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00:02:03.000If you look back at the last days of the 2018 campaign.
00:02:07.000The key question in the 2018 campaign was going to be, who were voters going to focus on?
00:02:12.000Were they going to focus on the foibles of the Republicans, or are they going to focus on the myriad stupidities of the Democrats?
00:02:16.000In the aftermath of the Judge Kavanaugh hearings, where Democrats proved themselves to care nothing about due process or decency, Republicans skyrocketed in the polls because all the focus was on how terrible the Democrats were.
00:02:28.000And then President Trump shifted the topic from Judge Kavanaugh to the the caravan and to his border policies.
00:02:34.000And suddenly the focus was on Republicans and people decided they didn't like the Republicans and they ran screaming from the Republicans and Republicans ended up losing the popular vote in the House by 8.6 percentage points.
00:02:46.000The question was, is the focus on Hillary or is the focus on Trump?
00:02:50.000When the focus was on Trump, Trump went down in the polls.
00:02:52.000When the focus was on Hillary, as it was at the very end of the election, in large part thanks to James Comey's memo, at that point, the focus shifted to Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton lost.
00:03:01.000Well, in 2020, whoever the focus is on is going to lose because it turns out that Americans hate both parties.
00:03:07.000Americans think that both parties stink.
00:03:52.000As Speaker of the House, after eight long years in the wilderness, she is back.
00:03:56.000And her first thing is that she says that she's going to tackle climate change.
00:04:01.000Okay, if we are going to actually look at the priorities that Americans care about, climate change is not in the top ten.
00:04:08.000Climate change is not a major priority for Americans, specifically because, if you look at the statistics, America's carbon emissions have actually been dropping in recent years.
00:04:16.000The statistics show that two of the chief ways, Noah Rothman writes this in commentary today, two of the chief ways in which individuals can reduce their carbon footprints according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that's the UN, would be to purchase electric or hybrid cars or to install smart thermostats in their homes.
00:04:32.000And consumers are already doing that in the United States, right?
00:04:34.000You got that Nest thermostat that the state pays for.
00:04:37.000People are putting that in their house already.
00:04:48.000is meeting its Paris Climate Accord targets, despite having left the stupid agreement in early 2017.
00:04:56.000All that's happening, and Americans are not deeply concerned about climate change because they do recognize that in reality, technological change is going to outpace all the sort of socialistic cram-downs that Democrats want.
00:05:07.000Nonetheless, Nancy Pelosi targets climate change As her chief priority.
00:05:40.000And that is why we have created a select committee on climate crisis.
00:05:43.000The entire Congress must work to put an end to the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future.
00:05:53.000Okay, if you really think that this is what the American people are looking for, you're out of your mind, and the Democrats campaigning on this is crazy.
00:05:58.000It's particularly crazy when you have people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has thrown out what she calls a Green New Deal.
00:06:04.000Her Green New Deal document that she put out yesterday is fully crazy.
00:06:09.000It's the text of a proposed House rule change outlining a plan, her Green New Deal.
00:06:14.000Now, the reason that we bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this is always what I caveat with.
00:06:18.000We're not bringing her up because we think she's an inherently important person.
00:06:22.000She's a woman who won 12,000 votes in a heavy Democrat district in a primary that was majority-minority and had a white representative, and they threw him out in favor of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:06:32.000This is not some sort of great puzzle.
00:06:34.000This is not some sort of massive movement inside the American public.
00:06:37.000But she has been touted by the media as a leader in the Democratic Party.
00:06:41.000It's not my fault the media decided to choose a complete ignoramus.
00:06:44.000As the face of the New Democratic Party.
00:08:15.000This is according to Tom Elliott over at Grabian.com.
00:08:18.000The proposed rule change for the upcoming 116th Congress would require the creation of a select committee for a Green Deal that would be responsible for creating a plan by January 1st, 2020, with corresponding draft legislation soon after.
00:08:30.000The text of the rule change lies in the Senate.
00:08:32.000jurisdiction and required areas of action.
00:08:35.000Its scope and mandate for legislative authority amounts to a radical grant of power to Washington over Americans' lives, homes, businesses, travel, banking, and more.
00:09:19.000Another 9% came in the form of nuclear electric power, which the Democrats don't like.
00:09:24.00011% of America's energy supply came from renewable energy.
00:09:28.000So in other words, the growth of America's economy, the growth of the world economy, which is dependent on the growth of America's economy, is powered 89% by sources of energy that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez doesn't like.
00:09:41.000She doesn't like nuclear energy, so we're not going to count that even though that really is a pretty clean source of energy, right?
00:09:46.000France is basically run on nuclear energy.
00:10:28.000The document also states that the Green New Deal will advance non-environmental projects such as social, economic, racial, regional, and gender-based justice.
00:10:37.000What a Green New Deal has to do with gender-based justice is beyond me.
00:10:51.000Since she's obviously an expert in energy management, you know, more so than people in coal and natural gas and petroleum, probably she should design it, right?
00:11:00.000She was bartending until five seconds ago.
00:11:02.000But clearly, if there's one person who knows how to build a national energy-efficient smart grid, and that's not just a mashup of a bunch of words that sound nice together, it would be somebody like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, whose combined brainpower could maybe, maybe provide the electricity to lightly toast a piece of bread.
00:11:20.000As long as we're talking about people providing renewable sources of energy.
00:11:24.000I'll get to more on Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's idiotic plans.
00:11:27.000All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy.
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00:14:04.000The proposed committee would also have seeming total oversight of American industry, with a mandate for pushing union membership.
00:14:10.000So it's not just that we are going to green the economy through the force of government, we are going to unionize every industry to green the economy through the force of government.
00:14:18.000If this sounds a lot like the government controlling industry from the top down and destroying the economy, that's because it's precisely what it is.
00:14:24.000She wants a national jobs force to help people participate in the transition to the green economy.
00:14:29.000She says the Green New Deal will provide all members of our society across all regions and all communities the opportunity, training, and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one.
00:14:45.000We can have the government take over all the industries and regulate them down to the ground, unionize all the industries, guarantee the employment through all the industries, and redistribute income for gender-based justice through all of this.
00:14:58.000Have we ever tried anything like this before in human history?
00:16:27.000Again, much better at dancing than economics, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:16:31.000Sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent.
00:16:35.000That doesn't mean all 10 million dollars are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more.
00:16:45.000What you are talking about, just big picture, is a radical agenda compared to the way politics is done right now.
00:17:00.000And when she says, oh, thank you for explaining marginal tax rates to me, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:17:05.000Now, what would be awesome is if she explained how much money the people in the top quintile of the United States pay in federal income tax.
00:17:17.000For 2018, the reality is that top earners will pay the overwhelming majority of all taxes in the United States.
00:17:26.000Houses in the top 20% will have income of about $150,000 or more and 52% of total income.
00:17:29.000thousand dollars or more and 52 percent of total income they will pay 87 percent of all income taxes 87 percent of all income taxes are paid for by the people in the top 20 percent of income earners By the way, it's worth noting here that America has the most progressive tax system in the entire industrialized world.
00:17:48.000And when I say progressive, I mean the more money you make, the more money you pay.
00:17:52.000This is truer in America than it is in any of the European countries that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is talking about.
00:17:58.000The reality is that in order to pay for all of her god-awful, terrible, regulatory, economy-crushing programs, she would have to raise taxes radically on people who are lower down on the income scale.
00:18:07.000And when you hear people like Bernie Sanders say things like, well, back in the day of JFK, the top marginal tax rate was 91%.
00:18:16.000A few quick notes about this idiotic point.
00:18:19.000Number one, the top marginal tax rate in the day of Eisenhower and JFK was indeed 91%, but that was for people who earned, filing jointly, $3.4 million in inflation-adjusted dollars.
00:18:30.000The top marginal tax rate in the United States today kicks in at about $400,000.
00:18:48.000Because everybody was shielding their income because of the lower corporate tax rate and also because until at that point you were actually allowed to deduct on your taxes depreciation on all loans and depreciation on all real estate.
00:19:01.000So people just weren't paying that tax rate, is the reality.
00:19:04.000And the economy was good, because people weren't actually paying that tax rate.
00:19:07.000For every year between 1952 and 2014, the government brought in between 17% and 20% of GDP in tax revenue, and between 7% and 9% of GDP in income tax revenue.
00:19:16.000So it's just a lie to suggest that taxes used to be so high, and the economy was awesome, when the taxes were super duper high.
00:19:57.000Impose a brand new 20% national VAT sales tax and hike income tax rates across the board for poor people, middle class people and rich people by 10 percentage points.
00:20:11.000This is why, if you look at all the famed socialistic countries, the supposed socialistic countries that the Democrats like to talk about, the Norways and the Denmarks, the average tax rate across the board is exorbitant.
00:20:24.000People are paying 60% of their income to the Denmarkian government, okay, to the government of Denmark.
00:20:29.000The Danish government, you're paying 60% of your income when you make over $60,000 a year in Denmark.
00:20:34.000And that does not include the national sales tax, which means that when all is said and done, like 80% of your income is going to the government of Denmark.
00:21:40.000So their big plan is this new green deal, big spending, Medicare for all, free college for all.
00:21:46.000All of these grandiose things that cost exorbitant amounts of taxpayer dollars and are wrongheaded in the extreme as well.
00:21:52.000You know, that when it comes to their college free for all plan, they say, well, you know, we can pay for that by just raising taxes a little bit and we'd pay for the education.
00:21:58.000We don't need more people going to community colleges to get degrees they don't need.
00:22:03.000What we need is more people going into careers that are useful.
00:22:05.000The idea that college is inevitably driving income is just wrong.
00:22:10.000Correlation does not equal causation there.
00:22:13.000The bottom quintile of college degree earners is earning less than the top quintile of high school degree earners.
00:22:19.000Meaning that you can have a high school degree and still make a good living in the United States if you're willing to move up to Montana and work in oil rigging.
00:22:25.000But apparently we're not allowed to talk about any of those things anymore.
00:22:28.000Okay, so that wasn't the only thing on the Democrats' agenda this week.
00:22:32.000So what did they propose in their first couple of days?
00:22:34.000Well, we have Brad Sherman, who is my representative here in California and is a full-fledged doof.
00:22:41.000He intends to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday as the new session of Congress convenes.
00:23:26.000I'm not just cherry picking these folks.
00:23:28.000When Vanity Fair did their spreadsheet, their big spread, in their new magazine, I think it's a February issue, of Power Players, in which yours truly appears, the Democrats they chose, from Congress, Were AOC, Rashida Tlaib, there's all these radicals.
00:23:43.000This is the people they chose to feature.
00:23:45.000This was the new wing, the new diverse magical wing.
00:23:49.000So, Rashida Tlaib is a radical anti-Semite.
00:23:52.000Not only is she in favor of boycott, divestment and sanctions from the state of Israel, she has tweeted out radically awful things about Israel and Jews before.
00:24:36.000It shows a post-it note that has been placed over Egypt with an arrow toward Israel and the word Palestine.
00:24:42.000So she wants to replace Israel with Palestine, which means the genocide of the Jews in the area.
00:24:46.000And she has placed that on her map in her congressional office.
00:24:49.000But don't worry, she's new and fresh-faced.
00:24:52.000Also, we know she's new and fresh-faced because she uses lots of curse words.
00:24:55.000Now, I remember a time, you know, 30 seconds ago, when we kept hearing that Donald Trump was a very vulgar bad man because he's vulgar and bad.
00:25:03.000Now, there are those of us who don't like vulgarity.
00:25:06.000There are those of us who think that Donald Trump is vulgar and that his vulgarity is not excusable and that it's a bad thing.
00:25:11.000There are those of us who think that this sort of approach to politics is ugly, whether it's Republicans or Democrats.
00:25:17.000But there's something a little hypocritical about the Democrats whining about vulgarity and then celebrating as Rashida Tlaib goes out there and says that her chief goal is going to be impeaching the mother effer.
00:25:27.000She was caught saying this yesterday on tape.
00:25:53.000Now, that doesn't mean that people can say, like, if you're not pissed at Trump doing this sort of stuff, then you're not allowed to really be pissed at Rashida Tlaib for doing this sort of stuff.
00:26:01.000But the same holds true the other way.
00:26:03.000So Nancy Pelosi, who's been whining about Donald Trump being vulgar for the last several years at this point, She shied away from moving forward with impeachment, but she said that the language used by Rashida Tlaib, well, it was no worse than what he said.
00:26:16.000She said that impeachment is divisive, but she's not actually going to, like, chide Rashida Tlaib over all of this because she can't control her own radicals.
00:26:22.000This is going to be an ongoing problem for Nancy Pelosi.
00:26:25.000Here is Pelosi basically making room for her own radicals while at the same time pretending that only the Republicans are radicals.
00:26:31.000Many Democrats are talking about impeachment.
00:26:35.000You've said it would be sad and divisive for the country to pursue impeachment.
00:27:10.000If you're going to complain about Donald Trump's behavior, and when your own members use that same kind of behavior, you have to condemn it.
00:27:17.000If you're going to condemn Rashida Tlaib, then when President Trump uses this kind of behavior, you should also condemn it.
00:27:23.000You need to be consistent with these sorts of standards, otherwise there are no standards at all with which to be consistent.
00:27:28.000But that wasn't the only thing that Democrats were doing yesterday.
00:27:30.000Rashida Tlaib, for her part, she tweeted out that she's unapologetic about using the Mother F Royce says, I will always speak truth to power.
00:28:33.000It's particularly exciting because he doesn't understand how the Constitution works.
00:28:35.000You can't introduce a bill to remove the Electoral College.
00:28:38.000It's part of the Constitution, you moron.
00:28:40.000You actually have to introduce a constitutional amendment, which would never pass.
00:28:44.000So glad to see the Democrats have all their priorities in the correct place.
00:28:47.000Hank Johnson, a man who thinks that the island of Guam is going to tip over from too many people because he's a highly intelligent human.
00:28:53.000This is Congressman Hank Johnson from the GA 4th District.
00:28:56.000Meanwhile, he is ranting and raving about how Trump supporters are all committing suicide.
00:28:59.000So Democrats really demonstrating that they should be trusted with power.
00:29:03.000Their whole pitch was, you can't trust Trump with power.
00:29:05.000And now their whole pitch is, we crazy.
00:29:08.000I mean, so here is Hank Johnson being totally nuts.
00:29:12.000Donald Trump supporters are older, less educated, less prosperous, and they are dying early.
00:29:20.000Their lifespans are decreasing, and many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease, or simply a broken heart caused by economic despair.
00:29:34.000Yeah, that's what Trump supporters are.
00:29:35.000They're all dying, committing suicide.
00:29:42.000I mean, incredible knowledge being dropped there by Hank Johnson, who legitimately said that an island was going to tip over because of overpopulation.
00:29:51.000The good news, though, is that the media are doing yeoman's work in covering the Democrats.
00:31:06.000By the way, do we have any data about whether Italians live longer?
00:31:10.000I don't know that that data exists, but it doesn't matter.
00:31:13.000She's an old lady, and we have to trust everything she says.
00:31:15.000She loves dark chocolate, and she loves ice cream, and she used to go to Vaquero's as a child, and this means that she is going to legislate on behalf of the children.
00:32:00.000Starting on Monday, because our radio show, our two-hour live radio show in the afternoons, that's a thing that's happening.
00:32:05.000And you're only going to be able to listen to the back episodes of that and listen to it at all if you are a subscriber, unless you listen to it on live radio on our syndicated show.
00:33:26.000They're going to spend trillions of dollars on universal basic income.
00:33:29.000They're going to spend trillions of dollars on a Green New Deal, which is just basically a cronyist boondoggle where they pay their friends and their union cronies.
00:33:35.000They're going to spend billions of dollars on that, but they will not give President Trump $5.6 billion for a wall.
00:34:43.000He said, well, we already know what you are.
00:34:45.000We're just haggling over the price now.
00:34:47.000Really, I mean, if Nancy Pelosi is willing to give a dollar, why not 5.6 billion?
00:34:50.000I mean, really, same thing in federal government terms.
00:34:52.000In any case, they will not grant a dollar for the wall, or if they will, it's like one dollar.
00:34:57.000Meanwhile, Mike Pence says the shutdown is going to continue without the wall, which, by the way, it should.
00:35:03.000We'll talk about the politics of this in just a second, because there are a lot of people saying, oh, it's going to damage President Trump.
00:35:08.000Democrats are in control of Congress now.
00:35:09.000I'm not sure that's how this is going to play out.
00:35:12.000Ever since the Christmas holiday, The president sent us to Capitol Hill.
00:35:16.000I met with Senator Schumer not once but twice.
00:35:18.000We engaged in good faith negotiations.
00:35:20.000The president and I canceled all of our Christmas vacation plans.
00:37:16.000It's video showing people throwing rocks at border agents, and criminals throwing rocks at border agents, drugs being shipped over the border, and all the rest, and him saying we need a border wall.
00:38:54.000Meanwhile, the markets have been tumbling.
00:38:56.000They've been going up and down and all around.
00:38:58.000But there's a very good economic report that came out today.
00:39:01.000The new economic report shows an amazing 312,000 jobs added in December, plus average hourly pay improved 3.2% from a year ago, up from average wage growth of 2.7% at the end of 2017.
00:39:13.000It's a very, very solid economic report.
00:39:16.000The amount that was expected was like 200,000 jobs added.
00:39:21.000The unemployment rate did rise slightly to 3.9% because people were looking for more work.
00:39:28.000They've gotten back into the jobs market.
00:39:32.0004% is basically considered by economists full employment.
00:39:34.000So we have a full employment economy and Democrats are treating it as though we are supposed to wreck that economy with 70% tax rates across the board and massive green scams designed to pay off all of their political cronies.
00:39:45.000Trump should just run on their radicalism.
00:39:47.000This would be a very good... Now Trump has an opponent.
00:39:49.000So it was suggested yesterday by the exorable Michael Knowles that President Trump does better when he has an opponent, an actual opponent.
00:39:57.000Now he has actual opponents in Congress.
00:39:59.000He should aim his fire directly at their idiotic programs that they are pushing as hard as they possibly can because they're going to keep pushing these programs even if the economy is good.
00:40:08.000There are warning signs on the horizon for the economy.
00:40:11.000Apple, for example, announced that its earnings would come up short.
00:40:14.000That's because Apple has been poorly run.
00:40:16.000I mean, really, their products just are not as innovative as they once were.
00:40:20.000And this is one of the realities of the economy.
00:40:21.000It's why when people talk about Google being inevitably large and eating the world economy and all the rest of it, companies rise, companies fall.
00:40:28.000The number of companies that have been on the S&P 500 is not 500 over the course of the last 50 years.
00:40:34.000It is several thousand because companies join, companies fall off.
00:40:37.000There was a time when Apple was a secondary company, when IBM was the big company, and now IBM is barely alive, and Apple is on top.
00:40:46.000I remember a time when AltaVista was a thing, and Yahoo was a thing.
00:40:49.000All these companies rise and fall because of innovation.
00:40:51.000Now, innovation makes people uncomfortable.
00:40:53.000It makes them feel like they're not in control.
00:40:54.000There are a lot of articles today out in the New York Times about how innovation is basically stalling, and we don't know where the next big thing is going to come from.
00:41:03.000If we knew where the next big thing was going to come from, then I would have invested in it, wouldn't have you?
00:41:08.000Innovation always takes us by surprise.
00:41:51.000Innovation can only happen when people are left to their own free devices.
00:41:55.000The inspiration of man has allowed 7.3 billion people to remain alive on a planet that really in a subsistence economy would sustain maybe a billion, right?
00:42:05.000It's not credible to believe that technology is not going to continue to advance in the wake of human ingenuity and human intelligence.
00:42:12.000But that seems to be the case made by folks on the left, is that human intelligence and ingenuity, suddenly they're not up to the task.
00:42:17.000Capitalism, which has raised nearly the entire globe from abject poverty, Needs to be curbed because it's too rapacious and greedy and terrible and all the rest.
00:42:27.000This sort of stuff is just, it's foolish.
00:42:30.000But foolishness is stock and trade for a lot of folks these days and that's what President Trump should campaign on because it turns out that whatever President Trump's problems, at least he isn't proposing destroying the entire United States and thus world economy on the shoulders of centralized planning by bartenders from New York.
00:42:44.000Okay, let's get into the mailbag for a few minutes.
00:42:46.000So Annette says, hey, my seven-year-old is super into U.S. history.
00:42:49.000He really enjoys watching Crash Course on U.S. history videos.
00:42:53.000However, I've noticed a significant liberal bent in a lot of these videos.
00:42:55.000Do you have any recommendations for U.S. history that are trustworthy and could still be considered somewhat entertaining to a seven-year-old?
00:43:01.000Well, you know, I've recommended for years the musical 1776.
00:43:05.000She loves the musical 1776 because, indeed, it is, in fact, musical.
00:43:10.000I've been seriously considering the possibility of putting out podcasts on American history, or putting out graphic novels on American history, because I think that it is ill-taught, and I think the most entertaining versions are put together by folks from Hollywood who legitimately are attempting to bias American history in the worst possible way.
00:43:28.000Listen, there is sophistication to American history.
00:43:30.000There are nuances to American history.
00:43:32.000Not all of American history is glorious and wonderful, but the overarching thrust of American history and philosophy is inherently wonderful.
00:43:39.000And if that's not what kids are initially taught, and they're instead taught that America was initially bad and was founded on racism and sexism and slavery and all this kind of stuff, Then what they're going to come away with is a leftist version of history that ignores the transformative power of the United States and really doesn't answer the question as to why the U.S.
00:43:55.000is so good, so powerful, and so righteous on the world stage across the scope of history.
00:44:00.000Daniel says, It begins on Monday, so you can go to your local radio station that may be carrying it.
00:44:11.000We are going to be on in all the major markets, in real time.
00:44:15.000It broadcasts live from 12 to 3 on the West Coast, right?
00:44:19.000So it'll be the first hour is the recut version of the podcast, and then the last two hours are going to be live radio, but it plays basically a three-hour radio show.
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00:44:44.000Matthew says, hey, I'm a new subscriber after a year of watching on YouTube.
00:44:47.000I'm a follower of the intellectual dark web and have been intrigued and disturbed by the recent developments with Patreon's banning of Sargon of Akkad.
00:44:53.000I've been following Dave Rubin's and Jordan Peterson's recent announcement to leave Patreon with the hope to create a competitor platform.
00:44:59.000What are your thoughts on the Rubin-Peterson platform and on Peterson's worried about the change of terms, site movement, and potential for credit card companies to further the social push toward radical leftist ideologies and censorship on the internet?
00:45:10.000Well, my view is that Jordan and Dave are doing exactly the right thing.
00:45:14.000And not only that, there's all sorts of market opportunities that are going to be opened up by the censorship of the left.
00:45:19.000If Mastercard decides that they're going to crack down on your ability to subscribe to my show, for example, people will just get another credit card.
00:45:29.000If Jeff Goldblum said that life finds a way, so does freedom, so does liberty.
00:45:33.000If people can somehow find a way to listen to this show in China, and I know there are people who do, then you can certainly find a way to get another credit card to listen to this show if these credit card companies decide to try and reach out and harm you.
00:45:43.000Veronica says, we had a discussion in the DW chat that sparked this question.
00:45:47.000Since alcohol kills more people a year than drugs, does it make sense to legalize marijuana, cocaine, etc.
00:45:53.000My view when it comes to all of these things is that legalization is preferable for all substances and that it is your personal responsibility not to abuse those substances.
00:46:04.000We have ancillary crimes that are attached.
00:46:14.000If you become violent after using cocaine, then that is a crime.
00:46:20.000The real question about legalization of drugs is whether there are certain drugs that are so powerful that they actually rob you of your capacity to reason And be a good citizen in the process.
00:46:30.000And there are certain drugs that do make you into a zombie.
00:46:33.000I mean, heroin obviously makes you into a zombie.
00:46:36.000So, would legalization of heroin... Then the question becomes, is government policy and criminalization effective in combating the use of heroin or not?
00:46:45.000And I think the evidence on that is fairly mixed.
00:46:48.000I believe that heroin is actually legal in places like Amsterdam.
00:46:52.000And I'm not sure that it has radically increased the number of people who are addicted to heroin, for example.
00:46:56.000I'd want to do some more research on that topic.
00:46:58.000Drew says, Hey Ben, I've heard you say a few times you're an absolutist when it comes to free speech in the First Amendment.
00:47:02.000Therefore, I'm curious what your thoughts were on free speech in schools, specifically high school.
00:47:06.000The two scouts cases, SCOTUS cases, I immediately think of are Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District and Morse v. Frederick.
00:47:13.000Well, you do give up certain rights depending on their time, place, and manner restrictions.
00:47:16.000school do you think these rights should be preserved and respected at these schools thanks for all you do for the conservative community well you do give up certain rights depending on their time place and manner restrictions it's not appropriate for you to get up and protest in the middle of your math class because there's actual jobs that have to be taken care of in that math class such as teaching math for example i'm not sure that free speech applies in the same way in in public schools now So long as it is not impeding the educational mission of the school, I think free speech is fine.
00:47:45.000If it is impeding the educational mission of the school, then I think that obviously free speech is a problem.
00:47:50.000But that's not the same thing as bringing in a guest speaker on college campus, for example.
00:47:55.000Or restricting certain types of political activity at the expense of other types of political activity.
00:48:00.000I mean, the general rule when it comes to time, place, and manner restrictions is that they have to be content neutral.
00:48:04.000Isaac says, Hey Ben, your argument against Trump pulling our military presence from the Middle East is solid.
00:48:08.000Allow me to present a counter-argument you may not have heard.
00:48:11.000In short, we need our troops here at home.
00:48:13.000We've lost all our important social fabric to the ravages of tribalism and nihilism.
00:48:16.000We are now embroiled in a culture war against these forces.
00:48:19.000Maybe the return home of a bunch of people who believe in this country and have an interest in restoring our social fabric is just what we need to win.
00:48:24.000Well, honestly, listen, I think that our troops are unbelievable people.
00:48:31.000I mean, they're incredible, they're far braver than I, they made a commitment that I have not made.
00:48:37.000The idea that you join the military to be at home and then influence other people, I don't think is exactly correct.
00:48:43.000I mean, what you're actually suggesting More effectively would be some sort of national service program, you know, like Israel, that everybody does a year of national service, everybody serves in the army.
00:48:51.000I'm generally uncomfortable with government force being used that way.
00:48:53.000I think rebuilding of the social fabric ground up through local community is a better solution.
00:48:57.000Matthew says, Ben, I'm looking at becoming a political commentator, hopefully similar to what you do.
00:49:01.000What college degrees and courses would you suggest to be the best equipped for this path?
00:49:06.000I mean, I'm not sure the college prepares you to actually do any of this stuff.
00:49:09.000I think that taking poli-sci courses, then reading all of the stuff they don't want you to read is probably useful.
00:49:14.000I think that taking a journalism course and realizing what it is that they want you to do is maybe a little useful.
00:49:20.000Learning how to write in an English course is useful.
00:49:23.000But most... I actually believe this about college generally.
00:49:27.000Unless you are going to a college that is pushing you to learn a skill set that is specific.
00:49:33.000So my wife was in pre-med, and now she's a doctor.
00:49:39.000That's an actual college degree that's worth something.
00:49:41.000I'm not sure that it's necessarily worth something to go to college and then major in a subject where you're actually going to learn what to do while you're on the job.
00:49:48.000As far as being a political commentator, opinion maker, I always say to young people, the first thing people want is information.
00:49:53.000People like our show because we're information first.
00:49:55.000We provide you enormous amounts of information and then my opinion.
00:50:20.000Just says, Dear Ben, in downtown Portland, homeless people wandering around with trash bags full of cans, which they collect to turn in for money, are ubiquitous.
00:50:26.000As I walked to put some cans in my building's recycling bins today, I wondered, is leaving cans in recycling bins the new leaving a corner of one's wheat field for the poor?
00:50:34.000Thanks, from a former Jewish day school student.
00:50:36.000So, that's a reference to Paya and Leket, which are biblical sort of taxes.
00:50:41.000You're supposed to leave one, basically, you're supposed to leave a corner of your field unreaped for the poor and if you go through your field and you drop stuff on the ground you're not supposed to pick it up you're supposed to leave that for the poor as well is that what recycling is kind of a funny idea i don't think so i think that the idea of pay and like it was to provide job opportunities for people uh that they were it wasn't that you were supposed to pick the the grain and then hand it over to a poor person although that is a form of tzedakah of of charity
00:51:09.000You're actually supposed to leave something for the poor people to do so that they become self-sufficient.
00:51:14.000And I think that that's what we should be aiming toward, giving people a job as the highest form of charity.
00:52:21.000They're a large time and energy drain.
00:52:24.000Well, it used to be that the reason people had kids was so that they could work the farm, or so one day when you were old, your kids would take care of you, but in an era when the government is supposedly going to take care of you, which it won't, but in an era when the government is supposed to take care of you, then the idea is that you don't actually need kids to do all of that stuff.
00:52:39.000The only reason to have kids would be to pay for these programs 20 years down the road, but you're gonna be dead, so what do you care?
00:52:46.000Kids have become a net Negative, as opposed to a net asset.
00:52:50.000Well, that means that people are not going to have kids.
00:52:52.000Which means the only reason people are having kids, really, is for religious reasons.
00:52:55.000Because they believe that it's a good thing for the world to have kids, because they believe that kids are an inherent good, and because there still is a human biological need, and this is particularly true among women, to have children.
00:53:21.000You may be fulfilled if that's part of your life, but if that's your whole life, there's not a man or woman who's totally fulfilled by that, but particularly not a woman who feels that she forwent her magical power of being able to produce and spawn another human being And did that so they could build more hours at the office.
00:53:36.000I just don't think that's a recipe for happiness.
00:53:38.000And feminism, which has taught women this, has made more women miserable.
00:53:41.000So, I think that the cure for this is a values cure.
00:53:46.000I don't think it's about paid maternity leave.
00:53:47.000Now, is there a conservative argument for paid maternity leave?
00:53:51.000Yeah, I think there is, which is why I think that there are a lot of private companies that undertake that argument.
00:53:55.000But I think it's ridiculous to suggest that, for example, my private company has to pay people for taking time off Should be forced by the government to pay people for taking time off at the same rate they would be if they were working.
00:54:07.000Like, if that's something I want to offer to incentivize really well-qualified women to come to the company, because that's something I believe in, great.
00:54:12.000But if the idea is I'm supposed to sacrifice the economic income of the company because you are making a personal choice to have a child, that's top-down control.
00:56:23.000And by the way, he would have survived in Bird Box.
00:56:29.000Okay, so a couple of things that I hate today.
00:56:31.000So, demonstrating once again that our social media outrage culture absolutely stinks.
00:56:35.000This is a story from The Daily Caller.
00:56:36.000At first, it appeared to be just another story about a white person calling the cops on a black person over the summer.
00:56:41.000A supposedly racially motivated phone call to the police that caught international attention out of hundreds of others.
00:56:46.000Stories of police arriving to scenes around the United States to find black people committing crimes of barbecuing, sleeping in a university dorm common room, or selling water bottles were taking over the media.
00:56:54.000With each story, a white person made the phone call, and each caller was given a memorable nickname.
00:56:58.000In this case, the caller was Doorway Debbie.
00:56:59.000I don't know if you remember this one.
00:57:01.000On a midsummer day in July, Darcelle Obregon ducked into an apartment building to shelter herself from the rain while waiting for an Uber.
00:57:07.000Minutes later, the front door swung open and out walked a 19-year-old girl who demanded that Obregon leave the premises immediately.
00:57:13.000The resident's name is Arabel Torres, a 19-year-old student at Brooklyn College who also has autism.
00:57:18.000I came downstairs and a woman was standing as I am right now and wouldn't leave, said Torres.
00:57:22.000What might have been an unremarkable, high-strung incident that occurs hundreds of times a day in New York City ended up becoming a fake news story that race-baited an incident without any credible evidence of bigotry.
00:57:30.000Torres said, Hey ma'am, this is private property, could you please move?
00:57:34.000Okay, and the woman, Obregon, is an assistant to a fashion model.
00:57:40.000After about 10 times of me saying, ma'am, go, this is private property, Obregon still refused, so I called the cops.
00:57:44.000As a person with autism, I was scared.
00:57:46.000When somebody is blocking me from leaving, it's a problem, and I was alone in that situation.
00:57:50.000Torres dialed 911, so Obregon whipped out her phone and began filming.
00:57:53.000Later that evening, the words worthless skank popped up on her phone.
00:57:56.000When Torres was at a Broadway show, messages poured in.
00:58:00.000Hashtags like white privilege and barbecue Becky were included.
00:58:03.000Obergon's Facebook post reads, on Sunday afternoon, I was in Brooklyn walking to the train when a sudden rainstorm began and I hid in the doorway outside of a random apartment to shield myself from rain.
00:58:11.000No more than three minutes later, a young woman who lives in the building opened the front door and told me I cannot stand there and had to leave.
00:58:16.000And then she proceeded to call the police and then she released all of this tape.
00:58:20.000And there's a lot of talk about how she was maybe high or maybe she's not Spanish, she looks Jewish, all of this stuff.
00:58:27.000It turns out that this woman was diagnosed with autism.
00:58:53.000Makes everybody feel better to tweet about how people are terrible without actually recognizing maybe you're the terrible one for jumping to a conclusion in the first place.
00:59:14.000The purpose of putting a sex on your birth certificate is so that if a doctor, let's say that something happens, there's a car crash, and the baby has to be rushed to the hospital, and now you have to determine how to operate on the baby or the child, and you actually have to determine how are you going to credibly deal with this child.
00:59:30.000Health problems are different based on sex.
00:59:34.000For example, let's say that you are in a situation where you have a government census being done to determine how healthcare is differentiating between males and females and can healthcare be changed to change any sort of imbalance.
01:00:04.000The new law allows the choice of X in addition to male or female.
01:00:06.000The non-binary category can be selected by those who identify as non-binary, as well as by parents who choose the category for newborn children.
01:00:13.000Now, what's so amazing about this part?
01:00:15.000You know, the parents who choose the category for newborn children.
01:00:17.000First of all, you don't get to choose your own sex.
01:00:21.000Second, I love the idea that I am imposing on my child by recognizing a biological reality, but I am not imposing on my child by pretending biological reality doesn't exist.
01:00:32.000So it is not an agenda-driven item for me to suggest that my child is neither male nor female, but it is an agenda-driven item for me to recognize that my boy has a penis.
01:00:46.000New York Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped a groundhog and then praised the law for furthering the city's commitment to defending the rights of the LGBTQ community.
01:00:54.000Here he reiterated his stance in a statement this week.
01:00:57.000He said, You do not get to choose how people identify you.
01:01:40.000It'll become trendy for a while, and then it will go away because no one is going to actually do this overall.
01:01:44.000But the fact that we are all supposed to change what biology is, So that your self-identification becomes how we use objective measures to identify you.
01:01:52.000So basically, the government defines you.
01:01:55.000So you define yourself to the government, and then the government defines you for everyone else.
01:02:00.000And that is a form of thought control that I just simply am not going to engage in.
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