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00:00:15.000Alrighty, so many amazing things happening.
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00:02:12.000Okay, so the big news yesterday is that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, got up and did a 20 minute speech in which he announced that Israel had done something unbelievable.
00:02:22.000Mossad had somehow gotten a hold of 100,000 physical files from the Iranian government about their nuclear program.
00:02:53.000The fact that these files had been smuggled to a secret location demonstrates something else, which is that Iran had no intention of dismantling its nuclear program, as Barack Obama seemed to suggest.
00:03:02.000Instead, they were just taking all of their files, moving them to the back room, continuing on with their secret nuclear program, probably, or at the very least, putting other parts of that nuclear program on hold for the moment while they develop all the technology, all the centrifuges and all of the ballistic missile technology.
00:03:17.000And then in 10 years, after the deal is signed, so now eight years,
00:03:20.000Once that happens, they go right back to where they left off.
00:03:27.000That is the point of the Iran deal from where the Iranians stand.
00:03:30.000That's always what people who have opposed the Iran deal have claimed is what the Iranians were attempting to do in the Iran deal.
00:03:36.000And now it's been pretty well documented.
00:03:38.000Here's what it looked like yesterday and sounded like when Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in front of the world about the files that they had gotten ahold of from the Iranians.
00:03:46.000Well, tonight I'm here to tell you one thing.
00:04:03.000So why exactly did they bother hiding the nuclear files if, in fact, they were intent on dismantling their nuclear program or even on putting it on hold?
00:04:10.000Why would they smuggle those files to someplace secret?
00:04:13.000Why would they continue to have a defense program staffed by exactly the same people who are running the nuclear program if they put their nuclear plans on hold?
00:04:20.000And the answer, of course, is they are lying.
00:04:22.000And at the very least, they are planning to reinitiate that nuclear program as soon as the deal is up or at the very most,
00:04:27.000They may be pursuing nuclear plans in secret.
00:04:29.000Here's Netanyahu talking a little bit about the smuggling of the files.
00:04:34.000In 2017, Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran.
00:04:40.000This is the Shorabat district in southern Tehran.
00:04:44.000This is where they kept the atomic archives.
00:04:51.000Now, all of the Obama acolytes are claiming that we already knew all of this stuff, that we knew that Iran was lying about its nuclear weapons for years.
00:04:57.000That's why we tried to sign the Iran deal in the first place, because we knew that they'd been developing nuclear weapons.
00:05:02.000Why would we have attempted to sign a deal with people if we thought that they weren't developing nuclear weapons?
00:05:07.000Okay, fair enough, except for the fact that Iran then lied to the International Atomic Energy Agency when it came time to make the deal.
00:05:13.000So one of the provisions of the deal is that Iran had to give all the details up of what exactly they'd been doing with their nuclear program in order for the deal to go through.
00:05:25.000Because again, they plan on opening those files right back up as soon as this deal is up and then developing a nuclear weapon within six months.
00:05:33.000The fact that all of the Obama friends are out there defending Iran today and suggesting that Iran is honest and that Bibi Netanyahu is a liar tells you pretty much what you need to know about the Obama folks.
00:05:42.000That Iran deal, which is an awful, awful deal, does not include ballistic weapons technology, so it means that the Iranians can continue to develop long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles without violating the terms of the Iran deal.
00:05:53.000It does not cover the use of money given by the West back to Iran for purposes of terrorism, and so Iran has funneled an enormous sum of cash to Bashar Assad in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:06:03.000The Iran deal did not cover any of that.
00:06:05.000Obama and Kerry openly admitted that we, the United States, are currently funding Iranian terror projects, that that is something that is currently happening.
00:06:12.000And yet we are told that that Iran deal is so important that we have to maintain it.
00:06:16.000We're told it's really deeply important for us to maintain the Iran deal.
00:06:19.000In a second, I'm going to make the case for those on the right who say we shouldn't maintain the Iran deal versus those who say we should just scrap the thing.
00:06:25.000But it is important to note the other place in which the Obama administration lied.
00:06:29.000They lied openly, openly about the supposed moderation of the Iranian regime.
00:06:33.000So the story that was sold by Ben Rhodes, who is a fiction writer, who somehow ended up as national security advisor under Barack Obama.
00:06:40.000All these people who say that Trump surrounds himself with unqualified people.
00:06:44.000There's no way in the world that Jared Kushner is less qualified than Ben Rhodes because it's impossible for anyone to be less qualified than Ben Rhodes.
00:06:50.000Ben Rhodes went from writing bad short stories that were unpublished in his Brooklyn apartment to being National Security Advisor because Barack Obama was friends with him.
00:06:58.000And then Ben Rhodes constructed an entire narrative sold by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who is a garbage human being and a terrible reporter, the same guy who fired Kevin Williamson.
00:07:54.000The Obama administration lied about the Iran deal and they did it routinely.
00:07:57.000So, the question is why is Bibi doing this now?
00:07:58.000The answer is that Bibi is doing this now.
00:08:00.000The Israeli Prime Minister is revealing these documents right now because Netanyahu is attempting to make the case for scrapping the Iran deal two weeks
00:08:07.000Before the Trump administration has to decide whether or not to recertify the Iran deal.
00:08:11.000And the Israelis have been coordinating with the Americans all throughout this process.
00:08:15.000It turns out that Netanyahu told Trump about all of these documents two months ago, and shockingly, Trump actually kept his mouth shut about them, which is pretty amazing in and of itself.
00:08:24.000The Israeli ambassador says that the U.S.
00:08:26.000has shared the documents with the United States, and in fact, the U.S.
00:08:31.000I can guarantee you that if people had that information in 2015, this deal would have never happened at the time because it shows there's hard evidence there that Iran has a military nuclear program and that it falsified all their reports to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
00:08:48.000What Netanyahu did today, he did not present simply a smoking gun, he presented a smoking bomb.
00:08:55.000Okay, and there's something else that's happening in the Middle East, too, and you have to be reading all of the tea leaves to see what's really happening here.
00:09:00.000There is a Sunni alliance that is forming against the rise of Shia Iran.
00:09:04.000That is exactly what is happening here.
00:09:05.000Now, does this mean that the United States is going to go to war with Iran?
00:09:08.000No, it doesn't mean the United States is going to go to war with Iran.
00:09:10.000I don't think that President Trump is interested in using American military might in order to topple the Iranian regime.
00:09:17.000In fact, I think there's a pretty good case that the United States should not be involved in using military force in order to topple the Iranian regime, if there's any way to avoid it.
00:09:24.000That's why I think that Trump is taking a step back, and he's basically saying, let's weaken the Iranian regime, and then if Israel has to do what Israel has to do, then they have to do what they have to do.
00:09:31.000And they've obviously been working hand-in-glove with the Saudis.
00:09:42.000He came forward and he said that the Palestinians basically ought to take whatever the Trump administration offers them in a deal with Israel or sit down and shut up.
00:09:50.000And the reason that they're saying this is because the Trump administration has said to everyone in the region, look, you want to stop Iran, you're going to have to get on the same page.
00:09:57.000Hey, you have to stop using the Palestinians as a baton to wield against the Israelis.
00:10:11.000So what we have now is a working alliance between Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Israel against Iran.
00:10:17.000And that alliance has been formulated with the end of the Iran deal in mind.
00:10:20.000I'd be very surprised at this point if the Trump administration does not, in fact, tip over the Iran deal in a couple of weeks.
00:10:25.000Now, the case against tipping over the Iran deal is that Iran is, quote unquote, abiding by the agreement, which means that they are not actively developing their nuclear program for the moment.
00:10:44.000There's a bit of a foreign policy snafu there because Obama has, of course, put the onus on the West, not on the Iranians, to prove that Iran is lying, which is, I think, kind of ridiculous because Iran has been lying continuously about this stuff for decades.
00:10:57.000And so the question becomes, OK, what happens after that?
00:11:00.000And the answer is that once the sanctions are reinforced, once the Iran deal is off the table, the real purpose of that is to allow Israel to work with Saudi Arabia to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:11:16.000I think the chances of that spiraling out of control with the Iranians attacking the United States, for example, they'd be fools to do so.
00:11:22.000And the Russians are not going to jump in against the Israelis and the Saudis because they understand that that would precipitate American military action.
00:11:27.000So, this would be probably a very contained military response by Israel and by Saudi Arabia,
00:11:32.000Which should have been pursued years and years and years ago if this Iran deal were to end.
00:11:36.000If it's not to end, my guess is the only reason for doing that is because they haven't come up with a foolproof military plan at this point.
00:11:42.000And so the goal here is to kick the can down the road until they actually have something ready to go.
00:11:47.000Well, with all of that, and I have, I think, a pretty good sign that what I'm saying is true, which I'll explain to you in just one second.
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00:13:34.000I've said that I think the indicators are pretty good that the White House is going to pull out of the Iran deal.
00:13:40.000Well, yesterday there was a statement that came out from the press secretary, the office of the press secretary from the White House, and here's what it said.
00:13:46.000The United States is aware of the information just released by Israel and continues to examine it carefully.
00:13:51.000This information provides new and compelling details about Iran's efforts to develop missile-deliverable nuclear weapons.
00:13:56.000These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known.
00:13:58.000Iran has a robust clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people.
00:14:04.000Okay, so there are a bunch of reporters who pointed out this is a pretty stunning statement, right?
00:14:08.000They're not saying that Iran had a robust clandestine nuclear weapons program.
00:14:12.000They're saying that it has an active weapons program, which would obviously be a violation of the deal and mean that we have to pull out of the deal immediately.
00:16:05.000I think it was the right initiative at the time, based on the evidence that he had in front of him.
00:16:09.000But, yeah, again, this sort of Papu-Canaanite, this is a war on behalf of the Jews routine, I don't think that's right, especially because as Iranian influence goes in the region, that threatens a lot of American interests aside from Israel, including Saudi Arabia, including the fate of Europe, including American troops that are stationed around the world.
00:16:24.000Iran developing this sort of technology is extraordinarily dangerous, especially considering that Iran has such
00:16:29.000Now, meanwhile, in other news, I just have to comment on Maxine Waters.
00:16:31.000So, Maxine Waters came out yesterday, and she was talking about Kanye West.
00:16:46.000I'm growing tired of talking about Kanye West.
00:16:48.000I think that Kanye West did something great, and over the past few days he's been tweeting out quotes from Thomas Sowell, and all of that's really good.
00:16:54.000Do I think Kanye is a political expert?
00:16:56.000No, I don't think he's a political expert, but again, kudos to Kanye for attempting to have conversations about politics in a fashion that doesn't fit directly into the jigsaw puzzle that the Democrats have built for him.
00:17:08.000He's been saying that, you know, you should think for yourself on politics.
00:17:10.000He's been saying that we don't have to be stuck on a particular political plantation.
00:17:14.000Honestly, good for him for saying all of that.
00:17:18.000The representative from California who is one of the more doltish members of Congress.
00:17:21.000I mean, she's really a stupid human being.
00:17:24.000Maxine Waters tore into Kanye West and here's what she said.
00:17:26.000She said, quote, Kanye West is a very creative young man, but we also think that sometimes West talks out of turn and perhaps he needs some assistance in helping him to formulate some of his thoughts.
00:17:36.000You see, Kanye West needs Maxine Waters to guide him because he's too stupid.
00:17:39.000We don't think that he actually means to do harm, but we're not sure he really understands the impact of what he's saying at the time that he's saying it and how that weighs on particularly African American community and for young people in general.
00:17:49.000And then she continued, quote, I understand that he is getting pushback from a lot of young people on the Internet, but we're hopeful that his creativity will continue to be demonstrated in his work.
00:17:57.000And I think maybe he should think twice about politics and maybe not have so much to say.
00:18:02.000So, this is pretty amazing because she's essentially telling Kanye West to shut up and sing.
00:18:06.000That's exactly what that last sentence is.
00:18:08.000He should think twice about politics and maybe have not so much to say.
00:18:11.000And he should continue to show his creativity in his work.
00:18:25.000First of all, for her to claim that anyone is ignorant is insane.
00:18:27.000Again, Maxine Waters is one of the more corrupt, stupid members of Congress.
00:18:32.000This is a woman who, while she was sitting on the House Financial Services Committee, was named by Judicial Watch the most corrupt member of Congress, I think, four times because she was attempting to use the House Financial Services Committee, allegedly, to funnel money and make exceptions for her husband's bank, One United Bank.
00:18:59.000She promoted abortion by saying, I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.
00:19:03.000Which is a good reason for you not to march, because if your mom had had an abortion, you wouldn't be there.
00:19:09.000But again, Maxine Waters, the entire left, a lot of folks on the left, very, very upset with Kanye West for daring to step outside of the typical box that has been built for all of these folks on the left.
00:19:20.000If you're in Hollywood, this box has been built for you.
00:19:22.000If you are a black person, this box has been built for you.
00:19:25.000And so if you step outside the box, then Maxine Waters will clock you.
00:19:29.000Again, if you step outside any box, the left will clock you.
00:19:31.000And the resistance to this, I think, is growing exceedingly strong.
00:19:33.000And there are a lot of people right now who are feeling like, you've been hemming me in.
00:19:36.000I think, by the way, a lot of Trump's appeal in 2016 was based on the idea that he was breaking out of the box of political correctness.
00:19:42.000I think a lot of the stuff he said wasn't politically incorrect.
00:19:54.000Made a huge mistake politically by reinforcing the perception of a lot of Americans that the left wants to build a small box for you to live in and if you go outside the box, then she will call you a deplorable.
00:20:04.000And Donald Trump said, listen, I hate boxes.
00:20:17.000I think Kanye West is one of the people feeling the appeal of that.
00:20:20.000Now, does there still have to be some sort of box for acceptable opinion and unacceptable opinion?
00:20:24.000I think most people agree that not all opinion is created equal and not all opinion is equally valuable, but I
00:20:31.000I think that if we're going to err on the side of the size of the box, we have to err on the side of a large box, a box that fits a lot of opinions.
00:20:37.000And again, a black person saying they want to vote Republican or consider Republican voting is not the end of the world.
00:20:44.000And it's also worth noting that there's a lot of disinformation being put out by the Democratic left in an attempt to win Kanye West back.
00:20:51.000Like, they keep putting out the myth that the Republican and Democratic parties switched places on race in the 1960s.
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00:23:09.000The good news is that while the left may be attempting to box everybody in with identity politics, they are also attempting to revivify the ghost of Karl Marx.
00:23:17.000So the New York Times has written a bunch of pieces in the last year about why Marxism is awesome.
00:23:22.000Which is pretty amazing, because then they charge you a pretty high subscription fee to be over at the New York Times.
00:23:26.000But they've written op-eds in the last year titled, When Communism Inspired Americans, Socialism's Future May Be Its Past, and Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.
00:23:36.000Which seems wildly untrue, considering that the better sex under socialism of China involves forced abortion, which seems like that might kill the mood a little bit.
00:23:46.000In any case, there's another piece out yesterday that I just love from a guy named Jason Barker.
00:23:50.000He's an associate professor of philosophy over at South Korean University.
00:23:56.000And the piece is called, Happy Birthday Karl Marx, You Were Right.
00:24:00.000And there's a picture of a giant statue of Karl Marx.
00:24:02.000And not only was Karl Marx not right, Karl Marx's idiotic philosophy led to the deaths of well over 100 million people during the 20th century alone.
00:24:10.000So, if that's right, then I don't want to be right anytime soon.
00:24:14.000But here is what this professor writes.
00:24:16.000He writes, On May 5, 1818, in the southern German town of Trier, in the picturesque, wine-growing region of the Moselle Valley, Karl Marx was born.
00:24:24.000At the time, Shur was one-tenth the size it is today, with a population of around 12,000.
00:24:28.000According to one of Marx's recent biographers, Jürgen Neff, Shur is one of those towns where, although everyone doesn't know everyone, many know a lot about many.
00:24:35.000Such provincial constraints were no match for Marx's boundless intellectual enthusiasm
00:24:40.000Rare were the radical thinkers of the major European capitals of his day that he either failed to meet or failed to break with on theoretical grounds.
00:24:47.000And then he talks about all of his intellectual influences.
00:24:50.000And he says, in 1837, Marx reneged on the legal career that his father, himself a lawyer, had mapped out for him and immersed himself instead in the speculative philosophy of G.W.F.
00:25:01.000If you've never read Hegelian philosophy, don't worry about it.
00:25:03.000It's incredibly abstruse and difficult to read, but the basic idea of Hegelian philosophy is that God is present in history and that history is essentially a progression from synthesis, from thesis and antithesis to synthesis.
00:25:16.000In other words, there's one position, the opposite position, they fight with each other and the result is a synthesis of the best of both positions.
00:25:22.000And therefore history is constantly moving in a progressive direction.
00:25:24.000That is Hegelianism in two sentences right there.
00:25:27.000Okay, but what Marx took from that is that history was going to move inevitably away from capitalism and instead toward communism.
00:25:53.000And here's what Barker writes, As we reach the bicentennial of Marx's birth, what lessons might we draw from his dangerous and delirious philosophical legacy?
00:26:00.000What precisely is Marx's lasting contribution?
00:26:03.000Today, the legacy would appear to be alive and well.
00:26:06.000If by alive and well you mean the Soviet Union no longer exists after a century of oppression, and that the Chinese have embraced non-Marxist philosophy, and that the last standing vestige of true Marxism on planet Earth is probably in Cuba and North Korea, two gulag states, then sure, everything is going great for Marxism.
00:26:21.000Oh yeah, and there's Venezuela also, which has just been a boon.
00:26:41.000I believe he meant that educated liberal opinion is today more or less unanimous in its agreement that Marx's basic thesis that capitalism is driven by a deeply divisive class struggle in which the ruling class minority appropriates the surplus labor of the working class majority as profit is correct.
00:26:56.000Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx's conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.
00:27:03.000Well, okay, a couple of things that are wrong with this.
00:27:04.000One, Marx's basic theory, which is that rich people exploit poor people for their own profit, is idiotic.
00:27:10.000Okay, unless you can demonstrate that there is force that is being used.
00:27:13.000The fact is that capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than anything else in the history of humanity, and it is not close.
00:27:51.000Marx arrives at no magic formula for exiting the enormous social and economic contradictions that global capitalism entails.
00:27:57.000What Marx did achieve, however, through his self-styled materialist thought, were the critical weapons for undermining capitalism's ideological claims of the only game in town.
00:28:06.000So, what exactly does he say is the way that capitalism is going to fall, Marx, according to this professor in the New York Times celebrating Marx?
00:28:12.000Well, Marx was convinced that capitalism would soon make relics of all of these workers, all these various types of workers.
00:28:20.000The inroads that artificial intelligence is currently making into medical diagnosis and surgery, for instance, bears out the argument in the manifesto that technology would greatly accelerate the division of labor or the de-skilling of such professions.
00:28:31.000Okay, first of all, here he has picked an incredibly poor example.
00:28:33.000My wife, as mentioned many times on the show, is a doctor.
00:28:36.000The fact that she is capable of using medical technology to diagnose has made her a better doctor.
00:28:42.000It has not declined, it has not reduced the demand for doctors.
00:28:45.000We still have a shortage of doctors in the United States, largely thanks to the regulatory policies of the federal government.
00:29:15.000Instead, we could have a classless, stateless society that would come to define both Marx and Engels' idea of communism and, of course, the subsequent and troubled history of the communist states that materialized during the 20th century.
00:29:27.000He says, There is still a great deal to be learned from their disasters, but their philosophical relevance remains doubtful, to say the least.
00:29:32.000So, just to get this straight, according to this particular professor of philosophy at a South Korean university writing in the New York Times, The history of Marxism can be completely separated off from the history of the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and every other state that has attempted state-sponsored communism.
00:29:49.000None of that has any philosophical relevance.
00:29:51.000They're sort of historical curiosities.
00:29:53.000Weird that they all thought they were interpreting Marx too.
00:29:55.000But apparently this guy is the only guy who understands Marx.
00:30:16.000He says, the key factor in Marx's intellectual legacy in our present-day society is not philosophy, but critique, or what he described in 1843 as, quote, the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
00:30:27.000Ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at,
00:30:30.000And in the sense of being just as little afraid of the conflict with the powers that be.
00:30:45.000Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Me Too owe something of an unspoken debt to Marx through their unapologetic targeting of the eternal truths of our age.
00:30:53.000Such movements recognize, as did Marx, that the ideas that rule every society are those of its ruling class, and that overturning those ideas is fundamental to true revolutionary progress.
00:31:03.000We have become used to the go-getting mantra that to effect social change we first have to change ourselves, but enlightened or rational thinking is not enough.
00:31:10.000Since the norms of thinking are already skewed by the structures of male privilege and social hierarchy, even down to the language we use.
00:31:16.000Changing those norms entails changing the very foundations of society.
00:31:19.000So in just a second, I'm going to explain what I just said there.
00:31:22.000Why those two paragraphs are deeply, deeply important.
00:31:26.000First, you're going to have to go over to dailywire.com and subscribe.
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00:32:56.000So, back to this piece from the New York Times.
00:32:59.000What is admitted in this piece upholding Marxism is something really stunning.
00:33:02.000What he basically is saying is that when you look at all these ethnic solidarity movements, or the female solidarity movement, or any of these identity politics movements, these are newfangled attempts to use Marxist critiques to bring down society.
00:33:16.000If you go back to the 1960s and you look at the work of a lot of members of the Frankfurt School, people like Herbert Marcuse,
00:33:21.000And if you read them, what they are saying is that the new stand-ins for the lower classes that are going to rise up, the proletariat, who are going to rise up and take over the system, instead of doing it by class, he says, we're going to separate you by racial group.
00:33:34.000We're going to say that you black people have been victimized by American society, and you gay people have been victimized by American society, and you Hispanic people, and you Jewish people, and you women, and you transgenders, you've all been hurt by American society, now rise up and tear down your oppressor.
00:33:48.000The new Marxist revolution is happening, but it's not happening on the basis of class.
00:33:51.000It's happening on the basis of identity.
00:34:26.000When we have a socialist utopia in which income is redistributed and in which people at the top are stamped on and people at the bottom are uplifted, then there will be no more racism, there will be no more sexism, there will be no more homophobia and transphobia.
00:34:42.000Well, that was the message that was being put forth by all of the advocates of identity politics who originally started the identity politics advocacy in the 1960s and 70s.
00:34:52.000So Bernie is just spouting what he knows from his 1960s commune time.
00:34:57.000But the identity politics advocates, they say, well, Bernie is not paying enough attention to us.
00:35:02.000The Marxists aren't paying enough attention to us.
00:35:05.000Even if we tear down the current capitalist system and we put in its place a socialist system, that's not enough.
00:35:10.000Identity politics, tribalism actually overcomes Marxism in their rubric.
00:35:16.000And so what you're seeing right now, and it's fascinating to watch, is an ongoing fight between the identity politics wing of the Democratic Party and the Marxist wing of the Democratic Party.
00:35:23.000And they're going to war with each other, even though the Marxist wing created the identity politics wing.
00:35:30.000But it is important to note that the goal of all of this, the common cause, is to tear down the capitalist system, to tear down the social hierarchies, the supposed social hierarchies based on race, not on merit.
00:35:41.000What exists in the United States right now is a meritocracy.
00:35:43.000What exists in the United States, by and large, without government regulation, is a free and open country where you can fall or rise on your own merit.
00:35:52.000But Marxists believe that all of that has to fall, and they are using identity politics as a tool in tearing down the social order.
00:35:59.000The final paragraph from Jason Barker over at the New York Times is pretty amazing.
00:36:02.000He says, First of all, it's hard to say what exactly that's supposed to mean.
00:36:13.000You know, I do judge all the individuals around me, not based on how much money they make, but whether they are good people.
00:36:18.000In fact, that's been a religious principle since the beginning of religion.
00:36:21.000You're supposed to judge people not on the amount of money that they make.
00:36:23.000You're not supposed to judge their worth by their income, but by how they are as human beings.
00:36:28.000But Marxism says that we can somehow quantify that in such a way that we can pay people in accordance with their virtue, which is really weird and I think untrue.
00:36:37.000But Barker concludes, Marx, as I have said, does not offer a one-size-fits-all formula for enacting social change, but he does offer a powerful intellectual acid test for that change.
00:36:46.000On that basis, we are destined to keep citing him and testing his ideas until the kind of society that he struggled to bring about and that increasing numbers of us now desire is finally realized.
00:36:53.000So we're just going to keep repeating Marx's routine until Marx's dream is realized.
00:36:58.000Marx's dream was realized, and it was a dystopian nightmare.
00:37:01.000But the New York Times and leftists all over the world refused to recognize that, because that is their last best hope.
00:37:06.000They tried bureaucratic centralization and top-down running things.
00:37:14.000That didn't work in the early 20th century.
00:37:22.000Hitler, too, began by being entranced with some of the ideas of Marx and Hegel.
00:37:27.000All of these things were left-wing movements.
00:37:28.000By European standards, they became right-wing movements because they became counter-communist.
00:37:32.000But that does not mean that by American standards, these were right-wing movements.
00:37:35.000OK, fascism, Italian fascism, if placed in the United States, would have been much closer to FDR than it would have been close to Wendell Willkie.
00:37:41.000And the same thing is true of Hitler's politics.
00:37:43.000But the fact is that the left is never going to let go of the Marxist dream because the left looks at human beings and they say, human beings suck.
00:37:50.000The only way to transform them is by transforming the system.
00:37:53.000Religion looks at human beings and says, human beings suck.
00:37:55.000The only way to transform human beings is for human beings to transform themselves and to become better human beings.
00:38:59.000The latest case in point here is white residents of New York City's Upper West Side complaining about the idea that they're going to have to take in a bunch of low-income minority people into their schools.
00:39:09.000So the College Fix is reporting that Raw Story, which is not a right-leaning news organization, caught this meeting on tape.
00:39:15.000There's a meeting of residents in New York's Upper West Side, a meeting of the local school district.
00:39:20.000And progressive parents find out that their schools will soon have to reflect the demographics of New York as a whole, and the schools in the area are currently predominantly white, and they get really mad.
00:39:28.000Watch as these white parents become very upset about the idea of having to allow low-income minority children into their schools.
00:39:35.000An emotional meeting on the Upper West Side.
00:39:37.000Parents objecting to a proposal to require each of the 17 local middle schools to reserve a quarter of their seats for students scoring below grade level on state English and math exams.
00:39:48.000Some parents warning that high-performing students would be shut out of the most desirable schools.
00:39:54.000You're talking about telling an 11-year-old you worked your butt off and you didn't get that, what you needed or wanted.
00:40:01.000You're telling them you're going to go to a school that's not going to educate you in the same way you've been educated.
00:40:11.000Okay, so I love that all of these people who presumably voted for Bill de Blasio and love the idea of forced busing so long as it's not in their neighborhood, as soon as it comes into their neighborhood, then it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:40:22.000These are the same people who say that everyone down south is racist, but on the Upper West Side of New York, they're saying, we don't want those low-income black kids in our school because it's going to ruin our school.
00:40:30.000This is, by the way, is why I believe that public education in general is a serious problem that has to be rectified by local answers.
00:40:37.000It can't be rectified by government at a broader level.
00:40:40.000Because all that's going to happen, by the way, here's what's really going to happen, is that there will be demographic changes in these schools.
00:40:45.000The parents will just pull their kids out and put them in private school.
00:40:47.000That's exactly what's going to happen because that's what's been happening in the United States for years and years and years and years, beyond which I'm not sure that the schools are generally the problem.
00:40:55.000I think that very often the circumstances in which people grow up are much more defining as to whether you're going to be a success later in life than the school to which you went as an elementary school student.
00:41:35.000I'm not sure the people on the Upper West Side who say that I'd be horrible for saying that are allowed to say that.
00:41:39.000All the people on the Upper West Side who are listening to this, if you think that it's horrible and racist to suggest that maybe I should be able to put my kid where I want to put my kid in school, and that kids should have school vouchers so they can go where they want to school,
00:41:53.000If you think that that is racist and awful, let me just suggest that if you go to your local school meeting and rant and rave about a bunch of black kids coming to your school because you think it's going to lower the educational credentials of your school, maybe you ought to take a look in the mirror.
00:42:03.000Maybe you ought to take a look in the mirror.
00:42:05.000I'm not suggesting those black kids can't come to your school.
00:42:08.000In fact, I think they should be able to pay to come to the school with vouchers.
00:42:11.000I'm suggesting that there are these gated communities that exist with public tax dollars that are a serious problem in a lot of these areas, and that your objection on the left to people going to private school is really an objection that you should be applying to yourself, because at least people who go to private school aren't taking advantage of public money to send their kids to gated communities.
00:42:39.000Okay, so, on Monday, there's a new report from the New York Times, and it revealed dozens of questions.
00:42:43.000Special Counsel Robert Mueller wanted to ask President Trump if he agrees to an interview for the Russia Probe.
00:42:47.000So this is reported by Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.
00:42:51.000Some of the questions Mueller reportedly wants to ask Trump include, what did you know about phone calls that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn made with the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016?
00:43:02.000What did you know about Sally Yates' meetings about Mr. Flynn?
00:43:04.000How was the decision made to fire Mr. Flynn?
00:43:06.000What was your opinion of James Comey during the transition?
00:43:09.000What did you think about Comey's intelligence briefing on January 6, 2017 about Russian election interference?
00:43:15.000What was the purpose of your calls to Mr. Comey?
00:43:19.000Now, here is the big problem with all of this.
00:43:22.000There is pretty much not a lot here about supposed connections to Russia.
00:43:26.000So here's some of the questions being asked about the original Trump-Russia collusion.
00:43:31.000Remember, this whole investigation was originally about the idea that Vladimir Putin had been working with Donald Trump to steal the election.
00:43:37.000Here are some of the questions he's going to ask.
00:43:38.000When did you become aware of the Trump Tower meeting?
00:43:40.000This is the one between Donald Trump Jr.
00:43:42.000and a couple of Trump officials and a Russian lawyer.
00:43:45.000What involvement did you have in the communication strategy, including the release of Donald Trump Jr.'
00:43:50.000During the 2013 trip to Russia, what communication and relationships did you have with the Agalarovs and Russian government officials?
00:43:56.000During the campaign, what did you know about Russian hacking, use of social media, or other acts
00:44:05.000So, we'll have to see whether this is more aimed at collusion or whether this is more aimed at obstruction.
00:44:11.000It seems like very little of it is aimed at the collusion, because if they actually had evidence of collusion, then they'd be going after Trump and his people already, I assume.
00:44:18.000I mean, if they actually had evidence of conspiracy to violate campaign law, then I assume they would already be going after people, so this really goes to intent.
00:44:55.000So I have many thoughts on Avengers Infinity War.
00:44:58.000And if you haven't seen the movie yet, now is the time for you to cut short today's podcast and then go back and listen to it a little bit later after you've actually seen the movie if you're one of the five people in America who have not seen the movie yet.
00:45:07.000Sorry for those in the room who have not yet seen the movie.
00:45:09.000I'm about to spoil a bunch of crap for you.
00:45:11.000So Mathis, it's time for you to turn off your earphones and then walk out of the room if you don't want to be spoiled, because I'm about to say a lot of stuff that's about to spoil the movie.
00:45:18.000OK, so first of all, the movie is well made.
00:45:22.000It's really well made, considering they have to juggle about 83 different plot lines.
00:45:27.000And you can see from the poster that it's every person in the world in one movie.
00:45:31.000The truth is, the real focus of this movie, the real focus of this movie is
00:45:36.000Iron Man, Thor, and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:45:38.000Those are really the people who you're following during this film.
00:45:41.000Captain America is not in the film very much at all.
00:45:44.000Here's a little bit of the preview for one of the five people in America who didn't see the preview.
00:45:46.000Here's a little bit of what the movie looks like.
00:45:49.000The entire time I knew him, he only ever had one goal.
00:47:41.000So first of all, somebody should have explained to him that perhaps with additional creativity of humanoid creatures comes additional propensity to create
00:48:13.000Honestly, this movie could have been solved if somebody sat Thomas Sowell down with Thanos.
00:48:17.000Like, that would have fixed everything.
00:48:18.000They should have gotten Julian Simon's ghost to sit down with Thanos, and they could have had a nice conversation about scarcity of resources and allocation of those resources.
00:48:27.000Also, if it turns out that overpopulation is a thing among humanoid creatures, typically people just have fewer kids, which is what has happened throughout human history, which is why as countries get richer, it's actually interesting.
00:48:37.000As countries get richer, people have fewer kids.
00:48:39.000But, aside from the philosophical problems with Thanos,
00:48:43.000So every beat of the movie is involved with Thanos' story.
00:48:46.000It really is not Avengers Infinity War.
00:48:48.000It really more is Thanos, The Origins.
00:48:50.000Because this is all lead up to Avengers Infinity War Part 2.
00:48:54.000And this is my big problem with the movie.
00:48:56.000My big problem with the movie is that the entire thing is leading up to this giant climax where a bunch of people are going to get killed.
00:49:03.000And suffice it to say, without telling you who gets killed, a bunch of major characters get killed, there are some characters who get killed for real.
00:49:08.000But it is very obvious by the end of the movie that some of the characters who have been killed are not going to remain dead, though.
00:49:13.000Okay, now the reason that I know this is because I'm not a stupid human.
00:49:16.000And when I watch the end of Infinity War, and bad stuff happens, I won't fully spoil it, bad stuff happens to many of the major characters, there are certain characters where you go, oh man, I can't believe they killed that guy off.
00:49:27.000And then they kill off a couple of characters, and you're like, nah.
00:49:31.000Nah, because it turns out that Marvel is a Disney property, and Marvel is not gonna kill off all of its most bankable stars because they have movies already slated on the books with these stars.
00:49:41.000Okay, so they're not gonna kill off, like, you're gonna know who I'm talking about, but there's one character in particular who's been in a film that made a lot of money, as in all the money.
00:49:51.000They're not gonna kill off that character, right?
00:49:53.000And when you're watching it, and you're thinking about it, the minute it happens,
00:50:17.000Deep, horrible things are going to happen, then you can't do it with me as the audience knowing that you're faking, with me as the audience knowing you're lying.
00:50:25.000Like the first time it happens, the first time somebody dies, and it's a major character, at the end of the film.
00:50:30.000There are a couple major deaths before that in the film, and those ones I think are real.
00:50:33.000By the time they get to the end of the film, when a major character dies, and you know that that person is not going to die, you're like, but...
00:50:41.000So why couldn't we have just had, like, a seven-minute movie?
00:50:43.000Like, sure, it was fun and all, but we could have had, like, a seven-minute movie, and the seven-minute movie would have gone something like this, right?
00:50:48.000It would have gone something like this.
00:50:49.000It would have been a Star Wars crawl that says, Thanos, Scourge of the Universe, has found a box with six Infinity Stones in it.
00:50:56.000Flashback to Thanos on his home planet, debating with his friends and family about whether they should kill off half the population.
00:51:02.000Him losing the debate, half the population dying, right?
00:51:07.000Next thing you know, it shows Thanos with his magic glove on, right?
00:51:11.000He snaps, and then you get the end of the movie.
00:51:14.000So the whole thing could have been eight minutes long, and that actually would have been the prologue to the second Infinity War, which is where this stuff actually is going to happen, because this is all a lie.
00:51:22.000The next Infinity War is where the remaining characters are going to go about reversing everything that just happened in this movie.
00:51:29.000You cheated me out of $35 because I had to spend a bunch of money to go to the ArcLight with my wife to see this thing so I could talk about it.
00:51:39.000But you can't make me feel emotionally... There's one particular death where they do it, and they are so attempting to strangle you as an audience member.
00:51:46.000They're so attempting to strangle tears out of you as an audience member in the way this character dies, and you're like,
00:52:00.000You're trying to, like... There's a scene in the show Friends where there's an anniversary for Ross and... What's Courtney Cox's character's name?
00:52:17.000With Ross and Monica's parents, and Monica is, and Ross can always make the parents cry at the, at the anniversary, and Monica desperately wants to make the parents cry, so she does a speech, and the parents aren't crying at all, and so she just starts telling stories about, like, when the dog died and all this sort of thing.
00:52:31.000Like, there is that moment in Avengers Infinity War where one of the characters is, like, basically the producers are saying, like, you need to cry now.
00:52:38.000If you're not crying now, it's because you're a bad person.
00:52:58.000Okay, so there is my Infinity War summation.
00:53:01.000And now, if I've spoiled the movie for you, sorry, but I gave you fair warning.
00:53:06.000You could've tuned out earlier and then listened to it later.
00:53:08.000Anyway, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the rest of the news, and hopefully I will have vented my spleen about Avengers Infinity War by then.
00:53:15.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:53:21.000The Ben Shapiro Show is produced by Mathis Glover.