A top Trump advisor enmeshed in allegations of wife beating, the Republicans decide to blow out the budget, as always, and Democratic women decide that they have to get naked to fight the patriarchy. All this and more on this week s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast, The Weekly Standard, and is a regular contributor to Fox News Radio and other conservative outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to National Post and has been featured in the New York Times, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Daily Mail, among other publications. In this episode, he talks about a story about a top Trump aide named Rob Porter, who has been accused of wife-beating his first wife, Colby Holderness, and his second wife, Jennifer Willoughby, who shared a video of her abusive marriage to Rob Porter on the record with Daily Mail Online. Also, a woman who suggested that women should only read books written by women, not Tolstoy, because they should read Fifty Shades of Grey, because the patriarchy or some such such such thing, and a man who thinks women should read books by women. Thanks to our sponsor, Mancrates. They make great gift giving and stocking stuffers, and they make great Valentine s Day gift giving, too. ManCRates! Thanks ManCRATES. ManCRATE. It s the only way to get the best gift for the man in your life you ve been missing out on all that you ve ever heard of. You can get the perfect gift for your significant other, and you veer, and it s all the best in the best guy in the world, with ManCRY! Man CRATE, and then you can do it with the best man in the place you re gonna get the most of it all you can get. . Man Crates is the only place to get it all, wherever you get it. and more! You ll get it, mancrates dot coms! And ManCRATESPECIALLY, ManCRACES and ManCRATS in a way you ve got it all! and you ll get a discount code MANCRATE! to get 20% off your first-day shipping, plus free shipping and free shipping throughout the rest of the country, plus a discount on the entire world, plus all kinds of other goodies!
00:00:00.000A top Trump advisor enmeshed in allegations of wife beating, the Republicans decide to blow out the budget, as always, and Democratic women decide that they have to get naked to fight the patriarchy, or something.
00:00:20.000I will hope to get to that a little bit later in the program as well.
00:00:24.000There's also a woman who's suggesting that women only read books by women.
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00:00:58.000Like, your guy, he doesn't want a box of chocolates.
00:02:30.000He's in half of the pictures with the president.
00:02:32.000And apparently, Rob Porter is not good to his ladies.
00:02:36.000So his first ex-wife, he has, I guess, two ex-wives is the idea?
00:02:40.000I don't know what it is about Trump and the people who surround him or who are his fans, but there are a lot of thrice-married people—or at least twice-married people, twice-divorced people—who surround President Trump.
00:02:52.000Rob Porter was an aide to General John Kelly.
00:02:56.000He's seen as sort of his right hand, helping to ensure that the wrong people don't get into the Oval Office to talk to the President of the United States.
00:03:02.000Well, apparently, his first ex-wife is—accused Rob Porter of spousal abuse.
00:03:12.000Apparently, his first ex-wife is—her name is Colby Holderness.
00:03:18.000And she spoke on the record to DailyMail.com about their five-year marriage.
00:03:20.000Apparently, they met at their Mormon church in 2000 while they were in college.
00:03:24.000She says that he was never physically abusive until our honeymoon, and that floored me.
00:03:28.000And then she said, quote, he would throw me down on the bed, put his full body weight on top of me, then grind a knee or elbow into my body, expressing rage.
00:03:34.000She says the violence escalated to the point where Porter was choking her, quote, it was not hard enough for me to pass out, but it was scary, humiliating, and dehumanizing.
00:03:41.000And here is a picture that she posted of herself.
00:04:12.000I knew that it wasn't healthy, that the fights and the verbal and emotional abuse that I was enduring was not quote-unquote normal.
00:04:26.000But I don't think that I had yet put myself in the category of someone whose husband laid hands on her until that moment.
00:04:34.000Rob and I were married in November of 2009.
00:04:36.000It was a very quick courtship and engagement.
00:04:41.000Within a matter of a couple of weeks after being married, I was aware of his temper.
00:04:50.000OK, and his temper apparently escalated all the way up to apparently dragging her wet and naked out of the shower and verbally abusing her, calling her an effing bee.
00:04:59.000The White House originally gave Porter its full support.
00:05:02.000By the way, I believe there's an ex-girlfriend now who's come out and also accused him of this sort of activity, which is just wonderful.
00:05:08.000The White House originally came out and defended Rob Porter.
00:05:33.000I've been transparent and truthful about these vile claims, but I will not further engage publicly with a coordinated smear campaign.
00:05:38.000My commitment to public service speaks for itself.
00:05:40.000I've always put duty to country first and treated others with respect.
00:05:43.000I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have served in the Trump administration and will seek to ensure a smooth transition when I leave the White House.
00:05:50.000Apparently, originally, the answer from John Kelly was that he came to the defense.
00:05:57.000Originally, John Kelly's statement was that he stood by Porter.
00:06:07.000Apparently, Kelly's original statement stated, quote, that Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him.
00:06:17.000He is a friend, a confront, and a trusted professional.
00:07:01.000Even as Porter's stock in the West Wing continued to rise, multiple sources told CNN on Wednesday.
00:07:06.000Porter denied the allegations, but resigned on Wednesday.
00:07:08.000A scramble ensued inside the West Wing to defend him when the claims became public this week.
00:07:12.000That effort continued even after his resignation.
00:07:14.000According to sources—this is CNN sources, so you have to take all that with a grain of salt, obviously, they're not named—senior White House officials were aware for months of the allegations made against Trump's staff secretary.
00:07:24.000According to two sources, Trump himself first learned of the allegations this week.
00:07:28.000He was upset when shown reports of the abuse.
00:07:30.000His daughter Ivanka was also deeply disturbed by the allegations, particularly the photographs.
00:07:34.000So apparently by early fall, it was widely known among top Trump aides, including Chief of Staff John Kelly, both that Porter was facing troubles in obtaining FBI clearance and that his ex-wives claimed he had abused them.
00:07:43.000So that's a pretty significant allegation that months ago, Kelly knew what was going on here and he didn't do anything.
00:07:49.000Instead, Kelly and others oversaw an elevation in Porter's standing.
00:07:53.000Okay, if John Kelly knew that the guy who's getting closer and closer to the President of the United States was, in fact, an alleged spousal abuser who could not obtain FBI clearance, right, if that's the case, then there's no—not only is there no excuse for it, but Kelly needs to go, right?
00:08:09.000If Kelly knew that there was a guy who had three separate allegations of abuse against him and a restraining order taken out against him and also an attempt—I think that the police had slapped some sort of
00:08:37.000The Times of London—let's see, yeah, the New York Times, sorry—claims that Kelly was duped by Porter, but that excuse really only goes so far.
00:08:44.000It says, two White House officials, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak about the internal deliberations, insisted that Mr. Porter had misled Mr. Kelly and several other aides about the severity of the allegations.
00:08:54.000He had portrayed the woman as making up stories to cause trouble, and few, if any, aides in the White House considered conducting their own investigations to discover what might have taken place.
00:09:01.000In fact, it turns out that Rob Porter was apparently dating Hope Hicks, who's another top aide.
00:09:28.000You know, the rumor is that Kelly is going to pay for it.
00:09:30.000I doubt that Kelly is going to pay for it.
00:09:32.000More likely that they just claim that he didn't know in the first place that all of this was going on.
00:09:36.000But, you know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially dodged the question.
00:09:40.000So Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about this, and she says that Porter made the decision to leave.
00:09:44.000Well, look, I think that was a personal decision that Rob made, and one that he was not pressured to do, but one that he made on his own.
00:09:52.000So, he is out at the White House, but I don't think this blowback is going to end any time soon, and there will be serious questions asked about
00:10:02.000And there is going to be an allegation that's made about the White House.
00:10:05.000And the allegation that's made about the White House is that they go easy on people who are accused of abusing women, because if they don't go easy on those people, then it might redound on Trump.
00:11:22.000The air in your house is significantly dirtier by studies than the air outside your house, which is why you need to make sure that the filters that you use in your furnace system and your air conditioning, that those filters are actually not dirty and spewing a bunch of garbage into the air that you are breathing.
00:12:41.000Whenever there's a bipartisan budget deal, it means they're going to blow out the budget, because the truth is that what really drives our national debt and our national deficit are the entitlements.
00:12:53.000There's a lot of waste and fraud and abuse in the budget, but when Trump said that he was going to cut the government down to size by whittling away at that,
00:13:00.000The only way that you're actually going to cut the government down to size is to do something that no one wants to do.
00:13:04.000Now look, it is politically unpalatable to talk seriously about what needs to happen with the American budget.
00:13:11.000The American budget breaks down heavily on the side of entitlement programs.
00:13:15.000Entitlement programs generate an enormous amount of the American budget every single year.
00:13:21.000Military spending only accounts for approximately 20% of the American budget, so the vast majority of the American budget every year is taken up instead by the
00:13:36.000Entitlement programs that all of these people supposedly rely upon.
00:14:53.000So instead, they've come up with just another budget compromise that really amounts to, we agree to spend a crap load of money, do you agree to spend a crap load of money?
00:14:59.000Sure, let's all agree to spend a crap load of money.
00:15:01.000Now, you're not hearing a lot from the Tea Partiers.
00:15:04.000Which just goes to show you that the Tea Party has basically been soul-sucked, I think, by the Trump movement.
00:15:16.000During the campaign, he said he didn't want to change Social Security.
00:15:19.000In fact, he wanted to increase the amount in Social Security and increase the amount available through Medicare.
00:15:24.000So the idea that Trump was ever going to be a Tea Party ally in the sense that the Tea Party was about curbing government spending was not true.
00:15:30.000And the problem is that if the Tea Party
00:15:33.000does not stand up to bad government spending on both sides, they're going to be accused of simply being anti-Obama as opposed to being principled.
00:15:41.000So they really should be standing up to this budget deal, which is a garbage budget deal.
00:15:45.000The deal would add $500 billion in federal spending for both defense and non-defense spending.
00:15:49.000Why do you have to come up with a compromised budget deal in the first place?
00:15:52.000You've got 51 Republicans in the Senate.
00:15:59.000Force the Democrats to filibuster a budget deal that gets rid of defense sequestration but keeps caps on discretionary spending and other aspects of the budget.
00:16:31.000Club for Growth is urging members of Congress to vote no on the big government budget.
00:16:36.000And they say in 2011, when Congress passed the Budget Control Act, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell praised the deal, proclaiming the big government freight train was slowing down.
00:16:43.000Well, now the BCA spending caps are busted under this deal again, and it's clear that McConnell and the GOP want to speed up the big government freight train with the help of big spending liberals on the other side of the aisle.
00:16:52.000Apparently, the deal includes $80 billion plus in so-called disaster relief spending, cronies tax extenders, and expansion of farm subsidies, another suspension in the debt ceiling, conveniently timed to expire after the midterm elections.
00:17:03.000Nowhere in the deal are the $54 billion in spending cuts outlined in Trump's budget.
00:17:08.000Instead, the big government freight train is running out of control.
00:17:21.000And he signed a budget over the objections of his own Republican Party back in, what was it, November?
00:17:25.000When he called Schumer and Pelosi into his office, negotiated to deal with them on his own, which amounted to, do whatever you want with the budget.
00:17:31.000Trump just doesn't want the government to shut down again because he doesn't want the blame for it, the media blowback.
00:17:48.000The game is, we'll raise military spending, and when we raise military spending, if a few other things go up, that's okay, because we need more military spending.
00:17:55.000The game Democrats play is they say, well, I guess we'll be okay with the military spending if you allow us to blow out the budget on these other elements.
00:18:02.000Bottom line is, America spends way too much money.
00:18:05.000The deficits are not occurring because we're not taking in enough tax revenue.
00:18:08.000They're occurring because we're spending out the wazoo.
00:18:11.000And this new budget deal, which breaks the sequestration, is not a good thing.
00:18:14.000There's a reason that the National Review editorial board came out today and condemned the deal.
00:18:19.000They were obviously, you know, more concerned with the spending that's non-military.
00:18:23.000But I think there's some good arguments that military spending
00:18:27.000It's always easy to say we need more spending on the military, but instead that military spending should actually be more targeted.
00:18:33.000The National View Editorial Board writes today that the deal would raise budget caps that were established by the Budget Control Act in 2011 by almost $300 billion just over the next two years.
00:18:41.000It would also fund the government for the next month while the Appropriations Committee decides where to direct the money.
00:18:54.000A two-year spending deal means Republicans probably won't go to the trouble of passing a formal budget for 2019.
00:18:58.000That means no chance for a so-called reconciliation process that could allow them to enact meaningful legislation with only 50 votes in the Senate.
00:19:25.000In order for you to pass a bill with 51 votes under reconciliation, you have to show that your budget, that your new bill, would be budget neutral.
00:19:33.000If there is no budget, there is no line against which to gauge if a bill is budget neutral or not, which means that you can't use reconciliation.
00:19:40.000So, National Review says if Republicans accept this deal and then forego the reconciliation process, they will have given up their chance to pass a law without Democratic support, and measures such as easing the Obamacare regulations that will contribute to higher premiums in the coming years or reforming welfare will stand no chance of making it through Congress.
00:19:55.000With this deal, Republicans are hurting the chance to add to their ledger of accomplishments prior to November.
00:20:37.000A lot of that is because the growth of the federal government has enshrined in our minds that we need the federal government in order to protect us from the vicissitudes of life.
00:21:35.000So it's not like Trump had to be forced into this.
00:21:38.000It's not like Trump was on the verge of collapsing if he didn't do what he was supposed to do here.
00:21:44.000But instead, he's decided to back a budget program because he doesn't want the blowback.
00:21:48.000He's basically going to gamble that everything the Republicans have done is enough to get them over the finish line in 2018 and will be enough to get them over the finish line in 2020.
00:21:57.000The only thing that stands for that, the only thing standing in favor of that proposition, is that the Democrats continue to be absolutely awful at their jobs.
00:22:04.000And in just a second, I'm going to show you just how terrible the Democrats are at their jobs, because the Republicans are about to pass a bad budget, and Democrats don't know what to do, because they're terrible.
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00:24:01.000OK, so while the Republicans passed a giant budget because fiscal conservatism does not exist anymore, and Republicans should be resisting this budget, not going along to get along for President Trump's sake,
00:24:11.000The Democrats continue to stink at this.
00:24:13.000And yesterday, Nancy Pelosi decided that it would be worthwhile to stand up there for eight hours and jabber nonsensically about why we can't pass a budget because we need to protect illegal immigrants.
00:24:22.000So her complaint, what she should have said, is she should have said, listen, we made a budget sequestration deal.
00:24:27.000It reigned in spending for the first time in forever.
00:24:29.000She should have stood up for the deal that she helped cut back in 2011.
00:24:33.000She should have said, listen, we made a deal then.
00:24:38.000We just spent a lot of money on a tax cut.
00:24:39.000She should have talked fiscal responsibility.
00:24:41.000Instead, because Democrats are nuts and because Democrats have decided they want to bank on identity politics overall, Nancy Pelosi gets up there and she jabbers about DACA and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and about shutting down the government on behalf of illegal immigrants.
00:24:55.000United States of America will know that these DREAMers are part of that history and that their stories
00:25:03.000We'll be there to make judgments about us as to how we have responded to their greatness.
00:25:10.000Okay, she went on and on and on and on and on.
00:25:16.000I mean, just there is there actually video of this woman, I'm not sure who it was, who's sitting behind her during this, who started falling asleep during the speech.
00:25:22.000And every time Pelosi would turn in her vague direction, she'd sort of wake herself up.
00:25:28.000First of all, the media treated this as though it was great heroism.
00:25:31.000So when Ted Cruz did this, it was the end of the world over Obamacare.
00:25:34.000When Ted Cruz said, listen, I'd rather not fund Obamacare and have a government shutdown than fund Obamacare and not have a government shutdown, the media went nuts.
00:25:43.000And when Ted gave his filibuster, everybody, oh my God, how could Ted Cruz do this?
00:25:58.000I saw a tweet yesterday, somebody from the media saying, she's been standing there for five hours, five hours without drinking or going to the bathroom.
00:26:10.000I mean, sure, she's a thousand years old, so I guess from a physical level, that's pretty amazing, but the kind of worship for Nancy Pelosi for doing this is really stupid.
00:26:19.000Also, Republicans—apparently a lot of Democrats were pissed.
00:26:22.000A lot of Democrats were saying, why is Nancy Pelosi Grande standing like this?
00:26:25.000We're trying to kind of deal with Trump to get past this.
00:26:27.000We don't want to be seen as shutting down the government for illegal immigrants again.
00:27:10.000Your pitch is we should shut down the government because my grandson wants to be black?
00:27:13.000First of all, this whole line of thought from Democrats, that you want to be a black person, therefore that means that you're a better person, I just don't understand that.
00:27:23.000Because the converse obviously doesn't hold true, right?
00:27:25.000In Brown v. Board of Education, one of the points of logic used by the court in defense of the idea that segregation should be illegal is that too many black kids wanted to be white.
00:27:35.000So apparently, if you want to be black, that's great.
00:27:37.000If you want to be white, that's terrible.
00:28:03.000They continue to associate with kooks like Linda Sarsour.
00:28:05.000Linda Sarsour, of course, who has supported terrorists in the past.
00:28:09.000Linda Sarsour, who is an anti-Semite extreme.
00:28:11.000Linda Sarsour, who is just a disgusting human being.
00:28:15.000She was featured in this speech by, again, one of these women's marches.
00:28:19.000I'm talking to Chuck Schumer, who's also from Brooklyn.
00:28:22.000I'm tired of white men negotiating on the backs of people of color and communities like ours.
00:28:44.000Okay, one of the things that's hilarious about Linda Sarsour saying that, of course, is that Linda Sarsour once said that until she had actually converted to Islam, that she was considered white.
00:28:52.000So, very weird that she has changed her definition based on that.
00:28:56.000But, again, if this is how Democrats want to go, go for it, man.
00:29:21.000I'm wondering if you think some of your colleagues regret keeping Pelosi around in that position of power, considering some of the things she's recently said.
00:29:31.000Well, I mean, you're going to have to talk to them about it.
00:29:33.000I will just say that I don't think that the Democratic Party as a whole, both in the House and in the Senate, have sharpened an economic message that speaks to the aspirations of most Americans.
00:29:47.000I mean, obviously that's the case, and Democrats should be very, very concerned about that.
00:29:53.000One of the reasons that they should be concerned is because there are so many Democrats who really are out of touch.
00:29:56.000Speaking of out of touch, Katie Tura over at MSNBC, she actually was talking about how Trump had suggested that there were $1,000 tax cuts for a lot of people, and then she basically doubled down on suggesting that $1,000 is nothing.
00:30:10.000$1,000 is nothing if you're making half a million dollars a year like Katie Tuerer.
00:30:13.000But if you're making $40,000 a year and you get a $1,000 tax break, you're making $60,000 a year, you get a $1,000 tax break, that's not no money.
00:30:19.000I mean, that pays for your car insurance for half a year, for some folks.
00:30:23.000Here's Katie Tuerer, though, doubling down on it.
00:30:26.000And a thousand dollars is a very big deal.
00:30:29.000But along with cheering one-time bonuses, shouldn't we be pushing for long-term salary hikes?
00:30:35.000The kind of sustained help that would transform big-ticket dreams into everyday realities.
00:30:41.000Because think about it, starting a family, owning a home, sending your kids to college, these should be within the reach of every American, bonus or no bonus.
00:30:50.000Or does that make me seem out of touch?
00:30:55.000Yes, it does make you seem out of touch.
00:30:56.000It makes you seem out of touch when you suggest that $1,000 is not a lot of money, and then you say, well, I was just pushing for more.
00:31:01.000Well, it wasn't just that you were pushing for more.
00:31:03.000Because if you were pushing for more, you'd want lower taxes, wouldn't you?
00:31:06.000But she's not interested in lower taxes because she's a Democrat.
00:31:09.000Again, this sort of out-of-touch feeling from the Democrats is what is going to doom them if they continue.
00:31:13.000By the way, the redistricting in 2018 is really bad for Democrats.
00:31:17.000There's a study out from FiveThirtyEight that shows that even if Democrats were to win on the generic ballot by seven points, they might not pick up any serious ground in the House.
00:31:28.000There was a shift in a bunch of seats from lean R to lean D, but that may not be enough for Democrats to pick up seats in the House and take the majority.
00:31:36.000So, pretty amazing that they could go through this entire political cycle and still not end up with the Senate or the House.
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00:34:13.000The vast majority of men who subscribe to Sports Illustrated are men.
00:34:16.000The vast majority of people who subscribe to Sports Illustrated are men.
00:34:21.000And those men tend to like beautiful women, which is why half of the ads in Sports Illustrated are of scantily clad women holding sports drinks.
00:34:37.000Where Jim Carrey, who's—the whole premise of the film is that he can no longer lie because he's received a curse from his son, and his son comes out of class, and Jim Carrey is talking about how at one point his wife was pregnant and fat, and the son says something like, my teacher says true beauty's on the inside, and Jim Carrey says that's just something ugly people say.
00:34:57.000OK, the reason that that's a laugh line is because that's how a lot of men think.
00:35:03.000Men's instinct is to look at a woman's physical beauty, which is why all actresses, you know, all of these celebrities who talk so much about the patriarchy are beautiful, right?
00:35:40.000Men look at beautiful women, just like women look at attractive men.
00:35:43.000Although not exactly like that, because the fact is that a woman is more likely to get to know a man and make a judgment based on that than a man is likely to get to know a woman outside of the physical.
00:35:53.000Okay, the reality is men are much more driven by sex than women.
00:37:25.000The reality is that if you're a man and you look at this picture, it takes you a long time to realize there are actual words on this woman's body.
00:37:35.000Sorry to break it to women, this is the way that it works.
00:37:37.000For Day, the 2018 issue, which arrives on newsstands next week, will be the culmination of a shift in her thinking that's happened over her time at Sports Illustrated.
00:37:43.000That the images could be a place where different standards of beauty could be celebrated.
00:37:46.000Traveling and shooting on location put her in situations where she was talking about bodies and the idea of beauty with people from vastly different cultural milieus.
00:37:54.000Okay, so I'll be curious to see if the swimsuit issue features a bunch of very, very overweight women.
00:38:00.000Let's show some more of these images that smash the patriarchy.
00:38:04.000So here is a very sexy woman wearing a bikini that she seems to be pulling down and a skimpy shirt that is wet, demonstrating that she does indeed have nipples beneath the shirt.
00:38:15.000And then it says something but I couldn't read what was on the shirt because I was distracted by all the other things.
00:39:56.000Not everything that you dislike about the world means that it's a man's fault.
00:40:00.000It's not a man's fault that a man who looks at this picture is more likely thinking, what's under the hands, than how do I complete that crossword puzzle on her chest?
00:40:09.000Okay, do we have one more or is this the last one?
00:40:47.000Now, I'm the kind of man who respects women so much that when I was a teenager, when I was a teenager and the first year I got Sports Illustrated, I called the number.
00:40:53.000I unsubscribed from the Swimsuit Edition, which you can do, right?
00:40:55.000You can unsubscribe from the Swimsuit Issue.
00:40:57.000So for years and years and years, I got Sports Illustrated.
00:40:59.000I never once received Swimsuit Edition in the mail because that was not something that I morally believed in.
00:41:04.000I think it was softcore pornography, essentially.
00:42:06.000In a first in its 54-year history, the 2018 swimsuit issue will also feature a nude spread shot by female photographer and an all-women crew.
00:42:56.000The idea is to create something artful, to create a beautiful image that both the subject and the team is proud of and collaborates on together.
00:43:02.000And then she says she sees the connections between the Me Too movement and her own work, quote, Okay, again, this is one of the great lies of the modern feminist movement, is that women love presenting themselves this way.
00:43:15.000It's empowering for women to present themselves this way.
00:43:18.000If this were true, you know how many women would be walking around wearing nothing?
00:43:22.000You know how many women, like, how many times have you seen a woman dressed like that woman, you know, just walking around during the day?
00:43:27.000Like, they dress, women dress on the beach in bikinis, but the reality is that the vast majority of women walk around the workplace wearing stuff that is relatively modest.
00:43:41.000It's so backwards, and what's amazing about it, and the thing I object to about it, is that the feminist movement says all this kind of stuff, they say all this kind of stuff, and then they yell at religious people for not being sufficiently respectful toward women.
00:43:54.000What I am suggesting is that the feminist movement is not respectful enough toward women.
00:43:57.000The feminist movement has made life worse for women, the third wave feminist movement,
00:45:02.000Basically, there's a huge percentage of young men who are watching pornography, and then they think this is what women want.
00:45:09.000Because in the pornography, again, men are visual learners, and they are stimulated by visual imagery.
00:45:17.000And when you're watching pornography, then you're not actually going to spend a lot of time thinking about
00:45:22.000Whether this is true or false, whether there are people behind the camera or not, you're just going to believe what's in it.
00:45:26.000In pornography, women are always being, they're always happy, they're always feeling pleasure.
00:45:30.000And the more aggressive the man is in pornography, typically, the more the woman enjoys it.
00:45:35.000And the more creative the man is, the more the man does weird things to women, the more the woman enjoys it.
00:45:39.000Because that's their job, is to act like they're enjoying it.
00:45:41.000But in real life, women don't enjoy this stuff.
00:45:43.000So what this is convincing women is that they have to try all of these things that men have seen in pornography in order to hold their man, because it's created a competitive market for women in the dating pool.
00:45:51.000And then they presumably have to pretend to like it in order for the man to think that it's cool.
00:45:55.000And then men think women actually do like it because men are stupid.
00:45:58.000Again, the feminist movement should have said, here's what women actually believe about sex.
00:46:02.000Here's what women actually feel about sex.
00:46:03.000Women, for women particularly, sex and intimacy are deeply intertwined.
00:46:07.000It's why women orgasm more often by every study in married relationships or committed relationships than they do in the sort of one night stands that you hear about in Rihanna songs.
00:46:16.000In comfortable situations with a partner who they feel comfortable with, women are much more likely to get sexual pleasure than in these one-night raunch fests that you see promoted in Ke$ha songs.
00:46:27.000It's like Ke$ha, not Keisha, apparently.
00:46:30.000And so this idea that's been pushed forward by women, that all of this is liberating for women, the only people who are feeling liberated right now are horny men.
00:47:19.000For me, I think the Me Too movement and the movement for women's right to self-defense, I mean, they sort of go hand in hand.
00:47:28.000I'm not advocating that everyone should carry a gun or that everyone should concealed carry on campus.
00:47:33.000Really what I'm advocating for is giving women a choice on how to defend yourself in the way that you best see fit.
00:47:39.000Yeah, but the women's movement isn't going to do that.
00:47:41.000They're instead going to say the best way that women can defend themselves is by posing naked in magazines and then demanding that men respect them.
00:47:46.000That's what the MeToo movement is all about.
00:47:48.000Not, how do we protect women from actual rapists, actual predators?
00:47:52.000How do we stop actual evil people from doing actual evil things?
00:47:55.000No, we have to somehow fight against the biology of men and pretend that writing words on women's bodies is somehow going to make things better for women.
00:49:52.000So, University of Minnesota has decided to move me off campus.
00:49:55.000So, the president of the University of Minnesota has now responded to accusations that the university was forcing my February 26th lecture off campus.
00:50:03.000Originally, the group applied for a 1,500-seat theater.
00:50:12.000And then they moved the entire venue off campus completely.
00:50:15.000And what they suggested is that it was all about security.
00:50:19.000So they said, as the university hosts a wide variety of events welcoming tens of thousands of people to campus each and every day, we strive to meet the unique needs for each and every event.
00:50:26.000And the event scheduled for later this month is no different.
00:50:28.000When working to accommodate a venue request, our top priority is and will always be the safety and security of our university community.
00:50:34.000And with that in mind, the university works with organizers to determine a location that meets everyone's needs to the best of our ability.
00:50:40.000Student leaders with Students for a Conservative Voice and Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow worked with student activities staff and the University of Minnesota PD to determine a space that would accommodate the 400 to 500 attendants the group was planning for.
00:52:02.000University of Berkeley, Cal, they have a football team.
00:52:04.000They have 50,000 people who show up to that stadium every week.
00:52:08.000They do the same thing at UCLA, and at University of Minnesota, and at Northwestern.
00:52:12.000They somehow can't figure out how to do security for a 1,500-person event?
00:52:16.000I somehow have my serious reservations and doubts about this.
00:52:19.000But, again, if you use security as an excuse to shut down only one side of the aisle, at a certain point you have to ask whether, in fact, this is viewpoint discrimination, or at least backdoor viewpoint discrimination.
00:52:46.000Couldn't have a reasoned conversation about this, so they decided to lose their minds.
00:52:49.000So Arne Menconi, he's a lefty, tweeted, quote, We already have 13 people who signed up to lay down in front of the tanks if Trump brings out a military parade.
00:52:57.000This is not a military authoritarian state.
00:54:28.000So that's always amusing when Democrats decide to fight one another, leftists decide to fight one another over coin tosses that are racist.
00:54:34.000Legitimately, the definition of a random event is now considered racist.