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00:00:22.000I only say that because if you can't actually hear that through my microphone, there's legitimately hammering going on on the floor beneath us as we build out our new lair, our fantastic new studios, which will be unveiled sometime in the future, just like the Shapiro store.
00:00:34.000It may take longer to materialize than I say it will, but eventually it will arrive.
00:00:38.000There is news to get to today and philosophy to get to today.
00:00:41.000Many, many things to talk about, but first,
00:00:43.000Let us talk about the upcoming election.
00:00:45.000If you look at the rhetoric from the leftist news outlets on the heels of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, they are trying to solidify the left for the midterms.
00:00:52.000It is going to be a battle for the House.
00:00:53.000Right now, chances are the Democrats win the House.
00:00:55.000Here's what's at stake if the Democrats do take the House.
00:00:58.000The positive policies Republicans have enacted over the past two years, everything to help the economy, regulatory reform, tax cuts, judicial appointments, withdrawal from the Iran deal, all of it could be stymied if the Dems take control of either House.
00:02:51.000I think that Democrats are motivated to vote because the Republican is in the White House, and it would be the same thing if it had been Jeb Bush.
00:02:56.000I think they would have been motivated to vote.
00:02:58.000Midterm elections are really bad for sitting presidents, and this election cycle is no different.
00:03:04.000If it turns into a raucous blowout, if it turns into Democrats winning 40, 50 seats, then you might start talking about the impact President Trump has had.
00:03:11.000Obviously, President Trump has a unique gift.
00:03:43.000Okay, so, you know, when he suggests that it's not his fault because we have, you know, a great economy, he's right, that we do have a terrific economy right now.
00:03:53.000There's a study out today, and it shows that the United States is now number one in competitiveness for the first time in 2008, after it made the second highest overall gain from the previous year's ranking from the World Economic Forum, according to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.
00:04:06.000The top five countries were the US, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan, all of which saw their scores increase in 2017, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:04:15.000Economic recovery is well underway, with the global economy projected to grow almost 4% in 2018 and 2019.
00:04:21.000The report stated, adding that the recovery remains vulnerable to a range of risks and potential shocks.
00:04:26.000That's just a way for economists to hedge their bets.
00:04:28.000The journal noted that the warning cited, quote, a brewing trade war between the U.S.
00:04:31.000and China as a possible hindrance to growth that could potentially derail the recovery and deter investment.
00:04:37.000The report scores countries on how closely they match up to the competitive ideal.
00:04:43.000America's vibrant entrepreneurial culture and its dominance in producing a competitive labor market and nimble financial system are among the several factors that contribute to making the United States' innovation ecosystem one of the best in the world.
00:04:55.000This prompted President Trump to tweet out all of the good economic news.
00:04:59.000He tweeted out an incredible number just out.
00:05:15.000The fact is that the economy has been going gangbusters under President Trump.
00:05:19.000And a large part of that is not only the regulatory reform and the tax cuts, but a feeling of
00:05:24.000Consistency and certainty in economics.
00:05:27.000See, it's very important to have a level of consistency and certainty if you're running a business.
00:05:32.000If you're living in the state of California, where we are, and you run a business, one of the problems is you are not sure what insane regulation is going to come down the pike at any given moment.
00:05:41.000If you don't know what crazy regulation is going to come down the pike at any given moment, you're more likely to hold out your money.
00:05:46.000You're more likely to say, you know what?
00:05:47.000I'm going to leave that money in the bank.
00:05:48.000I'm not going to invest in a new employee I may have to fire.
00:05:51.000I'm not going to invest in new infrastructure that may have to go unused.
00:05:56.000Instead, I'm just going to hold this money out and I'm going to wait for a better economic time.
00:06:00.000President Trump and Republican Congress mean that there is a level of solidity in Americans' perceptions of which way the economy is going to move, namely in the direction of businesses having more freedom to pursue the causes that they wish to pursue.
00:06:16.000Now, President Trump is signaling that the great danger to this is the Federal Reserve.
00:06:22.000The Federal Reserve has been tightening interest rates.
00:06:24.000The reason they're tightening interest rates is because they don't want a bubble.
00:06:26.000They don't want a lot of folks taking out cheap credit from the Federal Reserve banks, lending out at cheap rates, and then
00:06:33.000All of those assets being overvalued and then the economy collapsing again like it did in 2007-2008.
00:06:37.000So the Federal Reserve actually isn't doing the worst thing.
00:06:40.000The fact that the economy continues to grow at extraordinary rates with the Federal Reserve tightening credit is actually quite a good thing.
00:06:48.000But here is President Trump suggesting that the economy might be a little bit more fragile than we think it is by going after the Federal Reserve.
00:06:55.000The biggest threat is the Fed, because the Fed is raising rates too fast, and it's independent, so I don't speak to him, but I'm not happy with what he's doing, because it's going too fast, because you looked at the last inflation numbers, they're very low.
00:07:11.000You know, debatable as to whether the Fed should even exist, but if the Fed is going to exist, then raising interest rates in a time of economic boom is not the world's worst idea.
00:07:40.000And we are a country originally of pioneers and entrepreneurs.
00:07:44.000People who are willing to venture out of the spaces from which they were born in order to find new economic opportunities and new jobs.
00:07:52.000The problem is that an economy that's booming like this, but that also may require you to add new skills and move out of your hometown, it's deeply at odds with some of President Trump's campaign promises.
00:08:03.000It's deeply at odds with a certain perception of the economy that's pushed by the so-called populist right.
00:08:08.000Now, when I talk about the populist right, I'm talking about folks who I think say a lot of true things on a lot of subjects, but not on this particular subject.
00:08:17.000And in this particular camp, I count a bunch of folks who have made big names for themselves,
00:08:25.000Based on the idea that America's economy is bound to fail, that there's too much income inequality.
00:08:31.000These are people supposedly from the right.
00:08:33.000Claiming there's too much income inequality, that manufacturing jobs are dying, that small towns are dying, and therefore the government has to step in and regulate.
00:08:45.000And this comes from a value system that doesn't actually see the morality in the free markets per se.
00:08:51.000Now, listen, there's nothing that is necessarily moral in how people use free markets, but the basis of a free market system, private property ownership and control of your own labor, that is a deep moral good.
00:09:02.000There is something moral about free markets that is not moral about restricted markets.
00:09:07.000That can only hold true when there's no exploitation.
00:09:10.000That can only hold true when the government prevents forced use of labor, for example.
00:09:16.000But when the government steps in and starts tromping on free market principles, on individual property rights and individual use of labor, then you get into trouble.
00:09:26.000And the problem is that there is a widespread perception among a lot of people on the populist right that America's economy, even when it's going great guns, is still unfair.
00:09:34.000This is where the Trumpian right meets the Bernie Sanders left.
00:09:37.000Tucker Carlson has a new book out called Ship of Fools.
00:09:38.000We're going to have Tucker on the Sunday special sometime in the near future.
00:09:42.000And Tucker is sort of an economic populist.
00:09:46.000And Tucker's economic populism borders on sort of a Bernie Sanders perspective on how the economy ought to work.
00:09:53.000He talks a lot in his book about this sort of suffering middle class that was left behind.
00:09:57.000And one of the things he says in the book is that, I was reading it last night, and it's really well written.
00:10:01.000It's, again, Tucker's a deeply talented guy.
00:10:04.000One of the things that it says is it says that while the rich have gotten richer in the United States, the poor have gotten poorer.
00:10:10.000Now, he acknowledges that the poor getting poorer in the United States is not actually a thing that's happening, that the poor in the United States are still extraordinarily rich by any sort of global standard.
00:10:18.000They are richer than they were in 1979 by any standard.
00:10:23.000But that's not enough because he says that there's still envy between the rich and the poor.
00:10:26.000And as long as that exists, the government has to step in to help prevent that envy from overtaking the political system.
00:10:33.000That's a perspective that probably Bernie Sanders supporters hold.
00:10:36.000And you saw some of this during the election cycle when President Trump was trying to appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters with the same sort of language.
00:10:54.000Problems with globalization on the local level in certain areas.
00:10:57.000So, for example, you're getting outcompeted by a business in China and your business goes out of business, that hurts for you.
00:11:02.000But globalization is just another word for free markets, because if you were getting outcompeted by a firm in California and you're in Ohio, that wouldn't be globalization, that would just be the free market at work.
00:11:12.000There are moral questions as to whether we should be doing free market stuff with dictatorships like China.
00:11:17.000But there's no economic question that it is beneficial economically to consumers in the United States and to producers who use inputs in the United States to have free trade.
00:11:26.000And yet, by suggesting that capitalism and free markets are not enough, suggesting that globalization is a bad thing, what we need is economic nationalism, more government intervention.
00:11:35.000President Trump is actually undercutting the cause of his own economy, which is not based on anti-globalization.
00:11:40.000It's actually based deeply on a global free market and on less regulation.
00:11:45.000President Trump's economic system is based on less government intervention in the economy, but President Trump has been preaching more economic intervention in the economy by suggesting that the economy is leaving people behind.
00:11:56.000Well, that is a talking point that can be used against him.
00:11:59.000It's a talking point that can be used against him in elections.
00:12:02.000And it's also a talking point that is not particularly conservative, which I'm going to explain in just one second.
00:12:07.000But first, let's talk about what you do in case of natural disasters.
00:12:11.000So we've seen now a hurricane hit in Florida, two hurricanes this year hit in Florida with pretty significant
00:12:23.000I mean, natural disasters are a time where you look around the world and you say, well, wouldn't it be good if I were actually prepared for something like that?
00:12:28.000That is why you need to go check out my Patriot Supply right now.
00:12:33.000You know, hurricanes, natural disasters, things hit with very little warning, and that's why you need to be prepared up front.
00:12:38.000So go secure an emergency food supply.
00:12:40.000The government says you should do it anyway.
00:13:29.000Another person who I admire intellectually is a guy named Oren Kass, who has a book out that I've recommended on the show called The Once and Future Worker.
00:13:35.000And in that book, Oren talks about this kind of new populist economics.
00:13:39.000What he says is basically capitalism is designed to provide you the cheapest products and the best products at the most available opportunity.
00:13:49.000And there's no question that this is what capitalism has achieved.
00:13:51.000This is what globalization has achieved.
00:13:53.000We live in times that would astound any human being from even 50 years ago.
00:13:58.000We live in a time, economically, where, legitimately, you can have any product on planet Earth delivered to you within days.
00:14:23.000Because there's a graphite factory, and then there's a wood factory, and then there's a paint factory, there's a metal factory, there's a rubber factory.
00:14:29.000All of those places have to generate small pieces of the pencil, and then it is all assembled, and then it is brought to you for pennies.
00:14:37.000That's the magic of globalization and free markets.
00:14:39.000Now, when people say globalization, again, because people think that globalization means that we are giving up control to people who are outside America,
00:14:47.000They don't understand that globalization really just means free markets.
00:14:51.000If we just had free markets, folks would be on board.
00:14:54.000But globalization is an easy way to... It's kind of a left-liberal term for free markets that's been used, just like trickle-down economics is a left-liberal term that has been used instead of supply-side economics.
00:15:05.000Well, Oren Kass, in his book, he talks about how capitalism is great at generating all sorts of consumer goods.
00:15:10.000That capitalism is consumer-focused, which obviously is true.
00:15:14.000It's consumed capitalism with making sure that you can not only dispense with your own labor at the price that you see fit, but also that you provide products and services to somebody else that they want.
00:15:25.000What he says is that we may be living in a time very soon where people can't find fulfillment in consumerism.
00:15:31.000Instead, they find fulfillment in jobs.
00:15:35.000Now, there's no question that a guy making $20,000 a year and working is probably happier than a guy making $20,000 a year from welfare and not working.
00:15:43.000But the real question is, how much economic wherewithal do you have to sacrifice?
00:15:47.000How much free market do you have to sacrifice to give that guy a job at $20,000 as opposed to just redistributing?
00:15:52.000And this is really a fascinating economic debate that is breaking out.
00:15:56.000I think it's premature, but it's fascinating.
00:16:07.000On the one hand, you have folks who say globalization and redistribution.
00:16:09.000What do we do with the people who are left behind, who are working jobs that get eliminated, who can't change jobs, who don't want to leave their hometown?
00:16:17.000Now, the normal answer in the past was get up, get a new skill, leave town.
00:16:24.000That's why America spans from coast to coast and isn't just relegated to the eastern seaboard.
00:16:29.000Because people legitimately gave up plots of land in New York and decided, I'm going to go out to the middle of nowhere, I'm going to cross territory where people want to kill me, and I'm going to go out to the middle of nowhere, set up a claim, and then I'm going to work on that claim by myself, at risk of death, in order so that I can make something more of myself.
00:17:03.000And if people are left behind, then we have a basic income, a universal basic income, or we have a social welfare net, a safety net.
00:17:12.000And that's how we pick up for the folks who get left behind.
00:17:16.000Those people, we just give them money, basically.
00:17:18.000So globalization raises everybody's living standard, and then everybody who is left behind a little bit, we give them a little bit of extra money to make them feel better and so that they can live better.
00:17:41.000And if you don't have a job, you have less meaning.
00:17:44.000So, what if we just restricted the free market itself?
00:17:47.000What if we put barriers on the free market?
00:17:49.000Now, to Orrin's credit, Orrin Kass, he doesn't really recommend tons of restrictions on the free market.
00:17:55.000He talks about different ways that we could shape public policy in order to make the markets freer, actually, relieve regulations to make it easier to generate jobs.
00:18:02.000But, President Trump has suggested restrictions on the free market.
00:18:07.000Restrictions on global trade, for example.
00:18:10.000And there's a real push by some on the Trumpian populist right to restore union power, even though it is Americans voluntarily moving out of private unions, not companies breaking unions that has led to the dearth of unions in the United States.
00:18:25.000So that's model number two, is you restrict the free market economy in order so that everybody has a job.
00:18:30.000And that, again, is more of a left-leaning version.
00:18:33.000So it's kind of fascinating because you have liberals who are for globalization and redistribution, and you have conservatives who are for globalization and redistribution, and you have liberals who are for workers
00:19:44.000The history of humankind is adapting and adjusting to the environment around you.
00:19:49.000This idea that we can't adapt and adjust to new technologies seems to me completely wrong-headed.
00:19:54.000All of the talk about how all of these jobs are simply going to disappear thanks to technology and how we have to restore manufacturing jobs by restricting the free market.
00:20:04.000The reason that we live the most prosperous lives any human beings have ever lived in the history of time is because of these free markets.
00:20:12.000All of the talk, we talked about this last week, all of the talk
00:20:15.000About how wages are the same between 1979 and 2018 neglects the fact that you can get stuff for one-third the price you could in 1979.
00:20:23.000If I'm making the same amount of money in 1979 as I am now, but now my money goes three times further, I'm making three times what I was making in 1979.
00:20:32.000Because the value of money is what you can get for the money.
00:20:36.000So, I think that this debate is not only premature, I think it's wrong-headed.
00:20:40.000And I think it's going to lead to bad public policy.
00:20:41.000I think this debate is going to lead to restrictions, regulations, crackdowns on free markets, all in the name of an unknowable evil that has yet to manifest itself.
00:20:53.000There's under 4% unemployment in the United States right now.
00:21:06.000Okay, meanwhile, the Trump administration is undergoing some severe difficulty with regard to foreign policy, specifically thanks to Mohammed bin Sultan, the Saudi crown prince, allegedly deploying a security team to Istanbul in Turkey, and they murdered a Saudi dissident.
00:23:11.000But we are all very shocked and appalled, as we should be, when Saudi operatives decide they're going to murder a dissident at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
00:23:19.000So here's the Wall Street Journal with the latest reporting.
00:23:22.000Saudi operatives beat, drugged, killed, and dismembered.
00:23:25.000A dissident Saudi journalist in the presence of the kingdom's top diplomat in Istanbul, Turkish officials said Tuesday, as Washington urged Riyadh to provide answers, President Trump cautioned that Saudi Arabia should be considered innocent until proven guilty.
00:23:38.000His Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on a visit to the kingdom said Saudi leaders had strongly denied involvement and were conducting a serious, credible investigation, but
00:23:47.000Turkey is now suggesting that they have tape of the entire thing happening, at least audio tape of the entire thing happening, which can't be very pleasant.
00:23:54.000I mean, that sort of audio would be almost as hard to listen to as a Lady Gaga recording.
00:24:00.000In an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, Mr. Trump compared the allegations that Saudi agents had killed Mr. Khashoggi to the accusations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:24:11.000This is where President Trump gets himself in trouble.
00:24:22.000We should put some sanctions on Saudi Arabia, at least temporarily, until they provide some sort of answers on all of this, and until they punish the people responsible, and until they reform their conduct.
00:24:34.000Possibility number two is you say, yes, this is really bad.
00:24:37.000Also, every country in that region is basically a garbage heap, or is run like a garbage heap.
00:24:43.000The countries themselves, the people are, I'm sure, wonderful in many of these countries, but the administrations of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, certainly Syria, certainly Lebanon, Jordan, none of these administrations are great Western democracies.
00:24:59.000These are all garbage administrations.
00:25:02.000So, what we could say is, yes, this is really bad.
00:25:04.000Also, for geopolitical, realist reasons, like Henry Kissinger, we still need to work with the Saudis to contain the Iranians.
00:25:12.000And then there's possibility number three, which is Trump telling the Associated Press, quote,
00:25:25.000Somewhere, Justice Kavanaugh screams in silent agony as he is compared to Saudi dictators who murder people in consulates and then liquefy their bodies.
00:25:33.000That is just, it's like when Trump said during the Kavanaugh hearings that he'd been accused of things too, and Kavanaugh just must have been smacking himself on the forehead, Jean-Luc Picard style, double face palm.
00:25:44.000It just, it makes, because the president sees things in black and white terms on every score,
00:25:52.000He says this sort of stuff, but equating Brett Kavanaugh, where there was no evidence other than the allegation alone against him, with the Saudis murdering a human who has disappeared, and where there is apparently audio evidence, an audio recording shared with both the U.S.
00:26:14.000Apparently on the recording, a voice can be heard inviting the consul to leave the room.
00:26:18.000The voice of a man Turkish authorities identified as Saudi forensic specialist Salah al-Tabiki can be heard recommending other people present listen to some music while he dismembers Mr. Khashoggi's body.
00:26:29.000According to the tape, Khashoggi was not interrogated.
00:26:32.000Instead, he was beaten up, drugged, and killed by Saudi operatives who had flown in from Riyadh.
00:26:37.000Apparently, he was dismembered while he was still alive.
00:26:42.000All of this, again, is deeply, deeply ugly, of course.
00:26:46.000That doesn't actually answer the question as to what President Trump should do, however.
00:26:51.000And this is where President Trump's best claim is that he's basically just a realist trying to make deals as far as possible.
00:26:59.000And while he appreciates the human rights violations are bad, he is not going to stay up nights worrying about the Saudi government.
00:27:06.000committing human rights violations that we all know they've been committing for years on end.
00:27:09.000I mean, this is the same Saudi administration that has been quite friendly with radical Muslims for decades on end.
00:27:18.000The vast majority of the 9-11 hijackers were Saudi.
00:27:22.000So, suffice it to say, the Saudi regime is not exactly a wonderful, wonderful regime, but that doesn't mean the United States doesn't have interest with regard to Saudi Arabia.
00:27:31.000As an example of President Trump saying this sort of thing repeatedly, he was asked about Helsinki.
00:27:36.000You remember he had that meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, where he was very complimentary of Putin.
00:28:36.000And so when people are confused that President Trump isn't calling Mohammed bin Sultan a horse face, that's because that's not how President Trump operates.
00:28:43.000That does not mean, however, that what the left says about Trump's relationship with Saudi Arabia is true.
00:28:56.000He was the guy who lied to the American people about the Iran deal.
00:28:59.000He was the leader of the Iranian regime outreach effort on the part of the Obama administration, an actual outreach effort to an evil dictatorship, the lead sponsor of terror on planet Earth, attacking President Trump, suggesting Trump is somehow responsible for Saudi Arabia acting like Saudi Arabia.
00:29:16.000And let's face it, we have a President of the United States who says journalists are the enemy of the state.
00:29:19.000So values like freedom of speech and dissent suddenly are very endangered around the world.
00:29:25.000And that's a trend line that I think is getting much worse.
00:29:28.000And so this vacuum of any advocacy for democratic values I think is putting people at risk.
00:29:35.000And there's nobody else who's going to fill that vacuum if the President of the United States and the United States of America is not doing that.
00:29:39.000OK, this is why Trump supporters are not going to resonate to anything the media are saying these days.
00:29:43.000The media covered for an administration that did outreach to actual terrorists for years upon years upon years.
00:29:50.000So when Trump says, listen, I'm not going to go crazy over the Saudi thing, most Americans are basically going to say, OK, well, all right.
00:29:58.000No, the proper action is probably the sanctions at the very least and insistence on some sort of change in Saudi Arabia.
00:30:03.000But we do have leverage over the Saudis to pretend we don't is foolish.
00:30:08.000President Trump is much more of a foreign policy realist than some of his predecessors.
00:30:13.000And as a foreign policy realist, I think that it is not
00:30:18.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about the great battle of our time, which is not Saudi Arabia versus Iran, or even Republicans versus Democrats.
00:30:35.000It is President Trump versus Stormy Daniels.
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00:34:25.000In any case, the other big story on everybody's radar today is a story about Tiny and Hard Space, the great romance of our time.
00:34:33.000So, President Trump let it off yesterday, you'll recall, when he decided that he was very, very happy that Stormy Daniels had
00:34:42.000had been forced to pay attorney's fees in the state of Texas on a ridiculous defamation lawsuit that she filed against him.
00:34:50.000And he tweeted out yesterday, Now I can go after Horseface and her third-rate lawyer in the great state of Texas.
00:35:00.000And everybody went nuts because he called her Horseface.
00:35:03.000Now, there was a theory online that he's, we know President Trump is just bad at spelling, so there was a theory online that he didn't mean to write Horseface, he meant to write Whoresface.
00:35:12.000You know, unkind, but fact check, harsh but true.
00:35:17.000In any case, it is not good policy for the President of the United States to be doing any of those things, let alone to be saying that a woman he once shagged is a horse face.
00:35:48.000There's a full photo spread of Stormy Daniels as the new feminist leader because she gets paid to have sex on camera and then had sex with a married man and then refused to shut up about it after being paid $130,000 to shut up about it.
00:37:04.000I have been saying for months now that I want Michael Avenatti not only to run for president, but to win the nomination for the Democrats because I root for entertainment value around here.
00:37:12.000If we are going to live this news cycle, let's live it.
00:37:15.000I mean, come on, let's paint the town red.
00:37:17.000If we are going to sin such that God has decided his vengeance upon us shall be this news cycle, then let us revel in our sin.
00:37:25.000So Michael Avenatti desperately wants to run for president and in the last three weeks has destroyed his own party's credibility on Brett Kavanaugh.
00:37:35.000Lost a lawsuit against President Trump.
00:37:37.000Now he jumps into the Stormy Daniels Donald Trump fight with a video so good that I want to make it my permanent ringtone.
00:37:43.000Here is Michael Avenatti sounding off.
00:37:46.000For those who can't see, Michael Avenatti, you know, this is really high style.
00:37:50.000He has taken his phone, turned it into selfie mode, and now he is filming himself speaking very seriously into camera about horse face.
00:40:38.000She went on Jimmy Kimmel, and she actually picked out mushrooms that she says his genitalia looked like.
00:40:44.000Here's Don Lemon trying to suggest how bad it is that Donald Trump would insult someone's physical appearance by insulting President Trump's physical appearance.
00:41:41.000But that is, yeah, so yeah, the American people are definitely going to take seriously your admonitions about name-calling when you say that the president is a fat orange toad.
00:42:23.000So it was one thing when she was quoting Ray J to critique Kanye West.
00:42:28.000It is another thing when the President of the United States goes after a woman who was insulting his genitals on national television to the shortling and laughed at.
00:42:35.000Now listen, none of this is justification for Trump's behavior.
00:42:38.000But I think we already know who President Trump is with regard to women.
00:43:41.000Joan Walsh, the resident feminist in chief over at The Nation, which is to say, a crazy person, she has a piece today called, Donald, Elizabeth Warren will not let Donald Trump define her.
00:44:18.000Remember there was that white lady who said she was black so that she could be like the head of the Spokane NAACP?
00:44:24.000And then people found out that she had just been basically tanning her skin and doing her hair out in frizzy hairdo.
00:44:31.000And everyone was like, well, that's a white lady and that's a racial hoax.
00:44:34.000I would bet money that if you took a racial DNA test of Rachel Dolezal, she has more African background than Elizabeth Warren has Native American background.
00:44:44.000And now I'm desperate to make that happen.
00:44:46.000So Rachel, if you're listening right now, I will pay for your 23andMe test, because I want to know whether you are more black than Elizabeth Warren is Native American, so that we can laugh endlessly as the media, which ripped you to shreds, has to say that you are more black than Elizabeth Warren is Native American.
00:45:00.000I just think that would be absolutely delicious.
00:46:01.000And she was at an event, I guess raising money for Senator Bob Menendez in New Jersey, because he's suddenly found himself in a bit of a firefight for his Senate seat.
00:46:55.000That's solid stuff from Hillary Clinton.
00:47:01.000I don't know who this week decided that they would go to the punchline asylum and let out all the patients, but all the punchlines are running free.
00:47:09.000And there's no way for me to catch them all.
00:47:11.000I'm only one man with one butterfly net.
00:47:31.000Two GOP candidates have now been assaulted in Minnesota.
00:47:34.000According to Bill McMorris over at the Washington Free Beacon, the Minnesota Democratic Party has suspended a spokesman for calling for violence against Republicans, even as two GOP candidates have been assaulted and suspected politically motivated attacks.
00:47:45.000The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party has suspended communications staffer William Davis for a week because he said Democrats should bring Republicans to the guillotine.
00:47:53.000And also, two different Republicans have now been assaulted.
00:47:58.000Minnesota State Representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm after spotting a man destroying Republican yard signs.
00:48:03.000She said the attack left her scared, and her attacker only desisted when she fled to her car and threw it in reverse.
00:48:08.000And then there was another GOP candidate who was also attacked.
00:48:34.000There's a story from the Agence France-Presse, the AFP, saying that there's a new reality TV in France, and here is how it goes.
00:48:40.000It's a new dating show, helping time-pressed millennials save on the unnecessary preliminaries by cutting straight to the chase.
00:48:46.000The show is called Making Love, and it has jaws dropping at Mipcom, the world's biggest TV market in Cannes, by having contestants have sex first before deciding if they like each other.
00:48:56.000Its French producers, WeMake, says it has brought together scientifically matched singles to ask the essential question, could making love make you fall in love?
00:49:06.000We've been trying this in western societies for the last 40 years since the rise of the radical feminist movement and the sexual revolution.
00:49:14.000Having sex with people first does not make them fall in love.
00:49:17.000It makes a man satisfied that he has had sex first.
00:49:20.000Okay, this is so stupid, I cannot even tell you, but I guess the idea here is that if we rut like animals, suddenly love will be the outcome.
00:49:29.000If you have that little love in your life, that you think that sex with a random stranger is suddenly going to usher in an era of nuptial bliss, you're out of your damn mind.