The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 139 - Democrats Hold The World's Dumbest Sleepover

00:00:00.000 On Thursday, Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams announced a not-guilty verdict on all charges against Officer Cesar Goodson in the death of 26-year-old arrestee Freddie Gray last April.

00:00:10.000 Goodson had been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, second-degree assault, manslaughter by vehicle, and reckless endangerment, among a bunch of other trumped-up charges, based on driving a van in which Gray died.

00:00:21.000 This particular verdict makes Goodson the third officer set free in the case.

00:00:25.000 The judge in the case, he rightly said that the prosecution didn't show anything bad.

00:00:30.000 They didn't show that Goodson, the driver, meant for anything bad to happen to Gray.

00:00:34.000 The only thing the state had shown, according to the judge, was a failure of duty and not buckling Gray in at the fourth stop along the route.

00:00:40.000 That wasn't criminal negligence, he just didn't buckle the guy up.

00:00:44.000 He said there was no evidence Goodson was aware or should have been aware that Gray was hurt in the first place.

00:00:50.000 This, of course, is totally right, according to the evidence.

00:00:52.000 Despite the judge's ruling, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, she's the nasty piece of goods who said last year that she allowed protesters in Baltimore room to riot when they set the city on fire after Gray died. 1.00

00:01:02.000 She issued a statement announcing an administrative review against Goodson, because that's how things work now.

00:01:07.000 You get a second bite at the apple.

00:01:08.000 She said, quote,

00:01:09.000 Now that the criminal case has come to an end, Officer Goodson will face an administrative review by the police department.

00:01:15.000 I am proud that we as a community have come together to move our city forward over the past year.

00:01:20.000 Yeah.

00:01:21.000 Nah.

00:01:22.000 That didn't happen.

00:01:23.000 The Freddie Gray case was just another excuse for the left to be as horrible toward police officers as they always are.

00:01:29.000 Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, who pushed these ridiculous charges forward, if you remember, she held this really ballyhooed press conference at the time in which she pledged to the people of Baltimore and demonstrators across America, I heard your call for no justice, no peace.

00:01:42.000 Her office then repeatedly hid evidence from the defense to cover up the fact that she didn't have a case. 0.97

00:01:47.000 The left immediately began talking her up as a possible senator or governor.

00:01:50.000 President Obama, if you recall, jumped into the act too.

00:01:53.000 He said, This is not new.

00:01:55.000 We shouldn't pretend it's new.

00:01:56.000 The good news is perhaps there's some newfound awareness because of social media and video cameras and so forth that there are problems and challenges when it comes to how policing and our laws are applied in certain communities and we have to pay attention to it.

00:02:09.000 No, it isn't new for Democrats to turn a non-crime into a racial conflagration for political gain.

00:02:16.000 What would be new would be watching Mosby and Rawlings-Blake and Obama pay a political and legal price where available.

00:02:22.000 Until that happens, officers will simply stop policing.

00:02:25.000 There's a reason the Baltimore murder rate rose 63% last year.

00:02:30.000 Tell the cops not to do their jobs.

00:02:31.000 Tell them that if they do do their jobs, you're going to prosecute them.

00:02:34.000 Turns out they won't do their jobs.

00:02:36.000 And so more Americans die. 0.58

00:02:37.000 But those Americans don't matter. 1.00

00:02:39.000 And those who don't care about those Americans also don't matter.

00:02:42.000 So long as cops get dragged through a railroading so that those politicians can find success.

00:02:46.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:47.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:54.000 All righty, so we live in a post-racial America that is completely racist.

00:02:59.000 The Baltimore verdict comes down today, and that's just one piece of news.

00:03:03.000 The other piece of news on the race front is that the, there are a few, but the other piece of news on the race front is that the Supreme Court has determined that affirmative action is mandated by the Constitution essentially.

00:03:15.000 Affirmative action is okay with the Constitution in any case.

00:03:17.000 The Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, which says explicitly that everyone must have equal protection under the laws, meaning you can't say that there's a law for blacks and a law for whites and the punishment for each are different.

00:03:30.000 You can do that when it comes to racial admissions on the Supreme Court level.

00:03:34.000 So that was the big news at the Supreme Court today.

00:03:36.000 The other big news at the Supreme Court, and we'll get to this in just a minute, and we'll get back to it, is their Supreme Court ruling today about President Obama's executive amnesty.

00:03:45.000 Effectively, it strikes down President Obama's executive amnesty, which is quasi-good news.

00:03:50.000 I'll explain why it's good news and why it doesn't really matter that much in a little while.

00:03:52.000 But, the big news over the course of the night.

00:03:55.000 Was that Democrats had decided that they were going to do a sit-in on the House floor, on the floor of Congress, in order to protest Republicans not turning the no-fly list into a no-gun-buy list.

00:04:06.000 Meaning that if you're on the no-fly list, they want it to be that you can't buy a gun for five years or some such nonsense.

00:04:12.000 And this was rejected in the Senate, as you recall.

00:04:14.000 This bill was rejected in the Senate two days ago.

00:04:17.000 The House Democrats didn't really want to push the bill, but they did want to make a big, grandstanding move about it.

00:04:22.000 So yesterday, sometime in the morning, they just decided, OK, you know what we're going to do?

00:04:26.000 We're going to sit down right here on the floor of Congress.

00:04:29.000 And as we mentioned yesterday, the conversation apparently was supposed to go something like this.

00:04:34.000 We're gonna sit here if you don't destroy due process, right?

00:04:36.000 We want you to take the secret list that you can't get off of.

00:04:39.000 This secret list, we want people on this list not to be able to buy guns.

00:04:44.000 And if you don't give that to us, we're gonna sit here.

00:04:46.000 And we're like, okay, you can sit there.

00:04:48.000 And he's like, no, no, no, you don't understand.

00:04:49.000 We're gonna sit right here.

00:04:51.000 Like, right now, here. 0.94

00:04:52.000 Our butts, here. 0.86

00:04:53.000 We're like, okay. 0.95

00:04:56.000 All right.

00:04:56.000 He's like, no, no, no.

00:04:58.000 Like, we're gonna sit

00:05:00.000 Here.

00:05:01.000 You understand?

00:05:01.000 Like, here we're gonna sit.

00:05:02.000 Like, we're not gonna move.

00:05:04.000 Like, okay, you can sit there until you grow into the carpet.

00:05:07.000 Like, we don't care.

00:05:08.000 That's okay.

00:05:09.000 You know, but, but we're sitting!

00:05:10.000 Do you under-

00:05:12.000 This went on for 25 hours.

00:05:14.000 Legitimately 25 hours.

00:05:16.000 They just broke it up now.

00:05:17.000 My favorite thing about that is that they were using the hashtag.

00:05:21.000 It was something like, no bill, no break.

00:05:23.000 Well, they didn't get a bill, but they did break.

00:05:26.000 So what exactly drove the break?

00:05:28.000 Well, number one, they may have run out of Depends.

00:05:30.000 That's a possibility.

00:05:31.000 And number two, it's also a possibility that they were getting food shipped to them on the house floor.

00:05:35.000 I mean, these people were really sacrificing.

00:05:37.000 They were really sacrificing.

00:05:39.000 Sitting in an air-conditioned, climate-controlled room, a richly apportioned climate-controlled room where they could get up and go out and come back anytime they pleased, and bringing in pillows and bringing in blankets, and Elizabeth Warren bringing in a teepee to house herself, and...

00:05:55.000 They had a buffet, right?

00:05:57.000 They actually had a buffet.

00:05:58.000 They brought in full food.

00:05:59.000 They called it the Buffet Rule or the Buffet Rule.

00:06:01.000 But they brought in a buffet so they could really enjoy themselves.

00:06:05.000 It was real sacrifice.

00:06:06.000 They did this for 25 hours and then they stopped.

00:06:09.000 Maybe the reason they stopped is because someone gave them the bill.

00:06:11.000 I don't know.

00:06:27.000 The theme of today's show is that Democrats fully want to destroy every aspect of the Constitution.

00:06:32.000 President Obama wants to destroy the limits on Article 2 power.

00:06:35.000 The Supreme Court and the leftists therein want to destroy the limits on the Equal Protection Clause.

00:06:41.000 The Democrats want to destroy the Second Amendment.

00:06:43.000 They want to destroy the Fifth Amendment.

00:06:45.000 And what they threaten us with, President Obama threatens us with yelling.

00:06:48.000 He's going to yell at us.

00:06:49.000 And that's really, I feel very threatened.

00:06:52.000 I feel very scared of President Obama telling me, once again, I'm on the wrong side of history.

00:06:56.000 And that the arc of history bends toward justice or whatever.

00:07:00.000 I know I'm scared.

00:07:01.000 I know that I'm ready to burn copies of the Constitution because President Obama says I should.

00:07:05.000 And then on the other hand, I'm being threatened by Democrats that if I don't give up my right to due process before they take away my ability to buy a gun, then they're gonna sit there.

00:07:13.000 And I gotta tell you, if not you, I am deeply disturbed by the prospect of a bunch of useless people whose job literally consists of sitting there doing nothing, sitting there and doing nothing.

00:07:24.000 I am really concerned about this. 0.82

00:07:26.000 It started with John Lewis.

00:07:28.000 John Lewis is a representative from Georgia.

00:07:31.000 He was a civil rights marcher.

00:07:32.000 He was actually a civil rights hero back in the 1960s.

00:07:34.000 Like, he did sit-ins at counters at segregated stores and, like, risked life and limb to do that, to protest government regulations, Jim Crow regulations. 0.56

00:07:44.000 Now he was sitting on the floor of the house to protest the government should have secret lists so that they can take away guns from people, which is just spectacular.

00:07:51.000 By the way, the other part of this that's ironic is he's protesting in favor of the no-fly list being used to prohibit people from buying guns.

00:08:00.000 You know who's on the no-fly list?

00:08:01.000 John Lewis.

00:08:02.000 John Lewis is on the no-fly list.

00:08:03.000 He was put on there by accident.

00:08:05.000 And he's been struggling to get off of it for, I believe, more than two years.

00:08:09.000 He's been pulled over at airports 35 to 40 times on the no-fly list.

00:08:12.000 But he says the no-fly list is so good that you should be able to be barred from the Second Amendment rights.

00:08:17.000 Well, if it's that good, John, then maybe, if you're on the no-fly list, you shouldn't be eligible for election to Congress.

00:08:22.000 How about that?

00:08:22.000 How about if you're on the no-fly list, you just don't get to be in Congress?

00:08:25.000 I mean, hell, it seems dangerous to have people on the no-fly list buying guns.

00:08:29.000 It seems more dangerous to me if they're voting on American policy, for God's sake, and being exposed to American intelligence information.

00:08:35.000 I mean, isn't that a risk?

00:08:36.000 Isn't that a real risk?

00:08:37.000 Anyway, John Lewis gets up with a bunch of weird-looking people from his congressional caucus.

00:08:42.000 And you have to see the footage, folks.

00:08:43.000 This is one of those days where you really should subscribe to Daily Wire because the footage today is truly spectacular.

00:08:50.000 And thanks to Matheson, his crazy haircut, for cutting all of it.

00:08:53.000 And so here is John Lewis saying that they're going to continue to fight.

00:08:58.000 We lost too many of our children, our babies.

00:09:04.000 Too many of our mothers and fathers. 0.88

00:09:07.000 Our brothers and sisters.

00:09:10.000 And we will continue to fight.

00:09:14.000 A little more than 50 years ago, I crossed the bridge, not just one time, but it took us three times to make it all the way from Selma to Montgomery.

00:09:29.000 We have other bridges to cross, and when we come back in July, we'll start all over again.

00:09:39.000 But the American people, they want us to act.

00:09:41.000 They want us to do something.

00:09:43.000 Okay, no, they actually don't.

00:09:45.000 They actually don't want them to do anything.

00:09:48.000 The ACLU, the leftist organization, the ACLU, is on my side of this argument. 0.97

00:09:53.000 They know the no-fly list is garbage. 0.87

00:09:55.000 And they are on my side.

00:09:57.000 They say you can't use the no-fly list to take away people's due process of law.

00:10:00.000 That is so insulting.

00:10:01.000 I mean, to his own history it's insulting.

00:10:03.000 He knows better than this.

00:10:04.000 It's so insulting for John Lewis to equate his march against legislation that removed rights for people based on race for no reason to equate that with him now wanting to remove rights from people based on no evidence.

00:10:20.000 Not the same thing at all, but I guess you can grandstand if you're John Lewis.

00:10:25.000 That wasn't the worst grandstanding.

00:10:26.000 The worst grandstanding yesterday was last night around 9 o'clock.

00:10:29.000 I don't know if they all got drunk or what.

00:10:31.000 They were taking selfies from the floor of the house, and Elizabeth Warren was smoking peace pipe.

00:10:37.000 Chief Warren was big heap angry over boom boom stick, and she was sitting there getting very upset.

00:10:42.000 Over the prevalence of guns in America.

00:10:45.000 Now remember, folks, this was just voted down in the Senate two days ago.

00:10:48.000 So they didn't have a proposal.

00:10:49.000 Like, they were asked by people, so what law do you want to pass?

00:10:51.000 And they said, we don't really have a law.

00:10:53.000 So it's like, what are you doing here?

00:10:54.000 Well, we're sitting here!

00:10:55.000 Come on! 0.61

00:10:56.000 That's what we do!

00:10:57.000 They weren't just sitting there.

00:10:59.000 Last night, they began to sing.

00:11:00.000 Like, they're sitting there on the floor, and they start singing.

00:11:05.000 No, really, they started singing.

00:11:10.000 I don't know.

00:11:23.000 So what they're doing is singing We Shall Overcome on the house floor and changing some of the words.

00:11:27.000 Can't pick out exactly what they're saying from my earpiece.

00:11:30.000 Maybe the folks at home can.

00:11:31.000 But again, singing We Shall Overcome, which was sung many times during the Civil Rights Movement and is also sung during Black History Month at celebrations and at churches.

00:11:42.000 And of course this is all being led by civil rights icons.

00:12:01.000 So according to John Lewis and according to these people singing We Shall Overcome, I guess Martin Luther King should have lost his license to have a weapon.

00:12:06.000 They should have taken away his ability to have a weapon.

00:12:09.000 After all, he was on the FBI's watch list as a possible subversive.

00:12:12.000 So, there they are singing We Shall Overcome.

00:12:15.000 Really making a difference.

00:12:16.000 Really making a difference.

00:12:18.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:12:20.000 Bernie Sanders apparently came down to the floor for all of this, and he sat down on the floor and then immediately shouted, I've fallen and I can't get up. 0.73

00:12:29.000 The media, of course, lapped all of this up, like the lapdogs they are.

00:12:32.000 They just loved this. 0.78

00:12:34.000 This was their favorite thing.

00:12:34.000 Now, back in 2008,

00:12:36.000 Republicans did the same thing.

00:12:37.000 Republicans took to the floor, and they basically filibustered, and they wouldn't get off the floor in order to protest Democrats' fracking ability.

00:12:45.000 I will say this.

00:12:46.000 I think the Republicans should take a note out of the Democrat playbook, and they should do this on abortion.

00:12:50.000 They should do this on defunding Planned Parenthood. 0.75

00:12:52.000 As long as we're gonna be grandstanding full-time now, as long as our politics is just grandstanding, do it on things that matter, not stupidities like getting rid of due process.

00:13:01.000 This is truly amazing. 0.81

00:13:02.000 The media's there, and they're worshiping at the altar.

00:13:05.000 Oh, this is a historic moment!

00:13:07.000 I am so sick of hearing you declare something historic in real time.

00:13:11.000 You know when I'll know something is historic?

00:13:13.000 When 30 years from now, we're still reading about it.

00:13:15.000 In two weeks, nobody's gonna remember this.

00:13:17.000 Historic moment, come on.

00:13:20.000 Come on.

00:13:21.000 And so the media were cheering about this, and apparently, according to a reporter from IJ Review, there were 30 members of the media.

00:13:29.000 All 30 members asked all the various members of Congress how historic this was. 0.96

00:13:33.000 Halfway through this idiotic charade, the Democrats turn to the media and actually start applauding the media. 0.97

00:13:40.000 James Clyburn from South Carolina, they actually turn to the media and start applauding the media, which just demonstrates exactly what this is. 0.97

00:13:48.000 Let me begin my remarks by thanking the media.

00:14:02.000 And the media thanking them right back.

00:14:04.000 It's just amazing!

00:14:06.000 It's amazing!

00:14:07.000 Today stands out as a great example of what we mean when we talk about a free press and why we need one.

00:14:18.000 Okay, we can stop it here.

00:14:33.000 But the Democrats applaud the media, of course they applaud the media, because the media created for them an echo chamber, and that's what they want.

00:14:38.000 Nancy Pelosi says exactly this, clip 9.

00:14:40.000 Nancy Pelosi was standing outside the House, talking to the media, and here is what she had to say about what's the point of all this?

00:14:48.000 Why are you guys sitting around, growing your tentacles into the carpet?

00:14:51.000 Why are you just, like...

00:14:53.000 Why do you think it makes a difference for you to sit on your fat cans for 25 hours doing nothing and getting food shipped into you?

00:15:02.000 Like, we have plenty of people in America who do that now.

00:15:05.000 We don't need more people that we pay to do that. 0.66

00:15:07.000 We have lots of people who do that now.

00:15:09.000 They're on welfare, I guess, are Democrats.

00:15:12.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi explaining the real goal.

00:15:14.000 As we gather here on the steps of the Capitol, our colleagues are gathered in great numbers on the floor of the House.

00:15:21.000 As I said at the beginning, they still are.

00:15:23.000 Called together by John Lewis, John Larson, and led by our Democratic whip, Mr. Hoyer.

00:15:29.000 They have been in and out, but again, this is an echo.

00:15:33.000 We are echoing each other.

00:15:34.000 And what we hope to do is create an echo chamber throughout America of a repeated message of no bill, no break.

00:15:43.000 Okay, we desperately hope that there will be an echo chamber.

00:15:48.000 And that's what the Democrats want, and they get it with the help of the media.

00:15:51.000 By the way, I love her bracelet.

00:15:52.000 You have to see, she's wearing this huge bracelet. 0.51

00:15:54.000 I mean, it looks like Wonder Woman's bracelet here.

00:15:57.000 She's wearing this giant rainbow bracelet.

00:16:00.000 No, this isn't posturing at all, gang.

00:16:02.000 This isn't posturing in any way.

00:16:04.000 Of course it's posturing.

00:16:05.000 That's what they do.

00:16:06.000 They don't have any plans here.

00:16:07.000 They don't know what they're doing.

00:16:08.000 It's just posturing.

00:16:09.000 And remember, all of this is on the heels of a jihadist attack, right?

00:16:12.000 All of this is on the heels of a jihadist attack.

00:16:14.000 Louie Gohmert.

00:16:16.000 I really like Louie.

00:16:17.000 Louie's the only person in Congress that I really enjoy.

00:16:19.000 He's a representative from Texas, the most sincere guy in Congress, way too good a fellow to be in Congress.

00:16:26.000 And at a certain point in the middle of this last night, it was like 8 o'clock last night, Pacific time, Louie just comes down to the house floor and he starts yelling at these people.

00:16:34.000 He says, the hell is wrong with you?

00:16:36.000 Why are you talking about taking away due process from me? 0.95

00:16:40.000 Why are you talking about gun control?

00:16:42.000 You know who did this? 0.98

00:16:42.000 A radical Muslim jihadist did this. 0.98

00:16:44.000 You know who did this? 0.97

00:16:45.000 A jihadi did this. 0.66

00:16:46.000 Why are you talking about that?

00:16:48.000 Louie Gohmert loses it and it's pretty great.

00:16:49.000 Here it is.

00:16:51.000 It appears as if the gentleman is afraid to vote and afraid to debate.

00:16:57.000 And given the weakness of his arguments and his position, his fear is well-founded.

00:17:09.000 No fly, no gun!

00:17:10.000 No fly, no gun!

00:17:12.000 No fly, no gun!

00:17:13.000 So Louie comes down, he starts yelling at them. 0.99

00:17:17.000 Radical Islam killed these people. 1.00

00:17:19.000 Radical Islam killed these people. 1.00

00:17:37.000 And they shot him down. 0.69

00:17:37.000 Why do you want to let terrorists fight you down? 0.69

00:18:01.000 Don't let terrorists have a gun!

00:18:04.000 Don't let terrorists have a gun!

00:18:05.000 Don't let terrorists have a gun!

00:18:25.000 I think that the Republicans should bring up this bill for a vote.

00:18:27.000 I think they should vote it down, and I think they should hammer Democrats on this issue.

00:18:30.000 It's a losing issue for Democrats.

00:18:32.000 I'm not sure why Paul Ryan decided not to bring this up for a vote.

00:18:35.000 Bring it up, reject it.

00:18:36.000 Bring up your bill, make them reject it.

00:18:38.000 You know, do all the things that, do all the posturing the Democrats do.

00:18:42.000 And if you're going to leave them there, and you're going to declare the House an adjournment, which you did last night, then, for goodness sake, don't just allow them to continue to maintain in an air-conditioned chamber.

00:18:51.000 Do exactly what Nancy Pelosi did to Republicans in 2008.

00:18:53.000 In 2008, she turned off the lights, she turned off the cameras, she turned off the air conditioning.

00:18:58.000 Paul Ryan could have done that today, but he didn't.

00:19:00.000 He took the sort of pansy way, which, I'm gonna sit here, I'll let them do what they're gonna do, it'll burn itself out. 1.00

00:19:06.000 In any case, here's what it looked like when Paul Ryan intervened to have a vote for adjournment.

00:19:11.000 Basically, the House broke into a little bit of chaos.

00:19:15.000 This is the unprecedented situation.

00:19:17.000 We were anticipating the Speaker trying to convene the House, the Democrats chanting, no bill, no break.

00:19:24.000 Let's watch this.

00:19:25.000 House Joint Resolution 88.

00:19:28.000 The clerk will report the title of the joint resolution.

00:19:33.000 The question is, will the House, on reconsideration, pass the joint resolution?

00:19:47.000 The objectins of the President, to the contrary, notwithstanding, the gentleman from Minnesota, Mr. Klein, is recognized for one hour. 1.00

00:19:56.000 Okay, so you can see them losing their minds and they're shouting and nothing's happening because this is stupid Occupy Wall Street crap. 0.99

00:20:04.000 When President Obama said he was going to community organize America, this is what he meant. 0.99

00:20:08.000 That the House was going to turn into an Occupy Wall Street routine, complete with people pooping on cop cars and such.

00:20:15.000 None of this does any good, obviously. 0.96

00:20:17.000 All of this is just ridiculous. 0.68

00:20:18.000 And the Democrats don't have any good arguments on any of this. 0.87

00:20:20.000 So Paul Ryan says this is a publicity stunt, and clearly he's correct.

00:20:24.000 But recognizing it's a publicity stunt, why don't you deal with it like a publicity stunt?

00:20:28.000 Here's Paul Ryan to Wolf Blitzer last night.

00:20:30.000 Here's a key point.

00:20:31.000 A new CNN poll shows an overwhelming majority of Republicans, look at this, 90% of Republicans support that idea.

00:20:39.000 So why won't you at least allow a vote on this on the floor of the House?

00:20:44.000 Well, first I would tell you, Wolf, this is nothing more than a publicity stunt.

00:20:48.000 That's point number one.

00:20:49.000 Point number two is this bill was already defeated in the United States Senate.

00:20:54.000 Number three, we're not going to take away a citizen's due process rights.

00:20:59.000 We're not going to take away a citizen's constitutional rights without due process.

00:21:04.000 That was already defeated in the Senate, and this is not a way to try and bring up legislation.

00:21:08.000 Now let's focus on the issue at hand here, terrorism, and let's find out what we need to do to prevent future terrorist attacks.

00:21:16.000 And if a person is on a terror watch list,

00:21:19.000 And they go try to buy a gun.

00:21:21.000 We have procedures in place to deal with that.

00:21:23.000 We want to make sure that those procedures are done correctly, and that's something we should be able to do in a calm and cool manner, without these sort of dilatory publicity stunt tactics, to try and bring a bill that already died over in the Senate to the House floor.

00:21:36.000 Why not at least allow a vote, up or down?

00:21:41.000 First of all, they know that we will not bring a bill that takes away a person's constitutionally guaranteed rights without their due process.

00:21:48.000 We don't agree with that, and the Senate already doesn't agree with that.

00:21:52.000 So I think, look, the point here, Wolf, is this is a publicity stunt.

00:21:56.000 They're trying to get you to ask me those questions for publicity's sake.

00:21:59.000 This isn't trying to come up with a solution to a problem.

00:22:02.000 This is trying to get attention.

00:22:03.000 Okay, and this is right.

00:22:04.000 The Democrats, by the way, are already raising money off of this.

00:22:07.000 They've sent out all of their fundraising letters trying to raise money off the dead people in Orlando based on this little publicity stunt.

00:22:12.000 The problem for Ryan is that Ryan is such an accountant.

00:22:15.000 He's such a goody-two-shoes. 1.00

00:22:16.000 He doesn't know how to deal with the publicity stunt.

00:22:18.000 What he should be doing is he should be turning off the lights.

00:22:20.000 He should be... Either do that or...

00:22:23.000 Hold the vote and hammer them. 0.75

00:22:24.000 Like, I still don't understand why not just hold the vote and hammer them. 0.90

00:22:27.000 It seems to me like that would be a better strategy than allowing them to grandstand on this basis, because that's, it's just, it's silly.

00:22:34.000 That said, the Democrats have no arguments at all here.

00:22:36.000 I mean, their arguments are just egregiously bad. 1.00

00:22:38.000 My favorite terrible Democratic argument comes courtesy of Charlie Rangel, who is legitimately an idiot. 1.00

00:22:45.000 And Charlie Rangel, from New York, he was asked specifically why he has security. 1.00

00:22:50.000 Like, if we don't need guns, why do you have security?

00:22:52.000 And here was his answer.

00:22:54.000 Why should, say, the uber-wealthy who have protection, have that protection, but individuals or law-abiding citizens in your district should not?

00:23:02.000 Let's talk about that.

00:23:03.000 Well, law-abiding citizens just shouldn't have to carry a gun, you know that, so you're not going to push me in that direction.

00:23:10.000 But you're protected by guns all over the place here in the Capitol.

00:23:13.000 Awkward laugh.

00:23:16.000 Well, that's a little different.

00:23:17.000 I think we deserve, I think we need to be protected down here.

00:23:22.000 We deserve it.

00:23:23.000 You don't deserve it.

00:23:23.000 We deserve it.

00:23:25.000 Great answer, Charlie Rangel.

00:23:26.000 I'm so glad that our protected political class thinks they deserve protection, but none of the rest of us do, especially from people like them who want to take all of our rights away.

00:23:34.000 But it's not just Charlie Rangel.

00:23:36.000 Here's another Democratic representative explaining that there is definitely free... This is Crowley.

00:23:42.000 I think it's Joseph Crowley or Jonathan Crowley.

00:23:44.000 I can't remember his first name, from Massachusetts.

00:23:48.000 And he's asked about this, and his answer is similarly hilarious.

00:23:52.000 But vote with your conscience.

00:23:53.000 Vote for the right thing.

00:23:54.000 Do the due process.

00:23:55.000 One of my colleagues started yelling out, what about due process?

00:23:58.000 I'll start chanting due processes.

00:24:00.000 I said, what about due process for the little child who's killed in a classroom?

00:24:04.000 What about the due process for a young person who's dancing in a nightclub and they come in and their heads are blown off by an automatic weapon?

00:24:10.000 What about their due process?

00:24:12.000 I believe in due process.

00:24:13.000 I think we can work a bill that covers the rights of people's due process at the same time

00:24:17.000 What about the due process rights for the person who's killed?

00:24:37.000 Well, it's not just their due process rights that are violated, it's their basic right to life that is being violated in that case by somebody else, which is illegal.

00:24:45.000 The problem here is that you're saying it should be legal for you to take away my rights.

00:24:48.000 Not illegal, legal.

00:24:50.000 If somebody comes in here and, God forbid, shoots me, they've violated my rights and they've broken the law in doing so.

00:24:55.000 If you come in, what he's saying is he wants to come in here and tell me that I can't buy a gun, and that should be perfectly legal for him to do.

00:25:02.000 The Democrats, this sort of logic is the logic of tyranny.

00:25:05.000 This is the logic of tyranny.

00:25:07.000 Well, what about the, what about the, every right becomes secondary to this.

00:25:10.000 Think about it this way.

00:25:12.000 I say, well, I have a right to free speech.

00:25:13.000 And he says, well, your free speech generates the people who kill little kids in classrooms.

00:25:17.000 Doesn't that kid have a right to free speech?

00:25:18.000 He's dead now.

00:25:20.000 So you can't complain about your right to free speech being infringed.

00:25:23.000 Any right, you can do that.

00:25:24.000 Any right, any right.

00:25:26.000 Every right that you have.

00:25:27.000 I have a right to own my property.

00:25:28.000 Well, your right to own your property is impoverishing some kid in the third world. 1.00

00:25:31.000 Doesn't that kid have a right to life?

00:25:32.000 Doesn't that kid have a right to live?

00:25:34.000 Doesn't his right trump your right?

00:25:37.000 Once you get to his rights trump your rights, you're not talking about rights anymore.

00:25:42.000 You're talking about tyranny and the government allocating its priorities to one person and taking away the rights of another in order to do so.

00:25:49.000 That's what tyrants do. 0.99

00:25:51.000 Nazis under the Nazi regime had rights.

00:25:53.000 Nobody else did.

00:25:55.000 The idea here is that the little kid in the classroom has rights, which I acknowledge, but that he has to take away my rights in order to protect that kid, which of course is not true in the slightest.

00:26:04.000 It's such a bad argument.

00:26:05.000 It's such a tyrannical argument. 1.00

00:26:07.000 And he's not the only one making stupid arguments. 0.98

00:26:09.000 Seth Moulton is a Democrat from Massachusetts, and he gave a speech last night in favor of the no-fly, no-buy legislation, and he said that the right to travel is so basic we didn't have to include it in the Bill of Rights. 0.99

00:26:20.000 We'll see what he's talking about here.

00:26:23.000 And what we're asking for is so reasonable.

00:26:28.000 If you're on a no-fly list, if you're not allowed to fly, you ought not to be able to buy a gun.

00:26:34.000 And if there are problems with the no-fly list, then let's fix it.

00:26:37.000 But tell me this, if there are so many problems with the no-fly list, why do we have the no-fly list?

00:26:45.000 Why are these people not allowed to fly?

00:26:47.000 I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that everybody in this body flies home every weekend.

00:26:56.000 Is the freedom to travel not afforded to Americans?

00:26:59.000 Is that not a right that we care about?

00:27:02.000 Do we live in a government that can go and tell you you're not going to get on that plane just arbitrarily?

00:27:07.000 No.

00:27:08.000 That's a basic freedom.

00:27:09.000 It's so basic we didn't even have to include it in the Bill of Rights.

00:27:13.000 We can stop it right there.

00:27:15.000 So his argument here is that the right to travel is more basic than your right to own a gun.

00:27:19.000 That's the argument that he's making.

00:27:21.000 It's so basic we didn't have to include it in the Bill of Rights. 1.00

00:27:24.000 Oh, this is so stupid. 1.00

00:27:25.000 It's head-hurtingly stupid. 1.00

00:27:27.000 The whole point of including things in the Bill of Rights is because they're basic. 1.00

00:27:30.000 That's why they were included there.

00:27:32.000 Is the right to travel more basic than the right to free speech?

00:27:35.000 That one was included in the Bill of Rights.

00:27:36.000 Which one is more important, do you think?

00:27:38.000 Which one do you think the founders cared about more?

00:27:40.000 What absolute assininity. 1.00

00:27:42.000 And when he's talking about the no-fly list, here's the truth.

00:27:45.000 You can still fly if you're on the no-fly list, so long as you can differentiate yourself from the suspect who they think that they're trying to pursue.

00:27:53.000 So this is why John Lewis is on the no-fly list, but he's still been able to fly, right?

00:27:57.000 But again, this isn't about arguments, this is all about posturing.

00:28:00.000 And that's all the Democrats want to do, is just posturing all over the place, posturing

00:28:04.000 Right.

00:28:05.000 And left.

00:28:05.000 And of course, celebrities are all in on this.

00:28:07.000 Celebrities from Britney Spears to Lady Gaga, they've been jumping in.

00:28:10.000 They wrote an open letter to Congress about how they think that it's just terrible, that there isn't more gun control.

00:28:17.000 It's this long list of useless celebrities whose opinions I don't care about because they're paid to sing songs other people write, and they're paid to read lines that other people write.

00:28:25.000 I mean, it's people like Demi Lovato and Ellen DeGeneres.

00:28:28.000 Why would I possibly care what Demi Lovato has to say about anything?

00:28:33.000 Her famous song is about being hot for the summer.

00:28:35.000 Why would I care what Lady Gaga has to say about anything? 0.60

00:28:38.000 Her knowledge of the Constitution is rivaled only by her subtle tastes. 0.98

00:28:42.000 I mean, it's just, it's this long, long list of useless people I could not care less about. 0.97

00:28:48.000 Questlove. 0.93

00:28:49.000 Ooh, Ricky Martin says I shouldn't have a gun.

00:28:51.000 Well, now that Ricky Martin says it, well, I guess I won't be living La Vida Loco with Ricky Martin.

00:28:55.000 I guess I'm really, I'm really on board with all of this.

00:28:59.000 Tony Bennett.

00:28:59.000 I mean, come on.

00:29:00.000 Come on.

00:29:01.000 So our rights should go away, because a lot of celebrities say our rights should go away.

00:29:04.000 And this, again, is the theme of today's show.

00:29:07.000 The left doesn't like your rights.

00:29:08.000 The left thinks that your rights are bad, because the left thinks you are bad.

00:29:11.000 See, the left has no problem with their own security carrying guns, because those people are good, they're protecting them, but you disagree with them, so you shouldn't be able to carry a gun.

00:29:18.000 This is why no-fly lists, this is why terror watch lists are scary, because the people who are in charge get to simply dictate who goes on the list and who doesn't.

00:29:26.000 Is there any doubt, is there any doubt, that if Nancy Pelosi were in charge of that list, and that list was the easy way of preventing people from getting guns, anybody who supports her political opponents goes on that list?

00:29:36.000 Is there any doubt that happens?

00:29:38.000 Of course that's exactly what happens.

00:29:39.000 Of course that's exactly what happens.

00:29:42.000 But this is what Democrats do.

00:29:44.000 They're interested in curtailing your rights so that they can pursue their broader agenda of controlling you and getting rid of rights altogether.

00:29:52.000 And what they really want in the end is they want the rule of their friends.

00:29:55.000 They want the oligarchy. 0.69

00:29:56.000 They want the tyranny.

00:29:57.000 They want the guy at the top.

00:29:58.000 So the other big story of the day

00:29:59.000 Is that the Supreme Court split 4-4 on President Obama's executive amnesty.

00:30:03.000 If Justice Scalia were alive, then presumably he would have voted against President Obama's executive amnesty.

00:30:08.000 President Obama, in case you don't remember, had said somewhat like 20 times, something like 20 times, that he did not have the presidential authority to go ahead and just amnesty millions of people.

00:30:18.000 Then he went ahead and amnestied millions of people.

00:30:20.000 Somebody appealed that.

00:30:21.000 26 states appealed that to the Supreme Court.

00:30:23.000 And the Supreme Court said, no, you can't really do that so much.

00:30:27.000 So President Obama was super pissed about that today.

00:30:30.000 And President Obama spent about 20 minutes this morning talking about how it was everybody else's fault that he even had to do that in the first place.

00:30:37.000 And, well, Congress should have passed comprehensive immigration reform.

00:30:40.000 It's their fault that I had to do this.

00:30:42.000 It's the Supreme Court's fault that I had to do this, because they could have sided with me.

00:30:46.000 And if the Republicans would just greenlight my justice that replaces Justice Scalia, if they would just greenlight Merrick Garland, then, hell, I wouldn't have to do any of this.

00:30:54.000 I could just, you know, go ahead and get what I want through legal methods, but they won't give me what I want, so I did what I wanted anyway.

00:31:01.000 This is how Democrats govern.

00:31:03.000 Democrats believe that rule of law is an obstacle to them getting things done.

00:31:08.000 This is why I'm very much in favor of the sit-in that happened on the floor of Congress.

00:31:11.000 I hope it would continue year-round.

00:31:13.000 I hope it's all year they do this.

00:31:15.000 I don't want them doing things.

00:31:17.000 I think that their action is an obstacle to my freedom.

00:31:20.000 They think that my freedom is an obstacle to their action.

00:31:23.000 This is the scary thing about Democrats, and this is the scary thing about the left.

00:31:27.000 My rights are an obstacle to them doing what they want, so the rights simply have to be overruled.

00:31:31.000 So President Obama, he basically said, yeah, I know what I was doing was illegal, but Congress wouldn't act, so I'm invoking the F.U.

00:31:37.000 Clause of Article 2 of the Constitution, the one that says, F.U., I'll do what I want.

00:31:42.000 You remember, the founders put that in there in case things ground to a halt.

00:31:45.000 There's a long history of this sort of thing ending poorly, where government says, we're just going to, we're just going to overrun your rights because things are too important, things are too important.

00:31:54.000 This is how enabling acts get passed in Germany.

00:31:57.000 This is how fascist governments rise in Italy.

00:31:59.000 This is how tyrants take power. 0.98

00:32:01.000 They don't do it on the back of, the tyrants don't do it on the back of, I'm gonna be a jackbooted thug who's gonna come in and take all your rights.

00:32:07.000 They do it on the back of, doesn't that kid getting shot have a right?

00:32:11.000 Don't we have rights against the bad guys?

00:32:13.000 Don't you have a right to be free of economic impurity and economic insecurity?

00:32:19.000 Well, all you have to do is, if you think those rights are important, all you have to do is give me all your other rights, and then you don't have to worry about any of that stuff.

00:32:24.000 I'll take care of everything.

00:32:26.000 I'll take care of everything.

00:32:27.000 And a lot of people go, yeah, that's right, democracy just isn't workable.

00:32:30.000 Democracy isn't workable.

00:32:31.000 Now, Democrats have a secondary plan here, and that is to purposefully make democracy unworkable. 1.00

00:32:35.000 And so they go down to the House floor, and they protest, and they scream, and they make democracy look stupid. 0.98

00:32:40.000 And then they say, well, you know, the democracy doesn't work. 0.99

00:32:43.000 Obama says democracy doesn't work.

00:32:44.000 I'm just going to do what I have to do on my own.

00:32:45.000 I'm the president after all.

00:32:47.000 Somebody's got to do something around here.

00:32:49.000 This is how tyrants take power. 0.98

00:32:51.000 This is how tyrannies rise.

00:32:53.000 And unfortunately, it is on both sides of the aisle.

00:32:55.000 I think that Donald Trump has a bit of the same, more than a bit of the same in him.

00:32:58.000 The, if we won't get something done, I'll just do it myself attitude.

00:33:01.000 I think a lot of Americans buy into this.

00:33:04.000 I don't think it's just Americans.

00:33:05.000 I think historically, human beings have a desire for a tyrant who agrees with them.

00:33:10.000 Aristotle said this.

00:33:11.000 He said, if you have a monarch who agrees with you, it's better than having a democracy.

00:33:14.000 Well, that's if you don't believe in rights.

00:33:16.000 I think a democracy is better, even if the democracy doesn't agree with me, so long as that democracy isn't violating my rights.

00:33:23.000 Once the democracy violates my rights, and my rights to be free of you, then it's no longer a decent democracy.

00:33:29.000 So the Democrats are full-scale on attack against all of this, which is very troubling and very frightening.

00:33:37.000 All together.

00:33:38.000 So, now let's do some things I like, some things I hate, and then the mailbag.

00:33:42.000 It's a Trump-free episode, by the way, of The Ben Shapiro Show, so this is- I know, it's been a while, but Donald Trump's over in Scotland, so there's not really much to say about that, other than there's some weird conversations going on where Donald Trump's over at his golf course, like, uh, isn't this a magnificent golf course?

00:33:55.000 Like, get out of here! 0.64

00:33:56.000 What are you doing?

00:33:57.000 Why are you here?

00:33:58.000 Why are you wearing a kilt? 0.98

00:33:59.000 Who's this crazy orange-haired guy standing here? 0.94

00:34:02.000 Okay, so, okay, time for some things I like and things I hate. 0.92

00:34:05.000 Okay, so, this week, the Jewish community, we read the Parsha.

00:34:09.000 Parsha just means portion.

00:34:10.000 We read the Torah portion, the Old Testament portion, known as Behaloscha.

00:34:14.000 Okay, so this is a portion where it talks about, it's more about what is done in the temple, about the building of the menorah, and this is also the part where the Jews complain.

00:34:23.000 Basically, the Jews in the Bible just stand around complaining the whole time, and God keeps saying, God, you guys are awful, but I made a covenant with you. 0.96

00:34:29.000 Fine! 0.63

00:34:30.000 So this week's episode of that is they complain about the fact that the manna that falls from heaven is not good enough for them.

00:34:36.000 They would prefer some meat, and so God's like, fine, here's some meat, and then he has like a giant flock of birds just fall on the camp, right?

00:34:43.000 That's one of the big elements of this week's Parsha, but the part I want to talk about is there's one sentence, there's one verse in this week's Torah portion that is cited by the left very often, and that is Numbers 9.14.

00:34:56.000 And it says,

00:35:10.000 So, what the left likes about all of this is that the left cites the last part, right?

00:35:15.000 One law will apply to you, and to the proselyte, and to the native-born citizen. 0.57

00:35:19.000 What they seem to imply is if an illegal immigrant lives in the United States, they're bound by law.

00:35:24.000 Morality requires that we treat the stranger among you as we would treat you. 1.00

00:35:28.000 This neglects the actual Jewish law and the actual Torah law that says that in order for somebody to be considered a proselyte, they actually have to abide by the law.

00:35:37.000 They can't be somebody who just sits down in your house and now you have to treat them with respect.

00:35:40.000 It has to be somebody who's accepted the mantle of the law on them, and then they get treated like everybody else.

00:35:46.000 Then they belong under that one statute.

00:35:48.000 But if they just come in and they say, we're not paying attention to any of your laws, now treat me great, it doesn't work that way.

00:35:53.000 So when you talk about Syrian Muslim refugees, for example, coming to Europe,

00:35:58.000 And taking part in Europe, but not really.

00:36:01.000 Kind of separating themselves off, setting up their own courts, and not just their own courts, but ignoring basic moral law in these nations.

00:36:09.000 You can't treat them, the illegal immigrants, just the same as you would anybody else. 1.00

00:36:13.000 You actually have to have a set of laws, especially for them.

00:36:17.000 I think it's important to debunk leftist notions of the Bible because the left constantly cites the Bible out of context.

00:36:22.000 I can't wait.

00:36:22.000 At some point here on Friday, we're supposed to have a crossover show where Clavin and I and Jeremy Boring, we all sit together and we chat over this stuff.

00:36:31.000 I can't wait to do biblical exegesis with Clavin because I like about half of Clavin's biblical exegesis and half of it I think is way too soft.

00:36:39.000 And so I'm looking forward to having that conversation.

00:36:41.000 I listened yesterday to his exegesis of Judge Not from the New Testament, and not that I'm an advocate for the New Testament, because I'm sure Clavin knows the New Testament better than I do.

00:36:52.000 After all, he believes it.

00:36:52.000 You know, that goes in his nonfiction section, it goes in my fiction section.

00:36:55.000 I'm a Jew.

00:36:56.000 But I've read it, and the part where it talks about Judge Not, I'm pretty sure that Jesus did not mean, Judge Not means that I don't have the capacity to admonish you if you are doing something sinful.

00:37:06.000 Judge not just means I don't know what your sins count for in the eyes of God, and so I have no right to declare myself better than you in the eyes of God because of the sin that you're doing, but I still certainly know what the sin is, and if you look in the Old Testament, in another explicit order in the Old Testament, it specifically says that you shall not put a stumbling block in front of the blind.

00:37:25.000 What it means by that is that you have a duty to warn people about the sins that they are committing.

00:37:30.000 In Judaism, it's called the Hasra'ah.

00:37:31.000 You're supposed to give people a warning about the things that they are doing that are wrong,

00:37:35.000 And it's actually part, it's a vital part of Jewish criminal law, biblical criminal law.

00:37:39.000 So I can't wait to have those crossover conversations because the Bible continues to be the foundation document for all of Western civilization and how we interpret it.

00:37:49.000 I'm not sure there's anything more important than that.

00:37:51.000 Okay, things that I hate.

00:37:52.000 So, I want to talk about Ben Affleck for a second.

00:37:55.000 So Ben Affleck is... I thought he was great in Batman vs. Superman, actually, and I really don't like Ben Affleck as an actor at all.

00:38:02.000 I think he usually wouldn't.

00:38:03.000 But he played a real, kind of dark, nasty Batman in Batman vs. Superman, and since I think that's actually who he probably is, he played it really well.

00:38:12.000 He was on this new show, Any Given Wednesday, with Bill Simmons.

00:38:15.000 Bill Simmons, I really enjoy Bill Simmons writing a lot.

00:38:17.000 I don't think he's very good on TV.

00:38:20.000 But Bill Simmons does this show and now he has Ben Affleck on and it's all awkward and stuff.

00:38:24.000 Ben Affleck launches into this screed, just a yelling, drunken rage about Tom Brady and The Flakegate.

00:38:32.000 And we'll play a little bit of it.

00:38:34.000 The Flakegate.

00:38:35.000 Is this the ultimate Boston sports story that ever could have happened, us against them? 0.98

00:38:40.000 The Flakegate is the ultimate bulls**t. 0.93

00:38:42.000 This is the most outrageous of sports ever. 1.00

00:38:45.000 It's so fucking stupid that I can't believe... You realize they gave him a suspension for a quarter of the regular season, which would be equivalent of suspending a baseball player for 40 fucking days. 1.00

00:38:57.000 40 and a quarter days, to be exact. 1.00

00:39:00.000 Which is what they do for when you get busted taking steroids.

00:39:03.000 Right.

00:39:04.000 Which... And by the way, if the NFL had a real testing... If they really knew how to test for steroids and HGH in the NFL,

00:39:10.000 Right. 0.83

00:39:11.000 So instead, what they did was suspend Tom Brady for four days for not giving him his f***ing cell phone.

00:39:18.000 And for having a friend who called himself the deflator.

00:39:21.000 If I got in trouble for all the things that my friends called themselves, I would be finished, okay?

00:39:27.000 Okay, so he goes on like this for five minutes.

00:39:29.000 First of all, he got in trouble for nailing his nanny.

00:39:31.000 Then he'd also be in trouble.

00:39:32.000 But Ben Affleck, what I love about this is that Bill Simmons, there's a great column by Jim Garrity at National Review on this.

00:39:38.000 Bill Simmons pitches this as, we're going to say the things that no one will say.

00:39:42.000 And this is making the rounds now.

00:39:43.000 It's going viral because Ben Affleck is cursing about to flake it.

00:39:46.000 He's saying the things no one will say.

00:39:48.000 Does anybody find this that controversial?

00:39:49.000 Like, anything that he's saying?

00:39:50.000 Does anybody find any of this really controversial? 0.90

00:39:52.000 Like, deflategate is kind of stupid, and if everybody in the NFL were tested for actual steroids, then there wouldn't be an NFL- Like, this isn't controversial. 0.91

00:40:01.000 I love that the new standard for hot talk is, I say stuff, but I drop the f-bomb a lot. 0.98

00:40:06.000 That's the new standard for hot talk.

00:40:07.000 The problem that I have with that is that what they actually end up doing because of this is they take well-accepted opinions and then they say, well, this is super edgy and fringy.

00:40:16.000 And then when you say something that's not particularly well-accepted because it is, for example, politically conservative, then it's not just edgy and fringy and it's not just biting and it's not hardcore.

00:40:25.000 No, when you say it, now you're just like a loon bag.

00:40:27.000 Like you're out of the realm of even rational discourse because you see, here's the mainstream.

00:40:31.000 And then on the edge of the mainstream is Ben Affleck talking about Deflategate.

00:40:34.000 And then there's you over here saying that men are actually men and not women.

00:40:38.000 Right?

00:40:38.000 You're way out here.

00:40:40.000 You're crazy. 0.99

00:40:41.000 I mean, because Ben Affleck, that dude's edgy. 0.99

00:40:43.000 You're more than edgy. 0.99

00:40:44.000 I mean, you are a nut. 1.00

00:40:45.000 You are out of your mind. 1.00

00:40:47.000 That's what I hate about this stuff, because it's so stupid. 1.00

00:40:50.000 I mean, like, what he's saying here is so uncontroversial. 1.00

00:40:52.000 And people are like, ooh, wow, he's ripping on the Flakegate.

00:40:56.000 What a snorer.

00:40:56.000 Okay.

00:40:58.000 That too.

00:40:59.000 Lindsay thinks that Ben Affleck is absolutely drunk during this.

00:41:01.000 I think that's just Ben Affleck as normal.

00:41:05.000 He actually looks like Ben Fatfleck there a little bit.

00:41:08.000 He doesn't look like he's been working out since Batman.

00:41:10.000 He kind of let himself go, and then he'll juice himself up for the next Batman role.

00:41:14.000 I have to say, I was not overly impressed.

00:41:16.000 In Batman vs. Superman, the part that I was not overly impressed with was the workout routine.

00:41:23.000 Because I was looking at that, and I was like, I kind of do that stuff.

00:41:26.000 Like, if I can do that, Batman should be doing stuff that's way harder than that.

00:41:30.000 Like, I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not Batman.

00:41:33.000 Or am I?

00:41:35.000 So it's okay.

00:41:36.000 Okay, time for the mail back.

00:41:39.000 Okay, so Luke writes, Hey, Ben, what do you say to someone who says the Constitution is out of date?

00:41:44.000 That argument seems to be popular.

00:41:46.000 I say that this is a tyrant in waiting.

00:41:47.000 So the Constitution is based on there are certain values that change and then there are certain values that don't.

00:41:53.000 And one of the things that doesn't change is human nature.

00:41:55.000 The Constitution is based on a concept of human nature that says human beings are capable of great good or we're capable of great evil, but we're basically driven by our own interests.

00:42:04.000 And the only way to make sure that my interest doesn't overwhelm your interest, the only way to make sure I don't come into your house with a gun and steal all your stuff, is to ensure that there are checks and balances.

00:42:13.000 Because in a pure democracy, for example, I wouldn't need to come into your house and steal all your stuff.

00:42:19.000 I and three of my friends would go vote against you to go into your house and steal all of your stuff.

00:42:22.000 This is called communism, right?

00:42:23.000 So what the founder said is, we need a complex process by which interest is pitted against interest.

00:42:29.000 This is what it says in Federalist 51, faction against faction.

00:42:32.000 And they fight each other, and maybe there's no winner.

00:42:34.000 And the only way that things really get done is if everyone agrees.

00:42:36.000 If there's a broad consensus.

00:42:38.000 That's when we do things.

00:42:38.000 Otherwise, we all kind of just, everything balances out in the wash, nothing happens, and you're left to your own devices.

00:42:44.000 That's why the Constitution is relevant.

00:42:46.000 The left hates that, because the left wants a pure democracy where they can ram down your throat whatever they think the community wants, and the community in their case is just the left.

00:42:54.000 Like, you don't count as a person in the left viewpoint.

00:42:56.000 So whenever somebody says the Constitution is outmoded, what they really mean is they don't agree

00:43:01.000 I know a lot of people have talked about this.

00:43:03.000 I haven't talked about it too much, mainly because it's Britain and not the United States, but it's sort of the equivalent.

00:43:06.000 I know Clavin talked about this yesterday.

00:43:24.000 Of if Texas had decided that it was just seceding from the Union.

00:43:26.000 So it's a big deal.

00:43:27.000 It's a big deal.

00:43:28.000 It's not quite that bad because the fact is that Texas was a republic.

00:43:32.000 It still calls itself the Republic of Texas.

00:43:34.000 But Texas was pretty quickly integrated into the United States.

00:43:38.000 Britain existed for hundreds of years before the rise of the EU and the European Commission in the 1960s and 70s.

00:43:45.000 And then it became the European Union in the 1980s.

00:43:47.000 So it's really kind of a short-lived thing.

00:43:49.000 It really is only an after World War II thing that the EU is created.

00:43:53.000 And so it's not quite the same thing as Texas being part of the Union, but in some ways it is.

00:43:58.000 In the sense that, like, Britain has its own army, they can make their own foreign policy.

00:44:01.000 Texas can't do that. 0.80

00:44:03.000 Britain has its own domestic policy.

00:44:05.000 That does look more like Texas.

00:44:07.000 But there are a bunch of problems with the European Union as it currently is constituted.

00:44:12.000 And I think that there are good reasons why, if I were living in the UK, I would probably vote for Brexit.

00:44:17.000 Number one, sovereignty matters.

00:44:19.000 So, over at the EU, they have this European Parliament.

00:44:22.000 That basically is just a rubber stamp for a bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels who pass all these rules, and then the European Parliament greenlights them, and then they're incumbent on everybody to follow.

00:44:32.000 This is taxation without representation, or at least regulation without representation.

00:44:36.000 It's a bunch of bureaucrats telling people what to do in Britain, who never voted for any of this stuff.

00:44:41.000 Never voted for any of this stuff, and that I think is just on a root level really, really wrong.

00:44:45.000 On immigration, I think that Britain has every case to be made that why should they have to accept refugees that Germany's accepting just because Germany did it? 0.75

00:44:54.000 There are countries that aren't really part of the EU that are in Eastern Europe,

00:44:57.000 And they're looking at this and they're saying, well, we're building fences to keep these people out.

00:45:01.000 Like, we're not going to let you just... But there's free travel within the EU, and so the idea is that refugees could just come into Britain from France or from Germany, and they don't like that.

00:45:10.000 I think that's a good reason.

00:45:11.000 And finally, the bureaucracy itself. 0.99

00:45:12.000 I mean, they pass all sorts of idiotic rules at the EU level. 0.94

00:45:15.000 And then there's the socialistic aspect, which is that the EU sponsors all of these failing states, like Greece, which is why Germany has been paying for Greece for years. 0.98

00:45:22.000 And Britain is kind of sick of it.

00:45:24.000 Britain kept its own currency.

00:45:26.000 It doesn't take part in the euro.

00:45:27.000 But all these connections mean that it doesn't have the freedom to operate as it sees fit.

00:45:32.000 I know a lot of people are afraid that if Britain exits the EU that this will kill global trade.

00:45:37.000 I don't see why that should have to be true.

00:45:38.000 The United States has trade policies with the EU.

00:45:40.000 Norway has trade policies with the EU.

00:45:43.000 Switzerland has trade policies with the EU and isn't a part of the EU.

00:45:46.000 There are plenty of countries in the Nordic areas

00:45:48.000 That are not part of the EU, but have really easy trade relationships with the EU.

00:45:53.000 We have trade relationships with Japan.

00:45:54.000 Like, I don't see why you should have to be part of the European Union in order to trade with the European Union.

00:46:00.000 I also don't see why you should have to be part of the European Union to have a common security apparatus.

00:46:04.000 You already do.

00:46:05.000 It's called NATO.

00:46:06.000 So, I would vote for Brexit if it were up to me.

00:46:08.000 Obviously, I'm not a citizen, so it doesn't really matter.

00:46:12.000 Lindsay writes, I mean, really, really, really impressive.

00:46:13.000 I agree.

00:46:14.000 I mean, you should see me without the makeup.

00:46:15.000 I look like Cookie Monster.

00:46:16.000 Okay, so first I should point out, Lindsay cultivates the mailbag. 0.99

00:46:33.000 So the fact that this is in the mailbag, I can't say that this seems to have been sneaked in by somebody, and also Lindsey wrote it.

00:46:42.000 So Lindsey, thank you for your mail.

00:46:47.000 No, you don't get a raise, but it's okay.

00:46:52.000 I can't believe that I didn't see that coming, and that is hilarious.

00:46:56.000 And I look forward to subscriber Mathis writing in next week to tell me how great Mathis's hair is.

00:47:02.000 Okay.

00:47:03.000 Greg writes, Hi, Ben.

00:47:05.000 We welcomed our first child to the world last month.

00:47:07.000 Do you have any parenting books to recommend?

00:47:09.000 Thank you, Greg.

00:47:10.000 Yeah, there's not Dr. Spock.

00:47:12.000 There's books by Dr. Karp, and those books are good for little kids.

00:47:18.000 Uh, and first of all, I think that the best parenting manual you have is probably your own parents.

00:47:22.000 Pick up on what you think was good, do that, all the things you think were bad, don't do those things, and you'll probably be a better parent than your parents.

00:47:28.000 I had really great parents, that makes it easy.

00:47:30.000 Also, quick tip.

00:47:31.000 If you're worried about sleep training for your kid, and there's this whole new theory that you're supposed to go in and, like, pat their backs while they're crying, and then you leave them, then you come back and pat their backs.

00:47:40.000 You don't do any of that.

00:47:41.000 Once they're four and a half months, five months, you let them cry, right?

00:47:43.000 You put them down for a nap.

00:47:44.000 It's really hard.

00:47:45.000 It's really painful.

00:47:46.000 You put them down for a nap, they cry for like 45 minutes, then they get tired and fall asleep.

00:47:49.000 The next day it's like half an hour, then 15 minutes, then five, and then done.

00:47:52.000 And they go to sleep as soon as you put them down.

00:47:54.000 And also have a normal bedtime routine, but...

00:47:57.000 Yeah, I think that as far as parenting books, I haven't read any that I thought were super spectacular.

00:48:01.000 The reason I recommend CARP is because CARP has some solutions to fussing and also to kind of colic for babies that are really good.

00:48:08.000 I'm sure that your pediatricians told you about them, but yeah, that would be a good place to start.

00:48:13.000 Frank writes, how does the concept of freedom of religion survive when there is a foundational cultural conflict like the one we see today between Islam and the Judeo-Christian West?

00:48:21.000 Great question, Frank.

00:48:22.000 Okay, so, freedom of religion does not mean I have to accept every crazy aspect of every crazy religion that comes into the United States.

00:48:29.000 The Supreme Court has ruled like this, and this is true. 1.00

00:48:31.000 If I have a religion that says, hey, it's the religion of Molech, and it's time for some child sacrifice, gang!

00:48:37.000 Let's do that.

00:48:39.000 I mean, number one, we would immediately make them presidents of Planned Parenthood, because that's what they do over there. 1.00

00:48:44.000 But, aside from that, we would also say this is not necessarily a religion that falls under freedom of religion.

00:48:49.000 There are certain basic rules that everybody has to follow, and freedom of religion really has to do more with your ritual practice than it has to do with your violation of basic cultural precepts.

00:49:02.000 Like, we all have to agree on basic cultural precepts.

00:49:03.000 This is one of the things that's so scary about multiculturalism, 1.00

00:49:06.000 And the left sees it when it comes to religion, but they don't see it when it comes to multiculturalism.

00:49:10.000 If you come here and you want to kill your kid because you're a secular, you're a secular from some crazy part of the world where this is what they do, then the left kind of goes, oh, okay, that's kind of spectacular, that's kind of cool.

00:49:19.000 But if you come in and you say, you know what, I don't want to serve your same-sex wedding because my Bible says not to, then the left says, no, that's terrible, that's religious discrimination. 0.95

00:49:30.000 Freedom of religion is meant to suggest that you get to act out your religion in public and private so long as you don't hurt anybody else, and that's the rule, right?

00:49:37.000 As long as you don't hurt anybody else.

00:49:39.000 Radical Islam hurts other people. 1.00

00:49:40.000 That's why the practices of radical Islam are problematic, not because of anything it says in the Quran.

00:49:44.000 It's why, you'll see, I don't cite the Quran.

00:49:46.000 I don't go into long...

00:49:48.000 Explanations what the Quran says versus the Bible.

00:49:50.000 I don't think that is actually super important I think how people act is much more important and their thought process is Important to that, but I'm not going to I'm not an Islamic expert.

00:49:59.000 I'm not gonna tell you what's a more legitimate form of Islam I'm just gonna tell you that it's Osama bin Laden knows more about Islam than I do and so does and so does So do various moderate Muslims around the world, but I can tell you what the percentages are which and who's the threat 0.96

00:50:13.000 Okay, Robert says, Ben, I'm a huge fan of both yourself and Klavan, and anxiously await each new podcast.

00:50:19.000 Would you consider doing a debate with Stefan Molyneux?

00:50:22.000 I don't really know him, so I'm happy to debate with pretty much anybody. 0.91

00:50:25.000 I was even happy to debate with the ex-Scribble Milo Yiannopoulos until he chickened out because he's a coward.

00:50:31.000 A lot of what he has to say, I have a hard time understanding his Trump fandom.

00:50:36.000 And so he wants me to debate him.

00:50:39.000 Again, I'm happy to debate him.

00:50:41.000 Sure.

00:50:41.000 Daniel writes, Ben, love the show.

00:50:43.000 Getting to see that mug of yours and hear the unbeatable knowledge spill out of it for the price of a Netflix subscription is well worth it.

00:50:47.000 Well, I appreciate it.

00:50:48.000 And everyone else should follow Daniel's lead.

00:50:51.000 He says, the next time you're on a talk show with the leftists and they start complaining about how everything is the right's fault, you should whip out your violin and play along with their lament.

00:50:57.000 That would be funny.

00:50:59.000 I am in fact a good violinist, although I have not practiced in a couple of years, which means it's like riding a bicycle, you don't lose everything, but you're also not in racing shape.

00:51:10.000 David says, Ben, people on the left often use Zionist as an argument, ender, the way they use bigot, racist, Islamist, homophobe.

00:51:15.000 As far as I can make out, all it takes to be a Zionist is to believe in the legitimacy of the statehood of Israel.

00:51:20.000 Well, I can distort my brain to understand why the left hates that.

00:51:22.000 Is there more to their definition of the word, or should it be filed under, I have no argument, so I'm going to insult you?

00:51:26.000 No, that's how it should be filed.

00:51:28.000 That's the entire argument.

00:51:29.000 Zionists, there are people who try to read into Zionists, like, ooh, well, it's racial nationalism. 0.65

00:51:35.000 No, it's religious nationalism, actually.

00:51:37.000 It was established, the state of Israel was established specifically to provide a safe haven for Jews around the world, which

00:51:44.000 As each succeeding generation demonstrates, is increasingly necessary.

00:51:48.000 And beyond that, it was founded as a liberal democracy to preserve the precept of Judaic religion and thought.

00:51:55.000 And the ethnic Judaism is actually secondary.

00:51:57.000 The only reason ethnic Judaism matters at all, I really don't care about it. 1.00

00:52:00.000 The only reason ethnic Judaism... 1.00

00:52:02.000 Matters at all is because it's a precept of religious Judaism. 0.98

00:52:04.000 So it's part of the religion.

00:52:05.000 If it weren't, I wouldn't care.

00:52:06.000 And this is why when people say Zionism is racism, for example, really?

00:52:10.000 Ethiopian Jews were flown in, like tens of thousands were flown in on planes, and those are black people, right? 1.00

00:52:16.000 I mean, they're from Africa.

00:52:17.000 The Syrian Jews were flown in.

00:52:18.000 Russian Jews were flown in.

00:52:20.000 I mean, Judaism is multi-ethnic.

00:52:22.000 It's multi-ethnic.

00:52:23.000 It has no ethnic component beyond just if you happen to be born to a Jewish parent, but you can convert to Judaism and then you're a Jewish parent.

00:52:31.000 Mitchell writes, Hi Ben, my girlfriend and I have been taking classes at a Lutheran church where we wish to have our wedding one day and have our future children grow.

00:52:38.000 While in the class, our pastor explained all that believe in God will be saved as long as they believe in the one true God.

00:52:43.000 In previous lessons, we learned that one must believe in Jesus as the Savior.

00:52:46.000 I asked about Jews.

00:52:47.000 Although you may not believe Jesus was our Savior, you believe in God and that He is the one true God.

00:52:50.000 When I asked if they would be saved, he could not answer my question.

00:52:53.000 Why could he not answer me?

00:52:54.000 We believe in the one true God.

00:52:55.000 I believe God will save the Jews as well as the Christians.

00:52:57.000 What is your take?

00:52:58.000 Well, I mean, I can't answer for your pastor.

00:53:00.000 I know there are some Christians who believe that Jews are saved.

00:53:02.000 I think that the mainstream position is that Jews are not saved because we don't accept Christ and Christ is the way and the light and there is no path to heaven except through me.

00:53:10.000 That doesn't bother me in the slightest.

00:53:11.000 I don't care.

00:53:12.000 You know, when I die, then I guess I'll deal with that.

00:53:14.000 So long as we're friends here and we're allies here fighting the same battle, then after we die, we can have that argument.

00:53:19.000 You know, I think that you're going to heaven if you believe in Jesus and you obey certain basic principles of decent life.

00:53:24.000 If you believe I'm going to hell, I really could not care less about that. 0.95

00:53:28.000 It doesn't matter to me so long as you don't plan on sending me there, like a lot of radical Muslims, then I don't care. 1.00

00:53:34.000 I really... This is... 0.92

00:53:37.000 This doesn't bother me one iota.

00:53:39.000 One iota.

00:53:40.000 Of course, religions believe that other religions are wrong.

00:53:43.000 You know, that's why Judaism isn't Christianity and vice versa. 1.00

00:53:46.000 Okay, Andrew writes, Well, I mean, a Clinton-Trump ticket or a Trump-Clinton ticket is basically two sides of the same coin, so sure, why not?

00:53:51.000 Why not?

00:54:01.000 Last one.

00:54:01.000 I haven't seen it yet.

00:54:03.000 I plan on watching it.

00:54:03.000 I'll let you know as soon as I do.

00:54:04.000 I do know that the left's sick. 0.73

00:54:19.000 Perverse attempt to target children with their propaganda in kids films makes me want to vomit. 1.00

00:54:24.000 It's disgusting.

00:54:25.000 And it's something that every parent should be policing.

00:54:27.000 I mean, you've heard me talk about Frozen and the social messaging implicit in Let It Go.

00:54:33.000 Now they're using Finding Dory.

00:54:34.000 We've talked about this.

00:54:35.000 Finding Dory, there's a random lesbian couple that shows up. 1.00

00:54:38.000 Apparently there's a trans fish or something.

00:54:42.000 It's a stingray, it was a stingray and now it's a stingronda, I guess, which is weird because in the animal kingdom that doesn't happen because if that happened in the animal kingdom, everybody would die off, basically.

00:54:55.000 But this attempt to socially engineer children...

00:54:58.000 It gives a lie to the left when they say, if you just leave us alone, then we won't bother you or your kids.

00:55:03.000 That is an absolute lie.

00:55:04.000 They absolutely will bother you.

00:55:05.000 They absolutely will bother your kids.

00:55:07.000 And if you don't fight back using your market power, they will continue to do that endlessly.

00:55:11.000 And it's difficult because so many talented people make so much good art that disagrees with that.

00:55:15.000 But it's one thing for me as an adult to expose myself to art that I know disagrees, that I disagree with.

00:55:20.000 It's another thing for me to expose my five-year-old child to art that has an agenda that is subtle and that I disagree with and that I find sinful and problematic.

00:55:28.000 Okay, folks, we've reached... Oh, yeah, we have one video question.

00:55:30.000 Thank you for the reminder.

00:55:31.000 Okay, video question.

00:55:34.000 Hi, Ben.

00:55:35.000 Thanks for all you do. 0.94

00:55:36.000 My question is, aren't sex educators, the middle school, high school sex education teachers, aren't they accomplices of rape?

00:55:46.000 Because they're teaching sex education, giving out condoms, providing resources, telling kids that they can have consensual sex when, by law, children 0.96

00:55:58.000 Until you're 18, some states 16, but generally 18, you cannot have consensual sex. 0.70

00:56:04.000 Ow! 1.00

00:56:05.000 You can't get consent.

00:56:07.000 So this is actually a good question.

00:56:09.000 It also illustrates the difference between statutory rape and what they call forcible rape.

00:56:14.000 Now, Todd Akin got himself in all sorts of trouble because he was making a legal distinction that people don't understand. 1.00

00:56:19.000 He was also saying something really stupid, scientifically idiotic. 1.00

00:56:22.000 But there is a legal distinction between statutory rape and forcible rape, right? 1.00

00:56:25.000 Statutory rape is a 20-year-old guy has sex with a 16-year-old girl, and there's no Romeo and Juliet law, and so he is now guilty of statutory rape because he's raped someone who's not capable of giving consent to someone that much older.

00:56:36.000 That's not quite the same thing as forcible rape, which is a 20-year-old guy sees a 16-year-old girl walking down the street.

00:56:42.000 She's not his girlfriend.

00:56:43.000 They're not dating or anything. 0.99

00:56:43.000 He grabs her off the street, puts her in the back of a van, and rapes her, right? 0.99

00:56:46.000 There is a distinction in law with regard to the punishment that goes along with that. 0.88

00:56:50.000 When it comes to statutory rape, of course this is true. 0.89

00:56:52.000 Of course this is true. 0.98

00:56:53.000 You teach a 12, 13-year-old girl that sex is wonderful and fine and beneficial and so long as it feels good, do it. 0.96

00:57:01.000 And then she meets a 20-year-old guy who says, yeah, so long as it feels good, do it. 0.95

00:57:04.000 Yeah, of course you're facilitating statutory rape in that way. 0.56

00:57:07.000 My view is that it's up to the parents to teach their kids about sex. 0.60

00:57:09.000 I don't want teachers teaching my kids about sex. 0.99

00:57:12.000 I want to teach my children what my standards are and what moral standards look like.

00:57:16.000 I don't trust anybody else to teach my kids about the most vital parts of life.

00:57:19.000 That's my job as a parent.

00:57:21.000 One of my problems with sex ed is this abdication that's occurred where parents say, oh, well, I don't have to have the talk, that confusing talk.

00:57:27.000 I've never understood this, by the way.

00:57:28.000 All these people in society, oh, oh my god, I can't believe I have to have the talk with mom.

00:57:32.000 I can't believe I have to talk with dad. 1.00

00:57:34.000 And these idiot parents, oh my god, it's going to be so awkward when I have to tell my daughter about sex. 1.00

00:57:38.000 It's going to be so awkward. 1.00

00:57:40.000 Why is it awkward?

00:57:41.000 Why is it awkward?

00:57:42.000 It seems to me that one of the goals, unfortunately, of the secular left is to shroud sex in mystery and then to pretend that there's no mystery at all about it, right? 0.72

00:57:51.000 So they want it both ways.

00:57:52.000 They want to shroud it in mystery like, oh, it's something that's too dirty to be talked about.

00:57:56.000 It's so dirty.

00:57:57.000 That's what makes it sexy.

00:57:57.000 It's so dirty.

00:57:58.000 We can't talk about it.

00:57:59.000 And then at the same time, there's no mystery about it at all.

00:58:01.000 It's just like pooping.

00:58:02.000 It's just a bodily function.

00:58:03.000 It's like eating or pooping.

00:58:04.000 People just do it.

00:58:05.000 It's totally great.

00:58:06.000 Okay, here's the reality.

00:58:09.000 There is a mystical component to sex.

00:58:11.000 Clavin talks beautifully about this.

00:58:13.000 He says that the difference between rape and consensual sex is a spiritual difference because the physical act is precisely the same.

00:58:19.000 All that's lacking is consent.

00:58:20.000 It's a crime against the soul, not just against the body.

00:58:24.000 For you to talk to your kids about sex is incumbent on you as a parent.

00:58:27.000 And it shouldn't be confusing, and it shouldn't be upsetting.

00:58:29.000 And the fact is, the more outright and forthright you are about sex with your kids, the better you- And this isn't to say that- And when I say outright and forthright, I mean like in a biological sense.

00:58:38.000 The more clear you are about how things work, the less it's gonna be like, ooh, I have to experiment to figure out where things go.

00:58:43.000 No, you don't.

00:58:44.000 I mean, here's a biology- This is literally what my dad did.

00:58:46.000 I think I was a little older than usual.

00:58:49.000 I was probably 10 when my dad told me.

00:58:51.000 I was a first child.

00:58:52.000 So in a child with many families, sorry, in a family with many children, depending on the number of children, the age of knowledge about sex goes down with each preceding child, right?

00:59:02.000 So the first child, it's like he's 10.

00:59:04.000 The next child's like 7.

00:59:05.000 The next child is 5, right?

00:59:06.000 Because the kids tell each other.

00:59:08.000 So when I was 10, my dad sat me down, maybe 9, my dad sat me down with a biology textbook and he said, this goes here.

00:59:14.000 Right?

00:59:14.000 He said, here's how this goes, this goes here, you do this when you're married.

00:59:18.000 Right?

00:59:18.000 When you're married, this is one of the great things about being married, you get to do this.

00:59:22.000 And he didn't put it in the context of when man loves a woman, when you love each other.

00:59:26.000 Because that's too vague.

00:59:27.000 It is too vague.

00:59:28.000 And kids can't understand that, and you can't expect kids to understand that.

00:59:31.000 Because kids are not fully mature.

00:59:33.000 And it's not just when you love somebody.

00:59:35.000 If you want to have a productive sex life, not just a pleasurable... All sex is pleasurable, essentially.

00:59:45.000 All consensual sex is pleasurable.

00:59:47.000 But if you want to have a productive sex life, like one that's going to actually enrich your life in a positive way, you need a commitment that goes along with that.

00:59:54.000 And marriage is the standard of commitment.

00:59:56.000 So the way I'm going to teach my kids about sex is I'm going to say, when you get married, here's what you do. 0.91

01:00:02.000 Not when you love somebody, because you can love lots of people.

01:00:05.000 Not when you... And especially for girls, that's particularly damaging.

01:00:08.000 I don't think sex is the same for girls as for guys, spiritually. 0.93

01:00:11.000 I think that's a lefty, feminist, bull, pucky routine. 1.00

01:00:15.000 And just look at the suicide rates among young girls who have sex versus the suicide rates among young boys who have sex. 0.96

01:00:19.000 Not the same at all.

01:00:21.000 Not the same at all. 0.96

01:00:22.000 Promiscuous girls in their teenage years, significantly higher depression and suicide rate than teenage boys who have promiscuous sex.

01:00:28.000 Because for men, sex is much more of a biological function, and for girls it's much more 0.94

01:00:32.000 Connected to a deep well of spirituality and feeling, which is why for every I think every man on a gut level understands that a one night stand is may just be some guy getting his rocks off and every woman understands that it's more than that.

01:00:50.000 And so, you know, I think you should teach your kids about all these things.

01:00:53.000 The more open you are, the more they're going to come to you with questions and not feel ashamed.

01:00:57.000 And for you not to be ashamed about your sex life, doesn't mean, like, spill it out in front of the kids, but for you to say, yeah, of course mom and I have sex.

01:01:03.000 Of course we do that.

01:01:04.000 And it's wonderful because we're married and we love each other.

01:01:06.000 Right?

01:01:07.000 That's a good thing.

01:01:07.000 It provides a positive role model.

01:01:09.000 Otherwise, they're going to get messages about sex from TV where everything is taboo. 0.94

01:01:13.000 And what makes things sexy is the violation of taboo.

01:01:16.000 And the problem is, in our society,

01:01:18.000 With each progressive year, the taboos get knocked down.

01:01:21.000 So we're now reaching the point where there are no more taboos.

01:01:23.000 And so we have to create new taboos to knock down.

01:01:25.000 And that's why we're now creating... The taboo was homosexuality.

01:01:28.000 Now the taboo is transgenderism. 0.96

01:01:30.000 Soon there will be another taboo that's designed to turn people on.

01:01:33.000 And the reason that transgender stories do well, typically, is because people are fascinated by the taboo.

01:01:38.000 Okay, so that is the end of the mailbag.

01:01:40.000 That is the end of the week.

01:01:41.000 We'll be back here...

01:01:43.000 On Monday with more insanity, and I'll give you the update.

01:01:45.000 I'm supposed to be at Politicon this weekend.

01:01:47.000 I'm debating Sally Cohn, which should be entertaining at the very least, and maybe we'll have some video clips of that if it's available.

01:01:54.000 But you have yourself a wonderful weekend.

01:01:56.000 Try to survive, and we'll be back here on Monday if the world still exists.

01:01:59.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

01:02:00.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 23, 2016

Ep. 139 - Democrats Hold The World's Dumbest Sleepover

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