The stock market dropped 1,000 points yesterday, and then dropped another 666 points on Friday. Ben Shapiro explains why it's not a bad idea to have some gold and silver in your portfolio. Plus, Quentin Tarantino is under fire for apparently choking Uma Thurman, and Justin Trudeau proves that he is basically a human mop. Ben Shapiro is the host of the Ben Shapiro Show on the Fox Business Network and host of The Daily Wire. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and has been featured on CNN, CBS, Fox News and the New York Times, among other media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to The Financial Times, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. His articles can be found online at Huffingtonpost.com/BenShapiro and he is on Huffingtonpost. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a supporter of the show on Apple Podcasts and other major podcasting platforms. You'll get access to all the latest financial and investing news, including our exclusive videos, our best investing tips, our personal finance tips, and much more! Subscribe to our newest podcast, The Ben Shapiro Podcast! Learn more about Ben Shapiro's new book "Bullish vs. Bearish: How to Trade More Money: The Truth About It All." and other financial tips that can help you save more, not less, on your 401k, retirement, savings, and retirement. Subscribe and get 7% off your first month of college, and get 20% off of your first year of college loans, free of interest when you buy a house, car, car and car insurance, and more in the first year, when you get a house with a house or college starts in 20 years get 2 years of a house in the next place that you can get a discount, and you get 3 months of college and get 2 months of free, and they get two months of insurance and a life insurance plan, and all the world-round insurance? Click here to get a 2-year introductory offer! FREE FASTEST PRICING SPECIAL OFFER HERE! and get 10% off the deal of $200,000 or more when you shop with a 3-year VIP membership when you become a VIP discount when you sign up for VIP access to Ben Shapiro starts getting a discount offer starts in 2020? FREE MONEY ONLY!
00:00:20.000I have so many fantastic insults lined up for Justin Trudeau today, and I cannot wait to use them.
00:00:24.000I mean, I just have a whole pile of them just lined up before me.
00:00:28.000You can't actually see them, they're just off screen, but they are spectacular.
00:00:30.000We'll get to Justin Trudeau, the Me Too movement, maybe losing some of its luster.
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00:02:01.000On days like this, you really don't know until about 3 p.m.
00:02:03.000Late in the afternoon, you're going to find out when the stock market basically gets close to closing, and people decide where they want to finish their portfolio for the day, if there's a major sell-off at the end of the day.
00:02:13.000Now, everyone is going nuts about this.
00:02:15.000Oh my God, it's the single largest stock market drop in the history of the United States in terms of pure points.
00:02:39.000That is not even close to the top 25 stock market drops of all time.
00:02:43.000So people who are saying that this is the end of the world are stupid.
00:02:46.000By the same token, now President Trump, I've been saying this for literally his entire presidency.
00:02:50.000The President of the United States, when he goes out and he uses the stock market increase as an indicator of economic health.
00:02:55.000I said this while Obama was president.
00:02:57.000I've been consistent in saying it while Trump was president.
00:02:59.000The stock market is not a good reflection of the underlying economic fundamentals.
00:03:03.000Plus, the stock market is not the responsibility of any one president.
00:03:06.000So the idea that President Trump came into office and therefore he is responsible solely for stock market increases and decreases is stupid.
00:03:12.000I said the same thing about President Obama, so I've been entirely consistent on this point.
00:03:17.000When you see headlines saying that trillions of dollars wiped out in wealth, billions of dollars wiped out in wealth, not unless you're one of the people who actually sold.
00:03:24.000So if you have a 401k, your 401k is worth less than it was yesterday at the beginning of the day.
00:03:35.000If you're not cashing out today, the answer is you lost zero money.
00:03:38.000This is why Warren Buffett was famous for saying things like, during the 2008 crash, people would say, well, your entire portfolio, you lost billions and billions of dollars.
00:03:44.000And Buffett would say, well, no, I didn't.
00:04:51.000Putting forward the notion that Donald Trump is leading to economic collapse, Neil Irwin over at the New York Times says ignore the stock market, the underlying economy looks fine.
00:04:58.000He says, what is the stock market telling us with its precipitous drop over the last several days?
00:05:02.000In all likelihood, not much of anything.
00:05:04.000That's because the stock market, though crucial in the long run for individuals accumulating wealth and companies raising capital, is so erratic as to be useless in providing information about the short run.
00:05:13.000The 8.5% drop in the S&P 500 could signify the onset of a global recession.
00:05:18.000It could also mean that some trading algorithms at a big hedge fund collided in weird ways.
00:05:22.000For what really matters, the well-being of the economy.
00:05:24.000Look first to fundamental economic data.
00:05:25.000Second, look to bond market and other financial market indicators that are more reliable measures of investor expectations than stock prices.
00:05:32.000Basically, there's a theory going around over the last few days that the reason the stock market had a drop is because, number one, the wage data was good, meaning the wage data went up.
00:05:40.000And so that meant that profit margins of companies were going down, so people sold some stock.
00:05:45.000Possibility number two is there were some signals from the Fed that the interest rates were going to rise, and that would make the lines of credit a little bit harder to get, and that means that the stock market is going to drop a little bit.
00:05:54.000Bond yields, I guess, were up, and so the stock market went down.
00:05:57.000Sometimes when bond yields go up, the stock market goes up.
00:05:59.000In any case, here's what Neil Irwin says.
00:06:01.000He says, there's good news on both fronts, as both point to a global economy that will continue growing steadily in the months and years ahead, perhaps with inflation that is a bit higher than in the recent past.
00:06:09.000This contrasts with market sell-offs with drops in 2011, 2015 and 2016, which coincided with pessimistic signals in both economic data and the bond market.
00:06:17.000The stock market can, when looked at in concert with these other indicators, provide some useful insight.
00:06:21.000Right now, it appears to be more noise than signal.
00:06:24.000And he says the economic data has been solid in recent weeks.
00:06:26.000On Friday, the Labor Department reported the U.S.
00:06:29.000In January, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta says they are looking at a 4 percent annual increase of economic expansion, which is a major number.
00:06:37.000That was the number that Trump promised, and people were skeptical he was going to get.
00:06:41.000Of course, there's plenty of statistical errors built into these numbers.
00:06:43.000They may turn out to be incorrect, but the bond market is looking optimistic about the future.
00:06:47.000Prices suggest that continued growth without inflationary overheating is the most likely future.
00:06:52.000The stock market has lost some ground since the start of the year because of the sell-off on Monday, but the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds is up in that span from 2.4% to 2.75%, which thinks that bond investors think steady recovery will allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates gradually.
00:07:09.000Now, it may take a few months for the stock market to go back up to what it was, but the idea that we are in a full-scale economic collapse is really stupid.
00:07:16.000Now, maybe that's what it turns out to be, but we haven't seen that, and we haven't seen any underlying fundamentals that would suggest that at this point.
00:07:23.000This is why it's so dumb for commentators to blame or credit the stock market for a particular president.
00:07:28.000So Sean Hannity, he's a good guy, but this is so dumb.
00:07:31.000Yesterday, he blamed the plunge in the Dow on Barack Obama, who has not been president since last I checked, January of 2017.
00:07:37.000It is now, for those who missed it, February 2018.
00:07:40.000But I guess that if Obama can blame Bush, then Hannity can blame Obama.
00:07:44.000Here's Sean going after Barack Obama for the Dow plunging a year and a half after he left office.
00:07:49.000Because the Obama economy was so weak all of these years, we had just artificially cheap money.
00:07:59.000Cheap money is when you can borrow at ridiculously low rates, the era of cheap money at some point has to come to an end.
00:08:09.000Okay, so he's not completely—Sean isn't completely wrong about this, but it's not quite that simple.
00:08:13.000The fact is that they're not looking at tremendous inflation rates right now.
00:08:16.000I agree with his analysis of the stock market under Obama, but that wouldn't explain why the stock market has continued to rise under President Trump, even as the money supply tightens, because the Fed has been raising rates gradually.
00:08:26.000In any case, you know, the stock market
00:08:29.000It has very little to do with politics in the end.
00:08:31.000It has a lot more to do with confidence in particular companies.
00:08:35.000People don't buy... I mean, you buy indices if you're in a 401k, but most people don't buy indices.
00:09:04.000Next month, presumably when the stock market goes up, I will buy again.
00:09:07.000And this is a good way to incrementally increase your portfolio whether the stock market goes up or whether the stock market goes down.
00:09:13.000But everybody who's panicked when the stock market takes a dip like this and, oh, we must need major government intervention, unless there is a serious underlying economic problem like there was in 2008, government intervention is usually unnecessary and even more so counterproductive.
00:09:26.000Okay, so in just a second, I'm going to talk about
00:09:29.000Quentin Tarantino and Justin Trudeau and the insanity of the feminist left and the Me Too movement and what they're doing, because it really is getting kind of crazy out there.
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00:14:28.000But this is supposed to be empowering for women.
00:14:30.000Honestly, if you're a woman and you feel empowered because a man just explained, mansplained to a woman that she can't use the word mankind.
00:14:37.000If that makes you feel more feminist because Justin Trudeau just told a female student who was talking about the power of motherly love that she shouldn't use the word mankind, that makes you feel like a real feminist, let me suggest that something is wrong with you in the head.
00:14:49.000That wasn't the only dumb thing that Justin Trudeau said yesterday.
00:14:51.000Justin Trudeau also compared ISIS terrorists, apparently, to immigrants from Vietnam, Greece, and Italy, which makes perfect sense.
00:14:58.000First of all, the fact that one of the reasons Canada is successful as a country is because we have been open to people fleeing persecution, fleeing war zones, looking for a better life for themselves and their kids.
00:15:13.000When we welcomed in waves of refugees, whether it was the Ismaili refugees in the early 70s, whether it was the Vietnamese boat people in the early 80s, whether it was people fleeing the devastation of the Second World War from Southern Europe,
00:15:28.000Europe in the 50s and 60s, the Italian communities, the Greek communities, the Portuguese communities
00:15:37.000The question that he was asked here, the question that led to him saying all of this was a question about letting in people who could be affiliated with ISIS.
00:15:45.000So the guy asked him a question and it said, how are you going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter 10, 15, 20 years from now when you're letting in people with an ideology that just does not conform to what we're doing here?
00:15:54.000And then Trudeau immediately lumped in a bunch of people who may be sympathetic to terrorists
00:15:59.000With all the other refugees coming in from all the other countries.
00:16:01.000He doesn't say we're going to ideologically screen people, which would be the proper answer.
00:16:04.000Instead he says this, because Justin Trudeau must have been dropped on his head as a baby, but it's okay because he comes from a famous family.
00:16:10.000Lest it be said that America is stupid for electing President Trump or for electing George W. Bush or for electing Kennedys or legacy families.
00:16:18.000Canadians, before you get on your high horse about this, this is your Prime Minister, guys.
00:16:27.000OK, so if this is the new feminist movement, Justin Trudeau lecturing women about using the word mankind, that was not the end of the stupidity.
00:16:32.000The New York Times ran a piece yesterday that included a song.
00:16:37.000OK, the person who did this song, and then they ran the entire lyric as an op-ed.
00:16:43.000And then the name of the woman is Emily Lynn.
00:16:45.000She voices Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Karen Pence, Nancy Pelosi, and Betsy DeVos on Stephen Colbert's Our Cartoon President.
00:17:47.000Like, all the guy said there was, I think maybe the movement's gotten a touch out of hand, and then she goes crazy and says she's been triggered and you need to join the resistance.
00:17:54.000And she says, have you been reading the news?
00:20:00.000Okay, that wasn't the end of stupidity.
00:20:02.000You want to talk about where Me Too should be useful?
00:20:05.000So, Quentin Tarantino was caught on audio years ago saying to Howard Stern that he thought Roman Polanski had not raped a 13-year-old girl.
00:20:10.000It is impossible for a 13-year-old girl to consent.
00:20:12.000The girl was roofied, and she was drugged, and then she was given alcohol, and then she was anally raped, apparently, by Roman Polanski back when she was 13 years old, back in the 1970s.
00:20:22.000Now, to be fair, Whoopi Goldberg said the same thing you're about to hear Quentin Tarantino say, and she has a spot on The View.
00:20:27.000But she's a lady, so I guess she's allowed to say that.
00:21:12.000Okay, so this is not what he's in trouble for, right?
00:21:15.000If he'd been in trouble for this, that would have made sense, like, years ago, when he actually said it.
00:21:19.000But that's not actually why Quentin Tarantino's in trouble.
00:21:22.000Quentin Tarantino is in trouble because there is an article from Mooring Dowd in which Huma Thurman accuses Quentin Tarantino of making her drive a car.
00:22:29.000Ladies, you can get your man a salami bouquet.
00:22:33.000In return, and he'll appreciate it a lot more than flowers.
00:22:36.000They have all of these curated gifts, and they come in the crate with a crowbar, with an engraved crowbar, and you actually take the crowbar and you pry open the crate, or it comes in an ammo box.
00:24:03.000So, in the article, Tarantino is accused of a disturbing car crash.
00:24:09.000So basically, in the making of Kill Bill, there's a scene where Uma Thurman is driving, and apparently Uma Thurman is a bad driver, and he wanted her to drive the car, and she did not want to drive the car, and they'd set up the whole shoot to drive the car, and finally he said to her, listen, it's an easy drive, you can drive the car, and naturally she swerved and crashed into a tree, and she was hurt, and she had to go to the hospital.
00:24:41.000And then he released the tape, and the tape was included in the New York Times piece.
00:24:44.000OK, so he's getting ripped up for that, for saying to his actress, maybe you should drive this car, when that was part of the script, when that's not exactly a stunt, driving a car like 30 miles an hour.
00:26:08.000Here is what he says about the spitting and the choking.
00:26:13.000So in the article, this Deadline Hollywood interview with Quentin Tarantino, in this article, Uma complains about being choked by you in a scene.
00:27:38.000But in any case, he says that he didn't trust Michael Madsen with this kind of intricate work of spitting in Uma Thurman's face, so he did it himself.
00:27:46.000And he says, I'm not going to have a grip do it, because the grip's going to be intimidated, so he'll screw it up.
00:27:51.000So they did three takes, and Uma said, if you really need a fourth one, go ahead and do a fourth one.
00:27:55.000So in other words, Uma consented to this because she's an actress, and actresses do all sorts of stuff in films.
00:28:00.000She did many things in these movies that would probably not be pleasant to experience.
00:28:04.000He says, in the case of the choking, when Gogo, who is Chiaka Kuriyama, throws her chain ball at the bride, and the chain wraps around her neck, and then she's getting choked by it, frankly, I wasn't sure how we were going to shoot that scene.
00:28:14.000Wrap a chain around the neck, you gotta see the choking.
00:28:16.000I was assuming that when we did it, we would maybe have a pole behind Uma that the chain would be wrapped around so it wouldn't be seen by the camera, at least for the wide shot.
00:28:22.000But then it was Uma's suggestion to just wrap the thing around her neck and choke her.
00:28:25.000Not forever, not for a long time, but it's not going to look right.
00:28:27.000I can act all strangly, but if you want to get my face red and the tears to come to my eye, then you kind of need to choke me, right?
00:29:37.000These are all actresses who make millions of dollars.
00:29:40.000Okay, so there are lots of reasons to dislike Quentin Tarantino.
00:29:42.000There are lots of reasons to think that his films are fetishistic and violent and nasty toward women.
00:29:46.000I think that a huge percentage of them are.
00:29:48.000I don't like Quentin Tarantino's work.
00:29:50.000I think The Hateful Eight is one of the worst movies ever made.
00:29:53.000I think there's plenty about Quentin Tarantino.
00:29:55.000I think Pulp Fiction is wildly overrated.
00:29:57.000By the way, the idea that men are abused in violence here also in his movies is obviously true.
00:30:02.000I mean, men get the worst of it in his movies.
00:30:04.000But the idea that Tarantino did something truly terrible by asking these actresses if he could do it himself because he wanted it to be exactly right, you know, directors are weird.
00:30:14.000Maybe this is a fetish of his, but if the actress said yes, I don't really see the major problem.
00:30:18.000Call me crazy, but I don't see the problem.
00:30:21.000There are lots of... In a movie, Jimmy Cagney smashes a woman in the face with a grapefruit.
00:30:26.000It's one of the most famous scenes in movie history.
00:30:30.000Jessica Chastain seems to think yes, by the way.
00:30:32.000Jessica Chastain, the actress, she came forward and she said, do we really need more movies where a woman is shown being harmed to show that she's strong and overcoming that harm?
00:30:43.000Yeah, sort of, because that's every movie ever made, whether it's with a girl or a guy.
00:30:47.000There's not a movie that is made, particularly an action flick, where a man or a woman doesn't undergo some kind of trauma and then have to overcome that trauma.
00:31:07.000That's why I don't like Tarantino's films.
00:31:08.000But, the idea that we have to change the entire storytelling mechanism, when a woman consents to be in a movie for millions of dollars, and then makes her celebrity and her fame off of doing these movies, with her consent, again, I'm failing to understand how it is that consent is the final value, if you consent to something, and then a third party doesn't like it.
00:31:27.000It's kind of weird how this works now.
00:31:28.000Okay, so as we continue, we're gonna talk about more on MemoGate.
00:31:33.000We're gonna talk about what looks like an admission against interest from Devin Nunes.
00:31:36.000We're also going to talk about, you know, what, is there really a there there, and the malfeasance of the media, and also about the Mueller investigation.
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00:32:52.000So, the House has now voted to release the Democratic memo.
00:32:55.000So, as you recall, there is the memo from Devin Nunes.
00:32:58.000Then, there is the House Intelligence Democrat memo that is supposed to rebut the memo from Devin Nunes.
00:33:03.000So, on Monday night, according to Adam Schiff, they have voted to release a new memo that will supposedly rebuke the earlier memo released by Republicans last week.
00:33:11.000So, as I mentioned, I don't think that the memo is a complete nothing burger from Devin Nunes.
00:33:13.000I also don't think that it's a huge something burger.
00:33:16.000I don't think it's the end of the world.
00:33:18.000It is unclear to me that the memo, for example, establishes what it seeks to do, which is the notion the FBI was out to get Trump and was getting Carter Page on bad grounds in order to nail Trump.
00:33:28.000I think that's a little bit of a conclusory finish to the memo.
00:33:32.000I'm going to discuss all that in just a second.
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00:34:20.000So the centerpiece of the Devin Nunes memo was essentially the argument that the FISA judge, who granted a warrant on Carter Page, was not informed that the centerpiece of the application, the Steele dossier, was funded by the Democrats.
00:35:00.000So a footnote saying that something might be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats in the Hillary campaign paid for dirt.
00:35:10.000That the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign.
00:35:17.000And it's a very dangerous precedent that was set.
00:35:20.000And what we're trying to do is just get the American public to understand.
00:35:24.000Okay, so that's sort of an admission there.
00:35:25.000I mean, buried in that verbiage is the admission that in a footnote they said this is a political document.
00:35:30.000Adam Schiff says he doesn't know whether the FISA judge knew the dossier was backed by the DNC, but the judge certainly knew that it was a political document because it was mentioned.
00:35:39.000If it was mentioned in a footnote as a political document, is it necessary that the FBI mention that it was the Democrats who funded it?
00:35:44.000Or is it possible that, you know, as long as the judge knows that it's politicized, then it's politicized, right?
00:35:49.000I mean, then we know that this is coming from a political place.
00:35:53.000What Schiff said is he said he can't go into details until they're made public, but he said that the FBI and DOJ did disclose the dossier was likely supported by a political act.
00:36:01.000So, here's what I've been saying all along.
00:36:03.000All that has to happen here is the president of the United States declassifying the application.
00:36:07.000And then we can finish all of this nonsense.
00:36:09.000Meanwhile, there are going to be more memos that come out.
00:36:12.000Representative Jim Jordan, a guy who I think has his heart in the right place and is a quite good representative from Ohio, he says the FBI did not tell the FISA court who paid for the dossier.
00:36:22.000The question is, is it malfeasance if they say that the FISA warrant was—rather, that the dossier was political, but it didn't mention the DNC specifically?
00:36:33.000Look, more important to me is, did top people at the FBI engage in behavior they're not supposed to engage in in the United States of America?
00:36:41.000Namely, did they take a disproven salacious document and make that the basis to get a warrant, a secret warrant, at a secret court on a fellow American citizen?
00:36:51.000And it sure looks like they did, and when they did, it looks like they didn't tell the court
00:37:10.000I agree that all of this is really troublesome, and I think that the FBI ought to be looked at, and the oversight power obviously belongs to Congress.
00:37:16.000With that said, how about releasing more information so that we actually know what's true and what's false?
00:37:19.000Because at this point, we just don't know.
00:37:21.000Now, one of the reasons that people are skeptical of the FBI is because the media has come to their defense.
00:37:25.000The media now has almost a counter effect when it defends somebody.
00:37:28.000When the media defends somebody, the American people tend to go, well, not sure I actually buy it.
00:37:34.000That's particularly true when Democrats continue to maintain that the media is unbiased in their coverage of these issues, which it certainly is not.
00:37:40.000Jay Rosen is a professor at NYU, and he's appeared with Brian Stelter on CNN, and he suggests that the media is unbiased.
00:37:49.000There's a lot of motivated media, Fox, Breitbart, Infowars, et cetera, that are pushing a dishonest narrative, frankly, that is politically motivated.
00:37:57.000And on the other side, we're trying to be like, well, we're not on any side.
00:38:40.000I got up in the morning, brushed my hair to the show, come on in here looking all rumpled, looking like garbage, and I just get on here and I say crap about how the weightiest woman on earth, if you attack her, it's racist.
00:38:52.000Picking out somebody from one of the coasts, usually ethnic, and making them the poster person of the Democratic Party is old business for the Republicans.
00:39:01.000They did it with, way back to some guy from the Bronx back in the 40s, they did it with Bella Abzug from the west side of New York City, they did it after Tip O'Neill, they did it after Teddy, now they're doing it after Teddy Kane, now they're doing it after
00:39:14.000After Nancy Pelosi, they love to get an ethnic sort of— They hate the Irish.
00:39:18.000The Irish and the Italians, they hate those people.
00:39:49.000You do not want the President of the United States falling into a perjury trap just because he says stuff.
00:39:53.000As an example of Trump just saying stuff, the Democrats are going nuts because Trump yesterday, in a speech, he suggested that the Democratic reaction to the State of the Union was actually treason, like we should hang them.
00:40:03.000And everybody on the left decided to go completely berserk about this.
00:40:08.000Here is Trump making this ridiculous case.
00:40:11.000So that means they would rather see Trump do badly, okay, than our country do well.
00:40:21.000And it got to a point where I really didn't even want to look too much during the speech over to that side, because honestly, it was bad energy.
00:41:23.000He's clearly not joking when he says they're un-American.
00:41:25.000When he says that it's un-American because they're sitting there—and listen, do I think that it's a particularly American thing for them to sit when he says that we stand for the national anthem?
00:41:34.000Or for them to sit when he says black unemployment is low?
00:41:36.000I don't think it's a great thing, right?
00:41:37.000I think that it's particularly ridiculous.
00:41:39.000I don't think it's un-American because I think un-American applies to things that are actively against the United States.
00:41:44.000I don't think it's against the United States to not stand for the president when he's announcing something you don't want to credit him with.
00:41:49.000But he is clearly joking when he says it's treasonous.
00:42:05.000First of all, if I had five cents for every time a Democrat suggested that I was treasonous, I would be a very wealthy man indeed.
00:42:12.000The fact is, the Democrats accused Republicans of being terrorists when it was just the Tea Party protesting overspending.
00:42:18.000The Obama administration suggested that it was treason when Rush Limbaugh suggested that he wanted Obama to fail because he didn't like Obama's policies.
00:42:27.000If you had a full list—I think Dan McLaughlin over at National Review has a full list of all the different times Democrats have suggested that Republicans were involved in treason.
00:42:34.000How many Democrats have suggested that the Trump campaign was involved in treason based on allegations of collusion with Russia that have yet to be proved?
00:42:42.000Over and over again, you hear the word treason thrown out.
00:42:50.000That is not a shock in any way, shape, or form.
00:42:53.000It's not a shock because it's just dumb, right?
00:42:55.000It's just dumb, and we all know that it's dumb.
00:42:59.000This is a problem with electing a president of the United States who has a significant lack of character, but it is not a problem in the sense that you actually— Does anyone who's actually protesting Trump today think that Trump is actually going to initiate treason charges?
00:43:10.000Does anyone think that he's going to go round up the Democrats and throw them in jail without habeas corpus, like Abraham Lincoln?
00:43:16.000Does he really think that that's going to happen?
00:43:25.000It is something he shouldn't have said.
00:43:26.000But people who are taking it seriously seem to me to be doing so selectively, simply in order to get what they want from Trump, which is the image of a crazy person.
00:43:37.000Okay, so now let's do some things I like, and then we shall do some things that I hate.
00:44:23.000The truth is that Jackie Chan is almost ancillary to the plot.
00:44:26.000You could almost cut Jackie Chan completely out of the plot and it could just be a political potboiler about a guy who's trying to decide whether or not to go back to his old ways of terrorism or whether he is trying to root out terrorists inside his own organization.
00:44:37.000Jackie Chan's just there for some cool action scenes and there are a couple of really Jackie Chan scenes that are great.
00:44:43.000Jackie Chan, in his youth, was one of the great physical comedians in the history of screen.
00:44:48.000I mean, he's like Buster Keaton good, in terms of some of the stuff that he does in some of his earlier films, like Shanghai Noon and such.
00:44:54.000But in this film, he plays a really disillusioned former Viet Cong guy who has decided not to be violent anymore and has come to the UK, and he's already lost a wife and daughter, and his second daughter is killed in a bombing.
00:45:07.000So here's a little bit of the preview.
00:46:16.000I think it's a very good film that was completely played not as a potboiler, but as an action flick, which it really is not.
00:46:24.000Okay, time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
00:46:31.000So Doritos is just being mocked insanely because they have decided to make now a Dorito flavor brand for women, designed specifically for women.
00:46:39.000In a recent interview with Freakonomics, the head of Doritos, he's the head of global giant PepsiCo, Indra Noori, she says that
00:46:47.000Men lick their fingers with great glee, and when they reach the bottom of the bag, they pour the little broken pieces into their mouths because they don't want to lose the taste of the flavor and the broken chips in the bottom.
00:46:54.000Women would love to do the same, but they don't.
00:46:56.000They don't like to crunch too loudly in public, and they don't like to lick their fingers generously, and they don't like to pour the little broken pieces of flavor into their mouth.
00:47:02.000And so, Stephen Dubner, the host of Freakonomics, asked if the company is developing a male and female version of the chips.
00:48:00.000In other news, apparently Harvard is now going to ban single-sex organizations, which is totally crazy.
00:48:06.000According to Reason.com, as Harvard reaffirms its ban on single-sex organizations, female clubs will become gender-focused, while all male organizations will be slapped with sanctions.
00:48:14.000In May 2016, Harvard University banned single-sex clubs, stating such groups, quote, propagated exclusionary values and maintained forms of privilege.
00:48:21.000The ban, which bars members of single-sex organizations from leadership positions, athletic teams and scholarships, targets all single-sex organizations, from finals clubs to frats.
00:48:30.000While many at Harvard championed the new policy as an antidote to the campus' sexual assault problem, others were concerned about how the ban would impact single-sex female groups.
00:48:37.000So a bunch of female students were upset about it, and so Harvard reaffirmed the ban on single-sex organizations.
00:48:43.000But, while all male groups will be immediately punished by their choice to remain sex-exclusive, all female groups will be given up to a five-year grace period during which they could remain gender-focused while complying with the policy.
00:49:12.000And there's a reason why women want to have just women shopping trips or women poker nights.
00:49:16.000Okay, women can do stuff too on their own.
00:49:18.000The idea that men and women have to be allowed into each other's clubs, this violates freedom of association and it's really irritating.
00:49:23.000One of the great aspects of freedom is I don't have to hang out with people I don't want to hang out with.
00:49:27.000It's one of the things I enjoy most about living in a free country.
00:49:30.000Once you have people suggesting that I have to have my group let in people from the opposite sex because we have to somehow show that we're tolerant, it defeats the purpose of me having freedom to associate.
00:49:41.000And again, the women are right when they protest and they say, if we want to have an all-female safe space, let us do that.
00:49:47.000Well, yeah, they should be able to do that.
00:49:48.000People should be able to get together with the people they want to get together with.