The Ben Shapiro Show - April 05, 2019


Big Brother Meets Big Tech | Ep. 753

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Mark Zuckerberg Jussie Smollett Joe Biden Went Viral Barack Obama Trump Michael Cohen Nancy Pelosi Liz Smith K. Cole James Philip Patrick Kylo Ren Kim Fox Hey Ben Bernie Sanders George Stephanopoulos Lawrence Jones Howard Schultz Molly Russell Force Awakens Ken Graham and 55 more
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00:00:00.000 Facebook looks to the government to help censor Viewpoint, the old guard Democrats clash with the socialists, and we check the mailbag.
00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:06.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:08.000 Oh, man, a lot to get to today.
00:00:14.000 I want to thank you again.
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00:00:24.000 It was number one in its first week.
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00:00:29.000 I think it's an important book.
00:00:30.000 We're going to get to all the news today in just one second.
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00:01:55.000 So I do want to get to the 2020 presidential race, but I want to begin today with something that is really deeply troubling, and that is you are starting to see social media, instead of looking at the government as an opponent in its free speech mission, instead of looking at the government as a regulatory body that is seeking to quash its creativity, We have now moved from social media as capitalist companies to social media as government-enabled companies.
00:02:22.000 That is where these big companies are seeking to go.
00:02:25.000 There's this grand failure to understand how exactly big business sometimes works. 0.99
00:02:31.000 People tend to say, well, big business, rapacious, exploitative, capitalist pigs. 0.99
00:02:35.000 Here's the reality. 0.98
00:02:36.000 Big businesses are in the business of profit-seeking.
00:02:39.000 When you have a giant government, and that giant government can increase your profit margins by issuing regulations, companies will work hand-in-glove with the government.
00:02:47.000 Corporatism is not, in fact, fair use of the free market.
00:02:50.000 It is not, in fact, use of the free market at all.
00:02:52.000 It is use of the government to do your bidding for you.
00:02:55.000 And once the government is so big that it can threaten your company, then many companies have a binary choice, and that is they can either work hand-in-glove with the government to help quash their competitors, and they can say they are friends to the government, or they can fight the government.
00:03:08.000 You see this historically with, for example, the car companies.
00:03:12.000 So Henry Ford famously resisted the unionization efforts at Ford.
00:03:17.000 He resisted the government cram downs of the FDR administration.
00:03:22.000 He did not want to abide by their rules and regulations, and he fought them tooth and nail.
00:03:27.000 Whereas other car companies just went along with the government and Ford kept losing market share because of all of that.
00:03:33.000 Well, the same thing is happening right now in the social media sphere.
00:03:36.000 Basically, there are all these major social media companies and the government actors see power in regulating a lot of these major companies.
00:03:43.000 And so the major companies have two choices.
00:03:45.000 One is they can fight the government.
00:03:46.000 They can go to the public and say, listen, you need to tell the government to lay off and leave us alone.
00:03:50.000 Or the easier path is often to go to the government and say, listen, regulate us.
00:03:55.000 But when you do regulate us, understand that what you're really doing is regulating everybody else who is smaller.
00:04:00.000 This was a lot of the net neutrality debate.
00:04:01.000 There were major companies on both sides of that debate.
00:04:04.000 Google, for example, was very much in favor of net neutrality because it prevented broadband carriers from charging them for things that it essentially crowded lower-down competitors out of the search engine market.
00:04:18.000 That's why Google was in favor of net neutrality.
00:04:20.000 It wasn't out of any goodness of their heart or anything.
00:04:22.000 Big companies have an interest in working hand-in-glove with the government.
00:04:25.000 Well, the latest company to do this is, of course, Facebook.
00:04:28.000 So Facebook is now begging the government to censor it.
00:04:31.000 I am not kidding you.
00:04:32.000 Facebook wants censorship at this point.
00:04:35.000 So Mark Zuckerberg was on with George Stephanopoulos, and he says that he wants the federal government to regulate speech.
00:04:41.000 Why?
00:04:42.000 Because he recognizes that Facebook is getting beaten up for its own failures to, on the one hand, censor speech, and on the other hand, they censor too much speech.
00:04:49.000 So what he wants to do is kick the responsibility over to the federal government and thereby remove himself from the process.
00:04:55.000 This is what he says to George Stephanopoulos.
00:04:57.000 He poses this in terms of the public good.
00:04:59.000 He says, I want more regulation in my company.
00:05:01.000 Whenever somebody who's the head of a company says, I want the government to regulate my company, understand there's an ulterior motive.
00:05:07.000 And the ulterior motive is almost always, I want the government to do something that will make my bottom line more lucrative while shielding me from the government's actual intervention.
00:05:15.000 Here's Zuckerberg doing exactly that.
00:05:17.000 There's a question of what decisions should be left to a private company to make, especially around things like speech and expression for so many people around the world, and where should we have either industry or more government regulation?
00:05:29.000 You're already seeing the FCC push back fairly hard against this.
00:05:33.000 Two commissioners, I think, saying, no, we don't want to get into the business of policing the First Amendment.
00:05:38.000 Yeah, I don't think that that's what this is, though.
00:05:41.000 You can say that any regulation around what someone says online is protected, but I think that's clearly not right today.
00:05:48.000 It's not clear to me that we want a private company to be making that kind of a fundamental decision.
00:05:54.000 Well, this is really funny, because Zuckerberg, like a year ago, was saying, that's the kind of decision that we will make.
00:05:59.000 We will take responsibility for these decisions.
00:06:01.000 And that's because he was called onto the hill by Republicans and Democrats, and then he was run through the ringer about all the stuff that was appearing on Facebook.
00:06:08.000 Now his correct answer should have been to say to Congress, hey guys, it's not my business what appears on Facebook.
00:06:14.000 Facebook is just a platform.
00:06:16.000 If people put crappy stuff up there that I don't agree with, that's not my business.
00:06:20.000 You know, I would prefer they not say that.
00:06:21.000 I would prefer that people rebut that.
00:06:23.000 But I am not going to sit there as the giant social media censor and shut down messages I don't like.
00:06:28.000 The good that I have provided for American citizens and people around the world is a forum where they can exchange ideas.
00:06:33.000 The good is not my particular perspective on politics.
00:06:36.000 So all I'm going to do is create algorithms that ferret out violent content, threats of violence, Defamatory material.
00:06:44.000 Actual legal violations.
00:06:45.000 That's the stuff I can police.
00:06:46.000 But I can't police generalized political viewpoints.
00:06:48.000 But that is not what the government wanted from Zuckerberg.
00:06:52.000 So Zuckerberg is responding by trying to kick the ball back to government.
00:06:55.000 He's trying to say to government, OK, fine.
00:06:57.000 You know what?
00:06:58.000 I have the same goals that you do.
00:06:59.000 I don't want any of this politically incorrect or bad, like legitimately bad material on my site.
00:07:06.000 So you guys regulate it.
00:07:07.000 You guys come after me.
00:07:08.000 And that way, it's not my fault.
00:07:08.000 That way, it's your fault.
00:07:10.000 Well, that's not the role of government.
00:07:11.000 And it's very dangerous to have folks in corporate life who are very powerful, like Zuckerberg, calling for this to be the role of government, because you could see a world in which House Democrats take Zuckerberg up on this.
00:07:22.000 They say, you know what?
00:07:23.000 Our social media companies have declared that they can't do anything about the white supremacy online, the white nationalism online, and now it's our job to do that.
00:07:29.000 Well, no, it is not your job to do it.
00:07:31.000 There's a First Amendment to the Constitution that guarantees, in fact, that Congress shall make no law respecting the abridgment of speech.
00:07:38.000 That is part of the First Amendment.
00:07:40.000 So when Zuckerberg explicitly calls for a violation of the First Amendment by the government in response to his own inability to police his own site, That's a problem.
00:07:49.000 That's a real problem.
00:07:50.000 And here's the, again, here's the real reason he is doing this.
00:07:52.000 The real reason he is doing this is because in Europe, there are now regulations coming down the pike that would punish Mark Zuckerberg for bad material appearing on his website.
00:08:00.000 He doesn't want the responsibility of having to censor his own website after saying he would take responsibility.
00:08:05.000 Again, the answer to all of this was for Zuckerberg always to say, I created a platform, I'm like AT&T.
00:08:11.000 All I did was provide a forum where people can talk.
00:08:13.000 Instead, Zuckerberg, because he wants to be seen by his friends, is a do-gooder.
00:08:17.000 Instead, he has said, no, I will be one of the great policemen of speech.
00:08:21.000 And now he's saying, I want the government to do it so I don't have to take the blame for it.
00:08:25.000 Again, this is more in response to pressures from government than it is in response to an actual necessity on Facebook for censors to shut down speech.
00:08:35.000 Why?
00:08:35.000 Because here's what they are doing in Europe.
00:08:36.000 According to a leaked plan from the United Kingdom, social media bosses could be liable for harmful content, according to The Guardian.
00:08:45.000 Social media executives could be held personally liable for harmful content distributed on their platforms.
00:08:50.000 There's been growing concern, according to The Guardian, about the role of the internet in distribution of material related to terrorism, child abuse, self-harm, and suicide, and ministers have been under pressure to act.
00:09:00.000 Under plans expected to be published on Monday, the government will legislate for a new statutory duty of care to be policed by an independent regulator and likely to be funded through a levy on media companies.
00:09:10.000 In other words, they're going to tax Facebook to police Facebook.
00:09:13.000 And the way they're going to police Facebook is by fining or jailing people like Mark Zuckerberg if they do not take a quote-unquote duty of care to prevent bad material from getting on their platforms.
00:09:22.000 It seems to me the reason we pay taxes is so that the police can prevent crime.
00:09:28.000 We don't shut down phone lines because criminals often use phones, and we don't hold AT&T responsible for criminals using their phones.
00:09:35.000 It is obvious that we have been treating these social media companies not as common carriers, not as platforms.
00:09:40.000 Instead, we have been treating them as actual editorial sites, and that's why they're seeking to blame people like Zuckerberg.
00:09:47.000 The regulator, likely initially to be something called Ofcom, but no longer from a new body, will have the power to impose substantial fines against companies that breach their duty of care and to hold individual executives personally liable.
00:10:00.000 The debate has been sharpened in recent months by the case of the British teenager Molly Russell and the issues raised by the Christchurch shootings.
00:10:06.000 Molly's parents said she killed herself partly because of self-harm images viewed on social media.
00:10:12.000 Self-harm images are not threats of violence.
00:10:15.000 They're horrible, they're terrible, but it is up to individual people not to look at things that are going to hurt you unless it is an actual attempt to hurt you.
00:10:27.000 Rights come along with duties.
00:10:29.000 Rights come along with responsibilities.
00:10:31.000 If we as individuals can't be trusted to participate in a free speech society, the answer isn't to curb free speech.
00:10:37.000 The answer is that we better do some introspection and figure out how we are utilizing our free speech in a bad way.
00:10:43.000 Other proposals in the online harm white paper include government powers to direct the regulator on specific issues such as terrorist activity or child sexual exploitation, What exactly constitutes harmful content?
00:10:59.000 Are we going to have the U.S.
00:11:03.000 government determining what content is harmful?
00:11:06.000 Especially when in New Zealand, they're legitimately attempting to prosecute people for reading a manifesto online.
00:11:12.000 Is that something we want in the United States?
00:11:13.000 The manifesto is evil of the Christchurch shooter.
00:11:16.000 Do we want people prosecuted for downloading it and reading it so that they know what's bad?
00:11:20.000 The same people who think that it is a good thing that Jordan Peterson's book was temporarily banned from White Coals, a bookseller in New Zealand, over the Christchurch shooting, those would be the same people sitting on boards like this.
00:11:32.000 And that is what Mark Zuckerberg is calling for.
00:11:34.000 It's incredibly dangerous.
00:11:36.000 In Europe, obviously, they don't have the same sort of free speech protections, which is one of the reasons I'm incredibly glad I'm an American.
00:11:43.000 Both right and left in Europe are far more comfortable with curbing free speech than we are in the United States.
00:11:49.000 Theresa May has repeatedly raised the issue of online harm.
00:11:51.000 The government has gradually shifted its position in Britain from favoring voluntary self-regulation to backing tougher enforcement.
00:11:58.000 And why is this good for Zuckerberg?
00:12:01.000 Because now Zuckerberg can simply say it's not in my hands.
00:12:03.000 The government is regulating it.
00:12:05.000 I just have to comply with government regulations.
00:12:07.000 All the free speech issues are kicked over to the government level.
00:12:09.000 The only losers in this?
00:12:10.000 American citizens and citizens abroad who are now subject to the government deciding what messages they can and cannot see.
00:12:15.000 This is dangerous stuff and Zuckerberg is not the creator of the danger but he is complicit in the increase of the danger if he doesn't stand up for the free speech The sort of free speech basis for the platform that he built in the first place.
00:12:28.000 We'll get to more of this in just a second.
00:12:29.000 The tech companies caving to kind of social justice warriors and then looking to hand it over to government.
00:12:35.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:12:36.000 We'll get to it in one second.
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00:13:48.000 Speaking of social media companies botching their job, Google on Thursday announced that it opted to disband its newly formed Artificial Intelligence Ethics Council following aggressive pushback from more than 2,000 Google employees.
00:14:01.000 What happened?
00:14:02.000 Well, a Google spokesperson in a statement said Google is going back to its drawing board.
00:14:05.000 Why?
00:14:06.000 It became clear that in the current environment, the council can't function as we want it.
00:14:10.000 So we are ending the council.
00:14:11.000 We're going back to the drawing board.
00:14:13.000 Google had announced its new AI ethics board, a body tasked with serving as an ethical check on Google's AI technology production last week.
00:14:20.000 The board was immediately met with controversy as thousands of Google employees and hundreds of external petitioners took issue with one of the board's members, who they said had an anti-trans and anti-immigrant record.
00:14:30.000 Who was this?
00:14:31.000 K. Cole James, who's president of the Heritage Foundation.
00:14:33.000 That is a mainstream conservative organization, and K. Cole James is about as mainstream a conservative as you can find.
00:14:39.000 But because she believes that men are men and women are women, and she believes that we should have border security, this means that she cannot be present in a hearing between multiple viewpoints about AI ethics.
00:14:52.000 A petition from Google employees, signed by almost 2,400 of them, said by appointing James, Google elevates and endorses her views, implying that hers is a valid perspective worthy of inclusion in its decision-making.
00:15:03.000 This is unacceptable.
00:15:04.000 In other words, her views are not even valid.
00:15:07.000 They are not even valid.
00:15:08.000 So what did Google do instead of standing up to their own internal mob?
00:15:11.000 These are all their employees.
00:15:12.000 Instead of them standing up to their own internal mob, they're just saying, guys, cool your jets.
00:15:15.000 They have a wide variety of perspectives on this panel.
00:15:18.000 This is a mainstream conservative pound sand.
00:15:20.000 Instead, they caved and they disbanded their own board. 1.00
00:15:24.000 These tech companies are just, they're just cowards. 1.00
00:15:27.000 They're legitimately cowards. 0.98
00:15:29.000 They won't stand up for freedom of speech or diversity of opinion on their own internal boards, let alone in their public policy. 0.80
00:15:35.000 And now they are calling for the government to come in and regulate?
00:15:38.000 And of course, who will that affect the most?
00:15:40.000 It'll affect alternatives.
00:15:41.000 Because if you regulate Google or you regulate Facebook, let's say that there's a new Google or Facebook who wants to come up, and they don't want to regulate speech in the same way that Facebook and Google do.
00:15:50.000 They want to have a broader platform.
00:15:52.000 It's too late.
00:15:52.000 The government's already regulated the entire industry.
00:15:55.000 So it's now impossible for you to actually create an alternative to Facebook or Google.
00:16:00.000 Once the government regulates this sort of stuff, by the way, then you are looking at true monopoly.
00:16:04.000 You really are.
00:16:04.000 People have said, well, shouldn't we break up Google or break up Facebook?
00:16:07.000 And I've always said, no, these are private companies.
00:16:10.000 Rivals can crop up.
00:16:12.000 And those rivals could take a different viewpoint on how to build an algorithm or what kind of free speech to allow.
00:16:17.000 It's a private company.
00:16:19.000 Once the government regulates, that is no longer the case.
00:16:21.000 Then you have to start regulating these things like monopolies because effectively they are.
00:16:26.000 The AI Ethics Council is over and we did this together, the Googlers Against Transphobia account tweeted.
00:16:31.000 So many people answered the call to stand against transphobia.
00:16:33.000 We thank you for your support and unwillingness to compromise on hate.
00:16:37.000 One of the council's members dropped out almost immediately after the council was announced.
00:16:41.000 Leading behavior economist and privacy researcher Alessandro Acquisti last week tweeted, I'd like to share that I've declined the invitation to the council while I'm devoted to research grappling with key ethical issues of fairness, rights, and inclusion in AI.
00:16:52.000 I don't believe this is the right forum for me.
00:16:56.000 On Wednesday, another one of the council members, Luciano Florida, a leading AI expert, wrote that James' inclusion was a grave error and sends the wrong message.
00:17:03.000 In other words, any conservative cannot be part of the Google board.
00:17:06.000 I mean, this sort of top-down idiocy at these major social media companies, combined with government power, turns this from a company sucking at its job to an actual monopoly issue. 0.82
00:17:21.000 Alrighty, meanwhile, The 2020 race is heating up. 0.86
00:17:24.000 There are no less than 18 potential Democratic candidates who want to jump into the race.
00:17:29.000 And the list just goes on and on and on.
00:17:31.000 There's a top tier.
00:17:32.000 The top tier is probably four or five people.
00:17:33.000 It's basically Biden, Bernie, Beto.
00:17:36.000 It's the three Bs, plus Kamala Harris.
00:17:39.000 I would say that that's probably the top tier in the Democratic Party right now.
00:17:42.000 By polling data, that's the top tier in the Democratic Party right now.
00:17:46.000 And Biden is the one who is in trouble, shockingly enough.
00:17:50.000 Without any real rationale, I gotta say, like, again, because he did not have the courage of his convictions, because he was unwilling to simply come out and say, listen, I've never sexually harassed anyone.
00:17:59.000 I've never sexually abused anyone.
00:18:01.000 And if people were offended, I'm sorry.
00:18:03.000 I'm just a physically affectionate guy.
00:18:06.000 Instead of him just saying that and letting it go, he had to kowtow to the mob.
00:18:09.000 It's not going to stop.
00:18:10.000 Once you kowtow to the mob, it never stops.
00:18:12.000 Ever.
00:18:12.000 You never apologize to the mob, is the rule of modern American politics.
00:18:15.000 If you don't apologize to the mob, like Ralph Northam, you're still governor of Virginia.
00:18:19.000 If you do apologize to the mob, like Al Franken, you no longer have a Senate seat.
00:18:21.000 That's the way this works.
00:18:23.000 It's unfortunate, but that is the way that it works.
00:18:25.000 And we are now supposed to take seriously every allegation of something terrible happening.
00:18:30.000 I mentioned yesterday one of the allegations from a woman named Sophie Karasek, a survivor's rights advocate and progressive organizer who appeared at the Oscars with Lady Gaga.
00:18:41.000 And she now has a piece in the Washington Post called, A Photo of Me and Joe Biden Went Viral.
00:18:46.000 I want him to take ownership for his actions.
00:18:48.000 This is the one I talked about yesterday, where this lady took the photo, had it printed, had it framed, put it on her bookshelf, and then decided two to three years later that it was actually a very, very bad thing.
00:19:00.000 Very, very bad.
00:19:03.000 She apparently interacted with Biden two months later at a conference in Colorado.
00:19:09.000 She said, quote, So over time, it started to offend you?
00:19:10.000 And this is Joe Biden's fault?
00:19:11.000 So over time, it started to offend you?
00:19:25.000 And this is Joe Biden's fault?
00:19:26.000 No one can live by these constantly shifting standards in the Democratic Party.
00:19:30.000 Really, there's this moment in the new, not very good Star Wars movie in The Last Jedi, where Kylo Ren, who's the bad guy, turns to Rey, who is the Mary Sue good character, and they're fighting together for a brief moment in time.
00:19:48.000 And Kylo Ren turns to Mary Sue, to Rey, sorry, and says to her...
00:19:54.000 And says to her, you know, we should just kill all the oldies and start something new. 1.00
00:19:58.000 And she's like, no, we can't do that. 0.99
00:19:59.000 We totally can't.
00:20:00.000 And then they fight each other, right?
00:20:02.000 Well, that is basically what the Democratic Party is right now.
00:20:04.000 It's a battle between Kylo Ren and Rey. 0.99
00:20:07.000 It's the newbies saying, let's kill all the oldies. 1.00
00:20:09.000 Let's kill all of them. 1.00
00:20:10.000 Right? 1.00
00:20:10.000 Sure. 1.00
00:20:11.000 They helped us build this empire.
00:20:12.000 Sure.
00:20:13.000 They're the ones who got us to where we are, but they're oldies, man. 1.00
00:20:16.000 And they don't understand the new wave.
00:20:18.000 Now, the thing about this sort of mentality is that the revolutionaries are usually the first to the guillotine, meaning that sooner or later these people will be hoisted by their own petard.
00:20:26.000 Biden is one of them, by the way.
00:20:27.000 He's one of the people who pushed for lowering standards when it came to proving sexual misconduct in Title IX cases, for example.
00:20:35.000 But Biden is now being shellacked by his own party for stuff that even the people who were the quote-unquote victims did not consider victimization at the time.
00:20:43.000 That's how far we have moved.
00:20:45.000 And the worm has turned.
00:20:46.000 I mean, Nancy Pelosi, I'm old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi was the great radical inside her own party.
00:20:51.000 Now she's the establishment holding back the radicals. 1.00
00:20:55.000 For example, yesterday, Bernie Sanders tweeted this out.
00:20:57.000 He tweeted out, Those who oppose Medicare for all need to explain why our current failed system should be allowed to continue bankrupting the American people.
00:21:08.000 Okay, well, then Nancy Pelosi comes out and she's like, um, you know that Medicare for all thing?
00:21:14.000 Uh, not a great idea.
00:21:16.000 If he really opposes Medicare for All, by the way, if he's upset with Medicare for All, I mean, with opponents of Medicare for All, you know who he should talk to?
00:21:23.000 Joe Biden.
00:21:24.000 And Barack Obama.
00:21:25.000 Because Barack Obama is the creator of that system he is criticizing right now.
00:21:29.000 When Bernie Sanders says, if you stand for the current system, you're standing for high costs on people, who does he think constructed the current system?
00:21:36.000 He voted for it, by the way.
00:21:38.000 It was Barack Obama and Joe Biden who, as I recall, said to Barack Obama that the new system was a big effing deal.
00:21:45.000 A phrase that was so popular among Democrats that it was sold on a t-shirt by the DNC.
00:21:51.000 It's the old guard Democrats versus the new fangled socialists.
00:21:55.000 This is why Speaker Nancy Pelosi is out of step with her own party. 1.00
00:21:59.000 She questioned today whether a health care proposal embraced by several Democratic presidential candidates would be too expensive and fail to provide the same coverage as the Affordable Care Act.
00:22:08.000 Instead, she suggested she'd rather build on Obamacare, is yet to be convinced the Medicare for All proposal pushed by many liberals would achieve its purported goals.
00:22:15.000 She said in an interview with the Washington Post, quote, I'm agnostic.
00:22:18.000 Show me how you think you can get there.
00:22:20.000 We all share the value of health care for all Americans, quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
00:22:24.000 What is the path to that?
00:22:25.000 I think it's the Affordable Care Act.
00:22:26.000 And if that leads to Medicare for All, that may be the path.
00:22:30.000 She also suggested that Medicare for All had become more of a buzzword among political activists in the run-up to the 2020 campaign, which is basically her ripping on all the 2020 candidates, saying, you guys are ignoring the effect of Obamacare so that you can run for president. 0.75
00:22:45.000 She says, when most people say they're for Medicare for All, I think they mean health care for all.
00:22:48.000 Let's see what that means.
00:22:49.000 A lot of people love having their employer-based insurance and the Affordable Care Act gave them better benefits, which is not actually true, but sure.
00:22:58.000 The fact that Nancy Pelosi has now been castigated as out of the mainstream by her own party is pretty telling.
00:23:03.000 The fact that Joe Biden is now considered retrograde by his own party demonstrates that when you have no fundamental principles to which you adhere, it is pretty easy for you to be cast overboard by the newer More robust socialists among you.
00:23:18.000 It's pretty incredible.
00:23:19.000 Meanwhile, President Trump facing challenges of his own.
00:23:22.000 Apparently Michael Cohen now, I guess he's trying to cut a better deal or something?
00:23:27.000 He's trying to delay his prison time.
00:23:29.000 According to the Washington Times, President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen says he has new information to offer Democrats if authorities reduce or delay his upcoming three-year prison sentence.
00:23:38.000 First of all, I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing.
00:23:40.000 I mean, he is a bad lawyer, obviously, but his plea agreement says he had to be completely forthcoming with prosecutors all the way through.
00:23:47.000 If he says that now he has new material, that means he was not forthcoming before, so they could theoretically revoke his sentence and give him a new, longer sentence.
00:23:54.000 In a letter to lawmakers on Thursday, Cohen's attorneys say he has discovered substantial files on a hard drive that could help investigations of the president.
00:24:01.000 So now he's trying to become a hero of the resistance.
00:24:04.000 The hard drive is said to include over 14 million files consisting of all emails, voice recordings, images, and attachments from Cohen's computers and phones.
00:24:12.000 But Cohen has already testified that he has no actual evidence of Russian collusion, even though he is trying to float such evidence now to Democrats.
00:24:19.000 According to a memo that he apparently sent to Democrats, he said that he would provide significant value to the various congressional oversight and investigation committees.
00:24:28.000 Honestly, this may be more of a threat to Democrats than it is to Trump, because Cohen probably doesn't have much that is new, but Democrats could continue to spiral down this hole and never recover.
00:24:37.000 If they focus in here, I'm not sure that's a smart strategy for them.
00:24:40.000 In just a second, gotta give you the Jussie Smollett update, and then we'll get to some mailbagging because it's Friday. 0.98
00:24:45.000 First, Let's face it, Congress, they stink.
00:24:49.000 The balance of powers that was guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States has completely fallen apart.
00:24:54.000 In some ways, Congress has overstepped its boundaries regulating on activities that have nothing to do with Congress's original purview.
00:25:00.000 And in other ways, Congress has kicked a lot of power to the executive branch, to the regulatory bodies, so that they never have to be held accountable.
00:25:07.000 We need to restore the checks and balances that were originally invested in the Constitution The only way to do that is to call a convention of states where we the people can propose amendments.
00:25:16.000 Those would be amendments that could force changes to the current balance of power, that could restrict the power of the federal government to intervene in your life.
00:25:24.000 Can you imagine the look on the faces of federal regulators and members of Congress when they realize they can no longer control your life as they once wanted to?
00:25:30.000 Calling a Convention of States is the only way to get the job done.
00:25:33.000 There are already 3.8 million people with us on this and more every day.
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00:25:40.000 Go sign the petition today.
00:25:41.000 I know there are people who worry about a runaway convention.
00:25:43.000 The fact is that every amendment still has to be approved by two-thirds of the states.
00:25:46.000 So that's really not an issue.
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00:26:20.000 Alright, Jussie Smollett update.
00:26:23.000 So, apparently, Jussie Smollett has now refused to pay.
00:26:25.000 Chicago had sent Jussie Smollett a bill for like $130,000, which, by the way, he can afford to pay.
00:26:30.000 He made, apparently, about $100,000 an episode from Empire.
00:26:34.000 Well, now the city of Chicago is going to sue him.
00:26:37.000 Last week, the Cook County State Attorney, they dropped 16 counts against Smollett, of course.
00:26:41.000 The decision caused an uproar in Chicago.
00:26:43.000 Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other officials blasted the prosecutor's office.
00:26:46.000 Two days later, the city's Department of Law sent Smollett a bill in the amount of $130,000 and gave him a week to pay up.
00:26:52.000 That deadline expired on Thursday afternoon.
00:26:54.000 The law department issued a statement saying it was drafting a lawsuit.
00:26:58.000 They said Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the city of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29th, 2019.
00:27:07.000 The law department is now drafting a civil complaint that will be filed in the circuit court of Cook County.
00:27:11.000 The law department will file the suit in the near future.
00:27:13.000 As part of this legal action, the law department will pursue the full measure of damage as allowed under the ordinance.
00:27:19.000 Smollett, of course, had falsely claimed that he was jumped while walking on the street at 2 a.m.
00:27:25.000 on the way back from the subway by two white guys wearing red hats who used racial and homophobic slurs and shouted that it was MAGA country.
00:27:35.000 And now he is going to be sued for $130,000.
00:27:39.000 Meanwhile, the real scandal here is the prosecutor in this particular case, Kim Foxx, who has significant political connections to Team Obama.
00:27:46.000 Yesterday, the police union called on Kim Foxx to resign her job. 0.99
00:27:50.000 We are here today.
00:27:51.000 We're very grateful for the top police officials who are here with one united voice to demand the resignation of Cook County State's Attorney Kimberly Fox.
00:28:02.000 This is not just about Jesse Smollett.
00:28:04.000 This is about many cases in the Cook County system that have gone unprosecuted or having charges reduced.
00:28:13.000 And what she's doing is she's enabling the offenders. 0.93
00:28:16.000 The bad guys are not being held accountable.
00:28:18.000 So today we're here to ask State's Attorney Fox to do the right thing to step down and resign from her position. 0.57
00:28:24.000 Okay, and this has been the commonly held position among the police chiefs all over the city of Chicago.
00:28:30.000 Suburban police chiefs and the Fraternal Order of Police called out Kim Foxx yesterday and they suggested that she needed to resign over the case. 0.97
00:28:37.000 A group of suburban police chiefs joined with the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police.
00:28:41.000 They gave her a vote of no confidence Thursday.
00:28:43.000 The Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham and some other 30 suburban police leaders took it a step further.
00:28:47.000 They called on Fox to resign, and that's what you just heard.
00:28:50.000 Fox's office would not respond.
00:28:52.000 They said, I was elected by the people of Cook County to pursue community safety, prevent harm, and uphold the values of fairness and equal justice.
00:28:57.000 I'm proud of my record in doing that.
00:28:59.000 I plan to do so through the end of my term.
00:29:01.000 And if the people will, so will it into the future.
00:29:03.000 Graham said the union's issues with Fox's office didn't start with Jussie Smollett.
00:29:07.000 He expressed frustration that Fox's office had dropped murder charges against Gabriel Solash and Arturo Reyes in late 2017 after a judge threw out their confessions.
00:29:16.000 At the time, Fox's then-top assistant said the office still believed the two had fatally stabbed a couple in their Bucktown neighborhood home in 1998, but had no choice to dismiss the charges after the judge discredited testimony by a retired detective.
00:29:28.000 Since mid-2016, about a dozen convictions tied to that particular detective have been thrown out of court because of allegations that the former detective beat suspects and coerced confessions.
00:29:37.000 Apparently, this ticked off the Fraternal Order of Police.
00:29:41.000 So, listen, the Chicago Police Department has had a bevy of problems, but that's really not the case when it comes to this particular case.
00:29:48.000 This particular Smollett case was interviewed all the way down to the ground, and the fact that Kim Foxx decided not to prosecute is pretty astonishing.
00:29:56.000 Meanwhile, speaking of law and order, the situation on the border continues to degrade.
00:30:02.000 The crisis on the border continues to move ahead.
00:30:06.000 We spoke yesterday on the radio show with a member of the Border Patrol down in San Diego who said that the crisis was essentially historic.
00:30:13.000 He said he'd never really seen much like this.
00:30:16.000 Tens of thousands of people descending on the border en masse.
00:30:18.000 President Trump doesn't really know what to do because nobody knows what to do.
00:30:22.000 Nobody really knows what to do.
00:30:23.000 So the fact is that Democrats are not providing the funding.
00:30:27.000 President Trump needs the funding in order to secure the border.
00:30:29.000 And media are now beginning to cover this.
00:30:31.000 And so what do Democrats do?
00:30:32.000 Do they take seriously the problems at the border?
00:30:34.000 No, of course they don't take seriously the problems at the border.
00:30:37.000 So Lawrence Jones is a reporter for Fox News.
00:30:40.000 Okay, he went down to the border and he put on a flak jacket.
00:30:44.000 And the reason he put on a flak jacket is because in this particular area, There had been a case of 12 Mexican Marines wounded in a shootout in the nearby area.
00:30:54.000 This is like a couple of weeks ago.
00:30:56.000 This is March 26, 2018 from the Associated Press.
00:30:59.000 A Mexican Marine and four suspected gunmen were killed during a coordinated series of ambushes against Marine patrols in a northern Mexico border city, authorities reported on Sunday.
00:31:08.000 So Lawrence Chose goes down there, and he is told by the Border Patrol, put on this flak jacket because we just don't know what we're going to encounter out there.
00:31:15.000 So what does AOC do, naturally?
00:31:17.000 Fresh-faced Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, very fresh, very face.
00:31:20.000 She tweeted out, Fox is really out here doing the most on a budget to make the border look more dangerous than it is.
00:31:28.000 And then she tweeted the laughing, crying emoji as though the border is not a dangerous place.
00:31:33.000 Well, Lawrence Jones responded.
00:31:34.000 He said, Yeah, it is.
00:31:36.000 And there's a reason I am wearing this bulletproof vest.
00:31:39.000 The Border Patrol agent that's standing right here keeping us safe told me to put it on, to keep us safe here.
00:31:44.000 What people don't understand is that we control this side of the border, but the cartel controls the other side of the border.
00:31:51.000 So there's been gunfights.
00:31:52.000 I'm going in danger with these Border Patrol agents to report on this story.
00:31:57.000 The public doesn't know that over the last two and a half years, there has been an uptick over 200% of violence against these agents.
00:32:06.000 And so, in order to do my job and the border agents to do their job, I had to come with this vest that they supplied.
00:32:12.000 Okay, this is obviously true.
00:32:14.000 Okay, I've talked to people who are serving down at the border, and what they've told me is there are cases where the cartels who are on the other side of the border, they've got binoculars, they've got eyes on a lot of the border patrol agents.
00:32:23.000 They will figure out who they are, and then they will call up their hotel rooms and threaten them.
00:32:27.000 So this idea that the border is a perfectly safe place, that's the myth.
00:32:31.000 That's the myth, that the border is a perfectly safe... You literally have an organized criminal outfit that has killed legitimately thousands and thousands of people in Mexico, sitting right on the other side of that border.
00:32:40.000 And we're supposed to believe that it's somehow out of bounds for a reporter to wear a flak vest?
00:32:45.000 It's just insane.
00:32:46.000 It's just insane.
00:32:47.000 You know, Howard Schultz, who turns out to be maybe the only reasonable person in the 2018 race, I mean, he's amazing.
00:32:53.000 The former CEO of Starbucks, one of the few sane people apparently running for office, and he's sane because he's really not from the political... He's really not from a political party at this point.
00:33:03.000 He pointed out yesterday on Fox News that President Trump is correct on securing the border, which is obviously and eminently true.
00:33:09.000 President Trump is correct, and the Republican leadership is correct, that we need fierce, strict levels of control on that border to keep bad people from coming in.
00:33:22.000 Illegal immigrants should not come in. 1.00
00:33:25.000 I don't want to get into a wall or anything, but I agree we should fund whatever we need to do to secure the border.
00:33:32.000 The Democrats are not correct.
00:33:34.000 We should be funding ICE and giving them all the tools and resources they need to secure the borders and arrest the bad people.
00:33:42.000 Okay, that is of course true.
00:33:45.000 But Howard Schultz is considered an outcast from his own party because he says those things.
00:33:50.000 I mean, the Democrats' response to this effectively is, not only should we not police the border, we should catch and release everybody.
00:33:56.000 And when we release them, what should we do?
00:33:58.000 What should we do with them?
00:33:59.000 How are we going to integrate them into the American economy? 0.97
00:34:02.000 We should teach them coding.
00:34:03.000 I am not kidding you.
00:34:05.000 Ro Khanna, who is a congressperson from out here in California, a Democratic congressperson from out here in California, he says that what we need to do is bring everybody through and then we can teach them coding.
00:34:16.000 Why is this a solution to everything except for journalism?
00:34:18.000 If you say to a journalist on Twitter, learn to code, they will suspend you.
00:34:22.000 If you're a congressperson who says we should teach illegal immigrants, many of whom do not have a high school education, how to code, then this is somehow a solution to the border crisis. 0.97
00:34:30.000 There's no doubt that the numbers of people coming over has increased.
00:34:34.000 That's a fact.
00:34:35.000 Vanderbilt has done a study that one of the real reasons that people are coming over is an increase in violence.
00:34:41.000 I believe we need to have U.S.
00:34:43.000 aid programs that are working, that are decreasing the violence there, that are teaching people about coding so people stay there, so folks aren't coming across the border.
00:34:53.000 So we're going to teach them to code in Honduras is the idea here?
00:34:57.000 Yeah, good solutions, guys.
00:34:59.000 Well done.
00:34:59.000 That's definitely going to fix things.
00:35:01.000 Okay, in a second, we'll get to the mailbag.
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00:37:29.000 Josiah says, Hi Ben.
00:37:30.000 I listened to much of your conversation with Joe Rogan.
00:37:32.000 When you were talking about decriminalizing marijuana, it makes me wonder how to sell this to religious communities.
00:37:37.000 I had a good conversation with my pastor about it.
00:37:39.000 Well, I think he made a great point in saying if we were to vote for decriminalization or legalization, he felt he would be signing approval, signaling approval for the usage.
00:37:46.000 I tried to rebut by saying when we do things the right way or God's way, it works.
00:37:50.000 The war on drugs is a complete failure.
00:37:51.000 I said it was sinful because we as Christians weren't being a good steward of God's money or resources.
00:37:55.000 Though he agreed, he would refuse to ever vote to decriminalize or legalize marijuana.
00:37:59.000 Most of the parishioners in my church are much less open-minded to that conversation.
00:38:03.000 I respect people's moral opposition, it just seems like a giant waste of money to me.
00:38:06.000 Do most people in your synagogue disagree with you?
00:38:08.000 Well, I would say there's a pretty broad disagreement in my synagogue and in religious communities generally about decriminalization of marijuana.
00:38:15.000 So what is a good way to convince the religious community that the government is obviously not competent enough to deal with the issue?
00:38:21.000 Well, I think that the first thing that you have to recognize is that just because something is bad doesn't mean that the government gets to regulate it.
00:38:27.000 I do not like using the government as the imprimatur of appropriate behavior.
00:38:31.000 I don't think that's the government's role.
00:38:33.000 And in fact, I think it's been a huge mistake for conservatives to use government action as a sort of moral substitute.
00:38:40.000 For social disapproval.
00:38:41.000 So we disapprove of something, therefore we pass a law against it, and then we use that law to crack down on the behavior, and then when we fail at cracking down on the behavior, then we legalize the behavior, and now the moral imprimatur is taken away, and people think it's okay to do something.
00:38:54.000 I don't think that's how we should view things.
00:38:55.000 I don't think politicians are moral leaders.
00:38:57.000 I don't think that laws are about installing a quote-unquote moral system.
00:39:03.000 They're about preventing harm to others.
00:39:05.000 Installing moral systems is something you do in your home.
00:39:08.000 Installing moral systems is something you do in your religious community.
00:39:11.000 Yes, there's more of an onus on churches to take responsibility for their members when it comes to the use of marijuana or overuse or abuse of marijuana.
00:39:19.000 If you were to decriminalize it, presumably it would become more common in particular areas.
00:39:24.000 But that is not an argument in favor of the government simply enforcing your views on someone who is doing no harm to anyone else.
00:39:32.000 Externality is the measure of what a government ought to do.
00:39:34.000 So you really ought to discover, I mean, you really ought to discuss what government is there to do, and then move from there, rather than talk about whether it is moral or not to smoke pot.
00:39:46.000 Because I don't think these two questions have to do with anything.
00:39:48.000 I mean, this is basically the conversation that I had with Joe, not only on marijuana use, but also on same-sex marriage.
00:39:55.000 I said that the government does not have a role here.
00:39:56.000 That does not mean that I personally am in favor of same-sex marriage, because I'm not.
00:40:00.000 Stephen says, hey, Ben, what are you looking for in episode...
00:40:02.000 I think it's very difficult to imagine a universe in which they can recover from what they did, not only in The Last Jedi, but from Force Awakens.
00:40:14.000 I thought Force Awakens was wildly overrated.
00:40:16.000 I think that they should, honestly, listen, they're never going to do this.
00:40:20.000 It's a billion dollar industry.
00:40:21.000 If it weren't for that, they should throw out episodes 7, 8, and presumably 9.
00:40:25.000 They should go back and they should throw out episodes 1, 2, and 3 and they should start over.
00:40:28.000 As I've said before, what they should have done after episode 6 is they should have either skipped forward 100 years and then relaunched an entirely new Star Wars universe, or they should have actually recast all of the characters after Return of the Jedi.
00:40:41.000 I mean, they did it for Solo.
00:40:43.000 And then just moved on with the story.
00:40:45.000 That would have made a lot more sense than simply killing off these characters in the dumbest possible way to make room for new and significantly more boring characters.
00:40:52.000 Also, they made a huge mistake in not allowing Rey and Kylo Ren to team up.
00:40:55.000 That would have been so much more interesting.
00:40:58.000 So much more interesting.
00:40:59.000 Like this whole, okay, now we're going to revert back to Kylo Ren as Darth Vader and Rey as Luke.
00:41:05.000 We saw that story already.
00:41:06.000 We don't need the same story again.
00:41:07.000 Adiel says, hey, Ben, I'm writing a paper on affirmative action.
00:41:10.000 What would you say is the biggest issue with the policy specifically in regard to post-secondary education?
00:41:14.000 Well, there are two major issues with affirmative action.
00:41:17.000 Issue number one is it doesn't actually tend to help the people that it seeks to help.
00:41:20.000 There's not a lot of data to demonstrate that affirmative action has been effective in increasing the upward mobility of people who benefit from affirmative action.
00:41:27.000 Dropout rates are significantly higher for people who get into college through affirmative action.
00:41:31.000 It also creates a broad spread perception, a widespread perception, that people who are of the race that has benefited from affirmative action are somehow unqualified because probably they got in, or maybe they got in, or possibly they got in through affirmative action.
00:41:44.000 It does create a certain level of social stigma.
00:41:47.000 If you look at your class and you say, well, I know some of these people got in with lower SAT scores, and I can tell who they are, probably, or at least possibly based on race, that creates an unfair stigma on a bunch of people who may have gotten in not based on that.
00:42:00.000 And that's really not a great thing.
00:42:01.000 Then there is the question of who is being excluded by affirmative action.
00:42:04.000 And typically, it is not actually white people.
00:42:06.000 It is Asian people.
00:42:07.000 Asian people are outperforming at major colleges across the country.
00:42:10.000 This has been true of Harvard, where a lawsuit is now going on on the basis of all of this.
00:42:14.000 Using standard metrics is a far better way of admitting students than this Ridiculous, holistic examination of your college essay.
00:42:22.000 So you got 200 points less on the SAT, but you had a hard life, and so we are going to pretend that that is the equivalent of an Asian person who had a hard life, but got 200 points higher on the SAT.
00:42:31.000 Race does not make up for performance when it comes to these issues.
00:42:35.000 Again, if you have two people, and they have the same SAT scores, and one had a harder life than the other, race or not, race as a factor or not, then Fine.
00:42:44.000 I mean, that's good.
00:42:45.000 That person who has the harder life has overcome more to get the same scores.
00:42:48.000 But if you're talking about letting in someone with a 1200 SAT to Harvard because that person was of a particular race, that is obviously a separation of human beings by race and an aspect of racism that is quite unpleasant.
00:43:01.000 I've been a fan for years.
00:43:03.000 out here in the socialist republic of canada it is more than the weather that is bleak in our future i know you don't follow canadian politics who could really but i'd like to know what given the limited information you have now what would you want for a canadian conservatism in the future well i think that a canadian conservatism would start by pushing back against a lot of the free speech encroachments that have happened in places like british columbia where you could theoretically be prosecuted for violating particular political beliefs the same thing is true i believe in ontario of bill c16
00:43:29.000 i would start there and push back against the idea that the government gets to cram down on people what to think or how to raise their children it's very very dangerous stuff socialized medicine obviously won't be touched in canada because once people are given what they see as an entitlement they are very loath to give it up But obviously, socialized medicine in Canada has some serious, serious problems.
00:43:48.000 Such serious problems that a part of Canada was forced to recently open up the private market because people simply were not getting the care that they needed from Canada's public market.
00:43:59.000 Lower taxes, obviously, would be a factor in driving more business to Canada. 0.77
00:44:04.000 I mean, I don't want to rip on Canada too much.
00:44:05.000 I think Canada's a pretty great place, but that's, those are a few corrections.
00:44:08.000 Jonathan says, Hey Ben, long time listener, first time subscriber.
00:44:11.000 I have a cousin who attends USC.
00:44:13.000 She loves her time there.
00:44:13.000 However, she's afraid she's a diehard Ben Shapiro subscriber because she's afraid of being criticized.
00:44:18.000 I know her story is not the only one that breaks my heart.
00:44:20.000 I live in Texas.
00:44:21.000 I'm starting to feel the same pressures, especially from Robert Francis supporters.
00:44:24.000 That'd be better.
00:44:26.000 Well, no, I don't see an end to that.
00:44:27.000 In fact, I see a censorious left that is looking to harm people who disagree.
00:44:29.000 I have a great story about this, in fact, from The College Fix today.
00:44:32.000 Well, no, I don't see an end to that.
00:44:33.000 In fact, I see a censorious left that is looking to harm people who disagree.
00:44:37.000 I have a great story about this, in fact, from the College Fix today.
00:44:40.000 Quote, "One evening last September, a Michigan State student, university, awoke from his nap to see his roommate sitting at his computer.
00:44:47.000 There was a video playing, and the student realized his roommate was watching a video of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
00:44:52.000 The newly awoken student then took to his own computer to file a complaint with the administration's biased reporting system against his roommate for watching the Shapiro video.
00:45:02.000 Ben Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African American community.
00:45:07.000 The student wrote in his report against his roommate, I'd like to see any evidence that I have attacked the African American community, like legitimate evidence. 0.99
00:45:14.000 He said, I thought hate speech, I thought hate had no place on MSU's campus, yet MSU has roomed me with someone who supports hate speech, spelled S-P-E-A-C-H.
00:45:24.000 Okay.
00:45:25.000 Shapiro is a popular conservative pundit, says the College Fix, whose appearances on college campuses are frequently accompanied with protests.
00:45:31.000 In response, the university tasked an investigator to look into the matter, who is told to work for a room change if the claimant would like one. 0.91
00:45:38.000 First of all, if I were the other student, I'd be like, yeah, get this person out of here, because this person is crazy.
00:45:43.000 If my roommate in college were watching Rachel Maddow, I wouldn't file a complaint.
00:45:48.000 And that's a near human rights violation, for goodness sake.
00:45:51.000 But no, the tolerance is not going to be extended anytime soon.
00:45:55.000 Raphael says, Hey Ben, I agree that abortion is a sin and immoral. 0.76
00:45:58.000 However, in my opinion, the government should allow it with proper education in cases of rape.
00:46:02.000 The argument that it is the person's responsibility since they did not use contraceptives and they chose to have sex does not apply in rapes.
00:46:07.000 What is the pro-life position in this case?
00:46:09.000 And in your opinion, is there a valid argument to be made for this kind of policy?
00:46:12.000 Well, the pro-life position is not dependent on the quote unquote responsibility of the person.
00:46:17.000 Because again, the actual pro-life position has to do with the status of the human life growing in the womb.
00:46:21.000 It's actually a separate question The quote-unquote responsibility.
00:46:24.000 Responsibility adds to the mix in the sense that if there is a predictable result to the thing that you are voluntarily doing and then that result happens, you can't throw up your hands and go, oh my God, I was victimized by life.
00:46:35.000 That's just silly.
00:46:36.000 But that's really not what we are trying. 0.91
00:46:38.000 We're not trying to punish somebody with a baby.
00:46:39.000 That's not the idea here, right?
00:46:41.000 As Barack Obama said, punishing somebody with a baby.
00:46:42.000 You don't want to punish her with a baby.
00:46:45.000 That is not what we are talking about.
00:46:46.000 We are talking about protecting the life of an infant.
00:46:48.000 We're talking about protecting the incipient life of a baby.
00:46:52.000 And that really has nothing to do with where the responsibility lies, it has to do with the idea that you are not allowed to kill a baby because the original creation of the baby was not your responsibility.
00:47:01.000 In other words, if somebody leaves a baby on my doorstep, and I open the door and there's the baby, and then I shut the door and I just leave the baby out there to die, that's not something that we should presumably morally be okay with.
00:47:18.000 Now, in Western law, this is one of the dicier issues in Western law.
00:47:22.000 In Western law, the question is, is there a duty of care that attends a person who you are not related to?
00:47:30.000 What is the duty?
00:47:31.000 So in Western law, we've been reluctant.
00:47:32.000 The best argument for abortion in cases of rape is this argument, effectively, which is, If you're walking by a person who is drowning, you don't actually have a responsibility under Western law to jump in the water and save that person, even if you could do so pretty easily.
00:47:46.000 There's no responsibility in Western law.
00:47:50.000 So that could theoretically be extended to cases of abortion and cases of rape, but the problem is that there's a difference between not saving somebody, letting them die, and actively killing somebody.
00:48:01.000 So if the baby is on my front door and somebody leaves the baby at my doorstep, and then I open the door, And it's not just me closing the door now, now it's me actively stabbing the baby.
00:48:11.000 That is now a completely different question.
00:48:13.000 Sure, go read my book, The People vs. Barack Obama.
00:48:15.000 President Obama's administration has been scandal-free.
00:48:17.000 Could you go over some of the top scandals people are forgetting?
00:48:19.000 Thanks.
00:48:20.000 Sure, go read my book, "The People Vs. Barack Obama," came out in 2014?
00:48:23.000 Sorry, 2015, I believe.
00:48:29.000 And that book goes through a bevy of Barack Obama scandals, ranging from HHS to the IRS.
00:48:33.000 He had scandals, obviously, having to do with the NSA.
00:48:36.000 He had many, many scandals during his administration.
00:48:38.000 So, go read the book.
00:48:39.000 I lay it all out in detail there.
00:48:41.000 Nick says hi, Ben.
00:48:43.000 Do you think Trump has a shot at Virginia in 2020?
00:48:48.000 Unlikely.
00:48:50.000 It's not a Trumpy state.
00:48:51.000 Republicans in Virginia tend to be a little bit more moderate than Republicans in other conservative areas of the country.
00:48:57.000 And Virginia has been largely turned by Northern Virginia, which is effectively a D.C.
00:49:01.000 suburb.
00:49:06.000 Orthodox Judaism believes that the Bible, the Torah, the five books of Moses, were given by God, and that they are true, and that the Talmudic tradition that interprets the Bible is in fact good and proper law and that you have to abide by the commandments of the Bible because that is what you are put on earth to do.
00:49:25.000 Conservative Judaism, original conservative Judaism said that basically the Bible may have been God-inspired and that we could abrogate a lot of the laws because those laws are no longer relevant and said that the rabbinic tradition is not nearly as important as it has been in Orthodox Judaism for a long time and Reform Judaism Honestly, I'm not sure even what the doctrine of Reform Judaism is at this point.
00:49:47.000 They say that the Torah may not have been biblically and may not have been God-inspired.
00:49:51.000 It may be just a historical document.
00:49:53.000 The bottom line is that conservative used to be kind of closer to what modern orthodox is now.
00:49:58.000 Now conservative Judaism has fallen into disrepair and moved toward reform Judaism.
00:50:03.000 The only growing area of Judaism right now is the orthodox community.
00:50:07.000 Well, certainly there is an attempt to downgrade particular states, right?
00:50:09.000 Well, certainly there is an attempt to downgrade particular states, right?
00:50:21.000 Nobody would spend time in Wisconsin or in Michigan or in Pennsylvania outside of the major urban areas if it were just a popular vote.
00:50:30.000 And this is one of the big arguments in favor of the Electoral College, is that if you want to have a country that holds together across a disparate population, you do need to give a certain level of outsized impact to people who don't live in city centers, or those people are simply going to say, listen, leave me alone.
00:50:45.000 I'm going to break away.
00:50:45.000 I'm not interested in listening to what the people from the big city want to do with my life.
00:50:49.000 We're not part of the same community.
00:50:51.000 One of the things that keeps communities together is a certain level of care that is taken for people who are living outside these sort of city centers and levers of power.
00:51:00.000 Let's see.
00:51:01.000 Tori says, Hey Ben, love the show.
00:51:03.000 As you know, the left has pushed this idea that men and women are completely the same and that all gender roles are socially constructed.
00:51:08.000 I do believe there are gender roles that are socially constructed, but I also believe a lot of feminine and masculine attributes are human nature.
00:51:13.000 Can you say which gender roles you consider to be socially constructed and which you believe are influenced by biology?
00:51:19.000 Well, you can tell which gender roles are socially constructed and which are influenced by biology by looking cross-culturally.
00:51:23.000 So the fact is that women tend to be more caring and affectionate. 0.99
00:51:27.000 They tend to be more interested in interpersonal relationships.
00:51:30.000 Men tend to be obsessed with objects and things and mechanisms.
00:51:34.000 The male tendency toward aggression and violence is documented not just in the human species, but also in virtually all mammalian species.
00:51:44.000 These are things that are hardcore embedded.
00:51:47.000 The sort of cultural outgrowths of that have manifested in various modes of dress.
00:51:52.000 Obviously, the notion that women are more nurturing, that women are less physically aggressive has manifested in sort of prettier garments for women in most cultures, for example.
00:52:01.000 But as far as gender roles that are sort of constructed, well, I mean, the idea that women were not supposed to work at all was an exaggeration of a perceived gender binary.
00:52:11.000 So the idea was that women are more likely to want to be in the home, and they're the ones who bear and rear children. 0.99
00:52:17.000 There's a certain biological truth to that, but that was taken to the extreme by saying, well, women shouldn't work outside the home, and obviously that's stupid. 1.00
00:52:22.000 So what has very often happened is that gender roles are based in reality, but then they are pushed too far to the point where they become oppressive. 0.97
00:52:31.000 That's what has happened very often.
00:52:33.000 Patrick says, Hey Ben, I wanted to ask you about the anti-Israel attitudes on college campuses.
00:52:36.000 When I was in college, I took a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and looking back, it was basically anti-Israel propaganda.
00:52:41.000 Shocker.
00:52:42.000 This is what happens on college campuses.
00:52:44.000 However, at the time, I was a pretty far-left student.
00:52:46.000 I bought into it more readily.
00:52:47.000 Only after learning about the conflict in more detail did I see the truth.
00:52:50.000 My question to you is A. Why do you think anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian attitudes dominate leftist college campuses?
00:52:56.000 And B. What can people who support Israel do to combat it? 0.63
00:52:59.000 Also, any book recommendations about the conflict you know would be great?
00:53:02.000 Okay, a couple of book recommendations.
00:53:03.000 There's one by Mitchell Bard called Myths and Facts.
00:53:05.000 There's also a really good book out by David Brog right now about Israel's history, so go search that.
00:53:12.000 I think it's called Reclaiming Israel's History, I think is what it's called.
00:53:15.000 That one is a very good read.
00:53:16.000 Those are a couple of basic history books on the conflict.
00:53:19.000 If you want deeper history books on the conflict, Michael Oren has written several on the various Israeli wars.
00:53:24.000 There's a great book called The Prime Minister.
00:53:25.000 It's about a person who was present during virtually all of Israel's history, writing about it, and it's really readable and interesting.
00:53:31.000 So go check all of that out.
00:53:33.000 The reason that anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian attitudes dominate leftist college campuses is because the left has a widespread view That anytime you see a rich person and a poor person, the rich person is responsible for the poor person's misery.
00:53:45.000 And so when they look to the Middle East, and they see a westernized, liberal, powerful country like Israel, juxtaposed with a hellhole like the Gaza Strip, where a terrorist group is in charge, they want to attribute that to Israeli exploitation.
00:53:58.000 Despite the fact that Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:54:02.000 Despite the fact that the vast majority of Palestinians have been living under direct Palestinian control for the last 20 years.
00:54:08.000 This is somehow Israel's fault, Even though Palestinian terror groups keep being elected and controlling the governments in these areas. 0.95
00:54:14.000 It's a very convenient baton to wield against the Jewish state, which, after all, seeks to survive only. 1.00
00:54:20.000 As Dennis Prager is fond of saying, if Israel put down all of its guns tomorrow, there would be no Israel. 0.97
00:54:24.000 If the Palestinians put down all their guns tomorrow, there would be a Palestinian state. 0.92
00:54:28.000 Alrighty, let's get to some things I like and then some things that I don't.
00:54:31.000 So, first thing that I like today, There's a movie that came out and was largely ignored called Vox Lux.
00:54:37.000 Now, I understand why it wasn't a popular movie, but it is one of the best takes on the depredations of Hollywood and modern culture that I've seen in a very long time.
00:54:47.000 The basic premise of the film is that there's a young girl who is going to school in the late 90s, and her classroom is shot up in a Columbine-style attack, and she herself is shot.
00:54:58.000 And when she recovers, she sings a song at a memorial service, and it becomes popular, and she ends up becoming a pop star.
00:55:04.000 And the movie is basically about how she falls apart as a human being, thanks to the predations of Hollywood and the music industry, and how we as a society have decided to gloss over many of our problems with this sort of happy talk of pop music, that sort of, the Irisatz happiness that pop music is supposed to represent.
00:55:21.000 It's kind of a deep meditation.
00:55:23.000 It's not an enjoyable movie, but it is a really interesting movie.
00:55:26.000 So go check it out, Voxlox.
00:55:27.000 Okay.
00:55:28.000 Other things that I like, so I just have to pay homage to this amazing nurse who has adopted a baby At the hospital that had not been visited for five months, is according to the Washington Post.
00:55:38.000 Two years ago, Liz Smith, director of nursing at Franciscan Children's Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, was headed toward the elevator at work when she saw her.
00:55:45.000 A tiny girl with bright blue eyes and a single soft brown curl swept across her forehead.
00:55:49.000 Who's this beautiful angel?
00:55:50.000 Smith asked the nurse who was wheeling the infant down the hall.
00:55:52.000 Her name is Giselle, the nurse told her. 0.64
00:55:53.000 The infant, a ward of the state, had been at the hospital for five months, but Smith had never seen her before.
00:55:58.000 Smith learned that Giselle, then eight months old, had been born premature at another hospital in July 2016, weighing just under two pounds.
00:56:04.000 She had neonatal abstinence syndrome, a result of her birth mother using heroin, cocaine, and meth during pregnancy.
00:56:10.000 The state of Massachusetts took custody of Giselle when she was three months old, And transfer her to Franciscan Children's because her lungs needed specialized care and she had a feeding tube.
00:56:18.000 The baby didn't have a single visitor in five months at the hospital.
00:56:21.000 Social service workers were trying to place her in foster care. 0.92
00:56:24.000 And so Smith decided to foster the baby and become her mother.
00:56:27.000 She adopted the baby, which is just an amazing thing.
00:56:30.000 You know, folks who adopt are the great unsung heroes in our society.
00:56:33.000 They truly are.
00:56:34.000 It's an amazing, amazing act of charity.
00:56:36.000 It's a gift to the child and it's a gift to our society when people adopt. 0.99
00:56:40.000 This nurse is an amazing human being and thank God there's so many. 0.54
00:56:43.000 I know many parents who have adopted.
00:56:45.000 They're doing something absolutely incredible and providing for every baby who requires a chance at a successful life.
00:56:53.000 Adoption needs to be made easier in the country and needs to be facilitated by the state in a better possible way.
00:56:59.000 OK, one final thing that I like.
00:57:01.000 So as you know, I talk on the show a lot about Birch Gold.
00:57:03.000 They're one of our sponsors and one of their representatives stopped by yesterday to talk to me about the future of the economy.
00:57:08.000 Here's what that sounded like.
00:57:10.000 Well, here we are on Things I Like, and one of the things that I like, as you know, is Birch Gold Group.
00:57:15.000 We talk about them all the time, so much so that people have memes about us and Birch Gold Group.
00:57:19.000 Well, joining us from Birch Gold Group today is Philip Patrick.
00:57:22.000 He's the Senior Precious Metal Specialist over at Birch Gold Group.
00:57:25.000 Philip, thanks so much for stopping by.
00:57:26.000 Thanks for having me.
00:57:27.000 So, let's start with this.
00:57:28.000 There's been a lot of talk in recent months about the inversion of the yield curve.
00:57:31.000 What exactly does that mean, and what does that indicate for the future of the economy?
00:57:35.000 I mean, it's a really key sign that we have some tough times to come.
00:57:40.000 Essentially, the yield curve charts interest rates on bonds short versus long-term.
00:57:46.000 And in a normal climate, what you expect to see is shorter-term bonds will carry lower interest rates, longer-term bonds higher interest rates.
00:57:55.000 Obvious reasons, right?
00:57:57.000 I loan somebody money today, assess their creditworthiness, the chances of default in three months, fairly slim.
00:58:04.000 Ten years, a lot of unforeseen circumstances, so I'll typically look for a higher interest rate.
00:58:10.000 That's a normal climate with the yield curve.
00:58:13.000 What we've seen recently, of course, back in December, some of those metrics started to invert.
00:58:19.000 Now, what that means is shorter-term bonds will carry higher interest rates than longer-term bonds.
00:58:25.000 So, it's a complete reversal of that trend.
00:58:29.000 Negative, negative sign, right?
00:58:31.000 Because what it implies is that in the short term, people don't see opportunity, right?
00:58:36.000 Bad things are to come, so they're happy to tie their money up longer term, even if it's at a lower interest rate.
00:58:42.000 A very negative sign.
00:58:44.000 So what are some of the other signs that we've been seeing?
00:58:45.000 I've seen a number of reports about employment slowing.
00:58:48.000 What are some of the other signs that you're seeing in the economy about a sort of slowdown in the economy that we might be expecting here?
00:58:53.000 Look, a lot of key metrics are reflecting bubbles and some bad things to come.
00:58:58.000 We mentioned price-to-earning ratios last time I was here.
00:59:01.000 Something we've been looking at very closely recently is something called a Smart Money Flow Index.
00:59:07.000 It's a Bloomberg chart and essentially it's designed to track institutional money flows in and out of the stock market.
00:59:14.000 And what we're seeing is a lot of institutional money last year and carrying on into this year Flooding out of the Dow Jones, a really, really big sign of tough things to come.
00:59:25.000 What I think is even more interesting about the chart, it goes back to 1992, and it seems to show the uncanny ability of institutional investors to get out because we saw the same trend before the crash in 2008, same trend before the crash in 2000.
00:59:40.000 So, a signal of tough things to come.
00:59:43.000 So, Philip, what exactly can we do to prepare for the possibility of an economic slowdown?
00:59:49.000 Look, I think a big part of it is staying informed, right?
00:59:52.000 We're talking about looking at certain metrics.
00:59:54.000 I think a lot of people like to bury their head in the sand, quite frankly, and that can be a dangerous thing.
00:59:59.000 It's not hugely complicated.
01:00:02.000 It's a case of understanding where opportunity exists, and I think making preemptive moves.
01:00:07.000 And as you and I have discussed, I think precious metals, for a portion of one's portfolio in a climate like this, Can work really, really well.
01:00:14.000 They're contrarian in nature, so the idea is, if we see losses on one portion, it should be the same climate driving growth in contrarian assets, so that losses could be mitigated.
01:00:25.000 And this is what people mean by diversification.
01:00:27.000 When people talk about diversification, you're not talking about everybody taking all their money and putting it into precious metals.
01:00:31.000 You're talking about, you should have your eggs in more than one basket, effectively.
01:00:36.000 Absolutely correct.
01:00:37.000 You wouldn't recommend anyone taking all eggs and putting them in any one basket, but it's diversification, it's a measure of a hedge, that's exactly what we're talking about.
01:00:44.000 So when it comes to precious metals, how have they performed historically versus the market, particularly in downtimes?
01:00:50.000 That's the key, actually.
01:00:51.000 Look, in times of economic boom, the stock market outperforms pretty much everything else.
01:00:56.000 But it's in times of correction, right?
01:00:58.000 It's in times of downturn.
01:01:00.000 That's when contrarian safe-haven assets tend to perform.
01:01:03.000 And you look at the last stock market crash in 2008.
01:01:06.000 We saw a 50% correction in the Dow Jones, and gold and silver prices doubled in value in 18 months of that.
01:01:13.000 So, historically, slow and steady growers, but in times of correction, they can perform very, very well.
01:01:19.000 And you think the economic indicators point to, sometime in the near future, a market correction?
01:01:23.000 It looks that way.
01:01:24.000 It really does.
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01:01:52.000 And Phillip, thanks so much for stopping by.
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01:01:58.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate, so let's just jump right in.
01:02:06.000 Okay, so it is worthwhile noting that Students for Justice in Palestine actually is a group that has ties to terrorism.
01:02:13.000 They were just given an award, apparently, at New York University.
01:02:17.000 The Presidential Service Award at NYU.
01:02:21.000 Despite the pushback we have received from our institution, we agree that we have made significant contributions to the university community in the areas of learning, leadership, and quality of student life.
01:02:30.000 Anyway, New York University divests from Israeli apartheid.
01:02:33.000 The attempts to boycott Israel on campuses is growing in stature.
01:02:36.000 It's always fascinating to watch as groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, which again, do have ties to groups that are associated with terror, that those groups are given all sorts of credence, despite the fact that Students for Justice in Palestine is legitimately an anti-Semitic group.
01:02:52.000 It's amazing.
01:02:52.000 Instead of them doing Palestinian Pride Week, there's Israel Pride Week, which happens on campuses all over America.
01:02:59.000 Instead of doing Palestinian Pride Week, they do Israeli Apartheid Week, because the goal is to label the Israelis as a bunch of evil racists, despite the fact that Israeli Arabs are treated better than Muslims in any part of the Middle East, bar none, it is not close.
01:03:12.000 Despite the fact that Arab parties sit in the Knesset, despite the fact that there's a Palestinian on the Supreme Court of Israel, none of that matters.
01:03:18.000 Israel is the bad guy, and so they put out posters like this one. 0.99
01:03:21.000 For Israel Apartheid Week, in which it shows a Palestinian who is throwing a, it looks like a paint can, a spray paint can at an Israeli. 0.74
01:03:31.000 And this is either causing the Israeli to have a bump on his head or the Israeli soldier has horns.
01:03:36.000 And is following the Palestinian with a gun. 0.82
01:03:38.000 Because that's all that's happening there, is that people are spray-painting and then the Israelis shoot them. 0.56
01:03:42.000 It's not that terrorists are trying to break through the border and murder Israeli citizens, or fire rockets into civilian areas in the middle of Israel.
01:03:50.000 It truly is astonishing.
01:03:51.000 And this sort of stuff is not only tolerated on college campuses, which it should be.
01:03:55.000 I mean, bad rhetoric should be tolerated on college campuses, obviously.
01:03:58.000 But it is promoted by the administration in many of these cases.
01:04:01.000 Students for Justice in Palestine, according to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Has significant ties to Islamic terror groups, this is according to the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.
01:04:10.000 The JCPA report notes that the National SJP Organization was established in 2010 by American Muslims for Palestine, AMP, the US-Palestinian Community Network, at the 2010 World Social Forum.
01:04:21.000 AMP is chaired by Hatem Bazyan, who is also the founder of Students for Justice in Palestine.
01:04:25.000 Bazyan has called for an intifada in the United States and has referred to Israel as the slave master.
01:04:30.000 Additionally, at least a couple of A&P board leaders have ties to the Holy Land Foundation, a charity that was convicted in 2008 for providing material support to Hamas.
01:04:39.000 National SJP has also provided a platform at their conferences to the terrorist Razmiya Odeh, who was convicted by an Israeli court for a 1969 Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two students.
01:04:49.000 Razmiya Odeh, by the way, has also been praised by people like Linda Sarsour.
01:04:53.000 The report notes that SJP has been involved in a number of incidents on college campuses throughout the country, including members of UC Irvine's SJP getting arrested for violent verbal disruptions of a presentation by Dr. Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States.
01:05:09.000 Things are very ugly in the anti-Israel community on college campuses, and that is something worth taking note of.
01:05:15.000 Okay.
01:05:15.000 Well, we will be back a little bit later this afternoon with two additional hours.
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01:05:22.000 It really is, I think, fascinating and interesting Democratic presidential candidate.
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01:05:29.000 It's a really nice discussion.
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01:06:13.000 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show, is it white nationalism to expect immigrants to assimilate?
01:06:19.000 Of course not, but some people seem to think so.
01:06:21.000 We'll talk about that.
01:06:22.000 Also, a feminist in a college newspaper wrote an article saying that it is patriarchal oppression to leave the toilet seat up. 1.00
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01:06:31.000 And what about the economic argument for abortion, that abortion helps the economy and so on?