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Oct. 27, 2025 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Mamdani’s 9/11 INSANITY

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	Well, folks, it turns out that we now know the real victim of 9-11, the real victims.
	It was Zorin Mamdani's family members because people gave them mean looks.
	We'll get into what is the appeal of Zorin Mamdani.
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	That battle was over whether Andrew Cuomo was a big meanie for going on Sid Rosenberg's show in New York City.
	And Sid Rosenberg made some sort of joke about how Zorin Mamdani would have cheered 9-11, and Cuomo kind of awkwardly chuckled.
	And this turned into an entire news cycle.
	How dare Sid Rosenberg and how dare Andrew Como be so mean to Zoran Mamdani?
	And this has now turned into the theme of Zarin Mamdani's campaign, which is: why are people so mean to the pro-jihadist, pro-Marxist candidate who is likely to be the next mayor of New York?
	This is blown into full view because over the course of the weekend, Zar Mamdani decided to talk extensively about 9-11 and his feelings about 9-11.
	So, Zarin Mamdani was delivering some sort of press conference in the Bronx.
	And here he decided that the real victim of 9-11, the real true victim of 9-11, was not the 3,000 people who died on 9-11, murdered in the worst Islamist terrorist attack ever.
	No, actually, that the real victim was his auntie, his auntie, who, according to Zar Mamdani, rode the subway and may or may not have received a mean look.
	I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
	God, he's a fraud.
	I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
	Um, so that that he is such a fraud.
	If you buy into this fraudulent human, you are a fool.
	You are a fool.
	The fake tears, the he's so broken up over his aunt apparently not taking the subway after 9-11.
	Now, there have been some questions raised about which aunt he's talking about.
	At least one of his aunts was actually in Tanzania at the time, apparently.
	But put aside whether or not that aunt exists or whether or not she stopped taking the subway.
	Zar Mamdani has somehow transformed 9-11, the worst terror event on American soil ever, and probably the worst event in the history of New York City, into a sad story about American Islamophobia.
	And do you understand?
	Do you understand what he's doing?
	The idea is that if he is not elected, it's that same Islamophobia that will be responsible for him not being mayor of New York.
	That the problem is not his pro-jihadist leanings, which we have detailed multiple times on the show.
	The problem is not that he has stood for globalize the Intifada, the Holy Land Five, that he posed alongside an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, that he refuses to say Hamas should be disarmed.
	That's not the problem.
	The problem is all you people who are mean to him about those things, because you are Islamophobic.
	He's just doing the Norm McDonald joke, the old Norm McDonald joke that if there were nuclear war, that there was a nuclear bomb set off by Islamic terrorists in the middle of New York City, he's afraid for the real victims, the Muslims in New York City.
	This is what Mamdani is doing now.
	And it doesn't stop there.
	He's making this like a central plank of his campaign.
	Again, many of the things that people think of as bugs in the Mamdani campaign are features of the Mamdani campaign.
	They are features.
	Everybody who looks at Mamdani, they say, what a weird campaign.
	Why is he running on Islamophobia?
	Like, why does he just run?
	Like a normal progressive Democrat.
	They don't understand.
	This is the reason a bunch of left-wing progressive Democrats are going to vote for him and do so enthusiastically.
	Without the victimhood, he would be a nothing burger, a nothing burger stacked atop a nothing sandwich stapped atop a gigantic junkyard of nothing.
	It is the victimhood alone that has elevated Zar Mamdani.
	Now you say to yourself, wait, he's not a victim.
	I mean, didn't his family immigrate from Uganda, not exactly a nice place to live?
	And he still holds double citizenship with Uganda?
	I mean, aren't his parents super wealthy?
	Didn't his dad teach at Columbia and his mom was a film producer?
	How is this a complete, utter, useless human being, a leech on the fat rump of the United States?
	How is this person a victim?
	How?
	And the answer is that sometime, somewhere, someone gave him a mean look because of Islamophobia.
	Now, again, the term Islamophobia is very often just a cover for don't criticize radical Islam.
	If you criticize radical Islam, that's a form of Islamophobia.
	Islamophobia is kind of a weird charge because again, when you look at someone, unless they are wearing religious garb, it is very difficult to be Islamophobic.
	Again, you don't even know that they're Muslim.
	Islam is a religion.
	Islam is not, in fact, a race.
	If you saw Zorin Mamdani on the street, you'd have a hard time pegging his ethnicity, let alone his religion.
	But according to Zorin Mamdani, the real problem here is an unreasoning, irrational fear of Muslims.
	That's the reason why he's having trouble right now, not his routine support of the worst people on planet Earth.
	Here is Zorin Mamdani doing, once again, the same routine over the weekend.
	I mean, this is all the Republican Party has to offer.
	Cheap jokes about Islamophobia so as to not have to recognize what people are living through.
	Attempts to pit people's humanity against each other.
	And I think whether it's J.D. Vance or it's Andrew Cuomo, it is the same kind of politics.
	It's a politics of division.
	The reason that I've called Andrew Cuomo Donald Trump's puppet is not just because they share the same billionaire donors.
	It's not just because they see themselves in each other.
	It's also because their vision of leading a city or a country is one where you are only able to build a constituency by pitting it against another one.
	And that's what we're seeing in this moment.
	And let's just talk about the moment we have at hand.
	We have a shutdown of the federal government.
	We have Americans across this country living in fear about rising health care costs, about the fact that we're going to see decimating cuts to snap.
	We have active duty military families in line for food pantries.
	And amidst all of this, the focus of so many is just how much bigotry they can engage in.
	That every accusation from Zoran Mamdani is an admission.
	No one has engaged in more bigotry in this campaign than Zoran Mamdani.
	No one.
	Remember, it is in fact a form of bigotry to endorse globalized the intifada and Hamas should not disarm.
	It's bigotry against non-terrorists, number one.
	But the insanity of Zora Mamdani walking around as a pseudo-victim in New York City, by the way, I'm old enough to remember 2001.
	Hey, Zahr Mamdani is 33 years old.
	Okay, that means that Zor Mamdani, because 9-11 now happened 24 years ago, Zoran Mamdani was nine when 9-11 happened.
	I'm about eight years older than Zora Mamdani.
	So I remember 9-11 pretty well because I was a late teen already.
	And I remember the extraordinary efforts that the federal government and state government and city government of New York went through in order to tamp down on quote-unquote Islamophobia.
	George W. Bush did full speeches about how radical Islam was not the same as normal mainstream Islam, how this is a perversion of Islam, how there shouldn't be any sort of backlash against Muslims.
	The city of New York did the same thing.
	The state of New York did the same thing.
	Zora Mamdani whining about the treatment of Muslims in a country that is wildly, wildly Muslim friendly is totally insane.
	It's totally, the city of New York, by the way, is now 11% Muslim, which is the same percentage as the Jewish population.
	We always hear about the big Jewish population in New York, and that's true.
	The same exact population is Muslim in New York now.
	Is there radical discrimination against Muslims in New York?
	By what metric?
	And by the way, what in the, like, how is it that you're talking about 9-11?
	And you don't even spare one sentence for the actual victims of 9-11.
	The people who are leaping to their deaths from the 90th story of the World Trade Center.
	The people who are crushed beneath millions of pounds of molten steel.
	The people who died.
	The firefighters.
	The people who got cancer years later from all the dust and debris.
	Nothing for them, but his auntie did ride the subway.
	And, you know, somebody probably gave her a mean look.
	Somebody probably said a mean thing to her.
	Maybe.
	Well, we don't know, but maybe, but maybe.
	According to the New York Post, how self-damning is Zora Mamdani's chief takeaway from 9-11 is that it supposedly triggered a horrible wave of Islamophobia.
	What utter drech.
	Of course, ordinary Muslims bear no blame for the extremists who carried out those terror attacks, killing some 3,000 innocents.
	No wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes followed 9-11, not in New York nor anywhere else.
	Before and after 9-11, the minority most singled out for hate in America and across the world has always been Jews in vastest proportion to their numbers.
	By the way, in Europe, largely by radical Muslims.
	So what are the supposed experiences of Zorin Mamdani that makes him a victim?
	And again, victimhood is the coin of the realm in Democratic Party politics.
	The reason that Bernie Sanders had a tougher time in the primaries than AOC will is because AOC will claim that because she is a minority in America, that means she was victim.
	Zora Mamdani is doing the same thing.
	Bernie couldn't claim that because he's an old Jew from Brooklyn.
	But what were his experiences?
	According to the New York Post, he recalled how a teacher warned him he might face bullying.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	He might fit, whoa, whoa, dude.
	Whoa.
	Since he attended the ultra-liberal, pricey Bank Street School for Children, his progressive educators expected the worst of their fellow New Yorkers.
	He did not recall actually being bullied.
	Instead, he could only cite his aunt's supposed decision to quit riding the subways because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
	Like, again, without the victimhood, he's got nothing, nothing.
	His program is trash.
	His candidacy is smugness and ugliness masquerading as kindness.
	He hates the things that make America go.
	He hates capitalism.
	He hates traditional Judeo-Christian religion.
	He hates traditional values.
	He hates America's role in the world.
	That's who this guy is.
	And yet, somehow, because he is apparently rich in the coin of victimhood, despite the fact, again, he is one of the least victimized people I have ever even conceived of.
	He grew up rich as an immigrant to this country as a child.
	Both of his parents are very successful.
	He lived his young adult life being a pseudo-rapper and having no actual job.
	And yet somehow he's a victim.
	Somehow he's a victim in America.
	All righty, coming up, Zorin Mamdani.
	That guy is wild, but that's, I think, the feature, not the bug.
	What are Democrats trying to do here?
	And why does it mean that AOC is likely the 2028 front runner?
	We'll get to that in a moment.
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	And by the way, this is nothing new for him.
	This is how he became who he has become, is trading on pseudo-victimhood.
	Here he was in 2020 complaining about Islamophobia.
	I think of on 9-11 when my teacher pulled me out of school, pulled me out of class rather.
	A classmate of mine, myself, and told us that we may get bullied because of what had just happened.
	We didn't understand what had happened.
	And in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher as kind and caring as that because most Muslim students did not have that.
	And yet, what I really remember from that interaction was the understanding that now I was distinct.
	There was something about me that was different from my classmates.
	And it's a lesson that I was made to learn again and again.
	Because a few years later, when I returned to New York City after a trip with my family abroad, I was taken aside at JFK and put in a double mirrored room with immigration agents and asked if I had just come from attending a terrorist training camp and if I had intentions on attacking this country and what my thoughts were on the government.
	And I was 15 years old and I was terrified.
	You were coming from Uganda.
	You were coming from Uganda.
	Like, I'm sorry, you were a Muslim coming from a third world country abroad and you were pulled aside for five minutes by TSA and this is your great story of victimhood.
	By the way, on 9-11, you know where I was?
	I was helping lock down my sister's Jewish day school because just like every other terrorist attack in the United States, Jewish day schools go on high alert, especially terrorist attacks that come from Wait for it, radical Muslims, which is what happened on 9-11.
	My sisters weren't the victims of 9-11.
	I wasn't the victim of 9-11.
	The victims were the victims of 9-11.
	Americans were the victims of 9-11, like all Americans.
	But the primary victims were the actual victims.
	You know, the people who died, the people who were injured, the people who lost family members.
	If you start off your memory of 9-11 with, you know, one time somebody took me out of school and they said a thing to me, shut up.
	Truly pathetic.
	But understand, without the, there's been a lot of talk on the right about the death of wokeness, how wokeness is dying.
	No, wokeness is in remission.
	It is not, in fact, dying.
	Wokeness is in remission.
	The cancer is not yet dead.
	Okay, wokeness is in remission because wokeness is rooted in the idea that there's an eternal American victimhood system.
	And this class of victims cannot be identified by their level of success in American society or prosperity or notoriety.
	It can be identified specifically by levels of racial diversity and by non-traditional background in terms of religion.
	This is how you can tell who, in fact, is a victim in the United States according to the woke.
	And as long as that matrix is undergirding everything that is happening, wokeness is not dead.
	It's just waiting.
	It's just waiting for a sunnier season to burst through the icy frost that has crossed the woke landscape.
	But don't worry, there will be a thaw.
	And Mamdani is the thaw.
	He is a green shoot of wokeness springing up beneath that permafrost.
	That is what he is.
	Without the victimhood, Mamdani is nothing.
	He is no different than Bill de Blasio.
	He is no different than half a dozen other terrible New York candidates who ran this time.
	It is that racial diversity and the ethnic diversity and the religious diversity, all of which in the left-wing mind are tied into inherent victimhood.
	Without the victimhood, he is zip zilch.
	Now, what does this mean?
	I promise you what this means is not just in New York.
	It means that the Democrats are going to move in this direction going forward.
	In 2028, the Democrats are not going to run Gavin Newsom.
	They're not going to run Andy Bashir.
	They do not have the capacity to do this.
	The reason that they do not have the capacity to do this is because the Democratic Party's jet fuel is a sense of aggrievement and victimhood at America itself.
	How America is a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad place.
	He's going to be Andy Bashir.
	Andy Bashir can't credibly claim victimhood on any score.
	He is a straight white man.
	And it doesn't matter how much he virtue signals to the far left base about LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign issues.
	He's not one of them.
	He's not claiming to be a transsexual furry.
	And so that means that he has no coin of the realm in Democratic Party progressive circles, which is where candidate notoriety is made.
	Which makes it somewhat vaguely pathetic that Andy Bashir, the governor of Kentucky, he was peering with Bill Maher and Bill Maher started complaining about gender bills.
	And here was Andy Bashir, for example.
	If you think this is going to play in a Democratic Party primary, got another thing for you.
	You have this very high approval rating in your state, and yet it's a conservative state.
	And you still, you vetoed two gender bills that the legislature overrode, which will do you well in the Democratic primary.
	Just briefly describe what those bills were and what your reasoning is on this.
	Yeah, those were both bills that mainly addressed our LGBTQ population.
	They were mean.
	They were unnecessary.
	Most of the time, they were meant to score political points and or hurt me in a 2023 election.
	What did they say?
	They were trying to eliminate different types of therapies, both for adults and for kids.
	And I think that there can be certain about sex change.
	Oh, no, certain limitations, certainly for kids, I think, are.
	What about girls in sports?
	There was a bill on that, but here's the thing.
	I care too much about sports to want to let government run them.
	You look at where we were in Kentucky, and we didn't have a single issue that you saw in the rest of the country.
	We had a high school athletic association that had these really great policies that prevented any unfair advantage.
	They were really specific.
	The only athlete that we had that was trans in the state was a seventh grader, and she had started a high school field hockey team to make friends.
	Certainly, we ought to be able to prevent unfair advantages in the high school and the college level without making life harder for a seventh grader.
	No, but he ain't got nothing.
	He ain't got nothing.
	It ain't going to be this guy.
	How about Gavin Newsom?
	So I know there's been a lot of talk about Gavin Newsom because he spends all of his days running around jabbering about Trump and tweeting random Trumpian things.
	If you think that this lizard human is going to, he's a white lizard human.
	It ain't going nowhere.
	This guy ain't going nowhere.
	Here's Gavin Newsom basically announcing he wants to run for president.
	Well, duh.
	The idea that a guy who got a 960 on his SAT that still struggles to read scripts that was always in the back of the classroom, the idea that you even throw that out is in and of itself extraordinary.
	Who the hell knows?
	I'm looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment.
	And that's the question for the American people.
	Is it fair to say?
	After the 2026 midterms, you're going to give it serious thought.
	Yeah, I'd be lying otherwise.
	I'd just be lying.
	And I'm not sure.
	He ain't got nothing either.
	Governor, you have a long stand.
	If you've ever run for the White House, you need a compelling why, a reason.
	Are you moving closer to figuring out your own why and your own decision?
	Yeah, Nisha said, if you have a compelling why, you can endure anyhow.
	And so I don't think, I think the biggest challenge for anyone who runs for any office is people see right through you if you don't have that why.
	Yes.
	Yes, yes, they do.
	Yes, they do.
	And Gavin Newsom is so white, he's transparent.
	It won't be him either.
	So that means Democrats have to look to the next level.
	They need somebody who can credibly claim victimhood.
	Well, they already tried Kamala Harris.
	That failed.
	Kamala wants to do it again.
	She ain't going nowhere, by the way.
	Again, I'm just giving you all the candidates who are not going anywhere.
	Here is Kamala Harris over the weekend implying that she wants to run again.
	When are they going to see a woman in charge in the White House?
	In their lifetime, for sure.
	Could it be you?
	Possibly.
	Have you made a decision yet?
	No, I have not.
	But you say in your book, I'm not done.
	That is correct.
	I am not done.
	I have lived my entire career a life of service, and it's in my bones.
	And there are many ways to serve.
	I've not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I'm doing right now.
	Narrator, she was done.
	She's done.
	It's not her either.
	Okay, so it ain't Newsome.
	It ain't Bashir.
	It ain't Kamala Harris.
	So who is it?
	Well, let's see.
	What if there were like a female Zora Mom Donnie who also did not suffer growing up, but can try to claim some sort of victimhood status based off of her diverse ethnicity and the fact that she is in fact virulently popular with progressives and so has driven an enormous amount of conservative ire because she is actually quite horrible.
	What if that person existed and that person were called AOC?
	I'm just telling you, everybody on the right and the left who is short-selling AOC, wrong move.
	Yes, she's awful.
	Yes, she's terrible.
	She has the backing of Bernie Sanders and she has pseudo-victimhood.
	And those two things are very, very useful in a Democratic Party primary.
	All righty, coming up, AOC 2028 front runner.
	And yeah, we have tape of her yelling.
	It is very, very shrill.
	Again, that is not because she's a woman.
	It's because her voice is really high and, you know, shrill.
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	Here she was, woke ranting at a Zoran Mamdani rally.
	This city was built by the Irish escaping famine.
	Italians fleeing fascism.
	Jews escaping Holocaust.
	Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow.
	Latinos seeking a better life.
	Native people standing for themselves.
	Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan.
	It's Staten Island in this country.
	Okay, so I just want to note what she's doing there.
	Understand what she's doing there, right?
	First of all, she's lumping in like all those groups as though they are equal in terms of their contribution or that their stories are equivalent.
	But notice what she's doing there.
	What she is doing there is she is putting together the coalition of victimhood.
	The coalition of victimhood.
	Now, it doesn't matter, by the way, that she opposes half those groups.
	That the same lady who is talking about how Jews escaping the Holocaust built New York is standing with Zoran Mamdani, who's totally fine with globalizing the Intifada and who wept, literally wept when she abstained from a vote on the floor of the House to provide funding for Iron Dome, which shoots down terrorist rockets coming from Gaza.
	That doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter that there is nothing about AOC and her agenda that mesh with the experiences of Italian immigrants coming to the United States in the late 19th century, early 20th century.
	That in fact, their agenda is not her.
	It doesn't matter.
	Now, again, many people are victims and many people contributed to the building of America.
	She is not one of them.
	But she has to grab onto that mantle.
	Woke is in remission.
	It is not yet dead.
	It is not.
	AOC concluded that speech, by the way, by shouting that she's not the crazy one, which, by the way, if you have to tell everybody you're not the crazy one, you're the crazy one.
	But we must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City.
	We are not the outlandish ones, New York City.
	They want us to think we are crazy.
	We are sane.
	Nope.
	Nope.
	But it's an awful risk that the country is running, Vader.
	It had better work.
	And running the risk where the Democratic Party goes way out to the left in order to humor the wokes.
	Anytime a major party nominates a candidate, that person has at least a 40% shot of being president of the United States.
	And as the Democratic Party moves in the direction of pseudo-victimhood of AOC and Zarin Mamdani, if the Democratic Party decides to smear that woke victimhood mentality over a Marxist, pro-jihadist philosophy, bad things ahead for the United States of America, that is for sure.
	So what are Democrats counting on?
	If they've got this sort of woke move that is still under the surface, roiling, what are they counting on?
	Because President Trump obviously has been winning a larger and larger share of Latinos and a larger share of black voters.
	So what are they counting on?
	And the answer is they're waiting for there to be some sort of regression to the mean.
	And maybe that's happening, according to Axios.
	Black and Latino Americans are reporting record levels of alienation and pessimism about the nation's direction.
	More Latinos and black voters supported Trump in 2024, but early into his second term, the sense of exclusion has deepened among communities of color.
	Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction right now.
	This is a PRRI and Brookings Institution poll, so it is left-leaning.
	Of all racial groups, Black Americans, 84%, and Latinos, 70%, are the most dissatisfied with the country's direction.
	Over half of black, 53%, and Latino, 56% respondents, say they feel like strangers in their own country, a record high in the poll's 16-year history.
	Only 16% of black Americans and 30% of Latinos view Trump favorably.
	That's actually not a terrible number among black Americans because typically Democrats will win 92, 93% of the black vote in a presidential election.
	That 30% number for President Trump is pretty bad, given the fact that President Trump scored in the mid-40s with the Latino vote.
	And so Democrats are presumably hoping that the Trump administration's harsh perspective on immigration is going to drive Latinos back into their arms.
	This, by the way, also explains why the Democrats keep saying over and over and over that ICE are Nazis.
	If they can continue to drive down the numbers for ICE, drive down the numbers on President Trump's immigration programs with Latino voters, they're hoping that those voters will then turn to an AOC in 2028.
	This is the reason why Trump ICE Chief Todd Lyons has been pointing out correctly that Democrats are demonizing ICE agents as Nazis and Gestapo.
	You know, we need to have common sense conversations, right?
	We need to stop all the rhetoric.
	You know, ICE is doing a law enforcement mission.
	That's what we are sworn to do, and that's what we are signed up to do.
	We don't want to be doxxed.
	We don't want our families threatened.
	We don't want assassination tips like Brett pointed out.
	We're coming off a sniper attack in a major U.S. city where that lone sniper, that domestic terrorist, had an app that showed the location of ICE agents and officers that could be tracked.
	Yet they want to go ahead and demonize us, call us Nazis, call us Gestapos.
	But yet all across the country, we are arresting public safety threats, foreign terrorist organizations, yet they still want to demonize us every turn.
	I can't believe it because it was unequivocal that Sniper's motive.
	He was attacking ICE.
	He made that very clear.
	And then you have Lori Lightfoot saying that she wants the weight, hair color, vest, insignia, mask, shoes, and cars that you are all driving documented.
	I mean, it sounds like a hit list.
	She says that's not her intent.
	She doesn't want you guys doxxed.
	Now, again, the question becomes for Democrats, why are you doing this?
	And the answer is they are doing this because it is not about the broad spectrum of American voters.
	The goal for Democrats is to create fear among Latino and Hispanic populations in the United States in the hope that it will drive them back into the rising coalition that Democrats have been attempting basically to forge since 2012.
	This also explains why Democrats are still holding on to this government shutdown.
	So the reality is the government shutdown is nonsensical.
	There's no reason for it at this point.
	Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, points out that moderate Democrats should move together to end this.
	We'll explain in a moment why they're not.
	The American people are hostage to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries' poll numbers because what's changed between now and the last time there was a clean continuing resolution is Chuck Schumer has tanked in the polls.
	Both of the two guys from Brooklyn, like I call them, are worried about being primary from the left.
	52 Republican senators have voted 11 times to reopen the government.
	Three brave, moderate Democrats have come across the aisle.
	So, you know, I call on moderate Democratic senators to end this craziness.
	You'll be heroes.
	Because Martha, what I can tell you is we managed to find the money in the middle of October to pay our brave service members.
	And I think we'll be able to do it on November 1st, but we're going to be out of money on November 15th.
	And for a military not to get paid is a disgrace.
	Now, there's no actual reason why Democrats are doing this.
	As the New York Post points out, if you strip away the lives of that Obamacare subsidy set to expire this year, Democrats' main excuse for shutting the government goes up in smoke.
	Above all else, Democrats claim they're looking to protect healthcare, that expiring Obamacare subsidies will send premiums soaring and cost many their coverage.
	The truth, premiums are expected to rise by 20% on average, but the expiring subsidies only account for four of those percentage points.
	The fact is most Obamacare subsidies are not expiring.
	What's set to vanish is the added cash that Democrats in Congress awarded to insurers during COVID.
	That is it.
	That's the whole thing.
	So what exactly are they doing?
	The answer is that they are posing as anti-Trump extremists in order to create the feeling that there's an anti-Trump coalition.
	That's all this is.
	It's about gestalt.
	It is not about policy.
	It's about gestalt, like an overall feeling that you're supposed to have about Democrats that they are opposing Trump and his tyrannies.
	And this is why Democrats seem confused because the shutdown is a peculiar hill to die on on this one.
	Hakeem Jeffries, he's out there, the House minority leader saying the GOP has shown no interest in reopening the government.
	Dude, they put up a bill every single day, every day that the Senate is in session.
	They've put up a bill to just fund the government at continuing levels.
	It's you guys who are voting it down.
	Well, unfortunately, in day 25, what we've seen is that Donald Trump has shown zero interest and Republicans have shown zero interest in reopening the government.
	Our view from the beginning, leader Schumer, Senate Democrats, House Democrats, we've all made clear that we will sit down with anyone, anytime, any place, either at the Capitol or back at the White House to negotiate a bipartisan agreement that actually meets the needs of the American people.
	But at the same time, we have to decisively address the Republican health care crisis because it is crushing everyday Americans, working class Americans, and middle-class Americans.
	The only reason they're doing this, it is all posturing.
	It's all remember, the Democratic coalition is supposedly aggrieved people and liberal white women.
	That is the Democratic coalition.
	So they've already catered to the supposedly aggrieved.
	That's what they do every day.
	It's Zarmam Dani, AOC, and the rest of the party.
	And now they're attempting to cater to the liberal white women who simply want opposition to Trump and will go out and march at No Kings Rally.
	That's the coalition in the end.
	And it does explain why Democrats are not trying to cash in on the actual vulnerabilities of the Trump administration.
	Things like, for example, tariff policy or crypto policy, because those are things that neither side of their coalition really cares about.
	Their coalition doesn't care about tariff policy.
	Their coalition doesn't care about economic health.
	They care about grievance politics.
	That's all.
	Grievance politics and personal hatred for Trump.
	That's the entire Democratic Party at this point.
	Okay, we'll get to foreign policy in just a second.
	Big win for Javier Millé in Argentina and why the United States even cares in just a second.
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	Okay, meanwhile, the president of the United States is pursuing two very different trade policies with regard to China and Canada.
	And were it I, I would be reversing these trade policies.
	When it comes to Canada, the president seems to just want to slam Canada over and over with a mallet.
	And I will admit confusion.
	I think Mark Harney is terrible.
	But also, if the president of the United States, when he had come into office earlier this year, had not smacked Canada across the face, then probably Pierre Polyev would be the prime minister of Canada right now.
	And that would be much better because it turns out it's better to have people who generally agree with you about the world in positions of leadership globally.
	But President Trump over the weekend decided that he was going to raise tariffs on Canada by 10%.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, he said on Saturday that he would be doing this, quote, because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts and hostile act, I am now increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now.
	What did they do?
	Well, according to his Truth Social, Canada was caught red-handed putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan's speech on tariffs.
	The Reagan Foundation said they created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan.
	The ad misrepresents the presidential radio address and did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks.
	The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.
	The sole purpose of this fraud, says President Trump, was Canada's hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will come to their rescue on tariffs they've used for years to hurt the United States.
	Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian tariffs.
	Ronald Reagan loved tariffs for purposes of national security and the economy, but Canada said he didn't.
	Their advertisement was to be taken down immediately.
	They let it run last night during the World Series, knowing it was a fraud.
	And so he's increasing tariffs on Canada by 10%.
	Okay, so a few things here.
	One, Ronald Reagan was not in favor of tariffs.
	Ronald Reagan had specific tariff policies with regard to particularly steel and Japanese semiconductors.
	The same thing was true of George W. Bush.
	Very hard to argue that George W. Bush was a tariffs guy because he did some very specific steel tariffs.
	It happens not to be the case that Ronald Reagan was an anti-free trade president of the United States.
	Second, it was not the entire Canadian government that took out the ad.
	It was the government of the province of Ontario.
	Third, if you think that an ad on the World Series is convincing the Supreme Court to strike down Trump's tariffs, that's silly.
	The Supreme Court will likely strike down Trump's tariffs, in my opinion, because he has wildly exceeded the boundaries of executive authority in unilaterally saying that he can just negotiate tariff arrangements based on emergency authority.
	I do not think any president of any party has the ability to do that legally.
	I'd be kind of shocked, frankly, if the Supreme Court does not strike down his ability to levy the kinds of tariffs that he has under the authorities that he is citing.
	As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Gipper was a free trader.
	In the 1987 speech that was cited here, Reagan was trying to explain why he was making an exception to his free trade policies on semiconductor imports from Japan.
	They point out that Democrats in Congress were threatening new tariffs, and Reagan wanted to instruct the country about the damage from protectionism in the past, especially from the Smooth-Hawley tariff of 1930 and how it contributed to the Great Depression.
	And as the Wall Street Journal points out, even Reagan's semiconductor tariffs proved to be a mistake.
	Intel, which lobbied for the tariffs, innovated with its 386 and 486 chips that surpassed the commodity memory chips made by Japan.
	The U.S. attempt at computer chip industrial policy at the time, focused around the Semitech consortium, was a bust.
	And Japan, who obviously we were very afraid of economically in the 1980s, is no longer an economic threat to the United States.
	They've been in a state of complete stagnation for two and a half decades at this point, economically speaking.
	Well, Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, was grilled over President Trump's claims on tariffs by Kristen Welker over in NBC News.
	Why is the president setting trade policy based on a television ad he doesn't like?
	Well, Kristen, let's think about this.
	This is a kind of propaganda against U.S. citizens.
	It's psyops.
	Why would the government of Ontario, I'm told that they've spent, they have spent or were planning to spend up to $75 million on these ads to come across the U.S. border.
	So what was the purpose of that other than to sway public opinion?
	And, you know, it's some kind of propaganda that the premier of Ontario unilaterally launched.
	Will the 10% tariffs apply to all Canadian goods, Mr. Secretary?
	Kristen, I've been traveling since this unfortunate event happened.
	I know that the ad's been taken down.
	So, you know, we'll have to see.
	But I just think it was terrible, terrible judgment by this premier, you know, who has a bit of a reputation for being a hothead.
	Does the president know if the tariffs will apply to 10% tariffs will apply to all Canadian goods?
	Has he made a determination about that?
	Well, I'm sure he knows.
	Okay.
	I mean, I do not find this wildly convincing.
	I am bewildered by our constant smacks against.
	Again, if you want rare earth minerals, you know there are a bunch of them in Alberta.
	Honestly, we should be looking to Canada as a potential bulwark against China, not the weird opposite that seems to be happening.
	The U.S. and China are now sounding a confident note after their trade talks.
	Again, the markets are very happy about this because all the markets really want from life is some sort of stability.
	That's all.
	The markets just want to know that policy ain't going to change on a dime.
	They can price in anything, but they need to know that that policy is not going to simply swivel moment to moment.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, top U.S. and Chinese negotiators sounded a positive note on weekend trade talks, hailing what they called constructive discussions ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping planned for this week.
	Treasury Secretary Besson said that they believe they have a successful framework for the leaders to discuss.
	Here he was talking about this on ABC News.
	So this was the fifth meeting that I've had with my Chinese counterpart, the Vice Premier, Hu Li Feng, and we covered a wide range of issues.
	And I think we've reached a substantial framework for the two leaders who will meet in Korea next Thursday.
	So, you know, on the table, the president had given me maximum leverage when he threatened 100% tariffs if the Chinese impose their rare earth global export controls.
	So I think we have averted that so that the tariffs will be averted.
	And we have a regular meeting, regular quarterly meeting with the Chinese.
	It was scheduled for November 10th or before November 10th.
	I don't think we will have to have that.
	So we have been rolling the tariffs quarterly.
	Now, one of the things that's happening here is that China has really upped its pressure on its export of rare earth minerals, which, of course, the United States requires as inputs for an enormous amount of its manufacturing and for many of the most important things that you use in daily life.
	This is one of the reasons why we should be, you know, diversifying away from China.
	And we should have actually inked a bunch of great trade deals with countries surrounding China before turning to China.
	You get all your ducks in a row, and then finally, you're going to go for the big fish.
	It seems like we did the opposite, and now China actually has been sort of jiu-jitsuing us in these negotiations.
	Apparently, President Trump is likely to visit Xi in China in early 2026.
	Xi might visit the U.S. later next year, Besson told the NBC News in a separate appearance.
	The president says that he's going to press China to resume purchases of U.S. soybeans, crack down on Chinese companies exporting chemicals used to make fentanyl, and ease control on rare earths.
	You know, again, I think that the I am uneasy, shall we say, about the state of these deals.
	Secretary Besant also said that a final TikTok deal has been reached.
	Now, I can only hope this means a transfer of control away from the Chinese Communist Party and towards some American party that can rejigger the anti-American algorithm TikTok uses in order to propagandize to Americans.
	But here's what the Treasury Secretary had to say.
	Margaret, we reached a final deal on TikTok.
	We'd reached one in Madrid.
	And I believe that as of today, all the details are ironed out.
	And that will be for the two leaders to consummate that transaction on Thursday in Korea.
	Now, Margaret Brennan on CBS News asked him, has China agreed to give up control of the algorithm that determines what users see?
	And Besson didn't explain.
	I find this disquieting.
	The entire purpose of the congressional bill that was signed into law, supported by President Trump, was to divest TikTok's control from China.
	If that does not happen, then that is, in fact, a fail.
	Meanwhile, some good news from South America.
	Javier Millay's party has now won a mandate for a free market revolution in Argentina.
	There's a lot of dyspepsia, a lot of concern that Javier Millay, who has basically had to use economic chemotherapy on the Kirchnerist economy over in Argentina, the big state, horribly regulated, nationalized economy of Argentina.
	When you use shock therapy on an economy, it can absolutely get down your debt levels.
	It can absolutely increase the price of your currency.
	It also is going to have some downstream effects in terms of how people live.
	Because if you revalue your currency and it turns out the peso is worth a lot less than you were saying that it's worth, for example, people's money doesn't go nearly as far.
	And so that's why the United States stepped in and basically gave a loan to the Argentinian government to back Millay's play, because the idea is that if you want a pro-capitalism, pro-America ally in Argentina, then you give them a loan, sort of like the Marshall Plan, in order to ensure they don't fall into the Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro Cuban category.
	And it worked because yesterday, according to the Wall Street Journal, Millay scored a decisive political win on Sunday, strengthening his position in Argentina's Congress and securing a lifeline for his audacious free market revolution backed by President Trump.
	Full disclosure, as you know, I'm a huge Millay fan.
	I think what Millay is doing is one of the most important things in the world right now.
	I think that the move away from socialism and dependency theory in South America and toward embrace of free markets is an excellent thing for the United States.
	I think if you don't want gigantic waves of migrants coming up from South and Latin America, then what you actually need is functional states in these places.
	Allies are better than enemies in these places.
	Millay is an extraordinarily pro-American ally.
	With more than 99% of the votes counted, Millay's Freedom Advances Party won almost 41% of the national vote.
	It more than doubled its representation in Congress.
	That means that his party and allies secured at least one-third of the seats in both chambers, and that allows Millay to preserve his veto power and defend his sweeping decrees.
	So that gives him fresh political momentum, and it also shores up his standing with both Washington, D.C. and the IMF.
	Because again, what they said is we're not going to pour more money down a rat hole is what President Trump said.
	He said, we're not pouring more money down an Argentinian rat hole.
	If it turns out that Argentina is ready to govern like a responsible country, then yeah, investment is going to come in.
	And this, by the way, is true for investors.
	I've been talking with a lot of investors looking at Argentina's economy, and they look and they see opportunity, but they were worried, okay, we're going to put our money in.
	Five minutes later, Millay will be out and you'll end up with another Kirchner type.
	And if that happens, then your money's gone.
	And so some form of solidity in the Argentinian economy, a trajectory toward normality is going to be a huge thing for Argentina and for people who wish to invest in Argentina, which will be a good thing.
	Millay told a cheering throng in downtown Buenos Aires, today marks the beginning of building a great Argentina.
	This result is nothing more and nothing less than the confirmation of the mandate we assumed in 2023.
	The U.S. had announced a $20 billion currency swap this month to prop up Argentina's currency, promising to raise another $20 billion from private banks and sovereign wealth funds.
	Now, again, some of this is a play for time because the reality is the peso is way, way overvalued in Argentina.
	And that if Mile were to dollarize, then everything I said before about the devaluation of the peso would happen really, really rapidly.
	And Mile was concerned that if that happens too fast, you end up burning out the electorate and then they swivel back toward the left.
	President Trump wrote on his truth social platform Monday, again, this is an excellent move by President Trump.
	Big win in Argentina for Javier Mile, a wonderful Trump-endorsed candidate.
	He's making us all look good.
	Our confidence in him was justified by the people of Argentina.
	Mile has already sharply devalued the peso to unify an array of exchange rates and curb a chronic budget gap that was funded by printing money.
	He reduced energy subsidies and fired tens of thousands of public sector employees.
	The policies briefly stabilized Argentina's finances, producing the first balanced budget in more than a decade.
	The inflation rate has fallen to 32%, which is still unbelievably high, but it was 200% two years ago.
	There are a lot of voters ready to criticize the president, but they said handing back power to the leftist Peronist opposition was unthinkable, which is exactly, exactly right.
	And the idea is if you want to have a future, you're going to have to let Mille cook.
	So that is definitely a very, very good thing happening in South America.
	Scott Besant was asked, the Treasury Secretary, about the loans to Argentina.
	He says that is America first.
	And this is right.
	This is right for all of the isolationists out there who are like, why are we spending money in Argentina as opposed to spending money here?
	First of all, we spend tons of money here at home.
	It's why we have a $37 trillion debt.
	That's why.
	It's not because of foreign aid.
	Okay.
	But the point that Besant is making here and that President Trump has made is that America First has never meant America alone.
	We need allies.
	And it is better to have an ally in Argentina who is not destroying the economy and shipping hundreds of thousands of people up to the United States by proxy.
	That is better than the alternative.
	Here is Scott Besant.
	Kristen, it is America First because we are supporting a U.S. ally.
	There will be no taxpayer losses.
	This is a swap line.
	This is not a bailout.
	And it is from the Exchange Stabilization Fund, which Treasury I control at Treasury.
	It has never registered a loss.
	It is not going to register a loss this time.
	We are supporting a U.S. ally in Latin America, and we want to set the tone in Latin America.
	Again, this is a good thing.
	By the way, the president is being very, very aggressive in Latin America.
	The president's view on Venezuela is that they need to stop shipping drugs over to the United States.
	Their drug cartels are a danger to American citizens.
	According to the Washington Post, the United States is massing an unusual buildup of warships, fighter jets, and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Venezuela as the Trump administration expands its military campaign against what it says are transnational criminal organizations.
	The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford and its associated warships are heading to the region, according to the Pentagon.
	The United States already has warships, an expeditionary marine unit, drones, fighter planes, and surveillance aircraft in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
	Now, there are a lot of people who are worried about regime change in Venezuela.
	Now, nobody is talking about a full-scale ground invasion of Venezuela.
	No one that I'm aware of is talking about this, nor would that be a good policy for the United States.
	If some sort of covert CIA action were to topple the regime in Venezuela, that would be a good thing.
	It would be good.
	This bizarre idea that the best available scenario is always to leave the worst dictator in power because Saddam Hussein is benighted.
	Sometimes the analogies work and sometimes they just don't.
	And until Nicolas Maduro and Ugo Chavez came on the scene, Venezuela was a fairly wealthy country.
	And it turns out there's an opposition ready to step in and do something about it.
	Now, the big question in Venezuela, of course, is the military, because Maduro, like all dictators, has purged all the top levels of the military of potential rivals.
	However, it is very clear that Maduro is increasingly uncomfortable with the amounts of pressure being levied against him by the United States.
	Here he was begging for what he called no crazy war.
	Not war, not war, not warm.
	Just peace, just peace, just peace forever, forever, forever, peace forever.
	No crazy warm.
	No a la guerra loca.
	No crazy, no crazy war, no crazy worm.
	Please, please, please.
	Just peace, peace forever, peace forever.
	Ooh, Given.
	Well, maybe you should, you know, stop tyrannizing your own population and shipping drugs up to the United States.
	That'd be a better than just shouting peace forever while you, you know, don't let anybody vote and destroy your own country economically and nationalize all the resources and make yourself wealthy.
	Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says that he believes there will be some land strikes in Venezuela because of the drug cartels.
	Here was Lindsey Graham on Face the Nation on CBS News.
	Our land strikes planned.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I think that's a real possibility.
	I think President Trump's made a decision that Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, is an indicted drug trafficker, that it's time for him to go, that Venezuela and Colombia have been safe havens for narco-terrorists for too long.
	And President Trump told me yesterday that he plans to brief members of Congress when he gets back from Asia about future potential military operations against Venezuela and Colombia.
	So there will be a congressional briefing about a potential expanding from the sea to the land.
	I support that idea.
	Well, you know, we will see what happens next.
	Suffice it to say that the presidents of the United States, again, there are all these people who keep putting out this idea that Trump is going to engage in some sort of gigantic hundreds of thousands of troops ground invasion.
	Have you seen President Trump?
	These are the same people who warned you World War III was going to happen when President Trump launched literally one B2 sortie destroying the Ford O facility in Iran.
	That is not how President Trump operates.
	That is a different thing from saying that he is going to do a strike on narco-terrorists inside Venezuela.
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	Joining us on the line to discuss is Derek Banner.
	He's CEO of Our Rescue the Nonprofit Organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking and child exploitation.
	Derek, thanks so much for the time.
	Really appreciate it.
	Hi, Ben.
	It's great to be with you and great to meet your audience.
	Thank you.
	So let's talk about what parents don't know about how kids get involved in things like sex trafficking and how they are getting dragged into this via the tools that parents are very often giving them, their cell phones, their iPads.
	Yeah, so, you know, technology is a double-edged sword.
	It's definite an aspect that law enforcement uses and leverages in these investigations and to keep children safe and to prevent traffickers from operating in our neighborhoods and our towns.
	But the predators and the sex traffickers are leveraging technology at an equal, if not greater level than law enforcement.
	So what are some of the chief apps that predators are using in order to gain access to children?
	How do they use those apps that parents think are innocuous in order to do so?
	The short answer, Ben, is all of them.
	So they are leveraging technology at scale.
	So they're leveraging the internet.
	They're leveraging social media platforms, even seemingly innocent gaming platforms, online gaming platforms.
	Any and all of those are opportunities for offenders and predators to attempt to try to engage with children at a scale that we've never seen before.
	So you've talked a fair bit about the gap in support for law enforcement efforts to fight to protect children.
	People don't really understand what it is that law enforcement can and should be doing.
	What should law enforcement be doing?
	What capabilities do they have and where do they fall short?
	So law enforcement is the men and women that investigate crimes against children are, I think, some of the greatest heroes in our country in law enforcement.
	It's one of the hardest jobs in law enforcement.
	The content and the material itself is something that you just can't unsee and unhear.
	And of course, the sense of urgency around the backlog and the issue itself creates another level of complexity.
	I can set the stage for you a little bit in terms of what the law enforcement faces in terms of just pure numbers.
	In 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received 20.5 million suspected reports of child exploitation.
	Within that 20.5 million, Ben, is another 63 million files, videos, images of child sexual abuse material or CSAM as it's referred to.
	So let's talk about some examples of this so people get sort of a fuller picture of how this happens.
	Can you give me an example of how a child would be sucked into this more specifically?
	So predators are, as we said earlier, they are engaged in actively trying to entice minor children into providing explicit material over the internet or through encrypted chats or through grooming techniques on these platforms.
	Once that happens, these explicit images are then shared within the predator community.
	It's essentially their goal is to create these images, and then they're traded over the internet, on the dark web, and around the world.
	Well, you can check out Derek's work over at OurRescue.
	Also, you can check out the brand new documentary that's going to enlighten you about the dangers facing your kids over at Dailywire Plus.
	It's available for free thanks to the support of our members at Dailywire Plus.
	The film is Hiding in Plain Sight, America's Trafficking Epidemic.
	Derek, thanks so much for the time.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you, Ben.
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