The left is out to kill Captain America, and he always was a bad guy. Donald Trump wants Bernie Sanders to debate him in California before the primary, and it's a good thing he's not running for president because he's going to get a good night's rest. Plus, a look at why CNN should give all of their profits to charity, and why it would be a good idea to give them a nice sum of money to do so. Plus, Captain America is now a leftist, and that's not a bad thing, because he was always a leftist all along, and now it's time to make clear that he was a leftist from the get-go, and has always been a villain all along. Plus: Captain America has been a good guy, but now he's turning into a leftist villain, because America is either converted to leftism, or we were always the villain. And that's how they play the game, and we're the bad guys. Plus: Trump wants to debate Bernie Sanders in California, and CNN is paying him a nice amount of money for it, so why not make him the first presidential candidate to debate Donald Trump in California? And why not give the rest of us a nice, nice sum for charity, too? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down in a new segment on his new show, The Ben Shapiro Show on The Daily Show with Brian Rocha, hosted by Brian and Sarah Downey, on ABC's "The View From The Hill" on the latest episode of his new podcast, "The Ringer." and more! Subscribe to The Ringer on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe and comment to stay up to date with the Ringer! and let us know what you thought of the latest viral video of the Roster? and what you think of it? Subscribe, rate, review and subscribe to our newest episode of The Roster of shows like it's the most influential podcast on social media? on your favorite podcast and more importantly, what do you're listening to in your thoughts on it? Subscribe to our new workplace podcast? of course you'll get a chance to be featured on The RING! in the RING OF THE RING? in next week's RINGEVERYTHING RUSS RATING AND MORE! is a review of the most important podcast on the world's most listened to by a professional RING AND SOCIAL MEDIA SUBSCRIBE?
00:00:00.000Well, the left is out to kill Captain America.
00:00:02.000First, it was the internet campaign we talked about earlier this week to make Captain America gay.
00:00:07.000A ridiculous, stupid, moronic hijacking of a popular American icon who was originally designed for children and teens in order to serve the left's pathetic agenda.
00:00:16.000Now, the editors at Marvel themselves have announced that they're going to make clear that Captain America is a bad guy.
00:00:23.000According to Time Magazine, Captain America, Steve Rogers, number one, will make clear that Captain America supports the Nazi-founded organization HYDRA and that he was always a double agent.
00:00:33.000Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort explained, quote,
00:00:51.000According to Time, having Cap talk openly about the threat of Muslim immigration to Europe and illegal immigration to America's borders, that makes him ripe for Hydra.
00:01:15.000Brevard goes on to say that Captain America, the face of patriotism, is turning evil because, quote, we want to push that button.
00:01:21.000He says, there should be a feeling of horror or unsettledness at the idea that somebody like this can secretly be part of this organization.
00:01:27.000There are perfectly normal people in the world who you would interact with on a professional level or a personal level, and they seem like the salt of the earth.
00:01:34.000But then it turns out they have some horrible secret, whether it's that they don't like a certain group of people or have bodies buried in the basement.
00:01:41.000So, folks, this is what happens when the original values for which Captain America stood, American pride and patriotism, defense of constitutional liberty, become unpopular with the left.
00:02:14.000The left can't play this game indefinitely.
00:02:16.000Turns out most Americans don't like the idea of a patriotic Captain America as a Hydra villain.
00:02:21.000They don't think America is historically evil.
00:02:23.000They don't think patriotism is evil, or that pointing out threats of benighted Islamic cultures make you a Nazi.
00:02:29.000And they're not going to keep patronizing movies or comics where the bad guy is America, or where traditional good guys become bad guys just because they stayed the same.
00:02:37.000Watch for Marvel to twist this storyline back into place and will make Cap the hero again, but not before he learns, of course, that he should be more of a leftist than the traditional right-winger he always was.
00:05:50.000I mean, it's pretty clear from that tape.
00:05:51.000It's not a joke, but it doesn't matter.
00:05:52.000This is Trump's charm offensive and it's working.
00:05:55.000So, for example, and the charm offensive means that he's now pandering to all the people who watch ABC, which means he's pandering to the left.
00:06:02.000So Donald Trump is good at this when it comes to TV.
00:06:05.000He's also somebody who conservatives should know is not going to stand up for their values.
00:06:09.000So here's Donald Trump asked by Jimmy Kimmel about the transgender bathroom issue.
00:08:39.000This is the beauty of playing a role like Donald Trump does.
00:08:42.000There's this beautiful symmetry to playing Donald Trump's role.
00:08:45.000Donald Trump does the clown nose on, clown nose off routine that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart did when they were on Comedy Central.
00:08:51.000When they say something that's a lie or something that's untrue or something that's vicious, it's because they were joking or they just weren't being serious.
00:08:57.000And when they say something that's serious, then
00:08:59.000You have to take it seriously because the clown nose is off.
00:09:02.000So, but they get to decide post-facto whether they were being a clown or whether they weren't being a clown.
00:09:06.000Here Donald Trump says, now I'm not being a clown.
00:09:24.000In the end, if he's elected on the basis of this sort of campaigning, you have to trust that deep in his heart, he's a guy who's going to do stuff for you as opposed to being who he's always been, a guy who does stuff for Donald Trump.
00:09:35.000Here is Trump talking about how he uses aliases.
00:09:37.000And again, notice how he's able to get away with all of this easily, right?
00:09:40.000Any other candidate gets smacked over this.
00:11:08.000And it's, you know, all of that said, all of that said, you know, you really have to trust that he's going to be the guy who he pretends to be during this campaign.
00:11:17.000Now, what's interesting is that Trump is, Trump's benefiting from two things.
00:11:22.000One, he's charming and he's funny on TV and he gets away with all of that.
00:11:25.000And on the other hand, he's running against a left so out of their minds that everything that he does is basically him just pushing buttons.
00:11:32.000He's pushing buttons on the left by being funny and entertaining, and he's pushing buttons on the right just by pushing buttons.
00:11:38.000He's doing it on the basis of contrast.
00:12:12.000Because a lot of the proposals that he's made display either ignorance of world affairs, or a cavalier attitude, or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that
00:12:37.000Okay, so what's interesting about what Trump, what Obama says, a couple things.
00:12:48.000One, he's ripping Trump for being a reality star.
00:13:04.000Where he did an episode of Anthony Bourdain eating $6 noodles with Anthony Bourdain.
00:13:08.000He is a reality TV star, so it just doesn't wash.
00:13:10.000But the second thing that's interesting there is the way that Obama talks about foreign affairs, he sounds like he's putting the rest of the world before America.
00:13:17.000He talks about everybody else's reaction to the United States, and then he says Trump doesn't do what's necessary to keep America safe.
00:13:23.000By the time he gets to that, it's an afterthought.
00:13:25.000By the time he arrives at Trump isn't going to keep America safe, it's an afterthought.
00:13:29.000He starts with all of these other people around the world don't like Trump and they're rattled by Trump.
00:13:34.000And Trump came out today and he says, well, maybe it's good that they're rattled by me.
00:13:39.000So, you have on the one hand President Obama, and then on the other hand you have Trump, who's trying to create a sense of loyalty and trust in him.
00:13:46.000And Obama and his ilk make it easier, because Obama is out there saying that all these other countries don't like Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is out there saying, well, I'm the ultimate patriot, and that's really why they don't like me.
00:14:38.000It's smart campaigning, and it's again drawing this natural distinction between people who believe America comes first and the people like Obama who don't believe America comes first.
00:14:47.000Now the problem is that Donald Trump's brand of nationalism is utterly unmoored from the Constitution of the United States, and we'll get to that in a second.
00:14:54.000But when he's running against a left that clearly doesn't care about America's future,
00:14:58.000And he poses himself as the America first guy.
00:15:52.000Now, if you look at the war of Iraq, if you look at what she did with Libya, which is a total catastrophe, and by the way, and by the way, with Benghazi and with our ambassador, remember, that's all Hillary Clinton, folks.
00:16:15.000But if she wins, you better get used to it, because you'll have nothing but turmoil, and you'll have nothing but four more years of Obama, and you can't take that.
00:16:25.000Our system and our country can't take that.
00:16:32.000Hillary is about Hillary first and foremost.
00:16:34.000So, there's this new Inspector General report that's out from the State Department, and I went through it yesterday, it's about 83 pages long, and I went through it, and basically,
00:16:43.000This report says that Hillary is a giant liar, that she created her private email server for her own personal protection, not for any other reason.
00:16:50.000So, for example, the report says, in November 2010, Secretary Clinton and her Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations discussed the fact that Secretary Clinton's emails to department employees were not being received.
00:17:01.000The Deputy Chief of Staff emailed the Secretary, quote, we should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department.
00:17:25.000By the way, the IG also reports that all emails from Hillary Clinton, all emails from Hillary Clinton between January 21st, 2009, when she became Secretary of State, and April 12th, 2009, have disappeared.
00:17:35.000All of the ones that she sent in that initial three month period, they're gone.
00:17:51.000The Office of Inspector General says openly the Secretary never requested or obtained guidance or approval to do any of this.
00:17:59.000There are legal penalties to all of this, so this is all hurting Hillary Clinton, even among people on the left.
00:18:04.000So Wolf Blitzer has on one of Hillary's spokespeople about her emails, and here is Hillary's spokesperson, who's trying to explain it away.
00:18:11.000It looks as if she's got something to hide when she doesn't even want to answer questions from the Inspector General of the State Department.
00:18:19.000Look, Wolf, if she had anything to hide, she wouldn't be volunteering since last August to go face questions from the Justice Department, where the stakes will be much higher than this State Department IG investigation.
00:18:31.000And as I said, the appropriateness of the State Department IG's office conducting this review at the same time when the Justice Department was already looking to this same issue is an open question.
00:18:41.000There were questions raised about this office during the course of its investigation.
00:18:46.000There were reports about individuals in this office coming forward and suggesting that there were hints of an anti-Clinton bias inside that office.
00:18:55.000All of that added up to... That's interesting.
00:18:57.000Are you accusing the Inspector General of the State Department of having an anti-Clinton bias?
00:19:02.000And once again, this Inspector General was named by President Obama.
00:19:06.000Actually, Wolf, I think the report today backs up much of what we were saying and includes an appropriate amount of context about how widespread the use of personal email was.
00:19:34.000And you people are going to get behind Hillary.
00:19:36.000Even Hillary's allies are beginning to look at Hillary as scant now.
00:19:39.000Andrea Mitchell over on MSNBC is a huge Hillary fan.
00:19:42.000She says that this report is devastating.
00:19:45.000It was not allowed to not return those records before she left the State Department.
00:19:50.000She violated the Official Records Act according to her own State Department IG appointed by President Obama.
00:19:59.000What you have shown just now, Mika, is
00:20:01.000Completely undercuts the argument she's been making for more than a year, just as she is trying to persuade voters that she's not untrustworthy.
00:20:08.000I think that the most surprising and in some ways shocking thing is their reaction, claiming that this is the same as what former secretaries did.
00:20:16.000The comparison they're making to Colin Powell.
00:20:18.000The facts are that Colin Powell was the first Secretary of State to ever use email.
00:20:23.000He used it specifically to try to launch the State Department into the new century and try to get people to communicate by email.
00:20:51.000So Andrea Mitchell is ripping Hillary up and down.
00:20:54.000This is a sight you never thought you would see, right?
00:20:55.000Hillary is so corrupt that even Andrea Mitchell is ripping her up and down.
00:20:58.000CNN's Dana Bash doing the exact same thing, saying this scandal really, really hurts Hillary Clinton.
00:21:03.000This feeds directly into the narrative that her opponents, Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side and ultimately Republicans led by Donald Trump in a general election, will be hammering her on.
00:21:18.000And in politics, it is the existing narrative and the ability by opponents to feed into that that is the most damaging.
00:21:31.000Hillary Clinton, bad on TV, not personable, not interesting, not funny, and totally self-absorbed.
00:21:39.000With Donald Trump, who's going out there at the beginning of his giant rallies and saying that he wants to sing the national anthem even if there's no time, and he's going out on national TV and he's saying that we should give money to charity if you want to debate me, let's give money to the poor people.
00:21:51.000It's a bad juxtaposition for Hillary Clinton, and the bad juxtaposition keeps getting worse because the protesters in favor of Hillary and Bernie Sanders keep doing things that make Trump look good.
00:22:01.000So, I mean, for example, here's a piece of tape.
00:22:03.000You're about to see an anti-Trump protester dump water on a Trump fan.
00:22:43.000Now, all of that said, it's important to recognize that Trump's brand of nationalism, his brand of patriotism, is an empty vessel.
00:22:49.000It's an empty vessel into which he can pour any policy he wants.
00:22:52.000So long as he wraps himself in the flag, everybody says, well, at least he's wrapping himself in the flag, at least he likes the flag, as opposed to Hillary and her ilk.
00:23:00.000We've now got politics for third graders, right?
00:23:02.000It's two opposing parties, and you have to buy into one of them, otherwise you're a traitor to the cause.
00:23:09.000Donald Trump is, again, he's still unpalatable, and I don't... Listen, I don't want to hammer this home, but every day I'm gonna call it like I see it.
00:23:37.000If you think that Trump is too bad to vote for, that's your decision.
00:23:40.000That's been my decision, is that I don't want him becoming the leader of my ideological movement, which is his goal, as we'll talk about right now.
00:23:46.000Donald Trump says, by the way, that he wants the GOP to look different now.
00:23:49.000So what does he want the GOP to look like?
00:23:52.000Quote, five, 10 years from now, different party.
00:23:54.000You're going to have a workers party, a party of people that haven't had a real wage increase in 18 years that are angry.
00:24:12.000Whenever people talk about a workers' party, typically what they mean is the government coming in and taking money away from some people and giving it to the workers, right?
00:24:19.000The idea being that if you're a speculator on Wall Street, if you're a hedge fund manager, if you're a business person, if you're somebody who makes money in finance, if you're a lawyer, if you're a doctor, if you're not a worker, right?
00:24:29.000Then you have to be punished because you're not the guy in the Rust Belt.
00:24:32.000That's what Donald Trump wants to build.
00:24:34.000And this is what Donald Trump is going to fill this sort of empty patriotism he's got with.
00:24:38.000And it's empty because my patriotism is based on the idea of American exceptionalism.
00:24:43.000And America's not exceptional because we have different borders or because the land is so great.
00:24:47.000America's exceptional because of the ideals upon which it was founded.
00:24:51.000These basic conservative ideas about the nature of man and the nature of government.
00:24:56.000I'm patriotic because I believe that America's founding ideals are the greatest founding ideals ever created for any country in the history of mankind.
00:25:03.000And that's why I'm an American patriot.
00:25:05.000Trump doesn't understand those ideals.
00:25:06.000Trump is just for America because America is where he is.
00:25:09.000What's funny is that Barack Obama once said that he believed in American patriotism in the same way that a Greek person probably believes in Greek patriotism or a British person believes in British patriotism.
00:25:19.000Trump actually believes the same thing.
00:25:21.000He just actually believes that, right?
00:25:22.000Trump actually believes in the flag and motherhood and apple pie, but he doesn't understand why.
00:25:52.000And of course draws the natural juxtaposition to that famous picture of President Obama supposedly not putting his hand to his heart during the National Anthem in the 2008 race.
00:26:00.000And President Obama's statement he doesn't want to wear a flag pin because he thinks that that's devaluing.
00:26:07.000The real Trump is the guy who says the Republican Party must be transformed into a workers party.
00:26:12.000Not that we're going to use our ideas and appeal to working men and women who need jobs and can only be guaranteed those jobs by a free economy.
00:26:20.000No, he's going to be the man who stands up for the working class.
00:26:23.000He's going to make them promises that make your head swim.
00:27:25.000If the cameras weren't there, I might be saying something different, but since the cameras are there, I'll sort of say, okay, well, you know, you know, don't hurt him.
00:27:31.000I'm saying that just because you guys are watching, but he's a bad person.
00:28:19.000Okay, and then he continues by saying, he says there, your homes aren't going to be taken away, everything's going to stay the same, your job isn't going to be taken away.
00:28:28.000The fact is that these jobs are not being lost to illegal immigrants.
00:28:31.000Okay, there's not an IT guy who's losing his job to an illegal immigrant.
00:28:34.000These manufacturers in Ohio aren't losing their jobs to illegal immigrants, they're losing their jobs to global competition.
00:28:39.000They're losing their jobs to the fact that you can buy the labor cheaper elsewhere, and half the time that labor is cheaper in America down south, right?
00:29:52.000All the guy wants to do is kill people and go to war and kill people, even though he knows it's not working, although he doesn't know because he's not smart enough.
00:30:17.000But I just happened to see this guy in one of the shows the other day, Bill Kristol, he's got some magazine, I don't even know what the hell it is, and he's saying,
00:31:44.000I don't think Trump is an America first person in any real sense either.
00:31:46.000I think that he's an America first person in the sense that he thinks that what happens in the country matters more than what happens abroad, but I don't think that he's an American first person in that he believes in American principles.
00:31:56.000I really don't think that that's true.
00:31:58.000So, you know, that's the choice that's on people's hands.
00:32:01.000And I understand, as I've said before, I understand, I get it.
00:32:04.000If you say, every day I say this, this is now the official Ben Shapiro show disclaimer.
00:32:09.000If you say that you're voting for Donald Trump because he's not Hillary Clinton, but you see what a bad guy he is, I'm okay with that.
00:32:19.000If you start talking about Trump as though he's somebody who's praiseworthy or trustworthy, or Donald Trump is going to be the savior of the country, or Donald Trump is going to come into office and he's not going to pervert conservatism in any way, and the thousands of people who show up to his rallies buying into this mumbo-jumbo, that those people are not going to see conservatism as something that it's not,
00:32:38.000At least acknowledge the risks of what is happening here.
00:32:40.000But, all of that said, Trump is very good at this, and if you have to handicap this race right now, you have to assume that if the race continues to go like this, then Hillary has a lot of problems.
00:32:48.000One of those problems, by the way, is Hillary herself.
00:32:51.000There was this meme, this web ad that was going around, and nobody seems to be able to identify the source of this web ad, but it's really...
00:32:59.000It's this ad, and if you can't see this, folks, this is why you need to subscribe to Daily Wire.
00:33:43.000So, Hillary and syphilis, the gift that keeps on giving.
00:33:47.000But second of all, Hillary's so bad at this, she's alienating the very people that she's attempting to draw, right?
00:33:52.000If you really want to draw men, the last thing you want to do is gelb them.
00:33:56.000The last thing you want to do is make them feel emasculated.
00:33:58.000There's not a man alive, not a man alive, who goes around saying, you know what I really want?
00:34:02.000I want a woman to call me not enough of a man if I don't do what she says.
00:34:05.000Right, that really makes me feel like a real man down deep, is when a woman orders me around and then if I refuse to obey, she says, well that's probably because you're a big pansy.
00:34:16.000Trump could very easily win this race just because Hillary is so bad at this.
00:34:19.000Now that said, the polls in the swing states don't particularly show this.
00:34:22.000They don't show Trump making inroads in Ohio.
00:34:24.000They don't show Trump making inroads in, for example, Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania, all areas where he's supposed to be doing well.
00:34:30.000But he's running a much better campaign than she has just on any objective level at this point, even if I think that his fundamental principles are deeply flawed.
00:35:23.000So there is a song, and I've mentioned this to people in the office, so Lindsey's already nodding because she knows where I'm going with this.
00:35:28.000There's a song in Pinocchio where Jiminy Cricket is singing to Pinocchio about the way you become a real boy.
00:35:34.000The whole movie is about how you become a moral human being, right?
00:35:38.000You want to be a real boy, you have to be responsible for yourself, and you have to make moral decisions.
00:35:43.000And so Jiminy Cricket comes along, and the Blue Fairy says he's going to be Pinocchio's conscience.
00:35:48.000And so here's the song he sings about what you have to do if you want to become a real boy, basically.
00:35:53.000Now you see, the world is full of temptation.
00:36:00.000They're the wrong things that seem right at the time.
00:36:02.000But, uh, even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, sometimes the wrong things may be right at the wrong time, or, uh, vice versa.
00:37:58.000I think it's a bad movie, I think the plot is bad, I think it doesn't make any sense, but beyond that, the morality that is promulgated in Frozen... The most popular song from this movie is Let It Go, right?
00:38:18.000Now, of course, the gay left wants to make Ilsa a lesbian because it was funny.
00:38:22.000When this movie came out, there were a few commentators who said that this whole movie was basically supposed to be a gay metaphor.
00:38:27.000It was supposed to be... And there's... I don't think it's totally out of the realm of possibility, given the fact that the movie opens, basically, with this girl having issues, right, that are affecting her sister.
00:38:38.000And the parents literally lock her in a closet for 16 years, right?
00:38:56.000Now they're saying they want to make her a lesbian, of course.
00:38:58.000So, in any case, but this song in particular drives me up a wall.
00:39:02.000And the reason it drives me up a wall is because of this particular lyric.
00:39:05.000And we'll play the lyric and you'll see the difference between Pinocchio, and maybe I'll miss 1941 Pinocchio, between Pinocchio and Frozen.
00:39:15.000It's time to see what I can do To test the limits and break the rule No right, no wrong, no rules for me I'm free
00:40:55.000But if you taught the messages of Pinocchio to kids today, that would be considered intolerant, and nasty, and close-minded, because who knows?
00:41:02.000Maybe Pinocchio's idea of what's right is not your idea of what's right.
00:41:06.000Instead, we should all just follow our instinct.
00:41:07.000We should all just follow temptation, to wherever it leads, and then we'll all be happier.
00:41:38.000There's no such thing as right or wrong.
00:41:39.000I feel free because I don't have to pay attention to those stodgy old rules that make sure that we can all operate with each other in a decent society.
00:41:46.000Those stodgy old rules that make sure that we don't hurt each other or mistreat each other.
00:41:57.000Reminder, if you subscribe through dailywire.com to this podcast, aside from seeing this beautiful face, you also get to email me and you get first priority in the mailbag.
00:42:32.000It's not that they have anything to gain, it's that Apple is staffed entirely by leftists and the way that they input the dictionary definition is a left way, right?
00:42:38.000The typical leftist thought has been fascism is of the left.
00:42:42.000Jonah Goldberg has a fabulous book called Liberal Fascism specifically about this.
00:43:08.000I mean, there are a bunch of different variables here.
00:43:10.000But when I say right, what I mean is traditional conservatism.
00:43:12.000Traditional conservatism is defined by a small state.
00:43:15.000It's defined by the idea that states should not intervene in things unless there are externalities, unless some third party is being impacted.
00:43:22.000The state should basically stay out of it and social institutions should ensure that the social fabric remains rich and that we're tied together.
00:43:28.000Ben writes, I was wondering two things.
00:43:30.000First, do you do the show in one take and do you do it extemporaneously or do you write some of it out first?
00:43:39.000The only stuff that I ever write is the monologue at the very beginning, so that's written out usually, but most of the rest of the show is totally extemporaneous.
00:43:57.000Well, the first book I'd recommend you read of mine is Bullies.
00:44:00.000That's the one that is the most popular anyway, and it sort of states my fundamental philosophy of politics, which is bullies need to be fought, and bullies are the people who call the guns when they don't get their political way.
00:44:12.000As far as my stance on minimum wage, no, you don't need a minimum wage.
00:44:15.000All minimum wage is, it's a way for the government to prevent two consenting people from entering into a contract.
00:44:20.000Understand, every job is me entering into a contract with somebody else.
00:44:24.000And that person has to agree to enter into the contract with me.
00:44:26.000I don't think any third party has the moral right to intervene in that deal.
00:44:31.000Any more than I think that a third party has a moral right to establish a maximum wage.
00:44:35.000I don't think the government should make a minimum wage or a maximum wage.
00:44:37.000I think the government should stay out of it.
00:44:39.000I get to sign a deal because I'm a free person, you're a free person, we get to do that together.
00:44:43.000Anne writes, I feel a little clueless, Ben.
00:44:45.000Can you explain what you mean specifically when you use the verb trolling?
00:44:49.000I'm a new subscriber, love the podcast with a view.
00:44:51.000Okay, Anne, when I use the word trolling, and I used it a couple of days ago, trolling is this phenomenon where you say something deliberately provocative just to elicit a response from the other side.
00:45:01.000You do something a little bit crazy, a little bit out there, just to drive the other side nuts.
00:45:06.000So if you're a real troll, then you spend all your time kind of insulting people on Twitter, because you're hoping they're gonna respond, and this makes you feel good about yourself.
00:45:13.000The entire alt-right is a bunch of trolls.
00:45:15.000So these are people who just throw out anti-semitic, racist, stupidity, and then when you say, God, that's pretty terrible what you're saying, they go, ha ha ha, I've got you now!
00:45:24.000This just proves that you think everybody's a racist or an anti-semite.
00:45:27.000It just proves that you care about these things.
00:45:29.000And the answer is, yes, and you're an a-hole, right?
00:45:46.000I read your article on why you wouldn't support a conservative third-party run, but I'm a huge fan of Romney.
00:45:51.000Not only would he pull support from Hillary and Trump, he could win states like Utah, Idaho, and maybe a few others.
00:45:56.000Do you see any scenario where conservatism is better off coalescing around Romney than waiting four years?
00:46:01.000Okay, Eric, so I wrote a column and I talked about on the show all the various reasons why I don't think a third-party run would be useful.
00:46:08.000Most of those reasons are tied to the fact that it wouldn't be successful.
00:46:10.000So if Romney were to run third party, I would vote for him.
00:46:13.000I would vote for him over both Hillary and over Trump, and it would be an easy call.
00:46:16.000I would lose no sleep whatsoever over voting for Mitt Romney.
00:46:20.000If Mitt Romney is the margin of loss for Donald Trump, however, you can guarantee that all of the people in the Republican Party are going to blame the conservatives for having thrown the election from Donald Trump to Mitt Romney, and therefore, they're going to insist that they come back around the next time around and browbeat everybody.
00:46:37.000Again, if Romney were to decide to jump in, I wouldn't oppose it, for sure.
00:46:41.000Do I think from scratch it's a great idea to run a third-party candidate?
00:46:44.000I don't, because I think the opposition to Trump and the opposition to Hillary is stronger than any one candidate, and I think it's kind of difficult to coalesce around any one guy.
00:46:56.000I mean, listen, I didn't even support Romney in the primaries in 2012, right?
00:46:59.000So I would back him against these other two, but as I've said before, in a different context, I would back a flaming bag of dog feces against either one of these two options.
00:47:08.000By the way, that in and of itself is hilarious.
00:47:17.000Should be facing pressure to be lefty is beyond me.
00:47:20.000I don't understand why the speed of objects falling and rising, you know, why friction?
00:47:24.000I don't understand why any of that has to do with politics, but the left, basically what you really mean is your sister is a professor, so she's getting pressure.
00:47:31.000So she is so so despite being a moderate conservative, she's now voting for Bernie.
00:47:36.000As much as I desperately want her to see reason, I'm worried I will beat her over the head with logic and facts instead of gently persuading her.
00:47:41.000Is there a nice way to undo liberal brainwashing?
00:47:44.000Also, it's nice to have your show to remind me I'm not crazy, it's everyone else that lost their mind.
00:47:47.000Okay, so, thank you, I appreciate that.
00:47:51.000The way to talk to family members, you have to talk to them on their own level.
00:47:54.000Some people are open to talk, some people aren't.
00:47:56.000If it's a waste of time to talk, don't bother.
00:47:58.000You know, browbeating people doesn't help on a one-to-one level.
00:48:01.000When it comes to talking with her, if you can't use facts and reason, then there's not really much to talk about.
00:48:07.000This person is so emotionally tied into the system that you're gonna have a rough time of it.
00:48:12.000The real way to argue with the Bernie Sanders crowd is to say what you are saying is fundamentally immoral.
00:48:16.000You don't get to steal money from other people just because they have more of it than you do.
00:48:53.000The books are, the first three, well let's say this, one is good, one is very good, two is weak, three is good again, and then the rest of the series is just...
00:49:03.000So I do follow the recaps of the shows online, mainly because I don't feel like waiting for the next 87 years for George R. R. Martin to bring out his next 800-page monstrosity.
00:49:13.000So I read the recaps of the show because it's ahead of the books now.
00:49:16.000But, you know, I find George R. R. Martin's universe really nihilistic.
00:50:04.000I was like, okay, I mean, I read it, but come on.
00:50:07.000And then they killed Rob, and then they killed Jon Snow, but they brought Jon Snow back, and whatever.
00:50:14.000I think that it started off with a great premise, and I understand the premise is anyone can die at any time.
00:50:19.000That's all fun and games, unless you kill everyone worth rooting for, and I end up rooting for Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton in Game of Thrones.
00:50:26.000It turns out the Lannisters against the Sands sisters is not a whole lot of fun.
00:50:33.000I'm not that interested in that particular battle.
00:50:36.000So, I'd much rather have a hero at some point in the story.
00:50:40.000Tyler writes, at what point, if at all, should the right embrace protectionist foreign policy with entities like China?
00:50:52.000All a trade deficit means, when you're talking about private parties, trade deficit, all that means is I'm buying stuff from people and they're selling me stuff.
00:51:08.000Most of Latin America had a trade surplus, but Venezuela has a trade surplus, last I checked, because they don't have the ability to buy anything.
00:51:16.000Some of the richest times in American history, we've had a trade deficit.
00:51:19.000Some of our poorest times, we've had a trade surplus.
00:51:22.000As far as using protectionism as foreign policy, this is an actual argument.
00:51:26.000Like, should we have tried to collapse the Chinese state back in the 1970s by jacking up the tariffs and crippling their economy?
00:51:31.000There's a case to be made on a moral level for that, but certainly not on an economic level.
00:52:24.000Make it easier for people to supply housing and the prices will fall.
00:52:27.000Texas is not having a problem with massive real estate bubbles because everybody can just move to the middle of nowhere and build stuff.
00:52:33.000So New York has a problem, LA has a problem, Chicago has a problem.
00:52:36.000Get rid of the restrictions and you'll get rid of the housing crisis.
00:52:39.000You also have to get rid of some of the business regulations so that people can actually work and be hired and make money.
00:52:44.000So, all right, we've reached the end of another week.
00:52:47.000Hope you have a wonderful weekend, and we will be back here on Monday for more celebration of the... Well, actually, sorry, no, no, no, Monday's a holiday.