Is Donald Trump a racist? We will talk about it. Plus, the Me Too movement goes completely off the rails, and Hawaii apparently got nuked, or not really, but things went wrong. We ll talk about that as well on The Ben Shapiro Show. Today is Martin Luther King Day, and I have some suggestions. I also want to get to everything Trump-related, including the fact that Hawaii is not under nuclear assault, as well as a crazy story that somebody put forward about Aziz Ansari, but that we all have to lump him in with the rest of the MeToo movement. I'll talk about all that and much more on today's show, including: Why Trump is a racist. Why the media loves to call President Trump a RACIST. What does racism have to do with race? And why is racism a thing? And who is Richard Spencer a racist, anyway? Plus, I'll tell you what racism is, and why it's a bad thing, and how it should be fought. And I'll give you my take on racism, and explain why racism is bad, and what it should not be tolerated. Also, if you like it, tweet me and I'll send you a song about it! Thanks for listening, Ben! Timestamps: 1:00 - Is Donald Trump Racist? 2:30 - Is he racist? 3:10 - Is Richard Spencer Racist or Not? 4:15 - Is Black People Better than White People? 5:00 6:40 - Black People Are Better? 7:30 8:40 9:00 Is He a Racist Than White People Better Than White? 11:30 Is He Better Than That? 12:40 Is That a Good Thing? 13:10 15:10 Is He A Racist Or A Better Than Black Or Not A Good Thing Than That Than That Or A Good Or Not That I Think That I Am A Bred Or A Cow Or A Verb? 14:20 16:15 17:15 Is That A Better Representation? 15 And So Much Resting Brought Me Out Of That? Or A Country Or A Gave Me A Better Place? # # That Bred And A Lot More? # That s Not A Verb, I Think So Much So Much Better? #
00:00:24.000It is also my birthday, but of course today is Martin Luther King Day, and I have some Martin Luther King Day recommendations a little bit later in the show.
00:00:30.000I also want to get to everything Trump-related, the fact that Hawaii is not under nuclear assault, as well as this crazy story that somebody put forward about Aziz Ansari, the comedian.
00:00:40.000He's really obnoxious, Aziz Ansari, but the implication that Aziz Ansari is some sort of
00:00:44.000Incipient rapist, and that we all have to lump him in with the rest of the Me Too movement.
00:00:47.000The Me Too movement is really going overboard at this point, something I have feared for a while.
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00:03:03.000That black folks on average may have lower IQs because racial groups differentiate, but that that is a natural thing, and that that has behavioral consequences that cannot be cured by culture.
00:03:13.000You're running some really dicey territory there.
00:03:16.000But the idea that you believe that black people are innately inferior, they're morally inferior, they are inferior by dint of their skin color and their genetics.
00:03:33.000So, when President Trump, for example, said that he didn't condemn the KKK and didn't know who they were, that was a racist thing in my view.
00:03:41.000People say racist— Al Sharpton, when he says things about Jews that are racist or anti-Semitic, those are anti-Semitic things to say.
00:03:48.000When people do racist things, when people discriminate against black people in their businesses or discriminate against black people in their housing, these are racist things.
00:03:57.000I think that what the media are trying to do right now is use the term racist and label people racist, so not actions, not activities.
00:04:04.000I'm always hesitant to label anyone overtly racist, say that the person themselves is completely racist, unless we are suggesting that their entire worldview is dominated by racism.
00:04:14.000Now, there are racists, obviously, whose entire worldview is not dominated by racism.
00:04:17.000But when it comes to public policy, when it comes to public figures, we have to determine what's the usefulness of saying whether somebody is a racist or not.
00:04:24.000Now, there are three reasons why you would say somebody is a racist.
00:04:27.000And I'm going to get to why I'm talking about this and all this in a second.
00:04:30.000There are three reasons why you might suggest that somebody is racist.
00:04:35.000You're saying it because you apply it across the spectrum.
00:04:37.000When someone holds racist views, then you are going to call it out.
00:04:40.000Al Sharpton is a racist, and you think Donald Trump is a racist, or Al Sharpton is a racist, and Richard Spencer is a racist, and Jared Taylor is a racist.
00:04:48.000You're going to try and call out racism wherever you see it, and you're going to label people racist based on their worldview.
00:04:55.000Reason number two is because you're trying to use racism as a baton to wield against somebody.
00:05:00.000So this is when people suggest that everybody on the right is a racist and that's why they can't be trusted, right?
00:05:04.000This is just a political baton that you're using to wield against somebody because racism is the most dangerous charge that you can throw against somebody in public life.
00:05:12.000Right, that if you shout somebody's a racist, you never have to listen to them again.
00:05:16.000Okay, and then there's reason number three.
00:05:18.000Once you label somebody a racist, overall, once you say that Donald Trump, for example, is a racist, which is what the media have been saying over the weekend.
00:05:25.000Once you say Donald Trump is racist, then what you are doing is allowing yourself the ability to avoid evaluating individual instances of racism.
00:05:35.000It allows you the ability to avoid saying whether he just did something racist or whether maybe there is another reason.
00:05:41.000So, for example, if you think Donald Trump is a racist, now every time you talk about his immigration policy, you don't actually have to evaluate whether the immigration policy is bad or good, whether it is being driven by racial considerations,
00:05:52.000Or whether it is just an immigration policy that makes sense for a variety of other reasons.
00:05:58.000Once you call somebody a racist, it allows you the ability to avoid saying what you think is good or bad about a policy.
00:06:05.000It allows you to paint with a broad brush.
00:06:07.000This brings us to Trump's statements last week.
00:06:10.000As we talked about at length on Friday, President Trump is now accused by a bunch of Democrats, and at least one Republican, Lindsey Graham, of saying that people from bleephole countries should not come to the United States.
00:06:21.000Now, there are two ways to read that comment, as I talked about on Friday.
00:06:26.000You're from Haiti, therefore you don't belong here because Haitians cannot assimilate and Haitians are stupid and bad and dirty and have AIDS, right?
00:06:32.000That's sort of the racist way of reading what Trump said and that links in with some accusations.
00:06:37.000The AIDS comment particularly links into an accusation made about Trump in the New York Times back in June in which Trump supposedly said that all Haitians have AIDS.
00:07:05.000And people reading Trump's comments in light of what he said about Mexican judges, for example, they will say, obviously, this is an instance of racism because the president is a racist.
00:07:14.000OK, then there's way two of reading the comments, which is Trump was specifically talking about the diversity visa lottery, where we determine by country who to let in.
00:07:22.000And he was saying, why do we need more people from Ghana as opposed to more people from Great Britain?
00:07:26.000Why do we need more people from Russia as opposed to more people from Great Britain?
00:07:29.000If you're going to make differentiations among countries, then we have to have a hierarchy of countries that we give priority to.
00:07:34.000Why would we have less people from South Korea when we could have more people from South Korea and fewer people from Haiti?
00:07:44.000That way is trying to force people into thinking about which countries are most likely to provide citizens who are most likely to assimilate to American values.
00:07:54.000Now, how you read that comment is basically a Rorschach test on what you think of Trump.
00:07:58.000But what's happened is that the media have been so determined, bound and determined, to hit Trump with the racist charge and read his comments in light of this background that he's a racist, that this prevents them from actually having to make an argument about the diversity visa lottery or about policy.
00:08:13.000I think there's some ulterior motives going on in any case.
00:09:40.000What Senator Durbin and Senator Graham proposed is to expand our country of origin and quota-based system.
00:09:45.000The president reacted strongly against that, as he should, and I do as well, because we want to get away from a country of origin system that treats people as Nigerians or Norwegians and treats them as individuals, as doctors and scientists and computer programmers and so forth.
00:09:59.000I understand your sentiment, you're quite clear on that, but the President's sentiment, you're saying in all of these meetings there was never an instance in which he did what you're saying, where he grouped people in that fashion.
00:10:09.000John, in his tweets, in his interviews, in his public statements, just Tuesday, when we had the large meeting in the cabinet room, he repeatedly insists that we need to move to a skills-based system.
00:10:17.000But you were in the room where it happens, so you're saying in that room you didn't hear any of this sort of lumping everybody together, is that what you're saying?
00:10:24.000I did not hear derogatory comments about individuals or persons.
00:10:29.000Okay, so he's basically not denying the account.
00:10:31.000He's just, he's accounting for it the way that I account for it, right?
00:10:34.000He's trying to explain away what Trump said using this explanation.
00:10:37.000I don't find it completely implausible.
00:10:39.000In a second, I'm going to explain what the New York Times is saying about this, right?
00:10:42.000What the New York Times are trying to do is create this backdrop where Trump is a racist, so we don't even have to evaluate whether the statement itself was racist.
00:10:48.000We don't have to evaluate whether Trump was saying something terrible.
00:10:51.000We can just call him a racist overall.
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00:12:34.000All right, so, as I say, there are a couple of different ways to read Trump's comments, and the goal of the media here is to make it seem as though there's only one way to read Trump's comment, the way in the most racist light possible.
00:13:50.000I don't know which context they were made.
00:13:51.000I'm looking forward to finding out what happened.
00:13:54.000But more importantly, I'm looking forward to— Okay, so the reason that she hesitates before she says yes is because, again, there are two plausible reads.
00:14:00.000It's not just because Republicans are trying to avoid the implication that the president of the United States is a racist.
00:14:05.000It's also because there are actually ways of reading that statement that are not racist.
00:14:10.000What the New York Times is trying to do is now create a narrative whereby Trump is racist, so everything that he says must now be seen in that light.
00:14:17.000Now, do I think that President Trump's entire ideology is dominated by a belief about the differences between races?
00:14:38.000Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my psychological read.
00:14:40.000I don't like doing psychological reads on people, typically, because, again, it prevents you from actually doing a read on particular instances of what the people are saying.
00:14:49.000So here's why I keep citing The New York Times.
00:14:51.000So today, The New York Times has a long piece by David Leonhardt, who is one of the assistant op-ed editors over at The New York Times, called Donald Trump's Racism, the Definitive List.
00:15:01.000This follows hard on a piece from Charles Blow called Just Say It Trump, sorry, by Leonhardt called Just Say It Trump is a Racist.
00:15:07.000In that piece, Leonhardt a couple days ago wrote, Sure.
00:15:19.000Yes, but the definition of a racist, the textbook definition, as Paul Ryan might say, is someone who treats some people better than others because of their race.
00:15:26.000OK, but the because of their race is the entire question.
00:15:29.000Is he treating people differently because of their race or because of some other factor?
00:15:33.000And this is the laziness of the New York Times and the laziness of the left.
00:15:37.000By calling Trump a racist, the idea is that now they don't actually have to evaluate any of these instances on an individual level.
00:16:45.000Leonhardt and the New York Times then name a bunch of instances they call racist where there's no evidence at all that racism is the motivating factor.
00:16:52.000So you remember during the campaign, Trump at one point pointed out a black guy in the audience and he said, there's my African-American over there.
00:17:39.000Trump supported Roy Moore because that was the only candidate left in the race, and because Trump was suckered by Steve Bannon into supporting Roy Moore.
00:17:45.000They say Trump supported Joe Arpaio, and that's because Trump is a racist.
00:17:49.000Okay, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio not because Trump's a racist, but because Trump is hardcore on immigration, and Joe Arpaio was perceived as an immigration hawk.
00:17:56.000Maybe you make the argument it's racist, but that is dubious at best.
00:17:59.000I mean, I'm not sure how you make that argument exactly.
00:18:02.000And then they name instances where Trump was—those are the ones that are even questionable.
00:18:05.000Here are the ones where he's obviously not being racist.
00:18:08.000They say that Trump complains about the growing threat of radical Islamic terrorism abroad.
00:18:41.000Then there are instances that lie somewhere in between, right?
00:18:43.000Instances where it's not clear that this is because of racism, but it's convenient for people to talk about it as though it's because of racism.
00:18:49.000So Trump's birtherism, for example, is that racism?
00:18:51.000Or is it just that Donald Trump is saying that stuff because it was politically useful for him to do so at the time?
00:18:56.000I mean, he basically admitted that he wasn't necessarily a birther.
00:18:59.000He just wanted to pander to the birthers.
00:20:37.000If they don't have to do that, if they can label Trump a racist, and then something comes up that's at best dicey, right?
00:20:44.000The bleephole comments being a case where it's dicey, right?
00:20:48.000I would suggest that he never should have said them because Trump's stupidity and vagueness lead to problems for him on issues like this.
00:20:55.000But they're two plausible reads of the situation.
00:20:57.000Instead of offering the two plausible reads of the situation,
00:21:01.000You see the media immediately jumping to everything he says is racist.
00:21:04.000The media is doing something else here, too, which is if you don't label it racist, the media then labels you racist.
00:21:10.000So the media will take an incident that is dicey, and then they'll say, obviously it's racist because Trump is racist.
00:21:15.000And then if you say, well, but the situation is dicey, they say, no, no, no, you're a racist because you won't label it racist.
00:21:20.000So it's a way for them to claim that there's institutional white privilege and nationalized racism happening whenever people disagree with the media about whether a particular incident is racist.
00:21:28.000So there's an ulterior motive that is going on here from the media that I find really kind of gross with regard to calling President Trump racist.
00:21:36.000I don't think this is coming from an honest place for a lot of people in the media who have not been honest about labeling racism wherever they see it.
00:22:27.000And the deal is going to be that Trump is suggesting that he wants border security, the building of a wall, E-Verify, all of these goodies in return for allowing the Dreamers to stay, basically.
00:23:01.000And that's where they are going with this.
00:23:03.000And Rand Paul hits this pretty much on the head.
00:23:04.000He says, listen, you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody is busy calling Trump a racist.
00:23:10.000But what I regret is I do want to see an immigration compromise, and you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.
00:23:18.000They're actually destroying the setting, and he was a little bit of it, but both sides now are destroying the setting in which anything meaningful can happen on immigration.
00:23:38.000These were not comments that were made in public.
00:23:39.000Trump did not say these things for public consumption.
00:23:42.000That doesn't alleviate the responsibility that he never should have said them, but it does show that the Democrats were leaking this information specifically to sink the DACA talks.
00:23:50.000That was one of the things that they were doing.
00:23:53.000And you see this from Republicans like Jeff Flake.
00:23:55.000So Jeff Flake is beginning to irritate me.
00:23:57.000I like a lot of the things that Jeff Flake has said in the past about the problems with the Trump administration.
00:24:01.000I think a lot of those things are true.
00:24:03.000But Jeff Flake obviously has an ulterior motive.
00:24:06.000So he starts off by saying, Trump said over the weekend, Democrats are negotiating in bad faith.
00:24:10.000The reason that they're making a big deal out of the bleephole comments is because they want to pull out of DACA.
00:24:14.000And Jeff Flake says, no, no, no, the Democrats are negotiating in good faith.
00:24:21.000Those who benefit from this DACA bill will not be able to use chain migration to become citizens.
00:24:29.000We just don't do it for everybody like the President wants to do.
00:24:34.000If we want a comprehensive bill, I'm all in.
00:24:38.000But we can't do a comprehensive bill which will take months and months to negotiate before the March 5th deadline.
00:24:46.000And one thing I do take big issue with the President on is he is saying that the Democrats aren't moving forward in good faith.
00:24:53.000I can tell you I've been negotiating and working with the Democrats on immigration for 17 years, and on this issue, on DACA or on the DREAM Act for a number of years, and the Democrats are negotiating in good faith.
00:25:07.000So Flake says the Democrats are negotiating in good faith, but Flake is not honest, right?
00:25:10.000Flake is not negotiating in good faith.
00:25:12.000Flake is supposed to give a speech on the floor of the Senate today in which he terms Trump's language on the media Stalin-esque.
00:25:37.000But here is Flake suggesting that Trump is just like Stalin or something, but we're supposed to believe that he has no ulterior motive in going after Trump?
00:25:44.000Well, I'm saying that he borrowed that phrase.
00:25:46.000It was popularized by Joseph Stalin, used by Mao as well.
00:25:52.000It should be noted that Nikita Khrushchev, who followed Stalin, forbade its use, saying that that was too loaded, that it maligned a whole group or class of people, and it shouldn't be done.
00:26:06.000I don't think that we should be using a phrase that's been rejected as to loaded by a Soviet dictator.
00:26:13.000Listen, I didn't like the phrase when Trump used it either, but to suggest that Trump is somehow in line with Mao and Stalin is just insane.
00:26:20.000These people are responsible for tens of millions of deaths.
00:26:59.000Okay, so he's basically saying maybe I'll run.
00:27:02.000Okay, so that's the ulterior motive right there.
00:27:04.000So this is why I say when people start throwing around the racism charge, you have to determine whether they're doing it because this is just their honest assessment of the situation or whether there is another goal that is being pursued here.
00:27:14.000Dick Durbin, again, is the guy who leaked the bleephole comments in the first place.
00:27:18.000Again, this is not to absolve Trump of responsibility for saying something intensely stupid in front of Democrats, and maybe quasi-racist, depending on your interpretation.
00:27:27.000But when Dirk Durbin suggests that he is somehow brokering in good faith, that's absurd.
00:27:34.000I mean, he actually said over the weekend that the term chain migration is offensive to people whose ancestors came over in chain.
00:27:41.000OK, the term chain migration, just to briefly explain, the term chain migration means that I come and then, like a chain, I pull in all of my relatives to come into the United States.
00:27:51.000It has nothing to do with physical shackles used upon slaves.
00:27:56.000But here's Dick Durbin, a guy who once compared American soldiers to Pol Pot and the Nazis on the floor of the Senate, suggesting that Trump shouldn't use terms like chain migration because it's offensive to black people.
00:28:05.000...to the issue of, quote, chain migration.
00:28:09.000I said to the president, do you realize how painful that term is to so many people?
00:28:35.000But again, I think that when you're in political situations, it is imperative that you be a little more cynical than just suggesting that everybody is operating in the best of faith and that everyone was so deeply offended that Trump said something.
00:28:49.000Everybody knows who Trump is at this point.
00:28:50.000And the idea that everyone is sitting around being deeply offended at Trump, not using that offense as sort of a faux outrage in order to sink DACA talks is silly.
00:28:58.000Obviously, one thing has very much to do with another here.
00:29:03.000And again, none of this is to deny that Trump has done or said racist things in the past.
00:29:41.000It can't be used as the dispositive statement about every one of their actions.
00:29:45.000You may believe, in other words, that Trump is a racist, but it's still incumbent on you to analyze every one of his actions and determine whether that is a racist action or statement, and not just jump to the conclusion based on your perception of his worldview that you don't have full evidence for, is I think where I would go with that, and I think it's true in everyday life as well.
00:30:02.000Okay, so in just a second, I want to talk about the Me Too movement and where it has gone wildly wrong, because it has now.
00:32:10.000The womansplaining of men's motives, this idea that women can read men's minds and they know that we're all pigs and all evil and all nasty and all terrible and all brutish and all willing to overcome their consent, and that they are always in danger of rape.
00:32:19.000Don't womansplain to me my own mind, okay?
00:32:21.000I'm not going to mansplain to you your mind, but you don't get to womansplain to me my mind either, okay?
00:32:26.000We can have general views of how people should use their rationality, and I think that's perfectly fine.
00:32:31.000But to attribute motivations to men generally,
00:32:34.000I think that the movement to expose these circumstances is a good thing.
00:33:04.000And what I really don't want to happen is I don't want it to get to a place that men start to think, well, maybe it's just better not to have women around.
00:33:15.000Well, and unfortunately, that's the way that it is going, because if every activity by a man can be perceived as sexual assault or sexual harassment, men will stop hiring women.
00:33:25.000This actually happened in the aftermath of the American with Disabilities Act.
00:33:28.000The idea was that if you are a workplace, you now have to install, if you have a disabled employee, you have to install ramps everywhere and all the rest of it.
00:33:34.000You can't just have an elevator or somebody help you up the stairs.
00:33:47.000When she says that consent is being dumbed down, that agency is being dumbed down, this is 100% true.
00:33:52.000Now men are not only supposed to determine whether a woman wants to do something, they're supposed to decide for the woman whether she wants to do something.
00:33:59.000The case in point is this Aziz Ansari case.
00:34:03.000Yeah, Aziz Ansari sounds like a douchebag, and Aziz Ansari, he's one of these guys who wears the Time's Up button and then sounds like he treats women in a kind of trashy fashion.
00:34:12.000But this story is not a story of sexual assault.
00:34:27.000Okay, so Ansari is a nincompoop, as Matt Walsh points out, but
00:34:30.000This woman who calls herself Grace, she met Ansari at the Emmy Awards in 2017.
00:34:35.000She approaches him, he blows her off, but she ends up leaving with Ansari's number in her phone anyway, and then they go on a date, and then Ansari only offers her white wine even though she prefers red.
00:34:45.000Okay, like, presumably she could have said something about it, but then he wants to get her back to his place.
00:34:49.000Okay, now at this point, if you are a person with any semblance of rationality, you're thinking, the guy basically wants to rush through dinner to get me back to his apartment.
00:34:57.000What do you think is going to happen at his apartment?
00:35:00.000Is he desperate to go home and play Parcheesi?
00:35:02.000Does Aziz Ansari really want this woman to go back home with him and they're just gonna play Twister?
00:35:34.000She says he then resumed kissing her, briefly performed certain sex acts upon her, and asked her to do the same thing to him, which she did, but not for long.
00:36:10.000Throughout the course of her short time in the apartment, she says she'd verbal and nonverbal cues to indicate how uncomfortable and distressed she was.
00:36:30.000This idea that you know you were physically giving off cues, unless you were actively pushing him away, the idea that you were physically giving off cues that you're not interested,
00:36:40.000Okay, men are not good with these physical cues.
00:36:42.000You may have thought that you were sitting there saying, no, I'm not interested.
00:36:47.000But if you are not at like, really, to expect him to read your nonverbal cues is insane.
00:36:53.000People are bad at reading each other's cues generally.
00:36:56.000But this is particularly true when hormones are running high and you're in a room naked with each other.
00:37:01.000It turns out that's a pretty big nonverbal cue to a dude that you might want to have sex.
00:37:05.000If you're in a room naked with a guy, making out with him, and performing certain sex acts with one another, we could call that a non-verbal cue that you might be into things.
00:37:55.000That you were in the middle of a sexual evening, and he asked you to perform a sex act that you had already performed earlier in the evening, and then he did it.
00:38:11.000It was like Chris Farley coming back to life and busting through the apartment door.
00:38:14.000Like, that would have been more unexpected, I feel like.
00:38:16.000I feel like a pizza arriving at that moment might have been more unexpected.
00:38:20.000I feel like... I feel like the new episode of Game of Thrones dropping might have been more... Like, there are a few things in life that might have been a little more unexpected than you in the middle of having a bunch of sex acts with a guy, him asking you to perform something, then you doing it.
00:38:30.000Also, which part of the nonverbal cue was it when you started actually performing the sex act?
00:38:35.000Again, the woman can feel however she wants.
00:39:34.000Okay, she says, and she did, she texted him.
00:39:36.000He texted her and said, thanks, it was nice to meet you last night.
00:39:39.000Which, by the way, shows there is something wildly wrong with our sexual culture.
00:39:42.000Right, you literally met and then you had this evening and then you text, it was nice to meet you?
00:39:47.000We've totally reversed the polarity and the order of when you're supposed to have sex in American society.
00:39:52.000The way I grew up was, you get to know a woman, you get to love a woman, you marry a woman, you commit to a woman, and then you have sex with the woman.
00:39:59.000And we've completely reversed all of those things, right?
00:40:01.000Now it's, we'll have sex and maybe it was fun, maybe it wasn't, and I'll text you the next day, maybe.
00:40:06.000And then you're surprised that men aren't picking up the cues?
00:40:09.000Men are stupid, particularly with regard to sex.
00:40:13.000Okay, this is... I'm fully unaware as to when culture... I don't understand when culture decided that men were brilliant with regards to their penises.
00:40:22.000Like, this has never been true in the history of humanity.
00:40:25.000Like, going all the way back to Adam and Eve.
00:40:26.000Like, men are not smart with regard to this stuff.
00:40:28.000But now men are supposed to be Carnac the Magnificent.
00:40:31.000And they're supposed to be able to mind read.
00:40:34.000I mean, really, this is the end of MeToo.
00:40:35.000If you want a MeToo movement that means something, you actually have to restrict bad activity to activity that has some sort of standard.
00:40:42.000And there are people who are tweeting out, well, you know, there are various levels of consent.
00:40:45.000I actually agree that there are various levels of consent.
00:40:48.000Which is why committed relationships are useful.
00:40:50.000And why you shouldn't have sex with men you don't know.
00:40:52.000Because when you know people, then you are more likely to take into account the various levels of consent.
00:40:57.000There are times when women are reluctant to have sex and they're more reluctant and what a man will do if he loves the woman and they have a committed relationship will say, OK, she's more reluctant.
00:41:05.000She'll do it if I push her a little bit and it won't be like I'm raping her, but she's more reluctant and maybe I'll just let it go this time.
00:41:11.000But the guy is like in this situation, she's there for sex.
00:43:15.000Either you are responsible for your own consent or you are not responsible for your own consent, particularly in situations where you don't love the person you're having sex with and it's not in the confines of anything remotely resembling a committed relationship.
00:43:26.000Okay, so now I want to move on to the situation in Hawaii, from one disaster area to another.
00:43:30.000So, over the weekend, there was a false alarm that went out in Hawaii.
00:43:35.000That suggested that there was a nuclear attack imminent in Hawaii.
00:43:48.000It's in the middle of an emergency and people are grabbing their phones to tape the emergency as opposed to, you know, getting to a safe place.
00:43:53.000In any case, here's a little bit of this tape.
00:44:03.000OK, so they're putting the kid in the storm drain, which is just great.
00:44:06.000And then Jim Carrey, of course, blamed Trump, which makes perfect sense, because it's somehow Trump's fault that some idiot in Hawaii, on a state level, hit the button that said that there is a nuclear attack imminent.
00:44:16.000So he said, I woke up this morning in Hawaii with 10 minutes to live.
00:44:19.000It was a false alarm, but a real psychic warning.
00:44:21.000If we allow this one-man Gamora and his corrupt Republican Congress to continue alienating the world, we are all headed for suffering beyond all imagination.
00:44:28.000Then Jim Carrey tweeted out a picture of a mushroom cloud.
00:44:48.000They just moved him to a different area.
00:44:49.000It's so hard to fire government employees that when you send out an alert to your entire state that everyone's about to be nuked in 10 minutes, you retain your job.
00:44:56.000Okay, the government may be too big and too bad at everything that it does.
00:45:00.000So, no, this is not Trump's fault, okay?
00:45:02.000I know you want to blame Trump for everything, but no, this one is actually not Trump's fault, and that's really, really, really, really, really stupid.
00:45:07.000Okay, so time for some things I like and then some things that I hate, and we will do a Federalist paper.
00:45:57.000This is the same thing the left tries to do with George Washington, where George Washington is honored because he's the father of the country, not because he held slaves.
00:46:03.000But they say, well, it's really his slave owners, it's his status as a slave owner that matters.
00:48:24.000It's not something I hate because it's something that I sort of figured.
00:48:27.000I mean, Donald Trump is not, speaking of people who are not particularly smart about where they put their wing-wing, the president definitely falls into that list.
00:50:43.000If that gets in the United States Senate, if Chelsea Manning is in the United States Senate, if that person is in the United States Senate, I mean, just, whatever.
00:50:49.000I guess it wouldn't, let's be frank, it wouldn't decline the quality of the Senate that much.
00:51:39.000By her arms and by her negotiations, by force and by fraud, has in different degrees extended her dominion over them all.
00:51:44.000Africa, Asia, and America have felt successively her domination.
00:51:48.000The superiority she has long maintained has tempted her to plume herself as mistress of the world and to consider the rest of mankind as created for her benefit.
00:53:00.000And Alexander Hamilton talks about it explicitly in Federalist 11, which is quite fascinating and I think appropriate for Martin Luther King Day.
00:53:06.000Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.