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Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker

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Society & Culture
Brad Lander's Moral Depravity

Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker · Jun 24, 2026 Society & Culture

Brad Lander calls himself Jewish only to avoid the label of 'white guy,' Shapiro argues, while actively standing with antisemitic political figures. At a Queens mosque service, Lander recited Quranic prayers, at an event where subsequent prayers called for destruction of Israel.

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Profiling Daria-Liza Chevalier: Prison Abolitionist Goes to Congress

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Chevalier defeated incumbent Adriana Espaillat — one of the most left-wing members of Congress — not because Espaillat was insufficiently progressive on economics or healthcare, but because she wasn't seen as anti-Israel enough. The litmus test that now defines acceptable Democratic politics, Shapiro argues, is contempt for Israel as a proxy for contempt for America itself. Chevalier's record is extensive: she co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest with Mahmoud Khalil, deleted 3,600 tweets between 2018 and 2022, tweeted that 'all pigs everywhere are haram,' reposted calls for a 'world without borders or prisons,' and tweeted 'seize the means of production' in 2019. Her platform includes universal basic income, a four-day work week, ICE abolition, prison abolition, and price controls. In clips played by Shapiro, she explains she came to socialism through a 'race lens' and compares Palestinian displacement to Black displacement in American cities using the same tear gas analogy.

Government
Who Is Daria-Liza Chevalier?

Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker · Jun 24, 2026 Government

Chevalier co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group associated with Mahmoud Khalil that called for eliminating Western civilization. She believes all deportations are wrong, wants to abolish prisons, and tweeted in 2019 'seize the means of production.' She just won a Democratic congressional primary.

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Claire Valdez: Trans Kids, Palestine, and the War Machine

Ep. 2452 - Mamdani the Kingmaker · Jun 24, 2026 Government

Claire Valdez argues that the same billionaires squeezing workers at home are funding bombs abroad, and that solidarity requires defending trans children without compromise. Shapiro says it's pure communism dressed as compassion — the omni-cause that ties Gaza, labor rights, and identity politics into one revolutionary package.

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