The Ben Shapiro Show - April 13, 2016


Ep. 104 - Sanders' Greedy Fascism Will Destroy The Middle Class

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Verizon workers are striking because they want more money, and Bernie Sanders and his supporters are out to screw them. But the truth is, they are just as greedy as the board of directors at Verizon, and in fact they are even more greedy than the rest of the board. Bernie Sanders doesn t understand business, and neither do his supporters. And that's why he doesn't get it. He doesn't understand economics, and he's not even close to getting it right about what makes you rich, and why you should be trying to get better at it, not just by adding information to the economy, but by improving the lives of others. And if you do that, you deserve to be rich, because you're helping to make the economy a better place for everyone else. And those who do this repeatedly ought to reap the benefits. And what about the middle class, the workers? Well, those who work for companies like Verizon, they reap rewards from taking part in distributing that information by their labor. That means they have more incentive to trade currency with the federal government. And then Bernie Sanders thinks it's their fault, and blames it on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and then blames it all on "Eb Ebola" and the "dealing with the "illegally" by the "greedy" trade policies of the "free market economy. And so on and so on. the problem is not the economy's fault, it's Wall Street's faultless business model, not the government's fault. The problem is that Wall Street s fault, not Silicon Valley's fault It's the trade currency, not their own. And then it's not the trade policy, it comes from the trade policies that makes them rich, not Wall Street, and it's the money they get to keep their profits from the benefits from it? and then they get it all the more money from the middle-class, and the benefits they get in the process it's all their money from it, right in the system, not from the process of innovation and distribution, not by the supply and distribution And it's time to learn how to add the information they receive from the market not the other way or the benefits that they get from the system because it's a free market in the economy so they can be more efficient, not less money, not more free they get more things in the future

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00:00:01.000 So, approximately 36,000 Verizon workers are striking this week, which leads Verizon subscribers like me to say, well, were there ever Verizon workers?
00:00:09.000 But apparently, they're led by Communications Workers of America, as one union, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the IBEW, another union.
00:00:17.000 Here's what they demand.
00:00:18.000 They think that Verizon has been hiring workers from abroad, they want them to stop that, and outsourcing to lower-wage contractors, they want them to stop that, shutting down call centers and shipping them to India, they want to stop that, and requiring technicians to travel.
00:00:31.000 They also complain that Verizon has not expanded its Fios service, which is sort of weird and ironic if you consider that these workers would presumably prefer that Verizon pay them more for less work,
00:00:41.000 But still have enough money left over to build more infrastructure.
00:00:44.000 Verizon apparently has a Scrooge McDuck money bin hidden somewhere in New York City, and its board members swim in it daily while quacking and chortling over mass layoffs of Americans.
00:00:53.000 So, what does that mean?
00:00:54.000 Well, naturally, Senator Bernie Sanders, socialist of loonbaggia, descended on the strikers to inform them, while constantly playing the air bongos, that Verizon
00:01:04.000 He was out to screw them because Verizon is evil.
00:01:06.000 He said, They're going on strike because they refuse to be beaten down by a greedy corporation who could care less about them or the people of this country.
00:01:16.000 All they want is more and more profit.
00:01:18.000 It doesn't matter what happens to their employees or the people in America.
00:01:23.000 They want to cut benefits for their employees.
00:01:25.000 They want to throw American workers out on the streets. 0.87
00:01:29.000 And let me tell you, back in the day, I used to play a great game of stickball.
00:01:33.000 Bernie Sanders does not understand business, he doesn't understand the economy, and neither do his supporters.
00:01:39.000 Workers who are striking because they want more money are just as greedy as members of the Board of Verizon, and indeed, almost as greedy as Bernie Sanders himself, because he wants to steal everybody's money by utilizing the power of the government gun.
00:01:53.000 Here's the thing.
00:01:53.000 Greed alone doesn't make you rich.
00:01:54.000 We're all greedy.
00:01:55.000 Very few of us, I am, but very few of us are rich.
00:01:58.000 Voluntary transactions make you rich.
00:02:00.000 Not just voluntary transactions, adding information to the economy.
00:02:04.000 Profits, you know, these evil, evil profits, they're actually rewards for improving the lives of others.
00:02:09.000 The more your skill set improves other people's lives, the more you profit.
00:02:13.000 Economist George Gilder has a brand new book out and it's really good.
00:02:17.000 I talked about it a little bit earlier this week.
00:02:18.000 He explains well why the left fails to understand how profit works.
00:02:22.000 It's not merely about engaging in transactions with other people.
00:02:25.000 It's also about adding information to the economy.
00:02:28.000 So his book is called The Scandal of Money, and here's what Gilder writes.
00:02:30.000 He says, quote,
00:02:32.000 Growth in wealth stems not from an efflorescence of self-interest, meaning a surplus of self-interest or greed, but from the progress of learning accomplished by entrepreneurs conducting falsifiable experiments of enterprise, their outcomes measurable by reliable money.
00:02:49.000 Entrepreneurs who conduct successful experiments keep their winnings.
00:02:53.000 Thus, they can extend their success into the future.
00:02:55.000 Resources gravitate to those best able to use and expand them.
00:02:58.000 In other words, if you add information to the system, think of the economy as a giant information system.
00:03:03.000 There's just lots of information floating around.
00:03:05.000 New information gives you an advantage, just like in a poker game, right?
00:03:08.000 And if you do that, you ought to be rewarded for that, because this is called justice.
00:03:12.000 Those who do this repeatedly ought to reap the benefits.
00:03:15.000 And what about the middle class, the workers? 0.52
00:03:17.000 Well, those who work for companies like Verizon, they reap rewards from taking part in distributing that information by their labor.
00:03:24.000 Wall Street reaps rewards of investing in people who add the information.
00:03:28.000 Here's how Gilder puts it, he says, without the synergistic triad of invention, investment, and distribution, Silicon Valley, invention, Wall Street, investment, and Main Street distribution, the middle class decays.
00:03:39.000 Now here's the problem.
00:03:40.000 Government involvement in this particular system destroys, destroys the ability to add information by changing incentives to benefit the insiders.
00:03:49.000 Wall Street has a corrupt relationship with Washington D.C.
00:03:52.000 That means they have more incentive to trade currency with the federal government and play with arbitrage than to invest in risky businesses adding information to the system.
00:04:01.000 Silicon Valley, their desire to protect their winnings, lead them to lobby to change the rules so nobody else can get in, and the middle class gets left out in the cold, and then thinks it's Wall Street and Silicon Valley Street.
00:04:11.000 Their fault.
00:04:12.000 Hence, Bernie Sanders.
00:04:13.000 Sanders comes along and he blames Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
00:04:16.000 But, Sanders' economic policy, it's like injecting yourself with Ebola virus to cure cancer.
00:04:22.000 The result is death.
00:04:23.000 You can't revivify the middle class by killing the people who generate that middle class.
00:04:27.000 You can only revivify the middle class by getting rid of politicians like Sanders, who stands in the way of that revivification in the name of an unjust system of stealing profits based on their own perverse brand of morally deficient greed.
00:04:42.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:04:42.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:05:47.000 So, we begin today with, as we said, Bernie Sanders.
00:05:50.000 And we have the man in the decayed, withering flesh.
00:05:53.000 We don't actually have to have me just do my impression of Bernie Sanders.
00:05:56.000 Here is Bernie Sanders, or an extra from The Walking Dead, one of the two, talking about why people who strike against big companies, without any real rationale, the companies are not screwing them, the companies are just offering them something that the workers don't want.
00:06:10.000 Here's Bernie Sanders explaining how he thinks capitalism works, and it's just, it's ignorance on stilts.
00:06:15.000 And I was in Buffalo yesterday talking to employees of Verizon who are going out on strike.
00:06:23.000 And that is a very difficult decision.
00:06:26.000 Nobody goes out on strike without a lot of thought because there's a lot of pain going on in families when you don't have any income coming in.
00:06:34.000 But they're going out on strike because they refuse to be beaten down by a greedy corporation
00:06:49.000 Who could care less about them or the people of this country?
00:06:55.000 All they want is more and more profit.
00:07:00.000 And it doesn't matter what happens to their employees or people in America.
00:07:06.000 This is what they want to do.
00:07:08.000 They want to cut benefits for their employees.
00:07:13.000 They want to throw American workers out on the street.
00:07:18.000 Do they really want to throw American workers out on the street? 0.85
00:07:20.000 How then are they going to operate?
00:07:21.000 Like really, if they have no workers, how do they operate?
00:07:24.000 No, they don't want to throw American workers out on the street, but it's always for Sanders and his ilk
00:07:29.000 It's always, constantly, about the intent of the people who are running the companies.
00:07:35.000 They have bad intent.
00:07:36.000 This is what the left always does.
00:07:37.000 It's these moral arguments, right?
00:07:39.000 It's not that these people are making economic decisions that benefit the company.
00:07:43.000 It's not that they are bringing out new products, which involves risk, and sometimes the risk doesn't work out and they have to fire people.
00:07:48.000 It's not any of that.
00:07:49.000 It's greed.
00:07:51.000 I've always asked this to Democrats and Socialists like Bernie Sanders, and that is,
00:07:54.000 When did the small business person who you say you like become the evil greedy businessman you say you hate?
00:07:59.000 How many employees did it take before that person became the bad guy?
00:08:03.000 Most people who are employers were not at one point employers.
00:08:06.000 Most of them were children, it turns out.
00:08:08.000 At what point in their life did they all turn into greedy evil capitalists?
00:08:10.000 When did this grand moral transition take place where they became people who just deliberately want to hurt other people?
00:08:17.000 And the answer is they didn't.
00:08:18.000 That's not their intent.
00:08:19.000 If you've ever met somebody who runs a business, people who run businesses, by and large, feel for their employees and want to work with them, and they want to secure good employees in slots for a very long period of time.
00:08:29.000 It's hard to find good people.
00:08:31.000 But Bernie Sanders doesn't believe that way because his vision of the economy is that if there were no bad intent, if we were all angels, if everybody had great intent like Bernie Sanders, who's never, by the way, hired a person in his life outside of the government,
00:08:42.000 If you had good intent like Bernie Sanders, then you would just hire people for just the hell of it, and presumably pay them until they die.
00:08:50.000 That's called socialism.
00:08:52.000 And if we won't do it, the government has to, because the government is above terrible things like market inefficiencies and market prices.
00:08:59.000 They can just force you.
00:08:59.000 They can take your property, and they can do what they want.
00:09:02.000 But their intent is good, you see.
00:09:03.000 Their intent is good, because they're not subject to the evils of profit.
00:09:06.000 Profits, all profits are, folks, are rewards for adding information to the system.
00:09:11.000 All profits are, are you added something.
00:09:13.000 You were a value add, and that value add represents your profit in life.
00:09:17.000 And the more value you add to other people's lives, the more information you add to the information system, the better off you're gonna be.
00:09:23.000 By the way, if you actually want a system that rewards adding information to the system and rewards good activity, you need to have a stable and steady government regulatory system.
00:09:33.000 You can't have it going up and down.
00:09:35.000 You can't have inflation going up and inflation going down and the government controlling everything.
00:09:38.000 There's too much play in the system.
00:09:41.000 The way that Gilder puts it, and it is a good book, his new book, the way that he puts it, and he's put it like this in the past in his book, Knowledge and Power, is that, think of the economy like a phone line.
00:09:52.000 It's a phone line.
00:09:52.000 You need a quiet phone line in order for you to convey additional information over the phone.
00:09:57.000 If every so often you run into a staticky patch, you lose information, that's bad.
00:10:01.000 If you lose information, the conversation is not as efficient, and the people who benefit from the conversation can't get the benefit.
00:10:07.000 The phone line is government regulation and monetary policy.
00:10:10.000 It's got to be steady.
00:10:11.000 It's not supposed to go up and down.
00:10:13.000 You don't want the phone company screwing with your call.
00:10:15.000 You don't want the phone company getting in there and saying, I think this part of the conversation ought to be louder and this conversation ought to be softer.
00:10:21.000 All you want is a steady line and then you can add information.
00:10:24.000 Right?
00:10:24.000 That's how the economy ought to work.
00:10:26.000 Sanders wants to go in and just cut off the call.
00:10:28.000 He wants to say no more calling.
00:10:30.000 The calling itself is bad.
00:10:31.000 It's made by greedy people.
00:10:32.000 And so the government's job is to cut off the call, and then to go to your house, take all your information, go to the other guy's house, take all his information, put it in a central clearinghouse, and redistribute it randomly across the society.
00:10:43.000 That's silly towns.
00:10:44.000 Unfortunately, it now spans both sides of the aisle.
00:10:46.000 So Donald Trump's economic policy actually looks a fair bit like Bernie Sanders' economic policy, not in terms of domestic taxation, but certainly in terms of tariffs.
00:10:55.000 Trump's senior policy advisor is a guy I know, Stephen Miller.
00:10:58.000 Very nice guy.
00:10:58.000 Stephen Miller and I go back probably 20 years peripherally.
00:11:01.000 He used to call into Larry Elder's show back when we were both kids, and people used to mix us up because we were the two young guys who were on Larry Elder's show.
00:11:07.000 Now he works for Donald Trump, which is
00:11:10.000 A sad decline for a smart guy.
00:11:12.000 Here's Stephen Miller talking about Donald Trump's policy.
00:11:14.000 You'll notice it looks a lot like Bernie Sanders' policy in a lot of ways.
00:11:19.000 So we talked about policy and about Mr. Trump's campaign.
00:11:23.000 If you look at Mr. Trump's original announcement speech in June when he declared, there was three big areas where he outlined a new direction for the GOP based on where the voters are.
00:11:36.000 Immigration, trade, and foreign policy.
00:11:38.000 And ISIS and stuff.
00:11:40.000 Yeah, and so the foreign policy piece, right, is obviously a more national interest, less interventionist foreign policy, and the trade policy keeping jobs here in America.
00:11:51.000 And then the immigration piece, which we're talking about now, these are three areas where the voters are, but the politicians haven't been.
00:11:57.000 I dig it.
00:11:57.000 I dig it.
00:11:57.000 How do you do it?
00:11:58.000 How do you forbid people from wiring money across states?
00:12:00.000 So the key thing to understand is that we have something in place now called E-Verify.
00:12:04.000 No, of course.
00:12:05.000 And so we can check like that if you're here legally or illegally.
00:12:08.000 Right.
00:12:08.000 So you apply that same principle to illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants in this case, right?
00:12:15.000 It would not be legal Mexican workers sending money back home. 0.52
00:12:18.000 Okay.
00:12:18.000 Illegal immigrants who are then engaging in an inherently illegal act because they are wiring funds that were derived against the laws of the United States.
00:12:29.000 So it's a furtherance of a criminal act.
00:12:30.000 So this is something that he can, this is an authority that he has
00:12:34.000 I don't disagree with the idea that we could leverage the government of Mexico by cutting off remittances from illegal aliens back to Mexico, but the trade policies of Donald Trump
00:12:58.000 Our nativist and intent, right?
00:12:59.000 The idea is you're in America, therefore a different rule applies to you than applies to everybody else in the rest of the world and all across the economy.
00:13:06.000 Voluntary transactions are the rule.
00:13:08.000 Here we're going to say that if you are a person living in America, you cannot take a job, for example,
00:13:13.000 Let's say you're an American and you're living abroad in India.
00:13:16.000 You can't take a job that you want to take in India for less pay than you would take in the United States and will punish the company that tries to make that payment.
00:13:23.000 This sort of stuff actually is economic fascism.
00:13:25.000 So once you get to the point where the... Fascism is not just a philosophy of totalitarianism and the government controlling your life.
00:13:31.000 It's economic fascism.
00:13:32.000 It's the idea that the government top-down is going to control how the economy works in the name of fairness, in the name of the community.
00:13:39.000 The word fascism comes from the word fascisti in Italian.
00:13:42.000 It was invented by Mussolini.
00:13:43.000 And the fascist movement, what fascisti means is a bundle of sticks.
00:13:47.000 That's really what fascisti means.
00:13:49.000 It's a bundle of sticks, for those who care about origins of words.
00:13:52.000 And the idea is the bundle of sticks is stronger than any single stick.
00:13:56.000 If you have a bundle of sticks, you try to break it, much harder than if you have a single stick and you try to break it.
00:13:59.000 The idea is if you bundle together all of America into one economy and you have the government run it from the top down, we're all better off.
00:14:05.000 Except we're not.
00:14:06.000 Except we're not.
00:14:07.000 And the only justification for forcing the sticks into a bundle is by saying that the sticks themselves are immoral, but somehow if you bundle them all together and control and then wield them, the person wielding this new bundle of sticks, this new club, is more moral and that person is the government.
00:14:23.000 People ask why I've termed Donald Trump a leftist.
00:14:25.000 This is one of the reasons I've termed Trump a leftist.
00:14:27.000 Trump believes that the government's top-down involvement in your life to compel behavior that you have no duty, no duty to engage in, that that is a good thing.
00:14:37.000 Leftism is really about this.
00:14:40.000 You don't believe in freedom.
00:14:41.000 Here's the freedom test.
00:14:42.000 Here's the freedom test, left and right, for everyone.
00:14:45.000 Freedom test.
00:14:46.000 Somebody does something with which you disagree, but they have no duty to anyone else not to do it.
00:14:52.000 Do you use the government to stop them?
00:14:54.000 Do you use the government to stop them?
00:14:56.000 This is the test of freedom.
00:14:57.000 The test of freedom is somebody thinks something you don't like, but they have no duty to somebody else not to think that way.
00:15:03.000 Do you punish them using the government?
00:15:05.000 Somebody does something that you don't like.
00:15:07.000 For example, you have a restaurateur and he refuses to serve a gay person or a black person, but he has no duty to serve anybody.
00:15:13.000 He can serve whoever he wants.
00:15:14.000 Do you use the government to compel the service? 0.96
00:15:17.000 If the answer is yes, then you are a fascist.
00:15:20.000 If the answer is no, then you actually believe in freedom.
00:15:22.000 You don't get to compel behavior from somebody they have no duty to participate in, in the first place.
00:15:28.000 And this is true in the economy.
00:15:30.000 The government does not have the power to compel Verizon to hire people at a price they don't want to pay.
00:15:34.000 It's true on trade.
00:15:35.000 The government does not have the power to compel people not to engage in free and voluntary transactions with people overseas or in contracts with workers.
00:15:45.000 And it's true across the board.
00:15:46.000 And one of the things that's truly devastating is to watch as all across the political spectrum, this definition of freedom is dumped under the bus.
00:15:55.000 That it's dumped under the bus.
00:15:56.000 And it's dumped under the bus largely on the basis of feelings.
00:15:59.000 It's that people feel like they are owed something.
00:16:02.000 People feel like they are owed something.
00:16:03.000 And you can see it among the Democrats.
00:16:04.000 Charlie Rangel, who is a congressperson from New York, deeply ensconced in serious corruption.
00:16:11.000 Charlie Rangel says that the GOP can't be trusted.
00:16:13.000 Why?
00:16:14.000 Because like Bernie Sanders, they don't care about your feelings.
00:16:16.000 Now, I don't have a duty to care about your feelings.
00:16:19.000 I don't.
00:16:19.000 I don't have a duty to hire you.
00:16:21.000 I don't have a duty.
00:16:22.000 I think Trump has destroyed the Republican Party.
00:16:51.000 And I've talked with some of my friends and they've got to pick up the pieces after this election and maybe they'll get rid of the anti-racial, anti-immigrant and pro-Dixiecrat theme and try to get back to the party of Lincoln.
00:17:09.000 Because we do need a serious party.
00:17:11.000 Do you think Trump's a racist or just playing one on TV?
00:17:15.000 I have no idea, subjectively, but I do know one thing.
00:17:21.000 People do what has to be done in order to say or to do anything in order to continue to be on TV.
00:17:29.000 And sometimes people who don't care about their reputation, you know, it's easy.
00:17:36.000 You should know better than anyone else.
00:17:38.000 If you want to get on TV, David Dowd, you can do it.
00:17:42.000 And you don't have to say, are you sincere?
00:17:45.000 No, I made up my mind.
00:17:46.000 I'm going to get on TV.
00:17:47.000 I'm going to say something.
00:17:49.000 I'll get me on TV.
00:17:51.000 And when you do that and don't mind hurting people, I don't really think it matters whether you are racist or not.
00:17:58.000 If you have a complete disregard of other people's feelings, that's wrong.
00:18:03.000 It's un-American. 0.82
00:18:04.000 And ultimately, the party in the country pays for that.
00:18:09.000 There's the punchline.
00:18:10.000 If you disregard people's feelings, that's un-American.
00:18:13.000 And the left is perfectly willing to crack down using the power of government.
00:18:18.000 Donald Trump is too, to a lesser extent, but still along the same lines.
00:18:22.000 Here are just a few indicators that the left truly is willing to crack down on people for not obeying them.
00:18:27.000 And that this totalitarian tendency that you see from Bernie Sanders on the economy to Donald Trump on trade, that this is now spanning the gamut.
00:18:34.000 West Hollywood came out today.
00:18:35.000 The mayor of West Hollywood, Lindsay Horvath,
00:18:39.000 Right?
00:18:40.000 She came out today and she said she doesn't like Donald Trump.
00:18:42.000 Well, neither do I. The difference is, I wouldn't ban Donald Trump from speaking in my city.
00:18:47.000 She wants to.
00:18:48.000 She went on CNN and she said, West Hollywood is a very diverse community.
00:18:51.000 We're over 40% LGBT.
00:18:53.000 Which, by the way, should be a note to everybody, right?
00:18:55.000 Even West Hollywood, which is heavily gay, is still minority gay, but that's a side point.
00:18:58.000 So we have Russian-speaking immigrants, some of whom are concentration camp survivors,
00:19:02.000 We're the first declared pro-choice city in America, so their tolerance does not extend to unborn children.
00:19:07.000 They say our city is very diverse, we're very open, we're very welcoming.
00:19:10.000 That's the kind of community we want to be.
00:19:12.000 And so she says that she wants to ban Donald Trump.
00:19:14.000 Donald Trump can't come into her city.
00:19:16.000 She says the campaign has gone beyond its right to express a political point of view or policy differences, which we all have to greater or lesser degrees.
00:19:23.000 The hate speech and implicit calls to violence coming from Trump and his campaign have no place in any community in our country.
00:19:30.000 So the left is willing to use government force to shut down views that it doesn't like.
00:19:34.000 Even though Trump has no duty to make you feel good about yourself.
00:19:36.000 He doesn't have a duty to make you feel good about yourself.
00:19:39.000 Even worse, state attorney generals around the country, at least 17 of them, 15 state attorney generals plus DC and I think Virgin Islands, they're now attempting to prosecute ExxonMobil.
00:19:49.000 Why?
00:19:49.000 Because ExxonMobil gives money to places like the Heartland Institute, which are research institutions that disagree with the idea of anthropogenic global warming.
00:19:57.000 That it's our fault that the world is getting warmer, and that we know exactly how much warmer it's going to get, and so we have to devastate the economy to do this.
00:20:03.000 So they don't like what people are saying about global warming, so now they're going to try and shut down ExxonMobil on the basis of it.
00:20:09.000 This is fascism.
00:20:11.000 You've got all these people on the left who have, we talked about this earlier, pushed travel bans.
00:20:17.000 This is fascism.
00:20:22.000 And they're explicitly pursuing this sort of stuff, these sorts of regulations to crack down on religious practice because they don't like the religious practice.
00:20:31.000 We talked about John Kasich basically saying this yesterday.
00:20:34.000 All of this is indicative of an increasing culture of intolerance
00:20:38.000 Hate and totalitarianism when it comes to the use of government to crack down on people that you disagree with or that take actions that you find abhorrent.
00:20:49.000 I'm asked very often when I visit college campuses, how do I feel about decriminalization of pot? 0.99
00:20:54.000 This is one of the questions I get from college students because a disproportionate number of them are lazy losers who smoke pot. 0.95
00:20:59.000 And what I always say is I'm for decriminalization of pot because 0.99
00:21:05.000 I think smoking pot is gross. 0.96
00:21:07.000 I think people who smoke pot are yucky. 0.96
00:21:09.000 But it's none of my business.
00:21:11.000 They have no duty to me not to smoke pot.
00:21:13.000 They don't.
00:21:14.000 They have a duty not to go out and hit somebody with a car.
00:21:16.000 That's why we have DUI laws on the books.
00:21:19.000 But they don't have any duty not to smoke pot, just like nobody has a duty not to drink.
00:21:23.000 So it's none of my business.
00:21:25.000 This is the test of freedom.
00:21:26.000 The test of freedom is, do you accept that somebody can do things you don't like, but they have no duty to do otherwise, and still say, okay, well that's freedom?
00:21:34.000 If the answer is no, then you're not in favor of freedom.
00:21:36.000 You're in favor of a totalitarian rule.
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00:22:33.000 Okay, so, moving on from the Democratic intolerance and their reliance on the emotional appeal.
00:22:39.000 Again, this reliance on the idea that all of their enemies, as Bernie Sanders puts it, are greedy and terrible and they're trying to hurt people.
00:22:46.000 Moving on from that, to the right side of the aisle, Donald Trump is basically saying sort of the same thing.
00:22:51.000 He's saying I should have a different set of rules that applies to me because my feelings have been hurt.
00:22:56.000 First of all, Donald Trump says he will get to 1237.
00:22:58.000 He says he thinks that he's gonna get to a majority of the delegates.
00:23:01.000 Here is the Trumpster explaining himself.
00:23:04.000 I think I'll get to 1237.
00:23:05.000 I think we're gonna do very well in New York and, as I said before, some of the states around that we're going to be in next.
00:23:12.000 I think we should do really well in California.
00:23:15.000 I think we'll get to the 1237. 0.92
00:23:16.000 Look, this has been an amazing process.
00:23:19.000 He thinks he's gonna get to the 1237, let me tell you.
00:23:22.000 And it'll be huge when he gets there.
00:23:24.000 And then he says, but it's not enough for him to say that.
00:23:26.000 Like, that'd be okay.
00:23:27.000 Right?
00:23:27.000 That's his job, to get to 1237.
00:23:30.000 Then he goes full social justice warrior says the GOP should just be ashamed of themselves.
00:23:36.000 They should be ashamed. 0.94
00:23:37.000 They're trying to screw me. 0.85
00:23:38.000 Sounding very much like folks on the left who claim that equal rules that apply to everyone have disparate impact and therefore are bad.
00:23:46.000 Here is Donald Trump explaining why it is that rules that apply to him, that applied to Cruz, that applied to Rubio, that applied to Kasich, that applied to all 0.98
00:23:55.000 This is a dirty trick, and I'll tell you what, the RNC, the Republican National Committee, they should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen. 0.98
00:24:00.000 I can tell you that. 0.99
00:24:01.000 They should be ashamed of themselves.
00:24:24.000 Frankly, he can tell you that.
00:24:26.000 Frankly, he can tell you that.
00:24:28.000 I do like the hand motions.
00:24:29.000 I'm noticing this maybe for the first time.
00:24:31.000 It's always index finger up and the other fingers down, or index finger down and the other fingers up.
00:24:37.000 It's kind of an odd quirk, but who cares?
00:24:40.000 I mean, it's hard to see his fingers anyway.
00:24:42.000 They're so small.
00:24:42.000 But in any case, the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus,
00:24:46.000 He finally has had enough of this and he says to Trump, you know, you really need to cut this crap out. 0.96
00:24:51.000 He tweeted, nomination process known for a year and beyond. 0.96
00:24:54.000 It's the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it.
00:24:57.000 Complaints now?
00:24:58.000 Give us all a break.
00:24:59.000 But Trump won't give people a break because again, he's going to claim that they didn't care sufficiently about him and his voters.
00:25:05.000 And the reason that this has been allowed to flourish so much is because Trump is campaigning against the same people who a lot of Republicans and conservatives feel like have been ignoring them for literally years at a time.
00:25:15.000 We feel like, you ignored us on policy, you went and signed bad deals with Obama, you didn't keep any of the promises you said you were going to keep, and so when Trump says, here's another promise they're not keeping, that they would be fair to me,
00:25:25.000 A lot of people kind of throw up their hands.
00:25:26.000 Oh, it must be unfair.
00:25:28.000 Well, no, this actually wasn't unfair. 0.99
00:25:30.000 You're just kind of incompetent. 0.96
00:25:31.000 Anderson Cooper on CNN points this out to Trump. 0.98
00:25:34.000 He says, you basically just got outplayed, didn't you?
00:25:37.000 You disagree with the process as it was in Colorado, but you had months to prepare.
00:25:41.000 Does it say something?
00:25:42.000 And your critics say it says something about your leadership ability.
00:25:45.000 If you, for somebody who touts himself as somebody who's an organizational genius, who's created this amazing business organization, that you couldn't create an organization on the ground that could beat Ted Cruz's organization.
00:25:56.000 Number one, I started with a million dollar loan.
00:25:58.000 I built a ten billion dollar company.
00:26:01.000 It's a phenomenal company.
00:26:02.000 But it's a business organization the same as a political organization.
00:26:04.000 Well, a lot of similarities.
00:26:06.000 In this case, I've won most of it.
00:26:08.000 I mean, you know, you can say about, what about organization?
00:26:11.000 Well, how come I'm leading by hundreds of delegates?
00:26:14.000 How come I'm leading by millions of votes?
00:26:16.000 Remember this.
00:26:16.000 I was supposed to lose South Carolina.
00:26:18.000 I was supposed to lose to Bush, New Hampshire.
00:26:22.000 I was supposed to lose the entire South.
00:26:24.000 I won
00:26:25.000 Virtually everything in the South.
00:26:26.000 I look at your board.
00:26:27.000 I mean, it's all my color, whatever that color is.
00:26:29.000 I guess it's sort of orange.
00:26:30.000 Semi-purple.
00:26:31.000 Not the nicest color, but that's okay.
00:26:33.000 I don't complain about it.
00:26:34.000 But I won the entire South.
00:26:36.000 I won Florida.
00:26:37.000 I could say they have a bad organization, because Cruz was supposed to win Alabama, Arkansas. 0.85
00:26:43.000 He was supposed to win Kentucky.
00:26:45.000 He lost all of them.
00:26:45.000 He lost Florida.
00:26:47.000 The point is, I mean, if you talk about that, I can say, well, if my organization's not so good, how come I've won many more states than him and millions of votes from him?
00:26:56.000 Okay, first of all, he knows for a fact that these are two different types of organizations.
00:26:59.000 There's the organization on the ground.
00:27:01.000 Cruz does have a superior organization on the ground.
00:27:04.000 And then there is the Donald Trump media organization, which has been run all the way through.
00:27:08.000 I mean, the fact is that Donald Trump has dominated the media coverage for good reason.
00:27:11.000 He's much more interesting than the other candidates. 0.97
00:27:14.000 Also, this is an absolute clown show at this point.
00:27:16.000 I mean, he's just, he's more entertaining. 0.92
00:27:19.000 If you have a choice as a host to cover Trump or cover Cruz, you're gonna cover Trump.
00:27:23.000 I mean, there's just no two ways about it.
00:27:24.000 It's like saying, who would you rather cover, Kim Kardashian or Ben Stein?
00:27:28.000 Right?
00:27:28.000 Obviously Kim Kardashian.
00:27:29.000 Obviously Kim Kardashian.
00:27:31.000 So, now, here's what's happening.
00:27:35.000 So, the Rules Committee is trying to determine what rules they are going to set for the actual convention.
00:27:40.000 So, as Drew mentioned, as Andrew Clavin mentioned on his podcast yesterday, there's a whole other set of rules that can now be put in place right before the RNC to help determine who gets the actual nomination, right?
00:27:51.000 It's determined in 2012 for the 2012 convention.
00:27:53.000 It's determined this time around for 2016, a few weeks before the convention.
00:27:58.000 One of the Rules Committee members was on television talking about how this is going to work, and he said if Trump hits 1,100, he doesn't have to get to 1,237.
00:28:06.000 If he hits 1,100 delegates, then he could still win the nomination.
00:28:10.000 He explains how this works.
00:28:12.000 If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 votes, he will become the nominee even though he may not have 1,237.
00:28:19.000 If he gets less than 1,000 delegates, then I think we're looking at a contested convention that could go on for many, many days.
00:28:27.000 And then in the middle, there's that gray area between 1,000 and 1,100, and that's where the unbound delegates or the delegates that have been released by other candidates come into play to see if there are enough of those to get either Cruz or Trump over the finish line.
00:28:42.000 So he says, basically, Trump can come up a little bit short, but he'll still win the nomination.
00:28:47.000 The reason he says this is because the formal delegate counts do not include unbound delegates from states like Pennsylvania.
00:28:53.000 So Pennsylvania has 54 delegates.
00:28:55.000 None of those are bound, right?
00:28:57.000 No matter how Pennsylvania votes, the delegates can vote however they want, but really, if Trump wins Pennsylvania, those delegates are going to vote for Trump.
00:29:04.000 So you have to include in this count all of the various delegates who are leaning Trump, even if they're unbound.
00:29:11.000 But I don't think this is exactly correct.
00:29:13.000 I think that there's enough anti-Trump sentiment inside the GOP that if he comes up even one vote short of 1237 when you include all the informal delegates, there's not going to be a mass groundswell to give Trump the nomination.
00:29:24.000 The reason there's not going to be a mass groundswell, and there is an argument that there should be, right?
00:29:27.000 There's an argument that the guy who's leading in the clubhouse should at least get the benefit of the doubt.
00:29:32.000 The reason there's not going to be is because Donald Trump legitimately has no self-control.
00:29:37.000 He's never been told no.
00:29:38.000 He's a child.
00:29:39.000 And you could see it last night.
00:29:41.000 Donald Trump talked about how he handles Twitter.
00:29:43.000 And Trump's Twitter feed has been half of his controversy this cycle.
00:29:47.000 He can't stay away from Twitter.
00:29:48.000 He pounds on it with his two tiny index fingers. 1.00
00:29:53.000 And he comes up with some of the dumbest things ever. 0.99
00:29:55.000 He retweets silly things about Heidi Cruz. 1.00
00:29:57.000 And he retweets from white supremacist neo-Nazi accounts. 0.96
00:30:02.000 He explains how he handles Twitter on CNN.
00:30:05.000 This is disquieting to delegates.
00:30:06.000 This is not the sort of stuff that's going to draw delegates to your side.
00:30:09.000 It is a modern method of communication.
00:30:12.000 And, you know, when I have 16 or 17 million people, when you add it up, it gives me a big advantage over people... Do you write all your own tweets?
00:30:20.000 And when somebody's retweeted from your account, you've retweeted?
00:30:23.000 I would say yes, other than if we release some information.
00:30:26.000 I have some people, Dan and some other people, that will do it, but... Do you actually send their type, or do you say something and somebody else types?
00:30:33.000 During the day, I'm in the office, I just shout it out to one of the
00:30:37.000 Young ladies who are tremendous.
00:30:38.000 I have a tremendous office staff and Meredith and some of the people that work for me.
00:30:42.000 And I'll just shout it out and they'll do it.
00:30:44.000 But during the evenings after 7 o'clock or so, I will always do it by myself.
00:30:49.000 Melania, do you ever want to say to him, put the mobile device down that like it's 2 a.m.
00:30:55.000 and you're still tweeting?
00:30:55.000 If he would only listen.
00:30:57.000 I did many times.
00:30:59.000 And I just say, okay, do whatever you want.
00:31:01.000 He's an adult.
00:31:02.000 He knows the consequences.
00:31:04.000 And so she says, you know, he does what he wants and I can't control him.
00:31:08.000 Yeah, clearly he has no interest in what you have to say.
00:31:10.000 I mean, you see him standing, sitting there next to her.
00:31:12.000 And he's like, oh, is she done talking yet?
00:31:13.000 Is she, is she done talking yet?
00:31:15.000 Is she done?
00:31:15.000 He should finally finish his speaking.
00:31:17.000 Because now I would like to say another thing.
00:31:19.000 A thing that is very important.
00:31:21.000 So, by the way, the Donald Trump Heidi Cruz tweet, for those who are wondering, I'm looking up right now when it was actually sent.
00:31:28.000 That tweet was sent at 8.55 p.m.
00:31:31.000 So you hear him say right there that he sends these tweets, you know, he tells people to tweet things up until 7 p.m.
00:31:37.000 and then he takes over his own Twitter account.
00:31:39.000 He personally retweeted the Heidi Cruz tweet because this is who he is.
00:31:43.000 And he has no self-control.
00:31:44.000 And no one's going to control him.
00:31:45.000 His family won't control him.
00:31:47.000 His family says he doesn't need a Twitter intervention.
00:31:49.000 There's nothing that makes us want to stop him.
00:31:52.000 Here's the Trump family explaining, no, no, no, we're not going to intervene.
00:31:55.000 I mean, his thing is his thing.
00:31:57.000 I gotta ask you guys, do you monitor your dad's social media?
00:32:00.000 I have no idea what you're talking about, Andrew.
00:32:05.000 I mean, are there some days you wake up and you look at Twitter and you think,
00:32:10.000 Really?
00:32:10.000 It kind of makes him the person he is, honestly.
00:32:13.000 It's so great to not see the soundbites, the traditional politician soundbites that you read too often.
00:32:19.000 I mean, he's so authentic.
00:32:20.000 He writes the tweets himself.
00:32:21.000 He doesn't have a team of hundreds and hundreds of people behind him, and I think that's actually what makes him the great candidate that he is.
00:32:27.000 And more importantly, they're not vetted.
00:32:28.000 It's actually the retweets.
00:32:30.000 The retweets are fine.
00:32:31.000 The retweets sometimes get a little bit shaky.
00:32:33.000 And they're not... when you look at Twitter and you think,
00:32:38.000 Okay, and he continues along those lines, right?
00:32:40.000 So, bottom line is that his family's not going to stop him.
00:32:43.000 They're not going to step in and stop him.
00:32:45.000 I will say that it is amazing when they have the Trump family on CNN.
00:32:51.000 There are legitimate members from three separate families in that crowd.
00:32:55.000 I mean, that's not a normal family.
00:32:58.000 That's a Colorado caucus.
00:33:00.000 I mean, he's got kids from three separate wives there, all sitting there with, well, at least his wife, and then he's got kids from two other marriages who are sitting there.
00:33:09.000 And, you know, the reason that Trump is going to have trouble at the convention is because people look at this and they say, there's no one here to tell him no.
00:33:16.000 There's no one here to just say, Donald, calm it down.
00:33:19.000 Please calm down.
00:33:19.000 Now, the reason Trump is doing well, on the other hand, is because of his opposition.
00:33:24.000 All of Trump is driven by two facts.
00:33:26.000 He's a guy who says stuff.
00:33:27.000 I've stood on a stage and watched with amazement.
00:33:56.000 As candidates wallowed in the mud, viciously attacked one another, called each other liars, and disparaged each other's character.
00:34:08.000 Those who continuously push that type of behavior are not worthy of the office they are seeking.
00:34:15.000 And this kind of stuff makes me want to vote for Trump.
00:34:18.000 Like, really, because John Kasich standing there and lecturing us all about civility, while he pushes the idea that I, as a religious person, have to sin because he wants me to sin, I don't buy it.
00:34:29.000 I don't buy it.
00:34:29.000 And it makes me look at Trump and go, okay, well, at least he's not that guy.
00:34:32.000 At least he's not that douche. 0.97
00:34:34.000 And so much of Trump's support comes from, at least he's not that douche. 0.97
00:34:38.000 Really, he's this kind of douche, but he isn't that kind of douche, at least. 0.88
00:34:41.000 And you get that feeling consistently. 0.85
00:34:44.000 And that could actually be the Trump campaign slogan. 0.84
00:34:47.000 It could be, Trump, not that kind of douche.
00:34:51.000 Really, that's what's driving a lot of his support.
00:34:52.000 For example, to take another example, there's a guy named Mark Zuckerberg who runs Facebook.
00:35:01.000 Mark Zuckerberg runs the New York Daily News.
00:35:03.000 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, he goes after Donald Trump in the same vein.
00:35:08.000 And again, remember, Trump 2016, not this kind of douche.
00:35:12.000 Here's Mark Zuckerberg.
00:35:16.000 We're good to go.
00:35:46.000 We're good to go.
00:36:12.000 Okay, so there's Jesse Eisenberg talking about interconnectedness. 0.99
00:36:16.000 And the part of this that's irritating is I agree that Trump's policies suck. 0.98
00:36:22.000 I don't like a lot of them. 0.97
00:36:23.000 But the idea that Donald Trump building a wall on the Mexican border is somehow the great ill, that's... 0.97
00:36:29.000 That's ridiculous to me. 0.99
00:36:30.000 It's just it's it's it's silly. 0.97
00:36:32.000 And you look at Zuckerberg and you say, well, at least he's not that guy.
00:36:34.000 At least he's not that guy standing up there and jabbering about synergy and interconnectedness.
00:36:39.000 You're like, OK, well, he's not Donald Trump. 0.94
00:36:41.000 Not that kind of douche.
00:36:43.000 Meanwhile, in Laura Ingraham, who's now become a big Donald Trump supporter, I don't know when she left her conservatism behind and swung toward the populist wing. 0.52
00:36:50.000 But she always did, I think, have a sneaking fondness for sort of Pat Buchanan-type populism.
00:36:54.000 Laura Ingraham, she says that Trump's opponents are the worst people.
00:36:58.000 They're the people who are really bad.
00:36:59.000 And listen to her description of Trump's opponents, and it's easy to understand why Trump has a certain level of support.
00:37:06.000 I'm living in something called the real world, where regular folks who feel like politics has just cast them aside.
00:37:16.000 They've been kicked around.
00:37:18.000 They've been ridiculed. 1.00
00:37:20.000 You read on the pages of National Review, these working people of the country are called meth heads, horrible fathers, angry, stupid crackers. 1.00
00:37:32.000 That's how they're painted in the pages of Conservative. 1.00
00:37:36.000 Right.
00:37:36.000 OK.
00:37:36.000 Media outlet.
00:37:37.000 So this is what she says is how they're painted by National Review.
00:37:42.000 Not entirely fair.
00:37:43.000 I've read the piece she's referring to.
00:37:44.000 It's Kevin Williamson's piece about the kind of white underclass support for Donald Trump. 0.98
00:37:50.000 He didn't say everybody who supports Donald Trump is a meth head or they're all crackers or they're all racist. 0.97
00:37:54.000 He said there's a segment of Trump support. 0.94
00:37:56.000 That is some of these people who feel dispossessed and they have a grievance culture they've created that really is not justified by policy in the United States.
00:38:04.000 But Ingram is right that if you think that those are the people who oppose Trump, then again, you're going to back Donald Trump.
00:38:10.000 You're gonna back Donald Trump.
00:38:11.000 The problem is that Donald Trump supporters, if his campaign is not that kind of douche, right? 0.96
00:38:16.000 Then you still have to acknowledge that he is a kind of douche, right? 0.99
00:38:19.000 He is a kind of douche. 0.98
00:38:20.000 And here's the evidence, right? 0.99
00:38:21.000 Here's Heidi Cruz.
00:38:22.000 She was on last night with Megyn Kelly. 0.63
00:38:24.000 And Heidi Cruz was being asked about that Donald Trump retweet where basically he said that Heidi Cruz is ugly and my wife is super smoking hot because she's a trophy wife and I bought her. 1.00
00:38:34.000 Recently, Donald Trump sent out an unkind retweet about you, comparing your appearance unfavorably to that of his wife, Melania Trump, who is a retired model.
00:38:46.000 How did that retweet first come to your attention?
00:38:49.000 Well, one great thing about me, Megan, is I don't tweet.
00:38:53.000 I had an ability to completely ignore it.
00:38:56.000 And you know, I think we have a pattern of behavior here that when Donald Trump is falling behind, you know, it's interesting the timing of that was right before Ted's sweep, sweeping victory in Utah.
00:39:07.000 Yeah, but that's a dodge.
00:39:08.000 I'm wondering whether, like who told you about it and how it made you feel?
00:39:13.000 You and Carly, my dear friend Carly and myself, have been the object of some of Donald's criticisms.
00:39:19.000 But I will tell you, I know why we're running this race, and it's not for Donald Trump.
00:39:24.000 It's for the voters of this country.
00:39:26.000 And when you have a husband who's standing by you that is so strong and so unflappable, it really gives me a lot of strength.
00:39:31.000 And so I really have to honestly say, it didn't impact me in the least.
00:39:35.000 I have one job on this campaign, and that is to get out and tell the voters who Ted Cruz is.
00:39:39.000 And when telling the truth about who your husband is, is your job, it's pretty easy and it's been great for our marriage.
00:39:45.000 So, because I don't tweet, because I know what my job is on the campaign, and because I know that every time
00:39:53.000 This conversation goes on, but the idea here is that, does Heidi Cruz look like a terrible person to you from this?
00:40:00.000 Does she look like somebody who deserves to be hit with, well you're not as hot as my wife? 1.00
00:40:05.000 Is that really? 0.91
00:40:17.000 Here's the note to Trump supporters.
00:40:19.000 A lot of people who oppose Trump are people who make me angry too.
00:40:22.000 Hey, Mark Zuckerberg makes me angry.
00:40:24.000 I think Mark Zuckerberg is full of it.
00:40:26.000 I think that he is a cultural lefty.
00:40:27.000 I think he does want to destroy standards of morality and decency.
00:40:31.000 I think that he wants to, in the name of multiculturalism and diversity, destroy Western values.
00:40:36.000 I think that Mark Zuckerberg is that kind of fellow, after benefiting from exactly the system that has been built on the back of the values of Western civilization.
00:40:45.000 I don't like John Kasich.
00:40:47.000 I literally do not mention John Kasich without also saying in all capital letters, oh god no, please god not John Kasich.
00:40:54.000 That does not mean that your guy, the people that he opposes, two things can be true at once. 0.99
00:40:58.000 These people can suck and so can Trump. 1.00
00:41:00.000 These people can be bad people. 1.00
00:41:02.000 They can be people who you don't want to side with.
00:41:05.000 So can Donald Trump.
00:41:05.000 Trump can be that kind of person, too.
00:41:07.000 And I don't think that it's worthwhile falling into the trap of, I dislike all these people who are calling out Trump in the wrong ways, and therefore I'm now going to justify bad behavior by Trump on the other side.
00:41:18.000 And I'm gonna laugh along when his family says, oh yeah, we can't control his Twitter, we think that's what makes him who he is.
00:41:22.000 Well, it turns out that what makes you who you are is your actions, and not just your opponents.
00:41:28.000 You can judge a man by his enemies, you can also judge a man by his actions.
00:41:32.000 And then two things can be true at once.
00:41:34.000 Your enemies can be bad, and you can also be bad.
00:41:36.000 Stalin's enemy was Hitler.
00:41:37.000 That didn't make Stalin a great guy.
00:41:38.000 It made him a better guy than Hitler, but not by much. 0.86
00:41:41.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things I hate.
00:41:44.000 So, things I like.
00:41:45.000 We're doing a lot of Brahms this week, but I felt like doing some music.
00:41:49.000 Just calm everybody down a little bit.
00:41:50.000 So, this is my father's favorite piece of music, and it is truly magnificent.
00:41:55.000 The picture you're seeing here is Emil Gilels, who's a famous pianist, Russian pianist, and he's playing this version of the Brahms Piano Concerto No.
00:42:03.000 2 with Fritz Reiner, who's probably the greatest conductor, certainly, probably of the 20th century.
00:42:09.000 And here is a little bit of Brahms Piano Concerto No.
00:42:13.000 2, magnificent piece of work.
00:42:35.000 We're good to go.
00:42:55.000 See, I would like to just let this play for the next 45 minutes or so.
00:42:59.000 It's so good.
00:43:00.000 And this recording is truly great.
00:43:02.000 This is a great recording.
00:43:02.000 You can see it on YouTube.
00:43:04.000 Terrific.
00:43:04.000 Brahms Piano Concerto No.
00:43:05.000 2 if you're looking for some solid listening.
00:43:08.000 Just, ah, it's glorious.
00:43:09.000 It's glorious stuff.
00:43:10.000 Okay.
00:43:11.000 Here's something else that I like from a completely different vein.
00:43:13.000 So this New York police officer pulled somebody over, and it was caught on tape, and here's what the police officer said, and then I'll tell you sort of what happened.
00:43:22.000 Mayor de Blasio wants us to give out summonses, okay?
00:43:24.000 I don't know if you voted for him or not.
00:43:27.000 I don't live in the city.
00:43:28.000 I wouldn't have voted for him because this is what he wants.
00:43:30.000 He wants us to give out summonses.
00:43:31.000 I understand that.
00:43:33.000 Okay, so what happens here is that this police officer, whose name is Joseph Spina, he pulled somebody over, he ticketed him, and then he blamed it on the mayor.
00:43:41.000 He says, de Blasio wants us to do this.
00:43:43.000 I wouldn't have voted for him.
00:43:44.000 You voted for him.
00:43:45.000 This is your problem.
00:43:47.000 He has been suspended for conduct unbecoming an officer now.
00:43:50.000 Because it's not like he did anything corrupt.
00:43:51.000 He told people the reality.
00:43:54.000 So the New York Post says he should have thought twice about venting, but he's telling uncomfortable truths.
00:43:59.000 The fact is that de Blasio uses traffic safety as his number one ticket item.
00:44:05.000 It's what he actually cares about.
00:44:06.000 Traffic tickets are up 20% from the same period last year.
00:44:11.000 And basically, according to the Police Officers Association, his new program boils down to police officers enforcing traffic laws and subjecting New Yorkers to expensive summonses many cannot afford to pay.
00:44:22.000 So, good for the officer.
00:44:24.000 I wish that more officers were doing this.
00:44:27.000 It's ridiculous how de Blasio has undercut his own police officers, and then as soon as the police officers speak up, then he hits him with the club.
00:44:35.000 So he'll say that the police officers are racially profiling his biracial son, and then when they say, we don't want you coming to our funerals if we get shot in the line of duty because you're a bad guy who incentivizes that kind of behavior, then he says, well, that's politicization.
00:44:47.000 Or he creates these programs.
00:44:48.000 It's amazing.
00:44:49.000 The same people who say that Bill Clinton put too many criminals in prison are fine with Bill de Blasio giving summonses to poor people that they can't pay.
00:44:56.000 That they're fine with, because Bill de Blasio's a communist.
00:44:59.000 Okay, now time for some things that I hate.
00:45:02.000 So, there's a congresswoman, her name is Grace Meng, and I'm trying to remember, I guess she's from New York, figures, and she's from the 6th congressional district in New York, and she tweeted out yesterday, because it was equal pay day, she tweeted out, quote, I've called on key house panels to help make feminine hygiene products more accessible.
00:45:21.000 Hashtag menstruation matters. 0.51
00:45:24.000 Okay.
00:45:25.000 I agree.
00:45:26.000 Menstruation does matter. 0.98
00:45:27.000 Without it, occasionally, there wouldn't be any children.
00:45:30.000 So, I'm glad that women have cycles. 1.00
00:45:32.000 Congratulations.
00:45:33.000 Put that one on God.
00:45:34.000 And ladies, I'm sorry.
00:45:35.000 Put that one on God.
00:45:36.000 But, the idea that we have to make feminine hygiene products more accessible... 1.00
00:45:41.000 Last I checked, they're pretty accessible.
00:45:44.000 Where is the giant shortage of feminine hygiene products? 1.00
00:45:47.000 As a husband, I have gone to the store multiple times and bought them myself.
00:45:51.000 And it turns out, you go down to local CVS, they are full up!
00:45:53.000 They're just stocked!
00:45:55.000 Aisles full of feminine hygiene products.
00:45:58.000 I'm missing the part where feminine hygiene products have gone and there's a great dearth of feminine hygiene products. 0.79
00:46:04.000 I've missed this part.
00:46:07.000 Lindsay, are you noticing this?
00:46:09.000 No, Lindsay's not noticing this.
00:46:11.000 Jonathan, I don't care whether you notice it, you're probably not shopping for that very often.
00:46:15.000 You're married, so maybe you see it every so often. 0.98
00:46:16.000 Okay, if your chief concern as a Democrat is making an extraordinarily cheap product even cheaper, maybe you should recognize that it's your own stupid policies that make them more expensive than they should be because of things like sales tax, right? 0.99
00:46:29.000 That's the reality. 0.99
00:46:31.000 Bernie Sanders is the kind of guy who would say, we don't need more feminine hygiene products.
00:46:34.000 We need, why do we need 17 different types of tampons?
00:46:38.000 Why are not two?
00:46:40.000 Excessive!
00:46:40.000 We only need one type of tampon.
00:46:43.000 And if you're the wrong size, well, just put two in there.
00:46:46.000 I mean, why exactly can't, can't, it's, it's, but, but these are the same people who say we ought to make it free.
00:46:50.000 It's just, it's, it's incredible.
00:46:52.000 So they, they, they restrict the business.
00:46:54.000 It doesn't work.
00:46:55.000 And then they make it, and then they say we have to tax the crap out of everybody else to make it free on the other end.
00:46:59.000 Because they don't understand how economics works. 1.00
00:47:02.000 Okay, other stupid things that happened that I hate. 0.99
00:47:04.000 Bono, for no reason at all. 0.99
00:47:06.000 No reason at all.
00:47:08.000 He's testifying before a Senate subcommittee on terrorism.
00:47:12.000 Bono.
00:47:13.000 Bono, who, by the way, one of the great overrated musicians of our time.
00:47:17.000 Bono, testifying before the... Look at the picture of this guy!
00:47:22.000 This guy is your expert on terrorism? 1.00
00:47:24.000 And what he says about terrorism is even stupider. 0.99
00:47:27.000 Wait till you hear this one. 0.99
00:47:28.000 This is pretty solid.
00:47:30.000 Comedy should be deployed.
00:47:32.000 Because if you look at National Socialism and Daesh and ISIL, this is the same thing.
00:47:39.000 We've seen this before.
00:47:40.000 We've seen this before.
00:47:41.000 They're very vain.
00:47:42.000 They've got all the signs up.
00:47:44.000 Really, it's show business.
00:47:47.000 And the first people that Adolf Hitler threw out of Germany were the Dadaists and the Surrealists. 1.00
00:47:59.000 It's like you speak violence, you speak their language, but you laugh at them when they're goose-stepping down the street and it takes away their power.
00:48:09.000 So I'm suggesting that the Senate send in Amy Schumer and Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen.
00:48:16.000 Thank you.
00:48:17.000 Okay, I agree.
00:48:18.000 Let's send all those people over. 0.99
00:48:21.000 But really, I don't agree because that's intensely stupid, okay? 0.99
00:48:24.000 The idea that if Hitler hadn't gotten rid of the Dadaists and the Surrealists, they would have taken him down. 1.00
00:48:29.000 Yes, I'm sure.
00:48:30.000 I'm sure that he was deeply worried about Picasso and his two-dimensional boobies.
00:48:34.000 I'm sure that's exactly what Hitler was worried about, mostly. 0.96
00:48:38.000 The idiocy of the people in the arts and the self-centeredness of some of the people in the arts, that what we do is what truly matters. 0.98
00:48:44.000 It doesn't. 0.99
00:48:45.000 Okay?
00:48:46.000 I'm sorry, but you're frivolous.
00:48:48.000 Okay?
00:48:48.000 You are.
00:48:49.000 In the end, you're not fixing a toilet.
00:48:51.000 In the end, you're not making a bomb.
00:48:52.000 In the end, you're not generating products for people.
00:48:55.000 You are there for enjoyment.
00:48:56.000 And enjoyment isn't frivolous.
00:48:57.000 Enjoyment is what makes life beautiful.
00:48:58.000 But art is for making life beautiful.
00:49:00.000 Comedians are for making life fun.
00:49:03.000 Right? 1.00
00:49:03.000 But they don't have a lot to say when it comes time to kill the guys who are chopping the heads off children. 1.00
00:49:08.000 They really don't have a lot to do with that. 0.78
00:49:09.000 ISIS is not undercut by Amy Schumer making jokes about ISIS.
00:49:13.000 ISIS uses Amy Schumer and her ilk for recruitment. 0.99
00:49:16.000 They say, look at this decadent West, and this decadent West that has women who just make vagina jokes all day long, and do you want your women to be like that? 1.00
00:49:24.000 I mean, they're sexist, right? 0.99
00:49:24.000 Do you want your women to be like that? 0.99
00:49:26.000 Do you want your daughters to be like that? 1.00
00:49:27.000 We have to fight these people, wipe them off the face of the earth. 0.97
00:49:30.000 Look at any of their videos. 0.99
00:49:31.000 We've looked at their videos.
00:49:32.000 They talk about the so-called decadence of the West.
00:49:34.000 They use that as their opposition.
00:49:36.000 The idea that we send Chris Rock and Amy Schumer to fight ISIS, I mean, just... The utter self-centeredness, the narcissism of people like Bono.
00:49:43.000 Well, if we just mock them, then that would... If we just mock them, then that'll fix... No.
00:49:47.000 No, that won't fix anything.
00:49:49.000 It turns out that you mock a terrorist, the terrorist might be slightly more frustrated than he was yesterday.
00:49:55.000 You bomb a terrorist and he's slightly more dead than he was yesterday.
00:49:57.000 And that seems to me a significantly better solution.
00:49:59.000 So Bono, if he actually wanted to be productive, wanted to do something useful, Bono could throw the weight of his personality behind things like more military intervention to save people who are being killed by ISIS, right?
00:50:10.000 That would actually be useful because he could use the power of his persona
00:50:13.000 to push actual functional policy.
00:50:15.000 But that's not what these people do.
00:50:16.000 These are the same sorts of people who get together and say, OK, we're going to heal world poverty.
00:50:19.000 We're going to get together with Michael Jackson.
00:50:21.000 I'm going to heal world poverty by singing, We are the world.
00:50:24.000 And it'll be just it'll be we'll climb trees.
00:50:27.000 And it'll be it'll be amazing.
00:50:29.000 No, you won't heal world poverty.
00:50:32.000 What healed world poverty, it turned out, was capitalism, the system that most of the celebrities singing, we are the people and we are the world, that those people were attempting to quash.
00:50:40.000 Okay. 1.00
00:50:40.000 So that's, that's stupid also. 1.00
00:50:41.000 Final stupid point. 1.00
00:50:42.000 Okay. 1.00
00:50:43.000 Final thing I hate.
00:50:44.000 So yesterday we talked at length about Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio telling racist jokes.
00:50:48.000 This was their thing.
00:50:49.000 They told racist joke and the media laughed it off. 0.99
00:50:51.000 Oh, Hillary being a racist. 1.00
00:50:53.000 I don't care. 0.99
00:50:54.000 She's a lefty. 1.00
00:50:54.000 Let's pretend it never happened. 1.00
00:50:56.000 So, now the Daily Show is making fun of Hillary Clinton.
00:51:01.000 So, yesterday I was ripping on Hillary, too. 0.97
00:51:03.000 Here's the Daily Show making fun of Hillary Clinton for doing a black joke, and here again is a bizarre tableau of 8-foot-tall, gargantuan communist Bill de Blasio hovering over yellow-clad male figure Hillary Clinton, standing next to a black guy dressed like Alexander Hamilton. 0.68
00:51:20.000 And no, it's not Halloween.
00:51:21.000 This actually happened.
00:51:23.000 Here is what happened that generated all the controversy and the Daily Show.
00:51:26.000 Trevor Noah, who has been named, he's been crowned actually, the least funny human being on planet Earth.
00:51:31.000 Here is him commenting on it.
00:51:33.000 Cautious politician time.
00:51:37.000 I've been there.
00:51:39.000 Oh, I get it.
00:51:41.000 I get it.
00:51:41.000 You see, the joke is Bill de Blasio saying he's late, like black people always are, and Hillary saying she doesn't want to be president.
00:51:51.000 Oh, I get it.
00:51:54.000 Why would you do this, Hillary? 0.63
00:51:56.000 This should be so easy.
00:51:58.000 Just don't say the things that will lose you the votes.
00:52:02.000 You know you're not a good joke teller, and you're in the midst of a controversy involving comments about black people, and still, you choose to make that joke?
00:52:10.000 That's like if the governor of Michigan was going around Flint telling water jokes. 0.64
00:52:13.000 Just like, I'll have a Mountain Dew.
00:52:15.000 I'm trying to stay healthy.
00:52:16.000 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! 1.00
00:52:18.000 No!
00:52:20.000 But you know what?
00:52:21.000 In Hillary's defense, though, whoever put that video together didn't help her much.
00:52:24.000 Because everybody knows, when you're doing this kind of material, you got to cut away to the black people in the crowd to show that they aren't offended. 0.99
00:52:30.000 Uh, sort of like this.
00:52:31.000 Sorry, Hillary.
00:52:34.000 I was running on CP time.
00:52:39.000 It's not... I don't... I don't like jokes like that, though.
00:52:40.000 It's not funny.
00:52:43.000 Cautious politician time. 1.00
00:52:51.000 Damn! 1.00
00:52:53.000 That's how you do it. 1.00
00:52:55.000 Ah. 0.83
00:52:55.000 When you're saying things that make black people laugh, it's impossible to look bad. 0.83
00:52:59.000 That's how it works.
00:53:00.000 Now, I-I can see how people would be saying, hey, Trevor, Hillary Clinton's up there with a black actor who's obviously signed off on the joke, and she's there with Bill de Blasio, who has a black wife and kids, so how could they be racist?
00:53:12.000 And I agree with you.
00:53:13.000 They're probably not racist.
00:53:14.000 They're not racist, all right?
00:53:16.000 They just got too comfortable.
00:53:17.000 Okay, so they got too comfortable.
00:53:20.000 And this is how the left plays this.
00:53:22.000 They're not racist.
00:53:23.000 If Ted Cruz told the same joke, he's a racist.
00:53:25.000 But Hillary tells it, she's not a racist.
00:53:26.000 That's what I commented on yesterday.
00:53:28.000 But I will point this out.
00:53:29.000 There's a whole group of leftists, people in the black community, who are getting really, really upset about this particular joke.
00:53:34.000 This joke is just the end of the world. 0.77
00:53:36.000 It's so terrible.
00:53:38.000 It's a racist joke.
00:53:39.000 Hey, not all racist jokes are created equal.
00:53:41.000 Some are more offensive and some are less offensive. 0.52
00:53:43.000 And anybody who thinks that this is a more offensive black people joke has never heard a truly offensive and horrifying racist joke.
00:53:49.000 And by the way, one of the things I think we need to get rid of is this particular double standard where if you tell a joke, but you're of the identity, then no one else can tell the joke because it creates awkward. 0.96
00:54:01.000 So here's Barack Obama telling a black people joke about black people being late.
00:54:04.000 And no one cares. 0.96
00:54:05.000 I mean, so Barack Obama apparently, he did it, you know, himself.
00:54:09.000 And I don't know if we have the tape of it, but here's what he said.
00:54:13.000 Back in 2007, he said the same thing.
00:54:15.000 He said, I want to apologize for being a little bit late, but you guys keep on asking whether I'm black enough.
00:54:19.000 That's right.
00:54:20.000 So I figured I'd stroll in about 10 minutes after the deadline.
00:54:23.000 Right?
00:54:23.000 So he made the same joke.
00:54:24.000 Exact same joke. 0.98
00:54:25.000 But he's not a racist because he's black. 0.98
00:54:27.000 But if Hillary makes the joke, then she's a racist because... Here's Obama telling the joke. 0.97
00:54:32.000 I want to apologize for being a little bit late, but you guys keep on asking whether I'm black enough. 0.98
00:54:41.000 And he gets away with that because he's a black guy. 0.99
00:54:43.000 Okay, so is the joke that bad? 0.98
00:54:44.000 Is the joke that bad?
00:54:46.000 Maybe it's still a racist joke as a white lady told it, but is it that bad a joke?
00:54:50.000 No, it's not that bad a joke.
00:54:51.000 Everybody needs to calm down just a little bit.
00:54:54.000 The media needs to recognize that a racist joke is in fact a racist joke, but by the same token, I can tell you that the really racist jokes, the really bad ones, even Obama wouldn't be telling those. 0.97
00:55:04.000 Black people don't tell those jokes. 0.99
00:55:05.000 There's a whole group of Jewish jokes that I'll tell, but there's a certain point beyond which 0.98
00:55:09.000 I won't go because the joke is not funny, it's actually just gross and offensive and stereotypical, so...
00:55:14.000 Let's not lose our sense of humor in this election, folks, just for the sake of political attacks or political correctness.
00:55:20.000 Let's not lose all of our sense of humor here. 0.97
00:55:22.000 It's a stupid joke, you shouldn't have told it, but let's not lose our, because honestly, if we have no sense of humor about this election, my God. 0.95
00:55:29.000 I mean, if we lose our sense of humor about this particular election, we'll have nothing left. 0.99
00:55:34.000 We'll have nothing left except the darkness and the misery and the terror.
00:55:39.000 And on that happy note, we'll see you tomorrow.
00:55:40.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:55:41.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.