This week, President Obama wrote a ridiculous piece in Glamour magazine arguing that men can be women, so long as they think it so, and they can invade women s bathrooms based on that subjective belief. But Obama, said the president, is indeed an Obama feminist, and he is here to change souls. The most important change, he lectured, may be the toughest of all, and that s changing ourselves. How should Americans change themselves? Well, Obama explained, we need to keep changing the attitude that permits the routine harassment of women, whether they re walking down the street or daring to go online. And he doesn t offer any solutions to these supposedly widespread problems. He just sort of throws out the notion that he understands female lady problems. To borrow some feminist language, that s kind of patriarchal: to condescend to women, and tell them that you understand their problems, and then you don t really need to present any solutions. This stuff isn t feminism, it s just politically correct virtue signaling. Ben Shapiro: America is a glorious place for women, the best in human history. And the only way to make it even better is to stop slandering men as sexist without evidence, and telling our daughters there are no glass ceilings, just a world of options waiting for them. After all, that they can go just as far as their skills and decisions take them. After all that, that's kind of the truth, isn t it? Ben Shapiro is a feminist, right? and he's here to help you get a good night's rest, right here in the middle of the middle. All righty! The Ben Shapiro Show, Ben Shapiro . Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new show on the Ben Shapiro s new show, The FiveThirtyEight Podcast on the Four Pillows on Podchaser on his new podcast, The Best Way to Sleep on the Cheap Side of the Internet on The Five and much, much more! on this episode of The Five Thirty Five Podcasts on your favorite podcasting platform. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your favorite streaming platform, and much more. Thanks for listening to the FiveThirtyFive Podcasts? Subscribe, Subscribe and Share Ben Shapiro and the rest of your thoughts on the Five Guys Podcasts. Also, don't forget to leave us a rating and review Ben Shapiro on iTunes!
00:00:07.000Barack Obama, said Barack Obama, is a true Barack Obama feminist.
00:00:10.000This, of course, might not have been obvious from the fact that the Obama White House pays women 89 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
00:00:16.000It might not have been obvious from the Obama administration's bizarre belief that men can be women, so long as they think it so.
00:00:22.000And they can invade women's bathrooms based on that subjective belief.
00:00:25.000But Obama, said Obama, is indeed an Obama feminist.
00:00:31.000The most important change, he lectured, may be the toughest of all, and that's changing ourselves.
00:00:35.000How should Americans change themselves?
00:00:37.000Well, Obama explained, we need to keep changing the attitude that permits the routine harassment of women, whether they're walking down the street or daring to go online.
00:00:45.000We need to keep changing the attitude that teaches men to feel threatened by the presence and success of women.
00:00:50.000This sort of unearned moral righteousness makes you want to vomit and never stop vomiting.
00:00:53.000Notice, Obama doesn't offer any solutions to these supposedly widespread problems.
00:00:58.000He just sort of throws out the notion that he understands female lady problems.
00:01:01.000To borrow some feminist language, that's kind of patriarchal.
00:01:05.000To condescend to tell women that you understand their problems and then you don't really need to present any solutions.
00:01:10.000As the subtext goes, all women really want is someone who can feel along with them.
00:01:30.000The only sort of sexuality that society should celebrate is the kind that takes place responsibly within the bounds of marriage, given that if sexuality produces kids, we would like kids to be born into solid two-parent families with their parents present.
00:01:41.000Society should be, at best, neutral about other sorts of sexuality.
00:01:45.000It seems kind of weird that feminism should ask for promiscuity to be treated as virtue for women just because bad people have treated it as virtue for men.
00:01:52.000This stuff isn't feminism, it's just politically correct virtue signaling.
00:01:56.000I fully believe in the basic notion of original feminism, that women should be able to make whatever career choices they want based on merit.
00:02:03.000I grew up in a house where my dad was the stay-at-home dad and my mom ran TV and film companies.
00:02:09.000I'm certainly at home with the kids more than she is at this point, but she took time off for both of our kids.
00:02:13.000I want my daughter to be able to pursue whatever dream she sees fit, but I don't think America's soul needs changing.
00:02:19.000That's because I know Americans agree with me.
00:02:22.000If they didn't, my mom's career wouldn't have been possible, neither would my wife's, neither would my daughter's.
00:02:27.000I don't spend every day worrying about my daughter's possibilities, because in a free country, she can go just as far as her skills and decisions take her.
00:02:34.000If she faces obstacles from sexists, I'll be right there calling for action if she wants my help.
00:02:38.000But I'm not going to pretend, for the sake of PC and popularity, that sexism is widespread and pervasive.
00:02:45.000America is a glorious place for women, the best in human history.
00:02:48.000And the only way to make it even better is to target actual sexist activity and to stop slandering men as sexist without evidence and telling our daughters there are no glass ceilings, just a world of options waiting for them.
00:03:21.000Have you ever been to a mattress store?
00:03:22.000I've been to a mattress store, and what you do is you lie on a bunch of mattresses for three seconds.
00:03:26.000And then you say, oh, I'll take that one.
00:03:27.000And then three months later, the mattress is sagging in the middle, and you and your wife are on opposite ends of the mattress, and by the middle of the night, you're lying next to each other because you've rolled down into the concave vortex that is the mattress.
00:03:39.000What they do there is you go there, and they actually give you this kind of questionnaire based on four key preferences, and you can determine
00:04:23.000Go to helixsleep.com and if you use slash ben, so it's helixsleep.com slash ben, then that ensures that not only will you get a discount, you get $50 off of your order, but also that ensures that they know that I sent you, which is great for the program and it helps keep all of our illegal immigrants employed.
00:04:49.000So, lots to get to today here on the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:53.000Let's begin with the story that should be the lead story of the day.
00:04:56.000So the story that should be the lead story of the day is courtesy of the New York Post.
00:05:00.000Quote, Hillary Clinton put the State Department up for sale with top aides pulling strings and doing favors for fat cat donors to the Clinton Foundation.
00:05:08.000Including a shady billionaire, according to smoking gun emails released on Tuesday.
00:05:12.000The stunning revelations include how wealthy contributors seeking influence or prestigious government gigs could fork over piles of cash to get access to Clinton's inner circle, including top aides Huma Abedin and Sheryl Mills.
00:05:23.000In an April 2009 message to Abedin and Mills, Doug Band, who was overseeing the Clinton Foundation at the time, that was the Clinton slush fund, urgently asked for a meeting between a top U.S.
00:05:35.000Who's a major donor to the Clinton family charity.
00:05:37.000He's a Lebanese business person, does a lot of business in Nigeria, so he's like a Nigerian scam prince, except that instead of asking you for $200 so he can send you a million, instead he just donates lots of money to the Clinton Foundation to get favors from Hillary.
00:05:50.000So this guy who works for the Clinton Foundation, he wrote, we need to speak to the substance person regarding Lebanon.
00:05:56.000As you know, Chiguri's key guy is there, and to us, and is loved in Lebanon.
00:06:00.000And so he's trying to suck up to the big donor.
00:06:02.000It's Jeff Feltman, Abedin wrote back, referring to America's former ambassador to Lebanon.
00:06:14.000So in other words, basically the State Department was reaching out to specific Clinton Foundation donors.
00:06:20.000He is a Lebanese Nigerian billionaire who gave the Clinton Foundation between a million and five million dollars, and he pledged a billion dollars to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009.
00:06:28.000He has financial interests around the world.
00:06:31.000He's been convicted of money laundering.
00:06:33.000He's paid 66 million dollars in a plea deal.
00:06:36.000And by the way, all of this paid dividends.
00:06:37.000According to the New York Post, in June 2011, Band, Doug Band of the Clinton Foundation, formed the Teneo Consulting Firm with Bill Clinton as the paid honorary chairman.
00:06:45.000In 2012, Abedin won permission to work as a $15,000 a month consultant for Teneo in a special arrangement that allowed her to remain on the State Department payroll.
00:06:55.000So basically, they created kind of a middleman between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department, and these disclosures came via Judicial Watch, which does a lot of wonderful work, Judicial Watch.
00:07:04.000So, none of this, of course, bodes well for Hillary Clinton, and it would be the top story of the day, and it should be the top story of the day.
00:07:11.000The other top story of the day should be that Hillary Clinton let the father of a terrorist sit behind her at one of her rallies, and now she's running from questions.
00:07:18.000So Hillary Clinton was doing an event, and one of the reporters asked her a question, watch as Hillary plays deaf.
00:08:40.000You see the Trump headquarters intern, and watching TV, and then her face gets all sad, and she walks up to the whiteboard that has written on it in big letters, days without accident.
00:08:51.000Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish
00:11:18.000He made a stupid joke, a very ill-timed, foolish joke, because this is what he does, about how those crazy gun people are going to do something about Hillary Clinton.
00:13:04.000I don't know how you want to cleanse it.
00:13:05.000Probably not the word you want to use.
00:13:07.000Well, cleansing has bad historical connotations, but no blowback there.
00:13:12.000So that's the reason why I'm not like all up in arms about this sort of thing on that level.
00:13:16.000I don't think that anybody is going to go around trying to shoot Hillary Clinton because Donald Trump said that gun owners are going to shoot Hillary Clinton.
00:13:21.000I think the gun owners don't do that sort of thing.
00:13:23.000I think leftist gun owners do it after buying guns illegally, but I don't think that that's typically a right-wing thing to do.
00:13:29.000We don't go around shooting politicians with whom we disagree.
00:13:32.000That tends to be more of a Lee Harvey Oswald communist type routine.
00:13:49.000I can understand a lot of it, but I can't really speak it particularly well.
00:13:52.000I'm trying to learn Spanish right now, and my Spanish as a second language is garbage.
00:13:57.000I can sort of get across my very, very, very basic point if I'm asking your name, but beyond that, we're screwed.
00:14:02.000No good conversation is going to take place, and if I tried to explain to you the complexities of politics in Spanish, it would utterly fail.
00:14:10.000Well, that's how Trump speaks conservative.
00:14:11.000So Trump speaks conservative in a way that, like, a small child struggling to walk for the first time is trying to walk.
00:14:19.000Like, I've watched my toddler trying to walk.
00:14:20.000When she first tried to walk, she'd walk four steps and then she'd fall right on her rear.
00:14:24.000That's Trump trying to be a conservative.
00:14:25.000And every time he says something about conservatives, you can tell what he actually thinks of conservatives is the same sort of thing Barack Obama thinks of conservatives.
00:14:33.000He actually thinks that conservatives are these bitter clingers who cling to God and guns and xenophobia.
00:14:38.000And yeah, I had to use him to get here, and I sort of agree with him on immigration a little bit, but really they're all kind of stupid, right?
00:14:45.000You can always tell he's trying to pander.
00:14:47.000He always is trying to approximate where the conservative position is, but he's like little Jack Horner in the corner, sticking his thumb in the pie, hoping he hits a plum.
00:14:55.000And he's like that with all the conservative positions.
00:15:15.000When it comes to religion, and he's talking about Christianity, he speaks it as a second language.
00:15:19.000They ask him his favorite passage from the Bible, and he says, an eye for an eye.
00:15:23.000Which, last I checked, was explicitly rejected by the Sermon on the Mount for Christians, and doesn't mean what he thinks it means even for Jews.
00:15:33.000You know, all these people who are border hawks.
00:15:35.000People like, I've been a border hawk much longer than Donald Trump, and I'll be a border hawk after he's not a border hawk anymore.
00:15:39.000Donald Trump's border hawk talk is all about, you know, he embraces the Jeff Sessions program, and he talks about how they're stealing our jobs.
00:15:48.000But then he says things like, Barack Obama wants to deport all these people.
00:15:51.000I don't want to do that because I have a heart.
00:15:53.000He's speaking conservative as a second language.
00:15:55.000I think the most obvious example of this, actually, was when Donald Trump did this at the RNC.
00:15:59.000So at the RNC, he's giving a speech, and at one point during the speech, he says, we want to protect all of the gay people so they're not shot by terrorists.
00:16:11.000We don't want people shot by terrorists.
00:16:12.000And Trump stops in the middle of the speech, and he says,
00:16:16.000I am so proud that Republicans are cheering this.
00:16:20.000Okay, you're only proud of Republicans cheering that because you speak conservative as a second language.
00:16:24.000You don't have to be pro-homosexuality or pro-the-LGBT movement in order to acknowledge and recognize it is bad when terrorists kill Americans, whether they're red, white, brown, or gay.
00:16:34.000This is very simple stuff, but Trump doesn't get it.
00:16:36.000So he does the same thing to gun owners here, and it's a problem, right?
00:16:39.000He basically says about gun owners that we're all sittin' around with our AR-15s, just waitin'.
00:16:44.000Just waitin' for the Supreme Court decision to come down.
00:16:47.000Then we're gonna march on the White House?
00:17:31.000That's the problem that I have with Trump's response.
00:17:34.000Well, we have to let Facebook Live go here, but we will be continuing here at Daily Wire, so go to dailywire.com, become a subscriber, $8 a month.
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00:18:17.000So Donald Trump says this, and obviously he's speaking conservatism as a second language, and I wrote a column in National Review specifically about that that you can check out.
00:18:25.000Now, beyond that, Donald Trump's defense of himself, he tried to defend himself a variety of ways here, and none of these are good defenses.
00:18:33.000This is the problem with the Trump defense movement.
00:18:36.000The Trump defense movement, right, the TDM, the Trump defense movement, they've come along and they feel the necessity to now defend everything that Trump says.
00:18:43.000They can't just say, oh, he made a joke.
00:18:53.000They have to try and spin it and pretend he never made the mistake.
00:18:56.000So here's Donald Trump trying to pretend that he didn't say what he said.
00:18:59.000We have tremendous power, the people like myself that believe in the Second Amendment.
00:19:05.000If Hillary Clinton gets elected, I think she's going to decimate the Second Amendment, if not abolish it.
00:19:11.000And she'll do that through judges, through the justices of the Supreme Court.
00:19:14.000But the Second Amendment people have tremendous power because they're so united.
00:19:18.000Okay, so he says that the Second Amendment people— First of all, I love how he says Second Amendment people like we're a different tribe.
00:19:24.000The Second Amendment people, they live in their caves.
00:19:27.000They come out only at night, and they beat the bongo drums and chant around the fire, carrying their AR-15s.
00:19:34.000And then, like wraiths, they fade into the darkness.
00:19:38.000I mean, it's like a National Geographic special with this guy.
00:19:40.000Because you've got the Second Amendment people, and then you've got the evangelicals, and you've got the blacks, and you've got the Hispanics, and you've got the Jews, and you've got, like, he just separates everybody by these things.
00:20:44.000It proves that most of the press is in the tank for Hillary Clinton.
00:20:51.000They won't buy any lie, any distortion, any spin that the Clintons put out.
00:21:00.000And they've been doing it since he was governor of Arkansas.
00:21:04.000They've been doing it during the time he was president of the United States.
00:21:08.000They were doing it all during the time she was a senator from my state.
00:21:13.000And upstate New York fell apart because of her broken promises.
00:21:19.000So my favorite thing about Rudy Giuliani, and there are two things I love when Rudy Giuliani speaks.
00:21:22.000First of all, the accent is phenomenal.
00:21:24.000When he pronounces the word saw as though it's spelled S-A-W-R, that's my favorite thing in the world.
00:21:29.000And I also like the fact that you just feel like at any moment he's going to take off the tie, rip open his shirt and start body surfing the crowd.
00:22:12.000Listen, we can disagree about how imprudent he worded that, but to suggest that he was calling to violence means to me that you came into this with the idea that Donald Trump was calling to violence, let me make the case afterwards.
00:22:27.000You didn't come into this with a clear and open mind.
00:22:29.000Listen, I was, I endorsed Cruz in the primary campaign.
00:22:46.000Every single person you have on this panel, who are very smart people, David Gergen, who's respected, hang on, can you let me finish, Dan?
00:22:54.000David Gergen, who's respected by people on both sides, by Republicans and by Democrats, who've worked for Republicans and Democrats, who has worked for a president who's had an assassination attempt, who's lived through presidents who've been assassinated, knew exactly what Donald Trump is saying, and we're supposed to be stupid enough not to understand that and to believe the spin
00:23:14.000Coming from the surrogates and from people like you, you should be ashamed of yourself.
00:23:19.000Don, frankly I'm ashamed that you're talking to me as if I'm a child when 12 years of my life I was a superstar.
00:23:25.000No, you're treating me as a child because you're telling me what I'm supposed to hear.
00:24:25.000He meant that the NRA and the pro-gun people, the Second Amendment people, they were going to use their political power to fight against the Supreme Court and Hillary Clinton.
00:24:35.000Then Katrina Pierson goes on TV, and it's double-face palm time, gang.
00:24:40.000Trump was saying exactly what he said.
00:24:42.000He was talking about Hillary Clinton and gun control, essentially, which is something that has been talked about a lot on the campaign trail.
00:24:49.000Hillary Clinton is a gun grabber, and everyone knows if she's in a position to appoint Supreme Court justices, she will do everything she can to remove the Second Amendment.
00:24:58.000So Mr. Trump was clearly pointing that out, as he does every day on the campaign trail.
00:25:03.000But we also know that unification is key, which is exactly what our statement says coming out.
00:25:07.000There are a lot of Americans in this country who support the Second Amendment.
00:25:12.000There are millions of members of the NRA, and the NRA endorsed Mr. Trump earlier than anyone in history.
00:25:17.000So this is very important in November, if you care about your Second Amendment rights, to get out there and vote.
00:25:22.000But Katrina, he was talking about what Second Amendment activists could do
00:25:29.000To stop her, if she won, to stop her from appointing a gun control nominee to the Supreme Court.
00:25:37.000It wasn't about November, it was, you know, if she gets in there, folks, there's nothing you can do.
00:25:42.000I don't know, folks, maybe Second Amendment folks, maybe there's something you can do.
00:25:45.000So it's not about November, it's after November.
00:25:49.000Well, no, that's actually not what he was talking about, because just before that he was saying what could happen, as you just said, what could happen.
00:25:57.000And in order to stop that, people that support their Second Amendment rights need to come together and get out there and stop Hillary Clinton from winning in November.
00:26:54.000Peter Nalen was the guy who was running against him in Wisconsin, I think it's District 8.
00:26:59.000And the Breitbart contingent, the alt-right contingent, were trying to oust Paul Ryan.
00:27:04.000I'm not a huge Paul Ryan fan, but I was kind of rooting for Paul Ryan just because I wanted to see some of these people get their comeuppance.
00:27:09.000Paul Ryan won like 90% of the vote, blew Peter Nalen out.
00:27:12.000And Paul Ryan, he's kind of been forced into this position where he has to back Trump.
00:27:19.000Here's Paul Ryan answering questions about Donald Trump again.
00:27:22.000The point I made before is, with any endorsement of anyone, they are never blank checks.
00:27:29.000I believe here in Wisconsin we have a unified Republican Party.
00:27:33.000We have a unified Republican Party because we tell people who we are, what we believe, what our principles are, and what we'll do if we get elected.
00:27:39.000And then, like we had happen here in Wisconsin, we did it.
00:27:43.000OK, so he says it's not a blank check, except it's sort of a blank check, and people are seeing it that way.
00:28:10.000And here's Dennis on CNN defending the gaffes.
00:28:12.000But I think I'm going to say something that will sound shocking, but it is not meant at all to shock.
00:28:19.000I would say that all of them put together are inconsequential compared to the president and many, many, like at the New York Times and Democrats generally, who purvey the notion.
00:28:33.000Many say that police disproportionately kill blacks because they're black.
00:28:37.000When, in fact, that has been shown to be false, even in a New York Times report just from a few weeks ago with a black professor of economics at Harvard who studied the whole issue and found that, in fact, blacks were disproportionately less killed.
00:28:52.000So when we talk about purveying conspiracy theories, the left has it over Trump in spades.
00:29:00.000Okay, so what Dennis is saying there is 100% true, but what it looks like, how that reads, what he's saying is true.
00:29:05.000And a lot of Trump defenders are saying true things.
00:29:07.000But there's what you say, and then there's how it reads on the public.
00:29:09.000There's how it imprints on the public.
00:29:10.000And the way this imprints on the public is as Trump defends.
00:29:14.000You don't want to talk about his gaffes, so instead you swivel to Hillary Clinton.
00:29:17.000And that's not a rare political move, but it just puts conservatives in this awkward position where they're constantly having to shift away from conservative defense and into, let's attack Hillary instead of defending our own guy, because we can't defend our own guy.
00:29:29.000His gaffes are bad and he says silly things, and so they're forced into unpalatable
00:30:20.000What happened in Florida is that Bush won the state of Florida.
00:30:22.000It's tough, tough bananas for Al Gore, but that's just the way that it was.
00:30:28.000There's this attempt now to defend Trump at all costs.
00:30:31.000I had this conversation with Hugh Hewitt this morning.
00:30:33.000Hugh Hewitt calls into the morning show that I do.
00:30:35.000Hugh is a syndicated host for Salem Radio Network.
00:30:37.000And Hugh was trying to make the case that anybody who wasn't lying for Trump, basically, anybody who wasn't—who was talking about any of Trump's gaffes, they were ensuring that Hillary Clinton is going to make Supreme Court appointments, which is silly, okay?
00:31:36.000If I say to you, Donald Trump said tonight that Hillary Clinton ought to be shot, your ears are going to perk up because that's new information in the system.
00:31:43.000The problem with Trump is that Trump keeps providing new information in the system.
00:31:48.000Hillary is running this robotic, boring campaign, but she's not providing any new information in the system.
00:31:52.000Even when there are these new reports about Hillary using the State Department as her personal grab bag of cash, everybody who believes Hillary is corrupt already knows this.
00:32:03.000Now, if Trump were out there saying it every day, if Trump were out there pushing it every day, the media would be forced to cover it, even though it's boring.
00:32:09.000But Trump provides them this shiny object out here, and then they can cover the shiny object.
00:32:14.000And so that's what's been happening with Donald Trump, and it's really hurting him in the polls, obviously.
00:32:19.000And then finally, you get to the final spin, and the final spin—so anyway, before I get to that, sorry, Hugh Hewitt called in, and I want to go through this very briefly because this is one of the arguments I've been getting a lot, and I get a lot of emails about this.
00:32:30.000Okay, you say that you don't support Trump, you don't support Hillary, you don't support any of these people, throw them all out with the bathwater.
00:32:37.000So Hugh Hewitt calls in and he says, Donald Trump is going to assure that we have a conservative Supreme Court.
00:32:42.000And I said, Hugh, you know that's not true.
00:32:44.000The reason you know that's not true is because Democrats will have enough votes to filibuster any conservative judicial nominee.
00:32:51.000If you have faith out there that Mitch McConnell is going to invoke the nuclear option in the Senate in order to assure a conservative on the Supreme Court, you're out of your mind.
00:33:00.000Mitch McConnell will do nothing of the kind.
00:33:02.000Mitch McConnell will never, ever invoke the nuclear option.
00:33:12.000And after they filibuster, Trump will come back with somebody who's not conservative, he'll be confirmed with 70 votes, and he'll end up being a worse version of John Roberts.
00:33:30.000Now that all this has been put out there, as it's becoming clear that Trump is failing, that Trump is having a tough time, that he can't keep that whiteboard clean, the no mistakes on the job whiteboard clean for more than five minutes, all the pro-Trump people, the Trump defense movement, now they're looking for a scapegoat.
00:33:46.000So Sean Hannity has been the guy who's really out there first and foremost looking for a scapegoat.
00:34:27.000You know, anybody, anybody who doesn't back Donald Trump is a terrible person.
00:34:31.000If Trump loses, and he loses by a large margin, it's not because he's a crappy candidate who says stupid things, distracting from real issues every day, is a Democrat on many of the major issues of our time, and has been pushed by people in a way that is not honest.
00:34:44.000No, it's the fault of all the people who are over here saying, guys, you're blowing this.
00:34:49.000And you blew it the minute you nominated this guy.
00:34:51.000And I'm not going to ride this train to hell with you.
00:34:54.000You want to go into Eastwood Ravine, that's your problem.
00:34:56.000I'm not riding this train with you because it's important that we preserve a remnant of conservatives and conservatism beyond all of the people who have been co-opted into the TDM, drafted into the Trump defense movement to defend Donald Trump's non-conservative policies and the foolish things that he says while he turns conservatism into a laughingstock.
00:35:14.000Well, he translates conservatism into conservatism as a second language.
00:35:20.000It's a waste of time, and the whole election's very disappointing.
00:35:23.000If I sound depressed, it's because I'm deeply depressed, and if there were a bathtub here as well as a plugged-in toaster, I'd be seriously considering my options.
00:36:06.000It means nothing coming from a Democrat to these Republicans.
00:36:09.000Well, actually, the Democrats are going to win the election, so if you want to actually have a playing chance, you're going to have to do something.
00:36:45.000I'm not going to be lectured by a democrat who supports the most corrupt person in the history of American politics for president about how you're morally deficient if you vote for Donald Trump.
00:37:04.000You're all morally deficient if you vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:37:07.000Much more morally deficient than the people who say we'll vote Trump to stop Hillary Clinton.
00:37:10.000But I think we can assume from this clip pretty fairly that Joe Scarborough will be sleeping on the couch tonight.
00:37:16.000So that's the latest from media world.
00:37:20.000By the way, I have been thinking that it would be fun to do—I get a lot of notes about my Chris Matthews impersonation.
00:37:28.000And so I've been encouraging a friend of mine, Brian Whitman, to do a Chris Matthews Christmas album.
00:37:34.000And if he doesn't do it, then I think that it might be worthwhile doing that.
00:37:37.000We could do a Chris Matthews and Barack Obama, a very special Matthews Christmas with guest stars Barack Obama and perhaps, let's see, who else do I do on this show?
00:38:16.000Ethan Hawke was recently in a science fiction movie that I didn't like very much, Predestination, which is just the weirdest movie that you've ever conceived of.
00:38:25.000Basically, it involves an involuntary sex change in a person.
00:38:28.000I don't want to give away all of the secrets in case you decide to waste $4 on Amazon.com and rent it, but it is a very, very weird movie.
00:38:35.000A not-so-weird movie that's actually very good.
00:38:39.000With Jude Law and Ethan Hawke as Gattaca, which is a very, very good science fiction film and a thought-provoking science fiction film.
00:38:44.000The nice thing about science fiction is that science fiction can sort of explore philosophical areas that a lot of other fiction can't, because it's much more about ideas and worlds being created than it is about characters.
00:38:54.000So I know that Andrew Klavan doesn't like science fiction for precisely that reason, because he loves the characters and he doesn't care so much about—he thinks the ideas are revealed through the characters.
00:39:04.000Science fiction is much more just about the ideas.
00:39:36.000Our DNA will determine everything about us.
00:39:41.000A minute drop of blood, saliva, or a single hair determines where you can work, who you should marry, what you're capable of achieving.
00:40:03.000In a society where success is determined by science, divided by the standards of perfection.
00:40:17.000That gives you the premise of the film, and it's a really, really interesting film.
00:40:28.000It's got a lot of good ideas to it, and it's actually a very conservative film, because it basically suggests that genetics is not the be-all, end-all, that you have the capacity to rise above your biological limitations and become something better if you're willing to put in the hard work and if you're willing to make the right decisions.
00:41:20.000If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them.
00:41:24.000You remember he offered to pay for the legal fees of a guy who, you know, cut-blocked one of the protesters.
00:41:31.000Okay, he did not offer to pay the legal fees of someone who blank-blocked somebody.
00:41:36.000That is not what that word means, Jennifer Granholm, but this is what happens when you have insane people running your political systems.
00:41:43.000I just thought it was amusing that she dropped that word on national TV and everybody just sort of brushed right by it.
00:41:48.000Okay, so Wednesday's our Bible Day here on the Ben Shapiro Show, so we do a little bit of Parsha.
00:41:54.000So Parsha, for people who don't know, I say this every week, the Parsha is the segment of the Bible that Jews read every single week.
00:42:01.000We have a different segment every week, and by the end of the year, we've gone through the entirety of the five books of Moses.
00:42:06.000So this week's Parsha is Devarim, which is the beginning of the book of Deuteronomy.
00:42:11.000And so we're taking this actually from, let's see, I screwed this up.
00:42:15.000It should have been from Deuteronomy 3, 21-22, but bottom line is, you don't have to show it, but let me look it up real fast so that we actually have the correct, let's see, Deuteronomy 3.
00:43:17.000Because it seems like one of two things is happening.
00:43:18.000Either you're being deprived of your free will, because God is fighting on your side, or you are fighting on God's side, in which case there's a preordination to the universe.
00:43:29.000There should be some sort of magical matchup between free will and what happens to you.
00:43:34.000If you do a good thing, good things happen to you.
00:43:37.000If you do a bad thing, bad things happen to you.
00:43:39.000Why does God talk in these terms in the Bible about Him being on your side?
00:43:46.000One is that there are historical anomalies where God clearly intervenes in history.
00:43:50.000The creation of the United States is obviously one of these situations where God intervened in history, where there are too many miracles that occurred at the creation, the foundation of the United States.
00:43:59.000For it to have been just coincidence, for it to have happened out of nowhere, this tiny army defeating the greatest army on the face of the planet, this great congregation of minds coming together all at the same time in Philadelphia to create the Constitution.
00:44:12.000I mean, there has to be some sort of godly intervention there.
00:44:15.000But the real question is for us on an individual level.
00:45:04.000And the Bible is all about general rules for life.
00:45:06.000Yes, there's an individual level of divine inspiration and intervention in each individual life.
00:45:12.000But if you want to understand God's relationship with humanity, you can't look at God's relationship with individual humans.
00:45:17.000You have to look at God's relationship with humanity more broadly.
00:45:20.000And if you look at God's relationship with humanity more broadly, there are certain basic rules by which you live where God rewards you nationally and internationally for the sorts of decisions that you make as a society.
00:45:30.000If you're a society that decides to throw marriage aside and pretend it no longer matters, then you're going to end up as a society that doesn't produce children and that ends up falling into the abyss.
00:45:39.000If you're a society that doesn't care about morality and foreign policy, you're going to end up being abandoned by all your friends and you'll be eaten last in the international sphere.
00:45:47.000God created the world with certain rules.
00:45:49.000The Bible is sort of a rulebook, it's sort of a handbook that allows us to discover what those rules are.
00:46:32.000Now it appears that Claremont students, so Claremont Colleges, they were supposed to have me speak there and they shut it down.
00:46:36.000That was another college this year where they didn't want me on campus because I'm offensive to people by saying things that aren't lovey-dovey.
00:46:43.000And so they have now decided, apparently, a group of students at Claremont Colleges in search of a roommate insists that their roommates not be white.
00:46:51.000Student Kari Urena posted on Facebook that non-white students in need of housing arrangements should reach out to either her or two other students with whom she plans to live in an off-campus house.
00:47:01.000The post states, people of color only will be considered for this living opportunity.
00:47:05.000She added, I don't want to live with any white folks.
00:47:08.000Dalia Zada expressed concerns to anti-white discrimination.
00:47:16.000Maybe I'm missing something or misunderstanding your post, but how is that not a racist thing to say?
00:47:20.000And then AJ Leon, who's a member of the Pitzer Latino Student Union, wrote back, this is directed to protect people of color, not white people.
00:47:41.000And it's not reverse racism, it's just racism.
00:47:44.000Racism is the idea that one group ought to be separated off from the other groups simply based on their biology, simply based on the color of their skin.
00:47:54.000Because the truth is, a black student may be much more similar to a white student in all aspects of their life except for the color of their skin, but according to this sort of logic, the black person is inherently different from the white person, which is of course what the KKK thinks.
00:48:37.000I don't care one iota about Jewish ethnicity.
00:48:39.000I think Jewish ethnicity is pretty much worthless.
00:48:42.000The only reason that Jewish ethnicity matters at all is because in religious terms, it allows you the capacity to be a practicing Jew.
00:48:47.000But, in terms of Jewish supremacy, the only thing I think is supreme about Judaism is Jewish values, which is why I'm a Jew, just as Christians think the Christian values are best.
00:48:56.000I have no truck whatsoever with the idea that if somebody does bad things, they're better because they're a Jew.
00:49:01.000The essence of racism is, if I do a bad thing, it's okay because I'm white or because I'm black or because I'm green.
00:49:08.000That's a bunch of crap, and the university's reinforcing this stuff because they feel so guilty about this long history of American racism.
00:49:24.000Hopefully, we can all hope that perhaps, for one day, Donald Trump can stop tripping over his own shoelaces like something out of The Three Stooges.