Undeterred by his would-be successors' devastating loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, President Obama maintained his cool and collected self-aggrandizement. According to Obama, Obama has been a massive success. Perhaps the most hilarious moment of delusion came when he said, No foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed an attack on our homeland that was directed from overseas. He then continued, saying no attack had been executed in a rainstorm with the attacker, who was drinking Miller High Life with one hand, while driving a tractor with the other, wearing a clown nose. To be fair, Obama didn t actually say that last part, but he may as well have. Obama still thinks he can cover his abysmal record with closely drawn definitions of terrorism, which is the equivalent of Bill Clinton saying he s been faithful to his wife except for certain areas, like sex. Which is technically true, so far as it goes, but just doesn t go all that far. Americans know that, and they reacted to Obama s consistent lying by omission by electing Trump, a man who needs pretty much no evidence to jump to conclusions. If Democrats want to ensure that Republicans continue to win elections, they ought to follow Trump s consistent, consistent, fact-finding-by-opinion mentality, because Trump is so eager to spot fact patterns, that he simply omits inconvenient data points. But Americans would actually rather have Trump s jump-to-conclusion mentality than Obama s avoid-conclusions-at-all-cost mentality. Ben Shapiro's mentality may lead to mistakes, but those mistakes are less likely to cost Western lives than Trump s less likely than a president who needs to make decisions by jumping to conclusions by omitting inconvenient facts. Ben Shapiro: I'm on the road, but I'll be back in a few days, so I don t know what's going to happen. - Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro Show, The Weekly Standard Subscribe to my new show on Christmas Eve, December 25th, 2019. Click here to find out what I'm listening to and what I think of Christmas Eve. - What's going on in my life, and what s going to be going on on Christmas Day? - Tom and Christmas Day, December 26th, 2020, 2019, 2020? - The New Year's Day, 2019? - What are you looking forward to in the news? -- What do you want to hear from me?
00:00:06.000Undeterred by his would-be successors' devastating loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, unswayed by Republicans' complete domination of Congress, state legislatures, and governor mansions, he maintained his cool and collected self-aggrandizement.
00:00:18.000According to Obama, Obama has been a massive success.
00:00:21.000Perhaps the most hilarious moment of delusion came when he talked about terrorism.
00:00:24.000He said, over the past eight years, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed an attack on our homeland that was directed from overseas.
00:00:31.000He then continued, saying no attack had been executed in a rainstorm, with the attacker, driving a tractor with one hand, drinking a Miller High Life with the other, wearing a clown nose.
00:00:40.000To be fair, Obama didn't actually say that last part.
00:00:43.000In order to define away the problem of terrorism that has grown dramatically worldwide on his watch, he simply spoke of terrorism as a problem of organized groups within defined territories.
00:00:52.000Which is not how terrorism actually works.
00:00:54.000Terrorist groups can recruit without formal structures, they can operate
00:00:58.000as independent cells within various countries.
00:01:01.000Just three days after Obama's statements, an alleged jihadi plowed a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, the same day a Turkish terrorist murdered the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
00:01:09.000These latest attacks are not outliers.
00:01:11.000In the past several years, we've seen terrorist attacks in Turkey, in Germany, in Belgium, in Great Britain, in Canada, and Australia, among others.
00:01:17.000This sort of terrorism isn't relegated to foreign countries, of course.
00:01:19.000Here's an incomplete list of radical Islam-related terror attacks and attempts on American soil under Obama.
00:01:25.000Shootings of American military recruiters in Little Rock, Arkansas, the massacre at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombing, an attempted bombing of the airport in Wichita, Kansas, hatchet attacks on New York City police officers, attempted shootings at the Daraa Muhammad events in Garland, Texas, the attacks on military recruiters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the massacre at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center, the Orlando nightclub shooting, the New York and New Jersey bombings, and the Ohio State University car attack, just to name some.
00:01:47.000Obama still thinks he can cover his abysmal record with closely drawn definitions of terrorism.
00:01:52.000Which is the equivalent of Bill Clinton saying he's been faithful to his wife, except for certain areas, like sex.
00:01:57.000Which is technically true, so far as it goes, but just doesn't go all that far.
00:02:00.000Americans know that, and they reacted to Obama's consistent lying by omission by electing Trump, a man who needs pretty much no evidence to jump to conclusions.
00:02:08.000Obama is so careful to avoid spotting fact patterns, he simply omits inconvenient data points.
00:02:13.000Trump is so eager to spot fact patterns, he simply includes convenient non-data points.
00:02:17.000But Americans would actually rather have Trump's jump-to-conclusions mentality than Obama's avoid-conclusions-at-all-cost mentality.
00:02:23.000Trump's mentality may lead to mistakes, but those mistakes are less likely to cost Western lives.
00:02:28.000So Obama can hawk his faux sophistication on terrorism as much as he wants.
00:02:32.000If Democrats want to ensure that Republicans continue to win elections, they ought to follow his lead.
00:02:59.000You leave for two days and the world is on fire.
00:03:01.000Of course, when I'm here, the world's also on fire.
00:03:03.000Unlike Andrew Klaven, I will not attribute all world events to my absence from the political scene, but
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00:04:13.000Okay, so, while I was gone, the Democrats decided that it would be a great idea to double down on everything terrible that they ever thought about anything.
00:04:20.000One day, thousands of years from now, people will look back and they will see that Americans liked Lena Dunham, or at least some Americans liked Lena Dunham, for example.
00:05:11.000I am a pro-choice, feminist, sexual assault survivor with a chronic reproductive illness.
00:05:17.000Donald Trump and his party think I should be punished for exercising my constitutional rights.
00:05:25.000His rhetoric about women takes us back to a time when we were meant to be beautiful and silent.
00:05:31.000Meanwhile, 22 years ago, Hillary Clinton declared that women's rights are human rights.
00:05:36.000Okay, so one of the more deliberate elements of this election cycle has been watching Lena Dunham's continued mental meltdown over Donald Trump's victory.
00:05:44.000Well now, Lena Dunham says that she wishes that she had had an abortion.
00:05:48.000She said she wishes that she'd had an abortion.
00:05:50.000She said, apparently, she informed her audience on her podcast that while she's never had an abortion personally, she wishes she had so she could do her part to reduce stigma around the issue.
00:06:00.000And she said, I can say I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had.
00:06:07.000Okay, so, if Democrats are looking to win Americans, probably the best way to do that is not to trot out at the DNC the lady who says that she wished that she had had a baby in her stomach, in her uterus, just so that she could murder the baby, so that she could feel the solidarity and joy of having murdered a baby.
00:06:22.000I mean, it really is pretty egregious stuff.
00:06:24.000Democrats usually have the brains to cover up their enthusiasm about abortion.
00:06:28.000They usually have the brains to say things like, Bill Clinton's safe, legal, and rare, or it's a tragic decision a woman has to make.
00:06:52.000She says that she wishes that she'd had an abortion so she could be part of the select sisterhood of women who have engaged and pursued the use of the right to murder a baby in her womb.
00:07:03.000If this is the sort of thing that Democrats think is going to win elections, by all means they should continue to push it.
00:07:07.000Because the fact is the vast majority of Americans don't think that abortion is a pro-social thing to do.
00:07:13.000They don't think that abortion is a good thing to do.
00:07:15.000Even people who are pro-choice, generally.
00:07:20.000They may think it's a necessary thing, but most of them don't think it's a good thing, because most of them still have a basic semblance of discomfort with abortion.
00:07:27.000She actually said on this podcast that that was one of the reasons she wishes she'd had one, because people were talking about their abortions and she felt uncomfortable.
00:07:33.000Because deep down in Lena Dunham's body, there still resides a small spark of godly soul that says to her, yeah, you should be uncomfortable with people killing babies.
00:07:42.000And she says, I want to extinguish that by presumably getting pregnant and killing the baby.
00:07:46.000She's now come out and apologized because whenever Democrats get caught doing stuff, they come out and apologize falsely.
00:07:50.000But that's, of course, what she thinks.
00:07:52.000And that's not the only way in which Democrats have lost their minds and are doubling down on everything radical that they can possibly conceive of.
00:07:58.000The other thing that came out over the last couple of days, of course, this
00:09:08.000As a Jew, with ancestors who were Jews, I can pretty much agree America is the greatest country that God ever created.
00:09:14.000By the way, for black people living in today's America, America is the greatest country that God ever created.
00:09:20.000And even during Jim Crow, America was a much better country for black people than the vast majority of countries around the world, which is not a case in favor of Jim Crow, God forbid.
00:09:27.000But to suggest that America was never great for anybody except white men is just a bunch of crap.
00:09:33.000I mean, how about white women, by the way?
00:09:34.000White women have had it better in America than any place else on Earth.
00:09:36.000I mean, America is heaven for white women.
00:09:40.000White women now earn more than white men.
00:09:41.000White women are going to college at a higher rate than white men.
00:09:45.000Even in the supposedly horrific, terrible, horrible, horrible, terrible 50s, women were actually pretty happy, if you look at the polls, of female satisfaction, because they were living in a prosperous country.
00:09:57.000And then this woman says, can we just agree that Black Lives Matter doesn't just mean Black Lives Matter.
00:10:02.000All Lives Matter is not a response to Black Lives Matter.
00:10:05.000Uh, no, because the entire Black Lives Matter movement is predicated on the notion that black lives are specifically under different assault than other lives in the United States by white people, and that is not true.
00:10:16.000And then I do love the fact that where they go next in this MTV video is they say, Black Lives Matter, you know, it doesn't, All Lives Matter is not a proper response to Black Lives Matter, because of course all lives matter, but we're just talking about black lives now, and then the next thing they say is that not all lives matter.
00:12:25.000Okay, I'm gonna listen to the black guy with the cat on his shirt telling me about what it means to be a better person because he's a black guy with a cat on his shirt.
00:12:32.000That's basically what this comes down to, right?
00:12:34.000I mean, this video comes down to it's a bunch of not-white males lecturing white males, and that's okay because they have moral superiority because they're not white males.
00:12:51.000I mean, for all I know, these people, this is a series of axe murderers that went to San Quentin and dragged out of prison to lecture white males.
00:12:56.000The idea that these folks are granted some extra legitimacy because of their color or because of their sex
00:13:04.000I also love the fact, there's an irony to the fact that you have the one guy saying, just because you, don't say you have black friends, that doesn't mean that you're not a racist.
00:13:13.000And then this entire video is built around the concept that because they're showing a bunch of black people, showing some black people and some Hispanic people, some Asian people, because they're showing various diverse people, that means they can be racist against white people.
00:13:25.000So there's a certain irony to that as well.
00:13:26.000But again, all of this is designed, all of this is designed not to win elections.
00:13:31.000It is designed to further polarize the population.
00:13:34.000They think that demographically, in the next election cycle, they're going to have some advantages because they think that by 2020, millennials will represent people who are currently millennials, will represent 40% of the voting base.
00:13:44.000They think that the Hispanic base is going to grow.
00:13:46.000They think that they're just going to out-demographics the rest of the United States.
00:13:49.000But it turns out that that's not how politics works.
00:13:53.000As late as two years ago, Democrats were saying we'd never win.
00:13:56.000Well, six months ago, Democrats were saying Republicans would never win another presidential election.
00:14:00.000In 2008, their idea was Republicans would never win back Congress.
00:14:18.000But again, Democrats don't know this and so they keep doubling down on the stupid.
00:14:22.000One of the more amusing sites over the weekend, by the way, was Bill Clinton on Monday cast his electoral vote.
00:14:26.000He was one of the electors from New York and he was hoping he'd be casting the winning electoral votes for Hillary.
00:14:31.000He cast his electoral votes and he wept as he realized that Hillary would now be lurking around Chappaquiddick or Chappaquessamore and he'd have to find a different outhouse to stash his mistress.
00:14:41.000Yeah, but I've never cast a vote I was prouder of.
00:14:45.000You know, I watched her work for two years.
00:14:47.000I watched her battle through that bogus email deal, be vindicated at the end.
00:15:25.000Okay, and then Bill Clinton, by the way, said that Trump only knows how to win angry white males.
00:15:29.000That was his summation of the election.
00:15:32.000Bill should know, since that was a large part of his base in 1992 and 1996, where the same dispossessed white folks that voted for Trump voted for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996.
00:15:42.000All of this stuff is just alienating the same voters they just lost.
00:15:46.000There's no purpose to it other than they think that the demographics are going to save them.
00:15:50.000Demographics don't save you once you decide to blow off half the population, more than half the population.
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00:15:57.000And we have some pretty stunning video coming up and a lot more to talk about, including Trump's infrastructure plans and the continued fallout from what's happening over in Turkey and Russia.
00:16:08.000But first we have to say hello to our advertisers over at CISO.
00:17:49.000Yeah, way to really draw in those voters and really convince people that they were wrong, screaming at the electors, whose job it is to just confirm the vote.
00:17:57.000And then there's this video, which has been making the rounds.
00:17:59.000This apparently is a Trump supporter being beaten and dragged out of his car.
00:18:02.000This is going around a couple of weeks ago.
00:18:03.000Apparently he's okay, but this video has been going around as well.
00:18:41.000So, yeah, that kind of stuff is definitely going to help win Democrats back their voting base that they lost in this particular election cycle.
00:18:50.000Keith Olbermann, who has completely lost what was left of his tiny mind, what was not occupied by his kittens and his agriculture degree from Cornell, he's lost what was left of it.
00:19:00.000And now he's saying that the best way to resist Trump is to never say President Trump.
00:19:41.000He's been reduced to saying single words at a time because he can't speak in phrases anymore as his brain breaks down in front of him.
00:19:47.000If you think that Republicans are going to be devastated because Keith Olbermann doesn't call him President Trump, yeah right.
00:19:53.000I also remember, don't you remember when all the Democrats were saying that if you called Obama Obama and not President Obama it was racist?
00:19:59.000That was a thing, like very early on in his presidency.
00:20:01.000If you called him Barack Hussein Obama, if you used his middle name, that was racist.
00:20:05.000And if you used his last name only, that was racist.
00:20:08.000You had to call him President Barack Obama or President Obama.
00:20:11.000But you can do it against Trump, and that is a way to resist.
00:20:20.000And then he, Keith Olbermann may in fact be the first actual live speaking mime.
00:20:25.000He's not actually a silent mime, he actually speaks.
00:20:27.000And finally, you have Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and he has a proposal to stop Donald Trump, and here it is.
00:20:36.000A lot of people are analyzing what's going on right now.
00:20:39.000Not a lot are doing what you did and actually talking about a resistance agenda that talks about getting Democrats in Congress and across the country to pledge to oppose the Trump agenda, to boycotting all Trump products, real estate, hotels, resorts, everything around the world.
00:20:57.000Can you go through what you're suggesting?
00:21:47.000And people are either gonna like it, or they ain't gonna like it.
00:21:49.000But you don't get to decide what's normal.
00:21:51.000You guys decided that Barack Obama's behavior as president was normal.
00:21:54.000You decided that Bill Clinton's behavior as president was normal.
00:21:56.000You don't get to decide what's normal and what's not.
00:21:59.000I mean, in your world, it is not normal for a Christian baker to be able to not bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, but it is normal for a nine-year-old boy to be a nine-year-old girl.
00:22:07.000So you definitely do not get to define normal for me.
00:22:10.000You definitely do not get to define normal.
00:22:12.000I'm fine with the idea that Trump does things that are abnormal, but Robert Reich and company do not get to decide what is abnormal and what should be normalized and what should not, because they are so far beyond the pale of what is even reasonable, that to have them draw the outer limit of normal and put Trump beyond it is just ridiculous.
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