David Koch was a conservative billionaire who died at the age of 79. He was a supporter of conservative causes, including abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and he was a generous philanthropist who left a massive amount of money to charitable causes. But to the left, he was nothing more than a bugaboo. And it doesn t matter that he didn t support Donald Trump in 2016. All that matters is that he s a Republican, and all Republicans are bad. And as long as there s an R with an R next to their name, they are the face and root of all evil. And understand that this is how a lot of the Democratic Left feels about anybody who spends any money in pursuit of politics. They don t know anything about David Koch. They only know about him because they don t understand who he was and what he stood for. And that's why they are so upset about his death. The essence of good on the left is that if you work at the expense of good, then you are evil because you are fighting for things like cancer and fighting for causes like the arts and the arts. You are good because you give 1.3 billion dollars to non-partisan causes, like cancer, and you are a good guy. But if you don t give 1 billion dollars in charity, you are also fighting for something good. And if you do that, you re a bad guy, because you work for something you re evil. - Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro Show is a must-listen to The Weekly Standard - Subscribe to our new show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review and review our new ad choices! Rate/subscribe in Apple Music - become a friend of the show? We are listening to the show on iTunes - rate, review our podcast and subscribe on PODCAST - subscribe on Podcoin - and we'll be giving you a chance to win a FREE FIVE-PRICING promo code called "The Ben Shapiro's BONUS EPISODE! in the coming weeks! to receive a FREE PRODCAST! Subscribe to my new show called "Ben Shapiro's New York Times Square Podcasts" - Subscribe on Podchaser! and much more! - Rate, comment and review Ben Shapiro will be giving out an ad-free version of his new book out next week on his new podcast, "The Best of Ben Shapiro s New York Magazine's "New York Times"
00:00:00.000Major left-leaning cities push a bevy of insanely backwards policies, the White House prepares for the G7, and Bernie Sanders wants to spend all of your money.
00:00:37.000If you read the tweets, You're looking at reporters, like Matthew Chapman from Raw Story, saying the definitive top 10 list of modern people who have done the most damage to America.
00:00:47.000Rupert Murdoch, Mitch McConnell, Charles Koch, David Koch.
00:00:51.000And then you get the tweet of God, which is this popular stupid parody account, 6 million followers, saying RIP David Koch.
00:01:01.000And Michael Ian Black tweeted out, in lieu of flowers, the family of David Koch requests that Mourner simply purchase a Republican politician.
00:01:10.000I mean, Twitter is an awful, awful place.
00:01:14.000David Roth, who is a reporter, supposedly, at Deadspin, which is a ridiculous website owned by Ted Cruz.
00:01:20.000He tweeted out, David Koch had a dream, which was to make things easier for himself and a few friends, while also making things significantly worse for everyone else on the planet.
00:01:31.000Today, whenever you get a chance, harm someone vulnerable.
00:01:33.000I mean, this is the the way that the left treats the death of a man who gave hundreds of millions of dollars in charity to many of the institutions they like.
00:01:44.000And they don't know anything about David Koch.
00:01:47.000All they know is that David Koch is mean because he gave a lot of money to Republican politicians.
00:01:50.000Doesn't matter that he didn't support Trump in 2016.
00:01:53.000All that matters is that David Koch was a Republican, and all Republicans are bad.
00:01:58.000And then you wonder how you got Trump, guys?
00:01:59.000It's because it doesn't matter what the belief system is of anyone with an R next to their name.
00:02:04.000So long as there's an R next to their name, they are the face and root of all evil.
00:02:08.000We saw this when John McCain died, too.
00:02:10.000There were people on the left talking about the evils of John McCain, who was a very moderate Republican.
00:02:15.000Well, David Koch passes away at the age of 79.
00:02:18.000And it no longer matters that David Koch ended, that he had given an enormous amount of money to all sorts of various non-partisan enterprises.
00:02:30.000He was a major benefactor of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
00:02:34.000At Dan's Focus Theater at Lincoln Center bears his name.
00:02:36.000He gave $100 million to the Lincoln Center.
00:02:39.000Last year, Koch Industry said that Koch's donations and pledges to philanthropic organizations had topped $1.3 billion.
00:02:46.000It's not money that he was sucking out of somebody else's pocket via the courtesy of government.
00:02:51.000That was money that he was spending out of his own pocket on charitable causes.
00:03:08.000So long as David Koch gave money to Republican causes and free market causes, he was evil.
00:03:12.000And understand that this is how a lot of the Democratic left feels about anybody who spends any money in pursuit of politics, who spends any time pushing right-wing, meaning libertarian, causes.
00:03:25.000Anybody who pushes for limited government and free markets is a bad guy.
00:03:28.000I mean, this is how it is headlined at CNN.
00:03:31.000David Koch, billionaire businessman and influential GOP donor, dies.
00:03:36.000And the entire beginning of the article doesn't really talk about his company, which is responsible for the employment of a full 120,000 people in the United States.
00:03:50.000It's all been paid for by taxpayer dollars, but he's good.
00:03:52.000The essence of good On the far left, is that if you work at the expense of taxpayer dollars, and you never create anything, you are good.
00:04:00.000If you are David Koch, and you're responsible for the creation of a huge company, and you hire 120,000 people, and you give 1.3 billion dollars in charity, including an enormous amount of charity, to non-partisan excellent causes, like the arts and fighting cancer, then you are evil, because you also gave money to Republican causes.
00:04:21.000I honestly do not know how we can continue to have a republic when people like David Koch are demonized by the left.
00:04:28.000Now, a lot of them are saying, well, you know, he was in the gas industry.
00:04:31.000Ooh, well, he was in the gas industry.
00:04:38.000David Koch, again, was an important voice in the political debate, but he was not the rabid right-wing crazy that so many on the left paint him to be.
00:05:26.000Coke was most active in Americans for Prosperity, the grassroots arm of the Coke's sprawling network, which built a coalition of more than three million activists to push the agenda of the Cokes and the roughly 700 like-minded donors to help fund their public policy work.
00:05:39.000I love it whenever people on the left suggest that a campaign donation is so that they will push the agenda of the person donating, as though politics is a simple art of bribery.
00:05:49.000Okay, well then unions who donate to politicians are bribing the politicians.
00:05:54.000George Soros, yes George Soros, is bribing politicians.
00:05:57.000If this is your logic, if your logic is that if you give money to a politician who supports the agenda that you also support, that you are therefore bribing the politician, then all campaign donations are bribery and that would include Democratic billionaires.
00:06:10.000In the era of President Donald Trump, the network has undergone a significant shift in focus, upping its commitment to work across party lines on top priorities like free trade and creating a path to permanent legal status for undocumented immigrants.
00:06:22.000They're very, very soft on illegal immigration.
00:06:25.000In June, Americans for Prosperity announced four new political action committees and said it would wade into primaries to help incumbent politicians, including Democrats, who side with Koch on trade, immigration, and other issues.
00:06:37.000Obviously, David Koch was supremely evil, according to the left, because he was rich, and because they gave lots of money, and because they were Republicans.
00:06:47.000The treatment of the Koch brothers was shoddy during their lifetime, and it's shoddy after his death, so that is not a major shock.
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00:08:32.000As I say, America's major cities governed almost solely by Democrats are doing an amazing job of making what used to be nice cities into worse places.
00:08:41.000So this week, Texas has joined the national battle over the urban homeless crisis.
00:08:47.000The city of Austin has now made it legal to sleep on the street.
00:08:52.000I can't imagine they're going to have an increased homeless problem in the city of Austin like we have here in the city of Los Angeles.
00:08:56.000According to the Washington Post, Christopher Paula hasn't felt a police officer tapping at his foot in more than a month.
00:09:02.000The tap tap tap that usually meant he was about to get another citation that he was never going to pay.
00:09:07.000Living on the streets for five years after he lost his graphic design job, Paul has been having undisturbed nights since the city council and mayor eased restrictions on public camping this summer, a move that liberal lawmakers build as a humane and pragmatic reform of the criminal justice system.
00:09:22.000But the change has drawn the ire of Republicans and local business owners who decry it as a threat to public safety and the local economy, exposing a partisan clash over how to manage poverty and affordable housing in America's cities.
00:09:32.000Yes, because it turns out that your feelings of sympathy for the homeless are in direct contravention of public order and rule of law.
00:09:38.000Allowing people to sleep in public, on streets, outside businesses, drives down the ability of businesses to do their job, which drives down the taxpayer dollars that you need to fund the city.
00:10:29.000This is not about lack of sympathy for somebody who is homeless, particularly in the short term.
00:10:33.000But when you decide to make the decision to live on the street for five years when there are homeless shelters available in a bevy of cities, when you are in fact living on the street with all of your crap, presumably you are defecating in public because where else would you do it?
00:10:49.000My sympathy is with the law abiding in that community.
00:10:52.000Paul says people can sleep better in the open.
00:10:54.000They're a lot safer than somewhere hiding in a back alley.
00:10:57.000He estimates that he has received 20 citations for illegal camping before the rule went into effect on July 1st.
00:11:02.000But as Paul, 50, sprawled out shirtless on the sidewalk on a 100-degree day, shop owner Craig Staley stood a few feet away on Congress Avenue reconsidering his party affiliation.
00:11:12.000Staley said, I got two emails last month from customers who said, I can't go to your store anymore because it smells like urine.
00:11:24.000It turns out everybody is sympathetic to the homeless until they start peeing on your front doorstep.
00:11:29.000There is nothing law-abiding or decent for the city, or by the way, decent for people who, a large, a large plurality or majority of people who are homeless suffer from severe mental illness or drug addiction.
00:11:40.000It is not sympathetic to leave someone severely schizophrenic on the street talking to themselves, living in their own filth.
00:11:44.000I don't know how that is deemed to be sympathetic.
00:11:47.000With an estimated 2,200 homeless adults sleeping on sidewalks and in makeshift tent cities, Austin has become the latest flashpoint in the national debate over whether homeless residents have a constitutional right to sleep on public streets, particularly in cities grappling with overcrowded shelters.
00:12:02.000Yes, I'm sure this is what the founders meant.
00:12:04.000They meant that you have the freedom to sleep right in front of somebody else's business and pee on their doorstep.
00:12:09.000I am sure that that is exactly what the founders meant.
00:12:12.000Constitutional right to sleep in public.
00:12:34.000So if there are insufficient public restrooms, let's say the restroom is full one day, can I just crap in the open?
00:12:38.000Because apparently, according to the same logic, I should be able to.
00:12:42.000After all, the toilet is occupied and I gotta go.
00:12:44.000Meanwhile, my favorite thing about left-leaning media coverage is whenever Democrats push a really garbage policy, the story is Republicans pouncing.
00:12:54.000So here it is, according to the Washington Post.
00:12:57.000Meanwhile, Republicans have made the nation's growing homeless population a political weapon, characterizing it as a failure of liberal policies.
00:13:44.000And again, it is sympathy for one particular group of people overtaking a policy that actually makes a city better for everyone.
00:13:51.000Everybody was all over Rudy Giuliani in the 90s and early 2000s when he was cleaning up the homeless problem in New York, except that he helped turn New York and the center of New York, particularly from one of the worst, seediest places in America into one of the best.
00:14:04.000President Trump said at a Cincinnati rally this month, look at L.A.
00:14:07.000with the tents and the horrible, horrible conditions.
00:14:12.000California Governor Gavin Newsom said that Democratic policies have fueled the economic resurgence of U.S.
00:14:17.000cities that has caused a short-term increase in homelessness.
00:14:21.000Wait, so he's going to have to explain.
00:14:23.000According to the Democrats, the reason there's a homelessness crisis is because people are too poor to afford housing.
00:14:28.000And yet apparently, according to Gavin Newsom, it is a burgeoning, booming economy in Democratic areas that is causing the homeless problem.
00:14:35.000California is home to nearly half of the nation's homeless people who do not use shelters, which suggests a lot of people are coming from other states and camping out in L.A.
00:14:46.000Because the weather's good, and because they know they're not going to be moved, and because the ACLU has prevented the police from removing bags of crap on L.A.
00:14:55.000In L.A., you're apparently allowed to sleep in your car as long as possible.
00:15:00.000Newsom said, we don't need the president's megaphone to tell us that we have challenges.
00:15:04.000Adding that California is spending $1.7 billion to address housing affordability.
00:15:08.000Again, this is the same state that is about to implement a totalitarian rent control statute that basically makes it impossible for developers to create new units.
00:15:19.000In Austin, Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to push the GOP-dominated Texas legislature to pass a law overriding Austin's public camping action, which is what should happen.
00:15:27.000Matt Mikoviak, chairman of the county party in Travis County.
00:15:30.000He says they thought it would be compassionate and not a big deal.
00:15:32.000But it has been an absolute disaster for the city.
00:15:35.000This is our best example of overreach.
00:15:37.000So we've been strategically focusing on this issue.
00:15:40.000But the Austin mayor, a Democrat, he says, when you move these people, they don't disappear.
00:15:45.000They go not outside businesses and they don't drive down the tax base and provide a public safety hazard in different areas of the city.
00:15:51.000Now, obviously, that doesn't mean you should shuttle them into low-income areas, which is the other solution you've seen from Democrats in these cities.
00:15:57.000He says the real answer is not just moving people from there to over and back again.
00:16:01.000The real answer is giving them the services they need.
00:16:03.000Because as it turns out, the city of Seattle has what they literally call the drunk dorms.
00:16:09.000Where they do not have restrictions on people getting drunk or using drugs in these affordable housing units.
00:16:14.000And these places have turned into festering centers for crime and drug use, which is not a particular shock.
00:16:20.000Previously, the city prohibited sitting or lying down on public sidewalks or sleeping outdoors in downtown Austin.
00:16:25.000Between 2014 and 2016, Austin police issued 18,000 citations for rule violations.
00:16:31.000But those cited didn't show up for court 90% of the time.
00:16:35.000Yes, but the point is that you don't want people feeling the ability to settle down on the sidewalk as a permanent housing solution.
00:16:43.000As we'll see, the city of Los Angeles has been backing off of its own stupid policies on this sort of stuff.
00:16:49.000Because even Democrats are realizing this is bad policy.
00:16:52.000After a while, facts get in the way of feelings, as I am fond of saying.
00:16:56.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:16:59.000Let's talk about the necessity of putting together a trust or a will.
00:17:01.000The fact is, there are a lot of politicians who basically want to steal your money after you die.
00:17:06.000The estate tax is a way of stealing your money.
00:17:07.000Yes, you already paid taxes on all the money in your estate, and you want to pass it on to your relatives.
00:17:12.000Well, now the government would like to steal more and more and more of that, which is why you really need to set up a living will, you need to set up a trust, and right now is actually the perfect time to do it during National Make-A-Will Month at LegalZoom.
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00:17:33.000If that sounds confusing, don't worry.
00:18:19.000Because it turns out taxpayers not particularly happy when you walk outside your front door and there's some dude shooting heroin into his foot.
00:18:27.000L.A.' 's City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee on Wednesday, according to LAS.com, recommended repealing a controversial ordinance prohibiting homeless people from sitting or sleeping on sidewalks.
00:18:37.000The committee wants City Council to replace the law with one that is more narrowly tailored and compliant with a recent federal court decision.
00:18:45.000The ordinance, Municipal Code Section 4118, known in homeless advocacy circles as the Sit-Lie Law, makes it a criminal offense to sit, lie, or sleep on a public sidewalk anywhere in the city.
00:18:54.000The law was the subject of a major lawsuit, Jones v.
00:18:59.000Right now, the city can only enforce the law under limited circumstances.
00:19:02.000The proposed replacement law lays out a lengthy list of circumstances and conditions under which occupying a sidewalk would be banned.
00:19:09.000These include within 500 feet of parks and schools and within 10 feet of a driveway or building entrance.
00:19:15.000Yes, this will certainly solve the problem.
00:19:16.000So we will shuttle people over five feet and that'll definitely fix it.
00:19:19.000Committee members and city attorney's offices are recommending the change in order to align LA's municipal code with the 2018 federal court ruling that limits how cities can enforce anti-camping and anti-loitering laws.
00:19:30.000In that case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Boise law that outlawed sleeping in any public space in that city.
00:19:37.000The judge in that case, because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is an awful, terrible, horrible legal institution, wrote, As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent homeless people for sleeping outdoors on public property on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.
00:19:51.000Well, yes, as long as there is freedom to travel in the United States, you do have a choice as to where you choose to live.
00:19:56.000The city in that case had no shelter beds indoors.
00:20:44.000More than half of those beds are reserved for families with children.
00:20:48.000Thousands of people are living on the sidewalks.
00:20:50.000So here's the list of proposed restrictions.
00:20:51.000Within 10 feet of a driveway or building entrance.
00:20:54.000But other than that, I guess you're fine.
00:20:56.000So if you just sleep within 11 feet, you're fine.
00:20:58.000Within 500 feet of a park, school, or daycare center.
00:21:01.000Because that'll certainly solve the problem.
00:21:03.000Being 500 feet away, having a homeless encampment 500 feet away from the entrance of a kindergarten is fantastic.
00:21:10.000On bike paths, tunnels, bridges, pedestrian subways that is on city designated school routes.
00:21:16.000On public land with posted no trespassing signs and public crowded sidewalk areas.
00:21:21.000The proposed law would make it illegal to follow or speak to a person in a manner that could cause them to fear for their safety or property, or to intimidate a person into giving money, or cause them to respond immediately with a violent reaction because of the inherent nature of the perceived harm.
00:21:34.000Naturally, homeless advocates are calling this inhumane.
00:21:38.000Our cities are turning into trash heaps, and this is democratic policy all the way through.
00:21:42.000How stupid, by the way, is the democratic policy getting?
00:21:45.000San Francisco is introducing a new law.
00:22:14.000The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month, even as the city reels from one of the highest crime rates in the country and staggering inequality exemplified by pervasive homelessness alongside Silicon Valley wealth.
00:22:25.000The local officials say the new language will help change people's views about those who commit crime.
00:22:46.000They're specifically designed at covering over the failure of democratic policies.
00:22:51.000And I love how the media cover this stuff.
00:22:55.000The New York Times has a story today about education in the city of New York.
00:22:58.000City school test scores inch up, but less than half of students pass.
00:23:03.000Whoopsie doodle, turns out that education in the city of New York, where they spend enormous resources, only 46% of the city's third through eighth graders pass the state math exam.
00:23:12.000A three percentage point increase from last year.
00:23:15.000Only 47% of students pass the English exam.
00:23:18.000Everything is going great in Democrat governed cities.
00:23:22.000You can't focus on any of the underlying problems.
00:23:24.000You can't focus on the mental health problem.
00:23:27.000You can't focus on the drug addiction problem.
00:23:29.000When it comes to homelessness, you can't focus on the problem of single parent families who have to split their attention between work and making sure their kid has help with their homework.
00:23:39.000You can't focus on any of the underlying problems.
00:23:40.000Instead, we just say that criminals are justice-involved persons.
00:23:43.000We say that homeless people are not homeless, they're just unsheltered.
00:23:46.000And we suggest that educational failures are the result of not spending enough money on education.
00:23:52.000And this is how you get to, by the way, a democratic party that has now fully embraced the idea that the only measure of sympathy is how much money you spend on crap.
00:25:25.000Okay, so as I say, Democrats, because feelings matter more than facts, because they don't care if the city of Los Angeles is overrun so long as they can pat themselves on the back for their sympathy for the homeless, while the city declines, while the tax base flees, while people move out increasingly to the suburbs to get away from the center of major cities that are rotting out in the core.
00:25:44.000At the same time, Democrats are patting themselves on the back because they spend lots of money.
00:25:48.000Because money that you spend from somebody else, not David Koch, who spent his own money on charity.
00:25:52.000If they spend your money, this demonstrates how committed they are to a cause.
00:25:56.000Case in point today, Bernie Sanders has now promoted a $16.3 trillion climate plan on Thursday.
00:26:12.000He would offer billions in subsidies to replace gas-guzzling vehicles with electric ones by 2030, a new public system of clean electricity generation that could sideline private utilities, and an infrastructure program that would remake much of the economy and employ an estimated 20 million more Americans.
00:26:42.000Remember when Barack Obama was talking about shovel-ready jobs that didn't materialize?
00:26:45.000And then he was talking about green jobs that didn't materialize?
00:26:49.000And now Bernie Sanders is doing the same thing and the media's like, oh!
00:26:53.000The sheer scale of the effort, which the Independent from Vermont compares to FDR's 1940s mobilization to fight World War II, was central to his message in rolling out the plan.
00:27:02.000It's a feature, not a bug, that it's going to destroy the American economy and force us to spend trillions.
00:27:07.000Because after all, we can measure your sympathy in dollars.
00:27:23.000He was at a town hall event yesterday, and he's talking about how we have to transition away from fossil fuels, which, if you are worried about climate change, then you do want a transition away from fossil fuels over the course of time.
00:27:36.000The technology is simply not sophisticated enough.
00:27:39.000There are certain things that you can do, like we should explore geoengineering, building more infrastructure to prevent against rising sea levels, right?
00:27:47.000There are certain things you can do for mitigation.
00:27:49.000There are certain things you can do to heighten adaptation, maybe making it easier for people to move from particular low-lying areas as sea levels rise, for example.
00:27:57.000And then there is stuff that you can do to actually mitigate climate change itself.
00:28:02.000Some of that involves shooting Sulfur into the air has been explored.
00:28:07.000There's also talk about technological innovation.
00:28:09.000And it's always funny to me when people say we have to subsidize technological innovation.
00:28:14.000OK, well, you know who the person who wins the race to create an alternative energy source that is even nearly as efficient as carbon emissions?
00:28:26.000If you are the person who discovers nuclear fusion, that does not require the heat of the sun, if you are the person who discovers that and makes it cost-effective on a small scale, then you are going to be the wealthiest person in the history of humanity.
00:30:42.000He does not reject that the climate is changing.
00:30:44.000And he actually believes in a carbon tax.
00:30:47.000But even Nordhaus says, yeah, there actually is an economic tipping point at which it is not worth it to actually invest in stopping climate change below a certain point.
00:30:57.000But again, it's about people's intentions in politics these days.
00:31:00.000It's not About their actual, their actual activity.
00:31:04.000This is how you, but here's what's hilarious about this.
00:31:07.000The DNC recognizes that this is an argument for a very, like, that the worst thing they can do is pitch their climate change plans in public.
00:31:14.000They're fine with pretending that they care deeply about these crazy climate change plans put out by AOC and Bernie Sanders.
00:31:20.000They don't want to talk about it publicly.
00:31:22.000Because a committee within the DNC on Thursday voted down a proposal for a debate focused on climate change.
00:31:28.000The DNC resolution voted against the measure, though a resolution calling for a climate change debate could still be considered for a vote by the full committee on Saturday.
00:31:36.000The committee defeated the resolution in a 17 to 8 vote.
00:31:39.000So remember that time that every Democrat said this is the greatest crisis in the history of humanity?
00:31:44.000And then they're like, well, let's hold a debate on it.
00:31:45.000They're like, nah, you know, because then we'll have to talk about how we want to get rid of everybody's car and kill their cows.
00:32:05.000Make it so a convicted rapist is not a convicted felon, they're a justice-involved person.
00:32:09.000Make it so that a homeless person sleeping on the street, you have sympathy for them, so much sympathy you're going to allow them to loiter in public and pee in the gutter.
00:32:16.000And do drugs on the open streets and defecate.
00:32:20.000And if you say you want to clean that up, you want to arrest people who are loitering, you want their garbage to be thrown away because it is in fact piles of garbage.
00:32:29.000If you suggest that there have to be consequences, that the people who are who are mentally ill and living on the street need to be put in a place where they can be taken care of.
00:32:39.000If, without their permission, if they are seriously mentally ill, because many of these people cannot actually make intelligent, rational decisions.
00:32:46.000If you are a schizophrenic, I have schizophrenia.
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00:35:11.000I used to know the name of everybody who works here.
00:35:13.000And I'm still learning everybody's name.
00:35:15.000And I'm one of those people where I have to actually meet somebody like four times before I realize that their name ought to be embedded in my memory.
00:35:21.000But you can be one of those people who requires meeting me four times for me to recognize you if you go over to dailywire.com slash careers.
00:35:29.000Also, this upcoming Tuesday, August 27th, 7 p.m.
00:36:04.000In the picture, Darren's Leftist Tears Tumblr is taking a ride on a Navy ship as he empties a few rounds of the awesome firepower on deck, which is just spectacular.
00:36:12.000The caption reads, Wishing I could be at Backstage Live, but I'm busy sailing the sea of Leftist Tears.
00:36:24.000You're doing something much more important than listening to us jabber.
00:36:26.000We thank you for doing what you do and keeping this great country safe.
00:36:30.000Man, members of our military, members of our police departments, thank you guys.
00:36:34.000I mean, I get, honestly, it's humbling.
00:36:36.000There's a lot of people who are members of the military, members of the police, firefighters, people who are in those positions across the nation who send me letters talking about how much they enjoy the show.
00:36:45.000I'm always like, I don't do anything, right?
00:36:47.000You guys are actually, You have the hardest job.
00:36:50.000You're out there putting your lives on the line to defend the country and defend public order and defend safety with zero thanks from an entire side of the political aisle.
00:37:43.000This seems like a pretty damn good way to do it.
00:37:44.000One of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well is because if you make capital gains from your stocks, Those are taxed at a far lower rate than normal income.
00:37:53.000Well now, Joe Biden wants to get rid of that differential.
00:37:56.000Capital gains to get taxed just like regular income.
00:37:58.000Get ready for the stock market to take a hit.
00:38:03.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration is prepared to head on over to the G7.
00:38:09.000Now, one of the things I always find hilarious about these international conferences is this pretend nonsense where we're part of a family of nations.
00:38:21.000Except for how we hate each other a lot of the time and disagree, and we have our own particular interests, and there is no actual common interest between some of the members of the G7.
00:38:30.000So the G7, it used to be the G8, it used to include Russia, now it's the G7 plus one.
00:38:35.000It's a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the United States.
00:38:40.000And there are a lot of internal disagreements about how to handle world affairs in the G7.
00:38:45.000Those disagreements extend on everything from how to handle global warming and climate change all the way over to the Iran deal where the United States has taken a very hard line and the Europeans wish to continue to appease the Iranians and the evil regime that takes precedence there.
00:39:01.000According to the Washington Post, Karen DeYoung and Josh Dousey writing, like an annual holiday gatherer, That's the part that's unfair.
00:39:08.000It's always about Trump blowing it up.
00:39:18.000It's always about Trump blowing it up.
00:39:19.000It's never about the Europeans taking crap positions.
00:39:21.000Subjects on which to tread lightly include some of the biggest problems the world's major economies are facing, including trade, the system of international rules that has ordered the democratic world for decades, and climate change, according to the U.S., and other G7 officials.
00:39:34.000Now, when it comes to trade, the reality is the reason that trade agreements have been so effective for the past 30 years, 40 years, is not because everybody agrees that we're all friends.
00:39:44.000It's specifically because when you lower your own trade barriers, you're helping your own country.
00:39:49.000So the national interest is in you lowering your tariffs, even if other people are not lowering their tariffs as a general rule.
00:39:55.000Already, President Trump, though, has shaken up the schedule, calling at the last minute for a special meeting to discuss the global economy.
00:40:01.000Senior administration officials say he will contrast U.S.
00:40:04.000growth with Europe's economic doldrums and press his pro-jobs and fairer trade messages.
00:40:09.000Well, it is certainly true that the United States regulatory system, our tax system, in many ways is better than Europe's highly confiscatory system that generally penalizes the middle class at exorbitant rates.
00:40:21.000When it comes to trade, the president is not actually correct in his general take that trade is a zero-sum game.
00:40:28.000It is unclear, of course, how receptive the others will be to whatever thoughts Trump might offer as to how they should shift their own economic approaches.
00:40:34.000Many world leaders are blaming Trump's trade war with China and his threats against Europe and Japan for a major contraction in investment and spending.
00:40:42.000Germany's economy has been contracting.
00:40:45.000China's economy was contracting before the tariffs actually kicked in.
00:40:49.000Trump's refusal to agree to a joint view of the climate threat and an agenda to confront it roiled the first two G7 meetings he attended in Italy in 27 and in Canada last year.
00:40:59.000Well, that is because half of the countries involved in the G7 make commitments on climate change and then don't fulfill the commitments and then virtue signal about how much they're going to lower emissions while the United States has actually lowered emissions more than any other country since 2014.
00:41:55.000And frankly, we'd be far better off He says, our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies home and making your products in the United States.
00:42:08.000First of all, that is not how law works, guys.
00:42:11.000This is like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
00:42:14.000He sort of goes out in the middle of the office and he goes, I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!
00:42:20.000You can't just declare on Twitter that American companies are immediately ordered to start looking for an alternative to China.
00:42:27.000Unless you're placing sanctions on China, like we have sanctions on Iran, that is not what this is.
00:42:34.000With that said, China has unveiled new tariffs on Chinese goods.
00:42:37.000China will implement new tariffs on another $75 billion worth of American goods, including autos.
00:42:42.000Those tariffs will range between 5% and 10%.
00:42:44.000Earlier in the day, stocks were teetering around flatline after Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, Delivered a speech from the annual Central Banking Symposium.
00:42:53.000In it, he said the Fed would do what it can to sustain the current economic expansion.
00:42:56.000He said our challenge now is to do what monetary policy can do to sustain the expansion, so that the benefits of the strong jobs market extend to more of those still left behind, and so that inflation is centered firmly around 2%.
00:43:08.000He also said there's no rulebook for the US-China trade war.
00:43:12.000He didn't really give an indication as to whether the rates will be cut again in September.
00:43:17.000He says, after a decade of progress toward maximum employment and price stability, the economy is close to both goals, which does not suggest that the Fed is going to do a lot more in the near future.
00:43:27.000Again, I'm not averse to an economic war with China, given that the Chinese are expanding their world power, given the fact that they use every dollar that they make in the world economy to pour into a fascistic communist regime that runs roughshod over the rights of its own citizens.
00:43:41.000That it tries to expand its sphere of influence over the South China Sea, that builds military islands out of its holes in the South China Sea.
00:43:48.000I mean, this is a dangerous geopolitical foe.
00:43:51.000President Trump, I don't mind him saying that we need to make sacrifices in order to fight that foe, but he needs to give a national address on that, frankly.
00:43:59.000He needs to make Democrats defend why they would instead enrich the Chinese government through mutual trade.
00:44:06.000But he has to explain why the American people ought to take a hit on all of this.
00:44:09.000If he doesn't explain that, then we've got these mixed messages that are not going to result in anything good for President Trump as time moves forward.
00:44:21.000When are you going to leave that hellhole and join us here in the great state of Texas, where your taxes get more than a traffic cone for much less?
00:44:28.000Should Ancestry or DNA databanks be compelled to, or under their own will, comply with law enforcement?
00:44:32.000What is the legal and or constitutional ramifications of these companies complying?
00:44:36.000Well, it seems very dicey to compel DNA databanks or Ancestry sites to comply with federal law enforcement.
00:44:47.000I mean, absent, you know, compelling search and seizure, usually that has to be directed against an actual suspect.
00:44:55.000A blanket dictate that the government should have access to a DNA database?
00:44:59.000That seems quite violative of the Fourth Amendment, which bans unreasonable search and seizure.
00:45:04.000You didn't volunteer your information to the government, you volunteered it to a company with the basic understanding that the company was going to keep that in confidentiality.
00:45:12.000So I'm really not into the idea of ancestry companies being forced by the federal government to turn over vast data banks.
00:45:18.000Now, maybe that's a little bit different if you actually have a reasonable search and seizure.
00:45:21.000Namely, they have a crime scene, they have a suspect, they want the DNA of that particular suspect.
00:45:28.000The suspect is on the loose, for example.
00:45:30.000Because normally you actually, there have been court cases on whether you can draw blood in a reasonable search and seizure in particular cases.
00:45:40.000Garrett says, hey Ben, what in your view are our human rights?
00:45:43.000Are they what's stated in our founding documents or is there more to it?
00:45:45.000What's the counter argument to the thinking we have a human right to immigrate to any country we want?
00:45:49.000Libertarians very often want open borders because they view it as a human right.
00:45:53.000Well, human rights are the rights to life, liberty, and property, but those rights have to be guaranteed by the system.
00:45:59.000They have to be guaranteed by the government.
00:46:02.000If you are not a member of that system, then you don't have the right from that government.
00:46:07.000You have a right generally, but rights have to be guaranteed.
00:46:09.000The government is instituted to protect those rights.
00:46:12.000So, it is not that anybody in the world has a right to enter the United States, particularly not if the United States is giving out welfare goodies, particularly if there are cultural changes that are inherent in you coming here and then voting.
00:46:27.000Any country has the right to protect its own borders because if the country could not protect its own views of rights, then it would be very easy to see those rights overthrown by a change in the government.
00:46:37.000So the founding fathers, when they said that there was inalienable rights, they did not mean that those rights were just out there in the universe and the government of the United States has the ability and the capability and the obligation to protect those for people around the world.
00:46:56.000If that were the case, then the United States would have the moral authority to invade every country on earth and impose our view of natural rights, which I do not think that we have.
00:47:04.000Ashley says, Hey Ben, to take a break from politics, can we gather around the campfire and hear the story of how the full Daily Wire team came together?
00:47:10.000You, Knowles, Clavin, Elisha, and Walsh.
00:47:12.000I'd love to know how you guys all got the band together.
00:47:14.000Well, the first people to know each other here at the Daily Wire were me and my business partner, Jeremy Boring.
00:47:21.000We were introduced by a guy that I used to work for who was in the talk radio industry.
00:47:24.000At the time, he wanted to do movies, and Jeremy was the head of the not-so-secret secret underground Hollywood organization Friends of Abe, which was a bunch of conservatives in Hollywood.
00:47:54.000So I knew Elisha a little bit when she was a producer for Sean Hannity.
00:47:57.000And then she became a co-host on a morning show that I did here in Los Angeles called The Morning Answers.
00:48:02.000Me and Elisha Krauss and Brian Whitman.
00:48:04.000And we became close friends from that.
00:48:06.000Then, Jeremy and I founded a company called Truth Revolt, and Elisha worked for us over there, and with us over there, and we also brought on Andrew Klavan at that time to do videos with us.
00:48:17.000So, Klavan moved over and was doing some work at PJTV still, and he was doing work for us over at Truth Revolt, so that's how I got to know Andrew.
00:48:24.000Knowles joined when we started Daily Wire.
00:48:27.000He was there basically from inception, but he started off doing kind of social media for us, and he was doing some behind-the-scenes office work, and it turns out he was real crappy at that, so we gave him a show.
00:48:36.000And then finally, Matt Walsh joined because we really enjoy Matt.
00:48:43.000So that's how all the members of the band got together in terms of the out-front talent.
00:48:47.000Now, the fact is that the company's a lot more than the out-front talent.
00:48:50.000We're friends with a lot of the people we work with.
00:48:52.000Thank God it's a really fun company to work for as much as I kid about it.
00:48:55.000And the team that is behind the scenes is, I think, much more or just as important as the team that is out in front of the cameras.
00:49:01.000And they have a much harder job because they don't get the credit for it, but they do an unbelievable job each and every day as much as I make fun of them.
00:49:09.000Tate says, Dear Mr. Shapiro, every week it seems you are recommending a new book to read.
00:49:13.000Thus, I was curious as to how many books you read a year.
00:49:14.000What's the fastest you've read through a book?
00:49:16.000Well, it depends on the length of the book, obviously.
00:49:56.000Now, that does not mean... And that's excluding some of the books that I just skim.
00:50:01.000There are some books where you can read the intro and the conclusion and skim everything in the middle and you get the main argument of the book.
00:50:06.000But I would say I'd read probably 100 books cover to cover and then I'd probably skim another 100 to 150 a year.
00:50:37.000Second of all, the Bible has historically been used Christians were some of the first people to outlaw slavery among fellow Christians.
00:50:45.000Co-religionists were not allowed to be enslaved by Christianity early on in the development of the Christian Church.
00:50:50.000Now, over time that was extended, obviously, to people who are not Christian.
00:50:55.000And that's one of the great stories of humanity, is the development from enslaving of even your co-religionists to slavery being eliminated among intergroup rivals.
00:51:04.000And because of the vast majority of human history, people have held slaves.
00:51:07.000Slavery in the Bible is designed to restrict what slavery was.
00:51:12.000Slavery in the Bible is a series of restrictions on how you can treat your slaves.
00:51:14.000So, according to Talmudic Law, you have to feed your slave before you feed yourself.
00:51:18.000According to Talmudic Law, according to Biblical Law, if somebody is an indentured servant for you, you have to give them their freedom at the end of seven years.
00:51:26.000Maybe beforehand, depending on if it's the jubilee year.
00:51:29.000And if somebody wants to stay because they already have a family with you, then you actually are supposed to hammer an awl through their earlobe to represent the fact that they are doing something wrong.
00:51:39.000Because the idea is that they should be a free person subject only to God, not to another human being.
00:51:44.000The treatment of slaves in the Bible is supposed to be a lot, lot, lot more humane than American slavery.
00:51:51.000People were not supposed to be treated as property, they were supposed to be treated as fellow human beings who owed you a debt, basically.
00:51:57.000But the Bible, and this is one of the problems with folks talking about the Bible who don't know what they're talking about, the Bible does two things.
00:52:03.000One, it establishes eternal values, but two, it is also dealing with a specific set of people at a specific time.
00:52:09.000It is talking to a specific group of people at a specific time and there are attempts to curb human nature in the Bible.
00:52:15.000So at the time of the Bible, everyone held slaves.
00:52:17.000So is the Bible attempting to make slavery broader or is it attempting to narrow slavery?
00:52:21.000Is it attempting to make slavery more humane or is it attempting to make it less humane?
00:52:25.000The Bible is obviously attempting to make it significantly more humane, significantly narrower.
00:52:30.000The Bible is telling a group of people who held slaves and were not going to give them up That you need to move toward, eventually, abolition of slavery, which is how every abolitionist pretty much ever has read the Bible.
00:52:41.000From William Wilberforce to Frederick Douglass, this is how abolitionists have read the Bible, and I think that is eminently correct.
00:52:47.000So you have to understand that when you're trying to read the Bible just as a text, that the Bible is trying to accomplish two purposes.
00:52:52.000To express universal human values about human relationships and good and evil.
00:52:58.000And also that the Bible is trying to speak to a particular people at a particular time and wean them away from bad ideas.
00:53:03.000This is what Maimonides says about sacrifice, for example.
00:53:07.000That pagan peoples used to perform sacrifices, and the sacrifices were designed to propitiate the gods.
00:53:13.000They were designed to feed, provide something to God that God couldn't get from you.
00:53:18.000And Maimonides suggests that what biblical sacrifice was supposed to do is take that out of the realm of the pagan, and instead make it symbolic.
00:53:25.000That you understand that really you owe your life to God, and that you have sinned, and really it should be you who's paying the price.
00:53:30.000But instead, you need to feel that viscerally, and so you're forced to bring a sacrifice.
00:53:35.000There's a lot of weaning in the Bible away from more primitive views and toward more developed, civilizational views.
00:54:28.000But America's top CEOs are now saying that businesses have to stop thinking about business so much and do some of that virtue stuff they've heard so much about.
00:54:37.000We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.