The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 120 - The Democratic Party Implodes

00:00:00.000 The wages of political sin is Donald Trump.

00:00:03.000 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan found that out this week after NBC News released a brand new poll showing only 39% of Republicans trust Ryan to lead the party more than 2016 presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

00:00:16.000 58% trusted Donald Trump to lead the Republican Party.

00:00:19.000 That holds true regardless of ideological self-identification.

00:00:22.000 Very conservative voters favor Trump 63 to 34 over Ryan.

00:00:26.000 Conservatives trusted Trump 57 to 40 over Ryan.

00:00:30.000 Even moderates trusted Trump 57 to 40 over Ryan.

00:00:33.000 For his part, Ryan, who's been trying to broker some sort of detente between Trump and the never Trump conservatives, he proclaimed himself just sanguine about the whole thing.

00:00:41.000 He said, quote, I hope it's Donald Trump.

00:00:43.000 He's getting the nomination.

00:00:45.000 He's wrapping up the nomination.

00:00:46.000 Good Lord, I hope it is, because the person who's getting the nomination of our party is the person to lead our party.

00:00:52.000 Okay, so this isn't a reflection of Trump's supposed massive popularity.

00:00:56.000 He's won 42% of the Republican primary votes.

00:00:59.000 It's a reflection of widespread discontent with a Republican establishment unwilling to go to the mat to stop President Obama's agenda, instead negotiating budget deals that fund Obamacare and executive amnesty and the Iran deal, among other travesties.

00:01:12.000 Less than a quarter of Republicans generally approve of the job Congress has done, so it's no wonder that very few Republicans want to get by a Republican's congressional leader.

00:01:21.000 And it turns out there are only two options on the poll.

00:01:23.000 That's the nature of Trumpism.

00:01:25.000 Well, at least he's not X. At least Trump isn't Paul Ryan.

00:01:29.000 At least Trump isn't Hillary Clinton.

00:01:31.000 At least Trump isn't the Republican establishment.

00:01:33.000 At least Trump isn't the media.

00:01:35.000 Well, that's true, so far as it goes.

00:01:37.000 That isn't very far. 0.98

00:01:38.000 And it's not a particularly good case for making Trump leader of the free world or the Republican Party, given that a flaming bag of dog excrement is likely more popular than all of the choices that we just listed above. 0.93

00:01:50.000 Nonetheless, Trump will be seen as the leader of the Republican Party, which, of course, is a giant problem. 0.85

00:01:54.000 When all the options are terrible, or at least when all the decent options were taken off the table, even the least bad option is still terrible. 0.93

00:02:02.000 Trump, as leader of the Republican Party, he does an inordinate amount of brand damage to the GOP, he hollows out the core of the party's supposed conservative ideology, and he underscores the left's favorite image of Republicans as ignorant know-nothings willing to pander to bigots to get ahead. 0.79

00:02:17.000 But hey, you know what? 0.94

00:02:18.000 At least he's not Paul Ryan.

00:02:20.000 Right, fellow Republicans?

00:02:21.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:21.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:24.000 All righty, so we're going to start today with chaos inside the Democratic Party.

00:02:34.000 So let's start, first of all, with the latest from Venezuela, because I just want to point something out.

00:02:38.000 Venezuela is completely collapsing.

00:02:40.000 Venezuela is collapsing because it is an authoritarian model based on economic populism.

00:02:45.000 They closed their borders to trade.

00:02:47.000 They nationalized industry.

00:02:48.000 They raised taxes, they increased government spending.

00:02:51.000 This was supposed to be sort of the model country for how leftism could work.

00:02:55.000 American-style leftism could work if you just handed enough power to one big strongman, and it's a giant fail.

00:03:01.000 The LA Times reports today, with dire shortages of basic goods, a looming foreign debt payment, horrific street crime, and intransigent political divisions, Venezuela is in danger of collapsing into waves of deadly violence, U.S.

00:03:13.000 intelligence officials warn.

00:03:14.000 Venezuela, which controls the world's largest reserves of crude oil, is in the throes of a potentially explosive political stalemate after opposition parties gained a majority in the National Congress in elections late last year.

00:03:26.000 President Nicolas Maduro, a leftist, faces a possible recall vote sponsored by the opposition he's maneuvering to block.

00:03:33.000 All portends a dilemma for U.S.

00:03:34.000 policymakers concerned about the ripples of more violence, but with few options to change the course of events.

00:03:41.000 A senior US intelligence official said Friday, quote, So the Obama administration has already sanctioned a bunch of Venezuelan individuals linked to human rights abuses.

00:03:54.000 The Senate has voted to extend the sanctions.

00:03:56.000 Under the sanctions, we can actually confiscate some of their money, but we don't have much direct influence in the country.

00:04:01.000 It's been ruled by anti-American socialists since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999.

00:04:05.000 You figure Obama and Hugo Chavez would have gotten along better, but Hugo Chavez died and went directly to hell where he burns in sulfur.

00:04:11.000 Maduro is a former bus driver and Chavez's hand-picked successor, which is a great resume right there.

00:04:18.000 You know you need somebody to lead the country when they used to drive a bus.

00:04:21.000 That's the chief qualification.

00:04:24.000 And again, nothing against bus drivers, but going straight from being a bus driver to running the country is weird.

00:04:29.000 He was elected to a six-year term in 2013 after Chavez died, and then the United States says, we can't really intervene, because if we intervene, then we're seen as the problem.

00:04:39.000 His approval ratings, Maduro's, are 15%.

00:04:41.000 People have no goods.

00:04:42.000 People are dying in the streets.

00:04:44.000 This is what happens when socialism and socialist populism ends up winning the day.

00:04:49.000 This is what happens.

00:04:49.000 So, here is the part that's scary for us, ladies and gentlemen.

00:04:53.000 Bernie Sanders thinks that we ought to be much more like Venezuela.

00:04:56.000 All they're doing is closing the borders to trade, taking out more debt, spending more money where it doesn't belong on redistributionist programs, putting heavy regulations on whatever private industry is left, nationalizing industry.

00:05:09.000 That is Bernie Sanders' goal.

00:05:11.000 He wants to do all those things, except he wants to be even worse than Chavez was, in the sense that he would like to quash the domestic American oil industry, where Chavez lived off of the Venezuelan oil industry, to fund his petro... his petro...

00:05:23.000 Tyranny.

00:05:24.000 And by the way, the richest person in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez's daughter, which is not a coincidence.

00:05:30.000 Bernie Sanders wants us to be more like Venezuela.

00:05:32.000 Hillary Clinton also wants us to be more like Venezuela, but slowly. 0.98

00:05:36.000 She wants us to get there, but we can't tell people we want to go there because then they're going to look there and they're going to see that place a crap hole.

00:05:41.000 So instead, we're just going to sort of hedge our bets, pretend that we like private industry.

00:05:45.000 No, we don't want to shut down free trade.

00:05:47.000 No, we don't want to shut down private industry or regulate it.

00:05:50.000 No, we never want to take out more debt and raise taxes to crazy levels.

00:05:54.000 No!

00:05:55.000 So Hillary is basically Bernie Sanders and Hugo Chavez, just slower. 0.90

00:05:59.000 And then there's Donald Trump, who also wants to be Hugo Chavez, right?

00:06:02.000 Donald Trump wants total control over the economy.

00:06:04.000 He wants to help his friends and hurt his enemies.

00:06:06.000 He wants tremendously high tariffs on all foreign goods.

00:06:11.000 He wants to maintain all of the entitlement programs and, in fact, grow them.

00:06:14.000 So we have three candidates left in the race, all of whom want us to be more like Venezuela.

00:06:19.000 So yeah, we're effed.

00:06:20.000 I mean, we've got a serious problem on our hands.

00:06:23.000 Okay, so, with all of that said, what's happening inside the Democratic Party is we've now reached the fascist moment in American politics.

00:06:31.000 Where you've got Sanders people who are upset with the Democratic Party establishment, they're upset with the system, and so they've started to engage in violence, and they want somebody who's going to come in and fix everything.

00:06:41.000 They want a powerful man, like Bernie Sanders.

00:06:43.000 You've got Hillary Clinton, who wants an inordinate amount of power to push her agenda. 1.00

00:06:48.000 She wants that power to shut down her opposition. 1.00

00:06:49.000 She's always had these tendencies.

00:06:51.000 And you've got Donald Trump, who is also of the authoritarian mold, who wants to shut down his opposition, and who is being told by his own base

00:06:58.000 That the system is so unworkable that we need a bad man to come in and fix all of it.

00:07:02.000 So we've reached the moment of tyranny in the United States.

00:07:05.000 But we focused a lot on the Republican Party and the rise of the kind of tyrannical authoritarianism of Trump inside the Republican Party.

00:07:11.000 The same thing is happening, but even more extreme in the Democratic Party.

00:07:14.000 Because at least you could say Ted Cruz wasn't an authoritarian.

00:07:16.000 Hillary is an authoritarian. 0.92

00:07:18.000 Bernie Sanders is a worse authoritarian. 0.85

00:07:20.000 So you have an authoritarian fight over there.

00:07:22.000 So, all of this is now breaking out into the open in a rather hilarious fashion.

00:07:29.000 Over the weekend, and then the Nevada caucuses, we talked a little bit about this yesterday, at the Nevada Democratic Party had its state meeting, and the leader of the Democratic Party there is a woman named Roberta Lang, you're about to see her, and this is at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.

00:07:45.000 And one of the things the Bernie Sanders supporters wanted is they wanted a bunch of alternative delegates sponsored as possible alternatives to the Hillary delegates. 0.99

00:07:53.000 They feel like they're being excluded from the process.

00:07:56.000 She didn't want any of this.

00:07:57.000 She just wanted to appoint the Hillary people and then leave. 1.00

00:07:59.000 The Bernie people showed up and they were ticked and here's what it looked like.

00:08:19.000 Okay, so...

00:08:33.000 So people, for folks who can't see this, basically, she walks up there, she shouts that there's been a voice vote to appoint the delegates and adjourn.

00:08:40.000 There's not a voice vote. 1.00

00:08:41.000 She just slams the gavel on the podium, like, as I said yesterday, like Bill Clinton slapping a woman on the ass. 1.00

00:08:48.000 I mean, she just grabs the gavel and bangs it on the podium. 1.00

00:08:52.000 And apparently the police then just filed in and started clearing everybody out.

00:08:57.000 So the Bernie Sanders people were ticked.

00:08:59.000 They started cursing at Barbara Boxer and yelling at Barbara Boxer.

00:09:01.000 They started throwing chairs.

00:09:03.000 They started making all sorts of trouble.

00:09:05.000 Barbara Boxer said that Bernie Sanders is responsible for this.

00:09:09.000 She said he should get things under control.

00:09:10.000 We have to be united.

00:09:11.000 He knows that.

00:09:12.000 Dianne Feinstein, Senator from California, big Hillary supporter, said Sanders should drop out. 1.00

00:09:16.000 I think it would be regretful if there becomes a schism, she said.

00:09:19.000 It's the responsibility, particularly of Senator Sanders, to see that that doesn't happen.

00:09:24.000 Apparently, high-level Sanders organizers told people at this Nevada convention, don't leave even if they tell you to leave.

00:09:31.000 Right?

00:09:31.000 Just stick around and make trouble.

00:09:32.000 Joan Cato was a National Delegates Director.

00:09:34.000 She said you should not leave.

00:09:35.000 I'm going to repeat, unless you are told by someone from the campaign you can leave, you should not leave.

00:09:41.000 So Bernie Sanders was asked about the violence here, he was asked about this in an interview, this clip three, and here was Bernie Sanders' response being asked about the violence at the Nevada Democratic Convention.

00:09:51.000 Senator, quickly, uh, this past weekend with the Nevada Convention, your supporters... Okay, I think, yeah, we're gonna do with that later on.

00:09:56.000 Do you have any reaction to that?

00:10:01.000 So, for those who can't see, and this is why you should subscribe, folks, because the video is pretty incredible.

00:10:05.000 He's asked the question, and then suddenly his earpiece, his hearing aid stops working, and he sort of toddles off.

00:10:12.000 And when he takes off for the car, he takes off very slowly, because he's not capable of moving quickly.

00:10:18.000 He's 73 years old, but he completely ignores the question and just walks away.

00:10:22.000 He's also now issued a statement.

00:10:24.000 Okay, so the Sanders campaign has issued a statement,

00:10:27.000 Because they've come under heavy criticism from a lot of Democrats on all of this.

00:10:31.000 Here's the statement Bernie Sanders issued, quote,

00:10:44.000 The people of this country want a government which represents all of us, not just the 1% super PACs and wealthy campaign contributors.

00:10:51.000 The Democratic Party has a choice.

00:10:52.000 It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change, people who are willing to take on Wall Street, corporate greed, and a fossil fuel industry which is destroying the planet, or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big money campaign contributions, and be a party with limited participation and limited energy.

00:11:13.000 Within the last few days, and this is a long statement, he says, within the last few days, there have been a number of criticisms made against my campaign organization.

00:11:19.000 Party leaders in Nevada, for example, claim that the Sanders campaign has a quote-unquote penchant for violence.

00:11:24.000 That is nonsense.

00:11:25.000 Our campaign has held giant rallies all around the country, including in high-crime areas, and there have been zero reports of violence.

00:11:31.000 Not true.

00:11:31.000 You remember, Sanders supporters showed up at the Donald Trump rally in Chicago and shut that thing down because they were getting violent outside the campaign rally.

00:11:39.000 And then he complains about violence against Bernie Sanders supporters in Nevada.

00:11:43.000 He says, he says, if the Democratic Party is to be successful in November, it is imperative that all state parties treat our campaign supporters with fairness and respect that they have earned.

00:11:53.000 And then he talks about all the terrible things that happened in Nevada.

00:11:57.000 So he's basically saying, OK, you know, they're doing what they're doing.

00:11:59.000 Nothing I can do.

00:12:01.000 He's pulling a Trump.

00:12:01.000 Well, you know, they're doing they're just doing their thing.

00:12:03.000 And here's Bernie Sanders saying it straight out.

00:12:05.000 He says that that, you know, this clip, too, that they've got to do what they're going to do.

00:12:09.000 And I can't stop them.

00:12:12.000 So I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, open the doors, let the people in!

00:12:19.000 Or...

00:12:32.000 The other option for the Democratic Party, which I see as a very sad and tragic option, is to choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big money campaign contributions, and be a party with limited participation and limited energy.

00:13:03.000 And a party which, incredibly, is allowing a right-wing extremist Republican Party to capture the votes of a majority of working people in this country.

00:13:18.000 So, there he is, making the claim that the Democratic Party is broken.

00:13:23.000 Bernie and Hillary don't really disagree on anything.

00:13:24.000 Hillary's just an incrementalist. 1.00

00:13:26.000 She is using the corporate culture in order to foster her leftism. 1.00

00:13:29.000 She's created this corporatism, this idea of corporatism, business working hand-in-glove with government. 0.99

00:13:35.000 Bernie believes a lot of these same things.

00:13:36.000 He's just more pure about it in the way that he speaks it.

00:13:38.000 He's more honest in the way that he speaks it.

00:13:41.000 Basically, what this is now breaking down into is the establishment wing of the Democratic Party and the Bernie Sanders wing.

00:13:46.000 It sounds a lot like the Republican Party, where there's the quote-unquote establishment wing, and then there's the Donald Trump wing.

00:13:52.000 The difference is that there are actual substantive policy differences between Donald Trump and other Republicans.

00:13:57.000 There are no substantive policy differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

00:14:01.000 Like, none.

00:14:02.000 The only difference is one of approach. 0.81

00:14:04.000 But it's getting bad anyway because people are so frustrated and people feel like they've been screwed even by people like Hillary Clinton because she has the stink of money on her. 1.00

00:14:12.000 She has the stink of money on her. 1.00

00:14:14.000 And so they're very, very upset about all of this.

00:14:17.000 And you can see, I mean, here's a typical Democratic supporter.

00:14:20.000 So let's start with it.

00:14:21.000 There's this actress. 1.00

00:14:22.000 And every single person, one by one, got up and stood there silently.

00:14:53.000 I saw a few people hold their arms up with a gentle fist.

00:14:59.000 Now, I was peeking, of course, because my eyes were closed, but I was looking around at all of this.

00:15:04.000 And then I looked up at the stage where Senator Sanders was standing, and I will never forget that moment.

00:15:15.000 He stood there with a look of awe in his face.

00:15:28.000 He had a look of amazement in his face.

00:15:33.000 His countenance was that of a man with such deep feelings.

00:15:38.000 And at that moment, I felt what he felt.

00:15:42.000 And that's when my heart was ignited.

00:15:45.000 That's when I started feeling the burn.

00:15:55.000 So, this is the lady from Titanic.

00:15:58.000 I think she's one of the villainesses in Titanic. 1.00

00:16:00.000 So there she is, saying that she saw this look on Bernie Sanders' face, this angelic look on Bernie Sanders' face, and that's how she joined up.

00:16:08.000 This is the new politics.

00:16:09.000 The new politics is, I saw the power emanating from Donald Trump.

00:16:13.000 I saw the glory emanating from Bernie Sanders, and they will lead us to the promised land.

00:16:17.000 All these people will magically, magically lead us to the promised land.

00:16:21.000 When you believe in that sort of leadership, it's not a long leap from there to, we're just going to push people around in the name of our God-King, whoever that God-King is.

00:16:32.000 So the conflict is now breaking out in the Democratic Party.

00:16:34.000 Bernie Sanders, his campaign manager, was on MSNBC.

00:16:38.000 He said that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, 0.93

00:16:42.000 Well, it's ridiculous, frankly.

00:16:47.000 Bernie Sanders made it very clear before the convention that he wanted people to act civilly.

00:16:52.000 He made it clear after the convention that he condemned any threats that went on.

00:16:56.000 You know, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, I mean, it's been pretty clear, Steve, almost from the get-go, that she has been working against Bernie Sanders.

00:17:05.000 I mean, there's no doubt about it.

00:17:07.000 You know, for personal reasons.

00:17:09.000 You know, whether it's that debate schedule that we had, that very confined debate schedule that we had with debates scheduled on weekends where no one was going to be watching, whether it was this joint fundraising agreement that they have with the Hillary Clinton campaign which is taking money out of state parties.

00:17:25.000 You know, whether it's these standing committees where they've appointed really hostile Hillary Clinton partisans to head these committees at the convention.

00:17:35.000 Debbie Wasserman Schultz has really been a divider and not really provided the kind of leadership that the Democratic Party needs going forward.

00:17:42.000 For personal reasons, when you say she's doing this for personal reasons, what do you mean?

00:17:46.000 Well, I just think if you talk to other high-ranking Democrats on the Democratic National Committee, which I do with some frequency, I would say that there is not unanimity in terms of her tactics and her responses throughout this campaign.

00:17:58.000 I mean, if you think back to that issue where they shut off Senator Sanders' access to his data shortly before the Iowa caucuses, I mean, that was a unilateral action taken on her part.

00:18:08.000 Believe me, there was tremendous pressure inside the party structure for her to relent.

00:18:12.000 So you think she's greasing the skids for Hillary Clinton? 1.00

00:18:15.000 No, I don't really know what her motivation is, but it's been clear there's a pattern of conduct from the beginning of this campaign that has been hostile to Bernie Sanders.

00:18:24.000 Okay, so this is how the Bernie Sanders people feel.

00:18:27.000 And there's tremendous anger out there.

00:18:28.000 Tremendous anger at a party establishment that feels like it's not listening to the voice of the young people who are really, really angry at capitalism and really angry at crony capitalism.

00:18:37.000 What's amazing about all of this, folks, is that all of the corruption, all of the failures of government, they're leading people toward more government.

00:18:43.000 The solution is we need somebody bigger, we need somebody stronger to take over the government.

00:18:48.000 But put that aside for a minute.

00:18:50.000 There's been critiques of the Republican establishment for not paying attention to the anger of the Republican base.

00:18:55.000 Take a look at Hillary's response to everything that went on in Nevada. 0.99

00:19:05.000 No, I don't know.

00:19:06.000 Nothing's happening.

00:19:06.000 She's standing there.

00:19:07.000 I haven't heard anything.

00:19:09.000 Have you heard anything?

00:19:11.000 So Hillary's doing this routine now. 1.00

00:19:13.000 The anger doesn't even exist.

00:19:14.000 It doesn't exist.

00:19:15.000 There's no reason for people to be upset.

00:19:17.000 There's no reason for people to be angry.

00:19:19.000 She's not even going to try and co-opt the anger. 0.91

00:19:21.000 She stole Sanders' entire platform, but she's not going to try and co-opt the anger as well. 1.00

00:19:26.000 The Sanders campaign, by the way, when they say that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is backing Hillary Clinton, they're exactly right.

00:19:30.000 Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the superdelegates were selected long in advance in favor of Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:19:35.000 Remember this.

00:19:36.000 This is a very close race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

00:19:39.000 Imagine how much closer it would be if we hadn't all been told from the outset that five to six hundred Hillary superdelegates were already on board. 0.96

00:19:48.000 Imagine if those superdelegates just didn't exist. 0.54

00:19:50.000 Do you think that would have changed things at all?

00:19:52.000 That as Bernie started to build momentum, the Hillary inevitability train would have slowed? 0.99

00:19:57.000 But because the Democratic Party put its finger on the scale with these superdelegates who are unelected and are selected top-down, that meant that Bernie had a really difficult time overcoming that.

00:20:06.000 And Debbie Wasserman Schultz is still refusing to recognize the anger. 0.99

00:20:09.000 They have to maintain this blindness because the anger is really against them.

00:20:13.000 Here's Debbie Wasserman Schultz blaming Bernie Sanders for what happened at the Nevada Convention. 0.88

00:20:18.000 This is unacceptable behavior, and the Sanders campaign and Senator Sanders himself should not only outright condemn that specific conduct, but they also need to take steps to...

00:20:31.000 And make sure that their supporters understand that the most important and correct way to respond to any frustration they have over process is to be civil and orderly, not respond with violence and intimidation.

00:20:44.000 And that needs to be unequivocally condemned.

00:20:46.000 And unfortunately, it has not been unequivocally condemned.

00:20:50.000 Have you reached out directly to Bernie Sanders to talk to him about your concerns?

00:20:56.000 I have not.

00:20:57.000 We have communicated through our senior staff and I sent a statement and Senator Reid and others have spoken directly with Senator Sanders.

00:21:10.000 I think it should be pretty clear to anybody that violence and intimidation is never acceptable under any circumstances and it should be condemned and there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

00:21:20.000 Why not call him?

00:21:21.000 Why not reach out?

00:21:22.000 You're the leader of the Democratic Party.

00:21:24.000 Why not make a phone call to Senator Sanders and tell him exactly what you just told us?

00:21:29.000 You know, after I heard that Senator Reid, that Leader Reid had had a conversation with Senator Sanders and he publicly announced that he felt that Senator Sanders was going to respond appropriately and issue a statement, I was comfortable that one conversation was enough.

00:21:48.000 Unfortunately, the Senator's response was anything but acceptable.

00:21:53.000 It certainly did not

00:21:55.000 Okay, so it's very funny.

00:22:04.000 Debbie Wasserman Schultz will go after Bernie Sanders' supporters for going after Barbara Boxer and Hillary supporters. 0.95

00:22:09.000 She didn't have anything to say when people were rioting in Chicago to stop Trump from

00:22:14.000 Doing a speech there, right?

00:22:15.000 And then Debbie Wasserman Schultz was totally silent.

00:22:17.000 So, clearly, she's motivated on behalf of Hillary.

00:22:21.000 She's been a big supporter of Hillary Clinton for at least 15 years.

00:22:23.000 So this is nothing new in any way, shape, or form.

00:22:27.000 So this battle is now breaking out into the open.

00:22:30.000 You've got one side saying we've got a revolution going on.

00:22:32.000 You've got the other side saying that there is no revolution.

00:22:34.000 It's not happening.

00:22:35.000 Alison Lundrigan Grimes, who was a Senate candidate in Kentucky,

00:22:39.000 She is back and now she is saying that there is no revolution happening in Kentucky, which was a state where they had a primary yesterday.

00:22:47.000 They are about making sure that we are enforcing the laws that are on the books and that's what Secretary Clinton has put forth.

00:22:55.000 What we're seeing tonight is that Kentuckians are setting forth, there's no revolution that's occurring for Senator Sanders here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

00:23:04.000 He didn't get the big night that he needed and importantly Secretary Clinton came here to the Commonwealth to continue to talk about her plan and importantly making sure that she sets forth a brighter future for all Kentuckians and for all Americans.

00:23:18.000 Okay, this is the Secretary of State.

00:23:19.000 By the way, she's the Secretary of State.

00:23:46.000 Whose job it is to certify election results in Kentucky.

00:23:49.000 And you wonder why the Sanders supporters are going a little bit crazy over this whole election cycle?

00:23:54.000 So here's what it looks like when this whole thing breaks out into the open. 0.98

00:23:57.000 So leftist pundits, there are a couple different leftist pundits who are on CNN, and they started just losing their crap with each other. 0.70

00:24:03.000 There's Bill Press, who's a radical leftist, and Hillary Rosen, who's a Clinton, 0.93

00:24:07.000 We're good to go.

00:24:24.000 I personally believe that Debbie Wasserman Schultz should learn some lessons from Reince Priebus about being an impartial chair who brings people together and soothes things down rather than stirs it up. 1.00

00:24:38.000 But I want to separate that from... Wait, hold on one second.

00:24:41.000 You've got to be kidding from Hillary. 0.89

00:24:42.000 So one point, one response.

00:24:44.000 Sure, sure.

00:24:44.000 Go ahead, Hillary.

00:24:46.000 That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. 0.98

00:24:48.000 Just last night, Debbie was on TV, our DNC chair, asking if Bernie should get out. 0.98

00:24:54.000 No, absolutely.

00:24:55.000 Reince Priebus, you know, John Kasich has been on TV all week complaining that Reince Priebus called the election for Donald Trump, you know, weeks before he got close to the delegate count.

00:25:06.000 The DNC has been scrupulously objective and stayed out of this for a long time. 0.83

00:25:13.000 This trashing of the DNC leadership is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable.

00:25:19.000 Just because Bernie Sanders is losing, all he's doing is whining about the process. 0.96

00:25:24.000 And Bill, this is beneath you!

00:25:25.000 Come on! 0.61

00:25:27.000 Okay, so is this reminiscent at all?

00:25:29.000 Is this debate reminiscent at all?

00:25:31.000 People saying the process is screwing the person who has all the anger on his side?

00:25:35.000 And other people saying, well, the process isn't that skewed.

00:25:37.000 I mean, the guy's doing fine.

00:25:39.000 Yes, and it broke out into open war in the Republican Party.

00:25:42.000 It will break out into open war in the Democratic Party.

00:25:44.000 It is going to damage the people at the top of the Democratic Party.

00:25:47.000 MSNBC's Michael Brzezinski, she's out there saying that Debbie Wasserman Schultz should actually step down. 1.00

00:25:52.000 She should resign her job.

00:25:53.000 Why would Bernie Sanders

00:25:57.000 politely get in line for the Democratic Party.

00:26:01.000 I sure as hell wouldn't if the party I was a member of treated me like this, rigged the debate process, rigged Iowa, rigged the entire thing going forward.

00:26:14.000 If the Republican Party, I'd say go straight to hell I'm running as an independent.

00:26:20.000 I would go out there, because I would be betraying my people

00:26:25.000 All of those people that gave him $25, $26, $27 to just play nice with the Democratic Party and fold yourself into a convention at the end when the Democratic Party doesn't respect them.

00:26:39.000 Okay, so, you know, this is now, again, the reason that I'm emphasizing this is because the entire political system is now breaking down.

00:26:47.000 The entire political system on both sides of the political aisle is now breaking down.

00:26:51.000 People in the Democratic Party don't even know what they're angry at.

00:26:53.000 They don't even know what they're angry at.

00:26:54.000 In the Republican Party,

00:26:56.000 Half of them don't know what they're angry at.

00:26:58.000 My impression, and this is the impression of a lot of people, is that people were angry at the Republican establishment because they didn't like them making deals with Barack Obama and cutting bad deals with Barack Obama that re-enshrined big government.

00:27:09.000 And so, it turned out that was false because we just made the nominee somebody who wants bigger government and who wants to cut more deals with Democrats.

00:27:16.000 So what's the anger all about?

00:27:18.000 It's about nothing.

00:27:19.000 The anger is just anger.

00:27:20.000 It doesn't have a source.

00:27:22.000 People have a generalized anxiety about... In medicine, there's an idea that you can be anxious about certain specific events.

00:27:30.000 You become anxious about certain specific events.

00:27:32.000 If you do this often enough, you get generalized anxiety disorder.

00:27:35.000 You just wake up and you're anxious.

00:27:37.000 Everything around you makes you anxious.

00:27:39.000 Everything around you makes you upset.

00:27:40.000 Okay, that's what's happened.

00:27:41.000 After enough years of feeling like the political structure has screwed people, people are now feeling...

00:27:47.000 Completely disenchanted with everyone in the political process.

00:27:49.000 It's why you take polls of Congress, and the polls show 15% approval rating for Congress, even though people keep electing the same Congress people.

00:27:56.000 And it shows low approval ratings for the president, no matter who the president is, and they'll keep re-electing the same president.

00:28:02.000 So people are just generally angry.

00:28:04.000 Inside the Republican Party, you know, there's talk about there's anger against free trade.

00:28:07.000 Okay, that's true for a small segment of the Trump support.

00:28:10.000 There's anger against immigration.

00:28:12.000 That's true for, again, a small segment of the Trump support.

00:28:14.000 Look at the polls.

00:28:15.000 It's not an overwhelming majority of Trump supporters who are super hard on the border.

00:28:20.000 A majority of Trump supporters are in favor of some sort of immigration reform, believe it or not.

00:28:24.000 You look at these polls, this is true.

00:28:26.000 So what's the anger about?

00:28:27.000 The anger is just you feel out of control.

00:28:29.000 And in the Democratic Party, same thing.

00:28:31.000 What's the anger about?

00:28:32.000 The Democrats have given leftists everything they could possibly want.

00:28:35.000 They're moving toward universal health care.

00:28:37.000 They're moving toward higher taxes.

00:28:38.000 They're moving toward total regulation.

00:28:40.000 They're moving toward a sexual utopia in which you get to choose not just your sexual orientation, but whether you're a man or a woman or something in between.

00:28:48.000 Right?

00:28:48.000 The Democratic Party is giving the left what they want.

00:28:50.000 So what are they whining about?

00:28:51.000 What are they so upset about?

00:28:52.000 The answer is that when you get what you want, and it turns out not to be what you want, you just get mad.

00:28:58.000 When you give government all this power to fix your life, and then government doesn't fix your life, your life is exactly the same as it ever was, if not a little bit worse, because now you've got higher taxes and more regulations.

00:29:09.000 What you end up with is this tremendous sense of frustration, and you find a figure to channel that frustration into, and then everybody who's not for that figure is against that figure, and those are the enemies.

00:29:21.000 Because people don't think through issues seriously.

00:29:24.000 Ask Bernie Sanders supporters what are their chief issues, and they'll say things like income inequality.

00:29:28.000 Ask Hillary people what their chief issues are, and they'll say income inequality. 1.00

00:29:32.000 But the Sanders supporters hate the Hillary supporters. 0.92

00:29:34.000 Hate them.

00:29:35.000 If you ask the Hillary supporters, what's your big problem with Bernie Sanders, they'll say he's unrealistic. 0.99

00:29:39.000 Ask the Sanders supporters what their big problem is with Hillary Clinton, they'll say that she's corrupt. 1.00

00:29:43.000 But these same people don't seem to care that what Bernie Sanders wants is a government of people who are selected, not elected, to figure out how to divvy up the dollars.

00:29:54.000 Corruption runs endemic to socialism.

00:29:56.000 It's part of socialism.

00:29:58.000 Socialism is the most corrupt system that was ever created by man or God.

00:30:01.000 So, here's what happens.

00:30:03.000 When you have this much anger floating around out there, when you've put all your faith, not in yourself, not in your family, not in a basic principle of freedom, not in God, not in your church, not in your community, when you put all your faith in these people who are far away to solve all your problems, and then that doesn't happen.

00:30:20.000 Your solution, unfortunately, tends not to be, OK, give me the power back.

00:30:24.000 OK, give me the power back.

00:30:25.000 It tends to be, no, you know what?

00:30:27.000 I was right to make the original decision to delegate my power over my own life to somebody else.

00:30:31.000 We just need somebody different to do it.

00:30:33.000 We need somebody who we can look up to and see his face glowing.

00:30:36.000 We can see the feelings on his face.

00:30:38.000 And if we hand power to him, everything will be OK.

00:30:40.000 But anyone who opposes that person is a bad guy.

00:30:44.000 See, this is one of the great tragedies, I think, of the way that we're taught history in the United States and all over the world, is that we're taught history as though it's a series of almost random events, things that happen that could never happen here.

00:30:57.000 When bad things happen, it's because monsters did it.

00:31:00.000 When good things happen, it's because saints did it.

00:31:02.000 We have a tendency as human beings to tell ourselves pretty bedtime stories about monsters and gods and heroes and villains.

00:31:08.000 And the truth is most people are just kind of people.

00:31:11.000 Most people are just humans.

00:31:13.000 And those humans are capable of making very bad decisions.

00:31:15.000 And those humans are mostly driven toward handing over power to

00:31:19.000 People who say that they will fix their problems.

00:31:22.000 Going all the way back to biblical times.

00:31:23.000 I've talked about this before in the book of Samuel.

00:31:25.000 Go all the way back to biblical times.

00:31:27.000 God explicitly says, in the Pentateuch, He actually says openly, don't have a king.

00:31:31.000 Right?

00:31:31.000 No kings.

00:31:32.000 And then, it turns out that the people desperately want a king.

00:31:36.000 Why do they want a king? 0.84

00:31:36.000 Because they want somebody who's going to consolidate supports, they can fight the bad guys. 0.84

00:31:40.000 And they go to Samuel, who's the leader, who's the judge, and they say to him, why don't you crown us a king?

00:31:45.000 And he says, well, God said not to, and it's going to be a big mistake.

00:31:48.000 You're not going to like how this goes.

00:31:50.000 And they say, we want a king anyway.

00:31:51.000 He gives them a king.

00:31:52.000 And then that proceeds to be the Davidic dynasty, which, by the way, does end in tragedy and bloodshed and civil war. 0.88

00:31:59.000 You know, we can make all we want as Jews, we make a big deal out of the Davidic dynasty, but the truth is that was not originally conceived in the Bible.

00:32:05.000 And the other truth is that it didn't end particularly well.

00:32:08.000 Dynasties never do. 0.99

00:32:09.000 Kings never do.

00:32:10.000 Human beings let you down. 0.99

00:32:12.000 But when you get rid of God, when you get rid... You sort of have to believe that there is a higher justice in the universe to believe in your own capacity for individual freedom.

00:32:20.000 If you believe that all of life is just chaotic, that you're walking around in sort of a Hobbesian universe where things happen to you randomly, you can't control them, you look for a way to control events.

00:32:30.000 Everybody looks for a way to control events.

00:32:32.000 I heard Andrew Klaven say on his show that the reason people read mystery novels and watch mystery movies and suspense films and horror films is because they don't want that in real life.

00:32:41.000 Right?

00:32:41.000 In real life, they want things to be predictable.

00:32:42.000 They don't want to be surprised in real life.

00:32:44.000 No one likes being surprised in real life.

00:32:46.000 Well, how do you prevent surprise?

00:32:48.000 Well, if you're a religious believer, nothing is particularly surprising.

00:32:50.000 You believe God is in control, so it's not really a big surprise.

00:32:53.000 Something bad happens?

00:32:54.000 It's bad, but it's not necessarily a surprise.

00:32:56.000 It's all part of the plan.

00:32:57.000 It's all part of God's plan.

00:32:59.000 Right?

00:32:59.000 If you don't believe in God, if you believe that there's just a universe that's out to get you, and things happen randomly, a bunch of people bounce off each other, then you look for a way to control events.

00:33:07.000 The easiest way to control events

00:33:09.000 Is to get a bunch of people together who say they will control events if you give them enough power.

00:33:13.000 And that's what's happening now.

00:33:15.000 Because no matter who wins, on any side of this, that person, that party, that group of people, they want to consolidate power behind somebody that they worship.

00:33:24.000 Behind somebody- We have entered the age of idolatry.

00:33:26.000 We're no longer in a godly American age.

00:33:28.000 This is the real tragedy of America.

00:33:30.000 We're no longer in a godly American age.

00:33:33.000 The church going has gone down in tandem with government going up.

00:33:36.000 We're now in an age of idol worship, and we all idol worship whomever we feel is going to channel our feelings.

00:33:42.000 Whoever is going to channel how we feel.

00:33:44.000 And that's the most important question, because if they channel our feelings, then they'll do right by us.

00:33:48.000 And they'll do right by us.

00:33:49.000 So it's, it's, you know, this is all very scary stuff.

00:33:52.000 It should be, it's fun to laugh at the Democratic Party.

00:33:55.000 Which has no control over itself, and you've got a 69-year-old corrupt harridan running against a 73-year-old nutjob socialist who's never held an actual job.

00:34:04.000 But, in the end, this is really a consolidation about power, and the revolution is eating its own.

00:34:11.000 And it's just going to move further and further to the left.

00:34:13.000 Trump and his wing of the party are going to move further and further to the tyrannical side of the right, and so we just get to elect our dictator every four years, which is scary stuff.

00:34:22.000 Speaking of which, Donald Trump had an interview with Megyn Kelly last night.

00:34:25.000 This is a much-awaited interview.

00:34:26.000 Megyn Kelly has been moving. 0.97

00:34:28.000 She said that she wants to do sort of a Barbara Walters, a Baba Wawa routine.

00:34:31.000 And so she wants to do these hour-long specials where she interviews prominent people and does so in a softer manner.

00:34:38.000 So that's what she did with Donald Trump last night.

00:34:39.000 It wasn't a typical Megyn Kelly prosecutorial, legalese, lawyer-esque attacking interview.

00:34:46.000 It was much more kind of Donald Trump's softer side.

00:34:49.000 And so, Donald Trump was on with Megyn Kelly.

00:34:52.000 Quick preface, two things happened with the Trump family that are kind of weird, that are worth mentioning.

00:34:57.000 One is Melania Trump has now made a solid pitch for her husband. 0.84

00:34:59.000 She says he's not Hitler.

00:35:01.000 She actually says this, to which the alt-right and Milo Yiannopoulos go, oh, dang it.

00:35:07.000 Okay, so there's some alt-right people who will be upset that he's not in fact Hitler, or at least she says he's not.

00:35:13.000 Also, Ivanka Trump says her father doesn't grope people.

00:35:16.000 So we now have an election between a man whose daughter has to assure us that he doesn't grow people, and a woman whose husband grows people. 0.73

00:35:23.000 So that's very exciting.

00:35:25.000 Anyway, Donald Trump was on with Megyn Kelly, and they go at it a little bit, but it's much nicer than you would previously suppose.

00:35:31.000 Here's Donald Trump explaining why he was upset with Megyn Kelly's original question in the first debate.

00:35:37.000 I asked you a tough question about women using only the words that you had used.

00:35:44.000 I thought it was a fair question.

00:35:46.000 Why didn't you?

00:35:47.000 I thought it was unfair.

00:35:48.000 First of all, I didn't think it was really a question.

00:35:51.000 I thought it was more of a statement.

00:35:52.000 That's the first question that I've ever been asked during a debate, and I've never debated before.

00:35:57.000 I mean, my whole life is a debate, but I've never actually debated before.

00:36:00.000 And I'm saying to myself, man, what a question.

00:36:03.000 And then, of course, then you have Brett doing his thing, so I'm saying to myself,

00:36:07.000 I got two hours of this.

00:36:08.000 I don't really blame you because you're doing your thing, but from my standpoint, I don't have to like it.

00:36:13.000 Okay, I don't have to like it.

00:36:16.000 No one asked him to like it.

00:36:17.000 They just asked you not to say that she's bleeding from her wherever.

00:36:20.000 But this is the routine that Trump plays, our orange god king.

00:36:24.000 He says that he has a right to be upset about all of this.

00:36:28.000 Trump also said to Megyn Kelly that the first debate was pretty amazing.

00:36:30.000 That's when he realized he could be president of the United States.

00:36:34.000 Not to bring up an unpleasant debate, but, you know, that first debate was pretty amazing, and 24 million people watching it, a record on cable television.

00:36:42.000 And I think that meant something.

00:36:43.000 I think that first debate meant something, because I felt very, very comfortable with the subject, and I felt very comfortable with the people I was competing against.

00:36:53.000 He says he was he was comfortable and of course he was comfortable because the truth is that it's hard to watch all of this it's hard to watch and he had a fight with Megyn Kelly for nine months and now they're sitting together and in a Fox special and it's hard not to watch Trump operate and realize that he's part of a whole media complex that is that is really very much

00:37:12.000 In his favor.

00:37:13.000 As I said earlier, Donald Trump wants to be Hugo Chavez.

00:37:15.000 Hugo Chavez used to do a routine, where he would actually set up a desk in the middle of a plaza, like a piazza.

00:37:22.000 There's a full TV channel just dedicated to Hugo Chavez.

00:37:25.000 And he would set up a desk in the middle of a plaza, and then he would set up a line of people asking him requests from the king, basically.

00:37:32.000 And they would come and they would ask him requests.

00:37:35.000 And he would stand up and he'd pound the table and he'd say to a minister, Oh, go get this woman her car!

00:37:40.000 And he'd say, go get this man his medicine!

00:37:42.000 And he was just demonstrating to the entire population that he really cared and cared deeply.

00:37:47.000 This is what you can expect from Donald Trump, right?

00:37:49.000 This is how Trump is going to operate, is this sort of media ownership.

00:37:53.000 The touchy-feely stuff for Trump doesn't come off as sincere to me, but it's effective for a certain group of people.

00:37:59.000 Kelly did go after Trump a little bit.

00:38:01.000 She said to him, can you go four years without threatening to sue anybody?

00:38:04.000 Because right now you can't go basically four minutes without threatening to do it.

00:38:07.000 You have threatened to sue many people in the course of the campaign, but of course if you wind up president...

00:38:13.000 You're not going to be able to do that either.

00:38:15.000 Can you go four years without threatening to sue anybody?

00:38:17.000 Well, what China's done to us is, well, maybe you do the world. 0.55

00:38:20.000 You know, you do have methods of suing countries.

00:38:24.000 It's going to be a busy law firm.

00:38:25.000 No, no, it's going to be busy.

00:38:26.000 But it's a little different.

00:38:28.000 And it's also a tactic for me.

00:38:30.000 It's a business for me.

00:38:31.000 And I've been successful.

00:38:33.000 And I've used litigation.

00:38:35.000 And sometimes I use it maybe when I shouldn't.

00:38:38.000 And sometimes I don't.

00:38:40.000 Okay, so he says that, not really, maybe he'll sue people.

00:38:43.000 You know, he uses it sometimes.

00:38:44.000 I mean, really, that was his answer.

00:38:46.000 His answer was, yeah, you know, sometimes I use litigation as a tool, sometimes I don't use litigation as a tool.

00:38:51.000 So she says, can you stop suing people?

00:38:52.000 He says, well, I guess, maybe.

00:38:55.000 He won't have to sue people.

00:38:56.000 As President of the United States, he'll just ban them, right?

00:38:59.000 He'll just use the power of the federal government to go after people, which is what people love about Donald Trump.

00:39:04.000 He'll solve all their problems with a wave of his stubby finger.

00:39:07.000 And I think that the real kind of hoax of a lot of Trump's media manipulation came out in this particular clip.

00:39:14.000 Megyn Kelly asked Trump, you said you were going to boycott Fox, but you didn't really boycott Fox, did you?

00:39:21.000 You know, when was the last time I watched a baseball game?

00:39:24.000 I'm watching you all the time, okay?

00:39:26.000 I knew it!

00:39:27.000 I'm watching O'Reilly all the time.

00:39:28.000 I'm watching Hannity.

00:39:30.000 Be honest.

00:39:31.000 You didn't really boycott.

00:39:34.000 A little bit.

00:39:36.000 Not as much as I want people to believe.

00:39:38.000 Okay, so he didn't really boycott Fox.

00:39:40.000 By the way, he never boycotted them even with appearances.

00:39:42.000 He continued to appear on Sean Hannity's show about every 30 seconds.

00:39:45.000 And he'd literally hang up, and then Sean would call him back, and then he'd pick up the phone, and they'd have a conversation, and then it would be like one of those conversations where, say, you hang up first.

00:39:53.000 No, you.

00:39:54.000 No, you hang up first.

00:39:55.000 No, please, you.

00:39:56.000 You hang up first.

00:39:57.000 And then Trump would hang up, and then Hannity would say to his producer, go get him back on the line!

00:40:01.000 In any case, that's...

00:40:03.000 This whole thing is, in the end, all this politics, this political race is all about power, and it's not about good power.

00:40:11.000 It's about use of bad power.

00:40:13.000 It's about use of very negative power.

00:40:15.000 One thing I do want to note, Megyn Kelly asked him about his legions of online supporters who have been vile to her and to a lot of other people, and here was Donald Trump's answer about this.

00:40:25.000 This is about when Trump comes after you.

00:40:29.000 The truth is, when Trump comes after you, it's not just Trump.

00:40:32.000 I mean, any of us.

00:40:33.000 We're in news.

00:40:33.000 We're used to people saying nasty things about us.

00:40:35.000 You know, like, everybody here is a pigskin.

00:40:37.000 It's what happens with the supporters.

00:40:38.000 Not all of them.

00:40:39.000 You know, most of them are just God-loving Americans who are home, like, yes, would you help me out for the love of God?

00:40:44.000 But some are not that way.

00:40:48.000 And some take to, like, serious threats.

00:40:51.000 And, you know, I have three young kids, and I don't have Secret Service following me around.

00:40:56.000 And so that piece of it has been very dark.

00:40:59.000 Okay, so, and that is true.

00:41:00.000 So I want to make a quick detour here to say you should go check out my piece at National Review today about the anti-Semitism among the Trump supporters.

00:41:07.000 Already the Trump supporters are up in arms, particularly Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.

00:41:11.000 He's saying that it's just terrible that I'd write about anti-Semitism in the Trump movement.

00:41:17.000 Apparently he's just discovered that this sort of thing actually exists.

00:41:22.000 Yes, it does.

00:41:23.000 It exists.

00:41:24.000 I mean, I didn't show you the tweets that I received after the birth of my child, but yes, it definitely, definitely exists, and Trump breeds it, and Trump loves it, and Trump pushes it forward because it helps him.

00:41:34.000 That doesn't mean Trump's an anti-Semite.

00:41:35.000 It means that he is a politician of convenience.

00:41:38.000 If we haven't reached the rock bottom of our politics, I shudder to think what comes after all this.

00:41:41.000 Well, on that light note,

00:41:55.000 Let's do some things that I like and then some things that I hate.

00:41:57.000 So first thing, thing that I like, here is... I've said before I'm a big Christopher Nolan fan.

00:42:03.000 One of his movies that is a little bit lesser known, it did well at the box office but didn't blow out the box office, is a movie called The Prestige with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale.

00:42:11.000 And it's a really clever, fun movie.

00:42:15.000 David Bowie shows up for a little while in this film and is actually very good.

00:42:19.000 And it's just a really good movie.

00:42:20.000 Here's a bit of the preview.

00:42:23.000 Shoot me. 0.93

00:42:24.000 Come on. 0.99

00:42:25.000 No, I can't.

00:42:26.000 Do it!

00:42:28.000 How do you like that?

00:42:31.000 How do you do it?

00:42:33.000 Magic.

00:42:34.000 I'll perform this feat in a manner never before seen by yourselves or any other audience anywhere in the world.

00:42:42.000 The audience loved it.

00:42:46.000 This tree is top-notch.

00:42:47.000 We need to celebrate.

00:42:54.000 A real magician tries to invent something new.

00:42:58.000 It's something that other magicians will scratch their heads over.

00:43:01.000 I suppose you have such a trick.

00:43:03.000 That's your thing?

00:43:04.000 It's the one they're gonna remember me for.

00:43:07.000 What happened?

00:43:09.000 It was the greatest magic trick I've ever seen.

00:43:14.000 I need to know how he does it.

00:43:18.000 He has no trick.

00:43:19.000 It's real.

00:43:24.000 We don't have to show the whole preview, but it is a really, really good movie.

00:43:34.000 It's a lot of fun.

00:43:35.000 It's dark, but it's really, really good.

00:43:37.000 So that's a thing I like.

00:43:38.000 Here's another thing that I like.

00:43:39.000 This is a funny video. 0.99

00:43:40.000 Apparently there was a drone that was flying over a Middle Ages reenactment, and things went wrong for the drone when somebody decided to go Middle Ages on its ass. 0.98

00:43:50.000 So here it is. 0.90

00:43:59.000 So somebody legitimately took a spear and speared the drone out of the sky.

00:44:07.000 So there it is.

00:44:08.000 And if you're missing it, it's pretty funny.

00:44:10.000 It's pretty funny.

00:44:11.000 And everybody seems pretty okay with it.

00:44:13.000 So, good times.

00:44:14.000 Alright.

00:44:15.000 A couple of things.

00:44:16.000 Now a couple of things that I hate. 0.97

00:44:17.000 First of all, Hillary Clinton is the least entertaining human being on planet Earth. 1.00

00:44:21.000 Hillary has now done an impression of Donald Trump. 0.91

00:44:24.000 I don't do a good impression of Donald Trump, and I don't really attempt to do one because I know my impression of Donald Trump is terrible.

00:44:30.000 Hillary Clinton's impression of Donald Trump is legitimately the worst impression of anyone I have ever heard.

00:44:35.000 Here's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:44:36.000 Again, I don't know where she gets these outfits, but this is again in her Baskin-Robbins pink outfit, trying to do an impression of Donald Trump. 0.94

00:44:45.000 So what is your plan to create jobs?

00:44:49.000 His answer is, I'm going to create them.

00:44:52.000 They're going to be great.

00:44:53.000 I know how to do it, but I'm not telling you what it is I'm going to do.

00:45:01.000 I'm going to say, here's what we're going to do, here's what we're going to do, here's when to change the tax code, here's how we're going to incentivize people to do it.

00:45:07.000 Now, some people might say, oh, you know, all anybody wants to hear is just, I'm going to do it, but I'm not telling you what I'm going to do.

00:45:14.000 See, I don't believe that.

00:45:16.000 Maybe in the preliminaries, like the Republican primary, that's all they wanted to hear.

00:45:21.000 But Americans take their vote for president seriously. 0.97

00:45:24.000 Okay, so a couple of things about this are ridiculous. 0.93

00:45:27.000 First of all, that's not even close to Trump. 0.97

00:45:28.000 I mean, come on.

00:45:30.000 How can you do that without using the word huge at the very least, or frankly, or I can tell you, right?

00:45:34.000 I mean, there are a few giveaways. 0.95

00:45:36.000 Beyond that, the idea that she's gonna defeat Trump by talking policy is just beyond ridiculous. 0.78

00:45:41.000 Look at the Republican primaries. 0.80

00:45:42.000 No, she's not gonna defeat Trump by talking policy.

00:45:45.000 Okay, final thing that I hate today, Donald Trump was asked about meeting with Kim Jong-un

00:45:51.000 You know, like the dictator of North Korea, the evil dictator of North Korea, here was his answer. 0.89

00:46:16.000 Okay, so he says that he would talk with Kim Jong-un.

00:46:18.000 Now, the reason this annoys me is not just because you shouldn't talk with dictators without anything to say to the dictator.

00:46:24.000 The reason it annoys me is because Barack Obama basically said the same thing in 2007.

00:46:29.000 Excuse me, 2008.

00:46:30.000 And Republicans looked at it and they went nuts.

00:46:32.000 They said, what are you talking about? 0.98

00:46:33.000 Are you out of your mind?

00:46:34.000 He said the same thing about Iran.

00:46:35.000 We have to talk with them, right?

00:46:37.000 And Republicans said, that's crazy.

00:46:38.000 Why would you do that? 0.98

00:46:39.000 The minute that the guy turns into an overweight buffoon reality TV star, 0.98

00:46:46.000 Then it's okay. 0.98

00:46:47.000 Then he can say all these things.

00:46:49.000 The left has been claiming for years that Republicans are racist, and that's the only reason they oppose Obama.

00:46:54.000 I have been saying, in return, no, that's not true. 0.99

00:46:56.000 The reason we oppose Obama is because his policies suck, and because they're terrible, and because he's awful in every conceivable way. 0.99

00:47:02.000 The problem is this. 0.98

00:47:03.000 If you say that you opposed Obama because of policy, then embrace the exact same policies when they come from your guy.

00:47:08.000 It's hard for you to argue that it's not some nefarious ulterior motive that's driving you to oppose Obama.

00:47:15.000 It's a slander on conservatism.

00:47:17.000 Okay, so that's where we are.

00:47:20.000 Donald Trump, I'm sure, will be back for more news tomorrow.

00:47:23.000 But remember, the collapse is happening on all sides.

00:47:26.000 It isn't quite as bright a world as the Democrats like to think.

00:47:29.000 It's not that one side is collapsing and the other side is doing just fine.

00:47:31.000 We are all collapsing toward Venezuela.

00:47:33.000 We're all moving down the road toward Venezuela.

00:47:36.000 Because people apparently want a strong man and they want a bigger government.

00:47:39.000 And so long as those two things are true, so long as they throw over God and family in favor of a bigger government that allows them to put their genitalia where they want and gives them basic goods and services until the money runs out, as it is in Venezuela, as long as that's what people want, they're going to end up with bad leadership across the board.

00:47:54.000 In the end, it's not about Trump.

00:47:55.000 It's not about Hillary.

00:47:56.000 It's not about Sanders.

00:47:57.000 It's about us.

00:47:58.000 We need to do a better job educating our children.

00:48:00.000 We need to do a better job stopping the propaganda of the left that has infused every element of our national life.

00:48:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:48:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - May 18, 2016

Ep. 120 - The Democratic Party Implodes

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