The Ben Shapiro Show - Evil Left-Wing Ideas Have Consequences
Aired: 2026-04-15
Duration: 58:24


=== Tucker Attacks Jesus and Christianity (15:22) ===

[00:00:00]  Someone you know, a household name, just said that President Trump opposes Jesus by fighting the Iranian radical Islamic tyranny.
[00:00:10]  That same person just said that people who oppose the Iranian regime are themselves evil and that they are trying to deceive you that Islam is the enemy.
[00:00:19]  Also, those same terrible people are turning President Trump into a slave.
[00:00:24]  Is that famous person Zar Mamdani?
[00:00:26]  Is it the new leadership in Iran?
[00:00:27]  No, of course not.
[00:00:28]  It's Tucker Carlson.
[00:00:30]  Now listen, maybe Tucker's just lost it.
[00:00:32]  That, of course, would be the kindest explanation for what's happening right now.
[00:00:36]  And if that lets you sleep easier at night, well, then more power to you.
[00:00:40]  Or maybe he's being paid off by a foreign power.
[00:00:42]  But I don't have evidence of that, so I'm not going to allege it.
[00:00:44]  And frankly, that answer seems too easy.
[00:00:47]  Now, I think Tucker Carlson is saying all of these crazy things for the worst reason of all.
[00:00:52]  He actually believes them.
[00:00:53]  What he is doing is purposeful and terrible and anti American.
[00:00:57]  He wants to demoralize Americans to tell us that America itself is fatally flawed, Islamophobic, run by a secret cabal, its institutions corrupted.
[00:01:05]  Its central principles are nefarious.
[00:01:07]  If he can wreck how Americans think about America, then maybe he can pave the way to something he likes better.
[00:01:13]  Well, you know who else believes all of that?
[00:01:15]  Hassan Piker, Zorhan Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, the Ayatollahs, for that matter.
[00:01:20]  Which is why, right now, they seem to all be on the same side.
[00:01:24]  Well, meanwhile, Erica Kirk, the wife of Charlie Kirk, was forced to cancel a live event last night with the vice president thanks to security concerns.
[00:01:32]  Now, you may be saying to yourself, those stories have nothing to do with one another.
[00:01:35]  Wrong.
[00:01:36]  These stories are part of the same broader story.
[00:01:38]  When any movement Humors, it's grifters, it's crazies.
[00:01:42]  The real world consequences are disastrous.
[00:01:45]  This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
[00:01:53]  So yesterday, Tucker Carlson put out a statement via the Tucker Carlson network.
[00:01:58]  This was part of his newsletter on Islam.
[00:02:01]  And it blew a lot of minds.
[00:02:02]  Not necessarily my mind, because of course I've been watching what's been going on with Tucker Carlson for a while now.
[00:02:07]  But here is what he put out via X quote.
[00:02:11]  The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
[00:02:15]  So first of all, the people in charge don't want, who are the people in charge?
[00:02:19]  Donald Trump doesn't want you to know this.
[00:02:21]  He's the president.
[00:02:22]  JD Vance doesn't want you to know.
[00:02:24]  Who are the people in charge?
[00:02:25]  Who are these nefarious others?
[00:02:27]  I have some ideas as to who Tucker is talking about, but he says the people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
[00:02:34]  Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes he performs miracles, and states that he will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist.
[00:02:41]  That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the son of God offended the president of Iran.
[00:02:46]  It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
[00:02:48]  Are you getting all this?
[00:02:49]  According to Tucker Carlson, remember that silly painting, that AI painting that President Trump put up and then took down, where he said he thought he was a doctor and people thought, oh no, he actually is like Jesus there?
[00:03:00]  According to Tucker Carlson, Iran was offended by that image.
[00:03:04]  They weren't using that image to divide Americans.
[00:03:06]  No, they were offended by the image because, of course, it was an attack on Islam and also Christianity.
[00:03:12]  That's how wonderful Iran is.
[00:03:14]  According to Tucker Carlson Network, today's Morning Note newsletter covers Majid Peshechkian's condemnation of Trump's desecration of Jesus, the Iran war's gutting effect on America's housing market, because, you know, the housing market was doing amazing before, and also Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami.
[00:03:31]  That's like his petting zoo.
[00:03:33]  All the important news fit to print over at Tucker Carlson Network.
[00:03:36]  Now, is that true?
[00:03:38]  What do Muslims actually believe about Jesus?
[00:03:40]  Now, listen, I'm a Jew.
[00:03:42]  That means that I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus.
[00:03:45]  I also believe, as an Orthodox Jew, that Judaism is not the only path to heaven.
[00:03:50]  Judaism as a religion is not exclusive, meaning that as long as people who are not Jewish follow seven basic Noahide laws, and this includes Christians and Muslims, they too have a share in the world to come.
[00:04:01]  And those seven basic laws are things like.
[00:04:03]  No blasphemy, don't commit sexual sins, set up a court of law, make sure that you're not eating flesh from a living animal, stuff like that.
[00:04:10]  Which is why I can say, and frequently do if you listen to the show, that you as a Christian should go to church.
[00:04:15]  It is good for you to go to church.
[00:04:17]  You know what?
[00:04:18]  Religious Muslims can't say that.
[00:04:20]  And the reason they can't say that is because religious Muslims believe that everyone needs to be a Muslim.
[00:04:26]  So, what exactly does the Quran say about Jesus?
[00:04:30]  Again, I'm not speaking as somebody who's ripping into say, Quranic doctrine.
[00:04:36]  I'm just pointing out that Tucker Carlson is doing something nefarious here and that he is lying.
[00:04:40]  So Dan Berwami, who is a former Muslim and he's now a Christian, he has a book called Islam, Israel, and the West.
[00:04:45]  And here is what he writes.
[00:04:50]  He says, quote, By the way,
[00:05:21]  the same thing is true of Moses.
[00:05:22]  Every reference to them in the Quran functions not to elevate them, but to conscript them into Muhammad's project of replacing Christianity with Islam.
[00:05:30]  The Quran itself misrepresents who Mary is.
[00:05:34]  It actually addresses her as the sister of Aaron in Surah 1928, which is an anachronism because, of course, Aaron is generations before, like the brother of Moses, a thousand years before Mary, mother of Jesus.
[00:05:47]  Also, the Quran attempts to call Mary a virgin, not in order to establish that Jesus is the son of God, but to deny Christ's divine sonship.
[00:06:00]  The Quran, according to Berwami, Systematically strips Jesus of every identity that makes him who he is in Christian faith.
[00:06:06]  It denies his divinity.
[00:06:07]  Quran 575 The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a messenger.
[00:06:10]  It denies his sonship.
[00:06:12]  Quran 1935 It is not befitting for Allah to take a son.
[00:06:15]  It denies his crucifixion.
[00:06:16]  They did not kill him nor crucify him, but it was made to appear so.
[00:06:20]  So, according to Barwami, again, he's a Christian who was a Muslim.
[00:06:23]  The Quran preserves Jesus only in order to negate him.
[00:06:26]  He is a shell, a name emptied of substance.
[00:06:28]  The Jesus of Islam is not the eternal son of God, not the Word made flesh, not the crucified and risen Lord.
[00:06:33]  He's an anti Jesus, retained only to erase the true one.
[00:06:37]  If Jesus is divine, Muhammad is irrelevant.
[00:06:39]  If Jesus is the Son of God, Muhammad's message collapses.
[00:06:42]  The Quran must therefore silence the real Christ in order to establish Muhammad's authority, says Dan Berwami.
[00:06:48]  And by the way, the idea that he is going to come back and then he is going to turn everyone Christian in the same way that Christians believe this?
[00:06:57]  No, according to Berwami, the Quran's distortion of Jesus extends beyond the past into the future.
[00:07:02]  Islam teaches that Jesus will return at the end of time, but in Islam's eschatology, his role is not to redeem the world.
[00:07:08]  Instead, he returns to enforce Islam.
[00:07:11]  Jesus returns not as savior, but as Muhammad's enforcer, abolishing Christianity, destroying its symbols, and submitting the world to Sharia, which, by the way, explains why Christians are not well treated, generally speaking, in Sharia law countries.
[00:07:21]  When I say not well treated, I mean they basically don't exist because majority Muslim countries have been turned into non safe places for Christians.
[00:07:29]  Places that used to be Christian, like Lebanon, have been turned into hell holes for Christians.
[00:07:33]  Places like Algeria, that once were Christian, are now totally Muslim.
[00:07:37]  There is a reason that the only country in the Middle East with an actual organically growing Christian population is, wait for it, Israel.
[00:07:44]  Okay, but Tucker Carlson is running a propaganda op.
[00:07:47]  In fact, Milk Bar TV has done a good job of tracing Tucker Carlson's warm words about Islam, which is again kind of strange from Tucker here.
[00:07:58]  And again, I don't do the game where I interpret other people's scriptures.
[00:08:04]  I just don't do that game because as a religious person, I feel like, you know, scriptures are open to interpretation and the advocates for scriptures should be taken at their word.
[00:08:13]  That's not What I'm doing here.
[00:08:15]  The point that I'm making is that Tucker is deliberately misrepresenting the rule of radical Islam in the world.
[00:08:21]  He's deliberately misrepresenting Sharia law.
[00:08:23]  He is deliberately attempting to create a narrative.
[00:08:27]  To create a narrative.
[00:08:28]  Here's Tucker Carlson on Islam over the course of the last few months and years.
[00:08:33]  For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian, and I feel completely comfortable here in the seat of Islam.
[00:08:41]  If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day, I'm not against that.
[00:08:50]  I should bow down before God five times a day.
[00:08:54]  And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.
[00:08:58]  But you go to the Gulf, and it's incredible to be in a place that has pride in itself, that believes in its religion and culture, that thinks we're on to something.
[00:09:08]  And this is great.
[00:09:09]  Look at what we're doing.
[00:09:10]  We're really proud of this.
[00:09:11]  Those people are happy.
[00:09:13]  They're welcoming of others.
[00:09:14]  They're tolerant of diversity.
[00:09:16]  They're into things that I'm not into, like, I don't know, polygamy or Islam.
[00:09:21]  And I can sort of look at it and be like, no one's forcing this on me.
[00:09:24]  I'm not mad at you for being a polygamist.
[00:09:28]  Um, what now?
[00:09:30]  What now?
[00:09:32]  Again, all of this relies on the ignorance of a population about what radical Muslim states are like, what Sharia law states are like.
[00:09:37]  Now, Tucker may feel perfectly comfortable over in Riyadh, but I promise you that people converting to Christianity in Saudi Arabia aren't feeling quite as comfortable these days.
[00:09:46]  The same thing is true in Iran, where there's an actual fatwa out that if you convert to Christianity, you can be executed.
[00:09:52]  Coming up in a moment, we'll get to why Tucker Carlson is doing all of this.
[00:09:55]  I know there are a lot of theories out there.
[00:09:56]  We'll get to it.
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[00:10:58]  So, what exactly is Tucker's goal here?
[00:11:03]  The goal of Tucker Carlson here. is right now to undermine the president in a time of war against a radical fundamentalist Islamist state and to undermine the West in that same battle more generally.
[00:11:14]  Tucker is trying to set up a straw man that a war against the Iranian regime is a war against Islam itself.
[00:11:19]  Now, first of all, that is a total lie.
[00:11:21]  Nobody with a brain believes this.
[00:11:23]  You have to have read zero books to believe this.
[00:11:26]  For example, you know who's in favor of what President Trump is doing in Iran.
[00:11:31]  The Saudis who wait for it are Muslim.
[00:11:34]  And you know who else is in favor of what President Trump has been doing?
[00:11:37]  The UAE.
[00:11:38]  Wait for it, Muslim.
[00:11:39]  And Bahrain, also Muslim.
[00:11:42]  Well, not only that, Tucker, of course, is going further.
[00:11:45]  He's trying to claim that a war against Iran's Sharia law regime, the greatest terror state on planet Earth, is by proxy a war on Jesus and Christianity, which is quite crazy.
[00:11:57]  But listen, I'm not speculating about Tucker's motive.
[00:12:00]  So Tucker has another newsletter today because he got some blowback for his contention that Muslims love Jesus and therefore that President Trump was somehow not on the side of Jesus, but the Iranian mullahs were.
[00:12:11]  So Tucker has a brand new newsletter out today.
[00:12:13]  And here is what his newsletter says.
[00:12:14]  Quote, Islam is the enemy?
[00:12:16]  Are we sure about that?
[00:12:17]  So first of all, President Trump has never said that Islam is the enemy.
[00:12:21]  In fact, no American president has said that Islam is the enemy.
[00:12:25]  In fact, again, many of our allies in the current war against Iran are in fact Muslim.
[00:12:30]  The Gulf allies are Muslim.
[00:12:32]  But he's trying to set up a straw man.
[00:12:34]  What he's truly trying to do is say that America is being manipulated into war by a third party.
[00:12:39]  Hmm, who could it be?
[00:12:41]  Who could it be?
[00:12:42]  Somebody's trying to manipulate the Christians into fighting with the Muslims.
[00:12:46]  Who could Tucker be talking about?
[00:12:47]  I don't know.
[00:12:48]  It's a gigantic mystery.
[00:12:49]  Quote, yesterday's newsletter pointed out Islam's relationship with Jesus.
[00:12:54]  It set off a firestorm largely because most Americans do not realize the overlap between Christianity and the Muslim faith.
[00:13:00]  That is no accident.
[00:13:02]  I mean, some of us have read some books, and it turns out that the overlap between Christianity and the Muslim faith Amounted for the first millennium and a half of Islam's existence to basically continuous war between Muslim countries and Christian countries.
[00:13:18]  But he says it's no accident.
[00:13:19]  You are all being, you are all being deceived by the deceivers.
[00:13:22]  Quote, the forces supporting the Iran war do not want the public to realize that the Quran heralds the Christian savior as a prophet and messenger of the Lord.
[00:13:29]  Again, he's still pushing this, even though it is not the full story, even remotely.
[00:13:34]  This does not mean Christianity and Islam are aligned.
[00:13:36]  They definitely are not.
[00:13:37]  But it reveals that the West's understanding of the world's second largest religion is uninformed.
[00:13:41]  What percentage of US educated adults know that Muslims believe in the virgin birth or that the Nazarene healed the blind?
[00:13:47]  The answer is microscopic.
[00:13:49]  Yes, 9 11 happened, but it was not a representation of an entire religion.
[00:13:52]  Well, hold up a second.
[00:13:54]  I'm just, I'm confused.
[00:13:55]  That last sentence has literally nothing to do with the first several sentences there.
[00:13:59]  Presumably, all of the 9 11 terrorists believed in the Quran.
[00:14:04]  And if the Quran says all of those things, then they presumably believed those same things while they were flying planes into buildings.
[00:14:10]  I agree that you can't represent an entire religion by terrorist outliers.
[00:14:15]  But again, I'm not interested in analyzing the doctrines of Islam.
[00:14:21]  That has little concern for me.
[00:14:23]  The thing that I care about is the behavior of human beings in the world.
[00:14:28]  But again, Tucker is trying to run an op here.
[00:14:30]  Quote, although Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God, Americans grasping that the faith's roots are not as far from the Bible as they think will destroy the anti Muslim propaganda campaign that has consumed our country for decades.
[00:14:41]  Ah, you see, we.
[00:14:42]  We are all, we have been propagandized, or we are the propagandizers.
[00:14:46]  Hmm, you know who we're talking?
[00:14:48]  Right.
[00:14:48]  I mean, this is the shtick.
[00:14:50]  It is ridiculous.
[00:14:52]  Also, listening to Tucker Carlson, who doesn't know his ass from his elbow on the Bible, I mean, truly, he says he finished reading the Bible for the first time a couple of years ago, and he is a frequent spouter of the Marcion heresy, an early heresy rejected by the Catholic Church that suggested that the Old Testament could be completely read out of the New Testament.
[00:15:11]  And Tucker, so Tucker is rewriting Christianity so that it is in line with Islam, but not in any way aligned with Judaism, which, again, is the source of the first half of the book for Christians.

=== Neocons Invoke Amalek for Terror (05:41) ===

[00:15:23]  In any case, then he gets to his point.
[00:15:25]  Neocons have brainwashed the U.S. public into thinking Middle Eastern terrorists lust for American blood because they are Muslim.
[00:15:31]  But it is not true.
[00:15:32]  They behave because they do, because they are evil criminals.
[00:15:36]  Oh.
[00:15:37]  Oh, I see.
[00:15:39]  I see.
[00:15:39]  So terrorists do what they do because they're evil criminals, but it has nothing to do with their belief system.
[00:15:44]  Nothing at all.
[00:15:46]  Nothing at all.
[00:15:46]  And notice again, Tucker completely obliterates the distinction between Islam as a doctrine and the behavior of a very sizable portion of Muslims across the world, which is pretty radical, which is fairly radical.
[00:15:59]  I mean, these are radical belief systems and they exist in the world.
[00:16:02]  But Tucker is trying to pretend that actually the only reason that a Muslim would be a terrorist has to do with either blowback at the United States or because they're just violent criminals.
[00:16:10]  You know, they're just kind of like Hannibal Lecter, you know, people who just have a screw loose or something, which ignores, you know, pretty much every fact on the ground.
[00:16:20]  Who are the truly evil people, according to Tucker Carlson?
[00:16:22]  Wait for it, wait for it.
[00:16:23]  You're not going to believe it.
[00:16:24]  Quote Anyone seeking destruction can use any of the major religions to justify their violence.
[00:16:29]  Benjamin Netanyahu proves it every time he invokes Amalek to excuse his mass killings of innocents.
[00:16:35]  Okay.
[00:16:36]  Again, likening terrorist groups to Benjamin Netanyahu?
[00:16:40]  Okay.
[00:16:40]  For those who don't know the Old Testament, and I count Tucker among them because he clearly has very little fluency with it, I have some fluency with it since I've gone through it, I don't know, 50 times in the original Hebrew at this point.
[00:16:52]  But if we are talking about Amalek, Amalek is a nation that attacked the Israelites as they were coming out of Egypt.
[00:17:00]  And there's an injunction in the Bible that Jews are supposed to remember what Amalek did to them, and they are supposed to wipe out the memory of Amalek.
[00:17:07]  Now, here is the thing no one knows who Amalek is.
[00:17:10]  This is black letter Hebrew law doctrine, this is Jewish law doctrine.
[00:17:15]  No one knows who Amalek is.
[00:17:17]  And thus, the injunction to quote unquote wipe out Amalek does not apply to any group of people.
[00:17:23]  That is not the way it works.
[00:17:25]  When Benjamin Netanyahu invokes Amalek, he invokes it as an idea of evil.
[00:17:30]  And he invokes it specifically with regard to Hamas, a terrorist group.
[00:17:34]  But of course, Tucker wants to claim that Jews are genocidal because that allows him to support people who actually are, in fact, genocidal and pretend that Hamas is, in fact, just a political group or whatever.
[00:17:45]  If Islam were the issue, says Tucker Carlson, like the establishment wants you to believe.
[00:17:49]  The establishment.
[00:17:51]  The neocons.
[00:17:52]  Wouldn't Indonesia pose America a grave national security threat?
[00:17:55]  For Far Eastern nations, the Far Eastern nation has the world's largest Muslim population.
[00:17:59]  Pakistan, India, Bangladesh rank second, third, and fourth.
[00:18:02]  None of them threaten the U.S. either because Islam is not the enemy.
[00:18:05]  Okay, so let's be pretty clear.
[00:18:06]  Indonesia is a relatively peaceful state.
[00:18:08]  Itself had to deal with radical Islamist terrorism for decades.
[00:18:13]  Remember the Bali bombing of 2002?
[00:18:15]  And of course, they've also moved in the direction of more Sharia-friendly law over the course of the last 20 years or so.
[00:18:20]  Pakistan.
[00:18:21]  It's hard to make the case that Pakistan is not deeply enmeshed in Islamist terror.
[00:18:25]  There's a reason why the United States did not coordinate with Pakistani security services in taking out Osama bin Laden.
[00:18:30]  It is why Pakistan is a nuclear threat to India.
[00:18:33]  They also happen to be a Sharia law state with some of the worst anti-Christian conditions anywhere on planet Earth.
[00:18:39]  How about India?
[00:18:40]  He claims that, you know, Islam is not a problem in India.
[00:18:43]  Well, I mean, there have been some tensions you may have noticed in India.
[00:18:46]  What exactly does Tucker thinks it is happening in Kashmir.
[00:18:49]  You might want to talk to Modi, the leader of India, about his supposition.
[00:18:53]  And as for Bangladesh, Bangladesh has been fighting a decades long war with radical Muslim factions, like decades long.
[00:18:59]  So, again, I don't believe that all Muslims are terrorists or anything remotely like that.
[00:19:05]  I think there are polls that show that a lot of Muslims believe stuff that is not in line with Western values.
[00:19:10]  That is not the same thing as saying they're terrorists.
[00:19:13]  And also, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
[00:19:17]  What Tucker is trying to do is claim that you have been lied to.
[00:19:21]  That every act of terrorism against the United States or our allies is because of American blowback, or you are being manipulated by evil neocons, wink, wink.
[00:19:31]  You're being manipulated by those people, and so is President Trump.
[00:19:34]  Again, this is part and parcel of the broader demoralization Op Tucker has been running for years at this point, drawing solidarity with America's enemies, including Russia and China, while declaring that we in the United States are unfree pawns of those nefarious forces, that America is somehow being run by the Zionists and their evil doing messengers, the Christian Zionists.
[00:19:54]  And pro Israel Jewish neocons.
[00:19:56]  Remember, according to Tucker, the Iranian government and Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, they're really not evil.
[00:20:01]  The neocons are.
[00:20:02]  And by neocons, you know exactly who he means.
[00:20:05]  But if he just means people who oppose radical Islamist terrorism, that might include, you know, Muslims like the Saudis and the UAE and Bahrain, all of whom are supporting the president in this current war.
[00:20:15]  But of course, Tucker thinks that President Trump has been mind slaved by, you know, you know who, you know.
[00:20:22]  Here is Tucker.
[00:20:24]  I feel sorry for him as I do for all slaves.
[00:20:27]  He is not free in this moment at all to do what he thinks is best for himself or his country.
[00:20:33]  I don't know what you mean.
[00:20:34]  No, he's, well, he's not free.
[00:20:36]  And we learned that yesterday.
[00:20:39]  Now, President Trump has robustly rejected this trash, calling Tucker Carlson's routine here low IQ, which is correct.
[00:20:45]  But here's the thing.
[00:20:46]  This kind of crap has consequences, not just for the war in Iran and the undermining of American morale and the lies being told, but for American life more broadly.
[00:20:55]  Already coming up, we'll get into the other big story of the day and how it's linked to this sort of demoralization op.
[00:21:00]  Erica Kirk had to cancel a live event with JD Vance.
[00:21:03]  Why?
[00:21:03]  What's going on?
[00:21:04]  We'll get into it in a moment.

=== Vance Stands Up to Demoralization Ops (11:38) ===

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[00:22:11]  So, yesterday, Mary Margaret Olihan of the Daily Wire reported that Erica Kirk. had to cancel the event that she was set to do with JD Vance.
[00:22:21]  Erica Kirk put out a statement.
[00:22:23]  I was so looking forward to tonight's event at the University of Georgia with our vice president, JD Vance.
[00:22:27]  But after all our family has been through, I take my security team's recommendations extremely seriously.
[00:22:32]  Thank you to our amazing Georgia chapter for your support.
[00:22:34]  God bless you all.
[00:22:35]  Hey, so Mary Margaret reported via Daily Wire, quote, regarding the threats to Erica Kirk that prevented her from attending today's event with Vice President Vance, a TVUSA official tells me that their security had been monitoring the situation in the days leading up to today's event.
[00:22:49]  Okay, now, let's be very clear.
[00:23:14]  Who do you think is monitoring Erica's travel?
[00:23:17]  Who do you think is doing that?
[00:23:20]  Do we have any clues?
[00:23:21]  So, we have any clues?
[00:23:23]  Well, I mean, hmm.
[00:23:26]  Candace Owens has been saying that her followers are supposed to follow Erica and give tabs on.
[00:23:34]  I wonder, where could this have come from?
[00:23:37]  Here was Candace not all that long ago.
[00:23:42]  Seems like they were all working to smother Charlie and make sure he was closely watched and handled.
[00:23:47]  Yeah, she does.
[00:23:47]  And I find it to be very weird and very creepy.
[00:23:50]  Mikey McCoy, I don't know if he has a place in there, him and Elizabeth, but they are there all the time because I have sources that live in the building, obviously.
[00:23:56]  Again, APB, Stacey Sheridan on that day.
[00:23:59]  I know I have contacts that live in that same building.
[00:24:02]  If you guys remember seeing Stacey Sheridan, that would be great.
[00:24:06]  Still can't get an Erica sighting because we're everywhere and we're watching and we're listening.
[00:24:13]  Okay, then of course, Hannah's.
[00:24:15]  Came out and immediately claimed that actually there were no security threats.
[00:24:18]  Quote, this is PR horse bleep, obviously.
[00:24:21]  What do we think is the real reason she pulled out?
[00:24:23]  Hey, so JD Vance correctly points out on the stage last night with Andrew Colvitt at TPUSA that the people who are saying that Erica wasn't grieving are full of it.
[00:24:33]  Here was the vice president.
[00:24:35]  The people who tell you I was there with her, I was holding her hand, my wife was hugging her while we loaded Charlie's body onto Air Force Two and said the Lord's Prayer, the people telling you.
[00:24:48]  That Erica wasn't grieving her husband are full of shit.
[00:24:52]  And we need to be honest about that fact.
[00:24:56]  Now, of course, as we know, because I've pointed it out and it's obvious, Megyn Kelly has refused to condemn Candace Owens on this topic in any way, shape, or form.
[00:25:05]  Now, Megyn, of course, will lie and claim that my criticism of her on this matter has something to do with Israel.
[00:25:09]  But you should go back and listen to the prior sentence again.
[00:25:12]  Israel was not in that sentence.
[00:25:14]  Megyn Kelly, seven months in, still will not say a damn thing about Candace's targeting of Erica.
[00:25:19]  And by the way, the same is true of Tucker Carlson because this entire conspiratorial grievance party worldview is all one.
[00:25:25]  Here was Tucker Carlson over the past few months defending Candace Owens over and over and over again.
[00:25:30]  Here he was with Theo Vaughn, who will come up again shortly.
[00:25:35]  Do I trust Candace more than I trust your average DOJ official?
[00:25:40]  Are you joking?
[00:25:41]  It's not even close, dude.
[00:25:42]  Yeah.
[00:25:43]  It's not even close.
[00:25:44]  It's not even close.
[00:25:45]  We can all be wrong, but who do I trust to like try to tell the truth more?
[00:25:49]  Candace or your average DOJ official?
[00:25:52]  Opposite ends of the spectrum.
[00:25:53]  I'll just say that.
[00:25:56]  Opposite ends of the spectrum.
[00:25:57]  That's it.
[00:25:58]  Because the DOJ will lie to you and make things up, but he trusts Candace.
[00:26:02]  So, again, presenting full scale support for Candace Owens as she turns Erica Kirk into a punching bag after Erica's husband was murdered in front of everybody.
[00:26:11]  That wasn't all.
[00:26:12]  Again, with Theo Vaughn, who again will come up shortly, here was Tucker Carlson saying that basically Candace is like the FBI, but better.
[00:26:22]  What Candace is saying is clearly causing a lot of turmoil.
[00:26:25]  Is it true or not?
[00:26:26]  I can't assess it.
[00:26:27]  I'm not the FBI.
[00:26:28]  I'm a freaking podcaster, but I do know how the system works.
[00:26:31]  And it's really simple the FBI has this case, and of course, the state of Utah.
[00:26:37]  It's their job to not only find out what happened, present it to the public in a way that restores some confidence that you can have justice in this country, that we have functioning law enforcement.
[00:26:48]  I don't have confidence in that because there's a lot of evidence that we don't have that.
[00:26:51]  So, restore confidence by being honest and telling a story that makes sense.
[00:26:55]  So, why?
[00:26:57]  If they don't do that and they haven't done that, they have not done that.
[00:27:01]  How can you be mad at Candace Owens or anyone else for filling a vacuum that they left?
[00:27:07]  Yeah.
[00:27:08]  Well, Candace is back.
[00:27:10]  Okay.
[00:27:10]  No.
[00:27:14]  So why, why are people, you know, threatening Erica Kirk?
[00:27:17]  Why are they following around her plane?
[00:27:18]  Why?
[00:27:19]  I can't imagine.
[00:27:19]  Literally yesterday, by the way, while all of this was going down, Buckley Carlson, Tucker's brother, who travels with Tucker and joins the show sometimes as a commentator, tweeted in defense of Candace, while Candace was speculating again that Erica had no actual security threat at all.
[00:27:32]  So what is the common thread here?
[00:27:34]  What's the common thread to all of this?
[00:27:36]  The thread is very simple.
[00:27:37]  Humoring crazies gives them power.
[00:27:40]  You must fight the crazies.
[00:27:43]  And they use this power.
[00:27:45]  The crazies, to harm other people, to attack Erica Kirk and make her life miserable, to spew baseless conspiracy, low IQ mind vomit, to undermine what is in fact a righteous battle against the worst regime on earth.
[00:27:57]  Regardless of the questions you have about the persecution of the war in Iran, there's no question that the bad guys here are Iran.
[00:28:04]  Somebody needs to stand up to all of this.
[00:28:06]  Why won't people stand up to this?
[00:28:08]  Prominent people, in some cases, the people closest to TPUSA.
[00:28:11]  So I said I would mention Theo Vaughn again.
[00:28:13]  There's a reason for that.
[00:28:14]  Last night, The vice president, JD Vance, on the stage at TPUSA was asked about which podcast he would recommend in the middle of this event.
[00:28:21]  And here's what he had to say.
[00:28:24]  Who are some of the conservative influencers or the political influencers today?
[00:28:28]  There are a few people that I look to who I think have very, very smart and wise spiritual wisdom.
[00:28:33]  I mean, like, I think Andrew and Blake and the podcast that they have at TPUSA is amazing.
[00:28:39]  I listen to it all the time.
[00:28:40]  I think it's great.
[00:28:41]  You know, I think if you want a good laugh, I love Theo Vaughn.
[00:28:43]  Like, he's one of my favorite.
[00:28:45]  He's just incredible.
[00:28:46]  And he's got one of these senses of humor where like, Okay, so here's the thing.
[00:29:02]  Theo Vaughn is a low IQ conspiracist.
[00:29:05]  He has himself routinely propped up Candace Ellens, his lent credence to her insanity.
[00:29:09]  There was Theo Vaughn alongside Dave Smith on his show just a few months back.
[00:29:15]  It's really, really tough.
[00:29:16]  Cause you kids like you do, you gotta just believe anything Candace says, man.
[00:29:19]  That's the new world we live in.
[00:29:21]  I don't know, dude.
[00:29:23]  She's pretty, I mean, she's brave, dude.
[00:29:25]  Oh, she's brave.
[00:29:26]  That's an understatement.
[00:29:27]  That's what we're saying at the beginning, that, yeah.
[00:29:29]  Yeah, dude, her kids play like games or like instead of playing cops and robbers, they played who killed Charlie Kirk.
[00:29:35]  That's so crazy.
[00:29:38]  Now, of course, Theo Vaughn's half retarded conspiracism doesn't end there.
[00:29:42]  Of course, here he was recently with Joe Rogan spewing out mind vomit.
[00:29:48]  People are like, we'll like the Democrats next time.
[00:29:50]  It's like, but it's all the same has been happening forever.
[00:29:54]  They haven't been helping anybody forever.
[00:29:56]  They're letting politicians slurp on kids.
[00:29:59]  All of our money goes to Israel and they're using it to genocide people.
[00:30:02]  It's like everybody is scared out of their wits right now.
[00:30:05]  It's like our religious leaders are afraid to speak out.
[00:30:08]  And it's like the, it's a time where it's like Satan is amongst us and our religious leaders are talking about bullshit.
[00:30:14]  The poll.
[00:30:14]  It's just like, what is going?
[00:30:16]  I don't know, man.
[00:30:16]  We got to get you off the present son.
[00:30:18]  You're losing your.
[00:30:19]  Marbles.
[00:30:20]  You think I am?
[00:30:21]  Come hang out with us.
[00:30:21]  Just chill out.
[00:30:22]  I'm here.
[00:30:24]  And Theo Vaughn is basically just a Bernie Sanders leftist who does not like the censorious impulses of the left and engages in all the same conspiracy theories and, of course, is good friends with Candace Owens and all the rest of it.
[00:30:36]  And that's the guy that the vice president thinks that everybody should listen to.
[00:30:39]  Now, listen, maybe the vice president thinks he has to kiss Theo Vaughn's half retarded ass in order to keep him in the coalition.
[00:30:44]  And that's his political calculation.
[00:30:46]  I think it's a bad political calculation.
[00:30:48]  There is no politician who is fully capable of just picking up.
[00:30:51]  A prior president's coalition and then just carrying it forward.
[00:30:54]  It didn't work for Hillary Clinton with Barack Obama.
[00:30:57]  It's not going to work for JD Vance with Donald Trump.
[00:30:59]  Just because Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan back Trump doesn't mean that they're going to get behind Donald Trump.
[00:31:04]  They're going to get behind JD Vance.
[00:31:06]  The reality is that the vice president's current coalitional strategy, I think, is deeply flawed.
[00:31:11]  It is hard for me to see how he doesn't shrink President Trump's coalition across the board.
[00:31:15]  But that's a political calculation.
[00:31:17]  Maybe his is better than mine.
[00:31:18]  It is certainly not a moral calculation.
[00:31:20]  And the same is true of the vice president's consistent defense of Tucker's disgusting demoralization up.
[00:31:26]  Which has been in continuous operation for years at this point.
[00:31:29]  Back in December 2025, he said, The idea that Tucker Carlson, who has one of the largest podcasts in the world, who has millions of listeners who supported Trump in the 2024 election, the idea that his views are somehow completely anathema to conservatism, that he has no place in the conservative movement, is frankly absurd.
[00:31:48]  And I don't think anybody actually believes it.
[00:31:51]  That is what Vance said about Tucker.
[00:31:53]  Now, listen, you have to feel a little bit bad for Vice President Vance.
[00:31:56]  Tucker helped him become vice president.
[00:31:58]  The VP appreciates it, as he should.
[00:32:00]  But now, because of his connections to Tucker or his desire to maintain Trump's coalition, a coalition that is broad and complex, he's been relegated to placating the crazies, assuming he doesn't actually agree with them.
[00:32:11]  So last night at TPUSA, he was asked a critical question about the Iran war.
[00:32:16]  And his response was not to defend the president's agenda.
[00:32:19]  His response was this I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy that we have in the Middle East.
[00:32:30]  Okay, I understand that.
[00:32:32]  I also know that we've secured the border.
[00:32:34]  We've lowered housing prices now for eight months in a row, and there's going to be more to come beyond that.
[00:32:38]  We've made America energy dominant, which has lowered electricity costs and things like that.

=== How We Take the Country Back (02:48) ===

[00:32:43]  We've made it so that we have the lowest murder rate in 127 years.
[00:32:47]  I'm not saying you have to agree with me on every issue.
[00:32:52]  I'm not saying you have to agree with me on every issue.
[00:32:54]  What I'm saying is don't get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic.
[00:33:01]  Get more involved.
[00:33:02]  Make your voice heard even more.
[00:33:04]  That's how we ultimately take the country back.
[00:33:08]  Back from whom?
[00:33:10]  So you disagree on Iran with the administration.
[00:33:12]  That's when you have to sound off and take the country back.
[00:33:14]  Back from whom?
[00:33:15]  The current president is Donald Trump.
[00:33:17]  The vice president is the guy talking.
[00:33:19]  If we're taking the country back from someone else, then what are we talking about?
[00:33:23]  So here's the bottom line.
[00:33:25]  It is not possible to humor low IQ slop and then assume it will not have consequences.
[00:33:31]  Honoring garbage is exacerbating garbage.
[00:33:34]  Laughing along with the purveyors of bullshit while occasionally tut tutting, and then when push comes to shove, defending the overall importance of grifters and nuts and even endorsing them popularizes the worst ideas.
[00:33:45]  And that matters.
[00:33:46]  It matters because when these same figures push the demoralization op that America is run by nefarious forces beyond your control, when you prop up and promote those people who do that sort of stuff, You make people's lives worse.
[00:33:58]  You're making American politics worse.
[00:34:01]  And that does make the world a worse place.
[00:34:04]  Terrible low IQ slop ideas have consequences.
[00:34:07]  Stop burnishing them.
[00:34:09]  All right, coming up, the craziness is not relegated just to, you know, the horseshoe right.
[00:34:14]  The left is doing its own version with Hassan Piker.
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=== Congress Resigns Amidst Scandals (11:03) ===

[00:35:31]  We are watching as low IQ slop washes over the nation like a tsunami.
[00:35:36]  Hassan Piker, who the Democratic Party will not break from for love or money, day by day continues to humiliate the people who continue to staple themselves to his pant leg.
[00:35:46]  So, yesterday, Hassan Piker was speaking at Yale, which, again, good for Yale for the affirmative action of letting truly retarded people now have podiums at Yale.
[00:35:58]  Good for them.
[00:35:58]  Well, here was Hassan Piker at Yale expressing his devastation over the downfall of the USSR, one of the most evil regimes in world history, responsible for the killing or murder of tens of millions.
[00:36:10]  Of human beings and the subjugation of entire continents.
[00:36:14]  Here is Hassan Piker weeping over it at Yale.
[00:36:18]  The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.
[00:36:27]  Just wait, listen, maybe you'll agree.
[00:36:30]  Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner, child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting, but America was no longer contested around the globe.
[00:36:51]  And it is precisely because of the end to that multipolarity.
[00:36:57]  That we saw accelerated neoliberalism that is devastating every Western nation right now.
[00:37:06]  Unlimited and unchecked greed.
[00:37:10]  This is the.
[00:37:11]  Okay, the downfall of the Soviet Union is one of the great accomplishments in world history.
[00:37:15]  Again, the Soviet Union is one of the most murderous regimes in global history.
[00:37:20]  It spawned similarly tyrannical regimes all across the world, from Asia to Africa to Latin America.
[00:37:26]  And the fact that Hassan Pike are sitting.
[00:37:28]  In his multi million dollar home, visiting the richy riches over at Yale and telling them that actually we'd all be better off if the USSR were still around because neoliberalism is devastating the West.
[00:37:40]  What does he think happened to countries that were under the thumb of the USSR?
[00:37:44]  What a truly terrible human being.
[00:37:45]  But if you don't believe he's truly terrible, I play again a clip from Pod Save America.
[00:37:49]  These are supposed to be the mainstream Democrats.
[00:37:51]  I know these guys, okay?
[00:37:52]  Like these are supposed to be the mainstream Obama Democrats trying to talk Piker out of completely humiliating them and he just face plans them.
[00:38:01]  He just.
[00:38:01]  Gives them a swirly, just puts their face directly in the toilet and flushes, saying that he supports Hamas, like overtly.
[00:38:11]  Hamas is a thousand times better.
[00:38:12]  Do you actually mean that?
[00:38:14]  Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal?
[00:38:18]  Like what?
[00:38:19]  I mean, it's all of the above.
[00:38:21]  I do mean it.
[00:38:22]  I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.
[00:38:24]  I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter, I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.
[00:38:32]  Well, I mean, that's weird because you know what Hamas doesn't really let happen are typically, you know, like voting and rights or anything like that.
[00:38:40]  But here is the point.
[00:38:41]  These are mainstream figures.
[00:38:42]  Positive America is mainstream stuff.
[00:38:44]  Yale, a mainstream place.
[00:38:45]  Humor trash.
[00:38:46]  It will not be long before your entire party is taken over by trash, taken over by horrific communism, terrible anti Semitism.
[00:38:53]  That's what Democrats have been doing.
[00:38:55]  Don't let it happen inside the Republican Party as well.
[00:38:59]  Don't humor garbage.
[00:39:01]  Don't humor it.
[00:39:02]  Meanwhile, speaking of people, Who truly are garbage?
[00:39:05]  Zorhan Mamdani, who is the mayor of New York, he has now decided that the time has come.
[00:39:11]  The time has come at long last.
[00:39:12]  He is going to put into action his Soviet plan for a government run grocery store.
[00:39:18]  Are you excited?
[00:39:19]  Are you excited?
[00:39:20]  Government run grocery stores, guys, it's going to be great.
[00:39:22]  Because if there's one thing that we have to fight off in America, it is starvation.
[00:39:27]  Now, I know you're thinking right now that we actually have a massive obesity problem in the United States, and you would be right.
[00:39:32]  But according to Zorhan Mamdani, the biggest problem in America is that people cannot afford food.
[00:39:36]  And the best way for people to afford food. Is for the government to have grocery stores.
[00:39:41]  This has never been tried anywhere except for, you know, Cuba and the USSR and pretty much all the communist countries, which led, of course, to the very, very famous photos of Soviet leadership walking into American supermarkets and being astonished by the selection of products.
[00:39:54]  Because it turns out capitalism, it makes things better and it makes things cheaper and it makes them more plentiful, which is how they become better and cheaper.
[00:40:01]  Now, here is Zoram Amdani explaining his plan because what New York City needs desperately is a government run grocery store.
[00:40:10]  This store will be open in 2029.
[00:40:12]  The reason that we're announcing it first is because, unlike other stores, this will be built from the ground up.
[00:40:17]  We are talking about a vacant lot that is about one or two blocks over there that is currently laying vacant.
[00:40:23]  It is city owned.
[00:40:24]  We're going to build it from the ground up.
[00:40:27]  Wow.
[00:40:28]  Wow.
[00:40:28]  By the way, how much is it going to cost to build this grocery store, ground up, at La Marqueta?
[00:40:34]  According to the New York Times, $30 million.
[00:40:36]  $30 million.
[00:40:37]  Now, I have a question.
[00:40:39]  Do you think that when Publix builds a new store, it costs them $30 million?
[00:40:44]  It don't.
[00:40:45]  It is not.
[00:40:46]  I promise you, what is going to happen is that if, in fact, the city subsidizes particular food products at a cheaper rate, either people will want to buy those food products or they will not.
[00:40:57]  If they do, like for example, eggs, then there will be a run on eggs and then there will be a shortage.
[00:41:02]  That's what will happen.
[00:41:04]  Because when you subsidize a product, when you subsidize the price of a product, it spurs more demand and you will end up with a shortage and lines.
[00:41:12]  Duh.
[00:41:14]  It is amazing how nobody has ever read a book or, you know, Even watched an old documentary.
[00:41:19]  Like, really well done.
[00:41:20]  Again, Mamdani says he wants the new grocery store to offer discounts on basic groceries and to provide quality jobs.
[00:41:27]  The city will waive rent and real estate taxes for the store.
[00:41:30]  Now, again, you want to waive real estate taxes?
[00:41:33]  You know, you could do.
[00:41:34]  If you really wanted to lower food prices, you could do that for all the grocery stores in New York.
[00:41:37]  That would lower some prices.
[00:41:38]  You know what else you could do?
[00:41:40]  You could get rid of all of the regulations surrounding the grocery stores in New York, which make it very difficult to actually run and operate a business.
[00:41:47]  It's hilarious that the minute the Democrats want to lower prices, Then they give a specific cutout that actually gets rid of all of the government red tape, but just for their friends, like the government run grocery store.
[00:42:00]  Genius level stuff there from Zorhan Mamdani.
[00:42:02]  Meanwhile, Representative Roh Khanna, who is the West Coast version of Zorhan Mamdani, free everything, free everything, says Roh Khanna.
[00:42:09]  Again, it is kind of amazing that the Silicon Valley area is represented by a person who really kind of despises tech.
[00:42:15]  In any case, here he was calling for free healthcare and college.
[00:42:18]  By the way, there's no such thing as free, there's just stuff paid for by somebody else.
[00:42:24]  The moment has finally come for national health insurance.
[00:42:28]  Why?
[00:42:28]  Because people now realize you cannot have health care linked to your job, not at a time where your job may change or where you may lose your job.
[00:42:37]  We need Medicare for all.
[00:42:39]  That is a better system with better outcomes where health care is guaranteed to every single person from the day they are born.
[00:42:46]  For our young people to assure career opportunity is not limited by your family's wealth, we need free college and free trade schools.
[00:42:56]  Oh, you know, free everything, free everything.
[00:42:59]  How will that go wrong in any way?
[00:43:01]  Maybe what we can do is we can heavily subsidize everybody going to college, for example.
[00:43:05]  That won't raise the price of.
[00:43:07]  Well, that turns out that that radically raised the price of.
[00:43:10]  Or maybe if we have more government subsidization of health care, that won't raise the price of health.
[00:43:15]  Turns out that raises the price because it just increases the base that people are willing to pay and able to pay.
[00:43:20]  It doesn't matter what the effect is.
[00:43:22]  The only thing that matters to the Democrats is that it feels good when they say the word free.
[00:43:26]  Over and over and over again.
[00:43:28]  Well, speaking of things that don't feel good, Eric Swalwell has now resigned from Congress.
[00:43:33]  We bid a fond farewell.
[00:43:35]  He vanished like a fart in the wind, did it, Representative Eric Swalwell?
[00:43:39]  He put out a statement I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past.
[00:43:44]  I will fight the serious false allegation made against me.
[00:43:46]  However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistake I did make.
[00:43:50]  I'm aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members.
[00:43:53]  Expelling anyone in Congress without due process within days of an allegation being made is wrong.
[00:43:58]  But it's also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties.
[00:44:01]  Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress.
[00:44:05]  Well, the real reason he's resigning is because this stuff is pretty damaging.
[00:44:09]  A new accuser came forward yesterday alleging rape.
[00:44:12]  Here's what she had to say He raped me.
[00:44:19]  And he choked me.
[00:44:22]  And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness.
[00:44:28]  And I thought I died.
[00:44:31]  I did not consent to any sexual activity.
[00:44:36]  Although I did not undergo a rape kit at the time, I disclosed the assault to the people closest to me.
[00:44:47]  Okay, she says, by the way, according to Politico, that her delay in taking action against Swaol was driven by fear, not doubt, fear of his political power, his background as an attorney, and his family law enforcement ties.
[00:44:57]  I've never doubted what happened, she said.
[00:44:59]  She accused him of drugging her as well.
[00:45:01]  Well, this has some implications for some of the other Democrats.
[00:45:03]  So, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who wants to run his own presidential campaign, made very, very close buddies with Swalwell.
[00:45:10]  In fact, here they were on camels in the desert in, wait for it, Qatar.
[00:45:13]  This is back in 2021.
[00:45:14]  Oh, man, stuff that you didn't need to see, but if I saw it, so did you.
[00:45:21]  So now we're all living that life.
[00:45:22]  That's great.
[00:45:24]  Qatar, the land of dreams.
[00:45:26]  In any case, here was Senator Gallego saying that Swalwell lied to him and led a double life and manipulated him.
[00:45:33]  Did he though?
[00:45:34]  Did he?
[00:45:34]  I don't know, man.
[00:45:35]  I don't know.
[00:45:38]  This man led a double life.
[00:45:39]  He lied to us.
[00:45:40]  He lied to his family, lied to his constituents.
[00:45:42]  Some of the most powerful people in this country.
[00:45:45]  Even before he ran, he was trusted with some positions that normally we would never think someone like this could do if they're leading that double life.
[00:45:53]  And again, I was manipulated, I was lied to, and everyone else was too.
[00:46:01]  Well, I don't believe you, sir.
[00:46:05]  I have doubts.
[00:46:06]  I have doubts.
[00:46:06]  Apparently, this is rumored for a very, very, very long time, actually.
[00:46:10]  So he's not the only one stepping down from Congress.
[00:46:12]  Eric Swallow, Tony Gonzalez, the Republican, is also stepping down from Congress.
[00:46:17]  That, of course, is because he was allegedly having an affair, not so allegedly.
[00:46:20]  It's pretty clear that he was.
[00:46:21]  I mean, he's admitted to it, I believe, having an affair with a staffer who then ended up killing herself.
[00:46:26]  So it was a great day all around for Congress.
[00:46:28]  TMZ apparently has set up shop over in D.C., and they're asking for people to turn in evidence of Congress people getting drunk and screwing their mistresses.

=== Iran Nuclear Deal Negotiations Fail (04:57) ===

[00:46:35]  I assume that, I'm not sure that the bandwidth exists on planet Earth for that amount of material.
[00:46:41]  To inundate TMZ's offices.
[00:46:42]  So I can assume that this will not be the first in a wave of resignations.
[00:46:45]  And meanwhile, back in the Middle East, the president yesterday was talking with Maria Bartiromo, and he said that we are ending this war.
[00:46:52]  We're at least getting close to it.
[00:46:53]  Here's what he had to say.
[00:46:55]  I had to divert, because if I didn't do that, right now you would have Iran with a nuclear weapon.
[00:47:01]  And if they had a nuclear weapon, you would be calling everybody over there, sir.
[00:47:06]  And you don't want to do that.
[00:47:07]  Well, you keep saying was.
[00:47:08]  Is this war over?
[00:47:10]  I think it's close to over here.
[00:47:12]  I mean, I view it as very close to over.
[00:47:16]  Okay, so again, what does that mean?
[00:47:19]  Well, apparently, he believes that the United States' continued pressure is going to bring them to the table.
[00:47:27]  You've got a regime that's been building ballistic missiles, building or trying to build a nuclear weapon.
[00:47:34]  Why should we think that they're actually going to give up on this?
[00:47:37]  Well, they might not give up, but they're going to give up on it while they're exhausted.
[00:47:40]  They are exhausted.
[00:47:41]  They took hits like nobody's ever taken.
[00:47:46]  And again, he is not wrong about this, actually.
[00:47:49]  So according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. CENTCOM says that a blockade of Iranian ports has now been fully implemented and that U.S. forces are maintaining maritime superiority in the Middle East.
[00:47:57]  Eight oil tankers have been, have obeyed direction from U.S. forces to reverse course according to the United States.
[00:48:02]  No interdictions have yet been reported.
[00:48:05]  Enforcement is unlikely to happen in the Persian Gulf itself.
[00:48:07]  Some 20 commercial ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz recently.
[00:48:10]  That's an improvement in the flow of vessels through the critical choke point.
[00:48:13]  Meanwhile, according to the Associated Press, mediators Are looking to possibly extend a ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
[00:48:20]  Unclear whether that's going to happen, that maybe further negotiations will take place.
[00:48:23]  Apparently, the reports are that the United States is demanding that if Iran sends negotiators, that Iran actually be bound by the things that it is negotiating.
[00:48:31]  Apparently, there's a gap.
[00:48:33]  Some of the negotiators were not on the same page as the IRGC, which is effectively running the country at this point.
[00:48:38]  There are already some positive effects of the broader conflict in the Middle East that is currently happening, not just between Israel and the United States and Iran, but also between Israel and Hezbollah.
[00:48:49]  In Lebanon.
[00:48:50]  So Israel hammered the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, it's an Iranian front group, just last week.
[00:48:57]  That prompted the United States to broker talks between Israel and Lebanon.
[00:49:03]  According to Reuters, the talks hosted at the State Department by Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded with encouraging words and talk of further meetings, but no firm commitments.
[00:49:11]  But the fact of the gathering underscored the degree to which Israel and Lebanon have come to the shared goal of disarming Hezbollah.
[00:49:17]  This is one of the things that's incredible.
[00:49:18]  If you know anything about Middle Eastern politics, The way that European leaders talk about this is insane.
[00:49:23]  They'll say that Israel is the aggressor in Lebanon.
[00:49:26]  They are on the side of the Lebanese government.
[00:49:28]  They are intervening on the side of the Lebanese government.
[00:49:30]  The Lebanese government is harassed by Hezbollah, which is a terrorist group, which is effectively running the southern half of the country, doing so with weaponry not approved by the Lebanese government.
[00:49:41]  And the Lebanese government has been too weak to actually disarm Hezbollah.
[00:49:45]  That's what's actually happening.
[00:49:49]  Again, kind of astonishing that.
[00:49:53]  Israel and Lebanon are now on the same side trying to disarm Hezbollah.
[00:49:57]  Yichael Leiter, who's the Israeli ambassador to the United States and was part of that meeting, he said, actually, we and the Lebanese government are on exactly the same page.
[00:50:07]  We discovered today that we're on the same side of the equation.
[00:50:12]  That's the most positive thing we could have come away with.
[00:50:15]  We are both united in liberating Lebanon from an occupation power dominated by Iran called Hezbollah.
[00:50:26]  Lebanon is under their occupation, and we are suffering from their constant barrages of missiles and terror attacks trying to cross our border.
[00:50:42]  Leiter did say that the most important thing is to keep the French out of the negotiations.
[00:50:45]  That, of course, is not a shock.
[00:50:46]  The French have been an awful force in these negotiations.
[00:50:50]  They've constantly militated in favor of essentially giving goodies to Hezbollah.
[00:50:57]  I hope we won't have to make a concerted effort, but we certainly don't want the French anywhere near these negotiations.
[00:51:03]  We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but particularly when it comes to peace negotiations, they're not needed.
[00:51:11]  They're not a positive influence, particularly not in Lebanon.
[00:51:15]  So where are things going?
[00:51:17]  The fact is that back to the Iran side of the equation, the United States' embargo right now, our blockade on Iranian ships that are entering or leaving Iranian ports, that blockade is likely to lead to vast inflation in the currency, which is already out of control.
[00:51:31]  Basically, the shutdown of their economy.

=== AOC Sudden Love for the Papacy (02:45) ===

[00:51:33]  And the rumors are that the leadership in Iran knows this and they have to act quickly or they will have the complete collapse of their economy in very, very short order.
[00:51:39]  And meanwhile, the conflict between President Trump and the Pope continues.
[00:51:43]  The President put out a statement on Truth Social yesterday.
[00:51:47]  This statement on Truth Social, frankly, I was fine with.
[00:51:49]  I had no problem with this at all.
[00:51:50]  Quote Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed protesters in the last two months and that for Iran to have a nuclear bomb is absolutely unacceptable?
[00:51:58]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[00:52:00]  America is back, President Trump.
[00:52:02]  That's fine.
[00:52:04]  If you're upset by that, I'm not sure why.
[00:52:06]  That is a perfectly normal political position.
[00:52:09]  Meanwhile, Tom Homan, a lifelong Catholic, and of course, our immigration enforcements are, the borders are, he says, you know, as a Catholic, America has to have a border, and it's my job to enforce it.
[00:52:22]  Look, I'm not going to speak for the president.
[00:52:24]  I'm speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic.
[00:52:26]  I wish they stayed out of immigration if they don't know what they're talking about.
[00:52:30]  Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years and talked to a nine year old girl, they got raped multiple times.
[00:52:36]  Or stood in the back of the trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a five year old boy that baked to death.
[00:52:42]  If they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change.
[00:52:47]  And I welcome a discussion with any of them because they don't understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.
[00:52:55]  Again, he is not wrong about any of this.
[00:52:57]  Again, if the Pope steps into politics, then criticizing his politics is perfectly within lines.
[00:53:01]  Perfectly within lines.
[00:53:03]  The Vice President last night at TPUSA said something similar, and he again is not wrong.
[00:53:08]  It has frustrated me.
[00:53:10]  That some of the Catholic clergy have attacked mercilessly the Trump administration on immigration.
[00:53:17]  It is a constant idea that somehow everything that the Trump administration does when it comes to securing our borders is inhumane.
[00:53:25]  And my constant response to that is how is it humane to allow drug traffickers and sex traffickers to bring little kids across the southern border?
[00:53:34]  Amen.
[00:53:36]  Again, he's not wrong about that.
[00:53:39]  Again, I find the most ironic part of all of this, the sudden.
[00:53:42]  The sudden love for the papacy from people like AOC.
[00:53:45]  So AOC immediately jumps in and says that, that actually it is the Pope who has the moral off.
[00:53:51]  Again, AOC backs every socially left-wing cause and economically left-wing cause that is possible to support.
[00:53:58]  Her crossover with Catholic Church doctrine is minimal at best.
[00:54:02]  And yet here she was.
[00:54:05]  Congresswoman, any remarks or any reactions to Trump's attacks on the Pope?
[00:54:14]  Attacking the Pope, who do you think has moral authority in this situation?

=== Ironic Shift in Left-Wing Morality (04:05) ===

[00:54:19]  You know what I mean?
[00:54:21]  Yeah, cool.
[00:54:21]  Now, do abortion.
[00:54:23]  See how it goes for you.
[00:54:24]  And meanwhile, in the ideas and stupidity has consequences category, clavicular.
[00:54:31]  You'll remember clavicular.
[00:54:32]  We've talked about him unfortunately before.
[00:54:33]  He is the 20 year old influencer who has decided that it's a great idea to spend your life being sterile, smashing yourself in the face with a hammer to accentuate your jawline, and taking enough meth to kill a horse.
[00:54:47]  Unbelievable, he overdosed.
[00:54:49]  So, according to TMZ, Clavicular suffered a suspected overdose on Tuesday night.
[00:54:54]  He has since been hospitalized.
[00:54:55]  He was on Kickstreet, he was streaming.
[00:54:57]  Again, this is a miserable life for people.
[00:54:59]  And if you're following these, if you're a young person, if you're a 17 year old guy and you're following Clavicular because you think he's funnier, just understand he's a miserable loser.
[00:55:06]  These people are miserable losers, truly.
[00:55:09]  He is walking around taking drugs with his friends, and then girls come up and they take videos because they want clout, and that's all.
[00:55:16]  That's all.
[00:55:17]  That's all this is.
[00:55:19]  The actual video is of him basically ODing on camera, which is pretty terrible.
[00:55:24]  In a video from his stream, you can actually see it.
[00:55:26]  We're not showing it right now, but you can see him legitimately go unconscious.
[00:55:31]  And, uh, and then later he resurfaced and he, he said that he got home, quote, all of the substances are just to cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public.
[00:55:39]  But obviously that isn't a real solution.
[00:55:42]  The worst part of tonight was my face descending from the life support mask.
[00:55:45]  I don't even know what that last sentence means.
[00:55:47]  I mean, obviously if the answer is that you're troubled, yeah, clavicular is, which is why young people do not emulate people who have these sorts of troubles in their life.
[00:55:56]  And of course you'll remember that clavicular was one of the genius participants in, uh, in the Heil Hitler van video with Myron Gaines and Nick Fuentes and the Tate Boys and Sneeko and Justin Waller combined IQ that of a cum quad.
[00:56:24]  Maybe the definition of hell would be being stuck in that van.
[00:56:26]  My goodness.
[00:56:28]  Now, Sneeko himself had a bad day yesterday.
[00:56:31]  Sneeko, who we had discussed because yesterday he was out on the streets of New York shouting Khaibar al Yehud, which is an Islamic chant for the mass murder of Jews.
[00:56:40]  And that was him just a couple of days ago.
[00:56:54]  Third worldism.
[00:56:55]  Hope you're enjoying the third worldism.
[00:56:57]  Well, he had a bad day because someone sucker punched him while he was walking down the street in New York City.
[00:57:03]  And again, folks, don't punch people because you don't like what they say.
[00:57:08]  Also, don't shout for the mass murder of Jews or anyone else and shout also in favor of violence in the streets for political reasons.
[00:57:18]  Now, here's how it went.
[00:57:32]  Some people suspect that this was staged.
[00:57:34]  Probably Sneeko himself would suspect it was staged because he believes everything was staged.
[00:57:37]  But again, dumb people doing dumb things receive dumb consequences.
[00:57:41]  And no, that is not an excuse for anyone doing violence to anyone else who is not doing violence to them, which is something that we can easily say here.
[00:57:48]  And we can also say that you should not listen to any of these low IQ individuals.
[00:57:52]  You should not listen to the foolishness and ugliness that they purvey.
[00:57:58]  You should not.
[00:57:59]  It is bad for your soul.
[00:58:00]  It is bad for you.
[00:58:00]  It is bad for.
[00:58:01]  All the people that you know and mainline influencers, people who have actual political voices and voices people listen to who refuse to call this sort of stuff out, there's a reason they're doing it.
[00:58:12]  And it's usually the clicks and it's often the money.
[00:58:13]  And if it's for principle, that's even worse.
[00:58:15]  All righty, folks, coming up, I'm going to be taking your questions.
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