Ep. 2489 - You’re Not Racist To Oppose The "Teen Takeover" Trend

The midterm elections are heating up, congressional control, and President Trump's agenda hangs in the balance. Every headline has the potential to shift the odds. And in a key Senate race, James Tallarico is currently trading at 52% to beat Ken Paxton. That means a $100 trade pays out over $180 with a win. Use code DAILY, D-A-I-L-Y, to get up to $20 when you trade $20. KALSHI, K-A-L-S-H-I, KALSHI trade on anything, 18 plus only, restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves risk and may not be suitable for all investors. KALSHI products are not available in all jurisdictions. Prices, values, and available markets may differ from those mentioned. For more information, see KALSHI.com slash regulatory. We'll get to more on this in just one second. First, you know, 20 years ago, man, a lot has happened in my life. I was 22 years old. I was not yet married. And now, just think. Thinking back over the past 20 years, wife, five kids, big business, all of it. Well, 20 years is a long time. SimpliSafe is now celebrating 20 years again. Most companies don't make it that long unless they're actually solving a real problem. When you're picking a security system for your home, what you're looking for is peace of mind. The goal is not to obsess over your security. The goal is to never have to think about it again. And that's what I like about SimpliSafe. Most home security systems are designed for after something goes wrong, after the window breaks, after someone gets inside, after your phone buzzes. SimpliSafe's approach is different. It's designed to help stop a break-in before it happens. Their AI-powered outdoor cameras detect suspicious activity around your home, alert live U.S.-based agents. Those agents can actually speak through the camera to scare off trespassers, and if necessary, request 911 dispatch. Prevention beats reaction. SimpliSafe has been protecting your world for 20 years. Celebrate their anniversary with us and save 60% on your new SimpliSafe system at simplisafe.com slash Shapiro. That's 60% off at simplisafe.com slash Shapiro Plus when you order. Write in our show name in the How Did You Hear About Us survey to let them know we sent you. There is no safe like SimpliSafe. True self-reliance. Begins with taking control of your health. Our sponsor, Armra Colostrum, harnesses nature's original blueprint for resilience. Our bodies face constant pressure from toxins, processed foods, relentless stress. Armra Colostrum is a bioactive whole food, a pure concentrated bovine colostrum that's sustainably sourced with a commitment to calf-first sourcing. With over 400 bioactive nutrients, it fortifies your entire gut wall system and strengthens your immune system from the cellular level up. This means balanced immune health, better digestion, less bloating, and support for healthy metabolism and fat burning from the inside out. Elite athletes have been using colostrum, for years because it enhances nutrient absorption, builds lean muscle, and speeds recovery. But the benefits go way deeper. Cellular level support for hair, skin, energy, everything. This isn't processed or manipulated. It's pure, potent, and natural. Your body's blueprint for rebuilding itself the way it was designed to function. When you invest in your health, you invest in your ability to show up fully, think clearly, and stay in control no matter what comes your way. We've worked out a special offer for my audience. Receive 30% off your first subscription order. Head on over to armra.com slash Shapiro or enter Shapiro to get 30% off your first subscription order. That's A-R-M-R-A dot com slash Shapiro. So, you're walking around a major city late at night. It's supposed to be safe. Suddenly, the entire street is filled with teenagers, disproportionately black, beating the living hell out of each other. Welcome to Teen Takeovers, the hot new social media trend that's upending the law and decency. But if you comment on it, you are a racist. Plus, it turns out that Republicans aren't falling for the online woke right op in Florida. Democrats are falling for the two online DSA left. Rosie O'Donnell returns, and Sophie Cunningham remains the only one. The only sane WNBA player, as far as we can tell. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Victimhood isn't just a drug that intoxicates people with the feeling that they can get away with anything. It is a shield against criticism and against decency. This is now how our idiot society works. So today, we're going to explore a phenomenon. It's called Teen Takeovers. I was unfamiliar with this until I was browsing the onlines. My staff made me aware of this, and it is insane. So this is a video montage. These videos are from Wisconsin, LA, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, Brooklyn. They are just the tip of the iceberg. Here is the video. Chaos erupting in Los Angeles early Saturday during a street takeover. Well, the video shows officers responding to the scene, sending people running. So all that seems not good for those who could not see the tape. Basically, you're watching gigantic mobs of young people, almost all black, running through the streets, wailing on each other, taking over intersections and all the rest. Well, one of our reporters here at Daily Wire actually ended up getting caught in the middle of one of these so-called teen takeovers. The reporter, Leona Salinas, was in Washington, D.C., and she writes this. I just left dinners with friends in. I was in northwest Washington, D.C. last Friday. After we said goodbye, I started walking alone through LaDroit Park toward the nearest metro station. Within minutes, the sirens started. Several police cars appeared almost immediately, and almost as quickly, the street was filled as black teenagers flooded in from several directions at once. Some walked, others sprinted. Teens carrying blaring speakers took over the street. Hundreds of teens packed the roadway. I asked a few of the kids running past what was happening. They yelled obscenities at me and kept going. Soon I realized I had found myself in the middle of a teen takeover, the social media trend that goes viral for the wrong reason every few weeks. It's this generation's version of a flash mob, and this version almost always ends in violence. An 18-year-old girl named Makala told me the event was coordinated by DPR. I asked what the letters stood for, says our reporter, and she didn't know. Only the DPR puts these events together for teens to come out and have fun. She said the organizers reached the kids through Instagram. It turns out DPR is the government. It's the District of Columbia's Department of Parks and Recreation. The teens I spoke to that night said they were there for the government-organized event. The Instagram account identifies it as, a government organization that organizes fun programs and events. One of those events, according to the department's website, is called the Late Night Hype. It's a program created in 2021 to give teens and young adults safe, high-energy spaces to connect after hours. That's sort of this generation's equivalent of midnight basketball back in the 1980s and 90s. As both Makala and Jannar warned, fights broke out. I moved closer to one of the fights to record it. As I approached to get footage, everyone was running the other way. Seconds later, I witnessed a masked teenager fire off a gunshot. I stopped for a second, the masked one ran, and the rest of the crowd continued. I continued faster with them. So, unfortunately, this sort of stuff is now becoming incredibly common. Heather MacDonald has an entire piece over at City Journal breaking this thing down. She points out that anonymous flyers summoning mass gatherings are put out. The exact location generally remains undisclosed until the last minute to avoid law enforcement. The notices sometimes draw on gangster rap and black power imagery featuring masked men in raised fists. Others are less ominous. A flyer for a teen trend, another label for the phenomenon, on a South Shore. A Chicago beach this spring called for no drama and showed a cartoon figure with its naked bust thrown out, thrust out in its twerking stands. And there have been a bunch. Detroit Memorial Day ended with a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old getting shot. Edmond, Oklahoma, an 18-year-old was killed and 22 were injured. Clearwater, Tampa, Orlando, Florida. D.C.'s Navy Yard, Charlotte, North Carolina, Delaware. Children's carnivals in Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Houston have been canceled in response to mass disorder this year alone. So, what exactly? Is it happening? Well, apparently, cities are now proposing new tactics and laws to eliminate these so-called teen takeovers. According to CBS News, Charlotte, North Carolina, is considering a 9 p.m. curfew for anyone under 18. It is not the only major city trying this. In Florida, Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins has been taking a different approach. He told CBS Mornings, We're going for the organizers who actually put this together and put people at risk. So, parents, please make sure your kids do the right thing. Okay, so that right there, that last line is the one that matters. So, when it comes to these teen takeovers, and again, these are sort of the more recent iteration of flash mobbings that were happening and have been happening for years, in which groups of young teenagers, predominantly minority, will run through streets, looting, tackling, doing acts of criminality. These teen takeovers are apparently the kids mostly wailing, they take over an area and they start beating each other up, they start getting rowdy. There are two issues here, and we ought to separate them off. The first is teen criminality. And then the second issue here is how society reacts to teen criminality. And these two issues reinforce one another. We'll get to more on this in a moment. First, I'm doing a quick customer satisfaction survey. Two questions. Is your current wireless provider giving you five-star service? And second, are you paying more than $34.99 a month for unlimited data? Well, if you think you're paying too much for a subpar service, you should. Really switch to PeerTalk. In a recent industry survey, PeerTalk was the only wireless company to receive five stars in every single category. Coverage, support, value, and data. Again, when it comes to customer service, it is the thing that is mostly lacking in today's world. How many times have you called up a customer service provider and you end up on the phone listening to elevator music for four hours, and then you get somebody on the other end and they can barely speak English? That's not going to happen with PeerTalk. Now, for just a few more weeks, PeerTalk is offering unlimited data for just $15 a month for your first three months. After that, get unlimited data for as low as $34.99 a month, no contract. Head on over to PeerTalk.com slash Shapiro and make the switch to my favorite wireless company, PeerTalk. There's a better wireless choice out there. At just $15 a month for your first three months, now is an excellent time to choose PeerTalk. Again, that's PeerTalk.com slash Shapiro. PeerTalk.com slash Shapiro. So first of all, a study from the Institute for Family Studies from 2023 shows that a huge percentage of this is just single motherhood. The total crime rate in cities with high. The high levels of single parenthood are 48% higher than those with low levels of single parenthood. When it comes to violent crime and homicide, cities with high levels of single parenthood. single parenthood, have 118% higher rates of violence and 255% higher rates of homicide. I'm promising you right now, the vast majority of teenagers participating in this sort of criminality, running around in the middle of cities at midnight, wailing on each other. These are teens who don't have a dad in the home. I promise you that's the case. And we all know that that's true. I mean, first of all, well over 50% of all black kids in America are growing up in a home with no dad. That is not because of racism. That is because of government driven welfare policy over the course of the last 60 years or so. And the government is not a replacement for dad. The government cannot just organize late night teen get togethers. And it's the same thing as a sleepover with dad at home. It's not possible. The government is not your dad. And when the government tries to be your parents, it makes things significantly worse because it is just a permissive parent that lets you do whatever you want. Now, again, you'll notice all this is cultural. This is not a racial issue. It's a cultural issue. But here is the thing. And this brings us to the second issue. If you comment on bad behavior by teenagers and those teenagers are predominantly black. And again, statistically speaking, young black males, males aged 18, 15 to 34, who are black are wildly overrepresented in among violent offenders. That's just the reality. Black males age 15 to 34 represent about three to 4% of the population, but some between 10 and 15% of all violent. If you mention those facts, you are deemed a racist, even if you are not talking about race. And that's the get out of jail free card, right? That brings us to the second part of this conversation, which is what society ought to do with teen criminality. Now, the reaction of a normal society to all criminality is really, really simple. You punish it. It doesn't matter who's doing the criming, black, white, brown, green. It doesn't matter. You take the criminals and you punish them. The reaction of a normal society to all criminality is really, really simple. You punish them. The reaction of a broken society is we can't punish certain types of criminals or even notice that the crime is happening, even cover it because it might cause racism. This is a massive societal vulnerability. And guess who preys on that massive societal vulnerability? The people who like to violate the rules of the society. So this is where the conversation always gets sensitive. And so I'm going to define some terms so that we're living in the land of logic and not the land of feelings. Because again, whenever anyone talks about race and America, immediately everyone goes to racism. And the accusation is you're engaging in racism by even acknowledging a problem. So Thomas Sowell has a very logical and excellent taxonomy of discrimination. And we need to understand there are different types of discrimination. Basically, there are three types of discrimination. Only one of them is the really bad type that you're thinking about right now. So first, there's type 1A. This is when we judge things and people based on differences in quality of life. And this is when we judge things and people based on differences in quality of life. So you judge each person as an individual regardless of what group that person is a part of. That's fine discrimination. You do that every single day. You do that every time you go to a restaurant. You're discriminating between the menu items. You're determining which one is better, which one is worse, which one you want, which one you don't. We discriminate every day. Type 1A is the totally anodyne type of discrimination where you are judging a thing or person by its individual qualities. Then there's type 1B. This is where individuals are judged, says Sowell, by empirical evidence on the group. They're a part of, despite no animosity and aversions against particular groups. So you don't have any information about the person standing in front of you, but you know the group statistics about a person who fits those characteristics. That's discrimination type 1B. And he's saying that's not morally wrong. That is you operating on the basis of information you have. Not operating as though you are blind to information that you have. And we do that all the time too, right? If type 2 is the bad type of discrimination. So there's type 1A, 1B, and 2. Type 2 is treating people negatively based on arbitrary aversions or animosity. So you have no basis for treating somebody badly. The group identity you're thrusting on someone doesn't exist, or you have a bizarre version of that group identity that is not backed by data. And that's the bad one. Now, type 1B is the one that makes us uncomfortable because we have now taught people idiotically that group differences to even notice them is a problem. If you notice them, then you are immediately going to fall into the trap. So you're not going to notice them. You're not going to notice them. You're not going to listen to type 2. You're going to start casting aspersions without data at groups and then at individuals who are in that group. But if we notice that there are differences between groups, then we have done a racism or a sexism. And again, I understand the impulse. We don't want to judge people based on immutable characteristics that have no bearing on behavior. But again, these are two separate types of discrimination. One makes sense and one does not. Type 1B is not type 2. So here's an example. It has nothing to do with race. A woman is walking down the street at 1 a.m. Down the street coming at her is a young man, no race mentioned, walking down the street wearing a hoodie. She crosses the street. If there had been a young woman walking down the street in the same hoodie, she doesn't cross the street. Is that because she's a sexist? Or is that because she's operating on the data that she has, which is that men are typically more likely to do violence to women late at night walking down the street than women are. It should be an idiot not to cross the street, actually. Now, again, it may turn out that the dude in the hoodie is actually a mathematician at MIT and the lady is a serial killer. But in the absence of individual data, she has to operate on the basis of group data that she has. What we have trained people to do, however, here in Western civilization, have an abundance of caution and a fear of our own innate racism is to be moronic. Now you are a racist or a sexist if you make a in the absence of individual data. If you do type 1B discrimination, then you are somehow the bad guy. And this is what villains prey on. So here's what a villain would do. A villain would act in ugly, antisocial, criminal ways. And then when you point it out, they would say that you're only judging them that way because you're engaging in type 2 discrimination, right? Baseless, evidence-free discrimination. But actually, you're not even engaging in type 1B discrimination. You're engaging in type 1A discrimination. You're judging them as an individual. You're saying, you did a criminal thing. You should go to jail. Anyone who does criminal thing, you should go to jail. This is not racist. But again, we have taught a huge swath of Americans now that if they accuse you of racism, they can get away with literally anything. And unfortunately, this has become extremely, extremely common. Like in everyday life, this has become extremely common. So here is just a quick illustrative story. So a few weeks ago, it's summer. So I took my kids and I took my nieces and nephew over to a local water park here in Florida. And it turns out I have some kids who are big enough to ride some of the rides and some kids who are not. So the oldest cousin is 14. My oldest daughter is 12. And so they decided to take some of the older kids up the big water slide. I was downstairs with a couple of the littles and I was waiting at the bottom. It's a very, very big water slide. So they're going up the water slide. It takes a while. Finally, they come down and my daughter starts telling me this story. Apparently, as they're going up the water slide, they're going up the stairs. A young black kid, maybe 13 years old, with a couple of his compatriots, maybe 11 and 10, apparently, they start trying to violate the rules, right? They start trying to cut the line. And my 12-year-old daughter and my 14-year-old niece, they have a basic sense of fairness. And so they say, you're not allowed to cut the line. It is wrong to cut the line. Don't cut the line. Stop trying to cut the line. At which point, the 13-year-old black kid turns to my daughter, who again has no idea about racism, like literally does not compute. And my niece, same deal. And the 13-year-old black kid and his two compatriots say, you're just trying to stop us because you're racist. Now, my kids are not versed in this, right? Because they've never been sort of indoctrinated into the cult of you have to just give way when people violate the rules out of fear of charges of racism. So my daughter was like, what are you even talking about? That's ridiculous. Apparently, this young kid then turns to the 13-year-old boy, turns to my daughter and says, what are you playing at, Jack? And my daughter says, what are you playing at, moron? And then the kid says, you're just saying I'm a moron because I'm black. And my daughter says, what he actually said is, you only calling me a moron because I'm black, right? That only makes sense because of what my daughter was about to return, reply, which is what she said. No, I'm calling you a moron because you don't know how grammar works. Which, you know, point to her. Okay. So eventually the lifeguard comes down tells these kids to go backward in the line. But here's the point. Someone is telling kids who are 13, 11, 10 years old, that if you charge white people with racism, that you can get away with this. Like this is coming from somewhere. It's not coming from the ether. It's not coming from nowhere. And as it turns out, as we'll see in a second, it is an extraordinarily common political response too. By the way, here's what I told my daughter afterward. I'm glad you stood up for yourself. Good for you. The kids were breaking the rules. But here's what I told her and what my brother-in-law told my niece. He said, I'm not going to let you go. I'm not going to let you go. I'm not going to because we are not idiots and we care about her safety. In the future, go directly to the lifeguard because I don't want to see you hurt. Now, again, that's not racist. That's normal judgment. But we've all been taught that even normal judgment is now a form of racism. So if you teach your 12-year-old daughter not to talk back to a confrontational young black male who is violating the rules of the road and calling her a racist, you're the racist in some way. Wrong. Here's the deal. Everyone ought to play by the rules and it is not racist to say so. And it harsh people with racism for saying so. Again, we should be completely, completely even-handed about the delivery of justice here in the United States. Broadly speaking, when we talk about criminality, we now have dumb conversations about over-incarceration. And very often when people say over-incarceration, they say too many young black men are going to prison. Here is how I define over-incarceration and under-incarceration. And I think we have an under-incarceration problem here in the United States. You know how I define this? It's very simple. Here's how I define this. Because, again, people who have this stupid conversation will say over-incarceration means too many young black men are in jail as opposed to young white women or something, young white men. Again, this is a perfectly even-handed description. Incarceration is for people who should be in jail. We are over-incarcerating if there are people in jail who should not be in jail. That's over-incarceration. Under-incarceration is where people are on the streets who should not be on the streets and they should be in jail. So I will make the case that when I look at these teen takeovers, we have an under-incarceration problem. These teen takeovers should be ending with arrests. Period. This is what the government is for. It can't be your dad. It can't organize late-night events. It can't inculcate social standards to the extent that you're not going to act in terrible ways. It can punish villainous behavior. Again, none of this is racist. It's just reality. And if you let yourself get played like a sucker, if people calling you racist makes you think it's fine to mob the streets and engage in mass violence, all in the name of fun, your city is going to burn. And so will your country. And so will your civilization. And it will be your fault. And again, this proclaiming racism as a way to get out of jail free, that thing is not just restricted to violent criminal activity. It's true across the West, which brings us to the update on the Jason Arday story. So remember, Jason Arday was the Cambridge University grifter professor who told a bevy of lies. His entire career was rooted in lies. And whenever he was questioned, he would claim that society was being mean and racist to him. And everybody just threw up their hands and said, hey, we need to make this guy a professor at Cambridge, despite the fact that he's an unbelievable liar and fabulous. Hey, so then it was reported by a professor named Nate Kofnes. And now the entire left in Britain apparently is saying that the reporter is the bad guy. The facts are bad and the media are bad. Why? Because noticing the thing is what makes you bad. First, last summer, I had four kids. And this summer, I have five kids. It's a reminder, life doesn't stay the same way for very long. One year, you're thinking about summer travel and baseball games. And the next, you're figuring out where to fit yet another car seat. Are there even cars big enough for this many children? And that's really the point. As your responsibilities grow, you should start taking planning for your future more seriously. Life insurance is one of those things that's easy to put off because it doesn't feel urgent until it is. The problem is that waiting rarely makes it easier. And it certainly doesn't make it less important. Fortunately, getting covered today is actually pretty simple. Policy Genius is an online insurance marketplace that lets you, compare quotes from America's top life insurance companies side by side, all for free. Instead of spending hours shopping around, answer a few questions, compare your options in one place, and their licensed experts handle the paperwork and walk you through the process. It's efficient. It's straightforward. It helps you make a well-informed decision without the usual hassle. They've also earned thousands of five-star reviews on Google and Trustpilot. So you're working with a team that's built a reputation for making a complicated process a lot easier. With Policy Genius, you can find 20-year life insurance policies starting at just 276 bucks a year for a million dollars in coverage. Head on over to policygenius.com slash Shapiro to compare life insurance quotes from top companies. See how much you could save. That's policygenius.com slash Shapiro. Here was one member of the UK parliament named Diane Abbott. There was a gigantic vigil for Jason. Already like 15,000 people showed up. And again, the idea here is that it was not the grift that was the problem. It was not the villainous behavior that was the problem. It was the revelation of that thing. It was the uncovering of the facts. It was the noticing of the thing that was the problem. This was at Trafalgar Square over in London. I am here today to honor Professor Jason Ardy. And I want in particular to talk about the role that I believe the vicious media campaign drove him to his death. I was with Professor Ardy just a week ago. He was always a lovely, kind, and brilliant man. But you felt a week ago that the vicious campaign against him was beginning to get to him. Again, it was a wicked campaign. A wicked campaign. By the way, the campaign was just noticing that he did the thing. This is the Get Out of Jail free card for vulnerable societies. Societies. that pretend that somehow the sin isn't the sin. It is that you notice the sin and therefore you are somehow discriminatory. Evil can always find some rubric to sneak itself in, to smuggle itself in. And the biggest thing is generating a feeling of shame or weakness in the person who labels the evil. Here's another clip. Again, this is from a rest in power vigil in central London for Jason Ardy. Here was Jason Ardy's family and Lord Woolley of Woodford speaking at the vigil. This has been an incredibly painful time for our family. And we are still coming to terms with the tragic loss of our beloved Jason. The public cruelty Jason was subjected to was too much for any man to bear. And when he arrived at Cambridge, I was the happiest man in the world. But from that moment on, I was the happiest man in the world. The dogs of hell started on Jason Ardy because they couldn't handle a black man, a loving man, a decent human being to be in a place like that. They couldn't handle a loving man, a decent human being who was a lifelong grifter who lied over and over and over and over. And it must have been because he was black. Again, this is the way societies destroy themselves is by falling for precisely this kind of thing. It's kind of crap. Bad behavior ought to be called out. I'm pretty consistent on this one. Bad behavior ought to be called out and be punished. And if you fall for any of the rubrics under which injustice smuggles itself, you're destroying your own society. This, by the way, is also true for the smear of Islamophobia. If you point out that importing millions of people who do not agree with the basic tenets of Western civilization might be a problem and then people shout Islamophobia at you and then you go, oh, okay, I guess we'll just keep doing that. You are having a hard time. You are helping to destroy your own civilization. We're now living in the old Norm Macdonald joke with regard to this sort of stuff. You remember that he at one point tweeted out, what terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims. That's what he was making fun of is this sort of frontal lobotomy carried out suicidally by an entire society. And that's where we are right now. And it needs to stop. It needs to stop right now. Alrighty, meanwhile, here in Florida, we had a big day of primaries yesterday and it was a study in contrast. Democrats are too online. Republicans, not so much. So what is too online and what is real life? Well, if you had been following the online discourse, then a human named James Fishbeck who traffics in pretty much every online meme ranging from anti-Semitism to bizarre conspiracy theories about cameras to like whatever is the hot topic of the day on X. James Fishbeck will just jump in and then try to turn it into, a story about James Fishbeck. When he's the governor, he'll fix it. Okay, well, it turns out kind of nobody voted for him. So there was a gubernatorial primary in Florida. James Fishbeck was given the kiss of death, by the way, by Tucker Carlson. So again, Tucker Carlson is like the Jim Cramer of politics. If you wish to do well in politics by the reverse of what Tucker Carlson says. Because again, Tucker Carlson has now endorsed a wide variety of candidates who have all, all just fallen apart. I mean, here he was with Aaron Putsch. He got 17% of the vote in his Ohio GOP primary. Here he was with Thomas Massey who lost his congressional seat because he decided to run against the Uden in a district with like five Jews where no one wanted to hear about any of that stuff. Here he was with Fishbeck who got 11% of the vote and was supposed to change politics by being a gigantic dork cosplaying, cosplaying as a, as a soft, alt-right type, not particularly soft. Here he was with Paul Danz in South Carolina who didn't even end up appearing on the ballot. And here he was with Ryan Zinke who is not seeking re-election. So it turns out that if you really, really wish to never be a national political figure again, you should probably appear with Tucker Carlson and then stand for election. It's a great way to do it. Now again, Byron Donald's barely even campaigned. Like Byron was around the state. He was a guest on this program, but Byron barely ran a campaign. He didn't end up doing, really any debates with these folks. And he ended up winning 48% of the vote. Jake Hollins, who I very much like, Lieutenant Governor of the state, won 25% of the vote. Well over doubling up Fishbeck. And again, Fishbeck's big endorsers were Tucker Carlson, Sneeko, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, and Joel Webben, among others, whose pull was precisely zero. Now hilariously, hilariously, they started trying to cite the idea that like young people across the state went heavy for Fishbeck. So what did they do? They started pushing out. Propaganda suggesting that he won Florida State and University of South Florida and University of Tampa. Okay, there's only one problem, guys. All three schools are out of session. That was 25 votes that went for Fischbeck in Florida State and 24 votes at University of South Florida and University of Tampa with 36 votes. That was his big turnout. Now, the media tried to turn Fischbeck into a thing because again, the media loved the idea, the specter, of a pap Buchananite Republican Party, but even more anti-Semitic. They would love that because they know that that is a kiss of death in American politics. And so Politico had an entire long piece talking about how Fischbeck was going to change politics forever before he won precisely 10.5% of the vote or so. Quote, he's posted dog whistle race bait and live streamed with Manosphere influencers such as Clavicular and Soneco, who each post millions of followers. He's also earned the admiration of far-right streamers like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, both dominant voices of the budding America First movement, but he's also become a political force on his own strength. Videos from his hundreds of spontaneous campaign stops across the state occurring at an off the beaten path venues, including Taco Bell and Waffle Houses, college quads and all my diners routinely show swarms of hyped up supporters who look thrilled just to be in his presence. It seems all but certain this dark energy will continue to surge, but who will direct the flows? Does it seem all but certain? Like super certain, does it? Like really, does it so much? Well, Byron Donalds, who again is the normie candidate here, he gave his election night speech about affordability. I will lower your insurance costs. I will protect school choice. I will stand with law enforcement. I will defend common sense when it comes to protecting our girls and our children's puberty. And I will make Florida more affordable. I will make Florida more affordable. It starts tonight, and I can't do this alone. I need your prayers. I need your energy, and I need your hard work. So I ask you, are you with me to keep Florida red? Are you with me to keep Florida free? Then let's get out and build a state that's truly accountable, achievable, and affordable. Again, he is going to win. Byron's going to win the race. And it's not just that Byron is going to win the race. The person who's running against him, a guy named David Jolly, used to be a Republican. I mean, this is a very red state. This is now a very red state. Florida is more red than Ohio is red at this point, by a fairly significant margin. By the way, get to more on this in a moment. First, our current culture, we're always aiming for instant gratification, food arrives at the tap, money moves in seconds. You can buy pretty much anything without leaving your couch. Usually that's convenient. But some decisions should not be made instantly, especially the decisions you can't take back today. A woman facing. an unexpected pregnancy can order the abortion pill online, often before anyone has had the chance to say, you're not alone, there's help, and there's hope. This is why the work of pre-born is more urgent than ever. At pre-born network clinics, women are met with compassion, practical support, and a free ultrasound. And that ultrasound actually matters. More than 80% of abortion vulnerable women choose life after seeing their baby on an ultrasound at a pre-born network clinic. Sometimes all it takes is the opportunity to stop, to see clearly what's actually at stake. Just 28 bucks provides one life-saving ultrasound. 140 bucks helps rescue five babies to outpatient, pound 250, say baby. That's pound 250, baby. Or give securely at preborn.com slash ben, preborn.com slash ben. Again, you're not going to do anything more important today, or maybe ever, because again, what's more important than saving a life? And it's just 28 bucks for an ultrasound? You can change more than one life, moms and babies. Go check them out right now, preborn.com slash ben. Again, that's preborn.com slash ben. Or dial pound 250 and say baby to get started. Together, we can save lives one heartbeat at a time. Now, how about the Democrats? Well, there were sort of. a couple of races that were pretty fraught. One of them was in the Democratic Florida 25 district, right? That is a district represented by Jared Moskowitz. That district happens to be heavily Jewish, about 25% Jewish, probably. It's like Boca Raton. And Jared Moskowitz, who is a pro-Israel Democrat, was running against Oliver Larkin, who is a DSA psycho. And Oliver Larkin just got smushed. Oliver Larkin was backed by Hassan Piker. Moskowitz ended up winning two-thirds of the vote, which is presumably why he then tweeted at Hassan Piker dunking on him. Which, again, is fitting. It turns out the Jewish voters in the district were like, yeah, we're not really up with the guy who's not hot on the Jews and blames all of his problems on Israel. But when I say the Democrats are too online, I mean they're kind of too online. So the Democrats had a Florida Senate primary for the final two years of the term that Marco Rubio was set to fill before he became Secretary of State. Democrats, running against Ashley Moody in that race. So Democrats had two candidates. One was Alex Vindman. You remember Alex Vindman. He was the person who was the leaker when it came to the Ukraine phone call that led to President Trump's first impeachment. And he was the guy who was suggesting that President Trump was trying to do a quid pro quo with the Iranians in exchange for Burisma material on Hunter Biden and all the rest of that sort of stuff. And he's been basically just an anti-Trump figure for this entire time. He spent something like $10 million in this race and he got destroyed. by Angie Nixon. Angie Nixon is a nut. She is a Democratic Socialist of America nut job. There is no way she wins this race. She gets destroyed by Ashley Moody. Ashley Moody could not wish for a better opponent. Angie Nixon is the kind of person who shows up to disrupt the Florida State House by just standing there with a bullhorn wearing all pink and screaming. This is who Democrats are now running for the Senate. Man, I have not heard that pitch of voice since like late last night when my three-year-old really, really did not want to go to bed. I was literally just standing in his crib screaming at the top of his lungs. Wow, that's a lot. That's a lot. And that's who Democrats are. We must have this candidate. She says that drag shows are wholesome entertainment. I'm sure this is going to go over amazing here in Florida. I don't understand. Like, there's no sexualization at a drag show. It's just people dressing up and singing and performing. I've taken my children to drag shows and it's fun. It's entertainment. It's wholesome entertainment. And there's nothing wrong. It's just like, I don't, I don't get it. Democrats, this is who you chose. Great job, everyone. Also, she was asked how she would relate to people who fled socialism, considering that she's a member of the Democratic Party. She's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She's being asked this by Jen Psaki over at MSNOW last night. I'm going to continue to work hard and go and knock on every door and have conversations with people, even if they may not agree with me ideologically. I want to be clear. I just recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, but I'm also a union organizer. I'm a mother. I am a wife. I am a community organizer, a small business owner. And I'm going to have conversations with people about what it is that they care about. If you've fled socialism in this lady comes knocking on your door, explaining to you the qualities of socialism, I have a feeling she's not going to do particularly well here in Florida. But again, this shows you how the Democratic Party is captured by the two online, truly captured. And again, the Republican Party is not. Corey Mills, who is the incumbent in the Georgia Florida 7, he got primaried and he is no longer going to be in Congress. He got primaried by a guy named Ryan Elijah, because Corey Mills is a full-scale disaster. So Republicans are like punishing Congress people that they think are bad candidates and they are kicking them out. And they're getting rid of bad gubernatorial candidates in idiocy. And meanwhile, Democrats are just embracing this stuff full scale. Democrats can also be game. I mean, it's pretty amazing. So there's an incredible story out of Wisconsin and California, in which it turns out, you remember that there was this cat, this character, this ambulatory psychotic named Francesca Hong. Remember her? She was running for Wisconsin governor. She was one of the crazy guys. And there were a bunch of polls suggesting that she was up like 20 points in the race. And then she ended up losing. And in the prediction markets, she was way up. She was at like 98%. And then she lost. Well, it turns out that there was a game that was being played. According to the New York Times, an organization that released public election polling in recent weeks withdrew the results of two surveys, revealing it had fabricated the polls as part of a short-term social experiment meant to expose how quickly false information could spread. One of the surveys released by the group Median Strategies claimed that Francesca Hong was leading the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor by more than 20 percentage points. Another shared by Mayor Karen Bass on X in a since deleted post showed Ms. leading Nithya Raman by nearly 12 percentage points in the L.A. mayoral runoff. On Monday, median strategies withdrew those results, saying they should not be treated as genuine polling data. They said that the goal was to examine, quote, how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification. And it turns out the answer is really, really, really easily. But here's the thing. Republicans haven't really fallen for that. There are a couple of push polls that showed Fischbeck doing pretty well. And it turns out he was just he was a dud because in the real world, he was a dud. But Democrats get taken in by this sort of stuff. They really, really do. So this does require us to ask a different and darker question, because if you're a Republican, you're looking at Florida going, OK, Republicans doing great in Florida. So why do things look so dim around the country? Because if Democrats are too online, why are they in such good shape to take the Senate? Now, obviously, we all know the answer. President Trump is deeply unpopular right now. His approval rating is at 33 percent, according to Reuters Ipsos. It has never stopped declining since liberalism. Again, I'm just going to point out there was not a radical acceleration in his declining approval ratings thanks to the Iran war. It was just a continuation of the decline. You could draw a basically straight line from when the lines crossed in Liberation Day to now. Because nothing really changed, right? The economy is still perceived by most people to not be working as well as it should be. Inflation continues to be a concern in people's lives. And the administration seems discombobulated. And it's approach to policymaking for sure. Well, Nate Silver has a breakdown today on the key Senate midterm races, and it looks pretty dim for Republicans right now. He says that actually Democrats are favored in Texas. He says James Tallarico currently leads Ken Paxton in our polling average by about one point nine points. Paxton has led in only one of seven polls conducted since July. Now, again, Republicans tend to go through a bit of a summer doldrum when it comes to Senate polling in off your elections. But, you know, the fact that there's even a competitive race in Texas is crazy. In Ohio. Again, President Trump won Ohio by 11 points in 2024. John Husted, who is the current Republican incumbent, who was appointed to fill J.D. Vance's seat. He's up against Sherrod Brown, who lost a narrow election to Bernie Moreno. Brown has been ahead in all but one poll conducted since June, including by eight points in a recent Fox poll. So according to Nate Silver, about a 62% win probability. For Democrats in Ohio. In Iowa, Republicans are still favored, but it's pretty close. Ashley Hinson leads state legislator and gold medal Paralympian Josh Turek by 0.3 percentage points in the average. In Maine, because Graham Plattner was ousted, Democrats are now favored. Now, Susan Collins, as Nate Silver recognizes, has an enormous cash advantage over her Democratic adversary, and she overperforms. But Maine is a pretty good candidate. Blue seat. And he even has Democrats leading in Michigan. He says that their model gives El-Sayed the edge right now. Now, again, that is a little bit more dicey. Now, Democratic bad candidates could, in fact, turn this thing back toward the Republicans. Like, I think that Michigan is going to be an uphill battle for the Democrats because the more people find out about Abdul El-Sayed, the less they like him. In Maine, Susan Collins is, in fact, a survivor. So if I were to sort of game, this out, I would suspect that Republicans hold Texas, hold Maine, hold Michigan, take Michigan, and probably hold Iowa. So I'm a little bit less catastrophist about all of this. I'm a little bit less catastrophic about where I think the Senate is right now. And that's particularly because of the Democrats embracing their psychotic left. The fact that the Democrats are so interested in winning in 2026 that they're willing to embrace, say, Abdul El-Sayed, even if he were to win, that is not going to bode well for 2028, given the fact that, again, the American people are not fans of swiveling this hard to the left. Well, let's say Democrats have a really good year in 2026, which could easily happen. It's easy to mistake a reactionary wave for an endorsement of a radical program. Republicans, you'll remember, made this mistake a bit in 2010. There was the Tea Party wave, and then Republicans were like, let's do world-breaking things. And then people were like, ah, I don't know. That's kind of how Americans respond to this sort of stuff. Democrats are beginning to embrace pretty much all of the language of the DSA in an attempt to capture the wave. Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, who is running in that Senate primary in Michigan against Haley Stevens, she won just enough votes from Haley Stevens to make El-Sayed the nominee in Michigan. She says we have to have a big tent party that includes people who love terrorism. I think the biggest mistake the Democratic Party can make right now is rejecting people who are joining the Democratic Party. Let's grow this party, be a big tent, have debates and conversations, but solve the real issue, which is how do we recapture the American dream? Okay, but that's not what you're talking about. And by the way, the way that El-Sayed is talking about the American dream is the American dream is apparently totally nationalized health care. That is the American dream, according to them. So El-Sayed is out there suggesting that the solution here is Medicare for all, and Mehdi Hassan and the rest of the radical left, is embracing this. So Mehdi Hassan says the difference between the far right and the far left is that the far right wants Nazism, and the far left wants Medicare for all. Well, no, actually, I have a, no, that and that. First of all, what the far left wants is nationalized health care, as we'll get to in a second, but they also would like for America to destroy itself on foreign policy in the world, which is why Mehdi Hassan loves it. The radical left is very much in solidarity with terrorist groups throughout the Middle East, which of course, yes. But here is Mehdi Hassan saying the right is radical, but the left is not. Like, people get annoyed when I say this, and you've said it, I'm sure, a version, which is, yes, there's a far right, and yes, there's a far left. The far right wants Nazism and ethnic cleansing. The far left wants Medicare for all. That is not the same thing. He's so dishonest. He's so disingenuous. So disingenuous. It's totally, totally insane. And again, when we talk about Medicare for all, we should understand what the hell we're talking about. We should. Our health care system is indeed a problem. We have kind of the worst of all available worlds. There are certain areas where we're really good, like advanced medical care. Cancer care, we're excellent. Inventing all the things. Innovation, we're really great. But there are obviously problems with our health care system. Nationalized health care is not, in fact, the answer. Instead of nationalized health care, instead of that, maybe we could keep, for example, our private markets. And also, by the way, one aspect of good health care would be to actually take care of yourself. One way to do that, just going to put it out there, is to have some common sense. Any more fruits and veggies, which is why you should listen to today's sponsor, Balance of Nature. Get an additional 10% of any Balance of Nature subscription, plus a free guiltless snack. When you use promo code Shapiro, go check them out. It's a simple, low-lift way to get more of what your body actually needs. Okay, so El-Sayed is honest enough to admit what it means, Medicare for all. Medicare for all sounds great, except for the fact that it means that your private health insurance program and your doctor just go away, which he admits. What Medicare for all does is it does away with the private insurance market, right? It now has one single payer. That's why we call it single payer, right? One insurance, and that is the government of the United States. His wife does not take Medicare, by the way. She's in the health care industry. She does not take Medicare. But, you know, good for him for saying the quiet part out loud. The reason Democrats are not embracing Medicare for all is because they know it is actually a killer. Here's the thing about Americans when it comes to politics. We are generally quite status quo. Medicare, when it was brought about, now Americans don't want to get rid of Obamacare because they're scared of whatever it is that comes next. When it comes to Medicare for all, you should be scared. You should be. Because the idea of a nationalized, government-run health care system means you will get less care. You will. Whenever people say Medicare for all means that you get as much medical care as you need whenever you want it, that's not true. It's not true. Because, again, supply and demand still applies even when the government is supposedly paying for everything. So you end up with some form of government decision-making, some form of rationing. It's true in every nationalized health care system. There are alternative systems that still maintain the private markets. Singapore has one of these. Switzerland has one of these. There are alternative models that are really interesting. But the Medicare for all system is like the worst of all of these. But the Democrats are trying to make time with it. So Charlemagne asked Hakeem Jeffries, who would love to be Speaker of the House, about Medicare for all. Here's what he had to say. But I have a question for Hakeem Jeffries. In regards to Medicare for all, simply, what changed? Hakeem, in September of 2019, you became a co-sponsor of the Medicare for all act. Then in 2021, Hakeem, you wasn't just somebody who eventually jumped on the Medicare for all. No, you was an original co-sponsor of the Medicare for all act of 2021. Meaning when that bill was introduced, your name was already on it. Now fast forward to 2026, Hakeem Jeffries, as you just heard, goes on Meet the Press and he currently co-sponsors our supports. Once again, what changed? What did you learn between 2021 and now that changed your mind? Did the economics change? Did you discover something about Medicare for all that you didn't know when you co-sponsored it? Did America's health care system suddenly get better? We know the answer to that. Did premiums get so cheap that I missed the announcement? Did deductibles disappear? Okay, so the actual thing that happened is he realized that Americans don't want it. That right there is the thing that happened. So we'll see. I mean, again, Democrats, it's possible. Riding a wave could get some bad candidates into office. But if they continue. to embrace the leftmost part of their party, it is not going to work out particularly well. And again, this is one of the things that the Democrats realize once they're in a position to govern, is that many of the things that they tout are actually quite unpopular. So, according to the New York Times, no one from Mayor Zoran Mamdani's administration will appear at a city council hearing on Tuesday about the rollout of New York City's new tax on high-end second homes, city officials said, citing a pending lawsuit. Instead, officials will submit written testimony, skirting a confrontation, and avoiding further public scrutiny of a policy that has enraged some New Yorkers and turned a politically thorny situation for the mayor. So, they're not showing up to answer questions because they understand that it would make them more unpopular. Now, hilariously, I have to say, this is really funny, the New York City Democratic Socialist of America co-chair, a person named Gustavo Gordillo, he is very much in favor of the Piqueta terror attacks. And it turns out, it turns out that he was bought a $1.5 million row house in Bed-Stoy. It showed up on a Piqueta terror list Mamdani's official office released. The fair market value is $1.5 million. Also, Gordillo is a Yale graduate with a degree in sculpture and video, which is why he's totally useless. But this is who the Democrats are. So, again, they might have the temporary sugar high of doing well in the midterms. I am not sure it's going to work out well for them in the long term if they embrace all of this radicalism. Now, speaking of embracing radicalism, back to the WNBA, where, again, I just don't understand. Just be normal, guys. Just be normal. Just be normal. Apparently, a mother and a daughter were told to cover their XXXY shirts or leave. So, Jennifer Say and Riley Gaines, the people who put together XXXY, which is a, again, athletic wear brand that is meant to stand up for women. So, a mom and her daughter showed up wearing the XXXY shirt and then they were told that they could not. That they actually had to cover up the shirts or leave the game. This is an Indiana Fever vs. Atlanta dream game. Here's what they had to say. We were made to cover up our XXXY shirts at this game. Wait, are you serious? Yes. They gave us shirts. They gave us T-shirts during overtime and told us we had to leave and this is for the girl or cover our T-shirts. This just happened. Where were you sitting? Uh, floor. Fourth, three row, C. Yeah. Third row of floor three. And how much were your seats? Uh. And we did nothing. Like, we were not. We were just sitting there. I didn't make signs. I wanted to make signs, but I didn't. I did nothing. It was too offensive. It was too offensive to even have the wear that is associated with the pro. women movement that says that boys and girls are not the same. The Atlanta Dream then put out a statement. Quote, The Atlanta Dream believes in creating a safe and inclusive environment for everyone. Unfortunately, last night's game, WNBA security took actions that fell short of that standard. At no point was Dream personnel involved in the decisions made by WNBA security. The league issued this statement earlier today. The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night's game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts. This should not have happened. Well, I mean, I have a question. Why does it keep happening? And the answer, the answer is, of course, because the WNBA is a radical league. It is a radical politically. It is a radical political league that is centered around the idea that LGBTQ politics is the only thing that matters. And also, racial politics. These are the things that matter the most. And the villain in all of this is Sophie Cunningham. So, Sophie Cunningham, again, running, I have to say, like a great campaign for the presidency in 2028. Sophie Cunningham is the, what, power forward for the Indiana Fever? And basically, her job on the court is to make sure that Caitlin Clark doesn't get mugged. And she happens to be a pretty blonde woman who also says that boys are not girls. And she does strange things, like when they sing the national anthem at a WNBA game, she covers her heart, which I thought was kind of de rigueur. I thought that was a normal thing for people to do. Look at her team. Not a single other member of the team is doing that, which is just, like, come on. Really? Come on. Come on. There she is, covering her heart. I understand. Why is this hard for people? Like, are you all Canadian? Like, what is the deal here? Isn't this, like, baseline stuff, just covering your heart for the national anthem? Then the fans boot her. Then the fans in Toronto booed her. And here she was responding to the boos. Sophie, you got booed a little bit tonight. Really? Yeah. I was kidding. Especially for the talk. Good. Do you think it was because of the ketchup chips? You know what? Yeah. I like where your mind's at on that. Maybe I should try. I heard I was supposed to try a different brand. So, but you know what? I will tell you. I want to shout out the tempo crowd in the city. I think we've had so much fun. It's my first time being in Canada. It's a lot of our first times being in Canada. Um, but the crowd was absolutely amazing. And, you know, I think that's what sports is all about. You're going to get booze. You're going to get cheers. But just the fact that they're so passionate, they're loud, and they're putting on for the city, I think it's amazing. So shout out to you guys for coming out and supporting. Okay. Again, like a normal response. They're going to turn this lady into the biggest star in the WNBA, despite the fact she scores like 13 points a game. Just because she's normal. It's incredible. Charlamagne had some comments on the WNBA being idiotic. And he is, of course, correct. I think this is ridiculous. I don't know why and I cannot believe that people are falling for tricks like this right before the midterm elections. That's what it is. Like, this is so dumb for Democrats to even be going back down this road having this conversation. And I hate when they conflate two things. Because guess what? I don't know why Sophia Cunningham was asked this question, but if she's asked, um, should biological men play in the WNBA, the answer should be no. That should be the answer from everybody. I mean, duh. Duh. But again, Baseline Logic has apparently left the building. Speaking of Baseline Logic leaving the building, I guess it never was at the building, to be fair. So, Jimmy Kimmel was off the air and he decided that he needed a guest host. And so he decided that he needed the best comedian he could find. He went all the way to Ireland to find her, where she apparently was rummaging through Liberace's casket. Rosie O'Donnell showed up with Steve Bannon's haircut and wearing Liberace's suit. I don't even know what to make of this. Here she was trying to tell jokes. Not well. Maybe still funnier than Jimmy Kimmel? I don't know. Here we go. You know, I've been living in Ireland for the past two years because of Mango Mussolini. Because he's orange. I read that Project 2025 and said, gotta get myself out of here, you know? Hilarious. And I decided to go to Ireland, a place where people are driven to drink regardless of their age. Regardless of who's running their country. So that was the joke is that people drink in Ireland? That was the joke. That was a punchline. I never thought I would say this. Bring back Jimmy Kimmel. My goodness. Of course, Rosie O'Donnell is also the reason that she's on it is because of her politics. Obviously, it's not because she's funny. It's because she says the president is a pedo rapist. It's because she does stuff like this. Wake up. Yeah. Wake up. Our president is a serial pedophile rapist and that's what he is. And in America, you're allowed to have an opinion. You're allowed to say what you think. That's what our country was founded on. Well, that part right there is probably liable. So probably the president could sue her for that. And of course, do I have to play this clip? Probably have to play this clip of her singing about the president's ding-a-ling. She's so funny. This was her audition tape. Actually, for being on Kimmel was also what's up with her glasses? I don't understand. I don't know. Maybe I'm puzzled by the modern form of glasses. Did we get worse at making glasses? Why? Why are the pieces of the glasses screwed together? Like at the at the top of the the top of the circle? Why don't you put the joints in the glasses like behind the behind the earpiece? I don't what? Well, again, Steve Bannon will play her in the movie. His approval rate is 30. His diaper is always dirty. I think the guy's insane. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. He ain't no stable genius. Got a teeny tiny, but he doesn't have a brain. With comedic chops like that, how could she not be hosting Jimmy Kimmel? By the way, Disney is apparently going to sue the FCC over a license review over its free speech. So they are suing the FCC, alleging the agency's efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show. The view are illegal. According to the Wall Street Journal, the suit was filed in federal court on Wednesday. And ABC said again and again, the administration has attacked ABC's speech. The story is its journalist report and its viewpoints, its network programs air. Over time, those attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its speech. Now, again, I don't think that the FCC was well-founded in the way that it approached ABC. But when the president criticizes ABC, that's no different than him criticizing literally anyone. He does it all the time. Okay, one other stupid politics. I just have to say, us losing the AI war because people are under the wild misimpression that you won't have drinking water or land because of data centers, this is just, it's politics for the lowest common denominator. It really is. I want like a specific descriptor of why you object to the data centers that are, by the way, generally adding to the electrical grid. But this has become kind of a bipartisan Luddite thing. I get people are afraid of AI. I get all of it, but let's just be clear. The criticisms that have been directed at data centers particularly are bizarre and reminiscent of when people complain about Walmart, even though it's lowering prices and making better quality products. So now you have Jason Kelsey, who did a beer company ad about data center, water usage, supposedly thinking that data centers are using all of the water in his house, which is, that's, it's not true. It's not true. Probably should lose to China because people think dumb things. Probably that's a good idea. AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water. That's why Liquid Death and Garage Beer have decided to team up. We want your pee to cool these data centers. We want your pee. Please give us your pee. Let's pee on computers together. Cause we need a lot to pee. Headless gallons of pee. Join our important endeavor. We want your pee. You're disgusting. Save humanity. We want your pee. With Garage Beer's Classic Light Beer and Liquid Death's Sparkling Energy, the light beer of energy drinks. It's never been easier to create pee. Save humanity. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and have another Garage Beer or Liquid Death's Sparkling Energy. Then send your pee to the AI data center of your choice. Even make it easy with these collectable sealable mugs. That's illegal, by the way. We want your pee. We want your pee. Give us your pee. What the fuck? We're gonna lose to China because Liquid Death wanted to make more money off of selling you water in a can. That is where we are now. This is how far we've come. This is how far we have gone. I guess capitalism always wins, right? I mean, if you can't make money off the data centers, you make money off of ripping the data centers. So capitalism always wins, as per our usual arrangement. But, um, what? By the way, it's illegal to send bodily fluids in the mail. So please don't do that. And it's gonna be hilarious when somebody actually does this, and then the thing breaks, and then Liquid Death gets sued into oblivion because you're not supposed to send pee in the mail. So great job, everybody. That's awesome. Governor Josh Shapiro says that he is going to use his executive authority to block what he calls objectionable projects. And here he was talking about predatory data centers. Predatory data centers. Oh my gosh. This guy cosplaying Obama. He's just, uh. You describe some of these companies coming into your state as predatory, bullying, and menacing. Why do you say that? And secretive. And I stand by all those words. They show up. They buy a piece of land. They wreak havoc on a community, threatening them with the construction of a data center. Yet, Scott, all throughout, they don't actually have an end user. That's one of the tech companies. They have no access to power. But they create real worry and chaos and concern in a community. We're ending that practice. Of buying land and building things on it? That practice? They create it because people are worried. Oh, this is going to go well. You know why they don't care about that? China. Which is why, if we continue with this nonsense, either all the AI data centers will be located in non-stupid states, or you'll end up with China winning. So that'll just be awesome. Alrighty, folks. Coming up, we'll get to the latest in the trans-violence epidemic, which is a very real thing. Plus, we'll get into a little bit of foreign policy talk. All that and more. But you have to be a subscriber in order to make that happen. So make sure that you head on over to dailywire.com right now. Become a member. Use code "shapiro". Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.