As per the usual arrangement, on Sunday, Republicans and Democrats reached a deal that will avoid a government shutdown through September. Here s what's in the deal: Funding for Planned Parenthood, Iran, the Iran deal, the National Endowment for the Arts, and sanctuary cities. Here's what's not in the bill: funding for Trump's planned border wall. Incredibly, the new omnibus even includes a measure to increase the influx of temporary workers under H-2B visas through September, but at least Republicans raised military spending, right? That's the take from Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who has a bad habit of pulling such deals off with Democratic help: In 2013, Ryan cut a deal with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, to raise sequester caps, cut cost-of-living adjustments for veterans, increase taxes, and do so in exchange for empty promises of future cuts. On this bill, Ryan brags, "Of course, of course, this time, Republicans run both houses of Congress this time and President Trump is in the White House." No wonder Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "You know who else liked the deal? You know, you're not going to be proud of the deal." Well, just wait to the rest of the show, where we'll be getting to the part where President Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner, which was a complete FAILURE. Ben Shapiro explains why Trump's luck extends to his opponents, because they are the dumbest people alive. Plus, Ring's Ring of Security Kit, and why you should be worried about home break-ins, because you can't see who's breaking into your front doorbells in broad daylight. Thanks to Ring, Ring, and Ben's wife is always afraid of home burglaries, so you can keep an eye on your front gate. Links From This Episode: 1) 2) Ring Of Security Kit 3) 4) 5) Ben's Top 5 Worst Things I've Ever Had To Do with a Smartphone 6) 7) 8) The Best Thing I've Never Had Toilet Paper 9) 10) The Real Housekeeping All Previous Podcast Epilog 11) 11 12) 13 13) 14) 15 14 15) 16 16) 17 17)
00:00:00.000As per the usual arrangement, on Sunday, Republicans reached a deal with Democrats to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill that will avoid a government shutdown through September.
00:00:16.000Funding for Trump's planned border wall.
00:00:17.000Incredibly, the new omnibus even includes a measure to increase the influx of temporary workers under H-2B visas through September.
00:00:24.000But at least Republicans raised military spending, right?
00:00:27.000That's the take from Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who has a bad habit of pulling such deals off with Democratic help.
00:00:32.000In 2013, Ryan cut a deal with Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, to raise sequestration caps, cut cost-of-living adjustment for veterans, increase taxes, and do so in exchange for empty promises of future cuts.
00:00:51.000Of course, Republicans run both houses of Congress this time, and President Trump is in the White House, but no matter, the dreaded government shutdown has been avoided for the time being.
00:00:59.000Even the defense increases, by the way, are about half of what Trump wanted.
00:02:05.000So if all that sounds depressing, just wait for the rest of the show.
00:02:07.000But actually, we'll be getting to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which was, it just demonstrates that Trump's luck definitely extends to his opponents, because his opponents are the dumbest people alive.
00:02:18.000The journalists at the White House Correspondents' Dinner made complete fools of themselves.
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00:03:40.000The White House Correspondents Dinner happens over the weekend and this was Trump's triumphant moment because while the White House Correspondents Dinner is going on, this is happening apparently, what was this, Saturday night that it was happening?
00:03:51.000At the same time this was happening, President Trump was giving a massive rally in Pennsylvania, which is really smart.
00:03:58.000It's really smart and it's really funny.
00:04:00.000He gives a rally at the same time mocking the members of the press.
00:04:02.000So we'll start with the members of the press who made asses of themselves.
00:04:28.000He played Bush, and then he disappeared because all of the political comedians just decided it was no longer important to actually do political comedy for eight years because Obama was just such a magnificent fellow.
00:04:37.000Well, now Will Ferrell is back imitating Bush, and this time, Democrats are doing the revisionist history where they say,
00:04:43.000Yeah, we wish we had Bush back because Trump is so terrible.
00:04:45.000If you recall, they said the same thing about Reagan with Bush.
00:04:48.000So every time there's a Republican president, they say, the last Republican president was so awesome.
00:05:43.000No, nobody asked him that question, because instead of going to war in Syria or doing anything about Syria, you hand it over to the Russians.
00:05:48.000Barack Obama about what he was doing at any time during his presidency, even though he was a horrible president.
00:05:53.000But Will Ferrell is back, and it's like the Republicans never left power.
00:05:59.000White House Correspondents Dinner host Hassan Minhaj.
00:06:02.000They brought out this Muslim comedian that nobody's ever heard of, because obviously we need a Muslim comedian.
00:06:07.000Not because he's talented, because he isn't, but because if he's Muslim, then it shows that Republicans hate Muslims if they criticize him.
00:06:13.000So here is Hassan Minhaj blasting Trump.
00:06:16.000It's not bad that he's Muslim, by the way.
00:06:30.000I get why Donald Trump didn't want to be roasted tonight.
00:06:32.000By the looks of him, he's been roasting nonstop for the past 70 years.
00:06:37.000Historically, the president usually performs at the correspondence dinner, but I think I speak for all of us when I say he's done far too much bombing this month.
00:06:49.000Now a lot of people in the media say that Donald Trump goes golfing too much.
00:06:54.000You guys are always like, he goes golfing too much, which raises a very important question.
00:08:23.000I mean, just by any objective measure, he's awful at this.
00:08:27.000At least he can say that Will Ferrell is a talented guy.
00:08:29.000I don't know where they dug this guy up, but this guy would have bombed, like, the local comedy club, and they put him up in front of the entire nation, and he's supposed to be roasting Trump.
00:08:37.000And then, of course, everybody on the left said, he destroyed Trump.
00:08:44.000And then Samantha Bee gets up, the most obnoxious person on cable television.
00:08:48.000She's in a running gunfight with Trevor Noah and Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham to be the least funny person in America.
00:08:53.000And Amy Schumer gets up and she salutes the press, because if there's anybody who needs saluting, it's the press that wrongly covered this election, that wrongly covered President Obama, that wrongly covered President Bush, and that is now feeding itself for being the greatest people on planet Earth.
00:09:06.000Here is Samantha Bee, the least funny woman in America.
00:09:09.000I give her the title narrowly over Amy Schumer.
00:09:12.000As much as I might love poking fun at the media, and as much as you all kind of deserve it sometimes, I know your job has never been harder.
00:09:19.000POTUS has convinced 88% of his fans that you're an enemy of the people.
00:09:24.000You basically get paid to stand in a cage while a geriatric orangutan and his pet mobs scream at you.
00:09:35.000You dig up misdeeds and fraud by the powerful, you expose injustice against the weak, and you continue to fact-check the president as if he might someday get embarrassed.
00:10:03.000Okay, so they're toasting themselves because nothing says, in touch with the people, cares about the need of the people, like people wearing thousand-dollar suits and toasting each other for doing basic journalism, which they ignored for the past eight years.
00:10:16.000And then the White House Correspondents Association president got up there and lambasted Trump, too.
00:10:19.000Again, remember, these are the journalists, right?
00:10:21.000These are the people who are supposed to be honestly covering this administration.
00:10:24.000Do they think they're going to convince anybody, anyone in America, that they are not just
00:10:29.000Hateful, spiteful, angry people against the President of the United States when they do stuff like this.
00:10:33.000Here's Jeff Mason of Reuters, who's the head of the WHCA.
00:10:37.000We cannot ignore the rhetoric that has been employed by the President about who we are and what we do.
00:10:46.000Freedom of the press is a building block of our democracy.
00:10:51.000Undermining that by seeking to delegitimize journalists is dangerous to a healthy republic.
00:10:59.000So where was this guy when Barack Obama was sicking the DOJ on the Associated Press?
00:11:03.000Where was he when Barack Obama was directly attacking Fox News and talk radio?
00:11:07.000Where was he when Barack Obama was using the DOJ to target Fox News' James Rosen?
00:11:12.000And, by the way, actually prosecute journalists?
00:11:15.000I mean, prosecute a bunch of journalists for supposed leaks?
00:11:25.000There's a line in Field of Dreams in which a very lefty character gets up and talks about how there was Eisenhower, for Republicans there was Eisenhower, and then there was, what was it, he says something like there was three terms of Nixon and then they were just skipped right on to Reagan, skip the Carter years or skip the Nixon years or whatever it was.
00:11:43.000Okay, that's actually what Democrats do.
00:11:45.000They think that there were two terms of Bush and then eight years just disappeared down the toilet and then there was Trump.
00:11:50.000They just went straight from Bush to Trump.
00:11:53.000And then, the capper of all of this, Samantha Bee, again, the least funny person, woman in America, she gets up there on CNN, and she's asked, as though she's a serious person, on State of the Union, Jake Tapper, who I generally like as a reporter, but Jake Tapper asks Samantha Bee what she thinks of the current state of the country, and she says, she drops this awe-inspiringly stupid line.
00:12:19.000I didn't know that there was a Samantha Bee problem, but let me read part of it to you.
00:12:22.000The Democratic Party's problem in the age of Trump isn't really Jimmy Fallon, who you had criticized and others have criticized for being too soft on Trump.
00:12:29.000Its problem is Samantha Bee, not be alone of course, but the entire phenomenon that she embodies, the rapid colonization of new cultural territory by an ascendant social
00:13:52.000You just described the smug liberal problem.
00:13:54.000You do a show for you and people like you and you don't care what anybody else thinks because you think that you are the repository of all knowledge, wisdom, and decency in the United States, but there's no smug liberal problem?
00:14:09.000And this is the problem with the left, and this is why Trump is so ever-loving lucky.
00:14:13.000He's the luckiest man in America because the left is so smug.
00:14:16.000The left is so terrible, and they can't even see it themselves.
00:14:19.000So Trump goes out there, and he campaigns, and he's talking to people he thinks are sort of the forgotten people, the people that Samantha Bee just said she doesn't care about because they don't watch her show.
00:14:27.000You know, those people, Trump talks to those people, and then he says, look at that smug liberal.
00:14:38.000She's sitting there, in her expensive clothing, on an expensive set with Jake Tapper, and before that, on an expensive set at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, with the people who are the repositories of knowledge.
00:14:48.000You remember when reporters in the old movies, they used to be people who wore, like, the battered derby hats, and they were the men of the streets who chain-smoked, and they went out there and they reported on things that were happening on the ground?
00:14:57.000Now they go to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and they wear tails and a tie, and Samantha Bee wears her very fancy suit,
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00:17:32.000In a nutshell, that is why people like Trump.
00:17:34.000And people also like Trump because Trump is on Face the Nation over the weekend, and here is Donald Trump catering to his crowd by basically ripping on John Dickerson, who is the host of Face the Nation.
00:17:44.000You know, it's very funny when the fake media goes out, you know, which we call the mainstream media, which sometimes, I must say, is you.
00:17:57.000But, you know, your show is sometimes not exactly correct.
00:18:01.000And everybody on the right loves this, of course, as well they should, because the media are a bunch of leftist trolls who hate President Trump and hate the right.
00:18:08.000Now, the reason the left is scared of Trump is because of something Reince Priebus said over the weekend.
00:18:12.000Here's Reince Priebus talking about how the White House considered the changing libel law, changing the First Amendment to the Constitution.
00:18:19.000This is why the left looks at people like us, you know, the people who say, look, the media's full of it, and they say, why aren't you scared of Trump, too?
00:18:25.000I mean, Trump is the one talking about changing the First Amendment.
00:18:37.000I think it's something that we've looked at, and how that gets executed or whether that goes anywhere is a different story.
00:18:42.000But when you have articles out there that have no basis or fact, and we're sitting here on 24-7 cable companies writing stories about constant contacts with Russia and all these other matters
00:18:56.000Do you think the president should be able to sue the New York Times for stories he doesn't like?
00:19:01.000I think that newspapers and news agencies need to be more responsible with how they report the news.
00:19:11.000Newspapers and news agencies should be more responsible, but this idea that you're going to revise the First Amendment, that does scare people, and it should scare people, because if Barack Obama were saying it, everybody on the right would be going nuts.
00:19:21.000Again, this is my shoe-on-the-other-foot test.
00:19:24.000If Reince Priebus right now were Rahm Emanuel and he were saying the same things, would you be happy or would you be sad today?
00:19:30.000And the answer is you would be sad today because this is not something the president should be saying.
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