The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 297 - It’s Trumpcare Day!

Trump-Era Anti-Semitism Changed My Family, We Started Going to Synagogue. Salon Columnist Brittany DeLaCretaz redefines Judaism to mean leftism, and says that she s rededicated herself to her leftism because of Trump. To her, Judaism is social justice warrior stuff, an excuse to virtue signal and push leftist values. Here s how she describes Judaism: "Our faith has a long history of resistance. No matter how many times history has tried to erase us, to wipe us out, we have survived. We have resisted our own demise and fought for the rights of others. Our people were active in the civil rights movement and fighting alongside black folks in the 1950s and 60s. And it is this Judaism, the one that centers the fight for justice that I connect to, it is the one I finally makes sense. Instead of turning away from our community, we are choosing to become part of it for the first time in our adult lives. Not here, not here. Not now, not ever. Not in the future, not in the here and now. Not while we live in a free society, but while we re still in the present. It s not anti-Judaic, it s not. It s anti-judaic it s a way of being . Judaism is about a particular set of beliefs and practices, not a religion or , not that we are not , but . And it s a way to claim a marginalization by the dictates of a minority religion, rather by a religious practice that is a charade rather a charade that is actually a chade that makes us more vulnerable to the dictates than ? the religious practice and which makes us makes us castigigig rather than a , rather , rather ? And is not a chade? in the movement of Black Lives Matter, which castsig making us a castig by the castig ? rather by make us more of ; a chigig ? And it s a chag ? a Chigig? And it's certainly not a Judaic concept of a crime ? by its demands of religion? by ?

00:00:00.000 On Monday, a columnist at Salon.com named Brittany DeLaCretaz authored an article titled, Trump-Era Anti-Semitism Changed My Family, We Started Going to Synagogue.

00:00:09.000 The author says that until recently she had, quote, considered myself a non-practicing Jew, a reformed atheist who found my way back to some sort of spirituality and began to embrace the cultural history of Judaism that I was raised with.

00:00:19.000 But she hadn't stepped into synagogue in years.

00:00:22.000 Until Trump.

00:00:23.000 De La Cretas writes, quote, But then a news alert came across the screen of my phone three days before Trump's inauguration.

00:00:28.000 The Jewish community center a few miles from my home had been evacuated following a bomb threat.

00:00:32.000 I felt my palms begin to sweat as I stared at the notification in disbelief, jaw slightly slack.

00:00:37.000 Not here.

00:00:38.000 Not now.

00:00:39.000 Anti-Semitism, which until this time in my life has been only a theory, instantly became incredibly real.

00:00:44.000 Even here in the liberal bubble of Massachusetts, hatred is alive and well.

00:00:48.000 The JCC bomb threat suspects, it turns out, were a leftist journalist and a Jewish teenager with mental problems.

00:00:53.000 But the JCC threats were merely an entree for de la Cretas to target the real anti-Semites. 0.53

00:00:57.000 Quote,

00:01:06.000 Swastikas appear like hideous confetti, decorating walls and buildings all over the country. 1.00

00:01:10.000 Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized.

00:01:12.000 And while President Trump may have reminded us about his Jewish family members, and assured us at a recent press conference that we're going to see a lot of love under his administration, so far, I don't see it.

00:01:21.000 Never mind we don't have any suspects in the cemetery vandalisms yet. 0.98

00:01:24.000 Never mind that Bannon isn't an anti-Semite, I should know, since I'm an Orthodox Jew who worked with him for two years daily, and think he's a garbage human being for other reasons. 0.93

00:01:31.000 Now, I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't upset by the level of anti-Semitic vitriol I received from some Trump supporters during the last election cycle. 0.94

00:01:39.000 According to the Anti-Defamation League, I was the top journalistic recipient of anti-Semitism on Twitter by a wide margin.

00:01:45.000 I received thousands upon thousands of overtly anti-Semitic tweets during the campaign.

00:01:49.000 But that was not why I went to shul, and kept kosher, or turned off my computer for Shabbat.

00:01:54.000 I did all of those things because Judaism is my religion and my way of life.

00:01:57.000 I practice Judaism not in opposition to antisemitism, but because Judaism has real, true value.

00:02:03.000 Delacritus isn't actually interested in Judaism.

00:02:06.000 She's interested in redefining Judaism to mean leftism, and then saying that she's rededicated to her leftism because of Trump.

00:02:11.000 To her, Judaism is social justice warrior stuff, an excuse to virtue signal and push leftist values. 0.84

00:02:17.000 Here's how she describes Judaism, quote,

00:02:23.000 Our faith has a long history of resistance.

00:02:25.000 No matter how many times history has tried to erase us, to wipe us out, we have survived.

00:02:29.000 We have resisted our own demise and we have fought for the rights of others.

00:02:31.000 Our people were active in the civil rights movement and fighting alongside black folks in the 1950s and 60s.

00:02:36.000 Today, my family has Black Lives Matter signs in our home and on our shirts.

00:02:39.000 Before my oldest daughter could even walk, she marched with me as a Jew for the liberation of Palestine, strapped to my chest in a sling.

00:02:46.000 It is through complacency that we can become perpetuators of the oppression we were once victims of via a vote for Trump or belief in marginalized people's ability to bootstrap their way to success.

00:02:55.000 It is through turning towards instead of turning away that we connect to our roots as oppressed people.

00:02:59.000 And it is this Judaism, the one that centers the fight for justice that I connect to, it is the one that finally makes sense.

00:03:04.000 Instead of turning away from our community, we are choosing to become part of it for the first time in our adult lives." 0.99

00:03:10.000 This is horse crap. 0.99

00:03:12.000 Judaism is about a particular set of beliefs and practices. 0.99

00:03:15.000 It's wonderful that Jews were active in the civil rights movement, and they certainly called upon the Bible for support.

00:03:19.000 So did Martin Luther King Jr., of course.

00:03:20.000 But marching for the liberation of Palestine, while Palestinians murder Jews in the streets and elect Hamas, is not Judaic.

00:03:27.000 It's anti-Judaic.

00:03:29.000 Neither is marching for the Black Lives Matter movement, which castigates police and makes innocent black Americans more vulnerable to the predations of crime. 0.62

00:03:35.000 And it's certainly not a Judaic concept to shirk personal responsibility and suggest that people can't rise in a free society.

00:03:42.000 Dilakrita's article is only important because it demonstrates that for the secular left, religious practice is a charade.

00:03:47.000 It's just a way to claim marginalization and minority status, rather than abiding by the dictates of a religion that actually demands something of its adherents.

00:03:54.000 If Dilakrita truly wants to participate in Judaism, she should start with the synagogue and let it shape her, rather than the other way around. 0.90

00:04:00.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:04:01.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:04:06.000 This has turned into a very, very busy news day.

00:04:08.000 President Trump has signed an executive order on religious freedom.

00:04:10.000 I thought I would be celebrating.

00:04:11.000 Unfortunately, I cannot because it's a crappy executive order.

00:04:14.000 Honestly, God, President Trump, do better than this.

00:04:17.000 He's also not doing a great job on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, which I will talk about. 0.98

00:04:20.000 Plus, Trumpcare is going to be rammed through the house, and we'll go through the details on what this crap sandwich looks like.

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00:05:58.000 In any case, let's say it's there's a lot breaking...

00:06:02.000 In the news today.

00:06:03.000 Let's start with the Trump executive order.

00:06:05.000 So yesterday I talked in startling terms about this executive order that was going to come from President Trump on religious liberty.

00:06:15.000 Giant fail.

00:06:16.000 So, he brings out the actual executive order.

00:06:18.000 The executive order, if it had looked like the one that they were looking at a couple of months ago, would have attempted to protect religious bakers and photographers from people attempting to crack down on them for not operating for same-sex weddings, baking cakes for same-sex weddings.

00:06:33.000 It would have tried to exempt religious organizations from the overt 0.99

00:06:38.000 Antipathy of the IRS trying to crack down on religious organizations because religious organizations aren't pro-LGBT enough.

00:06:44.000 That's what the original order was supposed to do.

00:06:47.000 Instead, this order only touches the so-called Johnson Amendment.

00:06:51.000 The Johnson Amendment is this amendment that basically says that it's a piece of legislation that says that the IRS is supposed to remove non-profit status from churches that speak overtly politically and

00:07:02.000 No one pays attention to the Johnson Amendment.

00:07:04.000 It hasn't really been enforced in decades.

00:07:05.000 It's not something that has a long history of brutal repression attached to it.

00:07:09.000 It's not great, but it's not a huge thing.

00:07:11.000 And Trump, that's all Trump has done.

00:07:14.000 So as I say, the originally drafted executive order would have attempted to get rid of a lot of these regulations that stop religious people from operating in the public sphere.

00:07:22.000 So there are federal anti-discrimination laws that say that grants—this is something that Obama did—that grants from the federal government and contracts from the federal government can only go to firms that do not, quote, discriminate against the LGBT community.

00:07:35.000 This would have stopped that for religious business owners because if you're a Christian and you own a business that's like a defense contractor and you don't want to pay for somebody's same-sex wedding or somebody's same-sex health benefits, 0.75

00:07:45.000 That should not be your fault.

00:07:46.000 You're a religious person.

00:07:47.000 You have the ability to do that in the United States.

00:07:49.000 Nobody has a right to health care from you because this is a free country still.

00:07:53.000 I never understood why this is a religious argument as opposed to a freedom of association argument.

00:07:57.000 You should be allowed to do business with whoever you want to do business with and not allowed to do business with whoever you don't want to do business with.

00:08:02.000 That's what the free market is for.

00:08:04.000 If you discriminate against people, they will form their own businesses.

00:08:07.000 There are other businesses out there to take care of them.

00:08:08.000 Honestly, if you can't find a baker that will cater your gay wedding, then you're not living in the real world. 0.96

00:08:14.000 There are lots of bakers and a lot of them are gay themselves. 0.51

00:08:16.000 And the vast majority of bakers will provide for your gay wedding. 0.99

00:08:20.000 The same thing is certainly true of wedding gown designers and photographers and florists. 1.00

00:08:25.000 It's all ridiculous. 0.88

00:08:26.000 But in any case... 1.00

00:08:27.000 Trump comes forward with this executive order, and it's just garbage. 0.85

00:08:31.000 So CBS News reports, the executive order allows the IRS, when IRS officials choose, okay, so now they've got selective prosecution going on, not to enforce the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofits such as churches and charities from directly or indirectly engaging in a political campaign, but the order does not provide blanket relief for tax-exempt religious organizations 0.95

00:08:49.000 Opening the possibility the IRS could pick and choose whom to penalize.

00:08:52.000 Ed Morrissey, who's sort of a fan of President Trump, he explains that this policy is actually the worst of both worlds.

00:08:57.000 He says, which churches will have to worry about the IRS in a Trump administration?

00:09:01.000 Which churches will have to worry about the IRS in a future Democratic administration?

00:09:04.000 This arbitrariness does not provide stronger religious liberty.

00:09:07.000 It takes us further from the rule of law and closer to the rule of executive whim.

00:09:10.000 Trump is out there today talking about how his cardinals love it.

00:09:13.000 That's his words.

00:09:13.000 He says, my cardinals.

00:09:15.000 They're not his cardinals, but this, again, is just a bad piece of policy pushed by President Trump.

00:09:20.000 So, that's bad.

00:09:21.000 In other bad news, I want to talk about the Trumpcare thing in just a second because that, of course, is the big news of the day.

00:09:27.000 In other bad news, President Trump has now announced that he is going to Israel.

00:09:32.000 He's going to visit Israel.

00:09:32.000 While he's in Israel, he's going to visit with Mahmoud Abbas, the terrorist leader of the Palestinian Authority.

00:09:37.000 He has a long history of associating with, promoting, promulgating, partnering with terrorists.

00:09:41.000 He wrote his entire thesis when he was a young man on, I believe it was Holocaust denial.

00:09:46.000 In any case, Mahmoud Abbas.

00:09:48.000 I think?

00:10:07.000 In meeting with him in Bethlehem, this is one of the propaganda things that Abbas and the Palestinians try to say, is that Jesus was a Palestinian.

00:10:13.000 Jesus was a Jew, gang. 1.00

00:10:15.000 Jesus was not a Palestinian. 0.99

00:10:16.000 And the idea that the Jews in Israel are just like the Herodian villains in the New Testament is asinine. 0.97

00:10:25.000 Trump is forwarding that propaganda by visiting with Abbas. 0.99

00:10:27.000 It really is quite gross.

00:10:29.000 Abbas totally played Trump yesterday. 0.85

00:10:31.000 It's obvious that he played Trump yesterday.

00:10:32.000 Again, I wish that I had good things to say about Trump today, but he needs to do a good job in order for me to say good things about him.

00:10:37.000 So, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist leader, he sits with Trump and he says that the Palestinian children are raised in a culture of peace.

00:10:46.000 And that we strive to live in security and freedom and peace like the rest of the children of the world, them and the Israeli children.

00:10:58.000 Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace, and we are endeavoring to bring about security, freedom, and peace for our children to live like the other children in the world, along with the Israeli children, in peace, freedom, and security.

00:11:23.000 And Trump replies to that.

00:11:24.000 Here's what Trump has to say about it.

00:11:27.000 Let's see if we can find the solution.

00:11:32.000 It's something that I think is frankly, maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years, but we need two willing parties.

00:11:42.000 We believe Israel is willing.

00:11:43.000 We believe you're willing.

00:11:45.000 And if you both are willing, we're going to make a deal. 0.99

00:11:48.000 This is absolute horse crap. 0.98

00:11:50.000 It's not so hard, okay? 1.00

00:11:51.000 The Middle East is not so hard.

00:11:52.000 You mean a religious conflict that has now been going on for over a millennium is not that hard?

00:11:56.000 I'm so glad that President Trump is here, just like Andrew Jackson to solve the Civil War.

00:11:59.000 I'm glad that President Trump is here to solve Middle East peace.

00:12:02.000 By the way, Abbas is totally playing him.

00:12:03.000 This is from Palestinian TV last year, okay?

00:12:06.000 If you haven't seen this, it's from Palestinian TV.

00:12:09.000 Dear viewers, we want to talk about the number of martyrs in Palestine.

00:12:13.000 This is children's television.

00:12:14.000 Compared to the number of dead Israelis, this is an indication of the tyranny of the Israelis. 1.00

00:12:21.000 The occupation killed many of us who are martyrs.

00:12:25.000 These are young teenagers wearing the hijab.

00:12:29.000 People are talking in a children's setting.

00:12:31.000 This points to the violence and tyranny of the occupation.

00:12:34.000 They executed many Palestinians in cold blood.

00:12:35.000 And then the occupation claims that they had stabbed soldiers.

00:12:39.000 It has become almost like a game.

00:12:40.000 This is on children's TV.

00:12:41.000 They're telling outright propagandistic lies about what the Israelis do. 0.99

00:12:51.000 This is what's on Palestinian TV, okay? 0.99

00:12:53.000 This garbage is what's on Palestinian TV, and the fact that President Trump is sitting there going, 0.98

00:13:11.000 Well, I think we can solve it. 0.99

00:13:13.000 I think it's easy to solve.

00:13:14.000 No, it's not easy to solve.

00:13:15.000 And he says, well, we have two willing parties, and I believe you're willing.

00:13:18.000 What makes you believe that they're willing?

00:13:20.000 What makes you believe that?

00:13:20.000 Why are you even having Abbas to the White House?

00:13:22.000 Abbas is clearly presiding over a terrorist regime.

00:13:24.000 Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Palestinian Authority are in a joint government. 0.99

00:13:28.000 But Trump, because he thinks that he's smarter than everybody else, and in fact is really, really dumb on these kinds of issues, is getting himself in trouble. 0.98

00:13:34.000 It's very, very frustrating. 0.98

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00:15:38.000 The really big story of the day, beyond these kind of smaller fails from the Trump administration, is of course Trumpcare.

00:15:43.000 So Trumpcare is supposed to be up for a vote today.

00:15:46.000 It is unclear whether it is going to pass.

00:15:48.000 It is very, very close.

00:15:51.000 Right now, it's coming down to one or two votes.

00:15:53.000 Is it something people should vote for?

00:15:56.000 You know, I'm split on this.

00:15:57.000 On the one hand, I agree with the National Review crowd that says that it's better than Obamacare. 0.98

00:16:03.000 On the other hand, it's still a piece of garbage legislation and now you own it. 0.94

00:16:07.000 I don't think that you should vote for this. 0.64

00:16:08.000 I think that what you should do is you should vote for a straight repeal of Obamacare and then a piecemeal replacement of Obamacare.

00:16:13.000 Having these omnibus packages where you redo the entire health insurance system and then suggest that it's yours, this is a big, big, big mistake.

00:16:20.000 So the fact that you have them voting for a couple of good things like Medicaid reform and eliminating some but not all of Obamacare's taxes, those are good things.

00:16:30.000 But that's outweighed by the fact that you're not getting rid of the key Obamacare regulations, those stay in place, about pre-existing conditions.

00:16:36.000 You're not getting rid of the mandate.

00:16:38.000 Everybody who talks about the individual mandate goes away.

00:16:40.000 There's a backdoor mandate.

00:16:41.000 If you miss a year of coverage and then you want to re-enroll, the federal government forces insurance companies now to charge you a 30% surcharge in order to punish you so that you don't drop off your insurance plan until you're sick and then re-buy it when you're healthy.

00:16:54.000 It retains that new Ryan Trump entitlement program.

00:16:56.000 This, of course, is the refundable tax credits to buy health insurance.

00:16:59.000 So if you're poor, then we just give you some money to buy health insurance, which is basically an entitlement program.

00:17:04.000 And it funds people not to buy health insurance while healthy.

00:17:06.000 So one of the new provisions in this particular bill

00:17:10.000 It comes from Representative Fred Upton.

00:17:12.000 It's an amendment that gives states $8 billion over the next five years to fund high-risk pools, but essentially what it's for is people who are trying to, who have pre-existing conditions, didn't buy health care, didn't buy health insurance, and now want to re-enroll, and they're going to pay that 30% fine, now we're going to pay that for them.

00:17:29.000 So we're now incentivizing people to stay out of the marketplace so they can be eligible for that sort of grant.

00:17:33.000 It's not going to be enough.

00:17:34.000 It's a fig leaf.

00:17:35.000 It's just...

00:17:37.000 There's so much wrong with this, and it's all because the reality is that Republicans lost this issue the minute that they lost the argument about the government's involvement in healthcare to begin with.

00:17:45.000 A free market healthcare system is still the best option here, but nobody is willing to say that because a free market healthcare system says that you are responsible

00:17:54.000 For your own health insurance and that your community and not the government is going to help you out if you come up short on all of this.

00:17:59.000 That has lost the argument and the reason that that has lost the argument is because of this emotional argument that everyone quote-unquote has a right to health care.

00:18:07.000 Jimmy Kimmel made that case the other night.

00:18:08.000 I talked about it at length on the show.

00:18:10.000 Sean Spicer at the White House responded to that and he said well Jimmy Kimmel is why we're fighting to improve Trumpcare.

00:18:17.000 Well, I think we share that concern for the Kimmel's child, as well as any child that needs care.

00:18:23.000 And that's, frankly, why the President fought so hard to improve the bill, like he did this morning, to make sure that there was that extra layer of protection for anybody with a pre-existing condition, no matter their stage in life.

00:18:34.000 That's why we're fighting so hard for this.

00:18:36.000 But I think most importantly, and I think at the end of

00:18:40.000 You know, Jimmy Kendall's monologue, he said that there is no, you know, we need to have some of these things that aren't Republican or Democrat, that they're American policies.

00:18:47.000 And I think that's what the president is fighting for right now.

00:18:50.000 Okay, the president is not really fighting for what conservatives would like.

00:18:54.000 He's certainly not fighting for a free market in healthcare.

00:18:57.000 He has always made promises that are not true, and the minute that you say that the government is responsible for your healthcare, you're in trouble.

00:19:03.000 The left has successfully made the case that free market health insurance, which is the way that the vast majority of people in the United States still get their health insurance, that it doesn't work.

00:19:09.000 MSNBC's Jason Johnson is a good example of this.

00:19:12.000 Here's what Jason Johnson said about healthcare and the government.

00:19:16.000 You want to talk about elitism, right? 0.94

00:19:17.000 You want to talk about, oh, is Jimmy Kimmel an elite?

00:19:19.000 You're an elite if you don't have to depend on the government at some point in your life. 0.84

00:19:23.000 There are sick people out there.

00:19:24.000 There are seniors who need federally funded cars to take them to and from places.

00:19:28.000 There are people who have student loans.

00:19:29.000 There is cancer research from the NSF that helps people throughout the entire country.

00:19:34.000 So if you can say, I don't care about the government, that must be great and fine for you if you're that rich, and maybe the people in the White House feel that way. 0.99

00:19:39.000 But regular people, Republicans and Democrats, realize how stupid this is. 0.99

00:19:42.000 I can't wait for them to make this mistake so they get wiped out in 2018 and we can have some competent Republicans and Democrats running the country. 0.99

00:19:48.000 Okay, so this is the idea the left wants to push, is that we are all inherently dependent on government.

00:19:53.000 This is not even true in the healthcare sphere.

00:19:55.000 So all the talk about pre-existing conditions ignores one rather crucial point.

00:19:58.000 This is a point that Avik Roy, who is an expert on healthcare policy, has made.

00:20:02.000 His basic point is that 90% of healthcare policies already covered pre-existing conditions.

00:20:08.000 You know this, because if you're covered by your employer health care, how many of you actually had to get physicals in order for you to get health insurance at this company?

00:20:14.000 The answer is no.

00:20:15.000 If you are an employee of this company, then you did not have to take a physical in order to get health insurance.

00:20:19.000 That's because employers bargain with health insurance companies for group coverage, right?

00:20:24.000 This is why you have group coverage.

00:20:25.000 Group coverage covers pre-existing conditions.

00:20:27.000 90% of people who have health insurance in this country are getting it through their employer, and those people

00:20:32.000 Do not have to worry about pre-existing conditions because of this collective bargaining arrangement that employers have with insurance companies.

00:20:38.000 That's basically a backdoor pre-existing conditions ban that exists in the free market.

00:20:43.000 The free market does work.

00:20:44.000 It does work.

00:20:45.000 And when it comes to the individual market, first of all, Medicaid already covers pre-existing conditions, but there's no evidence that Medicaid actually increases people's lifespan or health outcomes.

00:20:54.000 So the idea that Medicaid is what we should have, Medicaid for all, as Bernie Sanders likes to say, Medicaid for some isn't even that good.

00:20:59.000 So I'm not sure exactly why you would want Medicaid for all.

00:21:03.000 Again, it's bad policy, but because Republicans lost the conversation, they're now going to lose the policy.

00:21:08.000 And the fact is they're coming up with this sort of Frankenstein's monster of legislation that keeps the central provisions of Obamacare, turns them into Trumpcare. 0.99

00:21:16.000 So somehow the Republicans have come up with a magic trip that turns Obama's crap into Trump's crap. 0.98

00:21:22.000 They've now done it with the budget, and now they're doing it with Obamacare as well. 0.99

00:21:25.000 Again, conservatism would be a nice response to all of this, but unfortunately I'm not sure we're going to get it.

00:21:32.000 I do want to talk about some stuff that was kind of bombshell that James Comey dropped at the hearing yesterday, plus we have the mailbag coming up.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 08, 2017

Ep. 297 - It’s Trumpcare Day!

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