Ep. 2422 - PUNISH SUCCESS: AOC Says Billionaires Must Be Ended
5/8/20261 hr 7 min
AOC explains that billionaires are inherently illegitimate, and we examine the Democrats' hatred for success; everybody needs to calm down about hantavirus; and Steve Hilton joins us to explain California's crazy gubernatorial race. Ep. 2422 Support Steve Hilton for California Governor: https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com
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First 90 secondsBen Shapiro· Host0:00
Envy. As we all know, it is one of the seven deadly sins. And yet, if you are a Democrat these days, it may be the only virtue. See, here's the thing. The natural state of human beings, poverty, misery, and death. This was the natural state of human beings for literally tens of thousands of years. And then came this thing called private property, and governments that formed to protect that private property, and free markets that formed to trade and invest and grow that private property. And now, we all live better than the richest man on Earth did just a hundred years ago, or eighty years ago, or even sixty years ago, by far. But for the Democrats, that system, free markets, is evil and immoral and wrong. Not because free markets have produced poverty or misery, far from it, but because there are a lot of people who envy those who create wealth. They envy the people who innovate, compete, and win. I've called them the scavengers before, and now those folks may be on the verge of victory here in the United States, and I've got the proof. We'll get into that, plus whether you should be worried about hantavirus, what President Trump can do to end the war in Iran victoriously, and why Mark Hamill has fallen to the hate of the dark side. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. [upbeat music] All righty, so I want to begin with hantavirus. I know there are people who are freaking out about hantavirus. Lots of headlines. Is it the new CO-- no, it's not the new COVID. Stop it. Just stop. Okay, so what happened is that