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00:00:00.000In the latest proof that modern feminism harms women, a new poll shows that a broad majority of men say that women should be drafted into the military.
00:00:08.00061% of men think women should be drafted.
00:00:22.000Why is it that feminism only runs one way?
00:00:25.000In favor of special laws favoring women, when it comes to issues like childcare and maternity, but against equality of law with regard to the draft.
00:00:33.000Men used to understand that one of the main hallmarks of masculinity was the protection and defense of women.
00:00:38.000Despite feminist harpies shrieking on like banshees about how women don't need protection, treatment of females around the world demonstrates just how dire life is for women when men are not protecting them, because then I'm victimizing them generally.
00:00:49.000Men used to take pride in the idea of protecting women.
00:00:52.000They used to think that building a family, protecting your wife and children, that's what made you a man in the first place.
00:00:58.000Now, all that makes you a man is your penis.
00:01:00.000Well, not even your penis, since the transgender movement has declared that biological women can also be men.
00:01:06.000In fact, there's no such thing as manhood in the left's brave new world, other than when you have to blame men for violence or say that we need a female president because men are so terrible.
00:01:14.000Of course, all of which contradicts itself.
00:01:16.000So, why wouldn't men buy into this brave new world?
00:01:19.000In this brave new world, the great beneficiaries are men.
00:01:22.000They don't wish to abide by traditional standards of masculinity.
00:01:48.000The left has declared that women should be drafted and then siphoned into combat units, even if that means lowering the physical standards for service.
00:01:55.000The left can't complain about men wanting to draft women, so long as they keep proclaiming that equality of the sexes requires sameness of the sexes.
00:02:02.000Or worse, if they keep saying, sex itself doesn't exist.
00:02:06.000There are plenty of men who are willing to take advantage of that rather convenient argument.
00:02:11.000...tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.
00:02:18.000So, first things first, you need to go to dailywarrior.com right now and subscribe to this podcast so you can not only see my beautiful face and the magnificent shirts that I wear each day, but also so that you can get your emails in for the mailbag, because the Vaunted Ben Shapiro Show mailbag, the most exclusive mailbag in all the land, is coming up today, and you could be part of it if you so chose.
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00:02:55.000Okay, so, this week has basically been about how this election is terrible.
00:03:00.000In fact, this entire election cycle has been about this election being quite awful in every possible way.
00:03:05.000Today I want to talk about how this election is awful in every possible way.
00:03:30.000Donald Trump is terrible and indefensible, but he becomes defensible when you put him up against the absolute trash heap that is Hillary Clinton.
00:03:39.000So, for example, Donald Trump this week... Here's the problem, okay?
00:03:42.000People like me, I want to vote against Hillary Clinton.
00:04:09.000You just upsell people on these seminars that don't really exist, and get them to max out their credit cards, and you give them the hard sell and all this.
00:04:16.000Well, Trump was very upset because the judge in his case said that he released a bunch of documents in this case to the general public.
00:04:24.000Here is Donald Trump going after the judge.
00:04:28.000I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump.
00:05:03.000If I say that somebody opposes me just because they're black, as opposed to because they're a leftist who happens to be black, then that makes me a racist.
00:05:10.000If I say that someone holds a particular opinion because of their race, not because of their place of origin or their culture, but because of their race or their ethnicity, this judge was born in Indiana, okay?
00:05:31.000the female Chris Hayes, you never see Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes in the same place at the same time.
00:05:37.000I guess during this particular broadcast, she didn't wear the MSNBC smart-making glasses that all of the other hosts wear, but Rachel Maddow, she goes after Donald Trump, and here's the problem.
00:05:47.000I think Rachel Maddow is wrong on everything, but she isn't totally wrong here.
00:05:52.000The judge who happens to be, we believe, Mexican.
00:06:02.000Donald Trump is more than insinuating that the judge is mishandling this particular case related to Donald Trump because of the sound of this guy's name.
00:06:35.000The Republican candidate for president this year is flat out attacking a judge in a case Mr. Trump is involved in, and he's attacking the judge explicitly and unambiguously on the basis of the judge's ethnicity.
00:06:49.000He's been doing that for months with this judge.
00:06:51.000Even before that judge today released some pretty damning records about Trump University from that legal... Okay, we can stop this here.
00:07:36.000I think that was the single greatest cause of what happened to my marriage with Ivana.
00:07:43.000Well, okay, I think the single greatest cause is probably nailing other women on the side.
00:07:46.000That was probably why things started to fail there, because you're an egomaniac who's nailing women on the side.
00:07:51.000By the way, if you want to say working with your spouse is a mistake, that's one thing, but putting your wife to work... In the entire clip, he says, I don't want to sound chauvinistic, but putting your wife to work is a really dangerous thing.
00:08:04.000Okay, this is borderline defensible, but it's not all that defensible.
00:08:08.000Now, what's funny is that there are people like me.
00:08:10.000I want people to go back in the Wayback Machine with me all the way back to October.
00:08:13.000So back in October, I spoke at the University of Missouri, and I was specifically asked about voting for Trump.
00:08:17.000And I said I would vote for a flaming pile of dog crap over Hillary Clinton.
00:08:21.000The flaming pile of dog crap, in this case, being Donald Trump.
00:08:24.000And then, over the next few months, his character was exposed, and by March, by early March, I declared I could not vote for him.
00:08:32.000David French, who's going to probably run for president as sort of the never-Trump ticket guy.
00:08:37.000David French, the columnist from National Review, we talked about at length yesterday.
00:08:41.000People in the Trump campaign are trotting around this clip of David French from last November saying basically the same thing that I said in October.
00:08:49.000Here's David French talking about whether he'd vote for Trump.
00:08:53.000So what do you do if Donald Trump does indeed win the nomination?
00:08:57.000What do I do if I vote for Donald Trump?
00:09:00.000I'm not one of these Republicans who said, or conservatives who says, well, I'm just going to take my ball and go home.
00:09:08.000As much as I don't trust that Donald Trump is going to go into office and advance the conservative values that he claims to have recently embraced, and as many concerns as I have about some of his other positions,
00:09:24.000He's not in the same league as Hillary Clinton, who I believe should be indicted before the election for her mishandling of classified information, or Bernie Sanders, a socialist who just proposed one of the largest government expansions and tax increases.
00:09:43.000So the Trump people, so the Trump people are trotting this out as proof that David French really is just, he's incoherent, he flip-flopped on Trump.
00:10:07.000I've written many pieces from June, when Trump declared, all the way up through February, where I was defending, and even now, where I defend Trump from charges that I think are false about Donald Trump.
00:10:17.000However, however, new evidence means you change your opinion and Donald Trump just says too many things that are indefensible.
00:10:23.000Now, Donald Trump has the benefit of running against a woman who's even more indefensible than he is.
00:10:27.000So Hillary Clinton has trotted out this week her new strategy for attacking Donald Trump.
00:10:32.000And it's the same as her old strategy for attacking Donald Trump.
00:10:35.000Her old strategy for attacking Donald Trump was basically
00:10:41.000The New York Times today runs this piece about Hillary speaking in San Diego today, and they say that she's going to make an argument.
00:10:47.000Quote, The argument will include specific criticism of comments Mr. Trump has made about rethinking the U.S.'
00:10:52.000's support of NATO, his proposal to allow Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons, his vow to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States, and his pledge to advance the use of torture and kill the families of suspected terrorists.
00:11:05.000But Mrs. Clinton will also invoke her experiences as Secretary of State, including in 2011, when she supported President Obama's decision to send Navy SEALs on a raid in Pakistan that killed Bin Laden.
00:11:16.000And she's going to make the case that Mr. Trump does not have the temperament to make such decisions.
00:11:20.000Okay, so here is the problem for Hillary Clinton.
00:11:23.000And it's a problem for the media, too.
00:11:25.000So, a lot of the critiques she's making of Trump are totally valid.
00:11:30.000His proposal to allow Japan and South Korea and Saudi Arabia to go nuclear is ridiculous.
00:11:35.000His proposal about barring Muslims from the United States is ill-grounded, as I have explained before.
00:11:41.000Muslims entering the United States should be given a higher level of scrutiny, but to suggest that no Muslim ever should get into the United States assumes a level of incompetence by our authorities that would result in nuclear war no matter what.
00:12:07.000Today, for example, CNN ran a chyron about Donald Trump.
00:12:10.000Trump said, I never said Japan should have nuclear weapons.
00:12:13.000He did say that Japan should have nuclear weapons.
00:12:16.000So CNN ran a chyron, and it said, Trump says he'd never wanted Japan to have nuclear weapons.
00:12:21.000And then in parentheses, they put, not true, or he did, right?
00:12:25.000Well, where exactly was CNN when it was President Obama pledges you can keep your doctor, parentheses, not true, right?
00:12:32.000If you're gonna fact check people, you have to fact check everybody.
00:12:35.000Trump has played on the fact that the media is so biased in order to destroy the media.
00:12:39.000Now it's very easy for him to play this same exact game with Hillary Clinton.
00:12:43.000Because Hillary can make all of these well-founded accusations against Trump, but Trump has the easiest comebacks in the world available.
00:12:48.000First of all, if Hillary is trying to suggest that Trump wouldn't have pulled the trigger on Bin Laden, that's asinine.
00:12:54.000Trump certainly would have pulled the trigger on Bin Laden.
00:12:56.000Because anybody with half a brain would have pulled the trigger on Bin Laden.
00:13:00.000Obama delayed and shilly-shallied for literally days while we had this guy in the crosshairs.
00:13:07.000The fact is, it's not going to be a tough thing to convince Trump to go after Bin Laden.
00:13:09.000It's going to be a tough thing to convince Trump from going after Rosie O'Donnell.
00:13:13.000And we're not going to have a problem trying to convince Trump not to shoot, to shoot people.
00:13:16.000We're going to have a tough time convincing Trump not to shoot people.
00:13:19.000But the problem for Hillary Clinton is that Hillary, as I've said before, is bad at everything and also indefensible.
00:13:25.000So, for example, she sent out this stream of tweets about Donald Trump and Trump University.
00:13:29.000And it's the easiest thing in the world, the easiest thing in the world for Donald Trump to come back at all of these, which is why in a debate between Hillary and Trump, there's no guarantee Hillary does well.
00:13:38.000She can't even beat Bernie Sanders in a debate.
00:13:40.000So, for example, she tweets, All he has to say back to Hillary Clinton is, Clinton Foundation.
00:13:54.000She tweets, it's one thing to sell steaks using a name as a marketing ploy.
00:13:58.000Trump's company intentionally put people at risk.
00:14:01.000Lady, you went to sleep while four Americans were fighting for their lives on a rooftop in Benghazi, and you intentionally put America's national security at risk so you could keep all your emails on a private server so that nobody could know what you were talking about.
00:14:13.000All of these are the easiest comebacks in the world.
00:14:23.000Says the lady who took $200,000 from Goldman Sachs to give a speech she won't release to the general public.
00:14:28.000And she says, the Trump University cons has a lot about Trump.
00:14:31.000If you can't trust him with your personal finances, how can we trust him with our country?
00:14:36.000Hey, Hillary, you were broke when you got out of the White House, darling.
00:14:38.000And then Terry McAuliffe guaranteed your personal home loans that you could establish fake residency in New York for purposes of running for office.
00:14:45.000And then you traded favors at the Clinton Foundation from the Secretary of State position for cash donations to the Clinton Foundation.
00:14:52.000Like, again, the easiest thing in the world.
00:16:47.000First, for folks who can't see this, she gets off, she starts waving her arms around and dancing toward the camera, and then she sticks her mug right in the camera, and she goes, I'm here in Jersey!
00:17:01.000And it's like the Maw of Hell opening up right in front of the camera.
00:17:04.000It's like the scene from... This actually is like the scene from Ghostbusters, where suddenly the Maw of Hell opens up behind Sigourney Weaver.
00:17:12.000And that punim, that face, that delightful visage, could be the President of the United States.
00:17:17.000People look at this and they go, oh my god.
00:17:19.000This crazy old bag lady is gonna be the president of the United States, or we could have the at least amusing crazy real estate guy who used to be a reality TV star.
00:17:51.000They're the equivalents of one another.
00:17:53.000But again, they're making the case, in order to make the indefensible defensible for Donald Trump,
00:17:59.000All you really need, and this is the case that, again, this is the case that's made, vote for Trump over Hillary, all you need is somebody just terrible enough to not be Trump.
00:18:08.000Hillary, Obama, that entire administration are so terrible that it makes it very easy for people to look and then pull the trigger for Donald Trump.
00:18:16.000So, just to extend this, Hillary Clinton's State Department, you know, she no longer runs the State Department, but the State Department she staffed.
00:18:22.000That State Department, you remember we talked about this a few weeks ago, they chopped out a section of a State Department press conference in which a tough question was asked about Iran.
00:18:30.000They sliced it out because they didn't want that to be exposed, that they'd lied about Iran.
00:18:35.000Now the State Department is thanking, first they said, we didn't cut this out on purpose, it was just a big mistake.
00:18:41.000This section that we cut out, we didn't cut it out on purpose, it was just a huge, huge error, oopsies, can't imagine how that happened.
00:18:47.000Now they're admitting that it was in fact cut out, it wasn't a mistake,
00:18:51.000Here it was on Fox News, thanking Fox for uncovering the edit.
00:18:55.000Well, we took this seriously, for one.
00:19:00.000Actually, before I answer your question, I want to thank James Rosen, your correspondent, for bringing this to my attention.
00:19:07.000Because if he hadn't, a couple of weeks ago, I would never have known that this occurred.
00:19:18.000Number two, we took it seriously and we did talk to the technician who was on duty that day and who was asked to make this cut.
00:19:25.000And the call that came in to her was actually a call from somebody else passing on a request from another official and that's why it sort of, so it was two removed.
00:19:54.000Why don't you mention Donald Trump by name?
00:19:56.000You know, he seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.
00:19:59.000So, I figure, you know, I'll let him do his advertising for him.
00:20:05.000Okay, he mentions his own name enough.
00:20:07.000Says the most arrogant man ever on the planet, forever, for eternity.
00:20:12.000Says a man who literally accepted his nomination on a Greek Pantheon stage, surrounded by columns, in a stadium of 60,000 people, and declared himself a blank screen upon which people could project their visions of humanity.
00:20:25.000Yeah, that guy's criticizing Donald Trump.
00:20:27.000And it's so easy to fall into this trap, folks.
00:20:29.000It's so easy to fall into this and say, yeah, God, I mean, these people, they can't, there's no fair criticism of Trump because all these people have blown their own credibility.
00:20:39.000And so we laugh when they blow their credibility.
00:20:41.000We laugh when they make, clearly Trump is under Obama's skin and it's humorous because people have been trying to get under Trump's skin, under Obama's skin for his entire presidency.
00:20:50.000And Trump does it effortlessly because he's a troll.
00:20:53.000So, for example, here's Obama speaking yesterday.
00:20:56.000People are making a big deal out of this because suddenly Obama, this glib, smooth guy on the stump, suddenly he's reduced to a stammering wreck, apparently.
00:21:06.000If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion, if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okey-doke,
00:21:25.000Just because it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative?
00:21:39.000Then we're not going to build on the progress that we started.
00:22:02.000But it's true, clearly Trump is under Obama's skin a little bit, and that's enjoyable, because everybody looks at Obama and they say, you're not just a tool, you're an entire tool bag.
00:22:11.000I mean, you're the entire Home Depot tool section.
00:22:15.000So when someone gets under your skin, we're happy about that.
00:22:18.000When Trump gets under the skin of people like Joy Behar over at The View, which is the repository for all stupid on planet Earth, The View,
00:22:26.000Joy Behar, first of all, this, everyone on this show, you know, I'm, this show is, our show is both visual and audio, and we deserve it because I'm a deeply handsome human, but the, the look on the, the, who chose, I mean, it's, it's,
00:22:42.000They've reduced me to Obama-level stuttering here because you look at the people on The View and you think, how did anyone think putting these people in front of a camera would be a good idea for technology and the world?
00:22:56.000Here's Joy Behar explaining that Trump is a crackhead.
00:23:00.000Can you imagine him, like, offending a judge?
00:23:02.000He's like, Your Honor, that dumb robe.
00:23:03.000My favorite thing is that North Korea is excited about him being president.
00:23:10.000Well, you know what Chris Rock says, crackhead go with crackhead.
00:23:17.000Let me just say with the guy from, one of the guys from North Korea.
00:23:46.000The problem is that there is a conflation now, and the conflation is he has the right enemies, therefore he must be saying the right things.
00:25:32.000He pretends that anti-semitism and racism are just people cleverly getting off.
00:25:36.000And just because he has the right opponents doesn't necessarily mean he's saying the right things.
00:25:40.000But because he has the right opponents, and because he has a British accent, people think that he's wise and smart.
00:25:44.000So here's Milo talking about the bogus cult of social justice, and what he's saying here is exactly right.
00:25:49.000What Milo says here is exactly right, and this is a very Trump thing.
00:25:53.000Milo is basically Trump's kind of shadow.
00:25:55.000He just imitates Trump in everything from his tweeting to his speech patterns.
00:25:59.000Here is Milo doing his best Trump impression, correctly diagnosing the problem of social justice warriors, but offering exactly the wrong solutions very often.
00:26:09.000There's no question whatsoever that American College campuses and the American media is infected with a disease.
00:26:52.000Pushing back against the people who want to control what you say, what you think, what you do, who you read, what video games you play, what language you can use, how you can dress, who you can hang out with.
00:27:55.000Milo, you know, wouldn't know the difference between an Al-Qaeda tweet and some of his alt-right tweets, but I guess they would both be just wonderful examples of trolling, presumably.
00:28:04.000Again, Milo has the right opponents, and he has the wrong solutions.
00:28:09.000And this is fairly typical, and we're starting to see this conflation.
00:28:11.000This conflation between right opponents, wrong principles.
00:28:14.000And this is what I don't like about the Trump movement.
00:30:24.000You'll see this slide from the decent to the indecent because people want to fall in love with the person they're backing against the opposition.
00:30:31.000They want to ignore all the things that are wrong.
00:30:33.000There's a halo effect that exists in human psychology.
00:30:37.000The halo effect typically is associated with beauty.
00:30:38.000So if you see a good-looking girl, for example, you're going to tend to think that she's smarter than she is.
00:30:43.000If you see somebody who is charming, you're going to think that they're also rich.
00:30:47.000There's a halo effect that if you like somebody, you tend to whitewash everything they do.
00:30:52.000People like Trump because of who he's hitting, and they're whitewashing everything that he does, and it makes it really easy to do that when his opposition is really so terrible on the left side of the aisle.
00:31:01.000They're so awful, and Hillary Clinton is so awful at this.
00:31:04.000And so, it's going to make this conflation ever bigger, and that conflation is going to take over the party.
00:31:08.000It's going to take over the conservative movement.
00:31:10.000There's a poll today, it shows that Republicans are consolidating behind Trump more than they have consolidated behind any Republican candidate since 1980, except for Mitt Romney in the last election cycle at this point in time.
00:31:21.000So this idea that there's a bunch of us, these never-Trumpers, we're going to sink the Trump movement, there aren't that many of us.
00:31:27.000There are some of us who think that principle matters more than just electing somebody who's going to rip away all those principles.
00:31:34.000There are a lot of people who are going to jump on the bandwagon and claim that Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
00:31:38.000They're not going to fight against the social justice warriors.
00:31:40.000They're going to pretend that Trump is their fighter and channels all of their anger.
00:31:45.000And it's going to bleed over into... If you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound with Trump is sort of the short story of this.
00:31:51.000If you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound.
00:31:53.000And so the same Trump who says the stuff about Mexicans is the same Trump who says the stuff about the media.
00:31:58.000So you like what he says about the media, unless you're willing to sit there and parse it and point out honestly what he says that's good and what he says that's bad, you're gonna wind up in the same barrel as Donald Trump.
00:32:08.000And the final note here, you're going to end up doing exactly what this guy does.
00:32:13.000There's a video of a Trump Latino supporter, and this of course is big news because we found the one Trump Latino supporter, and he cut this tape that's now gone viral because Trump supporters are very into it.
00:32:26.000Watch the glowing, glowing terms in which he speaks of Donald Trump.
00:33:20.000For too long, the American people have had a commander-in-chief who has put them last.
00:33:25.000We are in the position we are in today because of an incompetent commander-in-chief, because of politically correct politicians who have lied to, who have cheated Americans, and that can no longer happen.
00:33:37.000Donald Trump, every single one of his policies is about putting Americans first.
00:33:42.000It's about being not politically correct.
00:33:44.000It's about telling the truth to Americans.
00:33:46.000Donald Trump has a track record of success.
00:33:49.000Donald Trump has a track record of not being politically correct, and that is why I support him.
00:34:12.000But he has to conflate that with Donald Trump is the orange god king who will descend from on high and save us all.
00:34:18.000And Trump is, he's going to tell, these people are going to be very disappointed if Trump is elected because he's not going to be able to actually do all the things he's promised he's going to do.
00:34:48.000For those folks who've lost their job right now because a plant went down to Mexico,
00:34:54.000You know, that isn't going to make you feel better.
00:34:57.000And so what we have to do is to make sure that folks are trained for the jobs that are coming in now, because some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back.
00:35:11.000And when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned, who I'm not going to advertise for, that he's going to bring all these jobs back, well, how exactly are you going to do that?
00:35:42.000Okay, what he said there, every word of it is true.
00:35:45.000Every word that Obama, this is the first time in his entire career he's not lying, maybe the second time he talked about campus censorship and he was right about that.
00:35:51.000He's, everything he says here is true.
00:35:53.000Technology is what is killing jobs, it is not outsourcing.
00:35:56.000And the fact is that if you want to talk about why this is happening, bringing jobs back to the United States, you could do some of it by getting rid of Obama's regulations, but that's not what Trump is talking about.
00:36:05.000Contrast what Obama is saying about the economy with what Trump says he's going to do with the economy.
00:36:09.000Let him tell them you're gonna pay a damn tax when you leave this country and you think you're gonna sell product because we're all so stupid.
00:36:18.000We have leaders that don't know what they're doing.
00:36:21.000We have leaders that are stupid people.
00:36:23.000And we have leaders that are corrupt people.
00:36:25.000They're controlled by their campaign contributions.
00:36:28.000And believe me, if I were in office right now, Carrier would not be leaving Indiana.
00:36:36.000So he says that if he were in office, he'd be basically barring companies from moving their jobs to different locations in or outside the United States.
00:36:49.000If we've learned nothing over the last 16 years of politics, if we've learned nothing over my lifetime in politics, don't trust politicians, don't trust promises they make you.
00:36:57.000The person who promises you least is the person who you can probably trust the most.
00:37:01.000Because they can all make promises, but none of them can cash it.
00:37:35.000She goes to bed around eight o'clock every night.
00:37:37.000And then, if we were smart, we would also go to bed within, like, half an hour.
00:37:41.000Because we have a second baby, and the baby boy, he's got his days and his nights mixed up.
00:37:46.000So he's been staying up all hours, partying it up till three in the morning, and forcing me to sleep in another room, basically, if I want to get any sleep at all.
00:37:55.000And my wife is on the verge of collapse.
00:37:57.000Part of the reason for that is because we're stupid.
00:38:01.000The first baby goes to bed, and then we sit there, the second baby sort of falls asleep, which we shouldn't let him do, and we sit there and we watch this show, The Man in the High Castle.
00:40:18.000That the Nazis were just these monsters who existed some time out of history, they were plopped down here by aliens, and human beings have no tendency to be fascistic or tyrannical.
00:40:27.000We don't have to guard against the possibility of that from our government, we don't have to guard against the possibility of it in ourselves.
00:40:33.000Only a crazy person would end up like this.
00:40:36.000The reality is, and what the series shows, is that the Nazis were people too.
00:40:40.000They were just very bad people who believed very bad things.
00:40:42.000And some of them were good people with families and dogs, who believed truly terrible things.
00:40:46.000And so that's what's really fascinating about the series.
00:41:36.000Okay, if Bud Light thinks that the people who drink Bud Light are desperate to talk about same-sex marriage, they're out of their damn minds.
00:41:44.000Can I understand that they're trying to use their corporate power to push particular points of view?
00:41:50.000That just demonstrates to you that it has nothing to do with catering to the market, because the market is not sitting there going, you know what I need?
00:41:55.000When I'm drinking a beer and watching the football game, what I really want to be thinking about is Steve and Joe making out.
00:42:01.000That's really what I'm thinking about right now.
00:42:03.000It just demonstrates that people always say, well, Hollywood's just driven by the dollar.
00:42:07.000No, Hollywood's also driven by their social justice ideology, and this is just an example of this.
00:42:11.000It's silly in every way, and it's not even funny.
00:42:15.000I mean, beyond that, it's just bad quality commercial making, but they have to leverage everything.
00:42:20.000Yale students are now telling English professors that they need to stop teaching English because there are too many dead white male poets that they're reading.
00:42:27.000They say that this creates a culture that is hostile to students of color,
00:42:31.000They say when students are made to feel so alienated they get up and leave the room or get up and leave the major, something is wrong.
00:42:37.000It's time for an English major to decolonize, not diversify its course offerings.
00:42:41.000We need more different poets relating to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability, even engage with critical theory or secondary scholarship.
00:42:51.000In other words, stop teaching Shakespeare or Milton and start teaching
00:42:56.000I mean, this is the destruction of standards.
00:42:59.000When you say that there are no standards of good and bad in art, I've discussed this before, when you say there's no standards of good and bad in art, all that matters is the identity of the creator, art no longer exists.
00:43:09.000Because the identity of the creator doesn't matter at all.
00:43:55.000Christopher writes, Do you watch South Park?
00:43:57.000Okay, I haven't made a habit of watching South Park, but whenever I've watched it, I've thought it's hysterically funny.
00:44:02.000Particularly, the safe space stuff is unbelievable.
00:44:05.000The last season, I did watch a couple of episodes, and it is very, very funny and clever.
00:44:09.000I've never been an adult cartoon person, but what I've seen is genius, and of course, Team America is a hysterically funny movie that is not safe for work.
00:45:05.000The one thing I've said about the Constitution, I don't think that the Constitution is going to save us, because I think that you need a population that actually cares about the Constitution.
00:45:13.000But, as I've said before, I wrote my third year law paper.
00:45:24.000But I wrote my third-year law paper at Harvard Law School on the proposition that the Supreme Court should not have the power to overrule Congress and the President of the United States when it comes to judicial review on constitutional grounds, because that hands way too much power to the Supreme Court of the United States to pervert the Constitution as they see fit.
00:45:41.000They're not elected, they're selected, and they're there for life, so that's a problem.
00:45:44.000That would be my main change to the Constitution.
00:45:47.000I would also suggest, if you're gonna do a constitutional amendment, I would also suggest that we have a constitutional amendment that no bill can be longer than 10 pages and they all have to be in plain English.
00:45:57.000No, none of this, we're gonna wrap a thousand pages into a package that nobody has ever read, and then, surprise, we'll have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it.
00:46:05.000Daniel writes, My question is, should a conservative be elected, wouldn't it be a better scenario to pay off the pensions of the baby boomers in Generation X who are finishing or in the middle of their careers and inform millennials to start saving and investing wisely for retirement?
00:46:25.000Daniel, this is exactly what Paul Ryan has said.
00:46:27.000I think Matt Bevin has said the same thing.
00:46:29.000Cutting pensions is not necessary for people who are already in the middle of their pensions.
00:46:34.000I mean, we're talking about Social Security, for example.
00:46:37.000What you have to do is you have to phase it out, because if we keep going in this direction, the country will be bankrupt.
00:46:41.000So, people like me, I shouldn't be getting Social Security.
00:46:44.000And by the way, neither should anybody my age.
00:46:47.000We should just say, no more social security.
00:46:50.000Even if you're going to... First of all, I don't think the government has the right to take away my money to protect me from myself.
00:46:55.000I don't think they have that right in the first place.
00:46:57.000If you were going to suggest that they should do that, the best thing you could do is say, OK, take your money and put it in bonds.
00:47:04.000Take your money, put it in a bank account, and it's going to stay there, and it's going to accrue a 3% rate of interest for the rest of your life.
00:47:10.000Take it and put it in a diversified portfolio in the stock market.
00:47:15.000Now, I don't think, again, they have the ability to tell me what to do with my money, so I'm not in favor of that generally, but this sort of privatization of Social Security, which is to say, the government mandates that you take a certain amount out of your paycheck and put it away for retirement, that at least makes more sense than putting it into this Ponzi scheme, where I'm paying my grandmother Social Security.
00:47:34.000Like, this is the great lie, is that, you know, is that children no longer pay for their parents.
00:47:38.000They do, they just do it through taxes.
00:47:40.000You know, the reality is that when my parents get older, you know, hopefully they've saved up enough money for retirement, but I care about my parents more than you do, so I should pay more for my parents than you should.
00:47:49.000You know, you care about your parents more than I do.
00:48:00.000It's your job to take care of your parents, just like it's your job to take care of your kids, and a society that doesn't recognize that ends up living off the backs of the responsible and throwing responsibility off the backs of the irresponsible.
00:48:11.000Andrew writes, if you could rewrite the ending to Lost, what would that ending look like?
00:48:51.000One is, don't give me this cop-out that if you pose all these questions that you just won't answer them because the questions matter more than the answers.
00:49:11.000If I wanted to read about death and horror, I could just do my job and tell you about the news, right?
00:49:16.000If I want to read about fiction, the idea is that you're imposing a sense of order on reality that I get to engage with, and that's fun, and it's escapism, and it's nice.
00:50:39.000Read my book, 11 Rules for Debating a Leftist, and you can get there pretty quickly.
00:50:42.000It says, how do you not talk about politics around your wife?
00:50:45.000My wife actually enjoys talking about politics, so this is the nice thing.
00:50:49.000In fact, I don't like talking about politics in my off hours.
00:50:52.000One of the annoying things, and it's not really annoying because I'm not enough of a celebrity for it to matter, and even if I were, I enjoy talking to people.
00:50:58.000But I went to the park the other day with my wife, and legitimately six separate people came up to me because they watched the podcast and wanted to talk about Trump.
00:51:06.000And I was like, I'm here with my kids now.
00:51:09.000I did it anyway, but I don't like talking about politics in my off hours because I do it for a living.
00:51:14.000Do you like talking about accounting in your off hours?
00:51:17.000But if you don't want to talk about politics with your wife because you disagree, then number one, you married the wrong person, and number two,
00:51:23.000You can just say, we're not going to talk about politics, it causes us to fight for no apparent reason.
00:51:28.000And that is my unsolicited dating and marriage tip of the day.
00:51:30.000Don't marry somebody who's going to have wildly differing political opinions, because political opinions are a reflection of values, and marriage should be... I'm a fan of no-value intermarriage, right?
00:51:42.000Be a married person to people who agree with your values.
00:51:46.000Hopefully to one person who agrees with your values, so you're not a polygamist.
00:51:50.000Hi Ben, I've been watching recently a lot of speeches of yours regarding businesses, and what I've noticed is whenever you hear a leftist take on issues like minimum wage, you challenge them to take their ideology all the way and argue complete socialism.
00:52:01.000I think this is valid, but it's only fair to do so for the right.
00:52:04.000Are you really okay with a completely free market?
00:52:06.000Would you be okay with monopolies if it is consensual?
00:52:08.000What about health regulations, such as expiration dates on milk?
00:52:11.000Should these be abolished for a free market?
00:52:14.000Yes, I am fine with a free market and all of these things.
00:52:29.000Microsoft's product got markedly worse after the government broke them up as a quote-unquote monopoly.
00:52:35.000There's a really good book on antitrust.
00:52:37.000It's a little sophisticated, but it's a really good book by Robert Bork on antitrust.
00:52:40.000This is what made him famous originally, in which he discusses the fact that antitrust law has basically been a vehicle for breaking up big companies that are successful in making products worse.
00:52:49.000As far as the health regulations like expiration dates on milk, let me ask you this.
00:52:53.000Let's say you went to the store, and let's say you bought some milk from the store, and it was rotten.
00:52:58.000And the next day you went back and you bought some more milk, and it was rotten.
00:53:02.000Presumably you would stop shopping at that store, correct?
00:53:05.000You'd find someplace else where you'd buy the milk.
00:53:07.000And you'd find a different milk provider, maybe.
00:53:10.000Competition takes care of a lot of quality control, because it turns out you have the capacity to buy a better product and use your judgment.
00:53:19.000I can tell when food is rotten, so can you, right?
00:53:21.000The government doesn't need to tell me when food is rotten.
00:53:24.000And by the way, the expiration dates on your milk?
00:53:36.000So this idea the government can protect you from yourself is just something we're used to, but it doesn't mean that it's correct.
00:53:40.000George writes, Hi Ben, during the fall and winter months you had stated on your podcast multiple times, if you had the choice between winning the election or destroying the media's credibility, you would choose destroying the media's credibility.
00:53:50.000Wouldn't this be a solid reason to support Trump?
00:53:53.000Because he will have destroyed the media's reputation, paving the way for conservatives in the future.
00:54:18.000Then he's saying things that actually hand them credibility by lying about his own record and then they fact check him and they're right and he's wrong.
00:54:24.000I've had to lend the media more credibility in the last six months than I ever have in the rest of my career because he said they say true things once in a while and Trump lies about it and then I have to defend the media which I don't want to do.
00:54:37.000Um, I'm not sure I pronounce his Massey edge.
00:54:40.000What is your opinion on jury nullification?
00:54:42.000So during nullification is is a totally legitimate part of law and the idea that a jury looks at a Defendant and wants the defendant to get off and so they decide they're just not going to apply the law properly
00:54:54.000But I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the jury system as a general rule.
00:54:57.000I'm a fan of the way that they actually... This is one area where I think Europe does this better.
00:55:01.000They have judges who are professionals who sit on criminal trials and their job is to actually determine guilt and innocence as opposed to the 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty.
00:55:12.000Because let's be real, people who have jobs don't want to be at jury duty getting paid $5 a day to sit in jury duty.
00:55:26.000But if I were on a jury, I can never be on a jury because people know who I am, right?
00:55:31.000So I'll never be on a jury specifically because of all of those things.
00:55:35.000The first thing, if you're a lawyer, the first thing you do if you're a defense lawyer is you knock out anybody who's smart and anybody who's a professional, right?
00:55:40.000This is the first thing you do when you start selecting the jury.
00:55:48.000No, facts do not care about my feelings in the slightest.
00:55:51.000Facts do not care about my feelings in the slightest.
00:55:54.000Facts seem to care a lot about the feelings of my enemies, who for some reason get very upset when I say bad things about Donald Trump that are true.
00:56:02.000So, and by the way, people who say, oh well, you're not paying attention to the facts, you're not paying attention to the facts,
00:56:07.000When it comes to Donald Trump and you're saying about third parties, make no mistake, I don't think David French is gonna be president of the United States.
00:56:14.000I don't think he's gonna win 5% of the vote.
00:56:16.000I'm still gonna vote for him because I have principles and a lot of the people who are backing Trump are willing to sacrifice those principles because they like Donald Trump's opposition.
00:56:25.000Okay, so we've reached the end of the week.
00:56:27.000There'll be much more where that came from next week and make sure you subscribe to Daily Wire so you too can be a part of the vaunted Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag.