Ted Cruz, when he was solicitor general of Texas, argued against the notion that there is a constitutional right to masturbation. According to legal scholar David Corn, this means he s a prude to the leftist media. But is he a constitutional idiot? Or is he just a guy who stands up for the Constitution, or perhaps the left just doesn t care about the Constitution at all? Ben Shapiro argues that the Constitution does not allow for a right to pleasure yourself, and that it s not even in there in the Bill of Rights, which is what the left wants you to believe. Ben Shapiro: Ted Cruz is a prude, but that doesn t make him a bad lawyer, it s just that he s not a smart one, which makes him a dumb one, and the Left doesn t get it. Ben also points out that even if you don t like Ted Cruz, you can still vote for him in the 2020 primary, which means you ll get him on the ballot in 2020, which will be much less likely to be an embarrassment to your Republican presidential candidate! And that s a good thing, because he s going to win the primary, so there s no chance he s gonna be a good shot at being president, right? Also, he s just a nice guy, right?? . not a bad shot at it. . . . right? Well, not really, but not good enough, but good enough anyway, anyway, right right ? in the end and we ll see what happens when you re a Republican presidential hopeful who s just not a good enough shot at the White House at the primary or at least good enough to win a primary that s a good chance of winning the election? or a solid chance of getting a shot at becoming the next president the next election so you re not going to have to live up to what the Left s got going on in 2020 well, at least they ll have a chance to vote for the guy who s a candidate who s good at it good enough to have a good time in 2020? in 2020 to be a better than him better than the one they ve got in 2016, right ? or not that s good enough? Well, guess what, we ll find out on The Ben Shapiro Show on this episode of The Ben Show!
00:00:00.000Folks, we finally made it to a Thursday, but well, yesterday, on Wednesday, the leftist media discovered that Ted Cruz, when he was Solicitor General of Texas, argued against the notion that there is a constitutional right to masturbation.
00:00:14.000This troubles them greatly, because this is what they do in their spare time, but is there any substance to the actual complaint?
00:00:21.000Not if you know how to read, or if you've ever read the Constitution.
00:00:24.000In 2004, distributors of dildos in Texas attempted to challenge a state law outlawing sale and promotion of obscene devices, according to David Korn of Mother Jones.
00:00:34.000They had a law in the books that said you can't publicly sell sex toys.
00:00:37.000In my own personal view, and I would guess this is probably Cruz's view too, this is a silly law.
00:00:42.000Silliness, however, does not mean something is unconstitutional.
00:00:46.000There are lots of silly laws, including laws that say, for example, that biological men should be allowed to go to pee in women's bathrooms.
00:00:53.000Silliness is not a constitutional concern, it's a political one.
00:00:56.000In other words, you don't want a bad law, don't elect bad politicians.
00:00:59.000The Constitution doesn't have anything to say about stupid laws.
00:01:02.000Well, the plaintiffs in this particular case, they claimed that the law violated their constitutional right to privacy.
00:01:09.000It's a right that doesn't exist in the Constitution.
00:01:11.000It certainly does not govern public sale of marketable goods.
00:01:14.000There is no constitutional right to pleasure yourself, okay?
00:01:18.000It wasn't in there, and it's not there for a reason.
00:01:20.000A federal judge ruled for Texas, saying there was no federal constitutional right to buying products to help you pleasure yourself.
00:01:28.000This case was then appealed to a panel of the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General's office, Cruz's office, argued the state has the power, it's called police power,
00:01:35.000This is, of course, true on just a factual level, as again, we can note the Constitution.
00:02:25.000And for freedom of association and religion and freedom of speech, that stuff's kind of bothersome, so we'll just kind of like ignore that.
00:02:30.000Really, the Constitution was deeply focused on whether or not somebody could sell sex toys.
00:02:35.000In the end, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.
00:02:38.000They said that the right to privacy extended to buying products to enhance intimacy.
00:02:42.000Cruz's office decided not to appeal the case.
00:02:44.000This means that Cruz is a prude rather than a lawyer tasked with fighting on behalf of the people of the state who voted for the law.
00:02:52.000That's at least according to the left.
00:02:53.000According to noted legal scholar David Corn, this means he's a constitutional idiot to boot, which leads to a question.
00:02:58.000Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Cruz.
00:03:00.000The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld pretty much the exact same law in Alabama the year before.
00:03:05.000There, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found, quote,
00:03:08.000If we were to accept the invitation to recognize a constitutional right to sexual intimacy, this right would theoretically encompass such activities as prostitution, obscenity, and adult incest, even if we were to limit the right to consenting adults.
00:03:44.000He must be a prude because the left wants him to be a prude.
00:03:47.000He's just a constitutional lawyer, but he must be a prude because he's a Republican, and Republicans are prudes, and therefore any Republican who stands up for the Constitution.
00:03:57.000Or perhaps the left just doesn't care about the Constitution.
00:03:59.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:08.000So, speaking of the Constitution, if you don't know or if you want to know why it is that Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, virtually all the candidates don't know or care about the powers of the Presidency under the Constitution, why they keep saying over and over that the President can do anything he wants, he's some sort of God-King monarch,
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00:05:09.000is um he was asked you know he has said before that he doesn't know what his favorite biblical phrases or he said at least it was too private it was too private you remember he was asked his favorite biblical verse and he says you know that's that's a private thing that you tell me that you're asking me about it's a private frankly frankly it's unbelievable how private it is so yesterday so yesterday he was asked by a radio host the same question what's your favorite biblical verse what's your favorite biblical passage and donald trump proceeds to do what he does best which is
00:05:37.000I wrote with great documentation for the Daily Caller, which is not... Well, I think many.
00:05:42.000I mean, you know, when we get into the Bible, I think many.
00:06:01.000Tell people to hook an eye for an eye, you can almost say that.
00:06:03.000That's not a particularly nice thing, but you know, if you look at what's happening to our country, I mean, when you see what's going on with our country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us and laugh at us, and they laugh at our face, and they're taking our jobs, they're taking our money, they're taking our, you know, they're taking the health of our country, and we have to be very firm, and we have to be very strong, and we can learn a lot from the Bible, that I can tell you.
00:06:28.000Frankly, you can learn a lot from the Bible, that I can tell you.
00:06:31.000I have never learned anything from the Bible, clearly, but you can learn so many things that frankly, I'll tell you, believe me, I know the Bible.
00:06:49.000So I don't put on my Orthodox Jew Bible analysis hat.
00:06:54.000Particularly often, because it's not usually relevant to what we're talking about.
00:06:58.000Here, it's highly relevant to what we're talking about because Donald Trump, biblical scholar, is on the order of OJ Simpson, marital relationship therapist.
00:07:06.000Okay, Donald Trump knows less about the Bible than my two-and-a-half-year-old child.
00:07:12.000She can at least recite certain things in Hebrew.
00:07:14.000Okay, Donald Trump, when he says this, he says an eye for an eye, right?
00:07:17.000So, for people who are atheists, for people who don't know biblical scholarship, they think an eye for an eye means, literally, that if I hit you in the eye and I knock out your eye, you now have a right under biblical law to hit me in the eye and knock out my eye.
00:07:31.000Clearly, this is what Trump thinks, right?
00:07:33.000He says, if you look at what's happening to our country, if you look, they laugh at us, they laugh at us, so we should laugh at them and we should hit them.
00:08:38.000No Bible-believing Jew ever has taken this literally, ever in the history of Judaism.
00:08:42.000The Talmud explicitly talks about this.
00:08:44.000This is relegated, and it appears in the section of the Bible that talks about monetary damages.
00:08:49.000So the idea is, when it says an eye for an eye, if I knock out your eye, you then take me to court, and you sue me for the value of my eye.
00:08:57.000Meaning how much that has damaged me in my life, how much it's damaged me in business, how much it's damaged me in my personal life, and you have to pay me for that.
00:09:19.000Okay, this is in my religion and I know it better than Trump.
00:09:22.000Okay, Matthew 5 specifically says, you have heard that it was said, quote, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
00:09:28.000But I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil, but if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
00:09:34.000And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
00:09:38.000And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
00:09:41.000Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
00:09:44.000So, Trump not only rejects the basis of Judaism, right, the legal nature of Judaism, he also rejects what I understand to be, for my Christian friends, the actual ultimate basis of Christianity, which is mercy, right?
00:09:57.000I mean, that's the idea of Christianity.
00:09:59.000As a Jew reading the Christian text, I think there's a second way to read that Christian text, which is that it's actually what we would call in Judaism, Mussar.
00:10:07.000It's a buck-up message, meaning that there's a legal system that says that if you get hit in the eye, you still take the guy to court, but in your personal life, don't take revenge.
00:10:36.000In Iran in 2008, this is a report from the BBC, Iran 2008, a court in Iran has ruled that a man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid.
00:10:48.000So, Donald Trump, you know, the guy who wants to boot all the Muslims and make sure they don't come in?
00:11:00.000His biblical interpretation is a lot closer to Islam's interpretation than Judaism's or Christianity's.
00:11:06.000One, Trump doesn't care about the Bible.
00:11:08.000Like, really doesn't care about the Bible.
00:11:10.000He has his principles, and then he fits the Bible into his principles, which is the nature of paganism.
00:11:15.000Paganism is, I take whatever text is available to me, I would take whatever my worship of God is, and I fit it into this box that I like to call God.
00:14:31.000And he's like, but have you ever heard of this thing called, have you ever heard of water and how like if you put two drops of water close to each other they attract and then they become one?
00:14:42.000And Albert Einstein's like, yeah, I have.
00:14:59.000Like, once a year we go through the entire Bible.
00:15:02.000Every week at the end of the week, we go through a major portion of the Bible.
00:15:05.000Not only do the people he's talking to know what Joseph said, they know all the commentaries on what Joseph said, and they know it in the original Hebrew, and he's standing there in their bookstore, surrounded by books about this!
00:15:33.000John Kasich trying to browbeat people into compliance with... This is the same guy, by the way, who says that this Orthodox bookstore should have to, presumably, hand out a ketubah, hand out a marital document for two gay guys.
00:15:45.000They should have to do that, according to John Kasich.
00:15:48.000Biblical criticism with idiot Republicans.
00:15:52.000I was wondering how we could go downhill in this election, and we found a way.
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00:16:37.000Okay, so, I say that we can't go downhill, and then we promptly go even further downhill.
00:16:41.000So, today, or yesterday, Donald Trump was speaking in
00:16:46.000He was speaking in Pennsylvania, and here's what he had to say to a Pittsburgh crowd about Joe Paterno, who was the, who was the, his clip won.
00:16:56.000Here's what he had to say to Joe Paterno, about Joe Paterno, who was the, if you recall, the football coach at Penn State for 50 years, and who was also embroiled in a sex scandal when Jerry Sandusky, who was one of his defensive coaches, was molesting little boys in the shower room.
00:17:10.000And Paterno heard about it and basically didn't do anything.
00:17:31.000He said later he meant the statue, because they took down the statue of Joe Paterno when it turned out he knew his coach was molesting little boys and didn't do enough about it.
00:17:38.000And here's Trump saying, put it back up, put it back up.
00:17:49.000You knew that there was going to come a point where people suggested that it was just too dangerous to stop Trump from getting the nomination.
00:17:55.000Over at Fox News, this has been true for a while, there are a lot of very pro-Trump Fox News hosts ranging from Sean Hannity to Greta Van Susteren.
00:18:47.000I've thought for a while that there would be this move, that as it became clearer that Trump was the frontrunner, that there would be this move.
00:18:53.000There's been a move simultaneously to go to Cruz to try and stop Trump, but that seems to be, at least I'm getting the feeling, that from at least the elites, it's petering out a little bit.
00:19:06.000Stephen Miller is one of the surrogates for Trump.
00:19:08.000He's on TV, and he says that the only way the Cruz can win is by cheating, essentially.
00:19:12.000But on the second point, which is the moral point, and I am going to make it, and I'm happy to make it, it is wrong to disenfranchise voters by going around the country, making secret deals with inside party officials, elected GOP officials, and saying, yeah, your GOP district, representing 750,000 people, supports Donald Trump.
00:19:33.000...and rejects Ted Cruz, but we want you to make a secret pact to nullify the vote and support Ted Cruz.
00:19:38.000All I'm saying is Ted Cruz has only won three primaries outside his home state.
00:19:42.000Ted Cruz is trailing by two million votes.
00:19:44.000Soon it's going to be a lot more votes than that.
00:19:46.000He has no Democratic path to the nomination.
00:19:48.000The only way Ted Cruz can win is by nullifying ballots that have already been cast.
00:19:59.000The only way that Trump can win at this point is basically by cuddling a bunch of people who didn't vote for him into voting for him because he's gonna come up short of the delegate number.
00:20:07.000But there's a case to be made, I'm gonna make it in a second, that Trump should be handed the nomination anyway.
00:20:11.000That even if he comes up short, I've said in the past, I don't think he should.
00:20:13.000Now I'm going to make the opposite case and then I'm going to explain why I think it's wrong, because I think that it's important that you hear all the arguments.
00:20:19.000So, Trump, just to finish up what Trump says about this and then we'll get into the argument, Trump says, by the way, that his unfavorability numbers are now nearing 70% nationwide.
00:20:30.000By the time this election cycle is over, he will be above 100%, 197% of people.
00:20:35.000Children who have yet to be born three generations from now.
00:21:40.000Okay, so he says that he's going to be just like Ronald Reagan, and he's going to involve himself in a major comeback, and everything is going to be just hunky-dory.
00:21:48.000Reince Priebus at the RNC, who as I said, looks more and more like Lando Calrissian dealing with Darth Vader when it comes to Donald Trump.
00:21:55.000He's just looking around going, this deal gets worse all the time, and Trump looks at him and goes, pray I do not alter the deal further.
00:22:02.000Frankly, you're not going to like it if I alter the deal further.
00:22:04.000So here's Reince Priebus saying, he's not being jibbed, it's not rigged, but it doesn't matter.
00:22:11.000But he specifically said, you, and you're the chairman of the Republican National Committee, you should be ashamed of yourself for what's going on.
00:23:40.000Trump will say that it's been rigged, and his supporters, who have now become idolaters, many of them, not all of them, but a good percentage of them, have become idolaters at the altar of Trump.
00:23:48.000We'll talk about that a little bit more later, when we get to Stuff I Hate.
00:23:51.000Those people will believe him, no matter what.
00:23:57.000Now, Trump's supporters are really not particularly conservative for the most part, but
00:24:01.000Any victorious politics requires a coalition.
00:24:04.000If Cruz had a victorious coalition, it would look like some of the Trump people and some of the Kasich people and all the Cruz people.
00:24:10.000Trump, if he got the nomination, he's not going to win.
00:24:13.000He'll get his ass kicked by Hillary Clinton.
00:24:14.000I mean, he will get blown out by historic proportions.
00:24:18.000But if Trump doesn't get the nomination, then the possibility of his supporters ever joining the coalition again to create a victorious coalition drops dramatically.
00:24:26.000If you prevent Trump from winning the nomination, that keeps the Trump rage alive for another election cycle.
00:24:32.000All these people just say, he was gypped, it just shows the establishment will do anything to stop outsiders like Donald Trump, and then we get to do this whole slow-rolling tsunami of horror again in four years.
00:24:43.000This is the case, that if we stop Trump now, then if we strike him down, he shall become more powerful than we could possibly imagine, right?
00:24:50.000In four years, they'll come back, it'll be Mad Max beyond Thunderdome.
00:24:55.000It'll be Sausage Fingers beyond Thunderdome, right?
00:24:59.000Trump's support base isn't really just about Trump, obviously.
00:25:02.000It's a small but durable agglomeration of these alt-right white nationalists and disaffected white blue-collar voters who want tariffs and more government policy.
00:25:11.000Largely the same people who backed both Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot.
00:25:14.000What's made Trump a bigger candidate than Buchanan or Perot
00:25:17.000is the fact that there are all these angry conservatives, the Trump ragers, who have gotten so involved in the idea that people are being screwed, we need the guy who's gonna come in like doomsday, and he's just gonna absorb all the energy and then refract it out, or destroying everything in his path, right?
00:25:38.000If you don't do this, they will destroy conservatism for the future, we'll do this again in four years,
00:25:43.000They'll just be so enraged that they go after whoever is the ragiest candidate in four years, and they will come back stronger than they ever were because they feel like they've been victimized in some way.
00:26:17.000So, it makes sense that he would lose.
00:26:19.000If Cruz takes the nomination and loses,
00:26:21.000You got the Trump people on the one hand saying Lyin' Ted stole the nomination and then proceeded to lose.
00:26:25.000You got the GOP establishment on the other hand, who hate Cruz and hate constitutional conservatives, saying all the wrong guys, the Tea Partiers, those evil constitutional conservatives, they're the ones who made us nominate a crap candidate like Cruz, and then he loses, you need to hand power back to us.
00:26:39.000We need more Jeb, and we need more Mitch McConnell, and we need more Paul Ryan.
00:26:44.000So what this means, fast forward to 2020, a revitalized Trumpster crowd waiting for their next moment, and a constitutional conservative wing scorned by the establishment, and the establishment confident that it can now retake control.
00:26:57.000So we get to do this whole crap show over again in 2020 if Trump is stopped.
00:27:03.000And then there's finally the emotional argument, and this one I'm real close on, and that is
00:27:12.000I heard Clavin use the HL Mencken quote the other day, and this is right.
00:27:15.000Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
00:27:20.000If you are a Trump supporter and you've been bitching and moaning about how Trump is being screwed and you want to strike back against the man, you deserve your shot.
00:27:27.000This is, I think, the most telling argument.
00:27:30.000And there's a part of me that says, I agree.
00:27:32.000You should get your shot because I want to see you pummeled.
00:27:36.000I want to see your nasty, fascistic, authoritarian, God-worshipping movement pummeled to the ground, and it'll be delicious to watch.
00:27:44.000There's a part of me emotionally that says that, because you're filling up my Twitter timeline, and I know you are.
00:27:49.000But that's too personal, so I'm going to try and remove myself from that, because I don't think that my personal feelings should really impact the future of the country.
00:27:57.000So now, here's the counter-argument to all of that.
00:29:04.000If the establishment says, well, you guys blew it, well, then we'll fight it out again with the establishment in four years.
00:29:09.000And if the Trumpsters want to walk, let them walk.
00:29:11.000I mean, this is what's good for the country is a constitutional conservative running from the Republican Party, not a nationalist populist running from the Republican Party.
00:29:42.000The majority of Republicans dislike Trump.
00:29:44.000The majority of Republicans never voted for Donald Trump.
00:29:47.000So democracy is the notion that common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard, but common people have not selected Trump.
00:30:00.000So, I don't think that Trump should be handed the nomination.
00:30:03.000I don't think he's gonna get to 1237, so I guess let the fireworks begin.
00:30:07.000By the way, the consolidation around Trump continues apace, and the consultant class is ready to make cash off Trump.
00:30:12.000Karl Rove, breaking story, Karl Rove's American Crossroads is letting donors know they think they can propel Trump to victory if he's the nominee.
00:30:19.000So Karl Rove, who says that Trump is the worst thing since mold, he says that he can help Trump win.
00:30:26.000All you have to do is send him a few bucks.
00:30:28.000So the consultant class will continue to get rich off of Donald Trump.
00:30:31.000Meanwhile, the other side of the aisle, the process actually is rigged.
00:30:36.000The other side of the aisle, the process actually is rigged.
00:30:38.000Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the head of the DNC.
00:30:41.000She says that Hillary Clinton is going to win the nomination outright.
00:30:43.000We won't need the superdelegates to decide this thing.
00:30:48.000I still think that we are likely on track as we go through the rest of the primary and caucus season to result in an election at the end that will have a presumptive nominee that becomes the presumptive nominee prior to the convention without the need for superdelegates and that will have the majority of unpledged delegates going into the convention.
00:31:14.000So I do not think we're going to have a contested convention.
00:31:17.000Okay, so she says we won't have a contested convention, and the reason she says this is because she is personally going to intervene, and she is going to ensure, using her secret dark Jedi skills, that Debbie Wasserman says that the Bernie Sanders people are stalkers.
00:31:33.000She's now putting her thumb on the scale in favor of Hillary Clinton.
00:31:45.000It's certainly completely fine, because superdelegates are up for grabs, so to speak, all the way until we get to the convention.
00:31:53.000And there is always a fierce effort to make sure that candidates' supporters can win over those unpledged delegates, because they can decide all the way up until they get to the convention.
00:32:08.000Using tactics that border on harassment, that feel like stalking, is really something that I hope our campaigns really condemn, and that we make sure that their supporters' enthusiasm is fantastic, making sure that we have appropriate contact and outreach is just great, but intimidation is not okay, and I'm not suggesting that that's occurring right now,
00:32:46.000The DNC putting its thumb on the scales in favor of Bernie Sanders, in favor of Hillary Clinton against Sanders, and you can see this playing out.
00:32:52.000So a Bernie Sanders supporter called Hillary a corporate whore at a Bernie Sanders rally yesterday, which is of course true.
00:33:02.000Hillary Clinton is the woman who was literally at the Goldman Sachs groundbreaking and was taking speeches for $200,000 in front of all of these hedge funds and Wall Street firms and then won't release any of them.
00:33:30.000Now, Secretary Clinton has said Medicare for all will never happen.
00:33:39.000Well, I agree with Secretary Clinton that Medicare for all will never happen if we have a president who never aspires for something greater than the status quo.
00:33:52.000Medicare for all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us.
00:34:07.000Okay, so he calls Hillary a corporate democratic whore.
00:34:11.000Naturally, this means that the Democratic Party must come in to defend Hillary Clinton.
00:34:16.000Hillary must be defended at all costs.
00:34:18.000So Claire McCaskill, who's a senator from Missouri, she says it's unacceptable for anybody, anybody to refer to Hillary in this form or fashion.
00:34:25.000I mean, the only people who we should be talking about as whores are the ones who have sex with Bill Clinton.
00:35:18.000By the way, I think this is an important point.
00:35:24.000For the left, the enemy is always the right.
00:35:25.000For the right, the enemy is sometimes ISIS, but rarely the left.
00:35:28.000And that's why it's an asymmetric political war.
00:35:32.000Until Republicans recognize that the real enemy to American freedom is the American left,
00:35:37.000They're not going to be able to actually win elections.
00:35:39.000Anyway, Claire McCaskill goes after Bernie Sanders, the entire Democratic Party goes after Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz goes after Bernie Sanders, Jar Jar Binks, Debbie Wasserman Schultz goes after Bernie Sanders, and annoys everyone in the process.
00:35:50.000Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, as we mentioned yesterday, she actually went out and blamed Bernie Sanders for people getting killed in New York State.
00:35:57.000Jane Sanders, who is Bernie's lovely wife, she came out and she said, it sort of bothers me that Hillary blames Bernie Sanders for gun violence.
00:36:05.000I think everything that she's done around the gun issue bothers me because Bernie has common sense gun values.
00:36:13.000I mean, he's voted for all the things that are even under consideration there.
00:36:19.000He lost his first election because he said, I want to stop the manufacture and sale of assault weapons.
00:36:27.000And he lost that election by three points.
00:37:06.000The fact is the Democratic Party is not defending Bernie Sanders against brutal, vicious assaults by Hillary Clinton.
00:37:11.000But as soon as a Bernie Sanders supporter says she's a corporate whore, then the entire Democratic establishment jumps in to save their girl, Hillary Clinton.
00:39:07.000When the frontrunner for the Republican nomination was asked in a national television interview to disavow David Duke and other white supremacists supporting his campaign,
00:40:01.000And not to be outdone by his primary rival, Ted Cruz would treat Muslim Americans like criminals and religiously profile their neighborhoods.
00:40:13.000So ugly currents that lurked just below the surface of our politics have burst into the open.
00:40:52.000So here is Bach wrote a piece, which was then used by Gounod, a French composer, about 200 years later.
00:41:00.000And he uses the Bach piece as sort of what you would call now the baseline.
00:41:06.000Uh, and then he writes a theme over it, and it's Ave Maria, it's a beautiful piece, it's really, it's quite grand, so we'll listen to a little bit of it.
00:42:55.000They found a poster of a sexy female octopus, half-clad, but when the other fish ripped away the poster, they found there was a tunnel to the outside.
00:43:05.000Here's what the story was, apparently.
00:43:07.000Okay, we don't have the actual video, but apparently he made it all the way to the ocean.
00:43:13.000Apparently octopi are really smart, which is why they're gonna take over the world, which, you know, given this election cycle, may be the only comfort we have.
00:43:19.000But the octopi, well, apparently this octopus crawled all the way to the ocean to go back to his home sea, homeland, home sea, and left a trail of suction cups behind him.
00:43:45.000For anybody who knows how law works, namely not the Trumpkins, who don't care about law or words, they don't know how to spell, they don't know the difference between you, are, and you're.
00:43:54.000I mean, like every one of their tweets is using Y-O-U-R as opposed to Y-O-U apostrophe R-E.
00:44:01.000Which is not correct, but in any case, the prosecutors have what's called prosecutorial discretion.
00:44:07.000They look at cases, and then they decide whether they think there's a likelihood of victory at trial, and they also decide whether they think it's worthwhile expending the resources of the state in order to push forward the case.
00:44:17.000They decided with regard to Michelle Fields, who was grabbed, yanked, and bruised by Corey Lewandowski, and then lied about it.
00:44:23.000They decide that it wasn't worth pushing that case forward,
00:44:27.000One is the resources that it would take basically to push it is not worthwhile in a district with a DA that has a backlog of literally tens of thousands of cases, many of them very serious.
00:44:37.000And the other reason is they say that there's probable cause to prosecute, but they didn't know the likelihood of rebutting Lewandowski's defense because it's based on testimony from Trump and Lewandowski.
00:44:48.000And so they crafted this false defense about how Michelle had a little bomb in her hand and Lewandowski was going to save Trump from Michelle and all this nonsense.
00:44:56.000And so what it really comes down to is number one.
00:44:58.000What it comes down to is this wasn't a big enough deal, criminally speaking, for them to go forward with the prosecution.
00:45:05.000If I were a prosecutor, totally get that decision.
00:45:07.000I had a very similar situation with the Zoe Tur incident where Zoe Tur grabs me on national television by the back of the neck, threatens me, threatens me afterward, threatens me on Twitter.
00:46:15.000I mean, talk about puerile and childish.
00:46:17.000I mean, this is the Trump campaign in a nutshell.
00:46:19.000Apparently Trump actually called up the prosecutor's office personally to tell them his story and also to encourage them to quote-unquote, do the right thing.
00:46:26.000This is an area where he, where Mar-a-Lago is, right?
00:46:29.000So he has a fair bit of sway and pull.
00:46:31.000But again, I don't think that this was a matter of bribery.
00:46:33.000I think this is a matter of the prosecutors looked at this and they said, I don't know why this is worth our effort, really.
00:46:38.000That doesn't mean that Michelle never should have filed a police report.
00:46:40.000It's the job of the police and the job of the prosecutors to weed out cases they think are worthy of prosecution from cases that aren't.
00:46:45.000That's why the concept of prosecutorial discretion exists.
00:46:48.000The reason she filed a police report in the first place, as she has said, as I have said, is because Trump and his campaign were calling her liars.
00:46:54.000They were suggesting she faked her own bruises.
00:46:56.000They were suggesting the bruises weren't even real.
00:46:58.000She went in to document that this actually happened.
00:47:00.000Michelle has said that she's going to file a civil lawsuit against Trump
00:47:05.000And against Lewandowski for defamation, Trump then threatened her and said, well, she better not do that because Indiscovery will tear her apart.
00:47:11.000OK, I guarantee you this, Indiscovery, Trump has a lot more to hide than Michelle Fields has Indiscovery.
00:47:21.000So the thing I hate in the end is that this is the Trump campaign.
00:47:24.000The eye-for-an-eye thing from the beginning of the show, it applies to Trump, it applies to his followers, but they're blind, so they don't care if they gouge out other people's eyes.
00:47:52.000She says, you convinced me to wait until marriage to have sex to be pro-life, to be an entrepreneur, and have completely aided me in un-brainwashing myself, which is great.
00:47:58.000I get a lot of letters like this, and I'm glad that I can impact folks, and I'm glad that you listen.
00:49:25.000Even in Brazil, they know that boobies are a sexual object.
00:49:28.000And number two, they are a sexual object in the United States, so you recognize that, and that's just the truth.
00:49:32.000I mean, there's a reason women aren't walking around topless, and that's for good reason, because that would put society in a high state of tension, I would say.
00:49:39.000So, the other, she says, the other argument...
00:49:42.000His men are committing adultery and cheating.
00:49:44.000I do not see how watching a topless girl dancing or getting a lap dance is cheating.
00:49:47.000In addition, men are not biologically monogamous and need sexual variety.
00:49:51.000To be monogamous, they need to experience sexual variety of women to not feel suppressed by their wife and girlfriend.
00:49:55.000This is an argument that's very often made in favor of pornography.
00:49:58.000People say that pornography actually keeps people from cheating, right?
00:50:01.000If you stare at naked women online and presumably do other things, then this will keep you being monogamous.
00:50:08.000I wholly disagree with this proposition.
00:50:11.000The reason is because men tend to push boundaries.
00:50:13.000And so what you get is if men are looking at other women all the time, there's a certain amount of men looking at women that's natural.
00:50:46.000It's not going to work, because it turns out that love and sex and marriage are deeply intertwined, and the modern attempt to separate the three has destroyed marriage, has destroyed sex, and has destroyed love.
00:50:56.000That's actually what's happening right now.
00:50:57.000Pornography destroys sex in general, because the fact is that men are now looking for something that doesn't exist.
00:51:03.000Pornography destroys love because it disassociates sex from love, and it destroys marriage because the reality is that women want to be the object of desire for their husbands, not...
00:51:12.000Various other sundry goods on the shelf so that's my that's that's my response to to that is that you know I really hope that you get another job I think there are other jobs available to you sound like a nice bright gal I think that you can do better for yourself, and I think that you your future husband I would hope I think will be will be pleased to know that that is not something that you decided to keep on doing I think that I know that
00:51:37.000Most good men would prefer that their women reserve their sex lives, and this is part of your sex life.
00:51:42.000I mean, showing your breasts to men is part of your sex life.
00:52:17.000In Athens, the idea of a pure democracy was that you would literally get a plebiscite out, everybody would come out and vote on the major issues of the day, and they would vote issue by issue.
00:52:24.000We're starting to move toward that in places like California, where you have referenda and people vote on specific issues.
00:52:29.000But most elected countries are republics instead of democracies.
00:52:32.000The problem is, as we have moved toward democratic values rather than republican values, small d, small r,
00:52:38.000What we've done is instead of saying to people, we're electing you for your good judgment, we say, we're electing you to do X. And then if you don't do X, we throw you out.
00:52:46.000And so instead of electing good people to make judgments that are independent and based on the evidence, we're electing people and then we're saying, we want you to do this stuff that we want you to do based on our 30 seconds of research.
00:52:57.000And the whole purpose of an elected republic is that these people spend a fair amount of time actually looking at the issues.
00:53:02.000You have five minutes to spend between taking your kids to school and working.
00:53:06.000And that's why you elect people to do the job for you.
00:53:08.000It's just like any other thing you contract out.
00:53:10.000We contract out our politics to people we trust.
00:53:22.000My question is about your stance on government being completely out of business.
00:53:25.000Do you think there's a certain point in which government should have the ability to impose regulations of safety in the workplace, or should we simply allow that to be the business of the employers?
00:53:33.000Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and disasters such as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire come to mind when I think about this, and I just wonder when you think government should step in and regulate how businesses treat their employees and create their products.
00:53:44.000Okay, so as far as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the notion that ever there were people who were falling into meat grinders and being churned into sausage is nonsense, and Teddy Roosevelt said as much at the time.
00:53:55.000The Jungle is muckraking and it's not true.
00:53:57.000As far as the idea that employers have to have special
00:54:01.000Regulations on them and how they treat their employees, I don't generally believe that you need that.
00:54:06.000The reason for that is because there is such a thing as tort law.
00:54:08.000If I put you in a position where a beam falls on your head and I know the beam is unstable, I'm responsible for negligence.
00:54:14.000Your family will sue me into the ground.
00:54:42.000I don't see why the government is better at regulating business than agreements between the employers and the employees, as well as basic tort law.
00:54:50.000Okay, Peter writes, Is it possible one of the reasons why the left seems so happy to march the Western world off the cliff when it comes to Islamic migration is because they simply don't understand religion?
00:55:00.000Considering the majority of the people on the left look down their noses at religious people, is it possible the left just doesn't get why inviting people of such a radically different faith might be a problem?
00:55:10.000This might come down to something you mentioned earlier where you mentioned no real religious person identifies as anything before they identify as a child of God.
00:55:16.000This is something I doubt many non-religious people wrap their heads around.
00:56:06.000There's a section of this piece, it's called How to Lose Your Mind to ISIS and then Fight to Get It Back.
00:56:11.000It was written by a guy at BuzzFeed about a family who had a kid who was being recruited by ISIS.
00:56:17.000And it talks in this piece specifically about how the family of this kid, the aunt and uncle, they went to the kid and they said they took the kid to the beach in France and they showed him a bunch of
00:56:32.000The West is these scantily clad women.
00:56:34.000And the kid's response, which is perfectly what you would think it is if you're a religious person and understands how religion works, is, I want to soak the sand with their blood.
00:57:00.000People want to believe in something bigger than themselves.
00:57:02.000They'll either believe in the left, in the value of secularism, or they'll believe in Western civilization, or they'll believe in Christianity, or Judaism, or radical Islam.
00:57:11.000And so disrespecting Muslims enough to believe, you can buy them off with a couple of scantily clad photos from the beach,
00:57:17.000It's a bunch of hooey, and it's arrogance of the highest order.
00:57:20.000It's why Bono, what he was saying yesterday about, we just throw some comedy at them and that wins.
00:57:26.000Michael writes, my economics professor at West Alabama was going over the multiplier effect.
00:57:31.000The multiplier effect is the idea that if I spend a dollar on a good, you then take that dollar and you spend it on a different good, and that person takes the dollar and spends it on a different good.
00:57:40.000Also known as just trading with each other.
00:57:43.000He says, I asked him if that was similar to trickle-down economics with difference, of course, being that instead of tax breaks, the government spends money toward the business.
00:58:18.000The idea of a fountain effect is the idea you give money to the people at the bottom, they spend the money, and it sort of bubbles up to the top.
00:58:25.000What ends up happening is the people at the bottom spend most of their money, because they're at the bottom rung of society, they tend to spend it on basic consumer goods.
00:58:32.000They tend to spend it on t-shirts and food.
00:58:35.000And so if you do that, you end up with an economy.
00:58:37.000And if you take it away from the innovators, the Steve Jobses, and give money
00:58:41.000Two people who spend it on burgers, you're going to get more burgers and less iPhones.
00:58:46.000There won't be people competing to make the nice iPhones.
00:58:49.000The poor people will never get to own an iPhone.
00:58:51.000They will still be spending their money on ever-increasing prices of burgers, because as they spend more money on burgers, it jacks the price up.
00:58:58.000So the price actually goes up, because now there's competition to create more burgers, and there's undersupply and overdemand.
00:59:04.000Okay, Diane says, if you could experience a day in the life of somebody who has now passed on, whose shoes would you step into and why?
00:59:14.000Alright, Niall says, this might seem like kind of a random question, but I was wondering that if you were to run for president, who would you pick as running mate?
00:59:23.000What are your thoughts on Bill Whittle?
00:59:52.000He's not crazy like Deadpool, but if you read Deadpool comics and you read Spider-Man comics, it's basically fight quip, fight quip, fight quip.
01:00:08.000And finally, a question, and this allows me to promote my new book coming out in October, so I'll do it.
01:00:12.000Where did you get your inspiration for True Allegiance and why do I have to wait until October to read it?
01:00:17.000You have to wait until October to read it because my publisher says so.
01:00:20.000And my inspiration for True Allegiance was, I like writing fiction and I do think that, like Ayn Rand, like Tom Wolfe,
01:00:29.000Sometimes the best way to get across your point is by providing a vision of what the world looks like if all of the current day events are taken to their logical extreme.
01:00:40.000And so that's what true allegiance is.
01:00:42.000It's you take everything that's currently happening and you amp it up by a factor of two and that's what true allegiance basically is.
01:00:48.000Well folks, we've reached the end of the week.
01:00:50.000Try not to break and ruin everything while I'm gone.
01:00:52.000Try not to study Bible with Donald Trump because it's just a bad idea.