Obama’s Back And He’s Taking Control

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]Barack Obama was a horrible president, a terrible radical and the best liar in modern American history, bar none.

[00:00:07]Because while Barack Obama promoted the most radical policies, racial polarization, socialization of the health care system, surrender abroad, abortion, transradicalism here at home, then he was defeated by Donald Trump.

[00:00:20]There would be no Donald Trump era without the far-left insanity of the Obama era. So, we tend to think of Trump as the defeat of Barack Obama. But what if the Obama era is just beginning again? What if Donald Trump defeating Obamaism was not Return of the Jedi. It was a new hope. Sure, President Trump blew up the Obama Death Star in 2016.

[00:00:42]But what if Barack Obama is back and building a newer, larger, more powerful Death Star? What if what comes next in this story is the Obama Empire striking back? Well, that's not a what if. That is the reality. Barack Obama and his radical boys are taking over the Democratic party. They are radical. They are vicious. And yes, they are incredibly talented. And yes, they can win. That's what comes next in this story if we don't stop it. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

[00:01:15]So, Barack Obama has been back in the headlines a lot recently. You will remember that he went and read books to children with Zoron mom Donnie and then he sat down with the late show with CBS with Steven Colbear. And you know they were jokey jokey because this is what you do. The thing about Obama is that he is wildly talented. So unbelievably talented that every Democratic politician since the Obama era has lived under Obama's shadow. He is charming and he is kind of aunkular in his approach.

[00:01:44]Here he was with Steven Cobar.

[00:01:47]I'm looking for a new gig soon.

[00:01:49]>> Uhhuh.

[00:01:50]>> And a lot of people tell me I should run for president.

[00:01:53]>> Well, you certainly have the look.

[00:01:54]>> Thank you very much.

[00:01:55]>> You have the hair.

[00:01:56]>> Well, for the record, I think it's a stupid idea.

[00:01:59]>> How dumb do How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president?

[00:02:04]>> Well, you know, the bar has changed.

[00:02:08]>> That is true.

[00:02:09]>> That is true. At times, subterranean.

[00:02:12]>> So, so >> I don't have to limbo so low.

[00:02:14]>> They put it this way. I I I I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we've seen.

[00:02:23]>> All right. Yeah. I I I have I have great confidence in that. Thank you very much.

[00:02:28]Yeah. Is that an endorsement?

[00:02:29]>> It was not.

[00:02:32]>> Okay. So, again, Obama's really really good at this. Even I who think that Obama was the death of modern American politics acknowledge how talented Barack Obama is. And you can see it in clips like this. But here is the thing. People perceive Barack Obama as a moderate because he is charming and because he is unthreatening to people in his affect.

[00:02:51]But Barack Obama is was and continues to be a radical leftist. A radical leftist.

[00:02:58]The most important clip from this interview with Steven Coar is the one where he says there is no divide. He is not wrong about this. There is no divide between liberals and leftists. Many of us have been pointing out that there seems to be a conflict inside the Democratic party between kind of old school liberals and the hardcore left.

[00:03:15]Zorn Mani is not reflective of the entire Democratic party. There's a John Federman wing of the Democratic party.

[00:03:20]Barack Obama says no. Zorn Mani is the leadership class of the Democratic Party. There is no conflict between the leftists and the liberals. Here he was explaining to Steven Cobar.

[00:03:32]You look at somebody like Mandami who I think is an extraordinary talent. He he wants people to be able to afford housing in New York. Well, you know, uh I I I would assume liberals in New York want the same thing. And so I don't worry as much about some of these uh these issues within the Democratic party. What I'm more interested in around for Democrats is do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar, right? You know, c can you talk plain English to folks about >> I think that's one of the powers that mom Donnie has.

[00:04:15]>> That's correct.

[00:04:15]>> Is that he also not only does he talk like a normal person, but he lives a normal life, but he also he names what is obviously wrong.

[00:04:22]>> Yes.

[00:04:23]>> And he goes, "We should change that thing.

[00:04:25]>> That doesn't makes any sense." and and and and not have a bunch of gobbledegook around it.

[00:04:32]>> Now again, look at what Obama is doing here. Look at what he's doing here. He says Zoran Mani is just a normal politician who wants to, you know, like just fight for affordable housing. That is not true. Zoran Mani is an open socialist, an open socialist who openly sympathizes with terror groups. That's who Zoran Mani is. And Barack Obama is hugging him and saying that he's just normal Democratic. is not worried about the gap between the liberals and the left. Why? Because Zoran Mani, Barack Obama, they are the same. They are the same. Barack Obama is just more talented at hiding who he is and who he was.

[00:05:09]Barack Obama and Mandani, very, very similar characters. Obama was like Mandani, a person caught between two worlds. He thought of himself simultaneously as from America and also from outside America. If you read his original memoir, he's written about 20 of them at this point, but if you read his original memoir, Dreams from My Father, he talks about his identity conflict between being an American growing up in Hawaii, and his father's past in Kenya, his African identity, his his identity as a a black man, but also as a person raised by white parents, white grandparents.

[00:05:43]And what this amounts to in the end is a sort of thirdworldist philosophy. He best summarizes this in Dreams for My Father. Here's what he wrote in Dreams for My Father. I still think this is the most revealing paragraph that Barack Obama ever wrote. Quote, I know I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi. In much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrembled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder, alternating as it does between a dull complacency and when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a study unthinking application of force of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task. Okay, now I know that's a little fancy. What he is saying there is just that every poor person on planet earth in America and outside America lays at the foot of American capitalism and imperialism. That is what he is saying that the desperation and disorder of the powerless should be laid at the feet of the powerful.

[00:06:51]Right? This has been the guiding philosophy of Barack Obama for his entire career. that somehow America is guilty of all of these crimes and it is indistinguishable from the radical leftism of Isaran Mandani and Obama has always been radical. He's always been The reason I'm saying all of this, by the way, is not because I wish to just rip on Barack Obama. The reason is because Barack Obama is reclaiming the leadership position of the Democratic party. He is the glue that holds that party together. He is trying to build back his coalition better. That is his idea. He looks at the period since he was president and he sees a Hillary Clinton who did not reflect the capacity to hold his coalition together.

[00:07:30]He sees a Joe Biden who lucked into the presidency and a Kla Harris who is wildly untalented. And he says, "Listen, I can do this myself. I will put it back together except more radical this time because the Democratic party has moved in the direction that Barack Obama set it in. He was always a radical, but he's an incredibly talented liar." Listen, a lot of people seem to remember Barack Obama as some sort of moderate. He was not moderate at all. I'm going to remind you how not moderate he was because again, he's trying to grab the Democratic party and control it moving forward. First, let's just be honest for a moment. Paying 70, 80, 90 bucks a month for wireless, that's absurd. It doesn't make any sense. It's bloated pricing from companies that assume you won't bother to look elsewhere.

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[00:09:16]It's not surprising them that they get better and they claim to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them or a way to explain their frustrations.

[00:09:31]Again, that was Barack Obama disowning more than half of the American population, suggesting back in 2008 that the reason people oppose his radicalism politically is because they were bitterly clinging to God and guns and all the conservative things. But somehow Barack Obama has been retconed into some sort of moderate. In 2008, he ran as a fake centrist. By 2009, he was pushing some of the most radical policy changes in American history. In 2008, he ran as a racial unifier. By 2012, he was running as a polarizing, race ccentric candidate, a left-wing wrecking ball. I just want to remember some of the stuff that he did. I know it's all been washed away. Barack Obama as president sued nuns to promote abortion. Barack Obama as president forced public schools to allow boys to use girls bathrooms.

[00:10:18]Barack Obama used his IRS to target political opposition. Barack Obama lied in 2008 about his position on samesex marriage and then bathed the White House in a rainbow flag. Barack Obama Obama promoted racially polarizing lies in order to weave DEI into every area of American life. Barack Obama is singularly responsible by the way for the decline in race relations in America. This is the single most telling chart in modern American history. Look at this chart. Okay, this is a chart of how people would rate relations between the various groups in the United States from Gallup. Would you say relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad? In 2007, before Barack Obama was president, almost 80% of white adults and almost 60% of black adults said that race relations were good.

[00:11:11]And by the time Barack Obama was in the middle of his second term in 2013, still just above 70% of whites thought race relations were good. And increasingly, black people thought race relations were good as well, 65%. Then by 2015, off a cliff, by 2015, white adults rated race relations as good, only 45%. Black adults, that dropped to 50%.

[00:11:37]And that just continued its decline to a low in 2021 for black adults of 32%, 33%.

[00:11:45]Okay, that was under Barack Obama. That is when the drop happened in the first place. That's when it happened.

[00:11:51]It happened for a reason. He was racially polarizing. Barack Obama attacked businesses. He threatened them with the power of the populist pitchfork. He literally said to bank CEOs in 2009 that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks and the torches. On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama revitalized the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in cash and a clear pathway to a nuke.

[00:12:11]Barack Obama let Russia have its way in Ukraine and yes, in Syria. He let China expand its power base throughout the world. He quote unquote led from behind and then through the power of the mainstream media, Barack Obama made you forget all of that because the media decided Barack Obama was a messianic figure and they would never criticize him. The way you probably remember Barack Obama right now is the guy who was, you know, not that bad. I mean, not compared to like Zoran Mandani or Ilhan Omar or AOC. The media are still pretending his administration was scandal-free. They cover for his failures. They explain away his lies.

[00:12:43]They pretend that he is some sort of philosopher king instead of the architect of the modern radical left.

[00:12:49]But here is the thing. There is no Zoron without Obama. There is no Ilhan Omar without Obama. There is no AOC without Obama. They are all Barack Obama's ideological children. He is proud of them. He wants the Democratic party to be more radical because he always wanted the Democratic party to be more radical.

[00:13:09]Right? This is Barack Obama with his ideological child right here preaching to the kiddies.

[00:13:15]Barack Obama with Mam Donnie. And now Barack Obama's going to make all that happen because this is not just tracing the history of how he got here. This is what happens next.

[00:13:26]This is what happens next.

[00:13:29]Okay. Obama, Manny, they're the same.

[00:13:32]And now Obama is going to mani the entire Democratic party top down. He architected the Democratic Party between 2008 and 2016 and now he is taking control again. The Democratic Party, I know it feels like they're in disarray.

[00:13:44]It feels like they have no leadership.

[00:13:45]They are not in fact ruerless. Obama is and has been the single most radical active driver in his party. He did not go away. He's not like George W. Bush where he was president and then he went away. He has been active and he's going to get more active. He is a master at shifting ideological goalposts without being noticed, cloaking his radicalism as some form of moderation.

[00:14:08]And again, the key to all of this, the reason that Obama is particularly threatening is because one, he is an excellent organizer, and two, he is the single most creative and convincing liar in modern American history. Now, I know there are a lot of people who are Democrats listening to this show and say, "Ah, Donald Trump lies all the time." Donald Trump does say things that are not true. He does lie, but he is not nearly as good at it as Barack Obama because Barack Obama has magicked many, many Americans into believing that somehow he was a Clintonian figure as opposed to what he actually is, Jimmy Carter on policy.

[00:14:42]Barack Obama has always lied and he continues to lie about what he believes and who he is. So, back to his interview with Steven Coar, he says stuff like this about the criminal justice system, right? Sounds moderate. It sounds kind.

[00:14:56]Here we go.

[00:14:58]>> The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever uh the president wants to prosecute. Correct? Because technically it's under the executive branch. The norm is that it's independent.

[00:15:10]>> The nor the the idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer.

[00:15:15]It's not the president's consigary, >> right? Even when it's Bobby Kennedy.

[00:15:20]>> It's Bobby Kennedy. And so uh the two of the core principles of a democracy we we can survive a lot bad policy funky elections there there's a bunch of stuff that you know we we can overcome we can't overcome the politization of the criminal justice system the the the awesome power of the state. you you can't have a situation in which uh whoever's in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies.

[00:15:57]>> The IRS under Barack Obama literally targeted Tea Party groups and pro-Israel groups. In 2013, Eric Holder, the attorney general of the United States, called himself Barack Obama's wingman.

[00:16:08]Obama sitting there saying that the AG can't be the consigary for the president. Here was Eric Holder, his AG, literally calling himself Obama's consigliary.

[00:16:21]>> Well, I'm I'm happy. I'm still enjoying what I'm doing. There's still work to be done. Um, I got to I'm still, you know, I'm still the president's wingman, so I'm there with my boy.

[00:16:30]>> I mean, come on. Come on. And as you will remember, you know, when when Barack Obama says you cannot use the DOJ to target your political opposition, um I seem to recall Barack Obama's Democratic party under Joe Biden, his vice president. After Biden became president, he then used the DOJ to go after Donald Trump 1 million times.

[00:16:50]Here's acting a Todd Blanch explaining.

[00:16:54]There's something extraordinarily rich about a a Democrat suggesting that this administration is charging our political adversaries. I mean, first of all, we're not. Second of all, how about we think about what happened the past four years? It wasn't just President Trump that got indicted repeatedly in multiple district courts, in multiple jurisdictions, but it was also his entire administration what was called into the grand jury. Members of his Secret Service detail had to testify in the grand jury. So, I I I welcome criticism. Let's go. But but let's if if you're sitting in a glass house, you ought not throw stones.

[00:17:32]Okay. Barack Obama in that same interview with Co Bear, he then goes ahead and he talks about how he is worried for the Republican party and the Democrat. Again, he masquerades as a moderate. That masquerade is the whole game for Democrats. It's the whole game.

[00:17:47]Here he says that, you know, he's worried for the Republican party.

[00:17:49]They're just not moderate enough. The Republican party. Here is Barack Obama.

[00:17:54]>> I'm worried about the Republican party, not just the Democratic party. U when I was president, people would ask me, "Well, what change would you like to see in Washington?" I' I' I'd say I'd love a a loyal opposition. I I I'd love a Republican party that was conservative in some ways that uh you know didn't agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff but believed in rule of law and judicial independence and um empirical empirical evidence and science and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses. Um, and there has been a Republican party like that in the past, and I want to see that returned because I think you have to have two healthy parties.

[00:18:43]>> He wrecked that Republican party. He wrecked that Republican party. Coming up, we will remind you of Barack Obama destroying Mitt Romney. No, now he's pining for a better GOP. He's such a liar. He's such a liar. First, you're driving home after a long day when your check engine light starts flashing.

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[00:20:11]You know that kinder, gentler Republican party, the one that was the loyal opposition. You know, the one that ran Mitt Romney for president in 2012 against Barack Obama, the cleanest candidate in the history of American politics. Mitt Romney, the most classically normie candidate in American history. And Barack Obama wrecked that guy. He wrecked him. Again, the the faux moderation is is gling. It is gaslighting. It's pathetic.

[00:20:39]I mean, his allies literally put out an ad in 2012 saying that Mitt Romney fired a man so that his wife would die of cancer. This was the kind of stuff that Barack Obama's team did back in 2012.

[00:20:53]I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant. I don't think he realizes that that people's lives completely changed.

[00:21:03]When Mitt Romney and Bane closed the plant, I lost my healthcare and my family lost their healthcare and uh uh a short time after that, my wife became ill. I don't know how long she was sick.

[00:21:17]Uh, and I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew that we we couldn't afford the insurance and and then one day she she uh became ill and then I took her up to the Jackson County hospital and and admitted her for pneumonia and that's when they found the cancer and by then it was stage 4. It was it was there was nothing they could do for her and she passed away in 22 days.

[00:21:41]I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone. And I furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.

[00:21:49]>> This is what team Obama did to Mitt Romney. Remember, they're out there saying, "Oh, we want a kinder, gentler."

[00:21:55]They probably have a kinder, gentler Republican party. You took Mitt Romney and you called him a man who wanted to enslave black people. Joe Biden said that when he was vice president, back when his hair plugs had not all fallen out and his brain was still semifunctional.

[00:22:10]Romney wants to let the he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.

[00:22:17]Unchain Wall Street.

[00:22:22]>> They're going to put y'all back in chains.

[00:22:27]I mean that is what they did to Mitt Romney. Again, this is the masquerade.

[00:22:30]This is the masquerade. Obama did an interview with the New Yorker in which again he pretends moderation and that's the whole game. He is going to be as radical as humanly possible. He's setting up the system. We'll get to the system he's setting up in a second because it is being built in real time to push whatever candidate he chooses.

[00:22:50]Okay. But Obama's whole game is to pretend moderation. Quote, I do think that repairing the damage that's been done to the international war is going to be even harder than some of the domestic repairs. I think one way to think about it is the postworld war II order is one of America's better moments.

[00:23:07]Okay, let's be clear. Barack Obama broke the postworld war II order by saying that America ought to lead from behind that we ought to retreat from the world, seed power to Russia. Remember in 2012 he literally told Dmitri Medvidev who was the standin for Vladimir Putin that if Putin backed off before the 2012 election there would be benefits on the other side of the election. He was caught on a hot mic saying that. And he says that he was in favor of the postworld war II alliances.

[00:23:38]He said quote we're not just going to go ahead and demand tribute and bully people. we're going to be part of some larger consensus about how some things should work. And then he blames Trump for pulling out of Paris and and by imposing tariffs and getting out of the Iran nuclear deal.

[00:23:55]This is Obama stick. So here is the thing. Here's the thing. The past is not the past. It is the future. Again, we think of the Trump era as itself the sort of Star Wars original trilogy trilogy, right? Term one was a new hope and then the Joe Biden presidency was the Empire Strikes Back and now Trump is back in Return of the Jedi. But what if we are not thinking along a long enough timeline? What if the entire Trump era was a new hope? What if what comes next is Empire Strikes Back? See, Barack Obama has the capacity to frame the Trump era as a sort of interregnum in American history, a short detour on the road to leftwing devastation.

[00:24:34]We tend to think on the right of this story as ending with President Trump victorious over all of his woke enemies.

[00:24:40]But what if the Democratic party is preparing to come back into power, sweep back into power and do all the most radical things led by Barack Obama who was always radical but was great at hiding it. And Obama's team is rebuilding. He already has his comms team out there. They never went away. the entire Pod Save America bro network, right? They are all out there. They are very powerful in terms of the public communications apparatus.

[00:25:09]They have allies all over the media obviously and they are normalizing every bit every single bit of the far-left agenda. Again, John Favro at Pod of America is hugging Hassan When you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you actually mean that or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal? Like what what I mean it's all of the above. Uh I do mean it.

[00:25:36]Uh I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.

[00:25:39]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.

[00:25:47]Again, these are the pits of America.

[00:25:49]Those guys are still out there. They're the communications apparatus for team Obama and they are uniting with the most radical Democrats with the most radical Democrats and the notion that it's sort of Barack Obama in the in the moderate wing of the Democratic party and Bernie in the radical. They're the same.

[00:26:05]They're the same thing. These pictures are the same. It's Spider-Man pointing at himself.

[00:26:11]And Sean love it. Another pod save America bro with Bernie Sanders on why we need an AI moratorum.

[00:26:18]If scientists who are Nobel Prize winners, guys who've gotten the Turing Award, which is the major award given to people in computer science, if they say to you that humanity is in danger, do you think you might want to do something about it or am I missing something? You tell me.

[00:26:36]>> So, no, I that the percentages are also someone's, oh, there's only a 10% chance humanity is destroyed. It's like, well, I don't like those odds.

[00:26:44]>> Only a 10% chance. Gone. I I know.

[00:26:50]>> Okay. So, again, we should note Bernie is doing full-scale events with the Chinese about an AI mortorium.

[00:26:57]Barack Obama's foreign policy team is reactivating the worst foreign policy team in modern history by far. Not close. Not a close second even. They're no one's within sight.

[00:27:08]According to Axios, there is a new influential foreign policy group to help potential 2028 presidential candidates and bring together national security specialists who could staff the next Democratic administration.

[00:27:22]It's called National Security Action. It was founded by Ben Rhodess who was the chief foreign policy adviser after writing unpublished novels in his crappy Brooklyn apartment for years. He was selected by Barack Obama to be his sort of anti-Israel advocate in the White House. Ben Rhodess's literal nickname in the White House was kamas. I'm not even kidding. And Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under Joe Biden, and of course, a high-ranking national security adviser under Barack Obama. They've now picked a person named Maharbit, who has worked for Democrats and on Capitol Hill and in the White House to lead the group going into the 2028 primary season.

[00:28:00]Ben Rhodess says that the group's two most interesting projects are the pipeline of people who might work on campaigns and populate a democratic administration and then the ideas that can form a progressive or democratic foreign policy going forward.

[00:28:13]And Ben Rhodess says it's time to pass the baton. So is a really great opportunity to try to talent spot and help elevate some different voices.

[00:28:20]Jake Sullivan says that this should center in on a revision of the Democratic party's relationship with Israel. Of course, that was first promoted by Barack Obama, the most anti-Israel president in modern history by far.

[00:28:32]Betar, it should be noted, legitimately has the same resume as Zor Mamani. He was a leader of the insanely anti-Semitic group, Students for Justice in Palestine. He worked at the kamas linked UN relief and works agency. He wrote papers at University of Oxford on the Nakba, which is the Arabic term for the establishment of Israel. It means the catastrophe.

[00:28:55]Ben Rhodess, by the way, going out of his way in the New York Times to hug Graham Platner. That's the dude with the Nazi tattoo.

[00:29:04]He wrote a piece for the New York Times, quoting Graham Platner, quote, "If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future, it needs to be an anti-war party."

[00:29:13]"Why don't more Democrats talk about war the way Mr. Platner does?" "We must re-engage the world," says Ben Rhodess, as something other than a hedgeimon.

[00:29:21]Rebuild diplomatic and developmental capabilities hollowed out under Mr. Trump negotiate the outlines of a new international order with other major powers. Ah multiparity.

[00:29:33]Again, this is Barack Obama's team. That is Obama's team in the foreign policy sphere. It is Obama's team in the comm's sphere. Hell, it's Obama's team in the funding sphere.

[00:29:44]back in 2025. In September, there is a report that millions of dollars sent to Obama's foundation has ended up being donated to a progressive fund supporting anti-Israel groups. Donations to the Obama Foundation that were originally supposed to fund his museum. 2 million bucks were instead sent to the Tides Foundation, a radical left-wing group that funnels money to the most radical leftist groups.

[00:30:08]This is the apparatus that the Democratic Party is building. They'll use Obama as their head. He if he can find a politician half as talented as he is, then that's a threat. That is a threat. The modern Democratic party, the the conflict is over. Obama won. And I know for some people thinking, okay, well, Obama won, that means the moderates. No, he was never moderate. He was never moderate.

[00:30:33]And this is why you ended up with Donald Trump because Obama was not moderate.

[00:30:38]And now he's sweeping back in. That's what comes next. The modern Democratic Party is fully in line with this sort of stuff. So, as we pointed out yesterday, there were quasi riots outside a New York City synagogue. The the the New York City government decided that was totally fine to to hold a a quasi riot outside the synagogue because after all, what they were protesting was Jews buying land in Israel. And these riers don't particularly like some of the places that Jews are buying land, namely Jewish cities like Ephrat and Vaniel.

[00:31:10]Here's what that looked like in New York.

[00:31:24]Right. People confronting the cops, people wearing the kafias.

[00:31:28]Hey, Zoran Mamani was asked about this and he defended the sacrosan right to protest. I I do not think he would feel the same way if people started protesting outside mosques. Actually, I'm old enough to remember because I'm more than a couple of months old when Zoran Mandani condemned people protesting against radical Islam at a rally outside the mayoral mansion where a radical Islamic terrorist tried to throw a Molotov cocktail like an IED into the crowd. Here's Manny.

[00:31:57]We in this city believe in the sacrosan nature of the right to protest and also are committed to ensuring that any New Yorker can safely enter or exit from a house of worship and that they that access never be in question while we also protect the first amendment.

[00:32:14]I do not believe you. I do not believe you. John Federman, the only sane democrat left apparently, put out a tweet. mob of proisah Hamas bleepheads raging against law enforcement and terrorizing the New York City Jewish community near a synagogue and daycare.

[00:32:27]Where's my party's condemnation?

[00:32:30]I mean, I assume in the same place as the Democratic party's willingness to moderate. Meanwhile, New York State Senate candidate Abar Kawas, she uh she it was said that she was protesting with a kamas headband.

[00:32:44]Apparently, she was not, but she had to debunk it.

[00:32:49]one that the right is already obsessed with. An absurd claim that I held the Hamas flag at a protest a decade ago.

[00:32:55]It's BS.

[00:32:57]It was actually a scarf printed with the sahada, a common religious symbol like the cross or Star of David, and it's everywhere. It's a statement of faith, and standing up for justice has always been part of my faith.

[00:33:11]Hey, so in any case, it looks like a headband, not a scarf. But this also happens to be a person. Again, she is a New York Democratic state senate candidate. She is a person who says that 9/11 was a manifestation of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.

[00:33:29]And finding that like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism um and white supremacy, etc., have all and Islamophobia have all been used, um, you know, to, uh, colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people. And so this is like a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation right with 9/11.

[00:33:53]911 was a manifestation of the evils of Western civilization. And this is all a part of the same left-wing radical philosophy that is part and parcel of the anti-colonialism of Barack Obama dating all the way back to dreams from my father. It's all the same thing. And they have the fellow travelers who are typically white liberal ladies. Gwyneith Paltro is spending her days fellow traveling with all this crap and complaining about super rich white dudes with Cara Swisser. I mean, listening to uh listening to Gwyneth Paltro complain about super rich white people is pretty pretty amazing.

[00:34:28]How do you think we got to this place in culture where sort of nothing matters and and now all that matters is these kind of super rich white dudes who are breaking rules, setting rules, >> you know, seemingly like not caring so much about the downstream impact on everything, mental health culture.

[00:34:46]>> They don't think they're responsible for the debt. I think we have an idolatry of innovators, an idolatry of wealth, and if you're wealthy, you must be smarter.

[00:34:54]when they got all manner of shortcuts >> and the innovations that they took advantage of were paid by the American public. By the way, the internet was invented by the United States government, not them.

[00:35:05]>> And it's great to be innovative and make these things and this rocket stuff. I'm so impressed by what SpaceX is doing. We can argue about the valuation of it, but it's still astonishing. And at the same time, why do they get why does a small homogeneous group of people get to decide for the rest of us?

[00:35:25]Well, I mean, why do they get to keep the products that they have built and then the innovations that have made everyone richer in the United States?

[00:35:31]Jennifer Welch, again, astonishing to me that Jennifer Welch is somehow considered a a voice of white ladies, but I guess, you know, you choose your fighter in this version of Mortal Kombat. Here's Jennifer Welch saying, "Republicans lie about being patriotic and loving America with Wahhat Ali."

[00:35:48]Okay. Okay, man.

[00:35:51]The Republicans lie um about being loving America and being patriotic. They lie that they're good with the economy, that wealth will trickle down. That has been a decadesl long propagandistic lie.

[00:36:04]They lie that they support the troops and they're about national security.

[00:36:07]They don't. They lie to get people into war. They never support the soldier.

[00:36:10]They never support the health care of these soldiers. 35% of all homeless people are vets. They served. These people are broken because of that service. And then you have all of these rich fat cat Republicans like Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, George W. Bush.

[00:36:27]Deferment, deferment, deferment, deferment. These guys would never serve.

[00:36:30]Do you think Baron's going to go serve?

[00:36:32]Do you think Dumb and Dumber, Eric, Don, and Eric are going to go serve? No.

[00:36:36]They're never going to serve over there.

[00:36:38]And so the biggest thing that got us here is the Republican party's lies that they love America. And every time in my lifetime, I was born in 1974.

[00:36:48]Every Republican president of my lifetime lifetime has wrecked the economy, taken us into war, added to the national deficit, and um resided over a recession.

[00:37:02]Again, this is the Democratic Party.

[00:37:05]Now, you might say to yourself, "Okay, fine. So, Barack Obama is radical. So, the Democratic Party is moving in a radical direction. So, they're organizing for their revenge. They won't be able to get there. They won't be able to get the American people are too moderate for it. They'll see through it.

[00:37:16]So, first of all, we didn't see through it in 2008. But second of all, they're going to have some help. They're going to have some help. They'll have some help, for example, from the new left, who we have been talking about, the splinter faction of pseudo Republicans who fellowtraveled with Donald Trump and now are abandoning Trump in favor of a new coalition with the Democrats. These folks have the same philosophy. These people have the same philosophy as Ben Rhodess. They have the same philosophy as Zor and Mamani on a wide variety of topics, including on radical Islam.

[00:37:51]I mean, here was it's pretty astonishing what's happened to Tucker Carlson, just as a as an example of this. Our friends on the new left or the woke right as James Lindseay likes to call them.

[00:38:02]Here's Tucker in 2017 versus Tucker now on Islam. Uh things have changed just a little. Things have changed.

[00:38:10]>> I get that decent Muslim Americans feel under attack. act. They feel like they're being unfairly portrayed as terrorists. I understand all that, but at some point you have to say this really is a real problem and it's discrediting all of us and until we take it seriously, it's going to continue.

[00:38:21]Now, we can debate the details here, but it's I think it's important to acknowledge a baseline and that is that there have been an awful lot of attacks where actual people died in the United States and in Europe committed by people saying really clearly we're acting in the name of Islam. For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian and I feel uh completely comfortable here in the in the seat of Islam. If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day, I'm not against that. I should bow down before God five times a day. And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.

[00:38:59]>> Yeah, that was Tucker Carlson in 2016 2017 versus Tucker Carlson. Now, I mean, now Tucker is going so far that because he thinks that the entire world is controlled by the Zio Jews, he's saying that Iran should actually have nukes in order to counter the ambitions of the ZoJs.

[00:39:16]The mutually assured destruction principle, which as ugly as it sounds, is real. It's absolutely real. What you don't want is a nation that feels no constraints whatsoever, that feels it can do whatever it wants. It feels it can roll into its neighbors sovereign territory and expel the population and kill people. This is exactly we thought the lesson of World War II. That's bad.

[00:39:41]But that's kind of what you get when you have a country that feels it has unconstrained power. It can do whatever it wants. What does it tend to do? Well, whatever it wants.

[00:39:51]And so you could at least make the case academically even if you disagreed with the whole idea of nuclear weapons and thought they were probably inherently evil.

[00:40:00]Even if you wondered where they came from in the first place, even if you had dark suspicions about the genesis of nuclear weapons, and some of us do, you could still make the case on a pragmatic basis that look at the effects.

[00:40:13]Look at the effects. They are less bad than this.

[00:40:18]Okay, so that was Tucker Carlson making the case the Iranian mullers should actually have nuclear weapons that would somehow be better. That would somehow be better. By the way, backing all of this has been, of course, Megan Kelly, who has never seen a click that you will not chase. Notice the contrast between Megan Kelly on Islam in January of this year versus Megan Kelly on Islam in, you know, May.

[00:40:40]Islam is not consistent with the values of America, of the West. They should stay in countries that don't care about keeping church and state separated. They should stay in countries that don't care about protecting free speech. They should stay in countries that don't care about women's rights. It's been something I've noticed just since I've gotten a sort of more cleareyed on Israel that a lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that's put out there originates with people who are very very pro-Israel who kind of need us to demonize them.

[00:41:12]And I've taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say like, "Have I been manipulated? I want to make sure I'm not getting manipulated."

[00:41:20]>> So she was hoodwinkedked. She was hoodwinkedked by those terrible pro-Israel people, Megan Kelly between January and May. Or she's chasing the clicks. Candace Owens, of course, has been doing the same thing for a while, running interference for radical Islam.

[00:41:35]>> Americans don't know anything. We know very after 9/11. I think about it now, the propaganda to make me afraid of Muslims. I can't even imagine being a Muslim growing up after 911 in America because I know how I felt about them.

[00:41:47]And I was I was young. I was 11 years old. But that beating every day in our heads that every Muslim was a terrorist was the idea that you got to all Muslims growing up during that time in America.

[00:41:56]I am sorry on behalf of America >> for the way that you were treated. That it is so unacceptable. When I go back and I reexamine that propaganda, that brainwashing that took place in the classroom to make me scared of something. I didn't even know what a Muslim was. And these Muslim terrorists only want to terrorize to benefit Israel. It's so strange. I cannot work it out. If you're a Muslim terrorist, we want to hear from you.

[00:42:21]All right. Well, again, how can the radicals win? How can the radicals win?

[00:42:25]I mean, the radicals can win on the left if they get some help from the new left.

[00:42:29]That's all it takes. So, again, there's a coalition that is forming. That coalition is the Barack Obama coalition.

[00:42:36]And there will be a bunch of people who join back up with it. Moderates who are hoodwinkedked by Barack Obama's moderate affect people who are radical in their inclinations anyway. And of course some alienated members of the new left/woke right. The people who have decided that they must fellow travel with the third worldist because they have their own version of third worldism that they are indeed promoting. And meanwhile, speaking of radical Islam, Iran continues in its entransigence, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board, they say based on conversations with senior US officials, here is what a good deal would look like to end the Iran war. First, dismantlement. Iran can't enrich now, but a good deal would name all deeply buried nuclear facilities as illicit enrichment sites and would enable supervised dismantlement of all centrifuges and ban producing or importing materials and components for plutonium processing.

[00:43:30]uranium.

[00:43:32]Iran would love to focus solely on its 440 kg of 60% enriched uranium. The regime's 20% stockpile may sound less dangerous, but reaching that level is 90% of the way to weapons grade, so it has to go as well. IAEA inspections anywhere.

[00:43:46]Iran has to make a full declaration of its past nuclear work. A final deal on Hormuz should prescribe all tolls, mines, and forced routes and dismantlement of the sanctions on a short specific timetable once all of that is done. Now, we'll see what kind of deal the Trump administration is trying to cut. The foreign minister of Iran, Abasaraki, he says that Iran is going to continue to stave off elimination as a regime by standing up to the United States.

[00:44:17]>> He says, "Our Chinese friends also believe that Iran after the warrant from Iran before the war, has proven its capabilities and strength.

[00:44:32]Therefore, a new phase of cooperation between Iran and other countries lies ahead. Well, certainly not in the Middle East. I assume he just means a closer relationship between Iran and China, which demonstrates once again why Iran is a threat because China is a threat.

[00:44:48]And meanwhile, Democrats trying to claim that we are losing the war. Democratic Representative Seth Molton, who should know better from Massachusetts, he says that we're losing the war in Iran. Iran has way more leverage than they had at the beginning when we were just trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with them.

[00:45:05]Now Trump's trying to reopen the strait as well. And I don't think that either is going to come on great terms for the United States. This is a loss for us.

[00:45:13]And that's how dangerous this war has been.

[00:45:16]>> This is as in we have lost this war.

[00:45:20]>> We're certainly losing it right now on almost every measure. You know, regime change has gotten us a more hardline regime. We destroyed some of their ballistic missiles, but given them billions and billions of dollars by lifting oil sanctions so they can buy more. We clearly have not obliterated their nuclear program, and we're in a far worse position than Obama was with the Iran nuclear deal.

[00:45:40]I mean, that is not true in the slightest. We have significantly degraded their ballistic missile capacity and their manufacturing capacity. We have destroyed their economic power. We still have a blockade on their oil.

[00:45:51]The best they can do is try to hold chipping up in the street of Hormuz that is gradually being opened by the United States anyway. Which is why a new Harvard Harris poll suggests that 74% of respondents say that the United States is winning the war, which happens to be the truth. That is correct.

[00:46:07]So again, that by the way, that includes 40% of Democrats believe that only only 40% of Democrats believe that Iran is winning the war. 60% believe the United States is winning the war of Democrats.

[00:46:19]And so again, the the attempt to undermine the United States is ongoing.

[00:46:25]Meanwhile, California continues along its radical path. You want to look at what a Barack Obama ruled state would look like, California is a pretty good indicator.

[00:46:34]According to a brand new report from Ryan Thorp and Chris Rufo over at City Journal, in the last 5 years, the California Department of Social Services has rubber stamped at least $41 million in funding to the Council on American Islamic Relations. Those federal dollars are flowing into CARE California's coffers even after it was the target of a recent DOJ investigation. And for those who don't follow CARE, CA care is an incredibly radical group that was effectively founded by people with significant links to Hamas and they've been receiving huge amounts of money from grants in California. In 2022, California Department of Social Services awarded CARE $7.2 2 million in federal funds v via a state program to provide immigration related legal assistance.

[00:47:20]And then in September 2025, they rubber stamped an additional $23 million in federal funds for Cara California. Here by the way is the Cara California leader Zarabilu advising people to be strategic with their hate.

[00:47:34]>> Now imagine your LinkedIn profile says I hate all Zionists. Replace hate with whatever inappropriate must like you know something I can't say here.

[00:47:46]not strategic, >> right? Like not not strategic. Now, you may sit that you may say that sitting around Kahwa House on a Friday night, but you're not going to say it on your LinkedIn. And so, so think so one, we have to do the basics. We have to remember that Allah protects us.

[00:48:03]Ah, good stuff there from the Council on American Islamic Relations. Glad that federal taxpayers can subsidize that.

[00:48:10]Thanks to the government of California.

[00:48:12]Meanwhile, government in California continues to do an extraordinary job.

[00:48:16]The feds just raided a huge drug ring in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park. According to the DOJ, 18 defendants, including two people law enforcement believes are the main sources of fentinel and meth in LA's gang and drug infested MacArthur Park, have now been arrested on a federal criminal complaint, charging them with a federal drug trafficking offense. You may remember LA Mayor Karen Bass suggesting in July 2025 that ICE was wrong for being in Macarthur Park and trying to police crime.

[00:48:46]>> Yes. My comment is they need to leave and they need to leave right now. They need to leave because this is unacceptable.

[00:48:57]>> Well, maybe maybe at a certain point even the people of LA will decide to buck this sort of insanity. So last night was the LA mayoral debate. That debate pitted Spencer Pratt, who's essentially a reality TV star, against a city council woman named Nithia Ramen, as well as Mayor Bass. Mayor Bass continues to be the front runner. She continues to be the front runner in that mayoral race, which is nuts.

[00:49:23]Spencer Pratt did a a good job in this debate. He pointed out that the LA city council and the mayor's office have allowed homelessness to run rampant throughout the city. And uh he made a pretty colorful remark to Nitia Raman about her policy which would suggest a $10.7 million infusion to renovate a 26 room motel into interim housing for the homeless. It's $411,000 per apartment.

[00:49:51]Karen Bass signed it. Here is Spencer Pratt calling out that policy in pretty colorful language.

[00:49:56]Councilwoman Robin's plan for treatment first. I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we can find some of these people she's going to offer treatment for. She's going to get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl or super meth. These ideas cost us over $400 million to house for 70. What did he say? 3,000 people for 400 million. This is absolute failure for both of them.

[00:50:21]They're a team.

[00:50:24]Spencer Pratt also called out Karen Bass for lying about the Palisades fires and how it was handled.

[00:50:32]>> We had two other reservoirs totaling 8 billion 8 billion gallons that were available but could not fly.

[00:50:40]>> Yes, she uh she mentioned me. So this is she's an incredible liar. Everyone on their phones Google it. 40 weather stations in the Pacific Palisades. It never went above 40 miles. She is represent. I have to interrupt you for a minute. I have to interrupt you. Um >> Um No name calling. Lied though.

[00:51:00]>> Yeah. But no name calling. Um we could be a liar.

[00:51:06]>> Okay. So Spencer Pratt, by the way, did a pretty good job in this debate.

[00:51:10]Perhaps the most astonishing moment.

[00:51:11]Again, this is how Democrats are now governing. This is how they are governing in major cities. The Loro candidates were asked whether non-citizens should be allowed to vote in Los Angeles. Spencer Pratt, of course, says no. Watch the other two.

[00:51:26]>> Non-citizens, should they be allowed to vote in local elections? Is this a yes or no, Mr. Pratt?

[00:51:32]>> No.

[00:51:33]>> Mayor Bass, >> it depends. It's not a yes or no.

[00:51:36]>> Depends on what?

[00:51:38]>> Well, first of all, when you say non-citizens, it doesn't mean they're here illegal. It doesn't mean they're undocumented. They could have green cards. They could be here perfectly legal. And there's a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections. We have to see what the councilman is proposing.

[00:51:53]>> Council member Breman.

[00:51:54]>> Yeah, I would say again it it does depend. In other places, school boards have nonitizens who >> Mr. Fred, I have a question for you. ABC News.

[00:52:07]>> Insane. Insane. But that's the kind of governance that Democrats increasingly want. While Democratic governance, you know, is not the only problem in America. Waste, fraud, and abuse in gigantic federal programs remains an enormous problem. No matter which state you are in, Luc Rosiaak has been doing an a tremendous job of investigating wastes fraud in Ohio. He has done a fulllength 20inut walking tour through the Ohio health care system showing how billions of taxpayer dollars have been abused. You can find that over at dailywire.com right now. Here is a little bit of that video.

[00:52:49]Let's pick the door that says True Home Healthcare LLC. Out for a quick break.

[00:52:55]The company's owner is listed in Medicaid records as Mamusu Canoe.

[00:52:59]According to public records, she has a slew of criminal infractions, including theft, assault, and malicious wounding, as well as civil judgments and tax leans. True Healthcare received $100,000 in December 2023 alone despite having only 15 patients according to newly released federal data. Connie was charged with felony aggravated assault in Virginia and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005, and 2006. In a phone interview, Mamusu Sue Canoe denied that she had a criminal record. Even if I do, it doesn't have anything to do with nobody. They certify you before you do anything.

[00:53:42]>> So again, it's a great investigation. Go check out Daily Wire right now for all of the information. That kind of reporting can only be done with your help when you become a member over at dailywire.com. So go do that right now so we can continue to expose this sort of malfeasance in American government.

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