The Ben Shapiro Show - Make America Trump Again | Ep. 804

00:00:00.000 Trump launches his re-election campaign, the media can barely hold themselves back in fury, and AOC steps on a political landmine.

00:00:07.000 Good news, the journalistic firefighters are there to save her.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 I'll admit it to you, I'm already tired from this news cycle.

00:00:19.000 I mean, it's a Wednesday and it feels like it should be a Friday.

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00:00:26.000 That happened during a swim lesson.

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00:00:31.000 And I looked down and I said, ah, damn it.

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00:01:42.000 Okay, so the big news yesterday was that the President of the United States announced his re-election campaign.

00:01:48.000 Now, it was a foregone conclusion he was going to run for re-election, of course.

00:01:52.000 We've had very few presidents who have decided not to run for re-election in the history of the United States.

00:01:56.000 Obviously, LBJ in 1968 decided he wasn't going to run for re-election.

00:02:00.000 He'd already been serving for five years by that point.

00:02:04.000 And we've also seen folks like James Polk not run for re-election, Calvin Coolidge.

00:02:08.000 But it's very rare for a sitting president to decide not to run for re-election.

00:02:12.000 Trump obviously was never going to do that.

00:02:15.000 The man is a fighter by nature.

00:02:16.000 And so yesterday, he finally made the announcement.

00:02:19.000 He brought out all of the Republican luminaries down to Orlando, Florida.

00:02:22.000 Now, as I mentioned yesterday on my radio show, doing the rally in Orlando is a sign that Trump may think that Florida is in play, which makes sense.

00:02:29.000 Florida is extraordinarily closely divided.

00:02:31.000 If Trump loses Florida, he loses the election.

00:02:33.000 There's been a lot of talk about Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

00:02:36.000 But first things first, Trump does have to shore up Florida.

00:02:39.000 In the polling, he is running about even with Joe Biden right now.

00:02:43.000 There's not a grave indicator for Trump that Florida is lost to him at this point.

00:02:47.000 If it were, the election, as I say.

00:02:48.000 It would basically be over.

00:02:50.000 He drew 20,000 people last night.

00:02:53.000 20,000 people.

00:02:54.000 A stadium full of people.

00:02:55.000 And the crowd was raucous.

00:02:57.000 They were up.

00:02:58.000 I mean, people were into it.

00:03:00.000 President Trump still has it.

00:03:01.000 I mean, he has that star power.

00:03:03.000 There is just no question.

00:03:04.000 And then he brought forth his conquered adversaries, like the Romans bringing back their enemies in chains. 0.86

00:03:09.000 One of the funny things about this rally was Trump bringing forth all of the senators who had previously said that they would never vote for him and that he was really terrible.

00:03:16.000 To pay homage to him, everybody from Senator Lindsey Graham to Marco Rubio being trotted out to endorse the president for re-election because obviously he's the president of the United States.

00:03:25.000 The rally got kicked off not with Trump but with his vice president, Mike Pence, who will be running with him.

00:03:30.000 All the speculation about Pence being dumped from the ticket in favor of somebody with a little bit more star power, that was never real.

00:03:36.000 He was speaking at the Amway Center.

00:03:38.000 Here was Mike Pence talking about illegal immigration and the fact that the Democrats are stumping against illegal immigration.

00:03:43.000 This is going to continue to be a hot button issue for a huge number of Americans, particularly because Democrats are incredibly radical.

00:03:49.000 And as we will see, their radical tendencies are leading them into a real into a real cavern here.

00:03:56.000 I mean, it's not going to go well for them on immigration, so long as they are led by the radicals in their party like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:04:02.000 We'll get to that in just a little bit.

00:04:04.000 But here is Mike Pence making the strong case in favor of a secure border.

00:04:08.000 We've supported customs and border protection.

00:04:12.000 We've stood by the courageous men and women of ICE.

00:04:16.000 And thanks to the president's stand, Mexico has done more to secure our border in the last 10 days than the Democrats in Congress have done in the last 10 years.

00:04:27.000 Thank you.

00:04:28.000 Thank you.

00:04:29.000 And obviously, that is true.

00:04:30.000 I mean, the fact is that even as Democrats complain about the conditions on the border, they have refused funding for ICE, for Border Patrol.

00:04:37.000 They've refused funding for the Department of Homeland Security sufficient to allow people to be kept on the border.

00:04:42.000 Okay, so Pence leads this thing off.

00:04:44.000 The crowd, as I say, is really raucous.

00:04:46.000 They are really up.

00:04:47.000 Now, Trump's speech was effectively the same as every rally that he's done for the last several years.

00:04:51.000 We now live in an era of consistent campaigning.

00:04:53.000 There is no point at which the president is not campaigning for re-election.

00:04:57.000 Just as there is no point in a 24-7 news cycle at which a congressperson is not campaigning for re-election.

00:05:03.000 This is true of Barack Obama, who never actually disbanded his 2008 campaign.

00:05:06.000 He just sort of morphed it, and then he morphed it back into a campaign around 2012.

00:05:10.000 And then that campaign was effectively handed over, at least in large part, to Hillary Clinton in 2016. 1.00

00:05:16.000 The era of the consistent campaign, thanks to media coverage, is now.

00:05:20.000 And so, Donald Trump never stopped running, but he made his announcement official last night.

00:05:24.000 He said he was officially running, and of course, the crowd goes wild.

00:05:28.000 We're going to keep on fighting for every man and woman and child all across this land.

00:05:34.000 With every ounce of heart and might and sweat and soul, we're going to keep making America great again.

00:05:40.000 And then we will indeed keep America great.

00:05:46.000 And we will keep it so great.

00:05:48.000 Better than ever before.

00:05:51.000 And that is why tonight I stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as President of the United States.

00:06:03.000 So, obviously, you can hear the crowd very enthusiastic.

00:06:07.000 And this is what Republicans are counting on, is that the polls are undercounting Trump voters, or that perhaps the polls aren't taking account of the enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans.

00:06:15.000 Certainly, President Trump's campaign manager was saying exactly this.

00:06:19.000 Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, said, you know, we don't need to pay attention to the polling.

00:06:23.000 The polling is dead.

00:06:24.000 Now, I think this is a bridge too far.

00:06:26.000 I think that the odd circumstance by which the polling on the state levels was off dramatically in 2016, but the national polling was correct.

00:06:35.000 I'm not sure that you can continue to bet the data will always be wrong, but apparently this is part of the campaign strategy.

00:06:40.000 Here's Brad Parscale telling CBS News about this.

00:06:43.000 The country's too complex now to just explain what you mean.

00:06:46.000 I just think the country's too complex now just to call a couple hundred people and ask them what they think.

00:06:50.000 There are so many ways and different people that are going to show up to vote now.

00:06:53.000 The way turnout now works, the abilities that we have to turn out voters, it's not, the polling can't understand that.

00:06:59.000 That's why it was so wrong in 2016.

00:07:01.000 It was 100% wrong.

00:07:04.000 Nobody got it right.

00:07:06.000 Okay, well the truth is that on the national level, actually it was pretty good.

00:07:09.000 In 2018, it was also pretty good.

00:07:13.000 You know, for the Trump campaign to basically say polls don't matter, I understand this is all part of a campaign tactic in order to make sure that Trump's base is not depressed, that they think that this election is not only winnable, but winning for President Trump, even if the polls say otherwise.

00:07:27.000 I'm not a fan of ignoring the data, even if the long shot came in in 2016.

00:07:32.000 That's basically what happened.

00:07:34.000 Nate Silver had it about a 70 to 30 shot Hillary Clinton was going to win. 0.99

00:07:37.000 A 70 to 30 shot is not a 100 to 0 shot.

00:07:39.000 It means sometimes, 30% of the time, the underdog wins.

00:07:43.000 And that's what happened in 2016.

00:07:45.000 To kind of cast out all the data, I think is wrong, but I understand that it's part of a broader Trump campaign strategy, which is to get his own folks to ignore whatever polling data comes out in the Somewhat justified belief that the polls were mistaken in 2016 and could easily be mistaken again.

00:08:00.000 So President Trump's campaign is going to be launched on two bases.

00:08:04.000 One is that the Democrats are really, really bad.

00:08:07.000 And two is that his record is really good.

00:08:08.000 Those should be the two bases.

00:08:09.000 And then there's this third basis upon which he is launching the campaign that I think is not going to be fruitful for him.

00:08:15.000 And that is that he is a victim.

00:08:16.000 I don't think that presidents who proclaim that they are victims tend to win re-election very often.

00:08:20.000 I think presidents who spend a lot of time complaining that everybody is mean to them look weak, and that is not something that the American people sympathize with very strongly.

00:08:29.000 So when President Trump is on the attack against the Democrats, he's in good shape.

00:08:32.000 When he's talking about his stellar economic record, for example, or his foreign policy record, which I think is overall very good, although I disagree with his North Korean policy in particular.

00:08:42.000 I think he has a lot to brag about there.

00:08:43.000 But when he gets into the woe is me kind of routine, yeah, that's red meat to the base, but it's not going to win over anybody in the middle who basically says, you're president of the United States.

00:08:51.000 Stop complaining, dude.

00:08:52.000 So here's President Trump with line number one.

00:08:54.000 The Democrats are extraordinarily radical and they want to destroy you and the country.

00:08:59.000 Now, the media, of course, are going nuts over this.

00:09:01.000 How could Trump say such a thing?

00:09:02.000 Well, Barack Obama said things that were very much like this in 2012.

00:09:06.000 There was the implication from Democrats consistently that Republicans wanted to grind the poor under their heel, that Republicans are terrible for the country, that they want old people and sick people to die.

00:09:14.000 I mean, Bernie Sanders says this sort of stuff on a routine basis.

00:09:17.000 I mean, right now, the Democrats are claiming that Donald Trump is setting up a holocaust on the border.

00:09:21.000 We'll get to that in just a bit.

00:09:23.000 But here's President Trump making the case that Democrats want to destroy you and the country.

00:09:27.000 His case against Democratic radicalism will be a fruitful line of attack for him.

00:09:31.000 The Democrats don't care about Russia.

00:09:34.000 They only care about their own political power.

00:09:37.000 But they are really going after you.

00:09:40.000 That's what it's all about.

00:09:42.000 They wanted to deny you the future that you demanded and the future that America deserves and that now America is getting.

00:09:53.000 Our radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice, and rage.

00:09:59.000 They want to destroy you, and they want to destroy our country as we know it. 0.88

00:10:05.000 Not acceptable.

00:10:06.000 It's not going to happen.

00:10:09.000 Well, this is the core of his pitch.

00:10:11.000 The core of his pitch was always that there are motivated players inside the Democratic Party who want to see a fundamental sea change in the nature of the country, and that those people are focused on attacking the so-called deplorables.

00:10:21.000 It's why Hillary Clinton's attack on the deplorables was a huge campaign error. 1.00

00:10:25.000 There's been this burgeoning sense inside a large part of the country that Democrats sneer at a huge number of Americans, going all the way back to Barack Obama suggesting the people in the middle of the country were bitter clingers who are focused on gods and gun and xenophobia because they were poor and stupid.

00:10:40.000 Going all the way back to then, there was this feeling that there was this huge culture gap.

00:10:43.000 And Trump has taken advantage of that culture gap by saying to a lot of folks, well, listen, I respect you, but Democrats don't.

00:10:49.000 I take you seriously, but Democrats don't.

00:10:51.000 When you tell me that you have problems in your life, I take that seriously.

00:10:54.000 Democrats claim that you are beneficiaries of white privilege.

00:10:57.000 Democratic radicalism is Trump's best friend here.

00:11:00.000 It is Trump's best friend.

00:11:02.000 And Trump continues along those lines.

00:11:03.000 He also suggests, look, the Democrats are socialist, and they're openly proclaiming they're socialist, and this isn't a socialist country.

00:11:11.000 More than 120 Democrats in Congress have also signed up to support crazy Bernie Sanders socialist government takeover of healthcare.

00:11:22.000 They want to end Medicare as we know it and terminate the private health insurance of 180 million Americans who love their health insurance.

00:11:35.000 America will never be a socialist country.

00:11:39.000 Again, his attacks on Democrats are going to be a fruitful line of attack because Democrats don't know what to do with it.

00:11:45.000 Many of them want to double down on this.

00:11:46.000 And then some like Joe Biden don't know whether to double down or whether to run away from it.

00:11:50.000 We'll get to Biden In just a second, he's experiencing another campaign gaffe.

00:11:54.000 Again, I think his campaign is much weaker than advertised.

00:11:56.000 We'll get to more of that in a second.

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00:13:04.000 OK, so President Trump.

00:13:06.000 He launches his first line of attack.

00:13:07.000 Democrats are going to be terrible for the country, and they have a different vision.

00:13:11.000 Fruitful line of attack.

00:13:12.000 His second line of attack is, I've accomplished a lot of things.

00:13:15.000 And he talked about the economy a little.

00:13:18.000 He talked about that, but that's not really where Trump's heart lies.

00:13:20.000 He's not talking about all of his accomplishments.

00:13:24.000 His heart still lies in the applause lines.

00:13:27.000 One of the problems for President Trump as a campaigner is that President Trump really enjoys being in front of crowds.

00:13:33.000 That is great as a performer.

00:13:35.000 And basically that's what Trump is, right?

00:13:36.000 Trump is a performer.

00:13:37.000 If you've ever been to one of his rallies or seen one of his events, he's a standup comedian.

00:13:42.000 He's a standup comedian who stands in front of large crowds and tells jokes and delivers applause lines.

00:13:47.000 And so he goes back to sort of the tried and true old standards here.

00:13:50.000 Here's a mashup of his various hits.

00:13:53.000 Many times I said we would drain the swamp and that's exactly what we're doing right now.

00:13:59.000 We're draining the swamp.

00:14:01.000 Just in case Hillary Clinton lost. 0.95

00:14:04.000 Remember the insurance policy.

00:14:06.000 And we are building the wall.

00:14:15.000 We're going to have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year.

00:14:19.000 It's moving rapidly.

00:14:20.000 People chanting, lock her up. 0.60

00:14:21.000 There was a point during this rally where the crowd started chanting, CNN sucks, at which point CNN actually cut away.

00:14:28.000 The media are not biased in any way.

00:14:32.000 They're not just trying to preserve themselves in any way.

00:14:34.000 CNN, I mean, there's footage of it.

00:14:36.000 President Trump starts talking.

00:14:37.000 The crowd starts chanting, CNN sucks.

00:14:40.000 And so CNN, in retaliation, cuts away from the president's reelect rally.

00:14:45.000 The amount of press we have tonight reminds me of the Academy Awards before it went political and their ratings went down the tubes.

00:14:55.000 This was our chance to reclaim our government.

00:15:03.000 All right, we've been watching the president kick off his re-election bid.

00:15:07.000 He's been on stage for about six minutes.

00:15:09.000 Within two minutes, he did talk about the economy.

00:15:13.000 But within four minutes, it was attacks on the media.

00:15:16.000 And that's unacceptable, according to CNN.

00:15:18.000 We'll get to the media in just one second, their reaction to all of this.

00:15:22.000 Now, as I say, Trump's third line of attack, so it's accomplishments, Democrats suck, and his third line of attack, which is, I'm a victim.

00:15:29.000 And this is the one I don't think is going to be particularly fruitful for him.

00:15:33.000 Republicans who claim that they are the victims generally don't do well, and it makes you unpopular.

00:15:38.000 Hillary Clinton made herself deeply unpopular by suggesting that she was a target of a vast right-wing conspiracy.

00:15:44.000 People who tend to claim victimhood at the highest level of politics, they don't tend to do great.

00:15:49.000 Here was President Trump yesterday suggesting that while Hillary Clinton's deleted emails were not a big deal, if he deleted a love note to Melania Trump, he would be fair game.

00:15:58.000 Can you imagine if I got a subpoena Think of this.

00:16:05.000 If I got a subpoena for emails, if I deleted one email, like a love note to Melania, it's the electric chair for Trump.

00:16:19.000 OK, it's funny.

00:16:20.000 It's also not going to be particularly fruitful.

00:16:23.000 So the president needs to stick to the first two messages if he hopes to win re-election.

00:16:28.000 Message number one, Democrats are going to take us in the wrong direction.

00:16:30.000 Number two, you may not like me personally, but I've taken you in the right direction.

00:16:34.000 Your pocketbook looks good.

00:16:35.000 We look better on foreign policy.

00:16:37.000 That is going to be his re-elect pitch.

00:16:38.000 OK, so the media reacts to all of this with astonishment.

00:16:41.000 Astonishment.

00:16:42.000 So Trump actually raised, in the first day of his re-election, according to the RNC, he raked in nearly $25 million in campaign contributions, according to the chairwoman of the RNC.

00:16:53.000 Ronna McDaniel wrote on Twitter that he had raised $24.8 million in less than 24 hours.

00:16:58.000 By contrast, Joe Biden, since the launch of his campaign, has raised a total of $19.8 million.

00:17:03.000 So Trump raised more in one day than Biden has in the course of his campaign.

00:17:07.000 Obviously, that is not a complete apples-to-apples comparison.

00:17:11.000 The fact is that Trump is the nominee on the Republican side or will be the nominee on the Republican side, whereas there's a lot of Democratic money that is split among various contenders.

00:17:19.000 Probably there's been some 50 to 60 million dollars already split amongst the various Democratic contenders at this point.

00:17:25.000 Still, that is a massive showing in the first day.

00:17:30.000 According to Politico, if it represents a first-day fundraising total for the campaign, that would nearly quadruple the $6.3 million that former VP Joe Biden raked in within his initial 24 hours as an announced 2020 White House contender.

00:17:43.000 Chris Cuomo was astonished by the size of the crowd at Trump's rally, 20,000 people showing up.

00:17:48.000 The media still don't understand that there are a lot of people who kind of like President Trump, that he in fact did win 63 million votes in the last election cycle, and that he is very popular with the base.

00:17:57.000 He has a 90% approval rating among the base.

00:17:59.000 Here's Chris Cuomo Can't believe it.

00:18:02.000 So based on the capacity of the arena in Orlando and what we see from the seating, there's probably 20,000 people at this rally for the president tonight, and that is bigger than Democrats are getting so far to be sure.

00:18:14.000 Is the size of the rally suggestive of the 60 million plus votes needed to win the next presidential election?

00:18:21.000 No, maybe not.

00:18:22.000 But it has to mean something that as Democrats are playing these little clubs in Iowa and New Hampshire.

00:18:28.000 Donald Trump is playing arenas.

00:18:30.000 Okay, well, obviously that is through CBS News, who's also reporting on the size of the crowd.

00:18:34.000 They reported that people were coming all across America to watch Trump's re-elect kickoff.

00:18:38.000 There was a day-long festival there outside the arena where supporters of the president were gathered and there were reports about this time last night that there were already a handful of people who had been waiting for hours to get a seat in the venue, a sign perhaps of the sustained support for the president there in central Florida.

00:18:58.000 OK, so the media are very nervous about President Trump, and their nervousness is coming out in the most radical possible way.

00:19:04.000 They're reverting to the Donald Trump is Hitler line.

00:19:08.000 So Don Lemon, you know, along with Chris Cuomo, so two blocks of wood on TV, Don Lemon suggests that President Trump is just like Hitler.

00:19:20.000 The sense that Hitler also had Jewish grandchildren, moved the U.S.

00:19:24.000 embassy to Jerusalem, and was generally philo-semitic.

00:19:28.000 In that way, exactly like Hitler. 0.93

00:19:29.000 Here's Donald, making this idiotic case.

00:19:32.000 As an objective news anchor on CNN, he's so objective.

00:19:35.000 He and Chris Cuomo, I mean, the level of objectivity is stunning.

00:19:38.000 Think about the despicable people we've had in history.

00:19:40.000 OK, now I'm going to use an extreme example.

00:19:43.000 Think about Hitler. 0.90

00:19:44.000 Think about any of those people.

00:19:46.000 Would you say that that person is allowed, or let's put it this way, if you could look back on in history, would you say, well, I'm so glad that that person was allowed a platform so that they could spread their hate and propaganda and lies?

00:20:02.000 Or would you say it probably wasn't the right thing to do to spread that because you knew In the moment, that that was a bad person and they were doing bad things.

00:20:10.000 Not only were they hurting people, they were killing people.

00:20:13.000 Okay, he was specifically talking about whether the network should be airing the speeches of the President of the United States.

00:20:19.000 He just compared to Hitler.

00:20:20.000 Man, the journalism at CNN.

00:20:22.000 I can't imagine why people at Trump rallies shout CNN sucks.

00:20:25.000 Just can't imagine it.

00:20:27.000 Why would they do such a thing with journalism like that?

00:20:29.000 Just getting the journalism everywhere?

00:20:31.000 I mean, it's just it's incredible.

00:20:33.000 It's an incredible showing of objectivity and journalistic firefighting by our media establishment.

00:20:39.000 And listen, they're just doing their jobs, guys.

00:20:41.000 I mean, come on.

00:20:42.000 They're just sitting there fact checking President Trump in real time.

00:20:46.000 They're just there ensuring that President Trump doesn't dissimulate.

00:20:50.000 He doesn't he doesn't lie.

00:20:52.000 He doesn't dissemble to the American people.

00:20:55.000 That's what they have to make sure of.

00:20:57.000 They will put little chyrons at the bottom of his speeches saying that what he's saying is not true.

00:21:02.000 They are making sure that the fact-checking is tuned up to 11.

00:21:06.000 They're dispassionate arbiters of the truth who are standing up for the American people.

00:21:10.000 That's what Jim Acosta says, and I believe Jim Acosta because Jim Acosta is a model citizen when it comes to journalism.

00:21:17.000 Now, I know.

00:21:19.000 I know.

00:21:19.000 This is all incredibly stupid.

00:21:21.000 I mean, members of the media overall despise President Trump.

00:21:25.000 They despise Republicans.

00:21:26.000 They despise conservatives.

00:21:27.000 It oozes from their every pore.

00:21:29.000 And if you don't believe me, all you have to do is watch their coverage for about 24 hours.

00:21:33.000 That's it.

00:21:34.000 All you have to do is watch their coverage for a grand total of approximately 24 hours and contrast their coverage of, say, a Democrat who says things that are untrue and stupid on a routine basis with their coverage of President Trump.

00:21:47.000 Now, President Trump says a lot of things that are untrue and ridiculous, and I call him out on those things.

00:21:55.000 When Democrats do it, the media treat it as though Democrats are just good-hearted people trying hard to do the right thing, while President Trump is a Hitlerian liar.

00:22:04.000 Case in point, AOC.

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00:23:18.000 Okay, so speaking of the media's insane bias, all you have to do to detect the media's insane bias is follow how they treat the estimable AOC, intellectual heavyweight, woman with an IQ I would say easily of 95.

00:23:30.000 I mean, she is she is just incredibly bright, incredibly facile, really in control of her of her knowledge.

00:23:39.000 So yesterday we commented on this briefly because it didn't seem like it required further comment.

00:23:43.000 But apparently, according to the media, it does.

00:23:45.000 AOC was doing an Instagram in which she compared detention of illegal immigrants at detention centers where they are fed and where they are housed and where they are kept pending an asylum trial.

00:23:56.000 She compared that to concentration camps.

00:23:58.000 And specifically, she compared it to Nazi concentration camps.

00:24:01.000 Now, I know everybody's ignoring the actual text of what she said.

00:24:04.000 Everybody's ignoring what she said.

00:24:05.000 She drops the reference, never again, at the end of this clip.

00:24:08.000 When you say never again, you are specifically making a reference to the Holocaust.

00:24:13.000 But the media took various lines of attack to defend AOC.

00:24:18.000 First, they claimed she wasn't talking about the Holocaust.

00:24:20.000 Then they claimed, well, there are other concentration camps that aren't the Holocaust that she is talking about.

00:24:25.000 Then they claimed, well, maybe it kind of is like the Holocaust after all.

00:24:28.000 They're basically trying everything they could do to spin AOC out of her own stupidity. 1.00

00:24:32.000 I'm very much looking forward to seeing how far AOC can push this.

00:24:35.000 Honestly, I really would love to see AOC come out tomorrow and suggest that the earth is flat and watch as the media explain that not only is she correct that it's Donald Trump's fault, That's where we are going here.

00:24:47.000 So here's AOC's original comment.

00:24:50.000 The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border.

00:24:56.000 And that is exactly what they are.

00:25:00.000 They are concentration camps.

00:25:02.000 And if that doesn't bother you, I don't I like, we can have, okay, whatever.

00:25:15.000 I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not, that never again means something.

00:25:24.000 Okay, she drops a never again reference because she's obviously talking about the Holocaust.

00:25:28.000 Like, whatever.

00:25:28.000 Um, yeah, like what?

00:25:29.000 I'm so historically knowledgeable.

00:25:31.000 Like, um, but I'm, yeah, sure, sure.

00:25:33.000 Okay, so then she tweets this out.

00:25:35.000 Just to be clear, she tweeted this out also.

00:25:37.000 She tweeted, This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.

00:25:47.000 Number one, the deaths that are happening at the border are not due to Border Patrol.

00:25:50.000 Border Patrol is being delivered people who are very often in seriously sick conditions, and then they are doing their best to care for those people, despite underfunding caused by Democrats who will not sign a check for additional beds and better conditions.

00:26:02.000 Because what Democrats want to do is force bad headlines so that Republicans and law enforcement will release people into the interior of the United States where they disappear and don't show up again.

00:26:11.000 That is the goal.

00:26:13.000 It's absolutely cynical and disgusting.

00:26:15.000 AOC then tweets out, and for the shrieking Republicans who like, um, like, um, whatever, like, um, who don't know the difference, concentration camps are not the same as death camps.

00:26:22.000 Oh, tell me.

00:26:23.000 Tell me, AOC.

00:26:24.000 Tell me all about it.

00:26:26.000 Drop some historical knowledge on me, AOC, about concentration camps and the Holocaust.

00:26:32.000 She says concentration camps are considered by experts as the mass detention of civilians without trial.

00:26:39.000 No, that is not what concentration camps are considered by experts.

00:26:42.000 And when you put it in scare quotes, you might want to quote the expert you're talking about so we can dispute this.

00:26:47.000 If all the concentration camps were, were detention of civilians without trial, you know what we would call those? 0.72

00:26:51.000 Jails.

00:26:53.000 That's what jails are.

00:26:54.000 When you arrest somebody and you don't try them and you hold them in jail pending the trial, are those concentration camps?

00:27:01.000 I assume that maybe she would say yes because she's a crazy person. 0.99

00:27:04.000 She also says that's exactly what this administration is doing.

00:27:08.000 Okay, so first, you'll see, the media tried to claim that she didn't mean what she said.

00:27:13.000 Obviously she's not.

00:27:14.000 Obviously.

00:27:15.000 How could you guys say that she's talking about the Holocaust?

00:27:17.000 I mean, sure she used never again, but she's not talking about that.

00:27:20.000 When she says concentration camps, she means camps where people concentrate.

00:27:24.000 Like where they sit there and stare at things.

00:27:27.000 Or do they drink juice made from concentrate?

00:27:28.000 Probably that's what she's talking about.

00:27:30.000 Now, anyone who watches this knows precisely what she is talking about.

00:27:34.000 But that is no good.

00:27:36.000 Apparently, according to Brian Stelter at CNN, journalistic ombudsman of CNN, he claims that the MSNBC viewers who watch this knew she wasn't talking about the Holocaust.

00:27:44.000 Weird, because half the media are claiming that she was and that she's right, and the other half are claiming that she wasn't.

00:27:50.000 So, which is it, guys?

00:27:52.000 So, hilariously enough, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, had to sound off on this.

00:27:57.000 And they tweeted out, AOC, concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of extermination through labor.

00:28:08.000 Learn about concentration camps.

00:28:10.000 Hashtag Holocaust. 0.71

00:28:11.000 Hashtag history.

00:28:12.000 When you're getting subtweeted, not subtweeted, actually tweeted by Yad Vashem about the history of the Holocaust, not great.

00:28:19.000 And then the acting ICE director comes out and he says, this is absurd.

00:28:22.000 Because of course, this is absurd.

00:28:24.000 The congresswoman has accused this agency, and particularly this department, of housing people, of housing migrants in what she calls concentration camps.

00:28:33.000 Do you think that's an inappropriate comparison for the congresswoman to make?

00:28:36.000 It's completely inappropriate.

00:28:38.000 It's reckless, it's irresponsible, it's misinformed, and it's flat out wrong.

00:28:44.000 And of course, that is 100% true.

00:28:46.000 Liz Cheney jumped in as well, one of the high-ranking House members for the Republican Party.

00:28:49.000 She jumped in, she said, please, EOSI, do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history.

00:28:53.000 Six million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust.

00:28:56.000 You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.

00:28:59.000 And number one, I would like to point out here that the exact same people who are defending the comparison between detention camps at the southern border, detention centers at the southern border and concentration camps from the Holocaust side with Iran and Hamas and want to boycott the state of Israel.

00:29:13.000 So when we're talking about the actual extermination of Jews, they're like, oh, well, whatever.

00:29:17.000 And when it comes to, you know, people being temporarily held because they're trying to get into the country illegally, then it's like, oh, that's just like the Holocaust, guys. 0.78

00:29:24.000 Talking about trivializing the Holocaust, that would be it. 0.81

00:29:26.000 And it's amazing the lengths to which people will go to spin this thing.

00:29:29.000 So somebody pointed out yesterday, you know, one of the differences between the detention centers at the border and the Holocaust and concentration camps generally, is that usually, concentration camps don't involve people trying to get into the country.

00:29:44.000 The Jews were not fleeing to get into Germany.

00:29:47.000 And then the Germans were like, ah, look at all these illegal immigrants, we better jail them. 1.00

00:29:50.000 Pending trial.

00:29:52.000 Mostly the Jews were trying to get out because they were being slaughtered and exterminated.

00:29:57.000 Well, my favorite part of this is that AOC then comes up with another line of attack.

00:30:00.000 It's so funny.

00:30:00.000 She comes up with these various lines of attack and Democrats have to shift on the move to defend her because they're so stupid.

00:30:06.000 I mean, what she says is so dumb.

00:30:08.000 So she then tweets out, Liz Cheney says, you know, when you're talking about concentration camps, lots of Jews got exterminated.

00:30:15.000 Here's AOC's.

00:30:16.000 No, no, we need the extermination.

00:30:18.000 The 19 is what we need here.

00:30:20.000 AOC then tweets out, She tweets out that it is just very, very bad that Liz Cheney used the term extermination.

00:30:29.000 She says, maybe you should learn history.

00:30:31.000 Using Nazi terms like extermination is really bad.

00:30:34.000 You can't do that.

00:30:36.000 Yad Vashem just used the term extermination because that's part of history.

00:30:41.000 Here is AOC responding to Liz Cheney.

00:30:44.000 - She used the term extermination, which is co-opting the language of that.

00:30:51.000 That term implies that the people who died in the Holocaust, it doubles down on the rhetoric that justified it. 0.63

00:30:57.000 And so I think it's, I mean, I think she's wanting to do her homework. - Well, that's a thing a human being said.

00:31:13.000 It is, I will say, she can perform incredible feats, AOC. 0.98

00:31:18.000 It is incredible to me that a human being can shove her head so far up her ass that it comes out her head again. 0.99

00:31:23.000 And yet she apparently does it every day, and then the media cheer her on like seals. 1.00

00:31:26.000 It's amazing.

00:31:27.000 It's amazing stuff.

00:31:28.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:31:30.000 You wonder why folks don't trust the media?

00:31:31.000 Maybe it's because they are fact-checking Hitler Trump in real time.

00:31:34.000 But AOC is the beloved of the media.

00:31:36.000 As you will see, CNN, which declared Trump Hitler, also says that AOC, who is trivializing the Holocaust, which is what she is doing here because she's an ignorant moron, That that is actually not trivializing.

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00:34:38.000 All righty, so it wasn't just Yad Vashem which sounded off and told AOC that she is wrong.

00:34:52.000 It was also the JCRC of New York, which is the central coordinating and resource body for 60-plus Jewish organizations in the New York metro area.

00:34:59.000 They wrote a letter to her yesterday saying, "We are deeply disturbed by the language used in your recent Instagram live video, which seeks to equate the detention centers on America's southern border with Nazi-era concentration camps.

00:35:10.000 The terms 'concentration camp' and 'never again' are synonymous with and evocative of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, in which six million European Jews were systematically denied civil and human rights due to their race and ultimately murdered in a state-sponsored genocide." As concerned as we are about the conditions experienced by migrants seeking asylum in the United States, including family separation, unusable facilities and lack of food, water and medical resources, the regrettable use of Holocaust terminology to describe these contemporary concerns diminishes the evil intent of the Nazis to eradicate the Jewish people.

00:35:40.000 We urge you to refrain from using terminology evocative of the Holocaust to voice concerns about contemporary political issues.

00:35:46.000 This is, by the way, a nonpartisan Jewish group that includes a bunch, a bunch of liberals in it.

00:35:53.000 And that didn't stop the media.

00:35:54.000 The media came out in full scale defense of the idiocy of AOC.

00:35:59.000 Kevin Cruz, Twitter's favorite historian over Princeton.

00:36:02.000 He started tweeting out in her defense.

00:36:03.000 He says, we associate the Holocaust with death camps like Auschwitz, but those didn't come out of nowhere. 0.61

00:36:03.000 fence. 0.61

00:36:08.000 Concentration camps like Dachau had been around since 1933, setting the principle that Auschwitz then built upon. 0.66

00:36:13.000 So to prevent another Auschwitz, protest another Dachau. 0.90

00:36:16.000 Okay, so now Cruz is comparing detention centers at the border for illegal immigrants trying to enter the country pending trial to Dachau, which was, I mean, again, the level of historical ignorance from the supposed historian is astonishing.

00:36:30.000 Dachau was supposedly a home for German citizens who were dissenters.

00:36:36.000 It was made a political it was made a political detention center for political enemies of the Nazi regime as early as 1933.

00:36:42.000 To compare that to what happened at the border is insane.

00:36:47.000 It's insane.

00:36:49.000 But this is what but he's don't worry, he's a historian, guys.

00:36:51.000 Chris Hayes.

00:36:53.000 Chris Hayes of MSNBC tweets out, if you spend a few minutes learning some actual history, you will find out that concentration camps are different from death camps and have a history that both predates and extends far past the Nazis, which is, of course, why AOC used the term never again, which is a Holocaust-specific term.

00:37:08.000 I'm sure she was talking about the Boer War.

00:37:11.000 Really, she's an expert on the Transvaal.

00:37:14.000 She's an expert, AOC is, on the internecine warfare between the British Empire and the attempted South African Republic.

00:37:23.000 It goes back to the Boer War, guys.

00:37:25.000 That's really, Chris Hayes is right on it, guys.

00:37:27.000 That's what she's talking about.

00:37:29.000 That's what she's talking about.

00:37:29.000 Then Jerry Nadler gets involved, the Democratic New York Congress person.

00:37:33.000 He says, So you got Kevin Cruz and Chris Hayes making the case she wasn't talking about the Holocaust and wasn't talking about Nazi concentration camps.

00:37:38.000 of people, violations of basic rights, and assaults on our common morality.

00:37:41.000 We fail to learn that lesson when we don't call out such inhumanity right in front of us.

00:37:45.000 So I feel like Nadler here is losing the thread.

00:37:47.000 So you got Kevin Cruz and Chris Hayes making the case she wasn't talking about the Holocaust and wasn't talking about Nazi concentration camps.

00:37:54.000 And then Nadler is saying, no, no, no, she was talking about it, but it is like the Holocaust.

00:37:58.000 You're going to have to pick a lane, guys.

00:38:00.000 Was she misappropriating the Holocaust because she's adult?

00:38:04.000 Or was she exactly correct and Trump is actually incipient Hitler?

00:38:08.000 Pick one.

00:38:09.000 Chris Cuomo picked a side.

00:38:10.000 He says Trump is incipient Hitler.

00:38:12.000 This is an amazing... So, Chris Cuomo, again, brilliant, objective news anchor.

00:38:18.000 Yesterday on CNN, he claims that concentration camps has no Nazi connotations.

00:38:22.000 I'll be honest, I did not see that coming.

00:38:24.000 But he says concentration camps have no Nazi connotations at all.

00:38:29.000 But you know what does have a Nazi connotation?

00:38:31.000 America first.

00:38:33.000 So Donald Trump saying America first is just like the Nazis, but concentration camps is not a reference to the Nazis.

00:38:40.000 So he's calling Trump a Nazi while saying that AOC was not calling Trump a Nazi because concentration camps have nothing to do with the Nazis.

00:38:51.000 Okay.

00:38:52.000 Makes sense.

00:38:54.000 If you're crazy, here's Chris Cuomo on CNN.

00:38:57.000 I say concentration camps because that's how they are defined internationally.

00:39:01.000 That's what these are.

00:39:02.000 I am not equating with stigma of the Nazis and the Jews.

00:39:06.000 Leave that part aside.

00:39:08.000 We all know what the connotation of concentration camps is.

00:39:10.000 If we went out on the street and asked a hundred random people, 99 of them would tell us, would give us an explanation or a definition that relates to Nazism.

00:39:18.000 She used the phrase never again, which we know is specifically linked to the Holocaust, to the Shoah.

00:39:25.000 Disgraceful.

00:39:25.000 AOC should apologize at the least and probably resign.

00:39:29.000 One point of pushback before I get to you, Angela. 0.98

00:39:31.000 You did not have similar problems with the phrase America first, which is equally stained, or the word nationalist, which is equally stained.

00:39:39.000 Holy crap.

00:39:41.000 The word nationalism is equally stained with Nazism?

00:39:45.000 Truly?

00:39:46.000 Nationalism is equally stained?

00:39:49.000 Do you know how historically ignorant you have to be to believe that?

00:39:51.000 Seriously?

00:39:53.000 Nationalism?

00:39:54.000 Or the phrase America First is equally stained with Nazism as concentration camps? 0.77

00:39:59.000 Oh, our media.

00:40:01.000 Guys, I understand that you're getting those massage oils ready.

00:40:04.000 I understand that you desperately want to carry the drool cup for AOC.

00:40:10.000 But my God, you wonder why your credibility is in the toilet?

00:40:13.000 Maybe it's because you will bend yourself into pretzels that Make the pretzel companies jealous in order to achieve the justification for AOC's stupidity.

00:40:23.000 I just, honestly, I'm looking forward to seeing what other stupid crap AOC can say that you guys will defend because apparently you guys will go all the way down this rabbit hole.

00:40:31.000 Every inch of the way.

00:40:33.000 It is un-be-lievable.

00:40:35.000 Unbelievable.

00:40:37.000 Keep doing this.

00:40:38.000 It's great.

00:40:38.000 It is, by the way, I will note also that AOC doubled down today.

00:40:42.000 She changed her metaphor.

00:40:43.000 Now it's no longer Nazi concentration camps.

00:40:45.000 Now it's just like Japanese internment.

00:40:47.000 So now we're going to get the Twitter historians today explaining that holding people who are illegally crossing the border pending a trial and pending an asylum that may let them become citizens or that may deport them to their home countries is just like interning Japanese-American citizens of the United States without trial for years on end during World War II.

00:41:04.000 Which, by the way, was done by Bernie Sanders' hero, FDR.

00:41:06.000 It's exactly the same thing.

00:41:09.000 OK, meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to counter all of this with Joe Biden.

00:41:13.000 So it's chaos on that side of the aisle.

00:41:16.000 Donald Trump is not a popular man.

00:41:18.000 Just by poll data, Donald Trump is not popular.

00:41:21.000 But I'll tell you what's not going to help you.

00:41:22.000 The media chasing AOC like a desperate fan craving attention on the one hand and Joe Biden on the other hand.

00:41:31.000 So Joe Biden has himself in trouble again today because it is a day ending in Y.

00:41:37.000 He did a campaign riff yesterday, apparently, when he was in the Senate.

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00:41:43.000 He said that he would occasionally cut deals with segregationists.

00:41:45.000 He said, I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland, and then he launched into a nostalgic riff about the good old days when senators could argue with each other, but still compromise.

00:41:55.000 And this is driving people up a wall, because what he said is, yeah, there were some bad people, but we still came to compromises, and that's what the Senate is all about.

00:42:02.000 You're not allowed to say these things.

00:42:04.000 You're not allowed to say them.

00:42:06.000 And people are rightly or wrongly going after Biden on this basis.

00:42:11.000 People pointing out that the folks that he is talking about cutting deals with were some of the worst segregationists in American history.

00:42:19.000 Biden is just going to keep stepping in it and stepping in it because he doesn't know where the lines are because the lines keep moving on him.

00:42:26.000 It is pretty amazing.

00:42:27.000 Jonathan Chait over at New York Magazine has a long piece about this.

00:42:31.000 He says, at first blush, Biden's segregationist riff is disturbing.

00:42:34.000 When you poke below the surface, it gets even more disturbing.

00:42:37.000 It suggests he has not grasped any of the tectonic changes in American politics and that he is equipped neither for the campaign nor the presidency.

00:42:43.000 He says, American politics has grown more polarized because the unusual and precarious conditions of the 20th century have disappeared.

00:42:50.000 Politics in the 19th century was deeply polarized around linked issues of race and big government.

00:42:55.000 But after Reconstruction was crushed, the Republican Party abandoned its commitment to African-American equality and activist government, while the Democratic Party eventually adopted those identities.

00:43:03.000 Weird, because the Democrats after Reconstruction were still the dominant party in the South.

00:43:07.000 So that's not historically true.

00:43:08.000 But he talks about how basically Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are the root of all evil and represent the segregationists today.

00:43:16.000 And Joe Biden is still trying to make deals with them.

00:43:19.000 And this is the big part of the problem.

00:43:22.000 So Biden is not going to be let off the hook.

00:43:25.000 His sort of charming old codger stuff is not going to be of much use to him in this whole fight.

00:43:32.000 He's going to be attacked mercilessly by the other Democrats and by the media, who, by the way, are beginning to notice.

00:43:37.000 It's amazing how conveniently the media noticed things.

00:43:41.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:43:43.000 So the media only noticed that Joe Biden happens to be a habitual liar occasionally.

00:43:46.000 So when he's running for president in like 1988, and then not for eight years when he was vice president, but now again, they're beginning to notice that Joe Biden makes things up, prevaricates an enormous amount, and that he says dumb things repeatedly.

00:44:00.000 By the way, here's what Biden said.

00:44:02.000 He said, I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland.

00:44:04.000 He never called me boy.

00:44:05.000 He always called me son.

00:44:07.000 He said that there was another senator named Talmadge, who was a segregationist, That would be Herman Talmadge of Georgia.

00:44:13.000 He said, Talmadge was one of the meanest guys I ever knew.

00:44:16.000 You go down a list of all the guys.

00:44:17.000 Well, guess what?

00:44:18.000 At least there was some civility.

00:44:19.000 We got things done.

00:44:20.000 We didn't agree on much of anything.

00:44:21.000 We got things done.

00:44:22.000 We got it finished.

00:44:22.000 But today you look at the other side and you're the enemy, not the opposition, the enemy.

00:44:25.000 We don't talk to each other anymore.

00:44:27.000 And this apparently is Joe Biden being too easy on segregationists, despite the fact that he said he didn't agree with the segregationists, but that in the Senate you make deals.

00:44:36.000 This is not good for the Democratic Party.

00:44:38.000 And the New York Times comes after him on that basis.

00:44:41.000 We are also going to see the New York Times come after him on the basis of the fact that he tells stories that are not true.

00:44:45.000 Joe Biden makes up fish stories routinely.

00:44:49.000 It's pretty amazing, actually.

00:44:51.000 Here's one of the fish stories that he just that he told in 1989, for example.

00:44:58.000 Biden wrote about this in 1989.

00:45:00.000 He says that he moved into the office of an old senator named Stennis, who is a segregationist.

00:45:08.000 And here is here is Biden's story.

00:45:10.000 He walked in, and Stennis said, you see this table, Joe?

00:45:14.000 This table was the flagship of the Confederacy from 1954 to 1968.

00:45:17.000 We sat here, most of us from the Deep South, the old Confederacy, and we planned the demise of the Civil Rights Movement, and we lost.

00:45:24.000 And, Joe, now it's time that this table go from the possession of a man who was against civil rights to a man who was for civil rights.

00:45:30.000 The Civil Rights Movement did more to free the white men than the black men, Stennis said.

00:45:33.000 According to Biden, he could see me looking at him confused, and he pounded on his chest and said, it freed my soul.

00:45:39.000 Does anyone actually believe that this happened?

00:45:42.000 Okay, this never happened.

00:45:44.000 And this is, he tells these kind of stories all the time, does Joe Biden.

00:45:47.000 Here's another story that Joe Biden tells, because he is a habitual liar.

00:45:51.000 This is the funny thing.

00:45:53.000 People are like, oh, Joe Biden, that's an honest man.

00:45:55.000 No, Joe Biden, in a debate, in an open debate for the vice presidency in 2012, suggested that NATO had kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.

00:46:04.000 Hezbollah never left Lebanon. 0.96

00:46:07.000 Paul Ryan didn't know enough to call him on it, but I remember sitting there watching the debate going, that's not even close to true.

00:46:13.000 Here's my favorite Joe Biden story.

00:46:15.000 This is brought to you, by the way, courtesy of Alex Griswold, who writes over at the Washington Examiner, I believe.

00:46:23.000 Sorry, the Washington Free Beacon.

00:46:25.000 Here is a story that Joe Biden told recently.

00:46:29.000 He said, my dad was on his way to a job in the morning.

00:46:31.000 And this, if you know anything about my city of Wilmington, there's a place called Rodney Square.

00:46:35.000 And the buildings surrounding Rodney Square were the DuPont Company, the Hercules Corporation, which was big then, the ICI Americas.

00:46:41.000 And so there were a lot of plain gray suits and an awful lot of at 8 a.m. in the morning, an awful lot of men and women hustling off to work.

00:46:46.000 And we were stopped at the light.

00:46:47.000 Two men on the right, very well-dressed men, obviously, business people, who were working for either Hercules or DuPont, turned and embraced one another and kissed each other.

00:46:54.000 And they went their separate ways.

00:46:55.000 I'll never forget.

00:46:56.000 I turned and looked at my dad.

00:46:57.000 Just looked at him.

00:46:58.000 And I'll never forget what he said.

00:46:59.000 He said, Joey, they love each other.

00:47:01.000 It's simple.

00:47:01.000 They love each other.

00:47:02.000 It's simple.

00:47:03.000 That's what this has been about all from the beginning.

00:47:06.000 Um, so Biden was 17 in 1959.

00:47:09.000 So according to Joe Biden, in 1959, he was driving through downtown Wilmington and saw two male businessmen kissing each other in the business district in full view of everyone in a state where homosexuality was illegal.

00:47:24.000 And his Irish Catholic dad, the media writes about this, who was born in 1917, saw the two men kissing and turned to his son and said, Joey, they love each other.

00:47:34.000 If you believe this story, this is because you are dumb.

00:47:38.000 OK, Joe Biden tells these sorts of stories all the time.

00:47:40.000 He's going to fall apart.

00:47:41.000 He's going to blow up on the launchpad, but not because he's dishonest.

00:47:44.000 He's been dishonest for a long time.

00:47:45.000 He's going to blow up on the launchpad because the media are going to start treating him the way they treat Trump.

00:47:50.000 There's only two types of treatment from the media.

00:47:52.000 There's the AOC treatment, and there's the Trump treatment.

00:47:54.000 He's gonna receive the Trump treatment.

00:47:56.000 The media have decided they're not interested in a Joe Biden presidency, and so they are going to tear him down.

00:48:01.000 Up until the point he becomes the nominee, if he survives that long, at which point, he will get the AOC treatment.

00:48:05.000 That's the way this is going to go.

00:48:07.000 And then people wonder why we don't trust the media.

00:48:08.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.

00:48:11.000 So, things that I like.

00:48:14.000 There is a movie that is actually quite good on Netflix.

00:48:17.000 You sort of have to have the ending explained to you, so I won't spoil it for you.

00:48:20.000 But the movie is called I Am Mother.

00:48:23.000 I am a sucker for sci-fi.

00:48:24.000 I really like sci-fi.

00:48:25.000 And the basic premise of the movie is that there is a robot in the future that is raising a baby.

00:48:32.000 In a condition in which all of humanity has died out, so it's in a bunker, and then a human knocks on the door, basically, and what happens next?

00:48:40.000 The whole thing is obviously supposed to be metaphorical, and the ending is not properly spelled out.

00:48:46.000 You actually have to read about what the ending was about to get, what the ending was, and then you're like, oh, that makes sense.

00:48:49.000 But here's a little bit of the preview.

00:48:51.000 It is well-acted.

00:48:52.000 It is... Rose Byrne, who does the voice of the robot, is terrific.

00:48:56.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:49:00.000 Why aren't there any more children, Mother? 1.00

00:49:03.000 There used to be.

00:49:04.000 Then why did you only make one?

00:49:08.000 Mothers need time to learn. 1.00

00:49:11.000 This facility was designed to give humanity a second chance.

00:49:14.000 One that began with you.

00:49:18.000 Daughter.

00:49:23.000 The path will not be easy.

00:49:26.000 The world outside is lifeless.

00:49:29.000 But I made you into the woman that you are, so that we could do this together.

00:49:35.000 Okay, so unintentionally, this is one of the most pro-life movies ever.

00:49:39.000 Unintentionally, like completely unintentionally, there are a bunch of fetuses and embryos that are in early stage development, and the opening sequence shows the robot taking an embryo and then putting it in an artificial womb and it growing.

00:49:57.000 There's no way to look at that and not say that this is a human life.

00:49:59.000 There's just no way to do that.

00:50:00.000 They didn't mean to do this, I think, when they made the movie, because no one in Hollywood would ever mean to do this.

00:50:05.000 But there's a whole debate over... I mean, the girl basically, at one point, turns to the other human and says, I need to go save my brothers and sisters.

00:50:14.000 And they haven't been born yet.

00:50:16.000 I mean, from the images, they're probably 10 weeks old, maybe?

00:50:19.000 Nine weeks old?

00:50:20.000 Unintentionally, it's a supremely pro-life movie.

00:50:22.000 If they found out about this, they'd probably pull the movie.

00:50:25.000 It is that pro-life.

00:50:26.000 But go check it out.

00:50:27.000 I Am Mother.

00:50:28.000 And then go read up on the ending, because the ending does make a lot of sense, but only when it's explained to you, which means they should have written it a little differently.

00:50:34.000 You know, you shouldn't have to have endings explained to you.

00:50:36.000 But in any case, go check it out.

00:50:37.000 It's really good.

00:50:38.000 And honestly, well done, Netflix.

00:50:40.000 OK.

00:50:41.000 Time for some things that I hate.

00:50:47.000 So, a couple of things that I hate today.

00:50:50.000 So, we begin with slavery reparations.

00:50:53.000 So the House Democrats are going to hold another one of these showpiece routines where they bring in Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover to talk about slavery reparations.

00:51:00.000 Now, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written this essay about slavery reparations.

00:51:03.000 I've gone through it on the show before.

00:51:05.000 It is wildly overpraised.

00:51:06.000 Basically, it just talks about how much black people have suffered thanks to slavery.

00:51:10.000 100% true.

00:51:11.000 All of that is true.

00:51:11.000 Also, he's provided no workable framework for reparations.

00:51:15.000 Who should receive?

00:51:16.000 Who should give?

00:51:16.000 What should the cutoff be?

00:51:18.000 How exactly should all of this work?

00:51:20.000 How much do people who are not involved in slavery owe people who are also not slaves and haven't had ancestors who were slaves for about 150 years?

00:51:29.000 How does this work?

00:51:30.000 House Democrats are going to hold a hearing on this and it will basically be anybody who opposes slavery reparations is a racist.

00:51:35.000 How do we know this?

00:51:35.000 Because Mitch McConnell was asked about reparations.

00:51:37.000 Here's what the Senate Majority Leader had to say.

00:51:40.000 Yeah, I don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living or responsible is a good idea.

00:51:50.000 We've, you know, tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation.

00:52:01.000 We've elected an African-American president.

00:52:03.000 First of all, it'd be pretty hard to figure out who to compensate.

00:52:06.000 We've had waves of Immigrants as well have come to the country and experienced dramatic discrimination of one kind or another.

00:52:14.000 So no, I don't think reparations are a good idea.

00:52:16.000 Okay, so he says that.

00:52:17.000 That's a reasonable point of view.

00:52:19.000 That is a very reasonable point of view.

00:52:21.000 Here's how Don Lemon characterizes it on CNN.

00:52:24.000 Maybe you should give back some of your wealth.

00:52:25.000 Maybe you should give back your grandfather's college degree.

00:52:27.000 Maybe you should give back your great-great-grandfather's land that you were given, and on and on and on.

00:52:34.000 Yeah, people weren't there, but people reaped the benefits from it.

00:52:38.000 And that is the whole point of the matter.

00:52:40.000 And social programs are not reparations.

00:52:43.000 He is conflating the two, and again, misleading the American people, as has so often been done, especially within the last couple of years.

00:52:52.000 His argument is simple-minded.

00:52:54.000 It's stupid.

00:52:56.000 I would say it comes from a position of privilege and probably one of bigotry as well.

00:53:01.000 Oh, so he's a racist.

00:53:02.000 So if you say that slavery reparations is unworkable and that, you know, an immigrant, like an Asian immigrant, shouldn't pay slavery reparations to, perhaps, Kamala Harris, who does not have ancestors who were slaves, That that is apparently racist now.

00:53:16.000 And Don Lemon definitely, definitely deserves reparations because Don Lemon makes, what, three million dollars a year?

00:53:22.000 Something like that?

00:53:23.000 So, clearly, the poor white guy in Appalachia should be paying reparations to Don Lemon for the fact that 150 years ago, Don Lemon's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather might have been enslaved by somebody who once knew the great-great-great-great-great-great-grand-uncle of the guy in Appalachia.

00:53:41.000 I mean, reparations is unworkable.

00:53:43.000 Everybody knows it.

00:53:44.000 And everybody knows that this is a talking point that is specifically designed to generate controversy, not to help heal old wounds.

00:53:52.000 Nobody has yet come up with a workable framework or an explanation of what this would look like.

00:53:56.000 And asking those questions is now considered racist.

00:53:58.000 Because this is a narrative the media wishes to draw.

00:53:58.000 Why?

00:54:00.000 Now, speaking of narratives that the media wishes to draw, it is amazing how these values are crammed down on the American citizenry.

00:54:08.000 So there is a teacher who recently kicked a student out of class for insisting that there were only two genders.

00:54:15.000 Really, this is a thing that happened.

00:54:17.000 So the teacher was talking specifically about biological sex, and the student said there are only two sexes, male and female, which is true. 1.00

00:54:23.000 There are intersex people, but there are only two actual sexes, male and female, biologically speaking.

00:54:28.000 Intersex people exist, but this does not obliterate the categories of male and female.

00:54:32.000 Okay, so the student says this, and the teacher immediately expels the kid from class, while acknowledging openly that what he is saying is utterly ascientific.

00:54:40.000 There are more than one gender in this country.

00:54:42.000 Well, that's your opinion.

00:54:43.000 That is my opinion, and that is an opinion which is acceptable in the school.

00:54:47.000 I'm afraid yours, which you're saying that there's no such thing as anyone other than male or female, is not inclusive.

00:54:53.000 Scientifically, there are just two genders. 1.00

00:54:56.000 Depending on what gender you are.

00:54:58.000 You are choosing to make an issue of this because I said, are you really going to do it?

00:55:01.000 That was your opportunity to keep quiet.

00:55:03.000 So you get to put your opinion out in class and my opinion has to stay inside my house.

00:55:07.000 No, I am not putting my opinion.

00:55:10.000 I am not putting my opinion out.

00:55:12.000 I am stating what is national school authority policy.

00:55:17.000 Okay, and then the student says, it's not scientific whatsoever.

00:55:20.000 And the teacher concludes, not every policy is scientific, Murray.

00:55:23.000 Oh, this is good.

00:55:27.000 Well, here's what happens when policy is not based on science or anything else.

00:55:32.000 By the way, this happened, I believe, in Scotland.

00:55:35.000 So this is not happening in the United States yet.

00:55:38.000 OK, so here is what you end up with.

00:55:40.000 You end up with this bizarre argument that sex does not exist.

00:55:45.000 And if sex does not exist, then no such thing exists as straight or gay or sexual preference or anything like that.

00:55:54.000 And this leads to the inherent absurdity of the piece I'm about to bring you from psychology today.

00:55:58.000 Karen Blair writing, Professor Karen Blair.

00:56:00.000 Are you ready for this?

00:56:01.000 Because you're going to have to put on your confusing, your confused hat on.

00:56:04.000 Because this is, this is, this is deeply confusing.

00:56:07.000 You'll see why.

00:56:08.000 The article is called, Are Trans People Excluded from the World of Dating?

00:56:11.000 New research explores the extent to which trans people are excluded from dating.

00:56:15.000 So basically, this professor and colleagues published some findings to a survey question of who would you date?

00:56:21.000 The studies, the findings were published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

00:56:25.000 According to the piece, our results indicated that 87.5% of the participants who were asked this very question only checked off the cisgender options, meaning a person who believes that their gender corresponds to their sex, meaning you're female and you think you're a female, excluded transgender and non-binary individuals from their hypothetical dating pool.

00:56:42.000 This apparently is responsible for the suffering of the transgender community. 1.00

00:56:46.000 It is not, in fact, that gender dysphoria is a mental condition that leads to depression and is heavily linked with it.

00:56:52.000 It must be societal discrimination and cruelty.

00:56:55.000 And what the article basically purports to say is that you are, in fact, a sexist if you will not date a transgender person.

00:57:03.000 They say, while only a very small minority of cisgender heterosexual individuals were willing to date a trans person, a much greater percentage of individuals who identified as bisexual or queer provided inclusive responses.

00:57:13.000 Now listen to this take.

00:57:14.000 One reason for this may be that individuals with queer or bisexual sexual orientations are already looking beyond gender in many ways when selecting a person to date.

00:57:22.000 Well, I have another alternative to this idiotic take.

00:57:26.000 Here's the alternative.

00:57:27.000 If you're a cisgender heterosexual, if you're a man who thinks you're a man and you're heterosexual, you would like to have sex with biological women. 0.82

00:57:34.000 And if you present me with a biological man who says he is a woman, I will not be attracted to that person because I am a heterosexual man who's attracted to physical women.

00:57:43.000 To actual biological women. 0.85

00:57:47.000 Whereas if you are bisexual, you don't care, do you? 1.00

00:57:49.000 Because you're attracted to both sexes.

00:57:52.000 So it's not that cisgender heterosexual individuals are bigots.

00:57:55.000 It's that they are attracted to exactly the people they say they are attracted to.

00:57:58.000 And that's not bigotry, that's called human evolution and biology, which has led to the progeneration of the species.

00:58:04.000 But we're so stupid now, that we have reached a point where if you are a man, who is straight, and you say you will not date a biological man who says he is a woman, then this makes you gay.

00:58:16.000 Or bisexual. 0.85

00:58:18.000 Because the biological man who says he is a woman is actually a woman, according to the left.

00:58:18.000 Right?

00:58:23.000 So, if Bob over there, the 300-pound hairy dude, if that guy says he's actually Cecile, and you're like, nah, you know, not interested, why are... You're gay, man. 0.98

00:58:36.000 If you're not into Bob, you're gay.

00:58:36.000 You're gay.

00:58:38.000 Because Bob is actually Cecile, even though he's 300 pounds hairy and has a penis.

00:58:43.000 You are now, you are gay. 1.00

00:58:46.000 I'm sorry to tell you this, if you don't sleep with that physical dude, you are a gay man. 0.62

00:58:52.000 Because he's actually a woman.

00:58:54.000 This is what happens when you conflate gender, this is what happens when you separate gender from sex and say they are absolutely malleable.

00:58:59.000 Sex is not gender, you can identify however you want, and then you merge them back in. 0.76

00:59:03.000 And you say, no, sex is actually gender.

00:59:05.000 So, this is what happens when you say, you can be a biological man, and your gender is a woman, but also, trans women are real women.

00:59:13.000 If by real you mean like biological, if by real you mean should be treated like a woman in every aspect of life, then you are saying something so radically incoherent that you end up with the bizarre result that if you are a homosexual man who will not sleep with a woman who says she is a man, this is because you are gay. 0.68

00:59:32.000 What?

00:59:33.000 No, this is because you are straight, actually.

00:59:35.000 So again, to take the counter example, you're a gay man. 0.97

00:59:37.000 You're the only one who has sex with dudes. 1.00

00:59:40.000 And here's a chick, and she says, hey, I'm a man. 0.99

00:59:43.000 And she has all the lady parts. 1.00

00:59:44.000 And you're like, well, you know, not really into that because, like, I'm into dudes.

00:59:48.000 And then, and she says, no, no, but I am a dude.

00:59:51.000 You're like, no, but you don't, not like by a logic, bigot.

00:59:55.000 Not only are you a bigot, you are straight secretly. 0.93

00:59:58.000 You're straight.

01:00:00.000 If you don't want to have sex with a woman and you are a man, it's because you're straight by this perverse logic.

01:00:07.000 We are so disconnected from anything remotely approaching reality at this point that there is no way for us to even have basic conversations.

01:00:14.000 If words just have no meanings, this is how you get to where we are.

01:00:19.000 And it's absurd in the extreme.

01:00:22.000 OK, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

01:00:25.000 Plenty more to talk about.

01:00:26.000 Plus, we'll be back here tomorrow.

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01:01:03.000 Alexandria, occasional cortex, says arresting illegal immigrants is like the Holocaust, because she's an ignoramus. 0.96

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 19, 2019

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