The Ben Shapiro Show - January 28, 2016


Ep. 63 - Trump Drinks Everybody's Milkshake

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Ep. 62 - The X-Rated Episode Ep. 64 - Iowa Is Tonight. I Hate Everyone And Everything.

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It s a Thursday morning in Iowa, and we veeps, we ve reached the end of the road for Donald Trump's chances of becoming the next president of the United States. And we ve got a good idea why. Pastor Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are throwing their support behind Donald Trump, and they re doing so in order to help him win the first primary state, Iowa. What does that mean for the rest of the field? And what does it mean for our chances of defeating Hillary Clinton in the upcoming primary? And why should we even care about it if Donald Trump wins the nomination anyway? Ben Shapiro explains all that and much more on today s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Featuring: - Ben Shapiro ( ) - The Weekly Standard's New York Times bestselling author of "Out on a Limerick" ( ) - "Out On A Limerick: An American in America's Most Disturbing Situation" ( ), and Ben Shapiro's new book, "Out of the Looking Glass" ( ). is out! - The Dark Side of the Political Matrix ( ) and "Out Of The Looking Glass." - What's the worst thing you can do in politics? ( ) is out, and it's not what you think it's going to be about? - and you're not going to get any better than that in 2020. - is it possible? or is it? ? - Is it possible that Ted Cruz is going to win the nomination in 2020? -- and does it really even matter? -- and Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or is the only candidate with a chance to beat Hillary Clinton? -- or does it matter? - or does he have a chance of winning the nomination? -- or is there a chance he's just not running for it? -- we'll find out on Monday, or is he just not really matter what he's running for anything at all? and we'll figure it out in the next four days? -- is it all just a matter of time? -- And does it all have a shot at winning in the primary or not at all?? -- or will he? at least we'll know who s going to come out on the other side of the nomination or not? of the 2020 primary? -- the answer is either going to vote for Ted Cruz, or Hillary Clinton or Ted Cruz? -- on Monday? -- Is there any chance Ted Cruz comes out of nowhere?

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00:00:00.000 Here we are.
00:00:00.000 It is a Thursday, and it is our last chance to save Iowa.
00:00:04.000 We have to save Iowa.
00:00:06.000 Words no one has ever spoken before.
00:00:08.000 Iowa must be saved.
00:00:10.000 Apparently also last night, Bill O'Reilly really tried to use his milkshake to bring Donald Trump back to the yard, but Trump was like, mine's huger than yours.
00:00:20.000 Indeed, it was huger than yours.
00:00:22.000 So we'll talk about all of that.
00:00:23.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:24.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:26.000 I tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.
00:00:31.000 Okay, pardon me for a moment.
00:00:32.000 I need to just make a primal scream of frustration because... I mean, the political scene is so wild and insane right now.
00:00:42.000 We've moved beyond.
00:00:44.000 Yesterday, we were through the looking glass.
00:00:45.000 We've shattered the looking glass.
00:00:47.000 There is no coming back.
00:00:48.000 We're now at the point where Donald Trump is doing interviews with Bill O'Reilly about milkshakes.
00:00:54.000 And tonight, during the Republican debate, which Donald Trump will not be attending, Donald Trump will instead be doing an event for the Wounded Warriors.
00:01:01.000 Yes, the same people he insulted when he said that John McCain was a huge loser for getting caught and becoming a POW.
00:01:08.000 He liked people who weren't caught.
00:01:10.000 He's doing a fundraiser for them, and who will be attending?
00:01:13.000 Who will be attending?
00:01:15.000 Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, both of the last two Iowa caucus winners.
00:01:19.000 And supposedly the two most religious men in the field will be there tacitly endorsing the least religious man, not only in the field, but perhaps in all of the world.
00:01:27.000 So Donald Trump...
00:01:29.000 The guy who just a few years ago was endorsing partial birth abortion and who was caught by his first wife cheating with his second wife and then I think caught by his second wife cheating with his third wife, that guy is going to be endorsed by Pastor Huckabee who's ripping Ted Cruz in ads for not properly tithing.
00:01:46.000 Yes, seriously.
00:01:47.000 These have been the ads that Mike Huckabee is running.
00:01:50.000 He's running one ad where it's not even an ad, it's a video where they do a version of Adele's Hello, and it's Mike Huckabee on the phone.
00:01:58.000 And it's legitimately the worst thing that has ever been produced on film.
00:02:01.000 It makes you want to go back in time and kill Thomas Edison before the development of all the technology that made this possible.
00:02:07.000 But he's doing that, but he's also running ads in Iowa in which he accuses Ted Cruz of not properly tithing.
00:02:13.000 Now,
00:02:14.000 You know, as an Orthodox Jew, I also am theoretically supposed to be tithing.
00:02:18.000 I will freely admit, to the best of my knowledge, I do not tithe, because that's a lot of money, gang.
00:02:23.000 And also... And also, because I should be tithing, but most of the money ends up disappearing to various costs, including child care and synagogue costs, and it depends on how you count the tithing and all of this.
00:02:36.000 But I'm not gonna bash anybody else over their tithing, because that's just not something that I think is really...
00:02:42.000 It's not a huge thing to me.
00:02:44.000 I'll admit that's not something that... He didn't properly tithe, so I'm not going to vote for him.
00:02:48.000 That doesn't rank high on my list of priorities.
00:02:50.000 But the point is, for Mike Huckabee, tithing is the thing.
00:02:53.000 Tithing is huge.
00:02:55.000 In fact, it's huge.
00:02:56.000 It's so huge that he's gonna go and he's gonna hang out with Donald Trump, a man who gives apparently very little charity.
00:03:03.000 I mean, if he were tithing, he'd be giving tens of millions of dollars per year.
00:03:07.000 A man who...
00:03:09.000 I mean, I'm going to speculate.
00:03:10.000 This is speculation.
00:03:11.000 This is going out on a limb.
00:03:12.000 Sometime in Donald Trump's life.
00:03:14.000 Would you be very surprised if you paid for an abortion at sometime in Donald Trump's life?
00:03:18.000 Maybe he didn't.
00:03:18.000 Maybe I'm just out on a limb.
00:03:20.000 Maybe I'm being ridiculous. 0.92
00:03:21.000 But would it be that surprising? 0.96
00:03:22.000 But the point is that Donald Trump is the kind of guy you could see doing something like that.
00:03:26.000 And here's Mike Huckabee basically endorsing him and Rick Santorum, the two most religious guys in the field, because the world has ended.
00:03:34.000 Because the apocalypse has come.
00:03:36.000 And maybe on Monday Trump loses.
00:03:38.000 Maybe order is restored to the universe and Ted Cruz wins.
00:03:42.000 Or maybe Marco Rubio comes out of nowhere and wins.
00:03:44.000 But if Donald Trump ends up winning the nomination.
00:03:47.000 Again, would I vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton?
00:03:50.000 I would, because I would vote for actual, actually like sulfur-smelling Satan, probably, over Hillary Clinton. 0.96
00:03:57.000 Except it's not possible, because I think they're the same person.
00:03:59.000 But, I would vote for anyone over Hillary Clinton, but that doesn't mean that the world isn't ending, and that the eaves are not crumbling around us.
00:04:08.000 Okay, so we'll start with Donald Trump talking about delicious ice cream treats with Bill O'Reilly last night on Fox News.
00:04:15.000 And as I said yesterday, Fox News is participating in this whole thing.
00:04:20.000 Fox News made Donald Trump big.
00:04:22.000 Fox News made Donald Trump a big political figure.
00:04:24.000 They made him famous.
00:04:26.000 We're good to go.
00:04:44.000 I mean, this whole, all I could think of when watching this interview, my only preliminary comment here, all I could think of when watching this interview between Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump, the only thing that I could think of was that scene in which, in The Empire Strikes Back, in which Han Solo is about to be put into carbonite, and Leia runs up to him and says, I love you, and they pull her away, and Han Solo says, I know.
00:05:06.000 OK, that was Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump last night.
00:05:10.000 Because O'Reilly kept basically, I love you.
00:05:12.000 And Trump's like, frankly, I know.
00:05:14.000 And so here we go.
00:05:16.000 Donald Trump with Bill O'Reilly.
00:05:17.000 God help us.
00:05:18.000 Look, Putin's going to come at you. 0.77
00:05:20.000 The mullahs are going to come at you. 1.00
00:05:23.000 Certainly the terrorists are going to come at you.
00:05:26.000 And it's going to be personal.
00:05:27.000 They're going to do everything they can to diminish you.
00:05:30.000 And you hope that as a president, you have to rise above that.
00:05:34.000 All right.
00:05:35.000 And do what's best for the country.
00:05:37.000 And this exposition that we're talking about today, people are going to say, you know, Trump, he's just too self-absorbed to be president.
00:05:44.000 He needs to look the bigger picture.
00:05:45.000 The bigger picture is get your message to the folks.
00:05:49.000 There's got to be something, because you set the all-time record in cable history, and so did CNN, and so there's got to be something going on, Bill.
00:05:58.000 They want to know you.
00:05:59.000 They want to know you, but by walking away from this debate...
00:06:02.000 You're not giving them the opportunity to know them as well as they would like.
00:06:06.000 I'm not walking away.
00:06:07.000 Bill, I'm not walking away.
00:06:08.000 Would you do me a favor?
00:06:10.000 Look, you owe me, because I bought you so many vanilla milkshakes.
00:06:14.000 I bought you so many vanilla milkshakes, you owe me.
00:06:16.000 Will you just consider?
00:06:18.000 I want you to consider.
00:06:19.000 Alright?
00:06:21.000 Think about it.
00:06:22.000 Say, look, I might come back.
00:06:26.000 Forgive, go forward, answer the questions, look out for the folks.
00:06:31.000 Just want you to consider it.
00:06:33.000 You owe me milkshakes, I'll take them off the ledger if you consider it.
00:06:39.000 Well, even though you and I had an agreement that you wouldn't ask me that, which we did, I will therefore forget that you asked me that.
00:06:48.000 But it's up to Fox, it's not up to me, Bill.
00:06:51.000 What they did is they really did, we had that agreement.
00:06:54.000 You actually did break the agreement.
00:06:55.000 You're actually telling the truth that I said... Because I told you up front, I said don't ask me that question, because it's an embarrassing question to you, and I don't want to embarrass you.
00:07:02.000 But I'm not going to listen to anybody.
00:07:04.000 Right, but I'm not going to listen to any political person tell me don't ask me anything.
00:07:08.000 But, you're absolutely an honest man.
00:07:10.000 Then I said, I'll try not to do it, but the milkshake thing just overwhelmed me.
00:07:17.000 But, I'm asking you to reconsider it.
00:07:19.000 It's true.
00:07:19.000 A lot of milkshakes.
00:07:20.000 If you don't want to, it's up to you, and I'll give you a compliment.
00:07:24.000 I don't know any politician under these circumstances that would have come on in here and done what you did tonight.
00:07:30.000 I just don't know any.
00:07:31.000 And by the way, this is much tougher than the debate.
00:07:34.000 Bill, this is much tougher, being with you, because frankly, you're smarter.
00:07:38.000 This is much tougher than doing the debate with Megyn Kelly, believe me.
00:07:42.000 But that's why you should do it and have fun tomorrow night.
00:07:45.000 No, no, I'm going to have fun.
00:07:46.000 9 o'clock, Drake University.
00:07:48.000 9 o'clock, Drake University.
00:07:49.000 We're going to raise a lot of money for the veterans.
00:07:51.000 Watch.
00:07:52.000 All right, you owe me 17 milkshakes then, and I want them.
00:07:55.000 That's okay.
00:07:56.000 I'll do that.
00:07:57.000 Thank you, Bill.
00:07:59.000 Trump drank all of Bill O'Reilly's milkshakes.
00:08:01.000 All of them.
00:08:02.000 He drank his milkshakes.
00:08:05.000 So, O'Reilly makes the offer for delicious ice cream treats to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump rejects him.
00:08:09.000 First of all, O'Reilly begging Donald Trump to put his ego aside may be the most amusing thing I have ever seen on television.
00:08:16.000 If it's not, it's one of the top five, because, I mean,
00:08:20.000 How two egos can occupy the same television in that amount of space is a wonder of physics.
00:08:27.000 Between the two of them.
00:08:28.000 But there he is.
00:08:29.000 There's O'Reilly saying to Trump that he wants him to come for the folks, for the people of America.
00:08:36.000 The people of America don't need Donald Trump at this debate, okay?
00:08:39.000 Everybody knows what Donald Trump is.
00:08:40.000 Everybody knows what Donald Trump thinks.
00:08:42.000 I'm not that upset that Donald Trump isn't going to debate.
00:08:44.000 I actually think it's a pretty clever move for a variety of reasons, and I'll do my debate preview in a second.
00:08:49.000 But what's amazing here is that look how the media are pandering to Trump.
00:08:54.000 Look at this.
00:08:55.000 Can you imagine another candidate?
00:08:56.000 Let's say Rand Paul.
00:08:57.000 Rand Paul did do this!
00:08:58.000 Rand Paul said, I'm not going to appear on the lower debate.
00:09:00.000 Were there people who were coming up to him?
00:09:01.000 We beg you!
00:09:02.000 Please!
00:09:03.000 For the people of America!
00:09:05.000 For the folks!
00:09:06.000 Rand Paul, we need you on that stage.
00:09:08.000 And it wouldn't matter if Rand Paul were doing better in the polls.
00:09:10.000 If Ted Cruz said, I'm not going to that debate because I think y'all are in favor of Trump.
00:09:14.000 Would anybody be saying to Ted Cruz, Ted, you need to come to the debate. 0.96
00:09:17.000 It's such WWE narcissistic nonsense. 1.00
00:09:21.000 And Trump, he's the master narcissist. 0.99
00:09:24.000 Every question here, every question, we'll play a few more.
00:09:26.000 Every question that Trump is asked comes back to how he personally feels about things.
00:09:30.000 Donald Trump is the only person in the universe to Donald Trump.
00:09:34.000 And again, maybe you say that that's a good thing in a politician, because he needs to be able to wheel around and hit people randomly.
00:09:39.000 Because he's so self-absorbed, that means that any attack on him is taken as war, and he's gonna go to war with everyone.
00:09:46.000 And that means sometimes he goes to war with the right people.
00:09:49.000 I've been saying for literally months at this point that Donald Trump is a blunt instrument, he is a hammer in search of a nail, sometimes he hammers a pane of glass, sometimes he hammers a puppy, sometimes he hits a nail on the head.
00:10:00.000 That doesn't mean he's a conservative.
00:10:01.000 But right now, that ego hammer that is Donald Trump is sucking up all the oxygen in the room.
00:10:06.000 And there is a strategic reason for all of this.
00:10:08.000 But first, I want to go through a couple more clips of Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly talking together.
00:10:12.000 Again, recognize the irony.
00:10:14.000 Donald Trump just told Fox News to go screw themselves.
00:10:18.000 And Fox News' immediate response was, we're going to take our most iconic host and we're going to have you on his show 0.98
00:10:24.000 And give you the air time to promote your agenda suggesting that Fox News is a bunch of nasty, terrible people.
00:10:31.000 And if this is not, if this doesn't demonstrate the media political complex, I'm not sure what does.
00:10:36.000 Here we go.
00:10:37.000 But I'll tell you what, this also had to do with the attitude of Fox. 1.00
00:10:42.000 Bill, this also had to do with the stupidity of Fox and what they did. 0.97
00:10:47.000 And we're going to be having a great event tomorrow night and I'm going to raise a lot of money for veterans and that's a good thing. 0.99
00:10:53.000 It's a good thing.
00:10:54.000 Look, Donald, you can do that any night, and I can help you, and we'll raise five times as much money.
00:10:59.000 I got a really good idea that I want you to be involved with about raising money, but we'll get to that later.
00:11:03.000 Well, I'll do other debates, Bill.
00:11:05.000 Here's where you're making a mistake, though.
00:11:06.000 You're making a big mistake.
00:11:07.000 Bill, can I just say about one thing?
00:11:08.000 Could I just say one thing?
00:11:09.000 What?
00:11:09.000 We've had six debates so far.
00:11:11.000 Every online poll said I won every one of the debates, especially the last one, by the way, with the New York values, which was horrible, what Ted Cruz said.
00:11:20.000 But you know what?
00:11:22.000 The Democrats are all finished with their debates.
00:11:24.000 They've had six.
00:11:25.000 They were hidden behind football games and every other thing.
00:11:28.000 They're all finished with their debates.
00:11:30.000 We're going to go on forever with these debates.
00:11:32.000 At some point, you've got to start doing other things other than debating.
00:11:36.000 All right, I got that.
00:11:37.000 Like Gilmore.
00:11:38.000 People have never even heard of this man.
00:11:40.000 Wait a minute.
00:11:40.000 We have people in our debates that, you know, they're at zero.
00:11:44.000 That's a sub-debate, not your debate.
00:11:47.000 Okay, so here's the thing about Trump.
00:11:49.000 Half of what Trump is saying here is actually true.
00:11:52.000 What I mean by that is that Trump actually was not treated well by Fox News at the first debate, and Fox News was begging for this to a certain extent, because Trump said, maybe I won't come to the debate, and Fox News responded with what really was a pretty unprofessional statement.
00:12:06.000 We talked about this yesterday, their statement that if he can't face up to Putin, or if he can't face up to Megyn Kelly, he can't face up to Putin. 0.99
00:12:13.000 Very, very stupid argument. 0.98
00:12:15.000 Doesn't mean that Trump is doing the right thing by pulling out of the debate. 1.00
00:12:18.000 It means that he's doing something that makes him look gutsy to his supporters.
00:12:21.000 And again, you have to recognize the kabuki theater this whole thing is, and it feels like kabuki theater.
00:12:26.000 Doesn't it?
00:12:27.000 Doesn't it feel like kabuki theater?
00:12:28.000 He's not appearing on CNN to rip Fox.
00:12:30.000 He's appearing on Fox News to rip Fox, to raise both of their ratings before this whole thing goes forward.
00:12:34.000 And if you think that Fox News is going to suffer any sort of severe consequences if Donald Trump wins Iowa on Monday,
00:12:42.000 You're sadly mistaken.
00:12:43.000 Donald Trump will get more coverage if he wins Iowa on Monday.
00:12:46.000 If Fox News actually wanted to go to war with a politician who they thought was threatening their host, all they would have to do is bar him from the airwaves.
00:12:52.000 That's all they would have to do, and they're not doing it.
00:12:55.000 Finally, you have Donald Trump ripping on Megyn Kelly. 0.99
00:12:57.000 Again, on Fox News, the same network that carries Megyn Kelly.
00:13:01.000 I don't think not showing up at the debate tomorrow night is good for America.
00:13:05.000 Voters are still assessing you.
00:13:06.000 They need to see you in high-profile situations.
00:13:08.000 Or am I wrong?
00:13:26.000 Well, I think you're wrong because, frankly, when you're mistreated, as we were with the Iran deal, our country should have walked.
00:13:32.000 Secretary Kerry, President Obama should have walked from that deal.
00:13:35.000 You would have made a much better deal.
00:13:37.000 I was not treated well by Fox. 0.94
00:13:39.000 They came out with this ridiculous PR statement. 0.98
00:13:41.000 It was, like, drawn up by a child. 0.98
00:13:44.000 And it was a taunt.
00:13:45.000 And I said, you know, how much of this do you take?
00:13:47.000 I have zero respect for Megyn Kelly.
00:13:49.000 I don't think she's very good at what she does.
00:13:50.000 I think she's highly overrated. 0.90
00:13:52.000 And frankly, she's a moderator. 0.99
00:13:54.000 I thought her question last time was ridiculous. 0.90
00:13:56.000 And everybody said I won the debate. 0.53
00:13:58.000 In fact, everybody said, well, everybody said I won all six debates, and especially the last one.
00:14:03.000 So I don't mind debating.
00:14:04.000 In fact, I actually like debating.
00:14:06.000 Okay, so again, watching this whole thing, you have to say, you really do have to say,
00:14:12.000 Everybody is wrong on all sides.
00:14:14.000 Like my contempt for everyone in the political process, I didn't think it was possible for my contempt for everyone in the political process to have risen during this primary process, but it has.
00:14:24.000 I thought the establishment was awful when they were backing Jeb Bush, now they're backing Donald Trump over Ted Cruz.
00:14:29.000 I thought that the grassroots had a tendency to fall for populist
00:14:33.000 Con men like Donald Trump, I underestimated by a factor of two.
00:14:36.000 And it's just, it's difficult.
00:14:38.000 I thought the media were playing a game with our politics.
00:14:41.000 It turns out that not only are the media playing a game with our politics, the media are involved in building the rules of the game.
00:14:50.000 I thought that the politicians
00:14:52.000 We're playing a game with the media, where they were granting them this patina of credibility and objectivity.
00:14:57.000 And they're continuing to do that even in the face of all of this.
00:14:59.000 It's like everybody is wrong on all sides.
00:15:02.000 Because everybody is a little bit right on all sides, right? 0.99
00:15:05.000 I mean, the fact is that Donald Trump is a con man.
00:15:07.000 The fact is that Fox News was biased against Donald Trump in that first debate, and that Megyn Kelly attacked Donald Trump during that first debate.
00:15:14.000 And it's true that Fox News attacked Donald Trump after he started kind of jabbing at them.
00:15:19.000 This week.
00:15:20.000 It's true that Ted Cruz may not be the most electable candidate in the field.
00:15:23.000 It's true that Marco Rubio isn't good on immigration.
00:15:26.000 All of the negatives are true.
00:15:28.000 Everything that is possible to say negative about the Republican side of the aisle is true.
00:15:31.000 Which is why it's so frustrating in a primary process when no one focuses on the other side.
00:15:38.000 When no one focuses on the other side.
00:15:40.000 Politics is a game of contrast.
00:15:42.000 And the problem is, when we get into the primary process, everybody gets so focused on the contrast inside the Republican box, the shades of gray inside the Republican box, they forget there's a whole other box out there of Democrats who are corrupt and evil, who are trying to tax us.
00:15:57.000 Bernie Sanders proposing a 56% tax rate on capital gains. 1.00
00:16:01.000 Hillary Clinton is a corrupt, lying, terrible person. 1.00
00:16:05.000 And you lose the contrast, because you're so focused in on Trump vs. Cruz, and Trump vs. O'Reilly, and Fiorina vs. everybody, and Rand Paul with Spider-Monkey on crack attacking everyone, that all you end up with is just this frustration and distaste for everything in the political process. 0.99
00:16:19.000 And there's a whole other side here, right?
00:16:21.000 Josh Earnest, and Democrats are loving this, by the way.
00:16:23.000 Josh Earnest, the White House Press Secretary, he was asked about Trump dumping out of the debate, and here's Josh Earnest lying and saying that Barack Obama would always take a debate.
00:16:31.000 He always loves debating.
00:16:33.000 You know, since you brought up the Politico interview, the President himself noted that he was not a big fan of participating in presidential debates, but he never backed out of a debate two days before it was scheduled to be held.
00:16:45.000 And I think that demonstrates his own commitment to the process and making good on one's commitments.
00:16:51.000 And we've seen over the last several months that Mr. Trump has repeatedly chosen to kick reporters out of the room for asking tough questions.
00:17:01.000 It appears he's taking that approach to a new level by avoiding those questions entirely. 0.89
00:17:21.000 It pales in comparison to the amount of distaste I have for the liars of the left.
00:17:25.000 Josh Earnest saying that Barack Obama is open to debate is like saying Mussolini is open to debate.
00:17:30.000 Barack Obama never appeared on Fox News the entire- the entirety.
00:17:35.000 of the 2008 election cycle, and the only times he's appeared on Fox News since then are in pre-scripted sit-down question debates before the Super Bowl, basically, with, like, Bill O'Reilly.
00:17:44.000 That's the only time he was already president at that point. 0.84
00:17:47.000 So this idea—the left are just—they're liars, and they're terrible all the way around.
00:17:52.000 And the problem is, when you get so caught up in this primary process, what you tend to forget is that there's another side out there that should be attacked, and that's why it's so sacked.
00:17:59.000 The primary process is not just supposed to be
00:18:02.000 About people bashing each other.
00:18:03.000 It always devolves into that and there's inevitably going to be some of that.
00:18:06.000 But more than that, it should be about who's going to stand up best against the other side.
00:18:11.000 The case for Trump is that he's going to stand up best against the other side because it's Trump against the world and the left is part of the world.
00:18:17.000 Right?
00:18:17.000 That's sort of the case for Trump.
00:18:19.000 The case for Cruz is he's going to stand up best against the other side because he's the most conservative guy.
00:18:23.000 The problem with the Trump case is that it involves him hitting everybody, including people on his own side, for both justified and unjustified reasons.
00:18:31.000 Speaking of disliking everybody, John McCain, it's, again, everybody on the Republican side of the aisle is just, everybody in politics is distasteful.
00:18:39.000 My distaste for the world is at a spinal tap 11 today.
00:18:42.000 John McCain, the 2008 failed nominee, here is John McCain ripping on Donald Trump because he's saying that Donald Trump is playing the media.
00:18:52.000 Well, I think first of all that anyone who is running for office and gets to pick who the moderator is, that's the destruction of free press as we know it.
00:19:04.000 And second of all, I think that part of it is to blame the media.
00:19:10.000 They've basically given him a free pass.
00:19:12.000 He calls in on the Sunday talk shows.
00:19:14.000 He decides which programs he's on and which he isn't.
00:19:18.000 He is now
00:19:22.000 He's able to fill the room and take all the oxygen out of it at the same time.
00:19:30.000 So the media, I think, in their desperation to have him on all the time, to increase ratings, has probably given him the confidence that he can decide to do, quote, a veterans event.
00:19:43.000 By the way, I wish you were not using a veterans event as a way to further his own political agenda.
00:19:50.000 By the way, the last thing that he says there is correct, but when McCain complains that Trump is manipulating the media and nobody should be able to manipulate the media, the left has been manipulating the media for years.
00:20:00.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, in the Republican race... Well, actually, you know, point of information.
00:20:05.000 Let me just do a side point here.
00:20:07.000 Point of information.
00:20:08.000 There is a problem with some of the stuff that's gonna happen during tonight's Republican debate, and I'll get, again, to my preview in just a second.
00:20:15.000 Tonight's Republican debate, there are going to be a couple of questioners who are out-and-out hardcore leftists, including a woman named Nabella Noor, who is a Muslim woman who is going to presumably rip all of the candidates on the stage because America's Islamophobic. 1.00
00:20:32.000 I mean, for example, here's an example of Nabella Noor. 0.94
00:20:35.000 She's on YouTube.
00:20:35.000 Here's an example of her talking about Islam.
00:20:38.000 I am a Muslim American, and I am just like you.
00:20:42.000 I was born and raised in this country, I work in this country, I believe in this country, and I pray for the safety of this country.
00:20:50.000 I am an American through and through, and I'm also a Muslim.
00:20:55.000 And as a Muslim, I believe that there's only one God, and that Prophet Muhammad was his messenger.
00:21:00.000 I believe in five pillars.
00:21:03.000 The declaration of my faith,
00:21:05.000 Prayer, pilgrimage, fasting during the month of Ramadan, and charity.
00:21:10.000 These five pillars are the framework of Islam.
00:21:13.000 And notice how I don't include violence or terror.
00:21:16.000 She's a motivated Muslim lady, and she's going to come and she's going to impugn all the Republicans for being Islamophobic. 0.99
00:21:21.000 So Fox is doing that setup, and then they're doing a second setup where they're having an illegal immigrant who became an American citizen after joining the military show up, and here is that lady.
00:21:32.000 Now our whole journey was really really tough we jumped fences like you can see here there was a guy helping us out and we were like just staring at the fence we were really really scared and we would also do a lot of walking and we actually slept a lot of nights in people's garage like if the door was open we would actually go in and sleep at some random garage and I don't know it was just really
00:21:58.000 A really weird experience, but since I was around six years old, I still remember it clear as day.
00:22:05.000 Okay, so this lady's name is Dulce Candy, I guess, or at least that's her name on YouTube, and so she's going to show up to the debate, too. 0.99
00:22:13.000 So, again, the whole media ratings game is rather off-putting.
00:22:17.000 Okay, meanwhile, it's getting hot and heavy in Iowa, so Ted Cruz, his super PAC basically said to Trump, we'll give your wounded veterans $1.5 million if you'll come and debate me one-on-one.
00:22:31.000 I think it's kind of a poor move. 0.50
00:22:32.000 The reason I think it's a poor move is because it looks like you're using veterans as a bargaining chip, which is silly.
00:22:37.000 But he also dropped an ad in Iowa on Trump on immigration.
00:22:39.000 Here's what that ad looks like of this from Ted Cruz's campaign about Trump's immigration stand.
00:22:47.000 Donald Trump is skipping the last debate before the Iowa caucuses.
00:22:52.000 Why?
00:22:53.000 Trump can't handle tough questions, like why he'd let millions of illegal immigrants stay in America, and even supports a pathway to citizenship.
00:23:00.000 — You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed.
00:23:05.000 You have to do that.
00:23:06.000 How do you throw somebody out that's lived in this country for 20 years?
00:23:09.000 You just can't throw everybody out.
00:23:11.000 And why does Trump support amnesty?
00:23:13.000 Maybe because Trump makes big money off illegal immigrants.
00:23:17.000 A federal court ruled that Trump's company hired illegal immigrants to help the construction process for Trump Tower.
00:23:23.000 He even paid a million dollar fine.
00:23:26.000 And his new hotel in Washington?
00:23:28.000 The Washington Post interviewed about 15 laborers at the D.C.
00:23:32.000 hotel site, reporting that many revealed they had entered the U.S.
00:23:36.000 illegally.
00:23:37.000 Amnesty for illegal immigrants.
00:23:39.000 Big money for himself.
00:23:40.000 Can conservatives trust Donald Trump?
00:23:43.000 Our principles package responsible for the content of this advertising.
00:23:46.000 So that's a Cruz-associated PAC, and that's a good ad.
00:23:49.000 I mean, the fact is that Trump is not trustworthy on this, so Cruz is going to slam him on the issue.
00:23:53.000 So let's talk about what the debate's going to look like tonight without Trump.
00:23:56.000 On one network, or two, CNN and MSNBC are both counter-programming the debate by pushing the Trump event, and it'll be Trump
00:24:04.000 And apparently Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum will show up as well.
00:24:07.000 There are rumors that even Palin may show up.
00:24:08.000 So it'll be a star-studded cavalcade when Donald Trump is the impresario of this three-ring circus.
00:24:15.000 And the reason, by the way, that Trump is doing all of this, just to point this out, the reason Donald Trump is doing all of this is because the only way that Trump can win Iowa, he has no ground game,
00:24:22.000 The only way he can win is with complete, utter media ubiquity.
00:24:26.000 He's hoping that the fact the media is obsessed with him will drive voter turnout in Iowa.
00:24:31.000 The indicators so far are not great for this, by the way.
00:24:33.000 He needs better than average voter turnout, and he needs voter turnout in a certain segment.
00:24:37.000 New York Times, Forbes Magazine, both of them reporting today, that may not happen.
00:24:41.000 But let's talk about what's going to happen during the Republican debate.
00:24:45.000 So Trump is obviously centralizing media attention on himself.
00:24:47.000 He's trying to win this thing with what would amount to basically an air campaign.
00:24:53.000 It's kind of the 30,000 foot campaign, all the media, all the headlines, all the rest of it.
00:25:00.000 And meanwhile, Cruz is doing heavy body work on the ground.
00:25:02.000 He's getting boots on the ground.
00:25:04.000 Well, Trump wins one other way by avoiding this debate, other than the media coverage.
00:25:08.000 The other way that he wins is that tonight, the candidates are just going to pummel each other.
00:25:12.000 I mentioned this yesterday.
00:25:13.000 Fox News basically has three interests in the debate tonight.
00:25:16.000 One is ratings.
00:25:17.000 If they want ratings, they're going to have to talk Trump.
00:25:20.000 End of story.
00:25:20.000 They're going to have to have all the other candidates rip Trump, that and yours to Trump's benefit.
00:25:25.000 The second priority is not allowing Trump to win, but they don't really care that much about that, as we've said.
00:25:30.000 And the third priority is a strong Republican debate.
00:25:33.000 And, again, that means tough questions to all these people, which means they tear each other apart.
00:25:38.000 Ted Cruz is gonna be the target.
00:25:40.000 He's gonna be the target for Marco Rubio.
00:25:41.000 Now, if Marco Rubio were smart, and I think Rubio's a smart guy, but I don't think he's strategically smart.
00:25:46.000 If he were smart, what he would recognize is that the best option for Marco Rubio in Iowa is that Ted Cruz wins Iowa.
00:25:52.000 Rubio's not gonna win Iowa.
00:25:54.000 So if Cruz wins Iowa, and Trump comes in second,
00:25:57.000 And Rubio comes in a close third.
00:25:59.000 Then we get the, does Donald Trump have a glass jaw issue?
00:26:02.000 Which he might.
00:26:03.000 If he goes down in Iowa, does he lose a bunch of points in New Hampshire?
00:26:06.000 And if Rubio finishes stronger than expected, does he see a boost in New Hampshire?
00:26:10.000 And all of a sudden, Marco Rubio is the favorite.
00:26:13.000 So the best thing for Rubio would be for Cruz to win in Iowa, right?
00:26:16.000 And right now, Cruz is the only one in spitting distance of Trump.
00:26:20.000 I don't know that Rubio's smart enough, so I think he's going to attack Ted Cruz tonight instead of leaving Ted Cruz alone, which is really what he should do.
00:26:26.000 Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is going to try to tear down Marco Rubio.
00:26:29.000 Jeb Bush has run $20 million worth of ads in Iowa against Marco Rubio.
00:26:33.000 Chris Christie is going to attack Marco Rubio.
00:26:35.000 Rubio will attack both Christie and Jeb.
00:26:38.000 John Kasich's going to sit there fruit chopping things.
00:26:40.000 He's going to do his fruit ninja routine.
00:26:42.000 But he'll actually get hit a little bit.
00:26:43.000 And Rand Paul, as I said before, is going to go on drug-addled spider monkey revenge
00:26:49.000 I mean, that's just what he does in these debates.
00:26:51.000 He's going to attack everyone, particularly Cruz.
00:26:54.000 All of which means that the big winner coming out of this is probably Donald Trump, which is exactly what people don't want.
00:26:59.000 So everything that they're seeking is the opposite of what they're going to get.
00:27:04.000 And if you wonder why I'm depressed today, this is why I'm a little bit depressed today.
00:27:09.000 Again, I just want to remind folks, for all of the depression, for all the infighting inside the Republican side,
00:27:14.000 Remember, on the other side is Hillary Clinton.
00:27:17.000 On the other side is Hillary Clinton. 0.68
00:27:19.000 For all of the talk, for all of the fighting, and Hillary Clinton is a lady who says things like, she's not corrupt, she's the most off-putting person in American politics, here's Hillary Clinton talking about how she can't be bought. 1.00
00:27:33.000 Senator Sanders is readying an attack ad against you.
00:27:36.000 We don't know whether he's going to use it, but the language is basically that you're in hock to Wall Street because of the speaking fees you've taken from Goldman Sachs.
00:27:44.000 How do you respond, or how will you respond to an 11-hour attack like that?
00:27:50.000 Well, first, it's really disappointing, Chris.
00:27:52.000 You know, Senator Sanders has started to get increasingly personal with his attacks.
00:27:57.000 He even compared me to Dick Cheney last week, which, you know, it's kind of a low blow.
00:28:03.000 So it would be another escalation and a breaking of his pledge not to go negative.
00:28:08.000 One of the things that I think has been great about the Democratic side is we really have focused on issues while the Republicans have been hurling insults
00:28:19.000 And I think the people in Iowa want to go to the caucuses thinking about which one of us as president can actually make a difference in their lives.
00:28:27.000 And that's the case I've been focused on making.
00:28:30.000 So, you know, it would be a sharp departure by Senator Sanders.
00:28:35.000 And, you know, the other part of this is anybody who knows me knows you can't buy me.
00:28:40.000 I mean, honestly.
00:28:42.000 I've been standing up and fighting and getting knocked around for years trying to get things done that I think would improve people's lives and I'm not going to stop.
00:28:58.000 Right, except for the Clinton Global Initiative, she can't be bought.
00:29:01.000 Except for the $200,000 speeches at Goldman Sachs, she can't be bought.
00:29:04.000 Except for her husband getting invitations from foreign nations to speak there, while she's Secretary of State, she can't be bought.
00:29:10.000 It's amazing.
00:29:11.000 It's amazing.
00:29:11.000 So, never forget, no matter how depressed we get, no matter how upsetting this Republican race becomes, the battle is really with the left.
00:29:18.000 It really is.
00:29:19.000 And no matter how snarky I get with Donald Trump,
00:29:22.000 And he deserves every bit of snark I can level at him because I don't think that Donald Trump is conservative. 0.99
00:29:26.000 I think Donald Trump is a manipulative egomaniac. 0.77
00:29:30.000 He's still better than Hillary Clinton because anything is better than Hillary Clinton. 0.93
00:29:33.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and some things I don't like.
00:29:36.000 So just a recent addition to the things that I like.
00:29:41.000 There's a hashtag that's trending right now, make a movie Amish.
00:29:44.000 And I have to mention that some of these are very funny.
00:29:48.000 From farm here to eternity.
00:29:53.000 The Horse Awakens?
00:29:55.000 Maybe Star Wars The Force Awakens?
00:29:57.000 The girl with the wagon tattoo?
00:30:01.000 So, check it out.
00:30:01.000 That's kind of funny.
00:30:02.000 Okay.
00:30:02.000 Other things that I like that are slightly more important.
00:30:05.000 So, there's a book that I am a big fan of.
00:30:09.000 It's a book by a guy named Jonathan Haidt.
00:30:10.000 He's a sociologist.
00:30:12.000 He's a social scientist, social psychologist over at NYU.
00:30:15.000 It's a book called The Righteous Mind, and the whole book is about the differences between left and right in terms of
00:30:20.000 Basic principles.
00:30:22.000 And we're not talking about, you know, biblical viewpoint.
00:30:24.000 We're talking about things like, where do the left and right stand on fairness?
00:30:28.000 Where do the left and right stand on things like sanctity?
00:30:31.000 He basically says there are seven different measures of how human beings believe, and the right is active in all seven of these measures, and the left really only focuses on two.
00:30:39.000 It's a really fascinating book.
00:30:40.000 The book is called The Righteous Mind.
00:30:42.000 When Jonathan Haidt wrote it, he was actually of the left, and by the time he finished writing the book, he had converted to being a political independent.
00:30:48.000 This is a very, very interesting book.
00:30:50.000 Also, on my reading list, just for people who care, I am in the middle of Nate Silver's book, and it's a very interesting book.
00:30:55.000 Nate Silver is a man of the left, but the data in his book are very interesting, and his sort of analytical perspective is very interesting.
00:31:02.000 Okay, time for a few things that I hate.
00:31:05.000 So we could talk about the Ayatollah releasing notice on Holocaust Remembrance Day that the Holocaust didn't happen.
00:31:12.000 Those are our new allies.
00:31:13.000 We could talk about that.
00:31:14.000 That's a thing I hate.
00:31:15.000 And President Obama saying today that anti-Semitism around the world is on the rise.
00:31:19.000 I wonder why.
00:31:20.000 Maybe it could be your Jew-hating administration giving room to people like the Ayatollah to push his stuff with $150 billion you just handed him. 0.56
00:31:27.000 We could talk about Hillary and Obama still doing Oscars so white. 0.81
00:31:31.000 They're both talking about how Hollywood is racist.
00:31:34.000 Which, by the way, the reason we care about this, folks, is not because we care about Hollywood. 0.98
00:31:37.000 Because Hollywood is full of terrible leftists.
00:31:40.000 The reason that we care about this is because the implication is if Hollywood is left
00:31:46.000 That's the whole principle of this.
00:31:53.000 We could talk about that.
00:31:54.000 Instead, I want to focus on a Norwegian lady who thinks she's a cat. 1.00
00:31:57.000 Because, I mean, we all need to pick me up from time to time.
00:32:00.000 Her name is Nano, and I want to introduce you to the first trans catite 1.00
00:32:05.000 I am Nano, 20 years old.
00:32:06.000 I have been a cat all my life.
00:32:30.000 Well, not all your life.
00:32:32.000 I realized I was a cat when I was 16, when doctors and psychologists found out what was the thing with me.
00:32:42.000 Under my birth, there was a genetic defect.
00:32:46.000 Yeah. 0.97
00:32:49.000 Okay, and then it's just pictures of this crazy lady. 1.00
00:32:51.000 Okay, so we can pause it there. 0.98
00:32:53.000 This is this nutjob.
00:32:54.000 Uh, why don't we go a few frames forward so we can see her face. 0.93
00:32:57.000 There we go.
00:32:58.000 This nutjob, for people who can't see, she's colored her hair so she looks like a calico cat, and she has piercings, two in her upper lip, two in her lower lip, and I always wonder when people pierce their lips, when they, when they pierce their nostrils, I always wonder how they blow their nose. 1.00
00:33:11.000 When they pierce their lips, I just don't understand how they chew and they don't chip their teeth, and it's really weird, but, and she's wearing around cat ears and a tail. 0.95
00:33:19.000 She meows at people, she purrs at people, she pounces at people. 1.00
00:33:24.000 According to the left, this is all glorious, I'm sure.
00:33:27.000 She is just the new wave of humans who can be anything. 0.99
00:33:30.000 Just because you were born human doesn't mean that you were born human.
00:33:33.000 She obviously has a genetic condition that leads her to believe that she's a cat.
00:33:37.000 How could we possibly doubt this?
00:33:38.000 She's the Caitlyn Jenner of the cat community.
00:33:41.000 How could we possibly doubt that she's actually, in her head, a cat?
00:33:44.000 She was just born, she's a cat, born in the wrong body.
00:33:47.000 Right? 1.00
00:33:48.000 This is what we have come to as a deeply stupid society. 0.99
00:33:51.000 We've now reached the point where people can be cats, cats can be people, men can be women, women can be men, and Hillary Clinton can be president, and Donald Trump can be the Republican nominee. 0.98
00:34:02.000 Okay, so since it is a Thursday, and we're way over time, but whatever, we're gonna do a few of these letters.
00:34:09.000 From the mailbag.
00:34:10.000 So thank you all for your mail.
00:34:12.000 Lots of mail this week, as every week.
00:34:14.000 So, we start with Maria.
00:34:15.000 Yeah, we'll get to that video.
00:34:17.000 Why don't we start with that one, actually, that has video attached.
00:34:18.000 This is one from Daniel.
00:34:20.000 Okay, so Daniel writes to me this week, and he sends me a video that he wants me to respond to.
00:34:25.000 And it's this video of these three girls talking.
00:34:27.000 He says, these girls mention a gun ban, Americans standing on the bones of Native Americans, fat shaming, and so on.
00:34:32.000 Maybe you could use this as a video that you hate.
00:34:34.000 Alright, we'll do that.
00:34:36.000 He said apparently his girlfriend was told to share this video on Facebook for a grade at their university.
00:34:40.000 So we will watch just a little of this video and then respond.
00:34:44.000 Here in America, in every single state, they have a set of standards for every subject.
00:34:48.000 A collection of lessons that the teacher is required to teach by the end of the term.
00:34:51.000 But the greatest lessons you will ever teach us will not come from your syllabus.
00:34:55.000 The greatest lessons you will ever teach us, you will not even remember.
00:34:59.000 You never told us what we weren't allowed to say.
00:35:01.000 We just learned how to hold our tongues.
00:35:03.000 Now somewhere in America there's a child holding a copy of Catcher in the Rye and there's a child holding a gun.
00:35:08.000 But only one of these things have been banned by the state government and it's not the one that can rip through flesh.
00:35:13.000 It's the one that says F you on more pages than one.
00:35:16.000 Because we must control what the people say, how they think.
00:35:18.000 And if they want to become the overseer of their own selves, then we'll show them a real one.
00:35:23.000 And somewhere in America there's a child sitting at his mother's computer reading the homepage of the KKK's website.
00:35:29.000 And that's open to the public, but that child will have never read To Kill a Mockingbird because the school has banned it for its use of the n-word.
00:35:35.000 Maya Angelou is prohibited because we're not allowed to talk about rape in school. 0.89
00:35:39.000 We were taught that just because something happens doesn't mean you are to talk about it.
00:35:43.000 They build us brand new shopping malls so that we'll forget where we're really standing.
00:35:47.000 On the bones of the Hispanics, on the bones of the slaves, on the bones of the Native Americans, 1.00
00:35:52.000 On the bones of those who fought just to speak!
00:35:54.000 Okay, let me pause it there.
00:35:56.000 Okay, so a few things seem mildly confusing to me.
00:35:58.000 So apparently they don't want to ban Catcher in the Rye, but they do want to ban the KKK website. 0.63
00:36:03.000 So speech bans do exist in their magical world.
00:36:07.000 I'm against all of these speech bans.
00:36:08.000 I think you should be allowed to read The Catcher in the Rye.
00:36:10.000 I think you should be allowed to read To Kill a Mockingbird.
00:36:12.000 I don't like The Catcher in the Rye.
00:36:13.000 I think it's a wildly overrated book.
00:36:15.000 But I think that To Kill a Mockingbird's a great book.
00:36:17.000 I think people should be encouraged to read it.
00:36:18.000 I read it when I was eight.
00:36:19.000 So, you know, I think that the idea, the juxtaposition of
00:36:24.000 They want to ban books, but they don't want to ban guns.
00:36:27.000 I don't want to ban books or guns.
00:36:28.000 So there's that.
00:36:30.000 And then when they said that the malls are built on the bones of the Native Americans, and they're built on the bones, I mean, where are they building their malls?
00:36:38.000 That's my real question.
00:36:39.000 I mean, they need to find better territory.
00:36:41.000 I mean, if they're really, like, burying... Haven't they ever read a book?
00:36:44.000 I mean, if you build a mall over an old Native American graveyard, things are just going to go really poorly for you.
00:36:49.000 I mean, that's how you end up with the Haunted Food Court gang.
00:36:52.000 So that seems like a bad idea.
00:36:54.000 But the idea here is, of course, that we are all deeply guilty.
00:36:57.000 We have all sorts of guilt.
00:36:58.000 Guilt is what life is about.
00:37:01.000 It's all about guilt.
00:37:01.000 Which brings us to letter number four from a guy named Lozner.
00:37:05.000 And by the way, we don't need girls. 0.99
00:37:09.000 Doing spoken word poetry in unison.
00:37:12.000 Just never should this happen again.
00:37:14.000 If we are going to ban speech, we can start there and nothing will be lost.
00:37:18.000 It'll be okay.
00:37:18.000 You can speak one at a time, it turns out, and we can hear you just fine.
00:37:22.000 Okay.
00:37:22.000 Lozner writes, Some leftists I know say the USA isn't their country, and it was stolen from the Native Americans by evil whites, and therefore holidays celebrating figures like Columbus should be done away with.
00:37:32.000 On top of that, they say all Americans inherit guilt from this, and if I believe in American pride, it is hypocritical to not have guilt.
00:37:38.000 I have my own response for this, but I was wondering what your thoughts are.
00:37:40.000 Thanks.
00:37:41.000 Okay, those are two separate questions.
00:37:42.000 First is the, we stole the land from the Native Americans. 1.00
00:37:46.000 Okay.
00:37:47.000 For those who are new to history, the Native Americans also stole land from other Native Americans. 0.98
00:37:52.000 And those Native Americans stole land from Native Americans. 1.00
00:37:55.000 And it turns out that throughout human history, people have been quote-unquote stealing land from other people.
00:37:59.000 It's also hard to steal land when people claim there's no such thing as ownership of land.
00:38:03.000 So there's that as well, which doesn't justify
00:38:07.000 Terrible treatment of the Native Americans, which absolutely happened in the United States.
00:38:10.000 As far as Columbus, the celebration of figures like Columbus, this is a very simple question.
00:38:14.000 Is the United States better off today because Western civilization came to North America?
00:38:20.000 Well, yes, because it wouldn't exist otherwise.
00:38:22.000 Because Western civilization was superior to a culture that had not developed the wheel by the time the people got here. 0.87
00:38:28.000 They didn't have horses until the folks in Europe got here. 0.85
00:38:32.000 Like, the fact is that the average life expectancy in primitive communities, like the Native American community before the West got here, life expectancy was in the 30s. 0.60
00:38:41.000 So, for all of the romanticization that goes on in Native American lifestyles, the world is a much better place because Western civilization grew.
00:38:48.000 And that doesn't justify nasty treatment of Native Americans, and there were plenty of Westerners who thought the treatment of Native Americans was nasty and tried to protest against it.
00:38:56.000 That doesn't justify that, but it does suggest that Western civilization is a good thing.
00:39:00.000 As far as your personal level of pride and guilt, I will say this.
00:39:03.000 You can be proud of what America's central principles are without feeling guilty about slavery, but you shouldn't feel proud of, for example, if you say, I'm proud because we won World War II.
00:39:15.000 You should be proud that your country fought and did that, but you weren't there.
00:39:21.000 You know, you're not allowed to steal somebody else's glory.
00:39:23.000 And just so you're also not allowed to steal somebody's guilt.
00:39:25.000 Okay, I wasn't involved in oppressing a black person.
00:39:27.000 I didn't hold slaves.
00:39:28.000 So I don't feel guilty about oppressing black people or holding slaves. 0.99
00:39:31.000 Couldn't do it.
00:39:31.000 Okay, I wasn't involved in that.
00:39:34.000 I have plenty of other things in my own life to feel guilty and terrible about.
00:39:37.000 I don't need everybody else's guilt.
00:39:39.000 And as far as pride, you should be proud of your own accomplishments and the ideals that you hold.
00:39:42.000 You shouldn't be proud of the accomplishments of others.
00:39:44.000 So that is the short answer.
00:39:47.000 Okay, there was a second video that somebody sent me about wealth inequality.
00:39:51.000 It's from a guy named Kurt.
00:39:53.000 And he sent me this video about income inequality.
00:39:56.000 He says that he's concerned because there are so many young Americans who are buying into the idea that wealth inequality in America is a terrible, terrible thing.
00:40:03.000 So we'll play some of this video and I will critique.
00:40:05.000 A Harvard business professor and economist asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth was distributed in the United States.
00:40:14.000 This is what they said they thought it was.
00:40:16.000 Dividing the country into five rough groups of the top, bottom, and middle three 20% groups, they asked people how they thought the wealth in this country was divided.
00:40:25.000 Then he asked them what they thought was the ideal distribution.
00:40:29.000 And 92%, that's at least 9 out of 10 of them, said it should be more like this.
00:40:35.000 In other words, more equitable than they think it is.
00:40:38.000 Okay, let's pause it right there for a second.
00:40:40.000 So, the problem with income inequality, and we've already hit it, okay?
00:40:43.000 We've already hit the bedrock problem with the income inequality idea, is you don't get to decide how wealth is distributed.
00:40:50.000 Okay, the idea that this is how people think wealth should be distributed?
00:40:55.000 Who cares?
00:40:57.000 I don't make my money based on polling data.
00:41:00.000 I don't make my money based on going to ten people and asking them, how much money do you think I ought to make?
00:41:04.000 I provide goods and services, for which people pay.
00:41:07.000 Voluntarily. 0.96
00:41:08.000 And that's nobody else's damn business. 1.00
00:41:10.000 This is why income inequality is stupid. 0.99
00:41:12.000 Because income inequality suggests that you, as your own little mini-god, along with your other mini-god-like friends, get to take money away from me because you have a picture of utopia in your head, and now you can oppress everybody else. 1.00
00:41:24.000 That makes you a jackass. 1.00
00:41:26.000 Okay, anybody who cares deeply about income inequality is a jackass. 0.99
00:41:29.000 If you care about poor people, and you want poor people to be able to make more money, that's a good thing. 0.99
00:41:34.000 If you care about stealing money from some people to give to other people because it doesn't match the utopian vision you have in your head, that's because you're a busybody nosy a-hole.
00:41:43.000 Okay, let me be clear.
00:41:45.000 That's who Bernie Sanders is.
00:41:47.000 And so we can continue with a few more seconds of this video, but we've already hit the point.
00:41:50.000 I mean, once I say that, the rest of this all falls apart.
00:41:53.000 Once you point out that there is nothing to the idea that you morally have a moral utopian view of how wealth should be distributed, you don't get to decide that?
00:42:01.000 Because let me ask you this.
00:42:02.000 Who's in that top 20%?
00:42:04.000 Does anyone know who's in that top 20%?
00:42:06.000 How do you know?
00:42:07.000 Maybe it's Mother Teresa.
00:42:08.000 Maybe it's Kanye.
00:42:09.000 It could be anybody in that top 20%.
00:42:11.000 And how would you get to decide what services are worthwhile and which ones aren't?
00:42:15.000 Maybe you think the teachers are more worthwhile than doctors.
00:42:18.000 Right?
00:42:19.000 I don't care what you think.
00:42:19.000 If you think that's true, go pay your teacher more than your doctor.
00:42:21.000 See how it works out for you.
00:42:23.000 The fact is, the aggregated knowledge, this is important.
00:42:28.000 People act like the aggregated opinions of people are more important than the aggregated behavior of people.
00:42:35.000 Behavior is more important than opinion.
00:42:37.000 You know why the wealth is distributed the way that it is in the United States?
00:42:40.000 Because you, the same person who say that it should be distributed more ideally, don't behave that way.
00:42:46.000 Right?
00:42:46.000 You behave as though there's a price to be paid for services and you pay it.
00:42:50.000 End of story.
00:42:51.000 And then they say, well, how much should you pay?
00:42:53.000 And you say, oh, I wish I could pay $1 for it.
00:42:55.000 But that's not how you behave.
00:42:56.000 You know why?
00:42:56.000 Because that ain't the real world.
00:42:58.000 So we don't live in this fantasy world in your head where you get to redistribute everybody else's money.
00:43:02.000 We don't live in that world, thank God.
00:43:04.000 Thank God, because it's a terrible, evil, nasty world that you live in.
00:43:07.000 Instead, we live in a real world where you get to determine what the person on the other side of the table
00:43:12.000 What is a price that incentivizes that person to do the job?
00:43:16.000 And you'll see, this is basically... Excuse me, the rest of the video is this, so we'll continue for just a few more seconds.
00:43:22.000 ...telling, admittedly, the notion that most Americans know that the system is already skewed unfairly.
00:43:28.000 But what's most interesting to me is the reality compared to our perception.
00:43:34.000 The ideal is as far removed from our perception of reality as the actual distribution is from what we think exists in this country.
00:43:43.000 So, ignore the ideal for a moment.
00:43:46.000 Here's what we think it is again.
00:43:48.000 And here is the actual distribution.
00:43:51.000 Shockingly skewed.
00:43:52.000 My God.
00:43:53.000 Not only do the bottom 20% and the next 20%- We need the scary piano music.
00:43:56.000 Okay, we're pausing.
00:43:56.000 This all just continues.
00:43:57.000 And he says, this is the whole point is, oh my God, all these rich people have all this money.
00:44:01.000 Another point to be made here.
00:44:03.000 Hey, number one, all those rich people made their money through voluntary transactions with other people.
00:44:07.000 Nobody stole it.
00:44:08.000 If they did, they go to jail.
00:44:09.000 That's illegal still. 0.98
00:44:11.000 The only type of stealing that is still legal in America is you and your jackass friends voting to take away my money at the point of gun. 0.97
00:44:17.000 That's the only kind of stealing that's still legal in the United States. 0.97
00:44:20.000 Okay?
00:44:20.000 It's been illegal to steal in the United States since the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing involuntary servitude.
00:44:27.000 This whole thing, it really angers me because they act like this is a great moral mission, but it isn't.
00:44:31.000 This is actually evil.
00:44:32.000 What you're watching right now is actually an evil moral mission.
00:44:34.000 That your ideal of what you think wealth should be distributed, that should trump the actual voluntary activities of human beings.
00:44:42.000 You should shut down people's voluntary activities.
00:44:44.000 It makes you a fascist.
00:44:45.000 This is why socialism ends in fascism, gang.
00:44:47.000 This is why.
00:44:48.000 Okay.
00:44:49.000 The same letter writer, Kurt, asks what my favorite musical is.
00:44:51.000 That's a pretty wide variance in your email.
00:44:54.000 My favorite musical is 1776.
00:44:56.000 I just grew up on it.
00:44:58.000 It's a great musical.
00:44:58.000 If you haven't seen it, it's a lot of fun.
00:45:00.000 It's about the founding of the United States.
00:45:03.000 I got a letter from Sam.
00:45:04.000 He says, I'm fascinated by Jewish culture and traditions and wondered, as you follow Orthodox Judaism, are there any mitzvot, this is the commandments, or a mitzvah that you don't follow?
00:45:13.000 I hope it isn't offensive to ask and apologies if it is.
00:45:15.000 No it's not offensive to ask at all.
00:45:16.000 I'm sure there are many mitzvot that I don't follow properly. 1.00
00:45:19.000 Which is why I pray three times a day, and in every single Shemona Esri, every single silent Amidah, every single silent prayer, in the middle of that, there's a paragraph called Slachlanu, where you literally beat your chest and repent.
00:45:31.000 So, we sin all the time.
00:45:34.000 If the question is, are there ones that I purposefully don't do,
00:45:37.000 I know that there are ones that I could do better.
00:45:38.000 Let's say that.
00:45:39.000 There is certainly, just like every other human being, there are ones that I can say better, including tithing.
00:45:43.000 I can do better on tithing, as we already acknowledged earlier in the program.
00:45:46.000 Although, to be honest with you, I don't really know how much money I give to charity until the end of the year, and I'm not sure what percentage of my after-tax income I give.
00:45:55.000 But I bet it's probably less than 10%, so I should do better on that one.
00:45:58.000 And I pledge to try and do better on that one.
00:46:01.000 Okay, a couple of more of these.
00:46:04.000 Let's see... Maria has one. 1.00
00:46:06.000 She says,
00:46:23.000 Women typically begin menstruation around age 13.
00:46:26.000 Boys produce sperm at age 14.
00:46:28.000 The fact that we develop so early means we were designed to be getting married and having babies this young.
00:46:32.000 When puberty ends, about 16 to 18, is when we are best fit to reproduce.
00:46:36.000 This is why women over 40 have a higher risk of birth defect.
00:46:39.000 Honestly, if we weren't supposed to have sex until we were adults by Western society standards, why in the world would we develop years before we actually should reproduce?
00:46:47.000 I agree it's best to wait, but it's difficult to not do something you are biologically inclined to do.
00:46:52.000 So, there's a difference between is and ought.
00:46:55.000 You're right.
00:46:55.000 The biological inclination to have sex starts as soon as puberty hits.
00:46:58.000 And this happens when you're very young.
00:47:01.000 Just because that's true doesn't mean you ought to do it.
00:47:03.000 There are lots of things that biology implies that you should do, and you ought not.
00:47:08.000 In fact, there's relatively good evidence that even among human beings, there's an instinct among stepfathers, for example, to kill their stepchildren.
00:47:14.000 Like really, this exists in the animal kingdom, among gorillas and apes.
00:47:18.000 Well, I'm not sure gorillas, but certainly among baboons, it's been shown that 1.00
00:47:22.000 Step parents will come in after the father dies and they want to kill the offspring because that allows the female of the species to procreate again because when they're nursing they can't procreate. 1.00
00:47:32.000 So that doesn't mean that in the human community that would be okay.
00:47:34.000 There are lots of biological imperatives that are certainly not moral imperatives.
00:47:38.000 And that's in fact what differentiates human beings from animals, is that we don't always have to follow our biology.
00:47:43.000 As far as the age of marriage, we have moved way too far in the opposite direction, meaning that
00:47:48.000 People shouldn't be getting married at age 13 and 14 because you're not capable of making good decisions, which is sort of the point, at 13 and 14, which is why people get STDs at age 16 when they sleep around.
00:47:57.000 The fact is that at age 13, age 14, your prefrontal cortex is not even remotely developed and your
00:48:05.000 The amygdala, which is the fear and emotion center of your brain, is highly developed, meaning that your emotions control you when you're a teenager biologically.
00:48:12.000 It's bad to make long-term life decisions on that basis.
00:48:15.000 This is why it used to be, in a world without birth control, for example, you know, when it was important to have very strong social standards about not having sex before marriage, because people would have sex, they'd get pregnant, they'd have babies out of wedlock, and that had actual ramifications for the society at large.
00:48:30.000 So, the solution is to be abstinent until marriage, but not to wait until you're 30 to do it.
00:48:35.000 A society in which people get married, right now the average age is, I believe, 28 for men and 27 for women.
00:48:41.000 A society in which people are waiting that long, they're obviously not abstinent as a general rule until they're 28 or 29 years old.
00:48:46.000 And they're not having babies until they're in their early 30s, which means they're probably only going to knock out one or two kids. 0.51
00:48:52.000 I'm of the opinion that men should be looking at prospective wives by the time they hit voting age.
00:48:59.000 I mean, by the time you hit 18 years old, you should already be thinking about being an adult.
00:49:03.000 I know this is counterintuitive.
00:49:05.000 You can serve in the military, but you can't get married at age 18. 1.00
00:49:07.000 I mean, this is stupid to me. 0.99
00:49:09.000 It doesn't mean you should get married at age 18. 1.00
00:49:11.000 Depends on each individual person.
00:49:13.000 But there's certainly people who are ready at age 18.
00:49:14.000 There are people who are ready at age 20.
00:49:16.000 I was 24, my wife was 20.
00:49:18.000 Both my parents met at 18 and married at 21.
00:49:20.000 You know, marriage young is not the worst thing in the world.
00:49:24.000 The problem is that we've turned all of the people of the United States, basically, into perennial adolescents.
00:49:29.000 We're all living like they do in Friends. 0.96
00:49:31.000 We're 35 years old, single, living with roommates in apartments in New York, and we're losers. 0.88
00:49:36.000 And we have no kids, and then we turn around, our biological clock has ticked, and we've had sex with a hundred people, but we have no happiness, we have no stability, and we have no children. 0.82
00:49:44.000 That's problematic as a society.
00:49:47.000 So, the push to abstinence until marriage is actually a push to get married younger.
00:49:51.000 I speak at Jewish high schools pretty frequently, and one of the Jewish high schools, Orthodox high schools particularly, and one of the Orthodox high schools to which I spoke, I shocked some of the rabbis in the audience because
00:50:01.000 I was talking to the boys, and I was talking about marrying my wife, and one of the things that I said is that, I was talking particularly about same-sex marriage, I said, I don't care, I don't think the state should be involved in marriage at all. 0.99
00:50:13.000 I think the state should be out of that business.
00:50:15.000 Because my wife and I have two separate marital documents. 0.75
00:50:17.000 We have our marital document that is the state-provided marital document, our marriage certificate, and then we have the ketubah, which is the Jewish marital document. 0.92
00:50:29.000 I don't care about the state one, I care about the Jewish one, because the Jewish one meant that I got to have sex with my wife. 0.99
00:50:34.000 Right? 0.97
00:50:34.000 And everybody in the audience laughed, except for the rabbis, who were very fretful, because religious adults get very, kind of, upset when you talk with teenagers about sex, as though teenagers have never heard about this thing, and know nothing about it, and are not inclined toward it or anything. 0.97
00:50:49.000 The reason I said that, one of the rabbis said, well, you should really say that the ketubah was important to you, because that's when you could have kids.
00:50:58.000 And I said no, because there's no 16 year old boy in the world who is eager to have kids.
00:51:03.000 Right? 0.99
00:51:03.000 But there are lots of 16 year old boys who are eager to have sex. 0.99
00:51:06.000 So if you want to encourage them to get married, and you want to encourage them to maintain abstinence, then the rule has to be abstinence until marriage, and don't get married when you're 35 years old.
00:51:16.000 Don't try out a living arrangement with someone before you live with them.
00:51:22.000 By the way, this whole argument that you always hear, which is really truly one of the dumbest arguments ever, what if you're not sexually compatible? 0.99
00:51:31.000 Okay, if you're a dude, and you have a penis, and she has a vagina, you're sexually compatible. 1.00
00:51:35.000 Okay, biologically, you are now sexually compatible. 1.00
00:51:37.000 Congratulations!
00:51:38.000 Your union has been biologically blessed.
00:51:40.000 Okay, the idea of whether somebody is good in bed or not, and you have to try it out, first of all?
00:51:45.000 Let me just tell you, gang.
00:51:47.000 There aren't that many tricks in the book.
00:51:48.000 Okay, Cosmopolitan is wrong.
00:51:50.000 There are not... Another X-rated version of the Ben Shapiro show. 0.99
00:51:53.000 Um, but they're not... Every week, Cosmopolitan comes up with different ways to have sex, and this is idiotic, because there are only so many ways those tinker toys fit together. 0.97
00:52:01.000 So, the fact is, that if you're worried about sexual compatibility, worry more about personal compatibility. 0.95
00:52:07.000 I've yet to meet a couple that is personally very compatible and very in love with each other, but sexually totally incompatible.
00:52:13.000 Because the fact is, you're going to know a fair bit about your spouse, or you should, before you get married.
00:52:18.000 You should date, you should get to know that person.
00:52:20.000 I knew my wife and I were going to be sexually compatible because we had lots of fun together in other aspects of our lives, and we knew how we felt about sex before we got married.
00:52:27.000 You don't actually have to take somebody for a test drive, okay?
00:52:31.000 This isn't a Tesla.
00:52:32.000 It's a human being.
00:52:33.000 And this idea that a woman is a woman and a woman is a horse to be ridden, we have to give her a ride before we can determine whether to buy that old nag. 1.00
00:52:40.000 It's actually incredibly sexist. 0.91
00:52:42.000 The Test Drive version of sexual life is supremely sexist.
00:52:46.000 And by the way, completely objectifying, and that's true for both men, and it's true for women.
00:52:50.000 Okay, we'll do one more because I know that we're so far over time it's beyond reason at this point.
00:52:55.000 Okay, so.
00:52:56.000 And we'll do this one because it's a comic book one.
00:52:58.000 So we'll do this one.
00:52:59.000 Alright.
00:53:01.000 Chad writes, You've spoken about The Dark Knight as a conservative film.
00:53:03.000 I've always been provoked to deep thought by the Joker's line, I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.
00:53:08.000 I've interpreted this line to suggest man will do whatever he has to to justify our means to an end.
00:53:13.000 The Joker sees himself as the fully realized morality of man, and he has no morality.
00:53:18.000 He believes he is the embodiment of an excuse to nowhere.
00:53:21.000 The end to which we seek is futile, an absence of meaning.
00:53:23.000 The excuses we make for our means are not necessarily evil as much as they are us.
00:53:28.000 And he says, this is because the Joker is a liberal, basically.
00:53:31.000 He says, when I see liberal philosophy, and it lacks actual structure, it molds day-to-day for whatever need people say that they have, well, that's liberalism, and that's what the Joker is.
00:53:42.000 I agree.
00:53:42.000 The Joker's a nihilist.
00:53:43.000 In the end, leftism is a nihilistic philosophy.
00:53:45.000 The only difference between the Joker and the left is that the left purports to want utopia.
00:53:50.000 The Joker just wants anarchy.
00:53:52.000 So there's a strain of the left that just wants anarchy because they don't really care about anything.
00:53:57.000 Except themselves.
00:53:57.000 They just care about tearing down the order.
00:54:00.000 The Joker and the left make common cause all the way until it comes time to build utopia.
00:54:05.000 So you want to see the difference between the Joker and the hardcore American left?
00:54:11.000 Joker and Bane is a good contrast.
00:54:13.000 Not the Bane who actually wants to, his secret plan is to nuke Gotham, but the Bane who says that he's going to build a communist new paradise in Gotham City, right?
00:54:22.000 He can make common cause with the Joker who wants to tear everything down up until the point he wants to build everything back up again in his own image.
00:54:28.000 So leftists are nihilists up till the point where they're secular atheist utopians and they worship themselves and so they have to build
00:54:36.000 All of humanity in their own image, the same way that you see in that wealth inequality video, right?
00:54:40.000 What do I think wealth inequality should be like?
00:54:42.000 Well, why don't I just force everybody a point of gun to give me their money and then I can just determine that reality will now match what we hope it to be.
00:54:50.000 Okay folks, the Iowa caucuses are coming up on Monday.
00:54:53.000 We will have a broadcast before we know the results, so we'll give you all the updates then.
00:54:57.000 It's gonna be crazy tonight.
00:54:58.000 Go to dailywire.com tonight.
00:54:59.000 I will be live blogging.
00:55:02.000 I'll be live blogging this Republican debate.
00:55:05.000 I'll also have commentary about the Donald Trump fiasco, anarchic circus of death and doom happening in Iowa tonight.
00:55:14.000 I'll have my commentary on all of that over at DailyWire.com.
00:55:18.000 I look forward to seeing you there.
00:55:19.000 Have a wonderful weekend, and we will see you Monday, if the world has not blown up by that point and Donald Trump isn't breaking watermelons like Gallagher on the audience in the Splash Zone.
00:55:29.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:55:29.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.