The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Folds | Ep. 797

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden reverses himself on public funding for abortion, President Trump reaches the verge of a major win on immigration, and we check the mailbag.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:08.000 We have a lot of news to cover today.

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00:01:40.000 The big news of the day is that the first cracks are appearing in Joe Biden's facade.

00:01:44.000 So Joe Biden obviously continues to lead in the polls.

00:01:47.000 According to the RealClearPolitics poll average, he is well ahead of the rest of the field at this point nationally.

00:01:53.000 But he has been dropping.

00:01:54.000 He's been dropping.

00:01:55.000 He was up near 40 percent in the RealClearPolitics poll average just a couple of weeks ago.

00:01:59.000 He's down to 34 percent.

00:02:01.000 In the RealClearPolitics poll average right now, he leads Bernie Sanders in Iowa by just 4%.

00:02:06.000 He's up on Bernie Sanders by about 13 points in New Hampshire, but there are no real late-breaking polls there, so my guess is that the lead is smaller than that.

00:02:14.000 And the reason that he's beginning to recede, he's beginning to regress back to the mean, is because Joe Biden is not a good candidate.

00:02:21.000 The problem for Joe Biden is this.

00:02:23.000 His pitch is basically, you know me.

00:02:25.000 You know, I'm old Joe, old Joe Biden.

00:02:29.000 And because I'm old Joe, you know, you've known me for 30 years.

00:02:33.000 I've been consistent.

00:02:34.000 I'm a rock of solidity in a time of instability.

00:02:37.000 You can feel comfortable with old Joe Biden.

00:02:39.000 Well, the only problem is that if the case that you are making is that you are a rock of solidity, you cannot be waving around like a palm tree in the wind.

00:02:48.000 You can't do that.

00:02:49.000 If the idea is that Donald Trump is too volatile, and that you are, again, going to be that safe harbor for Americans who just want something steady in a time of trouble, you're gonna be that ship that doesn't move with the waves, you're just gonna plow right on ahead through those eddies.

00:03:05.000 If you are that guy, you can't be the guy who switches your mind every five minutes out of pressure to the left.

00:03:11.000 Because now, many Americans are gonna feel that you are unstable, and many folks on the left are gonna feel that you are insincere.

00:03:17.000 See, what people are looking for in a candidate is a level of authenticity.

00:03:20.000 This is why Donald Trump was the nominee and why he's the president.

00:03:23.000 Because when it came right down to it, he has a level of authenticity that is well, that I think is rare in politics, and people see that.

00:03:33.000 That's interesting.

00:03:33.000 I was listening to another podcast by a guy named Larry Wilmore, who's a comedian and a comedian of the political left.

00:03:39.000 And he made a distinction that I thought was actually quite a good distinction.

00:03:42.000 The distinction was he was talking about politics and he said there are three types of people in politics.

00:03:47.000 There are the truth tellers, people who say things that you don't want to hear, but are true.

00:03:50.000 And then there are people who are honest. 0.95

00:03:52.000 And then there are people who just spout bullcrap. 0.64

00:03:54.000 Bullcrap are people who just say what they think you want to hear. 0.99

00:03:57.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, perfect example of the bullcrap candidate.

00:04:00.000 The candidate who just wants to say whatever it is that you want her to say.

00:04:05.000 And then there's the honest candidate.

00:04:06.000 The honest candidate isn't necessarily honest about the situation, but is honest to their feelings.

00:04:12.000 So they're saying what is in their heart.

00:04:14.000 And this is very attractive to Americans because usually these are the only two choices available.

00:04:18.000 And sometimes honesty beats the third choice, truth-telling, because if truth-telling amounts to, I'm going to tell you something you don't want to hear, people don't want to hear that stuff.

00:04:26.000 And they also don't want to hear BS.

00:04:27.000 They don't want to feel like they're being pandered to.

00:04:29.000 So what they're looking for is somebody who mostly tells them the things that they kind of like, but somebody who says what is in their heart, because now we can get a glimpse at the real you, right?

00:04:38.000 That is Donald Trump's appeal.

00:04:39.000 Well, Joe Biden is a master BSer.

00:04:42.000 As Larry Wilmore says, and he's exactly right about this.

00:04:44.000 Joe Biden is a B.S.

00:04:46.000 artist.

00:04:47.000 And the problem is you cannot beat honesty with a B.S.

00:04:50.000 artist.

00:04:50.000 You can only beat honesty with somebody else who is perceived as honest.

00:04:54.000 And this is the case that the radical left is making.

00:04:56.000 They're saying, listen, of all of our candidates, the guy who is the most honest is Bernie Sanders.

00:05:00.000 Now, the left is having to determine whether Elizabeth Warren is honest or whether she is a B.S. 0.88

00:05:04.000 or to them, whether she's just telling the radical left.

00:05:07.000 Whether she's just telling the radical left what they want to hear.

00:05:10.000 But one thing is becoming eminently clear.

00:05:12.000 In the first few weeks of his campaign, Joe Biden, who portrays himself as Honest Joe, a guy who gaffes into honesty, but he's honest and he's solid, he is none of those things.

00:05:22.000 He is a BS artist who will shift all of his opinions on a moment's notice if he receives any sort of pressure.

00:05:28.000 Today's example, Joe Biden has now caved on the Hyde Amendment.

00:05:31.000 So the Hyde Amendment, for those who don't know, is an amendment that was passed in the 1990s to a federal bill.

00:05:38.000 It has been attached in virtually every appropriations bill since and has been continuously enforced for 20 some years.

00:05:43.000 The Hyde Amendment says there will be no federal funding for abortion.

00:05:46.000 So if federal funds are available for a clinic, the clinic has to make sure that it is not using those federal funds for abortion.

00:05:52.000 So Planned Parenthood gets funding from the federal government, but they have to pledge that that money is not going to be used for abortion.

00:05:58.000 Now, the reason that this isn't helpful when it comes to Planned Parenthood is because Planned Parenthood is an abortion clinic.

00:06:03.000 So that means that all the money is fungible.

00:06:05.000 Any cost that they defray from federal funding in one area, they can then use money Money from another source and then put it into sponsoring abortion.

00:06:13.000 With that said, the Hyde Amendment is obviously a very good part of law.

00:06:16.000 And the reason it's a good part of law is because you should not be paying for somebody else's abortion, obviously.

00:06:22.000 You know who used to agree with this?

00:06:23.000 So here is a brief history of Joe Biden on this issue.

00:06:23.000 Was Joe Biden.

00:06:26.000 I'm going to tell you the history and then we'll play some audio of Joe Biden backing up the case.

00:06:30.000 David Harsanyi of The Federalist puts this out there.

00:06:34.000 In 1976, Biden voted for the Hyde Amendment, a law banning federal funds to pay for abortion.

00:06:40.000 In 1981, the Biden Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act banned any American aid from being used in research related to abortions.

00:06:46.000 In 1984, Biden supported the Mexico City Policy, which bans federal funding for private organizations that provide abortion, advocate to decriminalize abortion, or expand abortion services.

00:06:56.000 In 1993, Biden voted to save the Hyde Amendment.

00:06:59.000 In 1995 and 1997, Biden voted for partial birth abortion bans that would be vetoed by Bill Clinton.

00:07:07.000 On June 5, 2019, Joe Biden continued his 40-plus year support for the Hyde Amendment.

00:07:13.000 In fact, I have right before me a New York Times piece that we talked about just two days ago.

00:07:17.000 Two days ago!

00:07:19.000 The title of it was, Biden Still Backs Hyde Amendment, Which Bans Federal Funds for Abortions.

00:07:24.000 And that piece discussed an exchange that Joe Biden had regarding the Hyde Amendment.

00:07:29.000 He was asked by the ACLU whether he still supported the Hyde Amendment.

00:07:33.000 And he said, no, I no longer support the Hyde Amendment.

00:07:36.000 And then he reversed himself again.

00:07:37.000 So back in 2007, here was Joe Biden talking about public funding for abortion on Meet the Press.

00:07:42.000 Are you still opposed to public funding for abortion?

00:07:44.000 I still am opposed to public funding for abortion.

00:07:47.000 And the reason I am is, again, it goes to the question of whether or not you are going to impose a view to support something that is not a guaranteed right, but an affirmative action to promote.

00:07:59.000 OK, so that was Joe Biden's perspective and that remained his perspective from 1976 all the way to 2019.

00:08:06.000 Then about a month ago, he was asked this question by a member of the ACLU on the Hyde Amendment.

00:08:11.000 And here's what he had to say.

00:08:12.000 This is May 4th, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina.

00:08:16.000 I heard you did, but I'm glad you just said you would commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment.

00:08:24.000 Yes.

00:08:24.000 It can't stay.

00:08:25.000 And by the way, ACLU member, I got a near perfect voting record my entire career.

00:08:29.000 I heard you did, but I'm glad you just said you would commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment.

00:08:34.000 Right now, it has to be.

00:08:36.000 It can't stay.

00:08:37.000 It can stay.

00:08:38.000 That's what he said.

00:08:40.000 And then about three weeks later, he was asked about it again.

00:08:43.000 It started to become an issue.

00:08:44.000 And he said, no, no, no, no.

00:08:45.000 I still am in favor of the Hyde Amendment. 0.96

00:08:47.000 The Hyde Amendment is still a very good thing. 1.00

00:08:50.000 He said, oh, you know what?

00:08:51.000 I screwed this up.

00:08:51.000 What I meant is the Mexico City policy, which he also used to vote in favor of.

00:08:55.000 Now he says he's not in favor of the Mexico City policy, but he's still in favor of the Hyde Amendment.

00:08:59.000 And this brought him under fire.

00:09:00.000 From Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who tweeted, Repealing the Hyde Amendment is critical so that low-income women in particular can have access to the reproductive care they need and deserve. 0.99

00:09:09.000 Reproductive rights are human rights, period. 0.96

00:09:11.000 They should be non-negotiable for all Democrats.

00:09:13.000 Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said, There's no middle ground on women's rights. 1.00

00:09:17.000 Abortion is a constitutional right. 0.84

00:09:19.000 Under my Medicare for All plan, we will repeal the Hyde Amendment.

00:09:23.000 Senator Elizabeth Warren said, this isn't about politics. 1.00

00:09:26.000 This is about what's right.

00:09:27.000 She said, hair are moving.

00:09:28.000 The Hyde Amendment should not be American law.

00:09:32.000 And CNN's Dana Bash said, well, listen, all of this may be true, CNN's Dana Bash, but Biden's not going to change his mind.

00:09:38.000 She said this yesterday.

00:09:39.000 Yesterday.

00:09:40.000 OK, here's Dana Bash.

00:09:42.000 The Democratic Party has moved over the last four years and even a little bit before that.

00:09:47.000 But Joe Biden hasn't.

00:09:49.000 I've done some reporting on this today and I am told explicitly that it is Joe Biden himself who says, this is my conviction and I'm not changing it.

00:09:57.000 This is how I have felt and this is how I have voted for my four decades in public service and I'm not changing, despite the fact that the party clearly has changed.

00:10:09.000 Okay, that was Dana Bash yesterday on CNN.

00:10:11.000 He's clearly not changing.

00:10:12.000 He's not going to change.

00:10:13.000 And then Elizabeth Warren says, let's repeal the Hyde Amendment. 1.00

00:10:16.000 Here she was on MSNBC yesterday saying, we need to get rid of the Hyde Amendment. 0.98

00:10:19.000 By the way, she's voted in favor of the Hyde Amendment several times because it's attached to virtually every appropriations bill.

00:10:24.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren explaining.

00:10:26.000 Former Vice President Joe Biden came out and said that he would not support repealing the Hyde Amendment.

00:10:32.000 That is a provision of federal law that bars the federal government from funding abortion services from Medicare, Medicaid, and others.

00:10:39.000 You disagree with that position.

00:10:41.000 Yes, I do.

00:10:42.000 Is Joe Biden wrong?

00:10:44.000 Yes.

00:10:44.000 And what do you say if someone says, no, this is the smart political move if you need to win in a general election to support the Hyde Amendment?

00:10:51.000 This is not about politics.

00:10:52.000 What this is about is about healthcare, about reproductive freedom, about economic freedom, and about equal opportunity for all women.

00:11:02.000 Okay, now this would be the point where Joe Biden stands up and he says, no.

00:11:06.000 You know, the Hyde Amendment is good law. 1.00

00:11:07.000 The reason the Hyde Amendment is good law is because it ensures that a taxpayer who disagrees with abortion in Georgia does not have to pay for somebody getting an abortion in New York.

00:11:18.000 He could stand up tall if you're going to portray yourself as the moderate in the race, if you're going to portray yourself as the guy who can unite all Americans.

00:11:25.000 This would be a great moment to have a sister soldier moment, as Bill Clinton supposedly had, and you're supposed to stand up and say to your radical left flank, guys, hold up a minute.

00:11:33.000 I agree with you about abortion, but I don't agree with you that somebody else is supposed to fund somebody else's abortions, right?

00:11:38.000 This would be the moment when Joe Biden distinguishes himself from the field.

00:11:41.000 Joe Biden really shows the American people why he's different from the rest of these jokers, why you should trust him, why he should be earning 40% here, why he should be looking at the presidency straight in the face.

00:11:53.000 This would be the moment for Joe Biden.

00:11:55.000 So what does he do?

00:11:56.000 He collapses like a house of cards.

00:11:57.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:13:08.000 So Joe Biden has the opportunity now to stand up to his radical left base based on 46 years of a consistent position on federal funding of abortion.

00:13:17.000 And this is a position, by the way, that is widely popular with Americans.

00:13:21.000 Most Americans are not in favor of federal funding of abortion.

00:13:24.000 This is particularly true in a lot of the swing states that Joe Biden needs to win.

00:13:27.000 This is true in Pennsylvania.

00:13:28.000 It's true in Wisconsin.

00:13:29.000 It's true in Michigan.

00:13:30.000 It's true in Ohio.

00:13:31.000 It's true in Florida.

00:13:33.000 Even people who tend to be kind of pro-choice, or at least don't want full pro-life bills on the table, even those people say, you know what seems like a pretty good solution here?

00:13:42.000 Pay for your own abortion. 1.00

00:13:44.000 I'm not going to pay for your abortion. 1.00

00:13:45.000 Nobody else has to pay for your abortion. 1.00

00:13:46.000 This is pretty solid middle ground.

00:13:48.000 Joe Biden gets a little bit of pressure from the left.

00:13:50.000 And by a little, I mean a few tweets.

00:13:51.000 I mean, Kirsten Gillibrand tweets at him.

00:13:53.000 I mean, Elizabeth Warren says a thing.

00:13:55.000 I mean, Bernie Sanders says a thing.

00:13:57.000 And by the way, Joe Biden can fight back against all of these people except for Bernie Sanders.

00:14:01.000 Because next time Elizabeth Warren says this, he can say, listen, Elizabeth, you voted for this thing.

00:14:05.000 He can say, listen, Kirsten, for all your talk, I've been standing up for abortion rights for years and years and years.

00:14:11.000 You just voted for the Hyde Amendment like two days ago in 2018.

00:14:15.000 Instead, overnight, Joe Biden flips and then flops and then flips again.

00:14:20.000 So in May, he says, yeah, you know what, no more Hyde Amendment.

00:14:22.000 Then he flips back and he says, no, the Hyde Amendment's good. 0.67

00:14:25.000 Now, I meant the Mexico City policy, guys.

00:14:27.000 I mean, you can understand how I would mix up the Hyde Amendment and the Mexico City policy.

00:14:31.000 I mean, they sound exactly the same.

00:14:33.000 Like the words Hyde Amendment and Mexico City policy, resemblance.

00:14:37.000 I mean, if I've ever heard something that is ripe for confusion, it is those two terms.

00:14:42.000 But does he stand up to his original position and just say, yeah, that was a that was a boo boo?

00:14:47.000 No, he doesn't.

00:14:48.000 Instead, he folds.

00:14:50.000 He folds.

00:14:51.000 I mean, this dude folds more often than an origami set.

00:14:54.000 It's incredible.

00:14:56.000 It's incredible.

00:14:57.000 He is more flexible than the USA gymnastics team.

00:14:59.000 So here is Joe Biden yesterday explaining That he has now shifted his position on the Hyde Amendment after 46 years.

00:15:06.000 This is sheer political cowardice, and it undermines his case to be president.

00:15:10.000 His case to be president is that he stands like a rock where he believes that he doesn't change based on the prevailing winds, that pressure from outside groups is not going to shift him or move him, that he is the moderate in the race who understands the heart of Americans. 0.88

00:15:23.000 Instead, he gets a little bit of pressure from a crazy old loon like Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, and suddenly he moves.

00:15:29.000 It's amazing.

00:15:31.000 I don't see so many Republican governors denying health care to millions of the poorest and most vulnerable Americans by refusing even Medicaid expansion.

00:15:41.000 I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right. 0.82

00:15:51.000 If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone else.

00:15:59.000 Wow.

00:16:01.000 So what's his excuse?

00:16:02.000 His excuse is the Republicans, which is hilarious.

00:16:05.000 So his new excuse is, oh, you know what?

00:16:07.000 I'm seeing these pro-life bills being passed in Georgia and Alabama, and that means I have to support federal funding of abortion.

00:16:13.000 What?

00:16:15.000 Why?

00:16:16.000 Why?

00:16:16.000 I mean, that logic doesn't even hold.

00:16:18.000 You know, there are lots of pro-lifers all across the United States.

00:16:21.000 And those pro-lifers have been pro-life for Joe Biden's entire career.

00:16:25.000 And it is also true that there are certain states with more abortion restrictions than others.

00:16:28.000 This has also been true over the course of Joe Biden's career. 0.92

00:16:30.000 Don't give me this crap where Joe Biden switched his position because Republicans are doing things. 1.00

00:16:35.000 Joe Biden switched his position because he's a coward. 1.00

00:16:38.000 Because the knees buckled. 0.94

00:16:40.000 Because Joe Biden stared directly into the face of the hard left, and instead of making the stand that would have allowed Joe Biden to continue to portray himself as a moderate in the face of this radical left group inside his own party, instead he decided that he was going to try to co-opt that left part of the party.

00:16:55.000 It ain't gonna work, guys.

00:16:56.000 It's not gonna work.

00:16:57.000 If you're on Joe Biden's campaign, and so far your entire campaign has been a series of apologies and hiding, He's like the Bonnie and Clyde of the campaign trail.

00:17:07.000 He pops out to apologize and then he flees back into his car into the backwoods.

00:17:12.000 And then he pops out again to apologize.

00:17:14.000 If that's your idea of a campaign, that you hide and then apologize and then you hide some more and then you apologize, do you really think that Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, these folks are going to let up?

00:17:23.000 You really think Kamala Harris is going to go, is suddenly going to be kind to you?

00:17:27.000 Is that what they think?

00:17:28.000 Because here's the thing, Biden's been doing this consistently.

00:17:31.000 Hey, this is now a pattern.

00:17:32.000 It's not just on the Hyde Amendment.

00:17:33.000 This is the most obvious example where he flipped and then flopped and then flipped.

00:17:36.000 I mean, dude was basically like a dolphin out of water, flipping and flopping all around.

00:17:42.000 But this is not the first time that Joe Biden has done this in this campaign.

00:17:45.000 Back in January, Joe Biden trying to shore up his black support He said in remarks at a Martin Luther King Jr.

00:17:52.000 breakfast that he had made mistakes when it came to criminal justice issues.

00:17:55.000 He says, You know, I've been in this fight a long time.

00:17:58.000 It goes not just to voting rights.

00:17:59.000 It goes to the criminal justice system.

00:18:01.000 I haven't always been right.

00:18:02.000 I know we haven't always gotten things right, but I've always tried.

00:18:07.000 He's still coming out now and quasi defending the 1994 crime bill, which, by the way, was a good bill.

00:18:13.000 Crime rates in the United States were skyrocketing.

00:18:15.000 The 1994 crime bill went into effect with mandatory minimums and more policing resources available, and the crime rates began to drop, and they have continued to drop to today.

00:18:24.000 It's one of the great reversals of crime in the history of the United States.

00:18:28.000 Joe Biden is running away from his own record on that.

00:18:30.000 Now, Joe Biden is doing exactly what he's done on the Hyde Amendment, which is he's still maintaining today that the 1994 crime bill was necessary and good, and he's sort of defending it.

00:18:39.000 Within two months, he will deny that he had anything to do with it.

00:18:42.000 Within two months, he will suggest that the 1994 crime bill may have been a necessary preventative measure at the time, but it was a bad bill, and he never should have supported it, and oopsie whoopsie daisy.

00:18:52.000 That's where this is going.

00:18:54.000 How do we know that?

00:18:54.000 Because he'll do this on even the simplest things.

00:18:57.000 Even the simplest, stupidest things. 1.00

00:18:59.000 He will reverse himself like a damned coward. 1.00

00:19:02.000 What kind of simple, stupid things? 1.00

00:19:04.000 How about calling Mike Pence a nice guy? 1.00

00:19:05.000 I mean, this is ridiculous. 0.95

00:19:07.000 Now, I've spoken. 0.60

00:19:09.000 With a bevy of Republicans who know Joe Biden, the vast majority of them say that Joe Biden is a nice guy.

00:19:15.000 They say that he is a decent guy.

00:19:16.000 They disagree with him on politics.

00:19:19.000 You know, we had Senator Ted Cruz in here on Daily Wire backstage and Senator Cruz talked about Joe Biden.

00:19:24.000 He said he's a very nice guy.

00:19:25.000 Everybody gets along with Joe Biden, right?

00:19:28.000 Everybody does.

00:19:28.000 So no one on the right side of the aisle really has a problem saying that Joe Biden is a decent guy.

00:19:34.000 Well, Joe Biden called Mike Pence a decent guy.

00:19:37.000 This is something you are no longer allowed to do.

00:19:39.000 If you are a member of the hard left, or you kowtow to the hard left, if you call somebody on the right a decent person, you are now to be excoriated, you are to be cast out of the tent.

00:19:47.000 So Joe Biden, earlier last year, he called Mike Pence a decent guy, and he got ripped for it.

00:19:52.000 Here's what it sounded like when he was actually being a decent human by calling Mike Pence a person with whom he disagrees, a decent fellow.

00:19:57.000 I was followed on by a guy who's a decent guy, our vice president.

00:20:04.000 who stood before this group of allies and leaders and said, I'm here on behalf of President Trump.

00:20:13.000 And there was dead silence.

00:20:17.000 Dead silence.

00:20:19.000 So even in the midst of ripping Pence, he says that Pence is a decent guy.

00:20:23.000 Cynthia Nixon, a failed gubernatorial candidate in New York, who's a radical, she tweeted out, Joe Biden, you've called you've called America's most anti LGBT elected leader a decent guy.

00:20:34.000 Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community.

00:20:37.000 And then she tweeted, Joe Biden's wife.

00:20:41.000 And Joe Biden then kowtowed, just like he did with regard to the Hyde Amendment, a little bit of pressure from Cynthia Nixon, and boom, he falls down.

00:20:49.000 Instead of him just saying, listen, Mike Pence is a decent guy, we disagree on politics, which would be the normal, right thing to say.

00:20:56.000 Instead, he caved immediately.

00:20:57.000 He tweeted out, "You're right, Cynthia.

00:20:59.000 "I was making a point in a foreign policy context "that under normal circumstances, "a vice president wouldn't be given a silent reaction "on the world stage.

00:21:06.000 "But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, "and that includes the vice president." So he goes from, "Mike Pence is a decent guy," to, "Mike Pence is an indecent guy," based on a Cynthia Nixon tweet.

00:21:17.000 "This is your idol of stability, Democrats?

00:21:22.000 This is the person that you're going to put up as a as a solid counter to the chaos of President Trump, a guy who switches his positions every five seconds, depending on the amount of pressure that he receives.

00:21:34.000 Americans are going to perceive this.

00:21:35.000 This Hyde Amendment thing is not just about the Hyde Amendment.

00:21:38.000 This Hyde Amendment thing is about something much more.

00:21:40.000 I'll talk about it in just a second.

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00:22:51.000 So, as I say, what this says about Joe Biden goes far beyond the Hyde Amendment.

00:22:57.000 It goes to the core of his candidacy.

00:22:59.000 He says he is the most electable guy.

00:23:01.000 The reason he is supposedly electable is, again, because he is Captain Stability.

00:23:06.000 He's not a kook like Bernie Sanders. 1.00

00:23:08.000 He's not a wild-eyed like Elizabeth Warren.

00:23:11.000 He's not an unknown like Kamala Harris.

00:23:13.000 And he's certainly not chaotic like that terrible President Trump.

00:23:16.000 He's Old Slow Joe.

00:23:18.000 But, when he looks doddering, when he looks as though he can be pushed around by anybody on his side of the aisle, How do you think he's going to face up against President Trump in a general elect matchup?

00:23:27.000 It's pretty impressive to see a man destroy his entire case for qualification on the basis of having to please the radical left.

00:23:35.000 If there's any question who's in control of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden just answered it.

00:23:39.000 Joe Biden and the so-called moderates, they ain't in control of this Democratic Party anymore.

00:23:43.000 All of that is over.

00:23:44.000 The people who are in control of the Democratic Party are indeed radical, and they are only going to get more radical.

00:23:50.000 I'm talking about folks like Cory Booker.

00:23:53.000 So Cory Booker is not in control of the Democratic Party, nor is he going to win the Democratic nomination.

00:23:57.000 But Cory Booker is basically souped up Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:24:00.000 Wherever he thinks the money is, that is where he will go.

00:24:03.000 And so Cory Booker, who used to be perceived, again, as a moderate who could reach across the aisle.

00:24:07.000 Again, I know senators who deal with Cory Booker.

00:24:09.000 They say he's a very friendly guy.

00:24:10.000 They say he's a nice guy.

00:24:11.000 But Cory Booker moves with the wind.

00:24:14.000 There is no I am Spartacus moment for Spartacus over here.

00:24:17.000 There is none.

00:24:18.000 OK, because Spartacus is about standing up in the face of pressure.

00:24:21.000 Cory Booker has never done that his entire career.

00:24:23.000 There was Cory Booker pandering on the basis of the Hyde Amendment and suggesting that you're racist if you don't support the Hyde Amendment.

00:24:28.000 It was this kind of rhetoric that drove Joe Biden to disown his own position.

00:24:32.000 This assault on women's reproductive rights is an assault on women, but it's a particularly assault on African-American women. 0.80

00:24:43.000 And the Hyde Amendment to deny people through Medicaid and Medicare abortion rights, that is an assault on African American women too. 0.98

00:24:53.000 God, he is so terrible.

00:24:54.000 I mean, just as a candidate, he's so terrible. 0.94

00:24:58.000 I mean, he is the spinal tap speaker.

00:24:59.000 It's always up to 11, man.

00:25:00.000 You could've just made 10 higher.

00:25:02.000 Nope, you gotta go to 11.

00:25:03.000 That's Cory Booker.

00:25:04.000 All over.

00:25:05.000 And when I say he goes to 11, I mean, I know this is a side point, but when Cory Booker goes to 11, there is something innately hysterical about somebody who is hysterical, and Cory Booker getting hysterical in the most calculated possible fashion.

00:25:17.000 He's basically like a jukebox of anger.

00:25:20.000 Like, you take a quarter and you drop it in, and you wait for the quarter to drop, And suddenly, the volume is up too loud?

00:25:26.000 That's Cory Booker.

00:25:26.000 So here we go.

00:25:27.000 We're gonna drop the coin in.

00:25:28.000 Clink!

00:25:30.000 Make this a movement election that activates the consciousness of a country that brings out everybody from the sidelines of a democracy to getting on the field, joining together in unison, in collective voice and say, I too dream of America.

00:25:44.000 If we do like that, then we won't just win an election.

00:25:48.000 We will change neighborhoods from coast to coast.

00:25:51.000 Communities like mine will see a nation where justice does roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

00:25:58.000 Oh, sorry, the jukebox ran out right there.

00:26:00.000 Sorry, the quarter ran out.

00:26:01.000 We'll have to get another quarter later and then see if we can tune up the Cory Booker anger jukebox again with just dropping a coin.

00:26:07.000 But here's the thing.

00:26:08.000 This is contagious.

00:26:09.000 Even the folks who were supposed to campaign as moderates have been taken over by the far left policies.

00:26:14.000 Pete Buttigieg, when he first announced, I said he was one of the more attractive Democratic candidates because he seemed like a person who actually wanted to get along and have conversations.

00:26:24.000 And then, of course, he has run directly to the left.

00:26:27.000 I mean, it's incredible.

00:26:29.000 All Democrats have to do to win in 2020.

00:26:31.000 I don't mean to give them advice because I don't want them to win.

00:26:33.000 But all Democrats have to do in 2020 is run directly at the finish line.

00:26:37.000 The finish line is right here.

00:26:38.000 All they have to do is run directly at the finish line.

00:26:40.000 And it's like they let the horse out of the gate at the Belmont and the horse runs directly into the center lane.

00:26:45.000 I mean, it just runs directly into the rail.

00:26:47.000 That's what's happening right here.

00:26:50.000 They're in a swim meet.

00:26:51.000 All they have to do is swim straight.

00:26:52.000 And instead, like, oh, look, the lane line.

00:26:54.000 I'm going to run right at that.

00:26:56.000 So they let Pete Buttigieg out of the gate.

00:26:57.000 He's like, I got my eye on the prize.

00:26:59.000 There's the finish line right there.

00:27:00.000 Just going to run right for that finish line.

00:27:03.000 Runs right off the road. 1.00

00:27:04.000 Here's Pete Buttigieg running off the road by suggesting that Stacey Abrams is the legitimate governor of Georgia, which is just a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:27:10.000 But he's speaking in front of the African-American Leadership Summit. 0.96

00:27:13.000 And so we have to pretend that a lady who lost an election by 55,000 votes is the actual elected governor of Georgia. 0.96

00:27:18.000 Stacey Abrams ought to be the governor of Georgia. 1.00

00:27:24.000 When racially motivated voter suppression is permitted, when districts are drawn so that politicians get to choose their voters instead of the other way around, when money is allowed to outvote people in this country, we cannot truly say that we live in a democracy.

00:27:41.000 And it is time for us to stand up for democracy, not just because our party tends to do better when more people are allowed to vote, But because every American will be better off when our democracy lives up a little more to its ideals.

00:27:55.000 Okay, this is the supposed moderate in the party pretending that voter suppression prevented Stacey Abrams from winning the governorship, which is just a bunch of hooey.

00:28:02.000 Joe Biden could have distinguished himself.

00:28:05.000 He could have distinguished himself in this field.

00:28:07.000 He chose not to distinguish himself in the field.

00:28:09.000 He figures, with a high level of name recognition, that he can run directly back to the pack.

00:28:14.000 It's unreal.

00:28:16.000 It's unreal.

00:28:17.000 All he had to do was not be this.

00:28:20.000 And he can't stop himself.

00:28:21.000 And here's the thing.

00:28:22.000 He's not really this.

00:28:23.000 And people are going to detect that.

00:28:25.000 Going back to that tripartite distinction, that BS, honesty, truth-teller distinction.

00:28:30.000 Ain't nobody in the Democratic Party doing serious truth-telling.

00:28:32.000 A lot of folks in the Democratic Party doing BSing.

00:28:35.000 There are a couple of people who are honest.

00:28:37.000 And if I have to pit the honesty of or purported honesty of Elizabeth Warren on leftist principles or Bernie Sanders on leftist principles against Joe Biden, who now appears to be a BS-er, it feels to me like Joe Biden is set for a fall.

00:28:50.000 I think there's a reason he is receding back to the field.

00:28:53.000 And there ain't no second win for Joe Biden.

00:28:55.000 Dude's got a front run all the way.

00:28:57.000 If he ever drops back into the field, he is toast.

00:29:00.000 If he ever drops back into the pack, he is finished.

00:29:03.000 And we are beginning to see this happen in a lot of these polls.

00:29:07.000 His lead in a lot of these polls is dropping precipitously.

00:29:10.000 Again, that RealClearPolitics poll average has him dropping.

00:29:14.000 It has him dropping.

00:29:16.000 He was at, in the latest Economist poll that came out on June 4th, has him all the way down to 27%.

00:29:26.000 He's not going to win this thing at 27%.

00:29:27.000 It ain't going to happen.

00:29:29.000 So, in a second, we're going to get to a victory, a maybe victory for President Trump on tariffs.

00:29:35.000 Maybe I will have to admit that I was wrong.

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00:30:58.000 You know, it was a strategy that I doubted, but if it works out, if it works out, then big win for President Trump.

00:31:03.000 We'll get to that in just a second first.

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00:33:50.000 All righty, so in other news, as you know, I've been highly critical of President Trump's tariff strategy with regard to Mexico.

00:34:03.000 I was very skeptical that the president threatening 5% tariffs, then 10, then 15, then 25% tariffs on Mexican goods by October was going to actually drive the government of Mexico to start making moves to stop illegal immigration into the United States.

00:34:18.000 I was skeptical also because President Trump has always been kind of unclear on whether he uses tariffs as a leverage mechanism or whether he just likes tariffs.

00:34:26.000 Now his supporters will say it's a leverage mechanism and he sort of pretends to like tariffs to show that he's not bluffing.

00:34:32.000 Fair enough.

00:34:33.000 It seems in this case that might actually be true in which case I would owe the president an apology because I've been ripping on the policy.

00:34:39.000 Here is what the Washington Post reports today.

00:34:41.000 Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing the United States to deport Central American asylum seekers.

00:34:50.000 They report U.S. 0.96

00:34:51.000 and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give the United States far more latitude to deport Central Americans seeking asylum, according to a U.S.

00:35:02.000 official and a Mexican official who cautioned the accord is not final and Trump might not accept it.

00:35:07.000 Faced with Trump's threat to impose steadily rising tariffs on goods imported from Mexico beginning on Monday, Mexican officials have pledged to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the area of the country's border with Guatemala, a show of force they say will immediately reduce the number of Central Americans heading north toward the U.S.

00:35:22.000 border.

00:35:23.000 In other words, they're going to stop people at their southern border so they don't come up to America's southern border. 0.73

00:35:27.000 The plan, a sweeping overhaul of asylum rules across the region, would require Central American migrants to seek refuge in the first country they leave, they enter after leaving their homeland, the two officials say.

00:35:37.000 Which makes some sense.

00:35:38.000 In other words, if you are seeking to avoid Guatemala because of human rights conditions in Guatemala, then why do you have to come to the United States for that?

00:35:45.000 Why would not applying for asylum in Mexico be sufficient?

00:35:48.000 You're not going to be persecuted, presumably, in Mexico, the same way you are in your home country.

00:35:52.000 For Guatemalans, that would be Mexico. 0.73

00:35:53.000 For migrants from Honduras and El Salvador, that would be Guatemala.

00:35:56.000 His government held talks last week with acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan.

00:36:01.000 Any migrants who made it to the U.S.

00:36:02.000 border generally would be deported to the appropriate third country.

00:36:05.000 Any migrants who express a fear of death or torture in their home country would be subjected to a tougher screening standard by U.S.

00:36:10.000 asylum officers more likely to result in rejection because one of the things that's been happening is hundreds of thousands of people appeal for asylum on America's southern border and then We have to take them in by U.S.

00:36:21.000 law, and then we just sort of release them, and they never show up again.

00:36:24.000 Or they show up at their first check-in, and then they just stick around and get a provisional green card.

00:36:29.000 Mexico has repeatedly said it would not accept what is known as a safe third-country agreement with the United States, requiring it to take in all U.S.-bound asylum seekers.

00:36:36.000 The U.S.

00:36:37.000 has such a pact with Canada, it requires asylum seekers to apply for refuge in whichever country they first arrive, since both countries are considered safe.

00:36:44.000 On Thursday, the Mexican official said the Mexican government indicated it's willing to make asylum changes for the sake of a coordinated regional approach to stem the flow of Central American migrants now flooding into the United States.

00:36:55.000 But Mexican negotiators also made it clear they will withdraw the offer if Trump makes good on his threat to impose tariffs, telling their U.S.

00:37:01.000 counterparts the economic damage would undermine Mexico's ability to pay for the tougher immigration enforcement.

00:37:07.000 Well, here's what it sounds like.

00:37:08.000 It sounds like President Trump threatening the tariff got results in like two weeks.

00:37:12.000 Which is an incredible win for President Trump, if all of this is verifiable.

00:37:17.000 So, this could be a huge win for President Trump.

00:37:20.000 And if he was able to leverage the Mexican government into a third party agreement, that is pretty astonishing.

00:37:26.000 A safe third country agreement, that's a pretty astonishing result for basically a Twitter threat.

00:37:33.000 Under existing trade rules, of course, the vast majority of U.S.-Mexico trade is duty-free.

00:37:36.000 A sudden shift to tariffs on all Mexican products would overwhelm the companies that move imports through U.S.

00:37:41.000 customs checks.

00:37:42.000 Now, again, this is a heavy bet by President Trump.

00:37:45.000 And the fact is that President Trump should take the win.

00:37:50.000 Should take the win.

00:37:52.000 Trump officials have told Mexico that their prior pledges are not enough, making it clear that the White House will be only satisfied with a return to the numbers tallied in the months after Trump was inaugurated, when arrests fell below 20,000, the lowest level in half a century.

00:38:07.000 Trump said he had still not made up his mind.

00:38:08.000 He said something pretty dramatic could happen.

00:38:10.000 He said, we've told Mexico the tariffs go on, and I mean it, too.

00:38:14.000 Trump also dismissed Republican senators' threat to block his tariff plan, saying they have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to tariffs.

00:38:20.000 This is the part where I'm always a little disquieted, because Trump appears to actually like tariffs.

00:38:23.000 He's been pretty consistent about it since the 1980s.

00:38:26.000 But again, if these are used as leverage, then, and he successfully does that, then it's a gambit, it's a big bet that pays off for the president, and he gets the credit.

00:38:36.000 He definitely gets the credit.

00:38:37.000 So, on that one, if he, listen, results are results, and if the president gets results, good for him.

00:38:43.000 Good for him.

00:38:44.000 He's going to need results on this one because if he doesn't get, when I say it's a big bet, what I mean is that the economy seems to be slowing.

00:38:50.000 So if he doesn't get the results that he is seeking and the tariffs do go into place, then it's going to get dicey for him.

00:38:56.000 Job growth numbers sputtered in May, but people think that the Fed is going to loosen the monetary supply.

00:39:03.000 According to the Washington Post, hiring cooled in May, the Labor Department reported on Friday as firms appeared more hesitant to bring on new employees amid the uncertainty and concern over President Trump escalating the trade war with China.

00:39:13.000 The U.S. economy added some 75,000 jobs in May, a significant pullback from 224,000 jobs added in April.

00:39:20.000 That is likely to heighten fears that the trade war is taking a greater toll.

00:39:24.000 The unemployment rate remains at a five decade low of 3.6%.

00:39:26.000 There's anemic job growth in manufacturing and construction.

00:39:31.000 A lot of folks are worried about the tariffs.

00:39:33.000 So as I say, this is a high risk, high reward play for the president.

00:39:36.000 If the tariffs don't go into effect and we get some actual results on illegal immigration, huge win, huge win for President Trump.

00:39:44.000 It's time for some mailbags.

00:39:44.000 All righty.

00:39:46.000 So it's Friday.

00:39:47.000 We've got to answer some questions.

00:39:48.000 Let's do it.

00:39:48.000 Benjamin says, long time listener.

00:39:50.000 I just subscribed for the first time because it seems more important than ever to financially support shows and websites like The Daily Wire to fight back the heckler's veto.

00:39:57.000 Well, I appreciate it.

00:39:58.000 Thank you for subscribing.

00:39:59.000 As I've been saying to everyone, you need to subscribe to your favorite shows right now because the left is intent on making them unavailable or destroying their profit motive by going after advertisers and secondary boycotts.

00:40:09.000 This is the evil of media matters.

00:40:12.000 It's really gross.

00:40:12.000 rose.

00:40:12.000 Benjamin says, my wife and I are expecting our first child this month after years of trying.

00:40:16.000 We feel overwhelmingly blessed and want to re-enter the faith community as a result of what we believe was an actual gift from God.

00:40:23.000 I was raised in a mixed religious household.

00:40:24.000 My wife was raised Catholic.

00:40:26.000 What are your thoughts on conversion to create a cohesive family unit in which to raise our first child?

00:40:30.000 Well, I do agree that both parents should share a faith.

00:40:34.000 This is why I'm not in favor of mixed marriages, generally speaking, across religious lines when both parties are interested in raising kids religious. 0.98

00:40:44.000 You have to share values with your spouse, and very often those values are religious values.

00:40:48.000 So, if you're Jewish, I think that you should marry Jewish. 0.99

00:40:50.000 If you're Catholic, I think you should marry Catholic. 0.99

00:40:52.000 If you're Protestant, I think you should marry Protestant. 0.99

00:40:53.000 If you're Muslim, I think you should marry Muslim. 0.66

00:40:55.000 I think it's just generally a better rule.

00:40:57.000 Just as if you hold certain values on specific social issues, you should marry people who agree with you, because you want to raise your kids in a certain way.

00:41:04.000 If you are able to do that, I think that it's a very good thing.

00:41:07.000 It's a general rule.

00:41:08.000 Again, parents should share religious values.

00:41:10.000 Dana says, hi, Ben.

00:41:11.000 I'm a huge fan and a new subscriber.

00:41:13.000 My daughter is in sixth grade public school in New Jersey.

00:41:15.000 She just received an assignment from her honor science teacher stating she has to write a letter to the president regarding climate change, urging the president to sign the Green New Deal, which is just insane.

00:41:24.000 I raised my daughter with conservative values.

00:41:26.000 She knows the Green New Deal is socialist drivel.

00:41:28.000 I told her to do the assignment, but to instead write in the letter real solutions to climate change that don't involve banning planes, cows, car farts, etc.

00:41:35.000 Well, I think that, again, in 6th grade, the answer is yes.

00:41:37.000 but I may get a bad grade on the assignment.

00:41:39.000 I told her I don't care if she is graded poorly on the assignment because I don't think she should be told what to write.

00:41:43.000 That's indoctrination, I believe.

00:41:44.000 Am I doing the right thing?

00:41:45.000 What are your thoughts?

00:41:46.000 Thank you for all you do.

00:41:47.000 Keep fighting the good fight.

00:41:48.000 Well, I think that, again, in sixth grade, the answer is yes.

00:41:51.000 In junior year of college, the answer is probably no.

00:41:54.000 So I differ from my friend Dennis Prager on this Prager says that always you should write what you believe on all of your tests and all the rest of this sort of stuff.

00:42:02.000 In 6th grade, your grades really don't matter.

00:42:04.000 In fact, funny story about this, I have a younger sister who is now, she's an opera singer and she's highly educated, went to USC and then went to Manhattan School of Opera.

00:42:15.000 And back when she was a little kid, she came home from school one day, and she was really upset about her homework.

00:42:21.000 She'd really stressed herself out.

00:42:23.000 She's a very meticulous person, even when she was a little kid.

00:42:26.000 And she went to my dad.

00:42:27.000 She was very stressed out about her homework.

00:42:28.000 And my dad said, don't worry about the homework.

00:42:31.000 It's fine.

00:42:32.000 Grades don't matter.

00:42:33.000 We'll get through it.

00:42:33.000 They don't matter until you're in high school.

00:42:35.000 So she goes back to school.

00:42:37.000 And the next day, her teacher hands her her homework assignment.

00:42:39.000 And she says to the teacher, I don't want it.

00:42:41.000 I'm not taking it.

00:42:43.000 And the teacher says, well, you have to take it.

00:42:45.000 And she says, well, I'm not going to take it.

00:42:46.000 I don't want it.

00:42:47.000 And the teacher sends her to the principal.

00:42:49.000 And the principal says, well, why won't you take the homework assignment?

00:42:53.000 And she says, I don't want to take the homework assignment.

00:42:55.000 And the teacher says, well, you know, if you do that, you're not going to get a good grade.

00:42:58.000 And she says, my grades don't matter until I get to high school.

00:43:02.000 And accurate.

00:43:03.000 She didn't end up taking the homework assignment, from what I understand.

00:43:05.000 So, you know, the idea that your kid is going to get a bad grade in sixth grade and it's going to affect life, I don't think that's right.

00:43:11.000 Once you get to college, the question is, what is your end goal?

00:43:14.000 And if your end goal, I've said this to many college students, if your end goal is to get through college with the degree and not be stifled by the left, then sometimes you have to play their game.

00:43:23.000 You have to determine sort of risks and rewards in particular circumstances.

00:43:27.000 In this circumstance, I think that writing a letter about the value of nuclear power would probably be a worthwhile thing.

00:43:34.000 I'm a huge fan.

00:43:34.000 I enjoy every minute of the show.

00:43:36.000 Wow, every minute.

00:43:37.000 I don't even enjoy every minute of the show.

00:43:38.000 I would like to know your opinion on the matter of states trying to eliminate the Electoral College.

00:43:42.000 Is there anything that can be done legally to stop this?

00:43:44.000 Right, so there's some states that have tried to pass bills that basically say that they will cast all of their electoral votes in favor of the popular vote winner.

00:43:52.000 I know Nevada tried this. 1.00

00:43:54.000 There is nothing unconstitutional about this.

00:43:56.000 States get to determine how exactly the electors are delegated. 1.00

00:44:01.000 It's a stupid idea. 1.00

00:44:02.000 It's a really stupid idea. 1.00

00:44:04.000 And, again, it's a stupid idea because the Electoral College is one of the things that militates in favor of the country staying together. 1.00

00:44:09.000 Yes, certain areas of the country are going to get slightly disproportionate weight in the Electoral College over the popular vote. 0.99

00:44:16.000 But it does answer the question as to why Wyoming should give a crap what California thinks if Wyoming actually matters in the national election.

00:44:23.000 Chad says, one issue that Republicans seem not to take very seriously is that of climate change. 0.95

00:44:27.000 Well, obviously, the Green New Deal is extremely unrealistic.

00:44:29.000 What policies would you like to see the Trump administration put forward in order to better deal with carbon emissions and setting our planet up for a brighter future?

00:44:36.000 Well, I think that we should be delegating studies on how to mitigate the effects of climate change, because from what I've seen, all of the all of the attempts to curb climate change themselves have been quite foolish.

00:44:48.000 We actually need to deregulate a lot of the fracking industry, for example, because fracking has been a boon to reducing carbon emissions as opposed to, for example, just oil drilling.

00:44:57.000 So, Nuclear power would be a great solution. 1.00

00:45:01.000 There should be a push for more innovation.

00:45:05.000 Deregulation in industry generally creates more innovation.

00:45:09.000 The fact is that if people care enough about this sort of stuff, then there will, in fact, be a move toward technological change.

00:45:18.000 The big question here is what are the effects of climate change?

00:45:20.000 I've said this before.

00:45:21.000 When it comes to the changing of degrees over the course of a century, what are the costs and what are the effects?

00:45:27.000 William Nordhaus just won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and one of the things he talks about is how much global warming can we accept before it does so much damage that it outweighs the risk of harming the economy.

00:45:38.000 And he comes to the conclusion, I believe, if I'm not misstating it, that 2.5 degrees Celsius increase is about what we should accept before we even discuss harming the economy.

00:45:47.000 Now, that may well be within what actually happens over the course of the next century.

00:45:51.000 A lot of the climate models that have been used are wrong.

00:45:53.000 There have been many climate models that have been used.

00:45:55.000 I agree with the general perception by scientists that the climate is warming over the course of the last century, and that a majority of that activity is caused by human activity.

00:46:05.000 But the answer to that is actually more prosperity.

00:46:08.000 It's developing countries that are emitting on a global level. 1.00

00:46:11.000 As I've said before, if you agree with the sort of catastrophic take from the left, then we have no choice but apparently to go to war with India and China and bomb all their coal plants because a huge percentage of emissions are coming from those countries.

00:46:22.000 The United States is actually dropping in terms of emissions on a year-to-year basis.

00:46:26.000 We've reduced emissions more than any other country on planet Earth since 2015.

00:46:30.000 So we're doing something right.

00:46:32.000 Innovation will take care of a lot of these problems.

00:46:35.000 Technological change takes care of a lot of these problems.

00:46:37.000 And obviously mitigating, building seawalls, ensuring that infrastructure is shored up.

00:46:43.000 That'll take care of the problems too.

00:46:44.000 I'm not of the opinion that the so-called sort of carbon taxes that are being proposed are going to do enough to mitigate the effect that it won't just be a giant waste of money.

00:46:53.000 Diane says, hey Ben, I'm currently in a summer class on the Old Testament where We're discussing the authorship of the Torah.

00:46:58.000 What's the traditional view of Orthodox Jews on the first five books of the Bible?

00:47:02.000 Do you think Moses was the sole author or do you think there were multiple sources loved the show?

00:47:06.000 So the traditional Orthodox view is that Moses was the sole offer.

00:47:10.000 Well, Moses via God, right, is that when Moses went up on the mountain for 40 days, God dictated the Bible to him.

00:47:15.000 There are questions that are raised by some of the commentaries about how much of the Torah was written to that point.

00:47:20.000 In other words, after the 40 days on the mountain, a lot of stuff happens in the Torah.

00:47:25.000 Was that Moses writing contemporaneously?

00:47:28.000 Was that Moses prophesying that that was going to happen?

00:47:32.000 How about the last few verses of the Torah where Moses dies?

00:47:36.000 Did Moses write that?

00:47:37.000 Also, there's a sort of rich commentariat on the case.

00:47:42.000 But what Orthodox Jews do not believe is the sort of Wellhausen theory that became very popular in the 19th century, that there are multiple authors and that these authors can be dated from the Pharisaic period or they can be dated from the earlier period.

00:47:56.000 This is a compilation and a cobbling together.

00:47:58.000 Orthodox Jews don't believe that.

00:48:00.000 They believe that the Torah is a cohesive document and the Talmud is based upon that basic standard.

00:48:04.000 The Talmud and Talmudic logic is based upon the use of words So, I think that this is the direction the left wants to move.

00:48:10.000 Wrote all of this, so there's an intentionality to every single word.

00:48:12.000 Okay, let's see.

00:48:14.000 Carlos says, hey Ben, Vox Adpocalypse was the last straw.

00:48:17.000 I'm now going to test out the Crowder mug and the leftist here's Tumblr in person. 0.57

00:48:20.000 Well, thank you.

00:48:20.000 However, as the end point of all of this, two separate parallel economies all the way down to the most basic transactions, ultimately living as separate societies.

00:48:27.000 So I think that this is the direction the left wants to move.

00:48:30.000 The left is basically saying that if you're on the left, you can't eat at Chick-fil-A.

00:48:33.000 The left is basically saying that if you are on the left, then you must buy Marc Jacobs and get Gillette Razors.

00:48:40.000 The left is trying to make the argument that only socially woke companies ought to receive your business, and if you are not overtly woke, then you will be boycotted.

00:48:48.000 And if, God forbid, you're owned by somebody who opposes you politically, then you should be shellacked as well.

00:48:54.000 Well, that's an absurd contention.

00:48:56.000 It's always been an absurd contention, but it will generate a parallel economy.

00:49:01.000 If the left simply starts boycotting companies that are not openly left-wing, the right will start patronizing those companies.

00:49:06.000 The right will fight back here.

00:49:08.000 If YouTube decides that it's going to crack down on Crowder, people will go subscribe to Crowder because they still want Crowder.

00:49:13.000 If people decide to crack down on us at the big tech companies, people will subscribe to Daily Wire.

00:49:18.000 And this will extend down to the lowest common denominator.

00:49:21.000 It's one of the reasons that I've been militating very hard against the politicization of sports and culture and product lines.

00:49:28.000 I know that a lot of these corporations think that by pandering, they're going to win additional converts.

00:49:33.000 They think that conservatives are simply going to sit still as they pander to the hard left.

00:49:38.000 And that's why you see, for example, during Pride Month, all of these major corporations start to virtue signal about gay pride.

00:49:44.000 Now, why Oreo Cookies has anything to do with gay pride is beyond me.

00:49:47.000 They release this stuff in order to show where they stand on the issues because they understand that the left is focused on buying products that they think agree with them.

00:49:55.000 Well...

00:49:56.000 Spoiler alert for folks on the left.

00:49:58.000 If you really think that Oreo executives care deeply about Pride Month, they're just making a buck off of you, right?

00:50:03.000 Capitalism always wins.

00:50:04.000 But if it gets to the point where the left pushes these corporations to actively alienate conservative audiences, conservative audiences will find other places to shop.

00:50:13.000 New companies will spring up.

00:50:14.000 It is just exacerbating the divisions in the country and making it so not only are there no common spaces, there are no even common products.

00:50:20.000 There will be a coffee company, like Black Rifle Coffee, that rises up at great coffee, better coffee than Starbucks, but rises up in response to Starbucks.

00:50:28.000 That is a thing that will continue to happen.

00:50:30.000 And the left will be advertising for these right-wing products every time they decide to crack down on right-wing beliefs, and every time they decide to virtue-signal to the hard left, which is censorious and nasty by nature.

00:50:41.000 William says, Hey Ben, what do you think would have happened if the D-Day invasion had failed?

00:50:44.000 There are some who speculate that the Soviets, who are already fighting against the majority of the German army, would have defeated the Germans regardless of the campaign in the West.

00:50:50.000 I find this difficult to believe.

00:50:52.000 Also, thank you for the amazing Sunday special with all the different WWII veterans.

00:50:55.000 Well, it's always very difficult.

00:50:58.000 To actually, you know, speculate about what would have happened militarily.

00:51:02.000 It is certainly true that Stalin was militating extraordinarily hard for the Allies to launch the D-Day invasion, specifically because he wanted the Germans to redirect troops away from the Eastern Front.

00:51:14.000 It's kind of fascinating.

00:51:15.000 If you look at the map during World War II, you know, a lot of people question, why did Hitler declare war on the United States?

00:51:19.000 Worst mistake he ever made, right?

00:51:21.000 Why did he declare?

00:51:22.000 The two worst mistakes Hitler ever made, turning on the Soviets and then simultaneously declaring war on the United States. 0.86

00:51:27.000 Huge mistake.

00:51:28.000 So you bring the Soviets from basically neutrality into opposition.

00:51:33.000 With their enormous tens of millions of man army and then you turn and take the most powerful industrial country on planet earth and turn it against you.

00:51:41.000 Why would they do that?

00:51:42.000 Well, it's because if you look at the map, basically it goes United States.

00:51:45.000 I mean, the world is a globe, obviously, but it goes United States, Germany, Russia, Japan.

00:51:52.000 And so with the United States fighting Japan, There's a fair bit of historical speculation that Germany wanted the Japanese to attack the United States.

00:52:03.000 Well, basically, Japan had to attack the United States.

00:52:06.000 Germany was hoping that Japan was going to attack Russia from the other side. 0.63

00:52:10.000 And so in order to get Japan to fight that war, the Germans basically declared war on the United States.

00:52:16.000 So it looked sort of like a checkerboard.

00:52:18.000 All right.

00:52:18.000 Well, you know, with all of that said, obviously a terrible mistake.

00:52:21.000 If the United States had failed in D-Day, that wouldn't have been the only amphibious attempt, obviously.

00:52:25.000 But let's say that the United States and Britain and France, that all of the allied countries fail to make significant pushes into Western Europe via a Normandy invasion.

00:52:35.000 Well, obviously there was already a lot of fighting that was going on from the south.

00:52:38.000 The United States had, by the time D-Day, the United States had already pushed the Germans into full scale retreat, not only in Africa, but also in Italy.

00:52:46.000 So it's possible that that invasion continues to succeed.

00:52:50.000 But let's say that the United States has stopped cold everywhere here.

00:52:53.000 Yeah, then Germany wins the war.

00:52:54.000 I mean, Germany probably wins the war.

00:52:56.000 I mean, the fact is that it was German lack of resources that led them to lose the war against the Red Army, not brilliant strategy by the Red Army.

00:53:03.000 I mean, the Red Army was basically just throwing men in many cases without guns in the front lines in the Battle of Stalingrad.

00:53:10.000 Featured a bunch of Russians charging the Germans with no guns, knowing they would be shot in the back by their own people if they didn't do it.

00:53:17.000 The Red Army was extraordinarily brutal because Stalin was one of the worst people ever to walk planet Earth.

00:53:22.000 So yeah, D-Day made a difference during the war.

00:53:25.000 Of course D-Day made a difference.

00:53:25.000 By the way, it made even more of a difference in the post-war.

00:53:29.000 It's funny, the Russian foreign ministry put out something saying, well, it was the Red Army that won the war.

00:53:33.000 Well, if it had not been for the D-Day invasion, all of Western Europe then is probably red. 0.86

00:53:37.000 Let's say that the Red Army, quote-unquote, liberates France, and liberates all of Germany, and liberates Italy, and liberates all those countries. 0.69

00:53:43.000 That wouldn't have been a liberation.

00:53:45.000 All of those countries then would have been under the heel of Soviet domination for the foreseeable future.

00:53:50.000 The Soviet Union probably doesn't fall for another 50 to 100 years.

00:53:53.000 So that made a bit of a difference.

00:53:55.000 Well, I believe that the states should actually be in the business of preserving natural wonders.

00:53:58.000 I'm not sure the federal government was created to preserve those natural wonders.

00:54:02.000 I'm very much in favor of minimizing the federal government.

00:54:03.000 Well, I believe that the states should actually be in the business of preserving natural wonders.

00:54:08.000 I'm not sure the federal government was created to preserve those natural wonders.

00:54:12.000 I'm very much in favor of minimizing the federal government.

00:54:15.000 I think states are fully capable of doing a lot of that stuff.

00:54:17.000 Lauren says, Dear Ben, what is your opinion on patents regarding pharmaceuticals?

00:54:20.000 Do you believe they incentivize the creation of better drugs or does the interference in the free market create an inefficiency when once companies patent the drug, they have no incentive to improve it?

00:54:29.000 Thanks, Larry.

00:54:30.000 Well, I mean, the fact is that certain patents don't really change in the pharmaceutical industry, right?

00:54:34.000 The patent on aspirin and Advil, these things have existed, but the formula has not changed radically.

00:54:42.000 There is a serious question to be asked about how long the patent should last.

00:54:45.000 So right now, the patent period for pharmaceuticals In many cases, it's somewhere between five and ten years.

00:54:50.000 That is a long time to have a quasi-monopoly on a particular type of drug.

00:54:55.000 And sometimes you can see somebody comes along, they take the drug, they reverse engineer it, they release it as a generic.

00:55:02.000 That's better for consumers, obviously, but you do have to have enough of a patent to incentivize the creation of the drug.

00:55:09.000 The libertarian case against patent protection for drugs is that you create the drug, you have a manufacturing advantage, you're first in the market, and so that's your benefit.

00:55:18.000 Honestly, I'd want to look more deeply at the costs and benefits of it on a financial level.

00:55:23.000 Mason says, Hey Ben, I don't know why a former president would want to, but theoretically, could a former president run on a ticket as vice president after?

00:55:29.000 Could President Obama run for VP on a Michelle Obama ticket?

00:55:32.000 Thanks.

00:55:32.000 No, you have to be qualified for the presidency to run as vice president.

00:55:35.000 Asherah says, Hey Ben, what are your thoughts on Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism?

00:55:38.000 Do you think she takes it too far?

00:55:39.000 Thanks for all you do.

00:55:40.000 So I think that Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism works quite well when it comes to economics.

00:55:44.000 I think that it works quite horribly when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

00:55:48.000 Objectivism basically says selfishness is a virtue.

00:55:51.000 I mean, she wrote a book called The Virtue of Selfishness.

00:55:53.000 That's a fine philosophy, and really is not unique to Ayn Rand.

00:55:57.000 I mean, that goes all the way back to Mandeville and the Parable of the Bees.

00:56:01.000 The idea that your selfishness creates market opportunities for other people, and also your selfishness creates a creative imperative in you to do creative things that benefit other folks.

00:56:12.000 So when it comes to that, I agree with that on a very basic level.

00:56:17.000 I've called capitalism forced altruism, because again, your selfishness is now channeled toward creating a product somebody else needs, wants, and must have.

00:56:26.000 However, when it comes to interpersonal relationships, The problem here with objectivism is it becomes entirely subjective, meaning that your perception of your own best good has externalities that are quite difficult, particularly with children.

00:56:40.000 One of the things my dad once noted about Ayn Rand's books is that there are no kids anywhere.

00:56:44.000 Anywhere, right?

00:56:44.000 In The Fountainhead, no kids.

00:56:45.000 In Atlas Shrugged, no kids.

00:56:47.000 The reason there are no kids is because when you have kids, this virtue of selfishness stuff kind of goes out the window.

00:56:52.000 Now, what objectivism does is they sort of play around with the term.

00:56:55.000 What they then suggest is, well, you know, you selfishly want to protect your kids.

00:56:59.000 You're doing that out of your own self-interest.

00:57:01.000 You're doing that because what you really want is to take care, like, it makes you feel good about yourself.

00:57:05.000 You give charity because it makes you feel good about yourself, and that's a selfish thing.

00:57:09.000 Okay, well now you, I think, are stretching the definition of selfishness a little bit far.

00:57:13.000 There may be a grain of truth to that, but when I'm waking up at 4 a.m.

00:57:16.000 in the morning to take care of my kids...

00:57:18.000 Should somebody be able to judge me?

00:57:20.000 I mean, I guess here's the question.

00:57:21.000 Should some third party be able to judge me for abandoning my wife and children?

00:57:25.000 I think the answer is yes.

00:57:26.000 I think that is on an objective level a bad moral thing to do.

00:57:29.000 Objectivism says if you perceive that as your highest moral good, then no way anybody else can judge you.

00:57:34.000 I'm not sure you can build a society on that or even build a stable family on that basis.

00:57:37.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like and a quick thing I hate, because we did an extra long mailbag right there.

00:57:42.000 Okay, things that I like today.

00:57:44.000 Great movie.

00:57:44.000 Born Yesterday.

00:57:46.000 This is a movie with William Holden and Judy Holliday, who won an Oscar for this.

00:57:50.000 Judy Holliday, I mean, tragically passed away at the age of 43, which is crazy.

00:57:55.000 She was a terrific, terrific actress.

00:57:57.000 And of course, Broderick Crawford, who had already won an Oscar for All the King's Men, which is a really, really good movie.

00:58:03.000 One of my favorite movies, in fact.

00:58:05.000 Well, this movie is basically about Broderick Crawford is a gangster, Judy Holliday is his mall, and William Holden is a journalist who is brought in to educate Judy Holliday to become more knowledgeable about Washington, D.C.

00:58:18.000 because Broderick Crawford is trying to buy politicians, basically.

00:58:21.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:58:23.000 Hey! 0.99

00:58:24.000 What?

00:58:24.000 Not bad, huh?

00:58:31.000 Sorry!

00:58:32.000 Born Yesterday stars Judy Holliday in her history-making stage role as Billy Dawn.

00:58:38.000 Blonde, beautiful, brazen, an old brother.

00:58:44.000 Are you one of these talkers, or would you be interested in a little action?

00:58:49.000 Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford as that man of distinction, Harry Brock.

00:58:54.000 And William Holden as a guy with a nose for news, an ear to the ground, and an eye for a blonde. 0.95

00:59:01.000 What are you doing?

00:59:04.000 Well, if you don't know, I must be doing it wrong.

00:59:08.000 The movie is really good.

00:59:09.000 One of the things that's fascinating about the movie is that when you watch the film, half of the movie is dedicated to William Holden taking Judy Holliday around and teaching her about the American way of life, basically, because she doesn't know anything.

00:59:22.000 And so he takes her to the Jefferson Memorial, which must be torn down because Jefferson was evil.

00:59:27.000 And then he takes her to the Library of Congress and she sees the Constitution, the Declaration, and he teaches her about the fundamental principles of the country.

00:59:34.000 It's an incredibly patriotic film.

00:59:36.000 Basically about how America is a wonderful place and it's wonderful because of these founding documents.

00:59:42.000 And it's a movie that could not be made today because now it would be about how America is horrible and he has to teach her to be woke and America was steeped in racism and sexism and bigotry and all the rest of it.

00:59:50.000 There's something nice about the fact that Americans used to believe that America was rooted in terrific fundamental principles that thank God have now been extended over the vast swath of Americans.

01:00:01.000 That's a really great thing.

01:00:02.000 And the movie's patriotism is quite obvious.

01:00:05.000 And one of the best moments of the movie, not to give it away, but one of the best moments of the movie is Judy Holliday, who's again in a gangster's mall.

01:00:12.000 She's talking about her dad, who she hasn't seen in years.

01:00:14.000 And she's talking about how he would just go to work every day and get up and take care of her and her siblings and her mom died young.

01:00:21.000 And she, over the course of the movie, realizes that her dad is more of an American than this rich gangster who's trying to bribe politicians.

01:00:29.000 Because her dad goes to work every day and lives out the founding principles.

01:00:32.000 It's really a terrific, funny, patriotic movie.

01:00:36.000 Born Yesterday.

01:00:36.000 Go check it out.

01:00:37.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

01:00:43.000 So there is a really good thread on Twitter by a person who calls himself Woko Harambe.

01:00:51.000 But the thread is actually a pretty serious thread.

01:00:54.000 This person points out that the woke activists are using something called power mapping.

01:01:00.000 They're using something from a site called Beautiful Trouble.

01:01:04.000 And Beautiful Trouble is basically an activism site for the left.

01:01:07.000 And he points out the strategy that is being used by the left to target people like Laura Ingram, or like me, or like Steven Crowder, or like Tucker Carlson, or like anybody else on the right that you like.

01:01:16.000 So here is what they do.

01:01:17.000 First, they target the company with the power.

01:01:20.000 So in the case of Steven Crowder, it would be YouTube.

01:01:22.000 In the case of Fox, it would be their advertisers.

01:01:25.000 Then, they would choose a secondary target.

01:01:28.000 Because according to this website, again, Beautiful Trouble, They say you might not have enough power to push your primary target at first, but your actions may help you identify a secondary target that can be pressured to leverage their influence on the primary target.

01:01:41.000 So, what they actually do is they identify who they are targeting and then they find a group of allies.

01:01:48.000 And this is the part of the analysis that I found pretty sophisticated and I thought was quite good.

01:01:52.000 They said there are five groups.

01:01:54.000 Active allies who fight with you.

01:01:56.000 Passive allies who agree but don't act.

01:01:58.000 Neutrals.

01:01:59.000 Passive opposition who disagree but don't act.

01:02:01.000 And then active opposition that actively fight you.

01:02:04.000 The goal is to shift each group over one notch, which shifts the entire spectrum.

01:02:08.000 So the idea here would be to make active opposition Basically, they stick around.

01:02:13.000 But passive opposition becomes neutral, neutrals become passive allies, and passive allies become active allies.

01:02:19.000 Shift everybody over one notch.

01:02:21.000 The goal is to win by shifting the support out from under them.

01:02:24.000 Determine the social blocks at play on a given issue, and then work to shift them closer to your position.

01:02:29.000 So you try to move people one notch at a time.

01:02:31.000 You want to force your target into a situation where they have to respond, but they have no really good options.

01:02:37.000 So, here's the example that this Twitterer writes, and I think this is exactly correct.

01:02:41.000 I can't vouch for anything else they write, but this take is correct. 0.84

01:02:41.000 I don't know who this is. 0.84

01:02:44.000 They say, Carlos Maza put YouTube in a decision dilemma.

01:02:49.000 Whatever YouTube did wouldn't be enough for Carlos Maza.

01:02:52.000 He'll just accuse YouTube of homophobia during Pride Week.

01:02:55.000 The only way to avoid that PR damage is to de-platform Crowder.

01:02:58.000 YouTube then looks like they were trying to strike a middle balance between the far left and Crowder by demonetizing them.

01:03:04.000 But then, they just say that's not enough.

01:03:06.000 So all of this was planned.

01:03:08.000 Now, the way all of this stops is for YouTube to basically say, listen, No.

01:03:13.000 We're not going to.

01:03:14.000 Like, all of this stops by just a few people saying no.

01:03:17.000 And this is true for advertisers.

01:03:18.000 This is true for YouTube.

01:03:19.000 This is true for Facebook.

01:03:20.000 This is true for Twitter.

01:03:22.000 All a few people have to do is get their backs up and say, no, we're not going to do that.

01:03:25.000 We're not going to be controlled by Carlos Maza.

01:03:25.000 And you know what?

01:03:27.000 A lot of people are allowed on our platform we disagree with, and that is just fine and dandy by us.

01:03:31.000 We do not have to agree with everything they say.

01:03:33.000 They can be vile.

01:03:34.000 They can be terrible.

01:03:35.000 They are not banned.

01:03:36.000 That's all they have to say.

01:03:37.000 We have a standard, and our standard is no.

01:03:40.000 And then you want to fulminate?

01:03:41.000 Fine, you guys go create your own woke Twitter or your own woke YouTube.

01:03:45.000 But instead, by utilizing the power of public pressure, by taking journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post and shifting them from passive allies to active allies, by taking people who are sort of neutral on Twitter and then showing them a montage video of Steven Crowder being mean to Carlos Maza, shifting the neutrals into passive opposition, and then Into passive alliance, rather, by taking passive opponents and shifting them to neutrality by making those people feel uncomfortable.

01:04:12.000 Then you can shift the entire spectrum.

01:04:13.000 I think it's a really good analysis of what you are seeing happen on a regular basis with advertisers.

01:04:17.000 And all it takes is for people to say no.

01:04:19.000 And it takes active opposition to push back and say, listen, there will be consequences the other way.

01:04:25.000 The active opposition has to act just like the activists are acting.

01:04:29.000 In other words, they have to take all of their passive allies and shift them into active allies.

01:04:32.000 They have to take all of the neutrals and shift them into passive allies. 1.00

01:04:35.000 And the way to do that is by pushing back on the principle and by saying, listen, There will be consequences for this game.

01:04:41.000 You play this game, there will be consequences.

01:04:43.000 Those consequences will involve us not subscribing to YouTube Red.

01:04:48.000 Those consequences will involve us subscribing to channels that we like.

01:04:51.000 Those consequences will involve us boycotting advertisers that decide to boycott our favorite shows.

01:04:57.000 There will be consequences.

01:04:58.000 That's the only way to fight back against this, but it is a clever strategy.

01:05:01.000 It is not organic.

01:05:02.000 It is entirely astroturfed.

01:05:03.000 Okay, we will be back here next week.

01:05:04.000 Now, I'm warning you, Monday, I'm not going to be here because Monday is Shavuot, which is the holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah. 0.96

01:05:10.000 Pretty big thing for the Jews. 1.00

01:05:11.000 This is one of these sort of forgotten holidays that Orthodox Jews know about and nobody else does.

01:05:16.000 So, Orthodox Jews know about Shavuot.

01:05:17.000 It's one of the big three.

01:05:18.000 It's Passover.

01:05:20.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

01:05:20.000 Shavuot, and Shavuot.

01:05:21.000 So this is one of the sort of big three holidays aside from the high holidays of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.

01:05:26.000 So we won't be here Monday, but we will be back here Tuesday and the rest of the week.

01:05:29.000 We'll see you then.

01:05:29.000 Have a wonderful weekend.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 07, 2019

Biden Folds | Ep. 797

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