Podbit · The Ben Shapiro Show
The SAVE Act requires documentary proof of US citizenship to register for federal elections, photo ID for in-person voting, and in-person registration only. Shapiro supports most of it but argues the real electoral threat — ballot harvesting — isn't addressed, and blowing up the filibuster to pass it is a dangerous overreaction.
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With NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House, Trump delivers a pointed rebuke of European allies who offered words but not action during the US-led military operation against Iran. He singles out Italy, the UK, Germany, France, and Spain — calling Spain's attitude 'a horror show' — and says he just wants loyalty in return for the 50,000 US troops stationed in Germany and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on European bases. Rutte pushes back with the 4,000–5,000 flight figure, arguing the European contribution was substantial. Shapiro sides with Trump on the loyalty critique but argues the president's broader framing — that America should have just opened the Strait of Hormuz by force, or walked away and let China and Japan deal with Iran — was actually more strategically coherent than the MOU approach. He notes, with evident frustration, that walking away would have been stronger than signing a deal Iran is already violating.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
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.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
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.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
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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