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I've been using it for years. Go do it yourself with the best deal they've ever offered. Head on over to puretalk.com slash Shapiro before this offer disappears. That's puretalk.com slash Shapiro. Don't follow the retardosphere. If you do, you may end up deported, bleary-eyed, cross-eyed on Piers Morgan's Jerry Springer click bordello. This is the theme of today's show. There are lots and lots of people in our public life who grip for clicks and cash, and you can tell who they are by the fact that they shift their views and their personas on a routine basis, kaleidoscopically. You're constantly asking yourself, hey, what happened to that guy? What happened to her? They didn't used to be that way. We're going to go through some of these people because they are, in fact, shaping our political life in all the dumbest ways. Because people love car wrecks, like they like to watch car wrecks, a lot of these people get pretty good numbers, and then they use those numbers to proclaim that they are on the cutting edge of populist politics, and then actual political figures follow them. So here is a solution. Do not donate your attention to them. There are only so many breaths you have in this life, and you're not going to get these breaths back. We'll get to Milo Yiannopoulos' tragic deportation story, complete with tears and weirdness. Plus, Tyler Robinson's murder of Charlie Kirk is headed to trial, and Hunter Biden announces he likes dudes because, hey, why not? This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Now, listen, I get that even by talking about these terrible people, I'm giving a lot of them more attention than any of them deserve. But here's the thing, they already have a lot of attention, and pointing out and warning you that they deserve not that attention is the idea. If you don't know what they're doing, and if you don't know how they are rigging the game, then you're not going to be able to avoid it. The verse from Deuteronomy has come true. Each evening, I go to sleep thinking, it certainly cannot be more retarded than it was this morning. And then I wake up in the morning and I think, oh God, I just wish it were as retarded as it were last night. So, for those who don't know, there's a human named Milo Yiannopoulos, and he was pretty popular for a short period of time back in 2015, 2016, as a flamboyantly gay man saying transgressively edgelord things. He was a brainchild of Steve Bannon, another political grifter. And then it turned out that Milo Yiannopoulos was very much in favor of priests raping underage boys as a sort of maturation process. He said that on tape, and then things kind of imploded on him. Whoopsie, but no one ever really goes away. He stuck around. He interned for a while, and then he was released. And then he was released. And then he was released. Marjorie Taylor Greene, another great intellect of our time, because the retarded grifter employment network is alive and well. He appeared as a guest on Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens because, well, you know, he ran a campaign with Kanye West. And, oh yes, he became a supposedly ex-gay man who was militantly Christian. And then it turns out he overstayed his visa and he was deported because he was here illegally. And now he's showing up on Piers Morgan's show because, of course he is, of course he is, because Piers Morgan is the Bonnie Blue of politics, a total click whore who revels in the fact that he has thousands upon thousands of johns, and he will put it on video for you to watch and monetize. And this brings us to last night's hilarious, entertaining, multiple clown car crash on Piers Morgan's show. I mean, pretty much carnage, hilarious, hilarious carnage. And again, I'm not somebody who tends to revel in the suffering of people who are deported. I've not been in favor of much of that. I'm not in favor of people who are deported. I'm not in favor of much of the triumphalist rhetoric online when it comes to deportation. But when you spend your entire political career being the worst human being possible, and then you get deported in pretty quick fashion, and then you go on Piers Morgan's click Bordello in order to lament your own tragic mistreatment, I'm sorry, schadenfreude's a thing. So here was Milo Yiannopoulos. So you know who Milo Yiannopoulos is, so that you understand just what a terrible person he is. Back in February of 2025, Milo tweeted this, quote, I effing love tyranny. Again, he was a person who was very much in favor of the brutal treatment of pretty much everybody. He's also the kind of person who, after Dennis Prager, had his tragic accident in which he broke his spine and ended up paralyzed. He tweeted, God's wrath has found Dennis Prager and his many and terrible sins. I gather he fell recently out of the shower and severed his spinal column, paralyzed, quivering, drooling, silenced. Such a free-spirited person. He's also the kind of person who, after Dennis Prager, had a freakish accident worthy of final destination. What to call it but an act of God. So that's who Milo Yiannopoulos is. It's important to recognize this before you fall for his drama queen trick. Now he gets to be the drama queen of England, which is exciting. So he's been deported back to his homeland. And here he was describing his horrific treatment. By the way, he basically was picked up and deported within 24 hours. He didn't wait for months in a cell with MS-13 members, which Milo may have enjoyed. But here was Milo.
Speaker 3Sure, it was humiliating and it was disorientating and the rest of it. It was physically degrading. Disorientating. It was frightening. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before.
Speaker 4How emotional have you been through this period?
Speaker 3I've never been like this before. I tripped and kind of tumbled down the stairs a night or two ago. And, you know, I'm a clumsy person, so that it's not the rarest thing in the world. But it set something off from when I'd been kind of, you know, shoved down a couple of steps. And I was like, oh, I really have to go to get this out of my system. I think maybe in the past I've been a little bit, a little bit blasé when people talked about the trauma, a little bit kind of cavalier when people talked about, you know, stuff kind of lingering with them. But I get it now.
Speaker 2And I wouldn't wish it on anyone. He literally wished it on everyone. Literally, he did that. And playing the sympathy card here, my dude, that's going to be a no on that. He also says that 15 agents swarmed him and he didn't eat for 24 hours. 24 whole hours he didn't eat? I mean, looks like he could stand to miss a meal or two. But in any case.
Speaker 3The first I heard of it was when 15 agents swarmed me at Louisiana Airport, and it didn't get any less theatrical from there on. I was moved. I was, I didn't eat for 24 hours. I was promised, you know, a nurse that never came. I was promised a phone call that never came. I was promised all kinds of things that never came. I mean, you know, just about everything that you hear that people are supposed to have as far as, you know, rights and, you know, abilities when they get arrested, I did not have. Nobody would tell me anything.
Speaker 2Oh, man, the suffering. Oh, that's how the host was. And then Milo says that actually two of the were so offended that they walked off the job, which I don't believe for one solid single solitary
Speaker 3second. Two of the ICE agents during this process recognized me from 2016 when I was a big supporter of the president. And one of them said, um, something along the lines of, yeah, I'm not doing this. And the other one said something along the lines of, this is not what I got into this for. And at least one of them, and I think two of them, walked off the job because they didn't want to do it. And I think two of them walked off the job because they didn't want to do it. And another pairing of ICE agents who took me to the airport in Houston told me that they were getting calls from Washington every 20 minutes. Like, where is he? Where is he? Where is he? This was not a normal, lawful process.
Speaker 2Okay, so Grifty McGriftalot is back in Britain. Piers Morgan had some very specific questions for Milo Yiannopoulos, who claims to be ex-gay. And by ex-gay, we mean he's not ex-gay at all. He says that he is married to a man that he does not have sex with, which of course, you know, Piers was all over this one. because when you run the Click Bordello, you've got to find out what's happening in all of the rental rooms.
Speaker 4So what family do you have back in America at the moment? Your wife?
Speaker 3Well, I'm married to an American. I've got dependents. I've got cats. I've got, you know, I've got employees. I have a whole life there. I've been there for 10 years. You know, everything is there.
Speaker 4You're married to an American woman?
Speaker 3No. Man?
Speaker 4I don't want to pry into your sexuality, but I know you've, I mean, you're a gay man and you're married to a gay man. I, yes, I don't.
Speaker 3I don't do the sex stuff anymore, but yes.
Speaker 4Okay, listen, I'm only asking because I just want to know what family you have left in America.
Speaker 3Yeah. Where is your spouse? Living in the same house at the other end of the corridor. In which state is this? This is in California. In California, in LA? Yes. Right.
Speaker 2I'm just going to put it out there. We don't need this person in our country. We do not. We never needed this person in our country, as it turns out, actually. He put out an entire piece at the Spectator because, again, Drama Queen is going to Drama Queen. It is titled, I am a persecuted human rights icon, which, of course, he's a victim. He's such a victim that he's enjoying this. I mean, I'm not sure that Yiannopoulos enjoys this kind of thing. He's really enjoying this. The attention is what gives him his high. Quote, like it or not, this makes me a political prisoner, a persecuted human rights icon. I am Mahatma Gandhi. I am Nelson. I am Mandela. Without my rosary, I prayed on the plane with open hands instead. That still works. So do motions to reopen. I'll be fine. I had a frightening weekend. This will be an expensive few months. I will make it home eventually. I miss my Bengals more than any American person. 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I mean, why aren't we just ignoring all this? Okay, the reason we have to pay attention to this is because lots of people pay attention to this stuff. And I would like to point out at this point that we should all collectively make the decision not to. The reality is this. The political incentive structure in this country has been skewed by the attention economy. There's a book called Collective Illusions where psychology professor Todd Rose talks about how people tend to follow people based on how many people they think are following that person. What he calls a collective illusion. He says, If people can see one another's choices and if they're merely copying each other, wisdom becomes stupidity in a hurry. In doubting our own judgment and defaulting to conformity, we transform ourselves from individuals into members of the herd. And before we know it, the seed of error can become a copying cascade that devours all other knowledge and leaves a collective illusion in its wake. It's terrifyingly easy to start a copying cascade. And well, the copying cascade online is extraordinarily easy to start. This is, by the way, the reason why, for example, Piers Morgan's defense to literally every charge of immorality is that he gets lots of clicks. Because his idea is that if he gets lots of clicks, then that means other people will agree with him because he's getting a lot of the clicks. Now, listen, it turns out that political pornography involving rubber chickens and Milo Yiannopoulos' chaste gay marriage will probably get some clicks. But that doesn't mean that you should follow that. It doesn't mean that the attention economy ought to dictate politics. And if people fall for that intellectual trap, you got a problem. It turns out that when the public starts to substitute clicks for judgment, then people end up following some of the most idiotic and immoral people internationally and in America. By the way, the founders feared the mob for this reason. This is why the founders were fans of checks and balances in government and were not fans of pure democracy. They were fans of enshrined rights that were not subject to the whims of the majority because human beings are in fact gullible and they do in fact follow the crowd. In the online space where the crowd is viral, that means often following the dumbest people off the highest cliffs, which brings us to Tyler Robinson's case. So Tyler Robinson allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk. Literally all the evidence demonstrates that he murdered Charlie Kirk. According to the Daily Wire, a Utah judge ruled on Tuesday that Tyler Robinson will stand trial on all seven charges in the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, leaving him eligible for the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder. After hearing hours of closing arguments from the defense and prosecution, fourth district judge Tony Graff found that the state had established, probable cause, meaning there was sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial. Robinson faces one count of aggravated murder, one count of felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, two counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of tampering with a witness, one count of committing a violent offense in the presence of a child, according to court records. The judge allowed the aggravated murder charge to move forward, which makes the charge eligible for the death penalty. So Robinson's attorneys don't really have a choice. They're not going to plead this one out. Answered not guilty, please, on his behalf on all seven charges and Charlie Kirk's parents and his widow, Erica Kirk, appeared in court on Tuesday. The Kirk family put out a statement via Erica Kirk's account. They said, quote, today's decision, which comes nearly a year since Charlie was taken from us, marks an important step in our family's pursuit of justice for him. Every step in this process carries the weight of all that Charlie's murder has taken from his family, especially his children who will grow up without their father. We are grateful to all who have continued to pray for us, support us, and stand with us through a year of unimaginable grief. As the next phase of this process begins, our family remains united in our love for Charlie, our commitment to the pursuit of justice and our prayer for a transparent and timely process. Now, when I talk about the grifters, and so first of all, there are the grifters on the left who have been promoting the trans agenda, which is a permission structure for violence for a very long time. In fact, Tyler Robinson's defense lawyer basically tried to excuse the alleged murder by claiming that Charlie was mean to the trans.
Speaker 5It is. It is true that Mr. Kirk spoke hatefully of certain groups of people. He spoke hatefully of people who don't have traditional norm-conforming gender identities. He spoke hatefully of people who are not strictly heterosexual. He spoke hatefully of people who have sexual relationships out of marriage. And yes, it is true that the evidence from Mr. Twiggs is that he identified in a non-gender conforming way to his friends and that he was in a romantic relationship with Mr. Robinson. But that doesn't mean that those personal choices by Mr. Twiggs and by Mr. Robinson equate with the hate that at least Mr. Twiggs or at least Mr. Robinson says he had toward Mr. Kirk. So we don't know what that is.
Speaker 2Okay. And the permission structure for violence that is created by the very online on the left is very real. But it's the same thing on the right again. Don't follow the retardosphere. Candace Owens, who has made a small, actually mid-sized cottage industry out of slandering Charlie Kirk's family, put out a tweet, quote, go find every single worthless influencer who lied and gaslit you for months about this case, claiming that Tyler was mean to the trans. And then Tyler Robinson turned himself in and subsequently admitted his guilt. We simply do not hate these people enough. What they actually want is for the American court process to run a guilty until proven innocent process. It is utterly monstrous to insist that someone should be put to death before they are given a fair trial. And while a few of these influencers do it out of sincere stupidity, the majority of them do it for money. Again, every accusation for folks like Candace is an admission. Better stated, they are prostitutes, says the woman who literally sells gear based on the murder of Charlie Kirk. We're at the beginning of this trial and every one of their lives will be exposed by the police. By the end of it, the best thing about Candace Owens' shtick is that basically she's like, behind this curtain, I have something for you, a revelation. And then the curtain is removed and it's another curtain. And behind that curtain, there is yet another curtain. It's an endless series of curtains. But don't worry, behind the next one will be the secret that solves your life. It's probably the Jews, but it might not be the Jews, but it's the Jews. And another curtain. Also, Candace Owens, one of the worst people in American public life, here she was ripping into Erica Kirk, again, calling her a soul-sucking dementor.
Speaker 6The barrel of this company is over. I'm just going to be frank with you. Erica Kirk, to me, I describe her, when she speaks, I feel like my soul is being sucked. She is a dementor that should be guarding Azkaban, okay? Every time she speaks, I just feel depressed. I do. She says like this, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I just feel like a prisoner in Azkaban and my soul is being sucked. She can't lead this company. She doesn't have the spark. She doesn't have the intelligence. intelligence, she doesn't even have the emotional
Speaker 2intelligence right this person has a lot of fans again the attention economy leads to pretty bad results pretty bad results including for example people who are still fans of the tates so sort of fascinating investigation into andrew tates little fake empire it turns out his own defense lawyers are now claiming that he was renting all those expensive cars and all the rest well according to straight arrow news a leak of sensitive information from the manosphere influencer andrew tate's online empire reveals his war room program teaches men to accumulate wealth attracting control women and penetrate the elite including by exploiting the sexual misbehavior of wealthy acquaintances so apparently his penetrating the elite class in his war room program offers espionage training for subscribers aimed at digging up secrets on wealthy individuals for leverage in business deals so literally running it out by literally trying to find information to blackmail people and this person was again touted by people who are fairly highly respected on the conservative right the attention economy creates an incentive for retardation and the retardation that affects your politics which is why you have people like alex jones and sneeko who are somehow part of our political conversation sneeko who literally took an online iq test and got a 95% 95 isn't good for those who have a 95 iq 95 is a bad score the average american iq is 100 genius level stuff from from sneeko but don't worry he and alex jones have conversations to the to the joy of of millions there was alex jones versus sneeko recently
Speaker 7the slavery that we take the women as slaves and inshallah inshallah you become abdul alex jones
Speaker 2so folks here is my plea it's a plea okay really for for your for the sake of your own brain cells which are being wiped out at an extraordinary rate in the attention economy of today do not follow these people do not do this do not do this to yourself this is your warning for today all these shows should come with a warning label you're about to annihilate entire segments of your prefrontal cortex and make yourself actively dumber and in the process by the way make politics dumber because politicians follow incentives and if they see that people get a lot of clicks they tend to follow those people this happens on the left it also happens on the right and spending a lot of time ripping on the left for their unwillingness to follow incentives and if they to divide off from say hassan piker which of course is shocking and astonishing and indicative of where they are politically but if the right does the same thing by embracing all of these figures again milo was traveling in these circles intern for marjorie taylor green frequent guests on people like tucker carlson tucker carlson himself a grifter extraordinaire very close with the vice president of the united states people in positions of power on the right who continue to pat on the head or hug many of the members of the grift industrial complex of the united states of america for years and years and years and years this is a bad and stupid way to do politics and here's what you can do as an american you cannot give your attention in an attention economy to these sorts of folks because when you do you're creating a political incentive for people to follow them and that would be a gigantic mistake republicans need to avoid the trap here it's a trap all americans really want politically speaking is normality nothing we have seen for the last couple of years we've seen this you will not end up in a position of victory it's like letting jerry springer dictate the republican party platform don't do it now again the attention economy and the the skewing of politics to meet it is of course not relegated to the right it's very much on the left as well and an attention economy like any other economy there's a competition there's a race for better quality and lower price hunter biden is attempting to raise everybody to the bottom no double entendre implied although kind of a little uh hunter biden yesterday announced that he was 48 percent gay best tweet on this somebody's tweeted well then he's by then hunter economy hunter biden wandering the wasteland that is our nation explaining that he is into um male appendages
Speaker 8are you gay um i only um only a little bit i think more or less than 50 percent what more or less than 50 percent uh uh 48.6
Speaker 2hmm well dude has done a lot of crack so there's that but again we're not going to spend our time with with hunter biden although he continues to wander the wasteland and landscape of american politics the left is also turning in the favor of idiot socialism true idiot socialism and some of the voices here are the actors i'll get to the actors in a second first i do have to explain that virtually every house democrat yesterday voted against a measure condemning socialism all right coming up democrats voted in favor of socialism the other day which again is not a gigantic shock but here is the thing that happened yesterday if i did the show using news from three weeks ago you would notice that immediately because information is only useful if you get it in time to actually do something with it but a lot of businesses manage their expenses by looking at old info they wait until the end of the month close the books and then they discover where the money went which is a bad idea ramp lets you see every dollar moving through your business in real time expense coding happens automatically transactions sync directly to your erp and instead of discovering bad spending after the fact you set the rules up front merchant controls category limits approval workflows so out of policy spending can be blocked before it ever happens and ramp gives businesses competitive credit limits based on real-time business financials with no personal guarantee required is already working for more than 70 000 businesses ramp reports 12 business billion dollars saved and 27 million hours of busy work eliminated the average company sees five percent savings and 16 revenue growth in their first year alone so stop running your business on last month's news stop waiting until next month switch to ramp see it all in real time new customers get 250 bucks off at ramp.com slash shapiro that's ramp.com slash shapiro ramp.com slash shapiro so the house republicans put forward a measure that condemns socialism in all of its forms only eight house democrats voted in favor of condemning socialism now the democrats voted in favor of condemning socialism in all of its forms only eight house democrats are claiming that if they'd stripped out there's a provision there that called for an election security crackdown and if they stripped it out they would have voted for it but i mean come on guys come on a lot of democrats are just unwilling to separate off from socialism because they think that it's so hot online socialism is the wave of the future of course you expect this from the actors the acting contingent david harbour famous from stranger things he is a big advocate of socialism except for himself presumably he gets paid a lot of money to do to do movies and i understand by the way why actors trend toward socialistic redistribution because they're artists and in the arts all standards that are applied to are subjective and so pretty much every actor walks around going there but for the grace of god goes a barista and so they think okay well you know i got there through luck and therefore everybody got there through luck and so we can just redistribute the luck i understand why actors feel this way because again there's nothing measurably better about david harbour than a dozen other actors who are here is david harbour along with the rest of the idiot socialist contingent promoting anti-capitalism
Speaker 9i don't know if it's the world or if it's our culture something where it's just very binary that like you're either alone and you're kind of like a weird bachelor or spinster or whatever that i think is a throwback from you know the olden days or you like get a family you get a house and you like sort of that's your castle and those are your people and it's like the rest of the world or we protect that what's ours there's a very sort of capitalist you know mindset to this ideology and i i think there's something about the communal uh living in america that i think we all kind of long for not not like a commune but like more like the idea of like um you know friendship and common ground and supporting each other and taking care of each other as opposed to just these family structures the nuclear family structures that exist independent of everything else yes he's against the nuclear
Speaker 2family now again amazing brian cox another very very rich socialist
Speaker 10i'm a socialist you know i'm a socialist you know for better or for worse i'm a socialist socialism as it was practiced by the labor party in the you know where it got to and i had to look at something particular i thought where am i going to go which is why i went back to my identity as a celt and how that had been subdued for so long in every aspect and what's going on in ireland now the whole conflict in ireland and how it's been dealt with you know that we've been subjects subjects to this one idea i believe in a federal state i believe in a state well not a united kingdom because it's never been a united kingdom i believe that we should be federal that each country should be autonomous and that we should come
Speaker 2together as a federation and by the way brian cox is worth 15 million dollars so uh very rich socialist but again this has become you know stock and trade for for a lot of people and in the click economy if you have enough clicks people start to mirror it joe rogan of course he would never consider himself a i would say a particularly well-informed voice on politics right that's not where joe considers himself he considers himself as i've said before caveman in search of answers is sort of the nature of joe rogan's show which you know that's fine but here he was essentially promoting the idea that what causes crime is america's distribution of resources which is not true okay one of the most debunked findings in social science is the idea that poverty is the causative factor in crime as opposed to very often
Speaker 11the other way around just imagine how much less crime there would be if no one was ever starving if no one was ever hungry no one was ever desperate if no one was ever worried about where their next meal was going to come from or where whether or not they're going to have a roof over their head it would change a lot of people's perspective because how many people act in a famine way they is it's a they have a lot of people who are in a famine way and they're going to have a famine mentality and the world me over so i'm going to the world over what would the world what if the world didn't go over what if like there's no more poverty what if the concept of poverty is like completely out the window and there is no poverty in this country well we could have already done that already we could have already done that yeah yeah sure like we don't need it but you would have to get all those rich people that are in charge of industry and running corporations and in government to agree to make the world a better place for everybody
Speaker 2oh that's all you'd have to do is all the rich people are doing it i mean god you know it's it must be the rich people who are just not generous enough joe rogan is worth 250 million dollars or how about jamelle hill who's made an enormous living off of just ripping american capitalism in the dumbest possible way she was on cnn last night and uh she suggested that capitalism is white supremacy and she was rudely disabused of this idea by camille
Speaker 12i've actually just described the basic facts slavery is an institution that is older than writing it predates capitalism the notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable is it absurd barely needs to be defended what do you mean it barely needs to be barely needs to be offended you actually have to articulate what the connection is how are these two things the same so here i'm talking about private property the right to exchange and sell it with whoever you like capitalism what does that have to do
Speaker 13with white supremacy it was intended to work versus how it's actually working i'm talking about how it's working right now today what is
Speaker 14what is the white supremacist dynamic of private property it's not working i think that's the
Speaker 2problem hey camille foster just you know saying basic truths but jamelle hill makes a great living i mean i assume that she is doing it for the paycheck but this has become de rigueur inside the democratic party again the attention economy drives toward the extremes and the extreme on the table suggesting that the american dream is really only possible in canada
Speaker 15see contrary to what we're taught that we are the land of opportunity where anyone with a dollar in a dream can make it in fact too few people have that first dollar economic data shows us that if you want to achieve the american dream well you should move to canada because it's twice as likely there here where you start predicts where you end um well that's not true at all
Speaker 2but again this is a fun talking point for the attention economy because you can always sell people back their own feelings of dispossession and envy always okay now the reality is that according to raj chetty via harvard university and opportunity insights april of 2025 the percentage of people born to parents in the bottom quintile who rise to the top quintile in the united states about seven and a half percent but the vast majority of people who start in the bottom quintile do not end up in the bottom quintile in the united states and when we say that canada you rise faster than in the united states well no you can skew those stats so it is true that if you start in the bottom quintile and you get to the top quintile in canada like 11.2 percent of people do that in canada but that's because the gap between the bottom quintile and the top quintile in canada is a lot smaller it's like saying a higher percentage of people make it from 10 to 15 than 10 to 100 because the reality is that in the united states to hit that top income quintile you have to go further you have to make an awful lot of money about one in six canadian dollars a hundred thousand dollars in canada compared to nearly one in four american workers hitting a hundred thousand dollars 4.8 percent of the active working population in canada surpasses that 100 000 us dollar income threshold but almost a quarter of the active working people in the u.s surpass that 100 000 income threshold so again this is fun with statistics the reality is there's tremendous income mobility in the united states we can always make it better but the reality is that 93 percent of the active working population in the united states is better off than their parents were by the time they reached their 30s according to cato 2023 86 percent of children from the middle three quintiles were better off than their parents by the time they reached their 30s and 70 percent of kids from the top quintile were better off than their parents by the time they reached their 30s in fact in the united states if you wish to be not poor you only have to do three things this has always been true graduate high school work full-time marry before you have kids those three things will not be permanently poor in the united states but again simple basic stuff doesn't get your attention in the attention economy well unfortunately it feels like the scavengers are on the rise one year ago today my book lines and scavengers was released it's the story of america and of the west and of the people trying to tear it down who are very very active right now i make the case in the book that success in this country comes down to talent and work ethic and that lions build they defend freedom and they give people a real shot at prosperity and scavengers are the people who want to rip down the entire civilization when i wrote the book i was more optimistic i was more optimistic i was more optimistic i was more that the lions were winning now 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Speaker 2so yesterday we discussed how republicans are in trouble come 2026 but there are some ways that republicans can push back the first way they can push back is that they can actually run on national security i said yesterday there are two issues in any election economics national security those are the only two everything fits in one of those two boxes and if you pick a third box it very rarely is going to be the decisive factor in an election there's some outlier circumstances like if one party decides to go insane and say boys can be girls or something but typically speaking it's about national security or your feeling of personal security and economics so what can republicans do well first republicans should be pointing out that on a national security level the border policy of the administration is correct first of all i think you could probably run on we deported milo and maybe win 130 of the vote it is the one thing that brings americans together well there are two dolly parton was great and milo yiannopoulos should be deported those are probably the two propositions that have 100 approval in the united states in any case here was representative jim jordan pointing out that democrats would love to reopen the borders which of course is true
Speaker 16democrat socialists now say we want these individuals to be able to vote it's part of their platform i mean you can't make this stuff up let in 10 million create sanctuary jurisdictions which makes it difficult to apprehend those people when they commit another crime don't pay ice who does the apprehending and oh by the way these people we want them to be able to vote in american elections that is today's democrat party that's the craziest stuff
Speaker 2i've ever heard he is right about that and the democrats by the way continue to double down on all of this kathy hokal is now accusing president trump of defunding the police like they understand that on a national security level they got a problem and so you got kathy hokal standing alongside zarmam donnie both of whom have opposed at every turn ice trying to blame the feds for losing. lack of police in New York.
Speaker 17The Department of Homeland Security, the agency created in response to 9/11, is withholding 40% of New York State's counterterrorism funding, yes, 40%. That's from New York State, the number one terror target in the nation, a place where just recently a terror plot against our state capitol was uncovered. That 40% adds up to $87 million, that's $87 million they owe us. Let me translate that in real simple terms, Donald Trump is defunding the police.
Speaker 2Okay, again, standing alongside Zorin Mamdani, both of you would love nothing better than to defund the police until the consequences hit. Back in February, Zorin Mamdani actually issued an executive order prohibiting federal law authorities from accessing non-public areas of city property like shelters or city-owned lots without a judicial warrant and banned ICE from using city land as a staging area. In May, Kathy Hochul did basically the same thing, they banned local law enforcement and county jails statewide from entering into agreements with ICE and restricted civil immigration enforcement in schools. Beyond that, Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen points out that New York is already sitting on $300 million in unspent federal Homeland Security funding. He says, instead of falsely accusing President Trump of defunding law enforcement, Governor Hochul and Zorin Mamdani should answer a much simpler question, why is New York demanding even more taxpayer money when it has failed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars already provided to protect its communities? And the immigration issue remains a winner for Republicans because the Democrats are so unbound from reality on all of this. The administration continues to push forward, by the way, Operation Rotten Apple, which is the name of an operation they've put forward, has now apparently taken over 2,000 criminals off the streets in the last 30 days. Here is Mark Wayne Mullen explaining.
Speaker 18Over the last 30 days, Operation Rotten Apple has taken over 2,100 criminals off our streets. That's the worst of the worst, 2,100. We focused on them all across the state of New York. These arrests, including the one in New York, are the worst of the worst. The arrests included gang members, rapists, murderers, and child predators, which I believe there's a special place in hell for those individuals.
Speaker 2I mean, again, this is a winning issue for Republicans. The fact that Democrats are so crazy on this issue is a big opening. OK, other issues where Republicans can run and do well. So I spoke briefly yesterday about the fact that the president seems discombobulated and unstrategic in his narrative approach. A lot of comments are saying, what about the war in Iran? How is that contributing? To Republican unpopularity going into the election? And of course, the fact that we are in a war that has now lasted from March all the way until September has confused people. It's the reason why I thought that the MOU and the unilateral ceasefire were bad ideas. If you are going to win the war in Iran, that also requires you explain to the American people that you actually are winning. And one of the shocking things that's actually happening right now is that the United States, believe it or not, is in fact winning. There's a reason why President Trump is no longer seeking. A renewed MOU with Iran. And the answer is because the United States has successfully reopened the strait to a large extent. Not only that, the United States's sanctions are really biting. The Iranian real is now 2.1 million to the dollar. Last night, the United States struck Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. Again, Iran is trying to recontrol the strait because they've lost control of it. And the United States is stopping them. The president says the strikes are large and powerful and in retaliation for, the Iranians failed attempt at adding sea mines to the strait, which currently has no mines. They've been completely removed or detonated. And the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down at our military base in Jordan. If the failed nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they'll be hit again at a much harder and higher level. But it will not be the biggest attack of them all. That is waiting in the wings. When it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trey Yinkst, who's Fox News' Middle East reporter, had a call with President Trump and he explained what the president is thinking.
Speaker 19I just spoke. I spoke with President Trump, who indicated that if the Iranians respond to these U.S. strikes against their country, the president said they'll be hit much harder. He went on to say today's strikes were a very big hit. And if it goes a third time, they're going to be totally wiped out as a country. Now, I asked the president what was hit tonight in Iran, specifically in the southwestern part of the country next to the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump says a lot of radar and added that they were trying to rebuild the radar systems in the United States. And then just before they completed this construction, that's when these strikes took place. The president says the USS George Washington, that new aircraft carrier that arrived in theater last week, is loaded to the gills with ammunition. And he indicated that they have enough to continue this fight against Iran, again, if the Iranians do decide to respond. As for any sort of possible agreement with the Iranians, President Trump says, I think an agreement with them isn't worth the paper it's written on. We gave them a lot of time. We gave them a lot of chances.
Speaker 2He is right about that. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson points out that we are having massive economic success against Iran. Again, you have gigantic, there's video emerging from Iran of lines that are probably miles long waiting to get gas because they have tremendous shortages. Like all the shortages are beginning to bite. Essentially, there is nothing left in the country. And now it's only a matter of time until the regime is faced with some sort of internal challenge. Here is Scott Besson talking with Larry Kudlow about all of this.
Speaker 20So, Larry, to be clear, the economic outcomes could not have happened without the initial kinetic success. Yes. So, you know, kinetically, we destroyed their Navy, we destroyed their Air Force, a large portion of their missile and drone inventories, and more importantly, probably 85 or 90 percent of their factories that have the ability to rebuild those. So, they have been, they are in extreme distress militarily. But financially, we are starting to see, you interviewed me at the Economic Club of New York in the spring of 2025, and I said, we are going to collapse the Iranian currency. It was at $800,000 to the dollar. It's shot through $2 million now. So, they don't have access to hard currency. Inflation is through the roof.
Speaker 2Now, he is right about all that. Again, the administration needs to explain what's happening in Iran and how the United States actually is going to deal with it. The United States actually is winning at extraordinarily low cost against a key American opponent. Besson, by the way, points out that the Strait of Hormuz won't even be a choke point in a couple of years because everybody is building pipelines that go the other way.
Speaker 20We could see the Iranians are trying to use the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point. It's not a choke point for the U.S., but it is a choke point for many, many other countries. And, but, you know, that will be bypassed in two years. In two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be... Like a worthless piece of water that the oil will be going on pipelines across the land.
Speaker 2So, again, there's a lot that the Republicans can say going into 2026. And one of those things is that actually Iran is losing. And that needs to be repeated. And the president put out a statement. I'm not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC fake news reported. I couldn't care less if they sign a worthless-to-them agreement. I like our position now much better. We have almost total control of the Hormuz Strait and their economy totally collapsed. They're just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? Now, obviously, it's easy for the president to say that, given the fact that last time the Iranian people rose up and tried to fight, 50,000 of them were murdered in the streets. But there aren't going to be a lot of choices for the Iranian people in the very near future, because when everything runs out, how does the Iranian regime pay its own fighters, for example? 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 concentrate of 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, and body. 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 armra.com slash shapiro.
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Speaker 2Okay, another thing that Republicans can do, aside from immigration and Iran, is they can... and just keep pointing out how crazy the Democrats are. Again, I've been critical of Ken Paxton as a candidate in Texas. I think, again, he is not doing a particularly bang-up job in Texas. With that said, James Tallarico is a field day for him. He should be going hog wild. He's got two months left. He should be going hog wild on James Tallarico's horrific candidacy. It is a terrible candidacy. Here he goes back in 2020 claiming that climate change and capitalism and white supremacy are oppressive systems.
Speaker 21Yeah, and I'm so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only in the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them.
Speaker 2Again, you know, like that guy for Texas, he also said in 2020 that Texas oil was not going to last. He said that industry is not going to last. And now he's trying to walk that back. The Tallarico campaign told Andrew Kaczynski over at CNN that his cringy past comments missed the mark. He's actually a capitalist who supports oil and gas. OK, if you believe that, then you are the mark. You are the sucker. Now he's out there saying they're going to claim we're all socialists. These are scare tactics. No, you're the one who said that capitalism needs to be destroyed, my dude. That was you. Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of his own actions.
Speaker 22They're going to claim that this new dream is radical. They're going to claim this new dream is extreme. They're going to claim we are socialists or communists or whatever sounds scariest in a headline. And we'll say back to them, is that the best you can do? These these are the same old scare tactics.
Speaker 2I was all scare tactics. You know, when people quote you. That's a scare tactic. By the way, in Nebraska, where Dan Osborne is running against Pete Ricketts. So he's losing to Pete Ricketts. But he was caught on tape, Dan Osborne, saying that he would love to abolish ICE, but he can't say that publicly.
Speaker 23I have people recording me, so I can't say I want to abolish ICE. I can't say those words. I'll be the state is made up of 50 percent Republicans, 26 percent Democrat, 24 percent independents. So my win. Numbers mathematically, I have to get probably 10 to 15 percent of Republicans to win this race. How am I going to do that by saying, oh, I love trans people and they should be able to play in sports like no, Jane, that's not how I win.
Speaker 2Yes, that's not how he wins. He might believe it, but that's not how he wins. And this is what the Democrats believe. They are as radical as radical can be. And of course, that applies to Abdul El-Sayed. The pro-terrorism, anti-American, America-hating candidate in Michigan who's putting out cutesy TikTok videos. Again, if voters fall for this crap, just log off, everybody. Just log off. If you vote for this crap, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 15I'm Abdul El-Sayed. I'm 41 years old and I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Oh, my name. Yeah, I love my name. A lot of people don't know this. It means servant leader right here on my bracelet. So what's my? My type? No corporate PAC money, ready to rock for Medicare for all. I got one goal here on Senate Island, and that's to pass Medicare for all. And I'm not afraid to step on people's toes. What's my red flag? I'm not here for love. I've been married for 20 years with two kids. What gives me the ick? Corporate money. People who think that we can't have guaranteed health care through Medicare for all. People who've got nasty toes. What do I bring to the Capitol? Michigan grit and grind and a whole lot of time thinking about this. If you want to win, you've got to win. If you want to win health care and you want corporate money out of your politics, I might just be your guy.
Speaker 2Oh, my God. Oh, my God. If you fall for this, you are one of the dumber people in existence. Just insane. Van Jones, one of the few honest Democrats left. Here he was talking about Abdul El-Zayed.
Speaker 24Abdul's position is a total and complete arms embargo against the state of Israel, including defensive weapons. That's an insane position. That says if Israel wants to pay for interceptors to stop a rocket coming from Iran or coming from Hezbollah or coming from us, an interceptor, we should deny them the right to buy the interceptors to knock down rockets going at Israeli children, women, men, babies. That's an insane position. And by the way, it offends me. Because that's, you know, Barack Obama was a part of creating that Iron Dome. A huge part. A huge part of creating those interceptors. Barack Obama thought that the Israeli people were in such a tough neighborhood, they needed to be able to knock down rockets. So you're telling me you're smarter than Barack Obama, you have better ideas about foreign policy than Barack Obama, and you want to de-plug and defund and take away Israel's, half the world's Jews' ability to defund.
Speaker 2That's an insane position. I'm going to give a brief shout out here to Dana Nessel. So Dana Nessel made what is perhaps the most insane comment in the history of Jewish politics. She's the state attorney general in Michigan. And she's an ambulatory psychotic, apparently. So she said that she wasn't going to show up to the Michigan State Convention because she didn't feel welcome there because there are so many people who hate Jews there. She gave a speech at an event. With El-Sayed. And there she said the following. She said that Jews were being forced into a stark choice thanks to, quote, members of our own party who seek the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and place the Jewish diaspora in jeopardy. But, she said, the election was bigger than Israel. And invoking Purim's Queen Esther urged Jewish voters to put their own feelings of personal safety aside. Quote, We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival. So, there's a lot to unpack there. Number one, she's admitting that members of her own party would like to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. But she says Jews should just go along with that for the sake of the world. So if the Jews have to die to stop global warming, that is fine by Dana Nessel. And then she has the temerity to quote Jewish scripture, like the Book of Esther, to that proposition. The Book of Esther is specifically about Jewish survival. That is literally what the entire book is about. So, basically, the argument that she is making, for those who are not biblically literate, is that Queen Esther should have allowed Haman to wipe out the Jews so that Ahasuerus would be able to triumph. That is the case she's making. Man, Democrats, it is a hell of a drug. It is a hell of a drug. My goodness. And we will conclude this section with an actual much-awaited Jennifer Welch. Again, every time you play Jennifer Welch, I believe an angel loses its wings. But we are at risk here. She was on with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, and she explained that the Republican Party is a death cult, which is weird coming from a party that believes it is legitimately an act of mercy to murder children.
Speaker 25I feel like we have to do reputational brand damage to the Republican brand. They're liars. Wealth never trickled down. They treat the military like they always have. Look no further than the USS Lincoln. All of this. Look no further than the USS Lincoln.
Speaker 2We are at risk here. We are at risk here.
Speaker 26We are at risk here.
Speaker 2Look no further than the USS Lincoln. Look no further than the USS Lincoln. You should date people with your own value system. If you're a conservative, you should not date people people who are very much on the left. If you are Jewish, you should date Jews. If you're Christian, you should date Christians. I think that that is a good way to go about these things because, again, when you are dating, you are dating to create a family unit, and that family unit should have the same approach toward the children. What she's saying there is not wrong. Now, again, her values are trash. I think that her values are totally wrong, which is why no one who agrees with me should probably date her. Now, AOC did have some comments about her concerns about having a baby because she couldn't afford childcare or something. It's just nonsense. It's just
Speaker 26absolute nonsense. I do think that for a very long time, I was very concerned. You know, if you're a working person here, you face a lot of the constraints that a lot of other working people across the country face, and it was very hard. It was very hard for me to imagine very basic things. For a very long time, it was very hard for me to imagine being able to have a baby here when childcare is so expensive. And I acknowledge that I'm, relative to many Americans, I am in a place of privilege, and even I don't know how it
Speaker 2would be possible. She doesn't know how it'd be possible to have a baby. Like, we do it all the time. And, you know, in fact, people all over the world who are much, much poorer than Americans have babies. All the time. But, again, it's society's fault that you are not having a baby. She also talked about her life decisions. She says she has career ambitions, and she wants love, and she wants family. Okay. Again, this is why conservative gentlemen, aim your cupid's arrows elsewhere.
Speaker 26You know, I think sometimes these conversations about political speculation happen very two-dimensionally, right? Like, is she going to run for this, or is she going to run for that? And for me, I make decisions about my whole life, right? It's not, it's not ever just in a career context. It's about how do I fit all of these things. And I feel like my ambition is not just a career ambition. It's about how do we get to soak up as much of this life as possible. And sometimes that has to do with doing really aspirational things with work, and sometimes it has to do with really big aspirations. And I think that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do the aspirational things with love and family. Right. And I was always raised as a family-first
Speaker 2kind of person. Well, I mean, that hasn't been. I have some skeptical questions about being raised as a family-first type of person, as a person who is literally deprioritizing that as the biological clock ticks. I mean, that's just a reality of choice-making. A very wise person once said that women can't have it all. They just can't have it all at the exact same time. Which is just true on a material level. You got to make choices in life, and she's making those choices. By the way, according to our sponsors over at Calchi, the Calchi market suggests that she is now riding at 16% for the Democratic presidential nomination. That puts her essentially tied for first with John Ossoff, who is having, again, a little bit of a moment. I don't think that moment is likely to last very long. Gavin Newsom has dipped pretty significantly, so it seems like his hot moment is ending. He peaked too early. Meanwhile, we speak social liberalism and the left. It is incredible. So the left is dramatically oriented against the idea that nature exists. According to them, everything is merely a societal construct. Sex is a societal construct. Sexuality is a societal construct. In fact, in fact, they want to have it both ways. They want to say that trans is an inborn quality, but heterosexuality is environmentally driven. They're Kiki Palmer and Laverne Cox on the idea that parents influence their kids to be trans, which by the way, is obviously and clearly true, which is why you have everyone in Hollywood with a trans kid and nobody in Peoria with a trans kid. But apparently they believe that actually it's parents who cause their kids to be straight, which by the way, if that's true, then better for society since we do need the people to have the babies. And that happens when the men have the sex with the ladies. That's how that works.
Speaker 27Here we go. People were sort of talking about, well, you know, children are too young to make their kids straight. And I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. about this and they don't know when parents are forcing the idea and people are saying so many people are saying that parents are forcing their children to be trans. I was like, that is the most ridiculous thing ever. And it completely discounts all of the conservative parents who find themselves with trans kids and have to navigate it. But I never understand that because if that were the
Speaker 14case, if people could make somebody anything, well, what about all the hetero stuff y'all pushing? You get what I mean? If that, if you could force somebody to be anything, shouldn't we all be whatever the thing y'all pushed? You know what I mean? Like it doesn't make, you can't, you know what I mean? That doesn't
Speaker 2really, it doesn't really work. Hmm. Hmm. It doesn't, it doesn't really work. Well, I mean, life is a combination of genetics and environment. I know these are controversial statements and genetically speaking, it turns out that actually, actually the vast majority of humanity is geared toward heterosexuality because that is evolutionarily beneficial. But oh, well, you know. Okay. Well, I will say that the radical left trans movement seems to have passed on a cultural level. So people are pointing out the differences in, in how Calvin Klein is approaching its advertising. You can tell a lot by, by how the advertisers do their business. So if you go back just a couple of years, you may remember Calvin Klein featuring a pregnant trans man in its ads, you know, like a woman who took some testosterone to grow a beard. In the Calvin Klein ads. Um, so that was what they were doing a couple of years ago. And they also had a pretty woke commercial that they debuted a couple of years ago. A few years back, there was that commercial with some, some large ladies. I am not a moment. I'm a force to
Speaker 27be reckoned with. I am Chica.
Speaker 2Calvin Klein. They had to draw back the camera about three. I mean, you got to fit people in the frame. The, uh, the, the, yeah. Well, things have changed because now Calvin Klein is bringing out ads with Sadie Sink, an attractive young woman dancing around in her underwear. Which again is probably likely to sell more underwear than, you know, the lady who appears to be welded to the furniture. Uh, so here we go. This was making the rounds yesterday. Okay. Here she is checking her, her home and then dancing around in her undies. And then apparently this causes a flood to emerge. In her house. And she seems unconcerned about the flood that had broken out in her house. Also, there's electrical devices going off, which seems dangerous. We have a flood and also electrical devices going off.
Speaker 23Calvin Klein.
Speaker 2Yes. I mean, this is how women normally operate around the house. I've been well informed by, by, you know, all the females. This is what they do. They, they tend to like, if, if the sink just explodes, then pretty much all women just stand there posing, uh, in their jeans. So yeah. The times have changed. Times have changed. Now, again, I think that we've reached a pretty low point in society when we have to have a cultural celebration that more attractive women are in advertising. I'm old enough to remember as a conservative, when conservatives were pretty exercised about Paris Hilton, flirting with a car while eating a cheeseburger. Cause they're like, uh, this seems like kind of soft core porn. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition. Um, but we're not apparently, um, well, you know, we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of tradition.
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