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00:00:00.000So, we're going to discuss today when victimhood counts as the fallout from Parkland continues, plus Stormy Daniels befuddles the White House, and Paul Ryan, is he on his way out?
00:00:09.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:15.000Oh man, so many things to get to today.
00:00:31.000You just stopped at the side of a road and there's some weird guy who's selling thousand thread count sheets and you pick them up and you've been sleeping on a plastic tarp ever since.
00:01:44.000We've been hearing for weeks that those of us who are in favor of Second Amendment rights are somehow weird, crazy, because we're all worried that they're going to take our guns.
00:01:53.000And what you'll hear from people on the left is, no, we don't want to take your guns.
00:01:57.000No, we're not interested in taking your guns.
00:02:00.000Why would we want to take your guns under any circumstances?
00:02:39.000Gerald Ford is appointed by Gerald Ford.
00:02:41.000But he was one of Gerald Ford's worst moves.
00:02:43.000And now he has an op ed in The New York Times literally titled Repeal the Second Amendment.
00:02:48.000Which makes the second op-ed in the New York Times in the last two years calling for a full repeal of the Second Amendment after Bret Stephens wrote the same thing, and Bret is their in-house conservative over there.
00:02:55.000So, John Paul Stephens writes this full op-ed about why we should get rid of the Second Amendment entirely.
00:03:02.000In order to pass a constitutional amendment, you require two-thirds approval of each House of Congress plus three-quarters of all state legislatures.
00:03:11.000There are 30-some governors in the United States who are Republican.
00:03:14.000Zero state legislatures are actually going to pass this thing outside of California, Massachusetts, New York, and maybe, you know, Minnesota or something.
00:03:22.000And the notion that a bunch of people are sitting around waiting to repeal the Second Amendment is just not accurate.
00:03:26.000But let's go through John Paul Stevens' awful argument in the New York Times for why the Second Amendment should be repealed.
00:03:33.000So, he begins by praising the marches and rallies that have been taking place since the Parkland shooting.
00:03:38.000Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday.
00:03:57.000If you really believe that big rallies mean that there's tremendous support for hardcore anti-gun legislation, then you've never seen a rally before.
00:04:04.000First of all, this rally wasn't that big.
00:04:05.000There were like 200,000 people who showed up in D.C.
00:04:09.000In 2000, there was the Million Mom March, also for gun control, also anti-NRA, and three quarters of a million people showed up in Washington, D.C.
00:04:17.000At that point, I believe Bill Clinton was still president, technically, and nothing happened.
00:04:53.000He says, the marches are a sign that it's time to seriously curb weapons ownership.
00:05:15.000So, it's not enough to pass a law that would bar civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, which is to say virtually every weapon in the United States.
00:05:21.000Again, for those who don't know anything about guns, a semiautomatic weapon just means you pull the trigger once, and one bullet fires, and another one is loaded into the chamber.
00:05:28.000That is all a semiautomatic weapon is.
00:05:30.000The only thing that distinguishes between a revolver and a semiautomatic weapon is that there is a changing cylinder in a revolver that doesn't exist in a semiautomatic weapon.
00:05:37.000Virtually every weapon in the United States, unless it is bullet-loading, muzzle-loading, or a revolver, is a semiautomatic weapon.
00:06:29.000The concern that the federal government would invade our rights in a really egregious manner and that we might need guns to protect ourselves, I'm wondering how that's a relic of the 18th century when we have had, beyond the 18th century, full-on slavery in the United States, Jim Crow, removal of gun rights from black folks, removal of gun rights from a wide variety of people, including Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the forcible imprisonment of Japanese during World War II.
00:06:52.000It seems to me that an armed population is a better guarantee than sitting around thinking that the government will never go tyrannical.
00:07:01.000That's not to suggest that every armed rebellion is good, or that it will end well, or that armed rebellions are largely successful, but one of the reasons that the government doesn't go full tyrannical is because they know that there are 100 million people in the United States who own guns.
00:07:12.000Try telling a bunch of Texans they are not violating their rights when you say you want to go into their basements and take out all of their guns.
00:07:20.000You know how historically ignorant you have to be to believe that it's a relic of the 18th century to worry about centralized government taking your guns and then invading your rights?
00:07:28.000It's happened in virtually every tyrannical country.
00:08:28.000He said, quote, Miller did not hold that and cannot be possibly read to have held that, quote, the judgments in the case upheld against a Second Amendment challenge to men's federal convictions for transporting an unregistered short-barreled shotgun in interstate commerce in violation of the National Firearms Act.
00:08:42.000It is entirely clear that the court's basis for saying the Second Amendment did not apply was not that the defendants were bearing arms, not for military purposes.
00:08:50.000Rather, it was the type of weapon at issue was not eligible for the Second Amendment protection.
00:08:55.000This holding is not only consistent with, but positively suggests that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms, though only arms that have some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.
00:09:07.000Had the court believed that the Second Amendment protects only those serving in the militia, it would have been odd to examine the character of the weapon, rather than simply note that the two crooks were not militiamen.
00:09:17.000Furthermore, this has been understood for literally hundreds of years.
00:09:20.000One of the reasons in the Dred Scott decision, the evil, horrible Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court decided that black people in America could not be full citizens of the United States, Justice Taney wrote in that decision that one of the reasons black people could not be citizens of the United States is that if you made them citizens of the United States, then they'd be able to carry guns.
00:09:37.000The obvious underlying assumption being that citizens of the United States have the ability to carry guns.
00:09:41.000That they have the right to carry guns under the Constitution of the United States.
00:09:45.000Here's what Justice Taney wrote in that evil Dred Scott decision, quote,
00:10:32.000Warren Burger was such a bad justice that Potter Stewart, another justice on the Supreme Court, leaked dramatically to Woodward and Bernstein.
00:10:42.000It was to one of them in their book, The Brethren.
00:10:44.000The Brethren is a book about the inside workings of the Supreme Court.
00:10:46.000Potter Stewart hated Warren Burger so much that he leaked the entire book.
00:10:50.000Okay, to Woodward and Bernstein about why Warren Burger was an idiot.
00:10:54.000Everybody on the court thought Warren Burger was an idiot, except for John Paul Stevens, apparently.
00:10:58.000Okay, so in any case, he then rips into District of Columbia v. Heller, that's D.C.
00:11:02.000v. Heller, the 2008 case that re-enshrined the American right to keep and bear arms, and here is what Stevens concludes.
00:11:09.000He says, Well, actually, they had a Second Amendment before that.
00:11:23.000It would do more to weaken the NRA's ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.
00:11:29.000Okay, so, it would be easy to get rid of the Second Amendment.
00:11:52.000OK, in just a second, I'm going to talk about another idiotic rant on gun control.
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00:14:44.000Yes, having the ready ability to take someone's life is dominion over that person.
00:14:47.000Gun ownership could be viewed as slavery by another name.
00:14:50.000So me owning a gun and protecting myself is slavery.
00:14:53.000So I'm glad to know that Michael Ian Black is a complete historical ignoramus.
00:14:55.000As you may have heard just a few moments ago, the Dred Scott decision was fearful that black people would have guns.
00:15:00.000In fact, gun control legislation in the South was specifically designed for literally 100 years to prevent black people from being able to protect themselves.
00:15:08.000Listen to Condoleezza Rice talk about her dad having a gun and how he helped protect her family with that gun.
00:15:13.000If you really believe that gun ownership is slavery, you have no knowledge of history, contemporary politics, or gun ownership.
00:15:23.000Slavery is me giving up my gun to a government that says it will protect me, and then they let me die in a hail of bullets when a criminal just decides not to obey the law.
00:15:31.000Well, considering that black people are largely shooting black people and white people are largely shooting white people, it's hard to imagine that people of color want their gun rights removed.
00:15:39.000Law-abiding people of color want their gun rights removed.
00:16:26.000We can have a conversation, and we can decide whether Americans are really ready to surrender their right to self-defense and their right to keep and bear arms to a government that fails to protect them on a regular basis.
00:16:35.000Okay, so meanwhile, a lot of hubbub has broken out about quote-unquote attacks on the students of Parkland.
00:16:40.000No one's attacking the students of Parkland.
00:17:35.000And now, there it is, the march for our lives.
00:17:39.000Okay, so they basically just recut this montage in order to include the March for Our Lives.
00:17:45.000Okay, then the real reason for this, of course, the real reason that they decided to show this montage is so they can push Joe Scarborough's crappy song.
00:17:53.000I do love that the only way that Joe Scarborough can sell his song is to do montages on Morning Joe, where they play his song.
00:17:58.000Like, nobody's buying the song, apparently.
00:18:00.000So it's like if every time I played something sad on the show, I played myself playing Schindler's List.
00:18:08.000Every time there's a protest now, he's gonna find like three guys standing outside of McDonald's protesting for a raise and suddenly Joe Scarborough is gonna show up with his guitar and start playing.
00:18:46.000And in some of the posts, he said that some of the student marches were, quote unquote, pathetic and disgusting for playing hooky at the expense of 16 of your classmates' blood.
00:18:53.000And then he shared this image of Emma Gonzalez ripping up the U.S.
00:19:33.000May everyone of these disgusting, vile abusers of the dead live as long as possible so they can have the maximum amount of time to endure their shame and be cursed.
00:20:07.000Yeah, it's a little bit funny, I will admit.
00:20:09.000And again, are we allowed to question the arguments of students?
00:20:12.000Because some of the arguments are really dumb.
00:20:14.000So here's one Parkland student who's on with Brian Stelter and inadvertently saying something really true and really profound about the state of journalism in our country.
00:20:24.000I think that, for me, the purpose of journalism is to raise, you know, the voices of people that maybe don't have a voice.
00:20:30.000And so I think that in its own right, journalism is a form of activism.
00:20:33.000Okay, so a lot of people on the left were saying, were trying to distance themselves from this comment that journalism is a form of activism.
00:20:39.000It is pretty obvious in the wake of these shootings that journalism is indeed a form of activism.
00:20:43.000I've been saying this for a very long time.
00:20:45.000It's why I call myself an opinion journalist.
00:21:00.000Of course she believes journalism is activism.
00:21:02.000If I watched CNN on a regular basis, I'd believe that too.
00:21:05.000Journalism, for CNN, is indeed activism.
00:21:08.000This is how journalists see themselves.
00:21:09.000In fact, I remember I visited the ABC News offices with the God King of the Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring, and one of the things he said on the wall was something to the effect of, we give voice to the voiceless.
00:21:18.000And I just thought to myself, that's not journalism.
00:21:19.000Journalism isn't about giving voice to the voiceless.
00:21:21.000It's about objectively covering facts.
00:21:24.000People in the journalistic business believe that it is their job to actually push a particular political agenda.
00:21:29.000They believe that they are do-gooders in the world, not just people covering the news and informing folks.
00:21:33.000This girl has obviously imbibed from that, and she's just spitting back what she's heard from the media.
00:21:39.000Unfortunately, she told the truth a little bit too honestly right there for the media to handle.
00:21:42.000OK, so in just a second, we'll get to Stormy Daniels' fallout.
00:21:45.000We'll get to Paul Ryan and all the rest.
00:21:47.000But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Genucel.
00:21:51.000You've been wishing that those bags under your eyes would just go away?
00:23:19.000The real reason that people care about Stormy Daniels is it gives them an excuse to Google Stormy Daniels lesbian activity on Google Images.
00:23:27.000If Stormy Daniels were not a porn star, nobody would care about this.
00:23:30.000Because if we're going to pretend that people are deeply worried about the corruption of the Trump administration, there are a thousand other stories that seem to go deeper on the quote-unquote corruption stuff than the Stormy Daniels thing.
00:23:40.000Now, is it sort of a clean bust that Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to shut her yap?
00:23:50.000I mean, John Edwards paid $900,000 to a woman to keep her yap shut after he fathered a child with her, right, while he was married to his cancer-ridden wife.
00:23:59.000So that is not, you know, I'm not sure that this violates campaign finance law.
00:24:04.000What's funny is that Trump's approval ratings continue to go up.
00:24:06.000So yesterday there was a big stock market bounce.
00:24:09.000The stock market yesterday jumped something like 680 points or 700 points.
00:24:12.000It was the third biggest stock market gain in one day in the history of the stock market, actually.
00:24:18.000That's not super surprising because there was such a big stock market adjustment yesterday.
00:24:24.000So, you know, it's up and down, it's up and down.
00:24:26.000I think part of that is because all of the tariff talk that's happening from the Trump administration is starting to soften just a little bit.
00:24:32.000So the talk before was that Trump was going to slap these tariffs on products and leave them there forever.
00:24:36.000And now the talk is that he's going to slap the tariffs on long enough to negotiate a better deal.
00:24:40.000If the latter is true, then all right.
00:24:43.000If the latter is not true, then the stock market will go back down again.
00:24:47.000But in any case, people who are wondering why Trump's approval rating is going up, beyond obviously the economics of all of this, one of the reasons that the approval ratings are going up is because when you talk about a rich dude stripping porn stars, most people are like, well, yep.
00:25:01.000Remember, Donald Trump was elected after building an entire apartment decorated by Saddam Hussein's decorator.
00:25:08.000Donald Trump is not exactly genteel about his wealth.
00:25:11.000It's funny, growing up, my grandparents, my mom's parents, were relatively wealthy.
00:25:16.000I wouldn't say that they were hugely, enormously successful, but they owned their own home, they had their own business.
00:25:22.000But one of the things that I always appreciated about my grandparents is they never showed off their wealth.
00:25:27.000They were not people who were garish in their spendthrift ways.
00:25:31.000There are a lot of folks who get rich, and then they decide that they're going to demonstrate to the entire world just how wealthy they are.
00:25:37.000But the best people are the people who you meet and you don't know that they're wealthy.
00:25:39.000Well, Donald Trump is not one of those people, right?
00:25:41.000Donald Trump got famous for being the really gauche guy on Lifestyles on the Rich and Famous.
00:25:46.000That was essentially his profile for a very long time.
00:25:48.000And there are a lot of folks in the United States who want to be Donald Trump.
00:25:53.000There's an aspirational side to Donald Trump that appeals to the worst of our sensibilities, where people who are poor look at Donald Trump and they think, if I were rich, you know how many porn stars I would nail?
00:26:43.000And Marla Mapes was at the same resort where Donald was keeping one wife, right?
00:26:47.000So he was keeping wife number one on one floor, and he was keeping his mistress on another floor.
00:26:52.000And Ivana discovered that Trump was, in fact, stooping
00:26:56.000Soon to be wife number two on a different floor of the hotel.
00:26:59.000She found out about it while he was on the ski slopes and she went up to the top of the ski slopes with him.
00:27:03.000He tried to ski away from her and she was yelling at him the entire way down the hill while skiing backwards because Ivana is actually an expert skier.
00:27:10.000So again, the weird idea that Donald Trump is some sort of
00:27:15.000Prophetic, godlike, wonderful Christian figure on sexual morality is absurd.
00:27:18.000In fact, one of the reasons he's popular is because Donald Trump is the guy who unapologetically schtups porn stars.
00:27:23.000So, when he's in the news for schtuping porn stars, and most guys are Googling to figure out how Stormy Daniels looks naked, he's not going to lose approval ratings from dudes on that score.
00:27:32.000And most women are going to look at Stormy Daniels and go, like, are we supposed to believe she's a victim?
00:27:35.000This is a woman who has sex for money.
00:27:37.000Like, this is her entire career is to have sex for money on camera.
00:27:42.000And she herself has said she's not a victim.
00:27:44.000She herself has said that she is not a Me Too person, that she fully consented to sex with Trump.
00:27:48.000And so we're thinking to ourselves, a lot of Americans are thinking to ourselves, I'm not sure what the big deal is here.
00:28:02.000The only thing that is mildly surprising is the White House keeps denying the underlying claims.
00:28:06.000So here's the White House yesterday being asked about Stormy Daniels, and here's Raj Shah from the briefing room being asked about Stormy Daniels and not coming up with a fantastic answer.
00:28:15.000Well, I can speak for only the White House, and I can say categorically that obviously the White House didn't engage in any wrongdoing.
00:28:36.000Yeah, the campaign or Mr. Cohen can address anything with respect to their actions.
00:28:41.000With respect to that interview, I will say the President strongly, clearly, and has consistently denied these underlying claims, and the only person who's been inconsistent is the one making the claims.
00:28:52.000Well, I mean, to be fair, do you believe that Stormy Daniels had sex with Trump?
00:28:58.000Some of the inconsistency from Stormy Daniels is fully driven by her career.
00:29:01.000She took the money when she felt like that was the money she could get to shut up, and then she decided to speak up when she feels like there's more money in it to speak up.
00:29:41.000Okay, just in terms of personal morality and sexual morality, they are both just gross.
00:29:46.000And Stormy Daniels' lawyer is showing that on a pretty regular basis.
00:29:48.000Again, Stormy Daniels is doing like stripping tours now.
00:29:51.000Okay, like right now in the middle of this, she's going around, you know, basically making the pitch, you can see what Donald Trump saw.
00:29:58.000Well, gentlemen, again, Google is available.
00:30:01.000You don't have to pay Stormy Daniels your money to see what Donald Trump saw.
00:30:03.000She's widely available on the Internet.
00:30:05.000In any case, Stormy Daniels' lawyer was teasing the idea that maybe there's pictures of Donald Trump naked, which would just be the worst of all possible scenarios, right?
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00:32:36.000So that wasn't the only tease about material that apparently Stormy Daniels still has on Trump.
00:32:41.000One of Stormy Daniels' friends, her name is Ilana Evans, she says she still has the dress from the night that Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump got it on.
00:32:49.000Do you know, are you aware that she has any such evidence?
00:32:52.000Has she spoken to you about it or shown you anything along those lines?
00:32:58.000I am unaware about text messages or pictures or any type of evidence she might have that would fit on a disc.
00:33:06.000All I know is that Stormi still has the dress that she wore from that night.
00:33:46.000This story is from the Washington Post.
00:33:48.000President Trump has privately sold several people that adult film star Stormy Daniels' allegations of an affair with him are a hoax, and that Daniels isn't the type of woman he finds attractive.
00:34:35.000Again, none of this is believable, but none of it's going to hurt Trump in any real sense anyway.
00:34:38.000Because, as I say, it's all baked into the cake.
00:34:40.000I don't think anything here is going to change.
00:34:41.000Now, the only thing that could change is if somehow Stormy Daniels comes up with the sort of evil deep throat threatener in 2011.
00:34:50.000So one of the allegations Stormy Daniels made during that interview on CBS on 60 Minutes was that in 2011 she was ready to tell all to In Touch magazine, which shows you how hot Trump was in 2011.
00:35:00.000The only people who would pay for this story were In Touch for 15 grand.
00:35:04.000And then she was approached by someone, some dark, mysterious figure, who came to her in a parking lot and said, Now, is it possible that happened?
00:36:43.000Michael Cohen is the guy who you recall from the last election cycle, he's on CNN, and in the middle of the election cycle when Trump was losing by like 10 points, he was asked on CNN by Breonna Keller,
00:37:01.000No, but this is not coming off as something that's threatening to the office of the presidency.
00:37:05.000You know, the famous quote is that history doesn't doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
00:37:09.000Or that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the first time as comedy, the second time as tragedy?
00:37:15.000Well, I think in this case it's the reverse.
00:37:16.000The first time was the tragedy, and now we get to watch the comedy.
00:37:18.000Because this is uproariously funny stuff.
00:37:20.000If you cannot appreciate the fact that America's culture has gone down in a flaming ball of crap, and we're all just watching from the sidelines as it happens, and talking about stormy freaking Daniels, Stephanie Clifford, and Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States.
00:37:34.000Every so often, you just have to look around and realize that we're actually living inside a Salvador Dali painting.
00:37:38.000Yeah, this is one of those moments where you realize that the Salvador Dali painting has come to life.
00:37:42.000The clocks are melting off the side of the wall.
00:37:45.000And all of the dimensions have been screwed around with, among other things.
00:37:52.000Trump, by the way, has been completely silent about the Stormy Daniels thing, which is probably the best indicator that a lot of it is true.
00:37:56.000But there's no reason for him to talk about it.
00:37:59.000There's nothing in it for Trump to talk openly about all this stuff because, again, anything he says is just going to be more fodder for the fire.
00:38:06.000But I will say the media's attempts to turn Stormy Daniels into some sort of terrible victim case and some sort of heroine speaking her truth
00:38:15.000Okay, this is a woman who's on the make.
00:38:18.000There's a reason they had sex with each other, even though she was not attracted to him, and even though he was married at the time, because both of them are just yucky humans.
00:40:10.000When it comes to their presidential candidates, they want the people who are hardest to the left.
00:40:13.000So Mitch Landrieu is the new mayor of New Orleans, and he is seen as a possible successor to Hillary Clinton as the nominee in 2020, for no reason that I can discern.
00:40:23.000Here is Mitch Landrieu talking about American values.
00:40:27.000Again, this is not going to be a winning pitch.
00:40:29.000And it was fought for the cause of preserving slavery.
00:40:32.000It's hard to have a racial reconciliation conversation unless we can just clearly articulate that particular truth.
00:40:38.000And of course now that we see, in the moment that we're in, that when we're dealing with other issues, whether it's immigrants, whether it's transgender, whoever it is, that we have a closed society.
00:40:49.000We're turning away from each other rather than towards each other.
00:40:52.000And when you begin to judge people based on race, creed, color, sexual orientation, or country of origin,
00:40:57.000That's antithetical to what American values are.
00:40:59.000This entire country is built on the idea that we treat people based on what they do, not who they are.
00:41:06.000Okay, that's all true, except for the part about where he says that we don't judge people based on immigration status or transgender behavior or any of the other stuff.
00:41:14.000So, one of the things Democrats have had a tendency to do, and this is where you get into identity politics, is they have identified behavior as identity.
00:41:22.000Well, if that's the case, then everyone is discriminatory all of the time.
00:41:26.000Because we all discriminate on the basis of behavior.
00:41:28.000People who you like do certain things that you like.
00:41:30.000People you don't like do certain things you don't like.
00:41:32.000If the idea is that if they do things you don't like, you're not allowed to condemn them because that is their identity, then we've essentially put an end to any sort of real-life judgment.
00:41:42.000You can't judge anyone because they're doing things, and the things they do make them who they are.
00:41:46.000In reality, we are supposed to separate the actions that people take from who they are in terms of immutable characteristics.
00:41:53.000So, if you're a black person who's a wonderful person, you're a wonderful person, right?
00:41:57.000The wonderful person part is the part that trumps any racial category, right?
00:42:00.000Whether you're black, white, or green.
00:42:02.000If you are, but according to the left, if you're a black person, a bad person, the black person status overrides the bad person status because black people have been victimized by American society.
00:42:12.000And we cannot criticize you on because of your particular race.
00:42:15.000Now, the left is also saying that if you are, for example, a man who acts as a woman, right, that this is not, in fact, an aspect of behavior.
00:42:26.000This is an immutable identity characteristic.
00:42:28.000That if you are a man who puts on a dress that this is somehow not behavior, this is identity.
00:42:33.000And once you start identifying behavior with identity, then you can't make laws on anything because everything we do is behavior.
00:42:39.000And every law that discriminates against behavior discriminates against someone's identity by that very definition.
00:42:45.000Literally anything you do is now tied to your identity.
00:42:47.000So if you say that my kleptomania is part of my identity, so we can't have laws against stealing, well, then you've basically gotten rid of all thievery laws in the United States.
00:42:56.000And none of this is to say that there should be laws against transgender identity, transgender identification, or cross-dressing, or there should be laws against any other form of behavior that doesn't hurt anyone else.
00:43:11.000Discrimination against identity is not the same as discrimination against behavior, and conflating the two merely confuses things.
00:43:17.000Conflating the two is the end of law, it's the end of discrimination in a good sense, and it's the end of a civil society at large, because we can't make judgments about anything.
00:43:25.000If we can't make judgments about anything, we can't live in a society together.
00:43:28.000That is, in and of itself, a judgment.
00:43:30.000It's a judgment that you can't make judgments.
00:43:32.000And that's a problem, because we all make judgments about each other all the time.
00:43:36.000OK, time for some things I like, and then some things I hate, and we'll do a very brief deconstruction of the culture.
00:45:17.000So, over the weekend, the Trump administration announced that they were expelling 60 Russian diplomats after the Russians poisoned a guy in Salisbury, England.
00:45:26.000They poisoned a former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.
00:45:30.000And the United States has expelled 60 Russian diplomats from our country.
00:45:35.000That, of course, is a worthwhile thing to do.
00:45:38.000And it also gives light to the idea that Trump is not hard.
00:45:41.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:46:04.000So the thing that I hate today is this really, really awful story.
00:46:07.000There's an 85-year-old woman who was murdered in France.
00:46:11.000She was a Holocaust survivor, and she was murdered by anti-Semites in France.
00:46:16.000It's just a horrifying, horrifying story.
00:46:18.000Of course, the police are saying that the motive was anti-Semitism.
00:46:20.000They have not actually released the identities of the suspects.
00:46:59.000And again, this was very much like the murder of Sarah Halimi, who is another Orthodox Jewish—she was a physicist and kindergarten teacher, and she was 66, and she was thrown from a window last year by anti-Semitic Muslims living in France.
00:47:12.000Again, we don't know the identity of these particular people, but the rise in anti-Semitism across Europe is absolutely frightening, and Jews should leave.
00:47:22.000It's a sad thing to say, but I think the time for Jews to be able to live safely in Europe is once again over, which demonstrates that the never again sloganeering from the folks in Europe was a bunch of crap.
00:47:32.000They've allowed a bunch of folks to move in who are fully happy murdering Jews, and it's despicable.
00:47:37.000Okay, a quick deconstruction of the culture.
00:47:41.000We honor Cardi B. So we've already done Bodak Yellow, in which I tried to read through her glorious Robert Frost-like lyrics, but she actually did something that I love, okay?
00:47:51.000And then when she paid taxes, she realized, hey, wait a second, taxes suck.
00:47:54.000So here's Cardi B in the most eloquent rip on why taxes are garbage in modern American history.
00:48:00.000I mean, this is better than anything since Ronald Reagan.
00:48:02.000Here's Cardi B explaining that the government should not be taking our money.
00:48:06.000So you know the government is taking 40% of my taxes and Uncle Sam I want to know what you're doing with my fucking tax money because you know what I'm saying like when you donate like when you donate to a kid from a foreign country they give you updates of
00:49:11.000Now, Cardi B will go out and vote Democrat, I'm sure, like all of her other friends in Hollywood, because she's been told that that's what she has to do.
00:49:21.000You've worked it, girl, with an E. And that means that you ought to be protective of your cash because the government is wasting your money, enormous quantities of it, on things like Social Security and Medicare that you're not going to need because your soup's rich.
00:49:35.000Hey, there's no reason why the government should be taking that much of your money.
00:49:38.000And you're right, New York is a steaming heap.
00:49:40.000Okay, because Bill de Blasio's a garbage mayor.
00:49:42.000And because they've done a terrible job keeping the upkeep in that city decent.
00:49:46.000So, you know, thank God the crime rates are still low, but that's only because of the aftermath of Giuliani and Bloomberg.