The Ben Shapiro Show - Big Win For BoJo | Ep. 916

00:00:00.000 Boris Johnson emerges from the British elections with a massive mandate.

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00:01:41.000 474747 claim your eligibility for the special offer today text ben to 474747 well great britain slow clap for you slow clap for you today because jeremy corbyn who is a vicious communist anti-semite not only lost the election last night he's going to he's going to drop his leadership in the labor party which is just a wonderful wonderful result

00:02:08.000 And this was a big gamble by Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party.

00:02:13.000 So Boris Johnson had basically brought Britain to an election on the basis that he didn't have a mandate to push forward with Brexit.

00:02:21.000 Now, two years ago, there was a vote on Brexit.

00:02:24.000 Sorry, actually it was in 2016, so it would have been three years ago, there was a vote on Brexit.

00:02:28.000 And the people of Britain decided that they were not going to go along with the EU's over-regulation and centralization of power.

00:02:38.000 And this came as a shock to the world media.

00:02:40.000 The world media expected that the Brits, they'd be sophisticated enough to just go along with the EU and the EU's free immigration policies.

00:02:47.000 That Britain would swallow the crow of having to deal with Angela Merkel's individual German immigration policies.

00:02:53.000 And then because of free transport, everybody would be able to move across state lines into Britain.

00:02:58.000 That Britain would be fine with the over-regulation from Brussels.

00:03:01.000 Every aspect of British life being controlled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

00:03:05.000 And it turns out that the Brits were not okay with that, and they voted that way in the largest single referendum in the history of the nation.

00:03:12.000 Well, ever since then, the government of Britain has been trying to stop Brexit from happening.

00:03:17.000 So Theresa May kept putting forward Brexit proposal after Brexit proposal, but she didn't have enough of an electoral mandate in order to get that done, because members of her own party, some of them thought that the Brexit deal was too easy on the EU, others of it thought that it was too harsh on the EU, Labour was standing against Brexit.

00:03:31.000 There just was not that she didn't have the numbers.

00:03:33.000 And so she ended up leaving the prime ministership. 0.75

00:03:35.000 She was widely perceived not to really want to do Brexit in the first place.

00:03:39.000 And Boris Johnson replaced her, the very colorful former mayor of London.

00:03:45.000 And Boris Johnson took over, pledging that he was going to get Brexit done.

00:03:48.000 And he tried to ram it through.

00:03:50.000 He tried to suspend Parliament at one point, in order to shorten the period that Labour would have to stop him from ramming it through.

00:03:56.000 In the end, he was unable to do that, and so he called new elections.

00:03:59.000 It was a risky move, because the fact is that the British people could have said, listen, we're tired of all this Brexit stuff, let's have a second referendum, and this time we will cut against Brexit, and we will stand with the Labour Party.

00:04:09.000 Well, instead, Labour is handed a crushing blow, just a massive, massive blow, as the Conservative Party in Britain walks with an 80-seat majority in the House's Parliament, which is an incredible, incredible thing.

00:04:23.000 I mean, really, it truly is.

00:04:25.000 It's the biggest landslide against Labour, I believe, in the country's history.

00:04:29.000 It's this incredible, incredible blow to what is an incredibly powerful party in Britain.

00:04:34.000 And it's not just a referendum about Brexit, obviously, although it was the British people saying, listen, we've said over and over, you guys, you got to get it done.

00:04:40.000 Just get it done.

00:04:41.000 What do we have to do here?

00:04:42.000 Get it done.

00:04:43.000 It was in part that, in part, it was a direct referendum on the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, who is indeed, as I say, a communist and an anti-Semite who has never met an anti-Semitic dictator he does not love.

00:04:53.000 According to the AP, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament, a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the UK out of the EU next month.

00:05:05.000 With 642 of the 650 results declared on Friday, the Conservatives had 358 seats and the main opposition Labour Party had 203.

00:05:12.000 That is a blowout!

00:05:16.000 A blowout.

00:05:17.000 Johnson said it looked like the Conservatives had a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.

00:05:21.000 This makes Johnson the most electorally successful Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher.

00:05:25.000 It was a disaster for left-wing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who faced calls for his resignation even as the results poured in.

00:05:32.000 Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party won almost 50 of Scotland's 59 seats, up from 35.

00:05:36.000 That will embolden their demands for a new referendum on Scottish independence, but Parliament has to go along with that.

00:05:41.000 Parliament is not going to go along with a new referendum on Scottish independence.

00:05:45.000 The centrist pro-EU Liberal Democrats took only about a dozen seats, and Liberal Democratic leader Jo Swinson stepped down after losing in her own Scottish constituency.

00:05:54.000 The Conservatives took a swath of seats in the post-industrial northern English towns that were long Labour strongholds.

00:05:59.000 Labour's vote held up better in London.

00:06:01.000 That was pretty much the only place where Labour held up.

00:06:04.000 The decisive Conservative showing vindicates Johnson's decision to press for Thursday's early election, which was held nearly two years ahead of schedule.

00:06:10.000 He said that if Conservatives won a majority, He would get Parliament to ratify his Brexit divorce deal and take the UK out of the EU by the current January 31st deadline.

00:06:18.000 Johnson said the historic election quote gives us now in this new government the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.

00:06:30.000 Pretty much everybody turned away from labor.

00:06:33.000 Labor economy spokesman John McDonald said, I think Brexit has dominated everything by the looks of it.

00:06:38.000 We thought other issues could cut through and there would be a wider debate.

00:06:41.000 From this evidence, there clearly wasn't.

00:06:42.000 Well, yes, Brexit was the big issue. 0.93

00:06:43.000 The other issue is that Jeremy Corbyn is a nut job and everybody in Britain understood that Jeremy Corbyn was a nut job. 0.94

00:06:48.000 The Chief Rabbi of England came out and said that Jews should not vote for this anti-Semitic party. 0.92

00:06:54.000 I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.

00:06:56.000 Kavitz told Jeremy Corbyn announcing last night that the election had gone quite poorly for him and then announcing that he was going to step down from leadership of labor.

00:07:05.000 I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.

00:07:13.000 I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward.

00:07:27.000 And I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future.

00:07:35.000 Okay, and everybody cheers.

00:07:36.000 This is in his constituency.

00:07:37.000 So the way that it works in Britain is that everybody who is in Parliament obviously has to be a member of Parliament.

00:07:43.000 So the leader of a parliamentary party has to be a member of Parliament.

00:07:46.000 You have to be elected in your own constituency.

00:07:48.000 So Boris Johnson announced his election victory basically in a congressional district, the way that it would kind of be the analogy in the United States.

00:07:55.000 It would be as though in Congress, the biggest party in Congress then had a leader and that leader's party, the The party leader ended up becoming president of the United States.

00:08:05.000 It's sort of like that in Britain.

00:08:06.000 That's how the parliamentary system works.

00:08:08.000 So that means that everybody is announcing from their congressional district or from their constituency.

00:08:12.000 In this case, what was wonderful about that video where Jeremy Corbyn is announcing that he will no longer lead the Labour Party in general elections.

00:08:18.000 A couple of things are wonderful about this.

00:08:20.000 One, Britain has this incredibly great tradition where all it takes is basically, I think it's like 50 pounds or 500 pounds or something, I think it's 500 pounds, in order to stand for parliament.

00:08:32.000 If you do, then you get to stand on the stage as the parliamentary election results are read.

00:08:36.000 So behind Jeremy Corbyn is standing a dude in a white coat and a goofy hat, which is pretty spectacular.

00:08:46.000 Behind Boris Johnson, by the way, in his constituency was Lord Buckethead and Elmo, which is always wonderful because, honestly, democracies shouldn't take themselves that seriously. 0.93

00:08:55.000 Human endeavors are all ridiculous, and this is just proof of it.

00:08:58.000 But the best part of this is the Jewish guy in the yarmulke, who presumably was campaigning with the Conservative Party, who is standing behind Boris Johnson and smiling broadly as Jeremy Corbyn announces that he's not going to be leading the Labour Party. 0.94

00:09:13.000 And good for the Brits! 0.99

00:09:14.000 Good for the Brits for rejecting this piece of garbage, Jeremy Corbyn. 1.00

00:09:17.000 And he is. 1.00

00:09:18.000 He is awful in every possible way he is awful. 0.98

00:09:21.000 Not only is he basically a communist on policy, but he happens to be a vicious anti-Semite, and he has for years. 0.95

00:09:28.000 Liam Hoare had a piece in thetower.org back in 2015 describing how Corbyn hobnobbed with anti-Semites.

00:09:37.000 Corbyn said in 2009, quote, it will be my pleasure and my honor to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking.

00:09:43.000 I've also invited friends from Hamas to come and speak as well.

00:09:46.000 Unfortunately, the Israelis would not allow them to travel here, so it's going to be only friends from Hezbollah. 1.00

00:09:52.000 And Corbyn then said he didn't mean that they were just his friends.

00:09:55.000 He just meant like friends collectively.

00:09:57.000 The Labour Party was rife with anti-Semites who had entered the halls of power thanks to Jeremy Corbyn.

00:10:05.000 Again, none of this was new, but the British people were not going to embrace that, and good for them. 0.97

00:10:09.000 Good for them.

00:10:10.000 Now, did any of that stop Alexander Ocasio-Cortez from endorsing Jeremy Corbyn?

00:10:15.000 The fact that he is a radical leftist who has never met a dictator he doesn't love, and has never met a Jew hater he didn't become friends with?

00:10:22.000 AOC tweeted out a video.

00:10:24.000 She tweeted this out just before the election from Jeremy Corbyn.

00:10:27.000 This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States.

00:10:30.000 The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of people's lives.

00:10:33.000 The only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls.

00:10:37.000 UK, vote.

00:10:39.000 They did.

00:10:40.000 It ended poorly for them.

00:10:42.000 Wasn't just AOC calling on the Brits to show up in favor In favor of Jeremy Corbyn.

00:10:50.000 It was also Bernie Sanders.

00:10:51.000 So Bernie Sanders' team, the head of Bernie Sanders' national organization, Claire Sandberg, tweeted out, The Bernie team says, Vote labor.

00:11:00.000 Solidarity with all the folks knocking on doors in the cold rain, getting out to vote for the many, not the few.

00:11:05.000 And then it showed a picture of people holding Bernie signs alongside people holding Jeremy Corbyn for leader signs.

00:11:11.000 So openly endorsing the anti-Semites to get absolutely smashed at the polls.

00:11:16.000 Spectacular stuff.

00:11:17.000 I do love the UK Guardian, which is beside itself this morning.

00:11:19.000 The UK Guardian has an entire piece about how the Russians stole the election for Boris Johnson.

00:11:23.000 Uh-huh.

00:11:24.000 Uh-huh.

00:11:25.000 Now, the disconnect between the polls and the actual final election results are pretty stunning, because leading up to this election, there were a bunch of polls that were done.

00:11:33.000 The media were covering this thing as though it was very, very tight.

00:11:35.000 Everybody was very nervous.

00:11:36.000 Listen, I had calls from people who have hundreds of employees in Britain, and they were... Somebody said this to me yesterday.

00:11:43.000 They literally said, as the polls were happening, they said if Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, they were going to remove the business from Britain.

00:11:49.000 The reaction of the British people to Jeremy Corbyn was violently anti, because he's awful.

00:11:56.000 And that really helped Boris Johnson.

00:11:57.000 It also helped Boris Johnson that a lot of working class Brits were sick of the elitists in Britain telling them that they had to listen to the elitists in Brussels.

00:12:05.000 That they had to accept Angela Merkel's foreign policy, and that they had to accept Sweden's social policy.

00:12:12.000 They were not up for it.

00:12:14.000 According to the AP, on the whole, Labor tried to focus the campaign away from Brexit and onto its radical domestic agenda, vowing to tax the rich, nationalize industries like railroads and water companies, and give everyone in the country free internet access.

00:12:26.000 It campaigned heavily on the future of the National Health Service.

00:12:29.000 It appears that was not enough to boost Labor's fortune.

00:12:32.000 Defeat spells the end for Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran socialist who moved his party sharply to the left after taking the helm in 2015, but who now looks to have led his left-of-center party to two electoral defeats since 2017.

00:12:43.000 He was also accused of allowing anti-Semitism to spread inside the party.

00:12:46.000 Labor members were pissed.

00:12:49.000 The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is a member of Labour, he came out and he said Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is a disaster area.

00:12:54.000 Khan has been quite critical of Corbyn, specifically because of Corbyn's open tolerance of antisemitism inside the party.

00:13:01.000 Sadiq Khan, who's looking for a leadership position in the Labour Party, he said this general election result is nothing short of a catastrophe for the Labour Party, for London and for the UK.

00:13:08.000 For the fourth general election in a row, the Labour Party has failed to put forward a compelling case to the British people.

00:13:13.000 It is no consolation that we performed so much better here in London.

00:13:16.000 We have fundamentally failed those that most desperately need the help of a Labour government.

00:13:19.000 They include the sick, the poorest, the vulnerable.

00:13:21.000 Our dedicated activists did all they could.

00:13:23.000 As ever, I'm truly grateful for all their hard work.

00:13:25.000 And then he just goes right after Corbyn with a steak knife.

00:13:28.000 If we are truly honest with ourselves, we knew in our hearts that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was deeply unpopular with the British people and that we were extremely unlikely to form a Labour government last night.

00:13:36.000 Labour's shocking and repeated failure to tackle anti-Semitism.

00:13:39.000 Okay, this criticism is coming from inside the house.

00:13:41.000 And I'd just like to make a note for the Democratic Party in today's America.

00:13:45.000 Guys, you could do the same thing to the anti-Semites in your own party.

00:13:48.000 You could say, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, you're not helpful.

00:13:52.000 By the way, it is worth noting that Rashida Tlaib, there's that Jersey City anti-Semitic shooting, which, by the way, could have been so much worse.

00:13:58.000 When I say it could have been so much worse, that, I mean, six people died.

00:14:02.000 Four people who were good, and the two shooters.

00:14:05.000 The shooters, apparently, were actually aiming for the site next door, where there were 50 school-aged children studying upstairs, Jewish kids.

00:14:12.000 They actually shot at the door, and then when they couldn't get in the door, they went into the kosher supermarket and shot that place up. 0.81

00:14:18.000 Rashida Tlaib had tweeted out how terrible the shooting was and blamed it on white supremacists, and it turns out it was black Hebrew Israelites.

00:14:24.000 She has not tweeted anything about Jersey City.

00:14:24.000 And then she deleted the tweet.

00:14:26.000 I believe AOC has not tweeted anything about Jersey City.

00:14:30.000 Ilhan Omar, my understanding is, has not tweeted anything about Jersey City.

00:14:33.000 You know, if you guys in the Democratic Party don't want to go the way of labor, then perhaps you ought to consider tossing the radicals out of your own party.

00:14:42.000 Good for Sadiq Khan.

00:14:43.000 He says, Labour's shocking and repeated failure to tackle anti-Semitism and our inability to put forward a credible and believable set of priorities for governing have made a major contribution to the scale of this defeat.

00:14:52.000 Brexit has accelerated a fundamental shift in British politics and rewritten our political map, the full extent of which is not yet fully understood.

00:14:59.000 However, Labour now stands more politically and culturally removed than ever before from many of the people our party was formed to represent, and that means asking ourselves some very difficult questions.

00:15:09.000 The next five years are full of grave challenges.

00:15:11.000 We'll leave the European Union on Boris Johnson's terms.

00:15:14.000 Our union with Scotland is in peril.

00:15:15.000 We'll face damaging and far-reaching changes to our economy and public services from this hard-right Tory government.

00:15:20.000 The Labour Party will have to change fundamentally in order to rise to these challenges and confront the new political reality that we face.

00:15:25.000 Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stand down.

00:15:27.000 This simply must now happen quickly.

00:15:29.000 But the changes we have to make will not end with his leadership.

00:15:31.000 That is damn well true.

00:15:32.000 Okay, it's not just going to be Jeremy Corbyn. 0.91

00:15:34.000 The entire Labour Party has to be purged of the communists and the anti-Semites if they wish to be competitive again. 0.98

00:15:38.000 It is good for Western civilization that Western parties not embrace communism and Jew hatred.

00:15:43.000 So, very good result from Britain last night.

00:15:46.000 I'll explain in just one second what I think this means for the United States because people are taking lessons away from this in the United States.

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00:17:14.000 Okay, so what does this mean for the United States?

00:17:16.000 Well, a lot of conservatives today are saying a few things.

00:17:19.000 One, the disconnect between the press and the people in Britain is just as large in the United States.

00:17:24.000 So The press in Britain cannot believe this.

00:17:27.000 Cannot believe this.

00:17:28.000 If you look at the UK Guardian today, the Guardian is just beside itself.

00:17:33.000 Again, they printed an article in the UK Guardian today in which they suggested that Boris Johnson had won because the Russians helped him cheat.

00:17:43.000 I mean, this is one of my favorite articles.

00:17:46.000 The headline over at the UK Guardian, which is sort of the equivalent of, in Britain, The Nation, maybe?

00:17:52.000 They say, Winners and losers, few bright notes on a grim night for labor.

00:17:57.000 Yes, yes!

00:17:59.000 So the media in Britain is very much disconnected, especially the mainstream media in Britain, very much disconnected from the people and so they can't believe that a lot of the labor strongholds, those white working class strongholds in the north of England, voted in favor of the Conservative Party.

00:18:14.000 And one of the big factors here is that Nigel Farage made the correct decision to get out of the way.

00:18:18.000 So Nigel Farage's Brexit party was slated to win some of these seats.

00:18:22.000 And he went to Boris Johnson, and it was obvious that Johnson, in order to get Brexit done, needed the votes that were going to go to the Brexit party to go to the Conservative party.

00:18:30.000 Farage did the right thing, stepped out of the way, and now Brexit is going to get done.

00:18:34.000 So good for Nigel Farage.

00:18:36.000 So the media disconnect is very similar to that in the United States.

00:18:39.000 The media in the United States cannot believe that there is a single human being in the United States who would vote for Donald Trump.

00:18:43.000 And that means that some of the polls are probably a little bit wrong.

00:18:46.000 The polls on this thing were not particularly good.

00:18:49.000 The polls on Trump may not be all that great.

00:18:51.000 Now, I'm not a person who discards poll data wholesale.

00:18:54.000 I think you've got to take it for what it's worth.

00:18:57.000 When you talk to conservatives, when pollsters call them, sometimes they just don't answer the questions the way they honestly believe because they're screwing with the pollsters.

00:19:05.000 Because they don't trust the people asking the poll questions.

00:19:07.000 Very often, poll members are a referendum on the people who are asking the questions more than a referendum on the subject of the questions.

00:19:14.000 So there is that.

00:19:15.000 The other thing is that the populist appeal of Boris Johnson is not off-putting to people.

00:19:20.000 People in the British media thought, okay, he acts like a clown, Boris Johnson, he drives trucks through walls, and the truck is labeled Brexit on it.

00:19:28.000 Very Trumpian kind of stuff.

00:19:30.000 Now, there is a difference between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, which is that Boris Johnson is an actual classic scholar.

00:19:34.000 Boris Johnson is a quasi-philosopher.

00:19:37.000 If you actually sit down and talk with Boris Johnson, dude is incredibly bright. 0.98

00:19:42.000 It's not to say Trump is stupid, but Johnson is a quasi-intellectual. 0.91

00:19:45.000 Okay, with all of that said, his affect is very much like Trump's, and the media don't get it. 0.99

00:19:50.000 The media are like, why – this sort of clownish behavior, why can't we have the radical Noam Chomsky College professor Jeremy Corbyn?

00:19:57.000 In the United States, it's the same thing.

00:19:58.000 Why can't we have Elizabeth Warren, who teaches classes at Harvard Law School – Why can't we be gentile? 1.00

00:20:04.000 The American people don't care about that.

00:20:05.000 They want someone who speaks blunt truths.

00:20:07.000 The same thing is in Britain.

00:20:08.000 It is worth noting, when I was back in college at UCLA, I took a course on British politics, and I remember writing a paper specifically about the close mirroring between the outcomes of British elections and the outcomes of American elections.

00:20:22.000 Basically, Britain and the United States tend to move politically in tandem.

00:20:26.000 When Britain moves to the left, the United States tends to move to the left.

00:20:28.000 When the United States moves to the right, Britain tends to move to the right.

00:20:31.000 It tends to presage particular shifts, which is why a lot of people saw Brexit as sort of an indicator that Trump was going to do better than expected.

00:20:37.000 Okay, so this should be scary for the Democrats in the United States.

00:20:43.000 And also, It should be a wake-up call to Democrats in the United States.

00:20:47.000 It should be a wake-up call that when you guys skew too far to the left the same way that Jeremy Corbyn skewed too far to the left, you are going to leave the public behind.

00:20:54.000 Remember, the folks in Britain, they're a lot more used to socialism than the folks in the United States.

00:20:59.000 They're a lot more used to socialist talk.

00:21:00.000 They're a lot more used to big government than people in the United States are.

00:21:04.000 The Democratic Party is mirroring the Labor Party in Britain.

00:21:06.000 But the public in America is not even as left-wing as the public in Britain.

00:21:09.000 We don't have a National Health Service. 1.00

00:21:12.000 So, for the Democratic Party to mirror that is incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:21:15.000 Now, lessons for the right. 0.99

00:21:17.000 One of the things that is true about Boris Johnson is that he basically made the campaign about a couple of key issues, right?

00:21:23.000 He made it about Brexit and about stopping Jeremy Corbyn.

00:21:25.000 That was basically Boris Johnson's campaign.

00:21:27.000 He didn't make it about reforming and changing the NHS.

00:21:32.000 He didn't make it Really about income inequality or tax cuts or anything like that?

00:21:38.000 He focused on one issue that he knew was pretty popular with the British people, and he focused on the evils of his opposition.

00:21:44.000 Now, Donald Trump did something like that in 2016.

00:21:46.000 He didn't campaign on entitlement reform.

00:21:47.000 In fact, he overtly said that he was not going to change entitlements.

00:21:50.000 He campaigned as a quote-unquote moderate Republican.

00:21:52.000 Now, the question is, does his governing record match that?

00:21:55.000 Well, on entitlements it does, right?

00:21:57.000 I mean, he hasn't actually changed entitlements, to my great chagrin.

00:22:01.000 He is governed as a conservative on tax cuts, on judges, on parts of foreign policy, but he's not governed particularly conservatively in terms of spending.

00:22:13.000 He's blown out the spending.

00:22:15.000 And so you could see Trump running a very similar campaign, pointing to the radicalism of the left and then pointing to his economic record.

00:22:21.000 And saying, do you want that economic record to continue or not?

00:22:23.000 Well, for him, that means that the best thing that could happen is that Elizabeth Warren becomes the nominee, or Bernie Sanders, who has overtaken Elizabeth Warren in national polling, becomes the nominee.

00:22:31.000 It's the reason why, and Joe Biden knows this, right?

00:22:34.000 This is why Joe Biden today, in the aftermath of this thing, is saying, look at Britain.

00:22:38.000 Do you really think that the Democrats are going to be able to nominate their own Jeremy Corbyn and that guy's going to win in the United States?

00:22:44.000 So Biden and his allies are seizing on this.

00:22:46.000 Biden says, look what happens when the Labor Party moves so far, so far to the left.

00:22:51.000 He said that as the British election results became clearer.

00:22:53.000 Now, Bernie Sanders had already endorsed Jeremy Corbyn.

00:22:57.000 Biden said Boris Johnson is winning at a walk.

00:23:00.000 He predicted the pundits would say, look what happens when the Labour Party moves so, so far to the left.

00:23:03.000 It comes up with ideas that are not able to be contained in a rational basis quickly.

00:23:08.000 And he also drew comparisons between Johnson and Trump.

00:23:11.000 He says, you're going to see some people saying, my God, Boris Johnson, who's kind of a physical and emotional clone of the president, is able to win.

00:23:18.000 Well, yeah, again, I think that Boris Johnson, that's selling Boris Johnson quite a bit short, but the general point is well taken.

00:23:25.000 And it is true that centrists in the United States are going to point to the radical move of the Democratic Party, and they're going to say, okay, well, do we want this to look exactly like Britain?

00:23:36.000 Is this what we want?

00:23:39.000 By the way, it'd be a very good thing for the country if the Democratic Party would move somewhere closer to the semblance of sanity.

00:23:44.000 That'd be quite a good thing for the American people.

00:23:46.000 Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to the House of Representatives.

00:23:50.000 The House Judiciary Committee has now passed two articles of impeachment against the President of the United States.

00:23:55.000 This is a foregone conclusion.

00:23:56.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:27.000 Okay, so, meanwhile in the United States, the Democratic Party is moving toward impeachment.

00:25:32.000 So today, they held a vote on impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee.

00:25:38.000 They did this.

00:25:39.000 They were going to do this last night.

00:25:40.000 The whole thing was theatrics. 0.99

00:25:41.000 The last 24 hours has basically been all of these idiotic hearings in the House Judiciary Committee for markup of the impeachment charges. 0.98

00:25:48.000 They were never going to get marked up. 0.99

00:25:49.000 Nothing was going to change.

00:25:50.000 Because the majority, the Democrats, don't care what the minority, the Republicans, have to say.

00:25:55.000 In fact, they don't want any of those rules applied. 0.98

00:25:58.000 And so this hearing turned into a quite entertaining, if completely useless spectacle in the stupidity of these impeachment hearings generally. 0.96

00:26:05.000 So this morning, the House Judiciary passed the impeachment vote along completely partisan lines. 0.97

00:26:09.000 Here's what that sounded like.

00:26:10.000 Mr. Chairman, there are 23 ayes and 17 noes.

00:26:13.000 The article is agreed to.

00:26:14.000 The question now is on Article 2 of the resolution impeaching President Donald J. Trump.

00:26:21.000 Unbelievable.

00:26:21.000 So again, this is this is a bipartisan effort.

00:26:25.000 Clearly, the Democrats are just worried about the constitutional implications of Trump's behavior.

00:26:30.000 Now, the Republicans are going nuts over this and they're going nuts in in very colorful fashion.

00:26:35.000 Mitch McConnell, who Is the turtliest of turtles, right?

00:26:39.000 I mean, Mitch McConnell is not somebody to overstate the cases.

00:26:41.000 Listen, this is not happening.

00:26:42.000 There's no chance that Trump is removed.

00:26:44.000 This is what Mitch McConnell sounds like when he is agitated.

00:26:46.000 Have you ever seen a... Have you ever seen one of those t-shirts that has the moods of Darth Vader?

00:26:51.000 It's just the Darth Vader mask, like angry Darth Vader.

00:26:54.000 Is the same as happy Darth Vader?

00:26:55.000 That's Mitch McConnell.

00:26:56.000 This is Mitch McConnell agitated.

00:26:57.000 The case is so darn weak coming over from the House.

00:27:00.000 We all know how it's going to end.

00:27:02.000 There's no chance the president's going to be removed from office.

00:27:06.000 My hope is that there won't be a single Republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment.

00:27:15.000 And Sean, it wouldn't surprise me if we got one or two Democrats.

00:27:18.000 It looks to me over in the House, The Republicans seem to be solid, and the Democrats seem to be divided.

00:27:25.000 Yes, well, that is certainly true, by the way.

00:27:27.000 Representative Doug Collins, it was a great opportunity for Congress people to put their names in the headlines.

00:27:31.000 And that meant you got a lot of colorful, good TV, a lot of Al Pacino in and justice for all.

00:27:38.000 Right?

00:27:38.000 You're out of order!

00:27:38.000 This entire court is out of order!

00:27:40.000 Here's Doug Collins doing that, Republican from Georgia.

00:27:44.000 There's not a Democrat in this room that should be happy about this.

00:27:47.000 The solemnity, the solemnity should be on the death of this committee's process and procedures.

00:27:54.000 Don't give me the solemnity about impeaching a president.

00:27:57.000 You've been wanting to do that for a long time.

00:27:59.000 You ought to take it and just rejoice.

00:28:01.000 Go at it.

00:28:02.000 Because this is what you wanted.

00:28:04.000 Okay, Jim Jordan did the same thing.

00:28:05.000 The congressperson from Ohio.

00:28:07.000 He said, this process is rigged and rushed.

00:28:09.000 Okay, so what we have here are two cases that you're about to see. 0.97

00:28:12.000 One is the Republicans saying, this process is ridiculous.

00:28:15.000 This is all about you guys going after Trump. 0.86

00:28:18.000 And then the Democrats saying, yeah, it kind of is.

00:28:21.000 So here's Jim Jordan.

00:28:22.000 You have a rigged and rushed process when you don't have the facts.

00:28:25.000 You have a rigged and rushed process when you can't accept the will of the American people.

00:28:29.000 And of course you have a rigged and rushed process When you're afraid that you can't beat the president at the ballot box.

00:28:37.000 Okay, and that last part is indeed the case.

00:28:39.000 The Democrats are rushing the process because they think that Trump is likely to win.

00:28:44.000 And given prevailing trends, and as we'll explain, given some of the late actions of President Trump in even the last week, Trump's odds of winning are going up fairly dramatically.

00:28:53.000 We'll get to why that is.

00:28:54.000 We'll get to the Republicans versus the Democrats going at each other's throats.

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00:30:40.000 We're going to get back to the battle between the Democrats and the Republicans.

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00:30:56.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:33:28.000 So as I say, almost a complete waste of time yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee as the Democrats vote on two articles of impeachment and the Republicans militate against that militant.

00:33:42.000 Matt Gaetz, who again, many of the more colorful members of Congress had their moments in the sunshine, had their moments in the sunshine yesterday.

00:33:49.000 Matt Gaetz of Florida, he said, this is obviously bloodlust for Trump, which it is.

00:33:54.000 Time and again, they let us down in their claims.

00:33:56.000 But one thing we know for certain is that this was a sad inevitability.

00:34:01.000 I had someone ask me recently, do you feel some sense of history, some sense of moment that you're about to vote on impeachment?

00:34:08.000 And sadly, I knew this time was coming since the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives.

00:34:14.000 Because they didn't lay out a plan to appropriate for the budget, work with us on critical generational issues.

00:34:21.000 They set out a plan for impeachment.

00:34:24.000 Well, that is exactly right.

00:34:25.000 Now, the most colorful moment of this entire thing happened when Matt Gaetz went after Hunter Biden.

00:34:28.000 He was pointing out that it should be kind of suspicious that Hunter Biden was obtaining these extraordinarily lucrative jobs while having a record that included busts on drugs and all sorts of other problems.

00:34:39.000 Matt Gaetz says that.

00:34:40.000 Hank Johnson of Georgia, I believe, the Democrat, he jumps in.

00:34:44.000 He says, well, you have a DUI.

00:34:46.000 Okay, so it turned real rock'em sock'em robots.

00:34:48.000 I will note that, logically speaking, Matt Gaetz was elected to Congress, okay?

00:34:52.000 He was not selected because his last name was Gaetz.

00:34:55.000 He didn't have a connection with the Vice Presidents of the United States.

00:34:57.000 There is an actual difference between being elected in spite of a past DUI, Beto O'Rourke, and between being in a situation where you obtain a $50,000 a month job despite no history in the industry, despite no actual qualifications because your last name is Biden.

00:35:16.000 Anyway, here's Matt Getz versus Hank Johnson.

00:35:18.000 This made a lot of headlines yesterday.

00:35:20.000 And I don't want to make light of anybody's substance abuse issues.

00:35:23.000 I know the president's working real hard to solve those throughout the country, but it's a little hard to believe that Burisma hired Hunter Biden to resolve their international disputes when he could not resolve his own dispute with Hertz rental car over leaving cocaine in a crack pipe in the car.

00:35:39.000 The pot calling the kettle black is not something that we should do.

00:35:46.000 I don't know I don't know what members, if any, have had any problems with substance abuse, been busted in DUI.

00:35:55.000 I don't know.

00:35:58.000 But if I did, I wouldn't raise it against anyone on this committee.

00:36:05.000 I don't think it's proper.

00:36:08.000 Okay, so is that really, you know, is that really a fair hit?

00:36:11.000 The answer is, of course, it really is not, but that made a lot of headlines because people standing up to each other.

00:36:16.000 Okay, so all of this is just for sham.

00:36:18.000 Everybody understands this is just for show.

00:36:20.000 The Democrats were going to ram this through no matter what.

00:36:22.000 Nancy Pelosi was specifically asked yesterday, why, if you are so confident that Donald Trump committed an act of bribery here as the basis for impeachment, didn't you just include bribery as one of the impeachable charges?

00:36:32.000 The obvious answer, they don't have the elements, meaning they don't have the evidence.

00:36:35.000 Nancy Pelosi just skips right on by I myself am not a lawyer.

00:36:44.000 Sometimes I act like one.

00:36:45.000 Not as often as I act as a doctor.

00:36:47.000 I practice medicine on the side without benefit of diploma, too.

00:36:52.000 This is a decision that was recommended by our working together with our committee chairs, our attorneys, and the rest.

00:37:00.000 So, the articles are what they are.

00:37:03.000 They're very powerful.

00:37:04.000 They're very strong.

00:37:06.000 And they are a continuation of a pattern of misbehavior on the part of the president.

00:37:13.000 Very powerful and very strong and also have no actual criminal charges attached to them.

00:37:17.000 So strong, so powerful.

00:37:18.000 What's the real reason Nancy Pelosi is doing this? 0.99

00:37:20.000 Well, she let the cat out of the bag yesterday.

00:37:21.000 This is clip 21.

00:37:22.000 She explained, because we don't like Trump.

00:37:25.000 Because we haven't liked him for two and a half years.

00:37:27.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi talking about this.

00:37:30.000 Okay, so it's been going on two and a half years?

00:37:33.000 In what sense?

00:37:33.000 How?

00:37:33.000 are moving.

00:37:33.000 If this is, but seriously though, seriously.

00:37:35.000 It's been going on for 22 months, okay?

00:37:38.000 Two and a half years, actually.

00:37:41.000 There has been some criticism though.

00:37:43.000 Okay, so it's been going on two and a half years?

00:37:46.000 In what sense?

00:37:47.000 How?

00:37:48.000 How?

00:37:49.000 Only if you believe that he's been impeachable So she just let the cat out of the bag.

00:37:54.000 The entire thing is a sham.

00:37:56.000 Now, why are the Democrats have focused in on impeachment?

00:37:57.000 They keep they keep just saying it out loud and they're saying the quiet part out loud.

00:38:01.000 Basically, they're focused on impeachment because they believe they're going to lose in 2020.

00:38:05.000 And if they don't impeach, Trump will win.

00:38:07.000 And if they do and if Trump does win and is not impeached, they're going to claim that the election was stolen.

00:38:13.000 So they are setting up this basic choice between either we impeach him and then we win, or we don't impeach him and then he steals the election.

00:38:22.000 Either way, the Democrats get to claim that the thing's illegitimate.

00:38:24.000 So here's Eric Swalwell, when he's not threatening to nuke gun owners in the United States, is not farting on national TV.

00:38:30.000 It was Chris Matthews moving a mug, guys.

00:38:30.000 That was not him.

00:38:32.000 It was not the flatulence of Duke Nukem.

00:38:35.000 Here's Eric Swalwell.

00:38:36.000 We have pattern evidence that not only Donald Trump acts corruptly, but that when you show courage and act against him, you can stop him.

00:38:46.000 It's actually the only way to extinguish his corrupt ways.

00:38:51.000 If unchecked, my colleagues, Donald Trump does not get better.

00:38:57.000 He gets worse. 0.98

00:38:58.000 He gets more corrupt.

00:39:00.000 And we can't wait till the next election to hold him accountable.

00:39:04.000 not when he is trying to rig the next election.

00:39:07.000 Okay, meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries is saying the same thing.

00:39:12.000 He says, you know, Americans, this is so self-defeating.

00:39:15.000 He says, Americans should decide elections outcomes.

00:39:17.000 So we're impeaching.

00:39:18.000 So why not wait till the election?

00:39:22.000 The implication, obviously, is that if there is an election in 2020 that involves Donald Trump, it will not be legitimate.

00:39:27.000 This is such a bad game Democrats are playing.

00:39:30.000 They're outright saying we can't beat Trump at the ballot box, we fear, and thus, we are just going to push forward with impeachment.

00:39:35.000 Who should decide the outcome of our elections?

00:39:40.000 Is it the Russians? 1.00

00:39:42.000 The Chinese? 0.97

00:39:43.000 The Ukrainians? 0.95

00:39:45.000 Or the American people?

00:39:48.000 It should be the American people.

00:39:51.000 And that's why we're here at this moment.

00:39:56.000 And so let's have a serious discussion about it.

00:39:59.000 Stop attacking Americans who refuse to bend the knee to this president.

00:40:08.000 Okay, so we can't have a dictator.

00:40:10.000 We have to have elections.

00:40:11.000 Also, we're going to throw this guy out so we can't have an election referendum on him.

00:40:15.000 Karen Bass also let the cat out of the bag, the congresswoman. 1.00

00:40:19.000 She says, listen, you know what?

00:40:20.000 If Trump wins again, we'll impeach him again.

00:40:22.000 We'll just keep impeaching him.

00:40:24.000 Is anyone under the wild misimpression at this point that the Democrats care at all about the basis upon which they are impeaching Trump?

00:40:30.000 Is it clear to you that they're doing this because they fear him in 2020?

00:40:34.000 Because they've been talking about impeaching him since day one.

00:40:36.000 Pelosi just said they've been working on this thing for two years.

00:40:39.000 For 22 months.

00:40:40.000 Here's Karen Bass. 0.92

00:40:42.000 Yes, but I don't think it would be exactly the same, and here's why.

00:40:46.000 Because even though we're impeaching him, you know, now, there's still a number of court cases.

00:40:53.000 There's a ton of information that could come forward.

00:40:56.000 For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he's Owned 100% by the Russians.

00:41:03.000 So you are absolutely right in your scenario.

00:41:06.000 But the only thing I would say slightly different is, is that it might not be the same articles of impeachment because the odds are we'd have a ton more information.

00:41:15.000 Okay, so this thing is not going to end, right?

00:41:17.000 It's never going to end.

00:41:19.000 They're just going to keep trying to impeach Trump, according to Karen Bass.

00:41:23.000 How seriously should we take all of this?

00:41:25.000 I take it about as seriously as Democrat Congressman Cedric Richmond, who apparently was watching golf in the middle of the impeachment hearings yesterday.

00:41:31.000 I take it with the same level of thrill as this congressperson.

00:41:38.000 Mr. Neguse votes no.

00:41:39.000 McBath?

00:41:39.000 Ms.

00:41:40.000 Ms.

00:41:40.000 No.

00:41:41.000 McBath votes no.

00:41:42.000 Mr. Stanton?

00:41:43.000 No.

00:41:43.000 Mr. Stanton votes no.

00:41:45.000 Ms.

00:41:45.000 Steen?

00:41:46.000 Ms.

00:41:46.000 Steen votes no.

00:41:46.000 No.

00:41:48.000 McCarcel-Powell?

00:41:48.000 Ms.

00:41:49.000 No.

00:41:49.000 Ms.

00:41:49.000 McCarcel-Powell votes no.

00:41:51.000 Ms.

00:41:51.000 Escobar?

00:41:52.000 Ms.

00:41:52.000 No.

00:41:52.000 Escobar votes no.

00:41:55.000 As the vote is going on, he's watching golf.

00:41:58.000 I'm with that congressperson.

00:42:00.000 That congressperson for Speaker of the House.

00:42:02.000 Because that's how seriously we should take all of this.

00:42:05.000 It's all nonsense. 1.00

00:42:06.000 It's all stupidity. 1.00

00:42:07.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, he is moving closer to a re-election victory. 1.00

00:42:11.000 And the reason is because he is getting some of the key issues off the table and he's doing it now.

00:42:15.000 So President Trump, is going to sign today a new trade deal with the Chinese.

00:42:21.000 He has settled on the outline of at least a first stage trade deal with the Chinese.

00:42:25.000 Apparently, Trump has announced there will be a 50% reduction in the tariffs that he's imposed on September 1st, which covers about $110 billion of Chinese goods.

00:42:33.000 The duties will go from 15% to 7.5%.

00:42:36.000 There's already a 25% tariff on $250 billion in goods that he imposed in 2018.

00:42:40.000 That's gonna stay for now, but he says that this is the beginning of a larger settlement with China, the de-escalation with China, Well, it may not actually be great policy in the long run because the United States needs to be confrontational with China in order to get them to do what we want, in order to get them to liberalize.

00:42:54.000 They've been retrenching, they've been using the free markets to enrich themselves, and then to use that against the free markets, and then to use that against free countries.

00:43:03.000 While it may be better policy to treat China as an overt enemy at this point, In terms of Trump's reelection, if he does that, there's a better chance that the Chinese sink the economy by selling some of America's bonds on the open market a month before the election, tank the economy, and throw it to whoever the Democrat is. 0.86

00:43:18.000 So Trump ironing out this thing, or at least de-escalating before the election, is Quite smart politically.

00:43:24.000 It's what he needs to do.

00:43:25.000 According to the New York Times, the United States has settled on final terms of a partial trade deal with China.

00:43:29.000 Several people familiar with the negotiation said it's development that could ease tensions between the world's largest economies just days before the long-running trade war is set to escalate.

00:43:37.000 Trump met with top economic advisors on Thursday afternoon at the White House, where the president agreed to significant reductions on tariffs he has placed on $360 billion of Chinese goods in return for China's commitment to purchase American farm products and make other concessions.

00:43:50.000 As part of the agreement, the president is expected to announce he will delay or cancel tariffs on $160 billion of consumer products from China that were scheduled to go into effect on Sunday.

00:43:59.000 Trump had foreshadowed this Thursday morning.

00:44:02.000 He tweeted, getting very close to a big deal with China, they want it and so do we.

00:44:06.000 Michael Pillsbury, China scholar at the Hudson Institute, he said this is a historic breakthrough and he attributed this to Trump having a good relationship with President Xi Jinping who is in fact a dictator.

00:44:17.000 Trump was agreeing to roll back some of the tariffs he had imposed on China in exchange for Beijing bolstering its annual purchases of American products to about $50 billion next year.

00:44:25.000 Also, China is supposed to enforce stronger protections for American intellectual property, open its markets to American financial institutions, and commit to greater transparency surrounding the management of its currency.

00:44:37.000 So that's a good deal for President Trump, at least insofar as the politics.

00:44:40.000 It's good for the economy as well.

00:44:42.000 Free trade is always better for the economy.

00:44:44.000 On a foreign policy front, is it a great idea to make deals with China? 0.76

00:44:48.000 My general opinion is no, but from a market's perspective, it's going to help the economy.

00:44:52.000 And that, of course, is very big for President Trump.

00:44:54.000 Getting that issue off the table helps him a lot.

00:44:57.000 Another issue he's gotten off the table, which, again, on a policy level, I disagree with it, but on a political level, he needed to do before the election.

00:45:04.000 Top congressional negotiators said on Thursday they'd reached a deal in principle to approve $1.3 trillion in federal spending for 2020, probably averting a government shutdown next week.

00:45:15.000 The Republicans keep Making these deals with Democrats to spend up the wazoo.

00:45:19.000 They never take a strong position on spending.

00:45:22.000 And that's terrible.

00:45:24.000 It's also terrible the American people are not ready to take strong positions on spending and are much more sanguine about spending a trillion dollars into the red every single year than they would be about making any cuts to the programs that would actually require the cuts in order to get us close to fiscal sanity.

00:45:39.000 With that said, a government shutdown would not be good for President Trump leading up to the election.

00:45:43.000 So that's another domino that he has knocked down in advance of the election.

00:45:47.000 Also, Trump, following the Boris Johnson model, he is now embracing more big government policies.

00:45:54.000 Boris Johnson is not a small government guy.

00:45:56.000 He's a big government guy.

00:45:57.000 It's just that compared to labor, he's a small government guy.

00:45:59.000 Trump is sort of the same in the United States.

00:46:01.000 Trump yesterday came out in favor of paid family leave, a policy which really should be left to the private sector.

00:46:06.000 But again, he is trying to aim directly at those suburban moms that he has lost because of his personality.

00:46:11.000 So here's Trump pushing that yesterday.

00:46:13.000 But American families are coming first. 1.00

00:46:16.000 With more women working today than ever before, we now have a historic opportunity to enact long overdue reforms. 0.99

00:46:24.000 It's time to pass paid family leave and expand access to quality.

00:46:32.000 Now, that's not a policy I like, but it is a smart political policy because big spending is always smart political policy.

00:46:39.000 Trump is actually considering skipping the debates, which is not a bad idea, honestly, because while the Democrats would paint that as a form of cowardice, the fact is that the moderator is going to attack Trump.

00:46:51.000 In reality, Trump's not going to skip the debates.

00:46:53.000 If there is a moderator who is anti-Trump, Trump's going to attack the moderator and it's not going to go poorly for him.

00:46:58.000 He did it to great success last time around.

00:47:01.000 It is also true that Trump is quite pithy in debate.

00:47:05.000 He doesn't have a lot to say.

00:47:06.000 He's not going to give you a Pete Buttigieg smooth answer on any policy, but he's cutting and he's biting.

00:47:11.000 And he says things that can be encapsulated in 30-second soundbites because the number of people who actually engage with all nine hours of these debates is fairly low.

00:47:19.000 Nonetheless, Trump is apparently discussing with his advisors the possibility of sitting out general election debates in 2020 because of his misgivings about the commission that oversees them.

00:47:27.000 Trump has told his advisors he does not trust the commission on presidential debates, the non-profit that sponsors the debates.

00:47:33.000 Which is right.

00:47:34.000 I mean, the moderators that they've picked for the debates in the past have generally been awful.

00:47:38.000 Less of a concern for Trump than who will emerge as the Democratic nominee is which media personality will be chosen as the debate moderator.

00:47:45.000 Perfectly fair.

00:47:45.000 He's not afraid of Biden.

00:47:46.000 He's not afraid of Warren.

00:47:47.000 He's not afraid of Sanders.

00:47:48.000 He is afraid that the moderator is going to spend the entire debate attacking.

00:47:51.000 And you saw this in 2012 when Candy Crowley openly lied about Mitt Romney on stage and Barack Obama in order to help Barack Obama.

00:47:58.000 So, good for Trump to at least going in with his eyes wide open.

00:48:02.000 The president's advisors declined to comment on what their plan was for the debates.

00:48:06.000 One senior advisor to the president seemed to wince at the question, said it was not something advisors were prepared to discuss until next year.

00:48:13.000 And again, are the debates gonna help him?

00:48:15.000 Well, there were polls done last election cycle saying that Hillary won the debates, didn't help her, won IOTA.

00:48:21.000 Now the key for Trump is going to be, can he contain the Trumpy?

00:48:23.000 Can he contain the Trumpiness?

00:48:25.000 Because if Trump campaigns on the same premise as his first campaign commercial, which is, you may not like me as a person, but I'm doing a lot of good stuff for the country, and then he can minimize all the times that he's in the news doing stuff that annoys people, he'll win.

00:48:38.000 But if the election is about Trump, if Trump makes the election, the only person who can defeat Trump at this point is Trump.

00:48:43.000 Because the Democrats do not have much in the chamber.

00:48:46.000 I mean, there's no ammo in that chamber.

00:48:50.000 So is it very helpful to President Trump that he is attacking Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old proxy for the far-left's views on climate change?

00:48:59.000 Is that like a super smart move?

00:49:01.000 So yesterday, Trump tweeted out, so ridiculous, Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend. 1.00

00:49:07.000 Chill, Greta, chill. 0.98

00:49:08.000 Now listen, do I find that funny?

00:49:09.000 Yeah, I do, because she's a public figure. 0.63

00:49:11.000 And the fact is that her outrage has been the subject that has launched a thousand think pieces.

00:49:18.000 And then the Trump campaign put out a graphic of the Time Person of the Year.

00:49:26.000 It was a picture of Greta Thunberg standing by the ocean.

00:49:29.000 They took Trump's head and just, and then just pasted it onto Greta Thunberg's body.

00:49:34.000 And then it says, Donald Trump, the power of promises kept.

00:49:38.000 CNN, of course, went nuts over this.

00:49:39.000 Why would Trump attack Greta?

00:49:40.000 Because Trump always attacks, because that's what he does, man. 0.96

00:49:43.000 And listen, for you guys to play shock at this point is just silly. 0.88

00:49:47.000 We all get it.

00:49:48.000 Is it smart politically?

00:49:49.000 No, it's not particularly smart politically, but it is very Trumpy.

00:49:53.000 Now, as I say, if Trump would like to win, then the best thing that he can do at this point is to minimize the Trumpy, because we all get it, right?

00:49:58.000 Everybody who likes that likes it.

00:50:00.000 There's nobody in the middle who's like, yeah, you know what?

00:50:01.000 Now that he tweeted out a picture of himself, With his head on Greta Thunberg's body, totally in.

00:50:06.000 Before, I was on the fence.

00:50:07.000 Now, that we have that picture of Trump's head on Greta Thunberg's body, I've totally changed my mind.

00:50:12.000 I'm voting Trump all the way.

00:50:14.000 I don't think so.

00:50:15.000 That doesn't mean you gotta make the goofiness completely go away, but you have to channel it toward a purpose.

00:50:19.000 You gotta channel the goofiness toward a purpose.

00:50:21.000 This is what Boris Johnson did very well in Britain.

00:50:23.000 He was running, again, small bulldozers through walls with a big sign that said Brexit on it.

00:50:27.000 Donald Trump could do that sort of thing and enjoy it.

00:50:31.000 And it would work for him, but it's got to be connected with policy.

00:50:33.000 It can't just be him being like, I, uh, Greta Thunberg's the worst.

00:50:37.000 She's the worst.

00:50:38.000 Anger management.

00:50:39.000 Like, I don't see a purpose to that.

00:50:41.000 Okay.

00:50:41.000 Time for a thing that, you know what?

00:50:44.000 Enough things I like.

00:50:44.000 We're going to do a thing that I hate.

00:50:50.000 There is an insane piece of the Washington Post today.

00:50:52.000 A fully crazy piece of the Washington Post today.

00:50:55.000 The way that the Washington Post and the New York Times cover antisemitism demonstrates how they do not take antisemitism seriously.

00:51:01.000 In an incredible, incredible, obvious way.

00:51:05.000 So the New York Times has a piece today in which they quote a bunch of Reform rabbis who don't know a lot about Judaism or care much about Israel.

00:51:12.000 Talking about how President Trump signing an executive order to defend Jews on campus is very, very bad.

00:51:16.000 Shocker there.

00:51:17.000 That's what the New York Times does.

00:51:18.000 The Washington Post has an even more incredible piece.

00:51:21.000 It's a reported piece by Wesley Lowry, Kevin Armstrong, and Deanna Paul.

00:51:25.000 And it's titled, Jersey City Grapples with Ramifications of Shooting at Kosher Market.

00:51:29.000 The entire piece is about the roiling tensions inside Jersey City that led to the shooting of a bunch of Jews at a kosher supermarket.

00:51:38.000 And what could have been much worse, as I mentioned earlier on the program, there's tape that now shows that these shooters were attempting to break in next door, and there, there were 50 schoolchildren upstairs. 0.70

00:51:47.000 So this thing could have been a Sandy Hook-style massacre by black Hebrew Israelites against Jews. 0.63

00:51:53.000 Well, the Washington Post prints a piece that they would never print about anything else. 0.50

00:51:58.000 After Charleston, after the South Carolina massacre in a black church by a white supremacist, would there ever have been a piece about the roiling racial tensions that led to so much white anger?

00:52:09.000 After the El Paso shooting?

00:52:11.000 Would there have been a piece about how increased Hispanic immigration had led the white population to increase its anger and led to additional conflict?

00:52:20.000 Of course not, because everybody understood that white supremacy shootings are evil and unrepresentative of the surrounding population, but, and certainly are not justified by anything that is happening in the world.

00:52:31.000 But this piece from the Washington Post basically attempts to lend justification to the shooting.

00:52:34.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:52:35.000 Here's what it says.

00:52:36.000 The JC Kosher supermarket sits on a block that appears the portrait of an American cultural melting pot.

00:52:41.000 Across the street is a Catholic parish.

00:52:42.000 A few storefronts away in one direction is an African hair braiding salon, in the other a mosque.

00:52:47.000 The entire block rests a few miles from Ellis Island, settled in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.

00:52:51.000 Yet the market, and the ultra-Orthodox families that frequent it, also nods to a more complicated, if equally American story, that of a poor black community that, after decades of underinvestment, has seen a wave of redeployment and new arrivals.

00:53:03.000 Remember, this is an article about the myrrh of Jews at a kosher supermarket by black Hebrew Israelites.

00:53:09.000 That's what this article is about.

00:53:11.000 Okay, and can you imagine that sentence?

00:53:14.000 Can you imagine that sentence?

00:53:15.000 By the way, we're showing some of the tape right now.

00:53:16.000 You can see the lead shooter takes a look at the door.

00:53:20.000 If you run it back, you'll see the lead shooter takes a look at the door that is the school and then quickly turns and enters the supermarket.

00:53:27.000 See, look right there.

00:53:28.000 That's the turn.

00:53:29.000 That could have been a lot worse, but...

00:53:31.000 That sentence from the Washington Post.

00:53:33.000 Yet the market and the ultra-orthodox families that frequent it also nod to a more complicated if equally American story that of a poor black community that after decades of underinvestment has seen a wave of redeployment and new arrivals.

00:53:44.000 I'm gonna change that language for El Paso, right? 0.99

00:53:47.000 Yet the Walmart and the Hispanic families that frequent it also nod to a more complicated, if equally American, story.

00:53:52.000 That of a poor white community that, after decades of underinvestment, has seen a wave of redeployment and new arrivals.

00:53:58.000 If that sentence appeared in the Washington Post, it would get the Washington Post boycotted, and rightfully so, because guess what doesn't justify the mass murder of people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religion? 0.89

00:54:09.000 Underinvestment in the local community.

00:54:11.000 Gentrification.

00:54:12.000 This is insane.

00:54:14.000 And the Washington Post continues along these lines.

00:54:17.000 They say more than a hundred Jewish families have moved here in recent years, fleeing astronomical housing costs in Brooklyn, settling into affordable homes across the Hudson, in the heart of the historic black community.

00:54:26.000 While their arrival prompted fears there would be tension between Hasidic arrivals and the black residents, who have been here for generations, many who have moved here say they have found friendly neighbors who made them feel at home.

00:54:35.000 Then on Tuesday, a horrific attack threatened to shatter that goodwill.

00:54:39.000 Oh, it was the attack that threatened the goodwill.

00:54:43.000 We have tape from directly outside the site of the shooting of black residents of the city talking about how the shooting was a good thing. 1.00

00:54:52.000 Again, the media coverage of this is so invested in the intersectional politics of the left, it's insane.

00:55:00.000 We have to turn the real story about the Jersey City shooting not into a problem of Two black anti-Semites murdering Jews, and leave that to a broader conversation of anti-Semitism that exists in every community, and are there problems of anti-Semitism in parts of the black community, particularly in Brooklyn and New Jersey?

00:55:17.000 We're not going to have that discussion.

00:55:18.000 Instead, we're going to talk about gentrification, and how Hasidic Jews moving into the neighborhood is creating all of this turmoil. 1.00

00:55:25.000 Again, imagine if the Washington Post, in the aftermath of Charleston, wrote a story about how black families moving into white neighborhoods was causing ethnic tensions that led to a shooting.

00:55:33.000 You'd be like, wait, what?

00:55:35.000 What?

00:55:36.000 But that's what this Washington Post story effectually does.

00:55:40.000 It's crazy.

00:55:41.000 Okay, according to the Washington Post, as investigators continue to probe the attack, which comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic violence nationally, this city is grappling with whether the attacks reflect underlying ethnic tensions locally and fears it could spark new ones.

00:55:55.000 Well, maybe you might want to talk with black leaders locally about Why they think that this thing happened and whether, in fact, the polls that show outsized black antisemitism in the United States are reflective of a dearth of leadership in some parts of the black community.

00:56:12.000 You would certainly do that if the races were reversed. 0.98

00:56:14.000 If this had been a Jew who went and shot up a black church, you would get a lot of talk about our rabbis from the pulpit being racist. 0.95

00:56:21.000 Is the ethnic tension between Jews and blacks, are those the fault of Jews? 0.97

00:56:25.000 Right? 0.66

00:56:25.000 I mean that's what you would get. 0.66

00:56:26.000 Now you're getting Jews moved into the neighborhood and that's causing ethnic tension. 0.94

00:56:29.000 Like this, the coverage is just maddening. 0.99

00:56:32.000 It's maddening and pathetic and this article would never have been written about anybody except for Jews. 1.00

00:56:38.000 Nobody except for Jews would have this article written about them. 0.99

00:56:41.000 They literally, half the article is about gentrification.

00:56:44.000 The development of suburbs in the 1950s and 60s led to an exodus of most of the area's white residents, later followed by many middle-class black families, once the Fair Housing Act empowered them to pursue suburban living as well.

00:56:55.000 The loss of moneyed residents and their businesses was coupled with the departure of manufacturing jobs, which were relocated to the South and later overseas, leaving behind an under-resourced urban core of poor black and brown people left to fend for themselves as violence and drugs spread.

00:57:07.000 So in other words, if we just cut a few more government checks, and if we added more to the redistributive burden of the American people, and made this area richer, then that would have kept the Jews out and then you wouldn't have had this problem in the first place. 0.92

00:57:18.000 Well done, Washington Post.

00:57:21.000 Well done.

00:57:24.000 Insane stuff.

00:57:24.000 Alrighty.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 13, 2019

Big Win For BoJo | Ep. 916

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