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00:01:35.000Okay, we begin today with a scandal that's not really a scandal, but is at least worth talking about because it does say something about the left's perspective and Hollywood's perspective on America.
00:01:46.000It is, as they say, one of the reasons President Trump is president.
00:01:50.000This particular scandal comes courtesy of Damien Chazelle.
00:01:53.000Now, this makes me sad, because Damien Chazelle is one of the best directors working today.
00:01:57.000He did Whiplash, and then he did La La Land, and his new movie looks great.
00:02:00.000It's a biopic titled First Man about Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk on the moon.
00:02:05.000And it stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong.
00:02:14.000Because the most crucial moment, the picture that everyone cares about from the actual moon landing, is Neil Armstrong raising the American flag on the moon.
00:02:22.000This is sort of like doing a movie about the Battle of Iwo Jima and not having the guys raise an American flag.
00:02:27.000Instead, they just decide to raise an empty flagpole with, like, an emoji sticker on it or something.
00:02:35.000It's an iconic moment in American history.
00:02:37.000But Ryan Gosling, who is Canadian, says that he thinks that Neil Armstrong saw himself more as a world citizen than as an American hero, which makes no sense at all.
00:02:45.000He says, Well, not by Americans, it wasn't.
00:02:53.000It turns out that when America was putting a man on the moon, China, which is the real reason why they're not putting the American flag in this film, is because they're afraid that it'll piss off the Chinese censors, and they want to make sure that the Chinese market goes to see the film, so they've removed the American flag.
00:03:05.000It's the same reason that long ago, when they made Superman Returns, they omitted truth, justice, and the American way.
00:03:11.000They turned it into truth, justice, and all that other stuff.
00:03:14.000That Hollywood is really, really afraid of ticking off foreign audiences with all of the America?
00:03:19.000There's only one problem with that logic, which is that nobody in foreign countries actually cares whether American films promote America, because it turns out America's a pretty fricking amazing place.
00:04:06.000Putting a man on the moon was an American mission.
00:04:08.000It was not a world mission, it was an American mission.
00:04:10.000JFK, who announced the original mission to put a man on the moon, when he did this, when he talked about why we would put a man on the moon, he explicitly linked it to America's special role in the world as a provider of freedom.
00:04:20.000Remember, this is the middle of the Cold War, and there was a lot of talk in those days, like right about this time, about the Russians putting a man into space on the Sputnik satellite.
00:04:29.000And JFK decided, OK, we're going to fight back against that by actually going far beyond that.
00:05:37.000By the way, at the time that we were actually throwing ticker-take parades for Neil Armstrong, the Chinese were busy stringing up people who were dissenting from government policy.
00:05:44.000So the fact that we are now catering to a Chinese government that remains a fascistic dictatorship, the fact that we are catering to that government in order to downplay the role of America, it has a lot to say with the nature of free markets.
00:06:06.000But there's nothing that says a free market is moral when it comes to which audience you are catering to.
00:06:10.000And if Hollywood feels it can cater to a Chinese market by getting rid of American messaging, it will do so despite the immorality of that basic idea.
00:06:18.000But there's something deeper happening here, and that is that Hollywood and the American left are deeply embarrassed by the idea that America is a nation that is a force for good in the world.
00:06:25.000There's a hardcore of the left that believes that America historically, it's the Howard Zinn left, believes that America is historically a force for evil in the world.
00:06:33.000If you go listen to the radicals over at like Chapo Trap House or something, another podcast on the left,
00:06:38.000What you will see is that they're constantly talking about historically how America has been a force for tyranny and fascism around the world.
00:06:43.000And maybe it would have been better if America had just backed off the world stage and allowed the Soviets and the communists to dominate Africa, dominate South America.
00:06:50.000It's all about America backing tyranny.
00:06:52.000It's the Noam Chomsky view of history.
00:07:41.000And most of the things that are good about America tend to be pretty unique to America and not universal, which is why America's rise is coincident with the greatest reduction in world poverty in the history of mankind.
00:07:50.000Why America's rise in terms of economic power is coincident with the dramatic decrease in child death.
00:07:58.000In health problems, even in pollution in the last 20 years, America's been reducing its own pollution by leaps and bounds.
00:08:07.000The fact is, America is a uniquely wonderful place.
00:08:09.000And because Hollywood doesn't choose to recognize that, they will remove any indicator that anything good that was ever done under American auspices was done under the auspices of that American flag.
00:08:22.000for the American flag with regard to isolated instances of police misconduct, but they won't put the American flag on the moon.
00:08:29.000It's more representative of the American flag when there's a bad cop than it is of the American flag when we legitimately expend billions of dollars to put a human being on the moon and put the American flag up there.
00:08:40.000That's insanity, but unfortunately, that's a pretty prevalent view among a lot of folks on the radical left, and I would say even on the mainstream left.
00:08:47.000Now, meanwhile, I think it's important to point out some news regarding some of the beloved candidates of the Democratic Party on the left.
00:08:53.000One of the candidates who is rising fast in the polls is Beto O'Rourke.
00:08:57.000He's running against Ted Cruz for the Senate in Texas, and the polls have him pretty close.
00:09:01.000I mean, in spitting distance, some polls have him within the margin of error.
00:09:04.000Democrats are, of course, extraordinarily excited about this.
00:09:06.000If they could turn Texas blue, then they'd never lose another election.
00:09:10.000I mean, basically, once Texas goes blue, the country goes blue.
00:09:13.000Texas is certainly a bellwether state.
00:09:15.000And what you saw in the last election, it was actually very interesting, is that while President Trump turned Ohio red, and he turned Florida red, and Wisconsin red, and while he turned Michigan red,
00:09:54.000Beto O'Rourke, though, is being held up as the new face of the Democratic Party.
00:09:57.000Should Beto O'Rourke win the Senate seat in Texas, there's very little doubt that he would be the frontrunner for the presidential nomination in 2020 from the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:10:07.000They're trying to paint him as a sort of Obama-like figure, that he came out of nowhere, and therefore he is somebody who ought to be with a formidable resume.
00:10:17.000But apparently his campaign has now run into a bit of a speed bump.
00:10:21.000The speed bump being that he was involved in a DUI 20 years ago and actually apparently tried to flee the scene of the crime.
00:10:26.000This is according to the Houston Chronicle.
00:10:28.000Representative Beto O'Rourke has long owned up to his drunken driving arrest 20 years ago, describing it in a Houston Chronicle op-ed piece earlier this week as a serious mistake for which there is no excuse.
00:10:36.000Although the arrest has been public knowledge, police reports of the September 1998 incident, when the Democratic Senate candidate had just turned 26, shows more serious threat to public safety than has previously been reported.
00:10:46.000State and local police reports obtained by the Chronicle and Express News show O'Rourke was driving drunk at what a witness called a high rate of speed in a 75 mile per hour zone on Interstate 10 about a mile from the New Mexico border.
00:10:57.000He lost control and hit a truck, sending his car careening across the center median into oncoming lanes.
00:11:03.000The witness, who stopped at the scene, later told police that O'Rourke had tried to drive away from the scene.
00:11:10.000Allegedly, a DUI hit and run after crossing into oncoming traffic.
00:11:14.000O'Rourke blew a 0.136 and 0.134 on police breathalyzers, which means that basically that he was made of alcohol at that point.
00:11:22.000That is not a mild drunk driving arrest.
00:11:24.000That is, you have been drinking incessantly for hours, and then you get in a car and rush into oncoming traffic and then try to flee the scene.
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00:13:24.000OK, so Beto O'Rourke could be in trouble in his Texas race to the great consternation of Democrats.
00:13:28.000That's not even the craziest Democrat story of the day.
00:13:31.000The craziest Democrat story of the day comes courtesy of state Senate candidate Julia Salazar.
00:13:36.000So, Julia Salazar is running for the State Senate in New York, and she is, according to City and State New York, she has attracted significant, often fawning media coverage, an army of enthusiastic volunteers, endorsements from politicians and activist organizations, and now withering scrutiny.
00:13:50.000A series of articles have dug into her childhood religion and activist history, exposing facts that either contradict or provide relevant context to some of her biographical claims.
00:13:58.000Based on interviews with her mother and brother, and Salazar herself,
00:14:01.000City and State has discovered additional, previously unreported instances of Salazar falsely presenting her background and others that are, while not technically untrue, misleading.
00:14:09.000But the deeper one digs into the competing narratives of Salazar's upbringings, the less it appears to be a simple matter of truth or lies or he said she said.
00:14:16.000Salazar has told a few outright falsehoods.
00:14:18.000She claimed her family immigrated from Colombia, when in reality, she, her brother, and mother were born and raised in the United States.
00:14:23.000And her father first came to the United States as a teenager and was naturalized before Salazar was ever born.
00:14:29.000And she also claimed that she had Jewish background.
00:14:51.000My mom ended up raising my brother and me as a single mom without a college degree and from a working class background.
00:14:55.000That's what she told Jacobin Magazine, the socialist magazine.
00:14:58.000Her brother says he remembers them being financially comfortable, living in a big house along a river in Jupiter, Florida.
00:15:04.000Each of the siblings had their own rooms.
00:15:06.000The six-figure income their father, Luis Hernan Salazar, earned as a pilot meant the family could afford to set aside college saving funds of about $6,000 for each child.
00:15:14.000He says, we were very much middle class.
00:15:15.000We had a house in Jupiter along the river.
00:15:38.000So all sorts of good stuff from Julia Salazar.
00:15:42.000And, uh, she is, uh, she's kind of a crazy person, it sounds like.
00:15:46.000But the Democrats are defending her because, obviously, she fulfills certain intersectional boxes.
00:15:50.000And that's, of course, why they're defending Beto O'Rourke as well, because those intersectional boxes matter a lot more than being qualified to actually be a legislator in the United States.
00:15:59.000The Democrats are much more interested in this sort of intersectional racial politics than they are in anything else.
00:16:04.000And this is a broader trend in American politics right now.
00:16:08.000It's very weird what's happening in American politics.
00:16:10.000On the left, you have people jumping into a sort of left-wing populism that is wrapped around identity politics.
00:16:17.000So populism, to describe what populism is in sort of policy context,
00:16:22.000It's difficult, because populism is more a tactic than it is natural policy.
00:16:25.000Populism is when people say, I speak for the people.
00:17:04.000On the right, this manifests as anti-immigrant attitude, a belief that we have to maintain a quote-unquote white majority.
00:17:10.000There are parts of the right that have actually argued this, that the real problem with immigration is not people immigrating from cultures that may not be well assimilated in the United States, but it's actually the people themselves coming from countries that we don't like.
00:17:26.000That's a bad attitude, and that's sort of right-wing populism with regard to immigration.
00:17:30.000On the left, it's actually manifested as the out-group is white Americans, in many cases, and the in-group is minority citizens who have been put under the thumb.
00:17:38.000Anti-institutions, on the right you see this as the deep state, right?
00:17:43.000Everything that the government does is conspiratorial and an attempt to get you.
00:17:47.000And while I am on board with a lot of suspicion of government interventionism in the economy, I have real doubts that the government is a malevolent force in American life.
00:17:54.000I think it's much more to do with radical incompetence and stupidity, because most people are radically incompetent and stupid, than it has to do with conspiracy theories inside the government.
00:18:02.000And on the right, the anti-free market attitude, which we'll talk about in a second, has taken the form of big corporations are backing the leftist agenda.
00:18:10.000So we'll talk about all those three from the right.
00:18:11.000On the left, these three attitudes manifest in a different way.
00:18:14.000So the in-group loyalty is loyalty to this idea of a majority-minority country, that that's very important.
00:18:20.000We have to push that and we have to say that the future of America is non-white.
00:18:24.000You see this in an article in the New York Times today.
00:18:27.000The anti-free markets attitude is evident on the left in virtually every respect.
00:18:31.000And then you have the distrust of institutions, which is America is systemically racist, America is institutionally biased, and all the rest.
00:18:37.000And so there's this meeting of the minds when it comes to distrust of institutions, distrust of the markets, and belief that the in-group is paramount.
00:18:45.000So let's talk about, I think that the populism of the right has in large part been driven by the populism of the left.
00:18:51.000I think that a lot of the populism of the right is a reactionary response to the populism of the left, particularly on issues racial.
00:18:57.000So I mentioned Julia Salazar, I mentioned also Beto O'Rourke.
00:19:01.000Obviously, a lot of the enthusiasm for Andrew Gillum in Florida has to do with the fact that he's black, not just the fact that he is a democratic socialist.
00:19:07.000By the way, I mentioned, quick correction, yesterday I suggested he was gay because it's just a mistake.
00:19:12.000In any case, the intersectional politics of the left is very evident and the proof today comes courtesy of the New York Times.
00:19:19.000There are two separate pieces in the New York Times talking about the threat of whiteness in America.
00:19:23.000And why it would be good if there was a white minority in America.
00:19:26.000This is the identity politics populism of the left that has led them to embrace a bunch of radical candidates on their own side.
00:19:31.000There's a piece by Thomas Edsel talking about demography in the United States and the fact that there are a lot of people, he's very against this, there are a lot of people who are Hispanic who now identify as white.
00:19:43.000Now normally we would think, okay, maybe that's a fine thing, like how you self-identify racially
00:19:49.000Maybe that's an indicator that you feel comfortable in the United States.
00:19:51.000If there's this line that's being put out by the press that America is a whites-only country and that whites are comfortable in America, and then you started self-identifying as white, maybe that isn't you being a race traitor.
00:20:03.000Maybe that's you basically saying, I don't care about my race anymore.
00:20:06.000I'm just going to identify as what the media would identify me as because I'm successful.
00:20:11.000The reality is I think that our focus on race in the country is extraordinarily over the top in the most tolerant and diverse country in human history.
00:20:19.000But this article by Edsel in the New York Times suggests that it's really bad that people are self-identifying as white instead.
00:20:25.000We should cudgel them back into particular racial groups so that we can have this majority-minority America and then identify voters by their particular strain of race.
00:20:34.000This is something Edsel is pushing over at the New York Times.
00:22:09.000And what would be better is if we were ruled by an intersectional coalition of people who have been victimized in the past by American whiteness.
00:22:15.000So this is what this idiot writes, Pankaj Mishra, who is representative of a serious strain of thought in the left-wing community.
00:22:23.000White men, an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book, National Life and Character, a forecast would be elbowed and hustled and perhaps even thrust aside by people they had long regarded as their inferiors, black and yellow races.
00:22:35.000China in particular would be a major threat.
00:22:37.000Pearson, prone to terrors of racial extinction while living in a settler colony in an Asian neighborhood, thought it was imperative to defend the last part of the world in which the higher races can live and increase freely for the higher civilization.
00:22:47.000His prescriptions for racial self-defense thunderously echoed around the white Anglosphere, a community of men with shared historical ties to Britain.
00:22:54.000Theodore Roosevelt, who held a complacent 19th century faith buttressed by racist pseudoscience that non-white peoples were hopelessly inferior, reported to Pearson the great effect of his book among all our men here in Washington.
00:23:04.000In the years that followed, politicians and pundits in Britain and its settler colonies of Australia, Canada, and the United States would jointly forge an identity geopolitics of the higher races.
00:23:14.000Today, this ideology has reached its final and most desperate phase.
00:23:29.000With existential fears about endangered white power feverishly circulating once again between the core and the periphery of the greatest modern empire.
00:23:36.000The fundamentalist question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive, President Trump said last year in a speech hailed by the British journalist Douglas Murray, the Canadian columnist Mark Stein, and the American editor Rich Lowry.
00:23:46.000More recently, Mr. Trump tweeted falsely about large-scale killing of white farmers in South Africa, a preoccupation deepened by Rupert Murdoch's media of white supremacists around the world.
00:23:56.000So, in other words, because Trump said that the West may be losing its will to survive, that is an indicator of white supremacy.
00:24:02.000But the West is a unique thing in human history, and it is not because of race.
00:24:07.000It is actually because of not caring about race.
00:24:10.000The West was shaped by a couple of cultural forces.
00:24:12.000Judeo-Christian values and Greek reason, none of them are exclusive to race.
00:24:17.000I mean, Augustine was from North Africa.
00:24:20.000The idea that everybody who was a part of Western civilization was of one race.
00:24:28.000There were legitimate racial battles between Italians and between the Irish and the British.
00:24:32.000It's only now that we consider whiteness a thing.
00:24:35.000And that is largely, yes, due to racism of whites, but now it's being re kind of vivified by this idea of the left that whiteness is the prevailing culturally dominant hierarchy and we have to get rid of it.
00:24:46.000And so in this article, this is the part that's amazing.
00:24:49.000This this author basically connects whiteness to every conservative idea.
00:24:52.000So if you're a conservative, this means that you are an advocate of whiteness, which means that we need an identity politics of the left.
00:24:58.000We need a populist identity politics of the left to fight the white overstructure.
00:25:03.000Mr. Trump appears to some of these powerful but insecure men as an able-bodied defender of the higher races.
00:25:09.000The Muslim-baiting British conservative politician Boris Johnson says that he is increasingly admiring of Donald Trump.
00:25:14.000Mr. Murray, the British journalist, thinks Mr. Trump is reminding the West of what is great about ourselves.
00:25:18.000The Canadian YouTube personality Jordan Peterson claims that his loathing of identity politics would have driven him to vote for Trump.
00:25:25.000So, in other words, all of these guys are apparently white supremacists because Trump is a white supremacist and Trump was reading Teddy Roosevelt.
00:25:32.000I find all of this highly doubtful, but it's this identity politics of the left that has driven the left into a populist area with regard to race.
00:25:41.000Now, they're obviously in a populist area with regard to opposition to free markets.
00:25:44.000Bernie Sanders represents that side of the party.
00:25:47.000And then finally, you have the Democrats embracing this distrust of institutions, the idea that all of our institutions are riddled with corruption and evil, and therefore must be torn down from the inside.
00:25:55.000This has been matched on the right by the rise of a sort of comparative populism.
00:26:00.000This looks a lot more like European politics, by the way.
00:26:02.000Far-right politics in Europe look a lot like what's happening on the populist right here in the United States, which is big government but distrust of big corporations.
00:26:11.000Anger at immigrants and a belief that free markets are corrupt, inherently.
00:26:16.000And we're starting to see that on the right, and it's disquieting.
00:26:20.000It's really ugly on the left, and I think the reactionary right is doing some of the same stuff.
00:26:25.000As an example, President Trump yesterday was giving a speech in which he was talking about the quote-unquote, old corrupt globalist ruling class.
00:26:31.000Now remember, President Trump is the President of the United States.
00:26:33.000He is the head of a government that has Republicans in charge of the House and the Senate.
00:26:38.000The executive branch is incredibly powerful.
00:26:40.000The Supreme Court is largely stacked with Republican appointees.
00:26:44.000And yet here he is, railing against the idea of this old corrupt globalist ruling class, which is the populist language of distrust of institutions and free markets.
00:26:56.000When he says globalist ruling class, I'm not sure what he means.
00:26:58.000He's very unclear about this terminology, but it perpetuates this myth that people are losing their jobs because there's a cabal of people in power on the coast who are attempting to remove jobs from people in the middle of the country and send them to China, which is not actually accurate.
00:27:12.000Free trade policy is not responsible for the vast majority of job loss in the United States.
00:27:16.000Free trade policy is really involved with the vast majority of growth in the United States.
00:28:17.000Legitimately repeating Bernie Sanders' talking points to go after Amazon.
00:28:20.000Now, going after Amazon has become a preoccupation since President Trump decided particular corporations are worth targeting.
00:28:27.000Amazon is a fine American corporation that provides literally hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, keeps other businesses in business because you can sell your product via Amazon.
00:28:37.000I've never understood the attacks on Amazon.
00:28:39.000Bernie Sanders' attacks on Amazon have been that Amazon doesn't pay its workers enough.
00:28:44.000But the reality is that Amazon pays the workers what they are willing to accept because no one is being forced into a job.
00:28:50.000The chief reason that Amazon, like a lot of major corporations in the United States, doesn't pay very much to its workers is because, number one, they don't have to.
00:28:57.000Supply meets demand in the labor market as well.
00:28:59.000And second, because the government provides an enormous amount of aid in the form of food stamps and welfare programs to supplement the income that people are earning from corporations like Amazon.
00:29:09.000If you actually want Amazon's pay rates to go up, all you have to do is remove a lot of these government subsidies, and then Amazon will start paying higher wages because no one can accept a job that is not a quote-unquote living wage.
00:29:18.000You hear this phrase a lot from the left.
00:29:22.000Well, by definition, Amazon is paying a living wage or you would be dead, right?
00:29:26.000Any wage that you choose to accept is by definition a living wage because if you were dead, you couldn't accept it.
00:29:31.000Or if it were going to kill you, you couldn't accept it.
00:29:33.000What you mean is that it's a wage you don't like, but the worker likes it enough to take it.
00:29:36.000So here's Tucker Carlson, nonetheless, using the same populist rhetoric as Bernie Sanders.
00:29:40.000Again, not trusting free markets because it's more important to distrust institutions and therefore call for a sort of bizarre centralized government control.
00:29:48.000It's certainly enough to pay his employees well, but he doesn't.
00:29:52.000A huge number of Amazon workers are so poorly paid, they qualify for federal welfare benefits.
00:29:59.000According to data from the non-profit group New Food Economy, nearly one in three Amazon employees in Arizona, for example, was on food stamps last year.
00:30:08.000Jeff Bezos isn't paying his workers enough to eat, so you made up the difference with your tax dollars.
00:30:14.000Next time you see Jeff Bezos, make certain that he says thank you.
00:30:28.000Again, if there's a subsidy, more people are going to be on that subsidy, and you are subsidizing the business on the other end.
00:30:34.000The reason that I bring all of this up, really, is because I think that we're moving toward a darker time in American politics, where certain basic principles of classical liberalism are going by the wayside.
00:30:42.000There are inherent contradictions in the populist ideology and philosophy.
00:30:45.000These inherent contradictions are pretty simple.
00:31:03.000Which is why populism basically ends up being a lot of anti-sloganeering and fulmination about problems without any real solutions.
00:31:10.000But I guess that angry fulmination has become the culmination of our politics.
00:31:13.000And then, the most irritating part is that we have politicians who engage in this sort of crap on a regular basis and then gloss over it the minute that it rears its ugly head.
00:31:22.000In a second, I'm going to talk about that.
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00:32:24.000Well, blame it on the failure of markets, or blame it on the failure of institutions, or blame it on the out-group that is targeting your in-group.
00:32:32.000Never say, maybe the problem in my life is I live in a free country with a free market, with institutions that are largely trustworthy, and I'm just effing up my life.
00:32:39.000Populism says, it's not you, it's everybody else.
00:32:41.000And so you see that on the right and on the left, and it makes politics nastier, because now you have two in groups that see the out group as an enemy.
00:32:50.000And that means that the battles are going to become worse and worse.
00:32:52.000I was talking with my mom about this last night with regard to the Catholic Church, because she was suggesting, she was saying, I don't understand how it is that there are so many people in various institutions that are willing to go along with, for example, the abuse of children,
00:33:07.000And I was explaining to her that human psychology is such that we like to belong to groups and these groups make us feel protected.
00:33:15.000This is the in-group mentality that is so endemic to populism.
00:33:18.000But it's also endemic to the human condition.
00:33:20.000If you're part of a group, you are safer.
00:33:22.000If your group is threatened, you're going to rise to the defense of the group.
00:33:25.000And it does not matter whether the group is threatened for good reason or for bad reason.
00:33:28.000So, if you read a child sex abuse scandal as an attack on your group, rather than on as a good-hearted attempt to cleanse the group of something bad,
00:33:36.000You are likely to respond by defending your group, even if it means defending the bad thing.
00:33:40.000And you're now seeing this inside both political parties as well.
00:33:43.000You're seeing Democrats respond to legitimate criticisms of their policies, ideas, and politicians as you're attacking my identity and my identity group.
00:33:51.000Therefore, you're evil and I will fight you and I will try to shut you down.
00:33:53.000I will censor you and I will use every method at my disposal to silence you.
00:33:57.000And then you see on the right, every time President Trump, for example, does something that's actually morally bereft,
00:34:01.000People on the right say, well, you're actually attacking my in-group.
00:34:05.000I understand your real motive is to destroy my in-group.
00:34:08.000And the problem is that in both cases, that's sort of half right.
00:34:11.000The right does want to destroy the left's in-group, and the left does want to destroy the right's in-group.
00:34:15.000The only way to get past this is to get past the in-groups themselves and to say, listen, I'm not interested in destroying your in-group.
00:34:21.000I don't like your ideology, but that's not a group, right?
00:34:24.000The groups that we're talking about that are really dangerous are these identity politics in-groups, the identity politics of whiteness or of blackness or of Hispanicness.
00:34:32.000Those are the in-groups that I'm not threatening any of that stuff.
00:34:36.000I see you as an individual, and your rip on President Trump for schtupping a porn star and then paying her off $130,000, that is not necessarily an attempt to destroy whiteness.
00:34:45.000But I think that the radicals in each group have an advantage.
00:34:49.000Once people are engaged in a certain tribal loyalty to their in-group, radicals are able to take advantage of that, because the more radical you are, the more you're threatened by the out-group, which means that your in-group comes to your defense.
00:35:14.000You're seeing it happen with populism across the country.
00:35:17.000What's truly irritating is some of the people who have been pushing exactly this sort of populism, exactly this sort of in-group, out-group division.
00:35:23.000Those people now claiming that they had nothing to do with it.
00:35:25.000So, for example, Joe Biden was speaking at John McCain's eulogy yesterday.
00:35:30.000And former Vice President Biden, who obviously wants to run in 2020, says that he saw John McCain as a unifying figure.
00:35:38.000And he thinks that we need to get past the attacks on each other's motives.
00:35:41.000What he says here is correct and good and anti-populist.
00:37:19.000If you don't back his program, you're not a patriot.
00:37:22.000All these people who are engaging in this exact sort of populist political rhetoric, now they turn around and say they don't like it when Trump does it.
00:37:29.000So let's be clear where all of this came from, and let's also be clear that standing for a certain moral standard when it comes to classical liberalism and politics is actually an important thing.
00:37:38.000There are central principles in American politics, and those principles do include seeing ourselves, seeing America as the big in-group, and unified by principle, and seeing free markets as a good thing, and seeing our institutions as bedrocks of American honesty.
00:38:34.000On the DL, on the down low, because there's a lot of blowback in every institution in California if people know that you're a conservative.
00:38:42.000There have been a few cases where patients have gone in and seen my wife and known who she was, and she always finds that hilarious and flattering.
00:38:48.000But, like, a lot of her co-workers don't know what I do for a living, which is pretty hilarious.
00:38:56.000I'm not sure why you wouldn't add the duties to the Air Force.
00:38:58.000I'm not enough of a military expert to know the answer to that question.
00:39:01.000But I do like the idea that we ought to have some sort of military understanding of space, because that is a space that we are going to have to protect.
00:39:08.000Obviously, there are foreign nations that are attempting to militarize space.
00:39:13.000My relationship for four years just ended.
00:39:14.000The main reason given was that my now ex didn't want to marry me or possibly ever get married if it meant that there would be times of struggle in the relationship.
00:39:21.000He comes from a broken home with a sort of Elizabeth Taylor story on one side.
00:39:24.000My parents have been married for 34 years, so I've watched them work through all the tough times and come out stronger.
00:39:28.000As someone who has what appears to be a strong marriage, what is your advice to a millennial looking to find a future spouse willing to build a life together, including overcoming adversities?
00:39:36.000Well, honestly, this is an entry-level question that you need to be asking the person you're dating.
00:39:42.000You shouldn't find out four years into the relationship that the person doesn't want difficulties in the relationship and doesn't want marriage.
00:39:59.000The entire purpose of dating for marriage, of dating should be that you want to create a long lasting relationship within which to build a family.
00:40:06.000And that means asking tough questions on like the first date.
00:40:08.000And by the way, as soon as you date with direction in mind, your dating life is going to change because you're actually going to be able to dismiss people who are a waste of your time.
00:40:17.000You're not going to be wasting time with losers who latch on to you for four years and then decide they don't want to get married.
00:40:22.000And ladies, you're not going to draw a man in by living with him.
00:40:50.000There's an entry level... There's... In any relationship, whether it is business or whether it is personal, in order for somebody to fully commit to a business relationship, they have to have skin in the game.
00:41:00.000The only way to get skin in the game when it comes to actual marriage is to say, you are not going to get anything out of me, basically.
00:41:07.000And I mean, in terms of sex, particularly.
00:41:22.000But, if you want my advice on how to actually snag the kind of person worth marrying, make clear to the person that that's what you're looking for.
00:41:29.000Because it draws a different kind of person.
00:41:33.000The job description of husband is not the same as the job description of guy I want to live with for four years and then get dumped by.
00:41:38.000Well, again, I think the number of people who truly believe that religion dictates socialism is very low.
00:41:42.000I think there are a lot of socialists who like to use religion as a guise, but the sort of progressive social justice religious folks
00:41:58.000Very often these are the same people who suggest that the Bible is fine with abortion.
00:42:02.000So I have a very tough time believing the sincerity of those particular motives.
00:42:06.000And I say I don't like questioning people's motives, but when the motive clearly does not line up with the purported motive, I have a tough time understanding where exactly the gap takes place.
00:42:17.000You know, it does say in the New Testament that he who does not work nor shall he eat.
00:42:22.000The New Testament focus on sharing in common among us, which is one that the left likes to use a lot, is specifically talking about the disciples who are being treated more as a family.
00:42:30.000There is something worth noting when it comes to religious talk about the quote-unquote sharing among people.
00:42:36.000Religious communities were designed to build out family to larger levels.
00:42:42.000I'm a communist in my own family, right?
00:42:43.000From each according to his ability to each according to her need when it comes to my daughter, right?
00:42:47.000That's the way it works inside families.
00:42:50.000That's not the way that works in society at large and trying to apply the rules of religious redistributionism in a communal context to a broader society that
00:43:00.000Compels redistributionism is actually a form of theocracy so all these all these SJWs who are quoting the Bible Ask them whether they're for theocracy because it's kind of weird Bobby says hey, Ben.
00:43:10.000My son was finally born My question is considering you like classical do you also like opera if so what were your top five operas be?
00:43:16.000Can't wait to see you in Pittsburgh this November.
00:43:17.000Thanks, so I do really enjoy opera Bizet's Carmen
00:43:23.000I do like Fidelio, which is an underrated opera by Beethoven.
00:44:40.000Being unreasonable or glomming on too hard to my own emotional state because sometimes you're just stuck in an emotional state and now you're going to lash out about it.
00:44:50.000Very often fights come because you bottle stuff up for a long time.
00:44:53.000But there are a few key things, I think, in fights.
00:44:56.000Number one, never say always or never.
00:44:58.000When you say always or never, it's always inaccurate.
00:45:01.000That's the one time you can use always.
00:45:02.000So when you say to your spouse, you always do X.
00:45:06.000It's a recipe for failure, because your spouse doesn't always do X. Your spouse sometimes does X, and it drives you nuts.
00:45:12.000Your spouse does something sometimes that drives you nuts, but it's important to recognize that the sometimes is not always.
00:45:16.000Also, I would say that most of the major fights that you're going to have, most of the major character flaws you're gonna have, get them settled while you're young, because by the time you hit 65, you're set in your ways, and it's very difficult to change.
00:45:25.000You see this with people who are above the age of 60, and I think that it's important to try and iron all that stuff out as fast as possible.
00:45:32.000That said, do I fight with my wife sometimes?
00:45:34.000Yeah, my wife and I had a bit of a tiff on Sunday.
00:46:08.000She doesn't look for 10 minutes and then say, I've lost my phone.
00:46:11.000She immediately says, I've lost my phone, which makes me feel like she's losing it even when she's not because she'll say, I've lost my phone.
00:46:16.000Then five seconds later, she'll look down and it's right there.
00:46:18.000So in any case, we're about to leave and we have both our kids in the house and my parents are taking care of the kids.
00:46:24.000And my wife turns to me and she says, I don't have my phone.
00:47:37.000I walk out to the... I finally kind of...
00:47:39.000Push my son off to my dad, and I start to walk out of the house, and I walk back to the car, and then my son comes charging out the front door after me.
00:47:48.000And I walk back to the car, I said, sweetheart, I don't know where your phone is.
00:47:51.000Can you get up off your butt and go in the house and look for your phone?
00:48:14.000You're being really really unreasonable.
00:48:16.000This is not reasonable and she says well, I don't care anymore Let's just go so she consents.
00:48:21.000I'm extraordinarily pissed because I'm very angry at this point And when I go angry, I tend to go silent rather than yelling.
00:48:27.000I'm not a yeller so I go silent and we drive for about three minutes and now the car is on and because we're driving and Then strangely a phone begins to ring
00:49:29.000And it means that our fights become less fights and more discussions about how we can improve in the future, which is the best way to handle things.
00:49:35.000And it has to be less accusatory for fights.
00:49:37.000It has to be less accusing and a lot more sort of, um,
00:50:51.000Obviously, I'm on Twitter all the time.
00:50:52.000One of the reasons I tweet so often is because it's also where I get my news.
00:50:56.000A lot of my retweets, the reason I retweet so often is to remind myself of stuff that I want to talk about or write about a little bit later in the day.
00:51:02.000Twitter is still the central source of news.
00:51:04.000So, I think that's something worth noting.
00:52:15.000So this is, I promise, this is the actual last one.
00:52:18.000And we'll do a very short Things I Like and Things I Hate just to round it up.
00:52:21.000Gregory says, Dear Supreme Overlord Shapiro, Recently, I got into a debate with one of my good friends over the definition of racism.
00:52:26.000My friend contends that according to people with PhDs who study the issue, true racism is when the race that holds power or privilege in a society uses that power or privilege to suppress other people of other races.
00:52:36.000My friend went on to say, because of white privilege, it is only possible for white people to be racist.
00:53:36.000Well, maybe the argument would go they didn't have any power, so they couldn't actually be racist.
00:53:40.000But then it turns out that black folks took power in Zimbabwe, and then that regime has now reduced white farmers in Zimbabwe to almost a subject state by seizing their land.
00:53:51.000Is it only become racism when they gain power, or is it just that racism itself is something toxic, evil, and terrible, and it is made a lot worse in terms of real-world effect by power?
00:54:03.000It's not that racial hatred plus power equals racism.
00:54:05.000It's that racial hatred equals racism.
00:54:07.000Racism plus power equals something a lot more dangerous.
00:54:10.000I think that's the easiest way to explain it.
00:54:12.000Okay, time for things I like and then things I hate.
00:54:14.000So the thing I like today is a book called The Diversity Delusion by Heather MacDonald.
00:54:17.000We're going to have Heather MacDonald on the Sunday special at some point in the future.
00:54:22.000It's all about, and the subtitle is how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture.
00:54:27.000Our colleges have become a repository of leftist thought.
00:54:30.000That leftist thought has led to exactly the sort of identity politics populism we are seeing right now, and exactly the sort of rise of democratic socialism and hatred of Central American principles we've seen.
00:54:39.000Heather MacDonald details all of the nuttiness going on at our university level, with which I am intimately familiar.
00:54:44.000Go check out The Diversity Delusion by Heather MacDonald, who, full disclosure, I am friends with, and we became friends because I like her writing so much, so go check it out.
00:54:51.000Heather MacDonald, The Diversity Delusion.
00:54:53.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:54:58.000Stephen A. Smith said something dumb on ESPN because it's a day ending and why and he was talking about Serena Williams and he said about Serena Williams that if she were a man we would call her the greatest ever.
00:55:08.000You just say to her, if she were a man, what would we be saying?
00:55:12.000We'd be calling her the greatest ever.
00:55:38.000We can say she's the greatest woman ever.
00:55:40.000If he really believes that it's only sexism that prevents us from calling her the greatest ever, then why don't we just have open brackets at the US Open?
00:55:46.000Really, we can just do that, like no sex discrimination at all.
00:55:50.000We'll just have men and women compete in the same brackets, and then we'll see if she is indeed the greatest ever, or if she's the greatest woman.
00:55:55.000I don't see what's wrong, by the way, with being the greatest woman ever.
00:56:02.000Why can't we just acknowledge that men are more physically powerful than women on average, and also far more physically powerful at the upper end of the bell curve?
00:56:53.000People want to see the WNBA for political reasons, or for gender parity reasons, or to show their daughters that girls can play basketball too?