The Ben Shapiro Show - Are Victims Sacrosanct? | Ep. 504

00:00:00.000 So, we're going to discuss today when victimhood counts as the fallout from Parkland continues, plus Stormy Daniels befuddles the White House, and Paul Ryan, is he on his way out?

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00:01:44.000 We've been hearing for weeks that those of us who are in favor of Second Amendment rights are somehow weird, crazy, because we're all worried that they're going to take our guns.

00:01:53.000 And what you'll hear from people on the left is, no, we don't want to take your guns.

00:01:57.000 No, we're not interested in taking your guns.

00:02:00.000 Why would we want to take your guns under any circumstances?

00:02:02.000 No.

00:02:03.000 No.

00:02:03.000 And then, of course, they argue that they want to take our guns.

00:02:06.000 The latest example of this comes courtesy of former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

00:02:10.000 So John Paul Stevens was appointed by Republicans and then he proceeded to govern left of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:02:14.000 That is not a joke.

00:02:15.000 If you actually look, people have charted.

00:02:18.000 How particular justices govern and rule from the bench.

00:02:21.000 John Paul Stevens is one of the most liberal members of the court for nearly his entire tenure.

00:02:24.000 He's one of the worst picks.

00:02:25.000 I believe he was appointed by President Reagan, one of the worst picks of President Reagan.

00:02:29.000 And he has just been disastrous.

00:02:32.000 In fact, you know, I'm going to check that real fact that he that he was appointed by he might have been appointed by Nixon.

00:02:36.000 Yeah, he's appointed by President Nixon.

00:02:38.000 Oh, sorry.

00:02:39.000 Gerald Ford is appointed by Gerald Ford.

00:02:41.000 But he was one of Gerald Ford's worst moves.

00:02:43.000 And now he has an op ed in The New York Times literally titled Repeal the Second Amendment.

00:02:48.000 Which makes the second op-ed in the New York Times in the last two years calling for a full repeal of the Second Amendment after Bret Stephens wrote the same thing, and Bret is their in-house conservative over there.

00:02:55.000 So, John Paul Stephens writes this full op-ed about why we should get rid of the Second Amendment entirely.

00:03:01.000 First of all, completely unrealistic.

00:03:02.000 In order to pass a constitutional amendment, you require two-thirds approval of each House of Congress plus three-quarters of all state legislatures.

00:03:09.000 Look at a map.

00:03:09.000 It's all red.

00:03:11.000 There are 30-some governors in the United States who are Republican.

00:03:14.000 Zero state legislatures are actually going to pass this thing outside of California, Massachusetts, New York, and maybe, you know, Minnesota or something.

00:03:22.000 And the notion that a bunch of people are sitting around waiting to repeal the Second Amendment is just not accurate.

00:03:26.000 But let's go through John Paul Stevens' awful argument in the New York Times for why the Second Amendment should be repealed.

00:03:33.000 So, he begins by praising the marches and rallies that have been taking place since the Parkland shooting.

00:03:37.000 He writes this.

00:03:38.000 Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday.

00:03:46.000 These demonstrations demand our respect.

00:03:48.000 They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society. 1.00

00:03:54.000 So number one, this is stupid. 1.00

00:03:55.000 This is incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:03:57.000 If you really believe that big rallies mean that there's tremendous support for hardcore anti-gun legislation, then you've never seen a rally before. 1.00

00:04:04.000 First of all, this rally wasn't that big.

00:04:05.000 There were like 200,000 people who showed up in D.C.

00:04:08.000 Sizable rally?

00:04:08.000 Sure.

00:04:09.000 In 2000, there was the Million Mom March, also for gun control, also anti-NRA, and three quarters of a million people showed up in Washington, D.C.

00:04:17.000 At that point, I believe Bill Clinton was still president, technically, and nothing happened.

00:04:23.000 Zero things happened.

00:04:24.000 And there's been pretty much zero gun legislation between 2000 and 2018, despite multiple major rallies on gun control.

00:04:34.000 And it's worth noting that when Tea Partiers were out there by the hundreds of thousands, nobody seemed to care about that either.

00:04:39.000 Every year, the March for Life happens.

00:04:40.000 It's several hundred thousand people.

00:04:42.000 And pro-life legislation does not inevitably follow, nor would people on the left suggest, wow, look at the public support for that.

00:04:47.000 That means we suddenly have to get rid of abortion rights. 1.00

00:04:51.000 So this is really dumb. 0.98

00:04:52.000 And then he continues. 0.99

00:04:53.000 He says, the marches are a sign that it's time to seriously curb weapons ownership.

00:05:15.000 So, it's not enough to pass a law that would bar civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, which is to say virtually every weapon in the United States.

00:05:21.000 Again, for those who don't know anything about guns, a semiautomatic weapon just means you pull the trigger once, and one bullet fires, and another one is loaded into the chamber.

00:05:28.000 That is all a semiautomatic weapon is.

00:05:30.000 The only thing that distinguishes between a revolver and a semiautomatic weapon is that there is a changing cylinder in a revolver that doesn't exist in a semiautomatic weapon.

00:05:37.000 Virtually every weapon in the United States, unless it is bullet-loading, muzzle-loading, or a revolver, is a semiautomatic weapon.

00:05:43.000 Virtually all of them.

00:05:44.000 And there are 300 million of them in the United States.

00:05:47.000 So he says, well, no problem.

00:05:48.000 Just get rid of some automatic weapons.

00:05:50.000 Everything will be fine.

00:05:52.000 Yeah, good luck with that one.

00:05:53.000 OK, but then he says that he wants the Second Amendment gone.

00:05:56.000 So it's not enough to just get rid of it.

00:05:57.000 And then I love this, that the left keeps saying that we're just idly worried about Second Amendment rights being violated.

00:06:02.000 We're not.

00:06:03.000 We can have common sense gun regulations.

00:06:05.000 Yeah, at least Stevens is being honest.

00:06:07.000 At least he's being honest.

00:06:08.000 So, he says, let's get rid of the Second Amendment entirely.

00:06:10.000 He says, quote,

00:06:26.000 Well, no.

00:06:28.000 No, it isn't.

00:06:29.000 The concern that the federal government would invade our rights in a really egregious manner and that we might need guns to protect ourselves, I'm wondering how that's a relic of the 18th century when we have had, beyond the 18th century, full-on slavery in the United States, Jim Crow, removal of gun rights from black folks, removal of gun rights from a wide variety of people, including Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the forcible imprisonment of Japanese during World War II.

00:06:52.000 It seems to me that an armed population is a better guarantee than sitting around thinking that the government will never go tyrannical.

00:06:59.000 It just is.

00:07:01.000 That's not to suggest that every armed rebellion is good, or that it will end well, or that armed rebellions are largely successful, but one of the reasons that the government doesn't go full tyrannical is because they know that there are 100 million people in the United States who own guns.

00:07:12.000 Try telling a bunch of Texans they are not violating their rights when you say you want to go into their basements and take out all of their guns.

00:07:18.000 Again, good luck with that. 0.84

00:07:20.000 You know how historically ignorant you have to be to believe that it's a relic of the 18th century to worry about centralized government taking your guns and then invading your rights? 0.94

00:07:28.000 It's happened in virtually every tyrannical country. 0.98

00:07:31.000 It's happened in China.

00:07:32.000 It has happened in the Soviet Union.

00:07:34.000 It's happened in Nazi Germany.

00:07:35.000 This sort of stuff happens all the time, routinely, a lot.

00:07:39.000 So, then he continues, he says,

00:08:00.000 Well, that's not even a real reading of the case.

00:08:02.000 That's a bad reading of the case.

00:08:03.000 The idea here is that you have to be a member of the militia in order to carry a gun.

00:08:07.000 That is absolutely untrue.

00:08:09.000 It is not true at the time of the founding.

00:08:10.000 It is not true throughout American history.

00:08:12.000 It's not even true in the case that Stevens is citing. 0.94

00:08:14.000 Stevens was a bad Supreme Court justice, and he is an ignoramus when it comes to actual jurisprudence.

00:08:19.000 The case he's citing is United States v. Miller in 1939.

00:08:22.000 Justice Scalia explained this case to Stevens in his opinion in D.C.

00:08:26.000 versus in Heller v. D.C.

00:08:28.000 He said, quote, Miller did not hold that and cannot be possibly read to have held that, quote, the judgments in the case upheld against a Second Amendment challenge to men's federal convictions for transporting an unregistered short-barreled shotgun in interstate commerce in violation of the National Firearms Act.

00:08:42.000 It is entirely clear that the court's basis for saying the Second Amendment did not apply was not that the defendants were bearing arms, not for military purposes.

00:08:50.000 Rather, it was the type of weapon at issue was not eligible for the Second Amendment protection.

00:08:55.000 This holding is not only consistent with, but positively suggests that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms, though only arms that have some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.

00:09:07.000 Had the court believed that the Second Amendment protects only those serving in the militia, it would have been odd to examine the character of the weapon, rather than simply note that the two crooks were not militiamen.

00:09:17.000 Furthermore, this has been understood for literally hundreds of years.

00:09:20.000 One of the reasons in the Dred Scott decision, the evil, horrible Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court decided that black people in America could not be full citizens of the United States, Justice Taney wrote in that decision that one of the reasons black people could not be citizens of the United States is that if you made them citizens of the United States, then they'd be able to carry guns.

00:09:37.000 The obvious underlying assumption being that citizens of the United States have the ability to carry guns.

00:09:41.000 That they have the right to carry guns under the Constitution of the United States.

00:09:45.000 Here's what Justice Taney wrote in that evil Dred Scott decision, quote,

00:10:05.000 And this scared Justice Taney.

00:10:06.000 This is why he said that we wouldn't allow black people to be citizens and that they had to remain sort of property in this evil decision.

00:10:12.000 He said, because if you were to make them citizens, then there are rights that comes along with being a citizen. 0.67

00:10:16.000 One of those rights is carrying firearms.

00:10:18.000 But Stevens isn't done.

00:10:19.000 Then he quotes Chief Justice Warren Burger, who is the man responsible for such constitutional abominations as Roe versus Wade. 1.00

00:10:26.000 And he says that Chief Warren Burger used to say that the NRA was stupid. 0.99

00:10:29.000 Who cares what Chief Warren Burger had to say? 1.00

00:10:30.000 That guy was a terrible justice.

00:10:32.000 Warren Burger was such a bad justice that Potter Stewart, another justice on the Supreme Court, leaked dramatically to Woodward and Bernstein.

00:10:38.000 I think it was Carl Woodward.

00:10:41.000 Was it Bernstein or Woodward?

00:10:42.000 It was to one of them in their book, The Brethren.

00:10:44.000 The Brethren is a book about the inside workings of the Supreme Court.

00:10:46.000 Potter Stewart hated Warren Burger so much that he leaked the entire book. 1.00

00:10:50.000 Okay, to Woodward and Bernstein about why Warren Burger was an idiot. 1.00

00:10:54.000 Everybody on the court thought Warren Burger was an idiot, except for John Paul Stevens, apparently. 1.00

00:10:58.000 Okay, so in any case, he then rips into District of Columbia v. Heller, that's D.C. 0.99

00:11:02.000 v. Heller, the 2008 case that re-enshrined the American right to keep and bear arms, and here is what Stevens concludes.

00:11:09.000 He says, Well, actually, they had a Second Amendment before that.

00:11:23.000 It would do more to weaken the NRA's ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.

00:11:29.000 Okay, so, it would be easy to get rid of the Second Amendment. 0.62

00:11:33.000 Go ahead and try.

00:11:34.000 Leftists, please, do it.

00:11:36.000 Make this your rallying cry.

00:11:37.000 Please, tell Republicans all over the country they're going to take away their weapons and repeal the Second Amendment.

00:11:42.000 Do it.

00:11:42.000 I dare you.

00:11:43.000 You want to see yourselves get killed in November? 1.00

00:11:46.000 Politically speaking? 0.97

00:11:46.000 You want to see us get destroyed politically speaking? 0.97

00:11:49.000 Do this.

00:11:50.000 Push for a giant gun control effort. 1.00

00:11:52.000 OK, in just a second, I'm going to talk about another idiotic rant on gun control. 0.97

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00:13:25.000 Okay? 0.98

00:13:26.000 That wasn't the only dumb notion that was being pushed by the left today. 0.98

00:13:31.000 From John Paul Stevens. 0.97

00:13:32.000 There's also a tweetstorm from Michael Ian Black, who's a comedian.

00:13:35.000 And that means that he must know lots about guns, right?

00:13:37.000 Because he's a comedian.

00:13:38.000 So that means that he knows a lot about guns.

00:13:39.000 So here's his tweetstorm.

00:13:40.000 He says, quote, OK, at least they're being honest now.

00:13:52.000 At least Michael Ian Black and John Paul Stevens, they're being honest now.

00:13:55.000 And they will be increasingly honest as time goes on.

00:13:57.000 I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats claimed they weren't for nationalized healthcare.

00:14:00.000 And now, of course, this has become a thing they like to do, is nationalized healthcare.

00:14:05.000 And Michael Ian Black continues along these lines.

00:14:07.000 He says,

00:14:12.000 Well, no, I like that number to be zero.

00:14:14.000 But let's recognize that 38,000 Americans didn't die of gun violence.

00:14:17.000 Two thirds of those died of suicide.

00:14:19.000 And among the others were a various number of criminals.

00:14:23.000 And then he continues along these lines as well.

00:14:25.000 Cutlery doesn't cause obesity, but guns do cause gun deaths. 1.00

00:14:28.000 Well, that's idiotic. 1.00

00:14:30.000 Guns do not cause gun deaths. 1.00

00:14:32.000 That's like saying guns cause death.

00:14:34.000 No, the person who pulls the trigger causes death. 0.73

00:14:36.000 The person who uses the cutlery is what makes them fat. 1.00

00:14:39.000 So, actually, this is just dumb. 1.00

00:14:41.000 And the stupidity continues. 1.00

00:14:44.000 Yes, having the ready ability to take someone's life is dominion over that person. 1.00

00:14:47.000 Gun ownership could be viewed as slavery by another name.

00:14:50.000 So me owning a gun and protecting myself is slavery. 0.97

00:14:53.000 So I'm glad to know that Michael Ian Black is a complete historical ignoramus. 0.96

00:14:55.000 As you may have heard just a few moments ago, the Dred Scott decision was fearful that black people would have guns. 0.97

00:15:00.000 In fact, gun control legislation in the South was specifically designed for literally 100 years to prevent black people from being able to protect themselves.

00:15:08.000 Listen to Condoleezza Rice talk about her dad having a gun and how he helped protect her family with that gun.

00:15:13.000 If you really believe that gun ownership is slavery, you have no knowledge of history, contemporary politics, or gun ownership. 0.90

00:15:18.000 I mean, this is just inane. 0.95

00:15:19.000 It's just inane. 0.91

00:15:21.000 Gun ownership due to slavery. 0.81

00:15:22.000 I'll tell you what slavery is.

00:15:23.000 Slavery is me giving up my gun to a government that says it will protect me, and then they let me die in a hail of bullets when a criminal just decides not to obey the law.

00:15:30.000 But he's not done yet. 0.95

00:15:31.000 Well, considering that black people are largely shooting black people and white people are largely shooting white people, it's hard to imagine that people of color want their gun rights removed. 0.98

00:15:39.000 Law-abiding people of color want their gun rights removed. 1.00

00:15:53.000 That's a weird argument.

00:15:54.000 So, again, all these arguments are sort of weird.

00:15:56.000 And then he finally continues, and he says, Again, none of this has any relationship to reality.

00:16:01.000 But, doesn't matter.

00:16:02.000 Folks on the left are firmly convinced it's time to get rid of the Second Amendment, and we thank them for their honesty.

00:16:16.000 Because now we can have a real debate, a real conversation.

00:16:19.000 It's all I asked for from Piers Morgan years ago.

00:16:21.000 Just tell me the truth about what you want, and then, guess what?

00:16:25.000 Guess what?

00:16:26.000 We can have a conversation, and we can decide whether Americans are really ready to surrender their right to self-defense and their right to keep and bear arms to a government that fails to protect them on a regular basis.

00:16:35.000 Okay, so meanwhile, a lot of hubbub has broken out about quote-unquote attacks on the students of Parkland.

00:16:40.000 No one's attacking the students of Parkland.

00:16:42.000 We're attacking their arguments.

00:16:43.000 They have a right to speak out.

00:16:45.000 We all feel terrible for them.

00:16:46.000 Obviously, witnesses to a shooting have gone through something traumatic and horrible.

00:16:50.000 It does not make them experts on gun control.

00:16:52.000 We're all making the same argument here.

00:16:54.000 And it's amazing to see which survivors of gun violence are actually put in the media, and how the media plays this stuff up.

00:17:00.000 So, I do love this.

00:17:02.000 Morning Joe did another one of their ubiquitous montages.

00:17:05.000 This montage had to do with the March for Our Lives on Saturday, and they played Joe Scarborough's protest song over it.

00:17:13.000 So here's what that montage sounded like.

00:17:19.000 And they're showing all of these marches about Vietnam.

00:17:23.000 And now they're showing this montage of Iraq.

00:17:28.000 And there's the Tiananmen Square.

00:17:29.000 They showed this yesterday.

00:17:33.000 The march against poverty.

00:17:35.000 And now, there it is, the march for our lives.

00:17:39.000 Okay, so they basically just recut this montage in order to include the March for Our Lives.

00:17:45.000 Okay, then the real reason for this, of course, the real reason that they decided to show this montage is so they can push Joe Scarborough's crappy song.

00:17:53.000 I do love that the only way that Joe Scarborough can sell his song is to do montages on Morning Joe, where they play his song.

00:17:58.000 Like, nobody's buying the song, apparently.

00:18:00.000 So it's like if every time I played something sad on the show, I played myself playing Schindler's List.

00:18:05.000 Joe Scarborough has to play

00:18:07.000 It's just amazing.

00:18:08.000 Every time there's a protest now, he's gonna find like three guys standing outside of McDonald's protesting for a raise and suddenly Joe Scarborough is gonna show up with his guitar and start playing.

00:18:16.000 It's gonna be amazing.

00:18:17.000 I just, I love it.

00:18:18.000 I love it.

00:18:19.000 It's so, it's so self-serving and so self-aggrandizing.

00:18:22.000 It's incredible.

00:18:22.000 Okay, bye.

00:18:23.000 Speaking of the students who must never, ever—their arguments must never be attacked.

00:18:29.000 Again, it's amazing which victims we choose to focus on.

00:18:31.000 So, the Eagles of Death Metal frontman went after the students.

00:18:34.000 He said that these Parkland students are acting inappropriately.

00:18:37.000 He is, of course, exactly right.

00:18:40.000 And here is what he had to say.

00:18:42.000 He unleashed a torrent of criticism.

00:18:45.000 So he put up a bunch of posts. 0.99

00:18:46.000 And in some of the posts, he said that some of the student marches were, quote unquote, pathetic and disgusting for playing hooky at the expense of 16 of your classmates' blood. 0.98

00:18:53.000 And then he shared this image of Emma Gonzalez ripping up the U.S. 1.00

00:18:56.000 Constitution.

00:18:57.000 Now, what's funny about that is I don't know if you've seen this going around, but there is an image.

00:19:00.000 It's a GIF that's been photoshopped of Emma Gonzalez tearing up a copy of the U.S. 0.83

00:19:05.000 Constitution.

00:19:06.000 Anybody who watches it knows that this is obviously a GIF that is meant to

00:19:10.000 We're good to go. 0.98

00:19:33.000 May everyone of these disgusting, vile abusers of the dead live as long as possible so they can have the maximum amount of time to endure their shame and be cursed. 0.99

00:19:40.000 I guess it's a pretty harsh language. 0.96

00:19:41.000 I wouldn't use it, but does he have unquestioned moral authority, Jesse Hughes?

00:19:44.000 He was the bandleader of Eagles of Death Metal, who was, of course, at the Bataclan when that place was shot up, right?

00:19:49.000 It was his concert that was attacked.

00:19:51.000 Does he have unquestioned moral authority?

00:19:52.000 Is he allowed to question other survivors?

00:19:54.000 Or is it only certain survivors that we give unquestioned moral authorities?

00:19:57.000 And then I do like this.

00:19:59.000 He tweeted out a graphic that says,

00:20:07.000 Yeah, it's a little bit funny, I will admit.

00:20:09.000 And again, are we allowed to question the arguments of students? 0.99

00:20:12.000 Because some of the arguments are really dumb. 0.87

00:20:14.000 So here's one Parkland student who's on with Brian Stelter and inadvertently saying something really true and really profound about the state of journalism in our country. 0.95

00:20:24.000 I think that, for me, the purpose of journalism is to raise, you know, the voices of people that maybe don't have a voice.

00:20:30.000 And so I think that in its own right, journalism is a form of activism.

00:20:33.000 Okay, so a lot of people on the left were saying, were trying to distance themselves from this comment that journalism is a form of activism.

00:20:39.000 It is pretty obvious in the wake of these shootings that journalism is indeed a form of activism.

00:20:43.000 I've been saying this for a very long time.

00:20:45.000 It's why I call myself an opinion journalist.

00:20:46.000 I'm honest about it.

00:20:47.000 Folks at CNN are not honest about it.

00:20:49.000 They claim that they are objective news journalists.

00:20:51.000 In reality, they do have an agenda.

00:20:53.000 They are pushing that agenda.

00:20:54.000 They are pushing that agenda day in and day out.

00:20:55.000 No wonder the student journalist believes that journalism is activism.

00:20:59.000 She watches CNN.

00:21:00.000 Of course she believes journalism is activism.

00:21:02.000 If I watched CNN on a regular basis, I'd believe that too.

00:21:05.000 Journalism, for CNN, is indeed activism.

00:21:08.000 This is how journalists see themselves.

00:21:09.000 In fact, I remember I visited the ABC News offices with the God King of the Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring, and one of the things he said on the wall was something to the effect of, we give voice to the voiceless.

00:21:18.000 And I just thought to myself, that's not journalism.

00:21:19.000 Journalism isn't about giving voice to the voiceless.

00:21:21.000 It's about objectively covering facts.

00:21:24.000 People in the journalistic business believe that it is their job to actually push a particular political agenda.

00:21:29.000 They believe that they are do-gooders in the world, not just people covering the news and informing folks.

00:21:33.000 This girl has obviously imbibed from that, and she's just spitting back what she's heard from the media. 1.00

00:21:39.000 Unfortunately, she told the truth a little bit too honestly right there for the media to handle.

00:21:42.000 OK, so in just a second, we'll get to Stormy Daniels' fallout.

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00:23:04.000 I don't know.

00:23:15.000 The Stormy Daniels controversy continues.

00:23:17.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:23:19.000 The real reason that people care about Stormy Daniels is it gives them an excuse to Google Stormy Daniels lesbian activity on Google Images. 0.98

00:23:25.000 Okay, let's be real about this.

00:23:27.000 If Stormy Daniels were not a porn star, nobody would care about this. 1.00

00:23:30.000 Because if we're going to pretend that people are deeply worried about the corruption of the Trump administration, there are a thousand other stories that seem to go deeper on the quote-unquote corruption stuff than the Stormy Daniels thing.

00:23:40.000 Now, is it sort of a clean bust that Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to shut her yap? 0.73

00:23:45.000 When it came to the election time?

00:23:47.000 Yeah, that's bad.

00:23:48.000 Is it a campaign finance reform violation?

00:23:50.000 Not sure.

00:23:50.000 I mean, John Edwards paid $900,000 to a woman to keep her yap shut after he fathered a child with her, right, while he was married to his cancer-ridden wife.

00:23:59.000 So that is not, you know, I'm not sure that this violates campaign finance law.

00:24:04.000 What's funny is that Trump's approval ratings continue to go up.

00:24:06.000 So yesterday there was a big stock market bounce.

00:24:09.000 The stock market yesterday jumped something like 680 points or 700 points.

00:24:12.000 It was the third biggest stock market gain in one day in the history of the stock market, actually.

00:24:18.000 That's not super surprising because there was such a big stock market adjustment yesterday.

00:24:22.000 The stock market is up again today.

00:24:24.000 So, you know, it's up and down, it's up and down.

00:24:26.000 I think part of that is because all of the tariff talk that's happening from the Trump administration is starting to soften just a little bit.

00:24:32.000 So the talk before was that Trump was going to slap these tariffs on products and leave them there forever.

00:24:36.000 And now the talk is that he's going to slap the tariffs on long enough to negotiate a better deal.

00:24:40.000 If the latter is true, then all right.

00:24:42.000 I guess that's OK.

00:24:43.000 If the latter is not true, then the stock market will go back down again.

00:24:47.000 But in any case, people who are wondering why Trump's approval rating is going up, beyond obviously the economics of all of this, one of the reasons that the approval ratings are going up is because when you talk about a rich dude stripping porn stars, most people are like, well, yep.

00:25:01.000 Remember, Donald Trump was elected after building an entire apartment decorated by Saddam Hussein's decorator. 0.93

00:25:08.000 Donald Trump is not exactly genteel about his wealth.

00:25:11.000 It's funny, growing up, my grandparents, my mom's parents, were relatively wealthy.

00:25:16.000 I wouldn't say that they were hugely, enormously successful, but they owned their own home, they had their own business.

00:25:22.000 But one of the things that I always appreciated about my grandparents is they never showed off their wealth.

00:25:25.000 They always drove a normal car.

00:25:27.000 They were not people who were garish in their spendthrift ways.

00:25:31.000 There are a lot of folks who get rich, and then they decide that they're going to demonstrate to the entire world just how wealthy they are.

00:25:37.000 But the best people are the people who you meet and you don't know that they're wealthy.

00:25:39.000 Well, Donald Trump is not one of those people, right?

00:25:41.000 Donald Trump got famous for being the really gauche guy on Lifestyles on the Rich and Famous.

00:25:46.000 That was essentially his profile for a very long time.

00:25:48.000 And there are a lot of folks in the United States who want to be Donald Trump.

00:25:52.000 Let's just be frank about this. 0.84

00:25:53.000 There's an aspirational side to Donald Trump that appeals to the worst of our sensibilities, where people who are poor look at Donald Trump and they think, if I were rich, you know how many porn stars I would nail? 0.98

00:26:01.000 A lot, man. 0.92

00:26:02.000 I would really go for it. 0.99

00:26:03.000 Okay, so Donald Trump shipping a porn star, not a shock. 0.90

00:26:06.000 Again, I'm not sure why we're supposed to be surprised Melania Trump posed 1.00

00:26:10.000 naked with other women during the time that Trump was dating her and went on Howard Stern and talked openly about their sex life together.

00:26:17.000 Like, Melania now is pretty classy, but back in the day when Trump met her, not so much.

00:26:22.000 I mean, I believe he was still married to wife number two when he started going with Melania.

00:26:26.000 And when he was dating wife number two, he was still married to wife number one.

00:26:29.000 In fact, there's a famous story.

00:26:31.000 I'm not sure whether it's apocryphal or not.

00:26:33.000 I'm fairly certain it is not.

00:26:34.000 But the story is supposedly that when Donald Trump was married to Ivana, right, who is Ivanka's mom,

00:26:40.000 That Donald Trump was dating wife number two, right?

00:26:42.000 It was Marla Mapes.

00:26:43.000 And Marla Mapes was at the same resort where Donald was keeping one wife, right?

00:26:47.000 So he was keeping wife number one on one floor, and he was keeping his mistress on another floor. 0.58

00:26:52.000 And Ivana discovered that Trump was, in fact, stooping

00:26:56.000 Soon to be wife number two on a different floor of the hotel. 1.00

00:26:59.000 She found out about it while he was on the ski slopes and she went up to the top of the ski slopes with him.

00:27:03.000 He tried to ski away from her and she was yelling at him the entire way down the hill while skiing backwards because Ivana is actually an expert skier. 0.99

00:27:10.000 So again, the weird idea that Donald Trump is some sort of 0.62

00:27:15.000 Prophetic, godlike, wonderful Christian figure on sexual morality is absurd. 1.00

00:27:18.000 In fact, one of the reasons he's popular is because Donald Trump is the guy who unapologetically schtups porn stars. 0.98

00:27:23.000 So, when he's in the news for schtuping porn stars, and most guys are Googling to figure out how Stormy Daniels looks naked, he's not going to lose approval ratings from dudes on that score. 0.76

00:27:32.000 And most women are going to look at Stormy Daniels and go, like, are we supposed to believe she's a victim? 0.98

00:27:35.000 This is a woman who has sex for money. 1.00

00:27:37.000 Like, this is her entire career is to have sex for money on camera. 1.00

00:27:42.000 And she herself has said she's not a victim. 0.93

00:27:44.000 She herself has said that she is not a Me Too person, that she fully consented to sex with Trump.

00:27:48.000 And so we're thinking to ourselves, a lot of Americans are thinking to ourselves, I'm not sure what the big deal is here.

00:27:53.000 Now, again, is it immoral?

00:27:54.000 Yes. 0.84

00:27:55.000 Is Donald Trump an immoral guy with women? 0.99

00:27:56.000 Yes. 0.90

00:27:56.000 Should he be paying off women to keep silent? 0.90

00:27:57.000 No.

00:27:58.000 Is any of this surprising?

00:28:00.000 No.

00:28:00.000 None of this is surprising.

00:28:02.000 The only thing that is mildly surprising is the White House keeps denying the underlying claims.

00:28:06.000 So here's the White House yesterday being asked about Stormy Daniels, and here's Raj Shah from the briefing room being asked about Stormy Daniels and not coming up with a fantastic answer.

00:28:15.000 Well, I can speak for only the White House, and I can say categorically that obviously the White House didn't engage in any wrongdoing.

00:28:23.000 The campaign or Mr. Cohen

00:28:36.000 Yeah, the campaign or Mr. Cohen can address anything with respect to their actions.

00:28:41.000 With respect to that interview, I will say the President strongly, clearly, and has consistently denied these underlying claims, and the only person who's been inconsistent is the one making the claims.

00:28:52.000 Well, I mean, to be fair, do you believe that Stormy Daniels had sex with Trump?

00:28:56.000 Because I do.

00:28:58.000 Some of the inconsistency from Stormy Daniels is fully driven by her career.

00:29:01.000 She took the money when she felt like that was the money she could get to shut up, and then she decided to speak up when she feels like there's more money in it to speak up.

00:29:08.000 Stormy Daniels is no heroine here.

00:29:09.000 Stormy Daniels is a woman who had an affair with a married man, fully knowing that he was married, and did so for career reasons.

00:29:16.000 And then she went quiet when it was time for her to get paid by the Trump campaign, basically, by Michael Cohen.

00:29:22.000 And then she decided to not shut up anymore when it became obvious that she could make a lot more money by not shutting up anymore.

00:29:27.000 So Stormy Daniels is not a victim here.

00:29:29.000 That doesn't mean that Trump is a saint.

00:29:30.000 We have this tendency in American politics to say that there can't be two villains in the same story.

00:29:34.000 That if Stormy Daniels is terrible, then Trump is wonderful.

00:29:37.000 And if Trump is terrible, then Stormy Daniels is wonderful.

00:29:39.000 How about they're both scuzz? 0.99

00:29:41.000 Okay, just in terms of personal morality and sexual morality, they are both just gross. 0.98

00:29:46.000 And Stormy Daniels' lawyer is showing that on a pretty regular basis.

00:29:48.000 Again, Stormy Daniels is doing like stripping tours now. 1.00

00:29:51.000 Okay, like right now in the middle of this, she's going around, you know, basically making the pitch, you can see what Donald Trump saw.

00:29:58.000 Well, gentlemen, again, Google is available.

00:30:01.000 You don't have to pay Stormy Daniels your money to see what Donald Trump saw.

00:30:03.000 She's widely available on the Internet.

00:30:05.000 In any case, Stormy Daniels' lawyer was teasing the idea that maybe there's pictures of Donald Trump naked, which would just be the worst of all possible scenarios, right?

00:30:12.000 I mean, no one wants to see that.

00:30:13.000 Stormy Daniels has said she didn't even want to see that.

00:30:15.000 At least Stormy Daniels thought she had a shot on Celebrity Apprentice. 1.00

00:30:17.000 If we have to see pictures of Donald Trump in the nude, oh, it's just going to be so terrible.

00:30:21.000 Now, I don't actually believe, by the way, that Stormy Daniels has pictures of Trump in the nude.

00:30:25.000 I think that is very, very unlikely.

00:30:26.000 This happened in 2006. 0.92

00:30:28.000 Camera phones in 2006 were garbage.

00:30:30.000 You still had flip phones in 2006. 0.53

00:30:31.000 OK, we can only hope the pixelation was really bad at that point.

00:30:35.000 But if it's true, oh, no, just no, no, no, no, just no.

00:30:42.000 He's been a polygraph expert for three decades.

00:30:44.000 No galvanic skin response.

00:30:46.000 No blood pressure.

00:30:48.000 The questions were all wrong.

00:30:50.000 Do you know the person who administered the slide detector?

00:30:52.000 I have no idea.

00:30:53.000 So you don't know anything about the record of this person?

00:30:57.000 He paid $25,000.

00:30:57.000 There's nothing about it.

00:30:58.000 He paid $25,000.

00:30:59.000 I looked at a picture.

00:31:00.000 By the way, thank you for supplying that picture.

00:31:02.000 That's not the last one.

00:31:03.000 That's not the last picture.

00:31:05.000 Oh yeah, where is it?

00:31:06.000 Buckle up. 0.96

00:31:07.000 Where is it?

00:31:08.000 I should buckle up?

00:31:09.000 Buckle up. 0.96

00:31:09.000 Believe me, I'm not going to buckle up. 0.96

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00:32:36.000 So that wasn't the only tease about material that apparently Stormy Daniels still has on Trump.

00:32:41.000 One of Stormy Daniels' friends, her name is Ilana Evans, she says she still has the dress from the night that Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump got it on.

00:32:49.000 Do you know, are you aware that she has any such evidence?

00:32:52.000 Has she spoken to you about it or shown you anything along those lines?

00:32:58.000 I am unaware about text messages or pictures or any type of evidence she might have that would fit on a disc.

00:33:06.000 All I know is that Stormi still has the dress that she wore from that night.

00:33:12.000 And she kept that for what reason?

00:33:16.000 Maybe a keepsake.

00:33:18.000 Maybe it's because it's actual proof.

00:33:21.000 I can only speculate the things that may be on that dress, especially if it's never been washed.

00:33:28.000 Understood.

00:33:29.000 We'll leave that there.

00:33:29.000 Yee!

00:33:31.000 Not again!

00:33:32.000 Are we doomed to live 1998 over and over again in perpetuity?

00:33:36.000 Aye, aye, aye.

00:33:38.000 Guys, this is one of the reasons why you should not put that there without that thing on it.

00:33:43.000 I mean, like, come on.

00:33:45.000 Also, I do love this story.

00:33:46.000 This story is from the Washington Post.

00:33:48.000 President Trump has privately sold several people that adult film star Stormy Daniels' allegations of an affair with him are a hoax, and that Daniels isn't the type of woman he finds attractive.

00:33:57.000 Um, what?

00:33:59.000 Is that really his strongest case?

00:34:01.000 That he really is saying that Stormy Daniels is not the kind of woman that he finds attractive?

00:34:06.000 Okay, I am currently looking up a picture of Marla Maples.

00:34:09.000 Marla Maples is a dead ringer for this woman. 1.00

00:34:11.000 Okay, that was his second wife.

00:34:13.000 I mean, Marla Maples looks a lot like that woman. 1.00

00:34:16.000 And if you look up a picture of Ivana Trump when Ivana Trump was young, Ivana Trump looked—guess like whom Ivana Trump looked?

00:34:22.000 She was a blonde, buxom, young woman. 0.99

00:34:24.000 Guess who she looked like? 1.00

00:34:25.000 Stormy Daniels.

00:34:26.000 Donald Trump has a type, okay?

00:34:28.000 Melania actually is less of his type than Stormy Daniels is, but just—what?

00:34:33.000 Come on.

00:34:34.000 Just come on.

00:34:35.000 Again, none of this is believable, but none of it's going to hurt Trump in any real sense anyway.

00:34:38.000 Because, as I say, it's all baked into the cake.

00:34:40.000 I don't think anything here is going to change.

00:34:41.000 Now, the only thing that could change is if somehow Stormy Daniels comes up with the sort of evil deep throat threatener in 2011. 1.00

00:34:50.000 So one of the allegations Stormy Daniels made during that interview on CBS on 60 Minutes was that in 2011 she was ready to tell all to In Touch magazine, which shows you how hot Trump was in 2011.

00:35:00.000 The only people who would pay for this story were In Touch for 15 grand.

00:35:04.000 And then she was approached by someone, some dark, mysterious figure, who came to her in a parking lot and said, Now, is it possible that happened?

00:35:16.000 Sure, it's possible that happened.

00:35:18.000 Maybe we'll find out that it was Michael Cohen who did it.

00:35:20.000 I have my serious doubts that any of this is true, but

00:35:23.000 Stormy Daniels' lawyer is going after Michael Cohen's lawyer.

00:35:26.000 All of this is just Jerry Springer material, and that's how most people in America are treating it at this point.

00:35:30.000 Because, honestly, the only reason anybody's watching this is because Stormy Daniels is a porn star, again, for the 30th time. 0.85

00:35:36.000 Let's talk about Michael Cohen, what kind of man this is.

00:35:38.000 This is the kind of guy who claimed, in connection with that story, that there's no such thing as spousal rape.

00:35:46.000 This is a legal genius.

00:35:48.000 Right, right.

00:35:49.000 Completely false.

00:35:49.000 The guy doesn't even know the law.

00:35:51.000 He's a thug. 1.00

00:35:52.000 Your friend is a thug. 1.00

00:35:54.000 Thank you. 0.91

00:35:55.000 That's a million dollars, a million dollars, a million dollars.

00:35:58.000 Thug.

00:35:59.000 Thug.

00:36:00.000 Thug.

00:36:01.000 Thug.

00:36:05.000 Okay, I love that Anderson Cooper, who's supposed to be the guy keeping a lid on this, is just sitting back and letting it happen.

00:36:09.000 I mean, you're one second away from Jerry!

00:36:12.000 Jerry!

00:36:13.000 That's the next thing that happens, is that Avenetti, this lawyer, is going to pick up a chair and clock this guy on national TV.

00:36:20.000 Thug!

00:36:21.000 That's a million dollars!

00:36:22.000 Thug!

00:36:23.000 Come on! 0.61

00:36:24.000 Come on! 0.61

00:36:24.000 We're supposed to take this scandal seriously? 0.61

00:36:26.000 I'm sorry, I'm having a tough time taking this scandal seriously when the only reason everyone is in it is for the pre-orient appeal.

00:36:31.000 That's really the only reason. 1.00

00:36:32.000 Now, is Michael Cohen an idiot? 1.00

00:36:33.000 Yes, of course Michael Cohen's an idiot. 1.00

00:36:35.000 Michael Cohen's an adult. 1.00

00:36:36.000 Michael Cohen's a fool. 1.00

00:36:38.000 Like, I don't know why this is a shock to anyone. 1.00

00:36:39.000 Michael Cohen is a guy who said that spousal rape is not a thing. 1.00

00:36:42.000 Okay, which is idiotic. 0.98

00:36:43.000 Michael Cohen is the guy who you recall from the last election cycle, he's on CNN, and in the middle of the election cycle when Trump was losing by like 10 points, he was asked on CNN by Breonna Keller, 0.99

00:36:53.000 Why?

00:36:54.000 What was his opinion on the polls?

00:36:55.000 And Michael Cohen said, what polls?

00:36:57.000 You remember this clip?

00:36:58.000 It went viral at the time.

00:36:59.000 OK, so is this is any of the shock?

00:37:01.000 No, but this is not coming off as something that's threatening to the office of the presidency.

00:37:05.000 You know, the famous quote is that history doesn't doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

00:37:09.000 Or that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the first time as comedy, the second time as tragedy?

00:37:15.000 Well, I think in this case it's the reverse.

00:37:16.000 The first time was the tragedy, and now we get to watch the comedy.

00:37:18.000 Because this is uproariously funny stuff. 0.97

00:37:20.000 If you cannot appreciate the fact that America's culture has gone down in a flaming ball of crap, and we're all just watching from the sidelines as it happens, and talking about stormy freaking Daniels, Stephanie Clifford, and Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States. 0.92

00:37:34.000 Every so often, you just have to look around and realize that we're actually living inside a Salvador Dali painting. 0.97

00:37:38.000 Yeah, this is one of those moments where you realize that the Salvador Dali painting has come to life.

00:37:42.000 The clocks are melting off the side of the wall.

00:37:45.000 And all of the dimensions have been screwed around with, among other things.

00:37:52.000 Trump, by the way, has been completely silent about the Stormy Daniels thing, which is probably the best indicator that a lot of it is true. 0.75

00:37:56.000 But there's no reason for him to talk about it.

00:37:58.000 He should keep silent.

00:37:59.000 There's nothing in it for Trump to talk openly about all this stuff because, again, anything he says is just going to be more fodder for the fire.

00:38:06.000 But I will say the media's attempts to turn Stormy Daniels into some sort of terrible victim case and some sort of heroine speaking her truth

00:38:15.000 Okay, this is a woman who's on the make. 1.00

00:38:16.000 Trump was on the make. 0.99

00:38:17.000 They're both gross. 1.00

00:38:18.000 There's a reason they had sex with each other, even though she was not attracted to him, and even though he was married at the time, because both of them are just yucky humans. 1.00

00:38:25.000 Okay? 0.97

00:38:25.000 This is not a complicated story. 0.97

00:38:27.000 Yucky humans tend to be yucky, and those yucky humans continue to be yucky for years. 0.94

00:38:31.000 Now, none of this is to say that Trump is a bad president. 0.87

00:38:33.000 None of this is to say that Trump is not doing things that I like in the office of the presidency.

00:38:38.000 But I think that we ought to acknowledge realities about human character, and the realities of the characters involved in this.

00:38:43.000 Ain't nothing good happening here.

00:38:44.000 These are not people you want your kids living up to.

00:38:47.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, the only good news for the Republicans is the Democrats.

00:38:50.000 The Democrats continue to struggle with the fact that their party is split.

00:38:54.000 In serious measure between radicals and non-radicals, right? 0.86

00:38:58.000 Between radicals and people who are trying to move to the moderate middle.

00:39:02.000 On the moderate middle side, people like Claire McCaskill.

00:39:04.000 So Claire McCaskill is, of course, the senator from Missouri.

00:39:06.000 Her seat is in serious trouble in Missouri.

00:39:08.000 Quite possible Missouri, which has moved hard red, goes against Claire McCaskill. 0.99

00:39:11.000 And McCaskill is trying to disown sort of the radicalism of her own party by throwing Hillary Clinton under the bus. 1.00

00:39:16.000 This has been an additional move by a lot of folks on the left recently.

00:39:20.000 So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, and moving forward.

00:39:24.000 Were these comments from Hillary Clinton helpful to you?

00:39:27.000 No, probably not.

00:39:29.000 You know, I understand the point she was trying to make, but it felt like she was criticizing Missouri voters.

00:39:36.000 And I would draw, when you talk about drawing a line, I would draw a line there.

00:39:41.000 I have great respect for Missouri voters.

00:39:43.000 So for those of us that are in states that Trump won, we would really appreciate if she would be more careful and show respect to every.

00:39:52.000 Okay, this is what the Democrats have to do.

00:39:56.000 They have to disown Hillary Clinton, and they do have to move to the middle. 0.76

00:39:58.000 This is one of the things that we saw in that PA18 race, where Conor Lamb won.

00:40:02.000 He basically ran as a moderate Democrat, and he won.

00:40:06.000 If Democrats run hard to the left, they're going to be in some trouble.

00:40:08.000 But, here's the problem.

00:40:10.000 When it comes to their presidential candidates, they want the people who are hardest to the left.

00:40:13.000 So Mitch Landrieu is the new mayor of New Orleans, and he is seen as a possible successor to Hillary Clinton as the nominee in 2020, for no reason that I can discern.

00:40:23.000 Here is Mitch Landrieu talking about American values.

00:40:27.000 Again, this is not going to be a winning pitch.

00:40:29.000 And it was fought for the cause of preserving slavery.

00:40:32.000 It's hard to have a racial reconciliation conversation unless we can just clearly articulate that particular truth.

00:40:38.000 And of course now that we see, in the moment that we're in, that when we're dealing with other issues, whether it's immigrants, whether it's transgender, whoever it is, that we have a closed society.

00:40:49.000 We're turning away from each other rather than towards each other.

00:40:52.000 And when you begin to judge people based on race, creed, color, sexual orientation, or country of origin,

00:40:57.000 That's antithetical to what American values are.

00:40:59.000 This entire country is built on the idea that we treat people based on what they do, not who they are.

00:41:06.000 Okay, that's all true, except for the part about where he says that we don't judge people based on immigration status or transgender behavior or any of the other stuff.

00:41:14.000 So, one of the things Democrats have had a tendency to do, and this is where you get into identity politics, is they have identified behavior as identity.

00:41:20.000 Right?

00:41:20.000 Your behavior is now your identity.

00:41:22.000 Well, if that's the case, then everyone is discriminatory all of the time.

00:41:26.000 Because we all discriminate on the basis of behavior.

00:41:28.000 People who you like do certain things that you like.

00:41:30.000 People you don't like do certain things you don't like.

00:41:32.000 If the idea is that if they do things you don't like, you're not allowed to condemn them because that is their identity, then we've essentially put an end to any sort of real-life judgment.

00:41:42.000 You can't judge anyone because they're doing things, and the things they do make them who they are.

00:41:46.000 In reality, we are supposed to separate the actions that people take from who they are in terms of immutable characteristics.

00:41:53.000 So, if you're a black person who's a wonderful person, you're a wonderful person, right?

00:41:57.000 The wonderful person part is the part that trumps any racial category, right?

00:42:00.000 Whether you're black, white, or green.

00:42:02.000 If you are, but according to the left, if you're a black person, a bad person, the black person status overrides the bad person status because black people have been victimized by American society. 0.95

00:42:12.000 And we cannot criticize you on because of your particular race. 0.65

00:42:15.000 Now, the left is also saying that if you are, for example, a man who acts as a woman, right, that this is not, in fact, an aspect of behavior.

00:42:26.000 This is an immutable identity characteristic.

00:42:28.000 That if you are a man who puts on a dress that this is somehow not behavior, this is identity.

00:42:33.000 And once you start identifying behavior with identity, then you can't make laws on anything because everything we do is behavior.

00:42:39.000 And every law that discriminates against behavior discriminates against someone's identity by that very definition.

00:42:45.000 Literally anything you do is now tied to your identity.

00:42:47.000 So if you say that my kleptomania is part of my identity, so we can't have laws against stealing, well, then you've basically gotten rid of all thievery laws in the United States.

00:42:56.000 And none of this is to say that there should be laws against transgender identity, transgender identification, or cross-dressing, or there should be laws against any other form of behavior that doesn't hurt anyone else.

00:43:08.000 But to be clear in our own minds,

00:43:11.000 Discrimination against identity is not the same as discrimination against behavior, and conflating the two merely confuses things.

00:43:17.000 Conflating the two is the end of law, it's the end of discrimination in a good sense, and it's the end of a civil society at large, because we can't make judgments about anything.

00:43:25.000 If we can't make judgments about anything, we can't live in a society together.

00:43:28.000 That is, in and of itself, a judgment.

00:43:30.000 It's a judgment that you can't make judgments.

00:43:32.000 And that's a problem, because we all make judgments about each other all the time.

00:43:36.000 OK, time for some things I like, and then some things I hate, and we'll do a very brief deconstruction of the culture.

00:43:42.000 I think so.

00:44:02.000 We're good to go!

00:44:29.000 Source

00:44:44.000 People who need a communal identity and an identity in relation to the cosmos. 0.94

00:44:49.000 We're not just brave warriors striking out into chaos.

00:44:52.000 We are also people who require a safe harbor of religion and a relationship with the transcendental that allows us to feel worthwhile.

00:45:01.000 The book is a little bit of a hard read, but it's a well worth it read.

00:45:05.000 Joseph Soloveitchik, Rahab Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith, check that out just in time for Easter or Passover. 0.80

00:45:10.000 It's equally applicable actually to both.

00:45:12.000 It's quite good.

00:45:12.000 Okay, other things, let's see.

00:45:14.000 Other things that I like.

00:45:15.000 Well, the U.S.

00:45:15.000 did expel 60 Russian diplomats.

00:45:17.000 So, over the weekend, the Trump administration announced that they were expelling 60 Russian diplomats after the Russians poisoned a guy in Salisbury, England.

00:45:26.000 They poisoned a former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.

00:45:30.000 And the United States has expelled 60 Russian diplomats from our country.

00:45:35.000 That, of course, is a worthwhile thing to do.

00:45:38.000 And it also gives light to the idea that Trump is not hard.

00:45:41.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:46:04.000 So the thing that I hate today is this really, really awful story.

00:46:07.000 There's an 85-year-old woman who was murdered in France.

00:46:11.000 She was a Holocaust survivor, and she was murdered by anti-Semites in France.

00:46:16.000 It's just a horrifying, horrifying story.

00:46:18.000 Of course, the police are saying that the motive was anti-Semitism.

00:46:20.000 They have not actually released the identities of the suspects.

00:46:24.000 Details were sparse.

00:46:25.000 A judicial official would only say that one of the suspects was born in 1989.

00:46:29.000 One woman's son said, We are really in shock.

00:46:31.000 I don't understand how someone could kill a woman who has no money and lives in a social housing complex.

00:46:36.000 Her son said that one of the suspects was like a sentinel and a frequent visitor who had come to her apartment the day of the fire.

00:46:43.000 And she was one of an estimated 7,000 French Jews rounded up in 1942 and held at the now-demolished Vel d'Hiv cycling track.

00:46:51.000 Most of those held were later deported to Auschwitz.

00:46:53.000 She ended up marrying a fellow Holocaust survivor, settling down in Paris, and she lived there until her death.

00:46:58.000 It's just horrifying.

00:46:59.000 And again, this was very much like the murder of Sarah Halimi, who is another Orthodox Jewish—she was a physicist and kindergarten teacher, and she was 66, and she was thrown from a window last year by anti-Semitic Muslims living in France.

00:47:12.000 Again, we don't know the identity of these particular people, but the rise in anti-Semitism across Europe is absolutely frightening, and Jews should leave.

00:47:20.000 Okay, they really should. 0.99

00:47:22.000 It's a sad thing to say, but I think the time for Jews to be able to live safely in Europe is once again over, which demonstrates that the never again sloganeering from the folks in Europe was a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:47:32.000 They've allowed a bunch of folks to move in who are fully happy murdering Jews, and it's despicable. 0.98

00:47:37.000 Okay, a quick deconstruction of the culture. 0.95

00:47:38.000 So, today,

00:47:41.000 We honor Cardi B. So we've already done Bodak Yellow, in which I tried to read through her glorious Robert Frost-like lyrics, but she actually did something that I love, okay?

00:47:50.000 She paid taxes.

00:47:51.000 And then when she paid taxes, she realized, hey, wait a second, taxes suck. 0.99

00:47:54.000 So here's Cardi B in the most eloquent rip on why taxes are garbage in modern American history. 0.97

00:48:00.000 I mean, this is better than anything since Ronald Reagan.

00:48:02.000 Here's Cardi B explaining that the government should not be taking our money.

00:48:06.000 So you know the government is taking 40% of my taxes and Uncle Sam I want to know what you're doing with my fucking tax money because you know what I'm saying like when you donate like when you donate to a kid from a foreign country they give you updates of

00:48:22.000 What they doing with your donation? 0.99

00:48:24.000 I want to know what you're doing with my fucking tax money because I'm from New York and the streets is always dirty. 0.99

00:48:29.000 We was voted the dirtiest city in America. 0.99

00:48:32.000 What is y'all doing?

00:48:33.000 There's still rats on the trains.

00:48:35.000 I know y'all not spending it in no prison because y'all be giving us like two underwears, one jumpsuit for like five months. 0.99

00:48:43.000 So what is y'all doing with my fucking money? 0.99

00:48:46.000 What is y'all doing with my fucking money? 1.00

00:48:48.000 I want to know. 1.00

00:48:49.000 I want receipts.

00:48:50.000 I want everything.

00:48:52.000 I want to know what you're doing with my money.

00:48:54.000 What is that doing with my money?

00:48:55.000 Uncle Sam, I want to know what you're doing with my money.

00:49:02.000 Yes, Cardi B. Yes.

00:49:05.000 Cardi B 2024.

00:49:07.000 Indeed.

00:49:08.000 Yes.

00:49:09.000 Correct?

00:49:10.000 This is the main question.

00:49:11.000 Now, Cardi B will go out and vote Democrat, I'm sure, like all of her other friends in Hollywood, because she's been told that that's what she has to do. 0.76

00:49:17.000 But Cardi B.

00:49:18.000 Let it be known.

00:49:19.000 You have worked hard for your money.

00:49:21.000 You've worked it, girl, with an E. And that means that you ought to be protective of your cash because the government is wasting your money, enormous quantities of it, on things like Social Security and Medicare that you're not going to need because your soup's rich.

00:49:35.000 Hey, there's no reason why the government should be taking that much of your money.

00:49:38.000 And you're right, New York is a steaming heap. 1.00

00:49:40.000 Okay, because Bill de Blasio's a garbage mayor. 0.99

00:49:42.000 And because they've done a terrible job keeping the upkeep in that city decent. 0.97

00:49:46.000 So, you know, thank God the crime rates are still low, but that's only because of the aftermath of Giuliani and Bloomberg.

00:49:52.000 In any case.

00:49:54.000 Cardi B, join us.

00:49:56.000 Join the revolution.

00:49:57.000 Okay? 0.98

00:49:58.000 Taxes suck. 0.97

00:49:59.000 You know it. 0.99

00:50:00.000 I know it.

00:50:01.000 Let's forge a partnership here.

00:50:02.000 Shapiro, Cardi B. We can make this happen.

00:50:05.000 We can bridge all the gaps.

00:50:06.000 We can bring America together around Uncle Sam.

00:50:08.000 Why are you taking our MFing taxes?

00:50:10.000 Where is my MFing money?

00:50:12.000 Where are the receipts?

00:50:13.000 I want them.

00:50:14.000 What the F?

00:50:16.000 Cardi B, ladies and gentlemen.

00:50:17.000 Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more.

00:50:21.000 Plus, we'll have a little bit of biblical analysis in the run-up to Easter and Passover.

00:50:24.000 So, lots of good stuff happening.

00:50:25.000 We will see you then.

00:50:26.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 27, 2018

Are Victims Sacrosanct? | Ep. 504

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