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00:00:00.000The migrant caravan reaches the border and all hell breaks loose, Twitter moves to ban science, and the Russians get aggressive with the Ukrainians.
00:00:07.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:13.000Well, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and that you came back all refreshed.
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00:00:28.000That's a thing that pretty much actually happened.
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00:01:59.000OK, so let's talk about the news, because a lot of stuff happened over the weekend because people just couldn't leave things alone, could you?
00:02:55.000What I do love about this is that you can see that some of them are flying the flag of Honduras.
00:02:59.000And Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the new congresswoman from New York, in all of her wisdom, she said, well, this is just like refugees, like when the Jews were trying to flee Nazi Germany.
00:03:08.000Well, when the Jews were fleeing Nazi Germany, they didn't arrive at Staten Island and Liberty Island with the Nazi flag on them, right?
00:03:15.000If you're actually fleeing a place because of political asylum needs, you typically don't fly the flag of the place from which you are running.
00:03:22.000Also, the vast majority of these people are not coming because of political violence.
00:03:25.000The vast majority of these people are coming for economic necessity.
00:03:28.000Which is a fine reason to try and enter another country, but you have to do so legally.
00:03:32.000You don't get to try to break through the fence.
00:03:59.000There were some folks who were actually physically throwing rocks at members of Border Patrol, which was just delightful.
00:04:04.000In this video, if you can't see it, I will describe it for you, you can see folks who are actually picking up rocks, throwing them at Border Patrol agents, and then there was the famous picture that is now on the front page of every newspaper of Border Patrol having fired some tear gas near the crowd.
00:04:19.000Nobody apparently really got hurt, but here is some of the video what it sounds like.
00:04:23.000So you can see here's a guy picking up stones, turning around and trying to throw it at Border Patrol.
00:04:28.000You can see them trying to fling the stones over the fence at Border Patrol.
00:04:32.000Now, once you do that, Border Patrol agents have every right to defend themselves as they see the need.
00:04:38.000Are these people we want to be citizens of the United States?
00:04:40.000Are these people we want to enter the United States?
00:04:43.000If you are throwing rocks at the members of our Border Patrol, while presumably attempting to enter the country illegally, We do not want you here in the United States.
00:04:51.000Now, what's really funny is to watch a bunch of folks on the left downplay all this stuff.
00:04:59.000And at the same time say it is so evil and so terrible that tear gas was deployed against all of these refugees, these poor huddled masses yearning to be free.
00:05:09.000Brian Stelter, The news guy over at CNN, right?
00:05:13.000His job is to monitor media bias, but he is a good example of it himself.
00:05:17.000Brian Stelter tweeted out, I'm watching the coverage.
00:05:19.000The southern border is 1,954 miles long.
00:05:24.000That is legitimately one of the dumber points I have ever heard about any sort of attempt to breach a border.
00:05:29.000It turns out that the border between France and Germany was several hundred miles long.
00:05:34.000And when the Germans moved through Belgium in 19, in 19, 39, and that was actually not... Well, let's see, when did they move through Belgium?
00:05:46.000When they moved through Belgium in 1940, it turns out that that was a breach of the border that did not require you to breach the entire border at once.
00:05:53.000All you have to do is breach one point in the border, and that would amount to a border breach.
00:05:57.000And if people just rushed through that, then that would be overwhelmed.
00:06:04.000Still, this is evidence that if you didn't have people there, you didn't have a wall, you didn't have some sort of physical obstruction, it would not be stopped.
00:06:10.000Simone Sanders, another commentator on CNN, she said, reminder, these are asylum seekers.
00:06:14.000The United States government is attacking asylum seekers.
00:06:17.000And this is after Chris Sherman of the Associated Press tweeted, Okay, so here is the question.
00:06:21.000Why were the parents there with the choking toddlers near a place where people were attempting to breach the border wall?
00:06:35.000If people want to apply for asylum, all they have to do is walk up to the border patrol station and ask for asylum papers.
00:06:41.000Instead, people are trying to breach that border, throwing rocks at folks, and then when tear gas is fired back, then all of a sudden it's, how dare we do any of this?
00:06:53.000President Obama in 2013 had a very similar situation.
00:06:58.000Back in 2013, there were a bunch of people who tried to break through, and during the Obama years, it turns out that tear gas was fired as well.
00:07:06.000The use of tear gas was used several years back.
00:07:11.000And it turns out that the caravan confirms what President Trump has been saying for a long time, which is that the aiding and abetting of this migrant caravan to get them to the border so that they could use violence against Border Patrol agents and try to break through the border is a problem.
00:07:23.000Now, did that require 15,000 troops down at the southern border?
00:07:59.000Well, the order to defend yourself from people throwing rocks at you without killing people?
00:08:03.000I mean, probably like the normal rules of engagement that apply in any sort of conflict situation, probably that.
00:08:09.000Again, I do find it ironic and weird that so many folks on the left are very, very upset at the deployment of like a tear gas canister at the border when people are throwing rocks at our troops.
00:08:20.000I mean, hell, they didn't care when Obama was literally droning American citizens who he said were terrorists.
00:08:25.000I don't mind droning American citizens, maybe, maybe, who are terrorists, maybe, although I think that's legally dicey, but it is amazing to watch all these people suddenly rediscover their feelings about civil liberties for people attacking American troops when it's a Republican who's president again.
00:08:41.000Now what's hilarious about all of this Is that there are some Democrats who are beginning to realize that maybe this isn't the best election pitch.
00:08:48.000Maybe the best election pitch for 2020 isn't, we don't care about the border, let everybody through.
00:08:52.000One of those people is, believe it or not, Hillary Clinton.
00:08:54.000So over the weekend, Hillary Clinton admitted That Europe has badly mishandled the migration crisis from the Middle East.
00:09:02.000Here is what she had to say about Europe's dealing with its own borders and the migrant crisis that has swamped Western Europe.
00:09:08.000She said, quote, I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame.
00:09:12.000I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken by leaders like Angela Merkel of Germany.
00:09:17.000But I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part and must send a very clear message.
00:09:21.000We are not going to be able to continue providing refuge and support because if we don't deal with the migration issue, it will continue to roil the body politic.
00:09:30.000I mean, that's exactly what President Trump has been saying.
00:09:32.000Now Democrats are starting to say that as well.
00:09:34.000John Kerry last week said something very similar about the migrant crisis in Europe.
00:09:37.000And yet the Democratic Party in the United States is embracing the full-scale dovish position on immigration that Hillary and Kerry won't embrace with regard to Europe.
00:09:46.000So why is it OK for us to talk about the migrant crisis in Europe, but not to talk about the migrant crisis with regard to Mexico?
00:09:53.000The answer, of course, is because President Trump is not responsible for immigration policy in Europe.
00:09:56.000He is responsible for immigration policy in the United States.
00:09:59.000And that means that they have to yell at President Trump no matter what.
00:10:02.000Still, members of the left continue to push and promote the most left-leaning version of what immigration policy should be, including, of course, the op-ed page over at the New York Times.
00:10:13.000There's a piece by a woman named Jessa Crispin over at the New York Times called Marrying Him Was Political.
00:10:24.000Again, this is the New York Times promoting immigration fraud, basically.
00:10:27.000She says, We were sitting in a dive bar in Kansas City, Missouri, with two whiskey sodas, and the man I had met only 10 days before said he had an important question to ask me.
00:10:34.000The last important question was, what is your relationship to potato chips?
00:10:37.000Which he'd asked while gesturing to the many bags of various flavors piled in my pantry.
00:10:41.000So it wasn't as if I was expecting anything electric to come out of his mouth.
00:10:44.000I looked at him, and he said with a steady gaze, Would you marry me?
00:11:23.000All of my adult life, I have argued for the abolition of marriage.
00:11:26.000Because marriage is a series of rights unfairly distributed to men and women who have found love or have deluded themselves into thinking they have found love.
00:11:33.000If romantic love is its own reward, as every Hollywood film and novel in the women's fiction section at the bookstore would have us believe, then why pile on tax breaks, hospital visitation, health insurance, immigration assistance, and all the rest of it?
00:11:45.000Having a successful love life should not have a determination on whether you live or die.
00:11:50.000Okay, so this gets even more idiotic, but the bottom line is that this woman basically married the guy in order so that he could get immigration.
00:11:57.000He said, holding my partner's hand at the immigration lawyer's office, I wanted so much to give this to him.
00:12:01.000A stabilized future, the ability to live and work where he wanted, a larger canvas for his ambitions.
00:12:06.000And yet something in me started to draw back at that moment.
00:12:08.000A whirlwind adventure of love and romance started to look like a strategic seduction.
00:12:12.000He might fear that I might be mercenary.
00:12:13.000I kept thinking of that line spoken by Morris Townsend in the movie, The Heiress, based on Henry James's Washington Square.
00:12:19.000And this entire article just goes on to describe how this woman basically married the guy so that he would be able to get an immigration, a green card, basically.
00:12:29.000She says, marrying him was a political act.
00:12:31.000Sponsoring him for a visa is a devotional act.
00:12:33.000We're amassing a file to prove that the relationship is real and not a transaction.
00:12:37.000The American government gives you a list of things it will be looking for to provide the legitimacy of your love.
00:12:42.000She said, the file wears on both of us.
00:12:44.000Pictures we take of each other are both for us and for the government.
00:12:46.000When I say, what's your niece's name again?
00:12:48.000I'm asking you to set it into my brain for the eventual quiz, not out of curiosity.
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00:14:17.000So as I say, President Trump now has a big win on the way here because the left has pushed too hard on the border issue.
00:14:24.000They keep saying that open borders are fine, that our guys should not be able to protect themselves.
00:14:29.000They keep yelling at President Trump about why the border basically needs to be left unprotected, why the wall is a stupid idea.
00:14:35.000And Trump has been warning for a long time that these folks were going to try and break through.
00:14:39.000All he required was a little bit of video of people breaking through to justify his questions.
00:14:43.000And then it turns out people did exactly that.
00:14:47.000The attempt to downplay this by the media is simply an attempt to back a narrative that they had been laying out that was subjective, not objective.
00:14:54.000It's once again an indictment of the politicization of the media.
00:14:57.000Now, there are people who have been trying to cover this objectively, saying, OK, well, there are people coming to the border.
00:15:15.000That'd be the most objective way to cover this.
00:15:16.000The media, however, was fully invested in the idea that the migrant caravan not only was a big nothing, but that it was created just for purposes of the election itself.
00:15:25.000And then once the election was over, Trump forgot about it, except now it's back in the headlines.
00:15:52.000He's a conservative writer and radio host who was banned from Twitter on Sunday.
00:15:55.000He has been given no excuse by Twitter why he was banned.
00:15:59.000According to the explanation and screenshot provided by Kelly to the Daily Wire, this is a piece by Amanda Prestigiacomo, Twitter violated its own policy by not informing him of the content that apparently earned him the permanent suspension.
00:16:10.000Kelly claims the only communication he had with Twitter regarding the ban was the following message.
00:16:15.000Your account was permanently suspended due to multiple or repeat violations of the Twitter rules.
00:17:00.000This is a massive social media network with a certain amount of immunity to lawsuit.
00:17:07.000Because they're treated as a common carrier, basically, even though they are, in fact, an editorial website.
00:17:15.000As I've talked about before, they're being treated like a phone line.
00:17:18.000As though they have no editorial discretion.
00:17:20.000They're using editorial discretion now in vast ways.
00:17:23.000And because of that, it seems to me that they should be relieved of their presumption of non-guilt when it comes to violations of copyright law, for example.
00:17:34.000As I've said before, legally speaking, The Daily Wire, right?
00:18:02.000Twitter is now outright banning science.
00:18:04.000They are banning science outright for political purposes.
00:18:07.000This is according to Pink News, a website from the UK.
00:18:10.000Twitter has now prohibited misgendering and deadnaming on its platform in an effort to curtail anti-trans abuse.
00:18:17.000The social media company has changed its rules to ban the practices and has warned that any user who deliberately targets a trans person in these ways may face permanent suspension.
00:18:27.000These offensive techniques, which involve using the wrong gender to refer to a trans person or a trans person's old name, are often used on Twitter to insult and erase trans people's identities and right to exist.
00:18:40.000The only way to erase somebody's right to exist is to kill them, right, or to jail them.
00:18:44.000Nobody's talking about doing any of this with transgender people.
00:18:47.000But if the idea is that I now have to say that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, I'm not doing that.
00:18:53.000And if the idea is that Bradley Manning, right, changed his name legally to Chelsea Manning, my rule about names, by the way, is that I am more than happy to use the names which you legally change your name, because people can change their names without changing the underlying sex, but I'm not going to grant you in public In public discourse about the nature of sex, I'm not going to suggest that you're a member of the biological sex to which you do not belong.
00:19:14.000It's illogical, and it's foolish, and it destroys boundaries that nature created and that you cannot put asunder simply because you want to.
00:19:21.000But Twitter now says that if I refer to Chelsea Manning as a man, that they could ban me.
00:19:26.000If I say Caitlyn Jenner is a man, they could ban me.
00:19:29.000And if Jesse Kelly says Caitlyn Jenner won a medal as Bruce Jenner, or that Chelsea Manning was convicted as Bradley Manning, then Jesse Kelly could be banned permanently from Twitter.
00:19:41.000Deadnaming is the idea that you are insulting someone by using the name that they were born with and that they experienced most of their life with.
00:19:47.000And so if you use their old name, so I guess if we use Cassius Clay, is that also dead naming?
00:19:51.000Because that was Muhammad Ali's name until he changed it in the middle of his boxing career?
00:19:56.000In Twitter's updated terms of service, the company now states, quote, We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes, or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade, or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.
00:20:08.000Weird, because I remember when Louis Farrakhan is still on Twitter and he called the Jews termites.
00:20:14.000I remember when I received 7,400 anti-Semitic slurs in the course of six months in 2016, and the vast majority of those people were never banned.
00:20:22.000They say that this includes misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.
00:20:36.000And if you're going to argue to me that biological sex no longer exists, you're going to have the same problem the Catholic Church had in the 15th century when they were trying to claim that the universe was geocentric.
00:21:11.000This is why you need the Farmer's Dog, the company helping dogs live long, healthy lives with nutritious, fresh, ready-to-serve dog meals delivered directly to your door.
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00:22:15.000And this has led me to basically say over and over on Twitter, yesterday and today, men are men, women are women, come at me, bro.
00:22:22.000If Twitter wants to ban me for saying that men are men and women are women, and that biological sex is a thing, and that the term gender is a made-up term by social justice warriors that has no actual social science data to back it, Right?
00:22:57.000But that's like saying that because a pencil that came off the assembly line was mistakenly created without an eraser, that pencils generally do not have erasers.
00:23:06.000Or if a pencil came off the line, it didn't have lead.
00:23:19.000And to pretend otherwise is to deny science.
00:23:21.000It's so funny to hear all these people who love to talk about climate change pretend there's no such thing as a man and no such thing as a woman.
00:25:45.000Well, last week, apparently, there was a man who walked into that gym and said, I am a transgender woman.
00:25:50.000And then not only did he walk into the gym and claim that he was a transgender woman, he then proceeded to disrobe in front of all the women.
00:25:56.000They have individual lockers, locker rooms, like, like small private spaces where he could change.
00:26:01.000But instead, this person decided that he was, as a woman, he had every right to change in public with these religious women.
00:26:07.000Every one of those religious women is going to now drop their gym membership, and the gym can't do anything about it.
00:26:11.000Because if the gym were to say to this guy, dude, you're a biological male, you need to dress by yourself in here, even if you consider yourself a woman, then they would be sued out of existence.
00:26:21.000This stuff does have consequences, and those consequences, like, are these women sexist for saying they don't want to undress themselves in front of a male?
00:26:28.000Or, they would prefer to go to a female locker room where they don't have to see a penis?
00:26:51.000This is in the New York Times over the last three days.
00:26:54.000It is by a person named Andrea Long Chu, who's a biological male who's a transgender woman, meaning a biological male who has gender dysphoria and believes that he is in fact a woman in a male body.
00:27:04.000The title of this article, I'm not kidding you, My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy And It Shouldn't Have To.
00:27:58.000Dysphoria is notoriously difficult to describe to those who haven't experienced it, like a flavor.
00:28:02.000Its official definition, the distress some transgender feel at the Incongruence between the gender they express and the gender they've been socially assigned does little justice to the feeling.
00:28:12.000But in my experience at least, dysphoria feels like being unable to get warm no matter how many layers you put on.
00:28:16.000It feels like hunger without appetite.
00:28:18.000It feels like getting on an airplane to fly home only to realize mid-flight that this is it.
00:28:21.000You're going to spend the rest of your life on an airplane.
00:28:28.000I mean, this is really terrible, difficult stuff.
00:28:31.000And you can have sympathy for folks like this and still recognize that this person is not a biological woman, will never be a biological woman, and is not a woman, in fact, is a man.
00:29:14.000A popular right-wing narrative holds that gender dysphoria is a clinical delusion.
00:29:18.000Hence, feeding of that delusion with hormones and surgeries constitutes a violation of medical ethics.
00:29:23.000And then, here's where it gets to the public policy.
00:29:26.000It says, In this view, it is not only fair to refuse trans people the care they seek, it is also kind.
00:29:30.000A therapist with a suicidal client does not draw the bath and supply the razor.
00:29:34.000Take it from my father, a pediatrician, who once remarked to me he would no sooner prescribe puberty blockers to a gender dysphoric child than he would give a distemper shot to someone who believed she was a dog.
00:29:42.000Naturally, a liberal counter-narrative exists and it has become increasingly mainstream.
00:29:47.000Transgender people are not deluded, but they are suffering.
00:29:50.000Therefore, medical professionals have a duty to ease that suffering.
00:29:53.000The article goes on, and then here is where we reach the crux of the matter.
00:29:56.000It says, I feel demonstrably worse since I started on hormones.
00:30:00.000One reason is that absent the levies of the closet, years of repressed longing for the girlhood I never have had flooded my consciousness.
00:30:08.000Another reason is that I take estrogen, effectively delayed-release sadness, a little aquamarine pill that more or less guarantees a good weep within six to eight hours.
00:30:15.000Like many of my trans friends, I've watched my dysphoria balloon since I began transition.
00:30:19.000I now feel very strongly about the length of my index fingers, enough that I will sometimes shyly unthread my hand for my girlfriends as we walk down the street.
00:30:25.000When she tells me I'm beautiful, I resent it.
00:30:27.000I've been outside, I know what beautiful looks like, don't patronize me.
00:30:42.000Transition doesn't have to make me happy for me to want it.
00:30:44.000Left to their own devices, people will rarely pursue what makes them feel good in the long term.
00:30:48.000Desire and happiness are independent agents.
00:30:52.000And then this person makes the case that basically the medical establishment should give you a surgery even if it is bad for you.
00:30:58.000This person says the medical maxim, first do no harm, assumes that health care providers possess both the means and the authority to decide what counts as harm.
00:31:08.000I believe that surgeries of all kinds can and do make an enormous difference in the lives of trans people, but I also believe that surgery's only prerequisite should be a simple demonstration of want.
00:31:20.000And then we can force a doctor to perform the surgery, even if it's going to be bad for you, make you more suicidal, make you more likely to kill yourself, and is going to be a gaping wound in your body for the rest of your life.
00:31:29.000This stuff has consequences, but we can't openly discuss it on Twitter, lest we be banned.
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00:34:12.000She would have been able to avoid the grave disease that now afflicts her.
00:34:16.000If you want to avoid all disease, if you want to be healthy for the rest of your life, if you never want to die, then you ought to go out and get the leftist tears hot or cold tumbled.
00:34:25.000None of that's guaranteed, by the way.
00:35:36.000If Twitter believes that it is now the job of Twitter to prevent social conversations on important public topics, because some people may take it the wrong way, then Twitter's going to be banning everybody except for Jack, who apparently has all the right views.
00:35:52.000There's a report that got very, very little attention when it was reported in the Wall Street Journal a little bit earlier this year.
00:35:57.000It's amazing that it didn't get more attention.
00:36:00.000The Wall Street Journal reported two weeks ago that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg pressured a top executive at his company to apologize for his support of President Trump in the 2016 election, and then issue a letter just before the election explaining that he had switched his support to libertarian Gary Johnson.
00:36:15.000According to reporters Kirsten Grind and Keech Hagee, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says he was put on leave and then fired for his support for Trump.
00:36:23.000The Journal reported, quote, In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the denunciation simmered, Facebook executives, including Mr. Zuckerberg, pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey's years-long support of Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the conversations and internal emails viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:42.000Luckey ended up negotiating a $100 million settlement, an acceleration of stock awards and bonuses he would have received Thanks to his sale of Oculus VR to Facebook in 2014, Facebook denied he was fired for his political views.
00:36:53.000But Lucky was a supporter of President Trump for years, going back to 2011 when he urged Trump to run for president by mail.
00:37:01.000In September 2016, the Daily Beast reported Lucky had given a $10,000 donation to Nimble America.
00:37:07.000Which was an anti-Hillary ad group focused on trolling her.
00:37:10.000Lucky then apparently posted on a Reddit chain under a pseudonym regarding Clinton.
00:37:13.000He posted Hillary Clinton is corrupt, a warmonger, a freedom stripper.
00:37:16.000Not the good kind you see dancing in bikinis on Independence Day, the bad kind that strips freedom from citizens and grants it to donors.
00:37:22.000Facebook employees complained about Lucky with engineering director Sravinas Narayanan writing, quote, multiple women have literally teared up in front of me in the last few days.
00:37:31.000Some developers said they wouldn't work with Lucky.
00:37:33.000Lucky denied he posted about Clinton under a pseudonym.
00:37:36.000He added he was a libertarian who voted for Gary Johnson.
00:37:40.000I need to tell you that Zuckerberg himself drafted this and details are critical.
00:37:44.000said Facebook Deputy General Counsel Paul Grewal.
00:37:47.000He wrote to a lawyer for Lucky in a September 2016 email, attaching an early draft of the statement.
00:37:54.000The draft said Lucky would not be supporting Trump in the election.
00:37:56.000Lucky told people he did vote for Mr. Johnson, but only to avoid having his credibility questioned if he was asked about the issue under oath in unrelated litigation.
00:38:12.000So Facebook basically took out a guy for $100 million after trying to force him to say that he didn't vote for Trump and voted instead for Gary Johnson.
00:38:20.000These social media companies do not appreciate basic political views from anywhere to the right of center.
00:38:28.000And it's gradually moving from the fringes.
00:38:30.000So there are a bunch of conservatives who you see, pseudo-conservatives and conservatives on Twitter and on Facebook.
00:38:35.000And they're like, well, if they ban this guy, if they ban Alex Jones or Laura Loomer or people who we find unpalatable, well, the alligator will eat us last.
00:38:44.000Right, the alligator will eat you last.
00:38:51.000The fact is that once you start banning people for a political viewpoint that is non-violent in orientation and is non-slanderous and non-legally actionable, you end up in a place where the only approved opinions are the approved opinions of Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey.
00:39:34.000Because it turns out that Tim Miller had been working with a group called Definers Public Affairs, and that group had been working with Facebook to reveal the fact that George Soros was pushing a lot of propaganda against Facebook.
00:40:19.000When we read the New York Times story about Facebook's campaign to discredit its critics, we were surprised and angry about the role that Definer's Public Affairs, the firm Tim sometimes partners with, played in that effort.
00:40:30.000The strange new respect the left feels for some people on the right lasts only so long as they believe that those people are tools of the left.
00:40:37.000The minute that those people suddenly become not tools of the left, then they have to be dumped on the side of the road as soon as possible.
00:40:42.000Okay, in other news, Things getting very, very dangerous over in Ukraine.
00:40:47.000According to the Kyiv Post, at an emergency meeting late on the night of November 25th, the military cabinet passed a resolution to impose martial law in Ukraine in the wake of an attack on and seizure of Ukrainian Navy boats by the Russian Coast Guard in the neutral waters of the Azov Sea on November 25th.
00:41:03.000President Petro Poroshenko said he would appeal to the Ukrainian Parliament on November 26th to approve his declaration of martial law, which could lead to widespread compulsory military service, restrictions on media and public demonstrations, and suspension of elections, among other measures.
00:41:18.000Well, the Ukrainian Navy reported that the Russian Coast Guard boats opened fire on three Ukrainian boats in the Azov Sea on the evening of November 25th.
00:41:26.000After Russian officials announced they had trespassed its territorial waters, the Kerch Strait, the strait connecting the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, has been closed off for all non-military vessels.
00:41:36.000In a shootout, Ukraine's small armored artillery boats sustained damage and were mobilized.
00:41:40.000The Ukrainian tugboat had been rammed by a Russian Coast Guard ship Don earlier in the morning.
00:41:45.000All three vessels were seized by a Russian special ops unit.
00:41:48.000This is essentially an act of war, and it looks like things could get violent.
00:41:58.000Ukraine has demanded that Russia release sailors and ships as the tensions are getting worse.
00:42:04.000And there's been a call for a UN Security Council resolution, which isn't going to happen, obviously, because Russia actually sits on the UN Security Council.
00:42:12.000So all of this is getting very dire, and the possibility of a new war between Ukraine and Russia is certainly on the horizon here.
00:42:19.000It's one of the reasons why it's been a mistake for the President of the United States to poo-poo with NATO and suggest that NATO is no longer necessary.
00:42:26.000All that does is give all sorts of credence to the Russian aggression in the region.
00:42:45.000And Russia has been piecemealing Parts of Eastern Europe, they've grabbed obviously Crimea, they invaded Georgia during the Bush administration, and there's been no strong response from the American administration, whether it was Bush or Obama, and now it's up to President Trump to issue a stronger response saying NATO will defend Ukrainian territory if Ukrainian territory is in fact attacked.
00:43:06.000Now, do we want to be in a shooting war?
00:43:07.000No, but that's the whole reason of having deterrence.
00:43:09.000The whole reason of having deterrence is that if you keep backing off your point, if you keep backing off the line, the Russians will keep pushing to the point where you actually do reach a line that cannot be crossed.
00:43:21.000It's all fun and games appeasement until it turns out that you can no longer appease.
00:43:26.000So for all the folks who are more isolationists in the Republican Party, understand, if you don't want to go to war, you have to stand up on your hind legs and threaten to go to war sometimes.
00:43:38.000It can't just be that you are there only to defend your vital interests because that means that your vital interests will be attacked sooner rather than later.
00:43:44.000Everyone's going to assume that you won't even defend those, especially if you can't even define what those vital interests are in the first place.
00:43:50.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:43:56.000Over the weekend, I read a good new novel by a guy named Seth Greenland.
00:44:00.000He's a TV writer and he's definitely on the political left.
00:44:03.000The book is called The Hazards of Good Fortune and it's sort of like a weaker version of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
00:44:10.000The basic plot is that there's this Jewish basketball team owner who is secular Jew.
00:44:16.000His daughter has obviously become extraordinarily politically radical, as you would expect, and gender-fluid, as you would also expect, and all the rest of it.
00:44:24.000And he is also struggling with racial politics on his team and struggling with his wife.
00:44:31.000The book itself is a really good trick.
00:44:33.000It's one of the funniest things is that when the left critiques the shortcomings of the left, it sounds very right wing.
00:44:39.000This book was certainly not meant to be right wing.
00:44:41.000It is, in fact, however, a very right wing book, because this book basically is about the shortcomings of a secular Jewish lifestyle that has no connection to heritage, history or religion, and how that ends with people trying to appease groups they can't appease, how it ends with people You know, trying to fulfill social justice warrior standards that they can never fulfill.
00:45:00.000And how, if you have no standards for your own kids, then your kids end up having different standards for you to which you will always fall short.
00:45:15.000Seth Greensland's The Hazards of Good Fortune.
00:45:18.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:45:23.000So Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez continues to make headlines again.
00:45:26.000The only reason we cover her is because the left has declared her a very important human.
00:45:30.000And this means that we must cover her because we cover that which is very important.
00:45:33.000She tweeted out over the weekend, insurance groups are recommending GoFundMe as official policy or customers can die if they can't raise the goal in time.
00:45:40.000But sure, single payer health care is unreasonable.
00:45:42.000And then she tweeted out a photo of a letter received by a person who'd been denied certain health care coverage and urged to start a GoFundMe.
00:45:49.000This led a doctor named Nikki Johnson This tweet actually is representative of the ignorance of many legislators, not just Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:45:59.000The vast majority of them do not understand healthcare or health insurance and definitely not the practice of medicine.
00:46:04.000Yet they make laws about it and some want government to run it.
00:46:07.000And she talks specifically in this particular case about how this letter is not coming, in fact, from an insurance group.
00:46:13.000This is actually coming from a Medicaid group.
00:46:16.000This is actually coming from a sponsored government group that basically had a board that denied people the immunosuppressive medication necessary for a heart transplant.
00:46:26.000For example, so this is not in fact coming from a private insurance company.
00:46:31.000And yet it was being treated that way by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, because obviously everything that's bad is the private market and everything that's good is the public market.
00:46:38.000Even though denials of coverage in single payer states and nationalized health care states are extraordinarily regular, you're waiting in line for coverage for Surgeries for years and years and years.
00:46:48.000And at the more expensive end of the scale, you simply don't get drugs sometimes.
00:46:51.000It's not like they have an unlimited amount of money to spend.
00:46:54.000Which is why the five-year cancer survival rates in the United States are the highest of any industrialized country.
00:46:59.000It is also why if you remove homicide and car crash deaths from the American death rolls, And what you see is that America's life expectancy is actually higher than any other industrialized country, which is a much better reflection of our health care status.
00:47:12.000The idea that America is a great outlier when it comes to health care, that we suck all this much, we got serious problems in the American health care system.
00:47:18.000But you actually have to understand that health care system before you can before you can hone in on what those problems are.
00:47:34.000Now, John Kasich, in preparation for his run, just vetoed again the fetal heartbeat bill that would protect the lives of babies in the womb once they have a heartbeat, which is presumably around nine, ten weeks when it's detectable.
00:47:45.000Anyway, here is John Kasich saying maybe he'll run for president because Who wants him to run?
00:48:16.000And I'm not only just worried about the tone and the name-calling and the division in our country and the partisanship, but I also worry about the policies.
00:48:26.000Hey, the man who strongly resembles a piece of wad up paper that you dropped in your pocket and then went through the washing machine, now says that he is worried about the tone in our politics.
00:48:36.000I mean, John Kasich, by the way, has said some pretty nasty things to a wide variety of people.
00:48:40.000He said that failing to expand government in the state of Ohio was anti-biblical.
00:49:08.000Trump has a high level of support inside the Republican Party.
00:49:11.000Anyone who runs against Trump will immediately be othered.
00:49:14.000If a quote-unquote true con were to run against Trump, all that would do would be to alienate everyone who supports Trump from those true con positions, because as we know, Trump is not an ideologue.
00:49:24.000He is happy to attack conservative positions if he thinks it will get him ahead in the polls.
00:49:29.000And a lot of his followers are willing to temporarily put aside those conservative positions because Trump is actually a pretty good tool for policy on a bunch of various areas.
00:49:38.000Running against Trump would lead to the false perception inside the Republican Party that conservatism is dead, when in fact it's just that a lot of people are personally loyal to the President of the United States and believe that he is doing some good things and will back him over a more conservative candidate.
00:49:51.000The fact that a more conservative candidate will get, you know, 10% of the vote will then be used by the media to proclaim that conservatism is dead, populism is on the rise.
00:49:58.000I would prefer the reality to continue to be the reality, which is that there are a lot of conservatives who support Trump.
00:50:03.000There are a lot of non-conservatives who support Trump.
00:50:08.000I see no purpose in ceaselessly and needlessly polarizing the party around a fake A fake gap between populist and conservative simply to assuage the ego of somebody like John Kasich.
00:50:22.000So people on the left are making a very big deal over a new government report that delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impact, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars or, in worst case scenario, more than 10 percent of its GDP by the end of the century.
00:50:36.000We've discussed this at length before.
00:50:38.000There are a couple of Nobel Prize winners in economics this year who talked about when in fact it would be worthwhile for us to start investing in various forms of attempting to curb climate change, particularly carbon credits.
00:50:49.000Their estimate was it would only start being profit neutral once the climate was expected to warm more than 3.5 degrees Celsius.
00:50:58.000That is a very large change in terms of the temperature.
00:51:05.000Kind of overweening despair that you are seeing by folks on the left.
00:51:10.000Not only are we all going to die, it's going to destroy the economy.
00:51:13.000You know what else would destroy the economy like right now?
00:51:15.000You want to destroy more than 10% of GDP like right now?
00:51:17.000Institute a massive carbon credits regime and regulate all of the industries that actually drive America's energy industry.
00:51:24.000By the way, the idea that carbon emissions are chiefly coming from the United States is a lie.
00:51:28.000Last year, the United States was the number one country on planet Earth in reducing carbon emissions.
00:51:33.000Other countries that are developing, like China and India, are mostly responsible for the increasing carbon emissions.
00:51:37.000They are signatories to the Paris Accords, but the Paris Accords are dumb because the Paris Accords basically say that China has no obligation to cut emissions until 2030, which means that they're going to continue emitting at extraordinarily rapid rates, even as the US's additional technology and wealth allow us to take environmentalism more seriously.
00:51:55.000That's not stopping the left, though, from saying that climate change is going to kill everyone, we're all going to die, and we'll pretend there are no downsides to any of this stuff, even as there are riots in Paris.
00:52:06.000Frank Buehler, this is according to the Agence France-Presse, Frank Buehler is a leader of the protesters who have barricaded French highways over the past week.
00:52:13.000He aims to color Paris in the movement's trademark yellow on Saturday, when rural France takes its fight with President Emmanuel Macron to the Capitol.
00:52:23.000Well, he's a member of the right-wing Stand Up France party.
00:52:25.000Buehler has watched in horror as fuel prices soared in the past years, driving up the cost of his commute to work in the rural southwestern Tarn-et-Garonne region.
00:52:33.000He said, I spent between one and two months wages on fuel.
00:52:36.000He says that this is because of anti-pollution taxes.
00:52:40.000So there are, in fact, a bunch of serious consequences to taking the sort of action folks on the left are urging.
00:52:48.000A 23% rise in the price of diesel in the past year is what has happened in France.
00:52:53.000The government has linked the price surge to world oil prices, but the yellow vest accused Macron of punishing motorists while slashing taxes on business and the wealthy.
00:53:01.000Basically, there's a massive gas tax in France, and a lot of it has to do with attempts to fulfill the pledges of the climate accords.
00:53:09.000If we actually want to have an intelligent conversation about climate change, we have to recognize carbon taxes actually have downsides.
00:53:15.000And we also have to recognize that carbon taxes on industrialized countries like France and the United States are not going to stop carbon emissions from China and India.
00:53:23.000And then, perhaps we have to figure out how exactly we spur innovation without attempting to destroy jobs and destroy lives all over the world.
00:53:30.000But this is a conversation people don't want to have, they want it to boil down to, you either don't take climate change seriously if you don't want to massively destroy the world economy and tax people to death, or you take climate change, or you deny science.
00:53:42.000Listen, I'm not denying climate change is happening.
00:53:44.000I'm not even denying that man is a main cause of that climate change.
00:53:47.000I'm questioning whether the extent of the climate change necessitates the kind of precipitous action folks on the left want to take.
00:53:53.000I'm asking at what point we should start taking more severe action, how that action actually correlates with an attempt to reduce the climate, and is it possible that free market solutions still provide a better option since, again, natural gas replacing coal has been mainly the driver of emissions coming down in the United States over the past several years.
00:54:11.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.
00:54:13.000I'm sure there will be plenty more news because we're back in the news cycle.
00:54:16.000Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day weekend.
00:54:18.000I'm gonna go home, check on my wife, make sure she's doing OK.