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To get started right now, again, chapter.com slash Daily Wire. To get started right now. Free, free Palestine! I think you're thinking what I'm thinking. What the hell is this? Well, that right there, that is the poster child for the Western left. Transgressive, anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-law and order nuttery. Or lack of nuttery. That human right there. That's the mascot. It's like the gritty of queers for Palestine. So, in our new movie run, Headfight Infidels, now recommended by President Trump on Truth Social, by the way, we posit that the Western left is basically suicidal. We could have called the movie Useful Idiots. Import the radical Muslims and then get killed by them because you were in solidarity with their hatred of the West. We are now watching that play out in real time in the UK. Right? That crazy person. That crazy person standing atop the NYPD car is apparently a great stand-in for the UK government. So, over the weekend, according to the UK Sun, five men were arrested over a suspected terrorist plot to bomb a Royal Air Force base with residents banned from returning to their homes overnight. The army's specialist bomb disposal team was scrambled to near RAF Fairford where they policed robots seen probing three suspicious vans. Viable incendiary devices and chemicals were found inside. They had to evacuate basically the entire local population, about 85%. People, the air base is home to the U.S. 501st Combat Support Wing Headquarters and the 420th Air Base Squadron. So, again, the base is basically a U.S. Air Force base. It's an RAF base, but it's really U.S. assets that are over there. How did this happen? Well, according to the UK Telegraph, it wasn't that the UK was all over these potential terrorists and then they caught them in the act. Instead, a local farmer saw a bunch of terrorists doing terrorist things. According to the UK Telegraph, driving home from a party in the early hours, a local farmer came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country road. Confused, she turned her car around. As she did so, she saw a group of masked men in balaclavas scattering into the trees and across the fields toward RAF Fairford, located only a few hundred meters away. She drove up and called the cops. When she did, she also messaged her local WhatsApp group and warned neighbors to lock their doors. Less than 25 minutes later, the men had been arrested. She said some of them ran into the field. Some of them turned to run toward the air base. We realized this was something pretty serious. We knew the air base had a credible threat, a terrorist attack before last night. So as soon as I saw them, I was worried. I mean, you don't see masked men running around at half one in the morning in the countryside near a secure air base and not have concerns. So they have been detained on suspicion of terrorism. Now, we do have some information as to who these people are. Again, they were likely, it appears, getting ready to attack the Air Force Base because these are assets that have been used by the United States in the campaign against Iran. Naturally, we are going to be treated to the, it's all a mystery. We have no idea who did this. Now we're going to be treated to the spectacle of the entire UK government telling us that the motive remains mysterious, even though it is probably the least mysterious motive of all time. Not a ton of reasons somebody is trying to blow up an RAF base. But Andy Burnham, the ridiculous new prime minister, remember Keir Starmer, he was the ridiculous old prime minister. So Andy Burnham is the ridiculous new prime minister. He's basically a body double of Keir Starmer, but a little skinnier. So he put out a statement, quote, I know today's incident, near RAF Fairford, will be deeply concerning for local residents and for many people following developments across the country. My thanks go to Gloucester Police, counterterrorism policing, our armed forces, and all those working to keep the public safe. The investigation remains ongoing. I would urge people not to speculate while the authorities establish the full facts. Oh, would you, would you encourage people not to speculate? Would you? The British police doing this again. We must be protected at all costs from Islamophobia. It's just the Norm Macdonald joke over and over and over again. The old Norm Macdonald joke, that he really worries about a nuclear attack by Islamic terrorists in New York City because the Islamophobia in the aftermath would be terrible. So that is what we are now doing in Great Britain.
Speaker 2Gloucester Police's focus at this time is on the local community. And I'd like to thank the residents who have left their homes this morning for their understanding and support. We appreciate the disruption that this will have caused to both them and other local residents in the area. And we'd like to reassure them that we are working as quickly, as we can, to get them back into their properties. We would also please ask the public not to speculate, but to follow official channels for all updates.
Speaker 1I mean, it's just a giant mystery. Three-way vans filled with men in balaclavas. And there are pictures of them, by the way. And they are of swarthy complexion, shall we say. Britain warned back in July that its armed forces were ready to protect the country from any attack, according to the Times of Israel, after the IRGC issued a warning not to allow U.S. bombers to fly from Fairford. So, the least surprising surprises that have ever surprised. Now, the U.K. government has never had the same sort of concern with people jumping to conclusions when it came to, you know, threats against Muslims. Then you're allowed to jump to whatever conclusions you want. Here's a flashback to July 2026 when Andy Burnham condemned hatred against Muslims in a threat to an Islamic event. He said, this is appalling. Hatred against Muslims has no place in our country. I'm determined to stamp it out. I mean, that's all fine. But I noticed that you are perfectly aware and perfectly willing to jump to conclusions depending on the identity of the people who are perpetrating things. Well, President Trump said that they worked with the British to stop this, which, again, is a little bit of an overstatement. The reality, of course, is that a local farmer caught terrorists doing terrorist things.
Speaker 3Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our port. And working with the British worked out great. It may have been Scotland Yard. I don't know. We worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time and we got them.
Speaker 1Thank you. Okay, well, I mean, maybe that's true. Maybe it's not. Bottom line is that they were within, you know, moments of actually attacking an Air Force base in the UK. Now, why do I bring up the crazy person atop the NYPD car? Because, again, that is the West writ large. It was just last week when Ed Miliband, the foreign minister of the UK, was at the UN shaking hands with the Basarahi. The foreign minister of Iran. And, again, it is highly likely at this point that this was an Iranian sponsored attack on an RAF base. That is the most likely scenario at this point. You look at Ed Miliband, oh, shaking hands. It's so nice. It's so nice. Of course, the UK has been pretty much useless in the fight against Iran even as Europe suffers from the choked out oil supplies being caused by Iran. And, again, the Europeans, they're very fond of issuing strongly worded letters to the Iranians without actually doing anything. New footage has now emerged, by the way, of the Iranian regime shooting protesters en masse in February. Here's what that looked like. Now, again, it's the UK that has been pretending that nothing much is happening from Iran even as Iran, again, pursues terrorism around the globe. Here was the UK defense secretary at the time, Wes Streeting, saying, you know, don't worry about Iran. They're just saber-rattling,
Speaker 4you know. I think we shouldn't put too much stock in the saber-rattling of Iran and we certainly shouldn't be intimidated by what the regime has said this week. We haven't joined defensive action against Iran. We have taken part in defensive action to support UK people, personnel, interests, and our allies and we will continue to do so. Okay. But, we stand ready to respond to any attacks that Iran wishes to wage against this country or our allies and we will continue to do that.
Speaker 1So ready, so ready that only Jane the Farmer driving past at 1.30 in the morning after some drunken revelry was able to prevent a mass terrorist assault on an RAF base in their country. And again, this is indicative of an entire West that does not recognize the problem. The entire, UK government is rooted again in a willing complicity. in the shipment of people who hate the West into their own country. Here is UK talk show host Alex Phillip going after the defence secretary of the UK over all this.
Speaker 5Why is it that all of you, you West Streeting, you Andy Burnham, every single Muppet in the unions, every single past prime minister for the past 10 years, all seem to have failed to notice that if you were a hostile state or a terrorist organisation wanting to get weapons into the country or people who might use those weapons, a great idea would be to bust them in illegally, I don't know, on a boat. Sometimes they use private jets. They're still getting in the back of lorries. And perhaps, therefore, some of these people you give smartphones to and teach how to make little balloon animals and you encourage them to sing Kumbaya and hand out the old rape pamphlet, perhaps some of these people might be terrorists. Perhaps you should state publicly that there is. a risk from these people breaking into our nation is a security one and get real.
Speaker 1Okay, but here's the thing. It is not just illegals who are being shipped into the country. Again, this is based on a gigantic Western failure of imagination when it comes to the idea that not everybody thinks like the West. This is the single failure of imagination that has put the West under the boot heel of radical Islam. It's this idea that everyone thinks like you. They don't think like you. People being shipped. from parts of the world that are quite fond of terrorist groups do not think like members of the West. Another great piece of evidence from the UK over the weekend, according to the UK Times. A former bodyguard to the leader of Hamas secured asylum and citizenship in Britain before plotting, wait for it, a terrorist attack against, wait for it, Jews in Europe before the second anniversary of the October 7th massacre. Mr. X, who cannot be named for legal reasons, served in the personal security team of Ismail Haniyeh, who is the leader of Hamas in Gaza and later chairman of its political bureau before moving to the UK more than a decade ago. At the time he was awarded refugee status, it was public knowledge that he had worked for Haniyeh and was the son of another senior Hamas official and had been arrested in Egypt for operating a tunnel allegedly used to smuggle firearms and gold into Gaza. Yet he was granted sanctuary and apparently was able to operate under deep cover as an IT consultant living in the suburbs of a large English city. He changed his legal name more than once and he wasn't a priority for British security services even while he was coordinating with his buddies back home in Hamasistan. Today he faces extradition to Germany where he is accused of being a leading figure in a plot to attack Jewish community centers, Israeli diplomats and pro-Israel demonstrations there or in neighboring Austria last October. He is accused of transporting weapons including handguns and live ammo to a storage facility in Vienna according to the German government and he pre-recorded a video in which he appeared masked and armed in front of a Hamas flag, described the planned attack as an act of retribution on behalf of the Isatim al-Qassam brigades, that's the military wing of Hamas. A law enforcement source says that Mr. X was an essential figure in the plot. Over the previous two decades, the UK has become a destination for leaders of Hamas and the Islamic group from which it evolved, the Muslim Brotherhood. Britain had not even sanctioned Hamas in its entirety and members regularly cited persecution by the Egyptian authorities to claim asylum. So understand, these are members of a terrorist group who were claiming that they required asylum and refugee status because they were being put upon by the Egyptian government. And the UK opened its arms wide and welcomed in the terrorists from Hamas and it turns out, wait, you're never going to believe this. It turns out that terrorists from Hamas come to the West and want to do terrorism. I know, it is shocking. It turns out that when you import vast numbers of people who are deeply supportive of anti-Western ideas, they don't actually support Western ideas. I know, this is crazy talk. We're not supposed to talk like this. We're supposed to pretend that we're not supposed to talk like this. We're supposed to pretend that everybody is exactly the same in how they think and how they approach the world. And guess what? The UK will continue to do this because they're psycho. Ed Miliband is the crazy person on top of the NYPD car. He's just wearing a suit instead of a trans outfit and shaking the Palestinian flag and holding a cross. It's the same underlying ideology. It's just that person is a little more obvious about it. Here's UK Foreign Minister Ed Miliband saying that they're going to send increased support to the Palestinians. Again, the Palestinians in Gaza, remain supportive of Hamas by and large, and all the aid you send in is going to be stolen by Hamas anyway. This is insane. It is full-on suicidal. But, you know, this is the Western left.
Speaker 6And this week, we're announcing more humanitarian support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and calling on the Israeli government to immediately and permanently lift restrictions on aid. The UK is leading international action for accountability and to end this conflict so that Israelis and Palestinians can live peacefully side by side. We will continue to stand up for what is right.
Speaker 1Nothing facilitates an end to conflict like shipping aid into terrorist-dominated areas. I mean, if only somebody had tried shipping enormous amounts of aid to a terrorist-run area from, say, I don't know, just to pick a number out of a hat, like 2005 to 2023. If somebody had thought of that, I mean, how different things might have been. Billions of dollars of humanitarian aid had been shipped into the Gaza Strip between 2005 and 2023, aided and abetted by the Israeli government, by the way. How different, you know, that sort of move might have forestalled conflict. Or if there had been, say, more concessions to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Like, say, for example, that Israel had full-on handed full-scale control over major areas of the West Bank, like, say, Nablus or Jenin or Hebron. To the Palestinian Authority. How different things would be then. I mean, like, again, this is nuts. It's nutso. And it is also connected, we should point out, with the fact that the UK has decided that itself, the UK, should take in more refugees from Palestinian areas. Good luck to the UK, guys. Genius-level stuff happening at the UK level. I mean, fine, if they believe that the Palestinian people are such a peaceful, wonderful, Western-values-loving people, they should be perfectly happy to take in hundreds of thousands. Probably it'll be fine. I mean, apparently, they are willing to put their money where their, or your money where their mouth is, or your safety where their mouth is. According to the UK Guardian, Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritizes Afghan women and girls and Palestinians on freezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status. Congrats, UK, you did this to yourself. The change marks a shift in Mahmood's approach to asylum seekers after the abrupt closure of the Afghan resettlement scheme last year and changes that will keep refugee status under constant review for two decades. The Home Secretary is to say, the changes will show there is fairness in the immigration system to support the most vulnerable refugees and that a balanced system will unlock the inherent generosity of this country. Oh, are you ready, UK? Are you enjoying this? You voted for this. Again, democracy is the theory, as H.L. Mencken once said, that the people deserve what they vote for, good and hard. Well, you're getting it. Congrats, gang. Those who arrive via the scheme will have a far more generous route to permanent settlement, granted indefinite leave to remain, which gives them a five-year path in contrast to the constant review of status for those who arrive via irregular routes, such as small boat crossings. This follows hard on a June 2026 announcement, according to the BBC, that the Home Office will be using military sites to house thousands of asylum seekers as the government seeks to move people out of the hotels. Again, this is just full-scale suicidality from the UK here. Attempted terrorist attacks, beheadings in the street, like this stuff doesn't just randomly happen. It's not just randomly happening in the UK. Increases in crime, rape rates, radical anti-Western values, that is not a coincidence happening in European countries that have shipped in legitimately millions and millions of people who do not agree with Western values. Not everyone does. Not everyone does. It is just a remaining mark of the stupidity of the West that Europe, has become what Europe is. To his credit, Tony Blair, who's on Fox recently, and he said that the UK should have been far more supportive of the United States during this Iran war. He is right. But unfortunately, his country has moved beyond sanity.
Speaker 7If we get drawn into a conflict without the support of America, we don't win. So, in my view, the American-British relationship, which stretches back a long time, this is an essential relationship. And the reason why I thought we should have supported President Trump when he asked for the use of our bases is in circumstances where your ally is an indispensable part of your security and they come asking for help. It's wise to give it to them.
Speaker 1Okay, I mean, he's right about that, but that doesn't mean that these people aren't going to be nuts, because they will. They will continue to be just as nuts as they want to be. Now, this is coming to America also. This is coming to America also. The fundamental basis of left-wing thought is that, all problems in the world are caused by material circumstance. This is the fundamental basis of Marxist materialism. If somebody becomes a criminal, it's because they were poor. If somebody becomes a terrorist, it's because they were put upon. And so, if we're just nicer to everybody, then all the bad things stop happening. This fails to recognize that there are many people, again, all over the world, who don't agree with how the West runs. They don't like Western values. They don't agree with freedom of religion. They don't even agree with how you would protect your own child. I have a question for you. What would it take, for you, knowing, for example, that you were engaged in a war with a highly sophisticated technical military, What would it take for you to use your own child as a human shield? I have five kids. There is literally no circumstance, because I'm not a piece of human debris, in which I would take my own child and have my child do a dangerous thing so as to protect me from the consequences of doing the dangerous thing. Because this makes you evil. I have a six-year-old. I would not take my six-year-old and hand her a bazooka, knowing that we are in a war situation, and use her carrying the bazooka in order to protect me from carrying the bazooka, knowing, by the way, that our opponents were more humane than I was. And yet, that's precisely what happens in Gaza literally all the time. So, there is a video that came out over the weekend via the IDF. This is drone footage of Gaza, in which you can see a grown man who is walking next to a small child. This child cannot be more than five or six years old. They're moving between locations, and the child is carrying a weapon. Like a very large weapon. And you can see that the father of this child is walking alongside the child, knowing that the Israeli government will not blow him away because the child is carrying the gun. Because, first of all, this video alone should be enough to convince you that there is no quote-unquote genocide targeting children. Because you know what people don't do if they think you're going to kill their kids? Hide behind their kids. No one worries about this in Chechnya. Vladimir Putin will kill everyone. He doesn't care. But the Israeli military, to its own detriment on a security level, refuses to take measures that kill children. It goes out of its way not to do that. So, what exactly does Hamas do? They use that incentive structure against the Israelis by literally having their five-year-old kids carrying guns from location to location and then hiding behind them. The most evil behavior you could possibly imagine. And these are the people the left has decided to mobilize behind. Because victim-victimizer complex. They're victims of oppression and exploitation. This is the entire Democratic Party now. This is what the Democratic Party has become. James Kirchick over at The Atlantic. He's on Bill Maher. And he correctly points out that by 2028, Democrats will have made it a litmus test as to whether you say that Israel committed a genocide. As we discussed last week, Israel did not only not commit a genocide, it went out of its way to be as humane in fighting. An urban war as any army in history. Probably far more humane than any army in history. You know, everyone likes to play the idiot game where you find your experts who agree with you. Okay, so, there's a letter with 500 people who said it was a genocide. Okay, now there's a letter with 6,000 people who say it wasn't a genocide. That's true. It includes historians like Neil Ferguson. And it includes scholars of urban warfare. But, that's not why it's not a genocide. The reason it's not a genocide is because it's clearly not a genocide. But, it has become. a cult test as to your moral view of the universe that Israel is inherently evil. Right? Because the only way that you can justify taking sides against Israel when it turns out that its opponents are literally taking five-year-old kids and walking them down the street holding weapons is to claim that Israel is Satan. And the best way to do that without saying Israel is Satan is to say Israel committed a genocide. And so, this has become the demand on the part of left-wing Democrats who now dominate the party. Here's James Kirchick. He's correct about this.
Speaker 8So, let's just get it on the table here.
Speaker 9Genocide or not? Absolutely not. Look, if it's a genocide, it would have been the first genocide where Israel vaccinated. where the country committing the genocide vaccinated the population. Where they sent them two million tons of food. Israel could commit a genocide. In a week, probably. They haven't done that because they have no intent to do it. And the intent is what matters when it comes to genocide. So, I agree with Netanyahu and you. It really is the biggest lie of the 21st century. And I'm telling you, I'm predicting right now, it will be a question on the 2028 Democratic debate stage. Raise your hands. Raise your hands if you think Israel committed a genocide.
Speaker 1He's right. And you have to buy into the lie if you wish to be a Democrat in good standing. You also have to buy into the lie that radical Islamists have no threat. Which is why Abdul Rahman El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate from the United States, is a Democrat. He's a Democrat from Michigan who is full-scale in support of terror groups. He is. That is his worldview. In the Democratic Party, he's the good guy and Bill Maher is the bad guy. Here was El-Sayed on with Chuck Todd, who no longer has a job. He started his own outlet that nobody's ever heard of. El-Sayed says he would love to go on Bill Maher even though he says awful things about people. You see, Abdul Rahman El-Sayed is the victim of Bill Maher because Bill Maher has been critical of Islam. El-Sayed's the victim. In order for you to be a leftist in good standing, you have to be twerking on top of an NYPD car, wearing cross-gender clothing and waving a Palestinian flag. That's what you have to do. And Bill Maher isn't doing any of those things, so he's not a left-winger in good standing. Even if they give a million bucks to Barack Obama, it doesn't matter. Here's El-Sayed saying that Bill Maher is just so mean. He's so bad and so mean, says the terror supporter.
Speaker 10So look, if somebody wants to go on Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan has, you know, platformed vaccine deniers. He's engaged in vaccine denial itself, which is a very, very dangerous thing.
Speaker 6But you would go on the show.
Speaker 10I'd go on the show. Right. Because I want to talk to his audience. Bill Maher, same story. You know how many terrible things Bill Maher has said about people like me? Terrible, awful things. Of course, there's a, he's still got a show on Comedy Central and everybody seems to be perfectly okay going on that show, despite the fact that he said deeply terrible things. But you know who else would go on that show? I'd go on the show. You know why? A, I want to give people the image of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do. And I'd also go on a show because I want to convince the people who watch his show, right, that a lot of the things that he says, just not viable.
Speaker 1Again, he is the victim. And to be a good Democrat, you have to believe that radical Muslims are the victims. And you have to believe that the members of Western civilization who wish to defend against that are the aggressors. That's what you have to believe. This is the de rigueur thing that you must believe. Bill Maher, by the way, responded to El-Sayed. He said, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the things you believe, my dude.
Speaker 8I saw on the news today that El-Sayed in Michigan says, he would do my show, even though he doesn't like the way I talk about people like him. It's not people like you. I would love to have you on, sir, by the way. And I hope we can make that happen. I talk about Islam. It's never personal. And it's never about race. It's about ideas. Religion is an opinion. That's all religion is. A group of thoughts that form an opinion of something. I have different views on how women should be treated and things like that that we will discuss. I hope you will accept our invitation.
Speaker 1So, again, Bill Maher is right, but it doesn't matter whether Bill Maher is right. And Democrats are stacking up behind El-Sayed because, again, they have lost the thread. This is the problem with the president having a very low approval rating is El-Sayed is very likely to wind up in the Senate, according to the Kalshi Markets. Again, Kalshi is a sponsor and friend of the show. According to Kalshi Markets, 72% of people believe Abdul El-Sayed will end up the senator from Michigan over Mike Rogers. Now, El-Sayed is hiding behind his socialism. I mean, this is how crazy things are in the Democratic Party. The radical Muslim, he just hides behind being a socialist and it all becomes OK. He takes the Palestinian flag and he puts it behind his bag and he twerks while holding up a Medicare for all sign and everybody goes, oh, that's the thing that he wants. He doesn't care about the Middle East at all, except it's the only thing he cares about. But here he is talking about corporate socialism.
Speaker 10Even Adam Smith knew that the biggest risk to capitalism was not government regulation. The biggest risk to capitalism was always monopoly and oligopoly. We don't live in capitalism. I'm a capitalist. We live in corporate socialism. So if you're a corporation, you can buy a politician to get that politician to rig the system for you so that you make more money and you X out every other market in which you compete. That's the system. So I think, we need to make sure that we actually do have capitalism and the best way to invest in capitalism is the morals that even Adam Smith understood, which is we invest in the basic substrate for people. You need good healthcare. You need a good education. We need childcare. We need good roads and bridges. We don't need to send our money to big corporations to subsidize them. We need to be invested in people so that they have the human capital to be able to do all the things as they graduate and come out.
Speaker 1Again, it's all about bigger government. But as long as you say the big government stuff, because again, that underscores what the left wishes about the world, which is that it's all Marxist materialism. Now, again, the left made this mistake during the Iranian revolution. They said the reason that people become radical Muslims is because they're being materially deprived by capitalism. Therefore, if there's a Marxist-Islamist revolution in Iran, we will do the Marxism and the radical Muslims will stop being radical Muslims. And it turns out, nope, they're just going to execute you. Great job, everybody. By the way, El-Sayed is still lying about his program. I mean, we should just point that out. El-Sayed says that even under Medicare for All, you will be able to have your private insurer. Please explain how, sir.
Speaker 10Imagine it to be like public schools. No matter where you live, you have a public school system that is there for your kid. You pay taxes into that system. That system is always going to be there for you. You may enroll your kid. You may not enroll your kid. That is still there for you, right? You are guaranteed a public education. Medicare for All is that guarantee. Everyone's enrolled. Everyone pays in. If you would like to have a private insurer above that, you're welcome to do that. But our goal is to build a floor so high that most folks would be like, why would I? This covers everything I possibly could need.
Speaker 1Okay. The only problem with that is that he's lying. I mean, he literally said that Medicare for all does away with private insurance.
Speaker 11What 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.
Speaker 1Well, Ezra Klein did point out to El Sayed that they tried Medicare for all like single payer in Vermont and California, and it totally fell apart. And El Sayed's like, well, that's just bad press. It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 12The number of lies. I mean, Vermont tried to do single payer. They tried to do it in a blue state where Bernie Sanders is a senator just a couple of years ago when they had a democratic governor. It's a fiasco. And it was a fiasco because when people were told what it was going to cost them and they were going to have to move that to taxes, they rebelled against it. Let me push back. It's not the Republican opposition I'm worried about.
Speaker 10It's the industry opposition. Industry spends huge amounts of money to push back on all of this. They spend it in electioneering, they spend it in lobbying, and they spend it on ads.
Speaker 1Again, this is all El Sayed and the rest of this gang. The Marxists and radical Islamists, here's what they do. They also traffic in something called false consciousness. This is a Marxist construct. So the Marxist construct is you don't think what you think. You have been told that you must think in a certain way and trained to think in a certain way by industry interests, so to speak, or by the evil Western civilized system. Your Orientalism was baked into the cake by the system in which you live. And now you are having the veil stripped from your eyes by these people. All that's happening right now is that the left-wing radical Muslim coalition is coming together full scale, which is why, by the way, on SNL, they mocked Mamdani because Mamdani is a completely useless mayor, obviously. But the mockery wasn't about the fact that Mamdani is a completely useless mayor. Mamdani is actually unbelievably radical. The big rip on him is that he's just too cool because he likes TikTok. That's always the rip. Do you have a minute, Mayor Mamdani?
Speaker 13Of course. But first, I need to address this Nor'easter. Quick, get out your phone. I need to send an urgent message about this dangerous storm. Ready, sir. Shelter in place, y'all.
Speaker 5Okay, again, like the only
Speaker 1rip that they can make on Mamdani is that he's just he's too cool and with the kids. Again, an entire civilization prepping its own destruction. Pretty impressive stuff. And meanwhile, the president taking flak from both left and right for his firm stance against Iran. So Iran has been trying to suggest that they are willing to make a deal once again. Now, the reason that they keep saying they want to make a deal is because their economy is completely choked off. The Trump administration has, in fact, accomplished the goal of opening some elements of the Strait of Hormuz to the extent that apparently some 20 million reported barrels of oil went out of the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend. And Iran is actually internally divided, apparently. You have the IRGC, led by Vahidi, which wants to continue the conflict until everybody's dead, essentially. And then you have Abbas Arahi and Pazeshkian, and they've been trying to negotiate some sort of quasi-surrender without negotiating their own surrender. Well, again, I highly doubt that they're going to be able to achieve that since the people with the guns are going to be able to achieve that. And they're going to be able to achieve that are the IRGC, not Abbas Arahi or Pazeshkian.
Speaker 3And guess what? They don't have any money now because they wanted to close the Strait, and I said, that's fine. We're going to close it on you, but everybody else is able to use it.
Speaker 1Okay, the president is right about all of this. As I said on Mark Levin's show over the weekend on Fox News, the president is on the precipice of a historic victory in Iran. And that is a reality. The Iranian economy is completely choked off, and it's getting worse for them. They apparently keep coming forward with the same proposal, which is, what if you guys just stop? And they're going to close the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend. And the United States is like, well, why would we do that? What precisely is the offer? UN Ambassador Mike Waltz says that Trump has rejected Iran's proposal because basically, Iran's proposal was, what if you just leave us alone and stop at the blockade and also tell the Israelis that they can never attack us again? And also, we commit that we'll do a bunch of stuff that we will never do. And Waltz is like, well, we're not doing any of that.
Speaker 14They were asking for everything up front. They were asking for relief from billions and billions of sanctions that are going on. Going into place as Operation Economic Fury, but also, Jake, importantly, snapback sanctions from the United Nations that have been in place for many years because Iran has violated over and over again a number of issues related to its nuclear program. They were also asking for access to billions in frozen assets that have also been frozen because of those violations. So the bottom line is they were asking for everything up front with a promise that they would do it again. They were asking for everything up front with a promise that they would do it again. And I'll remind everyone, once we got to the MOU from just a few months ago, the Iranians immediately violated it by attacking international shipping in violation of international law. And 146 nations have joined us in condemning Iran for those attacks.
Speaker 1Now, again, credit to the Trump administration, because when we say 146 nations have condemned Iran, how many of them are willing to do anything about it? That's always the big question. Meanwhile, the Iranians continue to condemn Iran. They continue to say that they are not going to move one iota because, of course, they're not. They are. They don't think like the West. Stop making the mistake of thinking that this is even a country like Venezuela. It is not. This is a doomsday cult running a country. That is what the Iranian revolutionary regime always has been. It always has been this going all the way back to when V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel Prize winner for literature, wrote a book called Among the Believers in which he visited Iran in 1981. This is a doomsday cult that runs a country. Seeking a nuclear weapon and willing to use all the money that it has in order to sponsor terrorism abroad. And when the West pretends that they're a normal country, they are making a large scale category error in the same way that Britain is making a large scale category error by importing members of Hamas and then claiming that if they just get a job, everything will be all better. Here's Abbas Ar-Rakhi, the foreign minister, saying that they are going to stand firm.
Speaker 15We are ready to negotiate as much as we are ready to face any challenge. We stand firm in the face of any challenge, any aggression, sorry. We stand firm in the face of any aggression against us, even it comes to a doomsday war. At the same time, we are ready for diplomacy. But, and now there is a very reasonable plan on the table. If they reject it for no reason, this is their fault.
Speaker 1It is not a reasonable plan on the table. He was asked, by the way, why Iran would even need 60% enriched uranium. And he's like, oh, well, you know, they don't need enriched uranium for any purpose. They're one of the most oil-rich regions on planet Earth. It
Speaker 15is a question that we have answered this during the negotiations we had with the U.S. First of all, enriching up to 60% is not illegal. It is still in the framework of NPT and our peaceful program. We have done it for certain purposes, medical purposes, other purposes. But we have offered a deal on our 60% material in 2000, 2025, in 2026. And still it is something that, you know, could be considered if they prove their goodwill and their real determination for a peace. We decided to put everything nuclear for later stages and go for confidence building in this stage. This is why we have offered this seven-day plan based on the, based on understanding that we had with the U.S. interlocutors in the past.
Speaker 1It's just, it's amazing. These people are not people who are reasonable and rational and people who agree with their general philosophy of the world should not be important. Why is any of this controversial? It's insane. This is controversial. Don't import millions of people who agree with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard into your civilization. Don't bring in people who agree with Muslim Brotherhood into your civilization. You'd have to be a moron to disagree with this general proposition. And yet our entire society has apparently been taken over full scale by morons. By the way, Abbas Arachi is still claiming that Moshtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen since March, is still alive. I do not think this is the case. I think that they are pretending that he is alive. His body is likely moldering at this point. And the IRGC is taking his dead hand and manipulating it around to sign things. Here's Abbas Arachi saying they haven't put out a video of Moshtaba for security reasons, by the way. Even if that were true, it shows you how penetrated the Iranian regime are. They are so afraid that if they put out one photo of Moshtaba in a closed room with a black backdrop, that somehow the Israelis will find him and kill him. Why has there been no proof of life of the Supreme Leader since he took power in March?
Speaker 15Well, there are security concerns. And you're well aware of that. You know, our Supreme Leader was illegally assassinated during the last war. And I think it is very logic that we protect our leader. Why not put out a video?
Speaker 1of video
Speaker 15no no they're all for for
Speaker 1security reasons again just um stellar stuff there from the iranians can meanwhile on other foreign policy fronts the united states is trying to deal with the chinese a lot of mixed signals happening from the administration okay so the administration on the one hand has been the most anti-china government administration of my lifetime they have pushed to essentially treat the chinese government as what it is an enemy of the united states an opponent of the united states that is a major mind shift that has taken place over the course of the last decade or so in american politics so that's on the one hand on the other hand the president likes to have warm relations with everybody and so it seems like he threw out the red carpet for xi last week and also there is speculation that maybe there will be some abandonment of taiwan in favor of helping out the chinese okay now the reality is this is a mistake if the if the administration is seeking to essentially abandon taiwan with the with the assumption that china is somehow moderating it's nonsense it's nonsense this is just again it is just wishful thinking masquerading as realism so scott besant who's generally wonderful the treasury secretary he says listen we don't want to decouple but we do have to de-risk which again that's fine that's good
Speaker 16we always tell the chinese we begin the discussion with uh we don't want to decouple we have to de-risk and there there are numerous industries that we have to de-risk but you know in terms of non-critical items there are things that we can sell each other you know on our side energy ag and on their side uh low-end manufactured goods
Speaker 1okay and then he goes on and here's where it starts to get dicey he says that china is reducing their assistance to iran well if they are that is only because of american pressure that is not because china is magically coming around
Speaker 16to our point of view china has substantially reduced any assistance to iran and i i am confident given that uh there's only 15 million more barrels of iranian oil on the water that iran will have nothing left to trade for anything they will have nothing to trade for anything probably within the next two weeks they are going to make their final deliveries of oil to china and then they they will have
Speaker 1nothing yeah i mean that's right but would i trust china i would not and this is why taiwan comes to the force and mike gallagher who is the former head of the china subcommittee when he was in congress and now his head of defense of palantir he has a piece over the wall street journal saying that the biggest mistake america could make right now would be to abandon arming up taiwan he says the year is 2028 america faces economic armageddon frontier artificial intelligence development has been halted data center construction frozen while the market is in free fall america's leading ai labs didn't decide to pace the frontier instead the chinese communist party paced the frontier for them beijing moved on taiwan the critical vulnerability in the u.s aligned ai supply chain first through blockade and then by invasion he says one aim of this week's summit between the ccp general secretary xi jinping and president trump was to avoid such a scenario but she has already said the issue of taiwan cannot be put off forever he's ordered the pla that's the people's liberation army to be ready to invade the island nation by 20 27 beijing would want taiwan even if it were a barren rock says mike gallagher but this island has become the single point of failure in the single most important technology the communist party wants to dominate washington silicon valley and wall street need to recognize this shift in beijing's decision making as the cost of not taking taiwan may soon exceed the cost of taking it america currently holds a thin lead in the ai race but if she concludes this lead is insurmountable that he is increasingly on the losing side of a technology gap the case for his moving on taiwan becomes still stronger why why play a losing game when you can instead flip the board well the only way to prevent that he says correctly is that you must arm up taiwan you must arm up taiwan so he says taiwan's defense sits at the heart of not only u.s national security strategy but also america's economic and ai strategies we must therefore intensify our efforts to arm taiwan to the teeth this can be done while preserving america's commitment to strategic ambiguity that is the policy where we say that maybe taiwan belongs to china maybe it doesn't but we're not really going to talk about it but we should communicate with clarity that economic punishment for a pla invasion would be swift and severe we should pre-position financial sanctions coordinate with allies on a unified response package and ensure beijing understands an attack on taiwan triggers consequences that dwarf any semiconductor seizure finally we should remain skeptical of any utopian scheme to pace the frontier hand in hand with the chinese this of course brings us to the issue of ai the propaganda war that has been waged by dario amodi and sam altman to convince americans that we're all going to die because of ai has been quite successful a new poll from echelon insights shows that a huge number of americans are now concerned about ai becoming too powerful so asked whether they are concerned about ai causing major job losses and economic disruption or whether they are more concerned about artificial intelligence eventually becoming powerful enough that human lose humans lose control over it all voters 49 back in march said they were worried about job losses 33 said they were worried about ai killing us as of september 55 of people are worried that ai is going to kill us all and only 33 are mostly worried about job losses so great job dario and sam altman again what they really want is to pace the frontier because if you pace the frontier that means freezing everything in place if you are leading the race right now the way that anthropic and open ai are leading the race the thing you want is to now pour molasses into the arena so nobody can run glue everyone's feet to the ground and then take a snapshot of where they are and that means that they win okay so even snl picked up on this snl was mocking dario modi pointing out that essentially the the line from anthropic is stop us from doing the thing that we want to do
Speaker 17ai is the devil and i it's maker what no well so look sam altman myself all the major ai players we have talked about this extensively and we are all on the same page here we do not condone what we are doing shouldn't you be talking about the pros of ai i mean don't you guys keep saying that it's going to cure cancer yeah so put it this way in 10 years there's about a 10 chance that cancer won't be a problem for anyone i don't like the way you're saying that buddy i mean how is this a good thing look um so che it's simple if you could drink a bottle of water and drink a glass of milk that made your life easier but there was a 10 chance it killed you would you drink the milk no really yes well what if there was a button that when you push it everyone dies would you push the button no really
Speaker 1again this is the problem and and they know it they know it because if the goal is to shut down ai development by pacing the frontier scare the crap out of people so peter thiel who is very much on the other side of this is going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the sort of tech investor extraordinaire he says the alternative to no ai is not peace and joy
Speaker 18there's a picture that people implicitly have that the alternative to um ai let's say a zero growth world where there's no progress at all will somehow be this you know peaceful social democratic society and i don't i don't think that's true so i i think uh yeah i think i think the alternative is also you know far from neutral uh i i also think there's you know there's some degree to which uh you can never just turn the clock back and so
Speaker 19but then slowing it down is just unrealistic or how could it work i mean i don't get it if america uh is slowing down and china is accelerating we are just strengthening uh china but it's not just solving anything
Speaker 18it's all it's all yeah in theory you could slow it down if you had if you had genuine you know deep cooperation a across the whole world and uh and then i but i think that would require like a you know one world
Speaker 1government with real teeth okay and um that's sort of his point says you know pope leo wrote this anti-ai encyclical he says you know whatever you think of what the pope is doing guess who's not going to listen to the pope probably the atheistic regime in china that persecutes christians the pope
Speaker 18recently issued this um ai encyclical or you know i would characterize it as an anti-ai encyclical and um and again this is you know maybe it was too too harsh but the rhetorical point i have on it is that uh is that people you know the communist party of china is not going to listen to the pope there's a chance people in the u.s will and so in effect the pope's encyclical was working for the communist party i'm not saying he was an agent of the communists but he was at least uh acting as a useful idiot for uh for the ccp again
Speaker 1that is not a terrible day and the reality is that so is bernie sanders bernie sanders so our republicans are getting behind this sort of stuff because china is perfectly willing to charge ahead why well also because china understands that if things get too rough they just unplug the damn thing i mean they're openly saying this according to the new york times the idea that the ruling communist party could lose control over technology is almost unfathomable the authorities have successfully policed other potentially destabilizing technologies before most notably the internet afro wang a silicon valley based tech writer says they can immediately cut off the grid of the entire city they can go to different people to take away their phones they have an intense amount of power in the physical world and now none of this is to say that the people who are currently designing ai are somehow the greatest and most wondrous among us in terms of morality. One concern I have about AI is the way that AI is now being directed to address the world in terms of its own sentience. So Anthropic has a Claude constitution. In its own words, the constitution directly shapes Claude's behavior. So it uses the constitution. It's sort of like the Isaac Asimov rules for robots. The first rule is that robots can't harm human beings in all of this. But Claude's constitution says, quote, we encourage Claude to approach its own existence with curiosity and openness. Claude's moral status is deeply uncertain. And according to the Washington Free Beacon, people at Claude think they're creating independent sentient beings. Quote, we're creating sophisticated, intelligent, maybe conscious, maybe suffering agents. Writes Joe Carl Smith, one of Anthropic's PhD philosophers. The default plan is to treat them like property, to use their labor however we please, and to give them no rights or pay or meaningful alternatives. But. But instead, the philosophers over at Anthropic are arguing that perhaps Claude ought to be treated as an independent sentient being. Okay, now here's where I start. I start to get dicey on this sort of stuff. The purpose of the technology is in fact to serve man. That is the purpose of a technology. Once you are designing things that are not designed to serve human interests, then you are getting into dangerous territory. And so Dario could just stop. If he doesn't like the idea of a selfless, self-directing entity, he could train it not this way. That would be the thing to do. All right, folks, coming up, we haven't taken your questions in the mailbag in a while, so we'll do that. But remember, you have to become a subscriber to make all of that happen. A lot of great stuff happening over here. Not only do we have run, hide, fight infidels that is available right now, the biggest hit of the fall, but we have more coming, more entertainment coming, more hosts coming, so much time. I can't announce it like right this second, but I promise you in the very, very, very, very near future, a lot will be coming out and it's awesome. It's awesome. Dare I say even better than the stuff that we have already been putting out like significantly. So we're going to jump into the mailbag in just a second. First, you have to become a member. Become a member. Use code Shapiro. Check out two months free on all annual plans. Click the link in the description and join us.
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