Ep. 2485 - The American Dream Is Alive. F*** Those Trying To Destroy It.

So yesterday was a pretty fun day. Patrick Bettev had released an interview we did last week. You should go check it out. It's fun. It's great. And he came on our show too and we talked about how to uphold free markets in the face of existential threats. And I was also in New York recording with the ninth richest person in the world talking about the future of business and the economy. You'll see that soon on our newest episodes of Titans on tomorrow because I think it's pretty important that we all get smarter and know things. I also did a surprise debate on the economy and that's coming soon. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson was shouting at the walls of his cosplay cabin in Maine about boy slop and burritos and Israeli influence operations. Alp does a body good because there is actually a metric ton of anti-American slop being shovel fed to all of us these days. I want to do something slightly different today. I want to talk about the actual American dream, what it is, what it means, and what it most certainly isn't. Plus, we'll get to the surrender deal being brokered by traditional Democrats to the Democratic Socialists of America. The WNBA is unable to figure out what the W stands for and Caroline Levit leaves her job as White House press secretary. This is the Ben Shapiro show. So as I said, I spent yesterday going to New York talking business with some of the most successful and brilliant business people in America. You know what my main takeaway was? America kicks ass. America is great. This is a great country. I know we are all supposed to be demoralized and upset. And we're all supposed to believe and claim that no one anymore has any shot at getting ahead in America that the American dream is dead. That we need something brand new by which most people mean some sh*t idea that was tried centuries ago, four centuries, and then failed like over and over and over. And most of those bad ideas revolve around a very, very basic failed idea that people are addicted to, that there ought to be a special cadre of elite people who direct the economy toward their specific ends. That your individual freedoms are actually destructive. That you ought to have your choices circumscribed so that they can build whatever it is they want to build for us on Piker, total economic leveling and poverty. Resorn Mamdani, Third World Accidency, and American weakness for Tucker Carlson, an agrarian feudal state for the Muslim Brotherhood, Dar al-Islam. So today I want to talk about what the American dream actually is and what it actually is not. So you're constantly hearing the American dream is the house and the way picket fence and the dog and the 2.2 children. That's not what the American dream is. The American dream is a process. It is not in fact an outcome. That process says, that process says that there is a relationship between cause and effect that you, if you make good, virtuous, smart decisions, if you perform beautiful and smart things throughout your life, you will end up better off than you did. And then you're, and then the parents did. And then if you pass those values on to your kids and they do the same thing, they will be better off than you. Right? That is the American dream. That was the thing. It is not that you will instantaneously go from being the poorest person in America to the richest person in America. That might happen to some people, but that's not the American dream. The American dream says that your talents and abilities should be able to take you as far as possible. And that you'll be better off if you do all those things because again, the process is the thing. And as long as you protect the process, you get your shot. That's the American dream. When my great, great grandparents got here at the beginning of the 20th century, they came here without a dollar in their pocket. They only knew Yiddish. And then they did those things and they weren't rich. Their kids did better than they did. And they weren't precisely rich. And my parents did better than my grandparents, but they weren't rich. And now I'm pretty rich. Right? It's an intergenerational process very often. This is true for all Americans. And that process in order to work has to include certain preconditions. And there are certain conditions that make the process work. Free markets. So private property. You own your labor. You own the products, goods and services that you produce. Your innovation is your own. And you can trade it with other people. And you can rent it to people if you want. That's what wage labor is. And you can build businesses. You can do those things. That's what a free market is. We also need things like equal justice before the law. Right? We need a law that is equally applied. Not there's justice for my friends and just beat down for my enemies. That is not equal justice. And it doesn't protect the process because that's not a process that is just the schmitty and friend enemy distinction. Right? We need freedom of mind. So freedom of speech and freedom of religion. So we can think things through to bait them out. So we can actually pursue that process. And of course we need a social fabric that promotes virtue. Right? You need actual people doing good things. You need to know what a good decision looks like. What a moral decision looks like. Those are all the preconditions for the American dream. And free markets, free minds, equal justice before law, social virtue. Right? Those are the things. Those are the preconditions. Now when you have that and then you have a government that protects those things and protects the process, that's when the American dream happens. The process not only protects and promotes freedom, it also happens to have the happy effects of promoting insane unprecedented human prosperity because it turns out the best way for innovation and competition to happen is to access the diverse knowledge and opinions of all humanity that free people innovate, free people compete, free people are able to access each other's knowledge levels. They're able to aggregate those knowledge levels. And we are much better off than no single human being knows more than the rest of humanity. That that's not a thing. And that's true when it comes to prioritization as well. Free markets mean that everyone can prioritize what they want on a material level. You get to make your own decisions about what makes your life better. You get to decide whether you wish to trade your labor for X number of dollars or whether you wish to trade X number of dollars for lottery ticket or for a share of stock. Right? Those are the decisions. You get to decide what you are willing to do. That's what the free market pricing system is. It is a set of aggregated choices by millions upon millions of individual consumers. And again, free markets also mean that we value everybody's knowledge base. I is a petty tyrant. I don't get to dictate to you what is the best way to fix a toilet because I have the government gone because there are lots of people who can aggregate their knowledge and fix the toilet better. And if you don't know how to do it, somebody else probably does. So again, the American dream is a process. That's the process we have to preserve. It is not an outcome. And that's exciting because the American dream, a process that is reliant on your freedom makes it your adventure. It's your journey. You make the decisions about your life. You make the decisions about what you think is important. You make the decisions about what you think things are worth or what you are willing to trade for what or which profession to go into. You make those decisions. I don't make those decisions. A son of a hiker doesn't make those decisions. Tucker Carlson doesn't make those decisions. And that's incredible. Do you understand how rare that is in human history? That is absolutely rare across human history. For most of human history, people were just told what to do all the time. The American dream isn't that. That's what I want. I just want the shot. I want the shot to make that choice. I think that's what we all want. The shot. We want the process protected. And guess what? That process still works. There are people who lie to you and they say the process doesn't work. Now, the process doesn't work as well as it should. Thanks to the impositions of people like a son of a hiker on the left or Tucker Carlson on the right. Right. Status inhibit the process. But the process still works. And it works really, really well. We get to more on this in just one second. First, when it comes to your upward mobility, one thing that people do need is access to capital. Right. That is a thing that you need. Well, you don't need is a financing process that takes three months and a mountain of paperwork. And this is where Cardiff comes in. Cardiff offers business owners up to $500,000 in application that takes less than five minutes with no impact on personal credit and the potential to get approved in minutes and same day funding. If you want bank rates without the bank delays, you need to check out Cardiff.co/shapiro from to $500,000 in same day funding. Again, we are a business. That means that we constantly have to be seeking overnight funding, all the rest of that sort of stuff. That's the kind of stuff a lot of businesses need. Small businesses, particularly Cardiff has the key that unlocks this problem. 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There's something called the success sequence. If you follow the success sequence, you will not be permanently poor in the United States, statistically speaking, you will not. 97% of millennials who follow the so-called success sequence, we're not in poverty by the mid 30s. One, graduate high school, two, get a full-time job, three, get married before you have kids. By the way, the most important thing here is get married before you have kids. For a couple of reasons. One, because if you have kids before you get married, then you have high costs and less income. But number two, it turns out that when people get married, they change how they view their life goals. This is true for every young dude. And so it's important for young men to get married, particularly because income trajectory goes steeply up. When you're a single dude, you are perfectly happy to live in kind of a crappy apartment with a box for a chair and a futon for a bed and eat ramen every night. As true for me in law school, it's true for a lot of people in college, it's true for a lot of people in their early work life. And then you get married and it turns out you want to provide for your family and income grows. It grows. You make different decisions about your life. So the American dream, the process is still there. It is still there. But there's a different view of the American dream. And this is the perverse view of the American dream and it actually destroys the American dream. That different view of the American dream is that the American dream is a set of outcomes. That the American dream isn't that if you make good smart virtuous decisions, you will live better than your parents and your kids will live better than you. That actually the American dream is the house with the way picket fence or two kids in a dog or a nicotine factory in India. Now listen, I may want all those things except for the factory and you might too. But when the government, which is at the end of the day, all the government is a big gun pointed at people. That's what the government is. It has a monopoly on legitimate use of force. And sometimes you need it. But you shouldn't use it that much. When you use that gigantic gun pointed at people directed at achieving certain ends, not protecting the process, but achieving the ends, you end up actually destroying the process. And by the way, never achieving the ends to move. So now let's talk about prices. Because I get it. Everyone is worried about prices. I totally get it. Things are way too expensive. Of course, I've said this all long. So let's talk about those prices, right? The prices are high and people are worried about the prices as they should be. People are correctly upset about inflation on a wide variety of topics. Let's start with food. I mean, hence burrito, right? This is bizarre discussion about the price of burritos. Now again, I want to start off with a basic, with this sort of basic primer for those who missed it and recall it, who's one of the guys who helps run TPUSA, but out of tweet, or he was saying that some 20 year old was complaining about $20 burritos. And this is the problem with America. And as usual, the conversation sort of degraded into the dumbest form of itself, because two things can simultaneously be true. Food is too expensive. And also $20 for burrito is a lot of money for burrito. You can get a burrito a lot cheaper than that. And so the conversation sort of bifurcated into two areas, people claiming that certain of us were saying that food wasn't too expensive, which is dumb. We all agree, food is too expensive. And other people saying, guys, there is some virtue to making responsible decisions with your money. And if you're 20 and you're having trouble making the rent, going out for dinner to buy a $20 burrito is probably not the wisest expenditure of cash. In any case, let's be real about how food inflation works. Free markets create better and cheaper burritos to use the burrito as an example. Because again, the byproduct of human choice and widely disseminated knowledge and innovation and free competition is better and cheaper burritos. Now here are some things that do not create better and cheaper burritos. Teriffs that are meant to protect the American working man if you increase the price of the inputs the burrito price goes up. Or let's say lower interest rates that are designed to make credit easier for the American family because that creates inflation. Or even policies I agree with, there are some policies I agree with that make burritos more expensive. Like if you deport a bunch of people who make burritos, it turns out that probably the price of burritos will go up. Okay, but let's not lie and pretend that all of your favorite policies somehow make burritos cheaper. This by the way is a great way to tell the people who wind from the people who solve problem is that life is a series of trade-offs and people who solve problems acknowledge these trade-offs and then try to get to the answer to the problem. Okay, but here's the bottom line. When you use the government gun to focus everyone on cheaper burritos through subsidies and regulations, you inhibit freedom and you break the process and you end up making burritos more expensive. This is also true for housing. A lot of people today screaming about the evils of free markets and econ 101. Right. And all those people are talking about how the rent is too expensive. It is too expensive. I agree. You know who's fault that isn't the free markets and the process in the American dream. Reason that housing is too expensive right now is because some people decided the American dream was not the process. It was the house and then they mobilized the American government to ensure that everyone could get a house and they ended up pushing a basket of policies that made housing way more expensive. So if you look at a chart of rent as a percentage of income, it basically stays stable up through 2000 and then it just explodes. Why? Well, because the government decided everyone needed a house. So what did they do? The government started subsidizing and mandating subprime mortgages inherently backed by the government. The subprime mortgages were low rate mortgages for people who were very unlikely to repay the mortgage. They also decided that they would artificially keep the interest rates low meaning keeping the mortgage rates low. So you got cheap mortgages plus subprime mortgages for bad borrowers. What do those things do? Well, that artificially spurs demand that creates artificial demand for people who really shouldn't be getting a mortgage and those people push up the price. Because you have many, many more people entering the housing market and as the prices go up, more people want to get in as an investment and then the price is spiral. And then eventually, it turns out those people can't pay their bills and then the housing market collapses. And then people stop building because the housing market collapsed. That is the story of the real estate collapse of 2007, 2008 when the subsequent drop off in the building of new units, which is what happened in the aftermath of 2007, 2008. Add on top of that other government policies designed to achieve affordable housing like for example rent control, rent control destroys affordable housing. It controls a few apartments at the cost of all future development. Why would I possibly build an apartment building where I lose money? Not going to happen. And then there are a bunch of people who have engaged in so-called nimbi policies. And not in my backyard policies. These are people who already have a house and they say, I want to maintain the value of my house and make it more expensive. That means no more building on my street. So it turns out that using the government to achieve the kind of housing that you desire ends up making housing more expensive and less affordable. In other words, when you inhibit the process of the American dream. Again, the American dream is very simple. Free markets, free minds, equal justice before law, social virtue, governments that are just to protect those things. When you start using the government to achieve the end, you end up achieving the opposite. This is also by the way, it's true for college education, right? People are correctly complaining about college debt. How do you think that happened? How do you think it happened that so many Americans, a huge percentage of Americans have gigantic college debt? The answer is we artificially increased demand through government subsidy and we did not do anything about the supply. And in fact, we started supplying crap degrees that are worth nothing to people just because we had this dumb idea that because people who want to college earned more, therefore everyone should go to college and then they will all earn more. That's how that works. So we gave out tons, like trillions of dollars in loans, billions in billions in billions of dollars in loans that are unpayable. We did that on a governmental level. We spurred demands without increasing supply. Right? That is a thing that we did. Again, there are a lot of real solutions out there to make life affordable on a personal level. By the way, there are also solutions. You don't have to wait for the government on. You can implement right now. Again, for a limited time, you can switch your plan, get any plan, including unlimited for just 15 bucks a month for your first three months. No contract required. Simply go to puretalk.com/apero to claim this offer. Also, by the way, I'm sure we're going to debate some of this today. We have a friendly fire episode. That is tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern. I was either those that day, the way I heard you disagree with my vision here, tune in live on the daily wear. Watch it the next day wherever you get your podcasts. If you haven't seen friendly fire yet, that's a show where we all argue with each other for your entertainment. This episode you're going to get me and Michael Moles shooting from the hypnomodirator, no safe words, don't miss it. Alrighty. So again, the American dreams of process. It is not a set of outcomes. When the government pursues the outcomes, it typically destroys the process and also doesn't even achieve the outcome. Okay, fine. Say the economic tyrants. Their first goal of post was affordability. And sure, we're not going to achieve affordability with any of our actual policies. And you're giving us solutions that would actually achieve affordability. But in the end, we don't like free markets. That's really the thing. So let's get to the real reason so many of these people hate free markets. I really despise free markets. I'm thinking they're bad. Free markets are an extension of your individual autonomy. Your individual autonomy is an obstacle to all of these people left, right, and Islamist from achieving their specific version of utopia. So the next goal becomes demoralization. We have to tell you that your individual autonomy is a ruse. Your life sucks. Everything sucks. You can't control your life. You should give me and my friends power because your life actually sucks. This is the demoralization effort. This is what Zorn Mamdani says. What Bernie Sanders says. What Hassan Piker says. He'll help the Muslim Brotherhood says that. It's also what Tucker Carlson has been saying as well. We get to more on this in just a moment. 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As I hear your big picture description of this transition through which we're moving, the first thought that comes to mind is boy, that sounds a little bit like what happened after the Soviet Union collapsed in the summer of 1991 and all of a sudden Russians woke up 10 years later and all state industries were owned by a small group of people. It was correct. That's kind of what it sounds like. Okay, so again, I'm not sure exactly why he's complaining about that since he loves Russia. I mean, he's very, very, very into it. Again, the goal is to demoralize you with all this, right? America sucks. You don't have free choice. The free choice is a lie. You're experiencing false consciousness put in your head by whomever. Again, in the end, all these people are quite happy for YouTube be poorer, for YouTube be less free. So long as they can build whatever utopia they want to build. So again, on the left, that takes a bunch of forms. For Zorn Mamdani, it's a third world of this utopia in which America is really brought to heal. For Zorn Pekr, it's completely leveling. For the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists, it is Dar al-Islam presumably on the right. This takes the form of what is now called post-liberalism. Post-liberalism basically argues that individualism and that includes individualism in free markets saps us of our virtue. What we actually need is a top down state run by oligarchs so that we can have virtue again. This is a bad idea and it was tried for many centuries and it was horrible. It turns out that one of the premises of the American founding is that virtue is a thing that you should pursue in your church and in your community and on an individual level and that government has a role protecting people from insidious infectious problems. Government does have social standards but there is no idea in the American founding that somehow there's an inherent link between being wealthy and having no virtue. You know what actually saps virtue? What really saps virtue? In individuals. If you are told that you are not in control of your own destiny, that your decisions don't matter. If people keep telling you over and over and over that you can't do anything about your life but you deserve everything, this makes you a worse person. Take this to parenting for a second. If your kid comes home, didn't study for the test, gets an F and you say, listen, it's not your fault. You don't ask any questions about did you study? Did you understand the concept? Nothing. You just go, it's not your fault. You're always bound to fail. The system is rigged. Your teacher is going to fail you. It doesn't matter how hard you study, it doesn't matter how much work you put in. You were going to fail because the system is rigged against you and you deserved an A. You deserved an A. And because you deserved an A and there's nothing you could do about it, go to your room and what do you think the kids can do? Is the kid going to go study? Is the kid going to try to get better at the thing? Is the kid going to work? Or is the kid going to go to the kids room and eat candy and play video games? This is a bad way to do life. But you know who says this kind of stuff all the time, the status. Their entire idea is promote ingratitude. You can't do anything about your life. It's a Russian oligarchy. And also, you should be ungrateful for America. And if people tell you to be grateful, it's because they're probably neocons. Again, Tucker never defines the term neocon because we all know what he means. But here he is. So it was clearly coordinated. But it's not just coordination that gets us to a talking point like that. There was deep feeling behind it and that feeling was contempt. That was loathing of the people complaining. That was loathing of the population. And that is part and parcel of this whole program. And this ultimately is the reason that the neocon worldview is a cancerous worldview. Not simply because it's wrong about which countries we ought to invade, which leaders we ought to topple, which democracies we ought to erect in countries whose languages we don't speak. Okay, that's obviously all wrong. But that's not the worst thing about it. The worst thing about it is not just its inattention to the fortunes of actual Americans. It's its hostility. It's hatred of Americans because there's no other way to describe the kind of feelings it could get you to give a lecture like the one Ben Shapiro gave. I don't know. I feel like if I say that we all ought to be grateful. Me, you, all of us ought to be grateful for America. I don't know that's hostility to Americans. It feels more like love of Americans because it turns out that the greatest country in the history of the world is the place that you are currently living. It is an amazing place and it has all these problems. The problems we've talked about, most of the status interventions like the ones that Tucker promotes. But if you're ungrateful for America, you're either an idiot or an loved one. And sure, the law is a teacher. We get this a lot. Right. The law is a teacher. The government needs to needs to inculcate virtue. Obviously, I believe in an educational system in which traditional virtue is upheld. It is also true that when the law says you cannot handle your own choices and freedoms, when the law says that basically all your freedoms and choices are bad for you, the law then teaches you to be a child and dependent and incapable. And this is what the post-liberals are now arguing. For in gratitude because you're ungrateful for the freedoms. If you're ungrateful for the process, if you say the process is rigged and crap and what you actually need is someone telling you what to do, how virtue ought to be constituted, what you ought to do with your money, what decisions you ought to make with your life, how you ought to bring up your kids. If you have people who are saying that to you, that somehow individual rights that undergird capitalism destroy your spiritual fulfillment, they're selling you a bag of goods. There's a reason the Max Faber talked about the Protestant work ethic. It is indeed an Anglo-American Protestant tradition that leads to the rise of free markets. You do not need to be poor or poor rural in order to reach spiritual fulfillment. People who argue that you do typically just want an excuse for making you poor. Here's what I want. I want for you to be wealthy and also to go to church. These two things are not mutually exclusive at all. Most of the biblical prophets were wealthy. Why are we who says that Americans can't have both? Who says we can't have both prosperity and virtue? The very same people who are telling you that I'm somehow feeding you boys' slop are sitting in mansions across from Hunter Biden and Andrew Tate and claiming they have the high ground on virtue and they're totally full of it. So I do have a theory about some of these folks. I don't like to go into motivations, but we can look at personal histories. I have a theory about some of these folks. Here is one of my theories that many, many, many of the people who say the American dream is dead and that the American dream isn't a process to set of ends that they alone can achieve if you give them power. Never actually lived within the American process. They never were part of the American process. Hassan Piker didn't live the American dream. Hassan Piker was born America. He was brought up in Turkey. He came back who's already well to do. Zorn Momdani did not live the American dream. Zorn Momdani grew up alternatively in a mansion in Uganda or in a series of coity, toy, de areas of the United States with his Columbia University father and his mom who made documentaries for Disney. Bernie Sanders didn't live the American process. It's been living essentially rent free off the back of taxpayers' entire life. And neither did Tucker Carlson. He didn't live the American process either. That's amazing to watch the projection here. Truly amazing. Really kind of insulting. So Tucker Carlson claims, for example, he has to claim that somehow I rigged the system. So Tucker yesterday spilled out this stuff about how I got into Harvard law. And his claim is that I was kind of nipple-babyed into it probably by the Israelis. Yes, I'm sure that the state of Israel had nothing better to do than sit on top of my Harvard law application in the year 2004. I'm sure that's when I was 20. Here are his Tucker Carlson. Can you imagine four or 500,000 American 18-year-olds plucked at random from cities across the country in a field this summer, this month, August, 57 years after Woodstock, can you imagine what they would look like with their shirts off? Which is not to make fun of their lumpy fizziques. That happens to a lot of us over time. But can you imagine what their faces would look like? Would they look as cheerful as the kids you see in the pictures of Woodstock? You hope so? Probably not. So maybe the last thing they need is to be lectured by people who are clearly the the beneficiaries. of unearned privilege like Ben Shapiro, who somehow got into Harvard Law School, despite a middling IQ, how did that happen? Never asked. People like that have no standing at all, to lecture the rest of America's young people. Okay, put aside the fact that he's using Woodstock as an example of American happiness, which is a bunch of young drug-addle people banging in the mud, which is weird. And his weird imaginings of people with their shirts off. I'm just gonna point out, the reason I got into Harvard Law is because I had a 3.85 GPA from UCLA and a 176 on my LSAT and a published book and a syndicated column at age 17. That would be the reason. It's very funny, Tucker is constantly trying to rip on my IQ, dude. I mean, if you wanna have an IQ off, I suppose we could do that. I've offered Tucker for the past, and how many years at this point? Years and years and years, an open opportunity to have a public talk about anything or everything. He has never taken me up on it, of course. Hey, but I just wanna point out, Tucker Carlson never lived within the American process. He thinks everything was rigged because everything was rigged for him. How am I gonna give you a brief capsule history of my own life? And here's the thing, I don't even like doing this. I really don't, I don't talk about it a lot on the show. Why don't I talk about it a lot? Because I don't think that there is some sort of virtue that is attendant upon whether you grew up in a richer family or a poorer family. I do not associate wealth with virtue inherently. These are not qualities that must be correlative. Hey, but I'm just gonna make clear my own personal history for just a second. He's again, this idea that I was sort of like a nepot baby who got into Harvard. It's just, it's made up out of whole cloth. The reason Tucker thinks this is because he was a nepot baby. We'll get some more on this in a moment. First, the window to reach a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy has now gotten incredibly incredibly small. Today, she can order the abortion pill online. From her phone without ever walking into a clinic. Sometimes before she's spoken to anyone who can remind her that she's not alone and that there's help and there is another option. This is why the work pre-born does really, really matters. 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I was born in '84 until 1995, until I was 11 years old. My parents and I and my three younger sisters lived in a two bedroom 1,100 square foot house in Burbank, California with one bathroom for six people. It was a great life because America's awesome. I had great parents. He had good neighbors. He's a clean town. It was great. But we certainly were not wealthy. My mom started off as a secretary at a small television company. And my father played piano on Monday and Tuesday nights at a restaurant called Michele's. I spent most of my childhood Monday and Tuesday nights at Michele's hanging out with the waiters and the bartender while I waited for my mom to finish work so she could pick us up from the restaurants. They mean my younger siblings. Okay, and then when I was 11, my parents quote unquote, got wealthier. And by got wealthier, I mean they moved into a gigantic mansion. By mansion, I mean a 2,400 square foot home where we spent the rest of my childhood. And it was great. Again, I'm very grateful for all these things because only in America, 'cause America's awesome. America kicks ass. 'Cause we moved into, I finally had my own room. And that was basically for the rest of my childhood in North Hollywood. We're on scholarship at a local private school. But the reality is that sort of my own sort of educational history was public school through grade four, skipping grade three, private school five and six. We couldn't afford private school for seven and eight. So I went back to public school for seven and eight. And then private school again for 10, 11, 12, because I skipped ninth grade and was on scholarship. Those are my parents were, by this point, middle class to probably upper middle class. Because again, they made responsible decisions and their life progressed. And then I got into UCLA, a state school that does not cost tons of money. And then I got a 3.85 GPA and a 176 on my LSAT. I got one problem wrong on my LSAT. And then I went to Harvard Law and I took out a bunch of private loans that I paid off myself. That is my story. I did not know anyone at Harvard Law. I did not know anyone in the Israeli government when I was 20. I had visited Israel one time at that point in my life when I was 16 with my family for two weeks. This is psycho. But the reason that Tucker thinks this is because again, Tucker has never engaged in the American process. He has not. He is not someone who got better and stronger and more powerful because he made smart, wise, and virtuous decisions. That is not the story of Tucker Carlson's life. Just as it is not the story of his own Pikers life or his own Mamdanis life, or she'd to leave or I don't like this is not their life. Hey, here's what Tucker Carlson's childhood was like. Tucker Carlson grew up, silver spoon rich, and a frozen food empire. He went to a Swiss boarding school for high school. Hey, he, according to Jason Zangerly in his book about Tucker Carlson, although Carlson found religion in high school, he continued to drink and smoke and began doing drugs. Marijuana acid cocaine even ether. He went to St. George's, which wasn't Exeter or Andover, but it's still sent a smattering of graduates each year to Harvard Princeton and Yale. His grades and test scores were nowhere near good enough to get into any of those schools. His academic record at St. George's was sufficiently poor. He had a difficult time at gaining admission to any prestigious university, not just those in the Ivy League. So he got into Trinity College because his then-girl friend Suzie's dad who was the headmaster of St. George's helped grease the wheels to get him in. There he was an abysmal student. He stopped showing up to class. When Patel, Neil Patel, whom he came business partners later, and most of Carlson's other friends received their Trinity diplomas, Carlson was not among them. His 1.9 GPA was deemed too low. He never graduated from college. Then Carlson's daddy called up his friends at the Heritage Foundation, where he landed a $14,000 a year internship, fact checking a quarterly journal at Heritage Foundation, and the rest is history. Okay, so again, I'm happy for Tucker that he is richer than he once was. But I think the reason why he despises the American dream as process is because he never lived that process. I love that process. That process is glorious. That is the thing that needs to be protected. The American dream as the process where if you make wise, smart, virtuous decisions, you get ahead. And then if you teach those to your kids, they get ahead of you. I want the American dream. I want my kids to have that process. I do not want the petty tyrants on the left or the right, deciding for me. What things are worth or what they think is fair, 'cause I don't know what they mean by fair, or what I materially require in order to reach spiritual fulfillment. They can all (bleep) right off. I would like the freedom that is the process of the American dream. Here's the thing. A lot of these people have problems with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They'll say so openly. The Declaration of Independence was right. The Constitution of the United States was right. And all of your crappy, re-warmed oligarchic theories have been tried and they have failed. You want feudalism? Awesome. Go back to medieval Europe. You want Marxism? Sweet. Head on over to Cuba. You want Islamism? You can get the hell out and go to Qatar. People like this, they like to say America first, but here's the thing. Americanism first. Americanism first. You know, the thing that makes us different from every place else. The thing that makes America exceptional. And awesome. Those first principles, free markets, and free minds, and equal justice before law and social virtue. That's what government is there to protect. Let's get back to those first principles. And for the love of all that is holy. Well, someone please, by Tucker Carlson, a burrito. I mean, while in other news, speaking of the ambulatory psychotic, I can't, it's only having a rough day of it because it turns out that the Tyler Robinson defense in the Charlie Kirk case has not in fact relied on any of her species and insane arguments. I guess she's doing debate with somebody over this. Debating insane proposition seems to me a waste of time. I am not sure that it is worthwhile for the American public to have debates on whether the moon is made of cheese. Because the people who believe that the moon is made of cheese will still believe at the end that the moon is made of cheese. In fact, I'll believe it even more strongly because somebody was able to make an argument that the moon was made of cheese with somebody who argued the opposite. But in any case, it turns out according to the associate of press that the defense admits full well that Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk. Instead, they say the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk should not get the death penalty because the shooter hit the intended target and no one else was endangered. According to the AP, defendant Tyler Robinson's attorneys saved the bullet traveled above the crowd of several thousand people at Utah Valley University on September 10th and there were no threats to others. There's a key issue because whether the shooting endangered the crowd might create a capital crime risk. It's an aggravating factor under state law. Typically state laws have murder laws and then on top of that, the penalty is a crime penalty is decided based on so called aggravating factors. Was the crime done with a gun? Was it done as quote unquote a hate crime? What did it endanger other people? Prosecutors said that a lot of people were within the zone of danger around Kirk. So it's that he could have not just killed Charlie, which you did obviously, but that also he could have heard other people. The defense lawyers also disputed claims that Robinson killed Kirk over his political views. Prosecutors say that Robinson told his roommate he killed the activist because he had enough of his hatred. The defense said that was not enough to prove what motivated Robinson because again, he faces sentence enhancements if prosecutors show that he did this because of politics. Hardest hit here and as always, we get the defense, which is charged with getting the lowest possible sentence for Tyler Robinson ignores all of her insanity because all of it's just crap. It's all crap for people who like to ingest crap because it's amusing to ingest crap for some reason. It's the shrooms of politics. So again, never let facts get in the way of a good story. Okay, never speaking of this, by the way, on much bigger grounds. There's a narrative that's going around. Here's the narrative. Couple of days ago, there were some primaries in the Democratic Party. One happened in Wisconsin, one happened in Minnesota. And in Wisconsin, there was a sort of shock result because Francesca Hong was the judge Doom eyed crazy lady who was running for the gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin. She ended up losing to a pseudo moderate named David Crowley. And when I say pseudo moderate, I mean that Crowley is not particularly moderate. He's kind of a normy left wing progressive Democrat. And so the narrative that went around, he narrowly won this election. The narrative that went around was finally the DSA has hit the ceiling and the establishment is fighting back. That is not what is happening. You are being scammed. That is not the truth. What is actually happening is that the Democratic Party is brokering the terms of its surrender to the DSA. And the Democratic Socialists of America are in the driver's seat. And the normy dames are basically just saying, can you tap the brakes please? That's it. That's the entire thing. Because again, look at those percentages. David Crowley, 39.8% of the vote. Francesca Hong, 139.3% of the vote. Now the key factor here is that Francesca Hong was not endorsed by AOC or Bernie Sanders. Oral is with Warren or any of the rest of the clown show. If she had been, she would have won. So the real question here is why those people did not endorse Francesca Hong. And the answer is because there's a tacit deal. The tacit deal between the Democratic Party and the DSA is the DSA and their best friends, like Sanders and AOC, will refrain from endorsing the people who say the quietest parts, the loudest. And in return, the Democratic Party will lay off of the second most psychotic category, people like Abdul Al-Sahyad. So the Democratic Party will basically split on Abdul Al-Sahyad. People like Alistus Lotkin, Senator and Michigan will just refrain from endorsing in a primary, where clearly if she'd endorsed Hayley Stevens, it might have put Stevens over the top. She'll refrain from endorsing. Because again, the Democratic Party has to pretend Abdul Al-Sahyad is some sort of normie. They'll jump on board with Zorn Momdani. They're only asked is that the DSA not put up people who are super likely to lose because they're totally openly psychotic. So like the people who are kind of covertly psychotic absolutely go for it. The people who are openly psychotic in an area where they might lose, don't do that. That's the tacit deal. It is not, it is not. The establishment is saying to the DSA, stop with your crazy. And so the DSA is saying, okay, here's the deal. Who do most of the policies that we want? And we will refrain from getting behind our own candidates. That's what's happening right now. That is the thing that's actually happening. So again, trying to push this narrative that the establishment Democrats are making a comeback because again, they have to portray themselves in modern. Most Americans don't like the extremism they don't. They have to portray themselves in modern. So David Crowley, who again, is a very left wing candidate in Wisconsin. He's talking like a moderate. He says that if you tax the rich can cause capital flight from Wisconsin. It's time for us to revisit our tax structure. But it's about bringing people to the table. We have to look at this system holistically and not just saying tax the rich. And the reason why I say that is taxing the rich, going to give us everything that we need. Are there other revenue opportunities outside of the income tax that we should be looking at to make sure the resources are available? Do you worry that a higher tax rate on wealthy Wisconsinites could cause them to potentially move to another state where the tax rate is lower than or? I think that's always a possibility. Right. Again, so he is like, he's the moderate. He's going to be the moderate guy. And this is what the Democratic Party is going to do. They need a moderate wing, masquerading as the people who are actually still in charge. And that way when they get behind people like Abdul Al-Sahab, but they're not that crazy. I mean, they're running David Crowley. They could have run Francesca Hong. Okay. And here's the evidence. In Minnesota, the DSA actually won. And in Minnesota, where there is no risk that a Republican is going to win the governorship there, like the chances are very, very low. Yes. To my great sadness. Michelle Tafoya is very unlikely to win that. Gobernatorial race because Minnesota is fairly deep blue at this point. Peggy Flanagan, who's a total mutt case, ended up winning the Minnesota primary against Angie Craig. Flanagan was endorsed by Warren Sanders, Murphy, the whole team. She was elected to Minnesota Lieutenant Governor alongside at Tim Walls. She is the lady who you might best remember from wearing a shirt that said, "Protect trans kids with a knife on it." Remember this? And she, of course, she's a nut. I mean, she's totally a nut. Flashback July 2026. She introduces herself with her Ojibwe name. The realest version of Peggy Flanagan is what you're getting right now. So Boozhu, Peggy Flanagan, and Dishnikaz, Gishi Weibudamakue, and Goababig, a Karikagnan Dune Chaba, Vangan Ndodame. My name's Peggy Flanagan. My Ojibwe name is Speaks and a loud and clear voice woman. I'm a member of White Earth and my family is the Wolf Clan. Okay, so, yeah, she's a wild person. This is a wild person. She's Francesca Hong, but white. But in Minnesota, you can get away with that because Minnesota is not a swimming state Wisconsin is. And so all the Democrats jumped behind her. They're not in principled fashion trying to stop the radicals that are getting behind them. This is a lady who tweeted out, "Minnesota is a place where it is not safe to be black." That was 2021. Here she was in March 2023, claiming that we have to believe small children who say they're members of the opposite sex. When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. This is not case one by 20.20. That's what it means to be a good parent. No, it does not. Are you kidding me? When my kids tell me things about themselves that are crazy, if I believed them, that would make me a horrible parent. My children identify as people who require sweets all day long. That is their identity. That is their core identity. I deny that core identity. Again, it's a lie. The Democrats are trying to game you. They're trying to lie to you. Book the establishment of them is stood up to the crazies. No, they absolutely did not. The coalition is the crazy and the slightly less crazy and the people surrendering to them. That's it. Now, Hassan Piker is not wrong. When he says to Democrats, they have to defend him because he's part of the coalition. Democrats are not separating off from Hassan Piker. The only one who will is John Fetterman. I know. We don't always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point, I know you don't want to do this, defend me and not because you love what I have to say, not because I'm a part of this coalition, even though I am whether you like it or not. But you are going to inevitably have to say, this is a ridiculous conversation that we're having because the real conversation that Republicans don't want to have is the cost of living crisis. Again, this is the whole thing. He's just tied behind the cost of living crisis in order to wipe his ass with the constitution, which is the thing he really wants. I mean, again, this is the guy who's part of the coalition. He is. It refused to excite him. They won't do it. They need him and they want him. Teres to Hassan Pikerman. He's not shocking his dog. I hate this fucking country so much. Overall, what my favorite flag? Yeah. Hezbollah. Look it up. America is a terrorist organization. Which it is, by the way, America is the top dog in terrorism. One side is always going to be worse than the other side. America is worse than Iran. That much is 100% of something I stand on. It's not even a comparison. America is the greatest terrorist on the planet. Also you might have noticed something signally framed newspaper from 9/11, the morning of 9/12, the newspaper right there. America deserved 9/11, dude. I'm saying. They can do whatever they want with the American flag and the Israeli flag. I wipe my ass with the American flag I understand the the utter moral depravity of the average American and Comey from the back, okay? I the Constitution I I wipe my ass with the Constitution. It's a Piece of paper, dude shut the fuck up mother Constitution and mother this country, okay? Um that one that one. So what are Democrats doing? They're doing you know, basically left wing to Kia to Kia is the Is the Islamic doctrine of war that says that you're allowed to lie in order to achieve victory. So now Mamdani Zorn Mamdani Is saying that beliefs change and grow it's so much better woke to than woke one again. This is gonna be their line This is gonna be their line here's Zorn Mamdani in extremist who loves terrorism, okay? He just He literally he literally wrapped in favor of the Holy Land five people who were sent to jail for terror support Here's Zorn Mamdani Because you yourself have walked back defund the police. Do you think woke one was crazy? Look, I think that Each person has a responsibility to tell New Yorkers to tell Americans when they're running for office what they believe and Sometimes what you believe can change it can develop it can grow and I know that there are some for whom they still believe in that I've made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police that I will not be defunding the police and that to me Delivering critical public safety also looks like working with our police department alongside many other partners And we've seen over the first seven months of this administration what that can look like when we're talking about the fewest murders on Record in New York City the fewest shooting incidents on record in New York City and that to me is how we measure a lot of our public safety Okay, so I mean I'd like to point out at this point that if you're going to evolve in your beliefs you need to explain why you evolved otherwise I don't believe you evolved. I think you're lying I think he still wants to defund the police He just understands that it's politically Unpalatable to say such things Meanwhile, Zorn Mamdani's wife is traveling to Syria and Lebanon next month and she's bringing along cops assigned to the first couples taxpayer funded New York police department detail according to the New York Post So well done everyone things are going well meanwhile Abdul Al-Sahyed He's out there saying the Medicare for all should include abortion and gender affirming care again There is no limit as the extremism of the Democratic Party. It's just a question of which face they decide to show you And I believe that Medicare for all should cover all health care. Yeah, which is defined by what a patient needs in accordance with their doctor So that includes reproductive rights, right that includes gender affirming care So you guys you get to we all get to cover the trans and the kids This is what the Democratic Party is for they're all behind him. They're all behind him Okay, meanwhile we need to give you updates on AOC's private life. We need to give you these updates the reason I say we need to bring you these updates is because she keeps bringing us these updates I'm sorry you don't get to do the my private life is private when you're injecting yourself for Egg removal on Instagram and commenting on it on meet the press I Think people's private lives are private when they don't make their private lives public So I'm extremely private about my private life like extremely private You know that I have a wife and you know that I have five kids and you don't know any of their names Because I don't talk about them I don't talk about any of that stuff Because my private life is my own my family needs to be protected If you go on Instagram In order to make a de facto presidential announcement by announcing that you're freezing your eggs You don't then get to complain when people ask you about break up rumors But that's what happened apparently It is now being reported that AOC may have broken up with her long-time boyfriend who apparently she's walking around and in Congress going Her husband for years apparently she broke up with them two years ago again There's a very little in life. I care about less than this I care so little about this who would make your head explode how little I care about this I'm only talking about this because she has made this an issue she So here she was saying she doesn't want to comment on her private life now watch my Instagram video in which I exercise in order to show follicle developments or some such Just wondering are you and Riley Roberts still together? I don't comment on my private life, but thank you Your mother wants that she loves Riley and wants to see you guys get married is she gonna get her wish? Again, I don't comment on my private life, but thank you Is there anything up to what you can tell us about the relationships? I mean again She was on Instagram ranting about being forced to have kids with a loser, so I feel like that was a little you lady Kids at a young age beautiful like love that for you a lot of these people who pressure women Into having kids at a young age or trying to create hysteria around being too old, etc What they're trying to do is rush you into having a relationship with a loser by a loser I mean someone who doesn't respect women Someone who doesn't respect you someone who doesn't treat you well someone that doesn't support your growth as a human So if you point out that women have a biological clock apparently that is me trying to force you into marriage I don't care about what she does. I don't why is she talking about it? She deleted this afterward like Just take the camera off herself just take the camera off herself. I will say Rare W for cloviculary. He had a head of He tweeted out About AOC after learning that she had broken with Riley Roberts quote, I can fix her Why not you know why not is it the coupling America needs It is what we truly need people who desire to be on camera full-time and who puts on more makeup AOC or Clovicular who knows the answer to these questions right now. There are cultural news. The WNB is having a real tough time these days Apparently the WNBA held the task force to determine what to do with men who say they are women and they could not come to any sort of conclusion I mean Not to be sexist, but maybe that's because everyone in the room was a woman But in any case They got a bunch of women in the room and Shockingly they could not come to a conclusion about where to go to dinner oops. I mean like what a woman is I'm just saying this because I have a wife and I got to say that when I watch my wife do conversations with her friends about where to go to dinner It is one of the funniest things in the entire world It is just a series of attempts not to offend anyone by making an overt suggestion Because if you suggest a restaurant somebody doesn't like they might feel obligated to go to that restaurant But secretly they don't actually want to go to that restaurant So can I get your suggestion first? But they also don't want to do that until you have a you have a prisoner's dilemma of not suggesting restaurants At which point my wife will ask me what restaurant they should go to and I will make a suggestion which you will then reject That's pretty much how all of that goes. I assume that the same thing is happening inside the the task force for the for the WNBA By contrast when men decide where they want to go to dinner one guy says where do you want to eat the other guy says I'd like to go to Burger King and the guy goes okay cool Or I hate that let's go to Derrick Wayne This is why every male convert every conversation between two men last approximately 11 seconds Every conversation between two women last about eight hours and every conversation between a woman and a man last about one hour and The man gets in three sentences That's my sexist rant for the day so long as we're on this anyway, so The WNBA They met they could not determine what a woman was So they couldn't figure out the WNBA I put out a statement quote today's meeting covered a wide range of topics including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online We'll continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months We'll approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league This means enough things a lot of things that don't mean anything There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA We strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others. How do they know they're bad faith? How do they identify the bad faith? How dare they how dare they suggest that Inus Cantor is somehow bad faith when he says he wants to play in the WNBA How do they know that can they get inside his head? I mean that Are they saying that he's not a woman is that what they're saying right now and if so, how do they know? It should stop woman's spaining So the fellow woman Didn't just stop that right now What a disaster area the WNBA is truly it's amazing They have a generational chance to get a crowd to watch them and they're busy arguing over what a woman is and whether they should assault the white lady on court Incredible So Indiana fever coach Stephanie White She got herself in a little bit of hot water the other day because she did press her so after After Sophie Cunningham was basically mauled on the court by a by a player whose name escapes me because I don't give a sh-- about the WNBS. Okay. And I know her first name is Dijon. I don't know her last name. What was it? Carrington? Okay. So apparently after Dijon A Carrington, a human mug, Sophie Cunningham, another human. But Sophie Cunningham is the white lady who sometimes says that men aren't women and tries to protect Caitlin Clark from being physically assaulted on the court. And the Indiana Fever coach went out and she was like, Dijon A Carrington is a great player and she's just trying to play and blah, so then she walked back. Her defense, because a bunch of people like, you know, you might want to defend the player who almost had her head ripped off. For those who have anything to say about the play in the last game, I didn't see the play in real time. I went straight to a press conference. I thought the play got called right. Thankfully Sophie's okay. Was it egregious? Absolutely. When you have a chance to watch that over and over and over on replay, you can see that. I didn't have that in real time. I mean, everyone else had that in real time. That's weird. I mean, she's literally sitting five feet away from it happening. But then she got mad at the media. Right? This is not an all time great basketball media rant. There are a few. And there's the famous Dennis Green rant. And of course, there is the Ellen Iverson. We talk about practice rant, one of the great rants of all time. This one is not chart. The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's trying to hijack our league will not win. We're just pounding. It will win. We are united. We are connected. We will not be divided. Every day these women put their on the line. Every day. What is a woman? No one knows. When they go low, we go high. Love will win. Grace will win. Humility will win. And kindness will win. He's the bag of slogans. I stand by them. I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go to hell. And then storm off. Virtuously after setting a bunch of Michelle Obama slogans from 2014. We take every day one game at a time. You're basically just doing the bulldoorma routine. Just repeating all of the various one liners that you're supposed to say in interview. Good job. Great job, tell them you're doing great WNBA. Okay. So, the other way we're going to talk about the news. The LA Lakers have now been bought by Bob Iger and Josh Kushner. The LAakers are valued at $12.5 billion dollars. So that comes 14 months after the bus family sold to controlling stake in the Lakers to billionaire Mark Walters at a $10 billion valuation. So, first of all, he turned that around real quick. So they're going to do diligence and the NBA approval process and all the rest. I hope the president Trump shows up every LA Lakers game will be hilarious. I will say that the Lakers are in trouble. It's not a well assembled roster. And then they paid a lot of money for Walker Kessler. I'm not sure that that was a good deal. Can you build the team around Walker Kessler Austin Reeves and Luca Donchevich? I mean, Luca, yes, but you know, I don't know. They got some salary cap issues over there in LA. Alrighty. In other big news of the day, Caroline Levin is stepping down as press secretary. She put out a statement saying serving as the White House press secretary over the past year and a half has been the honor and adventure of a lifetime. I'm incredibly grateful to President Trump for granting me so many extraordinary opportunities such as working in the West Wing and spending countless hours in the Oval Office, flying around the world and meeting foreign leaders and traveling across our beautiful country and meeting Americans from all walks of life. She says, "Being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season in my life to say the least. The truth is, since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom. My two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy and attention required of the White House press secretary. And that is why I've ultimately made the bittersweet decisions to part the White House in a bar kind of new chapter in my life." It's a good for her. I mean, she's saying that she wants to spend more time with her kids. And I actually believe that she wants to spend more time with her kids. It's not like when a football coach quits and says she wants to spend more time with his kids, which very often just means she wants to spend more time with his mistress. I think that she actually means that. It turns out that for a lot of working women, they like taking time off when they have kids. My wife has done it multiple times. Even now, she's taking time off because new baby. Apparently, she's going to continue serving as a top advisor to President Trump on the outside. She says our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat party that seeks to destroy everything great about America. I believe it's in comment upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat. My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over. Okay. So a lot of talk about who exactly is going to be the next press secretary. The president put out a very nice statement, championing Caroline Loveit. He says that she's been one of the best White House press secretaries in the history of the office. She is very good at her job. There's no question that she's been very good at her job like that. The number of sort of she wasn't memeable the way that say. Karin Jean Pierre was the worst press secretary in history. She did a good job defending the president's policies in calm and measured fashion. Honestly, very, very good at her job. So there's some talk about who's going to take over next. Steven Chung has been mentioned. He of course is very active in the White House press office. He's a top official over there. Again, Steven is very articulate. I doubt he's quite the look that President Trump is looking for. The president likes putting attractive faces from Fox News on the air. So I think there's a shot for maybe a Liz Wheeler, somebody like that in that spot. Mary Margaret Olehann, honestly, who is one of our reporters. So it's kind of a shift in job, but she's very camera friendly. She's very articulate, obviously, very up on policy. I hope that the president doesn't offer that job because we need her as an actual White House press correspondent, not working for the White House. MMO is a very good at her job. Michael Moles would be an amazing press secretary, honestly. And that's not just my attempt to get him off our payroll, which, you know, I've been trying that for like 10 years. But actually, Michael is really good at handling the press. He would stay calm. He's very clever. He likes the repartee. It's almost Nol's ideal job. So, you know, that'd be amusing. Watching Nol's play with the press would be fun. As some other names, Scott Jennings has been discussed. I don't know. Listen, Scott. I think Scott's going to do it from CNN. And my off the board pick, for most amusing White House press secretary, Alex Jones. I would pay money for it. Again, I think Alex Jones is just a nut job who believes a wide variety of either crazy or terrible things. But Alex Jones mocking the press would be legitimately one of the great spectacles in the history of American politics. Like Alex Jones doing to the press what he did to Sneakow is crossing his eyes and screaming at the top of his lungs while ripping his shirt off. It would be must see TV. That is what the president wants ratings. I highly suggest he hires Alex Jones as his press secretary. Already folks coming up. We'll get to the latest on Iran. 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