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July 7, 2025 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Dems LIE, Blame Trump For Storm Deaths…PLUS, Illegal Immigrant “Superman”!

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	Alrighty, folks, an enormous amount coming up on the show today.
	We have all the fallout from this horrifying Texas flash flood.
	The media trying to blame Trump.
	It's absurd on its face.
	Plus, we have Superman going woke.
	I know another Superman iteration going.
	And Zoran Mamdani, the socialist prospective mayor of New York City.
	Well, it turns out when he applied to college, he said he was like a black guy from Africa.
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	Alrighty, folks, well, horrifying news over the weekend.
	At least 100 people are feared dead in six counties across Texas, according to ABC News.
	After deadly floods struck the state on July 4th, that's according to the latest information from state officials.
	The majority of those deaths, including at least 28 children, occurred in hard-hit Kerr County after heavy rain pounded the Texas Hill country region early on Friday, leading to catastrophic flooding.
	According to Kerr County Sheriff Larry Latha at a news conference on Sunday afternoon, at least 10 campers from the girls only Camp Mystic Summer Camp, along with the counselor, remained unaccounted for as of late Sunday afternoon.
	The film is absolutely shocking.
	I mean, you can see how the river absolutely overflows its banks over the course of time.
	This is a time-lapse video of the Yano River on July 4th.
	And again, it's astonishing.
	I mean, you can see how wide the river grows, how quickly it moves up onto the banks.
	And again, if there wasn't enough warning, it was very difficult for people to avoid this gigantic flood.
	And this isn't a rarity, unfortunately, in these parts of Texas.
	There have been situations like this before.
	According to Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes, which is a shocking, shocking increase, obviously.
	And that happened in the middle of the night.
	That river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes.
	It was a dry bed.
	It had been dry.
	There wasn't a lot to absorb it.
	It went down the rocks, and it was a destructive flood.
	Now, again, President Trump put out a statement saying that he had signed a major disaster declaration for Kerk County to ensure our brave first responders immediately have the resources they need.
	These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy with many lives lost and many still missing.
	The Trump administration continues to work closely with state and local leaders.
	Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, was on the ground yesterday with Governor Greg Abbott, who's working hard to help the people of his great state.
	Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard, together with state first responders, have saved more than 850 lives.
	God bless the families.
	God bless Texas.
	Now, none of this has stopped the media from immediately spinning out a lie.
	And this is true whenever there is a terrible situation that occurs in the United States.
	The first move is to try to find the person to blame politically.
	And sometimes that's justified.
	Sometimes it turns out that there could have been measures that were taken on a state or local level that could have prevented these things.
	What's kind of strange is how the media immediately turned to the national government as the source of the problem as soon as a Republican is in power.
	So, for example, when there were those massive wildfires earlier this year in California that ate up a huge percentage of the acreage in SoCal, a lot of the blame fell on local leadership as well as on Gavin Newsom.
	Hey, that at least is putting the blame where it probably ought to lie if you're going to do public policy decisions.
	Because of course, when you're talking about natural disasters, the first line of defense is the local and then the state government.
	It's not, in fact, the federal government.
	During the Lahaina fires in Hawaii, the first line of blame never went to Joe Biden.
	It always went to the governor of the state or it went to the local leadership in Maui.
	And that, of course, is appropriate.
	But as soon as a Republican is the president, immediately the media spin into it must be the Republican president's fault.
	And we've seen this, of course, for decades at this point.
	You remember during Hurricane Katrina when the entire media decided that despite the fact that New Orleans's flooding was the fault of the state and local leadership, and the poor response was the fault of the state and local leadership, that actually it was the responsibility of George W. Bush and FEMA's failures that led to the problems with Hurricane Katrina.
	Well, the media are trying to do the same thing this time.
	They're blaming President Trump for the deaths in Kerk County by suggesting that Doge cuts to the National Weather Service were somehow responsible for all of this.
	Here was George Stephanopoulos, Clinton Easta, Clinton Aparachik from back in the 90s, who is now perceived supposedly as an objective neutral news anchor on ABC's this week.
	Maria, we're also learning that there were significant staffing shortfalls of the National Weather Service's offices in the region.
	You know, George, as of right now, the local county officials really didn't want to address that just yet.
	What they are telling us is they expected between four and six inches of rain.
	That is what weather experts told them, the National Weather Service as well.
	They also knew that in remote locations, they might get anywhere from eight to ten inches.
	But this amount of rain in such a short amount of time, it was very difficult to navigate.
	And when the Department of Homeland Security Secretary was here just yesterday, she acknowledged this was an issue.
	She was going to take these concerns to the White House as well.
	Okay, so again, when you hear George Stephanopoulos there immediately blaming lack of staffing at the National Weather Service, that's not true.
	We'll get into that in a moment.
	But I just want to show you that this was the media narrative that started to spool out in real time.
	Al Sharpton, who, of course, is a clown, was on MSNBC claiming that all of this was happening because Trump was making cuts to FEMA and to the National Weather Service.
	The incident comes as the Trump administration is making deep cuts to weather forecasting services and openly discussing shifting more of the burden for disaster recovery from FEMA to state governments.
	Now, again, this narrative, and you can see Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, nodding along, as Al Shrapton says that, on MSNBC, finds its dumbest form in Rosie O'Donnell, who is indeed morphing into Michael Moore.
	As I've said before, the Michael Moore singularity is quite real.
	As everybody gets older, they turn into Michael Moore physically.
	Rosie O'Donnell is just an occasion point of that.
	Here's Rosie O'Donnell blaming President Trump for the flash flood victims.
	And you know, when the president cuts all of the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of The government.
	These are the results that we're going to start to see on a daily basis because he's put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law.
	As Republicans cheered, as Republicans cheered, people will die as a result, and they've started already.
	Okay, so again, this is the Democrat narrative.
	And as we'll see, it ties into their narrative also about the Big Beautiful Bill and all the rest of the things that Republicans are doing.
	The minute that Republicans start to make cuts to the size and scope of the federal government, the first move is people will die because of this.
	Rom Philipkowski, who is the editor-in-chief of Midas Touch, put out a tweet suggesting the same quote, when experts warned for months that NWS is being destroyed by Trump's personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress forecasting won't be affected.
	Now, Texas officials are blaming a faulty forecast by the National Weather Service for the deadly impact of a storm.
	Okay, there's only one problem with this, which is that it is not true.
	This is the big problem with this.
	Here, for example, is Christina Dahl, Vice President for Science at Climate Central.
	So certainly no Trump apparatchik pointing out on CNN that this isn't true.
	And it's clear that those with many, many people did not see those warnings, did not have any chance to respond to them to get to safety before the waters rose because they were rising so, so quickly.
	And so obviously there's a need to investigate what happened and where that communications breakdown happened.
	But to be clear, the National Weather Service did its job in warning first to a large area to say there is flood risk in this area.
	And then over time, as the risk became clearer and clearer, they kind of refined those warnings and issued updates.
	But obviously, the loss of life here really indicates how unprepared we are as a nation for disasters of this scale.
	Okay, so again, the kind of general point that she's making at the end there is actually obscured by the real point of what she's saying, which is the National Weather Service did its job.
	Tragedy occurs in life.
	This is just a reality.
	Not every tragedy is preventable.
	You do the best that you can.
	There are no indicators, none, that Doge cuts led to the failure of some sort of federal response here.
	This is an excuse by the media to attack the Trump administration.
	That is all.
	According to Wired, again, not a Trump outlet, meteorologists who spoke to Wired say that the NWS accurately predicted the risk of flooding in Texas and could not have foreseen the extreme severity of the storm.
	What's more, they say that what the NWS did forecast this week underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.
	And if you look at the actual staffing levels over at NWS, the staffing levels were not just fine.
	They were actually larger than normal.
	Chris Martz, who's a meteorologist, he says the National Weather Service office in Austin, San Antonio, was staffed with five meteorologists throughout the storms on Thursday and Friday, according to NWS meteorologist Jason Runyon.
	Most offices usually have two on staff when the weather is benign.
	So the claim that the 11% reduction in NWS employee headcount from the Trump administration's cuts played no role in their ability to post forecasts and get information out to the public is wrong.
	The NWS office issued a flood watch for the area at 1.18 p.m. Central Time on Thursday, more than 15 hours in advance, urging residents to be weather aware.
	At 1.14 a.m., they should have flashed flood warning for more than three hours before the Guadalupe River rapidly crested at almost 30 feet in Hunt, which is located near Camp Mystic.
	There's plenty of warning from forecasters, even if the initial forecast didn't predict that amount of rain falling.
	But the problem is that, of course, these alerts went out in the middle of the night when everybody was already asleep.
	The flooding was also inevitable.
	The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry, which made landfall in Mexico, were absorbed into a broad, retrograding upper level low.
	Further destabilization of the lower atmosphere resulted in a rotating mesoscale convective vortex, which stalled over central Texas and dropped over 1.8 trillion gallons of rain on the hill country.
	So again, the basic idea here, which is the Trump administration failed, is just not true.
	It is just not real.
	Well, coming up, the new Superman director, he's making a big boo-boo.
	I don't understand why everyone in Hollywood apparently wants to destroy their own movie before it even launches.
	We'll get to that momentarily.
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	Department of Homeland Security put out its own thread, clarifying the mainstream media is deliberately lying about the events leading up to the catastrophic flooding in Texas.
	On the morning of July 3rd, NWS Austin, San Antonio conducted forecast briefings for emergency management, flagging flash flood risks.
	That same morning, National Water Center issued flood hazard outlook identifying flash flood potential for Kerrville and surrounding areas.
	1.18 p.m. on July 3rd, NWS issued a flood watch for Kerr County, effective through Friday morning.
	6.10 p.m., July 3rd, Weather Prediction Center issues first of three mesoscale precipitation discussions, warning of excessive rainfall and flash flood potential.
	6.22 that afternoon, National Water Center warns of considerable flooding risks north and west of San Antonio, including Kerrville.
	1141 p.m., first flash flood warning issued for Bandera County.
	1.14 a.m., flash flood warning with considerable tag issued for Bandera and Kerr counties.
	4.03 a.m., flash flood warning upgraded to flash flood emergency for south central Kerr County, including Hunt.
	Again, the National Weather Service did not blow it.
	They provided over 12 hours of advanced notice via the flood watch and three hours of lead time for those flash flood warnings.
	So this is just a manufactured scandal.
	It's a manufactured scandal out of whole cloth.
	And even the media are trying to back off of it now.
	Politico put out a statement, quote, there's still absolutely no evidence that Trump's NWS cuts had any impact on what happened in Texas on Friday morning.
	As you'd expect, local and national reporters alike have been digging away at this angle incredibly hard.
	And so far, the picture that's emerging is one of a national weather service that did its job as a catastrophic weather event unfolded.
	And that is right, but it shows you the tremendous, tremendous animus that so many members of the media have for the Trump administration, because this pattern has been continuous across my lifetime.
	When there is a Republican president and there is a natural disaster, the immediate response is to blame the Republican president.
	When there's a Democratic president and a natural disaster, the immediate response is to try to shift blame to climate change, something that is utterly uncontrollable by mankind.
	That is always the goal, always and forever, because again, the left media are deeply and unbelievably biased.
	Now, in much, much lighter news, I just wanted to comment on the fact Superman is coming out this week.
	So, of course, this is much lighter news.
	Superman, the new movie from James Gunn, I've been a little skeptical of it because I think that James Gunn, he's fine for Guardians of the Galaxy, but Superman is a more serious property.
	The reason that it's relevant politically is because when we talk about the left and the left in the media, and when we talk about the left in Hollywood, the level of out of touchness with the everyday American is truly insane, truly crazy.
	So James Gunn did an interview with the Times of London, and he was talking about the themes in Superman, and he explained that the superhero epic encompasses the story of America.
	He said, I mean, Superman is the story of America, an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country.
	But for me, it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something that we have lost.
	So he's now trying to make the case effectively that Superman is kind of an illegal immigrant.
	Gunn acknowledged the movie's themes may be interpreted differently across political groups, especially considering the nationwide unrest around immigration.
	However, Gunn stands by the ideals embedded in Superman and added he doesn't care if anyone takes offense.
	Yes, it plays differently, but it's about human kindness.
	And obviously, there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness.
	But screw them.
	And then he says, yes, it's about politics, but on another level, it's about morality.
	I do not understand the necessity for all of these Hollywood folks to undercut the pitch of their own film before it even comes out.
	It's insane.
	It's totally insane.
	By the way, David Corinswell did the exact same thing.
	Cornsweet refused to say truth, justice, and the American way in a recent interview.
	Instead, he said truth, justice, and all that good stuff because he doesn't want to say the American way.
	The reality that Hollywood is so far to the left that they cannot take a core piece of Americana and just say it's about America, this has been a problem since basically after the original Christopher Reeve series.
	Every single iteration of Superman that's been made since then has avoided truth, justice, and the American way because they just refuse to acknowledge the American way is good, that the American way is in fact unique.
	And this lies at the root of a leftist worldview.
	That leftist worldview is astonishingly anti-American.
	It really is, this hardcore left worldview that says that America is somehow uniquely bad.
	So if there is a comic book character who is built on the goodness of America, which is what Superman really is about, if Superman is an immigration story, for those who are not familiar with the origin story of Superman, who comes from the planet Krypton and then lands in America and then is brought up in a Midwestern household on a farm by his adoptive parents and integrated into true American values and then goes to metropolis and brings his sort of country values to the big city where crime is rife and where everybody is too cynical and sophisticated.
	And the whole point of Superman is that he's bringing these kind of classic American values to the big city.
	It's a riff on how New York kind of sucks in many ways, actually.
	Superman, the original, is very much about how the values of America are farm-bred and farm-born.
	His moral center, his moral compass, Superman, is on the farm from his parents.
	That's why he takes the name Clark Kent.
	He's an immigrant who assimilates to American values and then brings those classic American values to the big city where he has to use them to defend the big city from enemies, foreign and domestic.
	I mean, the original Superman is literally punching Hitler in the face in the comics.
	He literally punches Hitler in the face.
	So, you know, the attempt to separate Superman off from America is just a demonstration by the cultural left of how much they dislike America.
	And that's no shock because when you take that over into the political sphere, full scale, what you end up is a different kind of immigrant, like the guy who may be the next mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani.
	So if you have a choice between immigrants who come to the United States, yes, on alien spacecraft, and land and then are integrated into America and imbibe from the wellspring of American values or Zoran Mamdani, you should pick Superman, because Zoran Mamdani is a disaster area.
	This guy is likely to be the next mayor of New York.
	And his absolute deep hatred for the country is so clearly apparent in everything that he's been doing for years on end.
	Again, he only became an American citizen like six years ago.
	So he put out a tweet in 2020 that showed him flipping off a statue of Christopher Columbus with the caption, take it down.
	Because the idea is that Christopher Columbus is somehow deeply bad and deeply evil.
	Now, first of all, Zor Mamdani is not native to these shores any more than the white people who preceded him are native to these shores, any more than the Native Americans who came across a land bridge tens of thousands of years ago are originally native to these shores.
	I mean, again, the way that human migration works is that it comes in waves, it comes across a variety of mechanisms.
	If you go back far enough, there are no human natives to anything because, of course, they're real humans.
	But if you are talking about Zoran Mamdani flipping off Columbus, you wouldn't even be in New York if it weren't for Columbus.
	You would not be in America if it were not for Columbus.
	You can flip off the people who opened the continent to your presence here, Zoran Mamdani.
	But that is so, it's so clear what he thinks of the country.
	And of course, he got this from his parents.
	His parents are Indian born, and they also are immigrants to the United States who have taken advantage of literally every privilege America has to offer.
	That includes his father, Professor Mahmoud Mamdani of Columbia University, who hates the country, legitimately hates the country, talks about how America is the settler colonialist state.
	Okay, so leave.
	So you can go.
	Seriously, you can go anytime.
	Or you can sit there in your privileged seat at Columbia University, pulling down a giant paycheck while your son runs for mayor after being a ne'er-do-well for all three of his decades on the planet.
	The deep and abiding hatred that these people have for the United States is truly astonishing.
	It really, really is.
	And also, I'll point out that the settler colonialist narrative, you'll find they only apply it to white Europeans and to Jews in Israel.
	Those are the groups that they apply it to.
	They never apply settler colonialism to the Arab conquest of the entire region with the beginnings of Islam, all the way up to and including Spain.
	That never applies.
	One of the great settler colonialist movements in human history is the growth of Islam from the Arab center in Saudi Arabia outward to encompass a huge swath of the globe.
	Do you think Indonesia was originally Muslim territory?
	Just in a general sense, the idea that human beings move around and take with them their values and that war and conflict are a norm in all of human history, that's just real.
	Okay, that's just the way things work.
	And so I'm not going to criticize European settler colonialism any more than I would criticize Arab settler colonialism throughout the Middle East, because this is the way humanity operates.
	That is the way humanity operates.
	And I can think that some of those colonialist movements are actually better in values than others of those colonialist movements.
	For example, I think the European settler colonialist movement is in fact morally better than the Muslim settler colonialist movement that came out of the Middle East in the 7th century and 8th century.
	It is, just in terms of the values that it propagated.
	You know, things like private property and freedom of speech.
	The Anglo-American settler colonialist movement, as Mamdani is suggesting here, is morally better than other settler colonialist movements because not all people have the same culture and values.
	You know who should know this?
	Mahmoud Mamdani, who's a beneficiary of those Anglo-American values, sitting at a prestigious American university, able to say what he wants, as opposed to, you know, being back in Uganda, which is where he came from with his family.
	Here he is ragging on the United States.
	A Christian nation state decides to cleanse it of all religious minorities, Jews and Muslims in particular, and at the same time launches a colonization experiment, the discovery of the Americas.
	America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism.
	And the American model was exported all around the world.
	I mean, again, the absolute myopic insanity of that statement that America is uniquely settler colonialist, as opposed to the Muslim countries that he is lauding as some sort of victims in all of this, is totally insane.
	By the way, that's not the extent of his insanity.
	He also suggested that Abraham Lincoln's treatment of Native Americans was the basis of Hitler's treatment of Jews.
	With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations.
	They herded American Indians into separate territories.
	For the Nazis, for the Nazis, this was the inspiration.
	It is possible to do genocide.
	That's what Hitler realized.
	Okay, Hitler never would have come up with the idea of going after the Jews if it were not for Abraham Lincoln's treatment of Native Americans.
	First of all, the treatment of Native Americans in America, which is shameful and poor, preceded Abraham Lincoln by several decades.
	Just to point that out, like the Trail of Tears was many, many years before Abraham Lincoln.
	Two, the idea that Hitler required the help of Abraham Lincoln in order to come up with his hatred of Jews is totally insane, actually.
	There are linkages between American policy with regards to eugenics, which is a progressive left-wing movement in the United States in the 1920s, and Nazi policies of the same period and slightly thereafter.
	But that actually has more to do with the Woodrow Wilson progressives than it has to do with Abraham Lincoln.
	The reason he's attacking Abraham Lincoln is because he's trying to tear down icons of America.
	That, again, is Zoran Mamdani's father.
	And this all speaks to why Zoran Mamdani identified himself as both Asian and black or African American as a high school senior applying to college.
	You understand that those are extra points for the left.
	The racial diversity is, so if you lie about your race, this guy is just as much lying about his race as Elizabeth Warren lied about her race.
	Zoran Mamdani is not black or African American any more than many of my white South African friends.
	He is not.
	He is of Indian heritage.
	His parents moved to Uganda when he was a kid, and then he moved out of Uganda when he was also a kid.
	He was born in Uganda.
	His parents moved out of Uganda to the United States when he was a child.
	But he has the temerity, by the way, to suggest that he is an African American, having spent a few years in the continent of Africa.
	Well, Jews who have spent generations going like back 3,000 years in Israel are settler colonialists, or Americans who spent hundreds of years in the United States are settler colonialists.
	That's the way this idiotic logic works.
	It's just there is no standard.
	There is only a double standard.
	If you are the left, you get to claim that you are a diverse heritage victim of white supremacy, no matter who you are or how much you lie.
	And that's Zora Mamdani in a nutshell.
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	According to the New York Times, right-wing pundits have flocked to social media to call Mr. Momdani a liar.
	And worse, it's always the pouncing.
	It's the pouncing that's the problem.
	His supporters have rallied to his defense, angrily characterizing the disclosure as a politically motivated hit job with no bearing on the mayor's race.
	One advanced by a right-wing academic who has promoted eugenic views.
	I have a question.
	Who cares who exposed the story?
	The story is true.
	According to the New York Times, the varied responses followed Mr. Mamdani's acknowledgement on Thursday.
	He had checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background.
	He said he had not been trying to gain an edge through Columbia's race-conscious affirmative action admissions program.
	Indeed, he was not accepted to the school, which, by the way, does make me question what his SAT scores were.
	I mean, honestly, if your dad is teaching at the school and you apply as an Asian and a black person and you still don't get in, that dude did not have the SAT scores for Columbia is all I can say on that one.
	The New York Times could find no speeches or interviews in which Montani referred to himself as black or African-American.
	Representative Richie Torres said he believed that within reason, we should all be the arbiters of our own identity.
	Listen, I like Richie Torres, but that is just wrong.
	Okay, this is not within reason.
	He's obviously not a black person.
	He obviously was trying to game the system, clearly and obviously trying to game the system.
	And that is all of this in a nutshell.
	He is a privileged product of the left-wing elite in America.
	That is what he is.
	And trying to portray himself as a third world victim of America is ridiculous and wrong and sick and demonstrative of a left that really does not like the country very much, does not like the country very much, does not like the West very much.
	Zara Mamdani and his parents are some of the greatest beneficiaries of America I have ever even heard of.
	His mom is a Hollywood director.
	His dad is a professor at Columbia University.
	They spend all day ripping on the country that gave them their wealth, their fame, and their elite status.
	Their son, again, was a complete loser until he won a Democratic primary.
	He was a failed rapper at the age of 33, running in a New York Democratic primary.
	And now he's one of the most famous people in the country, ripping on the country that bore and bred him.
	It really is an amazing thing.
	It really is an incredible thing.
	So the media, of course, are actually getting very upset at the New York Times for having reported this at all.
	The media are now reporting on the reporting.
	So Semaphore is reporting that the New York Times did not wait to publish its story about Mamdani's application to Columbia in 2009.
	Why?
	Because they were afraid they were going to be scooped by our friend Chris Rufo.
	In a message, Rufo confirmed to Semaphore, he had been reporting out the piece before the Times published its version of the story.
	He said that he would be publishing additional details about the incident on his Substack in coming days.
	I love that the New York Times has to now justify reporting something that obviously is relevant, like somebody lying on their college applications about their race.
	But it speaks to that deep wellspring of hatred that so many in the Democratic Party now have for the United States.
	And this manifests in a wide variety of ways.
	This manifests in terms of immigration policy.
	It manifests in terms of foreign policy.
	And one of the reasons that you are seeing so many Democrats rally to the cause of Hamas is because they see Israel as a quote-unquote extension of settler colonialist America, an extension of settler colonialist Europe.
	That is why they hate Israel.
	It's the reason why Democrats have flipped 180 degrees in their positions on Israel over the course of the last several years.
	It is not because of the Gaza War.
	It is because they have determined, and they were already determining, that they are on the side of the third world peoples who eat rice with their hands, like Zoran Mamdani in that video, because those people are all victims of America and the West more broadly.
	And that also manifests in immigration policy.
	So, for example, Pramila Jayapal, the head of the Progressive Congressional Caucus, represented from Washington, she said that obstructing ICE is inspiring on Joy Reed's show, like literally obstructing, like preventing the enforcement of the law.
	Some of the most inspiring things have been when people encircle courtrooms and refuse to allow ICE agents in.
	There are all kinds of nonviolent resistance tactics that we have to use.
	I mean, again, this just shows why.
	Why would that be inspiring?
	Why would it be inspiring to stop people from enforcing the law to make sure that America has some sort of enforceable border?
	And the answer is because you actually don't like America.
	From the left, every accusation is an admission.
	Debbie Wasserman Schultz says that the reason that Republicans and many Americans are anti-illegal immigration is because they want to quote unquote bleach America.
	Now, I've made very clear, I do not care about the ethnic slash racial constituency of the United States.
	I don't care one iota why, because I don't think that those are relevant human categories.
	I think that the categories that actually matter are belief systems, what we do, cultural categories.
	By the way, this is not a perspective that's unique to American conservatism.
	It used to be true for pretty much everybody in the United States that you judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.
	But for the left, the idea is that the only reason you could possibly want to maintain the cultural character of the United States is because race and culture are inherently bound up together.
	This is an admission that is actually parading as an accusation.
	Again, more Trump lies, more people being thrown into a dire situation where many of them will ultimately die when they're deported back to countries like Venezuela and Haiti, which clearly don't have conditions in which it is safe or a place that has the environment to take people back.
	In Haiti, that is a country that is overrun by gangs and essentially is a failed state.
	And in Venezuela, you have the Maduro Regime, which is a narco-state.
	I mean, Maduro is under federal indictment here in the United States.
	How could it possibly be safe to send 500,000 Venezuelans when he revoked their humanitarian parole and TPS from Venezuelans and from half a million Haitians?
	This is a situation in which they want to bleach America.
	You heard what Miller said.
	He is a vile human being.
	Okay, so again, big accusation is the only reason that you'd want to reject TPS status for Haitians who are coming here or Venezuelans is because of their race, as opposed to because you actually don't know their background, because they're not adding to the body politic of the United States, because you prefer they go to a third country.
	And that is an admission.
	It's an admission.
	The reason people don't want to enforce borders is because they don't like the borders that are there.
	The reason they don't want to defend the country is because they don't like the country that's there.
	The reason they have sympathy for some of the worst people on earth in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with regard to Hamas is because they don't like the West, period.
	That is the common thread that runs throughout all of this.
	Well, folks, we may despair of the Zoran Mamdani generation.
	I mean, obviously there are a lot of problems there, but I have some good news.
	Isabel Brown, the famed online commentator, she is joining Daily Wire Plus with the Isabel Brown show this fall, and she joined us online right now.
	Isabel, thanks so much for joining the show and welcome to the team.
	Thank you so much, Ben.
	I could not be more excited for this new adventure.
	So for those who don't know your background or what you do, tell us about yourself.
	What is the show going to be?
	Ah, yes, the million-dollar question.
	I've been in content creation since graduating, actually on the pre-med track with degrees in biomedical sciences in 2019 and 2020, and found my life thrust in a totally different direction.
	Instead of going through the medical school route, still wanting to do that pursuit of objective truth that I fell in love with in pursuing science and academia.
	But as we all discovered very quickly during the COVID pandemic, really isn't a virtue of science in the Western world that we live in today.
	That led me into the world of activism and the online conversations and the culture war that we've all been battling for the last several years.
	But in particular, honing in on my generation with Gen Z coming into adulthood, wanting to build a new American dream for ourselves and rebel against the cultural lies of the left, which really came to a head last November with the election.
	And now it's time for us to work even harder than ever before to save the West from the brink of collapse and disaster by reinstating in society what is good and true and beautiful.
	So I've spent the last several years doing that, fighting those battles on college campuses with activism groups worldwide, and of course on Instagram and TikTok feeds.
	But we are so excited to bring that forward to the Daily Wire with my new show, The Isabel Brown Show, not just reacting to the insanity of the world as we know it and just how far the left has gone by having a defensive position against that, but even more importantly, now going on offense to fight to build culture where we can reinstate that goodness of Western civilization and pursuit of objective truth again.
	So, Isabel, you've built this huge following online, obviously, and now you're bringing all of that to Daily Wire Plus.
	Now, what are the issues that you've really honed in on?
	What do you think are the big issues facing particularly your generation right now?
	I now feel like an old man because I get to say that it's your generation, but it is your generation.
	So, what are the issues?
	You're not old, Ben.
	Don't worry.
	You know, I think what's really interesting is we've seen this seismic shift of the culture war out of just the political conversations we often are used to in the conservative movement in the last few years to encompass really how people live their day-to-day lives, especially those of us in Gen Z navigating this crazy world of adulthood for the first time.
	So, our content really has focused for the last several years on stuff like dating or the pursuit of faith, which we've seen a huge shift on in American culture in the last six months or so.
	The food that we're eating, the fact that this homesteading trend is really coming to the forefront of culture for young people.
	And of course, everything we see in the digital space as well, because that really is where we are having this public square debate on what the future is going to look like in our culture.
	That all naturally has become political.
	And so I think we're in this really interesting time in the 2020s where politics isn't necessarily downstream from culture anymore the way that we've always known it to be.
	That phrase coined by the late, great Andrew Breitbart.
	Basically, everything is cultural and everything is political and navigating our way forward to bring timeless values and ideals that built the foundation of the West forward into the generations to come in a new, exciting, futuristic way is the challenge that lies before us.
	So you're also a brand new mom.
	So first of all, how old is the baby and how is the mom dom treating you?
	It is absolutely amazing being a mom.
	My baby will be 10 weeks old this week.
	So we are very busy around here as if we don't have a lot going on.
	But truly, I never could have imagined a more important purpose and mission for my life.
	It's true what they say that you can never ever wrap your head around the beauty of being a parent until you hold your baby for the first time.
	And it has just been very transformational and incredibly beautiful.
	So obviously, one of the big questions that people of my age have about Generation Z is what the hell is going on?
	Because if you look at the statistics, Generation Z is bifurcating in some very weird ways.
	So Generation Z seems to be going to church more on the male side, but less on the female side.
	Generation Z seems to be less patriotic than any prior generation.
	Only 41% in a recent Gallup poll suggested that they call themselves very or extremely proud to be American as compared to almost 60% of millennials and 71% of Gen X. So what's going on with the youngsters?
	What is going on?
	You know, I had a book come out last March, Ben, called The End of the Alphabet, How Gen Z Can Save America.
	And I was quite literally laughed offset at Fox News and Newsmax and every cable and radio station that we were fortunate to share the book on because people genuinely have bought into this idea that Gen Z is a lost cause, that we're all purple-haired, non-binary, futuristic weirdos that have no sense of reality for ourselves in our own life, let alone culture at large for the United States.
	And I understand why people think that, because if you watch our childhood and as we've grown up, virtually every single pillar of a cultural institution in our country, be it the political space, our academic institutions with universities, all the way down now to our kindergarten classrooms,
	everything In the media and Hollywood, even the American church, in many instances, has really bought into this wild indoctrination and using every opportunity they can to brainwash young people to automatically believe leftism, which has become an old trope in our country that if you're 20, you have to be a leftist and you'll wake up someday and you'll realize it by the time you're 50 and you have to pay taxes and have kids.
	But what we're watching right now is a seismic shift away from that reality in the cultural zeitgeist, where young people are reacting to the lies of the left by coming into adulthood, looking around and seeing that everyone is miserable and wanting to do something about it.
	That hasn't necessarily manifested immediately in overwhelming patriotism, which will take time, certainly, because of the deep, deep indoctrination and ideological rot that has been normalized in our society for far too long.
	But we are seeing it dramatically transform the future of American politics and culture alike.
	You know, 93% of our generation, according to Newsweek, still wants to get married in a culture that demands you never consider that for your future.
	When headlines like the Los Angeles Times tell you it is almost shameful to want to have children, young women are wanting to have children at extremely high rates compared to millennials who were right before us.
	We're ditching our birth control.
	We're deleting our dating apps.
	And young men are leading virtually a crusade back to faith, particularly in embracing very traditional Christianity and Judeo-Christian values in welcoming themselves into the Catholic church and pursuing things like the traditional Latin Mass.
	That has now come to the forefront politically with what we saw last November, an overwhelming majority of young men re-electing Donald Trump.
	But don't discount young women either, even though the data and the statistics might freak you out and say the majority of young women are extreme leftists.
	Between 2020 and 2024, young women shifted 11 points away from the Democrat Party toward the Republican Party and MAGA conservatism with Donald Trump.
	So this is an active culture war that we are still fighting.
	And it's vitally important that we fight now harder than ever.
	We have not won the war.
	We've won some significant battles, but it's time for us to continue putting on our boots and hitting the ground to change American culture for the better.
	Now, folks, obviously, can see why Isabel Brown is already a star.
	We could not be more ecstatic to have her on board over at Daily Wire Plus.
	And stay tuned for more this fall on Daily Wire Plus, the Isabel Brown show.
	Isabel, thanks so much for the time and congratulations.
	Thank you, Ben.
	Meanwhile, in other news, remember that time that pretty much everybody online decided that speculation was actual data?
	Again, I'm all for speculative questions, questions you don't know the answer to, as long as what you say is that they are in fact speculative questions that you don't have the answer to.
	And when new data emerges, you actually acknowledge the emergence of that new data.
	Okay, so for years, for years, we have all been told that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself, right?
	And I've made those jokes myself, obviously, because, I mean, pretty suspicious.
	The guy was indicted on a wide variety of counts of sex trafficking, many prominent people heading on over to Epstein Island.
	His paramour and procurer Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in jail as well.
	And then he ends up dead.
	And so that, of course, is incredibly suspicious because he was in a high security lockdown situation.
	And so the question was, how does that guy kill himself?
	How does that happen?
	And so all the questions I thought were on the table.
	Seriously, I've said it on the show before.
	I think all suspicions were justified.
	But if there is new data, then you have to change your opinion.
	And as new data emerged that he did, in fact, kill himself, and that new data came in the form of people that I trust, people like Dan Bongino and Cash Patel saying that he killed himself.
	So either you have to say that Cash Patel and Dan Bongino are now part of the machine and they're lying, they're absolute liars, or he actually killed himself.
	When that emerged, that didn't kill the online speculation about whether he killed himself.
	Then there's been a ton of online speculation that the reason that it took so long to put Jeffrey Epstein behind bars is because he was actively engaged in some sort of blackmail scheme that was being run by some form of foreign or domestic intelligence operation.
	That he was essentially an op, that he was an operative on behalf of one of these intelligence organizations, whether it was Mossad or MI6 or the CIA or whatever, and that he was basically blackmailing people into giving him information on behalf of Western powers.
	And there's all this speculation.
	There's no data to back up the speculation, but there was tons of speculation.
	I thought to myself, okay, well, speculation is speculation.
	And if we don't have any answers, then, I mean, fair enough.
	But we now have the answers.
	And the problem is this.
	People who never hedged their bets, people who never at any point suggested to you that they don't have data to back up the speculation, that the speculation was in and of itself the conclusion that if you speculate without evidence, that that amounts to an actual conclusion to an investigation, they're going to be very upset today because it turns out that the DOJ and the FBI have concluded that Epstein didn't have a client list and died by suicide.
	Now, again, we've actually known for quite a while that Epstein didn't have a client list.
	There was no actual formal list.
	When people said the Epstein list, presumably what they meant is that buried in the tens of thousands of pages of evidence, we know who it was who was molesting young girls on Epstein Island.
	That is the best version of this.
	But the way that this was retailed by members of the general right-wing media, as well as actually Pambondi, the current attorney general, is that there was in fact an Epstein list and tens of thousands of hours of video that eventually would be released.
	And it turns out there is no actual Epstein list.
	And you remember a few months back when a bunch of influencers, and it wasn't their fault, were brought to the White House and handed a binder with a bunch of old information.
	And then they were trotted out there and basically humiliated because there was nothing in the binders.
	And I said at the time, this is ridiculous.
	It's not the influencers' fault.
	It's the fault of Pam Bondi and the people in the administration who decided that instead of just acknowledging the reality of what they had and what they didn't have, they instead were essentially using these influencers as a sort of front group in order to shield themselves from the fact that they had overpromised and underdelivered.
	Okay, well, that comes to a head today.
	According to Axios, President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have now concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a client list, or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.
	Now, again, does this put to bed, like all inquiries?
	Of course not.
	People can continue to speculate as much as they want.
	And I think there's still open questions here regarding how did Epstein make his money?
	That's a very serious open question.
	And the speculation for a long time was he made his money from blackmail.
	But the DOJ and the FBI, again, run by people like Dan Bongino and Cash Patel and Pam Bondi, are telling you, I'm not telling you, they're telling you, people who are members of the Trump administration, people you elected and put into these positions to get you the truth on this matter, are telling you that he didn't, in fact, he was not murdered, he did not keep a client list, and he did not blackmail powerful figures.
	Okay, that is the, that is the thing that they are saying, not I, they are saying this.
	If you're willing to throw that over and claim they're lying, then I'd like to see you present your evidence that they are, in fact, lying, because I know Dan.
	I don't think that Dan Bagino is lying to me.
	I know Cash Patel a little bit.
	I don't think Cash Patel is lying to me.
	I don't think these people are lying to me, which means that if somebody else continues to claim that they're lying, they ought to provide their evidence at this point.
	And now is the point at which the facts on the ground have changed.
	And so either you ought to shift your opinion based on the facts that have now emerged, or you ought to acknowledge that this was never a fact-based inquiry in the first place.
	According to Axios, the findings represent the first time Trump's administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein's activities and his death, theories that have been pushed by the FBI's top two officials before Trump appointed them to the Bureau.
	Again, this is the point.
	Both Cash Patel and Dan Bongino had been among the suspicious on these matters.
	So either you think they're lying to you now or they got the data.
	Patel and Bongino have said Epstein killed himself, but it's an article of faith that Epstein's crimes also implicated government officials, celebrities, and business leaders, and someone killed him to conceal them.
	The memo says no one else involved in the Epstein case will be charged at this point, by the way.
	So either you think this cover-up goes so deep that it encompasses President Trump and Dean Bongino and Cash Patel, or you have to believe the sources that we have elected and put in place who were on your side in terms of speculation until literally eight months ago.
	In some cases, until a couple of months ago, according to the DOJ, as part of our commitment to transparency, the DOJ and Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings related to Jeffrey Epstein.
	To ensure the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives, as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored.
	These searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence.
	The files relating to Epstein include a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appeared to be minors, and over 10,000 downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography.
	Teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts comb through the digital and documentary evidence with the aim of providing as much information as possible to the public while simultaneously protecting victims.
	Much of the material is subject to court-ordered sealing.
	Only a fraction of this material would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial, as the seal served only to protect victims and did not expose any additional third parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing.
	Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography.
	The systematic review revealed no incriminating client list.
	There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.
	We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
	Consistent with prior disclosures, this review confirmed Epstein harmed over 1,000 victims.
	By the way, that is in fact a radical upgrade in the number of victims.
	So Pam Bondi had suggested just a few weeks ago that the number was something like 280 victims.
	Now they're saying 1,000 victims.
	Each suffered unique trauma.
	Sensitive information relating to these victims, according to the DOJ and FBI, is intertwined throughout the materials.
	This includes specific details like victim names and likenesses, physical descriptions, places of birth, associates, and employment history.
	That is the reason why they haven't revealed the quote-unquote full Epstein documents is because basically it's honeycombed with innocent victims and you don't release information on innocent sex crime victims into the public eye.
	As they say, one of the highest priorities is combating child exploitation and bringing justice to victims.
	Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.
	To that end, while we have labored to provide the public with maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the government's possession, it is the determination of the DOJ and FBI no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.
	So that's the end of this thing.
	They did release video of 11 hours of the SHU, the Special Housing Unit Common Area, to show that there was nobody who was coming in or out of Epstein's cell during the time when he was allegedly killing himself.
	And according to the DOJ and the FBI, the FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing color, and improving sharpness for greater clarity and viewability.
	And that is the full memo here.
	So again, there are a lot of people who are very upset about this, but the reality is simple.
	Either you trust Dan Bongino and Cash Patel and Pam Bondi, or you don't.
	If you don't, now it is incumbent on you to provide some evidence of why not.
	Are they being blackmailed too?
	The beautiful thing about a conspiracy theory is that you can always zoom out one level further.
	So if somebody debunks your conspiracy theory, you can then zoom out and say, hey, hey, maybe they're part of the conspiracy too.
	Sure, they're saying that there's no evidence that the CIA or Mossad were involved in any of this, but maybe it's because they're being blackmailed by the CIA or Mossad.
	Okay, well, once you do that, you have now entered the realm of religious theorizing.
	It's non-falsifiability at its height.
	And so much of our online discourse has just become non-falsifiability.
	Now, again, I'm not saying that you have to trust the authorities.
	You don't have to trust the authorities.
	What I am saying is you should provide some evidence if you have an alternative theory other than speculation or admit that you're just speculating.
	That's all.
	That's the honest thing to do in all of this.
	But people have not done that.
	And in fact, they have overpromised and they've suggested that when the right people got in power, they would be revealing the information.
	Trust but verify is the way to do this sort of stuff.
	But that applies to everyone, including the people who are promoting the conspiracy theories.
	So that is the latest on the Epstein files.
	Again, kind of a shocking revelation.
	But unless you have some new information, then I'm friends with Dan.
	Full disclosure, I don't think Dan is lying to me.
	I don't think he's lying to you.
	I don't think the FBI director, Cash Matel, is lying to you.
	I think that a lot of these people in the administration oversold what this was before they saw the evidence.
	Then they saw the evidence and they released it.
	I think that the Occam's razor here suggests that that is the simplest explanation for what is going on with regard to Jeffrey Epstein.
	All right, meanwhile, the fallout from the gigantic one big beautiful bill that passed over the July 4th weekend and Passed actually right before July 4th and then was celebrated on July 4th by President Trump.
	That fallout continues.
	Speaker Johnson, who did a masterful job of shepherding this thing through Congress, again, extremely narrow majority, really narrow majority.
	We only lost two Republicans in passing this thing in the House.
	And Johnson, who is about as conservative a speaker as we have had in American history, has done just an unbelievable job of leading this incredibly fractious and difficult caucus.
	Johnson is uniquely qualified.
	And the same thing, by the way, is true in the Senate for Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
	They deserve enormous credit for being able to get this thing through.
	Here is Speaker Johnson saying that one of the reasons that you have cuts and tax cuts and all the rest of this stuff is because, again, our currency doesn't say in government we trust.
	It says in God we trust.
	It says in God we trust right above the Speaker's Rostum.
	You know, a previous Congress put that there in the early 60s and the height of the Cold War.
	There's a little visitor's guide that people get when you do tours late at night.
	You've probably seen your constituents and visitors and friends get the guide.
	If you turn, I think it's about to page 21.
	It explains why that's there.
	And it says, Congress voted to put that there as a rebuke to the Soviets' worldview at the height of the Cold War.
	Why?
	Because communism, socialism find their root in Marxism.
	And Marxism begins with the belief that there is no God.
	It's wrong.
	And this Congress made us stand those many years ago, and we should do it again.
	We're different.
	We're distinct.
	We're exceptional because we acknowledge that right there, our motto.
	Thank you.
	It doesn't say in government we trust.
	It says in God we trust.
	And we better remember that.
	Meanwhile, President Trump, for his part, he says, listen, we've had an amazing record of success.
	He actually has more power now than he did during his first administration, or at least he knows how to wield it better.
	Here was President Trump.
	I think I have more power now.
	I do.
	You know, I could say, oh, gee, I don't know.
	I think I probably do because we've had a great record of success.
	You know, my first term was very, very successful.
	We had the greatest economy in the history of our country.
	I think we're going to blow it away this term.
	But, you know, we've proven certain things.
	And yeah, I think probably it's got more gravitas, more power.
	President Trump did sign the law into law on Friday on July 4th.
	And of course, he did so in the most Trump fashion.
	He did this while a B-2 stealth bomber flew overhead, guided by a couple of F-35s.
	Murica!
	Merika.
	This is pretty great.
	Woo!
	There he goes, signing it.
	And you can again see, for those of you who are not watching, the jets fly overhead right after this.
	Pretty amazing, amazing stuff.
	By the way, the B2 is such a cool piece of machinery.
	My goodness.
	There he's holding it up.
	President Trump signs in very large letters so King George can read without his glasses.
	Meanwhile, Democrats, of course, are deeply upset about the big, beautiful bill and all the rest.
	Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, he says that Republicans pray at church, but then they pray on the American people.
	You get it?
	You get it?
	Because he changed the letters.
	It's a homonym.
	Got some folks in this town.
	They go to church and they pray on Sunday.
	P-R-A-Y.
	Say the truth.
	And then they come to Congress and pray P-R-E-Y on the American people.
	I'm not down with that kind of faith.
	That ain't my faith.
	That's not our faith.
	That's not the faith that comes out of the gospel.
	Again, I love this.
	I love that the faith that comes out of his gospel is that you have to leave Medicaid as large as you found it, but you can also trans the kids and must trans the kids and women should have abortions on demand.
	He did a seven-hour quasi-filibuster the other day.
	It didn't have any impact.
	And I love that Democrats have now been reduced to talking for a very long time.
	That basically their method of resistance is, how long can I go without peeing?
	I mean, congrats to you guys.
	Okay.
	I mean, I do it with my kids on long car rides, but you guys do this as legislative policy.
	Here was Hakeem Jeffries yielding back to the standing ovation of a crowd.
	He went seven hours without urinating.
	We're going to press on for our children.
	Press on for our seniors.
	Press on for our veterans.
	Press on for our unions.
	Press on for democracy.
	We're going to press on until victory is won.
	I yield back.
	I have to say, everybody in the Democratic Party continuously clapping, cheering when somebody speaks for a long time.
	Corey Booker spoke for a super long time.
	Woo!
	Woo.
	Oh my gosh, the magic of just talking for very long periods of time.
	I mean, not to brag, but I go to a synagogue where, you know, like we do this every Saturday.
	We watch people talk for a really long time in the sermons.
	And I got to say, I like shorter speeches.
	That's all.
	I feel like shorter speeches are better.
	Hat tap to my rabbi.
	In any case, Joe Biden has now put out a statement.
	Quote, the Republican budget bill is not, when I say he's put out a statement, I mean somebody near him who had access to his Twitter account has put out a statement because Joe Biden is no longer capable of putting words together in coherent fashion.
	If he actually put out a statement, it would be, I ran in the corn pop in the beach and then I got sand in my shorts.
	Oh, no.
	But his actual statement says, the Republican budget bill is not only reckless, it's cruel.
	It slashes Medicaid and takes away health care for millions of Americans.
	It closes rural hospitals and cuts food assistance for our veterans and seniors.
	It jacks up energy bills.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Kamala Harris said the same thing.
	Republicans in Congress have voted to devastate millions of people across our nation.
	Kicking Americans off their health.
	Do you miss her?
	I don't miss her at all.
	It's so great she's not president of the United States.
	Honest to God, it is quite wonderful.
	Meanwhile, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, he says that this bill is going to kill people.
	Yes, so many are going to die.
	It's too late.
	We're already dead of net neutrality.
	There's nothing we can do.
	We've been dead for years.
	I can't even count how many times Democrats have told me that a Republican policy will kill me.
	And yet here I am, Still alive.
	I know I'm begging fate when I say that, but I feel like that's true for millions of us.
	It turns out hundreds of millions of us have lived through Republican policies and we didn't even get a t-shirt.
	Here is Larry Summers looking a little peaked.
	What your people have been describing is the biggest cut in the American safety net in history.
	The Yale Budget Lab estimates that it will kill over 10 years 100,000 people.
	That is 2,000 days of death like we've seen in Texas this weekend.
	In my 70 years, I've never been as embarrassed for my country on July 4th.
	Okay, so I'm just going to point out at this point, you absolutely should not compare possible cuts to Medicaid to people actually dying in a flood on the weekend they die.
	You probably should not do that because it sounds absolutely awful and cruel and nasty, but that's because that's what it is.
	And Democrats have now been relegated to screaming at the moon, like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
	Here she was being very emotive.
	Democrats being emotive.
	This is their new strategy.
	I think this is one of the saddest days in modern American history.
	This is the largest withdrawal and ending of health care in American history.
	17 million people in our country, 17 million Americans in our country are going to lose their Medicaid.
	They're going to lose their ACA insurance.
	Small business owners are going to have their health care costs skyrocket.
	And people are going to have their snap and wick cut back.
	People are going to go hungry.
	People are going to get sick on a scale unlike anything we've ever seen.
	Wow.
	Catastrophe.
	Unlike anything we've ever seen.
	It's one of the saddest days in the modern history of the country.
	I feel like she doesn't know any history at all.
	This isn't even coming in the top like several thousand saddest days in the history of the country.
	Like not even probably in the tens of thousands of saddest days in the history of the country.
	But it shows how disconnected these folks are.
	If there are cuts to, for example, Medicaid for people who refuse to work, then apparently that is super duper sad.
	And again, they're just, I'm sorry, this whole thing is just such a debacle.
	It is such a lie for them to claim that tens of millions of people are going to die.
	100,000 people are going to die because of cuts to Medicaid.
	You know what the bill actually did?
	It put work requirements on Medicaid.
	It said that you have to work a minimum of 20 hours a week.
	20 hours.
	I'm sorry.
	That's not even a part-time job.
	20 hours a week to get Medicaid.
	And by the way, that doesn't apply if you have a child younger than 14.
	Then you can work zero hours a week and still be eligible for Medicaid.
	That is one aspect of this.
	And then the other aspect of this is changes in tax provisions that were basically a way for states to steal money from the federal government.
	Okay, what were those tax provisions?
	Those tax provisions, according to the Wall Street Journal, those tax provisions had to do with a cut to the so-called provider taxes.
	So here's how this works.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, states will have roughly $1.3 trillion less in federal and state funds to spend on Medicaid over the next decade.
	Most of the reductions will be in states that have expanded Medicaid to cover able-bodied adults.
	One of the biggest impacts will come from the bill's crackdown on so-called provider taxes, which states levy on hospitals and other healthcare providers to trigger federal matching funds.
	Most hospitals then receive back more than they pay in taxes through higher payment rates via state-directed payments and other mechanisms.
	So just to be clear about how this works, there was a provision in Obamacare that said that if you tax a provider, then the federal government would match the size of the tax and pour it into the state.
	Okay, so then what did the state do?
	What the state did is then it paid back all the providers at higher than the rate of the tax.
	So if the provider was taxed 6%, the provider got back 7%.
	And most of that was funded by the federal government.
	So it was just a way to suck money from the federal government into the states.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, currently taxes are capped at 6% of healthcare providers' net patient revenue.
	It will be reduced to 3.5% in Obamacare expansion states.
	In non-expansion states like Florida, tax rates will be frozen in place up to the 6% maximum on the date the bill was signed into law.
	The tax has been criticized as a gimmick that exploits federal taxpayers without requiring states to put any skin in the game, correct?
	How stupid was this part of the Obamacare law?
	President Obama, Obama twice proposed clamping down on provider taxes, including in his 2013 budget, which would have reduced the maximum rate to 3.5%.
	So this is an Obama-era proposal by Barack Obama.
	And this is what is going to kill, supposedly, hundreds of thousands of Americans.
	This is the big problem with the bill.
	Spare me.
	Just spare me.
	Ridiculous.
	Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, he says, listen, able-bodied Americans are not vulnerable Americans.
	Can we stop pretending that people don't have an obligation to try to get a job in this country?
	We have, by the way, a labor force participation rate in this country of 62%.
	Not even two-thirds of the people who are eligible to work are trying to find a job right now.
	That's what that means.
	That's an insane number.
	The people who Medicaid were designed for, the pregnant women, the disabled, and families with children under 14, will be refocused.
	The able-bodied Americans are not vulnerable Americans.
	So a work requirement or a community service requirement, that's very popular with the public, and many state programs have that now.
	Okay, so again, he is not wrong about any of this.
	Okay, so there's opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill, of course, from the left.
	You would expect that.
	There's also opposition from some of the real fiscal hawks like Elon Musk.
	So Elon, of course, has been very angry about the Big Beautiful Bill for quite a while.
	It's unclear how much of that anger is directed at the bill itself because of the cuts to EV credits, for example, and how much of it is directed instead at the Trump administration, which he feels basically used him to get into power and then cut him off, put him in front of Doge, let him take some bullets, and then cut him off when they basically decided to defenestrate his chosen NASA administrator.
	In any case, Elon has now said he wants to launch his own political party called the America Party.
	He put out an ex post saying, by a factor of two to one, you want a new political party and you shall have it.
	When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.
	Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.
	Now, listen, I think a fiscally conservative third party is fine.
	I mean, in particular congressional districts, having a few congresspeople who can caucus with the Republicans if need be or hold up a bill if not, that's actually not a horrifying, terrible thing.
	However, it is pretty obvious for President Trump that this is directed at him.
	It's not directed at Democrats.
	So President Trump then put out a statement slamming Elon Musk for the new America Party.
	He said, quote, very long post.
	I'm saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely off the rails, essentially becoming a train wreck over the past five weeks.
	He even wants to start a third political party, despite the fact they've never succeeded in the United States.
	The system seems not designed for them.
	That part is true.
	The one thing third parties are good for is the creation of complete and total disruption and chaos.
	We have enough of that with radical left Democrats who've lost their confidence in their minds.
	Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth-running machine that just passed the biggest bill of its kind in the history of our country.
	It's a great bill, but unfortunately for Elon, it eliminates the ridiculous EV mandate, which would have forced everyone to buy an electric car in a short period of time.
	I've been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning.
	People are now allowed to buy whatever they want, gasoline-powered, hybrids, or new technologies that come about.
	No more EV mandate.
	I've campaigned on this for two years, and quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV mandate.
	It was in every speech I made and in every conversation I had.
	He said he had no problems with that.
	I was very surprised.
	Additionally, Elon asked that one of his close friends run NASA.
	And while I thought his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn he was a blue-blooded Democrat who had never contributed to a Republican before.
	Elon probably was also.
	I thought it was inappropriate, a very close friend of Elon, who's in the space business, run NASA.
	And when NASA is such a big part of Elon's corporate life, my number one charge is to protect the American public.
	Now, that last charge about NASA, and I find that one rather spurious because Elon knows the space business better than pretty much anybody else.
	And so the idea that he should not be friends with the person who's the NASA administrator is kind of silly.
	That part is kind of silly.
	But Trump's proposal, which is essentially that a third party helps Democrats and hurts Republicans, may be true.
	Here's President Trump going off on it verbally.
	I think it's ridiculous to start a third party.
	We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party.
	The Democrats have lost their way, but it's always been a two-party system.
	And I think starting a third party just adds to confusion.
	It really seems to have been developed for two parties.
	Third parties have never worked.
	So he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous.
	Okay, so again, I don't think that President Trump is wrong about the third party of this, although I do think actually, in reality, it may draw more Democrats than Republicans to the third party, truthfully, because Elon is now operating a quadrant of the sort of American political grid that is largely unpopulated by humans.
	One of the great mysterious missing voters of modern history is a libertarian voter.
	There are a lot of libertarians who think that because they live in big cities, everyone around them thinks the same.
	Socially liberal, but fiscally conservative is a category that almost does not exist in America.
	Basically, the categories are socially liberal, fiscally liberal, fiscally conservative, socially conservative.
	The fiscally conservative, socially liberal does not exist.
	And there is a big quadrant that exists for socially conservative, fiscally liberal.
	That quadrant exists also.
	But there's almost nobody in the place that the Dulan is trying to occupy.
	Now, again, do I think he could win some districts?
	Sure.
	Do I think that's going to be a terrible thing?
	No, because I think that, frankly, some of those purple districts might have gone to Democrats anyway.
	With that said, is this conflict good for the Republican Party?
	No, and I wish it would be put to bed, obviously.
	Now, speaking of fiscal conservatism, I just have to point out here, my boy Javier Mile over in Argentina is burning it up.
	You remember that time he was supposed to ruin the economy?
	Remember, he was taking a chainsaw to government spending, that he was being actually fiscally responsible, that he was going through, he was cutting government expenditures, just ripping departments down while saying, afuera.
	You remember this?
	Remember this?
	And the media, no, he's going to ruin the economy.
	First of all, not possible to ruin the economy of Argentina.
	That is about as ruined an economy as there was, which is why Javier Mile is the leader of Argentina now.
	It's because of that.
	It's because when you go bankrupt 80,000 times over the course of 20 years, finally somebody might want to do something differently.
	Okay, so how's that working out for Argentinians?
	The answer, kind of awesome.
	According to La Derecha de Ario, in an economy that just a year ago was struggling to survive hyperinflation, chronic deficit, and a recession induced by decades of statism, the results of Javier Mile's economic management continue to stand out with compelling numbers.
	A recent report by Econometrica projects the Argentine economy grew by 7.6% year on year in the second quarter of 2025.
	7.6%.
	That is a huge number.
	Understand that if America hit 3%, we would be dancing in the streets.
	7.6% is a gigantic number.
	The sign of sustained reactivation is joined by a preview of the 2026 budget bill, which the executive branch submitted to the National Congress.
	In it, it's estimated the GDP will grow by 5.2% through 2025, accompanied by a practically stable dollar and year-on-year inflation below 23%.
	Now, we say, oh my gosh, 23% year-on-year inflation, that sounds really, really high.
	Understand that in Argentina, year-on-year inflation in prior years has been in the hundreds of percentage points.
	Hundreds.
	So that is a massive reduction in inflation.
	So he's made the economy stronger.
	It's growing and inflation rates are significantly lower than they were when he entered office because fiscal conservatism works, because this is a Vienna school economist, Javier Millé.
	This is a person who thinks Milton Friedman is too liberal.
	By the way, I agree.
	Javier Millay is the best.
	He remains awesome.
	The government anticipates an appreciation of the real exchange rate with an 8.6% year-on-year drop in bilateral terms.
	Again, inflation is in decline.
	The monthly pace of inflation between June and December should average just 1.9%.
	And now, again, we in the United States look for that on an annualized basis, but that being a monthly basis for Argentina would be magical.
	So just incredible work by Javier Millé.
	Good for the Argentine people for actually sticking with Javier Millé.
	He said there would be pain, short-term pain for long-term gain.
	And it did indeed happen.
	Fiscal conservatism.
	This is the way.
	This is the way.
	And by the way, eventually we're going to have to do it in the United States too.
	You all know it because we are overspending.
	We are.
	This is where Elon is totally right.
	We are overspending.
	And eventually we are going to hit the wall and we're going to have to Javier Millay this thing.
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