Podbit · The Ben Shapiro Show
Michael Lucci testified about Chinese birth tourism — illegal immigrants arriving late in pregnancy to give birth on US soil and secure citizenship for their child. Congressman Ro Khanna called him racist. Lucci noted the absurdity: he's the only non-Chinese person in his 8-person household, married to a woman of Chinese origin.
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A congressional hearing on Chinese birth tourism — where illegal immigrants arrive late in pregnancy to deliver anchor babies on US soil — devolves when Congressman Ro Khanna accuses witness Michael Lucci of racism and xenophobia. Lucci's response is devastating: he points out he's the only non-Chinese person in an eight-person household, married to a Chinese-American. The race card, he argues, destroys the ability to have real policy conversations. Shapiro then plays a clip of Zohran Mamdani describing the anxiety of his father's citizenship interview during the mayoral campaign, prompting Shapiro's darkly comic observation that America would have been better off if the Mamdani family had never become citizens. He closes the section with opposition research on congressional candidate Daria Elisa Avila Chevalier, whose rent-abolition politics sit awkwardly alongside her father's Miami rental property income.
New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to freeze rents on nearly 1 million stabilized apartments — over 40% of the city's housing stock. Shapiro says this kills new development, violates property rights, and will drive rents higher for everyone else. He invokes the Bronx fires of the 1970s as the logical endpoint.
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Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
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When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
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Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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