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Ep. 107 - Prepare For The Trump Riots!


Summary

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a socialist from Lumbagia, believes that poverty is virtue. But if we were all equal in wealth, we would all be equally virtuous. And in a free system, wealth tends to follow people who make rational, responsible decisions that provide goods and services to other people. Unfortunately, our system itself has become so corrupted by the big government Bernie Sanders loves, that corruption can also earn you a pretty big check. But for Sanders, the downtrodden are the wellsprings of virtue, but for the wealthy, the wealthy are exploitative demons. Wealth merely accentuates what you already are. You get so rich that you become corrupt. Thus, wealth itself has to be stopped, so that we are not corrupted by its taint. And as it turns out, as a god-like wise man, Bernie Sanders feels that he can dictate virtue if only he s given total control over virtue, which, as it Turns Out, is the worst vice of all. Ben Shapiro's new book, "I Rock Right Now," is out now, and it's a must-listen for all things rock and roll! If you want to believe that the presidency of the United States operates in accordance with the Constitution, then you have to believe in the Constitution. And if you believe the Constitution is not just for your kids, then it s just as it operates for you, then that s not just about the position of the president, it s not about the president. It s about the President Trump or Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, or it s the position for you. It s just a matter of how it s gonna be, right now, right here in the middle? And it s a mix of the Constitution and the Constitution or not a second rock and a rock right now . That s not a rock and it s rock right here, right in the rock and row right now. - Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro and the rock right there, right right here We will rock, rock, and rock, Ben right now right now! - The Rock and roll, rock and rock right away, rock rock, rock, Rock, rock off, rock right Right now, rock now, I rock, right away Rock right now... I Rock Right Here, I Rock, Rock Right now! - Right now? -


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00:00:01.000 Senator Bernie Sanders, socialist from Lumbagia, believes that poverty is virtue.
00:00:06.000 On Monday, Sanders tweeted that he was making less money in the last year than Hillary made for one speech, which is true.
00:00:13.000 He made over $200,000 in 2014, but speaking before Deutsche Bank in 2014, Hillary made $280,000 in one speech.
00:00:17.000 Here's the question.
00:00:17.000 So the hell what?
00:00:25.000 Here's the thing.
00:00:25.000 Hillary's having a rough time in this primary because she's running Sanders' playbook and it simply does not fit.
00:00:31.000 She's super duper wealthy.
00:00:32.000 She used her foundation as a slush fund.
00:00:34.000 She's cultivated warm relationships on Wall Street for literally years.
00:00:38.000 But she isn't corrupt because she's rich.
00:00:40.000 She's corrupt because she's super corrupt.
00:00:42.000 She was corrupt when she was allegedly fired from the Watergate investigation back in the 1970s.
00:00:47.000 She was corrupt when she allegedly engaged in financial improprieties with regard to the Whitewater land deal.
00:00:52.000 She was corrupt when she ran the bimbo eruption unit for the Clinton White House.
00:00:56.000 She was corrupt when she allegedly bought her Senate seat in New York with the help of her husband's pardon of Mark Rich.
00:01:01.000 She was corrupt when she set up a private email server to hide her documents at the State Department.
00:01:07.000 Bernie Sanders seems to think that only wealth generates corruption, so when she was poor she was honest, now she's wealthy and she's not.
00:01:12.000 He is pure as the driven snow, we know, because he's a super old dude who didn't have the foresight to build any wealth over the course of his life, so his stupidity is actually virtue.
00:01:21.000 But those evil people who run Walmart, they are killing us all because they're selfish and they're awful, even if they hire millions of people and provide millions more with goods and services at affordable prices.
00:01:32.000 They are greedy.
00:01:34.000 Not like those poor people who want to forcibly confiscate my wealth for their own enrichment.
00:01:38.000 Those people aren't greedy because they support Bernie Sanders.
00:01:41.000 So here's the truth about wealth.
00:01:43.000 Wealth merely accentuates what you already are.
00:01:45.000 If you're honest and diligent, wealth gives you the opportunity to use that honesty and diligence to help other people.
00:01:51.000 If you're a corrupt scumbag, wealth gives you the power to be a more corrupt scumbag, as we see from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
00:01:58.000 Values matter.
00:01:59.000 Wealth level doesn't.
00:02:00.000 And in a free system, wealth tends to follow people who make rational, responsible decisions that provide goods and services to other people.
00:02:08.000 Unfortunately, our system itself has become so corrupted by the big government Bernie Sanders loves, that corruption can also earn you a pretty big check, which is how the Clintons got rich.
00:02:17.000 But for Bernie Sanders, the downtrodden in a free system are the wellsprings of virtue.
00:02:22.000 The wealthy are exploitative demons.
00:02:24.000 He doesn't explain precisely what level of wealth crosses the line, presumably not $200,000 a year, but it happens at some point.
00:02:31.000 You get so rich that you become corrupt.
00:02:33.000 Thus, wealth itself has to be stopped so that we're not corrupted by its taint.
00:02:37.000 If we were all equal in poverty, we would all be equally saintly.
00:02:41.000 Except, of course, that human nature doesn't really change.
00:02:43.000 Countries without wealth are not more virtuous than their rich brethren.
00:02:46.000 In fact, they seem to have more violence and more chaos and more rape and more looting, since it turns out those things are preconditions for permanent poverty.
00:02:54.000 Individuals without wealth in a free system, they're not better people than the people with wealth.
00:02:59.000 On average, individuals who are permanently poor are people who make poor decisions.
00:03:04.000 To instill virtue to make better people requires just one thing.
00:03:08.000 A free and open system that rewards good decisions and punishes bad decisions.
00:03:12.000 That's what the market tends to do.
00:03:14.000 But Bernie Sanders, as a god-like wise man, feels that he can dictate virtue if only he's given total control.
00:03:21.000 Which, as it turns out, is the worst vice of all.
00:03:24.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:03:25.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:03:34.000 So I know everybody in the studio is really excited to rock right now.
00:03:36.000 I've been informed about this repeatedly.
00:03:39.000 Inside joke for people who are not in the studio.
00:03:41.000 Literally every day, at least two of the people in this studio lead off the program by reciting the lyrics to I Wanna Rock Right Now.
00:03:50.000 Right now.
00:03:51.000 Right now.
00:03:52.000 There they are, both of them sounding off.
00:03:53.000 Really appreciate your voice being added to the mix.
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00:04:27.000 Okay, so yesterday we talked a significant amount about Donald Trump
00:04:50.000 And his sort of call to violence.
00:04:52.000 So Donald Trump, just to reiterate, Donald Trump is now, he's a gangster.
00:04:57.000 He's walking in, he's saying, let me tell you, if you have the, there's a beautiful bar you have here.
00:05:02.000 It's an amazing bar.
00:05:04.000 It's an amazing bar.
00:05:05.000 And let me tell you about this bar.
00:05:06.000 If you do not pay your payoff today, it would be a real shame.
00:05:10.000 A real shame, let me tell you.
00:05:12.000 If somebody would come in here and break all your bottles and burn it down and kill your wife and children.
00:05:17.000 It would be a shame if this were to happen.
00:05:18.000 I couldn't stop it.
00:05:19.000 I'm not saying it would be good, but it would be a shame if that were to happen.
00:05:21.000 So he's doing that with the RNC now.
00:05:23.000 And here is Donald Trump basically saying that.
00:05:26.000 The system is a bad, bad system and they got to do something about it.
00:05:32.000 The Republican National Committee, they better get going because I'll tell you what, you're going to have a rough July at that convention.
00:05:40.000 You better get going and you better straighten out the system because the people want their vote.
00:05:46.000 The people want to vote and they want to be represented properly.
00:05:54.000 Okay, so they want to be represented properly, and if they don't get it, they're gonna burn the house down.
00:05:58.000 It would be a shame if that were to happen, and he said that.
00:06:00.000 He said it'd be a shame if there were to be riots, if there would be violence, but people are angry, and can we stop people from being angry?
00:06:06.000 Well, this, by the way, has been what incipient dictators have always said.
00:06:10.000 You know, they've always said, that's not me.
00:06:11.000 I'm not calling for violence.
00:06:12.000 I would never do such a thing, but if violence were to break out because I don't get what I want, what can I do?
00:06:20.000 Now, you would imagine, there's a Trump spokesperson who was on TV last night, I think he was on Fox News, and he was talking about this quote from Trump.
00:06:28.000 And he was asked specifically about Trump's comments, and you would expect the spokesperson to do what spokespeople typically do, to say, no, Trump definitely was not saying violence is okay, we would never want to see any violence, he was just noting descriptively that there could be violence, the last thing he wants to see is violence.
00:06:44.000 That's not what spokespeople say.
00:06:45.000 So here is Trump's spokesperson yesterday, and you'll be able to hear it.
00:06:49.000 Talking about how you should construe Trump's comments.
00:06:51.000 It's amazing.
00:06:53.000 Some people interpret Trump's comments as, in effect, a cloaked threat, saying that if you deny me the nomination, listen, I can't control my supporters, they're so devout, this might happen.
00:07:03.000 Is that an unfair characterization?
00:07:05.000 Well, you could interpret it any way you want, but he was pretty clear in indicating that that is something that's not going to happen.
00:07:10.000 However, he is sort of channeling the anger that a lot of people feel.
00:07:14.000 Look, take Georgia, for example.
00:07:15.000 Okay, we can stop it right there.
00:07:16.000 That's the relevant portion, right?
00:07:17.000 You can interpret it any way you want.
00:07:19.000 Well, I'm interpreting it the way it sounds, which is he's making threats.
00:07:22.000 And guess who else is interpreting it that way?
00:07:24.000 Donald Trump's droogs.
00:07:26.000 So for people who don't know A Clockwork Orange, the droogs are like all of the super ultra-violent friends who go around breaking things because they're evil and they're sociopathic.
00:07:35.000 So Trump's droogs are this whole group.
00:07:38.000 It's not all the Trump voters, by the way.
00:07:39.000 It's a very small subset of Trump voters.
00:07:41.000 And they're going around threatening people and they're enjoying threatening people.
00:07:44.000 So I host another show in the mornings.
00:07:46.000 I co-host another show in the morning.
00:07:48.000 It's called The Morning Answer in Los Angeles in Orange County.
00:07:51.000 And one of the callers today called in to talk about Donald Trump's call to action slash violence.
00:07:57.000 And here's what what he had to say.
00:08:00.000 It's a little bit frightening.
00:08:02.000 The word we will certainly stop
00:08:10.000 Why are you following your God King to a riot in Cleveland?
00:08:14.000 Right, I understand.
00:08:19.000 Why are you waiting for orders from your God King?
00:08:22.000 And what happens if he tells you to jump off a cliff?
00:08:24.000 Will you do this also?
00:08:30.000 I was.
00:08:31.000 You didn't say anything.
00:08:33.000 And that's essentially how the call ended, but they're waiting for the word from their god king to stomp the romp in Cleveland.
00:08:39.000 I don't know what this means.
00:08:41.000 My guess is that means it's some sort of pop cultural reference, of which I'm unaware, stomping the romp.
00:08:45.000 I don't know what that means, or why that's a thing, or if he's just come down with cerebellum rhyming disease, which is apparently afflicting the population in greater and greater doses.
00:08:55.000 It's like leprosy of the tongue.
00:08:57.000 And you just start rhyming randomly.
00:08:59.000 It's very bizarre.
00:08:59.000 But there is this tendency, and you're hearing it from the Trump people, yes, we're going to participate in violence.
00:09:04.000 Now, I pointed this out this morning on Twitter and people said, oh, you can't just take one call.
00:09:08.000 I mean, how dare you take this one call and use this as representative?
00:09:12.000 OK, let's not take one call.
00:09:14.000 Let's use Roger Stone, who's a Trump surrogate.
00:09:15.000 Here's what he said on April 5th, quote.
00:09:18.000 We're going to have protests, demonstrations.
00:09:20.000 We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal.
00:09:25.000 If you're from Pennsylvania, we will tell you who the culprits are.
00:09:28.000 We urge you to visit their hotel and find them.
00:09:32.000 That's a Trump surrogate, Roger Stone, who is truly one of the more disgusting people in politics.
00:09:36.000 Yesterday, a Trumpster, Trumpsterfire online activist, Gary Forbes, posted on Facebook.
00:09:42.000 Here's what he posted.
00:09:42.000 He says,
00:09:53.000 All caps, must not be allowed to vote.
00:09:56.000 And then he continues.
00:09:58.000 We should create a team of aggressive pro-Trump groups, including bikers, truckers, unions and support groups.
00:10:03.000 And all caps, do not let these people make it to Cleveland in July.
00:10:08.000 Be creative.
00:10:09.000 Find any legal means to see to it that they don't even make it to the airport.
00:10:12.000 He urged at least 500 protesters to show up outside delegate homes and to quote, reach out to all large pro-Trump groups to show the anger and might of the American people and then added ominously, keep the demonstrations peaceful as long as that delegate does not switch his or her vote.
00:10:27.000 This will make them think twice about defying the will of we the people.
00:10:31.000 I do love that the founding document, the first few words of the founding documents of the United States, which talk about how we achieve political change inside of a system created by the founders, now they're citing we the people as an excuse to go and burn crap down if they don't get their way.
00:10:47.000 And this is the Trump campaign in a nutshell.
00:10:50.000 Who's a great, great guy.
00:10:51.000 He's my favorite columnist at National Review.
00:10:53.000 And there are a couple at National Review I really like.
00:10:55.000 Kevin Williamson is terrific.
00:10:56.000 David French, I think, is the most underrated columnist at National Review.
00:11:00.000 He has a piece there today called Donald Trump's Counterfeit Masculinity.
00:11:04.000 And I think that this is what's going on.
00:11:06.000 It's interesting.
00:11:07.000 Maybe this is not representative, but in my own kind of asking around of human beings, who they tend to like as a candidate, what I've found is that people who are married, particularly younger people who are married, tend not to like Trump.
00:11:22.000 Younger people who are single tend to have more of an adoration of Trump.
00:11:26.000 The reason for this, I believe, is because when you get married, and the type of person who gets married is the person who believes that masculinity has to be changed.
00:11:34.000 Our aggressive instinct, as males, we are aggressive, we just naturally are.
00:11:38.000 Our aggressive instinct can be either used to conquer things, and break things, and loot things, and rape things,
00:11:45.000 Or it can be channeled toward actual responsible behavior.
00:11:47.000 This is what Western civilization does.
00:11:48.000 This is why we are not animals.
00:11:50.000 We channel our aggressive instinct toward protect and defend your wife, protect and defend your family, protect and defend your country, go out and be productive, earn, right?
00:11:59.000 All of our worst instincts, or at least our most powerful instincts, are channeled toward something good.
00:12:05.000 But, for Trump people, they love the fact that Trump is the gangster.
00:12:11.000 They love the fact that Trump is the gangster.
00:12:12.000 So, Andrew Klavan has talked about why it is that men like gangster movies, right?
00:12:16.000 He's talked about this on his show before, and there's nobody better, by the way, in the United States at breaking down popular culture than Klavan.
00:12:22.000 And when he says that men like gangster movies, what Drew says, and he's right, is he says men like gangster movies because it gives us the chance to be cathartic.
00:12:30.000 This is what men would do if there were no rules.
00:12:33.000 Right, they would go around, they'd just go after whatever woman is available, they'd do whatever they want to these women, they'd treat them like garbage.
00:12:39.000 They'd be Donald Trump.
00:12:40.000 Right, they'd be violent, and they'd be thuggish, and they'd take what they want, and nobody could stop them.
00:12:45.000 And so men, particularly, like these gangster movies.
00:12:47.000 It's why I can watch The Goodfellas, even though it's not my favorite movie.
00:12:49.000 If it's on TV, I'll watch it.
00:12:50.000 If my wife watched 10 minutes of The Goodfellas, she wouldn't like it.
00:12:53.000 She would want to turn it off.
00:12:54.000 Because she would look at it and she'd say, this is vile.
00:12:56.000 These people are vile.
00:12:57.000 Men look at this and they say,
00:12:58.000 Yeah, those guys are vile, but man, look at them.
00:13:00.000 I mean, that's a lifestyle, right?
00:13:02.000 And young men, particularly, who have never been trained in the ways of masculine civilization, about being a gentleman, about being bound by certain rules of responsibility and behavior, they embrace the Donald Trump vision of the world.
00:13:16.000 They embrace the Donald Trump
00:13:18.000 Viral, but toxic masculinity, and this is what David French writes.
00:13:23.000 He says that feminism has basically taught you that all males are is that aggressive nasty instinct.
00:13:29.000 They've ignored the fact that that aggressive instinct is channeled toward good things.
00:13:34.000 Instead, they've conflated masculinity with aggressive nasty masculinity.
00:13:38.000 And here's what David French writes, and I think this is right.
00:13:39.000 He says, men are left confused, aimless, and often angry.
00:13:43.000 They simply can't and won't conform to a genderless society because the feminists want to rip away masculinity completely because they say it's negative.
00:13:49.000 He says, absent exposure to these few American subcultures that still retain an understanding of distinctly virtuous masculinity, they live in a state of frustration, with many ultimately embracing negative stereotypes, living a life in full reaction against feminism.
00:14:04.000 While not rapists, they are predators, seeking serial sexual conquests.
00:14:07.000 While not criminals, they are bullies, using threats and swagger to get their way.
00:14:11.000 Life is about winning, and women and money are the ways in which they keep score.
00:14:16.000 And Trump is their hero.
00:14:17.000 To enter the world of the pickup artist, or the segments of the so-called men's right movement, is to enter the world of the Trump fanboy.
00:14:23.000 Trump has quote-unquote, tight game, to borrow the phrasing of Chateau Hirtiste, a popular website for frustrated male millennials.
00:14:29.000 He's the ultimate alpha.
00:14:31.000 And this, I think, is right.
00:14:33.000 The problem, as David French points out, is number one, this makes for worse men, and number two, this justifies the feminist movement.
00:14:39.000 This makes the feminist movement what it is, because now the feminist movement can point to Trump, and they can say, see, this is what we're fighting.
00:14:45.000 So the feminist movement has lost steam, because it turns out that without men in society, men acting like men to protect good people in society, there is no civilization.
00:14:54.000 It doesn't exist.
00:14:55.000 Without the gentleman, there is no civilization.
00:14:57.000 There's only brutality.
00:14:59.000 And so the feminists have no place to go unless there is a revitalization and revivification of nasty masculinity for them to fight.
00:15:07.000 And that's what Trump is.
00:15:08.000 When he threatens to riot, there's a whole group of people who are on board with that because they feel like that's just swagger, that's him being him.
00:15:16.000 And it really is attractive.
00:15:17.000 It's good that he's doing all of this.
00:15:19.000 Okay, well, if you are worried, folks, about intrusion on your privacy, if you're worried about people getting a hold of your private email information, you're worried about any god king, Obama, Trump, Hillary, any god king or queen,
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00:15:50.000 They won't give it to the government.
00:15:51.000 They won't give it to marketing entities.
00:15:53.000 And unlike a lot of the email providers like Google or Yahoo or AOL or Hotmail, they don't copy or sell a single word of your emails to anybody.
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00:16:05.000 It's also cool because you're linked with President Reagan, the last good president in the United States.
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00:16:19.000 Okay, so while Donald Trump is running roughshod over everybody, and I think this ties into what's happening in New York.
00:16:27.000 So today is the New York primary.
00:16:29.000 I expect Donald Trump to do very well.
00:16:31.000 I'm not as sanguine and optimistic as Klavan.
00:16:34.000 Klavan thinks that Trump is gonna underperform a little bit.
00:16:36.000 I think he's gonna overperform because I have no faith in the genius of the people of New York.
00:16:43.000 These are people who elected Robert F. Kennedy, the third senator from Massachusetts, and Hillary Clinton, the third senator from Arkansas.
00:16:50.000 These are folks who are basically willing to vote for anybody who gives them a little head rub.
00:16:55.000 But the fact is that the big move today
00:16:59.000 The big move today is in New York.
00:17:01.000 Trump is going to do very well, and he's been endorsed by a lot of the upstanding New York figures.
00:17:06.000 This is why Trump is doing well in New York, because New Yorkers have this sense of themselves.
00:17:10.000 They are the center of the universe.
00:17:12.000 All life revolves around them.
00:17:14.000 The famous New Yorker cover, which is, it's a great New Yorker cover, and this is how they perceive themselves from the 1970s.
00:17:19.000 It shows a map of the United States, and the map of the United States is New York here, and then nothing for about two inches, and then LA.
00:17:28.000 Like the rest of the country just doesn't exist.
00:17:29.000 It's just New York and L.A.
00:17:30.000 and then water.
00:17:31.000 And for New Yorkers, that's how things operate.
00:17:34.000 And you can sense that.
00:17:35.000 Trump is one of them.
00:17:36.000 And so they're going to back Trump.
00:17:37.000 And so the more gangster New York Trump is, the more Joe Pesci Trump is, the more they like him.
00:17:43.000 Here's Rudy Giuliani endorsing Donald Trump.
00:17:46.000 And it is pretty amazing.
00:17:48.000 You are going to vote for Trump, but you won't endorse him.
00:17:51.000 Okay, so I'll endorse him.
00:17:53.000 But I'm not part of the campaign.
00:17:54.000 But what's the difference?
00:17:55.000 That's what I don't understand.
00:17:56.000 Why don't you say, I'm Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump.
00:18:02.000 Okay, I'm Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump, but I'm not part of the campaign.
00:18:07.000 I don't understand.
00:18:08.000 What does that last part mean?
00:18:08.000 What does that mean is I'm not a surrogate.
00:18:10.000 They haven't asked me to do anything.
00:18:12.000 I'm not involved in the campaign.
00:18:14.000 I'm not called upon to give advice, except a few times when I've volunteered it.
00:18:19.000 I'm not part of the campaign apparatus.
00:18:21.000 I don't want people to think I am.
00:18:22.000 So how's that different than Mayor de Blasio saying, I endorse Hillary Clinton?
00:18:26.000 I think he's part of her organization.
00:18:28.000 I'm not.
00:18:30.000 But I'm willing to accept.
00:18:31.000 If you want to interpret that as an endorsement... Well, you were really strict about it the last time.
00:18:34.000 I'm really, I'm really, I'm really... You can interpret it as an endorsement, but I'm just not part of the campaign.
00:18:39.000 Okay, the reason that Giuliani keeps saying he's not part of the campaign... I mean, if you heard me talking to somebody else about that... The reason that he keeps saying he's not part of the campaign is because he doesn't actually want to defend Trump.
00:18:48.000 Because Trump is indefensible.
00:18:49.000 So Giuliani wants to say he backs him, but he doesn't actually back him, so that he doesn't have to answer for him.
00:18:55.000 But he's getting behind him anyway.
00:18:56.000 Perhaps it's because once you've had your fake boobs felt up by Donald Trump, as Rudy Giuliani has, then you have to back him.
00:19:03.000 I guess that's some sort of tribal New York thing.
00:19:05.000 There's an actual tape of this.
00:19:07.000 There's some dinner, you remember.
00:19:08.000 There's a big deal made out of this in 2008 when there's pictures of Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag.
00:19:12.000 What people forget is that at the end of the video, Trump appears from nowhere and starts feeling up Rudy Giuliani.
00:19:17.000 New York values.
00:19:18.000 Well, these New York values mean that New Yorkers love Trump.
00:19:21.000 They're into it.
00:19:21.000 They like the fact that he does this whole, I work with mobsters, I'm a man on the make, I'm willing to thug it up.
00:19:27.000 They like this about him.
00:19:28.000 Carl Palladino, who's a congressman from New York, he says that if the establishment forces Trump out, the GOP is over.
00:19:36.000 If it's not the people's choice, then these Republican leaders should be driven from the party.
00:19:43.000 And the only way to do that is to stay home and put the Republican Party to bed once and forever.
00:19:49.000 They don't own it.
00:19:50.000 It's not theirs.
00:19:51.000 It belongs to the people.
00:19:53.000 They have no choice.
00:19:54.000 More threats.
00:20:11.000 More nastiness, and that's just the way that this works.
00:20:14.000 And what you can see is that all of New York is coming together around Trump, because Trump is a reflect—he is.
00:20:19.000 I mean, when Cruz said, Trump is New York values, this is right.
00:20:21.000 And all that New York is showing today, and they will show today, is that Trump is the reflection of their values.
00:20:26.000 If Trump is your values, that's something wrong with you.
00:20:29.000 That's something wrong with your values.
00:20:31.000 There's a reason to back Trump, other than him reflecting your values.
00:20:34.000 But in New York, they actually like his values.
00:20:36.000 It makes them happy.
00:20:37.000 You'll see.
00:20:38.000 Okay, so Daily Show, right?
00:20:39.000 Which is the single most unfunny show in the history of television now.
00:20:42.000 I mean, since Jon Stewart left, it's gone from funny but horrible to horrible and also horrible.
00:20:49.000 So now, they dispatched somebody out to the streets of New York to ask New Yorkers what they thought New York values means, and you will see, this is why people support Donald Trump.
00:20:58.000 Okay, maybe Ted Cruz is wrong to attack New York for its values.
00:21:02.000 It is a melting pot of ideas and cultures.
00:21:05.000 That said, I live here and there is still plenty to criticize.
00:21:10.000 So Ted, the next time you want to s*** on this city, ask a New Yorker.
00:21:14.000 There are so many things you could complain about.
00:21:17.000 Like our arts.
00:21:18.000 Try getting a f***ing ticket.
00:21:21.000 Or complain about our infrastructure.
00:21:25.000 How are you still digging?!
00:21:27.000 They've been digging for two years!
00:21:29.000 Our commutes.
00:21:30.000 In the f***ing traffic!
00:21:35.000 Our many great restaurants.
00:21:38.000 I'm at brunch right now!
00:21:42.000 Or take a shot at our quality of life.
00:21:44.000 It costs $5,000 a month to live here.
00:21:47.000 And it comes with a f***ing roommate.
00:21:50.000 We're out of toilet paper.
00:21:52.000 We don't even have a bathroom.
00:21:53.000 Wait, where have you been f***ing
00:21:56.000 But don't f*** with our values.
00:21:58.000 Because we accept all people.
00:22:01.000 Well, not all.
00:22:03.000 Is there anything you would like to say to Ted Cruz?
00:22:08.000 Okay, so we can stop right there.
00:22:10.000 This is Trump.
00:22:11.000 This is Trump.
00:22:12.000 We're proud of the fact that we live in Squalor.
00:22:14.000 We're proud of the fact that we have crappy musicals like Hamilton, which, by the way, I've been listening to and trying to listen to.
00:22:19.000 Oh my god.
00:22:21.000 Oh my god.
00:22:21.000 As a fan of musical theater, it's a travesty.
00:22:26.000 Rogers and Hammerstein would come back and claw their own ears off just to- if they were forced to listen to this.
00:22:32.000 The fact that it's at the Rogers Theater in New York City is a disgrace to Rogers.
00:22:36.000 What a garbage musical.
00:22:37.000 I mean, I'm just- I haven't seen it.
00:22:39.000 I've just listened to the cast recording.
00:22:41.000 Wow.
00:22:42.000 Wow.
00:22:42.000 But beyond that, okay, so, but the idea is that New Yorkers are so proud of the fact that they live in squalor and that their city is replete with all of these problems of quality of life that they're really happy with Donald Trump because he's one of them.
00:22:57.000 This is New York tribalism.
00:22:58.000 So Ross Dudhat, who's the only decent columnist at the New York Times now, he has a really good column about how New York values are Trump values.
00:23:06.000 And he says,
00:23:08.000 This starts with the New York media's long-standing love affair with Trump, his intimate relationship with the city's glossy magazines and tabloids and networks.
00:23:14.000 He says, why do Americans believe in the idea of Trump as the world's greatest businessman, the playboy with the Midas touch?
00:23:20.000 Because that's the story the New York-based media, not talk radio, but Time and Vanity Fair and Prime TV, spent years and decades telling them.
00:23:28.000 He says this gave Trump a huge advantage when he started pandering to the right-wing fever swamps.
00:23:32.000 If some drawling southerner in an ill-fitting suit had shown up on TV promising to send investigators to hunt down the president's real birth certificate, much of the media would have covered him as a cross between late career Sarah Palin and David Duke.
00:23:44.000 But Trump was a pal, a get, ratings gold.
00:23:47.000 Trump was just playing a part.
00:23:48.000 Trump was part of their scene.
00:23:50.000 So he kept getting and still gets the celebrity treatment rather than the mix of ostracism and horror a cultural outsider would have reaped.
00:23:58.000 New York values have been crucial because Trump's success has revealed how much the conservative media is infused with a distinctively Big Apple style.
00:24:05.000 Think of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and other Trump-enabling Fox News personalities.
00:24:10.000 He says mostly northeastern white guys with outer borough effects and more of ethnic Catholicism's pugilism than its piety.
00:24:17.000 Think of Rudy Giuliani and the Trump-endorsing Post.
00:24:19.000 And the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
00:24:21.000 They all have a style that reflects New York's distinctive culture, worldly, striving, ever so impolite, and its distinctive right-of-center constituencies, Manhattan hedge funders, Staten Island cops, which means their conservatism differs, in large ways and small, from the conservatism of Utah or Texas or Wisconsin.
00:24:39.000 For Trump, gatekeepers are willing to overlook, to forgive, to tolerate, because he's a New Yorker just like them.
00:24:44.000 And he concludes, And that's right.
00:25:00.000 That's right.
00:25:01.000 Trump represents these... He's rude.
00:25:02.000 He's brutal.
00:25:03.000 And that's what New Yorkers like to think of themselves as.
00:25:06.000 And therefore, it's okay for him to be all of these things.
00:25:09.000 And it's okay for him to be stupid, as he wants to be, by the way.
00:25:12.000 He said something yesterday, that if Ted Cruz says it, it destroys him.
00:25:15.000 It's end of the world for him in New York.
00:25:17.000 It's just more evidence that he's out of touch.
00:25:20.000 Here's Donald Trump talking about 9-11, but he gets something wrong.
00:25:24.000 I wrote this out and it's very close to my heart because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down.
00:25:35.000 And I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action.
00:25:38.000 I saw the bravest people I've ever seen.
00:25:41.000 Okay, so yes, he just called 9-11, 7-11.
00:25:45.000 He saw them down at the Slurpee machine, really rescuing folks down at the 7-11.
00:25:48.000 Now that's just a gaffe, right?
00:25:49.000 I mean, it's just a gaffe.
00:25:50.000 But the thing about gaffes, what gaffes are, is reinforcement of what people think that you are.
00:25:56.000 Donald Trump, he likes to play the 9-11 card a lot.
00:25:59.000 Donald Trump and 9-11, let's just say that he has bragged about his sort of connections with 9-11 a lot.
00:26:07.000 But he's failed to back them up.
00:26:08.000 So you say he gave lots of money to 9-11 funds.
00:26:10.000 No, he hasn't.
00:26:11.000 He actually took money, apparently, according to reports.
00:26:14.000 He took money from 9-11 funds to rebuild some of his buildings, even though they weren't damaged by 9-11, according to him.
00:26:19.000 Donald Trump says he has hundreds of friends, hundreds, who perished in 9-11.
00:26:23.000 He can't name one.
00:26:24.000 He was asked specifically by the Daily Beast, give me a name.
00:26:26.000 And he couldn't come up with one.
00:26:28.000 Donald Trump is the guy who says about 9-11 that it may have been an inside job that Bush knew about, basically.
00:26:35.000 Donald Trump, but because he's from New York, he gets away with all this stuff.
00:26:39.000 It's just him being brash and rude.
00:26:40.000 It's him being stupid.
00:26:41.000 So here, it's the same routine with Rex Ryan.
00:26:44.000 So, the Trump sideshow continues.
00:26:46.000 Rex Ryan, who's the former coach of the New York Jets, he says he admires Trump a lot, and here's what it sounds like.
00:26:52.000 There's so much that I admire about Mr. Trump, but one thing I really admire about him is, you know what?
00:27:00.000 He'll say what's on his mind, and so many times,
00:27:04.000 You'll see people.
00:27:06.000 A lot of people want to say the same thing, but there's a big difference.
00:27:12.000 They don't have the courage to say it.
00:27:15.000 They all think it, but they don't have the courage to say it.
00:27:20.000 And Donald Trump certainly has the courage to say it.
00:27:24.000 And that's what I respect.
00:27:25.000 And you know what?
00:27:27.000 So do the people of New York.
00:27:29.000 They have so much courage.
00:27:30.000 They have so much courage to back down on Trump, because that's what courage is.
00:27:32.000 By the way, Trump then came out and called Rex Ryan a two-time championship winner.
00:27:37.000 He won zero championships with the New York Jets.
00:27:39.000 So it's sort of like Trump's wealth.
00:27:41.000 It's mildly exaggerated.
00:27:43.000 So, you know, this is the Trump routine.
00:27:45.000 This is why he's succeeding.
00:27:46.000 If he were from the middle of the country, it would be over for him.
00:27:49.000 He's from New York, so you can get away with saying terrible, horrible things.
00:27:52.000 Because New Yorkers are known for saying terrible, horrible things.
00:27:56.000 Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is unable to buy a cup of coffee from the media.
00:28:00.000 The media just continue to cover Trump incessantly, non-stop.
00:28:04.000 But you can tell a lot about a guy from his enemies.
00:28:07.000 So Trump's enemies range from the mainstream media, good enemy to have,
00:28:11.000 Sometimes, the mainstream media.
00:28:12.000 To folks like National Review, people like me, people like Mark Levin and Eric Erickson, people who normally would be considered pretty solid conservatives, but have now been considered cuckservatives because we don't back the God-King Trump.
00:28:25.000 You can tell a lot about a guy by his enemies.
00:28:28.000 Here's just a taste of Ted Cruz's enemies, and this is why Ted Cruz is a good candidate, and this is why Ted Cruz, not a good candidate, but a good thinker.
00:28:36.000 Here's Cecile Richards.
00:28:38.000 Cecile Richards is the head of Planned Parenthood, and what she's about to say is perhaps the most unself-aware thing anybody has ever said in American politics, is the head of Planned Parenthood talking about Ted Cruz with Hillary looking like a ghoul behind her.
00:28:52.000 As my mom, the late Governor Ann Richards, would say,
00:29:03.000 A woman voting for Ted Cruz is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
00:29:08.000 Right?
00:29:09.000 And there's Hillary chuckling in the background.
00:29:11.000 Okay, so a woman voting for Ted Cruz is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
00:29:15.000 It's slightly awkward to say this when you legitimately run a national organization with outlets that kill human beings and then sell their body parts in buckets.
00:29:24.000 It makes it kind of awkward for you to go the Colonel Sanders route when you're the Colonel Sanders of babies.
00:29:30.000 It makes it kind of weird and kind of awkward.
00:29:31.000 But these are the people who hate Ted Cruz, right?
00:29:33.000 The folks who hate Ted Cruz.
00:29:35.000 Cecile Richards isn't ripping Trump this way.
00:29:37.000 Why?
00:29:37.000 Because Trump has praised Planned Parenthood.
00:29:39.000 Trump has said Planned Parenthood is great.
00:29:41.000 Here's another enemy of Ted Cruz.
00:29:43.000 Peter King.
00:29:43.000 Peter King is very upset with Ted Cruz because Ted Cruz
00:29:46.000 is in favor of certain limitations on government surveillance.
00:29:50.000 So here is Peter King, a loudmouth from New York, who I believe is now a Trump supporter, talking about Ted Cruz.
00:29:56.000 Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined.
00:30:00.000 Okay, well, this is a little turnabout.
00:30:02.000 So wait a minute.
00:30:03.000 What happens tonight on the Republican side?
00:30:04.000 How big does Donald Trump win?
00:30:06.000 Well, first of all, in case anybody gets confused, I am not endorsing Ted Cruz.
00:30:10.000 I hate Ted Cruz.
00:30:12.000 And I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.
00:30:15.000 Have we said that?
00:30:16.000 Wow.
00:30:17.000 I think you're going to see Donald Trump scoring a big victory tonight.
00:30:20.000 I've not endorsed Donald Trump.
00:30:21.000 In fact, I actually voted by absentee ballot for John Kasich.
00:30:26.000 I've been endorsing John, but I voted for him really to send a message.
00:30:29.000 But I think Trump is going to win big.
00:30:31.000 Okay, so establishment Republicans like Peter King also hate Ted Cruz.
00:30:34.000 They hate him less than they hate Donald Trump, right?
00:30:37.000 He's said before he doesn't like Trump.
00:30:39.000 He's never threatened to commit suicide should Trump take the nomination.
00:30:43.000 By the way, him pledging to take cyanide if Cruz wins the nomination may in fact be the single best case Cruz has ever had for Cruz winning the nomination.
00:30:51.000 And then there's Ted Cruz, and Ted Cruz being blasted by gay groups who are very upset with him because he believes that, for example, businesses should be allowed to cater to whom they want to cater to, and because he also believes that my little girl should not have to sit in a bathroom next to a guy whipping out his very feminine junk to pee.
00:31:08.000 So he's asked about all of this by a gay voter on Good Morning America, and here's how Ted Cruz handles it.
00:31:13.000 Hi, I'm a lifelong Republican, and I've been married to my husband for two years now.
00:31:18.000 And my question is, I've noticed a lot of religious freedom laws and somewhat institutionalized discrimination laws happening around the country.
00:31:28.000 What would you as president do to protect me and my husband from that institutionalized discrimination?
00:31:33.000 Well listen, when it comes to religious liberty, religious liberty is something that protects every one of us.
00:31:38.000 It is the very first amendment, the very first phrase protected in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights.
00:31:45.000 And religious liberty, it applies to Christians, it applies to Jews, it applies to Muslims, it applies to atheists.
00:31:50.000 And all of us, we want to live in a world where we don't have the government dictating our beliefs, dictating how we live.
00:31:57.000 We have a right to live according to our faith, according to our conscience.
00:32:01.000 And that freedom
00:32:02.000 Ultimately protects each and every one of us.
00:32:05.000 And we shouldn't have the right to force others to knuckle under and give up their faith and give up their belief.
00:32:11.000 And for me, I mean, I have spent my entire adult life fighting to defend religious liberty, fighting to defend the freedom of every one of us to seek out and worship God.
00:32:20.000 And I think keeping government out of the way of your lives protects the freedom of every one of us.
00:32:26.000 Okay, and this is a great answer, because the guy asks him a false question, which is, they're discriminating against gay people because of these laws, and he's saying, no, you're discriminating against religious people, essentially, if you want the government to force religious people to have to sin.
00:32:40.000 And this is a very good answer, but you can, again, you can see who are the people who oppose Cruz.
00:32:43.000 The people who oppose Cruz are invariably the left and the establishment.
00:32:47.000 Those are the people who oppose Cruz.
00:32:49.000 But somehow Cruz has become the establishment guy.
00:32:51.000 Because Trump bends reality to his whims.
00:32:53.000 Because the media go right along with this bending of reality.
00:32:57.000 And now you're starting to see that, and I think this is what happens, there's a certain fatigue that's now setting in among the people who are fighting Trump.
00:33:04.000 A certain fatigue.
00:33:05.000 Because they're looking at these results, and they're saying, okay, Trump has won, let's say Trump wins 30-some states, and let's say Cruz wins 13.
00:33:11.000 Jon Podhoretz, over a commentary, said this today.
00:33:13.000 He says, let's say that he doesn't get to 1,237, but let's say that he wins 1,100 and he's got 33 states and Cruz has 13.
00:33:21.000 It's going to be hard for Cruz to take the nomination under those circumstances.
00:33:25.000 You know, you may just have to give it to Trump.
00:33:26.000 Giuliani says the same thing.
00:33:28.000 Mitt Romney is saying this.
00:33:29.000 He's saying Trump may hit 1,237 if John Kasich stays in the race, which John Kasich is going to do.
00:33:35.000 Do you think that we're headed on the Republican side to an open convention, what people call a contested convention?
00:33:41.000 Do you think that's where it's all headed?
00:33:43.000 You know, I think that depends on whether or not Mr. Cruz and Mr. Kasich both stay in the race aggressively through California.
00:33:52.000 If they're both going at it aggressively right until the very end, then I think it's very likely that Mr. Trump
00:34:00.000 On the other hand, if either Mr. Cruz or Mr. Kasich
00:34:29.000 I don't know.
00:34:54.000 Resigned to the possibility of a Trump nomination.
00:34:57.000 One quick additional note on the New York Valley stuff about Trump in the New York media and how they have pushed him all the way.
00:35:03.000 Sherry Jacobus is a political consultant who was, she's now sued Trump for defamation.
00:35:07.000 She sued Trump for defamation because Trump claimed that the reason she was anti-Trump is because she wanted a job with his campaign and he refused it.
00:35:15.000 In reality, she was recruited by his campaign and she refused the job because she didn't want to work with them.
00:35:20.000 The telling part of her lawsuit is this.
00:35:22.000 This is from her lawsuit today.
00:35:24.000 At the lunch, Corey Lewandowski, who's Trump's campaign manager, asked Jacobus, in sum and substance, if she was under a contract with any of the television networks.
00:35:32.000 Jacobus replied that she was not, but would like to be.
00:35:34.000 Lewandowski responded to this reply by stating that Trump was very close to Roger Ailes, the head of Fox, and that after the campaign, Trump could probably pick up the phone and get Jacobus a Fox contract.
00:35:44.000 Lewandowski also noted Trump was great friends with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News and Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe on MSNBC.
00:35:51.000 That's not the end of the story.
00:35:53.000 There's another meeting, and during the meeting Lewandowski, quote, became increasingly agitated and rude, speaking in a loud voice and seeming to lack control.
00:36:01.000 Lewandowski made several inappropriate remarks, bragging about yelling at Megyn Kelly, and again bragging about Trump's relationship with Roger Ailes and insisting, in response to Jacobus' suggestion regarding media coverage,
00:36:12.000 That they could do whatever they wanted with Fox and had them on their side.
00:36:32.000 Jacobus was astonished Lewandowski would openly make such a statement to her.
00:36:35.000 Lewandowski then took from his desk drawer a printed copy of an email from Ailes to Trump, in which Ailes communicated to Trump, as the head of Fox News, communicated to Trump that Trump should let him know what Fox could do to help.
00:36:46.000 The printed email included a handwritten note from Trump to Lewandowski, with a notation which stated in sub-instance, Corey, FYI.
00:36:53.000 In other words, Trump is part of the media establishment.
00:36:55.000 Fox News responded to this by saying, it's hardly uncommon for Ailes to sign correspondence by offering a helping hand,
00:37:01.000 It would be a fanciful interpretation to equate a cordial email with providing assistance to a political candidate in the vein of editorial coverage.
00:37:08.000 So one of two things is true here.
00:37:09.000 Either Fox News is lying, or one of three things.
00:37:11.000 Either Jacobus is lying, none of this is true, the email doesn't exist.
00:37:14.000 Or, Ailes is lying, and they actually have a tacit agreement with Trump.
00:37:19.000 Or, most likely, Trump is lying, and Lewandowski is lying, they don't have a tacit agreement with Fox, but they feel very comfortable.
00:37:25.000 They feel very comfortable.
00:37:27.000 And that comfort level is now creating a feeling of inevitability that surrounds Trump.
00:37:33.000 And that feeling of inevitability is beginning to infect even the people who are anti-Trump.
00:37:38.000 People just saying, fine, give it to him.
00:37:39.000 If he's gonna threaten riots, that's what we gotta go for.
00:37:42.000 Donald Trump is the Marion Barry of this election cycle.
00:37:45.000 Marion Barry was the former DC mayor, and before he was mayor, he was an agitator.
00:37:49.000 He was a racial agitator, and what he used to do is he used to go to the powers-that-be and he used to say, you need to sign into law some regulation or bill benefiting this particular set of black people, and if you don't, if there's a riot, I can't do anything about that.
00:38:04.000 Trump is just that, and people like Mayor John Lindsay in New York used to do this.
00:38:08.000 He used to say, one of the things that you have to do sometimes is knuckle under, you just have to give up and hand over the cash.
00:38:14.000 There are a lot of people in the Republican Party now saying the only way to stop Trump eventually is to give in to him now.
00:38:21.000 I disagree.
00:38:21.000 I don't think that that is a solution.
00:38:23.000 I think that you give in to Trump now, and you're going to continue giving in to Trump all the way through, and even after this election is over,
00:38:29.000 All you're gonna get, these people are delusional.
00:38:31.000 A lot of the Trump people are delusional.
00:38:32.000 These are the same people who believe that polls show that Trump is beating Hillary.
00:38:36.000 He is not.
00:38:36.000 If he loses to Hillary, they will still claim the election was stolen and that it is the fault of these evil conservatives who didn't show up in proper numbers to vote for Donald Trump.
00:38:45.000 Okay.
00:38:46.000 That's all I got on Trump.
00:38:47.000 Now, briefly.
00:38:49.000 On foreign policy, the reason that Trump continues to be a viable candidate is number one, because he has this kind of New York support, this kind of brash, he's a masculine man support.
00:38:59.000 But part of it is the continuing awful of Obama, and it just is.
00:39:03.000 It's a long winter of awful, seven years of awful.
00:39:07.000 Yesterday, there was a bombing in Israel.
00:39:09.000 The Palestinians, backed by Hamas, blew up a bus in Israel.
00:39:12.000 They injured 15 people.
00:39:14.000 And I'm not sure if anybody's died yet, but a number of people were injured, obviously.
00:39:18.000 Joe Biden immediately came out and condemned Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, for not sufficiently caving to terrorists.
00:39:26.000 And it's this sort of behavior that leads people to Trump.
00:39:30.000 You know, just fine, the system is so terrible, burn it all down.
00:39:33.000 That's especially true about this new bill that's being pushed through Congress.
00:39:35.000 There's a new bill being pushed through Congress that would allow 9-11 victims' families to sue the Saudi government.
00:39:41.000 So there's a 28-page section of the 9-11 Commission Report that's been redacted ever since 9-11.
00:39:46.000 And that victim's report, and that report, they now want to be released, and Congress says, if that report shows Saudi involvement with 9-11, then people who are victims' families should be able to sue the Saudi government.
00:39:57.000 Obama doesn't want that to happen.
00:39:58.000 Here's President Obama explaining.
00:40:00.000 And what about this legislation in the Congress that will allow families to sue the Saudi government and other governments in different circumstances?
00:40:10.000 Exactly.
00:40:10.000 I'm opposed because of that second clause in your sentence, and that is this is not just a bilateral U.S.-Saudi issue.
00:40:17.000 This is a matter of how generally the United States approaches our interactions with other countries.
00:40:24.000 If we open up the possibility that
00:40:29.000 Okay, so he says that this would be terrible because it would open up everybody to being sued.
00:40:33.000 And here's Trump's response to that.
00:40:35.000 Again, this is what keeps Trump viable, is crap like Obama.
00:41:00.000 Very profound, having to do with Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia's role on the World Trade Center and the attack.
00:41:07.000 And that's very serious stuff.
00:41:10.000 And, you know, again, I've said it for a long time.
00:41:13.000 We attacked Iraq.
00:41:14.000 And frankly, by attacking Iraq, they were not the ones that knocked down the World Trade Center.
00:41:19.000 Now, I've been saying that for a long time.
00:41:20.000 Let's see what the papers say.
00:41:22.000 I think they should have been released a long time ago.
00:41:24.000 I think they're finally going to be, at least in some form, released.
00:41:28.000 You know, it's sort of nice to know who your friends are, and perhaps who your enemies are, but you're going to see some very revealing things in those papers, and I look forward to reading them.
00:41:38.000 Okay, so again, because the Obama administration is so awful, by contrast, if Trump is only half awful, he's 100% better than the Obama administration.
00:41:46.000 Okay, final thing before we get to things I like, we have to give you our daily John Kasich update.
00:41:50.000 This has now become a thing.
00:41:51.000 Oh god, no, not John Kasich.
00:41:53.000 Yes, John Kasich.
00:41:54.000 Here is what John Kasich does.
00:41:55.000 He's supposed to be the nicest guy in the race, right?
00:41:57.000 Remember, John Kasich is, as he says, the prince of light and hope.
00:42:01.000 Self-description.
00:42:02.000 He actually called himself that.
00:42:03.000 He's the Prince of Light and Hope.
00:42:04.000 Watch how the Prince of Light and Hope deals with a question he doesn't like.
00:42:07.000 The question is, John Kasich, you have won one state.
00:42:10.000 What is going through that pea brain of yours?
00:42:13.000 Governor, if you get to the convention in Cleveland and you have only won Ohio, do you think you're qualified to be the nominee?
00:42:17.000 There'll be no if.
00:42:18.000 There's no if in there.
00:42:19.000 There'll be a... there'll be when.
00:42:21.000 And, listen, at the end of the day, I think the Republican Party wants to pick somebody who actually can win in the fall.
00:42:28.000 But if you've only won Ohio... Governor, can I finish?
00:42:30.000 If you answer the question.
00:42:32.000 I'm answering, Mike, the question the way I want to answer it.
00:42:34.000 You want to answer it?
00:42:35.000 No.
00:42:36.000 Here, let me hold that.
00:42:36.000 You're the candidate.
00:42:37.000 Let me ask you.
00:42:38.000 What do you think?
00:42:38.000 I think you should answer the question.
00:42:42.000 That's right, he takes the microphone off the guy, he takes the recorder off the guy, and then asks the reporter the question, and then hands the recorder back.
00:42:49.000 He's such a jerk, John Kasich.
00:42:51.000 And the fact that he's still sticking around, there's only one reason he's still sticking around, and that's because he's hoping that he'll have enough delegates to put Trump over the top if Trump gets close, and then he'll be the VP candidate.
00:43:00.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then some things I hate.
00:43:03.000 So, things I like.
00:43:04.000 I've mentioned this in passing before, but we've never done it as a thing I like.
00:43:07.000 I grew up on the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
00:43:09.000 You know when I said Hamilton's a crappy musical?
00:43:11.000 It's cuz, from what I hear, it's garbage.
00:43:13.000 Here's a good musical.
00:43:14.000 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, one of the great all-time musicals.
00:43:17.000 For folks who haven't seen it, it is just a ray of sunshine.
00:43:20.000 It is a fantastic musical, and it's all about, the entire thing is about, it's really funny.
00:43:25.000 When I was a kid, I used to watch this movie a lot.
00:43:27.000 My parents showed me this movie a lot, and
00:43:29.000 It's a movie about a bunch of backwoodsmen, basically, and at one point, they go and they kidnap a bunch of girls, right, like the Sabine women, and they bring them back, and the girls and the guys end up falling in love, and they all get married, and so my parents were over at somebody's house, and I was there, and these people were saying, oh, this is such a sexist movie, it's such a sexist, terrible movie, and my parents called me over, and they said, well, what did you learn from this movie?
00:43:52.000 And what I said was, what I learned from this movie is that guys shouldn't be jerks, and they have to be civilized by women.
00:43:57.000 That's what this movie is about.
00:43:58.000 This movie is about a bunch of brutal backwoodsmen who are civilized by women, and if they don't interact with women, if women aren't there to train them, if guys are left to their own devices, then they're brutal and they fight and they're chaotic.
00:44:08.000 But, if they're trained by women, then they actually become responsible husbands and fathers and people who can build up the West, right?
00:44:14.000 I mean, that's what this movie is about.
00:44:16.000 So here's one of the great numbers.
00:44:17.000 It's part of a great, great number.
00:44:18.000 The score is written by Johnny Mercer.
00:44:19.000 The lyrics are terrific.
00:44:21.000 It's beautifully shot.
00:44:22.000 It has the best, you know, they talk about the dance scenes in Singing in the Rain or American in Paris.
00:44:27.000 This movie legitimately has the best dance scene ever filmed.
00:44:30.000 It's phenomenal.
00:44:32.000 The barn raising scene in this movie is spectacular.
00:44:34.000 You can see it on YouTube.
00:44:35.000 You should just go watch the whole movie.
00:44:36.000 But here's probably the best number in the show.
00:44:39.000 It's called Sobbing Women, and it's because Adam, who's the leader of the family, the oldest brother, played by Howard Keel, he has read from Plutarch, he's read The Rape of the Sabine Women, but he doesn't get the purpose of the story.
00:44:52.000 And so he starts, and so he tries to explain what The Rape of the Sabine Women actually is about.
00:45:00.000 You could just get a look at yourselves.
00:45:02.000 You look like a bunch of lovesick bull calves.
00:45:10.000 You're so sweet on those girls, why don't you do something about it?
00:45:13.000 Why don't you go marry him?
00:45:15.000 Oh, sure, just go marry him, as easy as that.
00:45:18.000 You know they'd never let us marry him now in a thousand years.
00:45:21.000 And do like the Romans did with the Sobbing Women.
00:45:23.000 Or Sabine Women, or whatever they called them.
00:45:26.000 Those Romans weren't the same fix you were in.
00:45:29.000 They was opening up new territory and women were scarce, just like here.
00:45:33.000 There was these sobbing women down in town.
00:45:36.000 So what'd the Romans do?
00:45:37.000 They went down there and they carried them off!
00:45:41.000 You can't do as good as a bunch of old Romans.
00:45:43.000 They're no brothers of mine.
00:45:45.000 Of course, this being Oregon and God-fearing territory, you'd have to capture a parson along with them.
00:45:51.000 And them Romans, they the ones I heard about settled up north of here?
00:45:54.000 No, no, this was in olden days.
00:45:56.000 Read about it here in Millie's book.
00:45:58.000 Oh, look.
00:45:59.000 Why, this is history.
00:46:01.000 This really happened.
00:46:02.000 Tell you about them sobbin' women who lived in the Roman days.
00:46:07.000 It seems that they all went swimmin' while their man was off to graze.
00:46:12.000 Well, a Roman troop was ridin' by and saw them in their mio mai, so they took them all back home to dry.
00:46:20.000 At least that's what Plutarch says.
00:46:22.000 Oh, yes, them women was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin', fit to be tied.
00:46:27.000 Every muscle was throbbin', throbbin' from that riotous ride.
00:46:42.000 It's a great number.
00:46:43.000 It's very clever.
00:46:46.000 As you can imagine, they go and they take the women and things do not work out quite as planned.
00:46:49.000 So it's a great musical.
00:46:52.000 Again, if it's a rainy day and you need to be put in a good mood, this is the musical that you watch.
00:46:57.000 It's wonderful.
00:46:58.000 Okay, a couple of things that I hate.
00:47:00.000 So, this is gonna become more and more common.
00:47:02.000 There's this pastor who's now claiming that he went to a Whole Foods.
00:47:07.000 He picked the wrong people to do this to.
00:47:09.000 He went to a Whole Foods, and he says that he's a gay guy, and he wanted them to print love wins on a cake.
00:47:15.000 Right?
00:47:15.000 He wanted them to print love wins on a cake.
00:47:17.000 And then he said, he took a picture of this, and he says, this is what actually happened.
00:47:20.000 He says, I went to that Whole Foods, and what they came back was this cake, and it said love wins
00:47:25.000 F-A-G, right?
00:47:26.000 It says Love Wins, you know, curse word for gay people.
00:47:30.000 There are a couple problems with this story.
00:47:33.000 It's supposed to be how terrible people are, right?
00:47:34.000 They're so terrible to the gays, they're gonna just ruin your cake.
00:47:38.000 Only one problem.
00:47:39.000 Here is what the company responded, right?
00:47:41.000 This is from Whole Foods.
00:47:42.000 Quote, Our team member wrote Love Wins at the top of the cake as requested by the guest.
00:47:47.000 That's exactly how the cake was packaged and sold at the store.
00:47:50.000 Our team members do not accept or design bakery orders that include offensive language or images.
00:47:55.000 Whole Foods Market has a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination.
00:47:58.000 We stand behind our bakery team member, who is part of the LGBT community, and the additional team members from the store who confirmed the cake was decorated with only the message, love wins.
00:48:08.000 So in other words, this guy went to the store, didn't know that the person who wrote on the cake was gay,
00:48:12.000 Right, and then went home and said, oh, look at these evil, evil religious bigots at Whole Foods.
00:48:17.000 First of all, what an idiot.
00:48:18.000 Has this person never been to Whole Foods?
00:48:20.000 You want to go to, like, Secular Utopia?
00:48:22.000 That's Whole Foods.
00:48:23.000 Right, I mean, more people worship Gaia on Sundays than go to church and talk about Jesus on Sundays at Whole Foods.
00:48:28.000 I mean, it's like, it's a run for your money between Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.
00:48:33.000 For the pagan championship of the grocery store.
00:48:36.000 So the idea that they went to a Whole Foods, and they didn't even go to like, they didn't go to Hobby Lobby or something, they went to a Whole Foods, and you can even see from the cake, I mean come on, you can see from the cake, let me put that image back up of the cake real fast, it's not even in the same writing.
00:48:50.000 Okay, it's not even in the same writing.
00:48:51.000 You can see that the word, the curse word, is significantly thinner.
00:48:56.000 Right?
00:48:56.000 And you can see that it's not in the same hand.
00:48:59.000 You can see that the hand is not the same.
00:49:00.000 It's not written in the same hand.
00:49:02.000 So, yes, the whole thing is ridiculous.
00:49:04.000 But you're going to see more and more of this because when there are no victims, you have to create victims in order to push the narrative.
00:49:09.000 You have to push the narrative.
00:49:10.000 The narrative always has to be forwarded.
00:49:12.000 And the narrative is gay people incessantly victimized, inherently victimized by our evil American system that makes them feel bad about themselves.
00:49:19.000 This is why you've seen hoax racial incidents.
00:49:21.000 This is why you've seen hoax gay and lesbian incidents.
00:49:24.000 People abusing themselves and then taking pictures and putting it on the internet to try and show that America is a terrible, horrible society and all the rest.
00:49:31.000 So that's a thing that I hate.
00:49:32.000 Another thing that I hate, but sort of love, sort of love.
00:49:34.000 So there's this rapper named Rick Ross.
00:49:38.000 He's obviously a highly physically attractive fellow.
00:49:41.000 I mean, he looks like the illustrated man from Ray Bradbury, except extremely overweight and saggy.
00:49:49.000 He's a criminal, and he was invited by the Obama administration to visit the White House for the My Brother's Keeper initiative.
00:50:00.000 Aims to keep youths of color out of trouble.
00:50:03.000 I love how the Obama administration wants to end the stereotyping of youths of color being in trouble by having an event specifically targeting youths of color to keep them out of trouble.
00:50:11.000 Makes perfect sense.
00:50:12.000 Well, Rick Ross has an ankle bracelet.
00:50:15.000 Right?
00:50:15.000 Because he had a kidnapping and assault charge.
00:50:17.000 And he was invited by the White House there.
00:50:19.000 He still has an ankle bracelet.
00:50:20.000 He was there among Nicki Minaj and Common and Busta Rhymes and Pusha T and DJ Khaled.
00:50:25.000 All of whom, by the way, except for Nicki Minaj, I believe all of those are given names.
00:50:30.000 Busta Rhymes.
00:50:30.000 His last name is Rhymes, and his mom was like, you know what?
00:50:33.000 You're just gonna go for it.
00:50:34.000 Your last name's Rhyme.
00:50:34.000 You got it in Busta, right?
00:50:36.000 I mean, come on.
00:50:38.000 So he's got this ankle bracelet, and Obama's in the middle of speaking.
00:50:42.000 And his ankle bracelet starts beeping in the middle of Obama speaking, which is just spectacular.
00:50:49.000 So the hood billionaire was surprised at the sound.
00:50:52.000 And apparently he later posted a picture of himself and DJ Khaled talking about this at the event on his Instagram account.
00:51:00.000 Last year, this guy who was invited to be a good influence.
00:51:04.000 I mean, not to stereotype, but a guy who looks like this on stage.
00:51:07.000 I'm going to go with, you know, he's not inspiring kids to be vice presidents at Chase Manhattan.
00:51:11.000 I'm just gonna put that out there.
00:51:12.000 And that has nothing to do with race, okay?
00:51:14.000 White guys who are fat and tattooed like that also not going to be good candidates for educating your child.
00:51:21.000 Okay, Rick Ross last year was arrested on kidnapping, assault, and battery charges after allegedly pistol-whipping a groundskeeper at his mansion over money the man supposedly owed him.
00:51:31.000 And so Obama invited him to the White House because that's the way that this works.
00:51:34.000 So, we have now moved from tragedy to farce here at the Obama White House.
00:51:39.000 And finally, speaking of the final tragedy to farce story of the day, over in, uh, where is this?
00:51:45.000 South Carolina?
00:51:45.000 I think it's in South Carolina.
00:51:47.000 There's a convicted murderer, and the convicted murderer, who's a dude,
00:51:51.000 Right?
00:51:52.000 He, uh, his name is Edmund Tenant Brown IV, which sounds like he's going to inherit a plantation.
00:51:57.000 Instead, he will just spend the rest of his life in prison after killing a Charleston woman.
00:52:02.000 He now wants to be known as Catherine Brown.
00:52:05.000 And ask the correction department to help her because, by the way, he doesn't need a transition.
00:52:10.000 He's a her.
00:52:11.000 He thinks he's a her, obviously.
00:52:12.000 Look at this.
00:52:12.000 This is obviously a woman, right?
00:52:14.000 I mean, come on.
00:52:14.000 And this is why, you know, women are routinely killing women.
00:52:17.000 As we know, the women-on-women murder rates are extraordinarily high.
00:52:20.000 It's women who commit most of the crimes.
00:52:22.000 So he pled guilty to strangling a 53-year-old teacher named Mary Lynn Witherspoon.
00:52:28.000 If the women want this guy, by the way, you can have him.
00:52:30.000 You want this guy.
00:52:31.000 You want this guy to be part of your crew and you get to talk about how great womanhood is?
00:52:34.000 Fine, it's all yours.
00:52:35.000 State law prohibits the use of state funds for gender-changing operations.
00:52:39.000 But the department provides hormone therapy if the inmate was using the drugs when sent to prison.
00:52:45.000 Apparently, he wants the department to pay for his transition from male to female because we now all have to engage not only in the grand-scale delusion that males become females, we have to pay for it, which is super exciting and wonderful.
00:52:58.000 Okay, just a quick note for folks on the left who are unbelievably ridiculous.
00:53:03.000 Okay, quick note for you.
00:53:04.000 If you think that men can magically become women,
00:53:08.000 But it takes a womb in order to talk about abortion, you are logically incoherent.
00:53:12.000 If you believe that I, as a man, cannot talk about abortion, but if I thought I was a woman, I could talk about abortion, you're crazy.
00:53:19.000 You're crazy.
00:53:20.000 It's you.
00:53:21.000 Okay?
00:53:21.000 And the conversation in America seems to have gone like this.
00:53:25.000 Serve me the cake, even if it makes you sin.
00:53:28.000 Also, if I want to whip out my schlong next to your three-year-old daughter at a restroom, you have nothing to say about it.
00:53:34.000 That's what leftists say, and conservatives say, no.
00:53:37.000 And leftists say, you are just kooky and irrational and terrible.
00:53:42.000 Yes, we're through the looking glass.
00:53:44.000 And tomorrow we'll find out how far we are through the looking glass, because Trump is going to win a big victory, and so we'll be here for lamentations and sackcloth and ashes and ripping our garments and mourning, and it'll be a good time all around, so show up!
00:53:57.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.