The day has come. We have arrived. The apocalypse is here, and we will talk about all of it. I left on Friday hating the universe, and I come back hating it twice as much on Monday. I m already depressed, and the reason I am already depressed is because how could my fellow conservatives do this to me? Not to me, but to conservatism as a general matter? I ve been telling you for a week or so that Donald Trump is not a conservative, but last week, as you remember, we did a full-on explanation of all the issues on which Trump has flipped. He flipped on immigration, abortion, gay marriage, same-sex marriage, partial birth, and even flipped onto ISIS. And he s laughing at it. And you can tell that he knows that these folks are laughing at him because they re voting for him right now, because they ve told him that he s a leftist, and he s just not. And that s what they re laughing at, because he's laughing at them right now. And I m here to tell you why you should vote for Donald Trump because he s not really a conservative. And it s not even close to being a conservative because he flips on everything, from immigration to abortion to gay marriage to everything else. and he's not even a conservative! He's just not a Conservative, is he? Ben Shapiro is back with a new episode of The Ben Shapiro Show on The Weekly Standard, where he's here to talk about it all, so you don't have to be a conservative to listen to him. . Welcome back to another episode of - Ben Shapiroism, the podcast that doesn't have a theme song, no matter what you're listening to this episode is going to be better than the one you ve been listening to on the past 24/7. -Ben Shapiro or you're going to like it, right here on The Daily Mail or not? -The Weekly Standard is your guide to the best of Ben Shapiro's latest podcast on the world's best Ben Shapiro podcast. If you like what you hear from Ben Shapiro, then you'll like it? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts? Subscribe on iTunes or wherever else you re listening to the show? Enjoyed it? Leave us a review and tell a friend about what s going on in your favorite podcast? and we'll be listening to it on your feed? Thanks for listening?
00:00:21.000So, here's the Republican presidential race in a nutshell.
00:00:24.000We've got a guy who lies all the time against a guy who is for amnesty, and a Republican who's the most conservative person in the field who's now despised by the anti-establishment crowd because, for some reason, I don't know.
00:00:35.000Also, on the Democratic side, we have a multiple felon against a man who is utterly out of his mind.
00:01:25.000And the reason that I am already depressed
00:01:27.000Is because how could my fellow conservatives do this to me?
00:01:32.000Not to me, but to conservatism as a general matter.
00:01:35.000I've been telling you for a week, a week, months, that Donald Trump is not a conservative.
00:01:40.000But last week, as you remember, about this time last week, we did a full-on explanation of all the issues on which Donald Trump had flipped, and people went a little bit crazy.
00:02:08.000And so, I come back the following Monday, and it turns out that the world is still insane.
00:02:13.000It turns out that Donald Trump is officially telling people, officially telling people that he's lying to them, that he's actually a leftist, he's saying these things out loud, and all of his followers are still saying, not all, some of his followers are still saying, well he, you know, how dare you criticize him?
00:04:26.000Here's what he told the New York Times, quote,
00:04:28.000You know, if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of maybe thinking about leaving one of his rallies, I can sort of tell the audience I just say, quote,
00:04:40.000So in other words, he doesn't necessarily believe any of this stuff, but he knows what keeps people in the room.
00:04:45.000And he was doing the same routine over the weekend.
00:04:47.000Donald Trump said over the weekend that he is going to end up winning Bernie Sanders supporters because he's going to appeal to them on trade, he's going to get Democrats to vote for him.
00:04:55.000This is supposed to be the stalwart conservative that people are talking about?
00:06:07.000You say that Ted Cruz is a liar, but you have said that you want everyone to be covered on healthcare, and the government's going to pay for it.
00:07:14.000And as far as Obamacare is concerned, one of the staples of my speech, and you can ask any of my many supporters, is repeal and replace Obamacare.
00:07:32.000It's probably going to fail on its own unless the Republicans renew it like they have been in 17.
00:07:38.000But by 17, Obamacare will fail on its own.
00:07:41.000A whole staple of my campaign is repealing getting rid of Obamacare and replacing it.
00:07:55.000Okay, so, there's Donald Trump saying, in approximately a minute, that he wants to, first of all, he drops a line there, he says, you have no heart if you don't want to help the people who are on the streets, dying on the streets.
00:08:07.000First of all, I've missed where in America there are people who are dying on the streets for lack of healthcare.
00:08:11.000They're sitting around and they're just keeling over, dying for lack of healthcare.
00:08:15.000We have laws on the books already, that if you walk into an emergency room, the doctors have to take care of you.
00:08:53.000And again, there's a difference between the cynical take on Trump that he's the most electable, which people said about Romney and people said about McCain.
00:08:59.000There's a difference between that take and the take that Trump is actually a conservative who is going to implement conservative principle.
00:09:05.000There is no evidence he's going to do that.
00:09:20.000Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, who was probably the most qualified guy in the field at the time,
00:09:24.000Rick Perry in 2012 lost the nomination because in debate he said that he wanted to spend taxpayer dollars to send the children of illegal immigrants and illegal immigrants to public college.
00:09:38.000He wanted the dream program to be in place and he said if you disagreed it was because you had no heart.
00:09:43.000Donald Trump just said that if you don't believe that it's the government's job to take care of everybody's health care you have no heart and nothing is happening to him.
00:09:52.000You know, this is not endemic to the right.
00:09:54.000We've reached the point in American politics where worship of particular personalities is so strong, so powerful, that principle no longer matters.
00:11:15.000On that Obamacare issue right there, he's saying because you want the government to pay for everyone to have health care, that is just like Obamacare.
00:11:54.000This is why he doesn't have one endorsement from one senator, not one.
00:12:00.000He works with these senators, doesn't have one endorsement.
00:12:02.000Okay, the reason that he has no endorsements is because all of the senators are willing to work with each other on the Senate floor and Ted Cruz is not willing to do that.
00:12:10.000The idea that they're not endorsing him because they somehow oppose Goldman Sachs, the idea that Donald Trump opposes Goldman Sachs is absurd.
00:12:16.000Donald Trump is as inside a Wall Street guy as it is possible to be.
00:15:24.000Okay, so he's clearly saying to religious people, I don't know this verse, I have no idea what this verse is, but that's the one you like, right?
00:16:15.000So yesterday, he goes to First Christian Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
00:16:19.000Well, first, before we get to that, last week at his rally that he held at the same time as the debate, at the very end, he turns to his daughter, his daughter Ivanka, and he says, Ivanka over here, Ivanka, she's pregnant, and I want her to come back here and give birth in Iowa.
00:16:34.000In fact, I wish you would give birth right now, I'd win Iowa.
00:16:39.000If you vote for him because of this stuff,
00:17:08.000Well, it's possible that Trump doesn't actually know that much about communion, because here's what he told CNN a few months ago about communion, quote,
00:17:28.000When I drink my little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and have my little cracker, I guess that's a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed.
00:17:39.000I think in terms of, let's go on, let's make it right.
00:17:43.000When I drink my little wine, and have my little cracker,
00:17:47.000Okay, everybody in this room, except for me, does this.
00:18:00.000And people are buying into the idea that he's anti-establishment.
00:18:03.000The guy who just came out for national healthcare yesterday, but said he's not for it because he's against Obamacare, but he's for national healthcare.
00:18:09.000And then proceeded to drop all of this language about Christianity and call Ted Cruz a liar, all of this.
00:18:15.000He says he's going to stand up against the establishment.
00:18:18.000Okay, yesterday, Bob Dole was on the radio.
00:20:49.000Okay, I'm glad we reached the end of the tape because we're all going to die of boredom, which is why we were actually going to perish before Bob Dole, which would have been a shock since no one in this room is above the age of 40.
00:20:59.000So it's, in any case, there's Bob Dole endorsing Donald Trump and endorsing him specifically because Cruz is too extreme and Donald Trump will work with the establishment.
00:21:54.000Ted Cruz has lots of holes as a candidate.
00:21:56.000He's got lots of problems as a candidate.
00:21:57.000But I understand where those holes and problems are.
00:22:00.000What I can't deal with is the dishonesty of people who are pretending that Donald Trump is going to get in there and somehow be any sort of conservative.
00:22:09.000In a minute I'm going to talk about, you know, questions that I have for these various campaigns.
00:22:14.000But I just wanted to go through that because I think it's important for people to understand why it is that Donald Trump is not who you say that he is.
00:22:22.000He's not who you say... Now, here's the case for Trump.
00:23:01.000And between Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, I have 12 million people, more than 12 million people.
00:23:06.000So it is a great way of getting the word out.
00:23:09.000But certainly, I mean, look, I went to great schools.
00:23:12.000I was a good student, all of that stuff.
00:23:14.000I'm very capable of slowing down Twitter or doing whatever I want to do.
00:23:18.000But Twitter is actually, I found it to be, and Facebook, a wonderful modern way of communicating.
00:23:25.000Okay, so here's the upside for Trump, right?
00:23:27.000The upside for Trump is he understands how the media work.
00:23:30.000And when he's asked about Twitter wars or whatever, he sort of brushes it off because he understands that most people who are watching don't care whether he says things on Twitter.
00:23:37.000And the other case, the case for Trump is really not the case for Trump.
00:23:40.000The case for Trump is the case against the media.
00:23:43.000So today, Matt Lauer, who's legitimately a left-wing kook, he had on Sarah Palin.
00:23:49.000And Sarah Palin, we've said, Sarah Palin made a mistake in endorsing Donald Trump.
00:23:53.000She sold out conservatism in endorsing Donald Trump.
00:23:56.000But she was on with Matt Lauer, and on the Today Show, and Savannah Guthrie, and it completely derailed.
00:24:02.000And here is what it looked like when it derailed.
00:24:05.000I want to ask you about something you mentioned on the campaign trail, which is the Arrest of Your Son track.
00:24:10.000And you talked about it, and then you mentioned PTSD.
00:24:13.000And you said that President Obama may be to blame for some of the PTSD that's out there.
00:24:57.000And so we look at them and we say, okay, you won't ask Hillary Clinton about calling Republicans enemies, but you'll ask Donald Trump about getting in Twitter fights with people.
00:25:05.000You won't ask Hillary Clinton about being- I mean, Hillary Clinton was on the Today Show this morning, by the way, and got this many questions.
00:25:29.000The media that have been attacking Trump are the same media who have been pushing the notion that Trump is... The same people who have been attacking Trump have been attacking conservatives for years.
00:26:54.000If that's the case, the narrative is actually going to be Rubio surging, not Cruz winning, because everybody has assumed that Cruz is going to be strong.
00:27:40.000Either way that Trump wins, it's a problem for Cruz, right?
00:27:43.000So the media narrative, there's really only one scenario in which Cruz gets a clear win, and that's if he blows out everybody.
00:27:49.000But if he blows out Trump and Rubio rises, then one of the narratives will be the rise of Rubio, because this is the way the media have set it up.
00:27:56.000The game of expectations is just as important as what actually happens in Iowa.
00:28:15.000Well, we've always felt great about our campaign here, and we continue to feel that it's growing in our support.
00:28:20.000We'll see what it leads to on Monday night.
00:28:22.000I mean, Ted Cruz is clearly the frontrunner going into the night.
00:28:25.000He has 10,000 volunteers on the ground.
00:28:28.000He's spent an exorbitant amount of time here, tremendous amount of time here, and has gotten every endorsement he wanted.
00:28:33.000So we know it's a tough hill to climb, but we feel very good about our campaign and very positive about what it means going into New Hampshire.
00:28:39.000We'll be leaving as soon as the caucus is over, and we'll be in New Hampshire early Tuesday morning ready to work.
00:28:45.000So you can see, Rubio is already looking forward to this, because he doesn't have to do that well.
00:28:49.000If Rubio finishes anywhere higher than the mid-teens, it's a big win for Marco Rubio.
00:28:54.000Okay, and then there's Ted Cruz, who's still trying to defeat both Trump and knock down Rubio.
00:28:58.000So here's Ted Cruz talking about Trump.
00:29:02.000Why did you suddenly stop going after Trump on paid ads and going after, in your campaign, attacking Marco Rubio?
00:29:07.000How concerned are you about Senator Rubio catching you here in Iowa?
00:29:19.000And the contrasts, by the way, are substantive and policy-based.
00:29:23.000A vote for Marco Rubio is a vote for amnesty.
00:29:26.000And a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Obamacare.
00:29:29.000If you look at their positions, Marco Rubio, right now as a presidential candidate, is advocating amnesty, advocating citizenship for 12 million people here illegally.
00:29:38.000And Donald Trump, right now as a candidate,
00:29:41.000is advocating full-on expanding Obamacare to make it socialized medicine.
00:29:46.000Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the identical position on health care, which is they want to put the government in charge of you and your doctor.
00:29:54.000Now my views are polar opposites of both of those.
00:29:58.000If I'm elected, there will be no amnesty.
00:30:01.000And if I'm elected, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
00:30:04.000So that gives a clear and simple choice for the voters.
00:30:08.000Okay, and Cruz is exactly right here, but the problem is he's a little bit squeezed.
00:30:11.000The establishment wants Rubio, and the media desperately want Trump.
00:30:16.00060% of all media coverage this month went to Trump.
00:30:19.00060% of all media coverage went to Donald Trump.
00:30:21.000The other person who benefits from that, of course, is Hillary Clinton.
00:30:24.000Hillary Clinton did an interview with George Stephanopoulos over the weekend, and the fact that George Stephanopoulos interviews Hillary Clinton, I mean, honestly, that's like me interviewing my wife.
00:30:34.000Okay, George Stephanopoulos interviewing Hillary Clinton.
00:30:36.000And Clavin has read about this, talked about this on his podcast, that in George Stephanopoulos' autobiography, after the 92 election, he and Hillary saw each other backstage and had a moment together in which Hillary looked at George and said, I love you, George.
00:30:50.000And he looked back at her with tears in his eyes and said, I love you too, Hillary.
00:30:54.000And now he's interviewing her on national television while she runs for president.
00:30:58.000And all of the Trump and Cruz and Rubio, all of the Trump really, is obscuring the fact that the Democratic presidential frontrunner is not just a felon, she's a multiple felon.
00:31:09.000Okay, she is, by putting all of this classified information on her server, which was attached to the World Wide Web, which means it was hackable, which means everybody saw it.
00:31:16.000I mean, they're now saying today that there was information on that server that could have gotten people killed, but Hillary Clinton is still saying it's a vast right-wing conspiracy.
00:31:30.000We have differences, and I've been pointing out those differences.
00:31:33.000I think that it's important for me to tell voters what I want to achieve and how I will go about doing that because I want them to hold me accountable.
00:31:42.000And then it's going to be up to caucus-goers tonight, primary voters next in New Hampshire, to decide who they think offers the best path forward to keep the progress that we've made going.
00:31:56.000Hillary Clinton is saying that as these revelations leak out.
00:32:00.000And what does Hillary really think about this?
00:32:02.000Well, she thinks nobody cares is the reality.
00:32:04.000So here is Hillary explaining voters don't really care about any of this.
00:32:09.000But Secretary Clinton, something does seem to be happening with this investigation, or at least the FBI seems to be talking about it more, because in the past week, several media outlets have said that their sources in the FBI say, quote, something's going to happen.
00:32:30.000It means that people are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in anything I am aware of.
00:32:39.000And, you know, I regret that that seems to be part of the atmosphere because we need to, you know, let this inquiry run its course, get it resolved.
00:32:49.000But I can tell you, Alison, that is not on the minds of the literally thousands of people that I have seen the last few weeks.
00:32:55.000And I'm glad it isn't, because the facts are the facts.
00:33:00.000And no matter how much selective leaking or anonymous sourcing and all that kind of stuff that goes on, what people want to know is what I can do to be the best possible president for them and their families.
00:34:50.000And there are people on the Trump side who are doing the same thing.
00:34:53.000You're not supposed to worship at the altar of human beings, and it's very upsetting to me when I see that happen, particularly on the right.
00:34:59.000The good news, however, is that Chris Matthews is feeling butterflies.
00:35:03.000We have to keep sort of track of Chris Matthews' physical response to campaigns.
00:35:07.000Remember that he had a tingle up his leg about President Obama.
00:35:10.000Now he's feeling butterflies in his tummy over Hillary Clinton.
00:36:03.000I saw Brooklyn, which is nominated for Best Picture.
00:36:06.000And I thought it was a very good film, a good depiction of what immigration to the United States is like, what it means to integrate into American society.
00:36:30.000And it had some actually pretty big stars in it.
00:36:33.000It's a movie called Pawn Sacrifice, and it got no attention.
00:36:36.000I mean, it was reviewed, obviously, but it didn't make any money at the box office.
00:36:40.000It's about the battle in the late 60s, early 70s, between Bobby Fischer, the American chess master, and Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess master, which became, for a time, it was the biggest battle in sports, and it was the biggest story in the world, because they had a chess match.
00:36:55.000The Russians were always assumed to have dominated the chess world, and Fischer came along, and Fischer was creative, and
00:37:02.000Wild and came in and suddenly he was going to take Spassky's crown from him.
00:37:07.000Here's the preview looks like just in case you're interested.
00:37:18.000After only four moves, there's more than 300 billion options to consider.
00:37:22.000We can take you very close to the edge.
00:37:38.000I'll admit, I have a fondness for chess movies, which is a very small subset of film, but there's another really good chess movie called Searching for Bobby Fischer, so if you really want to see a great chess movie, that's an older chess movie about a guy who was a chess prodigy named Josh Waitzkin.
00:37:52.000And it's a really, really good movie with Ben Kingsley and Lawrence Fishburne.
00:38:11.000So Bernie Sanders is, as we say, a socialist loon bag from Vermont.
00:38:15.000And Bernie Sanders tweeted this out earlier today.
00:38:19.000For those who can't see, it's a picture of Bernie.
00:38:22.000From the back, and a big crowd in front of him, and it says,
00:38:32.000I immediately tweeted back at Bernie Sanders, well you could just kill them and take all their money.
00:38:36.000Because that seems to be the implication, right?
00:38:38.000Is that they've somehow, it's ill-gotten gains, somehow they did something terrible, they stole it from the 130 million Americans at the bottom.
00:38:44.000Last Friday we talked about how income inequality, the argument that income inequality is really a gauge worth measuring.
00:38:51.000This is actually an evil argument because what it really says is, I deserve your cash if you have more than I do.
00:38:57.000And this is what, and every, by the way, every Bernie Sanders tweet, all of them, they all start with, it is absurd that X, and X is always something that is plainly obvious to everyone, right?
00:39:06.000It's always, it's absurd that the sky is full of airplanes, and some people cannot fly on those airplanes.
00:39:12.000It is absurd, absurd, that we are going to spend $1 billion on this campaign and that there is water that is not drinkable in some places on Earth.
00:41:37.000I may earn ten times as much as the barista at Starbucks, but we have exactly the same computer.
00:41:41.000That's because commerce evens out living standards.
00:41:44.000It doesn't have to even out the amount of wealth that you have in your bank account.
00:41:47.000So Bernie Sanders is a thing that I dislike.
00:41:50.000Another thing that I dislike today, a thing that I hate...
00:41:53.000This comes courtesy of our listener, Jacob.
00:41:55.000Apparently, there's a new MTV series, and everything on MTV is garbaggio.
00:42:00.000MTV is a garbage network, and they have a show apparently called Decoded, and so they have decided that they decode everything in life, of course, from a leftist perspective.
00:42:09.000So here's a video from Decoded about the PC culture, and they say, don't worry.
00:42:30.000If you've ever called out racism, sexism, ableism, or any other oppressivism, you've probably been accused of being too PC.
00:42:38.000PC is, of course, short for politically correct.
00:42:40.000Political correctness is avoiding words or behaviors that exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
00:42:48.000Basically, treating people with respect.
00:42:50.000Now if you ask me, that doesn't sound like a bad thing.
00:42:53.000But a recent poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that 68% of Americans and 81% of Republicans agreed that a big problem this country has is being politically correct.
00:43:03.000Even 62% of Democrats polled agreed that being PC was getting out of hand.
00:43:08.000For these folks, political correctness is synonymous with weakness, or being overly sensitive.
00:43:13.000Similar to the new term, social justice warrior,
00:43:16.000Calling someone PC is a way to derail and dismiss conversations about inequality.
00:43:20.000Okay, PC police, you're just offended by everything.
00:43:24.000The term PC is almost always used as an insult.
00:43:27.000While it's been around for a while, it gained popularity- Okay, we can cut this now.
00:43:50.000You saying that I'm a racist and therefore we can't have a conversation, or me saying that you are using political correctness as a cover to not have the conversation?
00:43:58.000Politically correct just means you don't want to have the conversation.
00:44:03.000When I say somebody is politically correct, I'm saying that you're attempting to shut down conversation, and that's what she's attempting to do.
00:44:08.000Since when has calling somebody a racist ever led to a decent conversation?
00:44:34.000But there is no question that if I say that black crime rates are out of control in the United States, and you say, well, you're a racist, that that is politically correct and it is shutting down PC.
00:44:44.000I mean, you're shutting down conversation.
00:44:47.000But it's amazing that they'll push this stuff, and then they wonder, they wonder why 40%, 40-odd percent of people who are young, millennials, think that there should be hate crimes legislation?
00:44:57.000This is how PC bleeds over into actual legal ramifications.
00:45:00.000According to a Pew poll earlier this year, 40% of millennials say that we should make it illegal in the United States to say things that are offensive based on race, sex, or sexual orientation.
00:45:11.000So in other words, when she says that this is just treating people decently, well the problem is this.
00:45:16.000Your subjective definition of what offends you doesn't mean that I'm wrong for saying it.
00:45:21.000Black crime rates are out of control and a problem mainly for black people.
00:45:25.000If you say that that's not politically correct because it's offensive, what you're doing is you're stopping the conversation and you're preventing it from going forward.
00:45:32.000And there's no question that's what you attempt to do.
00:45:34.000And that's why people who are young, people who watch stuff like MTV, they say, well, PC, you know, hate speech is bad, right?
00:45:40.000Hate speech is bad, so we should stop it, right?
00:45:41.000We should use the government to cut down on it.
00:45:43.000The problem is your definition of hate speech is very different from my definition of hate speech.
00:45:47.000And that's why we shouldn't have the government in the business of abridging freedom of speech and freedom of the press, as the First Amendment clearly states.
00:45:56.000Okay, a couple final quick things that I hate.
00:45:58.000One, Susan Sarandon was at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and they declared these the Diversity of Awards because they're a bunch of black people who won.
00:46:09.000In any case, here is the picture of Susan Sarandon.
00:46:13.000And ironically, she did wear this to the SAG Awards.
00:46:17.000For people who cannot see, this is why you should subscribe, or maybe this is a case against subscribing, but Susan Sarandon is wearing, like, a white blazer, and she's wearing it basically over a black bra, and so all you see is, like, her saggy boobs coming halfway down her torso.
00:46:33.000This is not the Susan Sarandon of Atlantic City.
00:47:05.000That they're supposed to be treated like younger women.
00:47:07.000And older women today are supposed to act like younger women or be treated like younger women.
00:47:10.000There used to be such a thing called aging gracefully.
00:47:12.000That didn't mean that you had to like retire to the old age home and become an old crone.
00:47:16.000But it did mean that you were supposed to recognize at a certain point that dressing like a 16 year old tart when you're 80 is really not your best option for anybody.
00:47:25.000For a viewer, for participants, it's not good for anybody.
00:47:29.000And it's kind of pathetic because you're setting a social standard that suggests... It's so funny.
00:47:34.000All these people who say that women... We have to stop objectifying women.
00:47:37.000Then they say that you have to objectify women to the extent that you're supposed to expect these kind of boobs on your 70-year-old grandmother.
00:47:47.000Second of all, when you're talking about this idea that there's expectations of women, unrealistic expectations of women, you don't want to talk unrealistic expectations of women.
00:47:56.000This is unrealistic expectations of women in a nutshell.
00:47:58.000Redoing the body on the Barbie ain't gonna do much.
00:48:01.000But starting to treat people of all ages, women of all ages, with a little bit of class and respect would be nice.
00:48:10.000Okay, final thing that I disliked for the day.
00:48:12.000Bernie Sanders, back to Bernie Sanders.
00:48:13.000He had a big rally over the weekend in Iowa and people were like, oh my god, so many people showed up.
00:48:18.000I don't follow pop music mainly because it's garbage that could be produced by- most of which could be produced by a horse's anus, but there's some group called Vampire Weekend.
00:48:28.000You guys have heard of Vampire Weekend?
00:48:48.000And there's Bernie and the crowd looking all awkward and clapping out of time.
00:48:54.000As they say, there's an old bumper sticker about a jazz critic that everybody hated.
00:48:59.000And I can't remember his name, but he said, so-and-so claps on one and three.
00:49:03.000Because, it's a musical joke for those of you who know music, you're supposed to clap, syncopation is two and four, like one, two, three, four, right, syncopation.
00:49:11.000Bernie Sanders is clapping wildly out of time in this video.
00:49:14.000It's like he's clapping to a different song.
00:49:16.000One of the things I hate is the merger of celebrity and political culture, which we've talked about and which has generated Trump and Hillary.
00:49:22.000The merger of all of these things has led to the rise of politicians who truly have no sort of
00:49:51.000And it turns our politicians into celebrities, and our celebrities are royals, so it turns our politicians by the transitive property into royals.
00:49:58.000So we may as well just crown them kings and be done with it.