeover of a Kharga island, which provides 90% of the refining export capacity of Iran, that's still very much on the table. And the United States doesn't even need to take it. We could effectively permanently embargo Iran's oil supply by just blowing up Carg Island. If we wish to grab it and then bargain it back for nuclear materials, we could do that. Or we could just destroy their economy. We could just make it so the IRGC can't pay its people. Right? That is very much on the table. Hitting energy facilities, hitting bridges, hitting infrastructure that is vital to the Iranian government. And again, that is not a war crime. If you hit infrastructure, that is dual use, civilian and military, and there's a military purpose to doing it, that is not in any way, shape or form a war crime. All of that is still very much on the table. The Iranians have Been saying they're not going to be sending negotiators. So they're basically daring President Trump to do it. Again, it is amazing to watch as these folks move toward what appears to be some form of regime suicide. Now, again, they may survive. Again, that's pretty incredible. Like, they may survive, but not for very long. I mean, the maximalist demands that Iran is making, they're claiming America is taking maximalist positions here. It is Iran that's taking a maximalist position. They will not turn over their nukes. They will not turn over their future nuclear program. They will not disarm their ballistic missiles. They will not stop surrendering, stop supporting terrorist groups all over the region. Again, this is the thing that's amazing. Whenever you hear that the United States started this, if Iran just acted like a normal country, like a normal, normal country, none of this would have been happening for the last 50 years at all. But Iran seems like they are. They are buckled in for the ride. And again, this is not a giant shock to me. I noticed there are a lot of people out there who are saying, you know, President Trump was championing reopening the straits, and it was. It was open before we ever got involved. Well, I mean, that's kind of true in the sense that Iran had not formally flexed its power in the Strait of Hormuz. But it turns out that when you go to war, in order to forestall a country from doing a bad thing, that country sometimes responds by doing another bad thing, and then you have to stop them from doing that bad thing. So, just to take an example, it turns out that Germany wasn't really attacking tons of American shipping prior to the United States getting into World War II against Germany. Germany declared war against the United States. The United States declared war on Germany. The United States starts mobilizing for war, and the Germans start attacking American shipping. Well, when we restored security on the high seas to our own shipping, are we supposed to treat that as the. Well, you know, if we had never gone to war with Germany, then it turns out that there never would have been a shipping problem. Can do this with literally any conflict, Literally any conflict. So the question is whether the conflict is justified. And removing a piece from the board your enemy was using is, in fact, a victory, even if they weren't using that piece before the conflict began. Because obviously, the math changes. Once you decide you're going to stop them from doing a really bad thing, they might do another bad thing. And then you have to stop that. And when you do, that is called a victory. If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that the Iranian government is basically stuck between Iraq and a hard place. If they give up their future nuclear program, the nuclear program is basically their main guarantee that the regime doesn't fall. Because theoretically, they could turn themselves into a sort of hermit state like North Korea, right? They have a nuke, and so you can't take them down. And they just sit there and keep under repression 90 million people. So they can't give that up. They also can't give up their. Their terror proxy groups because that is their only forward capacity. It appears that the Iranian army, for example, the Iranian military, is a paper tiger. Their air force is basically non existent. Their navy is no longer existent, and their ballistic missile capacity has been wildly degraded. So what exactly could they give up and survive? The answer at this point is not a lot. Which is probably why they are saying, come and get us. It's like the end of Scarface. They're barricaded up in Tony Montana's office, snorting coke off the desk and asking people to say hello to their little friend. Well, it didn't work out all that great for Tony Montana, as it turned out. So what is likely to happen next year is that Iran is likely to remain intransigent. The President is likely to authorize further military action to both significantly hamper or destroy Iran's economic capacity and to either bomb into complete rubble every nuclear facility possible, or to unleash some special operations in line with the Israelis and go get the nuclear material, or both. That is the very likely next step, and it will probably happening sooner rather than later if the Iranians don't get on the clock and start negotiating right fast. Coming up, Iranian agents being arrested abroad, like here in the United States. I wonder who let them in and let them stay. We'll get to it in a moment. First, let's be real. Your online life, not private. Data brokers track everything. What you buy, what you believe, how you think. In the United States, they can legally sell that information to whomever wants it. Big Tech uses it to shape what you see and what you think. It's digital manipulation disguised as convenience. 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Apparently she brokered a contract worth more than $70.6 million for the sale of Iranian made mojaher six armed drones to Sudan's Ministry of defense and was also trying to sell 55,000 bomb fuses to the Sudanese military and multiple ammunition deals including a 10 million rounds of AK47ammo and a separate proposed contract for 240 million rounds. And they're using Oman and Turkey to facilitate all of this. So Iran again nefariously promoting terrorism and horror all over the world. All over the world. But who likes Iran? It turns out very, very liberal voters and young democratic voters are not all that. They're not all that anti Iran actually, as it turns out. So brand new poll from Echelon insights and it shows that overall Americans. There's been a lot of heartburn over Israel's position with Americans. But overall Americans hold a positive versus a an unfavorable view of Israel, 44 to 38. China. Only 17% of Americans have a positive view of China, as opposed to 67% who have a somewhat unfavorable view. Only 7% of Americans have a positive view of Iran, compared to 77% who have a negative view of Iran. But if you look at very liberal voters, only 14% of very liberal voters have a positive view of Israel. 70% have a negative view of Israel. 26% of very liberal voters, 26% have a favorable view of China. So nearly twice as many liberals have a positive view of China as have a positive view of Israel and Iran. 12% have a positive view of Iran, 65% have a negative view of Iran. So Iran among very liberal voters is, is just a little bit more like marginally more unpopular than Israel with very liberal voters. Also, young Democrats in particular are totally radical on this stuff. Democrats under 50, only 17% have a positive view of Israel, 29% have a positive view of China, and 14% have a positive view of Iran. And actually fewer liberals, fewer Democrats under 50 have a negative view of Iran than have a negative view of Israel. 54% of Democrats under the age of 50 have a negative view of Iran, 62% have a negative view of Israel. And so this requires some explication. There's been a lot of heartburn on the pro Israel right and among pro Israel Americans in general, which represent a plurality of Americans over this sort of stuff. What's happened here? Is it because of what Israel is doing? Although let's be clear about what's happening here. There's been a rising tide of anti Americanism on the left, a third worldism on the left that has basically taken over the Democratic Party. A belief that the United States is inherently terrible, that the United States is unjust, that American values spread abroad are evil and wrong, and that virtually every country on earth, the more, the more horrible the country, the more victimized they must have been at the hands of the United States. That is the actual ideology of the left and it's infected some of the right as well. The grievance right, which believes that the their constituents in the United States are being ground under the boot heel of a terrible American system, a system that promotes neoliberalism and foreign interests at the expense of the American people. And that terrible regime is having impacts outside the United States. Third Worldism and grievance party right wing nonsense. They end up being the same thing again. Tucker Carlson, Hassan pike are hugging it out in the corner. The President is Having none of this, he put out a statement. Whether people like Israel or not, they have proven to be a great ally of the United States in America. They're courageous, bold, loyal, and smart. And unlike others that have shown their true colors in a moment of conflict and stress, Israel fights hard and knows how to win. This, of course, is true for all the talk of our. Of our vaunted allies all over the world. Which of our vaunted allies in the recent past. I'm talking like the last 15 years, have joined any serious operation by the United States to make the world a better place? The answer is no one but Israel. The United States has been roundly condemned for taking serious action against nefarious regimes. That, presumably, is why U. S. Democrats joined a progressive rally in Barcelona alongside Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez. Pedro Sanchez is a wild radical. He's expressed solidarity with the regime in Iran pretty directly. There's a reason why the Iranian regime is a fan of Sanchez. So is Hamas, by the way. Democrat senator Chris Murphy and Minnesota governor Tim Walls actually showed up for this thing. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, who's presided over the continuing racism in policy of his country, proposed a resolution at this event to establish an international panel on inequality between nations. Right, so the United States being prosperous means other nations are poor. Again, this is just third worldism. Democrats are third worldist. Increasingly, that is a third world. This notion that somehow the United States owes something or Europe owes something to South Africa. That's why you need an international panel on inequality. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum proposed that governments spend 10% of their military budget on reforestation. And the Spanish prime Minister Sanchez argued to tax the ultra rich. And again he suggested, quote, they know their vision of how the world should be order is falling apart due to tariffs and wars, their embrace of climate change, denial of xenophobia, where sexism is their greatest error. They have tried again and again to make us ashamed of our beliefs. That ends now. So here you have senator Chris Murphy going abroad and calling the president of the United States the biggest threat to American democracy since the civil war. Well, I. I do recall a couple of other threats to American democracy since the civil war. Like there was a gigantic world war, you may recall, in which the United States had to fight off two, count them, two, fascist empires. And also there was the threat of the Soviet empire as well. But according to Chris Murphy, it's Trump, of course, Who's. Who's the problem? I'm not going to sugarcoat the gravity of what we face right now. In the United States, this is the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War. Donald Trump in our country is trying to end our democracy. We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. He is trying to seize control of our courts, of our law enforcement, enforcement of our media, of our elections. His goal is oligarchic capture. That is like you're abroad with a socialist psycho saying this sort of stuff as a Democrat. And this is considered fully in line with how Democrats think these days, which presumably is why Abdul El Sayed, who is a radical terrorist supporter in Michigan, is now, I think, likely to win the Democrat Senate primary in Michigan. Now, if he does, then that seat is very much open to Republican victory. Mike Rogers, who's run a close race there before, would be the Republican candidate. El Sayed is not in line with moderates at all. Over the weekend, he suggested that Israel is just as evil as Hamas. And of course, there's a reason why he's saying this sort of stuff. If you go back to that poll, it shows the Democrats overall are wildly unfavorable on Israel. So he believes that Democrats being anti Israel is a way for him to signal that he is a supporter of their priorities. Again, Democrats overall, Democrats who are 50 plus, only 33% support Israel. Democrats under 50, only 17% support Israel. So, again, Democrats overall, wildly unsupportive of Israel. And he knows that. And so he's just going to go ahead and equate Israel with a terror group. Here we go. You said Israeli government is evil. Do you think they're just as evil as Hamas? Yes. Killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil. It's not. How evil is this one versus that one? Hamas evil. Israeli government evil? We could say both. Is Netanyahu, in your view, he's a war criminal? Absolutely. Do you not think he is? When you conduct a genocide, you're a war criminal. What do you make of the fact that Haley Stevens is backed by aipac? I find that disastrous for our politics. And you should be more interested in what's happening in Michigan than you are interested in what's happening in Tel Aviv. Okay. He literally just gave a whole disquisition about how Hamas and Israel are the same. And he has said that he would not come out in favor of the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini because he is afraid that if he did, Dearborn would. Would abandon him. And this person is a front runner for the Democrats. The Democratic Party is A third worldist party. Kamala Harris now making clear what she always wanted to say. Joe Biden was the moderate in that administration, believe it or not. Kamala Harris always wanted to go full scale Momdani. Here she was over the weekend doing just that. Let's talk about this war. He entered a war, got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu. Let's be clear about that. Entered a war that the American people do not want putting at risk American service members. Okay, so again, the idea that America was pulled into this by Israel, the president himself has rejected that only about 1,000 times here. And I've explained on the show exactly why the United States went when we went. And the answer is the Iranian economy had collapsed. There were millions of people in the streets. The Iranian government started mowing down people by the tens of thousands. Simultaneously, they were building up ballistic missile capacity sufficient to create a military umbrella for the development of their nuclear program. And it became clear to the United States there was a target of opportunity that was in the crosshairs. This notion that President Trump gets pulled into anything is ridiculous. The president makes his own decisions. But again, this is how much Democrats despise Israel now. They're now making excuses. The person they hate the most, Donald Trump, by ripping into Israel, they see this as a way of garnering support in Democratic primaries. Why? Because Democratic primary voters have a picture of the world where the west is bad. America is bad, our actual fighting allies are bad. Israel joining with the United States to go after Iran makes Israel worse. In their view, the fact that the United States and Israel are on the same side automatically means something worse for Israel than if Israel opposed the United States. Because in the end, the reason why so many Democrats are warm toward China or warm toward Iran or making excuses for Venezuela and Cuba right now is because there is one common thread. Any country that opposes the United States is considered a country victimized by the United States. The United States is guilty of their behavior. And it is a referendum on the evil of the United States that these countries don't like us. And thus we must give up the ghost that is the nature of the Democratic Party increasingly these days and domestically. What does that mean? The only way to carry yourself, to purge yourself of the sinful status where everyone else's problems are because of you. The only way to purge yourself is to impose a socialist, top down economic system in the United States and to withdraw from the world internationally in favor of countries that hate us. That is the only way to atone. We must repent before the altar of left wing Howard Zinn history. Alrighty. Coming up, the Democrats, they are all Zorn Momdani now. That is the direction that they have embraced full scale. Which is why Barack Obama is black and he's sitting with Zorn Momdani. First, here's a topic most people avoid planning for the inevitable death comes for all of us. That doesn't mean you have to leave chaos behind. Our sponsors at Trust and Will's Online Estate Planning. They help you get your affairs in order. If you have kids, if you own a home, if you're caring for aging parents, it's time to think about estate planning. You're not alone in putting this off, but 43% of Americans admit they haven't gotten around to making a will yet. We all procrastinate, even on important stuff like naming a guardian for your kids. The good news, Trust and Will lets you create an estate plan in about 30 minutes. And even if you're not sure where to start, their online platform guides you through every step. You can get one on one help from attorneys in your state if you need it. 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I don't think anyone thinks he represents the vast middle of the Republican Party, but the vast middle of the Democratic Party upper echelon of leadership. Either there's a disconnect between the middle and the leadership or the leadership is reflecting the middle. In any case, the leadership of the Democratic Party is full scale, embracing the third worldism. Barack Obama, who's been kind of publicly missing from the debate for a while, he sounds off on Twitter every so often when he's not Busy making crappy Netflix documentaries for too much money. He was out there campaigning basically with Zoran Mandani. Why? Because Mandani and Obama are of a piece. The thing that drove Barack Obama. I have said this literally his entire career. The thing that drove Barack Obama was the feeling that America was inherently guilty of. For all the problems of the world, this sort of post colonial viewpoint was always Barack Obama's viewpoint. You'll remember that Barack Obama in his memoir Dreams for My Father, wrote this quote. I know I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's south side. How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know the response of the powerful to this disorder, alternating as it does between a dull complacency and when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task. Okay, that is Third Worldism in a nutshell. People are impoverished in Jakarta and Nairobi because of unfeeling elites who are doing capitalism and militarism and all the rest of this right. That was always his position. So it's not a surprise to see him with Zoram Hamdani who believes precisely the same thing. It is Zoramdani who says things like the NYPD boot is laced up by the idf. It's all the same thing for them, the hatred. This is what people need to understand. Hatred of Israel in the United States, Hatred of it, not opposition to Israel's actions, which again, that's all debatable, of course, as it is for any country. But true, hatred of Israel, the kind that's now being mainstreamed in the Democratic Party, and hatred of the United States, meaning hatred of our free market system, hatred of our Constitution, hatred of the fundamental principles upon which the United States is built, as opposed to Third World countries everywhere. That hatred is coming from the same place. These are not separate issues. They are the same issue. Obama and Mamdani have always been on the same page, and they were over the weekend when they decided to get together to read to pre K students in the South Bronx. The fact that Obama is even doing that with Mamdani shows where the Democratic Party is. The Democratic Party had a choice to make. Do you embrace Zoramdani ism this Third World nonsense, or do you run away from it because it is not representative of the vast bulk of Americans. And the answer is, they ran toward it, they grabbed it, and they hugged it. And this is why, when Zara Mandani says he's never running for president, which of course he can't, he wasn't born in the United States. That should be of cold comfort. Because the entire point here, the entire point here is that this is a movement, and he is just one member of that movement. Democrats have discovered Bernie Sanders socialism fronted by people who are of diverse background, often from third world countries. This is the new formula here is Zoramdani claiming he's not a threat because he can never run for president. Would you like to see former Vice President Kamala Harris run for president again? I have to be honest. I haven't thought about the candidacies for president this time. My focus is 2026. You're the only Democrat who hasn't thought about that. And I'm proud to say that I am not and will never be running for president. He says he's the only one. Well, again, all that matters to him. God, the smarm. The smarm, the pasted on smile, the grinning joker nonsense from this third world is pretty incredible stuff. And of course, he told Kristen Welker that he believes in democratic socialism even more than he ever did before, based on its grand success over, you know, the past three months. Success yet to be determined. Do you still believe in democratic socialism? Do you still think it can be effective? I believe in it even more than I did the day before. And that's because of the fact that it is focused on the needs of working people. And working people need that focus, that fight from politicians more than ever. Wow. Wow, that's. That's just one. Okay. Bernie Sanders took over the heart of the party, and then he combined it with Barack Obama's diverse background. And that's how you end up with Mom Donnieism. And Bernie is out there doing his usual stick over the weekend. He put out, quote, if you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than Walt Disney, Citigroup, cvs, Kohl's, Ticketmaster, Tesla, United Airlines, etc. Okay, so we should just put forward the notion that there is, in fact, corporate tax law. Some people have realized losses, and they apply those losses forward to their corporate tax position. Also, every single person paid by those companies paid income tax. That's just the way that it works. But again, all of this is tied back to this bizarre notion that free markets are unfair. And then, of course, that ties into what I always find totally hypocritical is Democrats claiming that military spending is the thing that is keeping education underfunded. Madude, we are spending $7 trillion per year in the United States. I can promise you, promise you, we do not have a lack of federal funding for anything. The question is whether those federal programs actually work as advertised. And the answer, of course, is no. But here is Jon Ossoff who again, he'd like to run for president also. I think not. It's not possible, the president said, for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare. He said, he said we can only afford to fund war. Then released a budget demanding 1.5 trillion for the Pentagon next year alone, paid for by ending utility assistance for families, canceling affordable housing programs and cutting cancer research, all to fund a huge increase for the military industrial complex. Because draft dodging. Donald loves sending other people's children to war. Again, this line. They again, you hear this from the same people, the same people who are, who are promoting the lie for some reason that, that people in the military are not volunteers, that, that there is a draft. They're using the same sort of shtick that was being used in 1969 when it was actually accurate, when people actually were being drafted into the military and sent overseas. And this is all part and parcel of a deep and abiding dislike for the United States. Meanwhile, by the way, I, I will say that the dishonesty of a lot of these folks is, is pretty astonishing. Ilhan Omar, who again, you want to talk about third worldist politicians. She is definitely one. It is amazing to watch her run around talking about how she comes from a country where there was tremendous political repression. So she knows how important freedom is. Her parents were literally involved. Her dad was a general in the political repression. In any case, she now says that she is not a multi millionaire. There was a disclosure filed last year showing that she and her husband held assets between 6 million and $30 million. Now there's an amended filing and it says that the couple's assets are 18,000 to $95,000 a year. Which, that's a big, big change right there. That seems like a big change. Wonder where that is coming from. Meanwhile, again, it seems to me that the importance of a conservative and Republican victory when it comes to the broader philosophical battle here is the important thing. The President was speaking at a TPUSA event over the weekend. He said we have a country based on merit. That's going to be the question that is going to be the question, do we have a country and also an international sphere based on merit, based on the capacity to do good things and remain powerful enough to do those things, or do we have third Worldism? Here's the President. If you get great marks and have great scores and your boards are good, everything's good, you're getting in. People can't go before. We have a country now that again is based on merit. That's the way we became great again. He is right about that. Will we be a meritocracy? Will we be a country that defends our own priorities and our own values? Or will we surrender to this third worldest anti Americanism? That's the question. And what's happening in Iran is, is just one manifestation of that broader question. And meanwhile, this Make America Healthy Again segment is sponsored by friends over at Balance of Nature. Go check them out right now@balanceofnature.com the President over the weekend signed an executive order accelerating treatments for serious mental illness. This is good stuff. It cuts down some red tape. The executive order apparently instructs the FDA to treat psychedelic medicines as top review priority if they already have a breakthrough therapy designation and meet criteria for the National Priority Voucher program. And he ordered the HHS to put 50 million bucks of existing funds into partnerships with states that are already building psychedelic treatment programs. Again, all of this is, is positive. Here was the President talking about the tragedy of veteran suicide. It's for a lot of people, but it's for our military in particular. The suicide epidemic among veterans is a national tragedy. Since 9 11, we've lost over 21 times more veteran lives to suicide than on the battlefield. So we lose, think of that, 21 times more. And today we're bringing them new hope. I think you're going to see a big difference and a big, big reduction in that number. God willing, that will be the case. And you know, Joe Rogan has been very, very critical of the President. Joe Rogan showed up for the signing of this EO praising President Trump, which is, which is great. I want to tell everybody how this happened. I sent President Trump some information. We have a gigantic opiate problem in this country. Obviously, in 2024, more than 80,000 people died of overdoses. It's a horrible number. And there's more than 5 million people that are addicted to opiates right now in this country. With one dose of ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent him that information. The text message came back, sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do. Was literally that quick. Again, that is the difference between President Trump and, and some others. So that, that is. That is very, very good stuff. All right. Meanwhile, great piece by Brad Wilcox over at the Wall Street Journal talking about the. The supposed lack of ability to buy a house in the United States. Again, I think so much what's happening, this sort of third world disperspective that is building up on the left. Basically, it's taken over the left, but is building on the right as well. An enormous amount of that is predicated on a sense of disappointment in America. The idea that America is somehow failing people and it's failing you because there's a conspiratorial elite with different priorities and systems rigged against you. Well, Brad Wilcox has a great piece pointing out that actually, quote, real wages are up, a record share of Americans have moved into the upper middle class, and millennials have more wealth than baby boomers did at their age. So what gives? He points out the shift in home ownership and marriage. Those shifts are connected because while home ownership itself has trended downward, married Americans have been largely immune to the trend. In fact, there remains a consistent and monumental gap between married and unmarried Americans. 71% of married adults aged 25 to 54 own their own home today, compared with only 21% of their unmarried peers. A marriage doesn't merely make it easier to afford a home. It motivates people to earn more and save more in pursuit of one. And this is such a key. Meritocracy relies on virtue always. Freedom has always relied on. On a baseline of virtue. If people are taught from a young age to pursue virtue, it makes it easier for them to make the decisions that lead to success. The point Wilcox is making is you can earn a lot of money as a single person. If you're still living in mommy's basement, you're going to talk about how hard it is to buy a home, but you don't have a drive to buy a home if you don't have a wife and kids. Pursue the virtuous, pursue the good, and you are significantly more likely to achieve financial success. That is one of the great things about the United States, and it's just statistically accurate. All righty, folks. The show continues right now for our members. We're going to take some of your questions in the mailbag. Remember, if you want to ask those questions or even watch the answers, 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. 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