Ben Shapiro is now a Social Justice Warrior, according to the genius devotees of alt-right intellectual wreckage heap Vox Dei. What exactly did he do to earn this honored spot alongside such SJW s as Anita Sarkeesian and rape-hoaxer Emma Sulkowicz? In an interview with Dave Rubin, I said this: "Because many alt-righters are both stupid and bear an uncomfortable love for racism, they found this difficult to understand or swallow." Apparently, I was calling for their firing based on thought. Except that these same genius intellectual alt-writers are incapable of a basic Google search, because I have always, always, opposed firing people based on beliefs. I ve called for boycotting members of the left for leading boycotts based on their beliefs. They ve now legitimized tactics that I personally find kind of despicable. Or perhaps they re just stupid, or perhaps they're both. Ben Shapiro explains why he has such trouble with the Alt-Righters in just a moment, and why he thinks they re stupid too. He also talks about a brand new course at Hillsdale College called "The Presidency" and how the presidency is not just about the presidency, it s about the Constitution, but about how it s supposed to be run and understood by the American presidency. And he explains why the Trump folks have no idea what the powers of the presidency are for, or what they actually do. And he also explains why Hillary Clinton has no clue about what they re supposed to do, and how they actually are supposed to run and why they actually don t get to do anything at all except run the country. . all of which is a good thing, you should listen to this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, you won t be surprised if you don t know what that means because it s a good one, right? or you re not going to get any better than that and you re going to like it but you ll be better off listening to it, right right and learning about it right here at the same time than you do right here in the first place on The Huffington Post or The Hilldale at The Daily Mail or The New York Times or The Daily Beast? and The New Republic? or The Atlantic? And you ll get a copy of The Presidency on The Constitution, right here on your inbox, right in your inbox every single week.
00:00:03.000That is according to the genius devotees of alt-right intellectual wreckage heap Vox Dei.
00:00:09.000They've now compiled a social justice warriors list in order to quote help SJW converged organizations
00:00:16.000What makes you a social justice warrior according to these intellectual heavyweights?
00:00:41.000What exactly did I do to earn this honored spot alongside such SJWs as Anita Sarkeesian and rape hoaxer Emma Sulkowicz?
00:00:50.000In an interview with Dave Rubin, I said this, quote,
00:01:03.000Now, because many alt-righters are both stupid and bear an uncomfortable love for racism, they found this difficult to understand or swallow.
00:01:10.000Apparently, I was calling for their firing based on thought.
00:01:14.000Except that these same genius intellectual alt-writers are incapable of a basic Google search, because I have always, always, always opposed firing people based on beliefs.
00:01:24.000I've called for boycotting members of the left for leading boycotts based on beliefs.
00:01:28.000Here's what I had to say about Brendan Eich, who was the CEO of Mozilla Firefox until he was fired, basically, for being pro-traditional marriage in April 2014.
00:01:37.000It's a frightening country to live in when a boycott can be led against you specifically based on your beliefs.
00:01:42.000The fact that the left gets to use this tactic and destroy people's lives and destroy their businesses because of their political beliefs, they need to be held to their own standard.
00:01:49.000They've now legitimized tactics that I personally find kind of despicable.
00:01:54.000I also said, and I have said for a long time, I'm one of the few commentators
00:01:58.000Explicitly opposed to the government regulating racist behavior in housing and employment because I believe that the market is going to punish people who engage in such nasty behavior.
00:02:08.000If the alt-righters weren't quite so oversensitive about their idiotic racism, they would understand a basic distinction I make on virtually every topic.
00:02:15.000The distinction between thought and behavior.
00:02:24.000The minute you begin instituting racially based hiring practices, for example, my calculus changes and now social sanctions like boycotts, well those would be warranted.
00:02:33.000So I guess if that makes me and SJW a social justice warrior, then I'm a social justice warrior.
00:02:38.000I do have a feeling, though, that the real reason I'm being labeled an SJW is not because of my perspectives on racism.
00:02:45.000It's because I refuse to support the homoerotic, alt-right, Freudian father figure, Donald Trump.
00:02:50.000Which, of course, means that the people who are pushing this list are the actual show's social justice warriors trying to destroy careers based on policing thought.
00:02:59.000Like, for example, not worshipping a 70-year-old bloated, fat, socialist loser named Donald Trump.
00:03:43.000Hillary Clinton has no clue about what the president is supposed to do.
00:03:46.000Hillsdale College is perhaps the best institution of higher learning in the country, particularly for conservative thought and classical liberal beliefs, but it's not just a place you send your kid to be a student, it's also a place
00:03:59.000Where you yourself can learn about topics that matter.
00:04:01.000So they have a new class and it's called The Presidency, right?
00:04:04.000It's called Presidency on the Constitution.
00:04:06.000It's hillsdale.edu slash ben and you can get it for free.
00:04:09.000It's an online course that arrives right in your inbox from Hillsdale's professors.
00:04:16.000You sign up for free, hillsdale.edu slash ben.
00:04:18.000Learn how the Constitution is supposed to protect us from would-be dictators because
00:04:23.000Let's face it, the way the presidency currently operates, that's not how it was meant to operate.
00:04:27.000To find out why, hillsdale.edu slash ben.
00:04:29.000Okay, so quick note on the alt-writers and then we'll move into today's news.
00:04:33.000So, I've noticed that my Twitter feed has been filled, just filled to the brim for literally months at this point.
00:04:39.000With nothing but anti-semitic memes and talk about how I am a quote-unquote manlet, which I guess I had to look this up because I don't speak stupid.
00:04:48.000Apparently, manlet means like some short guy who works out at the gym a lot.
00:04:51.000So that's, I guess that's quasi-accurate.
00:04:54.000I'm not super tall and I work out not at the gym a lot, but I work out a lot.
00:05:00.000But apparently, if you don't support Donald Trump, you're a manlet.
00:05:03.000You lack in masculinity because the highest form of masculinity is God-worshipping and buttock massaging.
00:05:09.000A 69-year-old lazy old man who cuckolds his wife routinely and it's just the whole thing is ridiculous.
00:05:19.000All you people, all you single losers who sit in your basements masturbating to pictures of Donald Trump while wearing your Make America Great Again hat and you alternate between the red and the white hats.
00:05:28.000Yeah, you're really coming after me for masculinity questions.
00:05:48.000The reason that I'm discussing this is not because I'm much bothered by these people, although I have to admit I find it annoying when I literally cannot go to my mentions without seeing any of these things.
00:05:59.000The reason I talk about this is because there's this element that's built up among a lot of people on the alt-right, supported by people who I used to consider friendlies, like Milo Yiannopoulos, who is, again, can be a very good thinker, but he's flirted with these folks for a long time.
00:06:16.000That mixes up being politically incorrect with just being a douchebag.
00:06:20.000And the people on the alt-right, they seem to take, they revel in just being douchebags.
00:06:24.000Not just, like, this people's height, whatever, but putting out racist material, putting out sexist material.
00:07:24.000So, for example, in the middle of an election, which rests on winning delegates, Donald Trump seemed to be under the impression that he was actually playing jacks.
00:07:30.000Like, he actually thought he was playing a completely different game than the rest of the field was playing.
00:07:35.000Instead of winning delegates and hiring people who were going to go out and recruit delegates, instead, he just sort of assumed that it was going to be elections, and not just elections, plurality elections resulting in winner-based-all effects.
00:08:09.000A popularly based proportional system, right?
00:08:11.000He'd have 37% of the delegates and 37% of the vote.
00:08:15.000That would make a lot more sense than 37% of the vote and 45% of the delegates, but Trump thinks that this is just the end of the world.
00:08:22.000By the way, the system also heavily, heavily, heavily favors Trump himself because all of the states with a lot of delegates are lefty states.
00:08:28.000It doesn't matter, like California, to take an example, my state, right?
00:08:31.000California has 172 delegates at stake, 172 delegates.
00:08:35.000California has not voted for a Republican
00:08:37.000Since Jimmy Carter has not voted for a Republican, sorry, since H.W.
00:09:30.000In Colorado, the way that this works, they have a system, right?
00:09:33.000So in 2004, they were holding caucuses in Colorado.
00:09:37.000And they had what were called unbound delegates who were connected to the caucuses.
00:09:41.000They would have caucuses, or really, they would have a primary.
00:09:44.000But the delegates were not bound to the result of the primary.
00:09:46.000So there would be delegates who were elected through caucuses, a bunch of people get in a room, and we say, Lindsay, you're gonna be our delegate to the national convention, and you get to decide what you want, but we trust you to make a good decision because you're our delegate.
00:10:52.000Donald Trump is very angry because Donald Trump doesn't look up rules and he doesn't know how to read, so Donald Trump was very, very upset and thinks he's being gypped because Ted Cruz's people did what they were supposed to do.
00:11:02.000Namely, they went and they recruited the delegates who were elected in those caucuses, and they said, okay, you guys, when you vote for the next slate of delegates to go to national level, please vote for these people.
00:11:11.000And they gave a list of people who are pro-Cruz.
00:11:14.000Trump didn't bother to do the research, and now he's super, super mad about it.
00:11:37.000So here is Donald Trump complaining like a social justice warrior.
00:11:40.000All of society, I guess it's institutional racism that prevented him from using his very good brain and very best people to go and hire some people to go and actually caucus.
00:13:24.000Mr. Trump, I've been a part of the caucus system in Minnesota.
00:13:27.000It is a difficult system, and I was steamrolled by and out-organized by a Ron Paul movement.
00:13:32.000Isn't it just fair to say that these are the rules, Ted Cruz is organized, and you're just flat out being out-organized?
00:13:37.000No, because I've got millions more votes.
00:13:39.000I mean, you could say he's out-organized because I have millions of more votes, Pete, and I happen to have more delegates than he does by a lot.
00:13:46.000But when you go into a Colorado where the people of Colorado are complaining that they're not allowed to vote, that's the best of all because they're not even allowed to vote.
00:13:54.000Or when I go into Louisiana and I win Louisiana by a lot, I get thousands of more votes than Cruz, and then I find out that I get less delegates
00:14:03.000You know, hey, I'm somebody coming in to make America great again.
00:14:06.000I'm coming in to do something positive.
00:14:22.000Okay, first of all, back in 2012, he knew how the delegate process worked, and he explicitly praised Mitt Romney for working the delegate process.
00:14:28.000Second of all, there is a difference between how delegates are selected at the Republican level and the superdelegates who are selected in the Democratic level.
00:14:35.000So at the Democratic level, the way superdelegates are appointed is they are state officials and congresspeople from the Democratic Party.
00:14:41.000They're selected in advance, before any of the caucuses go on,
00:14:44.000The people, the individuals are selected before any of the caucuses or primaries and then those people are supposed to kind of put their thumb on the scale of justice.
00:14:51.000The way the Colorado process works, the voters did select their delegates and then the delegates selected their national delegates.
00:14:57.000So that is in fact a democratic process, but all of this doesn't mean anything because it's just going to be Trump whining.
00:15:04.000He's whining because he's not winning.
00:15:05.000And so look, if you wanted to win this process, I thought there are a couple of things about this that really ought to be telling.
00:15:11.000Even if you don't like the way this process goes.
00:15:13.000I, again, think that the way the process ought to work is no winner-take-all anywhere ever.
00:15:18.000It shouldn't be winner-take-all anywhere ever.
00:15:19.000You should still have to get to a majority of the delegates.
00:15:22.000And you should have to have proportional representation in all of the states.
00:15:26.000So Trump would have 37% of the vote right now, and Ted Cruz would probably have about 21% of the delegates right now, and we'd go into the convention, everyone would know it was open, and then there would be a lot of brokering and a lot of bartering.
00:15:36.000We wouldn't be generating false majorities by giving Trump 99 delegates in Florida for winning less than 50% of the vote.
00:15:43.000That seems fairer to me, but we're not drawing up the rules from scratch.
00:15:46.000So as long as we're not drawing up the rules from scratch, the rules are what they are.
00:15:50.000And this speaks to the fact that Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
00:16:36.000So somehow you found the time and the wherewithal to sign a check to Nancy Pelosi and sign a check to Harry Reid, but you couldn't sign a check to your own guy to go and presumably try and bribe some of those delegates?
00:16:53.000And finally, Trump says he has a very good brain and all of this does not suggest
00:16:57.000The workings of a particularly great brain.
00:17:00.000Speaking of hiring the best people, here is Trump's new convention manager, a guy named Paul Manafort.
00:17:05.000A few years ago, I was approached by a fellow...
00:17:08.000Who's kind of a black ops Republican specialist who's fixed up with me by a big Republican donor.
00:17:14.000And I met with him three or four times probably because he kept suggesting that he wanted to produce a movie and he wanted my help with that.
00:17:22.000And one of the people he wanted to fix me up with was the person you're about to see, a guy named Paul Manafort.
00:17:27.000And Paul Manafort was at the time working very heavily to preserve in power the then dictator of Ukraine.
00:17:35.000And needless to say, we didn't end up working together.
00:18:31.000For those who don't know the Gestapo, you're talking about the Nazi secret police who would go around literally taping electrodes to genitals and torturing people until they gave up information.
00:18:40.000Yeah, the Gestapo were like the worst people ever.
00:18:52.000The Trump campaign hitman, he's supposedly outside the organization, but he's clearly an operative for Trump, saying things like this.
00:18:59.000He said last week, we're going to have protests, demonstrations.
00:19:02.000We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of the delegates who are directly involved in the steal.
00:19:07.000So if we're talking about threats, if we're talking about getting violent with people who refuse to back you, seems a lot closer to the Trump campaign than anybody else.
00:19:16.000But this is the routine now, is that Trump is going to play victim even as he fails to do his basic due diligence here.
00:19:23.000And by the way, speaking of failure to do basic due diligence, two of his kids are supposed to be registered to vote in New York, and both of them failed to register as Republicans, so neither one of them can formally vote for Trump in New York primary.
00:19:35.000So clearly, taking care of business on that level.
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00:20:21.000Okay, so just to finish up on this, the election is rigged against Trump routine.
00:20:26.000Glenn Beck, who is about as ardently anti-Trump as it's possible to be at this point, Glenn Beck says that if Trump has the most delegates going in but doesn't win the nomination, then he should be given the nomination anyway, and I want to explain why I disagree with Glenn here.
00:20:39.000You would prefer a Trump nomination, if it's not Cruz, over anybody else?
00:21:07.000You can't continue to disenfranchise people.
00:21:10.000I will never vote for Donald Trump, but if he's the guy that is picked with fair play, that's fine.
00:21:17.000But you have Reince Priebus saying that it will be somebody who is running right now.
00:21:21.000Okay, let's take the GOP chair at his word.
00:21:24.000It's got to be somebody who's running.
00:21:27.000Okay, so it's gotta be somebody who's running.
00:21:28.000What's unclear about what Glenn is saying there is what happens when he says, if Trump wins the first ballot, does that mean Trump wins outright on the first ballot?
00:21:34.000I mean, I agree, you can't change the rules of the game after the game has been played, but if Trump only ends up with 1,100 delegates, do you give it to him?
00:21:43.000And I think that Trump people are gonna get mad and they're gonna walk away and I think that if Trump wins the nomination a lot of us are gonna get mad and they're gonna walk away because Trump is a polarizing figure because Trump has no centralizing principle or morality.
00:22:50.000How's he going to bring industry back?
00:22:51.000Well, he's in Rochester, and he says he's going to bring industry back because he's going to hit individual companies with a 35% tax until they agree to return and create jobs.
00:23:01.000He's basically gonna, he's gonna hit them in presumably economic fascist modality.
00:23:05.000He's gonna hit them until they come back.
00:23:07.000Which, by the way, is a success as we all know from our personal lives.
00:23:10.000The best way to get somebody to love you is to hit them as often as possible.
00:23:14.000If you really want your spouse to stay and your spouse wants to leave, the best way to get her to stay is just to hit her with a frying pan.
00:23:19.000And the same thing is true on economics, right?
00:23:21.000If you really want a company to stay and hire people, the best thing you can do is threaten to find them enormous amounts of money and hit them with tremendous taxes.
00:23:31.000Trump and Bernie Sanders are very much aligned on this kind of stuff.
00:23:34.000So Bernie Sanders has been very anti-trade for a long time.
00:23:37.000Trump apparently believes in something called dependency theory, and this is important stuff.
00:23:42.000Dependency theory is an idea of economics that was pushed by the Marxist left in South America particularly, and it suggested that the outside world was infiltrating and destroying domestic
00:23:54.000South American businesses through trade that these companies were coming in and they were building factories and they were and they were and they were usurping the natural resources in the labor base and then they were exporting all of the basic materials back to where they came from and making the the nice products and then sending them back and reimporting them.
00:24:12.000This dependency theory idea, they call it neocolonialism, because way back in the day, you'd have the British government go to someplace in Africa, and instead of manufacturing chess boards in Africa, they would take all the wood, ship it back to Britain, make the chess boards, re-import them into Africa, right?
00:24:27.000So the idea was raw materials get shipped out,
00:24:29.000And this creates dependency because now we're dependent on these other countries for creating the chess boards and building our businesses, which is called trade.
00:24:36.000I mean, you're always dependent on the person with whom you are trading, right?
00:24:39.000And so what the Latin Americans did, what the South Americans did, is they installed all these massive trade barriers.
00:24:45.000They said, we're not going to let business come in here unless they basically pay a giant fine.
00:25:17.000He thinks that every time we trade with somebody from China, every time a private company makes a trade with a company in China, that China is somehow defeating us and making us dependent on China.
00:25:50.000He wants to build a giant economic wall that keeps businesses stuck in the United States, and he wants to build a giant physical wall that keeps immigrants out of the United States.
00:25:58.000There's something to be said for the giant physical wall, because otherwise we can't keep track of the immigration, but the economic wall is doomed to disaster.
00:26:07.000This is all appealing to a very particular group of voters.
00:26:10.000Okay, now, time to move over to the other side of the aisle, where one of the most amusing things in the world is happening, and it's truly, truly amusing.
00:26:20.000And that is, the Hillary-Bill marriage of convenience is beginning to shred and fray.
00:26:27.000For a long time, for many, many years, ever since the last time they had sex, which was the conception of Chelsea, this has been purely a marriage of convenience.
00:26:37.000And Hillary rode Bill's coattails to the White House, and Bill used Hillary as his beard so that he could do whatever he felt like doing.
00:26:44.000And then the trade was that eventually Hillary would ride his coattails, and she would go all the way to the White House on his coattails.
00:26:50.000Now, part of that deal was going to be that Bill was going to be a half-decent president, he was going to govern as a quasi-moderate, and then Hillary was going to run off the legacy of Bill's presidency and say, if you want the good old Clinton days of yore, all you need to do is vote me back into the White House.
00:27:05.000But something along the road happened.
00:27:08.000What happened is that the left in America decided not to move toward Clintonian moderation.
00:28:28.000Because the left has decided that the police have to be pulled out of broken windows policing, right, going after small offenses, and they have to stop, stop, and frisk, and they have to ensure that the police don't do their jobs on small offenses, and the left has simultaneously suggested we let a bunch of criminals out of prison, like here in California, we've had prison realignment, we've defined deviancy down, so crimes that used to be considered felonies are misdemeanors, and misdemeanors are considered nothing.
00:28:52.000All of this is leading to tremendous increases in crime, which is a quality of life issue.
00:28:57.000Meanwhile, Hillary is blasting Bill for having put too many criminals in prison because she's been forced to the left by the radical Democratic base, which has been living off the goodness and surplus of America's low crime rate for the last 20 years.
00:29:10.000Here's Hillary ripping her own husband's crime bill.
00:29:13.000That we should all be listening to each other.
00:30:06.000If people are in corrections institutes to help them while they're there, and I want to do more to help them when they get out, re-enter into society.
00:30:27.000Can she name any of the innocent people in prison?
00:30:29.000When she talks about the people who are just innocent drug users, who are caught for using drugs, the actual percentage of people who are just using drugs in prison, in state prisons, is like 3%.
00:30:40.000Almost nobody in state prisons was caught and put there just for using drugs.
00:30:44.000And usually, it was just for using drugs while out on parole, right?
00:30:48.000They weren't supposed to use drugs, they came in, they gave a drug test, they violated their parole, they went back to prison.
00:30:53.000The idea- and most- actually, most of the people who are put in prison for drug use are people who bargain down, they plea bargain down, right?
00:31:00.000They were drug dealers and they plea bargain down to drug use because the system is overwhelmed, basically.
00:31:06.000But there's this myth out there that there's this vast underclass of people who have just been imprisoned thanks to the drug laws and that's really what's behind all of this.
00:31:14.000Of the people who have been put in prison, additionally, the increase in prisoners, the vast majority of those people are there for violent crimes or property crimes.
00:31:22.000Only 16% of that increase comes from drug crimes.
00:31:26.000And the vast majority of those are drug dealers.
00:31:28.000But Hillary is saying, let's let all those people out.
00:31:30.000And she's saying, oh, we used to be scared of crime.
00:31:32.000There's no reason to be scared of crime anymore.
00:31:56.000The crime rates in the United States rose through the 20s, they rose through most of the 30s, and then, as World War II hit, they proceeded to drop from basically 1941 all the way until the mid-1960s.
00:32:07.000And then, the War on Poverty hit, the welfare programs hit, the...
00:32:11.000Deinstitutionalization of criminals hit, and boom, the crime rate skyrockets.
00:32:15.000From 1960 to 1990, the crime rate rises 400%.
00:32:30.000Bill has significantly more pangs of conscience over having to back his wife's stupidity on crime to get her elected than he ever did about cheating on her.
00:32:37.000Here's Bill, trying to- and you can see how torn he is.
00:32:40.000Trying to repudiate his own legacy on crime in order to push forward his wife to the presidency.
00:32:47.000So these two women in the crowd got up and started screaming that they were angry about the crime bill by itself.
00:32:55.000And that I was responsible for mass incarceration.
00:32:59.000Which is interesting since Hillary was the first candidate to say there are too many young people
00:33:07.000In prison for too long for non-violent offenses, and we need to let them out.
00:33:11.000She's the first person to stand up to that.
00:33:16.000But, what the women were referring to was the crime bill last time, and now Vice President Biden sponsored that.
00:33:28.000And it is true it had longer sentencing provisions.
00:33:35.000To some people going to jail for too long in ways that cannot be justified.
00:33:41.000And I went to the NAACP convention last year and said that, and said it was way past time to change, but pointed out just as Hillary did, you can't just let these kids out of prison unless they have education, training, job placement, transition support, so they don't turn around and go back in.
00:34:11.000People who get out of prison like this, they tend to be career criminals, and then they go and they commit crimes.
00:34:17.000And when he says things like, well, we need better occupational training.
00:34:21.000They've had these programs for literally years in the prisons.
00:34:26.000There are a couple of theories as to what you can do with prisoners so that you don't have to keep them there forever.
00:34:31.000One of the theories is that you can have a system where if you do actually commit a low-level crime, there's not even a trial, basically.
00:34:37.000You just pick them up for parole violation and they will go to jail.
00:34:40.000There's a difference between jail and prison.
00:34:42.000Jail is short-term, prison is long-term.
00:34:44.000They go to like a holding cell for a couple of days and they know for sure that they're going to end up there if they're caught with drugs, for example.
00:34:50.000And it turns out that people don't like doing that, and so they don't do that.
00:34:53.000Punishment has to be swift, and it has to be immediate, and it has to be invariable, right?
00:35:28.000They're a group called the Philly Coalition for Real Justice.
00:35:30.000It was a pair of people who said themselves they are not part of Black Lives Matter.
00:35:34.000That said, the problem with Bill Clinton's origin and the problem with the way that he defended himself was that he was defending himself.
00:35:41.000And that Bill Clinton, I think, is living emotionally through the repudiation of much of his legacy.
00:35:46.000Whether it's on LGBT rights, or whether it's on this crime bill, or on criminal justice, his legacy is being re-litigated in the negative, and I think it's hard for him to deal with it.
00:35:55.000But what he didn't understand is, in the role of surrogate, it is not your job to defend yourself, and this complicated bill that has no clean hands!
00:36:11.000Let's admit that that was a good thing that Bill Clinton did.
00:36:13.000Keeping criminals in prison for committing repeat crimes and having mandatory minimum sentences for those criminals was a good thing.
00:36:20.000And you want to ask the people who think it's a good thing?
00:36:22.000Talk to the black people who are still alive because of this.
00:36:24.000Because it's not the people in Beverly Hills who disproportionately benefited from these measures.
00:36:29.000It was the people who are living in the inner city in South L.A.
00:36:32.000who didn't have to worry about their kids sleeping in bathtubs and being shot at.
00:36:36.000Literally, there was a period in American history in the 1980s where little black children were sleeping in bathtubs because they were so afraid of drive-bys.
00:36:44.000Because the bathtubs were made of porcelain, so if they got shot at, then presumably it would block the bullets.
00:36:49.000We're seeing the increase in murder happening in New Orleans, in Chicago, in Washington D.C., in L.A., in New York, all over the United States.
00:36:56.000All over the United States because the left has moved so far to the left.
00:36:59.000And now Hillary has had to reflect Bernie Sanders to the point where Bill de Blasio, who truly is responsible,
00:37:05.000For the ongoing destruction of a city that had cleaned itself up.
00:37:09.000The reason Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York City originally is because the crime rate was so high.
00:37:14.000The quality of life issues in New York were so bad that that's why they made Escape from New York with Kurt Russell.
00:37:20.000The original reason they made that was a science fiction movie where they turned Manhattan into basically a giant prison.
00:37:26.000The reason that they did that is because the New York crime rates were so bad.
00:37:30.000Bill de Blasio comes in, he undoes everything, everything that Rudy Giuliani was doing.
00:37:35.000He undoes the stop and frisk, he undoes the heavier policing, the community policing, he undoes all of these things because Bill de Blasio is basically a communist.
00:37:45.000And by the way, for all the people who think stop and frisk
00:37:49.000Was some sort of racially biased attempt to get black and Hispanic people?
00:37:53.000From January to June 2008, from January to June 2008, six month period, just any six month period, 98%, 98, 98% of all gun assailants in New York City were black or Hispanic.
00:38:05.000Stop and Frisk targeted 85% black and Hispanic.
00:38:08.000They under-profiled, they under-profiled.
00:38:11.000It just turns out that when you are imprisoning people who commit crimes, too many minority people are committing crimes.
00:38:22.000So Bill de Blasio, Hillary's moved to the left, and now Bill de Blasio, who's basically an open communist, you would think he would endorse Bernie Sanders, right?
00:38:29.000I mean, Bernie Sanders, the guy who literally tweeted yesterday, Bernie Sanders tweeted yesterday, he thinks that banks should not be in the business of profits, they should be in the business of providing affordable loans.
00:38:39.000Which was why we had a subprime mortgage meltdown, folks.
00:38:42.000Because the banks were in the business of providing affordable loans backed by the federal government.
00:38:46.000Bill de Blasio, instead of backing Sanders, he backs Hillary.
00:38:48.000Because the mainstream left has now moved so far, this is what I don't want to see on the right, the mainstream left has moved so far to the left that Hillary is now part of the communist socialist Bill de Blasio movement.
00:38:59.000On the right, what I don't want to see is the mainstream conservative movement move so far to Trumpism that now they're part and parcel of the ideologically incoherent, big man, great leader politics of Donald Trump.
00:39:11.000Here's Bill de Blasio endorsing Hillary Clinton.
00:39:14.000I have great respect for both these candidates.
00:39:16.000But Hillary is a person who can get things done, the kinds of things we need in this country.
00:39:21.000Look, we have to tax the wealthy, we have to raise wages and benefits, we need things like universal pre-k nationwide.
00:39:28.000Hillary's the person who actually knows how to get things like that done, and that's what voters are looking for.
00:39:33.000They're looking for change in this country, but it has to be practical, it has to be real.
00:39:38.000It has to be practical, it has to be real, and so he's voting for the lady who's lying about everything.
00:40:18.000Some people, I think, are worried whether or not the decision, whether or not
00:40:36.000How to handle the case will be made on political grounds, not legal grounds.
00:40:40.000Can you guarantee to the American people, can you direct the Justice Department to say, Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence goes, she will not be in any way protected?
00:41:25.000I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case.
00:41:48.000Nobody gets treated differently by the Justice Department except for like Lois Lerner over at the IRS or let's say the DOJ sending actual representatives to the funeral of criminal thug Michael Brown who tried to murder a police officer or perhaps sending various representatives all over the country to target police departments for no reason.
00:43:00.000Those coppers, they've been trying to get me for years and they can't get me.
00:43:03.000I love Matt Lauer saying that they want to see a political perp walk.
00:43:06.000No, we'd actually just like to see a perp walk.
00:43:07.000It's you who are adding political because you love Hillary Clinton so much and you're eating with her at a diner apparently.
00:43:13.000Okay, so that's the story on the left side of the aisle.
00:43:17.000Hillary has engaged in the full left, and now the full left will embrace her with all the power of government surrounding them, and it is amazing.
00:43:24.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:43:34.000So there's a book by George Gilder, who's a tremendous author, called The Scandal of Money.
00:43:38.000I'm in the middle of that one right now, and I will tell you how it is.
00:43:41.000But all of his other books are excellent.
00:43:43.000Knowledge and Power is a really good book.
00:43:45.000And the Wealth and Poverty is a very good book.
00:43:47.000George Gilder is a very, very solid thinker.
00:43:50.000So I'll tell you how that one is going.
00:43:51.000I'm also in the middle of a book by Ryan Anderson about traditional marriage and the Supreme Court's decision on that, so I'll let you know how that goes.
00:43:59.000And so that's what's on my nightstand at current time.
00:44:35.000First of all, when we created the Daily Wire, we looked for investors.
00:44:40.000Some of the investors we went to were the Wilkses.
00:44:43.000The reason being that we went to people who are ideologically aligned.
00:44:46.000Just like any other company, you go for funding to the people with whom you are ideologically aligned.
00:44:50.000I didn't bother going over to Warren Buffett looking for funding for Daily Wire because that would be a waste of time.
00:44:55.000I didn't stop by Arianna Huffington's offices.
00:44:57.000I went to the people with whom I'm ideologically aligned.
00:45:00.000And I can tell you this, the folks who own The Daily Wire, the people who fund The Daily Wire, they have never, ever, at any point, given any editorial input as to what I put on the page.
00:45:09.000And the clarity is this, I mean, I've been writing the same kind of stuff, and I was writing the same kind of stuff for Breitbart, right, which is a very pro-Trump website, up until the point where I quit because their bias became overwhelming to the point of undercutting their own reporter, as I said at the time.
00:45:24.000So the idea is that I'm bought and paid for.
00:45:58.000And because Donald Trump is a political John, and he has said many times that he basically buys and sells people ten times over, and this is what he does, he believes that everybody is for sale.
00:46:23.000Make me an offer, because if you're this great dealmaker, if everybody is for sale, if I'm that corrupt, I haven't gotten any checks from Donald Trump, and I haven't seen any offers from Donald Trump, so let's see how mercenary I am.
00:46:34.000Let's see if I'm willing to take money from people I find despicable, like Donald Trump.
00:46:40.000He must be a really crappy dealmaker, since everybody's for sale, but he seems to have missed some of the biggies when it came to buying them out.
00:46:47.000This whole thing is silliness, but again, Donald Trump's people project, right?
00:46:51.000If you oppose Donald Trump, you are all the things Donald Trump actually is, namely a political whore who's willing to go where he gets support and willing to say anything to get where he needs to go, right?
00:47:00.000And if you are a Donald Trump backer and you're in this sort of like bizarre
00:47:03.000Homoerotic fantasy with Donald Trump where he pats you on the head and like you're his child but simultaneously you're attracted to his mighty mightiness.
00:47:12.000You're super attracted to his ginormous masculinity and his magical hands.
00:47:16.000Then it must be that if you oppose Trump it must be because you have some sort of pathological issue you're being paid off.
00:47:46.000No one knows why he's here or what he's doing, but John Kasich is supposedly a Republican, and he lords his supposed religiosity over everybody.
00:47:56.000Obviously, I'm a deeply religious person.
00:47:58.000That's why I wear this funny beanie on the top of my head, because I'm a deeply religious Jew.
00:48:02.000John Kasich says he's a deeply religious Christian, which is why he wants to expand the power of government, right?
00:48:06.000He's real big on the government has to fill the moral void.
00:48:10.000So he was asked on national TV about some of these religious freedom laws that now exist in North Carolina and exist in... They tried to pass it in Georgia.
00:48:17.000They've passed it in Mississippi, right?
00:48:19.000These laws basically say if you're a religious person, then you get to be religious in the workplace.
00:48:49.000I mean, look, we are not having this issue in our state about this whole religious liberty.
00:48:55.000I believe that religious institutions ought to be protected and be able to be in a position of where they can live out their deeply held religious purposes.
00:49:08.000But when you get beyond that, it gets to be a tricky issue.
00:49:12.000And tricky is not the right word, but it can become a contentious issue.
00:49:16.000But in our state, we're not facing this.
00:49:19.000So everybody needs to take a deep breath, respect one another, and...
00:49:23.000The minute we start trying to write laws, things become more polarized, they become more complicated.
00:49:29.000Obviously, I don't want to force people to violate their deeply held religious convictions, but we'd have to see what that's all about.
00:49:36.000I wouldn't have signed a law from everything I know.
00:49:39.000But Nathan Deal, the governor of Georgia, vetoed another one.
00:49:43.000And, look, you've just got to see what the laws are and what the proposals are and why you need to write a law.
00:49:49.000Why do we have to write a law every time we turn around in this country?
00:49:53.000Can't we figure out just how to get along a little bit better and respect one another?
00:49:58.000I mean, that's where I think we ought to be.
00:50:00.000Everybody, chill out, get over it if you have a disagreement with somebody.
00:50:04.000So, that's where I am right now, John, and unless there's something that pops up, I'm not inclined to sign anything.
00:50:11.000He's not gonna sign anything, that's where we are.
00:50:13.000That religious stuff, it's mumbo-jumbo, this religious stuff.
00:50:16.000Okay, the reason this came up in the first place is because gay and lesbian activists decided to make an issue of religious business owners not wanting to service their same-sex weddings, not wanting to serve their same-sex weddings, and therefore, there were laws passed attempting to protect those people.
00:50:29.000John Kasich says that's unnecessary, because truly religious people would violate their religious prescriptions at pretty much every turn, because that would be the nice thing to do.
00:50:38.000Forgive me if I don't like John Kasich's brands of theocracy.
00:50:42.000I think that it's galling and I think that it's gross.
00:50:45.000John Kasich, also a small raisin of a head person, and just as Ace of Spades put it about John Kasich, a man who looks like his face went through the wash twice in your pocket.
00:50:57.000That's somebody who I find unpalatable, and that right there in a nutshell is why I find John Kasich unpalatable.
00:51:03.000The guise of niceness underneath is this philosophy of government totalitarianism, that the government can force you to do pretty much anything.
00:51:12.000Okay, well, we will be back tomorrow with more uplifting news of the day, and make sure that you go over to Andrew Klavan's podcast to make you really feel better after this.