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Ep. 12 - Selena Gomez Would Have Been Slutty Ten Years Ago


Summary

Paul Ryan is running for Speaker of the House, but only if he gets all of his demands met, including a pledge of loyalty from every faction of the Republican Party, including the Freedom Caucus, and a return to regular order. Is this a good or bad idea? And why should the rest of the country be on board with it? Ben Shapiro explains why this is a bad idea, and why the next Speaker should be someone who's willing to do whatever it takes to unify the party behind a candidate who's running for the job. Ben Shapiro: Why Paul Ryan's run for Speaker makes no sense, and what the party should do if he does get there. He also explains why it's not a good idea to hand over power to Paul Ryan and why it should be the job of the next speaker to be a visionary, not a divisive figure who needs to be unifying the party around a single person. And he explains why he should not be trusted with that power, no matter who it s going to be the next House Speaker. The Ben Shapiro Show is a show about politics, politics, and the politics of politics. Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Podcast by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Review our new ad choices! Subscribe on iTunes Learn about our sponsorships and become a supporter of our show by becoming a patron of The BenShawProductions on Audible.com and we'll be giving you a 20% off your first month of the show, starting on January 1st, 2020! Thanks to Ben Shapiro for sponsoring our new podcast, Ben Shapiro is giving you an ad-free version of his new book "The Best of Ben Shapiro's New York Times bestselling book, "The Most Powerful Man in the World" out now available on Amazon Prime Video, The Best Thing You'll Never Hear Me Say That I've Ever Had It, The Most Beautiful Thing I've Never Said That I'll Never Say That Again, Too Good, by Ben Shapiro Is a Good Thing I'll See That? by Good Thing, Too Effing Good, I'll Be That Good at That's Good at It's Good At It, I'm Gonna Say That, I Can't Say That's Not Good At That, Too Bad at It? by Good Enough, I Say That? by Bad At It's Better Than That, and I'll Hear That, Right Said That by Good Or I'll Have It by Good or I'll Think That, Good Enough at That, You'll Be Better at It, Good Or Not That, And I'll Say It, Too Much, I Won't Be That Great At It by Mr. Ben Shapiro?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Folks, one of two things is true.
00:00:01.000 Either Representative Paul Ryan doesn't want the job of Speaker of the House, or he's got a pretty inflated opinion of himself.
00:00:08.000 It's difficult to explain Ryan's bizarre set of demands any other way.
00:00:11.000 He issued them on Tuesday night, and he said that we all had to basically fulfill all of his dreams in order for him to run for Speaker.
00:00:18.000 He says that he'll only run if he has a pre-commitment from every single faction within the Republican caucus for his Speakership, including the Freedom Caucus.
00:00:26.000 Those are the people who are really instrumental in getting rid of John Boehner
00:00:31.000 All that's kind of fine and dandy.
00:00:32.000 Everybody running, of course, would love to have unanimous support.
00:00:35.000 Ryan also says he wants a return to what is called regular order.
00:00:38.000 That's where all bills move through committee before they're introduced on the floor.
00:00:42.000 He wants separate votes on appropriations bills as opposed to governing through continuing resolution, which, of course, is all fine, too.
00:00:49.000 And then we get into dicey territory.
00:00:52.000 Then we get into dicey territory.
00:00:54.000 And here's the dicey territory.
00:00:56.000 The dicey territory is that Paul Ryan wants a rule removed that would actually allow Republicans to bring what is essentially a vote of no confidence against him if he does something wrong.
00:01:06.000 So he wants them to basically swear loyalty to him before he even starts as Speaker of the House and say they'll never get rid of him.
00:01:12.000 Now the job of the Speaker of the House is to unify members of Congress behind conservatism.
00:01:17.000 It's not the job of conservatives to unify the Speaker of the House in blanket fashion, but that's not stopping Paul Ryan.
00:01:25.000 That's not stopping Paul Ryan in any real way, which brings up the question as to why exactly Republicans should back this play.
00:01:32.000 I understand there are a lot of people who resonate to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
00:01:35.000 They think that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are the be-all end-all.
00:01:37.000 They're just the most wonderful people who ever lived.
00:01:39.000 And we need a young, vibrant leader like Paul Ryan.
00:01:42.000 Never mind that Paul Ryan backed TARP and was a moving force behind the Trouble Assets Relief Program.
00:01:47.000 Never mind that he backed the auto bailouts.
00:01:48.000 Never mind that he backed Amnesty.
00:01:50.000 The only thing that really matters is we must have Paul Ryan.
00:01:52.000 But...
00:01:53.000 I don't care whether you like him or whether you don't.
00:01:56.000 The only real question is why anybody should be trusted with that kind of power, especially because Ryan, he doesn't even want to campaign.
00:02:03.000 He doesn't want to go out and campaign.
00:02:04.000 He wants weekends off, which is fine, but what he really wants is the ability to do whatever he wants here.
00:02:10.000 Conservatives shouldn't grant Ryan that sort of power simply in order to make him the Speaker.
00:02:14.000 Signing a procedural blank check to anybody, no matter how trustworthy they appear, that's a recipe for disaster.
00:02:19.000 And holding the speaker accountable should be an unbreakable rule for conservatives.
00:02:24.000 Again, folks, the Speaker of the House, his job is to be conservative and unify members of Congress behind that.
00:02:30.000 It's not the job of all the Republicans to get behind the Speaker, no matter what he does.
00:02:35.000 Signing blank checks to politicians based on promises that they'll do good stuff?
00:02:39.000 That's a Democrat thing.
00:02:40.000 Doing it for Paul Ryan makes no sense.
00:02:42.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:02:43.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:51.000 So Paul Ryan, of course, as we just mentioned, Paul Ryan is attempting to run for Speaker of the House, but only if he has all of his conditions met because he is, of course, the great dictator and everyone must meet his demands.
00:03:02.000 I don't love Paul Ryan enough that I think that this is a worthwhile endeavor.
00:03:04.000 Here's Paul Ryan last night speaking at the Congress, talking about what he needs in order to run for Speaker of the House.
00:03:13.000 Tonight I shared with my colleagues what I think it will take to have a unified conference and for the next Speaker to be successful.
00:03:21.000 Basically, I made a few requests for what I think is necessary, and I asked my colleagues to hear back from them by the end of the week.
00:03:29.000 First, we need to move from an opposition party to being a proposition party.
00:03:36.000 Because we think the nation is on the wrong path, we have a duty to show the right one.
00:03:42.000 Our next speaker has to be a visionary one.
00:03:45.000 We, as a conference, should unify now and not after a divisive speaker election.
00:03:50.000 And if I can truly be a unifying figure, then I will gladly serve.
00:03:57.000 I consider to do this with reluctance.
00:04:00.000 My greatest worry is the consequence of not stepping up.
00:04:04.000 Of someday having my own kids ask me, when the stakes were so high, why didn't you do all you could do?
00:04:11.000 Why didn't you stand and fight for my future when you had a chance to do so?
00:04:15.000 None of us wants to hear that question.
00:04:17.000 And none of us should ever have to.
00:04:19.000 Okay, all that is well and good.
00:04:21.000 This is the great communicator that the Republican Party must throw out all the rules in order to make Speaker of the House.
00:04:27.000 Now, I'm sorry, but your opposition-proposition rhyme there doesn't work, Paul, and I don't know who tells these people that they have to come up with third-grade rhymes in order to make something memorable, but it's a giant fail.
00:04:39.000 We're not going to be an opposition party, we're going to be a proposition party.
00:04:43.000 You know, Bill Clinton is a proposition guy, not an opposition guy.
00:04:46.000 But in any case, it is kind of astonishing that Republicans are actually considering this sort of thing, especially because we actually have a history of having speakers who are pretty good.
00:04:55.000 Not John Boehner, but Newt Gingrich.
00:04:57.000 You know why Newt Gingrich was a unifying figure?
00:04:59.000 It's because Newt Gingrich started off
00:05:02.000 Based on the idea that he was coming in with a contract that he was going to push forward.
00:05:06.000 And everybody was elected on that same basis.
00:05:07.000 Everybody had the same agenda.
00:05:09.000 Everybody was on the same page beforehand.
00:05:11.000 Why Paul Ryan doesn't do that?
00:05:12.000 Why didn't he come back and say, okay, here are our top five priorities.
00:05:16.000 We're all going to be on the same page on this.
00:05:18.000 Here's what we're willing to do for those top five priorities.
00:05:20.000 If you want those to be the priorities that we pursue in this fashion, then vote for me.
00:05:24.000 That would be a better proposition than what he's proposing here, which is give me unlimited power and get rid of any possibility of getting rid of me if I do something that you don't like.
00:05:32.000 Now, supposedly Paul Ryan has already ruled amnesty off the table.
00:05:36.000 You tell me if you trust him or not with that, considering that every two years, the Republican Party brings back some zombie version of comprehensive immigration reform.
00:05:45.000 I don't trust him enough to throw the keys to the car at him and just say that he can drive wherever he wants.
00:05:49.000 Okay, meanwhile, there's a poll out that is completely bewildering to all of the members of the Republican establishment, the same people who love Paul Ryan.
00:05:56.000 There's a latest ABC News Washington Post poll about the presidential race.
00:06:00.000 It shows that Donald Trump's up to 32% nationally, so he's got one-third of the Republican Party ready to vote for him.
00:06:07.000 The next highest competitor is Ben Carson at 22%.
00:06:10.000 42% of Republicans expect Trump to win the nomination at this point.
00:06:13.000 Nearly half of Republicans think that Trump is going to win the nomination.
00:06:17.000 That's far more than anybody who thinks anyone else is going to win the nomination at this point.
00:06:21.000 But the really fascinating statistics are these, okay?
00:06:26.000 43% of Republicans think Trump has the best shot at beating Hillary Clinton.
00:06:30.000 Next in line, Ben Carson at 16%.
00:06:32.000 So in other words, a huge plurality of Republicans think that Donald Trump has the best shot at beating Hillary Clinton.
00:06:40.000 And why exactly would they think that?
00:06:41.000 Well, the rest of the poll sort of tells the story.
00:06:43.000 47% of Republicans say that Trump is the strongest leader.
00:06:48.000 32% say he's closest to them on the issues.
00:06:50.000 29% say he best understands the problems of people like you.
00:06:55.000 Trump is actually second in personality to Ben Carson in this poll.
00:06:59.000 The next contender for strongest leader is Jeb Bush at 12%.
00:07:01.000 So there's a 30-point drop-off in terms of strongest leader.
00:07:05.000 And when it comes to empathy, Trump still clocks the competition.
00:07:08.000 The next closest candidate is Ben Carson, who's at 19.
00:07:10.000 Trump is at 29.
00:07:12.000 So the question is, why do people actually think that Trump is empathetic, that he cares about people like them?
00:07:16.000 And this is a big measure for presidential races.
00:07:18.000 Remember, in 2012, Mitt Romney won a lot of exit polls, but the one that he lost, he got creamed on it, was, does he care about people like you?
00:07:27.000 Barack Obama won that exit poll 82 to 18.
00:07:30.000 A majority of Republicans thought Barack Obama cared more about people like them.
00:07:34.000 So, that's a big factor in whether somebody wins the presidency.
00:07:38.000 Trump, apparently, people see him as empathetic.
00:07:40.000 Why?
00:07:41.000 Well, it's not because he's a super empathetic guy.
00:07:43.000 It's for two reasons.
00:07:44.000 One is,
00:07:45.000 There are sort of two poles to politicians.
00:07:49.000 There's the strength and there's the warmth.
00:07:52.000 And they sort of exist on opposite spectrums.
00:07:53.000 They pull against each other.
00:07:54.000 If you think a politician is strong, you're probably going to think that politician is also not particularly warm.
00:07:59.000 If you think a politician is warm,
00:08:01.000 That person tends to come off as not super strong.
00:08:03.000 They tend to pull against each other.
00:08:05.000 By the way, this also happens to be true with regard to dating.
00:08:08.000 This is why women prefer men to be strong and men prefer women to be warm.
00:08:13.000 This is why they've actually done experiments like this.
00:08:14.000 If a man walks into a bar and a woman smiles at him, the guy's immediately attracted because the woman's warm, right?
00:08:21.000 Which is wonderful.
00:08:23.000 And women, by contrast, like strength.
00:08:24.000 If a woman walks into a bar and a guy smiles at them, that means he's either being creepy or he's a wimp, right?
00:08:29.000 Unless he's doing like the Clint Eastwood smile.
00:08:32.000 But in any case, the point here is that a certain amount of strength actually starts to translate as warmth, according to studies.
00:08:40.000 So there's what's called the halo effect.
00:08:43.000 You know about this.
00:08:44.000 If you've ever met somebody who's very, very beautiful, then, aside from me, if you've ever met somebody who's very beautiful, what you assume is that that person also happens to be smart and charming and wonderful, because there's a halo effect.
00:08:55.000 This is just how the brain works.
00:08:56.000 You make a snap decision.
00:08:57.000 If somebody is strong, they will appear to be warm to you.
00:09:00.000 Well, Trump appears to be very strong, and thus he also appears to be very warm.
00:09:04.000 Also, Trump speaks at a very low level.
00:09:06.000 What I mean by that is the linguistic level that he uses in his rhetoric is about 3rd or 4th grade.
00:09:12.000 Really, they've done studies on this, as opposed to, say, Ted Cruz, who speaks at a 9th grade level.
00:09:17.000 This is not to say that all the Democrats are about 7th, 6th grade level.
00:09:20.000 So Donald Trump is speaking at the lowest common denominator level, which doesn't mean what he's saying is always stupid.
00:09:25.000 Sometimes it is.
00:09:26.000 But it means that he's speaking at a level people understand.
00:09:29.000 That means that they think that he's a no-BS guy.
00:09:31.000 They get what he's saying, and so he appears warm to them.
00:09:34.000 And this actually translates.
00:09:37.000 And this is why Trump actually does, I think, maybe have the best shot of beating Hillary Clinton.
00:09:41.000 If you look at the 2012 polls, what you'll see
00:09:44.000 is that there were two reasons Mitt Romney lost.
00:09:47.000 And one of them was not the Hispanic vote, by the way.
00:09:48.000 Don't buy the GOP establishment nonsense that the Hispanic vote is the great decider in this election.
00:09:53.000 You know what percentage of Hispanics Mitt Romney would have had to win in order to win the 2012 election?
00:09:57.000 He would have had to win 73% of Hispanics.
00:10:00.000 73% of Hispanics.
00:10:01.000 Not 35, not 40, not 45.
00:10:02.000 73% of Hispanics he would have to win.
00:10:07.000 He'd have to win 73% of Hispanics, because there aren't that many Hispanics in a lot of the swing states, like Ohio.
00:10:12.000 There are Cubans in Florida, but there aren't non-Cuban Hispanics in large numbers in Florida.
00:10:17.000 Not a huge percentage of Hispanics in Virginia.
00:10:20.000 A lot of the swing states are not heavy in terms of Hispanic population.
00:10:23.000 So Romney would have had to win 73% of Hispanics to win.
00:10:26.000 He would have had to win 4% more white voters, and he would have had to win 11% more black voters in order for him to win.
00:10:33.000 Either one of those, not both.
00:10:35.000 Either one.
00:10:36.000 Right, so he would have had to go from 6% of the black population to 11% of the black population, or from 59% of the white population to 63% of the white population.
00:10:45.000 In fact, 5 to 6 million white voters did not show up in 2012.
00:10:48.000 Now, even if they'd all shown up, he wouldn't have won because the percentages don't work that way, but the people who didn't show up tended to be blue-collar white voters, people who were described by Sean Trend over at RealClearPolitics as Ross Perot voters.
00:11:02.000 Who is the candidate most like Ross Perot gang?
00:11:05.000 Clearly it's Trump.
00:11:07.000 And as far as the black vote, Donald Trump right now in every single poll is polling in excess of 20% among black Americans.
00:11:13.000 20%!
00:11:13.000 Tripling the sort of numbers that Mitt Romney got in 2012.
00:11:19.000 So while you keep hearing that Marco Rubio is the path to victory or Jeb Bush is the path to victory, the truth is Donald Trump may have a better path to victory than any of those guys, than any of those guys, which of course makes the establishment absolutely nuts.
00:11:30.000 And this is not me endorsing Trump.
00:11:32.000 This is just me saying, as I've been saying for weeks now, that whenever you hear the establishment tell you that they know who can win, just ask them how Bob Dole did, or ask them how John McCain did or Mitt Romney did, because they don't know what they're talking about.
00:11:48.000 Now today is a Wednesday, and for people who used to listen to my Seattle show, Ben Shapiro, Sean KTTH in Seattle, every Wednesday we used to do something that I call deconstructing the culture.
00:11:58.000 Deconstructing the Culture is a segment where I take some aspect of culture and we talk about how it impacts Americans' daily lives.
00:12:05.000 Because the truth is that you watch this show or you listen to this show, you subscribe to Daily Wire, you go online for your news, you listen to talk radio, but you are a vast minority in the country.
00:12:16.000 Vastly more people in the United States know who Kim Kardashian is than know who Joe Biden is.
00:12:19.000 It's not even close.
00:12:20.000 And the same thing is true of Miley Cyrus, and the same thing is true of Justin Bieber.
00:12:23.000 Culture matters more than politics.
00:12:25.000 Culture has more of an impact on people, especially because culture tends to shape how we feel, and politics tends to shape how we think.
00:12:33.000 And the way that brain evolution works, the truth is our feelings are significantly more important than our higher brain function.
00:12:39.000 Seriously, what science tends to show is that actually your higher brain function, which is located in your prefrontal cortex, it tends to, it's a late evolutionary development, and what that means is that you feel something, and then you come up with a post-facto justification of why you feel that way.
00:12:54.000 Right?
00:12:54.000 You feel a certain way and then you come up with a logic later as to why you feel that way.
00:12:58.000 Politics works on your logic centers.
00:13:00.000 What we talk about on the show works on your logic centers.
00:13:02.000 Why Republicans lose, why conservatives lose, they never work on the feeling center.
00:13:06.000 That's because the culture has been completely taken over.
00:13:08.000 Your feeling center has been shifted and changed by the culture.
00:13:12.000 And you can see how this is even infusing into politics directly.
00:13:16.000 Martin O'Malley was on The View this week.
00:13:18.000 And Martin O'Malley, who my wife said the other day, looks like a chicken with all the feathers plucked off, but Martin O'Malley was on The View.
00:13:26.000 And his way of wooing the high IQ women on The View was to sing to them and play the guitar and take off his shirt.
00:13:34.000 Well, he did all of them except take off his shirt.
00:13:36.000 Here's what it sounded like.
00:13:44.000 So take a look at what you've done.
00:13:47.000 Maybe now we got bad blood.
00:13:49.000 Hey!
00:13:50.000 Now we got bad problems.
00:13:53.000 And now we can't solve them.
00:13:56.000 You made a really deep cut.
00:13:59.000 Maybe now we got bad... Before I die.
00:14:03.000 We need to stop that before I die.
00:14:04.000 That's terrible.
00:14:06.000 He can't sing.
00:14:06.000 He can't really play the guitar.
00:14:08.000 But that serves to make him warm to the American people, right?
00:14:12.000 You have a warmer feeling.
00:14:13.000 And all the women, I mean, last week on this show, we talked about when Ben Carson was on The View and he was talking about being pro-life.
00:14:20.000 Okay, look at the reaction of the women of The View to that versus the reaction of the women to Ben Carson.
00:14:23.000 You can see the difference.
00:14:24.000 Martin O'Malley's kind and generous because he plays unbelievably crappy Taylor Swift songs.
00:14:29.000 So that means that he's special because culture impacts us.
00:14:32.000 Well, today's piece of Deconstructing the Culture is not that.
00:14:35.000 Today, we're going to go through a Selena Gomez song.
00:14:37.000 Now, to explain the appeal of Selena Gomez, I think I have to quote Lindsay, who does the makeup here on the show.
00:14:44.000 We were talking about this earlier, and Lindsay said that Selena Gomez is slutty ten years ago, which means that she is super clean now.
00:14:52.000 Right, to understand the appeal of Selena Gomez, like why moms would let their daughters go see Selena Gomez concerts, you have to contrast her with Miley Cyrus.
00:14:58.000 And thank God I don't follow Miley Cyrus on Instagram, but Lindsey does.
00:15:02.000 And so, oh yes, and so Lindsey showed me this picture of Miley Cyrus.
00:15:09.000 Can you bring this up?
00:15:09.000 Okay, this is from Miley Cyrus' Instagram.
00:15:13.000 This is a picture of Miley Cyrus in a bathtub with donuts on her.
00:15:18.000 And this is a picture—she's actually pasted a picture of her head as a child on her naked body.
00:15:24.000 So she's created what is de facto child pornography, right?
00:15:27.000 I mean, there was actually a Supreme Court case as to whether it constitutes child pornography to slap the head of a child on the naked body of a woman.
00:15:34.000 Well, so Miley Cyrus is doing this, and Miley Cyrus, I mean, we have over-under bets here at The Daily Wire on how long she lives.
00:15:40.000 My over-under is five years, but Lindsay thinks she'll live to 60 and eventually become all saggy and all of this will just sort of get away from her.
00:15:47.000 But what's amazing about Miley Cyrus is that she's so desperately in need of attention because she's pushed the boundaries to the point where there are no more boundaries.
00:15:56.000 And you can't be transgressive when there are no boundaries.
00:15:58.000 You can't be transgressive when there's nothing to break.
00:16:01.000 When there are no rules to break, there's no transgression.
00:16:04.000 Right?
00:16:04.000 And so it's actually not even sexy.
00:16:05.000 I mean, this kind of stuff isn't even sexy at all.
00:16:08.000 Right?
00:16:08.000 There's a certain transgressiveness to sexiness, and there's nothing transgressive about it.
00:16:13.000 This is more akin to a National Geographic shoot at this point, seriously, than it is to anything remotely resembling sexy, especially because she's off her meds, and it's clear she's off her meds.
00:16:22.000 I mean, she's drug-addled.
00:16:23.000 She obviously has problems.
00:16:25.000 And this is what happens to the culture.
00:16:28.000 Chews up and spits out all of these child actresses and child stars, because when you become an adult, you have to get naked.
00:16:34.000 That's what it means.
00:16:35.000 Becoming an adult in Hollywood means young girls getting naked.
00:16:39.000 And Miley Cyrus, of course, started off as Hannah Montana.
00:16:41.000 She was clean.
00:16:42.000 She was talented.
00:16:43.000 And then they said, you have to become an adult.
00:16:45.000 And so now she does concerts naked, and she wants her audience to be naked, too.
00:16:49.000 And you can see the desperation for attention.
00:16:51.000 Because the more boundaries she breaks, the less we care about her.
00:16:54.000 The more she does to destroy standards, the less we're interested in her.
00:16:57.000 And you can really see it.
00:16:58.000 There's this clip that she did on Jimmy Kimmel a few weeks back.
00:17:03.000 And I think it really is telling.
00:17:04.000 Let's play it because this is her dressed up as an Australian fake anchor interviewing people about herself.
00:17:10.000 And it really is telling.
00:17:11.000 I think you can almost see into whatever is left of Miley Cyrus's broken soul in this particular clip.
00:17:17.000 It's time for eyewitness news.
00:17:27.000 Alright everyone, Janet here with, what's your name?
00:17:30.000 Carl.
00:17:31.000 Carl, here from California.
00:17:32.000 Do you know anything about what's going on here in LA this weekend?
00:17:36.000 The VMAs, Video Music Awards are coming up, MTV VMAs.
00:17:39.000 Well I've heard about the VMAs but I didn't really know that they were going to come here this week.
00:17:43.000 They are.
00:17:44.000 Have you heard about who's hosting this year?
00:17:45.000 They've got Miley Cyrus as the host.
00:17:49.000 That's cool, I guess.
00:17:50.000 Alright, if you like her.
00:17:52.000 Do you like her?
00:17:53.000 What's your opinion?
00:17:54.000 No, she's not one of my favorites.
00:17:55.000 Now, what do you not like about Natalie?
00:17:58.000 Is it that, you know, her shocking kind of... It's all kind of cheap to me, really.
00:18:02.000 Really, her style.
00:18:04.000 And her dad.
00:18:04.000 You don't like her dad that much?
00:18:06.000 I just don't like her whole family.
00:18:07.000 Oh, really?
00:18:08.000 Do you have any opinions on her, or maybe what you think about her?
00:18:11.000 Well, Miley Cyrus, when I knew her, she was only a child.
00:18:16.000 Most of us.
00:18:17.000 I mean, all of America.
00:18:18.000 That's how we got to know and love her.
00:18:20.000 Yeah, because, what is her father's name again?
00:18:24.000 He's the one I was raised on.
00:18:25.000 What's Miley's father's name?
00:18:27.000 What would you say if Miley Cyrus was your daughter?
00:18:30.000 If you had a few kids, or if they were acting like Miley Cyrus, would you have any thoughts?
00:18:35.000 No, no problem.
00:18:35.000 I just like Taylor Swift better.
00:18:37.000 What would you say about Mara's music?
00:18:39.000 Never heard it.
00:18:40.000 Never heard it?
00:18:41.000 Alright.
00:18:42.000 I actually heard that she is going to be hosting the show new.
00:18:46.000 What do you think about that?
00:18:48.000 I would love to see that.
00:18:49.000 Oh, you would?
00:18:50.000 You kind of look like her, actually.
00:18:51.000 You know, that's actually why they hired me.
00:18:53.000 They threw me in from Perth and I'm here right now.
00:18:55.000 I'm kind of freaking out that I'm on Hollywood Boulevard.
00:18:57.000 Do you think
00:18:57.000 Okay, so you can pause it.
00:18:58.000 So what actually happens, this goes on for about five minutes.
00:19:01.000 As you can see, what they wanted was for her to go out there and get strong reactions from people, right?
00:19:06.000 They wanted her to go out and say, what do you think of Miley Cyrus?
00:19:08.000 And people go, oh, she's a terrible slut, right?
00:19:11.000 She's just awful.
00:19:11.000 And instead, the only people she can find on Hollywood Boulevard, of course, are people who just don't give a damn, right?
00:19:16.000 And what happens as that clip goes on is you can see her becoming increasingly desperate for the attention.
00:19:21.000 Like, super desperate, to the point where she's trying to jab people so that they'll say mean things about her.
00:19:26.000 At one point, that last guy that you saw there, she actually gets him to look down her shirt.
00:19:31.000 She goes like this and says, you know, look at my blank, and then he does, and this is supposed to be funny.
00:19:37.000 She's so desperate for attention because she's broken all the rules.
00:19:39.000 Well, so if you take Miley Cyrus, who has completely destroyed her life, is a desperately broken soul in need of attention at all times, and eventually the attention runs out because there's no point in paying attention to somebody who's just,
00:19:51.000 Got no boundaries.
00:19:52.000 Boundaries are important in why we pay attention to you, because otherwise you can't transgress them.
00:19:57.000 So what that leaves is, on the other end of the spectrum, Selena Gomez.
00:20:00.000 So Selena Gomez has a new song.
00:20:02.000 It's topping the charts right now.
00:20:03.000 She posed naked on the cover of her new album, I guess, but it's sort of Hugh Hefner tasteful nude routine.
00:20:10.000 And so she has a song called Good For You.
00:20:13.000 And she too was a child star.
00:20:15.000 Here is Selena Gomez from her time on Barney, if we have that.
00:20:22.000 I'd like to think of something I never thought before.
00:20:25.000 If it doesn't happen right away, I'll think a little more.
00:20:29.000 OK, now we're going to do something incredibly sad and cut directly to what Selena Gomez is doing now.
00:20:34.000 So you've got the low-end pornography photo shoot going on here.
00:20:52.000 I'm on my 14 karats.
00:20:55.000 I'm 14 karat.
00:20:58.000 Doin' it up like Midas.
00:21:05.000 Okay, so a couple of things to note, first of all, about Selena Gomez.
00:21:12.000 So she's more clothed than Miley Cyrus, which of course means that she's basically a nun in today's world.
00:21:18.000 And beyond that, one of the things that you'll also notice is when I say that they transition from star to slut, and this is part of what
00:21:24.000 We're good to go.
00:21:40.000 Children are treated like adults, and adults are treated like children.
00:21:43.000 Children are given responsibility over adult decisions, like sex and abortion, and adults are given no responsibility, and they're not supposed to take basic responsibility for themselves.
00:21:53.000 And what makes her really an adult, and what makes her a responsible human being now, is the fact that she is going to get even more naked as this video goes on, and she's going to sing about how she wants to be good for you, and by good for you, she means that she wants to basically
00:22:06.000 Be the stereotype of what Jon Hamm wanted in Mad Men.
00:22:09.000 This is how far the feminist movement has taken us.
00:22:11.000 The feminist movement has now come all the way full circle.
00:22:14.000 It used to be that commitment was required of dudes.
00:22:17.000 Now, this song is literally basically about how Selena Gomez wants to be a dude's sex slave.
00:22:22.000 I mean, if you play the lyrics, that's what it is.
00:22:25.000 First of all, she's kind of starring in a brand of drug-induced music.
00:22:31.000 There's certain music that just sounds... Okay, we'll do an informal survey.
00:22:35.000 I'm not going to name names here.
00:22:37.000 How many of you have smoked pot in the room?
00:22:40.000 Okay, so we've got one.
00:22:43.000 I don't know.
00:22:58.000 And this has become, there's a study today that says that actually regular pot smoking has doubled in the last few years in the United States.
00:23:05.000 There's a whole brand of music that has now really come to the forefront that is, I'm so sorry, the last two days have been real rough on you, dude.
00:23:15.000 There's a whole brand of music that has come to the forefront that is drug-induced, with the heavy reverb.
00:23:22.000 With the constant pounding of the music in the background.
00:23:25.000 Tove Lo would be a good example of this if you ever listen to her music, which is all about how she has to stay high all the time to keep you from my mind.
00:23:32.000 You'll hear as we continue to play this for just a minute more, you'll hear what this music is and why it is
00:23:42.000 This is the clean one, okay?
00:23:44.000 This isn't Miley Cyrus.
00:23:44.000 This is the clean one, and why it's promoting messages that are really damaging to young girls, and girls are just eating it up because, of course, this is what guys want.
00:23:51.000 Girls, note to you, okay?
00:23:53.000 It's not hard to determine what guys want.
00:23:55.000 Food and sex.
00:23:56.000 That's it.
00:23:57.000 Okay, they don't want anything else out of life.
00:23:59.000 Those are the two things that they want.
00:24:01.000 Okay, and if you provide them these two things, then they will be happy until they decide that they can get better food and better sex from someone else, unless you require commitment from them.
00:24:09.000 This is why marriage is a good institution.
00:24:11.000 It requires commitment from men.
00:24:12.000 Okay, so here is Selena Gomez not stumping on behalf of marriage, but stumping on behalf of de facto sex slavery.
00:24:18.000 Let's do this.
00:24:29.000 Okay, so if you've never actually seen any 1970s-era pornography, this basically is what it looks like.
00:24:52.000 Seriously.
00:24:53.000 Like, there's almost no difference.
00:24:55.000 And having written a book called Porn Generation, I can guarantee you this is exactly what it looks like.
00:24:58.000 The softcore, through the shower, the glass shower with the rain running down and she's naked but the camera's just placed here so that you don't get the full boob shot.
00:25:07.000 That's the idea.
00:25:08.000 And the lyrics to this piece of dreck, right, the lyrics are...
00:25:12.000 Gonna wear that dress you like, skin tight, do my hair up real, real nice, which is brilliant lyricism, by the way.
00:25:17.000 Tight and nice do not rhyme, but that's beside the point.
00:25:19.000 Also, you couldn't come up with a two-syllable word for real, real?
00:25:22.000 Like, perhaps, very?
00:25:24.000 And syncopate my skin to your heart beating.
00:25:27.000 Okay, it doesn't even make sense.
00:25:28.000 But then she gets to the catchphrase, right?
00:25:30.000 She says, I just want to look good for you, good for you.
00:25:33.000 Uh-huh.
00:25:33.000 I just want to look good for you, good for you.
00:25:34.000 Let me show you how proud I am to be yours.
00:25:36.000 Leave this dress a mess on the floor and still look good for you, good for you.
00:25:40.000 Right?
00:25:40.000 And the whole thing is about how women are catering to men.
00:25:42.000 I thought the entire premise of the feminist movement is that women weren't supposed to cater to men.
00:25:46.000 I thought that was the entire premise.
00:25:47.000 But now we've come completely full circle.
00:25:49.000 See, this is a woman who's in charge.
00:25:51.000 She's empowered now.
00:25:52.000 Sure, she's going to be tremendously unhappy.
00:25:54.000 Sure, none of this is going to lead to anything that looks like a long-lasting relationship that generates happiness.
00:26:00.000 And by the way, you can tell this because if we let this play for a couple more minutes, what we would eventually get to is a rap interlude by somebody who calls himself A$AP Rocky, which I can only assume was his given name.
00:26:12.000 He came out of his mother and she said, I shall call you A$AP Rocky.
00:26:15.000 And he was like, OK.
00:26:17.000 And his actual rap later on,
00:26:21.000 He says, hold on, take a minute, love, because I ain't trying to mess your image up like we mess around in triple cuffs.
00:26:27.000 Somebody's going to have to illuminate me on what that means unless we're talking about handcuffs.
00:26:31.000 Stumble around town, pull your zipper up, pants sag like I don't give a F word.
00:26:35.000 I ain't trying to mess your fitness up.
00:26:37.000 I ain't trying to get you into stuff.
00:26:38.000 But the way you touching me in the club, rubbing on my miniature John Hancock, the signature.
00:26:43.000 Anytime I hit it, know she feeling it through.
00:26:46.000 Now, I can't imagine why guys would have a very shallow view of women based on music like this.
00:26:50.000 I just can't imagine it, where women say, I want to look good for you, and then the guy raps about how he wants to rub himself on her.
00:26:55.000 I just can't imagine why men would think that women are making themselves available.
00:27:00.000 It's beyond me.
00:27:01.000 Why wouldn't they have tremendous respect for a woman's intellectual significance as a human being based on songs like this?
00:27:06.000 This is why your culture is actually impacting your kids, and don't fall for the moving standard that Lindsay so rightly described.
00:27:13.000 Don't fall for the moving standard that says that just because Selena Gomez is better than Miley Cyrus, therefore she is clean and okay.
00:27:20.000 She's not.
00:27:20.000 The entire culture has just shifted so far to the extreme that Selena Gomez, who right here is doing stuff that was really no worse than what Britney Spears was getting bashed around for in 1998, right now she is considered the clean alternative to Miley Cyrus.
00:27:34.000 The culture continues to degrade.
00:27:36.000 And if conservatives don't engage with that culture, understand that culture, and most of all, create an alternative culture, and make sure that their kids actually participate in that alternative culture, then you're gonna see more Martin O'Malleys get elected just for singing idiotic Taylor Swift songs.
00:27:50.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:27:50.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.