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?
00:00:10.000Apparently 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.
00:00:48.000We're now at the point where Donald Trump is doing interviews with Bill O'Reilly about milkshakes.
00:00:54.000And tonight, during the Republican debate, which Donald Trump will not be attending, Donald Trump will instead be doing an event for the Wounded Warriors.
00:01:01.000Yes, the same people he insulted when he said that John McCain was a huge loser for getting caught and becoming a POW.
00:01:15.000Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, both of the last two Iowa caucus winners.
00:01:19.000And 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.
00:01:29.000The 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.
00:02:14.000You know, as an Orthodox Jew, I also am theoretically supposed to be tithing.
00:02:18.000I will freely admit, to the best of my knowledge, I do not tithe, because that's a lot of money, gang.
00:02:23.000And 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.
00:02:36.000But I'm not gonna bash anybody else over their tithing, because that's just not something that I think is really...
00:03:38.000Maybe order is restored to the universe and Ted Cruz wins.
00:03:42.000Or maybe Marco Rubio comes out of nowhere and wins.
00:03:44.000But if Donald Trump ends up winning the nomination.
00:03:47.000Again, would I vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton?
00:03:50.000I would, because I would vote for actual, actually like sulfur-smelling Satan, probably, over Hillary Clinton.
00:03:57.000Except it's not possible, because I think they're the same person.
00:03:59.000But, 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.
00:04:08.000Okay, so we'll start with Donald Trump talking about delicious ice cream treats with Bill O'Reilly last night on Fox News.
00:04:15.000And as I said yesterday, Fox News is participating in this whole thing.
00:04:44.000I 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.
00:05:06.000OK, that was Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump last night.
00:05:10.000Because O'Reilly kept basically, I love you.
00:05:45.000The bigger picture is get your message to the folks.
00:05:49.000There'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.
00:06:55.000You'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.
00:07:02.000But I'm not going to listen to anybody.
00:07:04.000Right, but I'm not going to listen to any political person tell me don't ask me anything.
00:09:21.000And Trump, he's the master narcissist.
00:09:24.000Every question here, every question, we'll play a few more.
00:09:26.000Every question that Trump is asked comes back to how he personally feels about things.
00:09:30.000Donald Trump is the only person in the universe to Donald Trump.
00:09:34.000And 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.
00:09:39.000Because 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.
00:09:46.000And that means sometimes he goes to war with the right people.
00:09:49.000I'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.
00:10:00.000That doesn't mean he's a conservative.
00:10:01.000But right now, that ego hammer that is Donald Trump is sucking up all the oxygen in the room.
00:10:06.000And there is a strategic reason for all of this.
00:10:08.000But first, I want to go through a couple more clips of Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly talking together.
00:11:11.000Every 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.
00:11:47.000Okay, so here's the thing about Trump.
00:11:49.000Half of what Trump is saying here is actually true.
00:11:52.000What 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.
00:12:06.000We 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.
00:12:43.000Donald Trump will get more coverage if he wins Iowa on Monday.
00:12:46.000If 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.
00:12:52.000That's all they would have to do, and they're not doing it.
00:12:55.000Finally, you have Donald Trump ripping on Megyn Kelly.
00:12:57.000Again, on Fox News, the same network that carries Megyn Kelly.
00:13:01.000I don't think not showing up at the debate tomorrow night is good for America.
00:14:14.000Like 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.
00:14:24.000I thought the establishment was awful when they were backing Jeb Bush, now they're backing Donald Trump over Ted Cruz.
00:14:29.000I thought that the grassroots had a tendency to fall for populist
00:14:33.000Con men like Donald Trump, I underestimated by a factor of two.
00:14:52.000We're playing a game with the media, where they were granting them this patina of credibility and objectivity.
00:14:57.000And they're continuing to do that even in the face of all of this.
00:14:59.000It's like everybody is wrong on all sides.
00:15:02.000Because everybody is a little bit right on all sides, right?
00:15:05.000I mean, the fact is that Donald Trump is a con man.
00:15:07.000The 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.
00:15:14.000And it's true that Fox News attacked Donald Trump after he started kind of jabbing at them.
00:15:42.000And 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.
00:15:57.000Bernie Sanders proposing a 56% tax rate on capital gains.
00:16:01.000Hillary Clinton is a corrupt, lying, terrible person.
00:16:05.000And 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.
00:16:19.000And there's a whole other side here, right?
00:16:21.000Josh Earnest, and Democrats are loving this, by the way.
00:16:23.000Josh 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.
00:16:33.000You 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.
00:16:45.000And I think that demonstrates his own commitment to the process and making good on one's commitments.
00:16:51.000And 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.
00:17:01.000It appears he's taking that approach to a new level by avoiding those questions entirely.
00:17:21.000It pales in comparison to the amount of distaste I have for the liars of the left.
00:17:25.000Josh Earnest saying that Barack Obama is open to debate is like saying Mussolini is open to debate.
00:17:30.000Barack Obama never appeared on Fox News the entire- the entirety.
00:17:35.000of 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.
00:17:44.000That's the only time he was already president at that point.
00:17:47.000So this idea—the left are just—they're liars, and they're terrible all the way around.
00:17:52.000And 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.
00:17:59.000The primary process is not just supposed to be
00:18:03.000It always devolves into that and there's inevitably going to be some of that.
00:18:06.000But more than that, it should be about who's going to stand up best against the other side.
00:18:11.000The 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.
00:18:19.000The case for Cruz is he's going to stand up best against the other side because he's the most conservative guy.
00:18:23.000The problem with the Trump case is that it involves him hitting everybody, including people on his own side, for both justified and unjustified reasons.
00:18:31.000Speaking of disliking everybody, John McCain, it's, again, everybody on the Republican side of the aisle is just, everybody in politics is distasteful.
00:18:39.000My distaste for the world is at a spinal tap 11 today.
00:18:42.000John McCain, the 2008 failed nominee, here is John McCain ripping on Donald Trump because he's saying that Donald Trump is playing the media.
00:18:52.000Well, 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.
00:19:04.000And second of all, I think that part of it is to blame the media.
00:19:10.000They've basically given him a free pass.
00:19:22.000He's able to fill the room and take all the oxygen out of it at the same time.
00:19:30.000So 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.
00:19:43.000By the way, I wish you were not using a veterans event as a way to further his own political agenda.
00:19:50.000By 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.
00:20:00.000Okay, so, meanwhile, in the Republican race... Well, actually, you know, point of information.
00:20:08.000There 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.
00:20:15.000Tonight'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.
00:20:32.000I mean, for example, here's an example of Nabella Noor.
00:21:05.000Prayer, pilgrimage, fasting during the month of Ramadan, and charity.
00:21:10.000These five pillars are the framework of Islam.
00:21:13.000And notice how I don't include violence or terror.
00:21:16.000She's a motivated Muslim lady, and she's going to come and she's going to impugn all the Republicans for being Islamophobic.
00:21:21.000So 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.
00:21:32.000Now 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
00:21:58.000A really weird experience, but since I was around six years old, I still remember it clear as day.
00:22:05.000Okay, 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.
00:22:13.000So, again, the whole media ratings game is rather off-putting.
00:22:17.000Okay, 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.
00:22:53.000Trump 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.
00:23:43.000Our principles package responsible for the content of this advertising.
00:23:46.000So that's a Cruz-associated PAC, and that's a good ad.
00:23:49.000I mean, the fact is that Trump is not trustworthy on this, so Cruz is going to slam him on the issue.
00:23:53.000So let's talk about what the debate's going to look like tonight without Trump.
00:23:56.000On one network, or two, CNN and MSNBC are both counter-programming the debate by pushing the Trump event, and it'll be Trump
00:24:04.000And apparently Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum will show up as well.
00:24:07.000There are rumors that even Palin may show up.
00:24:08.000So it'll be a star-studded cavalcade when Donald Trump is the impresario of this three-ring circus.
00:24:15.000And 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,
00:24:22.000The only way he can win is with complete, utter media ubiquity.
00:24:26.000He's hoping that the fact the media is obsessed with him will drive voter turnout in Iowa.
00:24:31.000The indicators so far are not great for this, by the way.
00:24:33.000He needs better than average voter turnout, and he needs voter turnout in a certain segment.
00:24:37.000New York Times, Forbes Magazine, both of them reporting today, that may not happen.
00:24:41.000But let's talk about what's going to happen during the Republican debate.
00:24:45.000So Trump is obviously centralizing media attention on himself.
00:24:47.000He's trying to win this thing with what would amount to basically an air campaign.
00:24:53.000It's kind of the 30,000 foot campaign, all the media, all the headlines, all the rest of it.
00:25:00.000And meanwhile, Cruz is doing heavy body work on the ground.
00:26:03.000If he goes down in Iowa, does he lose a bunch of points in New Hampshire?
00:26:06.000And if Rubio finishes stronger than expected, does he see a boost in New Hampshire?
00:26:10.000And all of a sudden, Marco Rubio is the favorite.
00:26:13.000So the best thing for Rubio would be for Cruz to win in Iowa, right?
00:26:16.000And right now, Cruz is the only one in spitting distance of Trump.
00:26:20.000I 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.
00:26:26.000Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is going to try to tear down Marco Rubio.
00:26:29.000Jeb Bush has run $20 million worth of ads in Iowa against Marco Rubio.
00:26:33.000Chris Christie is going to attack Marco Rubio.
00:26:35.000Rubio will attack both Christie and Jeb.
00:26:38.000John Kasich's going to sit there fruit chopping things.
00:26:40.000He's going to do his fruit ninja routine.
00:26:42.000But he'll actually get hit a little bit.
00:26:43.000And Rand Paul, as I said before, is going to go on drug-addled spider monkey revenge
00:26:49.000I mean, that's just what he does in these debates.
00:26:51.000He's going to attack everyone, particularly Cruz.
00:26:54.000All of which means that the big winner coming out of this is probably Donald Trump, which is exactly what people don't want.
00:26:59.000So everything that they're seeking is the opposite of what they're going to get.
00:27:04.000And if you wonder why I'm depressed today, this is why I'm a little bit depressed today.
00:27:09.000Again, I just want to remind folks, for all of the depression, for all the infighting inside the Republican side,
00:27:14.000Remember, on the other side is Hillary Clinton.
00:27:19.000For 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.
00:27:33.000Senator Sanders is readying an attack ad against you.
00:27:36.000We 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.
00:27:44.000How do you respond, or how will you respond to an 11-hour attack like that?
00:27:52.000You know, Senator Sanders has started to get increasingly personal with his attacks.
00:27:57.000He even compared me to Dick Cheney last week, which, you know, it's kind of a low blow.
00:28:03.000So it would be another escalation and a breaking of his pledge not to go negative.
00:28:08.000One 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
00:28:19.000And 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.
00:28:27.000And that's the case I've been focused on making.
00:28:30.000So, you know, it would be a sharp departure by Senator Sanders.
00:28:35.000And, you know, the other part of this is anybody who knows me knows you can't buy me.
00:28:42.000I'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.
00:28:58.000Right, except for the Clinton Global Initiative, she can't be bought.
00:29:01.000Except for the $200,000 speeches at Goldman Sachs, she can't be bought.
00:29:04.000Except for her husband getting invitations from foreign nations to speak there, while she's Secretary of State, she can't be bought.
00:29:11.000So, never forget, no matter how depressed we get, no matter how upsetting this Republican race becomes, the battle is really with the left.
00:30:22.000And we're not talking about, you know, biblical viewpoint.
00:30:24.000We're talking about things like, where do the left and right stand on fairness?
00:30:28.000Where do the left and right stand on things like sanctity?
00:30:31.000He 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.
00:30:40.000The book is called The Righteous Mind.
00:30:42.000When 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.
00:30:48.000This is a very, very interesting book.
00:30:50.000Also, 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.
00:30:55.000Nate 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.
00:31:02.000Okay, time for a few things that I hate.
00:31:05.000So we could talk about the Ayatollah releasing notice on Holocaust Remembrance Day that the Holocaust didn't happen.
00:31:20.000Maybe 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.
00:31:27.000We could talk about Hillary and Obama still doing Oscars so white.
00:31:31.000They're both talking about how Hollywood is racist.
00:31:34.000Which, by the way, the reason we care about this, folks, is not because we care about Hollywood.
00:31:37.000Because Hollywood is full of terrible leftists.
00:31:40.000The reason that we care about this is because the implication is if Hollywood is left
00:32:58.000This 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.
00:33:11.000When 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.
00:33:19.000She meows at people, she purrs at people, she pounces at people.
00:33:24.000According to the left, this is all glorious, I'm sure.
00:33:27.000She is just the new wave of humans who can be anything.
00:33:30.000Just because you were born human doesn't mean that you were born human.
00:33:33.000She obviously has a genetic condition that leads her to believe that she's a cat.
00:33:48.000This is what we have come to as a deeply stupid society.
00:33:51.000We'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.
00:34:02.000Okay, so since it is a Thursday, and we're way over time, but whatever, we're gonna do a few of these letters.
00:34:36.000He said apparently his girlfriend was told to share this video on Facebook for a grade at their university.
00:34:40.000So we will watch just a little of this video and then respond.
00:34:44.000Here in America, in every single state, they have a set of standards for every subject.
00:34:48.000A collection of lessons that the teacher is required to teach by the end of the term.
00:34:51.000But the greatest lessons you will ever teach us will not come from your syllabus.
00:34:55.000The greatest lessons you will ever teach us, you will not even remember.
00:34:59.000You never told us what we weren't allowed to say.
00:35:01.000We just learned how to hold our tongues.
00:35:03.000Now somewhere in America there's a child holding a copy of Catcher in the Rye and there's a child holding a gun.
00:35:08.000But only one of these things have been banned by the state government and it's not the one that can rip through flesh.
00:35:13.000It's the one that says F you on more pages than one.
00:35:16.000Because we must control what the people say, how they think.
00:35:18.000And if they want to become the overseer of their own selves, then we'll show them a real one.
00:35:23.000And somewhere in America there's a child sitting at his mother's computer reading the homepage of the KKK's website.
00:35:29.000And 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.
00:35:35.000Maya Angelou is prohibited because we're not allowed to talk about rape in school.
00:35:39.000We were taught that just because something happens doesn't mean you are to talk about it.
00:35:43.000They build us brand new shopping malls so that we'll forget where we're really standing.
00:35:47.000On the bones of the Hispanics, on the bones of the slaves, on the bones of the Native Americans,
00:35:52.000On the bones of those who fought just to speak!
00:36:30.000And 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?
00:37:22.000Lozner 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.
00:37:32.000On 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.
00:37:38.000I have my own response for this, but I was wondering what your thoughts are.
00:37:47.000For those who are new to history, the Native Americans also stole land from other Native Americans.
00:37:52.000And those Native Americans stole land from Native Americans.
00:37:55.000And it turns out that throughout human history, people have been quote-unquote stealing land from other people.
00:37:59.000It's also hard to steal land when people claim there's no such thing as ownership of land.
00:38:03.000So there's that as well, which doesn't justify
00:38:07.000Terrible treatment of the Native Americans, which absolutely happened in the United States.
00:38:10.000As far as Columbus, the celebration of figures like Columbus, this is a very simple question.
00:38:14.000Is the United States better off today because Western civilization came to North America?
00:38:20.000Well, yes, because it wouldn't exist otherwise.
00:38:22.000Because Western civilization was superior to a culture that had not developed the wheel by the time the people got here.
00:38:28.000They didn't have horses until the folks in Europe got here.
00:38:32.000Like, 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.
00:38:41.000So, for all of the romanticization that goes on in Native American lifestyles, the world is a much better place because Western civilization grew.
00:38:48.000And 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.
00:38:56.000That doesn't justify that, but it does suggest that Western civilization is a good thing.
00:39:00.000As far as your personal level of pride and guilt, I will say this.
00:39:03.000You 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.
00:39:15.000You should be proud that your country fought and did that, but you weren't there.
00:39:21.000You know, you're not allowed to steal somebody else's glory.
00:39:23.000And just so you're also not allowed to steal somebody's guilt.
00:39:25.000Okay, I wasn't involved in oppressing a black person.
00:39:53.000And he sent me this video about income inequality.
00:39:56.000He 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.
00:40:03.000So we'll play some of this video and I will critique.
00:40:05.000A Harvard business professor and economist asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth was distributed in the United States.
00:40:14.000This is what they said they thought it was.
00:40:16.000Dividing 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.
00:40:25.000Then he asked them what they thought was the ideal distribution.
00:40:29.000And 92%, that's at least 9 out of 10 of them, said it should be more like this.
00:40:35.000In other words, more equitable than they think it is.
00:40:38.000Okay, let's pause it right there for a second.
00:40:40.000So, the problem with income inequality, and we've already hit it, okay?
00:40:43.000We've already hit the bedrock problem with the income inequality idea, is you don't get to decide how wealth is distributed.
00:40:50.000Okay, the idea that this is how people think wealth should be distributed?
00:41:10.000This is why income inequality is stupid.
00:41:12.000Because 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.
00:41:26.000Okay, anybody who cares deeply about income inequality is a jackass.
00:41:29.000If you care about poor people, and you want poor people to be able to make more money, that's a good thing.
00:41:34.000If 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.
00:41:47.000And so we can continue with a few more seconds of this video, but we've already hit the point.
00:41:50.000I mean, once I say that, the rest of this all falls apart.
00:41:53.000Once 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?
00:45:04.000He 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?
00:45:13.000I hope it isn't offensive to ask and apologies if it is.
00:45:16.000I'm sure there are many mitzvot that I don't follow properly.
00:45:19.000Which 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.
00:45:39.000There is certainly, just like every other human being, there are ones that I can say better, including tithing.
00:45:43.000I can do better on tithing, as we already acknowledged earlier in the program.
00:45:46.000Although, 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.
00:45:55.000But I bet it's probably less than 10%, so I should do better on that one.
00:45:58.000And I pledge to try and do better on that one.
00:46:28.000The fact that we develop so early means we were designed to be getting married and having babies this young.
00:46:32.000When puberty ends, about 16 to 18, is when we are best fit to reproduce.
00:46:36.000This is why women over 40 have a higher risk of birth defect.
00:46:39.000Honestly, 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?
00:46:47.000I agree it's best to wait, but it's difficult to not do something you are biologically inclined to do.
00:46:52.000So, there's a difference between is and ought.
00:46:55.000The biological inclination to have sex starts as soon as puberty hits.
00:46:58.000And this happens when you're very young.
00:47:01.000Just because that's true doesn't mean you ought to do it.
00:47:03.000There are lots of things that biology implies that you should do, and you ought not.
00:47:08.000In fact, there's relatively good evidence that even among human beings, there's an instinct among stepfathers, for example, to kill their stepchildren.
00:47:14.000Like really, this exists in the animal kingdom, among gorillas and apes.
00:47:18.000Well, I'm not sure gorillas, but certainly among baboons, it's been shown that
00:47:22.000Step 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.
00:47:32.000So that doesn't mean that in the human community that would be okay.
00:47:34.000There are lots of biological imperatives that are certainly not moral imperatives.
00:47:38.000And that's in fact what differentiates human beings from animals, is that we don't always have to follow our biology.
00:47:43.000As far as the age of marriage, we have moved way too far in the opposite direction, meaning that
00:47:48.000People 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.
00:47:57.000The fact is that at age 13, age 14, your prefrontal cortex is not even remotely developed and your
00:48:05.000The 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.
00:48:12.000It's bad to make long-term life decisions on that basis.
00:48:15.000This 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.
00:48:30.000So, the solution is to be abstinent until marriage, but not to wait until you're 30 to do it.
00:48:35.000A society in which people get married, right now the average age is, I believe, 28 for men and 27 for women.
00:48:41.000A 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.
00:48:46.000And 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.
00:48:52.000I'm of the opinion that men should be looking at prospective wives by the time they hit voting age.
00:48:59.000I mean, by the time you hit 18 years old, you should already be thinking about being an adult.
00:49:18.000Both my parents met at 18 and married at 21.
00:49:20.000You know, marriage young is not the worst thing in the world.
00:49:24.000The problem is that we've turned all of the people of the United States, basically, into perennial adolescents.
00:49:29.000We're all living like they do in Friends.
00:49:31.000We're 35 years old, single, living with roommates in apartments in New York, and we're losers.
00:49:36.000And 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.
00:49:47.000So, the push to abstinence until marriage is actually a push to get married younger.
00:49:51.000I 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
00:50:01.000I 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.
00:50:13.000I think the state should be out of that business.
00:50:15.000Because my wife and I have two separate marital documents.
00:50:17.000We 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.
00:50:29.000I 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.
00:50:34.000And 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.
00:50:49.000The 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.
00:50:58.000And I said no, because there's no 16 year old boy in the world who is eager to have kids.
00:51:03.000But there are lots of 16 year old boys who are eager to have sex.
00:51:06.000So 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.
00:51:16.000Don't try out a living arrangement with someone before you live with them.
00:51:22.000By 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?
00:51:31.000Okay, if you're a dude, and you have a penis, and she has a vagina, you're sexually compatible.
00:51:35.000Okay, biologically, you are now sexually compatible.
00:51:50.000There are not... Another X-rated version of the Ben Shapiro show.
00:51:53.000Um, 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.
00:52:01.000So, the fact is, that if you're worried about sexual compatibility, worry more about personal compatibility.
00:52:07.000I've yet to meet a couple that is personally very compatible and very in love with each other, but sexually totally incompatible.
00:52:13.000Because the fact is, you're going to know a fair bit about your spouse, or you should, before you get married.
00:52:18.000You should date, you should get to know that person.
00:52:20.000I 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.
00:52:27.000You don't actually have to take somebody for a test drive, okay?
00:52:33.000And 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.
00:53:01.000Chad writes, You've spoken about The Dark Knight as a conservative film.
00:53:03.000I've always been provoked to deep thought by the Joker's line, I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.
00:53:08.000I've interpreted this line to suggest man will do whatever he has to to justify our means to an end.
00:53:13.000The Joker sees himself as the fully realized morality of man, and he has no morality.
00:53:18.000He believes he is the embodiment of an excuse to nowhere.
00:53:21.000The end to which we seek is futile, an absence of meaning.
00:53:23.000The excuses we make for our means are not necessarily evil as much as they are us.
00:53:28.000And he says, this is because the Joker is a liberal, basically.
00:53:31.000He 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.
00:54:13.000Not 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?
00:54:22.000He 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.
00:54:28.000So leftists are nihilists up till the point where they're secular atheist utopians and they worship themselves and so they have to build
00:54:36.000All of humanity in their own image, the same way that you see in that wealth inequality video, right?
00:54:40.000What do I think wealth inequality should be like?
00:54:42.000Well, 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.
00:54:50.000Okay folks, the Iowa caucuses are coming up on Monday.
00:54:53.000We will have a broadcast before we know the results, so we'll give you all the updates then.
00:55:19.000Have 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.