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And that is particularly true when it comes to race relations in the United States. The leadership of Our country matters on this sort of stuff. When our leaders promote meritocracy or equal justice before law, colorblindness, not dei, Americans tend to follow. And by contrast, when our leaders promote racial polarization, Americans also tend to follow. So let's give an example. About a year and a half ago, there's a 17 year old teenager named Carmelo Anthony. He's black. He stabbed a 17 year old named Austin Metcalf, who is white. He murdered him in cold blood in front of witnesses. The case was clear from literally day one. But Carmelo Anthony's family and his spokespeople began retailing and racial narrative that somehow Anthony was justified. Or at least you understand why he did what he did because he was the victim here. A victim of what? Well, maybe of the actual victim, Austin Metcalf, who allegedly threw him out of a track tent. Maybe. Maybe because of racism, maybe not. Maybe because of white America more broadly. Well, none of this worked. Anthony was convicted yesterday of murder. He will see 35 years in prison, parole eligibility in 17. And there weren't any riots, no major protests, not even much of a legacy media response. Because in a sane and rational universe in which law and order prevail, Americans understand that race has nothing to do with whether murder must be punished. Murder must be punished. Doesn't matter who the murderer is and who the victim is. Now, would that have happened if Kamala Harris were president? I have my doubts. Or Joe Biden, or certainly Barack Obama, because, you know, I'm older than a few years old, so I'm old enough to remember the destruction of racial comedy in America. When Barack Obama got directly involved in the Trayvon Martin case in 2013, that was a case in which Trayvon Martin, a young black teenager, was killed by George Zimmerman under disputed circumstances. There's a long trial about it. Again, Zimmerman had claimed he's Hispanic. He had claimed that it was self defense. And the prosecution tried to claim that Zimmerman had done it in cold blood. And Barack Obama got directly involved. And he said if he had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon, which of course was not true. And I remember major riots when a white cop shot a black man who had attacked him in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. And then the entire legacy media, the entire legacy media falsified the story claiming that the cop was racist and that Michael Brown had tried to surrender to him. Hands up, don't shoot. Which never happened. And the President again injected himself and said that nobody in Ferguson would have made something like that up. Which of course it was entirely made up. It is not a coincidence that race relations in America nosedived beginning 2013, 2014. I'm old enough to remember 2020, when the death of George Floyd, yes, almost certainly due to drug use, combined with excited delirium, not police brutality, led to the most disastrous race riots in modern American history. So if Kamala Harris were president, what would have happened after the Carmelo Anthony conviction yesterday? Would we be prepping a new round of racial recriminations over supposed systemic racism in the United States? That is the question we should be asking because again, much of what President Trump's presidency is about, his return to power was about avoiding the worst outcome. And this is just another example of where the worst outcome I think has been mitigated or avoided because Americans turned away from the race narrative that was sold by the Democrats. In order to understand how this could have gone, you have to understand exactly the fact pattern in the Carmelo Anthony case. So you have to go back at a year and a half. Austin Metcalf was a 17 year old student, athlete and honor student at Memorial High School in Frisco, Texas. Frisco, Texas is a very diverse town in Texas. About 46% white, about 10% black, 30 some percent Hispanic. He was a linebacker and a twin brother. He was 6 foot 1 and 213. Carmelo Anthony was a 17 year old student athlete at Centennial High School in Frisco where he ran track and played football. He was 5'8 and £130. The reason that we bring up the relative sizes of the people involved is because the defense tried to make a self defense argument. The two boys did not know each other. They had no previous connections. Metcalf was unarmed at the time of his murder. So what happened is that there was a rainstorm. It delayed the track meet that day. The athletes scrambled for shelter. Anthony's school didn't have a tent at the venue. Metcalf school did. Metcalf and his twin brother Hunter confronted Anthony and repeatedly asked him to leave from under their school tent. And then witnesses said that Metcalf gave Anthony light pushes and told Anthony, I'm not going to fight you bro. Seeming to imply that Anthony wanted to fight him. Other witnesses said that Anthony told Metcalf, make me move, touch me, see what happens. Apparently after Metcalf pushed Anthony in the bleachers. And again, it's unclear how hard the push was or anything like that, Anthony then pulled a five inch knife from his backpack and stabbed Metcalf, hitting his heart directly. So witnesses, accounts of the incident vary dramatically in intensity. They were totally inconsistent on the details like where people were sitting or whether or not Anthony ran or walked away after the stabbing. So the murder takes place. Anthony is immediately arrested the same day for murder. This is April 2, 2025 and according to the arrest report, he claimed self defense. Right away he was arrested and he shouted I was protecting myself. Unprompted by police. He also reportedly asked police whether Metcalf would survive and if his actions could be considered self defense. When an officer mentioned that he had the alleged suspect over the radio, Anthony reportedly replied, I'm not alleged. I did it. And here's where things started to get incredibly squirrely and controversial. The family set up prospective fundraisers online. Carmelo Anthony's Give Send Go received donations from people who said things like we are defenders of our lineage and I hope the knife made a full recovery and these white people can die mad. Totally racialized. Totally racialized. Givesend Go eventually had to disable the comment sections on the page because of the volume of derogatory remarks on the basis of race. You look at the comments, here are some of the comments on the Carmelo Anthony family Give Send Go. I hope you raise $1 million. These white people can die mad like they ancestors did. Whites have been obsessed with black people for years. It's 2025. The hate is embedded into their DNA. At this point they don't know if they love us or hate us. Lol. Too bad we don't care in these kinds of comments. Getting 64 likes. I am donating again after seeing the need for additional protection and expenses. That was what the family said. They said that they needed protection. I am so glad to see him get released on bond. These crackers need to understand we are not our ancestors. They will reap what they sow. I hope the knife made a full recovery. Justice for Carmelo and 25 likes on that one. We are defenders of our lineage. This is America. These flat whiteness immigrants from all over the world has always been open enemies toward foundational black Americans from day one. No more. Now again, there's no real allegation that the behavior by Austin Metcalfe was racist in any way. Again, right from the beginning, the Metcalf family acted with honor. Metcalf's father publicly forgave Anthony in Christian fashion and explicitly mentioned this was not a race thing. On April 14, Anthony's bond was reduced from a million bucks to $250,000 and Anthony was allowed to leave jail for a house arrest with an ankle Monitor. His family immediately holed up in an exclusive gated community in a $900,000 house. And they were claiming that they had limited financial means as a way of convincing the judge to release him from jail. So he's hunkered down, according to media reports, in a Frisco home located on Mercedes Lane. And his family was renting the home for 3, 500 bucks a month. So again, is that the mark of a family that is simply seeking to get by to rent a very expensive house in a gated community? April 17, the Anthony family did a press conference. Austin Metcalf's father showed up, and the family spokesperson ripped into him for showing up. Here's what that sounded like. And all I'm going to say so it don't be asked later, is that was disrespectful and just shows you all the character who is not invited. He knows that it's inappropriate to be near this family, but he did it. Yeah, the. The true victim here is not the Metcalf family. It is apparently Carmelo Anthony's family. According to Dominique Alexander, who himself has a relatively checkered history. Alexander also put out a tweet, saying, today we were informed by the Collin County District Attorney that Carmelo Anthony has been indicted. As many of you know, this is the first step in a criminal proceeding, and now the legal process will move forward toward trial. Over the past several months, I've worked closely with Carmelo's family to ensure they have the proper legal representation and support they need to navigate this incredibly complex and emotionally charged case. Let me be honest. It's easy to go on social media and give an opinion. It's easy to post without facts. And sadly, even some people who claim to be supporters have shared misinformation, not always with bad intent, but still harmful. This case involves multiple minors and sensitive details I cannot and will not speak about publicly. There will be a trial. There will be a courtroom to the racists, the bigots, and those filled with hate who have targeted Carmelo, his family, and even myself. You do not intimidate us. We are not backing down. This case is yet another example, and here's the key, of what it means to be black in America, where even our self defense is questioned, scrutinized and politicized. I mean, I feel like this is actually not what it's like to be black in America. Turns out the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of black people in America don't end up indicted for murder based on an altercation in a track tent in which one person was completely unarmed and the young black man stabbed the young white man in the heart. I feel like that's, that's a fairly unique circumstance. Again, the implication is that being black in America involves running the risk of being arrested for no reason at any time. So it's not as though the line was not retailed. It absolutely was retailed. And more on the Austin Metcalf murder, the timeline, how this all played out. We'll talk about mass migration, the wages of that on Belfast, on the UK more generally, and Stephen A. Smith going after President Trump again about the Knicks game. Lot more coming up on today's show. First, I've been talking about Bull and Branch like all the time. You know it. Okay. In Florida, it is the summer. At a certain point, even beloved blankets need a seasonal adjustment. Betting matters a ton. Like it really, really does. It'll wreck your sleep if it's bad. Bull and Branch is the best by far. A lot of people think that poor sleep means you need a new mattress. Sometimes that's the case. 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I mean, never has there been, at least in the last several decades, an argument that a white murderer deserves a white jury. And yet that was the argument that was made by Legacy Media. Jury selection resulted in a non black jury. There were, in fact, non whites on the jury, like Asians and Hispanics. The defense attorney claimed that the prosecution strikes on black jurors were based on race. The prosecution pointed out that all of these structures were educators. They were in sort of the education industry. This happened at a school and all of the rest. Prosecutors did call witnesses who were black, by the way. They played the 911 call recording. They presented a jacket covered in Metcalf's blood. And the athletic trainer testified that the track tent is like a locker room. The visiting team does not go to the home team. The track coach, who is black, testified that students sign a code of conduct prohibiting bringing weapons to a school event and that he had texted Metcalf earlier that day to step up and be a leader at the track meet as an upperclassman. Prosecutors claimed that Anthony actually provoked Metcalf. And they said, you don't get to meet a shove with a stab, especially if you provoke the shove again. Many of the teen witnesses called to the stand by the prosecution were black. And they all said that Carmelo Anthony was in the wrong, so this should not have been a race case. Again, that line was attempted to retail. The defense tried to show that Anthony was upset about the incident. They claimed that Anthony did not make the first physical contact. And they said he was forced to decide what to do in fear and chaos and that he defended himself with the knife. So yesterday, the judge allowed the jury to consider a lesser manslaughter charge. Manslaughter requires no intent, sort of crime of passion stuff. The jury determined after three hours of deliberation, he was guilty of first degree murder. And the jury rejected the defense's request for a sudden passion claim, which would have lessened the punishment range to 20 years. And so he received 35 years in prison. He'll be eligible for parole in 17.5 years. Now, when I say that there were people trying to retail this thing, there absolutely were, because right outside the courthouse, there was an attempt to Retail this as a race based anti black verdict. Here are some of the scenes outside the courthouse. What's his name? Carmelo. What's his name? Carmelo. What's his name? What do we want. Again? What is his name? Carmelo. What do we want? One of the protesters showed up and said, what do I tell my boys? Well, I mean, you could tell your boys not to stab people in the heart. That's a pretty good way to avoid being arrested. What do you want us to do? That's right. What, what do you want us to do at this point? What? I'm. I'm lost for it. I don't know what to do. I got five boys. I don't know why. I ain't got nothing to tell them no more. You can't walk away no more. Well, I mean, again, I think you should probably tell them not to stab people. That seems like a pretty good way of avoiding this particular circumstance. And of course, Dominique Alexander showed up again. When I say he had a checkered history, I mean that he had to tied backs. A Tides foundation backed nonprofit called Next Generation Action Network and has a long criminal history including convictions on child abuse, allegations of domestic violence, felony forgery charges, felony theft charges and felony assault charges. According to the New York Post, a radical political activist here, he was suggesting black lives don't matter in Collin County. I speak on behalf of myself, Minister Dominique Alexander. I speak on behalf of myself as the president of the Next Generation Action Network. The Next Generation Action Network wanted to respect this process, to be able to make sure that nobody said that the Next Generation Action Network is strong, constructed. This process interfered in this process. But what this process did is shown that black lives do not matter in Collin County. Black lives don't matter in Collin County. Again, the area in which this happened is 10% black. Is the idea that every black person in Frisco is in danger because a person who committed a murder was convicted of that murder. Jasmine Crockett, who is nearly the Texas Democrat Senate candidate and is a sitting congresswoman, and this is a pretty astonishing statement here from Crockett, suggests that the real agony here is being suffered by black women, not by, say, the Metcalf family. Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way. And we're gonna have to have just some real conversations about race in this country. The Metcalf family never spent a day living that way. They Literally had their son murdered. But the idea is that if you're a black woman in America, you're just living under the thumb of white supremacy. Now, all of this is kind of de rigor, right? This is, this is just the way things go. Unfortunately, whenever there is a racial criminal case or a racialized criminal case in which the victim and the perpetrator are of different races in the United States, black and white, the real question is, why didn't this thing explode? Because it didn't. Why didn't it explode? And the answer is because you did not have people in really prominent positions of power, say, the presidency, trying to facilitate and foster this. Because in this moment, the President of the United States, if called upon, would say, justice was done, a murderer is going to jail. And that's all it is. Because the American people responded to full on a decade of racialized politics by saying, we are tired of this, we don't want it. We're not interested in a DEI regime that divides Americans by race. We don't want that anymore. We want equal justice before law. We don't want every criminal situation to become some sort of referendum on whether America is systemically racist. We're not interested in that anymore. That is the reason why a lot of these racial narratives that would have been retailed five minutes ago are not breaking loose. The same thing, by the way, happened in Congress yesterday. So yesterday the Southern Poverty Law center, which is a radical left wing racial polarization group, that is what they do. They make allegations of white supremacy that are unrooted. In reality, they're a left wing agitation group that was used by the legacy media for legitimately decades as their source, their go to source for racially polarizing experts. Well, it turns out you'll recall that the DOJ alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC had secretly funneled more than 3 million bucks to various individuals associated with the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan nations and National Socialist Party of America. Remember that they did this while they were decrying those groups. So they're basically creating the appearance of mass racism in the United States in order to solicit donations from people to fight the mass racism in the United States. It is an industrial grift industry. Well, the SPLC appeared before Congress yesterday and again, this would have been a major story for legacy media except for the fact that Americans are bored with it. They're done with it. The leadership of America, meaning the Trump administration in Congress, in the Senate, they're not interested any longer in pursuing this ridiculous racialized narrative of the United States where white supremacy runs unabated through the veins of the American people. They're not interested in it already. Coming up, we'll get into the SPLC being grilled by Congress. Plus we'll get into a horrifying near beheading in Belfast that sparked riots over in Belfast. Is that the future for the US First? June marks the first days of summer. That means that I got a lot of things going on, spending a lot of time with the kids. Obviously we are having another baby this summer. God willing. America 250 is happening. Tons of stuff happening. I do not have time to wade through a bunch of confusing insurance websites trying to figure out if I'm getting a good deal. Neither does anybody else. And this is where Policy Genius comes in. Here's the reality. Most people know they need life insurance. 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Let me try again. During the Biden administration, did the Department of Justice seek your organization's guidance on determining political groups to target? Not to my knowledge. Okay, so here's the thing. The SPLC has basically spent decades targeting anyone mildly conservative and then lumping them together with people who are nut jobs. Here is the SPLC CEO defending TPUSA's appearance on its hate map, being grilled by Representative Chip Roy of Texas. With respect to Charlie Kirk, have you all taken any position since Charlie Kirk? Mr. Roy, we unequivocally condemned the murder of Charlie Kirk. What about the listing of Charlie Kirk? It is our position that TP USA expresses views and vilifies other people based on immutable characteristics, exposing them to our listing. Again, the idea is the TPUSA is a hate group, but again, the idea from splc. And this is the narrative. This would be the racialized narrative under Joe Biden or if Kamala Harris had, God forbid, been elected. Kamala Harris. Here is the Southern Poverty Law center lumping together me, Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes, Myron Gaines, Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos, which is psychotic. It's totally crazy. Here's the SPLC doing precisely the thing. There's a really well funded pipeline from these university organizations into far right institutions. A lot of groups like Turning Point USA or Uncensored America have been bringing more speakers onto campus in the last couple years. And what they hope is to create protest, to create pushback, and for them, that is an opportunity to create propaganda. Tense from tpusa, Charlie, Aiden and Fuentes. A picture of me next to Fuentes at the Buckley Institute at Yale. They often say that they're just trying to introduce controversial ideas. They just want to. Next to Myron Gaines, radical ancestry garbage bag. These are ideas that are racist, they're bigoted, they're sexist, they're things thanks to Richard Spencer, who was like an actual self stated white supremacist, if not centuries ago. These aren't things that deepen academic inquiry. These are just things that demean people. I mean, yeah, just an absurdity. The SPLC has been an absurdity for years. For years. I mean, they literally call pro lifers white supremacists. Here they were trying to explain. Your organization said that restricting and Banning abortion is a tool that the far right uses to maintain white supremacy. Do you believe that pro lifers are white supremacists? I believe that reproductive liberty is. Do you believe that pro lifers are white supremacists? I will tell you what I believe. If you're asking yes or no, I can't answer that question. Yes or no. I don't think that pro lifers are white supremacists. Do you? What I think is that reproductive liberty is a right that every woman should enjoy. How many babies in the United States that are aborted are black? About 40% of abortions nationwide are of black babies. Blacks represent about 13% of the population. Does that sound like something a white supremacist would oppose? Again, this is what the SPLC was. Why is this important? Because the SPLC was and remained an institution well respected and beloved by the left for a reason. That reason is they are a left wing agit prop group. Representative Chip Roy points out that the only people who are being targeted by the SPLC as quote, unquote, religious extremists are Christians. You'll see nothing remotely like anti Semitic Islamic groups or left wing groups on the SPLC website. How many extremist Islamic groups do you have of the 1500 or so organizations you have on your hate map? Again, anyone can can go to our website. My office has been looking over and can't really find one. Again, it is the SPLCs. You think SPLC could provide us a list of the Islamic oriented groups do you have on your hate hate map? Mr. Roy? We don't target any group because of its religion. Really? I want to be clear about that. Really? Yes, that's exactly right. We target no group because of its religion. We target groups because they express statements and engage in activities that demean and vilify. So you brought up LGBTQ groups a second ago. So you brought up LGBT groups a minute ago. So you think there's a bunch of Islamic groups that are pro lgbtq? Is that the position of the splc? I just want to make sure the record is reflecting that. Again, why is this important? It's important because the Southern Poverty Law center, all the infrastructure is still in place. It is a choice of political leadership whether Americans wish to go down the racialized rabbit hole once again. All these people kick back into power the minute a Democrat is president, the second a Democrat is president. This is one of the big differences. Whenever you hear what have conservatives conserved, you hear this from the Demoralization Brigade on the right and Then from the left, you hear, Trump hasn't done anything. He's been utterly ineffective. Actually, this is one area where the administration has been ridiculously effective is in the restoration of the idea that racial blindness should be the government's approach to issues. That you don't use the SPLC as a cutout, that you do not humor racialized narratives in criminal cases. I mean, just yesterday, the Justice Department issued an opinion for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and it helps to implement Executive Order 14281, which rejected what's called disparate impact liability. So disparate impact liability is the idea that a law is racist if it has a different effect, statistically speaking, on blacks and whites. So if a law is passed says, don't murder people, and more black people are convicted of murder on a proportionate basis than white people, it must be a disparate impact, and therefore the law is racist. And the Trump administration has vitiated this. They said, that's stupid. We're not doing that. It's illegal. That is a good thing. That would not be happening if a Democrat were president right now. Precisely the opposite would be happening. And what undergirds all of this? What undergirds all of this is a belief that America is systemically racist on the left. That did not go away. I know we say woke died. It didn't die. It's just in remission. If Democrats take over the government again, it will come raging back. And that will come along with an open border, because these are part and parcel of the same general worldview. The general worldview of the left is that America bears a racial blood guilt, not just toward black Americans for the crimes of slavery and Jim Crow, but toward people all over the world, that America is a supremacist country, that America owes it to the rest of the world to open its borders in recompense. That is the hard left Democratic position. That's not every Democrat. Some Democrats are just ignorant about how immigration works. Some of them used to be significantly more hawkish on immigration. But if you believe that the Democrats back in power would not open the borders wide again, extend the hand of America to radical immigrants, you're out of your mind. They absolutely would. They absolutely would. And the American people recognize this. It's one of the things that kicked Americans back into gear toward the right is the radical immigration approach of the Biden administration, which, again, was the sort of last domino to fall in the racialized view of America, that America is a terrible white supremacist country that owes it to everyone else as a form of apology to defenestrate itself. All right, coming up, we'll get to whether Democrats are on the wrong side of the immigration issue. Plus the latest in Iran and also self driving cars. Good SpaceX IPO also good. Lots of good things happening in the economy. First, fatherhood changes everything, whether it happened exactly when you planned it or not. Most dads remember that moment when the reality finally set in. Somebody depends on you now. It's exciting. It can also be terrifying. Again, when you realize you're going to be a dad, it just changes your life forever. You become a different human. So this is why John's story resonates with a lot of people. 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Republicans are doing something right in the voters minds. But more than that, Democrats are doing something wrong. What do voters want from Democrats? They want them to moderate. That's what they want. They want Democrats to move to the center on immigration. Immigration. Dems should move to the center. We're talking about 59% of all voters. But modern more than that. Look at this. There is wide agreement across socioeconomic classes and racial and ethnicity classes. Look at this. 51% of black voters, 54% of Latino voters, 59% of white college voters and 67% that's come over to Erica's side. Scream. 67% of white non college voters all agree they want Democrats to move to the center on immigration. Just 18%. Just 18% of voters. Governors want Democrats to shift to the left on immigration. Now again, are Democrats going to shift to the center on immigration. Very, very doubtful. They will for the moment because again, they're trying to avoid complete electoral defeat, but they will continue to move to the left. Zorn Mamdani is the ID of the Democratic Party and he's openly saying it. He says ICE raids are horrible. He's essentially called for the abolition of ice. And this is the ideological thought leader of the Democratic Party, Zaramdani, the mayor of New York. We have heard time and again threats of increases in immigration enforcement across our city. I want to be very clear about the fact that I believe that ICE raids are cruel, they are inhumane, they do nothing to serve in the interest of public safety. I've shared that directly with the president. I've shared that in public. It is a feeling that many New Yorkers share. And I also do believe that ICE as an entity is one that should be abolished and that we should return to an immigration system that has more humanity at the heart of it. Why? Well, because he believes, again, America bears guilt for everything. America is guilty for all the terrible situations all around the world. And thus we must open our borders and we must let people stay here illegally. That is the Democratic position on this sort of stuff. This is the left wing position on this sort of stuff. It's the same thing with regard to Abdul El Sayed. He is the Michigan Senate candidate who called for the abolition of police. The reason you call for abolition of police is because you are unconcerned about criminality and you see criminality as a direct outgrowth of the evil of America. Here's Kaitlyn Collins at CNN actually doing her job and asking El Said why he deleted so many anti police posts. My colleagues at K file here at CNN foundation that you had deleted thousands of old posts on X on Twitter sometime before launching your Senate campaign. Some of those posts included messages that said that championed the defund the police movement, described the police as, quote, standing armies. Why did you take those posts down? Well, let me just speak to a vision for public safety that I think all of us can agree with. I think all of us want to be safe. We want to know that we can get home safely. We don't want to worry about about being the victim of somebody's violence, whether it's from a neighbor or the state itself. And we got to get serious about the kind of policing we need. And for too long we have not invested in the kind of recruitment and retention and retirement that has people from local communities wanting to join in and be a part of keeping public Safety. But also, for too long, our answer to every problem has been someone with a gun. And that's just not always the right answer. Again, the United States imported people to this country who despise America and do wish to open the borders. That is a reality. They wish to have people who are violent inside the United States. Democrats are currently running in New Jersey a man who testified on behalf of a guy convicted in the 1993 World Trade center bombing and went to Bosnia to affiliate with an Al Qaeda front group. That guy is in a. That guy is going to be elected to Congress in New Jersey, in all likelihood as a Democrat. This is where the left is on these issues. It can all come back. It can all come back. And of course, the white people who a lot of these advocates like are the white people who are willing to go along with it. Here's Representative Ilhan Omar testifying on behalf of the Scandinavian white people in Minnesota who are fully tolerant of the importation of large groups of people who are not meshing well with the American system, shall we say. It's a very special state with really special people. Y' all have better white people there, I think. How do we get some of those? What do we do? Tell us how to get. We do have. We do. We do have great people in general, but, yes, a lot. You know, the. The best of the best, I guess we've got Scandinavians and they, you know, they have. They're just really sweet, incredible people who, Who. Who deeply believe in community. So what happens when the left wins? I mean, we watched some of it under the Biden administration when they just opened the border wide, when they decided that racial polarization had to be a part of government policy, DEI in every aspect of the government. But what happens when a nation does this for a long time? The answer is what things look like right now in Great Britain. Great Britain is falling apart. It is a disaster area, Great Britain, and everyone can see it. So every week, every couple of weeks, there's a horrible story about a migrant from the third world who attempts to murder somebody in Great Britain or does murder somebody in Great Britain. You remember, of course, the recent case that we discussed on the program of Henry Novak, who was stabbed to death. The cops immediately responded to the charge of racism by handcuffing the guy who'd been stabbed, who then proceeded to bleed to death. If that is your attitude toward policy, if your attitude toward racism is that a mere implication of racism is enough to basically go light on murder, then what you end up with is what is happening in Britain and you will get the backlash that comes along with it. Things get very ugly very quickly. So footage emerged yesterday of an African migrant, this is in Belfast, who attempted to behead a man. He attempted to behead him. The man who was attacked, his name is Stephen Ogilvy, reportedly lost his left eye entirely. He is now blind in his right eye. We've blurred out some of the footage because it is unbelievably graphic. Here is what it looked like. He still killed him. Hurry up. You can see there's an African migrant. He is literally on top of the white man, slashing at him with a knife. Hurry up. Trying to behead him. No one insights to stop him. This just goes on. My God. Yes, yes. And finally some bystanders get involved. There's a cops, there's a cops. Back off, back off. Back. I mean just horrifying footage. And again, the man lived, but he lost his left eye and he's blind in his right eye now. So he was blinded by this attack. The 30 year old man was charged with attempted murder. According to the UK Telegraph, it turns out that the suspect was believed to have traveled from Sudan to Paris and then to Dublin before taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023. There he claimed asylum. Of course he claimed asylum and because of the supposed blood guilt of European countries toward the rest of the world, he was immediately granted it. He was given leave to remain in the UK in September 2023. The man's name is Hadi Alodid. According to the UK Telegraph, the so called Irish route involves migrants flying to Dublin from Europe, sometimes on false papers before traveling unchecked to Northern Ireland by land to claim asylum. The UK and Ireland share a common travel agreement that allows free movement across the border without routine immigration checks. Well, shortly after this man was charged with the knife attack, it turns out there are a number of people in Belfast who were mildly upset and they are upset because the open immigration policy of the UK has destroyed the social fabric of the country. And so not totally unsurprisingly, there were some riots last night. A resident in Lendrick street in East Belfast told BBC, quote, cars were set alight on the road which caught fire to my house, but masked men were bashing down doors. A group about 100 masked people were on New Townards roads in East Belfast where doors were kicked in and windows were broken. A large number were teenagers. Again, riots are not good, riots are bad. And if you wish to prevent riots, what you have to do is enforce the law. Enforce the law and you don't get riots. Don't import people from the third world to stab people's eyes out on your streets and you probably will get fewer riots. Do not cover up mass rape scandals like Rotherham, and you probably won't get this. You wonder why British politics is falling apart. It is because if you take the left wing point of view about the supposed blood guilt of the west completely seriously, where you end up is this. Kier Starmer called the attempted beheaded sickening and then called the scenes in Belfast shocking and completely unacceptable. He said it was clear people were targeted last night because of their background. Again, law and order on the streets clears this up. Immigration enforcement stops this sort of stuff. Not importing people from cultures that do not respect the west would be a great way to fight all of this, but a West that refuses to do that. Again, sometimes culture is downstream of politics and that's what we are seeing right now in the uk. It's true in the United States as well. And it can flip the other way if Democrats take control of our politics again. Alrighty. In other news, controversy over this UFC fight at the White House. Now, again, this is, you know, just fun and games for the White House to put up a UFC Fight for America 250. A lot of people are freaked out about it on a sort of aesthetic level. Oh no, it's just terrible reminder that Teddy Roosevelt literally erected a boxing ring in the White House and then himself boxed people. Cuz that's who Teddy Roosevelt was. But now there are some side controversies, not just over whether the UFC should hold a fight on the White House lawn, but over who gets to attend. So there is a fighter. His name is Sean Strickland. Strickland is. He was hit in the head many, many, many times. Maybe we can blame that for the fact that he is a complete dolt. Well, he claims that he was barred from the White House event because he wasn't Israeli enough. Well, it really isn't that. It's the fact, I assume, that he says crazy things all the time. And it wasn't as though he was barred, they just didn't invite him. And the reason they didn't invite him, as Dana White explains, is because he's kind of a crappy person. In any case, Strickland tweeted just last night, quote, let me ask you guys, 8,000 lives lost. $3 trillion for Zionism. Not the hell he's talking about. Tell me, what did those lives and treasure buy us? Was it worth it? Are we getting free oil? We need to call this for what it is, a compromised government. So a nut job conspiracy theorist who undoubtedly will end up on Tucker Carlson's show within the next month or so. In any case, here he was claiming that the UFC told him not to show up. Well, you guys, I'm not surprised. But I got the call. I got the call. I got the call. The UFC higher ups called me, you know, big names, and they said, sean, I gotta apologize, but you're not Israeli enough to go to UFC250, Israel edition. The White House didn't clear you, and I'm not really surprised. You know, I'm not really surprised. So, you know, I think moving forward, I would like to just apologize to Israel. I'd like to say I'm sorry, you know, like to apologize to Trump, and I just want to prove that I'm Israeli enough for you guys. The low iq. The low IQ of these folks. Well, Dana White said, no, no, no, it wasn't that. He was not. He was banned. He just wasn't invited. Here was Dana White, the head of the usc, and he made it very clear that he didn't want to be a part of this event. And now, apparently, he's banned. Nobody is banned. Nobody's music is banned. No media members have been banned. And the list goes on and on. This is obviously a very unique event where, first of all, there's only so much room. And she was telling me that, you know, at the White House, there's a thousand media members that are credentialed at the White House. So, you know, a thousand people like, oh, we're all gonna know we can't have a thousand, you know, of the White House media members just show up at this thing. There's only 4300 tickets to actually see. So literally nobody has been banned from this event. Okay, but again, part of the conspiracy theorist idea is that somehow what Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump, who then banned Sean Strickland. That is the idea here. Or maybe you've just been hit in the head one too many times. Speaking of people who've been hit in the head one too many times, there's another UFC fighter named Bryce Mitchell who apparently has some sort of obsession with me and my show. He's mentioned me many times, apparently, on. On various podcasts. I have to admit, I've not paid a lot of attention to him because, number one, I don't really watch ufc, and number two, I. I really don't take seriously the opinions of people who believe, for example, that the Earth is flat and does not rotate because rotation is a lie from the devil. Or that Hitler was a good guy based on his own research. He seems like a real researcher. This guy's a Princeton level researcher. Apparently that gravity is a hoax. It's a hoax. So he's stuck to the earth by force of magnetism. Magnets, how do they work? And seatbelts, he says are an unconstitutional overreach of government power. That last one is arguable. The rest of them, pretty crazy. Pretty crazy because this is not a particularly high IQ person. But here he was on a podcast with the Hodge twins and I have to say, when you're the dumbest person on a podcast with the Hodge twins, that says something about you. Truly. This is the last time there was this much retardation in the room was like two days ago when Megyn Kelly and and Buckley Carlson were doing an interview. But this tops even that. So here is Bryce Mitchell, who apparently also can't actually get through an interview without taking off his shirt. Sort of like the Bonnie Blue of male podcast sphere. Here he was saying some weird things. I tell you right now, you Ben Shapiro. He's taking off his shirt. Look, if you mess with Candace Owens, I promise you, if you lay one, one little greasy finger on Candace Owens, I'mma beat you. I'm a roll up on you. Shirts off. I'm going to have the twins with me. We going to beat your ass. Because you mess with Candace Owens, we going to be looking shirts off me in the middle. We going to look like a six foot tall Oreo. Coming at you, buddy. We going to stomp to the ground. Don't you mess with candy, baby. I'm telling you right now, I don't like Ben Shapiro. I'll say it to his face. Bring him on the show because he wants, he wants Christian people in this country that he already steals their tax dollars off of. He's part of this corrupted government. He's a piece of just like the rest of them. He wants us to go die to bomb Muslim kids for his Jewish people because he's too scared to do it. How come Ben Shapiro, since he's all about this war, how come he don't, how come he don't sign up for the army? Oh boy. So a few things. One, you didn't have to take off your shirt to say that. It's weird, it's strange. Again, the bonnie blue of political commentary. Bryce Mitchell. Also, don't lay a finger on Candace Owens. What? I mean, what now? You could not Pay me enough money to lay a finger on Candace Owens. There is no amount of money in the world. She is one of the worst people on earth. Are you out of your. What? And then, of course, the. The idea that I want him to. He's not in the military that I want. I'm not asking him to do anything, actually, or that I am a. I am drawing taxpayer. I promise you, I pay a lot of tax in this country. More than Bryce Mitchell is paying. I pay in this. In this country. But again, responding to. To retardation. I guess this is what we do now. This is what we have to do. He also suggested evil empires don't last forever. Here we go. Did you see that Sean Strickland got banned from the White House for talking about Israel? I'm not surprised at all. Freedom of speech is what really makes this country great. And when you can't criticize a foreign nation. A foreign nation? Come on, man. We ought to be able to criticize our own nation, let alone a foreign. In fact, that's the only nation you're not allowed to criticize. Something's going to change. Because evil empires don't last forever. There's always a rebellion. Well, I mean, it wasn't just stuff about Israel. Again, this game is the dumbest game in the world. It's the dumbest game in the world. People say things that are overtly anti Semitic, like overtly anti Jewish. And then the minute they are questioned saying, no, no, no, I was just talking about Israel. Direct quote, okay? From Sean Strickland quote. Being here, I'm starting to understand why Jewish people are hated so much. You might see me come back here with a weird mustache. That's a reference to Adolf Hitler. Come on. Come on. But you know what? Getting agitated with people who undoubtedly suffer from CTE is. I feel like it's a waste of resources. Ah, well, things are going well. Things are going well here in the United States. And meanwhile in the Middle east, things seem to be heating up again. Yesterday, an Apache helicopter was shot down by the Iranians. According to the Wall Street Journal, it was hit off the coast of Oman. It was hit by an Iranian drone. Apparently, the downing of the helicopter actually set off a race to find two American crew members who had escaped. The Apache, a small attack helicopter that doesn't have ejection seats. The Apache crew spent two hours in the water. And I mean, unbelievable technology. Incredible performance by our military. They were rescued by a US drone boat. So with US MQ9 Reaper drones and jet fighters providing cover Overhead, the crew members were rescued by remotely piloted drone boat, which is unbelievable. The vessel is a 24 foot surrounding Corsair that can travel more than 1,000 miles and carry £1,000. And it transported the crew to safer waters. They were lifted from the deck of the drone to a rescue helicopter. So thank God, they are fine. The President put out a statement suggesting that the United States, quote, unquote, had to respond. Quote, I've just been informed by our great military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There are two pilots involved. Both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must of necessity respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump. Now, when I first read the statement, I have to say I was, I was unenthused. I was unenthused because we must, by necessity, we have to respond. Well, you know, it turns out that if you attack American material, it's not a matter of like, well, maybe we should do a proportionate response. Maybe we should just hit a camel in the ass. I mean, no one died after all. The reality is the Iranians believe that they have the screws to President Trump. This is what they believe. And they believe that if they keep upping the ante, Trump will sign a bad deal. They believe he'll either run away or that he will sign a bad deal. Clearly, this is what they believe. It's why they keep upping the ante. It is why they fired missiles at Israel a couple of days ago. It is why last night they responded by firing missiles at American bases in Jordan, in Kuwait and in Bahrain. Mohamed Khaliba, supposedly one of the moderates that we're dealing with in this negotiation. He is not a moderate. He's an IRGC member. He said, we prefer the language of diplomacy, but we speak other languages far more fluently. Break your commitments and we'll switch to what we speak best. You ride the horse you saddled. Meanwhile, Ismail Bakai, who is an Iranian Ministry of Foreign affairs spokesperson, suggested it was a false flag. Quote, the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place with remarkable speed. They carried out a false flag operation by deploying a copied Lucas drone to strike Kuwait airport. Manufacturing the perfect pretext to market their powers, developed anti drone air defense systems under the guise of protecting against Iranian attacks. But by the way, what he's saying is a false flag. There was a shoot down of Iranian material aimed at Kuwait. This is where the horseshoe comes together. Alex Jones, says the shootdown also has to be investigated as a false flag. So here is the reality. Iran will not keep any commitment that it supposedly makes. A deal that is bad would be a deal that does not involve full scale dismantlement of the Iranian nuclear facilities, a turnover of the nuclear dust, a dismantling of their ballistic missile capacity, and an end to their support for international terror. If we're not going to do that, at the very least we should turn over those goals to our allies. We should work with them to open up the Strait of Hormuz so the oil flows once again. And then we should let our allies have overwatch. But signing a bad deal is significantly worse than no deal. Now, CENTCOM announced a proportional response at 5pm now, proportional is a great synonym in diplomacy for stupidity. Proportional typically has two meanings. There's the legal meaning of proportional, which is designed to achieve the necessary outcome at minimum cost. Right? That's what proportional means. However, when you're talking in this way, proportionate means they hit our Apache helicopter and we knock out a couple of radar installations. So CENTCOM announced that strikes were completed by around 9pm Eastern. We hit a bunch of targets in Iran and they said the mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression. Why are we doing. Why are we doing a proportional response? It seems to me that if there's unjustified Iranian aggression, we should do a very disproportionate response because that is the entire goal of war. The goal of war, not on the legal level, but on a colloquial level, is to be disproportionate in response to people attempting to attack you in war. If they shoot one of your soldiers and you shoot one of their soldiers, that doesn't stop anything. If they shoot one of your soldiers and you shoot a thousand of their soldiers, that stops the thing. Proportionality in numerical terms is stupidity when it comes to war. It makes no sense. President Trump allegedly said to the Wall Street Journal that the blockade was making Iran very poor. And then he downplayed the helicopter incident, saying it wasn't a big deal and stressing that the pilot is fine. Well, it seems like kind of a big deal, honestly, like they're attacking Americans, so that's kind of a big deal. Meanwhile, JD Vance is pushing the timeline out. The Vice President has been at the center of these ill begotten negotiations for months at this point. What exactly has Iran offered? We have no idea. We just have a bunch of different stories. The Trump administration keeps retelling that they're offering up their nuclear program or they are offering serious concessions or half their oil. And the Iranians keep saying consistently, we are offering nothing of the sort. Because it turns out that when you keep showing the Iranians your neck by showing you desperately want an outcome, they prevent you from getting it. J.D. vance said there could be an Iranian deal, you know, like this week or maybe months from now. All right, you say very close. How soon could the deal happen? Before the midterm elections? Oh, absolutely. No, I think we're gonna know a lot before the midterm elections. Look, I think that the deal could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now. Oh, well, I mean, cool. By that standard, I could be the owner of SpaceX a week from now or months from now, or maybe never. Who knows? Who knows? And this approach is not likely to end in victory. Or perhaps the President is changing his approach as he ought. He posted on Truth Social this morning. Iran's military is a complete and total mess. Much of it like their navy and air force. It doesn't even exist anymore. They've been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The bully of the Middle east is dead. They've taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price. Well, I mean, one can only hope. And there is action the United States can take here. That action would involve heavy strikes again on their newly uncovered ballistic missile launchers, attacks on their energy facilities, Kharga island and the South Pars gas field, totally defenestrating, destroying their economy for the foreseeable future so they cannot recover. And then that flips China, by the way, because at that point Iranian oil is no longer on the table and actually China has an interest in the Strait of Hormuz opening that would be the solution. I hope the President takes the reality of the situation into account. Iran is not on the verge in any way, shape or form of making a good deal, it appears. And meanwhile, in economic news, it is sort of bizarre to watch as Democrats and left wing media members are very upset about the continuing solidity of the stock market. The stock market continues to do really well. This has forced Don Lemon into the awkward position of saying the stock market is not the economy. Now, again, this is usually what people out of power say, the stock market is not the economy. And it's true, the stock market is not the entire economy. But it turns out that the stock market does have something to do with the economy, particularly if the inflation is not Outsized. And absent the straight of Hormuzzi, inflation would not be outsized right now. But here was Don Lemon. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is a measure of how much money rich people are making. It is not the economy. It is not a sign of the health of the economy. It is a sign of the health of wealthy people, people who are able to afford stocks, who have investments, who have 401ks for that. Most of those people are upper middle class. If you can afford a 401k and still those folks are struggling. But the wealthy people are doing very well. And that is why the stock market is doing well, because they're investing in it. Because they're making money hand over fist. 62% of American adults have stock in their 401k in their retirement accounts. 62% of Americans. In fact, the stock market does bury relation to the economy also, not just in direct gains. It turns out you need giant funds of liquidity, which is where liquidity comes from. When you go public, the idea is you are selling your stock in order to take money into a company that you can then expend on your employees and on growth of the company. SpaceX is about to make a bunch of people an absolute fortune. So SpaceX, one of the most successful companies in American history, the IPO is going to be extraordinary. But who are the beneficiaries? It is not just Elon Musk. Contrary to public opinion. According to the Wall Street Journal, the beneficiaries include not just engineers and other white collar workers, but the legions of technicians who build the company's rockets, as well as baristas and other salaried employees who work at SpaceX campuses in California, Texas and Florida. Some have held on to stakes that were valued at less than 2 bucks a share when they were granted. And the company hadn't yet landed a rocket. Juan Hernandez, an immigrant from the US to Mexico, learned how to weld because the pay was good. In 2015, he heard about a job opportunity at SpaceX. He started as a contractor for 28 bucks an hour, and then he was hired full time. He was given an equity stake valued at 10 grand. That vested over five years. In 2020, he began selling off small chunks of his stake as SpaceX hit a $36 billion valuation. He used the money to buy properties around Texas and build a small real estate business with his wife. And his remaining shares are worth around $880,000 at the IPO price. He's a welder, he's a welder apparently some 4,000 people are going to become millionaires because of the SpaceX IPO. Thousands of past and current SpaceX employees with company shares will soon be able to access life changing fortunes after the company makes its stock market debut. That is also true for people with stakes in Anthropic and Open AI, which will also ipo. One person who used to work at the company has been in a debate with Eric Franklin, a wealth advisor who caters to tech company employees. The former employee has company shares worth $21.4 million at the IPO price SpaceX set last week. That represents 93% of his household's investable net worth. And Franklin is advising him. Hey dude, you might want to do de risk yourself. Get, get a little bit of money out. That would be smart advice. But the fact is again, it turns out that companies building themselves up, it makes people money. It is a good thing. So right now SpaceX is offering a take it or leave it price of 135 bucks a share, rather than providing a range and pricing the deal based on demand. That's usually what happens in IPOs. So usually pricing takes place the evening before a market debut. According to cnbc. In the weeks leading up to a point, the issuer, in tandem with underwriters, provide a price range and then they lift it if the investors show signs of enthusiasm. SpaceX isn't doing any of that. The company said 135 bucks is the share price. $1.77 trillion is the anticipated market cap. Now the company generates something like $19 billion in revenue. Last year they recorded an operating loss of $4.2 billion. That is an extraordinary valuation. Of course they are saying the tech is the real, is the real investment, that SpaceX will dominate the entire space industry. However, to me it looks like a very rich ipo. With that said, is it going to generate wealth for an enormous number of people? You bet. The same thing is going to happen with Open AI. Open AI is looking for an 840 billion dollar valuation. Open AI, of course is the chat GPT company Anthropic confidentially filed for an ipo. According to the New York Times, they are trying to get a valuation of $900 billion. It seems to me that Anthropic is better positioned because they've shown actual profit at this point. Claude Opus 4.5, which is again an extraordinary system. I've been using it, it really is incredible. It builds things for you. It's, it's, it actually is active in the workplace. It's it's amazing. Their revenues are soaring. So AI is finally generating the kinds of profits that are necessary to prop up the arguments about productivity and, and also market valuation. Innovation is the lifeblood of the American economy and the innovation is not stopping. Unless of course, unless of course, Democrats do their best to stop it. So now it turns out that there are a lot of people who are upset about technology and innovation. I know as usual, apparently some people are pissed off at the Pepsi driverless trucks. So Pepsi has now launched a bunch of driverless trucks and this is creating upset because there are a lot of drivers who make their living driving these trucks around the country. According to the Wall street journal, a 26,000 pound box truck loaded with Doritos and Frito Lay chips rolls out of a distribution center bound for a Walmart store about four miles away. It looks like any other truck, but there's no one at the wheel. This is One of the 35 driverless trucks PepsiCo is running on Arizona roads, marking it as the first major US consumer goods company to disclose the real life large scale use of autonomous trucks on public roads. PepsiCo has been working directly with a company called Gattic since 2022 to perfect the technology. They operated with a safety driver in each truck for a few years. They started driverless runs in June 2025. And no, there have been no accidents on public roads so far. Here's some pictures of the GIC autonomous trucks. And this is, you can see here you've got the computer. The computer is basically doing exactly what a Tesla self drive would do. I have to say Tesla self drive is incredible. It's incredible. So my parents are 70. That means the reaction time is not what it was when they were 35. And at night their vision isn't that great. They have to get a new car because thank God my dad is okay, but he was, he was broadsided by somebody, he's fine. But the car got totaled and now they have to get a new car. And they were looking a bunch of different cars and the thing that sold them on Tesla was the fact that it has a self driving capacity. That's great. It means that a bunch of people who are bad drivers on the roads or a bunch of people who may be, you know, having weaker vision than they had 30 years ago or lower reaction time or more distractibility, they can now drive without paying too much attention to the road and they're not going to crash. This is a good thing. It is better for people. Listen, I love driving, but I Will say that Tesla self drive makes my life markedly better. And more cars on the road that are not broadsideing my father would be a good thing. I would like that to be a thing. It also means the prices are going to come down. You want to talk about productivity increases? You don't have to pay a union driver to drive your Gattock truck because the computer is doing it. It can drive 24 hours a day. All you need is somebody to gas the thing up. I understand that there are people who are deeply worried about how innovation, quote, unquote, kills jobs. It creates job transitions. That is true. It has always been true. Technological change always creates transition pains when it comes to jobs. With that said, is it better for the American consumer? Is it better for the American driver? Is better for people on the roads if we have more driverless cars? Cars, absolutely. That is a good thing. Innovation and investment are good things. That's another thing that will go away if Democrats retake the White House in 2028. And then I suppose that you can have, you know, tiny homes. That's what Seattle has been pushing for. Seattle, apparently, according to Fox 13, has now opened a new village featuring 75 individual units, each measuring approximately 70 square feet. The way they are going to overcome their rental market being too high because they haven't allowed development for a long time, is to basically build you a storage facility, like a storage unit, and then you can live in it. Awesome. The interbay site is the first major project to open under Mayor Wilson's shelter expansion initiative. The initiative originally set a target to establish 500 new shelter units by mid June. They got 75. 75. So they are now creating basically small boxes for homeless people to live in, which will end with the homeless people trashing the small boxes because this is what happens with public housing. Here's the mayor, Katie Wilson, defending this nonsense. So again, the model here is low barrier, high support. So we are not requiring treatment for people entering this. And this is really an evidence based model that we've seen be successful. And so basically you're bringing people in knowing that the process of recovery is really complicated and difficult. And so we're not demanding that people, you know, abstinent when they enter this village. But there are going to be, you know, there's kind of repeated efforts to kind of help people along into treatment so that treatment will always be available and encouraged. Okay, so obviously this will work out beautifully because you just take the drunk dorms, that's what they were called in Seattle, and you shift them into individual units, probably. It'll get better, not worse. How could it fail? And great Democratic policy happening all across the country. Meanwhile, in political news, the Democrats decided, indeed yesterday in the main primary that Graham Platner would be their nominee. You need the, you need the Nazi tattoo guy, that Nazi tattoo guy. It is incredible. Even the SPLC had to condemn Nazi tattoo guy. They were forced to by Brandon Gill. BRANDON gill, REPRESENTATIVE he actually asked the head of the splc, you know, the guy with the Nazi tattoo who's running for Senate in Maine, is that like a good thing or a bad thing? And the SPLC had a hard time and eventually they came around to the idea that a Nazi tattoo is still bad, even if it's on somebody of the left. I don't know anybody who's not a Nazi. I don't know anybody who has a Nazi tattoo on their chest, but is not a Nazi. Do you? No. Do you think that somebody who has a Nazi tattoo on their chest should serve in the United States Senate? I wouldn't vote for that person. I certainly wouldn't either. Do you think that this should disqualify him politically from serving in the Senate? Again, I'm not sure where the line of questions is going. The splc, if you're asking me. I'm sorry, go ahead. If you're asking me if the SPLC opposes Nazis and Nazi symbols, the answer is yes. Ok. So even the SPLC was forced to be like, yeah, Graham Plattner, too, but not for the Democrats. The Democrats are like, yes on the Nazi tattoos, no on anything remotely related to Jews. So, yeah, they're making their priorities pretty clear. James Carville tells Chris Cuomo that actually it's good. The Democrats should embrace Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo guy, who says he's going to rape home invaders. Allegedly. Here he was. So let's go back. Franklin Roosevelt was in Churchill. Who did they work with? Well, Joseph Stalin. Well, this is saying Bach, because there was a larger good here. There was something else. We can't, we couldn't. You know, today's progressives, oh, my God, Stalin killed. He was even worse than Hitler. He may have been, but they perceive that's the threat, I think correctly. And we never go in history and say, well, I just can't like Franklin Roosevelt because he sent Stalin billions of tons of equipment. Churchill sunk off during the war to meet with him in Moscow, or he was at Yalta, he was at Tehran, he was at. You name it. What an astonishing analogy. Truly an astonishing analogy on a number of levels. First of all, I find it amusing that James Carville thinks progressives would have opposed the Soviet Union. They spent 80 years defending the Soviet Union. So I'm going to go no on that one. That is not remotely true, as progressives were standing for the Soviet Union, so not a single progressive would have. Would have been upset with us allying with the Soviet Union. Second of all, he's missing the last part of the sentence people usually use. Right. Churchill and FDR had to side with Stalin to do what? To defeat Hitler. Yes. Well, so the argument now is that Graham Platner, the guy with the Hitler tattoo. Right. The Nazi tattoo is actually not Hitlerian. He's Stalin esque. And the actual Nazi, the actual Hitler is not Grand Platner. With, again, the Nazi tattoo. It is Susan Collins. So he somehow got from. We had to side with Stalin to defeat Hitler. He's getting from there too. We have to side with the Nazi to defeat Susan Collins. It's a move. Strange move. I mean, obviously the more apt historical comparison would be the Molotov Ribbentrop pact in which the Soviets sided with the Nazis, which is actually what's happening in Maine. Bernie Sanders, Socialists siding with Graham Platner. Nazis. It's great. Everything's working out beautifully, but Democrats aren't defending it. A Platner put out an ad on primary day, and here is what it looked like. There's oyster shucking. Oh, look at this. Down home. This down home. Grand planner. Oh. Just like a common man, like you. You know, day I shuck oysters. At night I rape all invaders. Thank you so much. This is great. Everything's. Yeah, we're okay. We're okay. The weirdest experience of my life. You were sweating bullets shucking oysters at the Apprentice. Yeah, yeah. Yep. You know, I'm not sharpening an axe in front of the tv. Me and Amy getting ready to go out to work, allegedly. And these folks come into our dining room or our. Our kitchen, and they're just like, we're looking for somebody to run for U.S. senate. I'm like, that's a good idea. Susan Collins sucks. You should talk to this person. This person, this person. And they're like, no, like, we think you should run for U.S. senate. No, we need Totenkopf tattoo guy. Look. Oh, wow. Here we are, just shucking oysters like men of the. Men of the mud. Men of the mud. Now, there's graffiti on the oyster shack that was featured in the ad. It belongs to a person named Adam Campbell. A well known extinction Rebellion activist. Extinction Rebellion is an insane eco protest group and they're the people who lie in the middle of the roads or glue themselves to paintings and such. So great job, Democrats. You have done amazing here. Just brilliant, brilliant nomination tactics. Meanwhile, James Talarico is the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas. He's Howdy Doody. Citizens for Sanity put out an AI ad featuring James Talarico. I will admit I laughed. Here he is in a Mary Poppins dress. Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Girls dust with hormones till they grow mustaches. Changing the gender of all your offspring. These are a few of my favorite things. Voiced by Randy Rainbow or something. So, yeah, again, I don't think that election is going to go great for James Talarico, although he is polling pretty well. Again, Ken Paxton. I warned you folks. You know, Ken Paxton, I understand a lot of people really didn't like John Cornyn. If James Tallarico wins a Texas Senate seat, there are going to be some regrets had. Well, in other bizarre news, Stephen A. Smith continues to blame President Trump for the Knicks losing. I have a close friend who's a big Knicks fan and he's made the case to me that the Knicks team is, is actually quite likable. And it seems to me that's the case. I, I will I have to say this about the Knicks. Zor Momdani claims to be a fan of the Knicks. He says he is a Knicks fan. Zor Momdani. He's rooting super hard for the Knicks. And so I have a question for Zorin Mandani. How in the world can he be a fan of a team in which Carl Anthony Towns, who is their center, is being paid $57 million this year. OG Anunoby is being paid $42.5 million this year. Jalen Brunson will make $37.7 million this year. McCall Bridges, who nearly fouled out, will pay, will be, will be paid $33 million and Josh Hart will make $20 million. That is utter income disparity. They are guilty. They have been stealing from the poor. According to Zoram Dani's own logic, he should be calling for all of them to be paid the same. As a schoolteacher, there needs to be more taxpayer funded groceries in New York. The millionaires must be made to pay their fair share. And that includes Karl Anthony Townes, OG Anunoby, Jalen Brunson, McCall Bridges and Josh Hart. It's necessary. And Zormandani is going to root for these Richie Riches and their Richie ways. And he needs to call for mass confiscation of their wealth. They can afford to pay a little bit more to make sure that the school teachers get paid. Utter income inequality. So why isn't Zor Momdani ever doing that? It's weird. It's weird how that works. It's weird how that works also, by the way, if the Knicks were to do that, which of course they never would, every single one of those players would leave for greener pastures because that's how markets work. But Zoran Momdani, cosplaying, is a Knicks fan again. He is literally rooting for a hundred millionaires. These people are very, very wealthy. And you know why they're wealthy? Because they have a skill set that no one else on planet Earth has. And that's fine. That's good. I have no problem with Kat being wealthy or OG or Jalen or any of them. They've worked very hard for what they have. And it's not about how hard they work. They have a particular skill set that people will pay lots of money to watch. That is good and that is fine, but dormant. Oni doesn't believe that. He believes they stole it from the janitor on fifth Avenue. So he should be calling for vast redistribution of the salaries of the Knicks. And maybe he should call for James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, to be cast out of New York City the same way that he did Ken Griffin, and we'll see how it works out for him. Meanwhile, Stephen A. Smith is still blaming President Trump for the Knicks losing. As I said before, as someone who is rooting for the Knicks to lose, not because I hate the team, but because some of the fans are just insufferable. I don't know how you watch that that on court Spike Lee rant next to Ben Stiller, next to Michael Bloomberg and didn't think, man. But here's Stephen A. Blaming Donald Trump. Our president showed up in New York City last night. You gotta love Steve. Nate. Come on. And needless to say, what I feared would happen ended up happening. The New York Knicks lost. And obviously I'm blaming him. Why am I blaming him? Ladies and gentlemen, it's very, very simple. Because the president disrupted our mojo. I've said this on many occasions over the last 24 hours, and I'm saying it again, the man messed things up. I will admit I enjoy Stephen A. I do enjoy Stephen A. I love the giant American flag in the background of First Day. It is. It's reminiscent of Patton's speech to the troops. It's basically the same thing. All right, folks, the show continues for members right now. We'll get to your questions in the mailbag. Remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member. If you are not a member, become one. Use Code Shapiro Checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.