Ep. 2468 - Tate & Piker: The Race To The Retard Fringes

Hassan Piker put on a mal jacket. That's a costume honoring a man who murdered tens of millions of people and then he lectured college kids. I candid it in Colorado for the Democrat Socialist of America named Milat Keroch to clear it on camera that America will only stop exploiting the world once we quote "elect enough immigrants from the global South." That is not a policy pitch. That is a plan to replace the country you have with a new one by replacing America's founding ideals with foreign ideals. This has a name. Third worldism. It wasn't homegrown. The Cuban regime actually built it and exported it for decades. The State Department just proved it. The whole rotten idea is that Western civilization is the villain and America can only atone by handing itself over to its supposed victims. And this is working. It's happening at our universities in the DSA on the streets. Here's the thing. The answer to the left going crazy should not be the right also going crazy. And yet this week, Andrew Tate, an admitted Pimp, an accused rapist, a pornographer, got arrested, and a chunk of the right went conspicuously. Silent. Some even defended him, which is disgraceful. You don't beat the transgressive left by adopting a transgressive right. You beat them by being the adults in the room, by being moral and conservative, by actually standing for something. So here is my take. You don't owe your civilization an apology. A country that lets itself be conquered is not generous. It's just gone. But here's something else. We can lose to those people. I know you look at the crazies on the left and think there's no way, but there is a way. The retard right can seize defeat from the draws of victory. All we have to do is keep trafficking in idiotic conspiracism, ally with some of the worst people in the world, like Andrew Tate, and discard America's ideals on behalf of transgressive reactionary garbage. This is the Ben Shapiro show. The radical left just admitted out loud what they actually want, emissaries from the Third World to come and take over America. And here I'm not talking about just people who immigrate from the Third World. I mean people who are representatives of Third World ideologies and of Third Worldism, which is the concept that somehow Western civilization has created all the ills of planet earth and are supposed victims need to come back to Western civilization and take it over. That is an ideology. Again, there are lots of great immigrants from lots of great places around planet earth. This is not an argument that every person who is coming from an impoverished communist country, for example, is going to end up as Hassan Piker or something. But the reality is that the left would like for that to happen. The ideology here is that the only way America can alleviate its blood guilt is to allow people from the Third World and who hate America to take over the country. They would like the leadership of America to believe in these Third Worldist ideologies. Preferably they hope they would be from the Third World. This brings us to Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker has been championed by the New York Times by the gentleman at Podsave America. By a wide variety of democratic hands at its ranging from Abdul Al-Sahead in Michigan, to Bernie Sanders, who campaigns with Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker is a tremendous piece of crap. Hassan Piker is a person who literally sits in his studio every day in his multi-million-dollar layer in LA with a Chinese flag in the background, the flag of a country that has slaughtered literally tens of millions of people. That's not counting. The tens of millions of unborn human beings were killed in the lunchile policy. Hassan Piker doesn't hide the ball. He was saying that Mao Zedong, again responsible for at least 40 million deaths in the Great Leap Forward, is one of the great leaders of the world. He has no critiques. I got stopped by a cop who thought it was like making fun of Mao Zedong, which I never would and never will. Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world. A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet. How this person is considered intelligent by the left is absolutely beyond it. He changed the entire universe, the entire universe. I mean, forget about the evil of what he's saying, the stupidity of what he's saying. He changed the entire universe. What did he create a supernova? What did he do precisely? And then Hassan Piker went out and defended Chairman Mao, quote, comparing famine due to mismanagement. That's what he says the Great Leap Forward was, mismanagement. Okay, that's not what happened during the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap Forward was Mao's attempt to industrialize China by collectivizing agriculture and telling all of his people that he would shoot them if they didn't take their plows and create smelting or from them, just melt down into useless lumps of iron, all of their implements for farming. 40 million people died not because of mismanagement, but because Chairman Mao was determined that he was going to industrialize his country at the cost of tens of millions of lives. In the same way that Stalin was perfectly happy to murder millions and millions of people in Ukraine through forced starvation. That is what happened during the Great Leap Forward. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao staged manage the murder of a huge number of dissidents and the gulagging of tens of thousands of other dissidents. And what does Hassan Piker have to say about that? Comparing famine due to mismanagement or even violence born out of the Cultural Revolution, born out of the Cultural Revolution to the Holocaust or claiming its worst is Holocaust revisionism. Oh my dude. Listening to Hassan Piker talk about Holocaust revisionism. This person who's an apologist for defenders of the Holocaust on the regular means defense Hamas and his law. That's what he does. The people who would today do a Holocaust if they could. He defends them regularly. Even talking to me about Holocaust revisionism. This guy can shut right the f**k up. He says, I don't give a nap. If you take my joke about never disrespecting Mao's series, they're not. You need to recollect your thoughts. recollect. He doesn't know English. He can't even speak intelligently. Okay. The left has decided this person is a person worth emulating. He is a movement leader. Hey, I should show you how evil was Mao. How evil was Mao? This is a chart of global life expectancy. Do you see this dip in the 1960s, like this massive dip? That would be Chairman Mao killing tens of millions of people. Hey, that is what happened right there. The only similar dip you see on this chart is due to COVID. It's an absurdity that this person is well respected by the left and yet and yet and yet. He is. And again, this is part and parcel of a broader left wing agenda to import ideologies from the third world and impose them in the United States. Coming up, we will get to democratic socialist of America and Democrats who claim that what we actually need to do is import people who hate America and then have them take office. It's really, really important. You know, we had a new kid over the course of the last week and a half and it changes the way you think about everything from America's future to just your own personal life. And when you welcome a new baby, you start thinking about time passing and what you need to protect your family. 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Head on over to policygenius.com/shepero to compare life insurance quotes from top companies. See how much you could save. That's policygenius.com/shepero. Nilat Kiros, who is one of Hassan Pagars' favorite candidates, this person won a Democratic primary in Colorado. She's of the Democrat Socialist of America. Here she was just saying the quiet part out loud. I think it's particularly important, not just for our community in Tigray, but communities of the global South period, right? There's a certain reckoning that we are going to have to have with the global world order as it exists today. And the way that it fundamentally will have to shift going forward, right? The responsibility that we have as Americans, the recognition that is going to be required of us, of the exploitative and extractive nature that we play on the global scale and the global stage is only going to be challenged if we are getting represented by people who understand that on a fundamental level, right? And that means getting more immigrants into office. That means getting more people who have heritage in the global South into office because that's where those decisions are made specifically. You see what she's saying? She is saying she's making the case that we need to import people from countries that have been, quote unquote, victimized by the United States because they will take that burning sense of victimhood and then they will of course correct the United States by emptying it out. She is saying that. I'm not saying that. She's saying that. Hey, this is what the DSA wants. This is what the DSA wants and it is represented at most popular levels of the DSA and the Democratic Party is just imbibing from this well. They're just swilling this nonsense down. I mean, Zor Mamdani spoke with the New York Times and he was asked about supporting Daria Lisa Shavallie who is again, one of these psycho radicals over Adrenal Espiat who is a Congress person, former Congress person from New York just lost a primary and here was his explanation. Is the reason you didn't endorse Espiat, his relationship with APAC, the pro-Israel lobby, his long time support of Israel, was that like sort of the seminal thing that for you was a differentiator? I think these are all important factors. I think the need for moral clarity in our society is a lot of the same. politics to quote Congressman Ocasio-Cortez is something that speaks to a wide variety of policies and also applies to our foreign policy when it comes to the funding of the Israeli military. And you saw in the final weeks of that race, APEC spending a significant amount of money to try and stop Daryalisa. And what you see when you speak to the constituents of that district is a very different hope and vision for the place they call home and also the country that they've helped to build. And it's hard to explain to a New Yorker why their needs are not even being discussed. And yet we have billions of dollars to kill civilians halfway across the world. Again, this is third world of ideology. It's third world of ideology. Broad home to the United States. Linda Sarsour, another one of these people shoes. You remember one of the leaders of the women's march and then she tried to forcibly expel Jews from the women's march. Well, she says we need to replace the constitution and we import people or we grow them homegrown. Who believe that America is the great victimizer on planet earth and that the global South must have its revenge by imposing its own ideological revenge vision on the United States. Here's Linda Sarsour saying we need to replace the constitution. This is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This is quote-unquote America's birthday. And the question historically is going to be what were we doing on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? Do we have the audacity to sit around and say that we want to build a document that is our values and our principles and bring millions of Americans around it and I see people on the streets. I see mutual aid efforts. I see young people running for office. I see people of color, marginalized people getting up and saying I'm the leader that I've been waiting for and seeing people rally around those leaders and so don't give up hope folks. There's more to come. We're going to survive this and some of us are going to be on the fight back and some of us are going to be on the other side waiting to catch you when we win. Again, these are the people that the left would like to see in power and some of the people who they've been glazing are people of course like Abdul Al-Sahiyad in Michigan, a terror supporter running for the Michigan Senate nomination. Here he was talking about actually he wants to draw support from the Marjorie Taylor Greens of the world. Do you think you could build this new coalition with people like MTG? Look, she said a lot of things I disagree with too. I will just say this that I wouldn't be surprised, right? You know when you ask me about why establishment elite Democrats are so worried about me, it's because there are a lot of people who listen to her who are going to vote for me in the general election. They're not afraid I'm going to lose. They're afraid I'm going to win. Okay, so I'm just going to point out that again, there is a large population in the United States that has been imported that does believe their world just things. It's a real thing. For example, there's a poll from the rainy center for public policy of Muslim Americans. 47% admit stronger ties to a foreign country than to the United States. 70% hold a favorable view of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group. The Muslim Brotherhood is the sponsor terrorist group for things like Hamas. It is banned in a wide variety of Muslim countries in the Middle East because it is a terrorist group. 39% were happy at the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini. 35% were sad. So pretty even split among Muslim Americans. Now again, that doesn't mean that Muslim Americans can't be right Americans if they are willing to ditch the support for terrorism or a third world of this ideology. That same poll showed a high percentage said that they had pride in America or believed in the American dream. But if you decide to embrace ideologies that are directed at the heart of what it means to be American and run on that, this is the result. And again, they're saying it out loud. Here is the co-executive director of the People's Forum, a person named Manolo de Los Santos who says the world requires revolution in the United States. This person was the presidential candidate for the party of socialism and liberation, which is a left-wing group that played a key role in driving protests in the United States. We have this great opportunity, historical opportunity here in the US to actually change the whole world. We have to be in concrete solidarity with the people of the world, but the world actually needs revolution in the United States to happen. And what does this mean for those of us at home here who actually care about the United States? Well, it means more protests against ICE, for example. This guy was a coordinator of protests on October 8th, literally that after the October 7th attacks, while the bodies were still warm. In favor of the Hamas attacks, calling it an unprecedented liberation struggle. In January, 2026, the group of this person, that this person runs, led efforts to recruit up to 4,000 rapid response activists to counter ICE enforcement operations in the city. Here is Manolo de Los Santos embracing the president of Cuba. Again, Cuba is a communist household. Here's Manolo de Los Santos embracing the Cuban president. So nice. And here's the thing. A lot of this is in fact being directed from abroad. Not all of this is natural. He stayed department last week, released a report about what Cuba has been doing to spread third worldest ideology. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, put out a tweet explaining that the Cuban regime is in fact the leading sponsor of radical leftism and third worldism in the United States. They put out a full state department report exposing the history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country. And the report is pretty stunning. Coming up, we'll get into how Cuba is standing behind so much of this propaganda. 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This was a story in which the Black Panther, the Puerto Rican militant and the anti-war student radical were part of the same global drama as the Cuban revolutionary, the Algerian insurgent and the Colombian guerrilla. In Cuba's telling the oppressed peoples of the world from Harlem to Hanoi all shared one enemy. Third worldism, says the State Department, was not just a formal pillar of Cuban state strategy, it was a deliberate foreign policy strategy. Cuban operatives sought to aggressively recruit American minority groups as internal revolutionary agents. And this meant by the way funding large groups in the United States. One of those groups was called the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People. One of their major US counterparts is the National Network on Cuba, a coalition of more than 60 American groups, including the DSA, the National Lawyers Guild, CodePink and the Communist Party USA. The National Network on Cuban and at NOC in 2026 distributed a national rapid response plan, outlining a detailed strategy for activating and launching what are called coordinated nationwide actions against federal institutions, military bases and ice detention centers and field offices. The plan directs activists to resource, to locate local militarization sites built by the black alliance for peace, identifying US military commands bases and training facilities across the US as targets. The National Lawyers Guild served as an on-demand jailbreak force capable of providing immediate support for arrested rioters and militants. In 2020 alone, the National Lawyers Guild claimed to have coordinated legal support for more than 20,000 arrested protesters during the George Floyd riots. They coordinated with Antifa, they have a long history of the Cubans, of recruiting Americans, including via something called the Ben Serremos Brigade, a wide variety of prominent Americans like Bill Ayerz, who is a co-founder of the weather underground in a close associate of Barack Obama. The Ben Serremos Brigade includes, by the way, Karen Bass, the current L.A. Mayor, she was a leading Ben Serremos organizer in Southern California and visited Cuba as frequently as once every six months. If you're talking about Manchurian candidates, they're all over the United States. They're quite real. And of course, the State Department calls out Hassan Piker for his association with these groups. Quote, the March 2026 Nuestra America Convoy. Was a major flashpoint for the international left mobilizing by Ayer, Land, and C as organizers put it to transmission. sports goods to Cuba, Indivisans of US sanctions. 120 organizations from across 33 countries joined the caravan. Participants included a suite of influential progressives from the US and across the world, including Hassan Piker, as well as the Amazon labor union founder Christian Smalls, a delegation from the DSA, former UK labor party leader Jeremy Corbin, former Spanish deputy prime minister, Pablo Iglesias, and of course the daughter of Ilhan Omar. So Hassan Piker did what third worldists typically do. As soon as he was called on the fact that he has close associations with foreign powers that wish to destroy the United States, immediately resorted to reliance on the US Constitution. It's always fun when the people who hate the Constitution and praise Chairman Mao immediately start citing the Constitution as their protective shield. Piker put out a statement quote, why is the State Department naming American citizens in their Cuba report where they seemingly complain about our opinions on US sanctions policy? This is absolutely protected by the First Amendment. They are trying to chill speech through intimidation or maybe they're pointing out what you do. It wasn't by the way Justice Hassan Piker doing that. The president of Cuba started calling out America for its supposed violations of the First Amendment. The president of Cuba, listening to communist dictators, lecturers about the Constitution, pretty rich stuff. He put out a series of tweets, quote, a new and more dangerous version of McCarthyism is back in the United States. Okay, McCarthyism was the idea that Communists had honeycomb the American government. We ought to root them out. Here you have a communist leader complaining about McCarthyism. With a menacing transnational project projection says Miguel Diaz Canal, alliances of the far right are being promoted that recall hit Larian fascism. Our pretext being sought as justifications for new abuses and greater aggressions. The left is being taken over by this stuff. They are unbelievably radical and left is willing to follow travel with all of this. This is why people like Zorn Mombani have the upper hand in the Democratic Party. You got Kamala Harris who was the vice president and the Democratic nominee. She's going to have to go bend the knee to Zorn Mombani. She will. Here is Zorn Mombani lecturing Kamala about how she needs to regain the trust of the Democratic Party by attacking Israel some more because that's the thing. Again, when it comes to the Palestinians, that is sort of the point of the spear, the tip of the spear for third world is him find a population that is radically sympathetic to terrorism that has elected terrorists every time they've had an election that overall supports open terrorism and murder and then side with them in the name of fighting imperialism. And if you get people to do that, you can get pretty much anywhere. Here is Zorn Mombani going after Kamala Harris. As Biden's VP, she is closely associated with America's support of Israel during the Gaza war. Do you think she can regain trust on that issue? I think that the first step for anyone looking to run is to be honest about what we see today and what it would take to change that. And when I say what it would take, one of the common features between all of the people that I endorse for Congress was that each one of these candidates spoke about how they would sign on to the block the bomb's legislation. It speaks about an unwillingness to continue to be complicit in a genocide. Again, the DSA holds the whip hand in the Democratic Party because they have no systemic immunity to any of this. And that's nothing new, honestly. I mean, this is centuries old. It does stay evsky. Although many famous books, but one of them is called the demons or the possessed. There's a section of the book where anarchists basically take over a town. And one of the anarchists is talking about how the normal liberals in the town have no systemic immunity to the anarchists. And the terrorist leader says, I could make them go through fire. One only has to dig into them. They're not advanced enough. And that's the whole thing. That's the whole game here. It's going to be a competition among Democratic Party politicians to have flank one another to make obeisance to the hard radical left to show that they really are true believers. True believers. Now, again, it's, it's kind of hilarious that actually the last bull work of rationality inside the Democratic Party is going to be the black primary voting base in the Democratic Party. They're the people who rejected Bernie in 2016. They're the people who also rejected Bernie in 2020. They are heavily supportive of Kamala Harris. So we'll be again, fascinating to see how this all plays out inside the Democratic Party. Now, Democrats knowing that this stuff is not particularly popular with the American body politic and it's not. They are immediately shifting into aggression mode against the right. They're saying is well, you know, sure, the DS say, yeah, okay, maybe they're too passionate. Maybe they're a little too passionate. But on the other side of the fascists, that's the case being made by Don Lemon, of course. MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version of a Nazi party. This is America's version. It's the closest thing without the Holocaust and all that stuff. That sort of mindset. That's what MAGA is because most intelligent people or logical people, when they get new information and if that information is negative or not factual, then they change their minds with MAGA. Oh, well, I wish I had known better. And now that I have this information, then I can readjust. No matter how many facts and how much information you give them, you give them about this presidency, about the policies, they don't change their minds because they're really not voting for the price of eggs. They're voting for white supremacy. Yeah. Well, according to Don Lemon, of course, the right is entirely white supremacist. He says, he sits in his belacial estate next to his beautiful pool with his expensive watch. Representative Jamie Rask and he showed up at the college Democrats of America convention. This is the same convention where Hassan Piker decided to dress up as Mao. And he said that Republicans are the savage destroyers of our constitution. He's saying this to people who would absolutely destroy the constitution if they could. They're citing with the autocrats, the kleptocrats, the Theocrats, the plutocrats, but were the Democrats and were standing up for democracy wherever it's under attack around the world. And guess where it's under attack? 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There's another poll that came out yesterday. The showed that the congressional generic ballot is now in spitting distance for the Republicans, like D plus two, which is definitely an even split. There's not a runway election for Democrats because they're embracing the radicals. There is only one problem. It is definitely possible to lose to the crazies. It is definitely possible. I know there are people on the right celebrating the rise of the crazies, some of them because some people on the right are like, well, you know, it's easier to beat them. I mean, that would be true if we were acting normal, but we then have to act normal. There's a new poll out from CNBC. And it actually shows that well Americans hate both the DSA and also dislike president Trump. It turns out that if forced to choose, a radically shocking number of Americans might choose the DSA. 32% of registered voters would be more likely to vote for a candidate if they describe themselves as a democratic socialist, right? So I mean, very unpopular. 50% would be less likely to vote for such a candidate. 29% of voters would be more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by president Trump. 52% would be less likely. A candidate who describes himself as a supporter of the magma movement does even worse. Only 27% of voters said that would make them more likely to vote. And 57% said it would make their vote less likely. Okay. So in other words, DSA radically unpopular. But also the worst aspect of the modern right wing movement, people don't like that either. We cannot just presume that the other side will be so terrible. We can run anyone and win. If you would like the third world is to win an amazing way to do that would be to keep allowing toxicity to take over your party. So let me give you a quick example. If you're a law abiding American citizen. You should be happy when alleged and admitted because the did it on tape sex traffickers are arrested. You should be happy when that happens. And yet, I see a certain segment of the population that is deeply unhappy when alleged sex traffickers, like Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are arrested. It's kind of surprising. And that is because there is a part of the reactionary right as weeks, laying yesterday that is very into the transgressivism of the Tates that hates the institutions of the West in the same way that the left hates the institutions. They also hate the institutions. They think those institutions have been thoroughly corrupted and therefore untrustworthy. And not only that, that the people who rip into those institutions be they sex traffickers or whatnot as long as they agree that the institutions must be torn down. Those are potential allies. These are the people who you will see saying things like the UK and US aren't doing anything about Jeffrey Epstein, but they're going after the Tates. Okay. Now the proper answer, let's say that you believed wrongly that there are a bunch of unindicted people in the Jeffrey Epstein case for which there is sufficient evidence. I say wrongly because again, show the evidence as to who should be indicted. I will say, along with you, they should be indicted. But let's say for a set, let's say that we're sure. Wouldn't you still be happy when alleged sex traffickers are about to go to prison? Would that not be a good thing? Wouldn't your response be, man, I'm glad they're going after the Tates. Now I just wish they would go a harder effort, Jeff, but that's how they're saying. They're saying, how dare they go after the Tates when they didn't go hard enough at Jeffrey Epstein. I noticed that's a defense of the Tates, not an indictment of Jeffrey Epstein. I noticed that, guys. It turns out that if you hate Israel enough and hang out with anti-Semite enough and hate the West enough and identify with dictators abroad and promote enough anti-woman misogynistic garbage, then members of the right will defend you as even if you're an alleged sex trafficker, apparently. Yesterday, Andrew Tates lawyer Joseph McBride tried to suggest, again, what they're trying to do is hook this into the Trump administration. They're trying to get the Trump administration to block extradition. It's not going to happen. They know they have some allies in the Trump administration. It's been widely reported, for example, that people like Rick Rinell and Paul and Grasya are tight with team Tates. Whether that's true or not, Rick Rinell can speak to that and Grasya has never really denied it. In any case, the goal for the Tate legal team is to try to turn this into a political case as opposed to, you know, guys who admitted full on tape that they were running pipping hose degrees. And we're on tape physically abusing underage girls, which is one of the things that absolutely 100% happened with Andertate. I mean, he's on tape doing it. Here's Andertate's lawyer, though, trying to turn this into a political referendum on Grasprat. Again, I'm not a defender of the way that the UK has treated sex trafficking and its criminal law. I'm one of the loudest critics in America of the Rothram scandal and the cover-up. That has nothing to do with should the Tates be arrested. Here we go. Here's Thierry Jessi-Retire. There's retiring. I'm sure he's mad that Andrew and Tristan Tate had a lot to do with his fall in Great Britain. And there's a new guy in there right now. But this is the last vestige of attack of a prime minister who didn't do a good job and he continues to do bad work and I'll just leave it there. Innocent to approving guilty, we're going to let the court process play out here the way that it should. We're happy to be here. Okay, so, um, yes, it must be political. He then compares the prosecution of the Tates to Trump's legal prosecution. Again, the idea here is that he's going to get Trump to block the extradition. He's not going to get Trump to block the extradition. The man that I voted for office, who's currently in office, had millions of charges slandered against him all over the place. Some of them, he beats, some of them, he didn't beat. Most people who understand the process know that that was a load of crap. Most people who see this for what it is know that it is the same exact thing. Oh, the same exact, well, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. It was Trump running like for years of webcam business. Paul and Grasia, who never should have been in the administration. It is a joke and a ridiculous thing that this person has an office in the administration. Paul and Grasia, he was a clown. When he was appointed, he is a clown now. He's currently the acting general counsel for general services administration, which is ridiculous. He put out a couple of tweets over the weekend. One, quote, in America, the presumption of innocence is inviolable. It is supposed to be a bedrock principle of our legal system. The presumption of innocence demands a rigorous legal guardrails referred to as procedural due process. Those who resent this arrangement should really channel the resentment against the Constitution, the document, which safeguards the God-given rights of every citizen and lays out these protections boldly. One remains innocent until a court of competent jurisdiction renders a judgment. This process is what separates America from the world and it's what makes this country exceptional. Let's not lose sight of this. Yes, he is, there's a presumption of innocence with regard to the Tates in a court of law, but if you admit to doing a bunch of stuff and brag about it, actually, and openly tout it on tape, I don't have to assume you're innocent any more than I have to assume that O.J. Simpson was innocent as a human. I don't have to. And Grasia then says, politically driven prosecutions based on one's personal beliefs are completely antithetical to a democratic society. I'm pretty sure that the reason that they are being prosecuted is because they've had hovering over them for literally a decade, allegations of rape, sexual abuse, and sex trafficking. This person works for the administration. If Republicans don't fight this, if conservatives don't fight this brain-worm nonsense, then there is every chance that the DSA ends up in power. If you brainworm yourself in the belief that you must ally with the world's worst human beings in order to quote unquote, fight the left, what is conservatism ever conserved other than virtue, decency, and constitutional principles and free markets? If you fall into the black pilling of the right in which you must ally with alleged sex traffickers and webcam operators, then I'm just going to point out that you are probably going to lose. That is a great way to lose. But there is this thing that happens on the right where the right creates its own bubble and then believes it is reflective of the rest of America. And it is not. I said it a thousand times, I'll say to a thousand more. Get out and touch grass. Get out and touch some grass. I'm just going to give a sort of silly but telling cultural example. So there is a lot of speculation on the right that over the weekend the Odyssey was going to bomb. The Odyssey was going to underperform. The Odyssey was never going to underperform. It was never going to underperform. It is a star-studded epic directed by Christopher Nolan who took the story of developing the nuclear bomb and also a Senate hearing and turned that into a box office hit. Christopher Nolan can open a movie. Period. If you thought people were not going to go see the Odyssey because like you, they were very, very mad. The Lapidon-Yongo was cast for three minutes total screen time as Helen of Troy. Or that people were just going to not go sit through one of the great filmmaking effects of all time because of the idiotic and it is idiotic casting of Elliott Page. And I call her Elliott Page because you can legally change her name. You can't legally change your sex. And it's idiotic casting. I mean, I talked about this. Go watch my review on YouTube. But if you thought people weren't going to go watch the movie because of your upset overcasting decisions, wrong. Wrong. There are times when politics affects a movie so badly that you don't want to see it where it overcomes the presumption of wanting to see a film. So for example, when Disney made Snow White, the remake and they decided to put in a bunch of kind of woke silliness, people didn't go see it. Number one, because I'm not going to see that for my own enjoyment. I'm going to take my kids to the movies. So I want my kids to see those values know. It's a different thing when it's a movie for adults. Second of all, it's Christopher Nolan. Okay, it's not the same thing as a bad James Gunn film. James Gunn has to make a bonafide good film for people to go see it. Christopher Nolan is good at making films. In fact, he is great at making films. In fact, he's probably a top three to top five all-time filmmaker. If you're talking about top all-time filmmakers who are talking right now about people like John Ford, Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, William Wiler, this bizarre idea that no one was going to go see the Odyssey because your pissed off at the multiracial casting is really, really silly. But a lot of the right bought into this. And not only that, a lot of the right, I think, is reveling in the idea that the sort of cultural blackpilling of it. Now again, I've talked at length about the Thematic of the movie. And I'll get into more of it in a second. But some of the people who are most into this sort of blackpilling, the people are like, what has conservatives and ever concerned? These same people putting out tweets about how terrible the Odyssey is. I don't know all the issues with Nolan's Odyssey because I saw a black hell in a Troy and a tiny trun playing a war hero. That'd be Elliott Page. And I didn't give him my money because the movie was obviously made to destroy my civilization. Is that so hard? Yes, yes. Nolan was sitting there thinking, how do I destroy Western civilization when he made the Odyssey? Okay, there's some great irony to this. Like truly great irony to this. Let me talk about the Thematic of the Odyssey for a second. Okay, if there is a Thematic flaw to the Odyssey, it's that it's not really the Odyssey. Okay, the reason I say this Rob Henderson points this out at Daily Wire. It's got a very good review and it's accurate. Okay, it's already a little secret about the Odyssey. The Odyssey is not in Christopher Nolan's vision, a Greek tragedy. It is not because it turns out that the way of Greece was physical domination, mistreatment of women, destruction of your enemies, and glory and battle. That is the way that the Odyssey reads. If you go back and you read Homer's epic, it is not, in fact, Odysseus sitting there upset over his life. It is Odysseus going on a series of adventures, going home and killing everybody. That is what the Odyssey is. It is incredibly episodic. There's no character development. Hard to make a movie like that. Okay, so what does Christopher Nolan do? Well, Christopher Nolan actually does is he delivers, "I kid you not a Christian panagéric poured into a Greek vase." That is what Christopher Nolan is doing on a moral level. Okay, spoiler alerts to come for those who missed the review. Here is what the Odyssey is actually about. The movie, not the actual original poem, the movie. What the movie is about is the idea that if you violate the golden rule, treat others as you would be treated, that if you violate the golden rule, you shatter something fundamental in the universe and an unleashes dark forces on the universe, which sometimes can only be re-bottled and hemmed in by an act that continues to violate morality, but then you have to accept the punishment. That is the theme of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the entire basic idea. And again, this is not Greek. It doesn't come from Homer. Leo Liebowitz also points this out to over. It's perfectly obvious. Okay, this is actually a Christian allegory. How do you miss this? Honestly, it is a Christian allegory because the whole thing is a biblical take. Christopher Nolan establishes at the beginning of the film something that he calls Zeus's rule. What is Zeus's rule? Zeus's rule is treat others as you would be treated because you don't know who is a god in disguise. Now, you may notice that treat others as you would be treated is the golden rule. The silver rule appears in the Old Testament. That's don't treat others as you would not want to be treated. The golden rule comes from the New Testament. Okay, and usually it finishes because God made man in his image. Nolan takes that in flips it and says because any person could be a god. Okay, this is not something that the Greeks cared about. Okay, he's taking a Christian rule, a Judeic rule, a biblical rule, and he is putting it into the story. And then the idea is that biodicius violating that rule through the Trojan horse through subterfuge and corruption and unleashing hell on Troy. He has committed a grave sin and that grave sin has now unleashed on the world a norm of violating the golden rule in which see peoples are now violating that rule at their whim. And in order to stop that entire thing, Odysseus has to come home, he has to slaughter the suitors who are taking advantage of the golden rule because you can't allow people to take advantage of the golden rule. You can't allow people to cynically cite the golden rule while they eat you out of house and home, which is what the suitors are doing. You have to slaughter them in violation of the golden rule and then you have to go into exile and accept the penalty for your sin. Okay, that's the actual moral arc of the movie. Does that sound radically anti-Western civilization to you? See, Western civilization is not just Greek. Western civilization is Greek and Jerusalem. Some people might even have written books about Athens and Jerusalem. It's called the right side of history, available, lever-find books or soul, talking about what we got from Greece, what we got from Jerusalem. Now, Nolan is obviously not doing an openly Christian film here because it's the Odyssey. And I don't know what Christopher Nolan's religious precepts are, but it is impossible to live in the West without drinking from the well that is that set of biblical values and that's what's in the Odyssey. Now again, I think there are a bunch of weird oddities about the movie ranging from the casting of Elliot Page to the use of dad and mom. I've said before, I don't think the LePedaniango thing is anything. I think it's incredibly stupid to get all upset about the LePedaniango thing because guess what, Diane Krueger's German. I know everybody's like, you know, Achilles probably look like Brad Pitt. Well, actually probably like a Greek guy. Brad Pitt is not Greek. I see that none of you are very upset about Tom Holland being Cassus telemockus. You think Tom Holland looks like a Greek kid like from 700 or 1200 BCE. I have doubts. Because I don't care about any of that because when it comes to mythology, you can play with it. And again, the movie goes out of its way to say that the reason the war was launched is not because Helen was the most beautiful woman ever, but because that was a pretext for the actual war. In the same way, the casting of Sendaya is not a problem. The reason that Sendaya is Athena is because in a very clever bit of filmmaking, what Christopher Nolan does is he shows Matt Damon's Odysseus view a civilian being murdered in front of him who is Sendaya, simultaneous with the beheading of an Athena statue and he now identifies the beheaded civilian with Athena. Okay, that's what he's doing. Okay, but again, the broader point here is that if conservatives form their own little bubble and if they don't realize that reality continues to exist, that the Odyssey will make a bunch of money, which it did over the weekend, that it did worldwide, $264 million. That if you keep boxing yourself into this idea that everyone thinks in your peculiar way, you are going to run yourself into a political box canyon. And the results are not going to be beneficial. Well, folks, the other big news of the day is an outbreak of what's called cyclosporiasis, which is a parasite that causes diarrhea. This, by the way, is a health segment sponsored by a balance of nature. It's a really big story, actually. There's been a huge nationwide rise in cases of cyclosporiasis, like 7,000 such cases. The FDA and the Center for Disease Control has zeroed in on shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from a single supplier in Mexico. It was sold at Taco Bell locations in five states, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. But the FDA says that there may be additional states that are added to the advisory. Again, I have problems with veggies like they are my enemy, which is why again, I use bounce and these veggies. I know these are fine because they impounderized and they have the same nutrients, a balance of nature, doing the heavy work for me and the fiber and spice and the fruits like all of the you can just do that. So in any case, the FDA is saying that while the FDA track traceback is indicating a specific independent farm, which represents less than 1% of the US iceberg lettuce supply, we have removed all iceberg lettuce from the region indefinitely according to the supplier Taylor fresh foods. The items were being sold at Walmart, right? So I mean, a lot of people buying this stuff. And it turns out that that iceberg lettuce was used in heavy measure at Taco Bell. According to the Washington Post, it may be a while before you can eat lettuce safely. A director from GW's Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition says, "Next week, it could be something else. It could be blueberries or raspberries or basil or a food vehicle that we haven't identified as a way of transmitting this pathogen. By the way, the pathogen is transmitted by usually plants that have taken up water that is human feces in it or human feces directly on the lettuce." What do you mean? Not, not, not pleasant, not pleasant. What if you want to really eat Taco Bell according to the Washington Post? Taco Bell has said it has voluntarily removed all affected Taylor firms lettuce from every one of its restaurants in the country. But if you're really worried, then you can reheat your take out apparently. If you heat these things enough, then you kill them. Or if you freeze them, then that also tends to help. You can go to balanceofnature.com today and just avoid the whole problem and subscribe to that whole health system or any of their subscriptions get an additional 10% off of promo code Shapiro. Now, Taco Bell has been getting a lot of rough press over the cyclosporiasis outbreak and we searched through the bowels, no pun intended, of the daily wire staff to try to find a reporter who could amply cover this pressing issue for Americans and low and behold, we found a kid you not that we have a Taco Bell correspondent here at Daily Wire. His name is Brad Bish. A Brad joins us on the line right now. Brad, thanks so much. I see the year outside America's best restaurant. It's right there, Ben. It's right there. proudly supporting my taco shirt as well. Okay, so I need you to explain because we were talking about this a little earlier this morning and you mentioned that Taco Bell is indeed America's gourmet restaurant. And so I want you to provide an explanation of why people should continue to eat a Taco Bell and the magic of Taco Bell. And by the way, Taco Bell, if you're listening, I mean, this would be like a great time to sponsor. In any case, go ahead, Brad. All right, first, we're going to break down the ingredients. But second of all, I'm going to explain my Taco Bell is the most innovative company probably in the world. Both start with the ingredients. All right, so for the audience, let's break this down and let's say an MBA team and let's go back to the 2012, 2013 Miami Heat. The ground beef is LeBron James. Like that ground beef cannot be touched. It's untouchable. You can't guard it. You can't guard the ground beef. When it comes to the Chipotle mayo, that's Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade's a closer. If you're looking at the menu right now and you can figure out what to get, you're like, what am I going to get from the menu? You're anything with the Chipotle mayo in it. It's going to win the game for you. It's absolutely perfect. The lettuce is Chris Bosch. It is the most interchangeable thing on the menu. No one cares about the lettuce. The lettuce can be taken out and Taco Bell is going to succeed. Chris Bosch can be taken out. The heat are going to succeed. And then the real kicker is going to be Ray Allen. Ray Allen's coming in as the hot sauce. There's a full team there without the lettuce that can go win a championship. Taco Bell can succeed without the lettuce. It's not even close. Moving on to the point, I think that's most important is that Taco Bell is the most innovative company in America. Bar none. It's time close. You thought landing rockets were cool, like self landing rockets. Try a Dorito Taco. They took a Dorito and turned it into a Taco Shell Ben. That's like the coolest thing I've ever heard. Oh, tacos are too messy to eat in the car. Well, we got a Crunch Rapp Supreme. We don't really care. That's awesome. Go eat it in the car. Your kids like grilled cheese, but you want to sneak in a little bit of protein. We got ground beef grilled cheese burritos. There's something for everyone. And if you even want the more traditional Mexican style, they now have the cantina menu. I don't even think this is an argument. Taco Bell is taking the unnecessary heat right now. It's ridiculous. And we're not going to let it stand here at the daily wire. It's ridiculous. Now to be fair to Taco Bell, it's not Taco Bell's fault that one of their providers had apparently pooper than lettuce. I mean, Taco Bell didn't grow the lettuce in their backyard. That is just a provider that also provides two Walmart, but isn't this just another example, Brad, and to push back on on Taco Bell, isn't this another example of why we need to resure our manufacture of lettuce because this lettuce came from Mexico. We did not build the wall high enough is, I guess, the case that I'm making with regard to our lettuce importation. We need a tariff, the Mexican lettuce, the same way that we are tariffing Canadian lumber. 100% Ben, let's get homegrown American lettuce going again. I think to say to tennis, there are plenty of warm states in the United States that would I think gladly welcome some new lettuce farms. Let's get it going. However we can save Taco Bell across this country, we need to make it happen. And if that's through, I think a protectionist trade policy, I'm here. I'm going to embrace it. We're going to do it. So Brad, I just have to make sure for full disclosure, you are not in fact a board member or employee of Taco Bell, correct? I am not. If they don't sponsor the show after this Ben, I'd be quite surprised. So that is Brad Bishop, our actual Taco Bell correspondent live from Taco Bell. I don't even think it's open yet. Is it open now? Are you joking? I'm not sure. We talked innovation. They have breakfast Ben. They have a breakfast menu. They have a breakfast crunch rat. Let's place it. It's go please go. Please go Ben. Stop by. Like there's so many things. I'm never going to see this. See, there's not kosher unfortunately. The only thing that I can have at Taco Bell is their soda. So that's an unfortunate thing. Let me call my Taco Bell peeps. Oh man. If you, okay, by the way, I'm just going to say two Taco Bell. If you open a kosher Taco Bell, the meat and cheese thing would be a bit of a problem. But if you can use some, I know the blasphemy vegan cheese or something or fake meat, like this is what we would need in the coat. Here's the thing about keeping kosher. As I've said many times, I've watched many a great meal, watched. I've smelled many a great meal that I've never eaten. And so if it turns out that I'm wrong about anything, then I'm going to lose twice. Not only will I end up in the wrong place, I will also have missed out on the glorious meals that would have been available to me at places like Taco Bell. Brad, so I get that you're making a strong pitch. I said, you know, people have asked what would it take to get you to convert? I've always said the best argument is food, but you know, there you are. Maybe just a late night trip to Taco Bell with me, Ben. And maybe we get it converted. Brad Bishop, our daily wire Taco Bell correspondent doing the hard work that millions of other people are doing every day. And he's not even getting, well, we're not even paying for his lunch. So I mean, he does that on his own time. That's how much he is committed to the cause of reporting on Taco Bell. Brad, thanks so much for the time. And now get back to your regular job, please, because there is no way that this company can possibly afford a full time Taco Bell correspondent. We'll do. Thanks for having me, Ben. I can't believe that's a thing that just happened here on the bench, Pierrot Show. But you know, our coverage, our coverage is for everyone. We want to make sure that everyone is covered. And we also want to make sure, once again, that you are covered when it comes to what you need from nature, balance of nature. You're not going to have cyclist pariahs us if you're using your balance of nature. Head over to balance of nature.com today. Subscribe to the whole health system or any of their subscriptions, get an additional 10% off with promo code Shapiro. Well, meanwhile, in actual serious news, the war in Iran obviously continues. The United States has continued its bombing campaign against Iranian sites largely along the straight of Hormuz. The president put out a statement yesterday saying every time Iran kills an American soldier, they will pay for that killing many times over. This directive has been passed on to Secretary of Warpede Hegseth, chairman of the joint chiefs of Staff Dan Kane and every leader in the military. Okay. Again, fine and dandy. Also pay for that killing many times over as too vague. How about you kill one American and all of your oil resources go by by? How about that? That's a credible threat. You could do it with two bombing runs. The question, of course, continues to be the end game. Understate Rubio, the shogma of the straight of Hormuz last night, and he said, "Listen, it's not our job to protect every single thing on the entire planet forever, obviously." But I do think the world is coming to a point now where it's clear that Iran, at least some people in Iran, want to control the straits and hold that as leverage against the world. And the world has to decide whether or not it's going to allow an international waterway to be under the control of a country like this, which is completely illegal, unlawful, and unacceptable. The United States will do and continue to do what it needs to to protect global shipping, but other countries need to begin to step up and provide whether it's hardware or finances to help carry that burden. It is not the United States job to protect shipping for the entire planet forever. I mean, of course, he is exactly right about that, but you know, it would be very, very helpful is getting our allies to sign on to that, not just in Europe, but also in the Middle East, getting Saudi to actually pull its way. It would be a good thing. Now meanwhile, of course, the third world is in the United States. Our laser focused in on arresting the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Zoran Mamdani keeps claiming he's going to do this. He's not going to do it. It's illegal. He'll get arrested himself if he does it because it turns out you can't just arrest foreign dignitaries in the United States under international law. Mamdani, he is such a pose or such a clown, but as long as he's smart me and grinning while he says it. It's about potentially arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I just want to know just what your feelings are. When you look at, for example, your administration also reaching out to the Prime Minister of, excuse me, the ambassador of Iran, just how you, I guess, reconcile the two of being so critical of the Israeli Prime Minister, but at the same time meeting with the ambassador of Iran. So I want to first clear up a few things. Our administration did not reach out to the Prime Minister of Iran. Our administration received a request from the Iranian consulate. And as soon as I heard of that, I made it clear that we are not meeting and we will not meet with the Israeli consulate here in New York City. And when it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, we're speaking about someone who's the subject of an international criminal court arrest warrant. And he's the subject of this arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity, for war crimes. And he's the architect of the genocide against Palestinians and Gaza as Israel's Prime Minister. These are not facts of my personal assessment. They are facts of public record. They're not in fact facts of public record. The ICC is a trash organization. The original indictment was brought by a person who himself is under indictment for sexual abuse. And the notion that international law suggests that Israel has committed a genocide is counter factual in every possible way. Every single possible way is counterfactual. But again, the goal of the world is to get people to believe a bunch of lies. And then to indict Western civilization on the basis of those lies. The president of the United States may clear that this is not going to happen. That Zoramam Zayn is not have the power to do this. He put out a statement, Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way, shape or form well in the United States. He's fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protesters and has spent the last 47 years killing American soldiers and others. The only ones that should be arrested are the people that Iran led into this unprecedented spiral of death and destruction, something that should have been dealt with years ago by previous presidents. And of course he is right about that. Last week, Secretary of State Rubio went after so-called international law and the ICC. Half way across the world there's an institution that calls itself the International Criminal Court. Maybe you've heard of it. Maybe you haven't. But chances are you don't know the names of its judges, of its prosecutors or its president. And you shouldn't have to. But as we speak, the ICC and its friends are waging a war against our country. Not with bullets or missiles, but with statutes, and compacts, and the force of so-called international law. When the ICC was born 24 years ago, they told us that it was merely a narrow backstop, a global court that would step into prosecute only the gravest defenses, things like genocide and war crimes, and only when a nation's courts were unable to prosecute them on their own. But the truth is, it was something far more radical and extreme. It was a global tribunal staff by unelected, globalist bureaucrats who claimed their power is almost unlimited. Now again, those globalist bureaucrats very often identify with the third world's ideology that we were discussing at the top of the show. Already coming up, you thought we were done, we are not done. England has a new prime minister. He looks kind of the same as the old prime minister. This is their seventh prime minister in the last several years. They're having some trouble coming up with a functioning government in Great Britain. No surprise. I think that's the latest on the economy and much more if you're a daily wire member. 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