Rex Tillerson has been fired as the United States' Secretary of State. This means the King is dead, but it also means that Rex has been replaced by Mike Pompeo. Hillary Clinton is back, and she is worse than ever. Plus, Rex is out, and it s time for rexit. As well, Republicans in the House are about to try to vindicate Trump on the Russian collusion stuff. We ll talk about all of these things and much, much more on today's show with Ben Shapiro. Subscribe to my new podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show, where I break it all down and talk about everything you need to know about what s going on in the world of politics, economics, and everything else, including the latest in the Trump administration! I hope you enjoy the show, and if you like it, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms! If you like what you hear, please consider becoming a patron of the show and leaving us a five star rating and reviewing the show! It helps spread the word to your friends and family about what we're talking about! Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro and all the great stuff we do! - The Best of Ben Shapiro! Thank you for listening and supporting the show. - Your continued support is so appreciated! and we'll keep coming back for more episodes like this and more! Timestamps: 1:00: 2:00 - What's up? 3:00 4: What would you like? 5:30 - What are you're looking for? 6: What do you think of the best? 7:00? 8:00 | What's your favorite piece of advice? 9: What s going to happen next? 11:30 | Is Hillary Clinton better than me? 12:00 Is she better than you? 13:00 What s your favorite part? 15:00 Can I have it? 16:00 Do you have a question? 17:00 Would you like to see me send me a photo of a piece of gold or silver or silver? 18:00 How do you agree? 19:00 Are you agree with me or disagree? 21:00 Does she's better than that? 22:30 Is she a better than I think I'm better than she's a good person?
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00:02:24.000You recall that President Trump actually tweeted out in the middle of Rex Tillerson talking with the North Koreans that Rex Tillerson should not talk with the North Koreans.
00:02:32.000See, the nice thing about Trump and, you know, one of the great fears that Trump was going to run a secret agenda when he was president.
00:02:37.000They weren't going to know what he was thinking.
00:02:39.000And then there's this thing called Twitter.
00:02:40.000Where it's legitimately just him vomiting his thoughts out of Twitter.
00:02:44.000So it's not like there's a big secret about Rex Tillerson.
00:02:53.000Well, on Tuesday morning, the president tweeted out his firing of Rex Tillerson, because this is the way you should totally get rid of cabinet-level officers, is by tweeting out that they're gone.
00:03:03.000And then they look around and go, wait, what?
00:04:33.000As soon as we get the facts straight, and we're going to be speaking with the British today, we're speaking with Theresa May today, and as soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be.
00:04:52.000Okay, so again, that seems pretty soft on Russia, but what people were assuming is that because Tillerson was harsh on Russia yesterday, and Trump didn't want to be harsh on Russia, he fired Tillerson.
00:05:04.000Tillerson's been on the chopping block for a long time.
00:05:06.000John Bolton was in the Oval Office like last week.
00:05:08.000People have been expecting Tillerson to be gone for literally months, and then Trump would tweet out every so often, no, I love Rex, he's staying.
00:05:14.000Which is always code for, we're gonna get rid of him as soon as we possibly can.
00:05:17.000So, here was Trump actually explaining why he got rid of Rex Tillerson, and this ring is sort of true.
00:06:17.000He's one of the leading voices during the Obama administration criticizing Obama for not using the phrase radical Islamic terrorism.
00:06:23.000He and Trump seem to be very much on the same page on foreign policy, which is good.
00:06:26.000The President of the United States and the Secretary of State should be on the same page with regard to foreign policy.
00:06:32.000Now, Trump says that he's getting close to the cabinet he wants, which is kind of hilarious since the president picks his own cabinet, right?
00:06:38.000This is sort of like saying that you ordered at a restaurant and you're getting very close to the order that you want.
00:07:00.000I've gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year, and I'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that I want.
00:07:11.000I don't know what the other things are.
00:07:31.000Although, again, it's kind of a gutless move to get rid of him on Twitter, as opposed to calling him up and saying, listen, Rex, thanks for your service.
00:07:47.000In reality, Trump is very hesitant about firing people.
00:07:50.000He tends to make them resign, or he tries to pressure them to resign, like Jeff Sessions, or he will fire them through Twitter, or all this other stuff.
00:07:57.000The reason that matters is because a feeling of chaos within the Trump administration does not quiet the worries of the American people.
00:08:03.000If you just looked at the policy coming out of the Trump administration, as I've been saying for a long time, I like a lot of the policy, but the American people feel uneasy with President Trump.
00:08:11.000They feel uneasy because they feel like he is a whirlwind of chaos.
00:08:15.000Mainly because he is a whirlwind of chaos.
00:08:16.000I mean, the same day that he gets rid of Rex Tillerson, John McEntee, who's the longtime personal assistant to Trump, was abruptly escorted out of the White House in another dramatic staff change.
00:08:25.000He was the trip director for Trump's campaign.
00:08:26.000He'd be like the guy who brought Trump a Sharpie when it was time to sign something.
00:08:30.000Apparently, he was fired, according to CNN, because he was under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source told the network.
00:08:39.000A source familiar with his firing told the network the circumstances were not related to Trump.
00:08:43.000He was actually removed so quickly that he left without his jacket and somebody had to go back in for his jacket.
00:08:48.000So he was ejected from the White House.
00:08:50.000And then, and then, the most hilarious thing is that he was immediately hired by the Trump campaign.
00:08:55.000So as soon as the story comes out that he might be dirty and there's a problem with him, then all of a sudden he is immediately hired by the Trump campaign.
00:09:01.000Other people joining the Trump campaign, I love this, Katrina Pearson.
00:09:05.000Yeah, she's back and she's joining the Trump campaign once again, the greatest spokesperson of all time, which means that we'll have many more hours of analyzing funny video to come in future episodes of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:09:15.000So we're very excited about the rehiring of Katrina Pearson.
00:09:40.000The last time that it happened was 2002.
00:09:42.000So presidents always lose seats in off-year elections.
00:09:45.000The question is how many seats the Republicans are actually going to lose in 2018.
00:09:49.000They right now have a 23-seat majority in the House.
00:09:53.000If they lose any more than that, they lose the majority.
00:09:54.000There are apparently 37 open Republican seats.
00:09:57.000Republicans who have either retired, resigned, or moved on to other positions.
00:10:01.000There are, I think, 12 to 14 Democratic seats that are available in the same way.
00:10:06.000One of the bellwethers is supposed to happen tonight.
00:10:08.000So one of the hot pieces of news is that tonight there's an election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district.
00:10:13.000Now, this thing is an interim election.
00:10:14.000It's only going to last for, like, the next couple of months.
00:10:17.000But the contest is happening in a district that Trump won by 20 points, and it pits GOP candidate Rick Saccone, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, against a much younger Democrat named Conor Lamb, who's a former federal prosecutor and a Marine.
00:10:30.000Again, Trump won this district going away, and no Democrat has run a competitive race in this district in two decades.
00:10:35.000The closest selection of the last eight races was 15 points, separating the Republican from the Democrat.
00:10:39.000But Tim Murphy, who is the Republican, resigned from his seat after news broke that he'd impregnated his then-mistress and allegedly told her to get an abortion.
00:10:47.000So he resigned, and that left the seat open.
00:10:49.000Well, right now, the Democrat is slightly favored to win the seat, and you can tell there's a lot of
00:10:53.000Heartache and heartburn inside the Republican halls of power.
00:10:57.000The president of the United States threw Saccone under the bus the other day.
00:11:36.000So in just a second, I'm going to give you the statistical breakdown on exactly how all of this goes down.
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00:13:12.000All right, so here's how the statistics break down and how Democrats have been doing in districts across the country in these special elections.
00:13:20.000So the answer is they've been doing quite well.
00:14:31.000And in Pennsylvania, the candidate there has stopped campaigning on the tax cuts because, apparently, that's not actually getting anybody out to vote.
00:14:38.000Instead, the candidate is campaigning on cultural issues, which makes a lot of sense and gives the lie to the idea that Republicans are going to win based on the state of the economy or based on policy victories.
00:14:47.000People do not win elections based on policy victories.
00:14:51.000Unfortunately, they win based on culture war.
00:14:53.000Issues and culture war issues are where Republicans do have an advantage because the Democrats are so off the reservation when it comes to the culture war.
00:15:00.000The Democrats are the ones pushing intersectional politics.
00:15:02.000The Democrats are the ones suggesting that Republicans and Republican voters are stupid and nasty and poor.
00:15:09.000We'll get to Hillary Clinton in just a second because it really is incredible what Democrats are saying about Republicans.
00:15:58.000Vice President Mike Pence is an emissary of the culture war, and I'm telling you, Mike Pence, what he has to say about Joy Behar from The View is much more important to voters, believe it or not, than even the tax cuts.
00:16:09.000So Joy Behar, of course, went on national television and said that Mike Pence is a crazy person for saying that God speaks to him, and then she had to apologize.
00:16:14.000Here's what Pence had to say about it on Hannity's show last night on Fox News.
00:16:19.000When I heard that ABC had a program where my Christian faith had been described as a mental illness,
00:16:27.000I thought it was important for me to speak out, not on my own behalf.
00:16:30.000You and I know that criticism comes with public life.
00:16:33.000But I felt it was important that I defend the faith of tens of millions of Americans against that kind of slander.
00:17:04.000We have some video of the Trump wall prototypes that President Trump will be visiting today in California.
00:17:09.000Again, 1, 2, 3, 4, he declares a culture war.
00:17:13.000Again, the idea here is that when you declare a culture war, you're more likely to be successful than if you campaign on policy because people vote on the basis of character, not on the basis of policy.
00:17:21.000Here is what the border wall prototypes look like that President Trump will be visiting when he comes out to Los Angeles.
00:17:28.000Now, what it does seem like for people who can't see, there's a bunch of different border wall prototypes.
00:17:32.000It looks sort of like if you were going to shop for linoleum at your local furniture, your local furniture emporium.
00:19:18.000Huma's like, oh yeah, Hillary does this all the time.
00:19:21.000Remember when we were told that Hillary was perfectly healthy and all was well?
00:19:25.000For people who are saying that the stairs were slippery, first of all, Slippery Stairs is a great Japanese show, but has nothing to do with this, but I just felt like making the reference.
00:19:32.000But second of all, I think that it is worth noting that no one else who is walking down these stairs is slipping, except for Hillary, who slips twice and then kicks off her shoes.
00:19:40.000Yeah, but everybody who asked about her health was totally crazy in the last election cycle.
00:19:43.000That wasn't the worst slipping down the stairs for Hillary.
00:19:45.000The worst slipping down the stairs for Hillary came yesterday during an interview on India Today.
00:19:51.000In which she slandered poor people and people in red states as well as other women.
00:19:57.000Now, for those who can't see, Hillary is actually apparently wearing Steve Urkel's pants in this interview.
00:20:03.000So she's sitting there talking about why she lost and going, did I lose that?
00:20:09.000So here's Hillary Clinton talking about why people voted for Trump instead of for Her Majesty.
00:20:17.000If you look at the map of the United States, there's all that red in the middle where Trump won.
00:20:22.000I win the coast, I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.
00:21:04.000They live out in a bunch of places that are not particularly high-earning as a generality.
00:21:07.000A lot of Hillary voters are people who are not necessarily rich, but they do live in high-earning areas like Manhattan or Los Angeles or Seattle, big cities, because Hillary's voting base tends to be more urban.
00:21:17.000Urban there is not a euphemism for black, by the way.
00:22:08.000The way it works, you go in your garage, you get all those old tapes, all those old reels, all those old pictures, and you send them in a box to the folks over at Legacy Box.
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00:22:29.000So if, God forbid, there's a flood at your house, or you just want to take it on vacation, you just pop it on your keychain and you're ready to go.
00:22:34.000You've got all your memories right there.
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00:23:57.000Our optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards.
00:24:08.000You know, you didn't like black people getting rights, you don't like women getting jobs, you don't want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are.
00:24:20.000So Hillary, you see, Hillary's voters were just superior humans.
00:24:24.000Now, this is one of the reasons she lost the election.
00:24:26.000When you call half the voting American public deplorable, turns out they think that you're kind of a jerk.
00:24:32.000Hillary was the worst candidate in American history and she proves it every single day.
00:24:35.000I just hope that Hillary continues to be on the public stage and Democrats are forced to defend her.
00:24:39.000I'd love to see Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, be forced to answer questions about Hillary's perspective on the American voter.
00:24:45.000But that's an amazing contrast she's drawn.
00:24:47.000And here's why Democrats, if they take this to heart, are gonna lose.
00:24:49.000Because their view is that the people who voted for Hillary Clinton are superior, better humans, than the people who voted for Donald Trump.
00:24:56.000They actually believe that the folks who pulled the trigger for Hillary are more optimistic and diverse and dynamic and moving forward.
00:25:02.000Even though there's no evidence that they're more optimistic, right?
00:25:11.000That they wanted more socialistic government?
00:25:14.000One of the places that are more optimistic, but the people from the other side, those terrible, terrible people, they're just garbage.
00:25:19.000When Democrats say this, when they believe this, what it means is they're going to double down on the good people, right?
00:25:24.000They're going to double down on the optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward people, which means the intersectional coalition.
00:25:30.000They're going to keep ignoring the people who voted in Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
00:25:34.000They're going to keep just saying that those people are bad people, which is why they voted for Trump.
00:25:38.000And maybe if you insult them enough, they'll vote for you, Hillary.
00:25:40.000Maybe if you insult them enough, Democrats, they'll vote for you.
00:25:43.000Maybe if you tell them that they're beneficiaries of white privilege who are looking backwards, then suddenly they will resonate to your cause.
00:26:37.000You don't want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are?
00:26:39.000Who does she think is the United Nations ambassador?
00:26:44.000The ambassador to the UN from the United States is Nikki Haley, an Indian-American.
00:26:50.000The two states that have had Indian-American governors are North Carolina, Nikki Haley, and Louisiana, with Bobby Jindal.
00:26:57.000Both of them voted for Trump in the last election cycle.
00:27:00.000I mean, it was Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, who was making jokes about Apu-style Indian people at 7-Eleven.
00:27:09.000This is all nonsense, and it's very helpful for Democrats because, again, they want to portray themselves as the better people than the rest of us.
00:27:16.000Over at FiveThirtyEight, actually it was Vox.com, they had a whole article about how Trump voters are more racist than Hillary voters, ignoring, of course, the fact that a lot of Hillary voters are racist in a reversed fashion, that when you spend an entire campaign talking about white privilege and how America is terrible and how white people have victimized black people all across America and continue to do so, when you do that, that tends to veer into racism very, very quickly.
00:27:38.000And it tends to veer into a sneering, snide, nasty, looking-down-your-nose at all of these Americans, a sort of paternalistic view of these stupid people who live in the middle of the country.
00:27:52.000And then she continued along these lines.
00:27:54.000Again, she's looking for everyone to blame.
00:27:56.000She's now blamed pretty much everyone on earth except for herself for her election loss.
00:27:59.000She said that she blames women because married women voted for Trump.
00:28:02.000But why did married women vote for Trump?
00:28:04.000Well, they voted for Trump, of course, because they're little Tammy Wynette types, right, who stand by their man.
00:28:09.000The reason that married women voted for Trump is because married women voted like their husbands, and their husbands basically, the old Bob comes down from his job at the beer factory, and he comes in and gets his whoopin' stick, and he says to his wife, honey, you better get out there and vote Trump!
00:28:23.000I'm gonna hit you with the whoopin' stick!
00:28:25.000This is Hillary's actual vision of how married women in the United States vote.
00:28:31.000What happened in my election is I was on the way to winning white women until former director of the FBI, Jim Comey, dropped that very ill-advised letter on October the 28th, and my numbers just went down.
00:28:47.000And I heard a lot of anecdotal evidence about this.
00:28:51.000All of a sudden, white women who were going to vote for me, and frankly, standing up to the men in their lives and the men in their workplaces,
00:29:33.000In the slightest, Hillary Clinton, with regard to married women, won almost precisely the same percentage of the vote as Barack Obama or John McCain.
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00:33:00.000So you heard Hillary blaming all of these married women who apparently listen to old Bob with the hickory stick when he comes home from work and says, get you out and go vote for Trump.
00:33:09.000That's how Hillary pictures all these people in the backwoods of Kentucky.
00:34:04.000If you are anywhere in the middle of the country, if you're in flyover country, then this means that you are a bad person, you are an irresponsible person, or you're a woman who's being bullied by her husband.
00:34:12.000Now, I do find it ironic that Hillary Clinton, a woman who stood by her husband while he was being credibly accused of rape, as well as multiple other sexual assaults and misconduct, that she's claiming that women are subject to the whims of their husbands.
00:34:25.000OK, no one was more subject to the whims of their husband than Hillary Clinton, who rode her husband's coattail to near glory before collapsing right on the precipice and falling down the stairs.
00:34:34.000But it's important to mention something.
00:34:36.000There's a lot of talk about why do married women shift into Republicans when they get married?
00:34:40.000Well, some people say that it's because they're listening to their husbands now, and this means that they are going to, you know, listen to the whims of their husbands, and men tend to vote Republican more often than women, but this is neglecting another fact.
00:35:09.000Unmarried men voted for Hillary Clinton 46% to 44%.
00:35:11.000So in other words, unmarried men voted much more like unmarried women than unmarried men voted like married men.
00:35:20.000That's kind of an amazing statistic, that unmarried men voted Democrat and married men voted Republican, and there was a pretty significant gap there.
00:35:28.000You're looking at at least a 10-point gap, looks like an 11-point gap, between unmarried men and married men.
00:35:33.000Among unmarried women versus married women, married women voted 49% to 47% for Hillary Clinton.
00:35:38.000White married women voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
00:35:41.000Unmarried women voted 63% for Hillary Clinton and 32% for Trump.
00:35:47.000So there was a 14 point shift for married women and about 11 point shift for married men.
00:35:53.000Which suggests that it's something that has to do with marriage, not just male and female.
00:35:56.000There's something that has to do with marriage that makes people vote more Republican.
00:36:03.000Part of it is because marriage is a self-selecting group, so the people who choose to get married tend to be more traditional than the people who choose not to get married.
00:36:09.000If you choose not to get married, much better shot that you are on the left just generally, particularly if you stay single for a long period of time.
00:36:15.000But there is something to the idea that marriage actually does change human beings.
00:36:19.000Marriage makes people more committed to the future.
00:36:21.000Marriage makes people think about somebody beyond themselves.
00:36:24.000Marriage makes you feel dependent not on the government anymore, but on the person to whom you're married.
00:36:28.000Your first line of defense is no longer the guy who works at the local office, but instead, it is the guy who lives in your house, or the woman who lives in your house.
00:36:36.000Marriage does change human beings, and I think marriage makes people a lot better.
00:36:39.000I think this is why marriage as an institution has been the bedrock of Western civilization.
00:37:20.000Plus, women make men better and men make women better.
00:37:24.000I don't think that all human beings make each other better, but I do think that as a general level, on a general level, what it says in the Bible about a woman completing a man and a man completing a woman, I think this is right.
00:37:31.000I think one of the most important messages in the beginning of Genesis is, thus a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife.
00:37:40.000That's the whole point of marriage, that you become an independent human being when you get married.
00:37:46.000You break off from your paternal figure, which in some cases is the government.
00:37:49.000You break off from people who make you dependent, and instead you stand up on your own feet alongside somebody that you love, and now you forge a life together.
00:37:58.000This is not to say that marriage is automatically going to shift everybody into a Republican, but it is to say that Hillary Clinton's simplistic account of why women vote differently when they're single than when they're married, naturally, evil men, toxic masculinity, is just not true.
00:38:11.000Men themselves shift on politics once they get married.
00:38:16.000Also, I think the general notion, by the way, that Hillary's voters are nicer people or better people than people who voted for Trump is just absolute sheer crap.
00:39:45.000There is a certain level of niceness that exists in the middle of the country that Hillary Clinton apparently does not appreciate or care about.
00:39:51.000All the people in the middle of the country are terrible people who are backwards looking and racist, even though, again, these statistics by poll data
00:39:58.000Showing that people in the South are supposedly more racist than people from the North.
00:40:11.000There's a lot more racism in Boston than there is in Atlanta, actually.
00:40:14.000There's a lot more integration in parts of the South than in parts of the North.
00:40:17.000Some of the most highly segregated cities in the United States are cities that exist outside the traditional Southern Corridor, north of the Mason-Dixon line.
00:40:25.000So again, Hillary's generalized take here is just wrong.
00:40:29.000And as long as Democrats continue to follow that take, they're going to continue losing the strength of the American people and the willingness of the American people to follow them.
00:40:38.000Okay, meanwhile, the President of the United States is declaring himself vindicated on collusion.
00:40:45.000So yesterday, top Republicans of the House Intelligence Committee came out and they said, we're about to issue our report.
00:40:50.000Our report says no evidence of collusion.
00:41:08.000Partisan investigations tend not to come up with particularly reliable results.
00:41:13.000I'm not going to blame Democrats for saying, why would I believe them and Nunes?
00:41:17.000If it were a Democrat in office, and it were a Democrat investigating Obama, and it were a Democrat saying, Obama has been cleared, I would say that's a bunch of crap.
00:41:24.000I would say that because it is a bunch of crap.
00:41:26.000OK, in any case, Trump tweeted out there is no collusion.
00:41:31.000He grabbed his caps lock and he really went to town.
00:41:33.000He said the House Intelligence Committee has, after a 14 month long in-depth investigation, found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.
00:42:06.000All of that said, he's not wrong about this, but the tendency to credit the House Intelligence Committee with letting him off, I think is a little bit premature.
00:42:15.000You can see the panic on the Democratic side, though.
00:42:17.000So Maxine Waters, who is indeed a low-IQ human being, she said that she is depending on Robert Mueller to prove collusion.
00:42:23.000Well, she may be waiting for a while, because I don't think Mueller has the evidence of it either.
00:42:26.000All I know is this, if he thinks he can stop me from talking about Impeach 45, he's got another thought coming.
00:43:42.000So, yeah, I think that if Democrats are relying on the deus ex machina, if they're expecting that there's going to be some sort of intervention from above by Robert Mueller's office, I don't really see that happening.
00:43:52.000But the Republicans are not doing themselves any favor by looking hackish.
00:43:55.000So the House Intel Committee also concluded that the Russians were not interested in seeing Trump win.
00:44:04.000Again, it's possible that the Democrats that the Russians just wanted to intervene in the election make trouble because they do this a lot.
00:44:10.000But it's not a good look when the House Intel Republicans are saying the CIA just got it wrong.
00:44:15.000So here is one of the House Intel Republicans saying just that.
00:44:18.000And when we release that report, we're going to be able to show, you know what, the CIA just got it wrong.
00:44:23.000Just like they did, by the way, in the Gulf War, where they said there was weapons of mass destruction that we didn't find.
00:44:42.000What he really should have said is he should have said there is a wide disparity of opinion among intelligence agencies about whether the Russians actually wanted Trump to win.
00:44:48.000That, as far as the evidence shows, is actually true.
00:44:51.000Instead, he's going directly after the CIA.
00:44:57.000If you're going to tout this House Intelligence report as kind of the be-all end-all, I think that you're going to end up on the wrong side of everything.
00:45:05.000I think that we should wait for Mueller to come down with his evidence.
00:45:07.000We'll evaluate the evidence when it comes down.
00:45:30.000For what I said last week, that we've gone completely off the rails and now we're just basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day's news.
00:45:39.000So we've, as you alluded to, we've lost all credibility and we're going to issue probably two different reports, unfortunately.
00:45:47.000So in that regard, that's why I called for the investigation to end.
00:45:52.000OK, so again, I think that, you know, this is this is actually right, that the the House Intel Republicans, the Intel Committee generally has been corrupted.
00:46:31.000So we've been doing books on socialism.
00:46:33.000One of the most famous books on socialism is, of course, The Roads of Serfdom by Frederick Hayek.
00:46:37.000This is, of course, the classic on why state-run economies are a giant fail.
00:46:42.000We're talking about this in the aftermath, of course, of Elizabeth Broding, the columnist for The Washington Post, calling for a revivification of socialism.
00:46:48.000She says state-run industries are just great because they're done for the benefit of the workers.
00:46:52.000Listen, there can be a state-run industry that is productive or that is run well, but not for an inordinate period of time because competition is what weeds everything out.
00:47:01.000The government itself has no incentive to be profitable and eventually you will end up cannibalizing your profits in order to please political constituencies.
00:47:12.000One of the fascinating things about The Road to Serfdom is that John Maynard Keynes, who of course was not a fan of free market capitalism in the extreme, he said that this was a grand book and he said,
00:47:31.000It's actually not a particularly hard read.
00:47:32.000The Road to Serfdom by Frederick Hayek, totally worth the read.
00:47:36.000Published in 1944, when there were a bunch of folks on the left who were openly embracing the socialist program.
00:47:43.000It has a historic role in the revitalization of the capitalist movement, which led to the rise of the modern conservative movement as well.
00:48:48.000Now, the reason is because Tommy Wiseau is actually an insane person playing an insane person, so it's actually typecasting, to a certain extent.
00:48:56.000You put the makeup on him, you get rid of the accents a little bit, and it's not terrible.
00:49:00.000So, he's better than Jared Leto, and I don't know what to tell you about that.
00:49:03.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:49:09.000So Betsy DeVos is, of course, the Secretary of Education.
00:49:13.000She was on 60 Minutes, and Betsy DeVos made herself look not particularly good.
00:49:19.000She was discussing education, the state of education in Michigan, where she was heavily involved in the education system, and it was not a good look for the Secretary of Education.
00:49:27.000I hesitate to talk about all schools in general, because schools are made up of individual students attending them.
00:49:57.000OK, so she was ripped up and down for this particular interview.
00:50:00.000Again, if members of the press, if members of the administration are not capable of doing interviews properly, they probably shouldn't be doing the interviews.
00:50:06.000She didn't know much about the state of education in the state of Michigan.
00:50:09.000Some of that was a little bit of gotcha because she's the secretary of education for the whole country, not just for the state of Michigan.
00:50:14.000But again, you should be prepped for this sort of stuff.
00:50:17.000And it was not a particularly good look.
00:50:19.000A quick episode of Deconstructing the Culture.
00:50:21.000So, we haven't done it in a while, but it's fun to take pieces of pop culture and look at them and see how pop culture shifts Americans' opinions on particular issues.
00:50:29.000Well, one of the fans of The Ben Shapiro Show sent us a recommendation, so we will do it.
00:50:34.000Keith Urban is one of the big country stars on planet Earth right now, and he has a new song called Female.
00:50:40.000He actually sang it, I believe, at the Country Music Awards, if I'm not mistaken.
00:50:45.000And this is his performance of the song Female.
00:50:47.000This is, how do we put this, propaganda.
00:50:50.000And now, if you want to be patted on the back by the critics, if you want to ensure that you are not seen as a bad, mean person, then you are supposed to do songs like this.
00:51:56.000Some of those people are women and some of those people are men, but the idea that you inherently rule the world just because you're a woman is really stupid, just like it's a really stupid thing if it's the opposite, that men rule the world.
00:52:07.000When you hear somebody say somebody hits like a girl, how does that hit you?
00:52:12.000Well, there is a difference between how women hit and how men hit, which is why we have separate weight divisions for men and women.
00:52:18.000That's why men who are transgender and are trying to become women should not be able to compete in UFC with women, because they will legitimately shatter their faces.
00:52:26.000Men have enormously heavier upper bodies.
00:52:54.000Because I haven't seen a lot of people saying that.
00:52:56.000And again, this complete misread of the Bible where it says that Adam was first and then Eve was created from his rib and therefore women is inferior.