A shooting at a Waffle House prompts some of the worst arguments for gun control ever. Americans cannot take a joke about anything, and I could not be more excited about Kanye 2020 launching. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and on rare occasions, there is an event that happens in American public life that unleashes all of the stupid. And yesterday, indeed, it turns out, was that event. There was a shooting at the Waffle house, and there is a guy who is incredibly heroic. We re going to talk about all of it, as well as the left s reaction to it because the left's reaction is just, fully, crazy and crazy. And as the shooter, James Shaw Jr., was present at the shooting, he decided to charge the shooter. So, anyway, here is what is amazing about this: As the shooter had an AR-15, he was able to lock the shooter down. And, as a result, no one has been charged in connection with the shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. That s pretty good, right? Right now, use promo code Shapiro for that special deal. You get $55 a year, a digital scale, and a 4-week trial. That's a pretty solid deal just for using our promo code SHIPPERS. Shout out to the Daily Wire for helping us cover this! SHOUT OUT to: Ben Shapiro for the Shapiro Show! - Ben Shapiro: The Daily Wire - The Shapiro Show Podcast - Episode 004 - Episode 449 - Episode 547 - Episode 627 - Episode 723 - Episode 801 - "The Real Thing" - "It's My Life, It's Not Yours, My Story?" - "I'll Tell You What I'm Gonna Do It, And I'm Not Gonna Say That, I'll Say That's My Story, And That's Not My Story? - "Let Me Say It?" - "I'm Gotta Have It!" - "That's My True Story." - "My Story, That's It's My Real Story?" - "No More Than That, My Thoughts And I'll Be That's That's Gotta Say It, I'm Just That's Actually That's So Good, I've Got It?" -- "Ayyeeeeeeeeeeayeee, That'll Say It's That'll Hear It?" -- "That'll Hear That, OK?
00:02:13.000The Secret Service said Sunday its agents arrested the killer in July 2016 after he was found in a restricted area near the White House, according to the Tennessean.
00:02:20.000So it wasn't just that he was arrested.
00:02:22.000He was arrested by the Secret Service near the White House because what the hell?
00:02:26.000Okay, Secret Service Representative Todd Hudson said he wanted to set up a meeting with the president.
00:02:30.000Which it turns out is not the way to set up a meeting with the president.
00:02:33.000I know how to set up a meeting with the president.
00:02:35.000You don't do it by walking up to the White House and saying you want to set a meeting with the president.
00:02:38.000That hasn't been true since, like, 1860.
00:02:40.000The killer, who is reportedly from Illinois, was revoked of his ability to possess firearms following his arrest in Washington.
00:02:46.000Illinois police also confiscated four firearms from his possession, including the AR-15 he used in Sunday's killing, a spokesman for the Nashville police said.
00:03:24.000Because it's criminal negligence for the father to have given the guns to the son and the son was already not only barred from having the gun but had had his guns taken away from him.
00:03:42.000Now, what's amazing about this is that there is an amazing American here named James Shaw, Jr., who is present at the Waffle House.
00:03:48.000And as the shooting went on, he decided to charge the shooter.
00:03:57.000When he proceeded to come in, I actually went behind this like a push door, a swivel door.
00:04:05.000He shot through that door, I'm pretty sure, and I'm pretty sure he grazed my arm.
00:04:11.000And it was at that time that I kind of made up my mind, because there's no way to lock that door, that if it was going to come down to it, he was going to have to work to work to kill me.
00:04:24.000So at the time that he was either reloading or the gun jammed or whatever happened,
00:04:30.000Is when I ran through the swivel door, I hit him with the swivel door and then the gun was kind of jammed up and it was pushed down.
00:04:39.000So we were scuffling and I managed to get him with one hand on the gun and then I grabbed it from him and I threw it over the countertop.
00:04:50.000And then after that I was trying to get out the door and I think he was pretty much in the entrance way.
00:04:54.000So I just took him out with me out of the entrance and all the way outside.
00:05:01.000I mean, that is an incredible thing, right?
00:05:03.000To charge a guy with the AR-15, take the gun away from him, and stop the shooting is an amazing thing.
00:05:07.000Obviously, he's wearing the bandages on his hands because he burned his hands because he grabbed the red hot barrel of the AR-15, which had been firing.
00:05:14.000He also, I believe, was grazed by a bullet in the arm, is what it looked like.
00:05:25.000You might say, well, this is a story of an American hero stopping a person when he had no resources to do so, because this guy is just a hero.
00:05:33.000And you might say, you know what would have been even better?
00:05:35.000Because then, presumably, this guy would have walked in with the AR-15, taken the first shot, and you know this guy, this hero right here, would have done something about it, right?
00:05:42.000This is the kind of guy who would have pulled out his gun and shot the bad guy, maybe even saved a couple more lives.
00:05:48.000You might think that it would have been better if this fellow, James Shaw, had actually had a gun.
00:05:52.000You would be wrong, according to the left.
00:05:53.000So the left comes up with, legitimately, the stupidest possible arguments I have ever seen.
00:05:57.000Like, an insane number of stupid arguments have arisen from this, because now the left is making the claim that because James Shaw Jr.
00:06:04.000was not armed, that now we should expect people to disarm people with guns.
00:06:08.000Now, this is a little bit different from the argument that was being made just a few weeks ago with regard to AR-15s.
00:06:14.000They can't expect an armed school security officer to charge a person with a gun.
00:06:18.000That if you have a pistol, that you shouldn't be able to shoot somebody with an AR-15, right?
00:06:21.000They were saying the AR-15 is so wildly powerful,
00:06:24.000That you shouldn't be able to take down that shooter, even if you have a gun.
00:06:27.000Now they're saying that everyone should be unarmed to take down the shooter or something.
00:06:31.000OK, I'm going to show you a series of some of the dumbest arguments you have ever seen.
00:06:36.000Even folks on the left who are in favor of gun control should recognize how stupid these arguments are and stay away from them as much as possible if you actually want to win the argument.
00:06:45.000David Axelrod was, of course, one of the lead advisors, campaign advisors, to President Trump.
00:06:49.000And then he was in the White House as, was he chief of staff?
00:06:52.000A chief strategist for the White House under President Obama.
00:06:56.000And here's what he tweeted out, quote, So this is a really, really bad argument.
00:06:58.000So the argument that he's making here is that the manufacturer is somehow responsible for the person using the gun to kill people.
00:07:17.000Which is weird, because I tweeted back to David Axelrod, full props to the makers of the M4 for generating the firearms used to kill Osama bin Laden.
00:07:29.000President Obama made the call, and all we heard about in 2012 was that Osama bin Laden is dead and Detroit is alive.
00:07:36.000And they took credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
00:07:38.000According to David Axelrod, it's the gun manufacturer who really gets the credit for the killing of anyone, right?
00:07:43.000If anyone is killed, it's the gun manufacturer who's responsible for that.
00:07:46.000So presumably, it's the gun manufacturer that gets to take credit for the Osama bin Laden kill, and not Barack Obama.
00:07:51.000I assume David Axelrod would not agree with that logic, but instead, he is saying such stupid things about gun manufacturers.
00:07:56.000This is why, you know, you hear this myth that's put out there by the left, that there is some sort of loophole for gun manufacturers when it comes to liability.
00:08:02.000That if someone gets shot, you can't sue the gun manufacturer, that there's some sort of legal
00:08:09.000Products liability is a well-developed area of Anglo-American common law, and products liability suggests that there are a few types of liability.
00:08:16.000One is, if you design a product that is inherently dangerous, and then that product goes off in the inherently dangerous way, then you are responsible for its danger.
00:08:25.000But rifles are designed to do what they do, and people buy them to do what they do, so there is no
00:08:42.000So when people say that a gun, that gun manufacturers should be able to be sued, they are able to be sued.
00:08:47.000If you bought a gun and the gun were to backfire on you and hurt you, for example, you could sue the gun manufacturer for a product manufacturing claim.
00:09:19.000But again, blaming gun manufacturers for the evil of individual human beings, it makes no more sense than failing to credit heroes for the individual heroism of human beings.
00:09:27.000One thing that we should all learn from James Shaw, by the way, this is what folks say in law enforcement, is that if you are in a mass shooting scenario,
00:09:33.000Then charging the shooter sometimes is the best thing that you can do.
00:09:35.000Obviously, not everybody is given that kind of courage, either by God or has developed it themselves.
00:10:05.000So, the argument, I guess, is that if you have a guy who's super brave and who runs into the face of fire and grabs a gun from someone else, no one needs a gun, so I guess we should disarm the police?
00:10:22.000So I guess the solution is that law-abiding people should not have guns, but non-law-abiding people who have guns, we should stop them because we should run in there with our magical bulletproof chests and somehow stop them.
00:10:34.000This line of argument was repeated ad infinitum yesterday.
00:10:56.000No one said only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.
00:10:59.000Okay, what we did say is that there is a much better shot that you are going to stop a bad guy with a gun with a gun than you are charging the guy.
00:11:06.000I would like to see, statistically speaking, how many people who have actually tried to charge a shooter ended up being shot.
00:11:12.000I'll bet you the number's pretty high.
00:11:13.000I'll bet you the number is pretty high.
00:11:35.000We'll talk a little bit more about the dumb arguments of the left on gun control in just a second, but first,
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00:12:48.000One of the parts about the gun debate that is so annoying is that whenever there's an incident, people, instead of looking at the facts of the incident and then drawing conclusions, they immediately rush to their various sides of the aisle to back up whatever narrative they think is supported by all of this.
00:13:03.000So, the right looks at this story and what the right says is, okay,
00:13:07.000I'm going to look at the facts of the case.
00:13:43.000So to be a heroic person means to undergo a certain level of risk in order to do something good.
00:13:48.000But people are willing to undergo lower levels of risk and higher levels of risk.
00:13:52.000James Shaw was somebody who was willing to go undergo ultimate risk in order to do something that needed to be done, disarming the shooter in this particular case.
00:13:59.000Most people might be cowering in the back hoping the shooter would leave.
00:14:02.000But that's because the burden is really high, right?
00:14:04.000Charging a guy with a gun is a pretty high burden.
00:14:07.000And this is true in military service, too, right?
00:14:09.000Asking people to do pickets charge is a different thing from asking them to go into a well-planned operation.
00:14:13.000It requires a different level of risk assessment and willingness to undergo risk in order to follow a particular order.
00:14:19.000Well, that's why the best planners in the military spend their time trying to figure out ways where people have to undergo less risk.
00:14:25.000You are lowering the threshold of entry for heroism.
00:14:28.000Well, one of the things that lowers the threshold for entry for heroism is lowering the risk, and one of the things that lowers the risk is having a gun to shoot a bad guy.
00:14:35.000Then how many folks in that diner were willing to charge the guy?
00:14:37.000Probably lower than the number of people in the diner who, if they had guns, would have been willing to shoot the guy.
00:14:42.000I assume everybody in there would have figured, okay, the risk to me of pulling out my gun and shooting this guy is pretty low, right, because now I have a gun and he has a gun.
00:14:50.000It's certainly a lot lower than the risk of me charging the guy.
00:14:53.000But the left wants the risks to be as high as possible, apparently, when faced with a mass shooter.
00:15:13.000The evidence is that you think that the ultimate great situation is what happened to James Shaw, as opposed to this is an outlier situation where a hero was able to charge a guy with a gun and succeed.
00:15:23.000And I don't want everybody to have to charge a guy with a gun.
00:15:25.000I would prefer very much for those people to be able to shoot that guy.
00:15:28.000That does not seem unreasonable to me.
00:15:30.000But speaking of unreasonable, I now want to turn to the fact that everyone in America has apparently lost their mind with regard to the capacity to take even mild criticism or joking.
00:16:06.000With his daughter, right, who's apparently a beautiful blonde girl, and her date to the prom, right, who's just a, you know, a normal-looking dude who looks like a couple of former employees here.
00:16:17.000And he is, and Jay Philly is standing between them with his arm around his daughter and a, what looks like a Glock in the other hand.
00:17:08.000My favorite response to this was from the feminist Lauren Duca, who can always be counted on for the hottest feminist take.
00:17:13.000She said, Oh good, another picture of a man showing that he thinks his daughter is his property.
00:17:18.000So, number one, my daughter does not have free reign over her own life until she becomes an adult and is capable of making adult decisions.
00:17:24.000But, that's really not what this photo is showing.
00:17:26.000Right now, my daughter is, effectively speaking, my property because she is four.
00:17:30.000What I mean by that is I get to control her life.
00:17:32.000She does not have all the freedom that she would have if she were an adult, grown human being.
00:17:35.000In this case, the daughter is 17, probably.
00:18:11.000Again, folks, we need more fathers who are like this, not fewer.
00:18:14.000Okay, we need more fathers who are joking, half-joking, about the fact that if you hurt their daughters, they will do something really, really nasty to you.
00:18:41.000But they figure that if Jay Feeley is holding a gun, then he must be one of those grunting Neanderthals who thinks that his daughter is his property.
00:18:51.000There's a certain level of cultural anger that exists on the left toward people who are culturally on the right.
00:18:56.000I'm not even talking about people who are politically on the right.
00:18:59.000I'm talking about people who, for example, own a gun.
00:19:01.000If you own a gun, there are a lot of — I've spent my entire life living in Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts, being surrounded by people on the left.
00:19:07.000If you say that you own a gun around people on the left in Los Angeles or in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they look at you as though you are the kind of person who goes hunting for boar with a spear and then roasts it over an open flame before taking your wife, Og, back to your cave.
00:19:21.000Owning a gun is that sort of cultural hallmark to a lot of people on the left.
00:20:04.000The gun in Jay Feeley's hand made Jay Feeley evil.
00:20:06.000The gun in the hands of the guy in Tennessee made the guy in Tennessee evil.
00:20:09.000It's not that the guy in Tennessee is evil and had a gun, or the guy in Tennessee was mentally ill and had a gun, and that Jay Feeley is a fine law-abiding citizen and he had a gun, and so it's a completely different story.
00:20:18.000And meanwhile, speaking of cultural intolerance, so Shania Twain
00:20:21.000has been raked over the coals because Shania Twain had made the awful, awful, awful mistake of suggesting that she might actually, that she might actually go ahead and vote, she's Canadian, that she might have voted for Trump.
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00:22:24.000Okay, so basically she said what everyone in the United States felt, which is that President Trump was more authentic than Hillary Clinton.
00:22:29.000Now, vote for Hillary Clinton or vote for Donald Trump.
00:22:32.000You know, there are a lot of questions about how to vote in that last election cycle, but
00:22:36.000It is not really in question that Trump is a more authentic human than Hillary Clinton, because it's difficult to find a less authentic human than Hillary Clinton.
00:22:43.000There are legitimately mannequins that are more authentic than Hillary Clinton.
00:22:46.000There are robots on TV that are significantly more authentic than Hillary Clinton.
00:22:49.000And I'm not even talking about the robots from, you know, from Westworld.
00:22:55.000I'm talking about, like, actual Rosie robots, like from the Jetsons, are more authentic than Hillary Clinton.
00:23:00.000So this is not a particularly controversial statement, but she then had to tweet out a four-part apology.
00:23:05.000Okay, here's what she tweeted, quote, So, number one, first of all, she is Canadian.
00:23:08.000Why is anybody, like, upset with how a Canadian would vote?
00:23:24.000Second of all, it is the most Canadian thing in the history of Canada that you are Canadian, cannot vote in an American election, you're asked about voting in the election, then you apologize to Canadians about how you would have voted in an election that's not in Canada.
00:23:38.000I would like to apologize to anybody I have offended in a recent interview.
00:23:42.000And she continued by saying, I am passionately against discrimination of any kind and hope it's clear from the choices I have made and the people I stand with that I do not hold any common moral beliefs with the current president.
00:23:51.000Okay, and then she continued along these lines, and she said,
00:24:03.000And she concluded, So, again, I'm not sure what's divisive about her saying he was more authentic than Hillary Clinton, so I would have voted for him.
00:24:23.000But this is the world we now live in, where every controversy has to be about President Trump.
00:24:28.000Everything in the world is about President Trump.
00:24:29.000And it's a point of high irritation to me, because my view about President Trump is that President Trump is not that important a human being.
00:24:36.000He's important because he's President of the United States.
00:24:38.000But as a person, you know, worrying about every little thing Trump does or says, like, I think a lot of the stuff that he's said and done is, I think, mostly said.
00:24:46.000I think a lot of the stuff he's done is great.
00:24:47.000I think a lot of the stuff he's said is excorable.
00:25:42.000The fact that we grant our celebrities any sort of credibility on politics in the first place is bizarre and also the reason why we now have celebrity politicians.
00:25:49.000Not only President Trump, but Hillary Clinton, let's face it, was a celebrity politician.
00:25:53.000Hillary Clinton may have had more of a legal background than President Trump, but when she ran for Senator of New York, she'd only been First Lady of the United States.
00:26:37.000There's no question that folks on the left think that folks in Hollywood have some sort of greater window on the human condition than anywhere else.
00:26:43.000It's the reason why they take so seriously all of the people from Hollywood, and it's the reason why all these Democratic politicians want to have Lena Dunham speaking at the DNC, even though Lena Dunham is one of the most off-putting human beings on God's green Earth.
00:27:22.000If someone is really good with, for example, astrophysics, like Stephen Hawking, this means he must have important things to say about politics and religion.
00:27:29.000If you're Einstein, this means that you are good at politics.
00:27:45.000And I assume that you wouldn't have, I assume you wouldn't have Frederick Hayek do your physics for you.
00:27:49.000But, because people are famous, we then grant them a certain level of credibility on other issues.
00:27:54.000So, the latest example of this is Kanye West.
00:27:56.000So, believe it or not, the right is now resonating to Kanye West.
00:27:59.000So, Kanye, I will not say, like, can we remember back to 2005, when after Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West went out there and said that George W. Bush had purposely targeted black people with a hurricane?
00:28:15.000So now he's tweeting out deep thoughts, and the right is so excited.
00:28:17.000They're so excited because Kanye West is tweeting out things that sound kind of right-wing, like he tweeted out that he supports Candace Owens.
00:28:54.000But the right responded to Kanye West as though it was an earth-shattering thing that a big celebrity like Kanye West was saying things that were remotely conservative.
00:29:02.000It just demonstrates the right's desperation to be taken seriously in the sphere of pop culture.
00:29:06.000I think that the Roseanne ratings are another evidence of this.
00:29:10.000I think that the right wants to be taken seriously.
00:29:12.000They don't want to be seen as bad, evil people.
00:29:14.000And the pop culture decides who's seen as bad and evil.
00:29:18.000And the folks in pop culture decide who gets to be portrayed as the villain and who gets to be portrayed as the hero.
00:29:23.000So every time somebody on the right is portrayed as not the villain, the right is willing to take it.
00:29:27.000So if Roseanne voted for Trump, even if she is pro-crossdressing and pro-gay marriage and pro-promiscuity and pro-abortion, we'll go, well, you know what?
00:29:35.000At least she's treating us well, so we like Roseanne now.
00:29:37.000We're doing the same thing with Kanye West.
00:29:39.000But I would just warn folks on the right.
00:29:41.000You know, you can be happy that Kanye West said something that seems to be conservative, but let's not pretend that Kanye West is some sort of genius, okay?
00:29:48.000I will use every opportunity ever to play this clip.
00:29:52.000This is from Jimmy Kimmel's show back when Jimmy Kimmel's show was not garbage.
00:29:55.000He had on Josh Groban, and Josh Groban the singer, and Josh Groban sang some of the best Kanye West tweets.
00:30:40.000Okay, so, I would play the whole video, because I love it so much, but Kanye West is not, like, a super intelligent human being, and he is certainly not politically intelligent, and so the right resonating to anything anyone in pop culture says, because, look, that guy's famous.
00:30:55.000Okay, Kanye West tweeted out, he tweeted out the other day, self-victimization is a disease.
00:31:01.000He has also in the past tweeted out, quote, I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me, like, oh great, now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
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00:33:56.000I believe that he wrote... Yeah, that's right.
00:33:58.000He wrote the screenplay to Brokeback Mountain.
00:34:01.000So Larry McMurtry is not exactly a right-wing dude.
00:34:05.000They say you shouldn't read Lonesome Dove, which is just a story about two friends on the prairie, basically.
00:34:10.000And it says, quote, I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid, masculine, emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America.
00:34:22.000Rather than perpetuate this myth, I'd love for everyone, but particularly American men, to read The Mountain Lion by Gene Stafford.
00:34:27.000It's a wicked, brilliant, dark book set largely on a ranch in Colorado, but it acts in many ways as a strong rebuttal to all the old toxic Western stereotypes we need to explode.
00:34:34.000You mean the Western stereotypes about people pioneering out into an area where they had no protection?
00:34:39.000In order to build the rest of the United States?
00:34:50.000Later this week, I'm going to recommend a movie that's about a lot of the bad stuff that happened in the West, but Lonesome Dove is not about those things, and you're stupid.
00:34:57.000Bottom line, GQ editors, you are incredibly stupid.
00:34:59.000They say you shouldn't read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.
00:35:01.000Salinger, and what they say is that instead of reading The Catcher in the Rye, you should read a book called Olivia, the story of a British teenage girl who's sent to a boarding school in France, who falls in love with a female teacher, and it's basically Lolita, but with lesbians.
00:35:16.000Okay, and the guy who writes it, this saying that you shouldn't read Catcher in the Rye, is the guy who wrote Call Me by Your Name, which is again, Lolita for gay guys.
00:35:23.000So, just very, very exciting stuff from GQ.
00:35:26.000They say you shouldn't read Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves, which is a book about Graves' time in the trenches during World War I. It's a great book.
00:35:34.000They say it's incredibly racist because he includes samples of near-unintelligible essays produced by three of his students, Mahmoud Mohamed, Mahmoud Mohamed, Mahmoud Mohamed, and Mahmoud Mohamed, from his post-war stint as an English instructor in Cairo.
00:35:48.000So, basically, you should definitely not read this book about World War I because it was written by a guy who lived during World War I, and during World War I, people were more racist, so we shouldn't read anything from them.
00:35:56.000So don't read any old literature, guys, because if you read old literature, you might learn that old people had bad racial stereotypes, and then you might want to fight against those racial stereotypes by reading old books.
00:36:41.000The worst crime committed by Adventures of Huckleberry Twin is that it makes first-time Twain readers think Twain wrote tedious, meandering stories.
00:36:47.000He did, as is evidenced by this, his book of tedious, meandering stories.
00:36:50.000But he also wrote a lot of richly entertaining, meandering stories that are not constrained by the ham-fisted narration of a fictional backcountry child or suffused with his sweaty imitation of a slave talking.
00:37:32.000Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
00:37:34.000The whole point of the book is that black slavery is an evil, you idiots.
00:37:42.000There are a couple books they recommend that are pretty good, like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer, which I've recommended on the show.
00:37:48.000Number 12 on their list of books you definitely should not read is the Bible.
00:37:52.000You definitely should not read the Bible.
00:37:54.000They say the Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it, but who in actuality have not read it.
00:38:00.000So I agree, not enough people have actually read the Bible.
00:38:02.000But they say those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall it is certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced.
00:38:08.000Oh, you mean the basis for all of Western civilization is not the finest thing that man has ever produced?
00:38:12.000There's no way to read Shakespeare without knowing the Bible.
00:38:15.000There's no way to read the Declaration of Independence without knowing the Bible.
00:38:17.000There's no way to read any modern literature without knowing biblical references.
00:38:21.000There's no way to read anything that Westerners have written that has any importance.
00:39:48.000The Catch-22 is that if you fly too many missions, right, if you're capable of flying a lot of missions, then they put you up in the air, even if you've already fulfilled your quota.
00:39:58.000And if you don't fly enough missions, they won't let you out, so they make you fill more missions.
00:40:27.000So, some of the great Westerns, some of the great literature of the Western canon you should definitely not read, but you should read these obscure SJW books that they are recommending for you from GQ.
00:40:37.000So, well done GQ, demonstrating once and for all the intellectual scorn in which you hold the great works of Western literature is fully justified by the fact that you write for a magazine nobody reads.
00:40:46.000But this does go to sort of the shallowness of modern American culture, is that people believe that because they were born now, they are smarter than people who were born 200 years ago.
00:40:54.000I promise you, you weren't smarter than the people who were born 200 years ago.
00:40:57.000You're standing on their achievements.
00:40:59.000You're running on the fumes of their value system.
00:41:02.000You're living in a free country because of stuff that they did.
00:41:04.000But don't, you know, you weren't born on third base, okay?
00:41:11.000Civilizationally speaking, everyone in this civilization seems to think that they hit a triple when they were born on third base.
00:41:17.000You live in a free, relatively crime-free, relatively egalitarian society because of the sacrifices made by legitimately millions of people over the course of 3,000 years of human history, and many of those people were smarter than you.
00:41:28.000There's this weird belief that because you have more information than they did in some areas of life, this means that you are smarter on everything.
00:41:35.000You're not smarter on human nature, which has not changed in several thousand years, simply because you know more about how the Hubble telescope works.
00:41:44.000Knowing more science doesn't mean knowing more about how human beings operate and what makes human beings human beings, or knowing what great literature is.
00:41:51.000Insight into human nature is as old as time and as deep as the thought of people who lived long before you did.
00:41:58.000Okay, so, time for a couple of things that I like and then we'll do some things that I hate.
00:43:02.000So you should go and check that out as well.
00:43:05.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:43:11.000So one of the things that makes me absolutely nuts about the state of modern politics is, again, everything revolves around President Trump.
00:43:17.000Even though, in reality, President Trump is a guy in the Oval Office who's trying to do a job.
00:43:21.000Sometimes he does it well, sometimes he doesn't do it so well.
00:43:23.000But because of Trump, everybody has now been forced to take a position on the world as though Trump is the prism from which all light refracts.
00:43:31.000And one of those people is Bob Corker.
00:43:32.000Bob Corker is the senator from Tennessee.
00:43:59.000But to not endorse the priorities that you've spent your entire career supposedly fighting for, Bob Corker, because you don't like Trump, is definitely cutting off your nose to spite your face.
00:44:08.000Here's Bob Corker failing to defend Marsha Blackburn.
00:44:11.000Dana, the rest of the story wasn't written during the interview I had with the Christian Science Monitor.
00:44:18.000Senator, that's not a ringing endorsement of Marsha Blackburn to say that she should be elected just because she's going to vote for Mitch McConnell.
00:44:31.000Dan, you know, I'm supporting the nominee.
00:44:35.000I've worked with the nominee for some time, and I don't know what else to say.
00:44:40.000So much, so much, you know, so much virtue signaling because he knows he's talking to Dana Bash on CNN as opposed to being on Fox News.
00:44:46.000And this is one of the things that you can always notice about politicians.
00:44:48.000They do say different things on different networks.
00:44:51.000Okay, speaking of people who are refracting things through the prism of Trump, Elizabeth Warren is an amazing thing.
00:45:18.000That's a rip on her for pretending to be a Native American in the same way that people rip on Sean King because they think that Sean King has no evidence of actually being black.
00:45:26.000Because on his birth certificate, his father is white and his mother is white.
00:45:29.000Okay, so making fun of Sean King is not racist.
00:45:32.000Making fun of Sean King is making fun of Sean King because Sean King may not, in fact, be a black person, right?
00:45:38.000Okay, Elizabeth Warren is not a Native American person by any evidence whatsoever.
00:45:42.000And in Elizabeth Warren, because she is refracting everything back through that lens of Trump, she gets to claim that Trump's Pocahontas insult is racist.
00:45:48.000So, she's not a racist for claiming that she's Native American.
00:45:51.000Trump is racist for calling her out on claiming that she's Native American.
00:45:54.000You know, look, and he's been told over and over and over by tribal leaders, cut this out, stop this, this is racist because it's a racist intent.
00:46:05.000He's not doing this to pay a compliment.
00:46:08.000He's doing it to get out there and boy, just get everybody, us against them, us against them, us against them in every possible way.
00:46:17.000OK, so again, this is just the pandering is so high.
00:46:56.000He says that we've seen a mountain of evidence on Trump-Russia collusion again.
00:47:00.000He can say this about Trump because people are angry at Trump, but there's no evidence.
00:47:03.000I mean really there's very little evidence whatsoever on this.
00:47:05.000I believe in doing your homework, and over the course of the last year, we have seen, I think, a mountain of evidence of collusion between the campaign and the Russians to basically affect our democracy.
00:47:19.000Okay, so again, if you have that evidence, you can show it anytime, but it just demonstrates that the Democrats, because they believe that all of life revolves around Trump, they will attempt to impeach him if they do win back the House, even if they have no evidence to support it, because they will just claim evidence and then hope enough people hate Trump that they'll get away with it.
00:47:34.000Okay, so, we ran out of time to do a Federalist paper, we'll do one tomorrow, but we'll be back here then.
00:47:38.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.