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00:00:19.000And we'll talk about him in just a second.
00:00:21.000But first, let's talk about all of the events surrounding Election 2018.
00:00:26.000If you look at the rhetoric from the leftist news outlets on the heels of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, they're trying to solidify the left for the midterms.
00:00:33.000It is going to be a battle to hold the House.
00:00:34.000Here's what's at stake if the Democrats take it.
00:00:36.000All the positive policies Republicans have enacted over the past couple of years, all the things to help the economy, the tax cuts, the judicial appointments, the
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00:02:23.000was found in the mailbox at his home on Monday afternoon.
00:02:27.000According to senior law enforcement, as according to the New York Times, the device was proactively denotated by bomb squad technicians from the Westchester County Police Department.
00:03:00.000According to the Daily Caller, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California was vandalized on Monday, according to an Instagram post by the Congressman McCarthy, who could be the future Speaker of the House.
00:03:10.000His local office is in Bakersfield, California.
00:03:12.000He posted photos of the suspect and some of the damage.
00:03:15.000Two young men were caught on surveillance camera outside the office.
00:03:17.000It had its windows smashed in by a large boulder.
00:03:20.000And he doesn't know exactly who these folks are.
00:03:24.000McCarthy's office, of course, is not the first GOP office to be vandalized in recent weeks.
00:03:28.000A Republican Party office in Wyoming was intentionally set on fire two days after it opened in September.
00:03:33.000Vandals later hit the Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan's Upper East Side in October, smashing windows and spray-painting anarchist signs on the doors.
00:03:57.000police responded to the building on Wisconsin Avenue in the Friendship Heights neighborhood, as officials say that the man had been shot in the station's lobby by an armed security guard after forcing his way
00:04:08.000His name was George Odoms and he apparently started walking directly toward the desk station in the direction of the main part of the building.
00:04:15.000At that point, the security guard shot the guy.
00:04:17.000He is in critical but stable condition.
00:04:20.000It's apparently this guy has mental health issues but the problem is that we now live in a society in which we don't know who has mental health issues and who is being politically motivated and who has mental health issues and is being politically motivated.
00:04:32.000We're living in an incredibly volatile time and that's unusual because the economy of the United States is thrumming along.
00:04:41.000We're not in the middle of any major foreign crisis, and yet we're at each other's throats politically, and the bleeding edge of that fight is actually bleeding.
00:04:50.000I mean, the bleeding edge actually carries the possibility of serious violence.
00:04:55.000Heating up the rhetoric on both sides is obviously not a worthwhile cause, and yet that seems to be happening.
00:05:01.000Barack Obama, who was one of the contributing factors to the breakdown in social fabric in the United States during his presidency, he continued that crusade yesterday.
00:05:09.000He was campaigning in Nevada against Dean Heller, who's the sitting senator, and he just made clear that the sort of political polarization that he supposedly preaches against, he's actually very much for.
00:05:20.000Here's President Obama back on the stump for the Democrats, and he is saying that President Trump is a tin-pot dictator.
00:05:26.000It is not a Democratic or a Republican idea that we are not supposed to pressure the Attorney General or the FBI to use the criminal justice system to try to punish political opponents.
00:06:31.000The evidence was extraordinarily solid in that case.
00:06:34.000The DOJ didn't do a serious investigation, nor did they prosecute anybody.
00:06:37.000So when the President says that President Trump is doing all this stuff, when Obama says that Trump is doing all of this stuff, just remember, President Trump is a reaction to President Obama.
00:06:47.000And the more you look at American history, and history in general,
00:06:51.000What you really do see is that the nature of the human being is to swing from side to side, that we react to things that happen in our life.
00:07:00.000And we usually overreact to things that happen in our life.
00:07:02.000So we react to President Bush by putting in President Obama, then react to President Obama by putting in President Trump.
00:07:08.000But the pendulum, in order for it to start swinging less wildly,
00:07:15.000It takes all of us saying to each other, we are not going to allow this pendulum to swing quite as wildly as it has been in the past.
00:07:21.000If you look at the vacillations between the presidencies right now, I would say that if you looked back in the 1960s, like the difference between say LBJ and Richard Nixon on policy, what you were looking at was a vacillation that was
00:07:38.000The swing of the pendulum was not quite as far.
00:07:40.000The same thing is true with Eisenhower and JFK.
00:07:42.000The swing of the pendulum was not quite that far.
00:07:44.000If you look at how far the pendulum is swinging now, it's almost at 180 degrees.
00:07:48.000The pendulum is swinging wildly side to side, and that's dangerous for the country, because eventually the pendulum is going to swing over the bar, and things are going to get really insane.
00:08:01.000This revisionist history where President Obama was a great peace-bringer, this revisionist history where President Obama did not create conflict inside the United States, where he was a unifying figure as opposed to a polarizing figure, that is just a lie.
00:08:16.000When he was elected, maybe he was a unifying figure for five minutes, and then he proceeded to govern as an extraordinarily far-left guy, and then he also proceeded to polarize the country along ethnic, racial, and sexual lines.
00:08:27.000It's a real, it's just, it's obvious that he's doing this.
00:08:31.000He trolled the right into insanity and now President Trump is trolling the left into insanity.
00:08:39.000When people accuse President Trump of being a troll, I'd like to remind folks, the first presidential troll was Barack Obama.
00:08:45.000Here's President Obama trolling people in Nevada yesterday, saying that he was very committed to the truth as President of the United States.
00:09:27.000How about if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?
00:09:29.000How about if the president doesn't have authority to grant executive amnesty?
00:09:34.000How about those men died in Benghazi because of a YouTube video?
00:09:38.000How about the Iran deal is being pursued because of a new moderate policy pushed by the new Iranian moderate administration?
00:09:46.000The president lied every five seconds.
00:09:47.000Barack Obama was a congenital liar while he was in office and he was replaced by a guy who doesn't have tremendous regard for the truth either.
00:09:53.000Again, reaction in American politics is almost completely proportionate.
00:09:59.000Barack Obama was very far to the left, and Donald Trump is his funhouse mirror image.
00:10:05.000And when Barack Obama says things like he tries to state facts and Donald Trump just goes out there and he lies all the time, it's just not true.
00:10:12.000I like when he says that he's based in facts.
00:10:14.000This is a president of the United States who took Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which said you're not allowed to discriminate against women, and tried to apply that to men who believe they are women, saying that this was somehow fact-based.
00:10:28.000Almost nothing that Barack Obama did was fact-based.
00:11:24.000Barack Obama was the progenitor of Donald Trump.
00:11:27.000Barack Obama was the predictable forebear of Donald Trump in retrospect.
00:11:32.000And second, we're going to give you some more of Barack Obama's propaganda.
00:11:35.000And the fact that the left doesn't even acknowledge any of this is one of the reasons why the right continues to act the way the right is acting.
00:11:40.000We'll get to more of that in just a second.
00:11:42.000First, I want to talk about what you are doing for the sheets in your bed.
00:11:46.000OK, the fact is that when you think about your sleep quality, you rarely think about your sheets.
00:11:49.000You think, OK, well, I can just go down to the local bed, bathroom and beyond.
00:11:52.000I can pick up the cheapest set of sheets they've got and it will be perfectly adequate.
00:13:17.000And then we had the slowest peacetime recovery in American history.
00:13:21.000I'm old enough to remember when folks were saying things like, a 4% GDP growth rate is no longer possible for the United States, and now we have had that for a couple of quarters in a row.
00:13:30.000I'm old enough to remember when people said that the manufacturing sector in the United States was doomed to failure, that obviously is not true.
00:13:35.000When folks were saying that the stock market was going to top out where Obama left it, that obviously was not true.
00:13:40.000That job creation was going to top out, that obviously was not true.
00:13:44.000There's no question the economy is growing faster under Donald Trump than it was under Barack Obama.
00:14:19.000I think the economy is too complicated for that.
00:14:21.000I usually think that it has more to do with a predictable policy emanating from the halls of Congress.
00:14:26.000The fact is that since Republicans were elected in 2010, we've had a consistent rate of growth in the United States economy accelerating when they didn't have to battle it out with Barack Obama over regulatory policy.
00:14:37.000If you actually want to attribute economic growth to any one body, give the credit to Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and all the other Republicans who have been instrumental in the formation of policy under Obama and under Trump.
00:14:48.000But here's Barack Obama trying to take credit for himself.
00:14:52.000Okay, we did not cut the deficit in half, so let's stop it right there.
00:14:55.000When he says we cut the deficit in half, what he means by that is that he blew out the deficit in his first year, and then the deficit numbers went down the next couple of years.
00:15:22.000And the reason that that is cutting in half, that's like saying, you know what I did last month?
00:15:26.000Last month, I went $10,000 over my credit card bill.
00:15:29.000This month, I went $5,000 over my credit card bill.
00:15:53.000The Democrats really don't have a lot to offer at this point, and so they are doubling down on stupid.
00:15:59.000The only person who seems to be discovering anything new, ironically, is Hillary Clinton.
00:16:03.000I'm going to discuss that in just a second.
00:16:04.000So, Hillary Clinton, one of the things I do love,
00:16:08.000about the Trump era is that the left suddenly realizes that when the levers of power are given to the other party, things don't wind up great for the left.
00:16:18.000So the left is all in favor of federal power, as long as it's Barack Obama in charge.
00:16:22.000When it's President Trump in charge, suddenly they discover federal power is bad.
00:16:40.000You reduce the amount of federal power available to anyone, and then you're not going to have to worry about the federal power being used against you.
00:16:46.000One of the great ironies, though, is that Hillary Clinton, one of the great advocates of federal power of the modern era, she is now discovering federalism again.
00:17:22.000It was also states that were responsible for failing to abide by the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s, leading to the Civil War.
00:17:28.000The federal government was trying to force states in the North to abide by the Fugitive Slave Act.
00:17:32.000States in the North were refusing to abide by the Fugitive Slave Act.
00:17:35.000States are only as good as the people who comprise them, and their policy is only as good as the people who comprise them.
00:17:40.000The one thing that is certainly true is that the United States, as a mixed state and national system, as it is put in Federalist 39, as a mixed system, state governments are designed to preserve the centrality of locality in American jurisprudence.
00:17:59.000And the fact that the left is only now realizing this as soon as somebody who's in office they don't like is at the head of the federal government demonstrates just how dishonest they are.
00:18:06.000Because here's the thing, Hillary Clinton and her ilk, if they ever got in charge again, how long do you think they'd stick by the states' rights proposal?
00:18:13.000How long do you think they'd be in favor of states' rights?
00:18:18.000The left is just dishonest about all this stuff.
00:18:21.000The same left that proclaims that Donald Trump is dishonest, this is dishonest.
00:18:24.000When Hillary Clinton says she likes states' rights, no, what Hillary Clinton means is that she wants to use any obstacle to prevent President Trump from governing, but she doesn't actually believe in states' rights.
00:18:33.000If she actually believed in states' rights, then presumably she'd want a devolution of authority to the states from the federal government across the board, including if she had been president.
00:18:42.000We all know that that was never going to happen.
00:18:44.000We all know that was never going to happen.
00:18:45.000Instead, the truth is, what Democrats really want is to copy the policies of Scandinavian countries, where people forget to tell you this, but the policy in Scandinavian countries is not just a massive social welfare state, is a massive social welfare state paid for by enormous, unbelievably high taxes.
00:19:03.000The taxes in places like Denmark and Norway, 50 to 60% on everybody making more than 50 or 60 grand a year.
00:19:09.000And we're not talking about taxes on just the wealthy.
00:19:12.000Even folks on the left are not willing to be honest about what exactly it would take to pay for all the crap that they are talking about.
00:19:18.000Instead, what they will do is they will just kick the can down the road.
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00:22:11.000Okay, so the Democratic fact-based agenda now revolves around Kamala Harris offering everybody $500 and Cory Booker offering everybody $50,000 paid for by, hmm?
00:23:06.000Because that's basically what he's talking about here.
00:23:08.000He's basically talking about taking people's retirement savings and putting them in an account for them, a lockbox for them, for many, many years, and then giving them to them much later.
00:23:20.000It all sounds great, except for exactly how this money is going to be generated.
00:23:27.000And folks on the left never talk about how the money is generated, they just talk about free money.
00:23:30.000So, part one of the Democrats' new agenda is apparently, according to Hillary Clinton, federalism.
00:23:44.000So part three is, science is stupid and we don't need it anymore.
00:23:47.000So yesterday, we talked at length about this new proposal from the Trump administration to define sex as, you know, the dictionary definition of sex.
00:24:06.000And they're really pushing this hard now.
00:24:07.000There's a person named Jennifer Finney Boylan who is a genetic male, which is to say a male human, and has had a bunch of surgeries and now considers himself female.
00:24:16.000The piece in the New York Times is called Trump Cannot Define Away My Existence.
00:24:33.000Now, transgender people exist according to me, but that does not mean that they are actually members of the sex to which they claim membership.
00:24:41.000I can fully acknowledge that people who suffer from the mental disorder known as gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria, those people exist.
00:24:54.000That's not the same thing as saying that you are actually a woman if you say that you are a woman.
00:24:59.000And again, there's no objective evidence, there's no objective test I can use to determine that you are a woman if you say that you are a woman.
00:25:05.000But here is the piece in the New York Times, the anti-science piece of the new democratic agenda, feelings over fact.
00:25:10.000Here is this piece by Jennifer Finney Boylan.
00:25:13.000I was surprised to learn on Sunday morning that I do not exist.
00:25:17.000She says, this will come as sad news to my children, to whom I've been a mother for over 20 years now.
00:25:23.000Well, presumably, you were a father at one point to your children.
00:25:28.000It will come as a shock to my wife, too, to whom I've been married for 30 years.
00:25:30.000It would have been a disappointment for my mother as well.
00:25:32.000The conservative evangelical Christian Republican, who, when she learned I was transgender two decades ago, said I would never turn my back on my child, and then quoted 1 Corinthians, these three remain, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.
00:25:44.000Okay, that's fine, but it also says in the Bible that male and female, he created them.
00:25:49.000So, I mean, if we're going to selectively quote the Bible, you may as well quote the whole thing.
00:25:53.000It has been a hard life for me these last 60 years, but on the whole, I felt grateful for the many blessings that have come my way, and being trans, not least.
00:25:59.000It is so disappointing, then, and more than a little embarrassing, to learn I'm imaginary, a creature no more real than a cyclops or a hippogriff.
00:26:07.000Again, you're a real human, but you're not a real woman.
00:26:25.000It is not accurate use of language to say that you are a female.
00:26:27.000On Sunday, news broke that the Trump administration seeks to narrowly define gender as an immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.
00:26:34.000Well, actually, they were defining sex that way.
00:26:37.000And then you guys conflate sex and gender, so you say it's the same thing.
00:26:40.000I admit I'm reluctant to react to this latest cruelty, which is obviously just one more cynical move clearly designed to stir the pot ahead of the election.
00:26:47.000Trans people are the latest conservative whipping girl, like African Americans in the 1950s.
00:27:09.000I can objectively verify your sex, for a variety of measures.
00:27:13.000And black people, a white person who claims that they're a black person, is not in fact a black person, as Rachel Dolezal learned.
00:27:18.000I was speaking at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Festival in Rockville, Maryland this weekend, when I first read about the administration's intents.
00:27:24.000Since then, I've thought a lot about Nick Carraway and the Great Gatsby.
00:27:31.000Look, there are toucans and puffins, there's a duck-billed platypus and a blue lobster, the Venus flytrap.
00:27:38.000Isn't it a miracle that God has given us all these wonderful things?
00:27:41.000Surely if there is room in this world for these, there should be room in this world for me.
00:27:45.000Again, nobody is suggesting that transgender people should be mistreated.
00:27:49.000But you do not get to tell the entire civilization to redefine biological sex on the basis of anti-science positions because of how you feel on the inside.
00:27:58.000My favorite part of this piece is the suggestion that science is on the side of this policy.
00:28:02.000There is no science on the side of the policy promulgated by the left that sex does not exist.
00:28:07.000So they started off with sex exists, but gender is unconnected with sex.
00:28:10.000And then they went to gender exists, but it exists on a spectrum.
00:28:13.000Then they went to sex exists again, but it only exists on a spectrum.
00:28:18.000Sex didn't exist for a while, now it exists again, but it only exists on a spectrum.
00:28:52.000The Trump administration is thinking about writing new guidelines that say gender should be defined, quote, on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science.
00:29:42.000It's warming at a slower rate than the scientists said it was going to, according to their modeling.
00:29:46.000Probably a majority of that warming, according to every scientist I've ever seen, including Roy Spencer, who is Wright's favorite climate scientist, suggests that the majority of that warming is due to human action.
00:29:57.000That does not dictate global governance of the climate, nor does it dictate that we have to crush capitalism in spirit or in action.
00:30:05.000But that is considered an anti-scientific position by the left.
00:30:09.000And it is considered, I guess, bad form to mention science when it comes to biological sex now.
00:30:15.000If this is the new democratic position, good luck with this, guys.
00:30:18.000Okay, so in just a second, we'll talk about some other democratic positions and why the news cycle continues to cut in favor of the President of the United States.
00:30:26.000First, let me remind you that you don't have to go to the post office today.
00:31:33.000Okay, so I want to talk a little bit more about the science of transgenderism.
00:31:38.000And I want to get into the specific details because I want to rebut all the arguments that you're going to hear made by the left over the next
00:31:45.000A few years, as they try to turn transgenderism into the new civil rights movement.
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00:33:53.000And theoretically, you could have some sort of birth malformation when you are born that leaves you bereft of the genitalia that match up with your actual genetics.
00:34:00.000So I guess in the very narrowest sense, it's true.
00:34:02.000But the idea that that means that sex is on a spectrum among humans is just stupid.
00:34:12.000Researchers who have studied gender issues and provided healthcare to people who do not fit the typical male-female pigeonholes, the typical male-female pigeonholes, as though they are just created by society, said that the Trump administration's latest plan to define gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge.
00:34:25.000The idea that a person's sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and we've known that it is not true for decades, says Joshua Safer, an endocrinologist
00:34:34.000And the executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, of course, at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York.
00:34:40.000You want to talk about ascientific stuff?
00:34:42.000Okay, talk about whether there are beneficial effects to transgender surgeries over time.
00:34:46.000Okay, there is not good evidence to suggest that the end effect over the course of decades is actually significantly superior to no surgery, and yet this has become part of the transgender movement shtick.
00:35:36.000I want to talk for just a second about the sort of propaganda that's been promoted on this issue, and it really is insane propaganda.
00:35:43.000So, the notion that is pushed by the left that transgenderism is not a mental disorder is completely ascientific.
00:35:51.000Now, what the left does is they like to cite things like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, because the DSM-5 suggests that gender identity disorder is no longer a mental disorder.
00:36:00.000Instead, what the DSM-5 says is that a mental disorder is a quote, "...syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning."
00:36:20.000Socially deviant behavior and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are not mental disorders, unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individuals described above.
00:36:29.000So in other words, if you have something that makes you think that a pink elephant is stalking you, unless this makes you feel bad, this is not actually a mental disorder, according to the DSM.
00:36:40.000The definition makes room for it's making clear room for politically correct posturing, right?
00:36:44.000If I am having a significant problem in and of myself, all I have to do is blame it on society's intolerance and it is no longer considered a mental disorder.
00:36:52.000So if you are suicidal because you're a man who believes he's a woman,
00:36:56.000The DSM can still find a way to blame that on society.
00:36:58.000All you have to say is the reason I'm suicidal is because people are mean to me in society, not because I've suffered with this terrible conflict inside my brain for my entire life.
00:37:10.000This is how the DSM-5 avoids the obvious implication that if you're a man who believes you're a woman, you have a mental disorder.
00:37:15.000If you're, by the way, if you're a fat person who believes you are skinny or a skinny person who believes you are fat, we all acknowledge you have a mental disorder.
00:37:21.000If you're a skinny person who believes you're fat, it's called anorexia.
00:37:24.000It's dangerous and it's a mental disorder.
00:37:25.000If you're a person who believes that you do not need a left arm, right?
00:37:29.000This is something called body dysmorphia.
00:37:39.000None of this has anything to do with science.
00:37:41.000And all of it is specifically designed to blame society for what is clearly and obviously a mental disorder.
00:37:47.000The reason that I'm serious about calling it a mental disorder, and the reason I do so, is because you can't actually treat a mental disorder by blaming it on society.
00:37:55.000If you want to come up with new treatments for mental disorder, the way to do that is not by saying that society at large is responsible for the discomfort of people suffering from the mental disorder.
00:38:03.000I'm somebody who takes mental illness extraordinarily seriously.
00:38:06.000My grandfather was either bipolar or schizophrenic.
00:38:09.000There are some lines that are hard to sort of diagnose there.
00:38:12.000He was institutionalized when my dad was a child.
00:38:15.000He thought the radio was talking to him.
00:38:17.000He thought the curtains were trying to strangle him.
00:38:30.000They gave him lithium and he was much better.
00:38:32.000That does not mean there's a good treatment for gender identity disorder, gender dysphoria, but to pretend that the treatments are all available and that transitioning is the only available sort of fix and that everything else is society's fault is anti-scientific in the extreme.
00:38:45.000And to quote the DSM, which is a political football and has been a political football for decades, as the sort of apotheosis of scientific knowledge is just silly.
00:39:05.000With all of that said, the left has embraced a bunch of positions that are unsustainable, I believe, in American politics.
00:39:12.000The latest position they are embracing that is unsustainable in American politics has to do with this migrant caravan.
00:39:16.000So, this migrant caravan, as we mentioned yesterday, is now approaching the American border, with presumably the help of the Mexican government.
00:39:23.000You can see the Mexican authorities are driving alongside the caravan.
00:39:26.000It is now 10,000 people large, and it is moving toward the border.
00:39:29.000Now, there are processes for asylum in the United States.
00:39:35.000Or you can go to a border checkpoint and apply.
00:39:37.000And you can see the pictures, if you're able to watch this, because you subscribe at DailyWire.com, you can see the pictures.
00:39:43.000I mean, these are marches stretching a mile long, ten wide, and there's an enormous, enormous number of people.
00:39:51.000Well, President Trump, he got himself into trouble yesterday because he said, listen, there are some bad people who are coming in this caravan.
00:39:59.000Now, are there bad people coming in the caravan?
00:41:10.000The question is, what is the social system that people are being integrated into?
00:41:14.000When my great-great grandparents got to the United States, when they got here in 1907, and they arrived on the boats, they spoke Yiddish and had no money.
00:41:24.000They were immediately thrust into a capitalist economy where they had to learn English and they were forced by circumstance into assimilating specifically so that they could operate in the economy of the United States and become good American citizens.
00:41:35.000There were people who left stuff behind in their home country to come to the United States so that they could actually live a better, more adventurous life.
00:41:43.000No, I think a lot of immigrants still want that.
00:41:45.000But the fact that we have a social safety net that picks up after everybody, the fact that if you have a baby in the United States, that baby is now an American citizen and you can take advantage of all of the benefits of American citizenship, that there are all these, you know, tremendous social safety nets available to you, means we have to be a little bit more circumspect about who we let in the country.
00:42:04.000And again, citing the Scandinavian countries,
00:42:06.000The Scandinavian countries are really tough on immigration.
00:42:41.000It's a place where they can't live the life they want to live.
00:42:44.000It's a place of little economic opportunity.
00:42:47.000So why are you carrying the flag of that place?
00:42:49.000When Cuban refugees got onto 1950s Chevys, inflated the tires and tried to float their way to Florida, they weren't carrying a Cuban flag when they arrived on American shores.
00:43:16.000This idea that you can assimilate all cultures, including people who forcibly do not want to be assimilated, in a social safety net society is just not accurate.
00:43:24.000And yet that's what Democrats continue to promote.
00:43:27.000I mean, over in Honduras, by the way, in support of the migrants, they've been burning American flags at some of these protests.
00:43:32.000This is a famous picture going around yesterday.
00:43:35.000Somebody painted a swastika on the American flag and then burned it.
00:43:40.000America's Nazi Germany is not really a great pitch as to, I also want to enter there.
00:43:45.000You know, that push, again, it leads folks to the position that President Trump has taken, where he says he's a nationalist, not a globalist.
00:43:53.000Now, President Trump said this at a rally yesterday, that he's a nationalist, not a globalist.
00:43:57.000I've distinguished between nationalism and patriotism.
00:44:00.000I'm not a big nationalist in the sense that I don't think that simple borders and living in the same place is enough of a rationale for you to be enthused.
00:44:08.000I think that instead you actually have to be about ideas.
00:44:11.000But what he's reacting to is the left's focus on globalism.
00:44:14.000The left's belief that there should be no borders, that people should be able to cross willy-nilly into the United States and never assimilate because multiculturalism is the way to go.
00:44:22.000You want to know why President Trump is popular?
00:44:50.000Okay, the reason that you're not supposed to use the word nationalist typically is because it's largely been connected with repressive regimes who are focused in on commonalities in ethnicity and culture as opposed to commonalities and ideas.
00:45:03.000But if he is posing sort of American interests against folks who want inundation of our borders,
00:46:20.000So, apparently, I knew it was a thing only because of the New York Times, we talked about a piece earlier this week, in which white supremacists were guzzling cow's milk to demonstrate their genetic superiority because they could tolerate lactose.
00:46:31.000Which, again, seems like not the world's most important skill set.
00:46:35.000Like, you can't really put on your resume, tolerates lactose well.
00:46:39.000That's not something that, like, if somebody put that on their resume for the Daily Wire, it'd be like, uh, this person's not getting hired.
00:46:45.000But, but PETA's response is just as stupid, which is,
00:46:49.000Not, why should cow's milk be used by white supremacists?
00:46:51.000It's cow's milk itself is indeed white supremacist, so you should not use cow's milk anymore.
00:46:56.000Goat's milk, apparently, not white supremacist.
00:48:57.000Listen, when John Kerry was poised to win in 2004, I was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, because I was going to Harvard Law at the time, and while I was
00:49:07.000And while I was there, John Kerry was supposed to speak just down the road.
00:49:10.000The entire town was abuzz because John Kerry was going to be the next president.
00:49:13.000I went to Tower Records, which used to exist.
00:50:28.000I think it's a baby, which is why it makes sense for me to be happy when people are pregnant.
00:50:32.000What makes less sense is the idea that I can be happy about this meaningless cluster of cells in my womb if it's me, but if it's somebody else, I have no way to be happy for them because what do they think?
00:50:40.000Maybe they think it's a meaningless cluster of cells.
00:50:43.000Presumably, if Amy Schumer wanted to abort this cluster of cells, it would just be a cluster of cells.
00:50:47.000The same people who say that we are erasing transgender people by saying transgender people exist but are not members of the opposite sex, which is biologically true, say that babies don't exist because they're meaningless clusters of cells.
00:50:59.000Embryos are just meaningless clusters of cells, which is both anti-scientific and erasing human beings.