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00:00:00.000On 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.
00:00:10.000Goodson 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.
00:00:21.000This particular verdict makes Goodson the third officer set free in the case.
00:00:25.000The judge in the case, he rightly said that the prosecution didn't show anything bad.
00:00:30.000They didn't show that Goodson, the driver, meant for anything bad to happen to Gray.
00:00:34.000The 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.
00:00:40.000That wasn't criminal negligence, he just didn't buckle the guy up.
00:00:44.000He said there was no evidence Goodson was aware or should have been aware that Gray was hurt in the first place.
00:00:50.000This, of course, is totally right, according to the evidence.
00:00:52.000Despite 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.
00:01:02.000She issued a statement announcing an administrative review against Goodson, because that's how things work now.
00:01:23.000The Freddie Gray case was just another excuse for the left to be as horrible toward police officers as they always are.
00:01:29.000Prosecutor 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.
00:01:42.000Her office then repeatedly hid evidence from the defense to cover up the fact that she didn't have a case.
00:01:47.000The left immediately began talking her up as a possible senator or governor.
00:01:50.000President Obama, if you recall, jumped into the act too.
00:01:56.000The 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.
00:02:09.000No, it isn't new for Democrats to turn a non-crime into a racial conflagration for political gain.
00:02:16.000What would be new would be watching Mosby and Rawlings-Blake and Obama pay a political and legal price where available.
00:02:22.000Until that happens, officers will simply stop policing.
00:02:25.000There's a reason the Baltimore murder rate rose 63% last year.
00:02:54.000All righty, so we live in a post-racial America that is completely racist.
00:02:59.000The Baltimore verdict comes down today, and that's just one piece of news.
00:03:03.000The 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.
00:03:15.000Affirmative action is okay with the Constitution in any case.
00:03:17.000The 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.
00:03:30.000You can do that when it comes to racial admissions on the Supreme Court level.
00:03:34.000So that was the big news at the Supreme Court today.
00:03:36.000The 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.
00:03:45.000Effectively, it strikes down President Obama's executive amnesty, which is quasi-good news.
00:03:50.000I'll explain why it's good news and why it doesn't really matter that much in a little while.
00:03:52.000But, the big news over the course of the night.
00:03:55.000Was 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.
00:04:06.000Meaning 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.
00:04:12.000And this was rejected in the Senate, as you recall.
00:04:14.000This bill was rejected in the Senate two days ago.
00:04:17.000The House Democrats didn't really want to push the bill, but they did want to make a big, grandstanding move about it.
00:04:22.000So yesterday, sometime in the morning, they just decided, OK, you know what we're going to do?
00:04:26.000We're going to sit down right here on the floor of Congress.
00:04:29.000And as we mentioned yesterday, the conversation apparently was supposed to go something like this.
00:04:34.000We're gonna sit here if you don't destroy due process, right?
00:04:36.000We want you to take the secret list that you can't get off of.
00:04:39.000This secret list, we want people on this list not to be able to buy guns.
00:04:44.000And if you don't give that to us, we're gonna sit here.
00:04:46.000And we're like, okay, you can sit there.
00:04:48.000And he's like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
00:05:39.000Sitting 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...
00:07:01.000I know that I'm ready to burn copies of the Constitution because President Obama says I should.
00:07:05.000And 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.
00:07:13.000And 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.
00:07:32.000He was actually a civil rights hero back in the 1960s.
00:07:34.000Like, 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.
00:07:44.000Now 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.
00:07:51.000By 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.
00:08:22.000How about if you're on the no-fly list, you just don't get to be in Congress?
00:08:25.000I mean, hell, it seems dangerous to have people on the no-fly list buying guns.
00:08:29.000It seems more dangerous to me if they're voting on American policy, for God's sake, and being exposed to American intelligence information.
00:09:14.000A 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.
00:09:29.000We have other bridges to cross, and when we come back in July, we'll start all over again.
00:09:39.000But the American people, they want us to act.
00:10:04.000It'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.
00:10:20.000Not the same thing at all, but I guess you can grandstand if you're John Lewis.
00:11:31.000But 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.
00:11:42.000And of course this is all being led by civil rights icons.
00:12:01.000So 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.
00:12:06.000They should have taken away his ability to have a weapon.
00:12:09.000After all, he was on the FBI's watch list as a possible subversive.
00:12:12.000So, there they are singing We Shall Overcome.
00:12:20.000Bernie 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.
00:12:29.000The media, of course, lapped all of this up, like the lapdogs they are.
00:12:37.000Republicans took to the floor, and they basically filibustered, and they wouldn't get off the floor in order to protest Democrats' fracking ability.
00:12:46.000I think the Republicans should take a note out of the Democrat playbook, and they should do this on abortion.
00:12:50.000They should do this on defunding Planned Parenthood.
00:12:52.000As 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.
00:13:21.000And so the media were cheering about this, and apparently, according to a reporter from IJ Review, there were 30 members of the media.
00:13:29.000All 30 members asked all the various members of Congress how historic this was.
00:13:33.000Halfway through this idiotic charade, the Democrats turn to the media and actually start applauding the media.
00:13:40.000James Clyburn from South Carolina, they actually turn to the media and start applauding the media, which just demonstrates exactly what this is.
00:13:48.000Let me begin my remarks by thanking the media.
00:14:02.000And the media thanking them right back.
00:14:33.000But 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.
00:16:17.000Louie's the only person in Congress that I really enjoy.
00:16:19.000He's a representative from Texas, the most sincere guy in Congress, way too good a fellow to be in Congress.
00:16:26.000And 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.
00:18:36.000Bring up your bill, make them reject it.
00:18:38.000You know, do all the things that, do all the posturing the Democrats do.
00:18:42.000And 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.
00:18:51.000Do exactly what Nancy Pelosi did to Republicans in 2008.
00:18:53.000In 2008, she turned off the lights, she turned off the cameras, she turned off the air conditioning.
00:18:58.000Paul Ryan could have done that today, but he didn't.
00:19:00.000He 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.
00:19:06.000In any case, here's what it looked like when Paul Ryan intervened to have a vote for adjournment.
00:19:11.000Basically, the House broke into a little bit of chaos.
00:21:21.000We have procedures in place to deal with that.
00:21:23.000We 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.
00:21:36.000Why not at least allow a vote, up or down?
00:21:41.000First of all, they know that we will not bring a bill that takes away a person's constitutionally guaranteed rights without their due process.
00:21:48.000We don't agree with that, and the Senate already doesn't agree with that.
00:21:52.000So I think, look, the point here, Wolf, is this is a publicity stunt.
00:21:56.000They're trying to get you to ask me those questions for publicity's sake.
00:21:59.000This isn't trying to come up with a solution to a problem.
00:22:04.000The Democrats, by the way, are already raising money off of this.
00:22:07.000They've sent out all of their fundraising letters trying to raise money off the dead people in Orlando based on this little publicity stunt.
00:22:12.000The problem for Ryan is that Ryan is such an accountant.
00:22:54.000Why should, say, the uber-wealthy who have protection, have that protection, but individuals or law-abiding citizens in your district should not?
00:23:26.000I'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.
00:24:00.000I said, what about due process for the little child who's killed in a classroom?
00:24:04.000What 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?
00:24:13.000I think we can work a bill that covers the rights of people's due process at the same time
00:24:17.000What about the due process rights for the person who's killed?
00:24:37.000Well, 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.
00:24:45.000The problem here is that you're saying it should be legal for you to take away my rights.
00:24:50.000If somebody comes in here and, God forbid, shoots me, they've violated my rights and they've broken the law in doing so.
00:24:55.000If 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.
00:25:02.000The Democrats, this sort of logic is the logic of tyranny.
00:25:37.000Once you get to his rights trump your rights, you're not talking about rights anymore.
00:25:42.000You'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.
00:25:55.000The 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.
00:26:07.000And he's not the only one making stupid arguments.
00:26:09.000Seth 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.
00:26:20.000We'll see what he's talking about here.
00:26:23.000And what we're asking for is so reasonable.
00:26:28.000If you're on a no-fly list, if you're not allowed to fly, you ought not to be able to buy a gun.
00:26:34.000And if there are problems with the no-fly list, then let's fix it.
00:26:37.000But tell me this, if there are so many problems with the no-fly list, why do we have the no-fly list?
00:26:45.000Why are these people not allowed to fly?
00:26:47.000I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that everybody in this body flies home every weekend.
00:26:56.000Is the freedom to travel not afforded to Americans?
00:26:59.000Is that not a right that we care about?
00:27:02.000Do we live in a government that can go and tell you you're not going to get on that plane just arbitrarily?
00:27:42.000And when he's talking about the no-fly list, here's the truth.
00:27:45.000You 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.
00:27:53.000So this is why John Lewis is on the no-fly list, but he's still been able to fly, right?
00:27:57.000But again, this isn't about arguments, this is all about posturing.
00:28:00.000And that's all the Democrats want to do, is just posturing all over the place, posturing
00:28:05.000And of course, celebrities are all in on this.
00:28:07.000Celebrities from Britney Spears to Lady Gaga, they've been jumping in.
00:28:10.000They wrote an open letter to Congress about how they think that it's just terrible, that there isn't more gun control.
00:28:17.000It'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.
00:28:25.000I mean, it's people like Demi Lovato and Ellen DeGeneres.
00:28:28.000Why would I possibly care what Demi Lovato has to say about anything?
00:28:33.000Her famous song is about being hot for the summer.
00:28:35.000Why would I care what Lady Gaga has to say about anything?
00:28:38.000Her knowledge of the Constitution is rivaled only by her subtle tastes.
00:28:42.000I mean, it's just, it's this long, long list of useless people I could not care less about.
00:29:08.000The left thinks that your rights are bad, because the left thinks you are bad.
00:29:11.000See, 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.
00:29:18.000This 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.
00:29:26.000Is 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?
00:29:44.000They're interested in curtailing your rights so that they can pursue their broader agenda of controlling you and getting rid of rights altogether.
00:29:52.000And what they really want in the end is they want the rule of their friends.
00:29:59.000Is that the Supreme Court split 4-4 on President Obama's executive amnesty.
00:30:03.000If Justice Scalia were alive, then presumably he would have voted against President Obama's executive amnesty.
00:30:08.000President 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.
00:30:18.000Then he went ahead and amnestied millions of people.
00:30:21.00026 states appealed that to the Supreme Court.
00:30:23.000And the Supreme Court said, no, you can't really do that so much.
00:30:27.000So President Obama was super pissed about that today.
00:30:30.000And 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.
00:30:37.000And, well, Congress should have passed comprehensive immigration reform.
00:30:40.000It's their fault that I had to do this.
00:30:42.000It's the Supreme Court's fault that I had to do this, because they could have sided with me.
00:30:46.000And 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.
00:30:54.000I 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.
00:31:17.000I think that their action is an obstacle to my freedom.
00:31:20.000They think that my freedom is an obstacle to their action.
00:31:23.000This is the scary thing about Democrats, and this is the scary thing about the left.
00:31:27.000My rights are an obstacle to them doing what they want, so the rights simply have to be overruled.
00:31:31.000So 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.
00:31:37.000Clause of Article 2 of the Constitution, the one that says, F.U., I'll do what I want.
00:31:42.000You remember, the founders put that in there in case things ground to a halt.
00:31:45.000There'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.
00:31:54.000This is how enabling acts get passed in Germany.
00:31:57.000This is how fascist governments rise in Italy.
00:32:01.000They 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.
00:32:07.000They do it on the back of, doesn't that kid getting shot have a right?
00:32:11.000Don't we have rights against the bad guys?
00:32:13.000Don't you have a right to be free of economic impurity and economic insecurity?
00:32:19.000Well, 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.
00:33:38.000So, now let's do some things I like, some things I hate, and then the mailbag.
00:33:42.000It'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?
00:34:10.000We read the Torah portion, the Old Testament portion, known as Behaloscha.
00:34:14.000Okay, 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.
00:34:23.000Basically, 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.
00:34:30.000So 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.
00:34:36.000They 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?
00:34:43.000That'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.
00:35:10.000So, what the left likes about all of this is that the left cites the last part, right?
00:35:15.000One law will apply to you, and to the proselyte, and to the native-born citizen.
00:35:19.000What they seem to imply is if an illegal immigrant lives in the United States, they're bound by law.
00:35:24.000Morality requires that we treat the stranger among you as we would treat you.
00:35:28.000This 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.
00:35:37.000They can't be somebody who just sits down in your house and now you have to treat them with respect.
00:35:40.000It has to be somebody who's accepted the mantle of the law on them, and then they get treated like everybody else.
00:35:46.000Then they belong under that one statute.
00:35:48.000But 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.
00:35:53.000So when you talk about Syrian Muslim refugees, for example, coming to Europe,
00:35:58.000And taking part in Europe, but not really.
00:36:01.000Kind of separating themselves off, setting up their own courts, and not just their own courts, but ignoring basic moral law in these nations.
00:36:09.000You can't treat them, the illegal immigrants, just the same as you would anybody else.
00:36:13.000You actually have to have a set of laws, especially for them.
00:36:17.000I think it's important to debunk leftist notions of the Bible because the left constantly cites the Bible out of context.
00:36:22.000At 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.
00:36:31.000I 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.
00:36:39.000And so I'm looking forward to having that conversation.
00:36:41.000I 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.
00:36:56.000But 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.
00:37:06.000Judge 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.
00:37:25.000What it means by that is that you have a duty to warn people about the sins that they are committing.
00:37:31.000You're supposed to give people a warning about the things that they are doing that are wrong,
00:37:35.000And it's actually part, it's a vital part of Jewish criminal law, biblical criminal law.
00:37:39.000So 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.
00:37:49.000I'm not sure there's anything more important than that.
00:38:03.000But 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.
00:38:12.000He was on this new show, Any Given Wednesday, with Bill Simmons.
00:38:15.000Bill Simmons, I really enjoy Bill Simmons writing a lot.
00:38:35.000Is this the ultimate Boston sports story that ever could have happened, us against them?
00:38:40.000The Flakegate is the ultimate bulls**t.
00:38:42.000This is the most outrageous of sports ever.
00:38:45.000It'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.
00:39:50.000Does anybody find any of this really controversial?
00:39:52.000Like, 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.
00:40:01.000I love that the new standard for hot talk is, I say stuff, but I drop the f-bomb a lot.
00:40:07.000The 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.
00:40:16.000And 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.
00:40:25.000No, when you say it, now you're just like a loon bag.
00:40:27.000Like you're out of the realm of even rational discourse because you see, here's the mainstream.
00:40:31.000And then on the edge of the mainstream is Ben Affleck talking about Deflategate.
00:40:34.000And then there's you over here saying that men are actually men and not women.
00:41:46.000I say that this is a tyrant in waiting.
00:41:47.000So the Constitution is based on there are certain values that change and then there are certain values that don't.
00:41:53.000And one of the things that doesn't change is human nature.
00:41:55.000The 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.
00:42:04.000And 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.
00:42:13.000Because in a pure democracy, for example, I wouldn't need to come into your house and steal all your stuff.
00:42:19.000I and three of my friends would go vote against you to go into your house and steal all of your stuff.
00:42:38.000Otherwise, we all kind of just, everything balances out in the wash, nothing happens, and you're left to your own devices.
00:42:44.000That's why the Constitution is relevant.
00:42:46.000The 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.
00:42:54.000Like, you don't count as a person in the left viewpoint.
00:42:56.000So whenever somebody says the Constitution is outmoded, what they really mean is they don't agree
00:43:01.000I know a lot of people have talked about this.
00:43:03.000I haven't talked about it too much, mainly because it's Britain and not the United States, but it's sort of the equivalent.
00:43:06.000I know Clavin talked about this yesterday.
00:43:24.000Of if Texas had decided that it was just seceding from the Union.
00:44:19.000So, over at the EU, they have this European Parliament.
00:44:22.000That 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.
00:44:32.000This is taxation without representation, or at least regulation without representation.
00:44:36.000It's a bunch of bureaucrats telling people what to do in Britain, who never voted for any of this stuff.
00:44:41.000Never voted for any of this stuff, and that I think is just on a root level really, really wrong.
00:44:45.000On 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?
00:44:54.000There are countries that aren't really part of the EU that are in Eastern Europe,
00:44:57.000And they're looking at this and they're saying, well, we're building fences to keep these people out.
00:45:01.000Like, 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.
00:45:12.000I mean, they pass all sorts of idiotic rules at the EU level.
00:45:15.000And 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.
00:47:12.000There's books by Dr. Karp, and those books are good for little kids.
00:47:18.000Uh, and first of all, I think that the best parenting manual you have is probably your own parents.
00:47:22.000Pick 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.
00:47:28.000I had really great parents, that makes it easy.
00:47:31.000If 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.
00:47:46.000You put them down for a nap, they cry for like 45 minutes, then they get tired and fall asleep.
00:47:49.000The next day it's like half an hour, then 15 minutes, then five, and then done.
00:47:52.000And they go to sleep as soon as you put them down.
00:47:54.000And also have a normal bedtime routine, but...
00:47:57.000Yeah, I think that as far as parenting books, I haven't read any that I thought were super spectacular.
00:48:01.000The reason I recommend CARP is because CARP has some solutions to fussing and also to kind of colic for babies that are really good.
00:48:08.000I'm sure that your pediatricians told you about them, but yeah, that would be a good place to start.
00:48:13.000Frank 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?
00:48:39.000I mean, number one, we would immediately make them presidents of Planned Parenthood, because that's what they do over there.
00:48:44.000But, aside from that, we would also say this is not necessarily a religion that falls under freedom of religion.
00:48:49.000There 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.
00:49:02.000Like, we all have to agree on basic cultural precepts.
00:49:03.000This is one of the things that's so scary about multiculturalism,
00:49:06.000And the left sees it when it comes to religion, but they don't see it when it comes to multiculturalism.
00:49:10.000If 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.
00:49:19.000But 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.
00:49:30.000Freedom 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?
00:49:37.000As long as you don't hurt anybody else.
00:49:48.000Explanations what the Quran says versus the Bible.
00:49:50.000I 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.
00:49:59.000I'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
00:50:13.000Okay, Robert says, Ben, I'm a huge fan of both yourself and Klavan, and anxiously await each new podcast.
00:50:19.000Would you consider doing a debate with Stefan Molyneux?
00:50:22.000I don't really know him, so I'm happy to debate with pretty much anybody.
00:50:25.000I was even happy to debate with the ex-Scribble Milo Yiannopoulos until he chickened out because he's a coward.
00:50:31.000A lot of what he has to say, I have a hard time understanding his Trump fandom.
00:50:43.000Getting 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.
00:50:48.000And everyone else should follow Daniel's lead.
00:50:51.000He 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.
00:50:59.000I 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.
00:51:10.000David says, Ben, people on the left often use Zionist as an argument, ender, the way they use bigot, racist, Islamist, homophobe.
00:51:15.000As far as I can make out, all it takes to be a Zionist is to believe in the legitimacy of the statehood of Israel.
00:51:20.000Well, I can distort my brain to understand why the left hates that.
00:51:22.000Is 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?
00:52:23.000It 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.
00:52:31.000Mitchell 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.
00:52:38.000While in the class, our pastor explained all that believe in God will be saved as long as they believe in the one true God.
00:52:43.000In previous lessons, we learned that one must believe in Jesus as the Savior.
00:52:58.000Well, I mean, I can't answer for your pastor.
00:53:00.000I know there are some Christians who believe that Jews are saved.
00:53:02.000I 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.
00:53:10.000That doesn't bother me in the slightest.
00:53:40.000Of course, religions believe that other religions are wrong.
00:53:43.000You know, that's why Judaism isn't Christianity and vice versa.
00:53:46.000Okay, 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?
00:54:35.000Finding Dory, there's a random lesbian couple that shows up.
00:54:38.000Apparently there's a trans fish or something.
00:54:42.000It'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.
00:54:55.000But this attempt to socially engineer children...
00:54:58.000It gives a lie to the left when they say, if you just leave us alone, then we won't bother you or your kids.
00:55:05.000They absolutely will bother your kids.
00:55:07.000And if you don't fight back using your market power, they will continue to do that endlessly.
00:55:11.000And it's difficult because so many talented people make so much good art that disagrees with that.
00:55:15.000But it's one thing for me as an adult to expose myself to art that I know disagrees, that I disagree with.
00:55:20.000It'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.
00:55:28.000Okay, folks, we've reached... Oh, yeah, we have one video question.
00:55:36.000My question is, aren't sex educators, the middle school, high school sex education teachers, aren't they accomplices of rape?
00:55:46.000Because they're teaching sex education, giving out condoms, providing resources, telling kids that they can have consensual sex when, by law, children
00:55:58.000Until you're 18, some states 16, but generally 18, you cannot have consensual sex.
00:56:09.000It also illustrates the difference between statutory rape and what they call forcible rape.
00:56:14.000Now, Todd Akin got himself in all sorts of trouble because he was making a legal distinction that people don't understand.
00:56:19.000He was also saying something really stupid, scientifically idiotic.
00:56:22.000But there is a legal distinction between statutory rape and forcible rape, right?
00:56:25.000Statutory 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.
00:56:36.000That'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.
00:57:21.000One 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.
00:57:27.000I've never understood this, by the way.
00:57:28.000All these people in society, oh, oh my god, I can't believe I have to have the talk with mom.
00:57:32.000I can't believe I have to talk with dad.
00:57:34.000And these idiot parents, oh my god, it's going to be so awkward when I have to tell my daughter about sex.
00:57:42.000It 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?
00:58:20.000It's a crime against the soul, not just against the body.
00:58:24.000For you to talk to your kids about sex is incumbent on you as a parent.
00:58:27.000And it shouldn't be confusing, and it shouldn't be upsetting.
00:58:29.000And 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.
00:58:38.000The 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.
00:58:52.000So 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?
00:59:02.000So the first child, it's like he's 10.
00:59:47.000But 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.
00:59:54.000And marriage is the standard of commitment.
00:59:56.000So 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.
01:00:02.000Not when you love somebody, because you can love lots of people.
01:00:05.000Not when you... And especially for girls, that's particularly damaging.
01:00:08.000I don't think sex is the same for girls as for guys, spiritually.
01:00:11.000I think that's a lefty, feminist, bull, pucky routine.
01:00:15.000And just look at the suicide rates among young girls who have sex versus the suicide rates among young boys who have sex.
01:00:22.000Promiscuous girls in their teenage years, significantly higher depression and suicide rate than teenage boys who have promiscuous sex.
01:00:28.000Because for men, sex is much more of a biological function, and for girls it's much more
01:00:32.000Connected 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.
01:00:50.000And so, you know, I think you should teach your kids about all these things.
01:00:53.000The more open you are, the more they're going to come to you with questions and not feel ashamed.
01:00:57.000And 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.