The Ben Shapiro Show - Will ANYONE Fight The Radicalization?

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	Coming up on today's Ben Shapiro show, President Trump honors Charlie Kirk with a posthumous medal of presidential freedom.
	Plus, we get to a supposed blockbuster political story about grouperism, white supremacy, ugly stuff inside young Republican chats.
	What does that mean?
	And what is the duty of conservatives to quote unquote unify with such stuff?
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	Well, folks, President Trump is back in the United States, and on his first day back in the United States, which was Tuesday, he did something incredibly moving.
	He posthumously awarded America's highest civilian honor to our friend Charlie Kirk, who, of course, was assassinated just a few weeks ago.
	Erica Kirk talked as well.
	Here was the president of the United States, granting that extraordinary honor to Charlie.
	He was assassinated in the prime of his life for boldly speaking the truth, for living his faith and relentlessly fighting for a better and stronger America.
	He loved this country.
	And that's why this afternoon, it's my privilege to posthumously award Charles James Kirk, our nation's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom.
	Thank you.
	And the president did say that he had raced halfway around the globe, of course, and he was going to call Erica Kirk and ask for a delay.
	And then he realized actually that Tuesday was Charlie's birthday and he said he didn't have it in his heart to actually delay the event.
	Argentina's president Javier Mile stayed on to attend the ceremony as well.
	The president of the United States talked about how Charlie Kirk was what he called a martyr for truth.
	Here was the president.
	As I said on the day that he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk was a martyr for truth and for freedom.
	And from Socrates to think and to St. Peter from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, those who change history the most, and he really did, have always risked their lives for causes they were put on earth to defend.
	And the president went on to say that he was going to continue the fight because Charlie, of course, was not just a Christian activist.
	He was not just a person who spoke publicly.
	He was, in fact, a mover and shaker inside the Republican Party.
	He was a major force behind the reelection of President Trump in 2024.
	And he was very tight with the vice president of the United States.
	Obviously, TPUSA was gearing up as a major force behind the vice president's potential campaign in 2028.
	Here's the president of the United States.
	So we hold his memory in our hearts forever, every single day of this administration.
	And he really did.
	He lived for this country, lived for his wife and his family, but he lived for this country too.
	In Charlie's honor, uh we will continue like we have been to fight, fight, fight, and to win win-win.
	We're going to win so much.
	In a bit, we're going to talk about what strategy it takes to win.
	Because one thing about Charlie that Charlie was very much in favor of was open and honest debate.
	It's something that he went out and he did in the most civil way.
	And the reason that Charlie was famous was not for the stuff that made him powerful inside the Republican Party.
	All the sort of get out the vote efforts and the coalition building behind the scenes.
	The reason that Charlie was incredibly popular is because of these debates that he did on campus, where he had these open conversations with people and tens of millions, billions, in fact, of views on places like TikTok.
	That is the reason why you had this extraordinary outpouring of grief and support for Erica Kirk and TP USA over the course of the last month.
	It remains an ex just a beyond words event that Charlie was taken away from the country.
	Again, it's been about a month.
	Tuesday would have been his 32nd birthday, which is just unthinkable, obviously.
	The State Department, meanwhile, has made the move to bar foreigners who enter the United States and have a record of wishing death upon Charlie Kirk or celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
	The State Department put out a list of people who it would be barring from the United States.
	They tweeted out, quote, the United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
	The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.
	Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the United States.
	An Argentine national, who said that Kirk, quote, devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric and deserves to burn in hell visa revoked.
	A South African national, who mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom and alleging he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash, visa revoked, a Mexican national who said Kirk died being a racist, he died being a misogynist, and said there are people who deserve to die.
	There are people who would make the world better off dead visa revoked.
	And that list continues.
	The State Department says the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubia will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws.
	Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed.
	And of course, that makes perfect sense.
	It is worth noting, by the way, that MSNBC was the only major news network not to air that Medal of Freedom ceremony for Charlie Kirk, which is really quite astonishing, actually.
	Even CNN aired the ceremony.
	The fact that MSNBC refused to do so, it wasn't as though there was a lot on the TV at that point.
	I mean, the president of the United States had virtually the entire cabinet there as he honored Charlie Kirk, plus Erica Kirk was there as well.
	It is typical MSNBC to instead tune to some other topic.
	But this speaks to the broader problem of violence and extremism and radical rhetoric and radical action inside the United States, not just people who are imported from outside the United States, who hate enormous parts of our culture, who hate the central basis of our civilization, but people who have been brought up in the United States to hate precisely that civilization.
	It remains a sort of shocking thing that so many members of the left are willing to look at the other way.
	Obviously, the most obvious example recently is the attorney general candidate in Virginia, Jay Jones, who was caught on a text thread to a Republican saying that he wished for the death of the Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates, and then made some extraordinarily terrible comments about the speaker's children.
	He is still in the race in Virginia.
	There have been very few Democratic calls for him to drop out of the race.
	In just a moment, we'll get to the supposed big story of the day, a political story about young Republicans using white supremacists, Nazi adjacent rhetoric, and all the rest.
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	Meanwhile, Democrats continue to cover up the violence in the ideology in the ideological structures of their own side.
	Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who was widely touted as a possible VP candidate with Kamala Harris, and is still touted as a possible presidential candidate in 2028.
	I don't think that's a that's a real candidacy.
	I think it's chimerical.
	But Josh Shapiro called for accountability after the arsonist who set fire to the Pennsylvania governor's residence, which forced Josh Shapiro and his family to evacuate, received 25 to 50 years in prison.
	That particular arsonist was 38 years old and pled guilty, according to the Wall Street Journal, to state charges of attempted murder, aggravated arson, burglary, and other charges under a plea deal, he will not be eligible for parole until 2050.
	Law enforcement officials said that the arsonist was in part motivated by his views on the Israel-Gaza war.
	In other words, he was attacking Josh Shapiro because Josh Shapiro is a Jew, and Josh Shapiro also happens to be generally pro-Israel.
	This was a member of the radical anti-Israel left, in other words.
	And yet here was Josh Shapiro calling for accountability, especially in rhetorical terms without actually calling out the ideological structure at issue.
	I've talked to people who are thinking about running for office, who have said they don't want to, because they don't want to put their families at risk.
	These are good people who just want to serve, want to do right by their communities, who are being impacted by this unacceptable level of political violence that we're seeing in our country.
	I think we need real accountability for acts of political violence.
	And today is real accountability for the violence that came here to Pennsylvania.
	But as I say, it's not just about calling out acts of political violence.
	That's not enough.
	Whether it's the arson attack on Josh Shapiro's home, or whether it is the murder of Charlie Kirk, calling out the structures, the rhetorical and ideological permission structures that allow for violence to happen.
	That's the thing that needs to happen.
	And so when Josh Shapiro doesn't call out the fact that this person was a radical pro-Hamas activist who did this, that is a missed opportunity and in fact a moral shortcoming.
	The fact that Democrats are not calling out the ideological thought structure that led to Charlie's assassination, which we've talked about on the show, this thought structure that says that you're a member of a victimized group and that the superstructure of society is targeting you, and that therefore you have every ability, nay, every moral impetus to go and do violence to somebody else.
	The failure to call that out, particularly when it comes to trans violence, is a huge, huge problem, obviously.
	And the entire left has gone completely silent on all of that.
	When the left generally goes silent on Jay Jones and pretends that what he was saying about the Speaker of the House, that he's a fascist.
	This sort of language is a problem.
	It is a problem.
	It is a problem.
	When a Democratic Party volunteer is found handing a bracelet to a child that literally says, is he dead yet?
	Referring to President Trump.
	According to MediaIt, that would have been Wisconsin's Winnebago County Democratic Party volunteer, who apparently handed that bracelet to an eight-year-old at a local farmer's market.
	According to Katie Newbauer and her family, they were attending the Oshkosh farmers' market last Saturday when this moment took place.
	Here was Katie Newbauer describing to Fox W L U K 11 in Green Bay and surrounding cities.
	Katie Newbauer says she and her family were enjoying their Saturday morning at the Oshkosh farmers market this past weekend.
	But things took a turn, she says, when her eight-year-old child was handed a bracelet from a member of the Winnebago County Democratic Party's booth.
	The guy behind the tent table said, Hey, give this to your mom.
	She's going to really want this.
	And one of the children comes running up, gives us the bracelet, and we're looking at it, and it literally says, Is he dead yet on the bracelet?
	Newbauer and the Republican Party of Winnebago County assume this was a hate speech reference to President Donald Trump.
	Fox Eleven was unable to get a photo of the bracelets.
	We've been working to get questions answered by the county Democratic Party.
	Okay, so again, the fact that this has become so mainstream, and it is.
	I mean, to pretend that these sort of ideological takes are not mainstream would be to ignore the rising tide of violent rhetoric in the country.
	It is also worthwhile noting that it is incumbent on people of all sides to condemn this, particularly from their own side.
	It's very easy for people on the right to condemn this stuff, because of course it's not happening on our side in quite the same way.
	But when ugly things happen on your own side, yes, you do have some sort of moral duty to take note of this and then to condemn it.
	Okay, so this brings me to a story from Politico.
	There's a story from politico.
	It's making the rounds, creating an enormous amount of dyspepsia on the right, particularly.
	Titled I Love Hitler, Leaked's Messages Expose Young Republicans' Racist Chat.
	Okay, so as we'll see, it is questionable about whether that actual line, I love Hitler, was sort of said in jest, or or whether it was said sort of authentically, right?
	All the all those pieces of the chat have been released by Politico.
	So here is the story.
	Quote leaders of young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
	They referred to black people as monkeys and the watermelon people and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers.
	They talked about their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
	William Hendricks, the Kansas Young Republicans vice chair, used the words N-word with an A at the end and N word with a UH at the end.
	Variations on the N-word itself more than a dozen times in the chat.
	Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to as Epic.
	Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.
	Jiunto was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP's 15,000 member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
	Now, a lot of this is edge lordism.
	Remember going 2015, 2016, I was speaking to some college campus in California, and some kid came over and started using some Gruper memes.
	And he was doing it in jest.
	And I said to him, listen, I understand that you're just being an edge lord right now.
	I'm just telling you, if you put that stuff online, if you put that stuff in chats, if you actually authentically think that stuff, first of all, you're wrong.
	But second of all, if you put that stuff online, there are social consequences to saying and believing truly terrible things.
	Again, I'm not talking here about whether we should ban people from Facebook.
	Obviously, the answer is no, whether you ban people from YouTube or X. I've argued in favor of the restoration of people's accounts on these platforms because they are platforms.
	They are, they are not, in fact, publications.
	However, in your life, there are social consequences to people who say things that you believe are terrible.
	They don't get to come over to dinner at your house, for example.
	They don't get to marry your kids, or you don't date them.
	We all have social lines that we draw all the time.
	And the question is where to draw those lines and how those lines ought to be drawn.
	Listen, there is no question that the shutting tight of the Overton window by the left means that the explosion of the Overton window has let in an enormous amount of garbage.
	That is just a reality.
	And it is the case that this sort of language is routinely used now among some segment, not all, not even a majority, but among some fragmented segment of the right wing ecosystem among young people.
	I mean, that is a reality.
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	So here is what I hope will represent an honest rubric for dealing with issues like this.
	One, obviously, it is very cynical for politico to target young GOP group chats while leaving left wing chats on touch.
	Because I promise you, these same left wing chats exist.
	They're just as bad, if not worse.
	There are university chats among professors that are just as bad, if not worse.
	All of that is true.
	All of that is true.
	Two, the right doesn't have an obligation to go totally insane over such chats.
	Okay, what the left likes to do and what the media love to do is they love to take stuff like this, and then they say to every member of re of the Republican Party, you must personally condemn all of this.
	And the answer should be, I'm happy to condemn the crap in there, but why am why am I responsible for it?
	I'm not responsible for that.
	Well, why is the implication even that I'm responsible for that?
	I don't believe it.
	And your implication that everyone on the right is responsible for a group of young Republicans who say terrible things in private to one another that somehow that implicates the entire Republican Party, while meanwhile, the attorney general candidate in Virginia publicly says things, and that doesn't implicate the entire Democratic Party.
	I mean, or Zorn Mamdani is going to be your New York mayor.
	And that dude is just openly pro-terrorism.
	Like, obviously, there is a difference.
	This political story, which is gaining all sorts of traction, is not in fact comparable to actual people running for high office in Virginia or in New York City or the Democratic Party at high levels engaging with this sort of nonsense.
	Third, when you're asked about somebody saying a bad thing, whether you're right or your left, of course you ought to condemn the bad thing that is being said.
	I don't even understand the logic of not doing that.
	Are you obligated to defend the bad thing being said because the person who is questioning you is somehow quote unquote on the other side?
	Because that's precisely how you get to a left that defends Jay John Jay Jones.
	That's how you get there.
	That's how you get to a left that openly defends Zoran Mamdani.
	Fourth, forgiveness ought to be easily obtained, as I've said.
	But if you want forgiveness, you actually ought to ask for it.
	You actually ought to dissociate from the things that you say.
	I was saying stuff that was dumb.
	I got caught up in the edgelord moment online.
	Like whatever it is.
	But this sort of preemptive forgiveness that people are willing to grant to their own side, you only get out of jail free if you ask to do so.
	You don't get it just because like preemptively.
	So you say something terrible, or you do something terrible, and people just preemptively forgive you.
	All that is is an incentivization to do more of that thing.
	And I will say, finally, it actually is not sufficient to publicly proclaim you're not going to condemn these people while you don't say anything about their comments and instead just project to the other side.
	Because strategically, on a strategic level, this is how your party ends up being taken over by the ambulatory psychotics.
	Okay, I want to look at the left because that's how it happened.
	The left decided they would not, under any circumstances, condemn their own ambulatory psychotics because those people were part of their coalition and they couldn't do it or they would lose.
	And you know what ended up happening?
	The alligator ate them first, not last.
	They ended up being taken over by the crazy wing.
	Because if you lose your systemic immunity to crazy, crazy tends to be really, really, really infectious.
	Okay, first of all, let's just be clear about something.
	There's this weird idea on the right that the left wins because they're totally unified and they they completely side with one another.
	The left is not winning.
	I know that we are sort of a depressive right, that we've gotten addicted to the depressive.
	The left is not winning.
	Donald Trump has been president dos times, two times.
	Republicans are in control of the Senate.
	Republicans are in control of the House.
	Republicans are in control of the majority of governors' mansions.
	Republicans are in control of a majority of state legislatures.
	The left is not winning because of their unity.
	They're being destroyed because of the thing I'm talking about happening on the right.
	Because they decided That the nut jobs and the radicals in their own party could not be condemned under any circumstances.
	They decided to feature Ilhan Omar on the cover of magazines and unite around the crazy college protesters and the BLM rioters and the transgender radicals.
	And guess what?
	They got their asses kicked because of it.
	Yes, they didn't expel people from their party, but moderates walked away.
	The non-crazy walked away.
	This is the dirty little secret of how Donald Trump won the election of 2024.
	He ran as a moderate.
	People who are moderate picked him above the unified left that was siding with all of their radicals and defending all of their radicals and massaging all of their radicals.
	Because it turns out this is a very big country with an awful lot of people.
	And the vast majority of them are not loon bags.
	And the vast majority of them don't like the lunacy.
	And beyond that, we need to be real about the agenda of many of the people who are continuing to rely on the kindness of the quote unquote traditional Republicans who quote unquote don't want to attack right.
	Marjorie Taylor Green is dividing the Republican Party, not the people criticizing Marjorie Taylor Green.
	She is attacking the president day in and day out.
	Who's dividing the party?
	The people who mention it, or Marjorie Taylor Green.
	Marjorie Taylor Green spent the last 24 hours ripping into Republican men.
	For example, Marjorie Taylor Green, apparently, she tore into her party and said GOP men in the Congress are quote unquote weak.
	Apparently, and now she's getting this media blitz from the left while torching Speaker Johnson, torturing Donald Trump, accusing Donald Trump of a cover-up over Epstein, quote, whereas President Trump has a very strong dominant style.
	He's not weak at all.
	A lot of the men here in the House are weak, Green said.
	There's a lot of weak Republican men, and they're more afraid of strong Republican women.
	So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something and actually want to achieve.
	Sure, that must be it.
	It can't be that you've been out there day and night getting the strange new respect from the left by attacking Trump over his foreign and domestic policy while engaging in the most rudimentary conspiratorial nonsense.
	If you point that out, are you the divider, or is it Marjorie Taylor Greene who's busy taking victory laps on CNN?
	When people keep trotting out, folks like Alex Jones.
	And the idea is that if you don't quote unquote unite with Alex Jones, somehow you're undermining the party.
	It's Alex Jones who's torching members of the Trump administration.
	I mean, here's Alex Jones on Tucker Carlson's show, torching in order, Pam Bondi, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino.
	Who's the one who's dividing things?
	Who's the one attacking the president's policy?
	Who's the one who's shooting inside the tent, by the way?
	I'm getting rather tired of this idea that everybody who is not on the sort of extreme wing of the conspiratorial right, those are the ones who are wrecking the party by not accepting the extreme wing of the conspiratorial right that is constantly attacking inside the party.
	It's a wild supposition.
	Here is Alex Jones.
	This is again within the last 48 hours.
	From what I've heard, Bonnie's not bad, she's just lazy.
	Bon Gino's emotional and a big baby.
	You know, uh Patel is compromised.
	And it's just so sad.
	I mean, like I just have wonder.
	Is that who's dividing?
	Who's the big divider?
	Again, politics is a coalitional business, and people can vote for whomever they want.
	But the question now is not about voting.
	The question right now is about who gets to define the message and the future of the Republican Party.
	That's an ongoing battle all the time.
	That's an ongoing battle on the right.
	And if you don't call this stuff out, you end up with the right-wing version of AOC running your party.
	So, yes, obviously, when it comes to the political party, when it comes to the Republican Party, when it comes to the conservative movement, some standards must be applied.
	Because the standards end somewhere, obviously.
	So the question is which standard gets applied?
	How broad should that standard be?
	How much should certain people be respected who are trying to seize leadership of that standard and carry the banner forward?
	Anti-left is an electoral strategy.
	But we are not talking here about an electoral strategy.
	We are talking about who gets to lead the movement, how that should be dealt with, how bad ideas ought to be condemned.
	And if you're not willing to do that on your own side, then frankly, I don't have a lot of respect for you when you're attacking the other side for doing it.
	I don't think it's equivalent on both sides.
	I do not believe that the permission structures for violence on the right are the same as the permission structures for violence on the left.
	I don't think that they go as deep.
	I don't think that they're as pervasive.
	And I don't think on a raw level, they're as creative of as much violence in the moment, right now.
	But the notion that your moral obligation to call out bad behavior and violent language and ugly stuff ends at the political river.
	That is a great way for a republic to fall apart, because then there is no trust.
	Then there is no trust.
	What is the common rule that applies to everyone?
	Then it's the law for my enemies.
	For my friends, everything.
	For my enemies, the law.
	Right?
	And at that point, you can't have a functional republic.
	You really, really can't.
	And as I say, the left is engaged in this stuff full time.
	I don't understand the practical argument, by the way, that the left is winning because of it, because they clearly are not.
	But I mean, the left is engaged in this full time, which is why Zor Mamdani is likely to be the next mayor of New York City.
	Get to more on this in a moment.
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	Apparently, there's going to be a debate between Zor Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sleewa this evening.
	Sliwa, you know, really is sort of the complicating factor in the race right now.
	If it comes down to Cuomo and Mam Dani, Cuomo has a sort of outsider shot at the mayoralty.
	According to the New York Post, Cuomo and Sleeva will come to the crucial face-off bearing fresh evidence the socialist frontrunner is unfit to be dogcatcher, let alone mayor of New York.
	This is Michael Goodwin writing for the New York Post.
	That smoking gun is Mam Dani's outrageous reaction to the end of the war in Gaza and the return of 20 living Israeli hostages.
	His Monday statement never mentioned the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7th, 2023.
	An effort that can only be described as a putrid whitewash of the slaughter and infanticide that marked the deadliest day for the Jews Since the Holocaust.
	He also didn't mention President Trump's heroic efforts to bring priests, lest it trigger a mass outbreak of Trump derangement syndrome among his radical camp followers.
	He smeared Israel.
	He smeared the United States.
	He said that our tax dollars are funding a genocide.
	Mam Dani, he has refused to condemn bloodlust by his fellow Muslims.
	It's on par with his previous refusal to condemn the phrase globalize the intifada.
	According to Michael Goodwin, Mamdani still has not denounced the butchers of Hamas, even as they just murdered people wholesale on the streets in Gaza.
	It is truly an amazing thing that all the people who decl who decried the condition of Gazans have gone totally silent when it's Hamas doing the killing.
	But that's the Democratic Party.
	So I'm just asking Republicans, why would you want to copy that?
	Why would that look like a good strategy to you, either morally or pragmatically?
	My answer is it isn't.
	Meanwhile, for his part, President Trump is promising to cut off federal funding for New York City if Mamdani is elected.
	The funding for New York and for every place comes through the White House.
	And I'm very generous.
	And I was always very generous with New York, even when you had opposition there, but I was always very generous.
	But I wouldn't be generous to a communist, a guy that's going to take the money and throw it out the window, because you're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.
	And we're not going to let somebody get into office and squander the taxpayer money from this country.
	We're not going to let it happen.
	Again, I think that that is perfectly legitimate, actually.
	I mean, taxpayer money at the federal level very frequently comes with strings attached.
	Trump also mocked Elizabeth Warren for praising Mam Dani.
	We've been criticized by a couple of American pronists like Senator Warren.
	So she's a compliment.
	She has no idea what she's doing.
	Go ahead.
	Other than that, I like it very much.
	I mean, fair.
	Fair.
	Okay, meanwhile, President Trump on the foreign policy front continues to maintain that it's time for Hamas to disarm.
	So obviously, I'm in Jerusalem for the Jewish holidays, be coming home soon.
	Can't wait to get home.
	President Trump, he came to the Israeli parliament.
	He gave a barn burner of a speech, in which he said that Hamas would be demilitarized, disarmed.
	President Trump is doubled down on that.
	Here's President Trump.
	We have uh told them we want disarm and they will disarm.
	And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them.
	And it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently.
	But they will disarm.
	Do you understand me?
	Yes.
	Because you always, everyone says, oh, well, they won't disarm.
	They will disarm.
	And I spoke to Hamas.
	And I said, you're gonna disarm, right?
	Yes, sir, we're gonna disarm.
	That's what they told me.
	They will disarm or we will disarm them.
	Got it.
	Okay, well, we'll find out whether that comes true or not.
	Somebody is going to have to disarm Hamas because Hamas has launched a massively violent crackdown in the Gaza Strip.
	Hamas is effectively going house to house now, eliminating all of its possible rivals in what remains of its possible sphere of control.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, a fight between Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip is now underway.
	Hamas has surged forces in behind the Israeli troops leaving.
	So the entire world pressured Israel to leave these areas.
	And as soon as Israel left the areas, Hamas rushed in and began murdering people, and the entire world is apparently still silent about that, except for President Trump.
	Clashes around a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday left dozens dead.
	Well, that's weird.
	I'm old enough to remember because I am more than five minutes old when any sort of violence done around hospitals, even if those hospitals were being used as Hamas bases, was considered some sort of massive war violation.
	And yet here I'm learning that there were clashes literally around a hospital in Gaza City, leaving dozens dead, according to the Hamas unit that conducted the raid and members of the family it was fighting.
	And videos show Hamas fighters dragging a number of men from the family into the public square in broad daylight, forcing them to kneel and then shooting them in the head in front of a crowd of onlookers.
	And that's so weird, because all the people who are saying genocide, genocide, it's so terrible it's happening in Gaza, they've gone totally utterly silent as Hamas simply drives around the Gaza Strip finding enemies and shooting them in the head.
	It's so strange.
	It's so weird.
	According to Hassan Abu Haniyev, an independent analyst based in Amman, specializing in Islamist groups, Hamas is re-establishing control.
	Hamas will be even more aggressive now to prove to the outside world no one can remove them, no force can challenge them.
	Now, remember, that happened because the entire world decided that somehow the members of Hamas were the victims in this particular conflict.
	And it was only because President Trump was capable of mobilizing the entire world to pressure Hamas into releasing 20 live Israeli hostages that that happened in the first place.
	So it remains to be seen how the rest of the Gaza plan will work out.
	But the President of the United States is obviously now heavily invested in a strategy of peace through strength, which is exactly what he said in front of the Israeli parliament.
	This is precisely the right policy when it comes to foreign policy.
	So it is not particularly surprising that President Trump is now set to meet with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to discuss air defense and long-range capabilities, according to the Express out of the UK.
	There is talk that the President of the United States is going to be sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
	That does need to happen.
	The reason that the war in Gaza came to a successful conclusion for Israel, and again, what happens next is unclear, is because Hamas was so militarily pressured that they were left with no other choices.
	Every possible base of support was removed, up to and including the Qataris, who learned over the course of the last six way six weeks that they were not immune from Israeli assault inside their borders against members of Hamas.
	President Trump, according to the Express, has hinted at the possibility of sending Tom Hawks to Kyiv if Putin continues to obstruct any chance of peace talks.
	And the president has recently increased intelligence sharing with Ukrainian forces to enhance long-range attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, intensifying the pressure on Russia's struggling economy.
	This is, by the way, again, the right strategy.
	In more good foreign policy, the president of the United States has said that the United States will be attempting to grant loans to Argentina, but apparently only if Javier Mille's party wins the elections.
	That's not outside political manipulation.
	That's just called good economics.
	If Mille's party does not win the elections, if Mille looks as though he is somehow on shaky footing, investment into Argentina will stop dead.
	The only reason people are investing in Argentina right now is because they believe that they're not going to get a kirch and right government that simply seizes and nationalizes the mechanisms of production and takes away the resources people invest in that country.
	So speaking of Argentina, I asked our sponsors over at Comet, a project of perplexity about Argentina.
	How many times have they gone bankrupt over the course of the last century?
	And according to Comet, Argentina has gone bankrupt, meaning it has defaulted on its sovereign debt nine times over the last century, making it one of the countries with the most frequent defaults in modern economic history.
	Virtually all of those were since 1950, 1951, 56, 82, 89, 2001, 2014, 2019 was a technical or selective default, and 2020.
	And if you go all the way back to the 1890s, it happened in 1890 as well.
	So again, that is just because of bad economic policy, and Mile is trying to correct all of that.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump has directly tied the 20 billion dollar lifeline the United States is extending to Argentina to President Javier Miley's success in the coming midterm elections.
	Trump said, if he loses, we're not going to be generous with Argentina.
	Because if he doesn't win, we're gone.
	Which, by the way, is just a description of reality.
	That is not even leverage being used against some sort of foreign adversary.
	Why would you invest in the economy that has gone bankrupt a dozen times?
	If Melee is not solidly embedded in the economic future of Argentina, there's no reason anyone is going to be investing money in Argentina right now.
	Here is President Trump talking about the Argentina bailout.
	So I've been here now almost nine months, but when I just came in, I was amazed to see how poorly we've done.
	We lost so many.
	And one of them was Argentina, would be lost if he wasn't there.
	And I think he won't be there because the people recognize he's done an amazing job.
	He took over a real mess.
	So did I take over unless I took over a mess by the Biden group and Obama was he started it.
	I'll tell you.
	Barack Hussein Obama started it.
	The President of the United States is not wrong.
	Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said it is, quote, much better to form an economic bridge with our allies and end up with people who want to do the right thing than have to be shooting narco gunboats, which was a reference to boats the United States is targeting off the coast of Venezuela.
	As President Trump met with Javier Miley, it was announced that the U.S. military had struck a fifth alleged drug smuggling vessel, killing six people.
	Javier Miley, for his part, thanked President Trump and Secretary of Treasury Bessent, saying that Besson had helped the country, quote, overcome this liquidity problem that Argentina had as a result of political attacks.
	So again, this is good foreign policy.
	just is.
	And making it dependent on the continued durability of the melee regime is the smart play.
	Meanwhile, all the talk about President Trump's economy grinding to a halt, that seems like that is not happening.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, Wall Street continues to fire on all cylinders.
	Dealmaking, trading, and corporate lending are gaining steam and fueling profits at the nation's largest banks, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo, all beating third quarter profit and revenue forecasts.
	Goldman is now on pace for its best year ever in its main investment banking and markets division.
	JPMorgan is on track to make over $50 billion in annual profit for the second year in a row.
	BlackRock is sitting on a record $13.5 trillion in assets under management.
	Now, maybe this is a bubble.
	Maybe it is people trading and borrowing in order to buy even more securities.
	Maybe all of it is moving toward AI.
	Maybe the volatility eventually will tell.
	But for the moment, that is not true.
	For the moment, that is not what is happening.
	Again, the trade wars could restart again.
	There's a stock market dump just a few days ago when the president seemed to be starting another trade war with China over China's unwillingness to send a wide variety of rare earth minerals to the United States.
	But there's also the possibility the Supreme Court strikes down a lot of these tariffs, saying it's not within the purview of the executive, and suddenly you have a free trading regime, lower taxes, less regulation, and then the economy takes off.
	All of that is quite possible, actually.
	And depends on whether the Supreme Court, I think properly rules that the president does not have the unilateral power to simply increase tariffs as he sees fit.
	Meanwhile, Jerome Powell left the central bank on track to reduce interest rates again at its meeting later this month, highlighting weaknesses in the job market despite lingering concerns over sticky inflation.
	Pell says the central bank is trying to balance against two risks that could call for competing policy steps.
	He's afraid if he cuts rates too quickly, then inflation will continue to be higher than two percent.
	But moving too slowly to reduce borrowing costs could spur painful losses in the employment market.
	So it seems as though President Trump is going to get what he wants, which means he owns the economy from here on out.
	Blaming Joe Biden is going to help at this point.
	So it's either going to be a strong economy and MAGA winning into the future, or a weak economy, in which case the country is in an awful lot of trouble.
	Meanwhile, no sign of any end to the government shutdown insight.
	Democrats keep saying they want to reopen the government, but actually do not want to reopen the government.
	The House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, he says we'd love to reopen the government, but in order to do that, basically we need to undo everything that Trump has done over the last year.
	Good luck with that.
	Well, our position from the very beginning is that we want to sit down, have a bipartisan discussion.
	Now we want to reopen the government, enact the spending agreement that actually makes life better for the American people and addresses the Republican health care crisis that is devastating people all across the country, working class Americans, middle class Americans, as well as everyday Americans.
	Again, I'm I'm not sure what they're aiming for here.
	I guess just to drive down the economy, but the economy seems to be shrugging off the government shutdown as well it should.
	Meanwhile, I guess Democrats are left with just yelling at Trump or clacking their dentures at President Trump, as Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House has been doing.
	She's out there, again, making the rounds, unconvincing.
	Here she is with Gen Sackey over at MSMEC.
	President Trump is the worst president in American history for America's children.
	He's taking food out of their mouths with the SNAP program, health care away from them, education, children with special needs.
	Just reducing the number of people who work there from over 100 to barely 20 for children with special needs, and he's on top of it all, giving them four trillion dollars in national debt to pay for.
	I'm sorry.
	Like, no one believes Nancy Pelosi at this point.
	Good luck to the Democrats.
	I mean, truly.
	The only way the Democrats are able to claw their way back to power is one, an economic collapse, or two, the right loses its mind.
	Thank you.
	If you're wondering why, I am very anti the right losing its mind, it's not just because of the moral.
	It is also because of the pragmatic.
	If the right loses its mind, then the right is in electoral trouble.
	And that means the left takes over, and that is a very, very bad thing.
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