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Oct. 3, 2025 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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	Already coming up, comedians head to Riyadh to pay homage to the royal family are real truth tellers in America, plus a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England.
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	Alrighty, folks, so it came off of Yom Kippur last night to find out that there had been another terror attack against Jews, this time in Manchester, England.
	So to understand why this is happening, first you have to understand the demographics of Manchester.
	Manchester in the UK has a fairly large Jewish community.
	Something like 22% of the entire population of Manchester is Muslim.
	This is very similar to London.
	15% of the entire population of London is Muslim.
	Why does this matter?
	Well, because if there is a shooting or stabbing attack at a synagogue in London or in Manchester, it's pretty clear where that is going to come from.
	And lo and behold, we now find that the suspect's name is, I kid you not, Jihad.
	That is the person's first name is Jihad, which, again, I will say is a little on the nose.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, two people were killed and several injured in a ramming and stabbing attack outside a British synagogue, and what police described as a terrorist incident during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, the attacker drove a car into a group of people in the northern English city of Manchester just after 9 30 a.m. local time on Thursday before getting out and stabbing a member of the public.
	Security guards and worshippers stopped the man who is wearing what looked like explosive devices from entering the temple.
	Within minutes, armed officers arrived and shot the suspect dead.
	Four other people suffered serious injuries, according to the police.
	Now again, none of this is surprising.
	None of this is surprising.
	It's not surprising because Britain has decided to import gigantic populations of people who are extraordinarily warm toward anti-Jew terrorism and toward terrorism in general.
	And that requires some explication.
	Why exactly is that happening?
	Number one, why do all these people have a view of the world that ends in violence?
	And number two, why has the West decided en masse to import these people and then march along with those people, join those people?
	Because it wasn't just that there was a terrorist attack in Manchester yesterday.
	It was accompanied by a massive protest in Manchester, literally a couple of hours later, in solidarity with the Palestinians.
	There's also a giant protest in London.
	According to the UK Daily Mail, a woman attending a pro-Palestine protest on the day of the horrific knife attack outside a synagogue has said she quote, doesn't give up about the Jewish community.
	Hundreds of activists have gathered outside the gates of Downing Street in Westminster as part of a protest against the detention of members of the global Sumud Flotilla, which included Greta Thunberg.
	This is this idiot flotilla where a bunch of left-wing ideologues decided to float their boats toward Gaza just to get arrested by the IDF and then presumably sent in the back of an LL plane next to the bathrooms back to Europe.
	The march taking place just hours after two people were killed in a barbaric knife attack outside Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, has been criticized for its poor timing and described as disgraceful and disrespectful behavior.
	Well, apparently it's only the disrespect that is upsetting to many members of the public over in Britain.
	It is not the fact that they are marching in solidarity with, you know, Hamas, because it turns out that that flotilla was in fact financially associated with groups that do business with Hamas.
	Fiona Smith, 42, was among those taking part in the demonstration during which she was heard saying, I don't give a bleep about the Jewish community right now.
	I thought about it.
	I'm sorry about what happened, but the whole story and why we're here is because of what happened yesterday with the flotilla.
	Now I just want to note something.
	Jihad, the guy who actually committed the terrorist attack, and Fiona, 42.
	Fiona does not sound like a radical Muslim, Fiona sounds like a normal leftist millennial.
	They are on the same page.
	And so this becomes a question: why are they on the same page?
	And the reason that they are on the same page is because they are part of the same movement.
	They're part of the same broad movement.
	I talk about this in my book Lions and Scavengers at length.
	This is basically what the entire book is about.
	Here's what I wrote in the book.
	Okay, and again, I wrote this starting two years ago.
	Quote: The scavengers Have gathered here in the beating heart of what was once the center of Western civilization to bay for more blood and to scream at a West which insists that defense against terror is the first right of all men.
	The spirit of the scavenger is the spirit of envy.
	That spirit animates those who destroy successful men and civilizations.
	The scavenger is driven by a burning impulse, the impulse to escape his own failures and shortcomings by blaming others.
	The scavenger believes that his own failure is the fault of the stars of the fates, but mostly of the lion.
	The scavenger is a creature of frustration, alienation, and vengeance.
	If the lions fail their children, their own children join the scavengers.
	Unmoored from a civilization their parents refuse to defend, they become rabid and go in search of revenge on those who left them adrift.
	They lead a rebellion of privilege, bred into unarned prosperity, but taught ignorance and dependency.
	They look close at hand for monsters to destroy.
	They become the hellish mutation of a spend culture.
	The children of lions can become scavengers.
	And what we are watching here is precisely that.
	We are watching the children of lions, British millennials marching alongside people who are incredibly sympathetic to mass terrorism against Jews.
	And this has been a long time in coming in Europe.
	It goes all the way back to the days of the nihilist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who suggested that the West should join in on its own cultural suicide.
	He literally wrote, quote, it's our turn to tread the path step by step, which leads down to native level.
	But to become natives altogether, our soil must be occupied by a formerly colonized people, and we must starve of hunger.
	And that is something that he wrote back during the 1960s.
	And it is not a shock that many of the people who march in solidarity with terrorism are again some of the richest people in the history of Western civilization.
	As I write in the book, scavengers are plentiful among those for whom life is too easy.
	Is one of the great ironies of history that revolutionaries are typically drawn not from the ranks of the abject poor, but the idle bourgeois.
	The bored are those who need not struggle for their daily bread, who are not dedicated to the demands of family, who are disengaged from the larger community.
	They seek a feeling of meaning that can be found in either building or tearing down, and finding themselves incapable of building, they choose the latter option.
	University students are all too often the seabed for revolution for precisely this reason.
	They have no families to support, they are often supported by their parents, and they have intellectual pretensions of their own.
	The frisson of blood often excites the scavengers.
	In the name of pseudo justice, the scavenger becomes a hero to the group by expressing his willingness to do violence.
	That is what we are watching in the West.
	That is what we are watching.
	Now, when Charlie Kirk was shot, I talked about permission structures for violence.
	I talked about the kinds of structures that lead people to do violence and the people who actually foment those ideologies.
	Some ideologies are worse than other ideologies.
	Not all ideologies are the same.
	Radical Islam is one of those ideologies that is just worse than other ideologies.
	Some ideologies are toxic and breed violence.
	And as I mentioned, again, when I was talking about the ideology that led to the shooting of Charlie, these ideologies share three basic underpinnings.
	First, a conspiratorial view of the universe, in which some shadowy cabal of powerful people are responsible for your shortcomings and your unhappiness, and in which the arguments they make are not arguments at all, they're just a facade for power.
	These are people who believe that the system, the system is rigged and bad, and a conspiracy is at the root of that system.
	Second, a belief that your specific group is targeted for destruction by that system run by that shadowy cabal.
	And that leads to the third belief, which is that violence is a form of self-defense.
	So for radical Muslims, that translates as my civilization's failures, my own failures are not my failures or my civilization's failures.
	They're a result of imperialism or colonialism or the nefarious Jew, and their success is a genocidal threat to me.
	But it's not enough for radical Muslims to have a terrible ideological system.
	There have to be permission structures from major players.
	And in Britain, there are.
	There are permission structures on the left in Britain.
	And broadly speaking, permission structures come from fellow travelers, people who broadly agree that all the systems condemned by these radical ideologues are indeed bad and need to be torn down, that Western systems are bad and flawed and conspiratorial.
	Even if they think all that for a different reason, they still believe that the system and its conspiracy-laden coterie of elites must be torn to the ground.
	And there are lots of people in the West who give this sort of nonsense credence, because it allows them to join in the attack on the conspiratorial system.
	You know, the people who spend every day talking about a non existent genocide in Gaza, or who attribute Israel's success To a conspiracy of evil Jews in the United States who manipulate the system in order to achieve foreign aid and then cover for their genocidal sex rings, all while depriving American citizens of health care and housing.
	Those same people have little or nothing to say about radical Islam because, again, they are allied with radical Islam in order to take down the ally with anybody.
	It doesn't matter.
	They'll ignore the sins of their fellow travelers because what matters more is taking down the conspiratorial system.
	And this is why you are seeing an eruption of violence.
	That eruption of violence is not relegated across the water.
	That outbreak of violence has happened in the United States.
	There was an attack on two members of the Israeli embassy just a few months ago in Washington, D.C. Two people were shot to death by a man shouting free Palestine.
	There's a woman who's burned to death in Colorado by a man shouting free Palestine.
	Okay, this is not some sort of gigantic shock.
	It is happening, and it is happening because of the permission structures for violence.
	It is happening because some ideologies are worse than other ideologies.
	Members of these bad ideologies have been imported by fellow travelers and then massaged by fellow travelers.
	That is why this is becoming more common.
	No, who is surprised?
	Seriously, who was surprised?
	Question.
	I was not surprised.
	I'm not sure that there's anybody who went to synagogue on Yom Kippur, who emerged after Yom Kippur and went on their phone and saw what had happened and was surprised.
	Because every synagogue on planet Earth right now has extra security.
	All of them.
	Okay, that is not happening because of delusion that it's happening because of additional threat.
	And of course, it isn't relegated to just synagogues.
	There are churches that are being targeted by people of radical ideologies like radical Islam or radical LGBTQ plus ideology.
	Again, scavengers who are seeking to tear down the system that also have to have extra security.
	And the battle between lions and scavengers, the scavengers are coalition of people who don't get along with each other on anything else except for these things are bad.
	The systems have to be torn down.
	And so spare me when I hear the British government making expressions of sympathy.
	The British government has made this possible.
	The British government is at least morally responsible for this sort of stuff.
	Because not only are they massaging it, they're bolstering it, they're inflating it.
	Okay, in just a few minutes, we're going to get into why is all of this happening.
	Why has the West taken in so many people who truly hate the West, hate Jews and all the rest, and we'll get to the government.
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	Keir Starmer, the awful Prime Minister of the UK, who just five minutes ago was saying that Palestinians should be given a state after the worst terror assault on Jews since World War II.
	This guy was out there saying they're going to do everything they can to keep our Jewish community safe.
	Apparently, that does not include stopping the importation of gigantic numbers of people who hate Western civilization and Jews and then massaging all of their viewpoints.
	I mean, literally, literally Keir Starmer's labor party, three days ago voted to call what's going on in Gaza a genocide, which is a lie.
	It is a full-scale, ridiculous lie.
	There is no definition of genocide by which what's going on in Gaza is genocide, but that lie gets done what needs to get done, which is it feeds the conspiratorial ideology.
	It feeds that terrible ideology of conspiracy that leads to murder.
	Here's Kirstarmer lying.
	The attack hit Master this morning is absolutely shocking.
	and all of our thoughts with those affected.
	I'm on my way back to London.
	When I arrive, I will chair an emergency COBRA meeting I'm already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country, and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe.
	You know, they'll do everything except for, you know, expel the gigantic number of foreigners in Britain who hate Jews and hate Britain.
	That they'll continue.
	That they'll they're not going to touch that.
	By the way, notice in that statement, there's not a mention of Jews.
	His heart's go out, his heart goes out to everybody who was injured.
	Everybody, I mean, everybody.
	It was a specifically anti-Jewish attack in Manchester.
	That's what it was.
	But don't worry, he has a vague statement for that.
	So does the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who himself has expressed support for radical Islam.
	Quote, I'm horrified by the violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester.
	I've been in contact with the mayor of Great Manchester and the home secretary, and would like to reassure Londoners that the Met Police are stepping up patrols in Jewish communities and synagogues across London.
	My thoughts are with those affected on the Holiest Day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.
	London stands ready to help in any way we can, except for, you know, stopping the tacit and open support for people who love terrorism.
	That they're not going to do.
	The British home secretary is a person named Shabana Mahmoud.
	She's the person who is charged.
	She's in charge of the home secretary of immigration policy.
	She literally marched with the Palestine Solidarity campaign.
	Britain has been overtaken by the scavengers.
	And they've imported a huge number of people who are totally fine with and support, in fact, terrorism.
	A poll just back in April of 2024, conducted in the UK, revealed that British Muslims, 46% of them expressed their backing for Hamas.
	Not for the Palestinians, for Hamas, like the actual terror group, 46%.
	Also, only 25% of UK Muslims believed that Hamas terrorists committed murder and during the October 7th attacks in Israel, which means truly three-quarters of them are quasi supporters of Hamas.
	Because if you don't believe that Hamas committed murder and during October 7th, that's like people who say that Al-Qaeda didn't do 9-11.
	There's a reason for that.
	Okay, part of this is just Western blindness.
	Okay, not all of it is full fellow traveling.
	Some of it is just Western stupidity.
	Suicidal empathy, as Godzad says.
	An unwillingness to understand other cultures.
	Not every culture works in the same way the West works.
	Some cultures are just worse.
	Radical Islam is a worse culture.
	It is an awful, terrible, evil culture.
	It is a bad culture.
	Not all of Islam, radical Islam.
	Unfortunately, there are a lot of radical Muslims on planet Earth.
	Leland Vitter, formerly of Fox News, sat down with the free press and explained an experience he had interviewing a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber.
	Listen to this.
	And Wafa had been a woman in the West Bank, a woman in Gaza, she had pulled a pot of boiling water over herself when she was like five or six years old.
	The Israelis treat most of the people out of Gaza who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries.
	She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four or five years in Israel, but has a pass to get in and out of Israel.
	Which very few people in Gaza did at the time.
	So she gets recruited to be a suicide bomber.
	This is in the second intifada, so mid-2000s.
	And there's the video of her coming to the checkpoint to get Into Israel wearing her suicide vest.
	And she'd been given three target options by the Alaska Martyrs Brigade, a bus, a cafe, or the hospital that had treated her and saved her life.
	She chose the hospital that had treated her and saved her life.
	She gets to the checkpoint.
	They discover that she has a bomb or they think she does.
	She tries to detonate it.
	It doesn't go off.
	She gets thrown in jail.
	Again, the Israelis treat her.
	They help her with her burns.
	They educate her.
	They give her a college degree.
	And now in the Glodschlate deal, she goes back to Gaza.
	So I go to Gaza to interview her, thinking this is going to be a redemption story.
	It was before Christmas, right?
	That she is going to say Perfect Christmas story.
	I am going to be the one to try and forge peace, and I believe in peace, and I've seen that the Israelis are not evil, that I don't want to kill them anymore.
	Fine.
	So I get into Gaza and I bring with me an iPad that has the video of her trying to blow herself up.
	So we're sitting across from each other like this.
	She's wearing a hijab in a very junky Gazan apartment.
	It is an awful place in every sense of the word.
	And I show her the video.
	And I said, What are you thinking?
	Watching this.
	She goes, Oh, oh, oh, has all this reaction.
	And she goes, Oh, she goes, I'm thinking I almost tasted paradise.
	Okay.
	Would you do it again?
	Absolutely in a minute.
	This is my calling in life.
	So, as you can see, that is a very different ideology from the kind of ideology that Americans or Europeans have.
	But either we are blind to it or we are perfectly willing, at least in large part in the West, to humor this idea and import it and import it.
	These are people who live within our borders.
	We brought them in.
	Here is San Francisco State Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, literally this week, saying at a pro-Palestine conference in the United States that there is a very rich debate inside the Palestinian movement over hijacking planes.
	Historically, until now, Palestinians have no agreement over hijacking planes.
	Nobody until now, since 68 until now, there is no agreement whether extended operations are okay or not.
	Nobody, not until now, there is a big debate in the Palestinian movement, right?
	In very rich debate, whether it is okay or it's not okay.
	So it's like why we're having debates about that too.
	It's a very different kind of debate in the and the in the eyes of the of the of the fascists.
	In the eyes of the fascists, the fascists be you and me, people who don't like hijacking of planes.
	It's a very, very different debate.
	Okay, we imported this, and then the people that we import try to tear down our civilization.
	Representative Ilhan Omar, who is warm rhetorically to pretty much all radical Islam.
	There is not a question why she says that we should abolish ice.
	This is not a shock.
	This is not a surprise.
	Here was Ilhan Omar, not very long ago, like in the last 48 hours talking about abolishing ice.
	Is ice too entrenched to even be abolished at this point?
	I mean, nothing is so entrenched to be abolished.
	Um we just need uh the the will of the people and the will of Congress.
	Wow.
	I mean, so abolishing ice from people who are imported to the country from some of the worst parts of planet Earth, but we need to abolish ice because we have to make sure there are no immigration standards.
	I can't, I can't imagine what that's about.
	It seems like a giant shock.
	Or take, for example, Hassan Piker, the New York Times beloved Hassan Piker, who himself has talked over and over and over again about the violence that he wishes to be done to his political enemies.
	Now he's trying to walk that back sort of, kind of, by randomly declaring that what he's talking about is structural violence.
	Here he was being intellectually pants by Ross Delphette over at the New York Times.
	All politics in my worldview revolves around the distribution of resources and the distribution of power.
	And a big part of that component is, of course, violence as well.
	Revolutionary violence, for example.
	And it just simply means like who gets to do the violence and who gets to be on the receiving end of that violence that we have normalized.
	Because the systems that we exist under are inherently violent.
	political systems are.
	It's just more so about redirecting that.
	And I know violence is such a scary concept in this, when we're discussing in this way, but we're talking about it in an academic context.
	But, But basically, the the idea is that instead of having a system that currently benefits the very few, uh, I I want a system that benefits as many people as possible that has more, like I said, egalitarian outcomes.
	Ah, permission structures for revolutionary violence, for revolutionary violence.
	Don't worry, he's just talking about structural, he's talking about intellectually.
	Well, every member of the scavenger coterie will say that it's intellectual right up until the point it's not intellectual anymore.
	And when you're talking about spewing people's intestines across stages, which is the kind of stuff that Assan Piker has talked about, I don't believe you.
	This is the permission structure for violence, and it has real victims, real actual victims.
	But we are a West that is so we are so in our own heads.
	We are we are so weak and pathetic that we are willing to go to other countries to talk about how weak and pathetic we are.
	Show the neck.
	I mean, uh again, the the thing that is happening right now in the West, aside from the importation of what I call the barbarians in Lions and Scavengers, is the fellow travelers who are walking with them, who like what they are doing, who like where they are directing their violence, who share the same general conspiracy theory, even if they don't share the exact pathway toward that conspiracy theory.
	The people who are willing to redirect violence toward that supposed conspiracy of power, and the fools, the fools who are perfectly willing to go abroad ripping into the values of the West for money.
	Already coming up, our bravest Americans, you know, the comedians, the ones who speak truth to power.
	They went to Riyadh, where they did not speak any truth to power.
	They did rip on the United States, however, because they are cowards.
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	For at this point, literally years, we've been hearing about the power and magic of the comedians, right?
	They're the comedians who are not just telling jokes.
	And they're not just telling, they are speaking truth to power.
	And they're going for the clapter.
	They're the ones who will say the things no one else will say.
	They're the ones who are breaking open the Overton window.
	They're the ones who are really saying the unsayable.
	And traditionally, comedians have done that.
	Traditionally, comedians violate taboos because when you violate a taboo, it's just inherently funny.
	Or at least transgressivism can be funny because it shocks your sensibilities.
	doesn't have to be funny, but it shocks your sensibilities, and the natural reaction when someone does something that is transgressive is to laugh.
	Okay, so comedians have always had this sort of role in society.
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	It's really just about faux transgressivism.
	Because when it comes down to it, they are perfectly willing to take money from some of the world's most repressive human beings, and then crap on America in the process.
	And here, I mention Dave Chappelle.
	So Dave Chappelle, along with Bill Burr, along with Andrew Schultz, and a bunch of other top brand, top shelf American comedians, went over to Riyadh for the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
	Now, if that sounds like an Orwellian contradiction in terms, the Riyadh comedy festival sounds sort of like the North Korean dance festival, then that's because it is.
	It's ridiculous.
	What Riyadh is attempting to do right now, what Mohammed bin Salman is attempting to do is create tourist traps in Saudi Arabia, because effectively Saudi has no economy other than oil, right?
	That is still the massive driver of its economy.
	He is trying to diversify, he's trying to get into tech, he's trying to get into travel and tourism, all of which is fine and dandy.
	But let's be very clear.
	Saudi Arabia is an unbelievably repressive country.
	It remains today an unbelievably repressive country, except for kind of certain touristy areas that are being opened to Westerners so they can come and spend their money.
	you So a bunch of comedians who are vol they're constantly violating the taboo.
	They are the ones who are so brave.
	They're so brave when there are no consequences to their bravery, by the way.
	Very, very brave when when the consequence to their bravery is claptor and money in the United States.
	Not so brave when they go over to Saudi Arabia and abide by every single rule set by the Saudi government for millions of dollars.
	So Dave Chappelle, a again, a faux, a faux brave person.
	He goes to Saudi Arabia and he says, right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, you'll get canceled.
	I don't know if that's true, but I'm gonna find out.
	Wow, look at the bravery of that man.
	He's going over to Saudi Arabia to rip on Charlie Kirk.
	What to make jokes about Charlie Kirk.
	Look at that bravery.
	Look at that bravery.
	Perfectly happy to take the money from the Islamic dictatorship.
	Perfectly happy to take that cash.
	And rip on Charlie Kirk in the process.
	Like what a brave man.
	What a truly brave man.
	According to the New York Times, Chappelle was performing in Riyadh at the same time as a divisive free speech debate was rolling the United States.
	Chappelle has talked frequently about being canceled after an uproar caused by his jokes mocking trans people.
	But in Riyadh, he took aim at the recent suspension of Mr. Kimmel.
	Like other comedians at the event who said they felt muzzled by American political correctness, Mr. Chappelle reveled in making uncouth jokes in Saudi Arabia.
	Yet he overlooked an eight-year crackdown that has led to many of the country's writers, business people, activist clerics, and social media influencers being arrested.
	So he goes there to rip on the United States because Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from the air for five minutes.
	That's where he's putting his ire.
	What a brave person.
	What a brave person.
	And speaking of brave people, Bill Burr, who's out there saying, free Luigi, kill the rich.
	He's a rich comedian, Bill Burr.
	Bill Burr, who believes that the systems of the United States are deeply corrupt, so corrupt that he is a man speaking truth to power when he appears on every late night television shows to the hoots and hollers of a bunch of morons in Manhattan.
	He went over to Riyadh to pick up a giant check.
	And then he talked about how he found out that over in Riyadh, you know, it's people just like us because there's a Starbucks over there.
	Great job, Bill.
	You really are a warrior for truth.
	What a brave man is Bill Burr.
	Truly, truly an incredible person.
	Here he was.
	And like my whole idea of Saudi Arabia is what I've seen on the news.
	I've literally think I'm gonna land, you know, and everybody's gonna be screaming, death to America!
	And they're gonna have like machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?
	Because this is what I've been fed about that part of the world, right?
	When they first went to set it up over there, the rules on what they had about what you could say and what you couldn't say in Saudi Arabia, the people around the festivals will be like, all right, well, man, that's game set match.
	If this is like all you can talk about, and you want some good comedians, like this isn't gonna work.
	And then to their credit, they said, all right, what do we got to do?
	And they just negotiated it all the way down to like you can talk about anything, you know, other than a couple things, which was basically, you know, you know, religion, don't make fun of the royals.
	And other than that, it was all everything was like open.
	The Royals loved the show.
	Everyone was happy, the people that were doing the festival were thrilled.
	And uh, yeah, it was just this great positive thing.
	Wow.
	So much bravery.
	So much bravery.
	By the way, Chappelle closed his show by telling his audience he feared returning to the United States, because, quote, they're going to do something to me, so I can't say what I want to say.
	And then he said to alert his fans that this had happened, he would use a code phrase, quote, it's got to be something I would never say in practice.
	So if I actually say it, you'll know never to listen to anything else I say after that.
	Here's the phrase, I stand with Israel.
	Wow, look at him speak truth to power and riyad Saudi Arabia like that.
	Wow, Dave Chappelle, you are a brave, what a brave person.
	What a brave person.
	And by the way, notice the conspiracism there.
	That basically, if he says, I stand with Israel, it's because he's being forced to say, I stand with Israel.
	That there's some sort of conspiracy that wants to force him to say that.
	And the West is on a suicidal track.
	The first victims are gonna be Jews at synagogues, but they certainly will not be the last.
	That is for damn sure.
	Alrighty, coming up, the government shutdown continues.
	Plus, the Trump administration makes a strange decision about abortion drugs.
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	Meanwhile, the government shutdown continues apace.
	A new poll suggests that Americans think that our political divisions cannot be overcome, according to the New York Times Siena poll.
	64% of Americans think that America is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems.
	And uh 33% said that our political system can still address the nation's problems, which is, you know, not a particularly great sign for where the country is today.
	If you look at September 2025, 16% still say the economy is the biggest problem facing the country.
	13% say polarization.
	Nine percent say Republicans, 9% say the state of democracy, only 6% say the Democrats, 4% crime, 3% inequality.
	Okay, what this means is that the sort of political polarization that has been happening right now, I would assume that this is gonna get Democrats out to the polls, which is presumably why Democrats are steering directly into this impression.
	If they can make people feel as though nothing gets done in Washington, and the reason nothing gets done is because of those terrible, terrible Republicans, they're hoping that a bunch of people will go to the polls in 2026.
	This presumably is why Schumer and the Democratic Party are now pushing along the most self-defeating silly shutdown that I've seen in my lifetime.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ignored a push by liberals to stand up to President Trump and shut the government during a budget shutdown six months ago.
	This time, however, Schumer and the Democratic Party went all in, siding under pressure with the party's ascendant left flank.
	Leaders say they are determined to show voters a greater willingness to fight on their behalf in a direct challenge to Trump and the Republicans in control of Congress.
	So, you know, polarization means it sort of takes two to tango.
	And right now, the Democrats are unilaterally polarizing in many ways.
	They're basically saying they don't want to do a reasonable thing, because if they do a reasonable thing with that dastardly Trump, then something might get done.
	So instead, what they're gonna do is they're gonna get nothing done and then gaslight everybody into believing that it's Trump who's being an obstructionist.
	Last month, Congressional Democrats, according to the Wall Street Journal, rolled out a strategy of resistance that centered on making the case that expiring health insurance subsidies, unless renewed, would set off a national crisis.
	If Republicans weren't willing to negotiate on extending the subsidies, Democratic lawmakers would try to force the issue, taking their chances on a shutdown.
	Schumer began calling prominent Democratic leaders, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, former VP Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as progressive groups and labor union leaders to ask them to amplify the party's message.
	And then he deputized others in his caucus to persuade influencers that it was now time to mobilize liberal voters itching to take on the Republican Party.
	So this, of course, is a cave to the left wing.
	It also is unclear exactly why they're shutting down the government.
	Because in reality, as we discussed with the vice president just a couple of days ago, Democrats just want a bunch of new spending that is reversal of some of the cuts that were made in that one big beautiful bill to subsidization of state Medicare programs and Medicaid programs, some of which is redirected toward emergency care for illegal immigrants.
	Okay, well, as Senator John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, says, this is a clean continuing resolution they're trying to pass here.
	This is just a continuation of funding at current status levels.
	That is not controversial.
	My Democrat colleagues have little to work with in this debate, with their own previous statements working against them.
	And so they've tried to portray the clean nonpartisan funding bill before us as something other than what it is.
	But the Teamsters president reminds us of the facts.
	We are not asking Democrats to swallow a list of new Republican policies or partisan demands.
	Not in there.
	We are asking Democrats to do nothing more than pass a clean, nonpartisan bill to fund the government for a few more weeks so that we can get back to bipartisan appropriations work.
	Well, I mean, this is obviously true.
	And the fact that Thune is such a sort of low-key leader is very good optically here.
	Because he's not saying, listen, fight, fight, fight.
	We're so evocative language.
	That's not what he's doing.
	He's saying, listen, we're passing a clean CR.
	Speaker Johnson, also, by the way, similarly low-key.
	Here is Speaker Johnson saying that Democrats who are trying to shut down the government to get some funding for illegal immigrants, among others, they they are making a mistake.
	They say that we're making this up.
	this illegal aliens receiving taxpayer benefits.
	It's a talking point, they said.
	I want to remind you of a couple of key facts.
	Everybody can remember, I think, back to 2020.
	In the presidential debate for all the candidates on the Democrat side, you might remember famously they were asked the question, raise your hand, they said on the stage, if you believe that illegal aliens should receive health care paid for by American taxpayers.
	Every single one of them raised their hand.
	To great applause in the audience from the Democrats who were there.
	Those hands included Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
	They wanted to add, instead of the clean CR that keeps the government open for seven more weeks to allow us to finish the work, they proposed a wild list of partisan priorities.
	Among them, they want to return a half a billion dollars to the corporation for public broadcasting to prop up uh left-leaning and biased media organizations.
	We're not doing that.
	The American people don't want us to do that.
	Okay, so again, he is right about all of that.
	Meanwhile, Caroline Levitt over at the White House, she blasted the Democrats over the shutdown.
	They know what the right thing to do is.
	They just lack the courage to do it.
	But they need to step up and they need to vote for this clean continuing resolution to keep the government open that they voted for as recently as March, that they voted for 13 times previously in the past.
	So there is zero excuse for them to shut down our government right now, and they know it.
	And very soon the American people and their constituents back home in states from New Hampshire to Nevada to Arizona to Florida are going to start feeling the pinch of this Democrat-led shutdown.
	We have millions of troops who are currently going without pay.
	We have women, children and infants who cannot apply for the very important WIC program program for that critical food and life assistance.
	And you also look at air traffic controllers who are now having to work without pay.
	These are critical consequences and it's the Democrats fault and they have a chance to reverse course and they should.
	So meanwhile, Democrats continue to make two claims.
	We're not trying to get illegal immigrants health care and it's good that we are.
	I know it's kind of strange, but they're doing both of those things at the same time.
	Hilariously, Lawrence Jones over at Fox News confronted Senator Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire about health care for illegals.
	And she says, No, no, no, we don't want that.
	And he's like, Well, it's weird because here I have some tape of every Democrat wanting it.
	Actually, I have some tape of your uh Democratic Party members saying this on the debate stay, so they've all said, and let's play the clip.
	A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you proposed in one form or another.
	This is a show of hands question and hold them up for a moment so people can see.
	Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
	Senator, that's literally every member of your party from moderate to more progressive that have said that in the past.
	I'm seeing them all on the cable.
	I beg to disagree with you.
	I have not said that in the past.
	In New Hampshire, we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants.
	We have never done that, and you're just wrong.
	Okay, so um that he Um well I mean, then why are you attempting to literally remove the provisions of federal law that stop that?
	Seriously, that's what happened in the one big beautiful bill.
	There was a provision that said we will not give subsidies to programs that go for illegal immigrants and and and dreamers and people who you've previously sort of labeled as normal asylum recipients, but they actually aren't.
	And Democrats tried to remove that.
	Some Democrats are either too stupid or too honest to actually go along with this.
	Maxine Waters is one of them.
	So Maxine Wars, what a joy she is.
	Uh, one of the one of the more foolish members of American Congress from California.
	Here she was, asked about illegal immigrants for health care.
	She says, We want health care for everybody.
	That's right.
	Democrats are demanding health care for everybody.
	We want to save lives.
	We want to make sure that health care is available to those who would die but having the help of their government.
	Well, I mean, Democrats at some point are gonna learn the lesson that they probably should not have people who are above the age of 172 in Congress, the Senate, or the presidency.
	It works out badly for them.
	Maxine Waters is 87 years old.
	She's 87, and um, and I guess that um either she's addled or she's honest, or both.
	One of those things.
	Meanwhile, I'm old enough to remember when Chuck Schumer said that shutdowns were the policy of idiocy.
	This is not all that long ago.
	Here was Chuck Schumer.
	What if I persuaded my caucus to say I'm gonna shut the government down?
	I am going to not pay our bills unless I get my way.
	It's a politics of idiocy of confrontation, of paralysis.
	Shutting down government over a policy difference is self-defeating.
	We can never hold American workers hostage again.
	While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse.
	Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.
	That was you three times now.
	Go ahead.
	What's if That was Yeah, that was in March, John, before they had done these horrible things to health care, before they had introduced these rescissions which would allow them to ignore the budget process.
	And the bottom line is when I was majority leader, we had 13 times to vote on a budget.
	Do you know why there was no shutdown?
	We sat and negotiated with the Republicans every time.
	They got some things, we got some things.
	Well, um, that's that's it seems like things have changed, but not really based on policy, just based on political convenience.
	Schumer's obviously doing this to avoid a primary from AOC in New York.
	He's afraid she's gonna run for Senate.
	She's not gonna run for Senate, by the way.
	He should stop worrying.
	She's gonna run for president.
	That's what AOC's actually going to do.
	Nancy Pelosi, another oxygenarian, she was asked if Democrats are doing this basically in order to please the far left, and Nancy Pelosi, who cannot stand AOC and believes she's a pretender to the throne.
	Uh Nancy Pelosi gets very, very agitated, so agitated that enters almost come flying out of the mouth.
	I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it's because of AOC.
	Well, if that's the case, my office is open and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.
	There was a thought from the Republicans that AOC is correcting this.
	And she said that senators are welcome to go to her office directly.
	Is she why are you why are you saying such a ridiculous thing?
	I'm just saying go to her office directly.
	Do you think there's any is not directing this?
	She's wonderful.
	She's a real uh uh team player and the rest of that.
	You started by saying Republicans saying that she's directing this.
	She is not.
	Hakim Jeffries is.
	And uh this takes a lot of experience, a lot of unity from the caucus in terms of uh the point of view, and that's what this is.
	You know.
	Okay.
	Okay, Nancy.
	Let's let's be real.
	Hakeem Jeffries in steering anything.
	Now, when it comes to politics, there are the people who make the waves and then they're the people who surf the waves.
	Okay, the people who make the waves are the people who take very strong positions on issues and maintain those positions, and then there are people who sort of surf the waves of public opinion, and they try to navigate the navigate the highways and byways of shifting tides and all the rest of this.
	Hakeem Jeffries is a surfer.
	AOC is a wave maker.
	That that's just the reality.
	Okay, and Democrats right now are surfing the waves that are being made by AOC and Zar Mamdani and all the rest of the radical left democratic socialists of America.
	That that is what they are actually doing right now, pretending that somehow Hakeem Jeffries is a wave maker is a category error.
	Hakeem Jeffries has never taken a strong position on anything out of principle.
	That is not his story.
	It just isn't.
	Okay, meanwhile, in bad news for the Trump administration, apparently the FDA has now approved an abortion drug.
	It has approved the generic version of MiphaPristone, which is a popular abortion drug as an as the day after pill.
	A lot of Republicans are very upset about this.
	Senator Josh Halley said this is shocking.
	FDA has just approved another chemical abortion drug when the evidence shows chemical abortion drugs are dangerous and even deadly for the mother, and of course, 100% lethal to the child.
	Meanwhile, Lila Rose, our friend over at Live Action, she put out a statement unacceptable.
	The FDA just approved another generic of the abortion pill at Miffapristone.
	This drug starves babies and harms mothers.
	The FDA just said it would do a new serious safety study, so I approve another generic now.
	Robert Kennedy Jr. must reverse this decision.
	Ed Whelan, conservative legal expert says, just reminder the FDA, unlike, say the FCC or FTC, is not structured as a so-called independent agency.
	The FDA is indisputably part of the executive branch and is under direct control of the president.
	So, yes, this is a a major shock to the system for a lot of Republicans.
	Again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is himself not anti-abortion or pro-life.
	So it shouldn't be no surprise that that RFK Jr. is presiding over the the ease of receipt of Miffa Pristone.
	It is still shocking for the Trump administration.
	And again, it does feel very much if you're going to play politics with the FDA.
	If the FDA is going to be the kind of place that puts out scanty evidence on, for example, the link between Tylenol and autism and treats that as some sort of authoritative guidance, even though it's so vague that you have end up having to go to your doctor anyway, and then turns around and greenlights generic miphapristone.
	Yeah, people are going to be somewhat up in arms.
	They're going to Say, well, it seems like if politics is playing a role, then politics ought to play a role.
	And if politics isn't playing a role, then you need to explain how.
	For pro-lifers, this is certainly not what pro-lifer signed up for under HHS and the FDA.
	Okay, meanwhile, informed policy news.
	The president of the United States has now determined that the U.S. is in a war with drug cartels.
	This is apparently a way of the president and the executive branch declaring, essentially, that rules on the authorization of military force are loosened when it comes to engagement with drug cartels.
	According to the New York Times, President Trump has decided the U.S. is engaged in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels.
	His team is labeled terrorist organizations, and that suspected smugglers for such groups are unlawful combatants.
	The administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week.
	The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by the New York Times.
	It has new detail to the administration's thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.
	Jeffrey Korn, retired judge advocate General Lawyer, who is formerly the Army's senior advisor for Law of War issues, said drug cartels were not engaged in hostilities, which is usually the standard for armed conflict, because selling a dangerous product product is different from an armed attack.
	He called it an abuse, but you know, the fact that the Trump administration is saying this is self-defense.
	I mean, the reality is this happened in international waters, the blowing up of these drug cartel boats, drug cartel boats that are aimed at American shores and are carrying fentanyl, which is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every single year.
	That seems well within the purview of declaration that they are in fact engaged in violent activity against the United States.
	It'll be interesting to see how this holds up in court or how far the Trump administration is willing to go in fighting the cartels now that they have made it pretty clear that they are willing to do so.
	Meanwhile, it's a Friday, so that means it's time to do a little bit of culture.
	I have been notified by my producers that it is imperative that I review some of Taylor Swift's new album.
	Apparently, the life of a showgirl album is out.
	Now I'm not going to do what I did last time, which was basically like a nine-hour review of her last album, which was one continuous drone song.
	It was terrible.
	Uh her latest album, I've only heard snippets and a couple of songs from it.
	One of them is apparently titled Actually Romantic.
	And apparently it is about a person named Charlie XCX.
	So I'll admit to complete ignorance when it comes to many of these people.
	So I did have to ask our friends and sponsors over at Comet, which is a project of perplexity.
	Who is Charlie XCX?
	What is the controversy between her and Taylor Swift?
	And I have been told by our friends at comment, quote, Charlie X is a British pop singer and songwriter known for her edgy genre blending music and influential role in modern pop, particularly with her critically acclaimed album Brat in 2024.
	Oh, yeah, it's when Kamala Harris was calling herself Brat and everything.
	The controversy between Charlie XX and Taylor Swift centers around a perceived feud fueled by fan speculations and lyrics in both artists' recent works.
	The feud speculation ramped up in 2024 when Charlie's song Sympathy is a knife from her album Brat was rumored to reference Swift and their complicated shared history involving the 1975's band members, with Charlie married to George Daniel and Swift, formerly linked to Maddie Healy.
	Fans noted Charlie XCX's lyrics and social posts that seem to allude to tensions about their experiences touring together and being compared in the pop landscape.
	Taylor reignited speculation with her 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl releasing the track Actually Romantic, the lyrics seemingly called out Charlie XCX for certain comments, interactions with Swift's X and for writing a song expressing negative feelings.
	Wow.
	That's that's amazing.
	Wow.
	And I I will tell you, I I did take a couple of minutes seeing this headline earlier to try to figure out why that why that name is invalid.
	I mean, it is not a valid Roman numeral.
	I know.
	It really should be like XC, right?
	Or 99 would be XCIX.
	XCX doesn't make any sense.
	It's not a thing.
	Anyway.
	Apparently, Taylor Swift is angry at Charlie XCX because she released a song on her brat album called Sympathy is a knife.
	And that was apparently about Taylor Swift, who had briefly dated Maddie Healy, who is the bandmate of Charlie's now husband, George Daniel.
	So I know it's getting a little bit complicated.
	It's like a Habsburg Empire family tree at this point.
	But apparently Taylor Swift dated a person named Matty Healy, who is the bandmate of a person named George Daniel, who is now married to Charlie XCX.
	And so Charlie XX Wrote a song, supposedly about Taylor Swift, called Sympathy is a knife.
	And now Swift apparently heard about the speculation, and she has a song called Actually Romantic, in which she basically accuses Charlie XCX of being obsessed with her, so obsessed.
	Just like everyone is obsessed with Taylor.
	Tay Tay.
	She's so obsessed.
	Maybe it's actually romantic how obsessed she is.
	Oh my God.
	They're all 17.
	Can you stop being 17 for like half a second, please?
	Lady, like you're getting married.
	Can you get over yourself?
	I know.
	I know we're all supposed to be on the Taylor Swift bandwagon.
	I can't get there, guys.
	I just can't.
	She's 35 years old.
	She's acting like a child.
	Oh my God, these, you know, what we used to call middle-aged, okay?
	Like, I understand 35 is now considered the new 15 or something.
	But 35, like Taylor Swift is a couple years younger than my wife.
	My wife's a doctor with four kids.
	Like, like at a certain point here, grow up.
	Seriously.
	But here is a snippet of Actually Romantic.
	I heard you call me boring Barbie when you're out feeling brave.
	High five's my ex, and then you said you're glad he goes.
	Stop me.
	Rolled me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face.
	Some people range.
	Now we're gonna get to the But it's actually There's the chorus.
	All the time you've spent on me.
	I can't handle it.
	All the I can't handle it.
	Okay, we can stop it.
	Uh put aside the lyrics, which are again, unbelievably immature here.
	Uh, I just want to point out she can't sing.
	I know all you she can't.
	There are actual talented singers out there who I think are playing who are punching below their weight class.
	Beyonce, for example, has pipes, and she's constantly fighting below her weight class.
	Like she should be a heavyweight in terms of the kind of stuff she sings.
	And instead, she sings stuff in a limited range, which is silly because she can really belt.
	I I come from an era where it was okay to make fun of Britney Spears for not being able to sing because Christina Aguilera actually could sing.
	Can anyone sing now?
	I'm just wondering.
	Sabrina Carpenter can't really sing either.
	Like why do we have all of these stars who who apparently have the range of about an octave and a half, maybe, at tops.
	Her core, like her chorus is the same as the bridge.
	There is there's nothing there.
	Okay, but apparently, the actual theme of the album is again about her her terrible, horrible, not so terrible, okay life, I guess, as a show girl.
	And um, she has the title track is called Life of a Showgirl, and it features Sabrina Carpenter, another person who is wildly overrated.
	Like wildly wildly overrated.
	And apparently it is a story, a ma a magical story, told from the point of a fan who's waiting by the stage for Kitty, a showgirl who makes her money being pretty and witty.
	So Kitty comes out and tells the narrator, hey, thank you for the lovely bouquet bouquet.
	You're sweeter than a peach, but you don't know the life of a showgirl, babe, and you're never ever gonna.
	And then the show girl starts talking.
	So she waited by the stage door, asked the club for more to arrive.
	She said, I'd sell my soul to have a taste of a magnificent life.
	It's all mine, but that's not what show girls get.
	Um, and and so I I just don't okay.
	Here's the thing.
	There's no conclusion to this song.
	The lyrics of the song are not nearly as bad as the lyrics to uh actually romantic.
	There's some moments here that are actually decent.
	Right?
	She there, for example, she uses a simile that I kind of like.
	She says that one of the show girls, I guess, she says, was glowing like the end of a cigarette.
	That's that's that's it's a good simile.
	I get it.
	That's okay.
	But basically, what she's doing here is a takeoff on All About Eve, which is the best picture winner, I believe, 1951.
	A truly terrific film about a a woman who becomes sort of the aide to a star, specifically so she can take the place of the star.
	And it's a really spicy and interesting film with Betty Davis.
	It's a great, great movie.
	But the whole thing is about sort of the price of fame.
	But nothing in here talks about the price of fame.
	So she sort of says it sucks to be a showgirl, it sucks, but but at the same time, pain hidden by the lipstick and lace.
	But wouldn't have it any other way.
	So what are you complaining about?
	And then she sings a song, I guess, with Sabrina Carpenter.
	So, okay.
	My review of Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl album.
	I know, not as long or as comprehensive as my prior reviews of Taylor Swift albums, but it sounds like more of the same because I don't think that she has the capacity to do anything but the same thing over and over and over again.
	Again, my encouragement to Taylor Swift go back to country music.
	You're getting married, go back to country music, sing about getting married and having babies, because frankly, I think your country over was better for you than the pop.
	Alrighty, folks.
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