The ties that bind us together have been ripped away by the modern left, and the only way to restore them is to rededicate ourselves to the basic idea of liberty for which generations of Americans fought and died. That won t happen so long as the left insists that their feelings are more important than your rights. Today's special guest is Ben Shapiro, host of the Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio's "The O.C.U.S.A. Report" and host of "America's Next Top Model" on Fox Business Network. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to Fox News and hosts a regular segment on the Fox Business Channel. He is also the author of the best selling book, "American Exceptionalism: How to Live a Life of Liberty and Prosperity in a Post-Civil War America." He's also a frequent contributor to the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and is one of the most influential people in the financial press. If you're concerned about the direction of the economy and the stock market, if you think that the real estate bubble is inflated, and that we're headed for a fall given our weak economic growth, you probably are already thinking about shielding some of your assets in gold and precious metals. I'm not saying that you should have part of your portfolio in precious metals, not the whole thing under your bed, not in your savings account. I'm saying you should liquidate your bank account in a bunch of gold and put it under your mattress and put some of that under your savings in gold or precious metals under the bed. - not in a savings account, right now, but in a precious metals! - Ben Shapiro's Monday morning show on The Ben Shapiro show. Subscribe to his newest show, "The End of America in real time" on the financial news and investing in gold, gold, silver, precious metals and precious precious metals? Click here to get the best investment advice you can get in the best deal on the market right now! Subscribe and get access to the best deals on the best stocks, options, metals, and everything else that's going on the cheap! Ben's AMA, the world right here at The Financial Times, the best place to get it all, the real world, the Gold Standard, the most authentic and the best way to find out what's going to work for you! and so much more! Subscribe, rate and review everything else going on in the world!
00:00:00.000On Friday, a South Carolina high school stopped students from bringing American flags to a football game against a heavily Hispanic rival school.
00:00:26.000Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year a public school in California could ban students from wearing a shirt emblazoned with an American flag on Cinco de Mayo thanks to fears over racial conflict at that school.
00:00:37.000The lawyer for the kids said, quote, this opens the door for a school to suppress any viewpoints that are opposed by a band of vocal and violent bullies.
00:00:45.000Meanwhile, has been, kind of never was, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been widely praised by the left media for refusing to stand for the national anthem during football games.
00:00:55.000He said, I'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
00:01:00.000He explained this while earning $19 million for sitting on the bench.
00:01:03.000He continued, quote, to me, this is bigger than football.
00:01:06.000It would be selfish on my part to look the other way.
00:01:08.000There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.
00:01:13.000Hey folks, we're watching the end of America in real time.
00:01:16.000That doesn't mean the country's on the verge of actual implosion.
00:01:18.000But the idea of America required a common definition of being American.
00:01:23.000A love of country based on the basis of its founding philosophy.
00:01:26.000That has now been undermined by the left.
00:01:28.000Love of country doesn't mean you have to love everything about America.
00:01:53.000In fact, the two defining philosophical iterations of the modern left, they both make war with the ties that bind us together.
00:02:00.000In President Obama's landmark second inaugural address, people haven't looked at it closely enough, he said, quote, being true to our founding documents does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way.
00:02:09.000This is the same kind of definition worshipped by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has single-handedly redefined the Constitution on issues ranging from abortion to same-sex marriage.
00:02:26.000Well, I mean, after smoking a bong, it probably seems that way, but this means that liberty has no real definition, outside of stuff I want to do.
00:02:32.000And it turns out we all want to do different stuff, sometimes at the expense of other people's liberty and stuff.
00:02:37.000Subjective definitions of liberty, rather than a common definition, means a conflict of all against all, or at least a conflict of a government controlled by some who are targeting everybody else.
00:02:47.000It means our flag is no longer a common symbol for our shared definition of liberty.
00:02:50.000It's just a rag that means different things to different people based on their subjective experiences and definitions of reality.
00:02:57.000And that truly means we have nothing holding us together.
00:02:59.000The only way to restore the ties that bind us is to rededicate ourselves to the basic idea of liberty for which generations of Americans fought and died.
00:03:07.000That won't happen so long as the left insists that their feelings are more important than your rights.
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00:05:07.000With breaking news, breaking news gang, Hillary Clinton is super duper corrupt.
00:05:12.000If that sounds like the breaking news every day for the last 30 years, that's because it basically is, it now turns out that Hillary Clinton was, wait for it, lying about, wait for it, her missing emails.
00:05:32.000According to the State Department, among the thousands of emails now recovered by the FBI from Hillary's bleached, bit-ridden personal server, there's about 30 emails about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
00:05:43.000So Hilary, as you recall, she had said that all of these emails concerned yoga and her daughter's wedding.
00:05:49.000I didn't realize that Chelsea was getting married in Benghazi and that Hilary intended on attending yoga classes in Benghazi.
00:05:55.000I mean, at least that would explain why she hasn't done yoga for 10 years.
00:05:59.000She was getting yoga class emails from Benghazi, apparently.
00:06:02.000Or, alternatively, she was deleting all sorts of relevant material because she's corrupt and she was attempting to shield herself from scrutiny over that corruption.
00:06:09.000Apparently, she was sending this classified email, this classified material, long after, or at least information on Benghazi that was deleted from her server, long after she was at the State Department.
00:06:19.000So she was a private citizen sending what could have been classified information via a private server to other people who worked for her.
00:08:13.000Tim Kaine, who's her vice presidential candidate, and the second unluckiest vice presidential candidate in this race, Tim Kaine said that—you want to hear something ridiculous.
00:08:22.000Here is Tim Kaine talking about transparency and accountability.
00:08:27.000Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, you've got a right to know about the person who is running to be your President or Commander-in-Chief.
00:08:37.000You've got a right to know everything you need to know to judge whether a candidate will work for you, will work for the country, or is only in it for himself.
00:08:48.000Okay, so yes, he is deeply invested in the notion of transparency and revealing all the information.
00:08:53.000Also, at no point will Hillary ever reveal her medical records.
00:08:57.000The former Obama doctor was on TV last night stunning the medical world by announcing that Hillary should actually have a neurological exam, given the fact that she fell and bonked her head so badly she had to wear dual-pane glasses.
00:09:08.000Well, I think that medical letter was well-written and was very professional, unlike Dr. Bornstein's.
00:10:06.000Stoddard, who's a reporter for, she used to be for The Hill, she says that Democrats have to be terrified about what's going to come out of Hillary's emails.
00:10:16.000So many things she said a year ago, but even that day, that Benghazi testimony in the 11 hours last October, she said, I remember that day, she said something that the State Department captured between 90 and 95 percent of her emails, and the State Department had to come out in the next week and say that they didn't know where that number came from, that that wasn't true.
00:10:45.000Now it's not just another shoe to drop, it's raining shoes and Democrats are terrified about what's going to be coming out this week.
00:10:51.000First of all, I have to admit that when she said, it's raining shoes, for some reason, it's raining men popped into my head, which is just sad for me.
00:11:01.000But in any case, she's not the only one.
00:12:36.000It needs to be completely transparent from the get-go.
00:12:39.000I guess she couldn't push the State Department to move along and get those emails out?
00:12:45.000Okay, and shockingly, Mika Brzezinski is exactly right.
00:12:48.000So everybody understands at this point that Hillary Clinton is a deeply corrupt candidate.
00:12:51.000She's also, as Donald Trump has said, she is a low-energy candidate.
00:12:54.000So while Donald Trump is traveling to Louisiana, Hillary Clinton is sitting back home recovering from whatever it is she suffers from, and Donald Trump is out there campaigning.
00:13:03.000The polls are starting to tighten a little bit.
00:13:44.000So, you know, there's still open debate within the Republican Party about how much of an effect Trump has on the Republican Party.
00:13:50.000But that said, Trump, his newfound campaign, what he's done in the last couple of weeks, has been much, much better.
00:13:55.000Now, that doesn't ignore the fact he's had absolute, utter chaos on immigration.
00:13:59.000It doesn't ignore the fact that Donald Trump's
00:14:01.000edition of Steve Bannon has opened some really ugly doors that we're going to talk about in a little while here on the show.
00:14:06.000But Trump is making some interesting moves.
00:14:08.000So today, Donald Trump is headed down to Mexico.
00:14:10.000He's giving his big illegal immigration speech tonight, rolling out his immigration plan, which I thought he'd rolled out before, but this is the new improved version of the Donald Trump immigration plan sponsored by Jeb Bush.
00:14:21.000So he's rolling that out this evening.
00:14:23.000But before he does that, he's taking a quick jaunt to Mexico, where he's meeting with the president of Mexico, a guy named Enrique Peña Nieto.
00:14:30.000So to make clear what this is about, Enrique Peña Nieto is really unpopular in his own country.
00:14:42.000And Trump may be walking into a trap here.
00:14:44.000Trump may be walking into a bit of a trap here.
00:14:46.000Because there are only a few possible outcomes to Trump going down to Mexico before this speech.
00:14:51.000There are the two that I think Trump thinks he's going to get, and then there are the two that actually might happen that could be very damaging for him.
00:15:41.000Instead, Donald Trump is going to go down, I think he has
00:15:44.000There are four possible outcomes, two of which are the ones that he wants and two are the ones he doesn't.
00:15:48.000The two that he wants, he could go down there and he could get some sort of concession from Peña Nieto.
00:15:53.000He could go down there and Peña Nieto could say, I'll help pay for the wall.
00:15:57.000Not going to happen, but in Trump's dream that's what happens.
00:15:59.000He comes back up and he waves that piece of paper and does his speech and he says, look at me, I've negotiated a great deal, the greatest deal you've ever seen.
00:16:11.000Second best outcome for him is he goes there, he has a conversation, and then he comes back and he says, And then it's an explanation for why he's flipping a little bit.
00:16:27.000It doesn't make sense according to the timeline, but it makes him look as though he's listening to outside sources, it makes him look as though he's willing to negotiate, makes him look more moderate on this issue than he has been heretofore.
00:16:36.000So those are the two good outcomes that could happen.
00:16:38.000Here are a couple of bad outcomes that could happen.
00:16:40.000One is, this could be an absolute trap.
00:16:43.000Enrique Peña Nieto, because he's unpopular,
00:16:46.000He could be inviting down someone even more unpopular in Mexico than he is, Donald Trump, just so that he can smack him in public.
00:16:53.000You could see Trump going down to Mexico and Peña Nieto saying in front of the cameras, this guy says that all of my countrymen are rapists and murderers.
00:17:01.000This is a guy who says that he doesn't want to do business with Mexico and that we're not their friends.
00:17:05.000And here he is, you know, coming down here for his own electoral prospects.
00:17:08.000That'd be really devastating for Trump.
00:17:10.000I assume that he got some sort of guarantee from Peña Nieto that wouldn't happen, but
00:17:14.000It still could, which is why there was opposition in Trump-land about that particular possibility, I think, about him going down to Mexico.
00:17:21.000The other outcome that could be bad is if Trump goes down there and smacks Peña Nieto, because then it looks like he just went down there to kick the Mexican government right in the crotch.
00:21:36.000I think that it's a smart move by Trump.
00:21:38.000It could be a really stupid move by Trump.
00:21:39.000It could end up really badly, but you gotta take risks.
00:21:41.000If you're down in the game, you gotta start throwing the long ball, you gotta start throwing it down the field, and that's what Trump is doing here.
00:21:46.000Speaking of throwing it down the field, Donald Trump, more good Trump, more good Trump.
00:21:50.000So here's Donald Trump talking about race yesterday on the campaign trail and going after the Democratic Party.
00:21:56.000The Republican Party is the party of Abraham Lincoln.
00:22:44.000The Democratic Party protected slavery all through the Civil War.
00:22:47.000The Democratic Party reinstated Jim Crow.
00:22:49.000The Democratic Party basically cut a corrupt deal by which American federal troops were pulled out of the South after the Civil War, allowing the enshrinement of Jim Crow and the rise of the KKK, which was a Democratic Party functional organization.
00:23:01.000I mean, the 1924 Democratic National Convention was called the Klanbake, as in KKK Klanbake.
00:23:08.000Because there was an attempt to pass a resolution condemning the Klan, and it was voted down at the 1924 Democratic Party Convention.
00:23:16.000And obviously, the Democrats continued to back segregation all the way up until the end of segregation and Jim Crow.
00:23:21.000So what he's saying isn't wrong, and it's also still relevant, given the fact that the left continues to maintain that all of the issues in today's black community, the responsibility for that lies with history.
00:23:44.000Until Donald Trump apologizes for his racist comments and gives me a reason to believe that we are still the party of Lincoln, that we are still the party that freed the slaves, that we are still the party that believes all Americans
00:24:02.000All Americans have the opportunity to rise to the top, not by government handouts, but by their own power and their own genius, with a helping hand from us.
00:24:15.000Until he proves that he belongs in the party of Reagan and Lincoln, he doesn't get my endorsement, he doesn't get my vote, he doesn't get my support.
00:24:26.000Who will say that in Washington, D.C.? ?
00:24:29.000Okay, so I have to say that it is amazing that Joe Scarborough, you know, who was a big Trump advocate, and again, increasingly each and every day looks more and more like Beaker from Muppets, that he feels, that he says that Trump doesn't have
00:25:20.000If you have a diverse country with a lot of people of various different races who all believe in Western civilization, that's not something that the alt-right thinks can exist.
00:25:29.000The only way the alt-right thinks that Western civilization exists is if it's a bunch of white folks who are making that happen, right?
00:25:35.000Not Jews, not black people, white folks.
00:25:39.000So, one of the questions has been, what do you do to separate off the alt-right from Trump, from the conservative movement?
00:25:46.000Trump himself has gotten in bed with the alt-right, or at least he's flirted with them very heavily during this whole election cycle, which I've criticized ad infinitum, ad nauseam for a lot of my listeners, but there's one real
00:25:59.000I think most people, let me start again, I think most people on the conservative side of the aisle think the alt-right is gross.
00:26:05.000And they think that the alt-right's principles are gross and racist and vicious and have no part in conservatism.
00:26:11.000Because again, they don't resonate with the Constitution, they have nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence, they have to do with ethnic solidarity.
00:26:22.000There's one segment of the mainstream right that is willing to go along with the winking and nodding at the alt-right because they feel like we have to make the political calculation to go along with an immoral, nasty movement in order to defeat Hillary Clinton.
00:26:35.000Now Trump does it by dog-whistling to them.
00:26:37.000Breitbart.com does it by jacking up their traffic and calling themselves the home of the alt-right by flirting with the alt-right.
00:26:43.000But there's a group of people, people who I respect and people who are voting for Trump,
00:26:47.000But don't necessarily think Trump is the greatest thing in the world, but they're voting for him.
00:27:01.000There's no room for the alt-right inside the tent the same way there's no room for the John Birchers inside the tent in the 1960s.
00:27:06.000There are certain movements that you just don't want to be a part of or you don't want them to be a part of you.
00:27:12.000If individuals choose to vote how they choose to vote, that's their problem.
00:27:15.000But to wink and nod at movements that are really vicious, that's something that should be reserved to the left.
00:27:19.000And I'm sick of hearing from people on my own side of the aisle that the left embraces all these evil people and evil things, therefore it's okay for us to do it.
00:27:29.000They embrace racial solidarity, they embrace racism on a regular basis.
00:27:33.000That doesn't mean it's okay for you to do it.
00:27:35.000The I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I routine just, it doesn't work on any moral level.
00:27:39.000So, endemic to this, I think this is an important thing.
00:27:41.000Hugh Hewitt, who's somebody who I really respect and he's a very smart guy, he had an exchange with Jonah Goldberg about this column today.
00:27:47.000A really interesting exchange on his radio show.
00:27:53.000As William F. Buckley led the effort to drive the Birchers out of the party, so must genuine conservatives drive out what you and I agree is the core alt-right.
00:28:04.000In the process of doing that, I do not want people who are not familiar with how you and I believe it to be understood by the people who invented the term to think that they are being exiled.
00:28:17.000That is my fear because I believe a lot of people, and I've seen it
00:28:21.000Everywhere I go, say they are alt-right and they don't know that Jonah Goldberg would then classify them as supremacists.
00:28:29.000Well, I wouldn't necessarily classify them as supremacists.
00:28:33.000Um, either, I would classify them as wrong.
00:28:36.000And what Goldberg is saying there is there are a lot of people who say they're alt-right but they don't know what the alt-right actually is or what it stands for.
00:29:01.000But this attempt to not throw the baby out with the bathwater, this idea that we have to kind of be kind to the alt-right a little bit so that we don't alienate the people who are associated with the alt-right, this leads to this really weird situation.
00:29:13.000And you'll see, this is Hugh's defense, sort of, of the association between Trump and the alt-right.
00:29:19.000Hugh quotes himself in this part of the radio show, he quotes himself from NBC News on Sunday on Chuck Todd's show, and then he talks a little.
00:29:44.000Do you agree with my parallelism, and do you agree that their motive is money?
00:29:49.000So for some of them, the motive is money, and he's right.
00:29:51.000And for some of them, it is about being a provocateur, like Milo is clearly about being a provocateur, although I don't know what's in his heart with regard to race.
00:29:58.000All I know is that he pals around with the worst kinds of people on the internet.
00:30:02.000But none of that really matters in the end.
00:30:06.000Here's the final clip that I'll play from Hugh Hewitt and Jonah Goldberg's interview, which I thought was really informative.
00:30:11.000Hugh's a very talented host, and this exchange I thought was very valuable.
00:30:14.000Here's Hugh talking with Jonah Goldberg about the alt-right.
00:30:16.000But now here's the real problem is Paul Ryan's problem, Mitch McConnell's problem and Reince Priebus's problem, which is they have to exile the the alt-right as you and I have agreed to define it, but which I do not believe is generally agreed upon in the media to define it.
00:30:30.000And in fact, I believe the left will attempt to brand people as alt-right who are not alt-right, because there are some people with a foot in both camps.
00:31:08.000So a little bit earlier this morning, I went on Twitter after this interview, and I had an exchange with Hugh Hewitt over this particular interview that he did.
00:31:43.000If we use Jonah Goldberg's definition of the alt-right, which is also my definition of the alt-right, how should conservatives treat those who pander to the alt-right, like Ann Coulter or Milo Yiannopoulos?
00:31:52.000And Hugh writes back, no one-size-fits-all answer there, Ben.
00:31:55.000Depends on whether the individual is persuadable or useful as example on air.
00:32:13.000I was saying to him, if you think Milo and Anne are persuadable to not be alt-right, then say that.
00:32:17.000Say that they're not alt-right, they're persuadable to not be alt-right, and we should work on converting them back from the alt-right.
00:32:22.000And I said, so who are the prominent panderers to the alt-right who are persuadable?
00:32:25.000Because if they're pandering to the alt-right and they're not persuadable, it's my view they should not be considered conservatives anymore.
00:32:30.000Now, this isn't a blacklist in the sense that there's no government coming in and blacklisting people.
00:32:34.000I'm not saying they should never write for any website again.
00:32:36.000All I'm saying is that we should be clear about who these people are, and we should say these people are not representative of the conservative movement.
00:32:42.000Ann Coulter, right now, flirting with Milo Yiannopoulos, is not representative of the conservative movement.
00:32:46.000She's representative of something else.
00:32:48.000And I think that Ann would actually recognize that truth.
00:32:51.000Milo doesn't even pretend to be conservative.
00:32:53.000Milo says, you know, I'm a nationalist populist.
00:33:05.000So Hugh writes back, posts a list of people who are pandering to the alt-right who are persuadable, and he says, I'll opine if I have an informed guess.
00:33:14.000And I tweeted back, let's start with these, Breitbart, Milo, and Colter Trump, right?
00:33:17.000All the people that you mentioned in this particular segment with Jonah Goldberg.
00:33:22.000And he then said, well, I need a list of 20 people.
00:33:25.000And at this point, it's clear he's avoiding the question, because he doesn't want to have to deal with the fact that Breitbart pandering to the alt-right makes them unacceptable in terms of conservative mainstream.
00:33:33.000He doesn't want to accept the fact that Milo and Ann Coulter have been behaving in ways that make them unacceptable in the conservative mainstream.
00:33:39.000And most of all, he doesn't want to accept the fact that Donald Trump's flirtation with the alt-right makes him a non-conservative guy who should not be acceptable to the conservative mainstream.
00:33:50.000In the desire for victory, in the desire to defeat Hillary Clinton, yes, coalitional politics are necessary.
00:33:57.000Yes, coalitional politics are part of the game.
00:34:00.000But that doesn't mean you have to legitimize.
00:34:02.000It doesn't mean that you have to give credence to the ideological movement known as the alt-right or its spokespeople and its sponsors just because you want to win.
00:34:10.000That, in fact, puts you in some pretty bad company pretty quickly.
00:34:13.000So what I think he was trying to do here, and I don't like it.
00:34:16.000What he was trying to do here, and I think he would probably deny he was trying to do this, but in effect, this is what happens.
00:34:53.000Saying that to people who associate with the alt-right is a moral necessity.
00:34:58.000I think there are a lot of people who are willing to forego the moral necessity out of political convenience, and that I don't like at all.
00:35:04.000Speaking of some of those people, there's been this big kind of blow-up because Sean Hannity, who's now getting very worried that Donald Trump is going to lose, he spent the entire primary season saying that Trump was the only one who could win, the polls don't look particularly good for Trump, and so Sean Hannity lost it on his radio show again.
00:35:20.000This is like the second or third time he's done this particular routine.
00:35:23.000So here's what I say to all of you never-Trumpers.
00:36:28.000I don't remember at any point saying, the people who stayed home for Mitt Romney, those are the people who are responsible for Barack Obama.
00:36:40.000If you are somebody who ardently supported Donald Trump during the primaries, I don't just mean that you thought that he was the best of the bad candidates, I mean you ardently supported him.
00:36:46.000You were somebody who was lying to people by saying that he was conservative, slandering other candidates by propping up Donald Trump.
00:36:53.000If you are somebody who is using your airtime in order to push Donald Trump in the primaries over all the other candidates and then denying you were doing it,
00:36:59.000If you were somebody who said he was gonna be the strongest candidate, and now he's losing, and now you look around, it turns out he's a bad candidate, he's not conservative, and he's losing, and he's losing.
00:37:07.000They've actually invented a device just for you to help you determine who is responsible for Donald Trump losing and Hillary Clinton becoming president.
00:37:15.000You know, the people who pressed Donald Trump on us in the primaries.
00:37:18.000They've actually invented a device, and I've actually, somebody's given me one of these devices.
00:37:24.000Somebody's actually given me this device here today, and it will help you determine
00:37:28.000Who is responsible for Hillary Clinton and all the evil she's going to do as president if you supported Donald Trump ardently during the primaries, turned down all the other decent candidates who could have won, and instead we ended up with Trump?
00:37:57.000And you can get it for like 99 cents at Amazon.com.
00:38:00.000And I highly recommend that you take it and you look at it and you take a deep stare into it.
00:38:04.000And then maybe you'll finally determine who was responsible for this crappy candidate.
00:38:09.000You don't get to blame all the people who said that he was going to be a crappy candidate for him being a crappy candidate.
00:38:14.000And as far as the notion that in order to stop Hillary Clinton, I have to become a full-scale Chris Christie shinebox shill for Donald Trump, I'm not going to do it.
00:38:23.000As I've said before and I'll say it again and I'll keep saying it until people get it, I'm going to tell you the truth about both candidates.
00:38:36.000And if you choose to vote for Hillary Clinton, I don't know what you're thinking, but the fact is that Sean Hannity dumping this all on the people who didn't want Trump in the first place, and the people who recognize that conservative thought leaders like Hannity, conservative thought leaders in the movement like Laura Ingraham, that these people have perverted the notion of conservatism to fit Donald Trump, and then told all of their listeners that this magical, mythical creature, this conservative creature who doesn't exist, that they like to call Donald Trump in their own heads,
00:39:05.000They say the people who don't support that, they're the traitors?
00:39:11.000Mark Levin basically said the same thing on his radio show yesterday.
00:39:15.000Where people cherry-pick polls, and they throw them up on their websites, and they cherry-pick polls, and they go on and on behind the microphones, and they cherry-pick polls.
00:39:45.000But it's more convenient to blame everybody else than to recognize your own fault in the matter, than to recognize your own fault in the matter.
00:39:52.000Here's the responsibility I will accept.
00:39:54.000If we lose by one vote, if Donald Trump loses by one vote in California, okay, then it's my fault.
00:40:01.000Okay, anything else, it's Donald Trump's fault because he's the candidate.
00:40:05.000He's the one whose job it is to win people over.
00:40:08.000And even if he loses by one vote in California and it's me, it's sort of my fault and it's still sort of Trump's fault since he's the candidate and it's his job.
00:40:15.000And it's also the fault of the people who lied to push him through and lie now and are already seeking to cast dispersions on the people who refuse to go along with the lies about Donald Trump.
00:40:25.000Okay, again, I spent the first half of the show talking about how Donald Trump is doing better.
00:40:41.000And I'm not gonna sell my immortal soul or my political career or my honesty to Donald Trump just because people are gonna blame me for quote-unquote Hillary Clinton's foibles over the next four years.
00:42:45.000And it's even funnier now, actually, than when it was done because of the politically correct left that's made it unacceptable to watch it.
00:44:07.000Okay, so we'll start off with John Legend.
00:44:10.000So John Legend, let it be known, is the guy who produced that masterwork of cinematography and genius that would be known as South Side With You.
00:44:19.000Also known as the Obama first date movie that no one has ever seen or will ever see.
00:44:38.000Star Spangled Banner is a weak song anyway, and then you read this, and then it's a link talking about how the Star Spangled Banner is racist.
00:44:44.000So, let's talk about the Star Spangled Banner and whether it is racist or not.
00:44:48.000First of all, it is true that the original third stanza of the Star Spangled Banner contains a reference to slavery.
00:44:54.000So we only know the first stanza, that's the one that everybody knows and sings at the ballgame, but there was a stanza in which it talked about slavery at one point inside the Star Spangled Banner.
00:45:04.000There are people who say that this celebrates the murder of African Americans.
00:45:34.000I have to say that when it comes to the musical merits of the song, I'm with John Legend.
00:45:39.000I really don't think it's a very good song musically.
00:45:42.000In the list of great musicals, I'm not talking about the themes of the songs, I'm not talking about the character of the countries, but if you talk about just musically great national anthems,
00:45:52.000The Marseillaise is a great National Anthem.
00:45:54.000Actually, the Soviet National Anthem is a very stirring, musical National Anthem.
00:45:59.000The Canadian National Anthem is great.
00:46:00.000The United States National Anthem, it was an old British drinking song.
00:46:08.000It was the song that was being sung by men who were going off to war to die in defense of liberty in an attempt to destroy slavery.
00:46:15.000And as Jarrett writes at Daily Signal, it's clear Frederick Douglass knew that, and people generally get this.
00:46:23.000They get that the national anthem is not a slave theme, it's a freedom theme, and just because the guy who wrote it was a slave owner doesn't mean that the character of the song doesn't mean what it means now or what it's meant for the last 170 odd years.
00:46:36.000Okay, other things that I don't like today.
00:46:39.000Stephen Colbert, who I never like, he's on late night TV and he's making fun of Sarah Palin.
00:46:44.000Sarah Palin, there's a lot of criticism of Sarah Palin that is entirely merited.
00:46:48.000But there's an absolute double standard when it comes to the media treatment of Sarah Palin.
00:46:52.000So here's Stephen Colbert going after Sarah Palin.
00:46:54.000Anyway, uh, she is injured and I'd like to wish Sarah Palin a speedy recovery.
00:46:59.000And I'd like to do it in a language she'll understand.
00:47:35.000So he actually starts that off for people who can't see by taking a fake rock and hitting himself in the head with it, because that's the language that she understands.
00:47:41.000And then he goes into that long, ridiculous sort of stream of consciousness gobbledygook.
00:47:49.000The idea here, of course, is that Sarah Palin speaks in funny syntax.
00:47:53.000Sarah Palin's syntax is not the greatest.
00:47:56.000I mean, if you tried to do a tree diagram of her sentence structure, it would look kind of complicated.
00:48:05.000You never see him do this with anybody on the left, ever.
00:48:07.000There are people on the left who speak significantly worse than Sarah Palin does, and Stephen Colbert never has a word to say about it.
00:48:36.000As I explain every week here at this time, Jewish communities all over the world read a different section of the Torah, of the five books of Moses.
00:48:44.000And that means that by the end of the year, we read a different section of the Torah every week.
00:48:48.000And so by the end of the year, we've read the entire five books of Moses.
00:50:03.000Loans that are designed to be paid back.
00:50:05.000The idea is that when you are trying to help somebody out with money,
00:50:10.000In order to hold them to a certain standard of being a human being, they have to understand that they're not getting off scot-free, that they have to give something of themselves in return for your money.
00:50:22.000And what they're giving of themselves is their honor.
00:50:25.000This is how people think in terms of lending, in terms of loans.
00:50:27.000Have you ever seen the movie Cinderella Man?
00:50:29.000There's a great scene in Cinderella Man where Russell Crowe is playing Jim Braddock.
00:50:33.000He goes down to the welfare office, takes some welfare.
00:51:01.000Maybe you've written it off in your own head.
00:51:02.000But the bottom line is that the person should know that they are expected not to take the money and blow it.
00:51:07.000But to use the money for its design purpose and then to build themselves up to the point where they can pay you back, which will allow them to regain their dignity and their honor so that they're no longer in your debt.
00:51:17.000Point number two, and this is the one that I think is really interesting, is that the Bible sees fit, God sees fit to say, there will never cease to be needy within the land.
00:51:26.000That right there is an absolute, it's an absolute devastation of the Marxist position.
00:51:31.000The Marxist position on life is that there will, there need not be needy in the land.
00:51:35.000That communism should alleviate all poverty.
00:51:37.000And that if we alleviated all poverty, everything would be great.
00:51:40.000If we just got rid of all the poverty, we took all the rich people's money and gave it to all the poor people, and we all live together as one, right, in the John Lennon Imagine concept, everything would be good.
00:51:49.000God says that's not the way the world works.
00:51:51.000Even in communist countries, there are poor.
00:51:53.000In fact, everyone's poor in a communist country.
00:51:54.000Check out Venezuela, which is working out just great.
00:51:56.000I have a friend I just talked to, just got back from Venezuela, watched a guy got shot ten feet in front of him, and actually went on a dog hunt with some of the starving people of Venezuela.
00:52:06.000They literally go around Caracas, Venezuela, hunting dogs to eat.
00:52:10.000That's what redistributionism and communism brings about in its most extreme fashion.
00:52:14.000But God says, there's never going to cease to be needy.
00:52:16.000There will always be people who need money.
00:52:33.000One is, that when it comes to personal responsibility, and this is just the way that God designed the system, the more personally responsible you are, the less chance you are going to be one of those needy.
00:52:43.000And second of all, God gives you free will.
00:53:02.000To recognize that there will always be needy.
00:53:04.000You're not one of them, but that's the way God designed the system.
00:53:07.000And so you really can't take credit for your own wealth to a certain extent.
00:53:10.000You have to understand that the entire universe is God's, and therefore you have a responsibility to those poor people.
00:53:17.000The second question that arises from, will there never cease to be needy within the land, is not why God made it that way, but why can't we fix that?
00:53:27.000And the answer is because it is beyond the power of human beings to fix cosmic injustice.
00:53:32.000This is something Thomas Sowell talks about and something the left doesn't understand.
00:53:58.000It's not the job of human beings to correct cosmic injustices.
00:54:03.000It's the responsibility of human beings to correct human exploitation.
00:54:08.000If you do something wrong, or you see someone else doing something wrong, that you can correct.
00:54:12.000But the idea that you're going to be able to fix every problem in the universe, you are not God.
00:54:15.000Marxism, the left, they substitute human beings collectively for God as a whole, and the end result is more needy people, not less needy people, not fewer needy people.
00:54:24.000So God is reminding you here, okay, there will always be needy within the land.
00:54:27.000That doesn't absolve you of your responsibility, right?
00:54:30.000That doesn't absolve you of your responsibility to give and give loans and try and help people out, but it is a recognition that your job in doing that is to fulfill your responsibility as a human being, not to fix the cosmic injustices that God set into the groundwork of the universe.
00:54:46.000Tomorrow is, of course, the vaunted mailbag, and we'll find out what happened in Mexico, because President Trump is going down to Mexico, and I assume that things will get spicy.