The Ben Shapiro Show - Europe In Crisis | Ep. 677

00:00:00.000 Brexit hits a massive snag, France's government parlays with protesters, and we discuss segregated vacation spots.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:08.000 Man, a lot of various and sundry topics to get to today.

00:00:16.000 If that teaser didn't get you, wait until you hear the bizarre news that I've got for the rest of the show.

00:00:21.000 Before we get to any of that, let me remind you that we now have $1.2 trillion added to our national debt as of fiscal year 2018.

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00:01:51.000 All right, we'll begin today with Time Magazine, which has now announced its Person of the Year.

00:01:56.000 And predictably enough, in a time when the media really loves them some media, The persons of the year are all journalists because there's nothing that really attracts Americans to journalists as much as journalists patting themselves on the back.

00:02:10.000 The journalists have actually run out of enough hands to pat themselves on the back.

00:02:12.000 So who exactly is being honored?

00:02:14.000 They call them the guardians and the war on truth.

00:02:17.000 Obviously, President Trump being the war on truth and these people being the guardians of the truth.

00:02:22.000 Because if there's one group of people You can trust to tell you the truth without partisan rancor or fear.

00:02:29.000 It's those journalists, all those journalists who agree on everything.

00:02:32.000 Those are the people who we should certainly trust with all of your fact-based needs.

00:02:37.000 So there are a bunch of different folks who are photographed for the cover of Time Magazine.

00:02:42.000 Jamal Khashoggi was made the Person of the Year on the cover of Time Magazine.

00:02:45.000 Jamal Khashoggi, you'll recall, was the Saudi citizen who was here on a visa and then he went to Turkey and went to the Saudi consulate for a marriage document and was promptly murdered by the members of the Saudi consulate and then chopped up and sent in a bag back to Saudi Arabia.

00:03:03.000 This all went wrong.

00:03:04.000 It was very bad for the Trump administration, which of course has been very close with the Saudi Arabian government, particularly the new leader of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.

00:03:14.000 That's the reason the Time Magazine selected Jamal Khashoggi, who in reality was, in fact, pretty radical on politics.

00:03:20.000 He had a long time history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:03:23.000 He was very much in favor of more radical Islam in the Middle East, not less radical Islam in the Middle East.

00:03:28.000 He was certainly no moderate.

00:03:30.000 But since he was murdered for being a journalist, he is the Time Magazine Person of the Year because people are trying to basically draw a parallel between President Trump's dislike for the media and violence against journalists.

00:03:41.000 So much so that they're honoring the folks over at the Capital Gazette, which was a newspaper, you'll remember, that was attacked in Virginia.

00:03:47.000 Now, it turns out that the Capital Gazette was not, in fact, attacked by a Trump supporter.

00:03:51.000 It was not attacked by somebody who hated the media because President Trump was not fond of the media.

00:03:55.000 It was attacked by somebody who had a personal vendetta with the paper.

00:03:58.000 So why exactly are they on the cover of Time Magazine?

00:04:01.000 Because Time has to draw a false line suggesting that journalists all over the world are under assault specifically because of President Trump.

00:04:08.000 It's not as though we've had, you know, evil, murderous governments that have been cracking down on journalists for legitimately all of human history.

00:04:15.000 It's that now we have President Trump in the White House and things have magically changed.

00:04:19.000 I do appreciate how there are no journalists who are actually from Turkey who are interviewed for these Time Magazine articles.

00:04:24.000 Turkey, of course, is the country behind all of the revelations about Jamal Khashoggi.

00:04:28.000 Turkey has arrested Literally hundreds of thousands of dissidents over the past several years as it moves from democracy into dictatorship.

00:04:35.000 Time magazine has nothing to say about that.

00:04:37.000 Jamal Khashoggi, however, is obviously worry number one.

00:04:40.000 Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about the Jamal Khashoggi case, but again, this is the media trying to play itself up.

00:04:46.000 Who else was was honored?

00:04:48.000 Well, Maria Ressa, who is an editor, I believe, in Russia, who was indicted, and Wallone and Kal Suu, who are reporters who were convicted.

00:04:55.000 So the idea is that there is a war on truth, but lumping in the folks over at the Capital Gazette with folks who have been targeted by foreign dictatorships seems like a very bizarre thing for Time to Do, except that All these journalists want to see themselves as firefighters who are running to put out the fire of the Trump administration.

00:05:13.000 It's very silly.

00:05:14.000 It doesn't make any sense. 0.90

00:05:15.000 But that's okay.

00:05:16.000 Next year, Time Magazine's Person of the Year will just be Time Magazine.

00:05:19.000 I think that's probably where this is going.

00:05:21.000 It'll just be a mirror.

00:05:22.000 They actually did that one year.

00:05:23.000 Remember, you were the Person of the Year for Time Magazine?

00:05:26.000 It's a great way for them to get publicity.

00:05:27.000 They succeeded in getting publicity good for them.

00:05:29.000 But...

00:05:30.000 It's just another indicator that our journalist class is wildly disconnected from the needs and the wants of the American people.

00:05:37.000 Now, speaking of folks who are completely disconnected from the needs and wants of the American people, yet continue to gain credibility every day with that left-wing press, the Women's March has now been revealed for what it is, which was an intersectional scam that was at least One foot in anti-Semitism at all times.

00:05:52.000 So the Women's March, you remember, they were nearly made the Person of the Year last year by Time Magazine because this was the upswelling of women ever.

00:05:59.000 It was a new movement, a new movement of women everywhere that never materialized into anything concrete except for an angry march. 1.00

00:06:07.000 And was led by deplorables, actual deplorables, like Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour.

00:06:12.000 And that was an article over at Tablet Magazine talking about how deeply rooted the antisemitism was in the Women's March.

00:06:18.000 It says, on November 12, 2016, a group of seven women held a meeting in New York.

00:06:22.000 They'd never worked together before.

00:06:23.000 In fact, most of them had never met.

00:06:25.000 But they were brought together by what felt like the shared vision of an emerging mission.

00:06:29.000 There were effectively two different cohorts that day.

00:06:30.000 The first one included Breanne Butler, Karen Waltuck, Vanessa Rubel, and Marilyn Folger, a fashion designer-turned-entrepreneur with a sideline in activist politics who had assumed the nom-de-guerre Bob Bland.

00:06:40.000 These four were new acquaintances who had connected in the days since Donald Trump's election through political networking on social media.

00:06:46.000 Most of them had filtered through the Pantsuit Nation Facebook group, sounds like a party, where a woman in Hawaii named Teresa Shook had days before floated the idea of a female-centered march to protest the incoming administration. 0.98

00:06:57.000 Soon after, Rubel, a Washington, D.C.

00:06:59.000 native who founded OK Africa, a digital media platform dedicated to new African music, culture, and politics, reached out to a man she knew named Michael Skolnick.

00:07:06.000 The subject of a New York Times profile the previous year as an influencer at the nexus of social activism and celebrity, Skolnick held a powerful, though not easily defined, role in the world of high-profile activist politics.

00:07:17.000 It's very rare to have one person who everyone respects in entertainment or in politics or among the grassroots," said Van Jones in 2015.

00:07:22.000 But to have one person who's respected by all three?

00:07:25.000 That isn't anyone but Michael Skolnick.

00:07:27.000 When Rubel relayed her concern that the nascent women's movement had to substantively include women of color, Skolnick told her he had just the women for her to meet, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory.

00:07:36.000 They're recommendations that Skolnick could vouch for personally.

00:07:39.000 In effect, he was connecting Rubel to the leadership committee of his own nonprofit, a group called The Gathering for Justice.

00:07:44.000 Linda Sarsour, another colleague from the Gathering for Justice Network, was not present for the initial meetings, but soon joined the Women's March as co-chair a short time later.

00:07:53.000 In advance of the meeting, Bland suggested they convene in Chelsea Market, an upscale food court in Manhattan.

00:07:58.000 When the day arrived, women managed to find each other, but soon realized there was nowhere in the hectic maze-like mall of vendors quiet enough to sit and talk.

00:08:05.000 Eventually, they were treated to the rooftop of a nearby hotel, where, less than a week after the idea for the match sprouted, the seven women got acquainted.

00:08:13.000 According to several sources, it was there, in the first hours of the first meeting of what would become the Women's March, that something happened that was so shameful to many of those who witnessed it, they chose to bury it like a family secret.

00:08:25.000 Almost two years would pass before anyone present would speak about it.

00:08:29.000 It was there that, as the women were opening up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating a resistant movement to Trump, Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people, and even, according to a close second-hand source, claimed that the Jews were proven to have been the leaders of the American slave trade.

00:08:51.000 These are canards popularized by The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book published by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, the Bible of the New Antisemitism, according to Henry Louis Gates, who noted in 1992, among significant sectors of the black community, this brief has become a credo of a new philosophy of black self-affirmation.

00:09:09.000 To this day, Mallory and Bland deny any such statements were ever uttered either at the first meeting or at Mallory's apartment.

00:09:15.000 There was a particular conversation about how white women had censored themselves and also around the dynamics of racial justice and why it was essential that racial justice be a part of the women's right conversation, remembered Bland, but she and Mallory insisted it never had anything to do with the Jews.

00:09:30.000 None of the other women in attendance would speak openly to Tablet about the meeting, but multiple sources with knowledge of what happened confirmed the story.

00:09:36.000 Following an initial 30-minute phone call last week with Women's March co-chairs Tamika Mallory and Bob Land, Tablet submitted a detailed list of follow-up questions to the group by email and received a written response.

00:09:46.000 Answers from both exchanges are quoted at length in this article.

00:09:49.000 As the fame grew of the Women's March, so did questions about the Women's March origin story, including, at first privately, within the inner circles of the organizations, questions pertaining to the possible anti-Jewish statement made at that very first meeting.

00:10:01.000 And obviously all of the leaders of the very first meeting, or many of them, shut up about this, but it didn't stop the news from getting out.

00:10:08.000 So anti-Semitism was on the table from day one at the Women's March, and no one cared. 0.99

00:10:14.000 Because intersectionality does not care about Jews. 0.90

00:10:16.000 Intersectionality is just about the intersectional interests of a group of people So long as that group of people does not include Jews or white people.

00:10:25.000 As long as that is the case, it is fine to move forward with a march that is openly associated with anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan.

00:10:32.000 That is totally cool.

00:10:33.000 Now, I have a question.

00:10:35.000 This meeting happened two years ago.

00:10:37.000 This meeting happened in December of 2016, or November of 2016, directly after the election.

00:10:43.000 Why did it take two years for our reporting, our firefighting journalists, to find out about this story?

00:10:48.000 I mean, the signs of anti-Semitism were in plain view at the Women's March. 0.98

00:10:53.000 Linda Sarsour is an open anti-Semite.

00:10:54.000 Tamika Mallory is an open anti-Semite.

00:10:56.000 These people are not hiding the ball.

00:10:58.000 These are folks who have repeatedly, repeatedly defended association with the most open anti-Semite in America, a man who calls Jews termites, Louis Farrakhan.

00:11:06.000 Did anybody in the media have anything to say about this?

00:11:09.000 And when they were asked about it, did they immediately move to defense?

00:11:12.000 If you go and look at, like, the Jewish Forward, which is not even a Jewish newspaper, it's a leftist newspaper masquerading as a Jewish newspaper, that outlet has sought to defend people like Linda Sarsour from charges of anti-Semitism, despite the fact that Linda Sarsour is an actual anti-Semite who is associated not only with boycott, divestment, and sanctions from Israel, but also with actual terrorists.

00:11:33.000 In other words, the left is fine with discrimination against particular groups, so long as those particular groups are not members of the intersectional coalition, or as long as they are low-ranking members who are willing to accept their subservience in all of this.

00:11:48.000 In just a second, I'm going to show you how this has infused so much of the mainstream left that it's quite insane.

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00:13:05.000 Well, the intersectional coalition doesn't accept everyone.

00:13:08.000 It doesn't accept people if you are from particular races that are not intersectional enough, that have not suffered enough in American society.

00:13:15.000 If you are a member of one of these intersectional groups, you can be as racist as you want to be, so long as you're being racist against the group of victimizers.

00:13:23.000 Today's example comes courtesy of Vice. 0.80

00:13:25.000 So Vice, one of the dumbest outlets on the internet, there are many of them, but Vice likes to feature stories, intersectional, woke, social justice warrior stories, you know, the important stories about how people of color fight back against the predominantly white superstructure in the United States.

00:13:42.000 So Vice, We're on a full story on HBO because, again, there's no bias in the media, folks. 0.84

00:13:47.000 HBO only does, you know, Pod Save America, live shows and Vice News Tonight.

00:13:53.000 HBO is not biased in any way.

00:13:54.000 They're just profit seeking.

00:13:56.000 That's what we know about HBO.

00:13:57.000 In any case, Vice News Tonight on HBO did a full segment about A group of women of color. 0.99

00:14:04.000 It was called what it's like to take a vacation away from white people, which, again, you know, I I'm always loathe to do these sort of reverse the race and then check it, but reverse the race and then check it. 0.89

00:14:15.000 Is that what it's like to take a vacation away from black people and see how that goes for you in the public discourse? 0.98

00:14:20.000 Here is a little bit of vice celebrating a bunch of women of color escaping the white people, the bad, bad white people. 1.00

00:14:31.000 This is like heaven right now. 0.98

00:14:32.000 Yeah.

00:14:33.000 Oh.

00:14:34.000 Alexis Bromley is from Nebraska.

00:14:37.000 She needed a break from white people. 1.00

00:14:39.000 In Omaha, it's very segregated.

00:14:41.000 It's, uh, it can be very isolating if you're a person of color.

00:14:44.000 Can you pause it for one second?

00:14:46.000 I just want to point out, she says that it's very segregated in Nebraska.

00:14:48.000 You know where else it's segregated?

00:14:49.000 In your segregated vacation spot.

00:14:52.000 That's where else it is very segregated.

00:14:54.000 But apparently, that's, it's totally fine to talk about segregation of races so long as you're a person of color. 0.59

00:14:59.000 Continue.

00:15:00.000 has only made these feelings worse.

00:15:03.000 So, she decided to go on a women of color healing retreat in Costa Rica.

00:15:08.000 Okay, a couple of notes about this.

00:15:10.000 The Women of Color Healing Retreat in Costa Rica.

00:15:12.000 Costa Rica is an area that was colonized by the Spanish.

00:15:16.000 It is 84% white or mestizo.

00:15:18.000 So, it's not exactly the most segregated area on planet Earth, but apparently it is fine for people to segregate themselves into communities of various colors, so long as those members are members of the intersectional coalition.

00:15:33.000 Otherwise, they'll call you parochial, right?

00:15:35.000 If you live in a Jewish community, then you're parochial. 1.00

00:15:37.000 If you live in a gated community that, not through any attempt to exclude people of other races, just happens to be predominantly white, then you are obviously involved in a form of segregation. 0.53

00:15:46.000 But if you specifically go to a women-of-color retreat to avoid the whites, to avoid the bad white folks, then, of course, you are doing just fine. 0.65

00:15:56.000 The radicalism of the left on full display. 0.96

00:15:59.000 But it gets even worse!

00:16:00.000 I have more radicalism for you!

00:16:01.000 Okay, so...

00:16:03.000 The left's intersectional ideals, in which they get to discard any semblance of normalcy and decency in favor of the most woke standards of social justice, it's getting ever more extreme.

00:16:17.000 Last week we saw that Kevin Hart, the comedian, was basically banned from hosting the Oscars because 10 years ago he made a joke about how he didn't want his son to be gay.

00:16:26.000 Which, I have to say, I don't see why that's such a terrible joke.

00:16:30.000 Really? 0.96

00:16:31.000 Like, do you want your child to be gay? 1.00

00:16:34.000 Like, if your child ends up being gay, maybe it's not a big deal to you, but it seems to me that if you would opt, in the best of all possible worlds, for your child to be straight, and you know, be able to get married to a person of the opposite sex and have natural-born children, and raise that family in a traditional way, I don't see why that is terrible. 0.90

00:16:52.000 Why that's so bad?

00:16:53.000 I know, that makes me terrible.

00:16:55.000 I'm not even talking about government crackdowns against gay folks or discriminating against gay folks or anything like that, but I would prefer that my children be straight.

00:17:03.000 I don't see why that should be a controversial statement.

00:17:05.000 In any case, Kevin Hart was ripped up and down for this statement saying that he wanted his own children to be straight.

00:17:11.000 Oh my God, so terrible.

00:17:12.000 By the way, if everyone did not want their own children to be straight, and all of their children, in fact, were not straight, it would be very difficult to create a new generation of humans.

00:17:20.000 But in any case, Kevin Hart.

00:17:22.000 Now is being targeted even more.

00:17:24.000 He apologized and then he was and then he stepped down from the Oscars.

00:17:29.000 That did not stop Brandi Miller of Huffington Post from suggesting that Kevin Hart needs to go further.

00:17:34.000 She says, apparently being Kevin Hart means never having to say you're sorry.

00:17:37.000 Just weeks after vehemently defending the controversial Cowboys and Indians themed birthday party he threw for his one year old son on Thanksgiving Day, no less.

00:17:44.000 The comedian is at the center of yet another controversy that he refused to apologize for.

00:17:48.000 I love this, that now he has to defend the controversial Cowboys and Indians themed birthday party.

00:17:53.000 Were the Indians all the bad kids? 1.00

00:17:54.000 Like, did the Cowboys run down the Indians and then slaughter them?

00:17:57.000 Or did the party involve them being shepherded into reservations as everybody cheered?

00:18:01.000 If not, then it was probably just cops and robbers, or Cowboys and Indians, and a group of two kids who were shooting each other with Nerf guns.

00:18:07.000 Oh no, so terrible! 0.89

00:18:09.000 But Kevin Hart is a very, very bad man. 0.90

00:18:11.000 A very bad man. 0.97

00:18:13.000 This week, the homophobic tweets from the early 2000s surfaced, wherein Hart belittles LGBTQ people through uses of words and phrases like the F-word, no homo, or using gay as a derogatory term. 0.72

00:18:24.000 This homophobia was not reserved to his Twitter account.

00:18:26.000 In his 2010 special, Seriously Funny, in talking about raising his son, Hart said, one of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay.

00:18:32.000 Keep in mind, I'm not homophobic.

00:18:34.000 Be happy, do what you want to do.

00:18:35.000 But me as a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will. 1.00

00:18:38.000 And then she says, the outrage over this is reasonable.

00:18:43.000 Really?

00:18:44.000 Is the outrage over this reasonable? 0.99

00:18:46.000 She says, well, people like Kevin Hart are causing LGBTQ kids to commit suicide! 0.85

00:18:52.000 How? 0.78

00:18:53.000 How?

00:18:53.000 I mean, there's no evidence he mistreats his own kid.

00:18:55.000 If his kid were gay, there's no evidence he would mistreat his own kid.

00:18:58.000 But again, I would prefer that my kid be Jewish, right? 1.00

00:19:00.000 Jewish in practice.

00:19:01.000 I would prefer that my kid, that my son be straight and marry a woman. 0.99

00:19:05.000 I don't know why this preference is such a terrible thing.

00:19:09.000 Again, but you have to I guess now be completely indifferent as to whether your child is straight or gay.

00:19:14.000 You have to be completely indifferent as to whether your child has to undergo the severe strains that are put upon people by homosexual tendencies or by living in a society that is not as tolerant in certain areas of homosexuality or by the fact that you're not going to be able to Genetically produce the next generation outside of in vitro fertilization or any of the other pressures that come along with being gay. 0.51

00:19:35.000 If you want your child, if you hope that your child doesn't have to undergo that, then this makes you a very bad person.

00:19:40.000 Pretty astonishing stuff.

00:19:41.000 And see if that works for the mass majority.

00:19:43.000 I know this is politically incorrect stuff.

00:19:44.000 I know we're supposed to pretend that as parents we are indifferent to how our children come out.

00:19:49.000 That we are indifferent to what sort of sexual lives our children lead.

00:19:52.000 But I have many preferences as to the sort of sexual child that my children lead. 0.60

00:19:56.000 Put aside homosexuality. 1.00

00:19:58.000 I have many preferences as to whether my child gets married or is living with somebody. 0.92

00:20:03.000 I have preferences as to whether my child is promiscuous or only has sex with the person they marry.

00:20:07.000 I have lots of preferences on this because I'm a parent and I'm allowed to have preferences and that's okay and that's good.

00:20:13.000 And speaking of this, the left has basically decided that it is very bad for parents ever to have preferences about anything surrounding their kids and so Kevin Hart must be made to apologize.

00:20:21.000 It is deeply important that Kevin Hart apologize for this and then presumably come out and say that he prefers that his kid be gay.

00:20:27.000 Or that he's completely indifferent as to whether his kid is homosexual or heterosexual.

00:20:31.000 I mean, this is truly amazing stuff.

00:20:33.000 As a parent, it is your job to decide which values you hope that your child holds.

00:20:37.000 That's good.

00:20:38.000 That sort of guidance is what children need.

00:20:40.000 As a father of two kids under five, kids need lines.

00:20:43.000 Kids need standards.

00:20:44.000 And hopefully those standards are ones that are productive to society and healthy for your children.

00:20:49.000 A society that prevents parents from inculcating standards in their own children is a society that is going to need a hell of a lot of psychotherapists in the very, very near future.

00:20:58.000 We'll get to the case in point of this in just one second.

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00:21:12.000 What are you wearing?

00:21:12.000 Whether it's Gucci, Prada or Versace.

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00:23:00.000 As I say, the left has doubled down on their perception that parents should have no standards for their children when it comes to crucial areas of life, like sex.

00:23:09.000 So Kevin Hart is very bad because he says that he wants his child to be straight, which there are any number of good reasons why you would want your child to be straight.

00:23:18.000 Plenty of them that have nothing to do with discriminating against gay folks.

00:23:21.000 If you have a preference for a straight lifestyle over a gay lifestyle, that it does not make you a discriminatory bad person.

00:23:26.000 It makes you a person who has a standard of behavior for your children.

00:23:31.000 But we're not allowed to have standards of behavior for our children.

00:23:33.000 Because that would be you imposing your desires upon your child, and we can't do that.

00:23:37.000 Children must run free, like Rousseau's Emile.

00:23:41.000 They must run free across the plains, learning from the woodchucks, learning from the bees and the birds and the monkeys and the beavers.

00:23:49.000 They must learn from falling down how to get up. 0.99

00:23:53.000 Now, if you're a parent, and I know there are a lot of parents in the audience right now who are listening to this going, uh, that's the dumbest crap I ever heard in my life. 0.99

00:23:59.000 You know why? 1.00

00:23:59.000 Because it is the dumbest crap you ever heard in your life. 1.00

00:24:02.000 I have a two-and-a-half-year-old son. 1.00

00:24:03.000 You know what he does full-time?

00:24:04.000 His full-time job, like, if he could be paid for doing this, he'd be a rich young man.

00:24:08.000 My young son's full-time job is trying to kill himself.

00:24:11.000 This is what he does.

00:24:12.000 Day after day, he finds the most dangerous thing that he can do, and then he does it.

00:24:16.000 He climbs to the top of the couch, and then he tries to jump off the top of the couch.

00:24:19.000 He is all of about two feet tall, and he tries to jump from a three foot height, because he is not a smart human.

00:24:24.000 He's smart for two and a half years old, meaning he can identify the entire alphabet.

00:24:28.000 But he is not capable of making wise decisions.

00:24:31.000 Yesterday the nanny came running in because he was my son was crying I was trying to get out for work and he was crying just bloody murder and I came out and I said what happened and the nanny said he was trying to plug in the hairdryer and He's crying and crying crying and I looked at him and I said if you do that then you could get burned There's electricity in there and he looked at his hand and he said get a boo-boo and I said right you'd get a boo-boo He said fire on my hand.

00:24:58.000 I said right fire on your hand and he said fun Hey, that's what kids are.

00:25:03.000 So this idea that you are not supposed to set limits on your children or guide them through the most perilous parts of life, the areas of gender and sexual identity and orientation. 1.00

00:25:15.000 It's so unbelievably stupid. 0.99

00:25:17.000 And society has done an incredibly poor job of teaching our kids anything with regard to sexual morality or values or the sort of or the sort of limits you have to place on your own sexuality in order to be happy. 1.00

00:25:28.000 And we all place limits on our sexuality in order to be happy.

00:25:30.000 That's what marriage is. 0.94

00:25:31.000 It is a big limit on your sexuality that you place on yourself in order to be happy and to commit and to lead a life that is deeper and more meaningful. 1.00

00:25:40.000 And to not want to give that to your child is incredibly stupid. 0.98

00:25:44.000 Also, I will point out that I think the premise of the anti-Kevin Hart argument is that you have no say in whether your kid ends up straight or gay because biologically your kid is just going to be what your kid is going to be. 0.99

00:25:54.000 Now, I'm not somebody who believes there is no biological influence on sexual orientation.

00:25:57.000 I believe that there are a lot of people who are biologically driven toward certain sexual attractions.

00:26:02.000 But that doesn't mean that environment doesn't actually do anything.

00:26:05.000 In fact, in twin studies, where the DNA is exactly identical, in twin studies, In 50% of cases, only 50% of cases, are both twins gay. 0.89

00:26:14.000 At least 50% of cases, one twin will be gay and one will be straight, which suggests that environment has something to do with something, or that epigenetics has something to do with something, but it isn't just pure biology.

00:26:23.000 In any case, the left basically suggests that your kid is biologically driven to be what your kid will be.

00:26:29.000 In the words of that great philosopher, Lady Gaga, you're on the right track, baby.

00:26:33.000 I was born this way, right?

00:26:34.000 And so you can't guide your child in any way.

00:26:36.000 If you try to guide your child, then you are a repressive, oppressive parent.

00:26:39.000 The logical extension of this is that you cannot place any limits on your children.

00:26:43.000 You cannot teach your children about anything.

00:26:44.000 And that's how you end up with this insane story, courtesy of TikTok, which is another one of these, now this type video services. 0.92

00:26:53.000 Focusing on these gay fathers, whatever, who have a child.

00:26:58.000 Again, okay. 0.89

00:27:00.000 And then, here's where it's not okay.

00:27:02.000 They refuse to tell the child whether the child is a boy or a girl.

00:27:05.000 They say that the child should choose the child's own gender identity.

00:27:10.000 This child should immediately be removed from these parents.

00:27:13.000 Should immediately be removed from these parents.

00:27:14.000 This is child endangerment.

00:27:15.000 Not telling your child whether they are a boy or a girl and letting your one-year-old choose whether they are a boy or a girl is a recipe for psychological fail. 0.98

00:27:23.000 It is a recipe for your child being a screwed-up human being. 0.58

00:27:27.000 Limits are what creates good children. 0.87

00:27:29.000 Every parent knows this.

00:27:30.000 We have known this for thousands of years.

00:27:33.000 Every psychologist worth their salt will tell you that providing no limits and no guidance for your child is the way to have a screwed up kid.

00:27:40.000 But this is now being celebrated by our media because the final essence of the intersectional coalition is that everybody must be celebrated for biology but not decision-making.

00:27:51.000 That we can't guide people's decision-making in any way as parents and that it would be discriminatory to do so. 0.98

00:27:56.000 So here's a little bit of this idiotic video that has been making the rounds. 0.99

00:28:00.000 Always the question is a boy or a girl. 0.99

00:28:02.000 And so often we will say to people, we don't know yet.

00:28:05.000 We're waiting for Zoe to tell us.

00:28:07.000 And we felt like we really want, as best we can, to have our child not have those stereotypes put on them.

00:28:14.000 And our child to have the openness to identify as whatever gender they want to, whenever they feel that's right for them.

00:28:21.000 We are preparing for whatever Zoe might say and however Zoe might identify, knowing that that might change.

00:28:26.000 So there might be a time where Zoe says, I don't feel like a they, I feel like a she or I feel like a he.

00:28:32.000 OK, this is so evil.

00:28:34.000 I mean, it really is evil to use your child as a political prop like this, to pretend that gender and biology are completely separate, which is just scientific.

00:28:41.000 It's a scientific nonsense. 0.78

00:28:42.000 It is complete scientific nonsense.

00:28:44.000 And this is the logical outcome of the caving of science to political correctness. 0.98

00:28:48.000 And you've seen it in the scientific psychological community, where people like the American Association of University Professors are now engaging with this garbage, this absolute tripe. 0.90

00:28:58.000 They're engaging with this stuff. 0.74

00:28:59.000 And then, you think there won't be any social consequences to a generation of children who would be raised like this?

00:29:06.000 Gender neutral?

00:29:07.000 Where we don't assign a gender to them? 0.99

00:29:10.000 Kids have a gender.

00:29:11.000 It is inborn in them.

00:29:13.000 So, let me get this straight.

00:29:14.000 When it comes to sexual orientation and sexual behavior, that is entirely biological.

00:29:18.000 But whether you're a boy or a girl is not biological, those are all social constructions.

00:29:22.000 This makes no sense whatsoever on any level, but this is what we're going to push, because in the end, what a lot of folks on the radical left really want is to reduce the amount of influence that a long history of successful civilization has on children.

00:29:37.000 We are going to start over.

00:29:38.000 We are going to recreate a state of nature that has never existed in biological or human history.

00:29:43.000 This pseudo state of nature we're going to recreate and this is somehow going to make a better world.

00:29:48.000 Except it's not going to make a better world.

00:29:49.000 It's going to create more suffering in children.

00:29:51.000 It is nasty and evil to a child to suggest that a one-year-old or two-year-old be allowed to make their own decisions.

00:29:57.000 You wouldn't allow your kid to decide what they eat at night.

00:29:59.000 You wouldn't decide your kid to allow your kid To decide what they dress like in the middle of winter.

00:30:04.000 And you certainly shouldn't allow your kid to decide how they identify.

00:30:07.000 They don't even know what the hell you're talking about.

00:30:10.000 They don't know what you're saying.

00:30:12.000 They don't know anything about boys or girls.

00:30:16.000 They are what they are, and then your goal is to channel them in the proper direction so they can lead a happy and fruitful life, not so they can live with psychological dissonance and suffering, which, by the way, if you are a transgender person, if you suffer from gender identity disorder, the chances that you're going to suffer from psychological dissonance and suffering are extraordinarily high.

00:30:35.000 Why you would want to thrust your child into that sort of gender confusion is absolutely beyond me.

00:30:39.000 It's not only beyond me, I think that it's beyond anyone of any rational bent or can't.

00:30:44.000 Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the breakdown in Europe, because I think that all of this ties together in the breakdown of fundamental Western civilized values and the lack of a shared philosophical intellectual values history is leading people toward a fracturing Whether it comes to parenting or whether it comes to politics, we'll get to that in just one second.

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00:33:24.000 Well, if things are getting crazy over here, they're getting even more crazy in many ways over in Europe.

00:33:34.000 Somebody tried to steal the ceremonial mace over at Parliament.

00:33:39.000 So here is what's going on.

00:33:40.000 Basically, Brexit, which was the attempt by the British public to break away from the European Union, At least with regard to the regulatory structure.

00:33:48.000 Most people in Britain seem to want to keep the trade structures with Europe, but they don't want the free travel.

00:33:53.000 They don't want people being able to just come in and live in the United Kingdom without any sort of immigration restrictions in the UK.

00:34:00.000 They don't want the EU regulators cramming down one-size-fits-all over regulations and burdens on the UK.

00:34:09.000 But the Brexit referendum that happened a couple of years ago, during the 2016 election actually, the Brexit referendum has still not been carried out because it is unclear how exactly it will be carried out.

00:34:20.000 There's what they call hard Brexit, which is we just cut off trade relationships, we cut off immigration, we cut off everything, and then we renegotiate everything, and the EU has said we're not going to do that, and so this would damage the economy.

00:34:30.000 Then there's soft Brexit, which is we keep some of the trade stuff, but this leads to some complications because obviously the United Kingdom is also comprised of A bunch of different sort of areas, all of which have different trade relationships with the EU, or at least right now they have a unified trade relationship with the EU.

00:34:45.000 But this specifically becomes a problem in Ireland, where the actual island of Ireland is divided in half.

00:34:52.000 You have Northern Ireland, which is still part of the United Kingdom, and then you have Ireland-Ireland, which is a separate independent nation and has a relationship with the EU.

00:35:01.000 Would you actually have that become... It's operated kind of as a single country in many ways, but if that happened, would it break it in half?

00:35:08.000 So there are all these complicating factors with regard to Brexit, and this has resulted in some of the great video of all time.

00:35:15.000 So a Labour Member of Parliament was kicked out of the House of Commons yesterday for picking up the ceremonial mace after the Brexit deal vote was delayed.

00:35:24.000 After a government whip shouted tomorrow in regard to the debate and vote, meaning it will be held on an unspecified future date, jeers rang through the house.

00:35:30.000 Lloyd Russell Moyle then went over to the silver gilt mace, picked it up, and walked away.

00:35:34.000 As he went away, he was stopped by two female sergeants-at-arms staff. 0.92

00:35:39.000 He put up no resistance as he was stopped.

00:35:40.000 So here's a little bit of what it looked like when this Labour MP decided to steal the silver gilt mace.

00:35:44.000 It's a lot shorter than that movie with Nicolas Cage where they steal the Declaration of Independence.

00:35:48.000 and things really went crazy.

00:35:50.000 So here's a little bit of what it looked like when this labor MP decided to steal the silver gilt mace.

00:35:56.000 It's a lot shorter than that movie with Nicolas Cage where they steal the Declaration of Independence.

00:36:03.000 This is a real short movie, so we can watch this in about 15 seconds here.

00:36:06.000 So here he goes, picking up the mace.

00:36:11.000 No!

00:36:11.000 Don't take the mace!

00:36:13.000 No!

00:36:15.000 He's walking away with the mace!

00:36:17.000 And they're stopping him.

00:36:18.000 And that's the end of the absconding with the ceremonial mace.

00:36:22.000 And they're like, no!

00:36:23.000 No, you can't take the mace!

00:36:24.000 You gotta love Britain, man.

00:36:27.000 It's pretty spectacular stuff.

00:36:30.000 And they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say,

00:36:59.000 That was before London ran up against the bureaucracy of the would-be European super-state based in Brussels and before it was led, if that's the right word, by Tory Prime Minister Theresa May.

00:37:07.000 Presiding over a divided party, facing a pro-Remain British establishment and negotiating with a hostile EU, May never had an easy task.

00:37:13.000 She has nonetheless not only failed to rise to the occasion but has been crushed by it.

00:37:17.000 May has just pulled her Brexit deal from a parliamentary vote that she was going to lose in an embarrassing drubbing that might have loosed her increasingly precarious grip on power if May and the Conservative Party were to drop in Britain.

00:37:27.000 The people who could take over are Jeremy Corbyn, that absolute whack job anti-Semite, and the Labour Party.

00:37:32.000 She has negotiated abysmally, giving away leverage right at the start when she had prematurely invoked Article 50, beginning the process of Britain's departure with no realistic fallback plan if talks with the EU failed.

00:37:43.000 She ends it up with an agreement that would effectively leave Britain within most EU rules, with no means of influencing them anymore.

00:37:48.000 The London Spe- Because once you remove yourself from the EU, you can't vote on the EU rules anymore.

00:37:52.000 So, if you remain in the EU, For all intents and purposes, with regard to these regulations, but you can't vote on them, then you are now being... It's no taxation, it's no regulation without representation, but this would be representation... It would be regulation without representation.

00:38:07.000 Now humiliated and her credibility in shreds, May says she is going to go back to the EU to get more reassurances when the EU has said it isn't conceding anything else of consequence.

00:38:15.000 And why else should it?

00:38:16.000 There's no guarantee May can get any tweaks to deal through Parliament regardless.

00:38:20.000 The larger question is this.

00:38:21.000 Will the EU ever relinquish a nation-state once it has hooks in it?

00:38:24.000 Its officials have treated the Brexit negotiations as an opportunity to teach anyone hoping to follow Britain out of the EU a lesson.

00:38:31.000 Don't dare to try to take back the full measure of your sovereignty, lest we make it as miserable for you as possible.

00:38:36.000 When in the past, countries in Europe have voted the wrong way on fundamental EU questions, as Ireland, France and the Netherlands did over the years, they were ignored or made to vote again until they got the right answer.

00:38:45.000 Britain may yet suffer the same pitiful fate.

00:38:47.000 So it is unclear how Brexit resolves itself.

00:38:50.000 Suffice it to say that chaos is breaking out in Britain over Brexit and has been going on continuously for a couple years as the EU tries to remain in charge of Britain's regulatory structure.

00:39:01.000 Meanwhile, over in France, things are falling apart as well.

00:39:04.000 Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, who is going to lead the new wave of French, French dignitaries into the future.

00:39:11.000 It's going to be France in the future because Emmanuel Macron is young.

00:39:14.000 He's like 39 years old and he was fresh faced and he was brilliant and he was a, he was into globalization and he was a sophisticate.

00:39:22.000 Well, now it turns out a bunch of rioters took over Paris and he's basically bowing to their every request.

00:39:27.000 It turns out that not only do the French surrender to the Germans every, every few decades, they now surrender to their own citizens who protest in the streets rather than merely arresting them.

00:39:36.000 Macron actually came out and begged for the rioters to give him another chance with regard to the economic anger that has broken out.

00:39:43.000 I won't forget that there is anger.

00:39:47.000 There is worry.

00:39:49.000 There is indignation.

00:39:52.000 All of us, or most of us, in France feel it.

00:39:57.000 The anger was about the gas tax and the Prime Minister responded to that by cancelling the Yes.

00:40:05.000 However, I feel the anger.

00:40:09.000 So now it's I feel the anger and France is going to cave to all these protesters again.

00:40:14.000 Here is the problem when you have people who promise you over and over and over that they will spend until the end of time and then the money runs out or they have to raise taxes on people.

00:40:23.000 People tend to get angry.

00:40:25.000 And this is the problem with populism on a broad scale.

00:40:27.000 It's so funny.

00:40:28.000 Folks like to say that Macron is fighting back populism.

00:40:30.000 What they mean by that is the populism of the right.

00:40:33.000 Macron is fighting back against the populism of the right that suggests that there should be no immigration into France, for example, and that social welfare spending should be increased on the people who already live there.

00:40:44.000 It's sort of a far-right European nationalism, populist style.

00:40:48.000 And he's fighting back against the immigration side of that, but he's never fought back against the spending side of it.

00:40:52.000 Macron has never been one to really talk about how he's going to ratchet down the social spending or restructure that social spending to make it sustainable into the future.

00:41:00.000 He, like everybody else in Europe, has been promising his citizens for years that they were going to get all the things that they were promised without any sort of repercussions.

00:41:10.000 And there are repercussions to spending this much money.

00:41:12.000 Now, maybe it can work for certain periods of time in, for example, the Nordic states.

00:41:15.000 But what it takes for those social spending standards to work in the Nordic states are exorbitantly high taxes.

00:41:21.000 We've talked about this before.

00:41:22.000 In Denmark, they have an enormous social welfare state.

00:41:24.000 People in the United States on the left, they love it.

00:41:26.000 What they won't tell you is that the top tax bracket in Norway, or in Denmark rather, is 60%, and it starts applying at like $60,000.

00:41:34.000 Imagine that everyone in the United States who made $60,000 or more, which is pretty much everyone in the United States who is middle class or above, that all those people were paying 60% of their income to the federal government, and then paying a 25% sales tax, which is the VAT tax in Denmark.

00:41:49.000 It takes a lot of money to run all this stuff.

00:41:51.000 And in France, they've been lying.

00:41:53.000 They've been saying, we won't raise taxes on you, but we'll continue to spend.

00:41:55.000 And we've been doing the same thing in the United States, except to a lesser extent, we spend an exorbitant amount of money, which is why we have a 92% debt to GDP ratio in the United States, and it's going to get worse.

00:42:05.000 Not better.

00:42:06.000 And it's why every time the Republicans lower the taxes without lowering the spending, it's a problem.

00:42:10.000 And every time the Democrats raise the spending, even if they raise the taxes, it's a problem.

00:42:15.000 The problem here is not with the tax rate in the United States.

00:42:17.000 It's the tax rate in the United States that allows income mobility.

00:42:20.000 It allows businesses to start.

00:42:22.000 It allows businesses to thrive.

00:42:24.000 It allows foreign direct investment.

00:42:25.000 All those things.

00:42:26.000 The problem in the United States is that we do not have our spending under control.

00:42:29.000 And Europe is finding this out the hard way.

00:42:32.000 And maybe you can sustain with all of these problems if you have a strong social fabric.

00:42:37.000 In a lot of these Nordic countries, the social fabric is incredibly strong.

00:42:40.000 These are homogenous countries with long histories of people who have lived together with one another and shared values and shared family ties.

00:42:46.000 And they're very small.

00:42:48.000 But that's not true in a multi-ethnic democracy where the ties that bind us are largely ties of success because the ties of philosophy were forcibly expelled decades ago by the philosophical left, which says we have nothing in common except we share a country together.

00:43:02.000 It's a real problem.

00:43:03.000 And that's what's leading to a lot of the breakdowns in Europe.

00:43:07.000 It's leading to the political breakdown in the United States.

00:43:09.000 We don't have the social fabric to withstand economic uncertainty and troubled economic times, which is why we should be a lot more worried about the future of the economy in the United States than we even were a few decades ago.

00:43:18.000 In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, people went back to church.

00:43:22.000 Churchgoing actually went up in the 1930s.

00:43:24.000 The crime rates in the 1930s did not escalate dramatically.

00:43:29.000 And they didn't escalate dramatically, in part, because there were so many people who were still part of a social fabric.

00:43:35.000 Families, friends, communities.

00:43:36.000 That no longer exists.

00:43:38.000 So we are riding the wave of economic growth that has been continuous, largely, for the last several decades.

00:43:44.000 If that ever should peter out, things are going to get very ugly very quickly.

00:43:47.000 And that's why we better rebuild that social fabric and why we must look to economic reform if we want to see a continued growth rate without the social collapse that we are now seeing in France.

00:43:56.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I like and then a thing that I hate.

00:44:00.000 A couple of things that I hate.

00:44:02.000 So, things that I like today.

00:44:05.000 Let's talk a little bit about the moon landing.

00:44:07.000 So I'm always amazed that there are so many folks who think that the moon landing was fake.

00:44:12.000 We literally left a mirror up there so that we can gauge the distance between the Earth and the moon.

00:44:16.000 And we use that mirror in order so that we can make scientific measurements.

00:44:20.000 But Steph Curry apparently has now come out and says he thinks that the moon landing is fake.

00:44:24.000 Steph Curry, the star of the Golden State Warriors.

00:44:26.000 So things are going great.

00:44:27.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:44:29.000 We ever been to the moon?

00:44:31.000 Nope.

00:44:32.000 They gonna come get us.

00:44:33.000 I don't think so either.

00:44:34.000 Elon Musk and the closest thing we got.

00:44:36.000 They ain't been on the moon.

00:44:37.000 You don't think so?

00:44:39.000 Stanley, you gotta do the research on Stanley.

00:44:42.000 You talking about we took something to the moon?

00:44:47.000 I don't think so.

00:44:49.000 Um, what?

00:44:52.000 So why do I like this? 0.94

00:44:53.000 Because I just like that America is full of people with crazy opinions. 0.95

00:44:56.000 You know, I'm one of these people who thinks that no matter how crazy your opinion is, you should get to express it, even if you're a kook who believes that the moon landing never actually happened, or if you're a kook who believes that vaccines actually cause autism, which is based on scientific nonsense and gobbledygook. 0.90

00:45:11.000 I think you should be able to express your opinions. 0.99

00:45:13.000 I'm grateful that I live in a country where people can express stupid opinions like the moon landing was faked and never happened. 0.99

00:45:19.000 I just, I like that. 0.98

00:45:20.000 And I wanted to point out that while social media wants to quash, well, I do love that folks on the left who are willing to hear out Steph Curry on the moon landing was faked.

00:45:28.000 Some of those same people are the ones who say, well, if you question the reality of man-made climate change destroying the earth, Uh, then you are an anti-science denier.

00:45:38.000 Or if you believe that there are biological genders, then you are a science denier as well.

00:45:42.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:45:43.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:45:49.000 So again, this one could be in Things I Hate or it could be in Things I Like.

00:45:52.000 The Oscars is now considering the possibility of having a host-free Oscars.

00:45:56.000 So they want a bunch of celebs, kind of SNL style, without a host. 0.82

00:46:01.000 So I guess it would just be a bunch of skits and people kind of run on and off.

00:46:04.000 It'd be more variety show style.

00:46:05.000 I guess maybe there'd be a gong or something, which would be kind of great.

00:46:07.000 So the thing I hate about this is that instead of Hollywood basically acknowledging, because really they need to acknowledge now, Everyone has bad tweets.

00:46:15.000 Every single person in Hollywood has bad tweets.

00:46:18.000 There's a tweet that came out from Sarah Silverman in the last week in which she was using gay slurs.

00:46:25.000 There are tweets from Chelsea Handler in which she uses gay slurs. 0.79

00:46:28.000 There's a tweet from Jack Dorsey in which he talks about transvestites. 0.75

00:46:32.000 Everyone in Hollywood and in social media has tweeted bad stuff.

00:46:36.000 And yet, the standard that we have set in Hollywood is that if you're Kevin Hart, then you can no longer work at the Oscars because you once tweeted a thing.

00:46:41.000 So, Hollywood, instead of saying, you know what, guys, maybe we better throttle back on the social media puritanism, instead they've decided, you know what, we're not going to have any hosts at all.

00:46:49.000 Instead, we'll have, I guess, like a vending machine.

00:46:51.000 Somebody just walk up and pop 75 cents in the vending machine, hit the button, and La La Land will come out.

00:46:55.000 And then you'll realize after you open up the La La Land bottle that actually it wasn't La La Land, it was Moonlight.

00:47:00.000 It'd be real weird.

00:47:01.000 So this is actually how the Oscars are going to work now.

00:47:04.000 The left is so tied in.

00:47:05.000 The Hollywood left is so tied in to its social media crackdowns that they're unwilling even to acknowledge that those social media crackdowns will end with the destruction of everybody in Hollywood.

00:47:14.000 I do love that folks in Hollywood are so puritan when it comes to social standards, considering that by and large, the folks in Hollywood are some of the worst living people in America by any sort of traditional standard of virtue.

00:47:25.000 Other things that I hate.

00:47:26.000 So would you say that it was a news story?

00:47:29.000 If somebody who was an ISIS Advocate was arrested with a plot to attack a Jewish synagogue?

00:47:36.000 I would say that's a news story.

00:47:37.000 The Times of Israel is now reporting that according to the FBI, on Monday, they arrested a guy who is an ISIS sympathizer named Damon Joseph, who planned to carry out a mass shooting during Shabbat services on behalf of the Islamic State in Toledo, Ohio.

00:47:51.000 According to the Department of Justice, Damon Joseph was arrested on Friday after purchasing two AR-15 rifles and talking of killing many people, including a rabbi.

00:47:58.000 The affidavit filed in the U.S.

00:47:59.000 District Court in Toledo said Joseph was inspired by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting attack in October, which killed 11 Jewish worshipers.

00:48:06.000 He also said that he was identifying synagogues in the Toledo area to carry out a mass shooting attack in the name of the Islamic State.

00:48:13.000 He said, I admire what the guy did with the shooting, actually.

00:48:15.000 I can see myself carrying out this type of operation inshallah.

00:48:18.000 They wouldn't even expect an attack in my area.

00:48:21.000 I have a question.

00:48:21.000 Why was this only reported really by the Times of Israel?

00:48:24.000 Why is it that this ISIS sympathizer who was trying to attack a synagogue in Toledo was really not reported widely?

00:48:33.000 I have a theory.

00:48:34.000 My theory is that no one cares about this story unless the person happens to be in some tangential way associated with the cause that President Trump pushes.

00:48:43.000 It turns out that, as always, anti-Semitism is only a story when folks on the left think it's a story that they can use to club people on the right.

00:48:50.000 So when an ISIS sympathizer wants to shoot up a show, then no big deal.

00:48:54.000 But when it's a white supremacist who doesn't like immigration, Who shoots up a shul in Pittsburgh, then it's all about Trump, and it's all about, it's all about the evils of the right, just as Time Magazine, again, giving an award, it's Time Magazine People of the Year, to a newspaper that was attacked, even though it had nothing to do with Trump, in order so that they can claim that President Trump's climate of hate is leading to this sort of stuff.

00:49:17.000 You need to check your values.

00:49:18.000 If a bad thing is only bad according to you because it allows you to target the other side, you're not doing your job as a moral human.

00:49:25.000 Bad things are bad, whether or not it helps you politically.

00:49:28.000 And the fact that on both right and left, we seem to have forgotten this basic truth that bad things are bad, whether or not it helps or harms you.

00:49:36.000 It's pretty amazing and speaks to our loss of basic virtue and basic civility.

00:49:40.000 Because the truth is, the only time that people really think about that is when they are at war.

00:49:44.000 At war, people tend to think, OK, well, the ends justify the means.

00:49:46.000 If you think about that all the time, then you are getting Western civilization wrong.

00:49:51.000 And not only that, you're contributing to its breakup.

00:49:53.000 All righty.

00:49:53.000 We'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest news.

00:49:55.000 There's supposed to be some news about the Russia investigation, which continues apace.

00:49:59.000 We'll bring you all the latest tomorrow.

00:50:01.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 11, 2018

Europe In Crisis | Ep. 677

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