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00:01:54.000But meanwhile, on the Republican side, the great problem with President Trump has been that he cannot contain himself.
00:02:00.000He just does not have the capacity to contain himself.
00:02:03.000If the man had one iota of self-control, he would be nearly unstoppable as a politician.
00:02:08.000But it turns out that With the good comes the bad, and with the good part of the sandwich comes the poop.
00:02:14.000And the fact is, the president of the United States cannot contain himself.
00:02:17.000And this is going to be a continuing problem for him.
00:02:20.000And while there are Republicans around the country who are celebrating the quote-unquote purifying of the party, they're celebrating the fact that those rhino cucks are going away.
00:02:28.000You need those people to vote for you in 2020 if you wish the president to retain the presidency.
00:02:34.000You need some of these Congress people in swing districts to remain.
00:02:38.000And in fact, some of the best politicians in the Republican Party are from some of these swing districts, exactly the sort of districts that Republicans need.
00:02:46.000Representative Will Hurd, who is the lone black Republican in the House and the rare GOP lawmaker to at times criticize President Trump, will not seek re-election according to the Washington Post.
00:02:55.000Now the left is taking this as Hurd is resigning because he can't get along with Trump.
00:03:11.000And that was going to be used in a knock-down, drag-out battle.
00:03:14.000Wilhurd has been representing the Texas 23rd District since January of 2015, since the 2014 election, which was a wave election for Republicans.
00:03:23.000This has been a very, very back-and-forth district.
00:03:26.000So, from 1992 to 2006, when there was a Democratic wave, it was represented by Henry Bonilla, who was a Republican.
00:03:34.000And then from 2006 to 2010, it was represented by a Democrat, then there was a Republican wave, and for two years it was represented by a Republican.
00:03:41.000Then in 2012, during Obama's re-election campaign, it was represented by a Democrat again, and then Will Hurd came back in, and he won two consecutive terms.
00:03:49.000The last term that he won, he won in an insanely narrow election.
00:03:53.000He won that election by something like a thousand votes total.
00:04:16.000Now, what is fascinating about this district is that this district is nearly 70% Hispanic.
00:04:20.000So this is also a district where Republicans are showing their mettle when it comes to the ability to get people of racial minority status and ethnic minority status to vote Republican.
00:04:29.000One of the great differences between California and Texas is the way that Hispanics vote in Texas versus California.
00:04:34.000In California, Hispanics vote something like 70-30 Democrat.
00:04:38.000In Texas, Hispanics vote something like 55-45 Democrat.
00:04:42.000Well, that gap explains the dominance of Republicans in Texas for the last 20 years, even with the rising tide of Hispanic immigration into Texas and the growing Hispanic population in Texas.
00:04:53.000But what Will Hurd's resignation shows He's not resigning.
00:04:58.000What his unwillingness to run for re-election shows is that there's a feeling that Texas is beginning to turn blue.
00:05:05.000So this is very bad news for Trump come 2020, if it's seen as sort of a bellwether.
00:05:10.000Immediately, Cook Political Reports took this district from toss-up to leans Democrat because Heard is a unique candidate.
00:05:17.000Herd's retirement is the third by a Texas Republican in the past week alone.
00:05:20.000Now, the other two Texas Republicans retiring are retiring in heavy red districts.
00:05:25.000But the fact is that a lot of folks don't want to be in Congress right now.
00:05:27.000A lot of folks see a bad wave coming in 2020.
00:05:37.000A record number of people in America are now employed.
00:05:40.000Some 157 million people in the United States currently have jobs.
00:05:43.000That is a great economic record for the president of the United States.
00:05:46.000All this despite the fact that there are significant headwinds in terms of trade barriers and tariffs that the president is putting in place with regard to China.
00:06:28.000I believe that when the president does something, when Trump does something wrong, he ought to be called out the same as any other human being who does something wrong, even if you like what he's doing politically, and even if you like the fact that he slaps the left on a frequent basis.
00:06:39.000When people do stuff that is morally bad, you should point out that it is morally bad.
00:06:42.000This is, in fact, your job as a moral human being, is to point out when things that are morally bad are morally bad.
00:06:46.000Doesn't mean you shouldn't vote for him.
00:06:48.000Doesn't mean you shouldn't support him.
00:06:49.000It does mean that when you exercise your judgment as to whether something is morally bad or not, it is your moral judgment that is being called into question, not Trump's moral judgment that is being called into question.
00:07:00.000People judge you based on the way that you deal with things that you see that are immoral in your life.
00:07:06.000And so I've always recommended to everybody left, right and center.
00:07:08.000It's my great irritation with the left is that the left stands on their they sit on their high horse and they pretend that they are the arbiters of morality, the police of morality.
00:07:17.000And then they won't call out immorality when it's on their own side.
00:07:20.000And then they look at Republicans doing the same thing and they say, how dare you?
00:07:23.000I mean, the same people who rip on Trump constantly on the left and rip on Republicans who won't rip on Trump constantly.
00:07:30.000Those are the same people who cheer when the New York Times today reports Chappaquiddick as a Kennedy family tragedy.
00:07:37.000I kid you not, that's in the New York Times today.
00:07:46.000The odd gracelessness of the left, the fact that the left Constantly suggested that the right was morally bereft while touting its own immoral actors as somehow morally superior.
00:07:57.000That led the right to embrace a lot of this stuff, but Will Hurd calling out Trump when he thought Trump was wrong, it wasn't just, I think, the right thing to do in many cases.
00:08:06.000I think that it was the politically smart thing to do in his district, obviously.
00:08:13.000Trump lost the congressional district.
00:08:15.000It covers more than 58,000 square miles between San Antonio and El Paso along the Mexican border by four percentage points in 2016.
00:08:24.000In an interview last Thursday with the Post, Herdhead criticized Trump's, and this is just Washington Post coverage, Trump's racist tweets last month.
00:08:31.000Again, it is amazing how the Washington Post will take tweets that I think were xenophobic but not racist and then call them racist as though that is a fact judgment as opposed to an opinion judgment.
00:08:42.000The Washington Post says Heard criticized Trump's racist tweets last month, in which the president said four Democratic minority congresswomen should go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.
00:08:52.000Three of the women are from the United States, etc.
00:08:54.000Heard said, when you imply that because someone doesn't look like you and telling them to go back to Africa or wherever, you're implying that they're not an American and you're implying they have less worth than you, is what Heard had to say about this.
00:09:04.000Heard also repeated his earlier pledge to vote for Trump if he's the Republican nominee in 2020.
00:09:09.000He said Hispanics, African Americans, and other groups would be receptive to conservative themes if they weren't drowned in racially charged rhetoric.
00:09:16.000Heard said, number one, you need to show up to communities that haven't seen Republicans show up and listen.
00:09:20.000Then the message that you take is how we have solved problems in our communities.
00:09:23.000When you look at African American unemployment, Latino unemployment, it's at an all time low.
00:09:28.000A herd is the kind of Republican that you do need.
00:09:41.000He said, I think I can help the country in a different way.
00:09:43.000I'm interested in pursuing my lifelong passions at that intersection of technology and national security.
00:09:47.000I think I have an opportunity to help make sure the Republican Party looks like America.
00:09:53.000He opposed Trump's national emergency declaration, but does favor a border barrier, for example.
00:10:00.000So Herd has been a lot more moderate in his approach to Trump than a lot of the other Republicans, and that has led a lot of Republicans to distance themselves from Herd in the same way they did from, for example, Jeff Flake.
00:10:09.000But Herd never virtue-signaled in the same way that Jeff Flake did.
00:10:13.000And more than that, Heard is the kind of person that you need in that district.
00:10:48.000It's a very sanguine, optimistic theory on the Republican side that Trump has a mystical connection with voters and that he will pull a rabbit out of the hat a second time.
00:10:55.000That 2016 was not about Hillary Clinton being unable to pull votes.
00:10:58.000It was about Donald Trump having a magical ability to bring out voters who had never voted before and also to suppress the Democratic vote.
00:11:04.000In 2018, Trump drove out the Republican vote and the Democratic vote.
00:12:32.000You just go to GetRoman.com and complete an online visit.
00:12:36.000If your doctor decides that treatment would be appropriate, they can prescribe genuine medication that can be delivered in discreet packaging directly to your door with free two-day shipping.
00:14:19.000When Trump points out that the livability of America's major cities is being dramatically undermined by the ACLU light governance of Democrats in places like Seattle and L.A.
00:15:16.000You cannot walk down the street without running into folks who are living on the streets, oftentimes in filth, many times with open needles nearby, with open with Open alcohol, open feces.
00:16:05.000We can name one after another, but I won't do that.
00:16:12.000Because I don't want to be controversial.
00:16:14.000We want no controversy. - OK, that is fine.
00:16:23.000Everybody knows that he's implying Baltimore there, that if you say that Baltimore is a poorly run city, then you are going to get into trouble.
00:16:43.000This was evident on the debate stage the other night when the moderates like John Delaney really took it to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
00:16:49.000This was evident when Joe Biden was defending himself from socialists to his left on that stage.
00:16:54.000People like Bill de Blasio and Kyrsten Gillibrand.
00:16:56.000Here's Trump saying, we don't want to do the socialist thing.
00:17:00.000No matter what label they use, a vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of our great, our beautiful, our wonderful American dream.
00:17:18.000We're not going to let our country ever go down the route of socialism.
00:17:24.000Yeah, and then he went back to the cities issue.
00:17:27.000He said that Democrats, quote, deliver poverty for their constituents and privilege for themselves.
00:18:34.000That's why I've asked Congress to prohibit extreme late-term abortion, because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God.
00:18:47.000And Democrats are nervous about this approach by Trump.
00:18:49.000They are nervous that their own party is running off the rails to the left.
00:18:53.000So Paul Begala, for example, he was talking, Democratic advisor, Clinton advisor, he was talking about how the Democrats are running too far to the left.
00:19:00.000I mean, they're abandoning even the legacy of Barack Obama, who is a very far left president, and they're running even further to the left.
00:19:06.000Here's Begala talking about how Democrats are setting themselves up for failure.
00:19:09.000So Trump's Trump's picture is correct.
00:19:12.000When Bill de Blasio said this about deportations, Joe, the vice president, should have said, some people need to be deported.
00:19:19.000By the way, Kamala Harris should have said, some people need to be incarcerated.
00:19:22.000She should have turned to Tulsa Gabbard and said, yes, I raised bail on people who create gun violence, because gun violence is an epidemic.
00:19:30.000The whole two-day debate is I believe many of these candidates seeking to win the nomination are setting themselves up to lose the presidency to Donald Trump.
00:19:45.000Approval rating with Democrats is 96 percent.
00:19:49.000Donald Trump's approval rating with Democrats, 4 percent.
00:19:52.000So the fact that we spent more time talking about a wildly popular president and not talking about Donald Trump is just ceases to amaze me.
00:20:01.000But just politically, we are better off staying on the offense on President Trump, on health care, and on economic issues that make sense to voters.
00:20:11.000And I just don't fundamentally get the strategy of going after the most popular Democratic president in modern memory.
00:20:21.000Even the editorial board over at The Washington Post is ripping on Democrats for doing this.
00:20:27.000They understand what's happening over at The Washington Post.
00:20:29.000The editorial board wrote, quote, this wrote, quote, I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for, said Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night.
00:20:41.000Senator Bernie Sanders, the other major candidate on the field's left wing, piled on.
00:20:45.000This got us thinking about some big ideas in U.S. history, like, say, amending the Constitution to outlaw liquor or sending half a million troops into Vietnam or passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy in a time of massive deficits.
00:20:56.000Ambition is essential, in other words, says the Washington Post, but not sufficient.
00:21:01.000The country faces big challenges such as economic inequality and climate change.
00:21:06.000They also call for wisdom, honesty, and even a bit of modesty about the government's limitations.
00:21:11.000Having embraced Barack Obama's no drama approach to governing, often defined by the philosophy, don't do stupid bleep, it would be odd if Democrats suddenly embraced ideological grandiosity as a prerequisite for service in the Oval Office.
00:21:24.000That means, first, that proposals should meet a baseline degree of factual plausibility, a bar that, for example, the Medicare for All plan that Mr. Sanders and Ms.
00:21:34.000The Senators cannot deliver a system that provides far more benefits than other single-payer systems they claim as their model, while preserving the level of care and access that insured Americans currently enjoy.
00:21:43.000They should make the case for government monopoly on healthcare if they want, but they should be honest about the trade-offs.
00:21:49.000Candidates who promise big ideas should be pressed on how they will realize them.
00:21:53.000The next president should have a vision of progress for the nation that is expansive and inspiring.
00:21:58.000It should also be grounded in mathematical and political reality.
00:22:00.000That's the Washington Post editorial board recognizing that what Trump is saying is true.
00:22:05.000That the Democrats have skewed way too far left.
00:22:47.000I think the most effective way to campaign, to be honest with you, is to talk to the American people about why the middle class is disappearing, why we have massive income and wealth inequality.
00:22:57.000You talk about those issues, you do well.
00:26:32.000I think Kamala had a bad night last night, I would say.
00:26:36.000But it's really boiling down to four or five of them.
00:26:39.000Okay, so again, I think that analysis is correct.
00:26:41.000So, what does all of this stack up to?
00:26:43.000What all of this stacks up to, Will Hurd retiring, Joe Biden having weaknesses, Trump running on the failures of Democrats that are obvious to anyone who has eyeballs in a lot of the major cities in the United States.
00:27:14.000He didn't make any real headlines because he didn't go over the top.
00:27:18.000He goes out of his way to say, we're not going to do controversy.
00:27:21.000And he rips on democratic governance of cities without going after Elijah Cummings by name and suggesting that Elijah Cummings is the worst person ever and all of this.
00:27:31.000Again, that is a perfectly fair hit and a perfectly valid hit and a perfectly useful hit.
00:27:36.000And then President Trump goes on Twitter this morning.
00:27:40.000Trump at rallies is a lot better than Trump on Twitter.
00:27:45.000As we talked about yesterday, Elijah Cummings' house was robbed over the weekend.
00:27:48.000And there is great irony to the fact that the media, proclaiming that Baltimore is indeed a wonderful, safe, high-median income American city, a wonderful place, beautifully governed, That the same weekend when they were talking about all this, Elijah Cummings' house was robbed.
00:28:03.000Now his house was robbed before Trump even talked about Cummings or Baltimore.
00:28:07.000It was broken into on Friday night, early Saturday morning.
00:28:10.000Trump started tweeting after that on Saturday morning.
00:28:13.000So the initial pickup from the media was that Trump had somehow incited this against Cummings, which is not true.
00:28:21.000And again, there is something ironic and something Bizarre about the fact that Elijah Cummings is jabbering about how Baltimore is wonderful while his house is being broken into.
00:28:32.000However, is it a good thing that Elijah Cummings' house was broken into?
00:28:37.000No, it's not a good thing that his house was broken into.
00:28:41.000And just because you don't like Elijah Cummings and you're mad at him because he runs the Oversight Committee doesn't mean that you should probably be happy when his house is broken into.
00:30:18.000Because just like you have that annoying uncle who you don't really want to invite to family parties, and he's really annoying, He may be a little racist.
00:30:49.000The more days where you're thinking about Uncle Ned, the worse it is for Uncle Ned.
00:30:52.000Yeah, the fact is, the more days you're thinking about the economy being good, the more days that you are thinking about the Democrats being radical, the more days you are thinking about Joe Biden being too old and too sleepy to be president of the United States, the better it is for Donald Trump.
00:31:05.000The more you're thinking about, oh God, did he tweet again?
00:31:29.000In 2016, the media, me included, everybody who was watching the data, thought that 2016 was going to be a referendum on Trump.
00:31:35.000Which is why every time some piece of bad news came out for Trump, anything from the p-word tape to Trump saying ridiculous things about Mexican judges, whenever that happened, we all went, okay, it's going to be a referendum on Trump, and that's going to be bad for Trump.
00:31:50.000And it turned out that 2016 was not a referendum on Trump.
00:31:53.000It turned out it was a referendum on Hillary Clinton.
00:31:55.000It turns out that after 20 years, people did not want to show up to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:32:37.000It's not too late for President Trump to stop doing this.
00:32:40.000But does anyone really have a lot of faith that the president is going to stop being who he is, that Trump is going to stop being Trumpy?
00:32:47.000I don't think so, which is why the Democrats are basically looking forward to nominating the block of wood, the petrified wood that is Joe Biden.
00:32:55.000Because Joe Biden is just default candidate.
00:32:59.000All right, in just a second, we're going to get to the news on the Senate, the Senate passing another, this big, awful budget bill.
00:33:07.000We're also going to get to your mailbag questions.
00:33:09.000But first, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire subscriber.
00:33:13.000Today, it's Sherry Taylor on Instagram, who's dealing with what every person with the world's greatest beverage vessel deals with, the covening eyes of others.
00:33:20.000In this particular picture, Sherry's Tumblr is sitting on a kitchen counter brimming with delicious leftist tears as her bulldog, Petunia, stares with deep determination.
00:34:31.000So in big news that nobody cares about, the Senate passed a broad two-year budget bill on Thursday that boosts spending and eliminates the threat of a debt default until after the 2020 election.
00:34:39.000Justin Amash from Michigan, the former Republican congressperson, points out correctly today that one of the things people should note is that when it says that we are racking up these giant budget bills, these giant $1.3 trillion budget deficits, that those are measured on a yearly basis.
00:34:56.000When you talk about the $1.5 trillion Tax bill that is measured over the course of a decade in terms of its economic impact.
00:35:03.000When you drop a trillion dollars a year above what you are taking in, that is measured yearly.
00:35:08.000He says spending bills are valued over a one-year period.
00:35:11.000Tax bills are valued over a 10-year period.
00:35:12.000In other words, a $1.3 trillion spending bill is 10 times larger than a $1.3 trillion tax bill.
00:35:19.000The spending bill has 10 times the deficit impact.
00:35:23.000Republicans just signed off on it because no one is actually fiscally responsible.
00:35:27.000Much easier to pass spending into law than to curb that spending.
00:35:33.000Which is one of the reasons why, and it's just a fact, split government tends to actually generate, in many cases, lower budgets because the fighting leads to lowering of the budget.
00:35:42.000People don't want to sign off on as many things together.
00:35:44.000Single-party control leads to blowout budgets for Democrats and Republicans.
00:35:47.000Split government sometimes, particularly during the Clinton era, actually led to more budget balance.
00:35:53.000Trump wrote on Twitter, quote, Budget deal is phenomenal for our great military, our vets, and jobs, jobs, jobs.
00:35:59.000Two-year deal gets us past the election.
00:36:05.000Again, saying the quiet part out loud right there, which is it's a bad budget deal, but it does get us past the election.
00:36:10.000There is the president cheering on a massive budget deal that betrays fundamental fiscal principles of conservatism, but honestly, that's not a Trump-only problem.
00:36:20.000That is a Republican problem generally.
00:36:23.000That is bad news for the Republic, but probably good political news for the President.
00:36:27.000Meanwhile, as I said earlier, there are a record 157 million people employed in the United States in July.
00:36:34.000The unemployment rate did hold steady in July at 3.7%.
00:36:39.000According to the employment report, the civilian non-institutional population in the United States is 259 million.
00:36:47.000Of that civilian non-institutional population, 163 million were in the labor force, meaning they either had a job or were actively seeking one during the last month.
00:36:55.000And of those people, 157 million have jobs.
00:36:57.000Those are some pretty fantastic jobs numbers for the president.
00:37:00.000There is some worry about the economy slowing.
00:37:02.000This has been exacerbated by the president announcing yesterday that he will impose new tariffs of $300 billion on imports from China starting next month.
00:37:10.000There was sort of a ceasefire in the trade war, and now the ceasefire has gone the way of the dodo bird.
00:37:16.000This is leading people to speculate that the Fed is going to raise some of the rates again, is going to rather lower some of the rates again, try to jog the economy.
00:37:25.000There's a worry that there will be a deflationary cycle where people are buying less and less, that consumers are going to buy less and less, and that the only thing basically holding up the economy right now is consumption, not investment.
00:37:38.000Trump said until such time as there's a deal we will be taxing them that will raise the prices on products like cell phones, television, toilet seats, and pillows.
00:37:46.000It could raise the price as much as 10 to 25 percent.
00:37:50.000So you would imagine that the market has basically suggested they think that this trade war will come to an end prior to the election because Trump doesn't want a trade war going all the way through the election.
00:38:01.000With that said, is it good for the president that the economy is going to take a hit because of the trade war?
00:38:08.000There's some good security reasons why tariffs might be useful.
00:38:11.000The Chinese do cheat on a lot of these trade deals and they steal America's intellectual technology.
00:38:16.000Case to be made that we should go to the WTO, the World Trade Organization, and prosecute those cases.
00:38:20.000But regardless of what you think, if the president is thinking about election 2020 to the point that he's willing to blow out the budget, then raising tariffs on Chinese goods in the lead up to the election is probably not a smart strategy.
00:38:32.000The one thing everybody acknowledges at this point is that if the economy takes a dump at any time in here, the president does not get reelected.
00:38:51.000Well, the good news is people have been keeping their children alive for literally hundreds of thousands of years, so I think it'll be fine.
00:38:57.000My advice for a first-time dad is, especially in the early going, understand that kids don't really get cute until about five months.
00:39:05.000At the very beginning, you may not feel the sort of connection that you thought that you would feel.
00:39:10.000Everyone always talks about you pick up the kid and you feel that immediate connection.
00:39:12.000Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but it gets better.
00:39:15.000The kids get so interesting and so much fun and so fantastic.
00:39:19.000As I always say, when it comes to sort of the life cycle of happiness and sadness, When you are single, your happiness range goes up to about a 7, and your sadness range goes down to about a 1.
00:39:31.000And then you get married, and your happiness range goes up to about a 10, and it goes down to about a negative 10.
00:39:35.000When things are really, really bad, it's worse than anything that happened when you were single.
00:39:38.000And when it's really, really good, it's much better than anything that ever happened when you were single.
00:39:42.000And then you have kids, and your happiness range goes to infinity on the positive side, and negative infinity on the negative side.
00:39:48.000Because the worst things that will ever happen to you have to do with your kids, the best things that ever happen to you will have to do with your kids.
00:40:53.000Sometimes when I discuss religion with my peers, they accuse me of being brainwashed from birth to believe what I believe.
00:40:57.000I have a very difficult time convincing them otherwise.
00:41:00.000And once they have that idea in their head, they simply refuse to listen to me.
00:41:03.000I'm wondering if you have had similar experiences as an Orthodox Jew and how you overcome this factor when talking with people.
00:41:08.000Yeah, of course, I think that everybody who is born into a religious household has that experience of, oh, the only reason you believe this is because you were brought up this way.
00:41:16.000And the way to deal with this argument is to say, there may be truth to this, right?
00:41:21.000We are all subject to the biases of how we were raised, obviously.
00:41:24.000Like, for example, you secular humanists, you were raised in a society that values secular humane ideals.
00:41:30.000Do you value those because they're rationally based?
00:41:32.000Or do you value those because you were brought up in a society that values those things?
00:41:36.000Because rationality can take you in any direction.
00:41:39.000And if you think that religious people don't doubt their beliefs and examine those beliefs over the course of years, over the course of decades, then you've got us all wrong.
00:41:47.000Now, I'll grant you the respect of thinking that you've thought through the positions that you hold, but you need to grant me the respect of thinking I've also thought through the positions that I hold.
00:41:55.000Because the problem with that attack is it's really, in essence, a character attack, and it's a character attack that applies to everybody.
00:42:00.000Everybody's belief systems are, of course, rooted in the environment in which they grew up.
00:42:04.000The question is, have you thought through your own beliefs?
00:42:06.000Do you have good answers to the questions that are being asked of you?
00:42:09.000Or do you really just believe things because people told them to you when you were three?
00:42:14.000Becoming more sophisticated over time means asking those questions and answering those questions.
00:42:18.000And you can reverse the question and say the same thing to anybody who is an atheist or a secular humanist.
00:42:23.000And if they say, well, I used to be religious and now I'm an atheist because I thought things through.
00:42:26.000You can say, okay, well, I'm glad you thought things through.
00:42:28.000I've also thought things through and I came to a different conclusion.
00:42:31.000And it is dismissive and derisive and derogatory in a way that is inappropriate for a normal conversation to suggest that I've not considered my ideas while you, magical human being, have.
00:42:40.000have sean says greetings mr shapiro i want to say thank you i had a question and if i should stay at my job and suck it up you helped me take the plunge into something new i'm making more money and more than that it feels so much better to not be under bad management and oppressive sjw policies i'm now in my second annual subscription eager to help you and others fight back thank you for your voice well number one you're welcome you know the the fact that you move jobs and took a risk as i've said calculated risk taking is a very good thing i've I've switched jobs many times in my career.
00:43:09.000Since 2007, I have held, before I started Daily Wire, I had held something like seven jobs, and I'd quit every one of the jobs for my own reasons.
00:43:20.000I quit a job at a law firm because I couldn't stand it.
00:43:22.000I quit a job working at a radio network because it was not moving in the direction that I wanted it to move.
00:43:26.000I quit a job at Breitbart because I had significant editorial disagreements with the leadership over there.
00:43:31.000I've quit a bunch of jobs in order to make more opportunity for myself or because I had moral disagreements.
00:43:38.000You have to make calculated risks, and you have to be smart about those risks.
00:44:15.000There's been a pretty tremendous escalation in family illegal immigration across the border, and that's why you're getting all these child separations at the border.
00:44:23.000But Barack Obama deported something like 3 million people.
00:44:39.000Ever since Nancy Pelosi has been very publicly warming up to the members of the squad, there's a visible absence of controversy stirred up by AOC and her crew.
00:44:50.000Well, I mean, I think that right now, everything was put on back burner to attack Trump.
00:44:55.000It's one of the reasons why I was pretty upset at President Trump when the squad and Pelosi were going directly at each other and I thought, man, this is fantastic.
00:45:25.000All Trump has to do is shut up for five minutes and the Democrats will break back into what they have been doing, which is tearing each other apart.
00:45:32.000This is why I keep saying to the president, Mr. President, it's Shark Week.
00:45:42.000Ashley says, Ben, given all we know on the link between social media and teenage depression and suicide, do you think the government ought to have enforceable laws on minimum ages of social media use?
00:45:52.000Thanks, I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially given the weaponization of media by sexual predators to ground minors, or to target minors.
00:46:02.000I really do think that this is more of a parental question than it is a governmental question, but there are addictive aspects to social media, and the notion that A kid who is 12 or 13 should be on social media if the parents are not doing what they are supposed to be doing.
00:46:26.000Because, again, protection of children is one of the roles of government because kids can't take care of themselves.
00:46:32.000And if parents are simply plopping their kids in front of the TV 12 hours a day and not sending them to school, we do have truancy laws, and if parents Are allowing kids to take advantage of social media in such a way that it is endangering to them, then I could see an argument.
00:46:48.000I mean, as you know, I'm loathe to embrace government regulation in nearly any area of American life, but I could see the argument.
00:46:58.000Billy says, howdy Ben, from your future home in the great state of Texas.
00:47:00.000By the way, on a personal level, quick note on that one, on a personal level, my kids are not going to be allowed on social media until they're probably 16 or 17 minimum.
00:47:06.000And even then, I would prefer that if they have a social media profile, they're not actually posting on it.
00:47:11.000I'm not sure they should have social media until they're 18.
00:47:14.000Like, they need to be old enough to understand that everything they put on social media is then permanent.
00:47:19.000Billy says, howdy Ben, from your future home in the great state of Texas.
00:47:44.000So, when it comes to how the US would get back to the gold standard, It's difficult to reverse the fact that so many people in the United States and in the federal government believe that manipulation of the currency is a positive good.
00:47:57.000I mean, there are even many folks who are conservative who believe that the best policy of the Fed would be to basically set a low interest rate.
00:48:03.000This is sort of Milton Friedman's policy, like a 2% interest rate.
00:48:06.000And then it would just be that year on year.
00:48:10.000I don't like the idea of a central government being able to manipulate currency.
00:48:13.000It's a way of robbing savings from people.
00:48:15.000It is a way of the government manipulating policy in order to cover for its own shortcomings.
00:48:20.000The way that you would do this is you would peg the dollar to the current value of gold.
00:48:23.000Whatever is the current value of gold, you would peg the dollar to a current value of gold ounce, for example, and then that would be the price of the dollar forever.
00:48:32.000And that would provide an insane amount of stability.
00:48:34.000I mean, you want to keep the United States as the world's global currency?
00:48:37.000This would be the way to do it, because then there would be inherent value in the currency.
00:48:41.000In fact, you know, I used to be more skeptical of Bitcoin.
00:48:44.000Bitcoin is basically trying to do this.
00:48:45.000Bitcoin is setting an actual value to a currency that is based on scarcity, and is not controllable from above by some sort of manipulative entity.
00:48:55.000It's all fun and games for the government to play with the currency until you create a bubble, and then that bubble ends up bursting, for example.
00:49:03.000As far as the second question, how to be a good father and a good husband, I would say as a father, the rule that my dad used, and I think it was a good rule, was always take your kids seriously.
00:49:17.000Be authoritative, but not authoritarian.
00:49:20.000Set rules, understand your own rules, and always treat them as though they are rational and have good reasons for what they're doing, even if they don't always.
00:49:27.000And that is a good mark of a good parent.
00:49:29.000As far as being a good husband, I would say that the same thing holds true.
00:49:33.000Try to put yourself in your spouse's place when you are thinking about what you're... The killer of marriages is faulty expectations.
00:49:41.000The best marriages are reliant on two spouses who believe that it is my job.
00:49:46.000Not it's my wife's job and I'm mad at her for not doing her job.
00:49:50.000And I don't have the expectation that she's going to do that.
00:49:51.000It's one of the things that's made my marriage with my wife so fantastic is that there are a lot of situations in which my wife has not been present because she was doing medical residency, for example.
00:50:38.000With people you trust, saying it's my job, not your job, is the best politics.
00:50:42.000But that only works when people aren't free riders and taking advantage.
00:50:45.000If you married somebody who is a free rider and is taking advantage, that's just a bad marital decision.
00:50:49.000But that doesn't change the underlying fact that being a good husband is you saying, yes, it's on me, and not doing it out of a sense of virtue, not doing it out of a sense of virtue signaling where it's like, oh, look at me, the suffering, sacrificial man taking on all these burdens.
00:51:02.000But as a part of making your life better, being more responsible, the best people you know are the people who take on more responsibility.
00:51:10.000Taking on more responsibility makes you a better human being, I think.
00:51:49.000I'm wondering how Elizabeth Warren is being taken seriously as a candidate, despite being proven to have abused the left's religion of identity politics for her personal gain by claiming Native American ancestry.
00:51:58.000How is that not grounds for immediate dismissal from the Democratic Party?
00:52:23.000The two candidates that have gotten, they're the really three candidates getting this sort of love from the media right now.
00:52:28.000Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg.
00:52:31.000None of them are particularly appealing, but they make the left feel smart.
00:52:35.000And thus, Elizabeth Warren continues to ride high.
00:52:38.000Jeffrey says, long time listener and fan.
00:52:40.000After re-watching the Daniel Day Lewis film Lincoln, I thought to ask, what is your favorite historical film?
00:52:44.000Also, if you had the opportunity, are there any amendments you would like to put forth for vote?
00:52:47.000So, My favorite historical film is, was, shall always remain 1776.
00:52:52.000I'm a musical theater fan, and 1776, which is a fantastic take on the origins of the Declaration of Independence, is dramatic, it's brilliantly written, wildly underrated because people wildly overrate Hamilton.
00:53:22.000Most of my favorite films are probably historically oriented in some way.
00:53:27.000But 1776 is the one closest to my heart.
00:53:30.000As far as amendments, I'd put forth for a vote.
00:53:31.000I've always said that I would love a constitutional amendment that suggests that every bill has to be no longer than three pages and on a single topic.
00:53:38.000The death of democracy is omnibus bills.
00:53:41.000Because all that is, is here's a bunch of crap.
00:53:43.000Either vote for the entire bucket of crap or you vote for nothing.
00:54:42.000On domestic policy, I think that his policy was quite good.
00:54:46.000I mean, in his first term, he started off moving to the radical left, then he got blown out in the 94 elections, and being a smart politician, he then moved to the moderate center and started cutting deals with Newt Gingrich to lower the budget deficit, to reform welfare, to lower the capital gains tax.
00:55:02.000So, the fact that Bill Clinton governed as a moderate Republican on economics And on domestic policy, he signed the 1994 Crime Bill.
00:55:11.000These were all good pieces of legislation.
00:55:12.000So on domestic legislation, Bill Clinton was like a B, B-plus president.
00:55:16.000He did a lot of good things on domestic legislation.
00:56:16.000Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, we're going to hit on some of the stories we missed this past week, starting with Mario Lopez.
00:56:22.000He said, as you may have heard, that three-year-olds can't choose their own gender, but he since almost immediately cowardly apologized for that.
00:56:30.000So we'll discuss the need in our culture for not just sanity, but also courage, which is so sorely lacking.