Ben Shapiro delivers a keynote at Loyola Marymount University on his Young America's Foundation Speaking Tour. He talks about the importance of home security and the new app from Ring called Neighbors by Ring. He also discusses the results of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election and the implications for the 2020 presidential election. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of the podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and other media outlets. He is the author of "The Weekly Standard" and "The Daily Wire" and has been featured on CNN, NPR, CBS, and NPR. His new book, is out now and available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey. It's free and will help us determine who should win the 2020 election and who should lose. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends, family, colleagues, and fellow podcast listeners! Tweet me to let us know what you thought of this episode and what you're looking forward to in the next episode! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Who's winning the election? 2:30 - What's your favorite candidate? 3:15 - Why Joe Biden's mask is off the mask? 4:20 - What does Joe Biden have on? 5:40 - What do you think of Joe Biden vs. Trump? 6:00- What's going to win in 2020? 7:30- What do we know about Joe Biden? 8:15- What are the most competitive races? 9:20- What s going to be the real chance? 11:40- What would you vote for the next president? 13:00s - What are you looking forward? 14:30s - How did you think Joe Biden s biggest challenge? 15:40s - Is there a 2020 election night? 16:20s - Who will Joe Biden win in Wisconsin? 17:00 17 - What s a good chance of a better chance of the other guy? 18:00 s? 19:10: Does he have a chance of winning the presidency in 2020 or a better choice? 21:10s - Does he really have the chance to win the White House in 2020??
00:00:13.000Oh man, we have a ton to get to on today's show.
00:00:14.000But first, let me remind you that tonight, the latest stop on my Young America's Foundation Speaking Tour brings me to Loyola Marymount University, where some of the professors are pretty ticked that I'm coming.
00:00:24.000This speech begins at 7 p.m., so get there early, bring a friend, and as always, bring some great questions.
00:01:00.000Growing up, there was a bunch of folks who were sort of associated and would just keep an eye on the neighborhood, make sure that everybody knew where the crime was happening.
00:01:06.000Well, the Neighbors app is like the new Neighborhood Watch.
00:01:08.000On your phone, people taking stuff off porches, trying doorknobs late at night, missing dogs.
00:01:13.000The Neighbors app sends real-time notifications to your phone whenever one of your neighbors posts a heads-up about something that's going on.
00:01:27.000Myself from the app store because I'm definitely concerned about security in my neighborhood.
00:01:30.000I put in my address and set the area around my home for a couple of miles because I really only care what's happening within those two miles.
00:01:36.000And I could see all of the local crime that was happening, people reporting exactly what was happening so you know if there's a risk that Yeah, there's been a burglary in the neighborhood or something like that.
00:01:45.000You gotta check out the Neighbors app yourself.
00:01:47.000The easiest way to get going is ring.com forward slash Shapiro.
00:02:17.000Last night, there were a couple of local elections.
00:02:19.000Now, as you know, this is a national show.
00:02:20.000We don't tend to put too much stock in local elections or focus too much on local elections.
00:02:25.000But in the lead up to 2020, everybody is looking for early indicators for how things are going to split.
00:02:31.000And it's funny, when we talk about presidential elections, we tend to talk in national terms, obviously.
00:02:36.000We tend to say that President Trump is going to win X percent of the popular vote, or Kamala Harris, if she were the nominee, would win X percent of the popular vote.
00:02:44.000The reality is that this election is going to come down to about three states.
00:02:47.000It's going to come down to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan.
00:02:56.000If he loses Florida, the election is over.
00:02:58.000So, assuming that Trump wins Florida, and that he wins Ohio, then he still has to win two out of the three, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, in order for him to retain the presidency.
00:03:08.000And the kind of conventional wisdom had been that Trump was going to continue to be competitive in Michigan, and that in Pennsylvania he was still somewhat competitive, but that in Wisconsin he was starting to fall off.
00:03:18.000And the evidence for this is that the 2018 elections moved Wisconsin into more blue territory.
00:03:23.000Well, last night there was a special election in Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:03:28.000Now, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is not an overtly partisan seat.
00:03:30.000It's not like somebody runs as a Republican or a Democrat for the actual Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:03:35.000But those candidates are backed by conservative groups or liberal groups.
00:03:39.000And last night, the conservative won in Wisconsin, ensuring that the Wisconsin Supreme Court would remain majority conservative for the foreseeable future.
00:03:48.000Because now, instead of things being 4-3 on that Supreme Court and ready to shift at a moment's notice in 2020, now conservatives have a 5-2 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:04:00.000And what the election showed is that while there were certain districts where Trump has fallen off a little bit, particularly in suburbia, in rural areas, he continues to dominate.
00:04:08.000According to According to Madison.com, they report that the conservative is winning by a very small margin.
00:04:15.000It may go to an automatic recount, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court race the liberals needed to win to have a shot at taking majority control of the court next year appeared headed for a recount with the conservative candidate declaring victory while holding a narrow lead following Tuesday's election.
00:04:27.000The conservative candidate is up over 5,000 votes.
00:04:30.000A conservative win would increase their majority to 5-2 and ensure their control over the court, which they've held since 2008 for years to come.
00:04:37.000It would be a particularly stinging defeat for liberals who were confident in riding a wave of wins in 2018, including picking up a Supreme Court seat and ousting Republican Governor Scott Walker.
00:04:46.000Conservative Brian Hagedorn, who was Walker's chief legal counsel for five years, led liberal-backed Lisa Neubauer by 5,900 votes out of 1.2 million cast based on the unofficial results.
00:04:56.000That difference of about 0.49 percentage points is close enough for Neubauer to request a recount But she would actually have to pay for it, so maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't.
00:05:10.000Minutes after he declared victory, the Neubauer campaign sent out a fundraising plea saying that with the vote total neck and neck, it looks like we're headed to a potential recount.
00:05:17.000Counties will canvass the vote starting next week to determine the official margin of victory.
00:05:21.000The last time there was a recount in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race was in 2011.
00:05:24.000This was the only statewide election of the year.
00:05:29.000So this is the only bellwether that we have this year.
00:05:57.000Pagodorn's victory in Battleground America sends a, quote, message to all of America that we're ready to keep Wisconsin red as we turn our attention to mobilizing for 2020 and re-electing President Trump, said Mark Jefferson, the executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party.
00:06:11.000So, this is, it's a pretty astonishing result.
00:06:14.000I mean, she was heavily favored, the liberal in this race was heavily favored to take the seat.
00:06:19.000Eric Holder had an outside group that was spending almost a third of a million dollars, more than a third of a million dollars actually, to help Neubauer win.
00:06:29.000There were a bunch of conservative groups, including Americans for Prosperity, that matched Democratic outside spending.
00:06:35.000Hagedorn spent much of his race defending his conservative beliefs.
00:06:39.000Neubauer, by contrast, was appointed to the appeals court in 2007 by a former Democratic governor.
00:06:46.000And the retiring justice is 85 years old and a liberal.
00:06:50.000So this is a move in the direction of conservatism in Wisconsin.
00:06:54.000Now, if you actually look at the Wisconsin polls for 2020 president, what you see is President Trump continuing to run Relatively, relatively even with all of the other Democrats.
00:07:05.000So that is not true, particularly for Joe Biden.
00:07:09.000I can give you some of the latest polls from Wisconsin, which again, if Trump were to win Wisconsin, the odds that he wins the election are very good.
00:07:14.000If he loses Wisconsin, then the odds obviously decline dramatically.
00:07:18.000Against Joe Biden, according to Emerson College poll from March 17th, 2019, so a couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden would beat President Trump 54 to 46.
00:07:31.000According to a Firehouse Strategies poll from a little bit later, a couple days later, Biden would beat Trump pretty badly, 53 to 40.
00:07:37.000But if you look at him versus the other candidates, it's pretty much dead even.
00:07:41.000Trump versus Kamala Harris, according to Emerson College, that is a 50-50 vote.
00:07:44.000Trump versus Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, that is a 50-50 vote.
00:07:49.000If you look at Trump and Beto O'Rourke, Beto has a slight advantage but not much.
00:07:53.000According to Emerson, only 51-49, the margin of error is 3.5, so effectively that is a dead even race.
00:07:58.000Trump versus Bernie Sanders, 52 Sanders, 48 Trump, but again, it's kind of far out and that is effectively a dead even race considering a margin of error of 3.5 points.
00:08:09.000With Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren, Warren runs away with it, according to Zogby, but is only up 52 to 48, according to Emerson.
00:08:15.000So, effectively, Trump is still running very competitively in Wisconsin right now, unless the Democrats get smart and run somebody who is perceived as moderate and has blue-collar appeal.
00:08:25.000Now, that's what makes it so interesting that the Democrats have decided to go after Joe Biden, who, it's pretty obvious from all the polls, is the most electable Democrat for the 2020 race.
00:08:54.000According to the Post-Gazette, the last time Pam Iovino was subject to a high-stakes vote tally was 2004, and she was unanimously confirmed to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs' Congressional and Legislative Affairs offices.
00:09:04.000On Tuesday, the Democrat and Navy veteran was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate, besting Republican Dee Raja in a special election after a bruising two-month campaign that garnered national attention along the way.
00:09:15.000During the race, Yovino, who's 62, told voters in the 37th District that her two decades-plus in the Navy and subsequent stint in the executive branch would make her the right fit for the legislature.
00:09:25.000In the district spanning Allegheny County's western and southern suburbs and Peters Township, a majority of voters endorsed that message at the poll.
00:09:31.000The election, which was expected to be close and possibly decided by a few hundred votes, was officially decided when Raja conceded to Ms.
00:10:24.000What this says is that Democrats are gaining momentum in some of the suburbs that President Trump carried in 2016, but only, but only if Democrats are not stupid and run people who are perceived as moderate.
00:10:38.000She was commissioned to Navy Ensign in 1980, she worked her way up to Lieutenant, and then she took over as the first female commander at Toledo's Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center.
00:10:46.000She was nominated by George W. Bush to her post on Capitol Hill.
00:10:51.000She ran against Conor Lamb for the Democratic nomination.
00:10:55.000He went on to win that Congressional seat.
00:10:58.000And both of the candidates went after each other hammer and tongs.
00:11:04.000But Iovino did not run as a hardcore left Democrat.
00:11:10.000She ran as a moderate Democrat, and that is why she won.
00:11:14.000The Democrats seem to have misread the map here.
00:11:16.000They seem to believe that what is popular in San Francisco is popular in Allegheny County or in Wisconsin.
00:11:21.000They seem to think that if they run somebody who is really extreme or who is intersectional on the merits, that that person is going to suddenly sweep through all of the areas that President Trump won in 2020.
00:11:33.000This kind of indicates that you should shift 2020 back to toss-up lane.
00:11:37.000Now, I've been saying for a while that I slightly favor Democrats in 2020.
00:11:42.000Because President Trump lost the popular vote by two and a half million, and he ran the narrowest gauntlet in presidential history, winning three states by a combined total of 80,000 votes in an election against one of the most unpopular people in the history of American politics, a person who is expected widely to win.
00:11:56.000I said you can't count on Democrats not showing up again.
00:12:00.000It is also true that if Democrats veer too far in the left direction, they could easily lose some of these purple states, especially these blue-collar purple states, who are looking at folks like Beto O'Rourke or Kamala Harris, and they're saying, really like this?
00:12:14.000This is what you've decided to put up?
00:12:16.000That's what makes it so entertaining that the Democrats seem to believe they have this... I'm not sure whether it's driven by a perception of invincibility or just pure anger, what they are doing in the Democratic primaries right now.
00:12:29.000First, let's talk about the best gift that you can get somebody this year.
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00:12:35.000Now, I'm a big believer that the thing that matters most in your life, particularly as you get older, is making sure that you have all your memories preserved.
00:12:41.000And you've got, in your garage, all those boxes of old photos that you haven't looked at in 30 years, and they're moldering out there.
00:12:47.000Some of them are getting waterlogged and ruined.
00:12:49.000And if, God forbid, there were a fire or some sort of flood in your house, you'd have to go out to the garage and schlep those boxes into a van.
00:12:55.000Instead of doing all that stuff, why don't you just go over to Legacy Box?
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00:14:06.000The argument for hope is that President Trump is so deeply unpopular that they can push as far left as they possibly want and win an election.
00:14:13.000That they can reconstitute the Obama 2012 coalition, that intersectional coalition, and sweep to victory by ignoring all the people who voted for President Trump.
00:14:20.000And then they can push on with their Medicare for all, high tax, high spend, slavery reparations agenda.
00:14:26.000That this is the push that they can make because they've misread the room and they think that Trump is inherently so unpopular that they can legitimately throw crap against the wall and see what sticks.
00:14:36.000Possibility number two is that they've been driven so mad by President Trump that they are sort of like Republicans circa 2016.
00:14:44.000We want to nominate the person who's going to get on a stage and club President Trump.
00:14:48.000We want the person who's going to be the most aggressive on a stage with President Trump.
00:14:52.000Now, if that were the case, then you would sort of assume that Elizabeth Warren would be doing better because she's probably the most aggressive Democrat in the field when it comes to yelling at President Trump.
00:15:02.000Some of the other Democrats who are doing well right now, people like Joe Biden, that's really not his bag.
00:15:09.000You've seen it from Bernie Sanders a little bit.
00:15:11.000But it seems to me that if I had to put my money on it, I would think the Democrats have just misread the unpopularity of Trump.
00:15:16.000They think because he's at 42% in the polls, when it comes to popularity rating, that this somehow means that he's only going to win 42% of the vote.
00:15:39.000He performed almost exactly in line with how George W. Bush performed in all of the swing states, almost exactly in line with how Mitt Romney performed in all of the swing states, including Wisconsin, where Romney won more absolute votes than Donald Trump did.
00:15:51.000It's just nobody showed up to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:15:55.000So Trump is going to continue to perform like generic Republican.
00:15:59.000The question is, does Democrat perform like generic Democrat?
00:16:02.000Or does Democrat perform like Barack Obama, who was in fact a statistical outlier?
00:16:06.000Democrats seem to believe that the world shifted on its axis when Obama was elected and that there was a permanent majority created for them forever.
00:16:54.000I mean, Joe Biden was famous for going into diners and putting women on his lap.
00:16:59.000He was famous for, I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've seen that photo of him leaning over to kiss the little girl and the little girl shying away.
00:17:06.000Well, now there are several women who are coming forward and saying he made them feel uncomfortable.
00:17:11.000According to MSN.com, no prominent Democrat has suggested that Biden not run.
00:17:17.000The women complaining about him have not claimed sexual harassment or assault.
00:17:20.000Other women have stepped forward to say Mr. Biden's touches were welcome, but the accusations lodged against Biden have raised questions about when a tactile politician crosses the line into inappropriateness.
00:17:29.000That's the Washington Post description.
00:17:59.000Which, by the way, I don't think is wrong, but I'm finding it funny that now Democrats are discovering all of this after ripping on Mike Pence for basically saying, I would like to remove myself from possibly fraught situations in general.
00:18:11.000Now, President Trump went after Joe Biden because he understands there's vulnerability here.
00:18:14.000So here is Trump last night at the NRCC, apparently speaking in front of the same bush in which Homer Simpson is hiding.
00:18:20.000Here is President Trump going after Joe Biden.
00:18:23.000I mean, Trump as stand-up comedian is pretty solid Trump.
00:18:27.000I said, General, come here, give me a kiss.
00:18:49.000Okay, well, that last line there by Trump is not unearned.
00:18:52.000Joe Biden has been one of the chief pushers of the idea that an accusation is tantamount to a conviction.
00:19:00.000Now, the fact is that Biden has been doing this sort of stuff with regard to harassment for a very long time.
00:19:06.000According to Casey Johnson over at the New York Post, according to the standards of culpability that Biden has articulated in similarly conflicted situations, all of this is an open and shut case.
00:19:16.000Perhaps no major American political figure has so consistently championed the erosion of due process for those accused of sexual misconduct.
00:19:23.000He's championed this approach for accused college students, as the Obama administration used Title IX to impose guilt-tilting procedures on the nation's campuses.
00:19:31.000Until 2016, high-ranking administration officials consistently refused to provide much, if any, explanation on why they imposed a preponderance-of-evidence standard, as opposed to a beyond-reasonable-doubt standard when it came to Convicting men of sexual harassment.
00:19:45.000Biden has been the most outspoken senior Obama official to defend these policies.
00:19:50.000In 2017, he framed campus sexual assault as a problem consisting solely of male attackers and female victims.
00:19:56.000He used an interview with Teen Vogue to give a hypothetical address to fraternity members.
00:19:59.000Quote, if you see a brother taking a drunk freshman co-ed up the stairs to his room and you do nothing, you're a coward.
00:20:03.000You know that she's not able to give consent.
00:20:05.000He responded with fury to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's attempts to create fairer procedures for adjudicating campus sexual assault claims.
00:20:13.000He called people like DeVos culturally Neanderthals.
00:20:21.000It is not uncalled for that Joe Biden is now being held to a standard that he has pervaded against others.
00:20:30.000With that said, the Democrats coming out of the woodwork to attack Biden are generally not doing so, in my opinion, out of pure worry for the women.
00:20:40.000Apparently there are a couple other women who now say that Biden made them feel uncomfortable.
00:20:44.000Kaitlyn Caruso is a former college student and sexual assault survivor.
00:20:48.000She said Biden rested his hand on her thigh, even as she squirmed in her seat to show her discomfort and hugged her just a little bit too long at an event on sexual assault at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
00:20:59.000Caruso, now 22, said she talked chalked up the encounter at the time to how men act and didn't say anything publicly.
00:21:04.000She said it was particularly uncomfortable because she had just shared her own story of sexual assault and had expected Biden to understand the importance of physical boundaries.
00:21:12.000It doesn't even really cross your mind that such a person would dare perpetuate harm like that, she said.
00:21:15.000These are supposed to be people you can trust.
00:21:17.000Another woman came forward, DJ Hill, 59, a writer who recalled meeting Biden in 2012 at a fundraising event in Minneapolis.
00:21:24.000She said that when she and her husband, Robert, stepped up to take their photograph with the VP, he put his hand on her shoulder and then started dropping it down her back, which made her very uncomfortable.
00:21:32.000Her husband, seeing the movement, put his hand on Mr. Biden's shoulder and interrupted with a joke.
00:21:36.000Hill does not say anything at the time and acknowledged she did not know what Biden's intention was or whether he was aware of her discomfort.
00:21:56.000But what is undergirding a lot of this is that the more radical members of the Democratic Party want Biden gone and the more moderate members want Biden to stay.
00:22:03.000There's a lot of politics to this situation.
00:22:04.000So Joe Manchin, who is one of the more moderate Democrats, presumably will be a Biden supporter if he declares.
00:22:09.000The senator from West Virginia, he says, listen, I've never seen anyone actually offended by Biden.
00:22:15.000I can tell you I've been around Joe Biden for many, many years.
00:22:18.000I've been in many political events with Joe Biden.
00:22:21.000I have never seen Joe Biden intentionally make anybody uncomfortable.
00:22:26.000If anything, he goes out of his way trying to make people comfortable, he thinks, that might be in a difficult situation, that might have had some concerns, and has a lot on him.
00:22:38.000Now, what Joe has said, and I accept that the same as I hope everyone does, if he's made anybody uncomfortable, he's extremely sorry for that.
00:22:47.000OK, so this this sort of gap, you can see it between the the older guard members of the Democratic Party who wish to preserve the candidacy of Joe Biden and the newer guard who are looking to get him out.
00:22:56.000So this would include Representative Hakeem Jeffries, one of the younger members of Congress.
00:23:00.000He came out and he said these are very serious allegations, even though, let's be real about this, the allegations are not Either unexpected or particularly serious.
00:23:32.000This is them over reading Overreading the results of 2012, rather than looking at the nature of politics on the ground.
00:23:38.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:24:46.000OK, so as I say, there's a gap between the old guard Democrats and the new guard Democrats.
00:24:49.000The new guard Democrats want Biden out, and it is obvious that they want Biden out because they are using the same tactics that Democrats have been using on Republicans against Joe Biden.
00:24:59.000The war on women meme has now been extended to Joe Biden.
00:25:06.000Democrats have been trying since 2016, and even before in 2012, they tried it with Mitt Romney to suggest that Mitt Romney was fighting a war on women.
00:25:14.000So when Mitt Romney said that he had binders full of women so that he could seek female employees to give them better job opportunities, the left jumped on that to proclaim that Mitt Romney, the most anodyne, milquetoast human being who has ever walked this earth, was actually a terrible, terrible sexist.
00:25:31.000And then, of course, they had more material to go with with President Trump, so they went with that with President Trump, too.
00:25:37.000This is a war on women meme, and it was pushed by the media over and over and over.
00:25:40.000You can always tell who the enemy of the progressive left is by who they are using the war on women to target.
00:25:45.000And this is what you are seeing now being used against Joe Biden.
00:25:48.000Hilariously enough, after eight years of ignoring the fact that the guy gets handsy with pretty much everybody.
00:25:54.000So there's a piece by a woman named Jennifer Senor in the New York Times, and it's called, What We're Not Talking About When We Talk About Joe Biden.
00:26:01.000And you're seeing the Democrats and the left extend the definition of the war on women from actual harm to women to stuff that could be perceived as harm to women.
00:26:10.000Because they're broadening the war on women specifically to take out political opponents.
00:26:17.000She says, This week it's Joe Biden's turn in the MeToo barrel, and like many Democrats, I'm torn about what to think.
00:26:22.000The allegations by Lucy Flores that in 2014 when she was running for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, the VP touched her shoulders and kissed the back of her head cannot exactly be dismissed as an outlier, given that another allegation of guerrilla nuzzling following just 72 hours later, and that multiple photo montages online suggest a similar pattern.
00:26:39.000And so we have another debate about male decency and respect, trying to weigh creepiness against over-exuberant affection, handsiness against glad-handing, all the while remembering that this is Joe Biden we're talking about, a retail politics guy from another era known for arm grabs and bear hugs.
00:26:52.000He is, by nature, a physically expressive fellow.
00:26:56.000These gray zone allegations are, of course, still worth examining, but they are, because they are salacious, because they are embodied, Because we can see them.
00:27:03.000I wonder if we spend more time discussing them than another gray zone problem that, in my view, is far more pervasive and often less easily solved with a sharp rebuke or a complaint to human resources, not being taken seriously.
00:27:16.000That if you are a male, and you side with Joe Biden here, It's because you're not taking women seriously.
00:27:22.000Or, if you are a male who has not participated in any form of sexual harassment, if you're Mike Pence, you are guilty of not taking women seriously.
00:27:30.000So the war on women has now been extended outward to include not taking women seriously.
00:27:34.000Now, what does she mean by not taking women seriously?
00:27:37.000Basically, any time a woman feels like she's not being taken seriously, we're supposed to believe that this is based on sexism.
00:27:44.000The subjective perception of the alleged victim is all that matters when you're not being taken seriously.
00:27:49.000Now, as a human being, there are many times when I have been not taken seriously.
00:27:54.000My employees, I'm sure, feel routinely not taken seriously.
00:28:17.000She says, What are they talking about?
00:28:18.000They're talking about seeing their ideas gain traction in a meeting only after a man has said them, or being told after they've asserted themselves in a meeting that they dominated it, or at the least talked too much.
00:28:28.000Now, we don't know any of the context.
00:28:29.000We don't know whether it's possible that a woman in a meeting just didn't express her ideas forcefully enough, or maybe she was too forceful.
00:28:35.000It turns out, people don't like men too.
00:28:38.000How many meetings have you been in where the guy is just a jerk?
00:28:43.000That's not sexism, but sometimes people are annoying.
00:28:47.000And yet there's a full article in the New York Times now broadening the scope of the inquiry about Joe Biden from he's handsy and physically aggressive with people to sometimes women feel disrespected.
00:28:59.000Personally, says this columnist, I've been mansplained about my own book.
00:29:03.000Mansplained is one of the dumber phrases in human history.
00:29:37.000But the attempt to broaden out victimhood from originally sexual assault, to now you're being nuzzled by a weirdo, to exuberant politician, to I feel mansplained into, is a pretty radical move that is intended to divide Americans.
00:29:53.000And it's not just this silly column that suggests that women are constantly being victimized in soft ways around society.
00:30:01.000As I mentioned on yesterday's show, there's a certain amount of ghost hunting that happens on the left, where if you feel something bad has happened, we're supposed to ascribe it to some ghost in the machine, some weird societal force that we can't peg down to particular actions, but that made you feel bad.
00:30:16.000I'm a big evidence fan, so this is not one of my favorite things.
00:30:19.000And you're seeing the left do this with regard to statistics as well, constantly shifting the statistics.
00:30:23.000So yesterday, for example, there was an article, it was Equal Payday, which is a statistical lie It does not take until April 2nd of the following year for women to earn the same as men.
00:30:32.000Women earn effectively the same as men because they make different decisions about their careers.
00:30:37.000Equal payday is based on aggregate statistics without taking into account job choice, time out of the workforce, motherhood, Amount of time spent at the office.
00:30:47.000Like, there are a lot of factors when it comes to this stuff.
00:30:49.000But women are effectively earning as much as men.
00:30:51.000And according to some studies, in major cities particularly, women who are fresh out of college in the same degrees as men, who are single and don't have kids, are earning more than men.
00:31:00.000According to one Time Magazine article from 2010, a lot more than men, actually.
00:31:05.000So now the left is shifting the goalposts because in order to divide Americans from Americans, we have to shift the goalposts and suggest that discrimination is still a deeply active factor in every aspect of American life.
00:31:16.000In a second, I'm going to show you how the goalposts are changing.
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00:32:33.000The left in an attempt to move beyond the old left in an attempt to move beyond the Joe Biden's of the world.
00:32:38.000They're now broadening out the definitions of discrimination because one of the fundamental signs of leftist theology and it really is a new religion at this point is dramatic and gratitude toward the state of things in the United States where even Joe Biden is not far left enough for you.
00:32:54.000I'll get to more of that in just a second.
00:33:42.000Join me on this Sunday's Sunday Special where me and Ben talk about my campaign, the Freedom Dividend, the future of the economy, and how we can restore meaning to more Americans around the country.
00:33:52.000Okay, suffice it to say, I am now rooting for Andrew Yang, specifically because he's the only Democrat who's ballsy enough to actually come on the Sunday special.
00:34:00.000We have open invites out to every Democratic candidate.
00:34:03.000Some, like Mayor Pete Buttigieg, have suggested that they would be happy to come on, and then no follow-up, so there's a shocker.
00:34:53.000And earlier in the show, I talked a little bit about the fact that this is actually a large mistake by Democrats.
00:34:57.000That if Democrats believe that they are going to win swing states by swinging wildly to the left, they're wrong.
00:35:02.000But Democrats are trying to recapitulate Obama's 2012 win, not his 2008 win.
00:35:07.000In 2008, Obama ran on the platform that we are all brothers and sisters, there's no red states, there's no blue states, there's the United States!
00:35:15.000And then in 2012, Obama said, well, turns out I was wrong.
00:35:19.000There are some red states and there are some blue states.
00:35:22.000And mostly there are a lot of victim groups.
00:35:24.000And if we can get those people together and they can vote for me, well, that's a durable coalition.
00:35:28.000And that turned out to be the democratic model.
00:35:30.000Well, now they're trying to rebuild that coalition along the lines of a victimhood that is certainly not in evidence, particularly with regard to sex.
00:35:37.000So they've continued to push this war on women meme and suggest that suburban women should vote for them because they recognize the problems of women.
00:35:45.000And so they're now looking at Joe Biden and saying, this guy's old school.
00:36:04.000But, are we going to pretend that Democrats were unaware of all of this for years with Joe Biden?
00:36:09.000And now they've expanded the definition out from, he's not actually, none of these women allege sexual harassment by the way.
00:36:14.000So they're not saying he even sexually harassed them.
00:36:16.000They're saying they felt uncomfortable because of something they did.
00:36:19.000And now you have an article in the Washington Post suggesting it's not just that we felt uncomfortable, it's that we feel disrespected by a variety of issues.
00:36:28.000And now you have the Washington Post Doing this on the economic front, suggesting that the problem is not equal pay because equal pay basically exists.
00:36:39.000So they are now shifting the standards to pretend that America is still systemically discriminating against women for purposes of suggesting that people like Joe Biden are too old school.
00:36:48.000So you have people like Janice Trafflett and Robert Wright writing articles for the Washington Post called America doesn't just have a gender pay gap, it has a gender wealth gap.
00:36:56.000They say April 2nd is equal pay day, which reminds employees everywhere how much progress remains to close the gender pay gap.
00:37:05.000Women are not earning dramatically less than men.
00:37:07.000But then they expand the definition because they understand secretly, a lot of members of the media, that equal pay day is a bunch of crap.
00:37:13.000So instead, they expand the definition.
00:37:14.000You've seen this happen also with regard to wealth differentials among communities, racial communities.
00:37:20.000So instead of talking about income mobility and the possibility of income mobility if you make good decisions in your life, instead what the media will talk about is the wealth gap.
00:37:30.000So this is what they're doing with women now.
00:37:31.000They're saying it's not just the pay gap that should concern women, it is also the wealth gap.
00:37:35.000On average, women in the United States own a mere 32 cents to every dollar owned by men.
00:37:40.000Now, first of all, if women are married to men, they have precisely, in community property states, they own precisely the same amount of dollars as men do.
00:38:01.000But beyond that, what this is really an attempt to do is suggest that because women were historically discriminated against, therefore they are currently discriminated against.
00:38:13.000Just because something bad was true 50 years ago does not mean that same bad thing is true today, even if the impact of the bad thing 50 years ago is still felt today.
00:38:21.000And things like racial wealth gaps or sexual wealth gaps.
00:38:24.000But there's an attempt to paint America as deeply unjust, as deeply unequal, that requires radical solutions.
00:38:31.000This is the direction the Democratic Party wishes to move.
00:38:35.000They're looking for soft ways that they can sense discrimination.
00:38:40.000Soft ways that they can create victim classes.
00:38:44.000There's an article in the New York Times, a full article in the style section of the New York Times about why are men, and some women, so upset about people wearing leggings in public.
00:38:54.000Or alternatively, they're just not a huge fan of people wearing clothing that is effectively tight in public, because that doesn't seem either modest or prudent.
00:39:04.000Like, are we supposed to pretend that if you just walked around naked in broad daylight, that that would be the same thing as if you wore a burqa in broad daylight?
00:39:09.000Like, clothing does seem to matter a little bit in how we perceive people, which is why police officers and doctors wear uniforms.
00:39:16.000But all of this is supposed to be a soft form of sexism.
00:39:19.000The continued breaking down of Americans into victim groups is one of the chief core tenets of the modern Democratic Party, which is why, for example, I think that Pete Buttigieg is in trouble.
00:39:29.000Pete Buttigieg, who is a gay man in America, does not make a point of him being a victim.
00:39:34.000He doesn't try to say, I'm a victim in America.
00:39:36.000His book, which is actually pretty interesting, he doesn't make a huge deal out of this idea that I'm gay, therefore I'm a massive victim of discrimination in the United States.
00:39:44.000He's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, right?
00:39:45.000I mean, that's not exactly great evidence that people hate you.
00:39:48.000The person who was just elected, the mayor of Chicago, is a black lesbian.
00:39:53.000And this is not a country where discrimination is a wildly prevalent, everyday, deep-seated occurrence that is causing mass disparity.
00:40:03.000It is possible that disparities are caused by other factors, but the Democratic Party is banking on a feeling of dispossession in order for them to regain power.
00:40:11.000Now, listen, President Trump did this in reverse.
00:40:13.000In 2016, he suggested there's a vast swath of people across the country feeling dispossessed with the current political system who have been effectively ignored and disparaged by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, been called deplorables, been told that they are somehow inferior or lesser or they are racist, bigot, sexist, homophobes and all the rest.
00:40:31.000And those are the people I'm going to speak to.
00:40:33.000Well, Democrats are doing the same thing and have been doing the same thing for years, trying to identify victim groups and then broadening the definition of victimhood in order to make excuses for why obviously non-victim groups are actually victim groups.
00:40:47.000And then suggesting that candidates they don't like are the victimizers.
00:40:50.000Joe Biden has found himself in the crosshairs because of this.
00:40:52.000He does not mesh with the current priorities of the Democratic Party, and thus he is in the victimizer class.
00:40:58.000And you're starting to see this from the left about Buttigieg.
00:41:11.000Because despite the fact that the Bernie bros were not exactly great with the ladies, and despite the fact that Bernie Sanders It is pretty impressive to watch as the Democrats prepare to shoot themselves in the feet, providing the impetus for President Trump's 2020 campaign.
00:41:23.000and widely perceived as an extreme leftist.
00:41:26.000So that means that we can rule him in as opposed to ruling him out.
00:41:30.000It is pretty impressive to watch as the Democrats prepare to shoot themselves in the feet, providing the impetus for President Trump's 2020 campaign.
00:41:37.000This is all President Trump wants for his birthday, man, is for the Democrats to do exactly this.
00:41:42.000So yesterday, President Trump spoke at the NRCC And you can see, this is going to be his angle in 2020 as well.
00:42:21.000Okay, he is totally right about all of this, of course.
00:42:24.000And, you know, he's gonna get flack for saying, oh my God, he's demeaning her as a bartender.
00:42:29.000No, he's saying she doesn't have any expertise Don't underestimate the power of socialism to get a vote.
00:42:32.000It's what happens over a 10-year period when the country is destroyed, but they don't care about that.
00:42:36.000after socialism in the Democratic Party.
00:42:38.000They're making it easy for him, it's amazing.
00:42:40.000I've never seen a party own itself so hard as the Democrats are doing currently. - Don't underestimate the power of socialism to get a vote.
00:42:49.000It's what happens over a 10 year period when the country is destroyed, but they don't care about that.
00:42:55.000When they say we're gonna give you free education, we're gonna give you free healthcare, we're gonna not have you pay your loans for college, We're going to give you free everything.
00:43:22.000We have to explain how bad it really is.
00:43:24.000Okay, and he is not wrong about any of this, and Democrats are providing him room to run because they are either delusional, delusionally hopeful, or delusionally angry.
00:43:33.000Now, they do have one hope, and that is that the media will somehow save them, because the media have done yeoman's work on behalf of Democrats for legitimately years.
00:43:41.000The best example of this came yesterday when CNN's Christine Amanpour, who for some reason is considered an objective journalist, she decides to journalism all over James Comey.
00:43:50.000Here she is explaining that lock her up Of course, Lock Her Up was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign.
00:44:02.000Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language?
00:45:09.000Yes, but I don't want to do this with you this morning.
00:45:11.000I think the problem is, when you put the Obama administration up as this pristine, scandal-free, perfect administration that never did anything wrong, for conservatives and Republicans, there were a lot of policies that were put into place.
00:45:40.000The IRS under Barack Obama targeted opposing 501c3 groups.
00:45:45.000Eric Holder was held in contempt by Congress over Fast and Furious, and Barack Obama asserted executive privilege to protect him.
00:45:52.000Barack Obama said openly on an open mic to the Russians that he would provide them flexibility after the election if they would lay off before the election.
00:46:26.000We look to the President of the United States to be the leader, to be a role model, particularly for young people, and I think some of the rhetoric has been profoundly disappointing and troubling to me.
00:46:37.000He was very much a part of the birther controversy.
00:46:45.000I think it's unconscionable, and I think it, um, you know, it incited hatred, and I think it put President Obama and his family in harm's way.
00:46:54.000Okay, so, again, it is fun to watch the media simply play defense for every Democrat.
00:46:59.000There's a reason all the top Democrats in Virginia are still holding their offices.
00:47:02.000It's also amazing that the media continue to pretend they're objective when they're obviously not.
00:47:07.000Who's the publisher of the New York Times?
00:47:09.000He said yesterday that we are happy to publish all sorts of perspectives, like they literally published a full on 12,000 word screed on why Israel should be boycotted by somebody who is paid in part by the government of Qatar, a terror supporting state.
00:47:22.000That was fine, but they will never print apparently any opinion that questions the science behind global warming, despite the fact that a lot of the modeling has been incorrect so far.
00:47:30.000And this is coming from somebody, by the way.
00:48:05.000That does not mean if you... we do not go out to make sure we quote 25 people that say there's no... man did not contribute to the changing climate.
00:49:18.000And it essentially is a space western.
00:49:21.000I believe that this, I'm pretty certain that the people who wrote the movie Prospect were basing it on Treasure Island because it pretty much follows all the beats of Treasure Island.
00:49:33.000But the movie is a good, tight, like hour and thirty, hour and forty minute movie.
00:49:38.000And it's about a little girl who lands with her father on this planet where there's a natural resource that people are seeking to extract.
00:49:46.000And she's confronted by, effectively, a pirate named... who's played by Pedro Pascal.
00:50:58.000Okay, thing that I hate, number one, why is it that online is where we find all of the weird quasi-solutions to people's problems?
00:51:05.000And when I say solutions, I mean no one in their right mind would do these things, but we are supposed to pretend that, like, they're a thing?
00:51:10.000Well, Vocative is apparently one of the places you go for this sort of stuff, and they have a story today about adults who want to be swaddled In a fake womb to be comforted.
00:53:01.000The quest for technology for carbon dioxide removal from the air received significant science endorsement last year with the publication of the IPCC report on keeping the rising global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century.
00:53:14.000In their summary for policymakers, the scientists said all pathways that limit global warming should be pursued effectively.
00:53:20.000Carbon engineering says that its direct air capture process is now able to capture gas for under $100 a ton.
00:53:28.000With its new funding, the company plans to build its first commercial facilities.
00:53:31.000These industrial scale plants could capture up to 1 million tons of CO2 from the air each year.
00:53:39.000Well, apparently, The comparatively low concentrations of CO2 in the air make it difficult to design efficient machines to remove the gas, but carbon engineering has a process that sucks in the air and then exposes it to a chemical solution that concentrates the CO2.
00:53:54.000Further refinements mean that the gas can be purified in a form that can be stored or utilized as liquid fuel.
00:54:02.000And they're talking about making a liquid fuel directly from CO2.
00:54:05.000So instead of having these massive emissions, you are instead using the carbon dioxide to make new fuel.
00:54:13.000So they take the carbon emissions in the air, they suck it out of the air, and then they are recycling the carbon emissions, effectively speaking.
00:54:22.000They're investing in this process because they don't want to be regulated, presumably, because this is called a market solution, and the left is opposed to it.
00:54:31.000Well, they think that it's—some are worried that they think that it's good, but Sipora Berman, international program director for Stand.Earth, told BBC News it's a huge concern, because they're worried that it will prolong the fossil fuel era.
00:54:42.000But again, why are you upset about the fossil fuel era if it's not actually going to wreck the Earth anymore?
00:54:49.000So, it suggests that there is an ulterior motive.
00:54:53.000The thing I hate is the ulterior motive.
00:54:55.000If I give you technology that will help you solve the climate change issue, say nuclear technology, or sucking the carbon out of the air, then why exactly would you oppose it unless you have some sort of ulterior motive?
00:55:06.000Which does suggest that there is something else going on for a lot of climate change Forward thinking politicians that has more to do with economic redistributionism than it has to do with actually solving a problem.
00:55:16.000Alrighty, well, we will be back here a little bit later today for two additional hours.
00:55:19.000Also, I'm on Joe Rogan's show today, so you might want to go check that out because that's a lot of fun.
00:55:23.000And in the meantime, go buy my book, The Right Side of History, which charted number three on Amazon in nonfiction this week and number three at Barnes & Noble as well this week.