According to the left, all sexual behavior is malleable, and based largely on social structures that have been implemented by the patriarchy, men and women don t exist but for their self-perception. That's why Caitlyn Jenner isn't just a man with a mental disorder and some plastic surgery and hormone injections, she's as much of a woman as Michelle Obama. The left reasons that if a man can be a woman, then a man who only wants to have sex with biological women must be a "bigot." And if a woman is a lesbian, it's discriminatory of her to not want to have sexual contact with a male who identifies as a woman. And a bisexual man who wants sex with people of both sexes, but only if they're good-looking? He's a " bigot." You're a bigot, you're a "Bigot." Ben Shapiro explains why this is nonsense, and how to get people to accept transgender people sexually when people's sexuality is supposedly "unchanging" and unchanging. Plus, he talks about the Trump budget and terrorism, and why the left's bizarre views on terrorism are worse than the ones the right-wing media have been able to understand. Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. He's also the host of the podcast "The Weekly Standard" and hosts the radio show "The Ben Shapiro Show" on SiriusXM Radio. and is a regular contributor on Comedy Central's "Off The Record" and "The View From The Hill." and hosts his own podcast, "The Late Show with John Rocha. on HBO's "New Girlboss" and his new book, "Girlboss." and he's also a regular on the Tonight Show with Rachel Maddow. He's new show on "Keeping Up With It All." is a podcast hosted by Alex Blumberg, a podcast that chronicles the rise and fall of the far-left wing of the political correctness movement. . And he's a writer and host of "The Daily Beast" on "The Five". and "New York Magazine". He also writes for the New York Times Magazine, and hosts a podcast called "The New York Magazine." He can be found on social media, and is on the internet, and his own website. The Daily Beast, and you can find him on Instapaper, and he also tweets at on Insta-
00:00:14.000According to Samantha Allen of the Daily Beast, it is, quote,
00:00:30.000It turns out that according to the left, all sexual behavior is malleable and based largely on social structures that have been implemented by the patriarchy.
00:00:37.000Men and women don't exist but for their self-perception.
00:00:40.000We know that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man regardless of biology.
00:00:43.000That's why Caitlyn Jenner isn't just a man with a mental disorder and some plastic surgery and hormone injections.
00:00:48.000Caitlyn Jenner is as much of a woman as Michelle Obama.
00:00:50.000The left reasons that if a man can be a woman, then a man who only wants to have sex with biological women must be a bigot.
00:00:56.000His desires have been wrongly defined by a society that restricted the definition of womanhood to, you know, like, women.
00:01:03.000If only men had been exposed to the deeper truth of gender early.
00:01:06.000If only they'd known that some women have male genitalia.
00:01:09.000Then perhaps they'd be willing to have sex with biological men who are actually women.
00:01:12.000The same holds true with regard to homosexuals, of course.
00:01:15.000If a woman is a lesbian, it's discriminatory of her to not want to have sex with a man who identifies as a woman.
00:01:21.000Her desires have also been shaped by her environment.
00:01:23.000And her environment has run a stark, but wrong, oh ever so wrong, contrast between biological men and biological women.
00:01:30.000If all of this sounds insane, that's because it's totally crazy.
00:01:33.000Straight men are attracted to women, not men who identify as women.
00:01:36.000Straight women are attracted to biological men.
00:01:38.000As a general rule, homosexuals are attracted to members of the same biological sex.
00:01:42.000Attempting to pretend away reality does not change that reality.
00:01:45.000But the left is plagued by two myths that lie in direct opposition to one another.
00:01:51.000All human behavior can be changed by changing society at large.
00:01:55.000The second, all human behavior is innate and unchanging.
00:01:58.000Under the first myth, if we just train people that men and women are the same, and that even their genitals don't provide a meaningful difference, men will begin having sex with transgender women, and women will begin having sex with transgender men.
00:02:09.000Under the second myth, however, transgender identity itself is immutable and unchanging, as is homosexuality and heterosexuality.
00:02:16.000This provides an unanswerable conundrum for transgender advocates.
00:02:19.000How can they get people to accept transgender people sexually when people's sexuality is supposedly unchanging?
00:02:25.000So, the left merely ignores the problem and papers it over with the word bigot.
00:02:30.000People are attracted to people they're attracted to.
00:02:32.000There is a biological component to that, as well as a cultural component, but ignoring biology in favor of culture is idiotic, and ignoring culture in favor of biology is ignorant.
00:02:42.000The suggestion that discriminatory nastiness is at the root of perfectly logical biological desire for people to have sex with members of the opposite biological sex is merely a slur, a crutch to cover up the illogic of the far left when it comes to both gender and sex.
00:03:17.000As people in our office can tell you, I often lose equipment when I'm on the road.
00:03:21.000I wouldn't have if I'd put a tracker on that.
00:03:23.000So, at home, I put a tracker on my keys, I put a tracker on my wallet, I put a tracker on my phone, and by doing that, it makes sure that I never lose any of these things.
00:03:31.000My wife's phone always falls asleep or dies, and we never know where it is.
00:03:35.000That's why there's a tracker on the thing, so that we can find it.
00:03:38.000The way that it works, it's like a coin-sized device, and you put it right there on the keys, on the phone, on the wallet, and then, you can use your phone, or you can use your keys, to hunt down your phone.
00:04:39.000There's been more fallout from this terrorist attack that happened in Manchester on, I guess it was Monday evening.
00:04:46.000And the left continues to demonstrate why it is that nobody will trust them with national security.
00:04:51.000First off, it is important to note the background of the attacker here.
00:04:54.000It turns out the attacker may have had links directly to terrorist groups.
00:04:57.000They've now arrested, I guess, four people.
00:04:59.000Uh, who are involved in this terror cell.
00:05:01.000So the idea that this was another one of these lone wolves, you can never see it coming.
00:05:05.000This guy had been, had been on the radar of the police, always their red flags.
00:05:09.000This guy had been on the radar of the police for years.
00:05:12.000According to the BBC, a bunch of people had actually called him in, uh, to the police because of his views, and because he and his friends were expressing craziness a while ago, and the police just didn't see it coming, and now there are 22 people dead, including an 8-year-old girl, a 14-year-old girl.
00:05:27.000It's just horrific all the way through.
00:05:30.000And there are people in Britain who are concerned that there may be another terror attack.
00:05:33.000They went on critical alert yesterday, which means that they felt that another terror attack was imminent.
00:05:37.000Theresa May is the Prime Minister of Britain.
00:05:39.000She came out and she said that yesterday.
00:05:41.000It is now concluded, on the basis of today's investigations, that the threat level should be increased for the time being, from severe to critical.
00:05:53.000This means that their assessment is not only that an attack remains highly likely,
00:05:58.000But that a further attack may be imminent.
00:06:04.000And the fact that all of these, the fact that all these people on the left don't understand, in basic terms, why there is concern about the rise of Muslim immigration into, unvetted Muslim immigration, into states like Britain is just asinine.
00:06:19.000You know, when the mayor of London, who's a Muslim guy, when he says that people just need to get used to terror attacks,
00:06:24.000Look, the fact is that there are some terror attacks that are going to be non-preventable.
00:06:54.000You know, pretending that the culture of the populations that you intake has nothing to do with the activities of those populations is just silly all around.
00:07:03.000Now, naturally, the left has found its enemies, and its enemies are the right.
00:07:06.000So, you know, they know exactly who to blame.
00:07:09.000This Democratic senator, Chris Murphy,
00:07:15.000He came out yesterday and he said that the real problem here, obviously, is Donald Trump.
00:07:19.000I mean, if we're really going to worry about the possibility of terror attack, clearly President Trump is to blame for some odd reason that he can't explain.
00:07:27.000And so many of us are worried about some of the rhetoric of the Trump administration because we worry that that combined with robust online recruitment might end up in an attack like this happening in the United States.
00:07:40.000Okay, the idea that if Trump goes out there and says things that Muslims in the United States are going to join terror groups is just asinine.
00:07:48.000The fact is that people who go out and commit acts of terror are people who are deeply ensconced in a religious worldview that does not care whether Obama is president or whether Trump is president.
00:07:56.000As we know, worldwide terror rose dramatically when President Obama was president.
00:08:01.000Is it because terrorists liked Obama less than they liked Bush?
00:08:06.000They thought George W. Bush was a cowboy.
00:08:07.000They thought that he was a crazy Texan cowboy, Christian guy.
00:08:11.000And supposedly, Obama was going to smooth those details over, remember?
00:08:14.000You remember how Obama went on his apology tour?
00:08:16.000He went to Cairo and talked about how the Western world was largely responsible for all of this evil, and the Muslim population, well, they couldn't be blamed if they were really radicalized, because after all, the West had done all of these terrible things.
00:08:28.000And then, he proceeded to allow radical Muslims to take over a bunch of countries.
00:08:33.000And lo and behold, the terror rates increase.
00:08:35.000So it really has very little to do with what America says.
00:08:38.000It has much more to do with how many terrorists we allow to live.
00:08:42.000But again, the left is living in this imagined world, this John Lennon imagined world where it's religion and borders that's really the problem.
00:08:50.000Everybody deep down wants the same thing.
00:09:07.000But yesterday, there was a video of Katy Perry talking with some talk show hosts about the Manchester Massacre, and here's what she had to say.
00:09:14.000I think that the greatest thing we can do is just unite and love on each other.
00:09:29.000Okay, it's very hard to coexist with people who want to murder you.
00:09:31.000So some people were saying, she was saying this about the fanbase between Ariana Grande's fanbase, because this happened at an Ariana Grande concert, and Katy Perry's fanbase.
00:09:38.000Okay, first of all, if your chief concern in the aftermath of a terrorist attack is the coming together of two pop star fanbases, I'm gonna go with your slightly myopic.
00:09:47.000If she means that the entire world needs to have no borders, no barriers,
00:09:51.000Katy Perry owns a $19 million house in Los Angeles with a giant barrier all around it.
00:09:56.000Because she can't even trust the paparazzi not to come into her yard, let alone Islamic extremists.
00:10:00.000So the idea that we can all just get together and be friends, and if we're just kinder and gentler to one another, that if we just live our lives and be nice to one another that this is going to fix things...
00:10:11.000It's actually sort of disrespectful to Islamic terrorists.
00:10:13.000And what I mean by that is they don't deserve respect, obviously, but it's implying that they're just a bunch of vacillating dweebs who will just switch away from Islamic terrorism the minute that we're nice to them.
00:10:24.000Like, if we had offered them free Ariana Grande tickets, then maybe they wouldn't have bombed the place.
00:10:57.000I disagreed with some of the material in Charlie Hebdo, but they have every right to do that, and it's good that publications like Charlie Hebdo exist, even though I really disagreed with it.
00:11:06.000Now, the same thing is true with Ariana Grande.
00:11:08.000We here on the program, we've deconstructed culture with Ariana Grande.
00:11:11.000I don't like a lot of the messages of her songs.
00:11:13.000I think that she's contributing to a pop culture that isn't very good, but that said, I'm glad that people like Ariana Grande are allowed to perform however people like Ariana Grande
00:12:10.000You know, the fact is that there are zero Jews living in Saudi Arabia and they barred Israeli Jewish journalists from even coming into the country.
00:12:18.000The idea that the Judeo-Christian society is in just a question of coexistence with the Islamic radicals is absolutely asinine.
00:12:26.000And it's also asinine to pretend that there are very few of these people, because the fact is there may be very few people who are willing to commit terror.
00:12:32.000There are a hell of a lot of people who are willing to cheer them on, and that's a very frightening prospect that we ought to take, certainly, very seriously.
00:12:42.000It's such foolishness, and again, this is why people don't trust... Remember, Katy Perry
00:12:47.000You know, was the person who was stumping for Hillary Clinton.
00:12:50.000Katy Perry was an acolyte of Hillary Clinton's.
00:12:53.000Katy Perry was somebody who was out there pushing for Hillary Clinton for President of the United States, wearing the Obama dress, wearing the Hillary Clinton dress.
00:13:01.000She is considered a respected voice in the left-wing movement.
00:13:04.000That voice, that's not somebody you're going to trust with national security, and that's why
00:13:09.000Really, that's why, you know, you saw that Rasmussen's reporting that Trump's approval ratings have bumped back up to 48%.
00:13:14.000Now, Rasmussen's usually a little bit of an outlier in terms of approval ratings, but Trump's approval ratings have increased.
00:13:25.000You know, we can make fun of the sword dance and the touching of the glowing orb in Saudi Arabia and all of this, but Trump really has avoided a lot of big boo-boos, which is good for him.
00:13:33.000Also, there was a massive terror attack, and when there's a massive terror attack, people want somebody in charge who wants to kill the people who want to perpetrate the terror attack.
00:13:41.000Trump's approval rating has bumped because people are not focused on the Trump-Russia stuff.
00:13:44.000They're focused on the terror attack, and they're focused on the fact that he's out of the country, and Trump isn't using Twitter to distract them.
00:13:50.000Now, this, I think, proves the case that we have been making here on The Ben Shapiro Show for a long time, which is Trump could be successful if he could control himself, stop at the trigger craziness, and just pursue policy.
00:14:01.000You know, I hope that this foreign trip is actually a wake-up call to President Trump, that if he does more of this, then he'll be just fine.
00:14:07.000So, again, the world is what the world is, and for all of the foibles that President Trump has pursued, when President Trump says he wants to kill as many terrorists as possible and treat them as the evil losers that they are, I think most people resonate to that.
00:14:20.000Now, I do want to talk about the Democratic narrative regarding Trump-Russia collusion totally falling apart, but before I do that, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Blinkist.
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00:16:37.000This has been a much better week for President Trump.
00:16:39.000The last three weeks in a row were Fs for President Trump.
00:16:42.000This one has been much closer to an A for President Trump.
00:16:45.000And part of that is because the Democrats are still struggling to come up with this Trump collusion narrative that works.
00:16:50.000And they're having a tough time with it.
00:16:52.000So, John Brennan, who's a former CIA director under President Obama,
00:16:57.000He was the CIA director all the way up to January 20th.
00:16:59.000And he has called to the Hill to testify in front of the House Intelligence Committee about the leaks and about the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:17:07.000And he says a lot of things that the Democrats are going to have a real tough time putting back in the box.
00:17:12.000So the first thing that he says is that Trump is not crazy to worry about the leaks inside his administration.
00:17:17.000So Democrats have been saying that Trump is just using the leaks as a way to distract from all of the real issues with his candidacy and with his administration.
00:17:31.000And those two protocols are, one is that such intelligence, classified intelligence, is not shared with visiting foreign ministers or local ambassadors.
00:17:38.000It's shared through intelligence channels because it needs to be handled the right way.
00:17:42.000And it needs to make sure that it is not exposed.
00:17:45.000He didn't do that, again, if the press charges are accurate.
00:17:48.000Secondly, before sharing any classified intelligence with foreign partners, it needs to go back to the originating agency to make sure that the language in it is not, even just providing the substance, going to reveal sources and methods and compromise the future collection capability.
00:18:03.000What I'm very concerned about, though, is the subsequent releases of what appears to be classified information purporting to
00:18:10.000Point to the originator of the information, liaison partners.
00:18:14.000These continue to be very, very damaging leaks, and I find them appalling, and they need to be tracked down.
00:18:20.000Okay, so there is Brennan basically saying what Democrats have been denying for a while, which is that these leaks are bad.
00:18:28.000Okay, it's not good that the leaks are coming out.
00:18:29.000He rips Trump for spilling classified information.
00:18:57.000He was asked about contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, and he said straight out, no, I don't really have evidence of collusion.
00:19:03.000There may be contacts, but no evidence of collusion.
00:19:05.000I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S.
00:19:17.000persons involved in the Trump campaign.
00:20:06.000We know Manafort was connected with Russia.
00:20:08.000We know Flynn was connected with Russia.
00:20:09.000But we're not learning anything new here from Brennan.
00:20:12.000All we're hearing is, I was suspicious, but we never really uncovered anything.
00:20:16.000And then Brennan is asked, was there pressure from Trump at any point to end the investigation?
00:20:21.000And he says, I'm not aware of any pressure to end any investigation from President Trump.
00:20:25.000Have any members of the IC shared with you
00:20:29.000Are you aware of any efforts the President has made to enlist the support of intelligence community personnel to push back on a narrative involving the collusion issue that Mr. Rooney was asking about?
00:20:53.000Okay, again, he keeps saying all of these narratives that the left has been pushing, there's no evidence for them.
00:20:58.000So he says, is there any evidence of Trump pressuring, and this is what Schiff says, and Brennan says, I haven't heard anything about that.
00:21:05.000So you have the New York Times report last week that comes out and says that all of these people were pressured, and no one yet has actually come out and said that they were pressured.
00:21:12.000There's yet to be anybody who's come out formally and said they're pressured.
00:21:14.000We've had anonymous sourcing, but Comey's gonna testify?
00:21:17.000He's gonna have to answer a very simple question that is, that's gonna remain on the table here, and that is, why didn't you quit?
00:21:23.000If you feel like you were so pressured, why didn't you just quit?
00:21:26.000Okay, as somebody who felt pressured at the, at an organization called Breitbart News, you know, with regard to, to the, the, the love for President Trump, I quit.
00:21:37.000When I thought they were doing something illegitimate, I quit.
00:21:39.000If Comey thought something illegitimate was happening, he too should have quit.
00:21:43.000So, you know, John Brennan is basically exploding left narratives.
00:22:03.000I also want to talk about the budget and President Trump's budget.
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