In an attempt to demonstrate outrage at something, some 3 million people across the country participated in Women's Marches. What united them? Hatred for the reality that Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States on Friday. Meanwhile, thousands of women donned pussy hats or pink knit caps with cat ears designed to rebuke Trump for the Access Hollywood tape in which he said he could grab women by the blank and get away with it. They marched with signs reading, Leave my pee alone, and if abortion is murder, then certain sexual acts are cannibalism. And this pussy cat without the cat bites and she slays. The left celebrated the first image, but ignored the second image, which is far more likely to backfire than to generate enthusiasm. The left tried to run the war on women in 2016, and lost. Now they re doubling down. But apparently, so long as they can pat themselves on the back for their unearned moral superiority, they ll be happy. I'm Ben Shapiro, and Donald Trump s been a very busy man, which means that we have a lot to go through, and a lot of things to talk about, including the Women's March, the pussy hats, the cat ears, the tampons, and the anti-Israel activism, and all the other things that went on in the Women s March. Ben Shapiro is here on The Ben Shapiro Show, and we'll talk about it all on this week's episode of The Ben Show. Subscribe to our new podcast, Subscribe, Like, Share, and Retweet us a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, and tell us what you think of what you're listening to on your favorite podcasting platform, and leave us a rating and review it in iTunes! and review us your thoughts on what you'd like to hear in the comments section! You can also join our FB page! Subscribe on Podchaser, and subscribe to our newest episode of the Ben Shapiro show, and become a Friend of Ben Shapiro Podcast! and more! Thanks for listening to Ben Shapiroism? if you like it, please leave a review on iTunes, and share it on your podcast and review Ben Shapiro's other podcast, and I'll be the first to know who's listening to it on Insta-Friendship? and what s your favorite thing I'm listening to that's the most important thing you've listened to this podcast?
00:00:00.000Last Saturday, in an attempt to demonstrate outrage at something, some 3 million people across the country, mostly women, participated in women's marches.
00:00:09.000The scattershot platform for the march included public funding for contraception and abortion, equal pay, protections for illegal immigrants, anti-Israel activism, and taxpayer-subsidized tampons, among other various and random causes.
00:00:45.000Which is far more likely to backfire than to generate enthusiasm.
00:00:48.000That second image was promulgated by celebrities like Ashley Judd, who was once considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Kentucky.
00:01:21.000Meanwhile, thousands of women donned pussy hats or pink knit caps with cat ears designed to rebuke Trump for the Access Hollywood tape in which he said he could grab women by the blank and get away with it.
00:01:32.000They marched with signs reading, leave my pee alone, and if abortion is murder, then certain sexual acts are cannibalism.
00:01:39.000And this pussy cat without the cat bites and she slays.
00:01:43.000Nerol Pro-Choice America handed out signs with similar messages.
00:01:46.000This reduction of women to their constituent body parts is kind of ironic, coming from the same side of the political aisle that says that men sometimes have vaginas and that some women have penises.
00:01:56.000But more importantly, reducing female priorities to killing babies and increased funding for maxipads, it actually objectifies women, instead of recognizing that women have all sorts of political views.
00:02:05.000Instead of recognizing that many women believe they ought to be left alone by government in order to pursue their dreams, the Women's March has declared government has to treat vaginal possession with a sort of victim status deserving of special protection.
00:02:17.000The suggestion that the government must guarantee special privileges for women because their biology makes them somehow lesser,
00:02:23.000Or that abortion rights are necessary to achieve equality, it reduces the fight for female equality to the fight for female sameness, which is insulting to women.
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00:05:43.000Kurt Eichenwald of Vanity Fair, you remember him, he's the crazy kook who was on with Tucker Carlson holding a binder and just being generally weird.
00:05:50.000He tweeted in September that in preparation for a Trump presidency, he sold all of his stocks in his kids' education accounts.
00:05:57.000And he urged everyone else to do the same, which would have been a terrible move.
00:05:59.000But it's not just kind of the kooky left.
00:06:39.000Now, all of that is great news and it demonstrates the panic on the left is overstated.
00:06:44.000By the same token, just to be intellectually honest, which we like doing around here, you know, the Republicans are saying this is the Trump effect.
00:07:24.000Well, I remember we didn't say that Barack Obama's economic policies were glorious because the stock market was doing well.
00:07:31.000So you can't change the metric for success in the middle of the game.
00:07:33.000You don't get to say stock market doesn't matter when it's doing well under Obama, but now it matters a lot when it's doing well under Trump.
00:07:39.000There's stuff that Trump's going to do that's good.
00:07:40.000There's stuff that Trump's going to do that's bad.
00:07:42.000I'm very pleased the stock market is doing well.
00:07:44.000A bit of intellectual honesty would be nice.
00:07:46.000The stock market does not generally operate.
00:07:49.000Based on political events like elections.
00:07:52.000It operates much more based on underlying market fundamentals.
00:07:54.000The market already prices in the risks that are associated with the election of various people in the political system.
00:08:01.000When you buy a stock, you tend not to think about the politics of the situation.
00:08:05.000You tend to think about the underlying value of the company.
00:08:07.000Do you think it's overvalued or undervalued?
00:08:10.000That, the global economic situation, what is the stock market like in China, that sort of stuff has a much broader impact than an election, and pretending that Trump is responsible for all of the rise is just as silly as pretending that Barack Obama was responsible for all of the rise.
00:08:25.000So I just want to get that out of the way, since that's the big news story of the day, and there are reasons to celebrate Trump, which we're going to get to in one second, but I just want to be intellectually honest about the stock market thing, because I think that it's setting up a situation where next time the stock market goes up under a Democrat, then the Democrats will say the same thing, and then we'll say no, and it's just silly.
00:09:14.000So the idea he wasn't going to build the wall, of course he was always going to build a physical barrier along the border, as well he should.
00:09:20.000He's now signed an executive order that, uh, that
00:09:23.000is supposed to basically tell the executive branch to go ahead and start constructing that wall or continue constructing that wall.
00:09:31.000He also said that he was going to increase plans to hire 5,000 more U.S.
00:09:50.000Trump has also said that he is going to
00:09:53.000Withdraw funding from sanctuary cities, which certainly should be done.
00:09:56.000There's no reason the federal government should sponsor cities for violating federal law.
00:10:00.000So good for Donald Trump on all of that.
00:10:02.000Also, he's expected to limit the number of refugees admitted to the United States to 50,000 a year, down from 100,000, and impose a temporary ban on a lot of refugees.
00:10:11.000Immigration experts expect that later in the week, he's going to suspend the issuance of visas to people
00:10:17.000From countries where you can't get adequate screening.
00:10:22.000I'm actually shocked that it doesn't include more countries.
00:10:25.000It should probably include Afghanistan for starters.
00:10:27.000It should include Pakistan for starters.
00:10:29.000There are a lot of countries where extremism is extraordinarily high and we have a tough time screening and putting a postponement on while we get a better screening system seems to me a basic logical thing to do.
00:10:54.000Terrific stuff from President Trump on that.
00:10:57.000Good for him on postponing a lot of this immigration from countries that we can't check.
00:11:02.000That's a really positive development because we don't need more immigrants who are going to come here and participate in terror acts or support them.
00:11:13.000It's important to mention in the context of immigration that the border wall is less significant than the DACA, DAPA executive amnesty that Obama pushed.
00:11:21.000Because most of the people who are staying in the country right now are people who violated their visas.
00:11:26.000The border wall, you know, it allows us to know when people are attempting to cross the border.
00:11:30.000Presumably you set up some sort of touch fence.
00:11:32.000Like Israel has, so that you can determine when people are trying to cross the border.
00:11:36.000It would stop people from crossing the border without us knowing about it, but the fact is that net immigration through the southern border has actually been pretty flat for the last couple of years, despite these well-publicized kind of spikes that have been happening with people crossing the border and being captured by ICE.
00:11:50.000The real problem with illegal immigration is not people crossing the border that we don't know about, it's the fact that we know about all these people and we don't do anything about all these people.
00:11:57.000That a lot of people cross the border and then they have a baby and then they're tied here.
00:12:00.000Or they cross the border, they overstay a visa, and we lose track of them.
00:12:03.000Or they cross the border, and then ICE grabs them, and then ICE sends them to an immigration court, and then they are released on their own remand, which is ridiculous, and then they just disappear.
00:12:24.000So Donald Trump is talking about his Supreme Court picks.
00:12:28.000He mentions one guy who I think would be really good and one guy who I'm a little more dicey on.
00:12:32.000The guy who he's mentioning who's really good is a judge named Neil Gorsuch.
00:12:37.000He's from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and
00:12:41.000From what I have seen, he is quite good.
00:12:43.000And again, there's always a little bit of mystery about these folks because they don't rule on every issue and they don't speak out on every issue, particularly because Democrats tend to shut down anybody who speaks clearly and openly about judicial issues.
00:12:54.000If you say Roe v. Wade is the worst constitutional decision in the United States since Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson and maybe Skinner v. Oklahoma, if you say that,
00:13:03.000Then the Democrats will just kill your nomination.
00:13:05.000So what you get is a lot of stealth candidates, a lot of people who you don't know much about them.
00:13:08.000But here's what we do know about Neil Gorsuch if he is selected next week.
00:13:13.000And this is coming from somebody who opposed Justice Roberts.
00:13:15.000I think I was the only conservative in America who opposed Justice Roberts on the grounds that we didn't know enough about him.
00:13:21.000So, here's what we know about Gorsuch.
00:13:24.000He was appointed to the Tenth Circuit by George W. Bush in 2006.
00:13:27.000He has a really good legal resume, obviously.
00:13:30.000Went to University of Oxford and Harvard Law School.
00:13:33.000He did clerk for Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.
00:13:37.000Neither of whom is conservative, obviously.
00:13:40.000Byron White and Anthony Kennedy are not conservative, so that is something of concern.
00:13:44.000Some of his high-profile rulings, however, have been pretty textualist.
00:13:49.000So, for example, Neil Gorsuch on what is called the Chevron Rule.
00:13:52.000The Chevron Rule is obscure constitutional law now, but it actually matters a lot.
00:13:56.000Under the Chevron Rule, the judiciary really does not review the rulings of administrative agencies.
00:14:19.000Gorsuch has written a pretty sterling dissent from the Tenth Circuit in the case of Hobby Lobby.
00:14:24.000So Hobby Lobby, as you recall, was a case where the federal government was trying to cram down on private companies that these private companies had to purchase Obamacare for people in spite of their religious objections.
00:14:36.000They had to cover contraceptives in spite of their religious objections.
00:14:39.000Gorsuch wrote a really good dissent in that particular case.
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00:16:31.000Trump's done so much, I talked a lot about that, but I want to get to what the Democrats are doing because that, to me, is the key to the whole political news cycle.
00:16:37.000What the Democrats are doing right now is doubling down on racism in a really severe way, and we're going to talk about that as soon as we're done here on Facebook over at dailywire.com.
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