Ben Shapiro has simple advice for how disaffected young men can turn around their lives: “Get off your ass and go do the thing.”

Speaking to The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan at Turning Point USA’s AmFest on Thursday night, the Daily Wire Editor Emeritus was asked how men should respond to a culture that “rejects masculinity.” He said there are obstacles that need to be removed, but ultimately that men are in control of their own success.

“I think first of all we need to remove the obstacles for them,” Shapiro said. “The Trump administration has done a great job of fighting DEI, but they need to unleash the DOJ on anybody who’s violating the Civil Rights Act of 65 with regard to young white men, for sure.”

“And then, we need to say something to young men: get off your ass and go do the thing,” he declared. “Seriously. Stop telling all young white men that all of their grievances — when it comes to making basic, good decisions for their lives — are justified. Those decisions are not always justified. Here are things you can do: Finish high school. Get a job. Get married. Have kids. Go to church. Those are all in your control. You pretending those things are not in your control is grievance culture bulls***. And all the politicians who pander to that sort of stuff are making people’s lives actively worse.”

Shapiro has been preaching that message for nearly a decade; in his speech at UC Berkeley in September 2017, when the city spent $600,000 for security involving hundreds of police, he told the crowd, “Here are the three rules that you need to fulfill as a person before you can start complaining about your life failures being the result of somebody else’s actions.”

“Number one, you need to finish high school. Number two: you need to get married before you have babies. Number three: You need to get a job.”

The remarks came ahead of Shapiro’s speech on the main stage of the Turning Point USA event, where he laid out the importance of “truth” in conservatism.

Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat who’s running for U.S. Senate in 2026, said in a video posted to social media on Thursday that she “would not be able to control” herself if she saw conservative Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh in public.

The undated video, posted on X by Towhall, shows McMorrow answering a question from someone about the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. McMorrow, a Notre Dame grad and one of the Democratic leaders in the Michigan Senate, said that it makes her “furious” that Coney Barrett also graduated from Notre Dame.

“I talked to somebody yesterday who said they saw her with Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend. I was like, ‘I would not be able to control myself,'” McMorrow said. “That would be a bad— there would be beers thrown in people’s faces.”

🚨WATCH: Democrat Candidate for Senate in Michigan Mallory McMorrow says that she would not be able to stop herself from hurling cans of beer at Amy Coney Barrett & Brett Kavanaugh if she saw them in public.

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The Daily Wire reached out to McMorrow’s Senate office and her campaign team to ask about her comments, but they did not respond.

Conservative Supreme Court justices have been the target of intense criticism from Democratic leaders in recent years. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called out Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch by name and warned that they would “pay the price” if they voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” Schumer added at the time. The Democratic leader was rebuked by many of his colleagues and by Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote, “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous.”

Then, in 2022, shortly after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, a trans-identifying male traveled to the home of Kavanaugh with plans to assassinate the conservative justice.

McMorrow is one of three Democrats who are seeking to replace retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. The 2026 election in Michigan will be one of the most closely watched contests in the country, as Republicans hope to capitalize on the open seat. McMorrow, 39, has served in the Michigan Senate since 2019 and became the Senate majority whip in 2023, where she has focused on advocating for abortion, especially after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Earlier this year, McMorrow rubbed shoulders with a radical leftist blogger who mocked Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated. In late September, McMorrow attended a fundraiser alongside Rebecca Schoenkopf, who, a day after Kirk was killed, published an article titled “Second Amendment Comes for Charlie Kirk.”