Captain America is gay, and the left wants to make him an advocate for leftist social values. Is this a good or bad thing? Is it a betrayal of the characters we love and the audience we've grown attached to for decades? Or is it just another example of how the left hijacks already popular characters and twists them to fit their agenda? Or are we supposed to be mad at the left for wanting to see Captain America as a gay man? Or should we just be mad that the left hijacked Captain America and made him a gay character? Or that they don't leave us alone to make our own icons, you jerks? Today's episode of I Can't Believe You're Even Upset About This comes courtesy of Hollywood, and it's a little bit of everything from Captain America to James Bond, and a whole lot more. This episode is brought to you by Gimlet Media and produced by Micah Vellian and Alex Blumberg. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our new podcast on Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your favorite streaming platform. You can also join our FB group, and use the hashtag on the socials to help spread the word about this podcast! . Thank you so much for listening and supporting the podcast. If you like the podcast, please leave us a rating and a review on iTunes. , and we'll be looking out for the next episode of the podcast in the future episodes of I CAN'T BELIEVED YOU'RE EVEN UPSET about this! next week! Thanks again for listening, folks! Timestamps: 0:00 - What's better than this? 5: 6:30 - What do you think of Captain America? 7:50 - Is he gay? 8:15 - What would you want? 9:40 - Is it better than James Bond? 11:00 12:00 | What's your favorite spy superhero? 13: Is he or Jane Bond better? 14:00 Is he a lesbian? 15:30 16:10 - Why is he a woman a man of honor? 17: What is James Bond better than a woman of honor or male? 18: What does he need to be a spy? 19:30 | Is he not? 21:40 22:20 - Why does he have to be gay?
00:00:31.000We're pissed that you can't leave characters that we already know and love alone.
00:00:35.000We're pissed that you won't leave us alone to make your own icons, you jerks.
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00:00:43.000On Twitter, the hashtag GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend is trending.
00:00:47.000This is master-level trolling by leftists.
00:00:50.000They want to take an iconic American comic book character, originally directed at children and teens, and make him a homosexual.
00:00:55.000Moreover, they want to make that character, who's supposed to be an embodiment of 1940's traditional morality and masculinity, an advocate for 2016 leftist social values.
00:01:06.000So Captain America, for people who don't read comic books, he was encased in ice while fighting against Hitler.
00:01:10.000He's released from the ice like Rip Van Winkle decades later, and his old-fashioned love of America and belief in traditional moral values makes him an anachronism.
00:01:18.000That's why he's an interesting character.
00:01:20.000He's described in some of the later-day comics and the ones they do now as sort of John McCain in a 30-year-old body.
00:01:26.000Now, the left wants Captain America to stop fighting fascism.
00:01:29.000Instead, they want him fighting to protect the world from Christian bakers.
00:01:33.000The left knows Captain America is iconic to three generations of Americans, and so they're looking to troll the right by conflating his American flag shield with the rainbow flag.
00:01:42.000And if conservatives say Captain America's traditional mission and personality, which, by the way, includes protecting traditional families and his own traditional love interests, who have always been women, if they believe that's skewed by turning him into a parochial champion for gay rights,
00:01:57.000The left wants to simultaneously claim that being gay changes nothing about a character, but that it's desperately important for characters to be gay.
00:02:04.000And they hijack already popular characters to do it, instead of inventing new characters.
00:02:10.000Conservatives don't care that they made Iceman from the X-Men gay.
00:02:13.000But people have a right to expect that the characters with whom they've identified for the last 60 years ought not be changed at the whim of the left.
00:02:20.000According to the left, however, popular characters can be shifted just on a dime.
00:02:24.000Leftists will trot out the actor who plays Chris Evans, who, by the way, hates me, to say that it wouldn't matter if Captain America were gay.
00:02:31.000They already did that with Mark Hamill and Luke Skywalker, which, by the way, would make his original love triangle with Han Solo and Princess Leia even weirder than it already was, and it already included incest.
00:02:40.000Leftists are now calling for Gillian Anderson to be cast as James Bond.
00:02:44.000Yes, a chick to be cast as James Bond.
00:02:46.000Which makes zero sense, given that Bond's entire M.O.
00:02:49.000is that he's an ultra-masculine womanizer.
00:02:51.000A woman picking up and having promiscuous sex with sophisticated men isn't a spy superhero.
00:02:56.000That's a normal Tuesday night in a dive bar.
00:02:58.000The roguish charm of Bond relies on the differences between the sexes.
00:03:03.000He's seducing women, which is actually conquering, right?
00:03:06.000But he's counterintuitively also a man of honor.
00:03:08.000That conflict doesn't exist for women.
00:03:10.000It ain't hard for a woman to conquer a man.
00:03:11.000All she has to do is give him a time and a place.
00:03:13.000When it comes to pop culture, the left cheats.
00:03:16.000They can't invent a gay Captain United States or a female Jane Bond because those characters wouldn't be as popular as Captain America or James Bond.
00:03:24.000So instead, they'll try to steal those characters and twist them to fit their agenda.
00:03:41.000But the left won't stop, and they won't stop complaining if anybody challenges their stupid, irritating, immoral attempts to destroy the characters we once loved.
00:03:50.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:03:58.000So, I have a new theory about America, and that is that we have now been trolled into absolute insanity.
00:04:02.000We've just been trolled into insanity, we've lost our minds because the left has lost their mind.
00:04:07.000And just a quick further note on Captain America, there's nothing wrong with saying that Captain America, who's supposed to be a traditional representation of masculinity,
00:04:14.000Yes, it changes the representation of masculinity if the guy is gay.
00:04:18.000Because part of masculinity is the idea that you're going to father children and that you're going to protect those children and protect women.
00:04:24.000It turns out men don't need other men to protect them as a general rule.
00:04:40.000And that's why so many traditional heroes are straight, right?
00:04:43.000Because the idea is a man saving a woman is something that actually happens in real life.
00:04:47.000That's actually something that's necessary in real life.
00:04:49.000Go to countries where men don't protect women and see how well the women there do.
00:04:54.000Freedom is based on the notion that men are honorable, protect women, make children with women that they love and who love them in consensual fashion, and then protect those kids.
00:05:24.000Because the whole point of Bond is that he's seducing these random beautiful women, and as I said earlier, a woman seducing a bunch of guys, you could be Meghan Trainor and seduce a bunch of guys, right?
00:05:34.000I mean, as Amy Schumer is fond of saying, it isn't hard for a lady to catch a bleep.
00:05:57.000I think the greatest success of President Obama and the modern left is that the right absolutely went bonkers.
00:06:03.000And so now we have a bonkers left and a bonkers right fighting with each other for bonkers America.
00:06:07.000And the sad part about all of this is that normally when empires destroy themselves, normally when great civilizations destroy themselves, it's because we reached a low point.
00:06:16.000All the troubles America's had in the past are actual troubles.
00:06:29.000Let's have a huge war and fight each other and destroy each other and destroy the country and kill all the things the country's founded on because we need Caitlyn Jenner to be able to whip it out in a ladies room.
00:06:37.000Okay, this is how you know we've gone nuts, is that there's not even an underlying conflict that's so grave that it requires this kind of insanity and anger and rage, but that's where we're going anyway.
00:07:18.000He was handcuffed, but he was not buckled in.
00:07:20.000Apparently, then in the back of the van, he was sort of banging on the back of the van, and they stopped suddenly, and he fell over, and he...
00:07:28.000The momentum of the stop pushed his head up against the back of the van and he broke his neck.
00:07:34.000He ends up dying from that a little bit later.
00:07:38.000They tried to claim that the cops originally... First, they tried to claim that they murdered him.
00:07:41.000They tried to claim that they brought him into custody and just murdered this guy for no reason.
00:07:44.000By the way, most of the cops are black.
00:07:46.000They then tried to claim that it was purposeful negligence, that it was manslaughter, that they didn't care if this guy got killed and that's why they didn't buckle him in.
00:08:12.000But that doesn't mean that they purposefully pushed him down in the van and then rammed his head against the back of it.
00:08:16.000Or that they didn't buckle him up knowing that he was going to break his neck.
00:08:19.000I mean, honestly, if we're going to prosecute everybody in America who doesn't buckle up and then somebody gets killed, you're going to be prosecuting an awful lot of people.
00:08:25.000It turns out that most people who don't buckle up, it's because they forget and they're in an older car that doesn't have the beep beep in this particular car.
00:08:32.000You know, it's in the back of the van.
00:08:40.000When you talk about trolling, Deray McKesson is a troll.
00:08:42.000He's a guy who's had no career at all.
00:08:44.000He became prominent in Ferguson when he started tweeting about all of the evil, terrible things white people were doing in Ferguson, and the federal authorities, and the state authorities, and the police.
00:08:53.000And he became very prominent because he was tweeting a lot, and he gave up his regular job to become a full-time troll and wear Marty McFly's vest from Back to the Future, except in blue.
00:09:30.000Right, and who caused it and how remains to be seen, but you're... And that's what I'm saying.
00:09:33.000You're positing to the audience that these cops did it, and I'm telling the audience thus far the evidence doesn't support that.
00:09:39.000What I'm saying is that there's one trial, so you don't know what the evidence in the other five cases, and neither do I, and that's why I'm excited to follow through these cases.
00:09:46.000Well, I know one guy was tried by a jury, and it was a hung jury, so they were not able to conclude his guilt.
00:09:50.000Yeah, which again is not an acquittal, right?
00:09:51.000And then the next case that was tried by an African-American judge concluded that there was no case against this officer, and he was just acquitted on all charges.
00:09:58.000So we are looking forward to the next five, and that's important.
00:10:00.000We'll see the next five, you know, in the state of... But even now that you have a not guilty verdict against Officer Nero, you continue to tell this audience that he did something wrong.
00:10:07.000No, what I continue to say is that I'm looking forward to the administrative review and that we do need to take a holistic look at the laws in the state of Maryland.
00:10:23.000Okay, so you look at that, but what did Officer Nero do?
00:10:26.000So, I've already said this to you, Megan, is that this officer was involved in this case, and what it says, what the judge said, is that the officer was not criminally responsible, and this means that we need to continue the fight to make sure that the laws hold officers accountable.
00:10:39.000He had no responsibility as noted in the judge's decision today to intervene when he saw others misbehaving, and that is important.
00:11:06.000You know, that's sad, but that's life.
00:11:09.000And Freddie Gray, by the way, did resist arrest, and Freddie Gray had a long criminal record, which doesn't mean it's good that he got killed, but this idea that they just hogtied an innocent guy and then basically beat him to death, which was the original narrative, that isn't true, but it doesn't matter, right?
00:11:22.000Facts, when conflicting with the left, they don't matter.
00:11:24.000Deray McKesson says this guy basically should have been prosecuted anyway, even though he can't name a single shred of evidence that the guy did anything bad.
00:11:34.000So there's this professor who is on MSNBC Live, and he's a Morgan State University assistant professor, Dr. Lawrence Brown, and he's talking about the same Baltimore case.
00:11:43.000Listen to what he has to say about policing in the United States.
00:11:46.000You mentioned that there was an African-American judge.
00:11:51.000But, you know, American policing was founded on slave patrols.
00:11:55.000This system of policing has been always exacting disproportionate violence against African-Americans throughout the history of this country.
00:12:04.000So I don't think that, you know, people here who are living in the communities where there's a high level of police aggression, a high level of police brutality,
00:12:42.000So the police in Baltimore, who by the way are majority black, there was a black police chief, a black prosecutor, a black mayor, a black attorney general, a black president of the United States, a majority black city, and a majority black city council.
00:12:53.000All of that is because originally policing was slave patrols.
00:12:57.000Okay, I'm not sure if this professor is aware of it, but police existed in the North, too.
00:13:02.000It turns out that police have existed all across Western civilization for literally more than a millennium, right?
00:13:08.000So this idea that there were no police, it's nonsense.
00:13:11.000But again, he's just throwing out terms like, we need to fix the criminal justice system.
00:13:57.000David Gergen on CNN, who's a big fan of the Clintons.
00:14:02.000David Gergen from CNN, he was speaking about the North Carolina bathroom law, for example.
00:14:07.000And here he's talking about the North Carolina bathroom law that says that men should be able to whip it out in front of little girls in the bathroom.
00:14:13.000But the signals coming out of the state capitol in Raleigh have sent a thunderous message rolling out across America.
00:14:20.000That North Carolina is no longer a pioneer in advancing people of color, people who are gay, people who are living on the margins.
00:14:28.000Instead, many here want to go back, far back to a darker time.
00:14:34.000This is not the place to relitigate each and every issue.
00:14:38.000But what other message did state legislators think they were sending?
00:14:43.000What did they intend when they seriously restricted access to voting?
00:14:47.000Embrace the constitutional amendment to deny equal rights to gays and lesbians.
00:14:53.000Enacted a flatter tax imposing heavier... Okay, so now he's listing off a bunch of things he doesn't like and he's saying that these are the same thing as not letting men into little girls bathrooms.
00:15:02.000Right, so you're looking at this and you're going, you're out of your mind.
00:16:09.000You don't take that into consideration at all.
00:16:14.000It's your body with a child inside of it.
00:16:16.000As far as a vasectomy, if I wanted to get my tubes tied, and I had a few kids already, and he's like, no, let's just have sex, I don't want to use a condom, I'd get the tubes tied and not tell him that either.
00:16:41.000We're talking about the baby that's inside there, and you just ignore the entire point.
00:16:44.000And you've got all these other women there, including people who are conservative, supposedly.
00:16:47.000I think it's Nicole Wallace over on the right, I think, and Jedediah Bila in the center.
00:16:51.000And they're both just going along with this to the extent that they're saying, well, you know, shouldn't you at least consult your husband?
00:17:42.000Dennis Prager, I keep mentioning him because I have so much respect for Dennis Prager as a moral voice.
00:17:46.000Dennis Prager has a column today talking about his response to his conservative Never Trump friends.
00:17:51.000He mentions me by name as well as a couple other people like Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol and Bret Stephens and George Will and basically what he says in the end.
00:17:59.000And what he basically says is, I could not live with my conscience if I voted to help the America-destroying left win the presidency in any way.
00:18:06.000I don't understand how anyone who understands the threat the left and the Democrats pose to America will refuse to vote for the only person who can stop them.
00:18:39.000And if you're an honest person who believes this, then when somebody says, Donald Trump's a horror show, your answer should not be, no, Donald Trump isn't a horror show.
00:18:47.000Your answer should be, yes, and Hillary is a worse horror show.
00:19:24.000There's a tendency for every human being, all human beings, there's a real tendency to just get rid of difficult moral conflict by making the other side of the moral conflict disappear.
00:19:35.000So if you're trying, if you're a leftist, and you're trying to say Syrian Muslim refugees should enter the United States, and somebody says those people are a security risk,
00:19:42.000Well, then the easy thing to do is say, well, no, they're not a security risk.
00:19:47.000That would be ignoring the problem and pretending that something doesn't exist that exists.
00:19:51.000I'm seeing the same thing happen with people who want Trump to be elected because it's very difficult to live with the psychological dissonance of saying Donald Trump is a bad man who will do bad things, but he's better than the other person.
00:20:12.000And I want Donald Trump to be president.
00:20:14.000Those are actually two different propositions.
00:20:16.000People are identifying these two things.
00:20:17.000When people make the, I'll vote for Stalin to stop Hitler argument, when they make that argument, understand that when we allied with Stalin to stop Hitler, we were still fighting Stalin.
00:20:27.000During World War II, we were still fighting Stalin.
00:20:29.000There's an actual competition for territory that we were going to control in the aftermath of World War II, in the middle of World War II.
00:20:36.000This is why there was a race to Berlin.
00:20:46.000This would be more like the equivalent, if you're arguing in favor of Trump as president, not against Hillary as president, so we have to use Trump because he's our only vehicle, but in favor of Trump as president, you're now arguing that we should have made Stalin president to stop Hitler.
00:20:58.000Not that we should have allied with Stalin to stop Hitler, but that we should have given him ultimate power.
00:21:02.000And I have to say, I think a lot of the people who are against, who are yelling at those of us who are critical of Donald Trump,
00:21:24.000You guys already said, we're on board with Trump.
00:21:26.000Once Trump has you on board, you're in the car, he locked the doors, there's no escape.
00:21:31.000Right, the fact is that we're the ones outside the car saying we're not getting in the car unless you pledge to do X, Y, and Z. So even if you disagree with us, you should be thanking us for pushing Donald Trump to the right.
00:22:04.000Okay, he's on the basis of Vince Foster.
00:22:05.000Now, for those of you who don't remember the 90s, and I know I have a lot of listeners who are younger even than I am, I was only 16 when the 90s ended.
00:22:25.000There are a lot of people, conspiracy theorists, who suggested that he had not killed himself, that in fact the Clintons had killed him.
00:22:32.000The Clintons had taken him out and they had killed him because he was involved in Whitewater.
00:22:35.000Whitewater was a scandal about a corrupt real estate deal in Arkansas involving Hillary Clinton's Rose law firm and her husband, the governor of Arkansas.
00:22:45.000Well, now we have Donald Trump and Donald Trump has come out and he is trying to dredge up this Vince Foster routine in order to attack Hillary Clinton.
00:22:56.000And his bizarre kind of line of attack here, his basic argument, is that the Clintons
00:23:48.000He said, quote, it's one thing with her, whether it's Whitewater or whether it's Vince or whether it's Benghazi, it's always a mess with Hillary Clinton.
00:24:00.000He said, let's see, that the theories of foul play were, quote, very serious, and the circumstances of Foster's death were very fishy.
00:24:07.000Quote, he had intimate knowledge of what was going on, he knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.
00:24:13.000I don't bring Foster's, this is so, it's so Trumpian, I don't bring Foster's death up because I don't know enough to really discuss it.
00:24:20.000I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.
00:24:24.000I don't do that because I don't think it's fair.
00:24:29.000This is the equivalent of that passive-aggressive teenage girl who calls her friends and says, you know, I'm not bringing up that I think you dress like a whore because I know anything about it.
00:24:37.000I'm just saying, people around the school, they keep saying that you dress like a whore, that you dress like a little hooker.
00:24:42.000And, you know, I'm not going to bring that up because I think it's mean.
00:24:46.000But, like, people are just saying you dress like a whore.
00:24:49.000Okay, look, everybody knows the teenage girl is saying you dress like a whore, right?
00:24:52.000I mean, so Donald Trump is accusing the Clintons of murdering Vince Foster, but no, he would never do- I've never said- and he provides himself this sort of bizarre avenue out, where if you say to him, why are you throwing out conspiracy theories about Vince Foster?
00:25:04.000Then he says, I was just bringing it up, you know, people were saying, people, who are these people?
00:25:07.000People, people were saying, I hear from a lot of people, a lot of people, a lot of people say this, a lot of people say this, right?
00:25:14.000And he did this routine, if you recall, he did the same routine about Ted Cruz's dad being involved in the Kennedy assassination.
00:25:21.000I'm not bringing it up because I think it's real, but the National Enquirer said it.
00:25:25.000And I better tell you this, you can believe me, believe me, they don't print things that don't have any substantiation.
00:25:32.000So Trump is throwing out these crazy things and people on the right are saying, okay, fine, well, you know, you're trolling us, well, we'll troll you.
00:25:41.000I mean, honestly, it's kind of funny where we're kind of trolling, we're trolling, right?
00:25:44.000And so Donald Trump, and we're willing to go along with it because Donald Trump also says he's going to fight dirty against the Clintons.
00:25:51.000Now, I'll explain in a second why this is not beneficial, but here's Donald Trump explaining why he's bringing up all these old issues against the Clintons.
00:25:58.000I understand the Clinton attack machine.
00:26:46.000I mean, the last time Donald Trump saw message discipline or issue discipline, yeah, the last time Donald Trump saw discipline is when she was whipping him at a BDSM club.
00:26:55.000I mean, like, he's never seen discipline before, so that he wants to talk about issues is ridiculous.
00:27:00.000But people give him the benefit of the doubt because he's attacking the Clintons.
00:27:09.000If you're the person in the middle, and if you're the person who's just watching this from the outside, and you're not an ardent Trump supporter, you say, okay, the Juanita Broderick stuff is kind of legit.
00:28:00.000If the next day you hit her with a rubber chicken, like Vince Foster.
00:28:03.000You just take out a rubber chicken, you're smacking her with a rubber chicken.
00:28:05.000People are going to assume you're a clown because you just hit her with a frying pan and now you're hitting her with a rubber chicken.
00:28:10.000And that's sort of what I think, I think Trump is actually discrediting himself here by making attacks that are not relevant.
00:28:16.000Just as political advice, stick to attacks that are actually stick-worthy.
00:28:20.000Don't just throw things out there because you haven't taken the time to actually research them.
00:28:24.000But again, trolls on the left bear trolls on the right.
00:28:27.000And so here is a Trump staffer explaining that when Donald Trump is talking about all these scandals from the 1990s, he's actually doing the Clintons a favor.
00:28:35.000Here is Donald Trump's surrogate, Michael Cohen.
00:28:38.000Michael Cohen is also the guy who is called Donald Trump's patriarch.
00:28:50.000He said the same allegations that you guys are talking about now were a waste of time, were wrong, were hollow, that Bill Clinton was a terrific guy, that he was a great president, that the impeachment was wrong, that it was a waste of time.
00:29:03.000And Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump was one of the smartest, best businessmen in the United States on several occasions.
00:29:58.000So again, this is trollery of the highest level, right?
00:30:01.000So we've got the trolls on the left, and now we've got Donald Trump's people out there saying, well, yeah, he was defending the Clintons from all this stuff in the 90s, but that was just as a friend.
00:30:17.000We've become the troll dolls, and we have troll doll hair candidates, and it's just, it's a disaster all the way around.
00:30:24.000All this has also created some odd alliances, some very odd alliances.
00:30:26.000And this is why it feels like the nuclear bomb of politics has hit, because people are finding themselves in camps with people they never wanted to be with or liked before.
00:30:35.000So, now all of a sudden you've got Newt Gingrich, who's ripping Mitt Romney.
00:30:38.000Newt Gingrich wants to be Donald Trump's VP.
00:32:10.000Okay, he has a unique opportunity to bring together constituencies under the Republican banner that really have never been joined before, maybe to bring back the Reagan Democrats, to bring folks into politics who have become disenfranchised and feel that the system doesn't respond to their needs anymore.
00:32:29.000So to the extent that he can counter a mood of cynicism, you know, that's probably a healthy thing in politics.
00:32:55.000The easy thing to do is minimize the difficulty of the choice.
00:32:59.000So on the one side, the people who support Trump, you have people minimizing the risk of Trumpism, the risk of Trump trollery and conspiracy theorizing and big government, the risk of Donald Trump telling people that they ought to hit protesters and telling people that he wants to change the First Amendment and telling people that he doesn't see any moral conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and telling people that women bleed from their wherever and telling people that it's okay to mock the disabled and POWs.
00:33:22.000You have people minimizing all that on the one side because they like Trump and on the other side you have people like David Brooks.
00:33:27.000David Brooks, I cannot stand David Brooks's work.
00:33:30.000I think David Brooks is not a Republican.
00:33:33.000I think David Brooks is just some guy who works for the New York Times who they call a conservative because they don't know what a conservative looks like if the conservative came up and punched them directly in the jaw.
00:33:44.000So David Brooks has a column today and he's a guy who doesn't like Trump.
00:33:47.000Like me, he's a guy who doesn't like Trump.
00:33:51.000David Brooks dislikes Trump because David Brooks is basically a Democrat.
00:33:53.000So David Brooks comes out today and he writes a column in which he openly praises, at length, he openly praises and talks about the absolute wonders of Hillary Clinton.
00:34:05.000He actually comes out and he praises, at length, Hillary Clinton.
00:34:09.000And what he says about Hillary Clinton is that she is, quote-unquote, warm and caring.
00:34:12.000This is what David Brooks says, okay, which makes him the first human being to ever say this, ever.
00:34:17.000Right, what he actually says, this is what he writes today, he says,
00:34:34.000I'll talk in a second about her corruption, because there's a bunch of it that's breaking in the news.
00:34:37.000But Hillary Clinton is super-duper-duper corrupt, and David Brooks is now defending her.
00:34:42.000So when I say that conservatism is easily corrupted, that is true from both sides.
00:34:46.000The Trump people corrupt conservatism if they are willing
00:34:49.000to say that Trump is a conservative and overlook all of his flaws as a human being and as a candidate just to back him.
00:34:55.000The same thing is true on the other side if you say Trump is not a conservative because he's not Hillary Clinton.
00:35:01.000If you say that what conservatism really is is what David Brooks thinks it is, you're destroying conservatism.
00:35:06.000If you say conservatism really is what Donald Trump says it is, you're destroying conservatism.
00:35:10.000Conservatism is neither of these two things.
00:35:13.000Conservatism is the set of ideas that actually founded the country and have nothing to do with creased pants for David Brooks or strongman politics from Donald Trump.
00:35:22.000All of this is really- I mean, look, it's difficult to talk about this stuff, and it's very disappointing to talk about this stuff.
00:35:27.000If you don't think that there are folks like me who are de- you know, look.
00:35:33.000It's much more fun to be a cheerleader than it is to be somebody who goes to a game and has to critique both sides because you're trying to be honest about the principles of the game.
00:35:43.000But I think it's important that we do that.
00:35:46.000You can still vote for Donald Trump and critique him, by the way, as I've said.
00:35:48.000You can still say Donald Trump is all these bad things, but at least he's not Hillary Clinton.
00:35:54.000I even agree with it somewhat, but you can't make the case that Donald Trump is the new face of conservatism and not say that he's not corrupting conservatism, because that's utter, sheer, ridiculous garbage.
00:36:04.000And meanwhile, Hillary Clinton still can't, despite all the trolling from the right, Hillary Clinton is one of the left's trolls, and so she is trying desperately to claw her way back into this race, and I really think the momentum is not on her side.
00:36:17.000Hillary Clinton is struggling to respond.
00:36:19.000Here's Hillary Clinton going after Donald Trump, standing in front of the SEIU, which is a major American union.
00:36:24.000What little we know of his economic policies would be running up our debt, starting trade wars, letting Wall Street run wild.
00:36:33.000All of that could cause another crash and devastate working families and our country.
00:36:39.000Trump economics is a recipe for lower wages, fewer jobs, more debt.
00:36:44.000He could bankrupt America like he's bankrupted his companies.
00:41:14.000I know Lindsay and Mathis both are about to leap the camera and strangle me to death.
00:41:20.000But, I don't like the original Ghostbusters.
00:41:22.000So I can speak objectively about this.
00:41:24.000No matter how much I dislike the original Ghostbusters, there is no way it could possibly be worse.
00:41:29.000Then the new Ghostbusters, this new all-female Ghostbusters.
00:41:32.000This looks like this will be the worst movie ever made.
00:41:34.000I mean, legitimately the worst movie ever made.
00:41:36.000So here is the trailer for the new all-female Ghostbusters.
00:41:39.000I think I've shown it before, but since I'm going to subject you to all sorts of suffering on today's show, here is the trailer for the new Ghostbusters.
00:41:46.000It says, 30 years ago, four scientists saved New York.
00:42:01.000This summer, a new team will answer the call.
00:43:28.000Okay, so you've got this garbage with, oh, female Ghostbusters.
00:43:33.000Now we're really showing the men that we're equal to them by stealing their properties and pretending that we're as good at it as they are and being inferior.
00:43:40.000This movie will be 78% as good as the original Ghostbusters, is apparently the theory here.
00:44:08.000And everybody who, and this is the left's trolling game again, anybody who's uptight about this, like, did you make a movie specifically so that we'd vote for Hillary Clinton?
00:44:15.000Because if so, if you took an original movie that a lot of people like, and decided to make it crappy, just to make a point about how Hillary needs to be president, you're all stupid and annoying.
00:44:23.000Right, if we say that sort of thing, oh, well you're, why are you going so crazy?
00:44:26.000It's just women playing Ghostbusters, what, you think women can't be Ghostbusters?
00:44:28.000I don't know, screenwriters, did you think black people can't be physicists?
00:44:32.000Apparently you think they're only street smart subway token operators.
00:44:35.000Right, so the whole thing is just that the left's trollery never ends, the movie looks terrible, Hillary interacting with these people like, oh, if it weren't for Hillary, we would never have had a shot in life to be successful actresses.
00:44:48.000Because there weren't successful actresses until Hillary was presidential nominee.
00:44:56.000Plus, my only question, really, is if Hillary does meet the female Ghostbusters, are they going to attempt to kill or capture her?
00:45:04.000Okay, finally, final, final point about the left's trolling.
00:45:07.000So, the Obama, I will say this, Obama has been a transformative president because his trollery is, he's a troll master level 40 chess-playing troll.
00:45:16.000So, here's just more evidence that Valerie Jarrett, who's his right-hand woman, she does an interview on 60 Minutes.
00:45:25.000And Valerie Jarrett is sort of the brains of the operation, supposedly.
00:45:28.000And they ask her about Obama's accomplishments.
00:45:30.000Listen to her list of Obama's accomplishments and see if you can spot the trollery.
00:45:35.000I keep thinking of the president's elections and those posters that said, hope, change.
00:45:42.000And in his final year in office, where's the hope and the change?
00:45:46.000You can't even get a Supreme Court nominee a hearing.
00:45:50.000Well, the hope and change, Nora, doesn't come from Washington.
00:45:53.000The hope and change comes from the American people.
00:45:56.000And the President's still extraordinarily optimistic about the future of our country.
00:46:00.000I mean, just look at what's happened in the last seven years.
00:46:03.000Our unemployment rate going from 10% down to 5%, our automobile industry back, ending two wars, 20 million people with health care, many for the first time.
00:46:13.000We have a great deal to be proud of in terms of our accomplishments.
00:46:16.000Did you notice the massive trolling there?
00:46:18.000So there are a couple things that are trolly, right?
00:46:19.000I mean, first of all, there's the Obamacare stuff.
00:46:48.000People feel like they're being gaslit, they feel like they're going crazy, and so they go to the guy who says, Fine, I'll gaslit him right back!