I'm back. Sorry I missed the post-Super Tuesday show, we were busy having a baby. Dr. Kelly had a baby girl, and it's a girl! Bernie Sanders is a dead person, and Joe Biden is the next president of the United States. I don't think you'll want to miss this one. I'll talk about it on The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro, wherever you get your news and analysis from the world of politics and punditry. Today's show is sponsored by Express VPN. Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.org/ProtectYourOnline Privacy Today at ExpressVpn.com/BenShapiroShow Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator, writer, and podcaster who has written for The Daily Wire, The Weekly Standard, and The Huffington Post, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS, and other publications. He's also the author of several books, including "The Devil Next Door" and "The Dark Side of Politics." Ben Shapiro's latest book is out now, and you can buy it for $99.99 on Amazon. The Dark Side Of Politics is out on Audible, Podcoin, and Podcoin. If you don't already own a copy of the book I mentioned in this episode, you can get it for 99 cents, or you can check it out for 99.99. It's a great deal more than $99, and I'm giving you a free copy of The Devil Wears a Ring. if you're looking for a copy, too! The Devil Can't See It or Not a Good Deal, by clicking here, here's a link to get a discount on the book on my site. I'll send you a copy for $49.99, I'll give you a $10 discount on The Devil Knows What I Can't Say That? and it'll send me a $50 discount on my book, it'll give me $50 or $50, and a $25,99 gets me an autographed copy of his or her own copy of "It's a Goodie, Too Good or a goodie, too Goodie? and I'll tell me what you can do that's good, I'm listening to you'll get a good deal, too good, but I'll review it at $99 or I'll get $5, and they'll get an ad free, too much of it, and so much more.
00:00:44.000I will get to that a little bit later on in the show when we get to some things I like and some things that I hate, but I'm excited to welcome into the world baby Shapiro number three.
00:00:53.000She's beautiful and her siblings just love her.
00:00:56.000I will say I was a little worried that her siblings were going to be upset because whenever you add a new sibling to the family, You have to worry that the kids are gonna be like, well, this upends things.
00:01:05.000But her older sister is super into it.
00:01:07.000Her older brother, who's just a sweetie, is really into it too.
00:01:35.000Go back and listen to my show on Monday, right before Super Tuesday or my Super Tuesday show right before the actual election results came in.
00:01:41.000And you will hear me suggest that Joe Biden was going to win a majority of the delegates from Super Tuesday.
00:01:46.000And I will say some people were calling it not that many.
00:01:49.000But, you know, when you're right, you're right.
00:03:30.000And that is that Bernie Sanders looks much better as an outsider than he does as an insider.
00:03:34.000He looks much better as the guy who is outside sniping at the frontrunner than he does as the person who is the frontrunner.
00:03:39.000Because once all of the focus turned on Bernie and he spent an entire week defending the Castros, Everybody's like, oh, that's a terrible idea.
00:03:49.000And everybody sort of went, OK, well, if Biden wins South Carolina, we're all going to resonate around Biden.
00:03:53.000The only question was whether it was going to be Biden or Bloomberg as the chief opposition to Bernie.
00:03:57.000Biden obviously is much stronger than Bloomberg, not only because he has the history with Barack Obama and more support in the black community, but also because Bloomberg had performed horribly in the debates and had no net level of national support that was actually on the ground and materialized.
00:04:11.000So Biden ends up walking away with this thing.
00:04:13.000And as I say, he is now the prohibitive frontrunner.
00:04:16.000Now, that became even clearer when Elizabeth Warren bowed out of the race.
00:04:19.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
00:04:20.000It is delicious to watch all of these candidates bow out of the race.
00:04:24.000Elizabeth Warren waited around for like three days for no reason.
00:04:28.000It just demonstrates she has no political instincts at all.
00:06:48.000Me making fun of Elizabeth Warren for claiming she's Native American is not me making fun of Native Americans.
00:06:52.000It's me making fun of a horrible person who claimed she was Native American for years to gain affirmative action benefits, which is a terrible thing to do!
00:06:59.000Okay, so Elizabeth Warren was awful in every, every way.
00:07:01.000So, her actual concession speech, her actual, I'm out of the race, was basically, I am woman, hear me roar.
00:07:07.000Like, she actually started singing Nancy Sinatra's, these boots are made for walking, and walking what I'll do.
00:08:03.000Elizabeth Warren was going around doing the, I was victimized as a woman because when I was pregnant, I wasn't allowed to keep my job, which again, there's no evidence to back any of this.
00:08:13.000She's done the whole, I experienced sexism in the workplace routine.
00:08:20.000The reason that she lost is because, number one, she's a bad candidate who does stupid things and says stupid things, and number two, she made a couple of basic strategic errors.
00:08:28.000Strategic error number one, early on in the race, Elizabeth Warren had a choice.
00:09:24.000Okay, first of all, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton was the nominee last time.
00:09:28.000She won a majority of the popular vote.
00:09:30.000If she had been slightly less lackluster, she didn't even have to be a good candidate.
00:09:34.000If she had been slightly less lackluster, if she had not collapsed into a van in the last three weeks of the campaign, if she had not had a story breaking in the New York Times the weekend before that they were reopening her email investigation, if she had not been campaigning like a dunderhead, she's probably the president right now, Hillary Clinton.
00:09:50.000Okay, so spare me the America is sexist.
00:09:55.000The premise is that Americans are awful.
00:09:56.000And so every time Americans do something that proves that they are not awful, even in the view of the left...
00:10:01.000That only lasts for the amount of time that Americans are doing the not awful thing.
00:10:05.000Then they go back to the default state of being awful.
00:10:07.000So, when Barack Obama was president, Americans had proved for a brief moment they were not racist because we are the only westernized country in human history that has elected a person of a minority race to the head of the country.
00:10:19.000Okay, this has never happened in Western Europe.
00:10:22.000I'm not aware of a single Western European country that has ever elected somebody of a racial minority to lead the country.
00:10:26.000The United States elected a member of a racial minority.
00:10:28.000Black Americans represent about 13% of the population.
00:10:32.000White Americans still represent about 65-70% of the population.
00:10:37.000We, the American people, I didn't vote for him.
00:10:40.000The American people, an overwhelmingly white country, elected a black man to be president of the United States.
00:10:44.000And for the moment, the media was like, oh, maybe Americans aren't so racist.
00:10:47.000Then, Barack Obama was no longer president, and if you didn't vote for Kamala Harris, it was because you were racist again.
00:10:53.000Okay, well, last time around, Democrats voted to nominate Hillary Clinton.
00:10:57.000And now, we get the entire lament that if, if Elizabeth Warren had been a man, then she would have been the nominee here.
00:11:04.000If Elizabeth Warren had been a man, she wouldn't have been, she would have been one of the first candidates out if she'd been a man.
00:12:38.000Either gender is a social construct and therefore does not matter and is completely malleable, or femaleness matters and you need a female president.
00:12:47.000This is the same woman who suggested that she was going to have her education secretary appointed by a nine-year-old transgender child.
00:12:55.000So you're going to need to explain to me, like if Donald Trump declared himself a woman tomorrow, could Elizabeth Warren complain about it?
00:13:00.000If Donald Trump came out and was like, Guess what, guys?
00:13:58.000Here's Bernie saying that he would give Warren a slot in his administration, which again is about as much of a fantasy as his communist utopia, which will not materialize in the United States.
00:14:07.000By the way, if he does that, his first words should be, Remember that time I told you that if you ran, you would fail?
00:14:13.000I have a lot of respect for Senator Warren and would love to sit down and talk to her about what kind of role she can play in our administration.
00:14:20.000By the way, if he does that, his first word should be, remember that time I told you that if you ran, you would fail?
00:14:25.000Remember that time I told you, remember you said on the national debate stage that I told you that a woman could not win the nomination?
00:14:35.000Well, you could pay up at this checking counter right here, right now, Elizabeth Warren.
00:14:41.000Warren, by the way, says, no, no, no, I'm not going to endorse anybody.
00:14:43.000I'm too busy solipsistically navel-gazing.
00:14:57.000And I want to take a little time to think a little more.
00:15:00.000I've been spending a lot of time right now on the question of suspending and also making sure that this works as best we can for our staff, for our team, for our volunteers.
00:15:13.000So it could be coming, but just not right now?
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00:17:19.000Okay, so, the media continued to maintain that this is all about Elizabeth Warren being a girl and not about Elizabeth Warren being a terrible candidate.
00:17:50.000Because Warren and Klobuchar disagree on a lot of things.
00:17:53.000They endorsed both because they were women.
00:17:54.000Stop telling me that being a woman in American politics is this grave disadvantage when Democrats nominated the popular vote winner a woman last time and when all of the immediate conventional wisdom frontrunners in the Democratic primaries were women like Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren and just flamed out because they're bad.
00:18:09.000I think that we all know, and this election cycle in particular, has also presented very legitimate questions about the challenges of women running for president of the United States.
00:18:28.000There are no women currently in this race.
00:18:31.000And, um, I, you know, we can have a longer discussion about it, but the reality is that there is still a lot of work to be done to make it very clear that women are exceptionally qualified and capable of being the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America.
00:18:47.000Okay, Tulsi Gabbard standing over here like, hey, how about me?
00:19:30.000I think part of what's going on today is that women around the country are like, Okay, honestly, if it's not going to be any of them, let's get real.
00:19:40.000Is it just that it can't be any woman ever?
00:19:43.000Are we just going to run white men in their late 70s against each other, both parties, and that's all we can agree?
00:19:50.000I think there's a feeling that your campaign ending is very specific to you and it also feels a little bit like a death knell in terms of the prospects of having a woman for president in our lifetimes.
00:20:57.000Also, she suggested that, you know, we need men to push for women to lead, not just to wait till they have wives and daughters to realize that women are people too.
00:21:04.000How about women realize that women are people too, and some women are better than others at particular things?
00:21:09.000But no, apparently all women, women, so the things I've learned from the media in the last two years, believe all women, women never lie, and every woman who runs for president should win.
00:21:18.000Alternatively, that's a bunch of crap, and some women are great at politics, and some women suck at politics.
00:21:23.000And some women lie, and some women tell the truth.
00:22:10.000She has to settle because she failed, because she flamed out, because she was a crap candidate.
00:22:14.000This is such... It all, again, goes to this basic narrative, this basic left-wing narrative, which is that equality of outcome is the only proof that equality of opportunity was provided.
00:22:24.000That only if an equal number of women and men end up as president did women have the opportunity to run for president.
00:22:31.000Maybe some of these candidates were bad.
00:22:33.000Maybe Joe Biden had an inherent advantage because he was vice president.
00:22:35.000Maybe Bernie Sanders had an inherent advantage because he's been running for president for the last four years non-stop and had a built-in base.
00:22:43.000It turns out that the two most viable candidates from the beginning with the largest bases were also the candidates who are there at the end.
00:23:13.000You remember those days where you would get the newspaper and actually have to cut out coupons or you'd look in the mail and ooh, a Bed Bath & Beyond coupon.
00:26:39.000Twitter just established a rule that you are not allowed to make jokes Okay, Boomer.
00:26:52.000There go all of my jokes about Joe Biden.
00:26:56.000I guess we can't make fun of the fact that Joe Biden has the same mental functioning capacity as one of the plants in the background of the show at this point.
00:29:02.000Talk about a story, by the way, that should have been run in 2016.
00:29:04.000The New York Times has a story today titled, As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity.
00:29:10.000Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was mayor in the 1980s.
00:29:35.000But we're supposed to believe that Bernie was some sort of good-hearted non-commie?
00:29:39.000According to the New York Times, the mayor of Burlington, Vermont wrote to his Soviet counterpart in a provincial city he wanted the U.S.
00:29:45.000and the Soviet Union to, quote, live together as friends.
00:29:48.000Unbeknown to him, his desire for friendship meshed with the efforts of Soviet officials in Moscow to, quote, reveal American imperialism as the main source of the danger of war.
00:29:55.000So in other words, they saw him as a useful idiot, and they used him as a useful idiot.
00:29:59.000The New York Times examined 89 pages of letters, telegrams, and internal Soviet documents, revealing in far greater detail the extent of Sanders' personal effort to establish ties between his city and a country many Americans still considered an enemy.
00:30:11.000They also show how the Kremlin viewed these sister city relationships as vehicles to sway American public opinion about the Soviet Union.
00:30:21.000A Soviet foreign ministry document said one of the most useful channels in practice for actively carrying out information propaganda efforts has proved to be Sister City Contact.
00:30:30.000The documents are part of a government archive in Russia, which became the Sister City of Burlington in Yaroslavl.
00:30:36.000The files are open to the public, but here's the key.
00:30:38.000Until now, no one had asked to see them.
00:30:41.000Until now, he's been running for president since 2016.
00:30:53.000The documents are included in a file titled, Documents about the Development of Friendly Relations of the City of Yaroslavl with the City of Burlington in 1988.
00:31:01.000In a statement, the Sanders campaign said the candidate was proud of his grassroots diplomatic efforts.
00:31:05.000And he just doubles down on the communism.
00:31:07.000And that's why Bernie is basically toast.
00:31:11.000Instead, so Sanders reached out to the Soviet Union.
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00:36:21.000Have you ever, ever seen a sitting president get so involved in a Democratic primary and focus so much attention on not wanting a single person, me, to become the nominee?
00:36:33.000The president does not want me to be the nominee.
00:41:06.000His record in the Obama administration was not good.
00:41:08.000Obamacare has been a pretty large scale failure.
00:41:12.000Joe Biden has been in Congress forever and has gotten really not a lot done and stuff that he has gotten done he's apologized for like the crime bill.
00:41:19.000And most of all, Joe is real vulnerable on the Hunter stuff.
00:41:22.000I know that people in the media are trying to downplay the Hunter stuff in the same way they downplayed Hillary's emails and Benghazi and all the rest of it.
00:42:09.000I saw a couple of statements, very strong statements by very respected people in your world saying they aimed at Trump and they took Biden down.
00:42:17.000And really, that's what happened when you think because you look at the sun.
00:42:22.000It's not a campaign issue for the Democrats.
00:43:15.000OK, there's one other asset that that Trump has here, and that is people People tend to think that Trump is, you know, this out-of-the-box guy.
00:43:34.000So for all of the off-putting things that Trump says, all the terrible things that Trump says, and he says off-putting terrible things sometimes, We've been here for quite a while.
00:43:53.000But Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, spoke at this event outside the Supreme Court protesting because inside the Supreme Court they're deciding on whether a Louisiana law that restricts abortion clinics to having to have inpatient privileges Whether that law is legal.
00:44:08.000So Chuck Schumer is speaking about abortion and he openly threatens two Supreme Court justices.
00:44:16.000Again, bad politics, vile politics, saying horrible things, threats, brutality in rhetoric and politics.
00:44:24.000Did not start with Donald Trump and anyone who says that it did is lying to you openly.
00:44:28.000Here is Chuck Schumer, who's been on Capitol Hill since before I was a child, Saying exactly the sort of thing that you would expect to hear from Trump.
00:45:32.000John Roberts, who usually is pretty quiet about this stuff, he then chided Schumer.
00:45:37.000He suggested it was irresponsible and dangerous.
00:45:40.000He said this morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside.
00:45:44.000Senator Schumer referred to two members of the court by name and said he wanted to tell them that you have released the world balloon and you will pay the price.
00:45:51.000Robert said justices know the criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they're dangerous.
00:45:58.000All members of the court will continue to do their job without fear or favor from whatever quarter.
00:46:02.000Schumer's spokesperson then suggested that Schumer was addressing Republican lawmakers when he said a price would be paid.
00:46:46.000Schumer then denied threatening the justices, but admits he shouldn't have used the words that he did.
00:46:51.000And so the purpose of all of this is to point out one quick thing.
00:46:55.000If Democrats are going to claim that Donald Trump is a political outlier, that Donald Trump is vile and terrible in heretofore unprecedented ways, you can't act like this.
00:47:04.000They've been acting like this for quite a while.
00:47:05.000You know, over the last 48 hours, Bill Clinton came out and said that he was nailing Monica Lewinsky because he was stressed about his job.
00:47:43.000No, that's not what makes you a strong woman.
00:47:45.000You know what makes you a strong woman?
00:47:46.000Taking a human being and growing a human being in your body and then pushing a human being out of your body and then being able to feed the human being with your, like, that's a superpower, man.
00:48:34.000Her siblings are loving her, which is just, as a parent, I can tell you, the amount of nachas, right, which is sort of the pride that you get from your children treating each other well, is unending.
00:48:44.000And my daughter is wonderful with her sister.
00:49:19.000Last pregnancy, my wife was, she was in labor, and I happened to be wearing a Batman shirt, and it was a picture of Batman, it was like from one of the comic books, maybe it was Arkham Asylum.
00:49:29.000It was a picture of Batman, like growling, like giving the, you know, and my wife found it very inspiring during labor, and so we actually brought it with us to the hospital this time, For the pushing.
00:49:39.000The baby came so fast you didn't have to use it.
00:49:41.000But we're doing our Christopher Nolan marathon.
00:49:43.000We are in the middle of, almost finished with The Dark Knight Rises.
00:49:46.000Let me just say, this trilogy is just amazing.
00:49:52.000It's between Lord of the Rings trilogy and Batman trilogy for best trilogy ever.
00:50:06.000Okay, so of course the villain in this one is Bane, played by Tom Hardy.
00:50:19.000And Bane is basically an anarchist socialist.
00:50:23.000He's an anarchist in the sense that he wants to tear down the entire society.
00:50:26.000He's a socialist in the sense that he wants to control the entire society from the top down.
00:50:31.000And his whole thing is that there's this gap between the rich and the poor in Gotham, and everything is terrible in Gotham, and we'll let the city tear itself apart, but he's actually the one who's in control the whole time.
00:50:40.000It's not the city tearing itself apart, it's him tearing the city apart.
00:50:44.000And there's this whole premise, which is that Bane is extremely tough because he had a rough childhood and because he grew up in this pit.
00:50:52.000And so because he was born in the darkness, that he's tougher than Bruce Wayne, who simply kind of chose the darkness and acclimated to it because Bruce Wayne grew up rich.
00:51:00.000And then the movie is about how that doesn't matter.
00:51:02.000What matters is the qualities you cultivate in yourself, not the stuff that is inborn in you.
00:51:07.000It's such an inherently conservative film.
00:51:10.000Dark Knight, by the way, is also a deeply conservative film.
00:51:12.000My friend Andrew Clavin, I remember, wrote an op-ed about The Dark Knight, in which he pointed out that the entire thing is a metaphor for why the surveillance state is sometimes necessary, but then should be destroyed once it's unnecessary, which is absolutely true.
00:51:24.000So, if you're looking for a great rewatchable, the entire Batman trilogy, just fantastic.
00:52:32.000And I thought to myself, now, that seems like if you're a woman, you want to brag about like unique things that women can do, that would be it, right?
00:52:38.000Of all the unique things that women can do.
00:52:39.000And this is not to say women can't do many of the same things that men can do.
00:53:57.000The headline should have been what people were saying at this rally.
00:54:01.000Because the left has decided that abortion is not just something that is a necessary evil, which is a bad argument, but at least takes into account the moral gravitas of the act.
00:54:10.000They've decided that abortion is a positive good.
00:54:12.000It is something that ought to be cheered and celebrated.
00:54:15.000Leading that charge was Busy Phillips, an alleged comedian.
00:54:18.000I say alleged because I've never seen her do anything funny.
00:54:20.000So Busy Phillips gave a speech at this rally that is the speech of a Bond villain.
00:57:46.000So, um, she was also trying to explain that people are pro-life because they want to control women's bodies, which has always been the stupidest argument to me in the world.
00:57:55.000Again, sexist men typically want to control women's bodies, not so they can make babies with them, but so they can have sex with them.
00:58:01.000This is what Bill Clinton said about Monica Lewinsky, effectively.
00:58:03.000Okay, but Rashida Tlaib, she's like, well, if you were going to be pro-life, if you're going to be pro-life, then maybe you shouldn't, you should just not want to have sex with ladies.