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Ep. 2428 - Here's What The Future of America Looks Like… If DEMOCRATS Win
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Ben Shapiro
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So over the weekend, the Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats emergency requests to revive their Congressional map. So you recall that the Virginia Democrats tried to draw a Congressional map that basically reduced Republican representation to nil. It turned a map that was fairly evenly divided into a map of just one Republican seat in the entire State. And then the Virginia Supreme Court decided that that was unconstitutional because of the process that had been followed. The Supreme Court upheld the Virginia Supreme Court's ruling. According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision puts an end to Democrats long shot bids reverse a ruling by Virginia's highest court that voided at the map. It was issued by the court in the form of a one line order with no explanation and no recorded dissent. This of course is not a shock. It was not really a federal case. It was a state case. And the state voted in a particular way. While Democrats immediately jumped into action to claim that this is all just part of the broader evil racism of the American system. Governor Abigail Spanberger, who was sort of forced into this position by the left wing of her party and thus is undermining her popularity as a pseudo moderate governor, she came out and suggested that the Supreme Court had chosen to nullify an election which, which is not of course, true. No election was nullified. In fact, this entire referendum was an attempt to nullify future elections by destroying the congressional map that would have allowed some Republicans to get representation in Congress. Here was the governor of Virginia. She said, quote, the Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election and the votes of more than 3 million Virginians. Again, this is part and parcel of the goal of Democrats which is to claim falsely that there is gigantic voter suppression of Democrats happening all over the country. And this all quickly turns racial. So Kamala Harris, who still for some reason wants to run for president. I know, I know. Me neither. In any case, she was speaking with a Tennessee representative named Justin Pearson. Justin Pearson spends his days cosplaying as Martin Luther King Jr. If you look at his tapes from when he was younger, he was really kind of doing the Carlton routine from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The way that he spoke was, was like a be sweatered young black man with no accent at all. And now of course, he's playing everything to the hilt, everything to the hilt. So he's sitting across from Kamala Harris and the suggestion is that America is suffering because of deep institutional racism. The only way it can be cured, by the way, is if Kamala becomes president.
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Producer Justin
Hey there, Representative Carson.
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Ben Shapiro
So, you know, in the wake of
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Representative Carson
the Cali decision, immediately Donald Trump, Marsha Blackburn, Governor Lee called for a special session. We had to be back by Tuesday
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Ben Shapiro
and by the following Thursday they'd taken it.
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Representative Carson
The only black majority district in the entire state.
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Ben Shapiro
They're basically backdooring racism through politics. They know the power of the people and its scares them because if they thought on merit that they would win, they wouldn't have to resort to this cheating. Okay, so, so again it's, they're being deprived of the votes, you understand? It's all part of the American projects that deprive black people of the vote. Representative Ayanna Presley, the Ringo star of the squad, you never hear her mentioned anymore, which is sad for her. She's a Democrat from Massachusetts. She says that this administration would rather have black Americans pick cotton then pick the President, which is kind of a strange thing to say. I don't feel like that's true. I mean I think that actually that that hasn't been the practice in the United States for, for quite a while last I checked. Actually I'm, I'm, I mean I'm, I'm unaware of why Anna Presley would, would think that. But here we go.
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Representative Ayanna Presley
There are people in this hostile anti black administration that would rather black Americans pick cotton than pick the President.
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Ben Shapiro
Hmm, hmm. I feel like that's not true. But again, the goal is to ramp up the rhetoric so as to get the vote out for minority voters. For Democrats, I have to say, they're not sending their best. The Democrats are not sending their best. Aoc, who is of course the John Lennon of the squad, right? She is, she's by far the biggest star in the squad. Well, she says that it was only after civil rights that we got the Great Society. So do you see that the I, the idea here is you're not going to get Democratic socialism until you get mandatory racism by law. That's, that's what she's pushing for. She's pushing for affirmative action programs and forced minority majority districts and all the rest of it. Here she is saying a bunch of dumb things all at once, which is her way.
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Representative Ayanna Presley
It is not a coincidence and our whole country must understand that. It was not until voting rights were ratified in this country that we got the Great Society. Because when black Americans have the right to vote and that vote is protected, our schools get funded. When voting rights are protected, health care gets expanded. When voting rights are protected, our country moves forward in Montgomery. That's what they're actually afraid of. They're afraid of us coming together. They're afraid of us protecting one another. Alabama is the crucible. Georgia is the crucible. Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi is the crucible. So if you are not from here, it is time to pull up. Because what they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo.
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Ben Shapiro
It's the opening silo, Guys, she means salvo. She does not mean the opening silo. Like what? Like what? A grain silo. It's the opening grain silo, guy. She's gonna open a grain silo or she's gonna open the silo. You know, like the show on Apple tv. It's the opening Apple TV silo. By the way, she's totally wrong on the facts. The idea that the Voting Rights act preceded the Great Society programs is not true. That is a falsehood. The Great Society programs began. Began in 1964 with things like the Food Stamp act of 1964 and the Economic Opportunity act of 1964. And the Voting Rights act was. Wait for. Wait for it, 1965. So, yeah, no, she's just wrong about that. Again, this is not to make the case against voting rights. Voting rights are great. I'm very, very glad that black people can vote in outsized numbers in the United States as they do, which is why it is so stupid that we keep hearing that black people are somehow not represented in the United States government. That is incredibly dumb. Senator Cory Booker was doing the same thing over the weekend. And after all, it was the anniversary of the march on Selma on the Edmund Pettus Bridge over in Selma. And so Cory Booker showed up with his angry eyes in tow. He popped them in and he got very angry. He got very, very angry. His angry eyes.
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Senator Cory Booker
Because if we in our generation do not now do our duty, we will lose the gains and the rights and the liberties that our ancestors afforded us. Now is our generation's time to prove worthy of the blessings. Now is our generation's time to respond to the assaults. You see, we have seen this before where some people in black robes try to deny or take away our rights. We saw it with Dred Scott. We saw it with Plessy versus Ferguson. We even saw it with Korematsu. But the solution in those days was not to sit back and agonize. It was to stand up and organize and mobilize. Because we still live in a democracy, no matter how much they try to undermine it, we still live in a nation where the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
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Ben Shapiro
I'm just going to point out here that his history is a little flawed once again. So comparing what the Supreme Court has said about the drawing of particular districts in the south in 2020 to dred Scott, which ruled that under the Constitution, black Americans weren't people. That's what Dred Scott says. Or Plessy versus Ferguson, which ruled that segregation legal or Korematsu, which argued that Japanese Americans could be interned in times of war. I have a feeling it's not quite the same thing, but again, the goal here is they're all addicted to this Obama program from 2012. In 2008, Barack Obama ran as a broad liberal who's going to bring Americans together without regard for race. And then in 2012 he decided he was going to create a majority minority coalition with some college educated white ladies and this was the new majority going forward. Democrats can never let go of it. They will not let go of it. And so they continue to push this forward. We got some more on the third worldism of the Democratic Party and what's been happening over in London in a moment. First, running a business is not easy. Payroll, hr, taxes, compliance, insurance, especially insurance. You got to keep track of like lots and lots of policies and logins and vendors. That becomes a full time administrative job. The reality is most business owners end up juggling multiple brokers, multiple policies, multiple applications, and no real central place where everything actually makes sense. That's what super sure is trying to fix. Super sure is what they call a super Agency One brokerage for your business coverage. Cross key lines backed by licensed agents who work with you year round, not just once a year at renewal time. One of the best things they offer is a tool called Fine Print Facts, which translates insurance policies into into plain English so business owners can actually understand what's covered, what isn't, and where potential gaps might exist. Because one of the worst feelings in business is thinking you're protected. And then you find out after something goes wrong that you learned. Super sure also organizes policies, certificates and documents in one insurance vault, helps reduce redundant applications, and gives businesses access to more than 50 carriers and 180 product lines. Right now you can go to super sure.com and get a full report on your current policies with no obligation. Find out whether you're overinsured, underinsured, or somewhere in between. Go to super sure.com one super agency, one powerful platform. All your policies in one place. Head on over to super sure.com that's super sure.com paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Again, all this sort of this, this whole racial narrative is false. It's not true on the merits. Black Americans are not deprived of the vote in the United States. That is a silly contention. There is no statistical evidence that black people are being deprived of the vote and in the United States. But you know what's even sillier is this idea that Democrats are wholesale in favor of pure democracy. Gavin Newsom is out there openly saying that in the California primaries there's an open primary system in California. The way that it works is the top two candidates make the runoff. Right now there's a possibility that Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, both Republicans, end up at the top of the heap because they're 1 million Democrats running. And Gavin Newsom says that that process must be thwarted. In fact, there's a break the glass scenario to thwart democracy according to Gavin Newsom. So just remember folks, when it comes to a democratic republic, there are lots of different systems, lots of different checks and balances. And that doesn't mean that anyone is quote unquote opposing democracy per se.
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Governor Gavin Newsom
We all have agencies. We can shape the future. There's still a lot. Look, I've said this before, so I'll repeat it and I don't anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a break the glass scenario and there's many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out. And we're gonna do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.
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Ben Shapiro
Oh, well, they're, they're going to, they're going to take, you might say, undemocratic means in order to thwart their own rules, which will be very exciting stuff. I feel like the, the pro democracy party, not so pro democracy when it comes up against their priors. But all of this again is part of their gigantic view of the universe in which everyone can be broke down by racial group and we can, we can determine the by that group whether they are in fact victims or victimizers. Democrats are growing more and more radical day by day, day by day. This is why, for example, they're very much in favor of Graham Platner. Graham Platner is the main Senate Democratic candidate who's running against Susan Collins. I think he will lose there because I don't think that the people of Maine are ready to elect a Nazi tattooed socialist too high office. But at least he's not hiding the ball particularly much. He is now claiming that there must be armed resistance for economic justice. To the New York Times you said, quote, an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice.
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Zoran Mamdani
How do you think about that now?
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Graham Platner
As a student of history, it is difficult for me to not see elements of that as being like a reality. Especially in resistance to fascism. We didn't beat the Nazis with smiles, we did beat them with a war. I don't think it's a very controversial statement, to tell you the truth.
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Ben Shapiro
I'm just gonna point out that, you know, what's one way we didn't defeat the Nazis is by getting Nazi tattoos on our chest or by going on Nazi podcasts. Also not a way that we defeated the Nazis. Listening to Graham Platner talking about defeating the Nazis is like listening to Hasan Piker talk about defeating the communists. Like, what are we talking about right now? But Graham Platner, again, is emblematic of the new Democratic Party, more and more radical. He's out there apologizing for Iraq, apologizing for Afghanistan, and of course blaming everybody else for the fact that he actually joined the United States military voluntarily. Apparently, he was bamboozled. He was suckered into it.
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Graham Platner
We destroyed Iraq and we destroyed Afghanistan and all the suffering, all the killing, all the dying, all the displacement, all the, all of it was, was we, we brought that. We, the United States did that. And it is a. And that I'm ashamed of.
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Ben Shapiro
I'm, I'm just going to point out once again, Iraq was a hellhole tyranny governed by Saddam Hussein before we got there. Their GDP is now multiple times what it was before with all of the problems that Iraq is experiencing. And as for Afghanistan, it turns out that before we got there, the Taliban was running it and head chopping people. And after we left, the Taliban is running it and head chopping people. So things aren't so great in Afghanistan without us there either. But Graham Platner, again, the new Democratic Party, he says that what we really need to do is we need to basically end America's involvement in the world in order so we can spend the money here at home. And these are some of the dumbest talking points. These, these talking points drive me up a wall. They are so stupid. But they are part and parcel of the Democrats trying to sell dumb talking points to people. Because what they really want is a weaker America on the world stage. This is actually what they want.
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Graham Platner
So we just spent $50 billion in two months in the war in Iran and I haven't heard a single question of where it came from. I am always amazed that this nation can just expend billions, trillions of dollars on wars that enrich the military industrial complex, protect people in power, and we never have to have a conversation about where the money came from. But the moment you say that Americans deserve to see housing costs come down or energy costs come down, the moment we have to talk about health care, suddenly we have to pull our pockets out and pretend like we're poppers.
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Ben Shapiro
What in the world is he talking about? We spend multiple times the amount of money on our social welfare programs that we spend on the United States military as a percentage of gdp, we've been basically flat. And in terms of our military spending for many, many years. That is not true of our social spending. But again, this is one of these dumb talking points the left likes to repeat, because what they actually want is a weaker America in the world. Zormandani is doing the same thing, by the way. Again. Zormandani, the brand new hero of the Democratic Party. He's now quoting Tupac Shakur on the Iran war again. Maybe voters are just dumb who vote for these people. If you're the kind of politician who finds yourself quoting Tupac Shakur, I don't even know what to make of you other than you are appealing to idiots. Not because Tupac Shapkur wasn't a great rapper, but I don't think he was a great political commentator. Let's put it out there. I don't think that he had tremendous wisdom when it came to his global view of foreign policy. But here is Mamdani quoting Tupac Shakur's wise advice on the Iraq war.
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Representative Carson
I've made clear my very deep opposition to this war in Iran. It is an opposition not just of a procedural nature or a political nature, but frankly of a moral nature. We are speaking about a war that has killed thousands of civilians, a war that is deeply unpopular across the city and across this country, not just because of what we are seeing it result in, but also because it is utilizing tens of billions of dollars to kill people. Money that could otherwise be spent on making life easier for people across the city in this country. You know, I mean, Tupac said it decades ago. It continues to be true about the fact that we always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor. And that is not the way that politics should be. That is not what Americans want politics to be.
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Ben Shapiro
For Zoran Mamdani, obviously, this anti American involvement in the world is part and parcel of a broader Third Worldist view in which America and its allies are guilty for literally everything bad that happens on planet Earth. So, Zoram Dani, remember, remember that time that Zoramdani said in a New York City debate for mayor, he was asked about policies of Israel? He said, I don't want to talk about that. I'm not interested in that because I'm the mayor of New York. I'm not the mayor of the Middle East. Remember he said this and then he spends pretty much every day just talking about the politics in the Middle East. It really is astonishing. It's, it's pretty much the only thing he truly cares about is sinking America into the mire in honor of third world peoples who he believes have been victimized in some way. So over the weekend, Mamdani decided he was going to honor what, what anti Israel people and Israel extermination is, who wish to see Israel exterminated. Call Nakba day. And now in order to understand what Nakba Day is, you have to understand. Nakba means disaster in Arabic. It was a term that was originally coined by a Syrian historian to refer to the failure of the Arab countries to destroy Israel in 1948. That's what Nakba meant. The Nakba was the failure to destroy Israel. Then there was an agit prop effort by anti Israel forces to claim that. Nakba didn't refer to the failure to destroy Israel. It referred instead to the refugee problem that emerged from the war between the Arab states which, remember, attacked Israel upon its establishment in 1948 and Israel. And the idea was that was the Nakba. The Nakba was the expulsion of Palestinians from Israeli areas. Now we should be clear. The Israeli declaration of independence offered citizenship to Arabs living in Israeli areas, which is why there are 2 million Israeli Arabs today. There are villages directly around Jerusalem like Abu Gosh that have been there since before 1948. Arabic villages since before 1948 that decided not to pick up arms and fight the Israelis. And they're still there. Weird how that works because there are no Jews anywhere in the Middle east because the Arab nations expelled pretty much all of them. 850000 Jews were expelled in the next decade and a half after the establishment of the state of Israel. Israel took all of them in. In fact, Azam Pasha, the Secretary general of the Arab League, said in early 1948 that Arabs should move out of the areas where battle would take place because, quote, this war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. The Iraqi prime minister at the time called on the Jews to pack their bags and leave while there was still time. And that there were broadcasts that went out from Arab leadership from the Arab League telling people to leave those areas because there was going to be a war. In any case, part of the propaganda effort by anti Israel people is to claim that Israel purposefully expelled some 500,000 Palestinians or more during the 1948 war. And so the mayor of New York, this is why it's important, okay? Otherwise this is just obscure Middle Eastern history. The reason this is important is because Zorami believes that the f. The foundation of the state of Israel was fundamentally illegitimate. And he is using his office as mayor of New York in order to push eliminationist rhetoric with regard to Israel. Here was Mamzani over the weekend.
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Zoran Mamdani
I was nine years old, it was nighttime, and my father came into our bedroom and told us surprisingly, to get on all fours and make our way to the staircase that goes in to the roof. There were no windows on the staircase because bullets had come in through the wood shutters at that stage. And next day we just took what we could carry and went to my Uncle Hussein's house in Nablus because there was no fighting in Nablus. The Zionists were, you know, coming into Jerusalem.
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Ben Shapiro
Nablus, by the way, is located in, wait for it, Judea and Sumeria, the west bank, okay? Which is in Israel and it was controlled by Jordan between 1948 and 1967. So again, the only reason this is important is because this is the democratic ideology that has taken the front, is an ideology that says that the west is guilty for every single thing in the world and that domestically America needs to believe that racism has won the day and the only solve is democratic socialism. That is the way the Democratic Party is moving. In just a second, we will get into what the UK is looking like this weekend because the future of America looks like that if the Democrats win. Plus we'll get to Iran and China and Cuba and all the rest first. The reality is most Americans don't eat enough fruits and veggies. That's just true. Everybody knows we should eat better. Everybody has plans to become the kind of person who's juicing kale at 5:30 in the morning. And then there's actual life. You're traveling, working, grabbing food on the run, eating whatever's available between meetings or kids activities. Suddenly, your balanced diet consists primarily of caffeine and convenience food. It's one of the reasons I like Balance of Nature. Balance of Nature takes whole food ingredients from fruits and veggies and uses a special vacuum cold process to stabilize the naturally occurring phytonutrients. The ingredients are then powdered and encapsulated, making it easy to supplement your diet with real whole food ingredients. The goal isn't to replace eating fruits and veggies. It's to help supplement your diet. You may notice I am not at home right now. That means I'm on the road, which means I'm eating worse except for my balance of nature. Balance of nature focuses on whole food phytonutrition rather than trying to market some miracle chemical compound of the week. Real fruits, real veggies, real ingredients. People want something simple you can, can actually incorporate into your daily life. At the end of the day, most health decisions come down to sustainability. If something is complicated, you're going to quit. Balance of nature makes it easy to stay consistent. Head on over to balance of nature.com today. Get an additional 10% off the fruits and veggie supplement subscription when you use discount code. Shapiro. James Talo over in Texas singing from the same hymnal. He says actually the Christianity says that all power must be shared. That actually, I guess Christianity is communist in some way. According to James Talarico.
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James Talarico
In my mind, as a Christian, power that is not shared is, is also domination. And in a democracy it's all about sharing power. We acknowledge that power is real and that it has consequences and we commit to sharing that together as a, as a nation, as communities.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay, I mean, I'm just going to point out that that is not anti capitalism. It is not anti right. The right also would like for people to vote. It is only the left that wishes to see centralization of power. But again, what if you want to see what the Democratic Party wants? Just look at Britain, okay? Britain is about 10 years ahead of us. The direction that Britain is moving is a very, very bad direction. And that is the direction the left in America would love us to move. So over the weekend in Britain, according to the BBC, tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in London on Saturday. The Unite the Kingdom rally organized by Tommy Robinson and a pro Palestinian demonstration. In the Tommy Robinson rally, many could be seen waving union flags with some wearing Make England great again. Mega red hats. Chants of we want Starmer out. Care Starmer is the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Could also be heard the separate pro Palestinian march marking Nakba Day. There it is. Started in Kensington before heading to Waterloo Place via Piccadilly. So what happened at these various rallies? Well, at one, at one the government tried to shut it down. That would be the Unite the Kingdom rally. They spoke out against it. Keira Starmer warned that there would be hate at the march. The march again was a march against mass migration into Great Britain of radical Muslims. That's what the march was about. Keir Starmer warned about the extremism and horror of the march.
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Keir Starmer
My government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest, but we will act decisively against hatred. We will use the full force of the law when that hatred manifests as violence. And we will ban those coming into the UK who seek to stir it up, as we have done already, because this country belongs to all of us. And I will not touch, tolerate anyone who seeks to stand in the way of that.
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Ben Shapiro
He's not going to tolerate hatred. He's not going to tolerate hatred. You know, like hatred of London protesters who showed up to protest the Unite the Kingdom rally chanting about Tommy Robinson, that he should be shot in the neck like Charlie Crook. Apparently, Keira Starmer has no problem with that kind of hatred. That kind of hatred is okay. That kind of hatred, totally fine. That's a crowd singing it, by the way, at the, at the Nakba march also Nakba Day protests screams for Intifada revolution. Intifada would be an armed uprising. That's what intifada means. This kind of stuff totally okay. According to Kir Starmer, the real threat is the Unite the Kingdom march that oppose this stuff. Very, very large crowd calling for armed uprisings and revolution. One of the speakers on the stage suggested that actually Great Britain had planted the Zionist cancer, as though Jewish presence in the Middle east is solely due to Great Britain, which would come as a surprise to, you know, all of Jewish history.
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Palestinian Speaker at Nakba March
But okay, here in the capital of the country that planted the Zionist cancer, hundreds of thousands would march in solidarity with them. Never would they have imagined that people from all corners of the globe, in their hundreds of thousands know, in their millions would march in solidarity with them from every culture corner. People of all walks of life, of all religions and none opened their eyes to the evils of Zionism and decided to take a stand. And for that, the Palestinian people, thank you.
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Ben Shapiro
The UK government imported all of this. They imported all of this. This is the future. The Democratic Party wants a socialized medicine, socialized health care, socialized everything system. They want an open borders, green revolution. They would like to look like the uk. So if you look at London and you think that's being governed well, then wait until Democrats have charge again. They will do it. This is a thing they want. And pretending that away is not going to make it go away. So I know there's a lot of people in the Republican Party these days who have heartburn over things that they don't like about President Trump. There are a lot of Americans who are independent who are thinking, well, you know, the Democrats, maybe they won't Be that bad, I would just like you to look across the water and see what this will become. Zoran Mandani and the mayor and City Khan, the mayor of London, the same, okay? They have the same ideology, they have the same belief system. If you want to see what is happening in London, happen more broadly in the United States, then please give Democrats power. If not, maybe we should have some second thoughts.
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James Talarico
All right.
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Ben Shapiro
Meanwhile, when it comes to Iran, it turns out that once again the Iranians are not going to just give up the ghost and hand over their nuclear program. That always seemed far fetched to me. According to Iran International, the United States had set five conditions in response to Iran's current proposals, including no payments of damages and the transfer of 400 kg of uranium. Iran apparently instead is saying that they want a cessation of all violence on all fronts, the lifting of sanctions, the release of all frozen funds, compensation for war damages, and recognition of Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. So it's a non starter. It's a non starter. But the actual harsh reality is beginning to sink in. In Iran, their economy is in serious trouble. The foundation for defensive democracies, Miyad Maliki writes, multiple officials have now openly acknowledged Iran's structural gasoline deficit war, damaged energy infrastructure and the urgent need for consumption management. Fuel shortages and tightened rationing are pushing drivers across the country into a rapidly growing gasoline black market. Citizens are describing hours, long lines of filling stations and sharply inflated under the table prices, a clear sign the official quota system is breaking down. On the ground, Iranian crude exports have collapsed by more than 80% between mid March and late April, measured against a March baseline of 23.4 million barrels. Again, Iran is in trouble. And the only thing that Iran can do right now is try to rally all of those members of the left, all of the people on the left in the United States and the Horseshoe right, all of the people protesting in London to their support. It is just Third Worldism. It's Third Worldists unite. Mohammed Khaliba, who's the head of the Iranian Parliament, which is a fake organization in the first place, he tweeted out, the world stands at the cusp of new order. As President Xi said, the transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe. And I emphasize that The Iranian nation's 70 day resistance has accelerated this transformation. The future belongs to the global South. He's trying to make common cause with China, trying to make common cause with the Russians, obviously, and obviously trying to unite the third world. This is not the first time we have seen this sort of tactic happen. This happened also in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War when the Soviet Union decided to promote Third Worldism as an alternative to Arab countries who are thinking about uniting with the United States. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Pazashkian, who is the President of Iran, he praised Iran's communications and IT services on World Communication Day. We should note at this point that Iran is on day 79 of its Internet blackout. So things are not going particularly well for the Iranians. There is the possibility that this war goes kinetic sometime in the near future. Again, obviously that's up to the President. Right now this blockade is doing terrible harm to the Iranian economy. They are going to have to cap wells soon. They're going to have to take refineries offline because they just do not have any place to put all of the oil that they have since it's not going out anywhere. But as I've said before, the real solution here would be to reopen the Strait of Hormuz through force and bomb Iran's oil facilities, defenestrating their economy and making it impossible for the regime to recover in the near mid or far term. That is what Iran is risking right now. And the President of the United States keeps saying that over and over. At a certain point he will run out of patience. The President of the United States went on Truth Social over the weekend and put out a statement to that effect. He said, quote, for Iran, the clock is ticking and they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them. Time is of the essence. Well, we'll find out in short order. When it comes to China, the President has taken an awful lot of measures, as I've pointed out, to basically cut off the tentacles of Chinese power. That's what Venezuela is largely about. It's what Cuba is we'll get to is about. It is also what the closing of the Iranian shipments from the Strait of Hormuz is about. Zinebuya of Hudson Institute points out that the President has made a number of strategic moves to box in the Chinese, ranging from the building of AI infrastructure in the UAE to maximizing US India trade with an LNG deal to US Government industrial enclaves in the Philippines. The President has always seen China as a serious geopolitical enemy. Now with that said, the President does want to reshore key resources for the United States. That includes, for example, the production of sophisticated microchips. The President, I'm not sure I love his language here with regard to Taiwan, but obviously it is in the United States's interest not to be totally reliant on Taiwanese microchip manufacturing at this point, considering how vital those supplies are to pretty much everything in our economy. Here was the president over the weekend.
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President Donald Trump
If you look at the history of Taiwan, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing, because if they would have put tariffs on chips coming in, it would. They would have never left. Everything was about intel and everything was about our chip companies. They stole our chip industry. So I've said that for years. I said, you know, for years they stole our chip. If we would have had one of our presidents just say, we're going to say, we're going to put 100% chip. You can leave, you can build in Taiwan, but we're going to. You sell it back into the United States, we're going to put 100% or 200% tariff. We would have never lost a chip. We lost the chip industry. It's all coming back.
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Ben Shapiro
So that should not be a reason for us to give up Taiwan to the Chinese. But it is good, of course, that the United States is making our resources safer, obviously, so long as we are not basically giving a green light to the Chinese. The truth is, it's not just about Taiwan. The Taiwan Strait is a bottleneck when it comes to shipping supply, that we cannot allow China to. To drive control over other areas where China has an interest that may be on their last legs. Cuba, obviously is on the menu. A report from Axio says that Cuba has now acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the US Base at Guantanamo Bay. US Military vessels, and possibly even Key west, which of course is in Florida. The intelligence shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisors. And in Havana, according to U.S. officials, Cuba has been acquiring attack drones of varying capabilities from Russia and Iran since 2023 and has actually stashed them in strategic locations across the island. And they are working with the Chinese in order to facilitate all of this. Cuba may be on its last legs. That doesn't mean that they are not dangerous. I do want to give a shout out to producer Savvy. By the way, she has a fantastic piece over at Daily Wire that everybody should read all about growing up as a Cuban American. Talking about being raised by Cuban exile parents. She writes about what it means for the left to take over in America. She said that her grandparents, for example watched in anguish when Barack Obama was elected president. Quote by Abuelo Ernesto was tapping his foot uncontrollably. My Abuela Norma had one tear lightly streaming down her face. Then she leaned over to me and said something I will never forget. That sounds exactly like Fidel Castro. I thought she was absolutely insane. Socialism does not arrive all at once. It seeps in through rhetoric that reshapes how people think about success, fairness and their own country. Go check out the piece over@daily wire.com now speaking of anti market forces, left wing billionaires, according to reporting at the Daily Wire, are now funding groups attempting to cripple AI infrastructure. As we've been talking about on the program, the AI race is imperative for the United States. It's imperative for our economy and it's also imperative for our military. If we lose to China, we just become more dependent on their supply and manufacture and their military makes leaps and bounds beyond our own. We cannot lose the AI race. And as far as the notion that AI is going to cripple the United States economy, that is absolutely untrue. We are beginning to see, by the way, the gains in American productivity materializing in actual profit margins for places like Anthropic well, according to the Daily Wire, a report from the American Energy Institute found the anti AI data center movement, which has been billed as organic, received more than $39 million in funding from left wing foreign billionaire donors. Among the major donors are Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Weiss, known for donating to left wing advocacy groups as well as a major fiscal sponsor and dark money hub for liberal causes. Top recipients for those $40 million are indivisible350.org Oil Change International, Gaia and the Sierra Club. So again, left wing billionaires from abroad are using America's openness to turn against the things that actually make America more innovative. And it has a bleed down effect. I've said this a thousand times, I'll say it a thousand more. There are a lot of people my age and above who think of the online world as unreal because it is. And I've said go touch grass, go talk with real people. The problem is for young people, online is real. They spend a massive amount of time interfacing with, in many case bots, in some cases people who they've never met, experiencing things that they really don't experience in real life and developing thought patterns that are totally at odds with reality. This is how you end up with a university commencement speaker being booed for making pro AI comments over at the University of central Florida. And if this is any indicator of where we go economically in the United States, we got a problem.
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Producer Justin
The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.
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Representative Ayanna Presley
What happened?
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Producer Justin
Okay, I struck a chord. Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay? So people cheering the idea that AI is bad. I promise you, every one of those students is using AI to get their information about AI. It's pretty impressive how brains can be captured this way. Now, this is not to say that there aren't risks to AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi says that we could have high GDP growth and also high unemployment.
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James Talarico
My view is the signature of this technology is it's going to take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment and inequality. Now, that's not a combination we've almost ever seen before. Right. You think of it as high GDP growth. That's lots of stuff to do, lots of jobs for everyone. It's always been like that in the past. We've never had a technology that's this disruptive. So the idea that we could have 5 or 10% GDP growth, but also, you know, 10% unemployment, it's. It's not logically inconsistent at all. It's just never happened that, that, that, that way before.
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Ben Shapiro
Now, again, I think he's wrong. I think that AI is going to cause temporary dislocation in the job markets, but it is going to open up way more ways for you to do your job than ever before. You might not have to work as many hours because you're more productive in the hours that you are working. Secretary Doug Burgum, the US Interior Secretary, I think says this. Well, he says we are now converting electricity into intelligence, which again, if you said to everybody on earth, we can make you 15 IQ points smarter today, would that be a bad thing or a good thing? You would imagine that would be a pretty good thing. That's essentially what AI is doing.
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Representative Carson
You're actually manufacturing intelligence for the first time. You could turn electricity, turn it into light, like these bright lights that are facing us.
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Ben Shapiro
They're very bright, by the way.
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Representative Carson
That's right. Or, you know, heat. I mean, that's a miracle. I mean, thank you. You know, Edison, Tesla, Benjamin Franklin. I mean, thank you for harnessing electricity. But now, for the first time in our lifetimes in history, human history, you can convert electricity into intelligence. That changes everything.
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Ben Shapiro
Now, the administration is doing good work in tamping down some of the concerns about AI. So, for example, the White House has pushed In March of 2026, the so called ratepayer protection pledge, in which he called on leading US hyperscalers and AI companies to build, bring or buy all of the energy necessary for building and operating data centers and pay the full cost of their energy and infrastructure, no matter what. And that is good because obviously we don't want to tax everybody else with higher power prices because the data centers are eating too much power. It turns out actually the biggest price disruption we saw last year occurred when a data center went off the grid and that overtaxed the regime. The truth also is that it really isn't about AI data centers, energy pricing. It is that red states just regulate energy far less than blue states. Here's a chart of median residential electricity rates in red states versus blue states. Look at those blue states. I mean, just skyrocketing since 2021. Just up and up and up. And as for the argument that data centers are going to disproportionately consume water, we should look at what actually disproportionately consumes water in the United States. It turns out the answer is. Wait for it. Wait for it. Almonds. Almonds consume an enormous amount of water, but you don't. By the way, many of the people who are very much against the water usage for data centers are very much in favor of the almond growing because it's agricultural in nature. And an enormous amount of the anger at AI is being driven either by people who are anti capitalism or by people who actually have an interest in America losing the AI race, which is why you are seeing the. The Singham projects of the world funding enormous anti AI propaganda. Okay, back to politics. So the big political story over the weekend. Bill Cassidy, senator from Louisiana, lost his Senate primary. According to Politico, Cassidy is the first previously elected senator of either party to lose in a primary since 2012. Now, he was defeated. He didn't even make the runoff. He finished third in the actual election. President Trump had loudly opposed him. His two rivals benefited from the fact that Cassidy voted in 2021 to convict President Trump on impeachment charges related to that January 6th insurrection. It was really about that. He also opposed RFK as health and Human Services secretary. Rhetorically, he ended up, I believe, voting for him. In the end. He may have voted against him, but I think he voted against Casey Means. In any case, Cassidy across swords with the President one too many times, and the President really ripped him. It was really more about the impeachment. Impeachment came to be seen as a Sort of litmus test on whether you were an effective Republican or whether you just wanted to win some brownie points with the left. I am amused that some Democrats are now claiming that they love Bill Cassidy. Pete Buttigieg, who is playing now in the movie Bearded Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg 2.0, the same, but slightly more masculine. He now says that Cassidy was a normal, honest Republican and we like him. Now. One of my favorite games the Democrats play is when suddenly Republicans, who they hated for years, become good so they can contrast them with other Republicans. It's, it's the whole Mitt Romney, man. I miss Mitt Romney after they destroyed Mitt Romney. Here's people to judge doing the usual routine.
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Representative Carson
My experience, Senator Cassidy is a normal, honest and very conservative Republican. And it turns out people like that have less and less of a home in Donald Trump's Republican Party.
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Ben Shapiro
Well, I mean, one could say that that perhaps your own party has basically thrown out anyone who is purportedly moderate. Bill Cassie, on his way out, mocked President Trump's election take in 2020. I've been able to participate in democracy, and when you participate in democracy, sometimes
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Representative Carson
it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But you don't pout, you don't whine, you don't claim the election was stolen. You don't find a reason why.
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Ben Shapiro
Now, again, I have a lot of sympathy for Bill Cassidy, continuing to claim, correctly, that the election of 2020 was not stolen, like through voter fraud or whatever. It also happens to be the case that if you vote for the impeachment of the president of your party, it is probably not going to go well for you. Well, we will see the extent of the president's reach. He's going after a wide variety of Republicans who have crossed him at this point. That includes Thomas Massie. The wayward congressman from Kentucky spends most of his time ripping the President's foreign policy and making time with rather unpleasant people in the podcast sphere. The President put out a statement. Tom Massey of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican congressman in the history of our country, is an even bigger insult to our nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered an unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican primary. This is the first time such a thing has ever happened to a sitting U.S. senator. That's what you get by voting to impeach an innocent man, especially one who made it possible for Cassidy's Senate win. Very disloyal. But Tom Massey, a major sleaze bag, is even worse, Kentucky. Get this loser out of politics in Tuesday's election. His nickname, Rand Paul Jr. Another real beauty because of his absolutely terrible voting habits. Vote for Ed Gallrine, a successful Kentucky farmer and American war hero who only ran because he thought Massey was so disloyal and disrespectful to your president. Me. By the way, we should point out that Massey has been running ads in his district trying to claim he's an ally of President Trump while President Trump dunks on him. President Trump says this is a great man in gal ryne central casting, in fact, who truly deserves to represent the fantastic people of Kentucky, a commonwealth I am proud to have won all three times in record fashion. Ed will never let you down. Make America great again. This House primary battle is drawing tons and tons of spending. It has drawn almost $26 million in TV, radio and digital advertising. Massey's campaign has outspent G Rs 5.8 million to 2.6 million, but Super PACS heavily favor G at this point. Again, it'll be fascinating to see what happens in Tuesday's primary in Kentucky. All righty, over to culture. So I have to say the funniest moment of the weekend came when Clavicular. You remember Clavicular? That's this young streamer who has been a lot in the headlines for almost overdosing on drugs and smashing himself in the face of the hammer and suggesting that Gavin Newsom would MOG JD Vance. MOG means to apparently defeat someone visually. Well, he had an unfortunate experience over the weekend. No, not that. He had to show up in court for shooting a dead alligator, which is a thing he had to show up in court for in Florida. No, he had the unfortunate experience of being mogged himself. See, the problem with being a looks maxer is that like an old school Western gunfighter, except significantly more gay, you might run up against a faster gunfighter who is less gay but also more handsome. And that apparently is what happened to Clavicular over the weekend. And it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. Here's what it looked like Social media
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Producer Justin
streamers accused of firing a gun in the Everglades during a live stream. They have now pleaded no contest to the charges. Andrew Morales, known online as Cuban Tarzan, and Braden Peters, who goes by Clavicular, were each charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm. Judge this case stems from a March live stream that appeared to show a dead alligator being shot in the Everglades as part of their sentence. Both men received six months.
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Ben Shapiro
The Internet went crazy over the judge because the judge appears to be better looking than clavicular. So man, must be hard to be frame mogged consistently by the people who are out to get you. Clavicular. Having a rough time of it. Well, over the weekend, Chelsea Handler also decided to sound off on politics. She's going after Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles with her usual brand of bizarre non comedy.
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Producer Justin
Oh, hi. If you're seeing this video, this is a reminder that a straight white male, former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate. Have we learned anything yet? The bar is on the floor, people, and I need you to jump over it. Okay, thank you. Have a nice day.
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Ben Shapiro
She seems pleasant. She seems pleasant and somehow even less pleasant when she's drunk. That's, that's a, that's a thing. I will, I will bring you what was the most pleasant story of the weekend. The most pleasant story of the weekend is ironic. So remember that New York magazine piece that we talked about on Friday of last week? Well, it turns out that the writer of that piece is now under investigation for. Wait for it, plagiarism. Oh, no. It turns out that NPR found at least two other instances in which the writer, Ross Barkin, apparently pulled partial paragraphs from other stories that appeared in the publications the Intercept and Compact Magazine. Hmm. Well, isn't that sad after he plagiarized a piece about the downfall of the Daily Wire from the Washington Post. Huh? You know, karma, over the weekend, Bill Maher on his HBO show gave a tremendous monologue on anti Semitism, specifically ripping the Democratic Party for its embrace of anti Semitism. It's worth noting. Here's what it sounded like.
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M
Now it's everyone's right in a free country to be anti Semitic. But enough with hiding behind Israel or Zionism or Netanyahu. If you think, as so many do now, that when it comes to human rights, Israel is the monster country of all time. You either don't read or you don't care about your own hypocrisy because there are so many worse places. But that's where we are these days. No Jews, no news.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay, so he went off and he went off on the Democratic Party specifically, which I have to say, Megyn Kelly. Ooh, gotta hunt those clicks, girl. Go get em.
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Palestinian Speaker at Nakba March
Woo.
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Ben Shapiro
She put out a tweet. He's such a hypocrite anti woke warrior. Except when it comes to the one identity he shares, and then he's full. BLM 2020. Well, no, actually, BLM claims that the entire system is rigged against black people. Bill Maher is claiming that the Democratic Party has gone heavily anti Semitic because it has, and also that there are people on the right who have been promoting that anti Semitism, which they also have. But I guess if you string words together in something that appears semi coherent fashion and you invoke blm, then that makes you, you know, girl power or some such. Alrighty folks, the show continues for our members right now. We will jump into the mailbag and answer some of your questions. Remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member. If you're not a member, become one and use Code Shapiro Checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.