Dems impeach President Trump in the House. The media, journalism, and President Trump rally the base. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, hosted by Ben Shapiro. This show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, Stop Putting Your Online Data at Risk, Get Protected at ExpressVPN.org/GetPunished Well, merry impeachment! As those at the Washington Post say each and every day, Merry Impeachment to you, merry impeachmas! It is a very exciting day. The New York Times splashed across its front page, Trump Impeached! And then the Washington Post wrote, Everybody very excited about the impeachment. The House voted 230-197 to impeach, with the gavel falling about 8:30pm right in the middle of the Masked Singer. Then there was that awkward moment where they realized he s not exiting office. And you got that famous gif of Kanye West where he s smiling and then it suddenly goes, Like, um, um. That s kind of a momentous reckoning, isn t it? On Trump s 1,062nd day in office, Congress has brought a momentous reckoning, to an unorthodox president who has tested America s institutions with an array of unrestrained actions, including some that his own appointees and other government witnesses testified were reckless and endangered national security. And you saw Democrats cheering yesterday, right? Well, not gonna happen, nope, not actually. . That is why the impeachment doesn t mean anything, because it s an entirely political act, because they do not run the Senate. And that s tragic, and they don t have a chance to vote in the Senate, and no choice, no matter what they want to do it. You just do it, and it s tragic. -- Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro's take on the impeachment of the President of the United States, and why the President s reckless actions were the best part of this was all a part of the of this and why it is tragic, not the best, and the worst part of that And why the president s is under threat from the White House is under a threat from a republic that didn t give us a choice, and didn t just give us the chance to make us a choice or a , right did it --
00:00:34.000And then the Washington Post, Trump impeached!
00:00:36.000Everybody very excited about the impeachment.
00:00:39.000The Washington Post, Reveled in this, Philip Rucker, Felicia Sanmez, and Colby Itkowitz, the House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to impeach President Trump on charges that he abused his office and obstructed Congress with Democrats declaring him a threat to the nation and branding an indelible mark on the most turbulent presidency of modern times.
00:01:11.000After 11 hours of fierce argument on the House floor between Democrats and Republicans over Trump's conduct with Ukraine, lawmakers voted almost entirely along party lines to impeach him.
00:01:20.000By the way, the only people who did not vote along party lines were the two, three Democrats who voted not to impeach, and Tulsi Gabbard, who abstained from the voting, who voted present.
00:01:32.000Trump becomes the third president in U.S.
00:01:33.000history to face trial in the Senate, a proceeding that will determine whether he is removed from office less than one year before he stands for re-election.
00:01:39.000Um, spoiler alert, nope, not gonna happen.
00:01:43.000According to the Washington Post, on Trump's 1,062nd day in office, Congress brought a momentous reckoning, momentous reckoning, to an unorthodox president who has tested America's institutions with an array of unrestrained actions, including some that a collection of his own appointees and other government witnesses testified were reckless and endangered national Security.
00:02:02.000It's a reckoning, momentous, momentous reckoning.
00:02:05.000And you saw Democrats cheering yesterday and very, very excited about all of this.
00:02:09.000Then there was that awkward moment where they realized he's not exiting office.
00:02:13.000And you got that that famous gif of Kanye West where he's smiling and then it suddenly goes to like.
00:02:19.000That's kind of the Democrats as they realize that the impeachment doesn't mean anything because it's an entirely political act and they do not run the Senate.
00:02:27.000The Democratic-controlled House passed two articles of impeachment against Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, neither of which is a crime, of course.
00:02:33.000The House voted 230 to 197 to approve the article charging abuse of power, with the gavel falling about 8.30 p.m.
00:02:38.000right in the middle of the Masked Singer.
00:02:40.000So you had this bizarre split screen on Fox where they cut into the Masked Singer to show the commentators on Fox News.
00:02:50.000And everybody's like, wait a second, I want to know who the Fox was.
00:02:53.000Why doesn't someone just tell me who the Fox was?
00:03:23.000Solemnity, sadness, and any other S-word you can think of that makes you feel very sober.
00:03:29.000Here is Nancy Pelosi wearing her Emperor Palpatine costume, and then reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, which again, the last time I checked, Democrats wanted to ban from public school classrooms, but here is Nancy Pelosi.
00:03:40.000Very sadly now, our founders' vision of a republic is under threat from actions from the White House.
00:03:47.000That is why today, as Speaker of the House, I solemnly and sadly open the debate on the impeachment of the President of the United States.
00:03:57.000If we do not act now, we would be derelict in our duty.
00:04:01.000It is tragic that the President's reckless actions make impeachment necessary.
00:04:11.000You had a choice, and you just didn't do it.
00:04:13.000Now, the best part, again, of all this was the theatrical stupidity of all this.
00:04:17.000The Democrats pretending that they're very solemn and upset about having to do this, despite the fact that, again, they've spent three years openly screaming for lightning to hit Trump, openly praying That the alligator moat opens up beneath Trump, that Jabba the Hutt's gate opens up and Trump falls down into the Rancor pit, right?
00:04:37.000I mean, that's what they've been praying for, for three long years.
00:04:40.000And finally they did it yesterday and they're like, no, we're not excited about this.
00:05:26.000Impeaching a president is one of the most solemn and consequential.
00:05:30.000I cast a solemn vote for the many individuals in my district.
00:05:33.000Members of Congress swear a solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and today we fulfill our oath.
00:05:44.000Madam Speaker, I rise with a heavy heart.
00:05:52.000It is with a heavy heart, but a resolved one.
00:05:54.000Madam Speaker, it is with a heavy heart and a profound sense of the gravity of this moment that I rise today in support of the impeachment.
00:06:03.000Madam Speaker, I rise with a heavy heart.
00:06:06.000The two most difficult votes any member of Congress ever has to cast to vote to go to war are to impeach.
00:06:52.000What a sober moment in America's history.
00:06:54.000When we have to impeach this guy that we absolutely wish would just effing die.
00:06:59.000Like, man, it's just, wow, it's so sober and so sad and so sober sad.
00:07:05.000By the way, we're gonna show how this was not true in just one second.
00:07:09.000First, let us talk about the fact that it can be very difficult to find the right part for your car.
00:07:15.000Now, if you are car illiterate, the way that I am, this means that very often, when your car breaks down, you drive to some sort of auto body shop, and then, the next thing you know, somebody is selling you a part that is too expensive.
00:07:26.000Or, you go on over to one of the big box stores, and you buy the part, and you come on home, your dad drives you, and you come on home with the part, You open up your car, you go to put it in, and you realize that it is the wrong part, and you have now wasted an hour and a half, and you have to go back and replace it, and then you do it wrong again.
00:09:28.000Here's Nancy Pelosi announcing the impeachment and then.
00:09:31.000If you could see this, which is why you should subscribe, you can see her actually shake off the members of her own party who are openly celebrating.
00:10:09.000How'd you like to see that face coming at you?
00:10:11.000You're the grandchild and you took some cookies from the top shelf and you got that face coming at you.
00:10:15.000I mean, my goodness, that is not a great look.
00:10:18.000OK, so the Democrats very solemn and sober.
00:10:20.000Now, how do they actually feel about this?
00:10:21.000Leave it to Rashida Tlaib, who said that she wanted to impeach the mother rapper.
00:10:26.000To express how Democrats truly felt that she was on her way to the House floor to vote on impeachment and the same crazy lady who went to a Trump rally and was thrown out for screaming at President Trump.
00:10:37.000The same rabid anti-Semite who was so crazily anti-Semitic she voted down a Democratic anti-Israel Proposition because it was too pro-Israel.
00:10:47.000Rashida Tlaib was walking to the floor and she's smiling and laughing.
00:11:40.000Okay, then they get up there and they say just a bunch of crazy things.
00:11:45.000A bunch of crazy things about how if Trump isn't impeached, it's the end of the republic.
00:11:48.000So yesterday, they go on for hours this way.
00:11:51.000Everybody got like one minute to speak.
00:11:53.000And in that minute, It was sort of a game of one-upsmanship.
00:11:56.000On the Democratic side, the game was, how bad can we say Trump is?
00:12:00.000And on the Republican side, the game was, how badly can we say that Trump is being treated?
00:12:04.000And so we got these parallel acts of stupidity where Democrats, on the one hand, were saying, if President Trump is not impeached, he will declare absolute power.
00:12:14.000He will order Executive Order 66 and take over the galaxy.
00:12:19.000He will murder all the Jedi younglings if we don't impeach him, on the one hand.
00:12:24.000And then on the other hand, you have the Republicans being like, this man, this Donald J. Trump, this man has been treated worse than Jesus Christ.
00:12:32.000This man right here, this man has been treated worse than any human being who has ever been treated on the face of the earth.
00:12:38.000Yeah, we've had a few who were shot in office, but aside from that, he has been treated worse than Lincoln, worse than anyone.
00:12:46.000And so we have these two parallel conversations because everything is incredibly stupid and this is a complete waste of time.
00:12:51.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:12:55.000So, you hear crypto and you're like, ooh, that means secret and that probably means bad.
00:12:58.000No, what cryptocurrency is, is basically a digital form of currency that is not manipulable by central governments.
00:13:04.000One of the great threats to your savings is the central government blowing up the spending and then blowing up the inflation rate in order to pay off that spending.
00:13:12.000And that will happen sooner or later in the United States.
00:13:14.000It's one of the reasons why so many people are interested in trading in cryptocurrencies, because once you have enough people trading a cryptocurrency, which is protected by blockchain, it can't be inflated.
00:13:22.000And so it effectively is a form of digital hard assets, like a digital gold.
00:13:27.000So the idea is that if you invest in those sorts of currencies, then at least the government can't manipulate you.
00:13:32.000Well, this is what cryptocurrency does, and this is why maybe you should explore investing in cryptocurrency.
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00:14:30.000Who is sort of an adjunct member of the squad.
00:14:33.000She's not really a member of the squad, but she's sort of like the fifth beetle who really wants to make it into the squad and is never let in.
00:14:40.000So she explains yesterday that if we do not impeach Trump, then we will live in a monarchy or a dictatorship, in which case I suppose that Barron does become an actual baron and eventually becomes president of the United States, which is exciting and odd.
00:14:52.000Here is Representative Jayapal from Washington.
00:14:55.000Without that, we are no longer a democracy, we are a monarchy or a dictatorship.
00:15:02.000And so today, to uphold my oath to constitution and country, I will vote to impeach Donald J. Trump.
00:16:18.000But also, I was interested in doing this well before Ukraine.
00:16:21.000Jackie Speier came out of the woodwork from California.
00:16:24.000Her last brilliant stratagem was that Mitch McConnell should recuse himself in the Senate because Mitch McConnell is going to vote to acquit.
00:16:31.000And obviously, he can't be an impartial juror because The process is not about impartiality as the entirely partisan vote yesterday shows.
00:16:39.000In any case, Representative Speier goes all the way to Hitler.
00:16:43.000If we don't do anything here, then Hitler will take over.
00:16:46.000Here is Jackie Speier explaining that President Trump is like when her parents escaped Hitler, they didn't mean to come to a country where Hitler could rise again.
00:17:45.000Or does it have a picture of sad-faced Joe Biden?
00:17:47.000No, it has a picture of the crying child.
00:17:49.000Do you remember from the immigration debate?
00:17:51.000There's only one problem with that crying child story.
00:17:54.000The crying child was not actually separated from her mom, right?
00:17:57.000So that picture is not even, like, real.
00:18:00.000Okay, it's like a real picture of a person crying, but it is not, in fact, an example of President Trump's evil brutality.
00:18:07.000The Washington Post reported all the way back in June 2018 that the girl's father told the Washington Post his child and her mother were not even separated according to Border Patrol.
00:18:17.000So Al Green busts out this picture, right, of this little girl crying, and he's using that photo.
00:18:25.000And then what does that have to do with Ukraine?
00:19:08.000I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean it's not divisive, but, like, yeah, if you're gonna go to... Like, you're having a fight... I can't imagine breaking this out in a fight with my wife.
00:19:15.000She's like, God, you're just being terrible.
00:20:06.000I could not in good conscience vote against impeachment because I believe President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing.
00:20:10.000I also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting president Must not be the culmination of a partisan process fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country.
00:20:20.000When I cast my vote in support of the impeachment inquiry nearly three months ago, I said that in order to maintain the integrity of this solemn undertaking, it must not be a partisan endeavor.
00:22:16.000You know, like when the Japanese Imperial forces attacked America at Hawaii and killed a thousand Americans, more than a thousand Americans.
00:22:31.000On December 7th, 1941, a horrific act happened in the United States, and it's one that President Roosevelt said, this is a date that will live in infamy.
00:22:41.000Today, December the 18th, 2019, is another date that will live in infamy.
00:22:46.000Just because you hate the president of the United States and you can find no other reason other than the fact that you're so blinded by your hate that you can't see straight that you've decided the only way we can make sure this president doesn't get elected again is to impeach him.
00:23:05.000And then the worst one was Representative Barry Loudermilk from Georgia.
00:23:09.000He gets up and he says, President Trump is being treated worse than Jesus.
00:23:12.000Well, seeing as Jesus was actually crucified and died on the cross, if you're a Christian for his sins, was resurrected, if you're a Jew, just died on the cross, no matter how you slice it, wasn't particularly great for Jesus.
00:23:23.000That trial was not, I would say, like a real great example of due process.
00:23:28.000I'm gonna go with no on the Trump to Jesus comparison on this one.
00:23:34.000Before you take this historic vote today, one week before Christmas, I want you to keep this in mind.
00:23:40.000When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers.
00:23:47.000During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this President in this process.
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00:26:30.000They're saying about what Trump did or what he didn't do.
00:26:33.000What this is really about for most Americans is the media and the Democrats targeting Trump because they hate that Trump is president and they hate that a lot of people voted for him.
00:26:42.000And I think that that's what the polls are showing.
00:26:44.000The polls have cut against this impeachment.
00:26:45.000The Democrats did not prove a bipartisan case.
00:26:47.000They did not even prove criminal conduct.
00:26:49.000Instead, they just threw something against the wall.
00:26:56.000So, President Trump did this huge rally in Michigan last night.
00:27:00.000He got up on stage as soon as they started the vote because it was obvious that this whole thing was going to go in favor of impeachment, that it wasn't going to be stopped.
00:27:08.000Mike Pence began the rally, he introduced the rally, by saying this thing is a complete disgrace.
00:27:13.000So here is the Vice President of the United States saying that this thing is a disgrace.
00:27:19.000You know, what's going on in Washington, D.C.
00:28:03.000Some of us have a quiet room where we sip coffee and think about our lives.
00:28:07.000President Trump has giant rallies filled with supporters where he yells about how he's being smacked around and how he's going to take those hits.
00:28:40.000And we have tremendous support in the Republican Party like we've never had before.
00:28:44.000Nobody's ever had this kind of support.
00:28:48.000Okay, and then he goes on and he says, listen, Democrats right here, they're not declaring their hatred for me.
00:28:52.000They're declaring their hatred for the American voter.
00:28:54.000With today's illegal, unconstitutional, and partisan impeachment, the do-nothing Democrats, and they are do-nothing, all they want to do is focus on this, what they could be doing, are declaring their deep hatred and disdain for the American voter.
00:29:15.000Again, he is correct about this when he says that this is really about the Democrats can't accept what happened in the last election.
00:30:00.000And once Bluto's a rollin', don't stop him.
00:30:03.000So he starts with the insults, the insult comedy.
00:30:05.000So this is another one of President Trump's favorite things to do.
00:30:09.000So he starts off by going after Crooked Hillary.
00:30:11.000You know, you go with the old crowd pleasers, the old favorites.
00:30:14.000He says, Bill is walking around the house calling for Crooked Hillary.
00:30:20.000So what happens is Bill Clinton said to Crooked Hillary, his very dishonest wife, said, Crooked Hillary, do you think he calls her Crooked Hillary or not?
00:32:18.000And then we'll get to the Democratic strategy on impeachment moving forward, which is one of the dumber strategies I have ever heard in my entire life.
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00:36:13.000But President Trump's just reminded us last night that his greatest asset is the fact that the media hate him and the fact the Democrats hate him.
00:36:20.000And his greatest foible is the fact that he cannot stop himself.
00:36:23.000So he starts with the insult comedy at his rally in Michigan, and he starts off with the crooked Hillary bit, which is very funny.
00:36:28.000And then he goes on to the Adam Schiff bit, Which is a little bit less funny, but still kind of funny.
00:37:58.000It is still something that I'm really grieving over.
00:38:01.000This Thanksgiving was really hard and Christmas is harder and I'm going to go back to doing my job and doing a good job for the people of my district.
00:38:10.000Okay, so again, the greatest threat to Trump's re-election is not the Democrats, it's not the media, it's Trump doing this kind of stuff.
00:38:16.000Okay, speaking of the media, the media yesterday just, I mean, they put on their somber, sad, serious, sober faces.
00:38:21.000And they went right along with Nancy Pelosi.
00:38:22.000I had Dana Bash over at CNN going, this was very serious and very grave.
00:38:25.000You could feel the gravity on the floor.
00:38:29.000Yes, I'm sure they were heartbroken, just like the members of the media who are going out and back popping champagne, as we'll show you in a moment.
00:39:00.000It's a sober moment on Capitol Hill, says Wolf.
00:39:03.000In any minute we expect, I think there are about 234 House Democrats.
00:39:08.000They have the majority now since the 2018 election.
00:39:10.000In any moment we expect many, if not most, or even all potentially of them to come to the floor of the House of Representatives and stand with Speaker Pelosi as they begin this procedure, this very serious rebuke of President Trump.
00:39:25.000The impeachment, only the third time in American history it's happened.
00:39:28.000Yeah, it's a somber, somber mood up on Capitol Hill.
00:39:45.000In movies, when they cast movies and when they decide to do wardrobe for movies, they tend to have the garments reflect the interior mood of the person.
00:39:52.000So if you watch the Star- I've made a bunch of Star Wars references, it's on my mind, my kids are into it right now.
00:39:56.000If you watch Emperor Palpatine, when he's Senator Palpatine, he wears blues and reds.
00:40:00.000And then as he becomes Emperor Palpatine, he wears black.
00:40:02.000So yesterday she was in her Emperor Palpatine mood, now she is in her Senator Palpatine mood.
00:40:06.000And she says, no, listen, I'm happy today.
00:43:06.000Like, yeah, we impeached the president.
00:43:08.000Now he's definitely not going to be the... Oh, wait, like now... Oh, like this has to go to the Senate and Mitch McConnell runs the Senate.
00:43:17.000Mitch McConnell went off this morning specifically because Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have decided upon a stratagem.
00:43:26.000Their strategy is that if President, if they do not get the procedures that they like from Mitch McConnell, they may withhold the impeachment articles.
00:43:56.000She announced this, this is actually late last night, maybe we won't convey it, maybe we'll just sit here until we get the impeachment procedures that we want.
00:44:03.000Which is basically like that scene from Blazing Saddles, where the black sheriff, in an attempt to avoid his own lynching, puts a gun to his own head and threatens the townspeople that he's gonna shoot himself.
00:44:14.000Like this is the Democrats going, it's the Democrats saying, if you don't give me what I want, I'm gonna commit suicide!
00:44:21.000If you do not change your procedures on impeachment, we just won't send you impeachment!
00:45:26.000Speaker Pelosi's house just gave in to a temptation that every other house in our history has managed to resist.
00:45:38.000They impeach a president whom they do not even allege has committed an actual crime known to our laws.
00:45:44.000And then McConnell goes on, he's like, and so your plan is to threaten me by not allowing me to hold a trial on the impeachment articles you are so confident of?
00:45:55.000So your pitch is, if Trump isn't impeached, like Chris Matthews says, then he'll do anything to win!
00:46:49.000And not only is this their idiot strategy, they're trotting out their best and brightest to defend this ridiculous idiot strategy.
00:46:57.000They're trotting out Kamala Harris in the Senate.
00:47:00.000So, I don't know, if you've got a functional brain, I do not know how the person you choose to be the face of We Need Fair Procedures is the senator who tried to suggest that Justice Kavanaugh is guilty of a bevy of rapes for which there was no evidence.
00:47:20.000And she started, like, telling their stories in the middle of a Senate hearing to try and thwart Justice Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court.
00:47:58.000As a former prosecutor, I understand the importance of holding powerful people accountable like truant mothers and sending them to prison.
00:48:04.000I know that every trial requires fairness and truth.
00:48:06.000Just like in the Justice Kavanaugh hearings where we didn't do justice and we didn't do truth and we just vomited out a bunch of allegations with no evidence in order to smear a dude because we didn't like his perspective on Roe vs. Wade.
00:48:27.000Like, every time there is a story about a bad foreign policy incident for the Trump administration, supposedly, they trot out, like, Susan Rice to talk about honesty, a person who lied to the American public repeatedly about Benghazi.
00:48:40.000And then when there's a problem in the DOJ, they trot out Eric Holder, who called himself Barack Obama's wingman to talk about honesty in the DOJ.
00:48:47.000And now they're trying to talk about fair hearings on the Senate side?
00:48:50.000And they trot out Kamala Harris, the least fair person in the Senate.
00:48:56.000The lack of self-awareness is just shocking.
00:48:59.000Kamala Harris writes, Having worked my whole life serving the people, I know that any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered just or fair.
00:49:07.000Justice Kavanaugh, 1,000 times Justice Kavanaugh.
00:49:10.000She says, but the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears more interested in covering up the president's misconduct than in pursuing truth and fairness.
00:49:17.000He is already trying to limit the impeachment trial by preventing witnesses from testifying.
00:49:48.000Well, it seems that Nancy Pelosi doesn't want a Senate trial either, since she's not actually just sending it.
00:49:52.000See, they can make these same complaints after McConnell does it.
00:49:55.000This is the part where you notice that the Democrats have nothing because they can complain the same way Republicans did when House Democrats were Shuffling through incredibly narrow rules of order on the impeachment side.
00:50:42.000So there is a great video that was going around from Northwestern University of a special Olympian named Stefan Zita singing the national anthem before a Northwestern, I believe it's a Northwestern baseball game.
00:52:19.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:52:25.000So, Michelle Wolf was so bad at comedying that she lost her job on Netflix, which is nearly impossible to do.
00:52:30.000I mean, Netflix doesn't even release viewership statistics.
00:52:33.000And Netflix had hired her because they didn't have enough left-wingers.
00:52:37.000They needed somebody who was so wildly to the left that they could then brag about how wildly to the left she was.
00:52:43.000Well, she did a comedy routine the other night that really does speak to the difference in tone about abortion that has occurred on the left.
00:52:48.000So, it used to be Every abortion is a tragedy.
00:52:52.000Every abortion, but they're necessary in some circumstances.
00:52:55.000And we can't make that very hard judgment for a woman.
00:52:57.000It's a bad argument, but at least it's an emotionally appealing argument.
00:53:03.000It is not even an emotionally appealing argument.
00:53:05.000It's actually, it's actually just her being extraordinarily evil.
00:53:09.000I mean, what you're about to hear, it does sound like a Nazi eugenic Celebration of the killing of the unborn is what you're about to hear.
00:55:14.000She said it's like Back to the Future and the DeLorean preventing inactivity in the past.
00:55:18.000Yeah, except for the fact that it's already a human life.
00:55:19.000If you want to prevent the formation of that human life in the first place, in the vast majority of cases, we're not talking about rape, we're talking about a consensual sexual activity.
00:55:28.000There's a pretty easy way to prevent pregnancy.
00:55:30.000Birth control does exist, and or, not having sex does exist.
00:55:38.000I mean, this is a shift in the language, in the tone, in the tenor of the left.
00:55:41.000And then you wonder why evangelical Christians support President Trump.
00:55:44.000You don't have to like President Trump's treatment of women.
00:55:47.000You don't have to like the fact that he says nasty things about people.
00:55:49.000You don't have to like a lot of things about the dude.
00:55:51.000But if the alternative is a Democratic Party that thinks that that is funny, a Democratic Party and an entire political wing of the United States that cheers and laughs When a human being says about the killing of an unborn human being that that killing made her feel powerful like God?
00:56:08.000Like that's- I will vote for pretty much anything before I vote for anybody who laughs at that joke.
00:56:18.000I'll vote for pretty much- and evangelical Christians feel the same.
00:56:21.000See what the left wants to do is say you have no moral standards if you vote for President Trump because President Trump is a bad man who's done bad things.
00:56:27.000Okay, well then what does it make you to vote for people who want abortion on demand all the way up to point of birth and who refuse to even acknowledge the humanity of a baby five seconds before it comes through a mother's vaginal canal?
00:56:39.000Like, you're gonna have to explain that one to me.
00:56:42.000Voting for a president who has allegedly sexually harassed women or voting for somebody who has pledged to make abortion on demand not only legal across the country but celebrated in our culture?
00:56:53.000Which seems worse in terms of politics?
00:56:56.000I'm not talking about who you'd rather have babysit your kid.
00:56:58.000I'm not talking about who you'd rather go to dinner with.
00:57:01.000I'm talking about the fundamental principles at stake when you talk about partisan politics.
00:57:07.000In an environment like this, an environment this polarized, this is why, unless the Democrats were willing to push forward an impeachment, That was actually supportable by facts.
00:57:15.000Unless they're willing to push forward an impeachment that was so overwhelming in its criminal standards of proof, this was going nowhere from the outset.
00:57:23.000Because if you think that anyone is going to go along with the Michelle Wolf wing simply because President Trump doesn't know how to talk on phone calls and says dumb crap a lot, you are thinking about this thing all wrong.
00:57:40.000I said in 2016 that the election was not a binary choice, that you could choose to abstain.
00:57:46.000And what I meant by that was that you could say, neither of these candidates meets my preferences, that you could back out of the fight.
00:57:53.000And you could basically say, listen, I don't know which timeline is going to take precedence here, but it's important that we at least signal that we don't like any of the candidates that are on the table, because if you never say no, then you're never going to get to a candidate where you say yes.
00:58:07.000The new reality was created by the 2016 election in part, but 2016 was also a recognition of an underlying reality that a lot of people in politics just didn't want to accept.
00:58:17.000That our politics are fundamentally broken and that there are two separate visions of the country that are increasingly divergent.
00:58:23.000And if the question is, vote Bernie Sanders or vote Elizabeth Warren, who has pledged to wear a Planned Parenthood scarf to her inauguration, or vote for President Trump, That decision is increasingly easy, and Democrats have made it increasingly easy.
00:58:42.000The death of comedy, by the way, is another adjunct to this.
00:58:45.000According to the critics, Michelle Wolf is incredibly funny, but Louis C.K., in the aftermath of the allegations against him, is no longer funny.
00:58:52.000These are the same people who suggest that Hannah Gadsby is a true comedian because she's destroyed the meaning of comedy.
00:58:57.000Is there anything that the left isn't destroying at this point?
00:59:00.000That's not to say that the right is scot-free when it comes to the destruction of American standards.
00:59:51.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:59:54.000You know, some people are depressed because the American Republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching, and the moon has turned to blood.
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