The Ben Shapiro Show - Of Virtue Signaling And Vice | Ep. 587

00:00:00.000 The New York Daily News fires half its staff and every Democrat vows to help.

00:00:03.000 Millennials virtue signal on issues that don't matter. 0.94

00:00:06.000 And President Trump both loves tariffs and also wants to somehow fix the impact of the tariffs.

00:00:12.000 It's all confusing.

00:00:13.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:13.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:20.000 President Trump's Twitter feed is a cornucopia, a cornucopia, a veritable cornucopia of joy and issues and, ah, sometimes it appears that the president is getting high off his own supply when it comes to Twitter.

00:00:31.000 And we'll go through his Twitter feed, which is just lit, as the children say these days.

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00:01:35.000 All right, so,

00:01:54.000 Every morning, I wake up and I prepare for the show.

00:01:56.000 And I have to figure out, what am I going to talk about today?

00:01:58.000 And then President Trump does my show prep for me because he goes on Twitter.

00:02:02.000 And that's what happened this morning when the president decided to tweet about tariffs.

00:02:05.000 And here's what the president tweeted.

00:02:07.000 And it is pretty spectacular.

00:02:08.000 He tweeted, tariffs are the greatest!

00:02:11.000 Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with tariffs.

00:02:18.000 It's as simple as that.

00:02:19.000 And everybody's talking.

00:02:21.000 Remember, we are the piggy bank, scare quotes, that's being robbed.

00:02:25.000 All will be great, capital G. 0.95

00:02:28.000 Wow, there's a lot there to unpack.

00:02:29.000 Okay, so we could talk about the fact that tariffs are not, in fact, the greatest.

00:02:33.000 The last people who thought the tariffs were the greatest were a couple of guys named Smoot and Hawley.

00:02:36.000 They were responsible for a tariff regime that ended up lengthening the Great Depression by probably eight years.

00:02:41.000 So tariffs are not, in fact, the greatest, specifically because they're artificially increasing the price of products that you pay for on the shelves, and they are also artificially increasing the prices of inputs for American companies.

00:02:53.000 They also draw retaliatory tariffs, so that means that American companies can't ship their products overseas.

00:02:59.000 Well, it's not theory.

00:03:00.000 According to Bloomberg, Harley-Davidson has now cut its profit margin forecast for this year because of tariffs.

00:03:06.000 This is breaking today.

00:03:07.000 Harley-Davidson has cut its forecast for profit margin by an amount that suggests it's finding a way to cope with the damage done by President Donald Trump's trade war.

00:03:15.000 Operating margin this year will drop to about 9.5 percent.

00:03:18.000 That's a midpoint of a range.

00:03:19.000 The Milwaukee-based manufacturer gave in a statement on Tuesday, citing the expected impact of tariffs.

00:03:23.000 They had been projecting a margin of roughly 10 percent.

00:03:26.000 So this is a little bit lower than their normal margins.

00:03:29.000 And they're also moving some of their factories to Europe.

00:03:32.000 Also, Whirlpool has now announced that they are lowering

00:03:35.000 There are estimates for this year.

00:03:37.000 The maker of home appliances said rising raw material costs hurt results in three out of four of its regional markets in the second quarter, including North America, Asia, and its struggling Europe, Middle East, and Africa division.

00:03:48.000 The only region where it didn't cite input cost inflation was in Latin America, which faced its own problems in the second quarter, according to Bloomberg, including a Brazilian trucker strike.

00:03:56.000 According to Chief Executive Officer Mark Robert Bitzer, he said, our annual steel contracts and hedging contracts with our base metals

00:04:03.000 Give us some protection, but do not insulate us from these more material trends.

00:04:06.000 So in other words, all of those manufacturing jobs that President Trump wants to protect are actually being hurt by the tariffs that he loves and thinks are the greatest.

00:04:14.000 Technically, by the way, Muhammad Ali is the greatest.

00:04:16.000 I mean, we all know that.

00:04:17.000 But according to President Trump, tariffs are, in fact, the greatest.

00:04:20.000 Also, I do love that everybody is talking.

00:04:23.000 I didn't realize that that was a school of economics now.

00:04:25.000 The everybody's talking school of economics.

00:04:28.000 And I was also under the impression that everybody was talking about the bird.

00:04:32.000 Because, of course, the bird is the word.

00:04:33.000 But the fact that the President of the United States continues to tweet out about this stuff suggests that he doesn't actually know what he's talking about.

00:04:40.000 We are not a piggy bank being robbed.

00:04:42.000 Again, for the 1,000th time, when I make a trade with you, you are not robbing me.

00:04:47.000 Robbing me involves you using force or deception in order to take products

00:04:51.000 Or services or money from me without my knowledge or without my consent.

00:04:55.000 That is not what happens in a trade.

00:04:57.000 If I have a trade deficit with you, that's because I gave you money and you gave me a product.

00:05:00.000 I have a trade deficit with lots of people.

00:05:02.000 Overall, I do okay fiscally.

00:05:05.000 That's true of the United States as well, but I have a trade deficit with my dry cleaners, I have a trade deficit with our nanny, I have a trade deficit with our gardener, I have a trade deficit with the

00:05:13.000 Local restaurants around here, a pretty massive trade deficit with the local restaurants around here.

00:05:17.000 That doesn't mean the solution is for me to stop shopping at those restaurants or stores at the grocery and instead artificially increase costs.

00:05:24.000 Now, how do we know that this is actually having an impact?

00:05:26.000 I know there are a lot of people right now who are shaking their heads.

00:05:28.000 No, if Trump says tariffs are great, it's because tariffs are great.

00:05:31.000 Because he's making tariffs great again or some such.

00:05:35.000 If this were the case, then why exactly is the president now announcing that he is going to be providing aid to farmers?

00:05:41.000 So according to Politico today,

00:05:43.000 The Trump administration is planning to ease fears of a trade war by announcing later on Tuesday billions of dollars in aid to farmers hurt by tariffs, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

00:05:52.000 The administration's plan will use two commodity support programs in the Farm Bill, as well as the Agricultural Department's broad authority to stabilize the agricultural economy during times of turmoil.

00:06:02.000 The plan has been in the works for months.

00:06:04.000 It seeks to ensure U.S. 0.93

00:06:05.000 farmers and ranchers, a key constituency for President Trump and Republicans, don't bear the brunt of an escalating trade fight with China, the European Union,

00:06:12.000 And other major economies as the administration pursues an aggressive course to rebalance America's trade relationships.

00:06:17.000 Trump's move to slap tariffs on imports from some of America's largest trading partners have prompted retaliation against U.S.

00:06:23.000 farm goods like pork, beef, soybeans, sorghum, and a range of fruits.

00:06:26.000 So what's happening is that President Trump decided he wanted to tariff

00:06:29.000 Cars, for example.

00:06:30.000 And these countries that we are now tariffing have decided they're going to tariff America on agricultural exports, which means that our farmers don't have any place to ship their goods, which are now withering on the vine.

00:06:40.000 So now President Trump is going to borrow from the future in order to pay off those farmers.

00:06:44.000 This is exactly what FDR did. 0.64

00:06:46.000 This is exactly FDR's policy.

00:06:48.000 FDR's policy from 1933 all the way until the war began in 1941 was this policy.

00:06:53.000 The policy was that we were going to leverage tariffs against

00:06:57.000 People who are screwing us in trade wars.

00:06:59.000 We're going to fight those trade wars.

00:07:00.000 And then we are going to somehow make up for all the farmers who are losing money by artificially boosting prices.

00:07:06.000 Now FDR went so far as to actually regulate farmers and force farmers to actually burn off their excess grain supply in order to boost prices.

00:07:13.000 So he provided them with all sorts of subsidies and then he also regulated them up the wazoo so you didn't have an oversupply of grain.

00:07:20.000 This led to a very famous case at the Supreme Court called Wickard v. Filburn where a guy was growing grain for his own consumption and the federal government said you have to burn off the grain for your own consumption because you're artificially lowering the price of grain.

00:07:31.000 You're creating too much grain.

00:07:32.000 It's lowering the price in the global market because you are eating that grain instead of buying it from somebody else.

00:07:37.000 And the Supreme Court, idiotically under pressure from FDR, found that the federal government could actually regulate your ability to grow grain in your own backyard for your own use.

00:07:44.000 Somehow this impacted interstate commerce. 0.71

00:07:46.000 Trump's policy here is FDR policy.

00:07:49.000 And this is one of the problems with the areas where the president has sole control.

00:07:52.000 The Constitution of the United States does not delegate tariff power to the president of the United States.

00:07:57.000 It delegates tariff power to the legislature.

00:08:01.000 Now, originally, the legislature delegated tariff power to the president of the United States because they wanted the presidency, they wanted the executive branch, to lower tariffs.

00:08:08.000 And they figured that it would be easier to have a president who could unilaterally lower tariffs than it would be to have a legislature that had to lower tariffs by fiat, by legislation.

00:08:16.000 Well, the problem is, once you give a lot of power to the executive, the executive can use it however he wants.

00:08:20.000 So the President of the United States can simply play with the tariff rates.

00:08:24.000 This is what FDR did in the 1930s.

00:08:25.000 It was a disaster area, and Donald Trump is doing it now.

00:08:29.000 None of this is particularly good policy, and the President should reverse this as fast as possible.

00:08:34.000 Larry Kudlow somewhere is spinning in his grave.

00:08:37.000 Wait, he's still alive, right?

00:08:38.000 Okay, Larry Kudlow somewhere is spinning in his office, but...

00:08:41.000 All the people in the administration who are pro-free trade are looking at tweets like this and thinking, why would the president undercut his own strong economy with this sort of foolishness?

00:08:50.000 And you can't...

00:08:51.000 You can't hope that the economy holds out forever when you are taking measures that are designed to tamp down the economy.

00:08:57.000 Tariffs are not, in fact, great.

00:08:58.000 And the president is going to find that out the hard way if he continues along this path.

00:09:02.000 Now, all of this has some impact on the generic congressional ballot.

00:09:06.000 Right now, it looks like the Democrats do have the momentum again in the congressional races.

00:09:09.000 The president's approval ratings, as I discussed yesterday, continue to be very high.

00:09:13.000 But the congressional races are starting to open up in favor of Democrats, at least on the generic ballot.

00:09:20.000 And part of that is because the president is unpopular.

00:09:22.000 If, as I said yesterday, the Democrats are going to climb back into this thing, if the Republicans are going to climb back into this thing, it's going to be reliant on the Democrats overstepping their boundaries.

00:09:32.000 Fortunately, there is a good shot of that.

00:09:35.000 I think solid critiques that could be leveraged against policies of the Trump administration have gone by the wayside in favor of completely unhinged

00:09:43.000 Insane sort of critiques.

00:09:44.000 So Kirsten Gillibrand leads the way.

00:09:46.000 She suggests that it's time for the Democratic Party to abolish ICE.

00:09:49.000 If she wants to ensure that the Democrats never win back Congress, there's a pretty solid way to do it right here. 0.98

00:09:53.000 I think we should get rid of ICE.

00:09:55.000 We should separate out two missions and do the anti-terrorism mission, the national security mission, and then on the other side, make sure you're looking at immigration as a humanitarian issue.

00:10:06.000 These are civil issues.

00:10:07.000 These are families.

00:10:08.000 Look at it as the economic engine that it is, that immigration is our strength.

00:10:12.000 Our diversity is what makes this country and our economy so strong.

00:10:16.000 OK, so she wants to abolish ICE. 1.00

00:10:17.000 That's obviously going to be a very unpopular point of view.

00:10:20.000 But she's nothing compared to Andrew Cuomo.

00:10:22.000 So Andrew Cuomo wants to run for president of the United States, which would be amazing.

00:10:26.000 He'd be the first inanimate object ever to be president of the United States, Andrew Cuomo.

00:10:30.000 That'd be like an actual incredible thing. 0.98

00:10:31.000 I used to think that Chris Cuomo was the dumber of the Cuomo brothers. 1.00

00:10:34.000 And it turns out that Andrew is actually the dumber. 1.00

00:10:36.000 What they've done at the border is an example of it. 0.99

00:10:38.000 What they've done in Puerto Rico.

00:10:40.000 And they are on a jihad.

00:11:07.000 Okay, so they're on a jihad.

00:11:16.000 First of all, I would just like to point out that if a Republican ever said that any politician was on a jihad against anything, people would immediately call them an Islamophobe, right?

00:11:23.000 You're only allowed to use the word jihad when you are specifically referring to an internal struggle, because that's what it means according to the Quran.

00:11:30.000 Okay, so guys, get that right.

00:11:31.000 But Andrew Cuomo says that Trump is on a jihad against immigrants.

00:11:34.000 Yeah, that's a way you're going to win over all those people in the middle of the country who are attempting to cope with falling wages in particular industries. 0.93

00:11:42.000 If you really think that any of that is going to win back the base of Trump support to the Democratic side of the aisle, you have to be crazy.

00:11:49.000 In a second, I want to talk about the elitism that is evident in some of these particular comments, which is translated over to the reaction to the New York Daily News.

00:11:57.000 I'm going to talk about that in just one second.

00:11:59.000 First,

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00:13:30.000 I guess when you look at President Trump's trade policy, and then you look at the Democrats' response to President Trump on immigration, there's a bigger message that comes out from it. 0.98

00:13:37.000 As much as I dislike President Trump's trade policy, and I do, I think it's garbage. 0.78

00:13:40.000 I think that President Trump doesn't understand basic economics when it comes to trade. 0.89

00:13:44.000 I think he has a bizarre version of how trade deficits actually work.

00:13:47.000 I think that this is likely to be harmful to the economy that he is president during.

00:13:53.000 I don't like using the phrase his economy because I don't think the president runs the economy, but the economy over which he presides.

00:13:59.000 I think it's going to hurt him to pursue this policy.

00:14:01.000 With that said, if you have to contrast President Trump's

00:14:05.000 Apparent like for sort of the manufacturing base and the people in the middle of the country.

00:14:09.000 What the Democrats dislike for those people, there's a reason that President Trump won Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Ohio going away.

00:14:17.000 There's a reason that he did that.

00:14:18.000 And the reason that he did that is a feeling of sympathy for these workers.

00:14:21.000 Now, I think the tariff policy he's pursuing hurts a lot of those workers.

00:14:24.000 And I think the president ought to understand that.

00:14:25.000 I think he's going to lose votes in these states with his tariff policy.

00:14:28.000 But it's pretty clear that the president's heart is with a lot of those people, even if the policy he's pursuing doesn't actually

00:14:35.000 And the same is not true of a lot of the folks in our media.

00:14:41.000 How do I know this?

00:14:42.000 Because take a look at the reaction to the

00:14:47.000 Failing New York Daily News.

00:14:48.000 Okay, so the New York Daily News is having some serious problems.

00:14:50.000 The President of the United States always likes to say the failing New York Times this, the failing New York Times that.

00:14:55.000 The reality is that there is one major newspaper that is failing in New York, and it is the New York Daily News.

00:15:00.000 The New York Daily News decided they were going to cut 50% of their editorial team.

00:15:04.000 They announced this on Monday.

00:15:05.000 They sent a letter to their entire staff.

00:15:07.000 They said, we're reducing today the size of the editorial team by approximately 50%

00:15:12.000 And refocusing much of our talent on breaking news, especially in areas of crime, civil justice, and public responsibility.

00:15:17.000 This is according to Tronk, which is the parent company.

00:15:20.000 The editor-in-chief, a guy named Jim Rich, he tweeted out his disappointment.

00:15:22.000 He said,

00:15:28.000 Because that's clearly what the parent company was thinking.

00:15:30.000 They weren't thinking about the profit margins.

00:15:32.000 They were thinking, how do we make room for local government to operate in the dark and unchecked?

00:15:36.000 Let's fire half our staff. 0.99

00:15:38.000 That's probably what was going on at Tronc.

00:15:40.000 But the part that's really telling is the reaction from all of these leftist politicians in New York State.

00:15:45.000 So a bunch of journalists get fired over the New York Daily News, and it's kind of amazing how these politicians react.

00:15:50.000 So here's how the politicians react.

00:15:51.000 Bill de Blasio is the New York mayor, and he says, quote,

00:16:07.000 Well, thanks for your advice, communist mayor of New York who's never run a business. 0.87

00:16:11.000 Really, really appreciate that.

00:16:12.000 And then Andrew Cuomo also issued a statement.

00:16:15.000 So, a block of wood known as the Governor of New York, he issued a statement as well.

00:16:18.000 Again, mostly amazing that blocks of wood can become animate and issue statements like this.

00:16:23.000 But I guess...

00:16:25.000 You know, anything is possible in today's world.

00:16:26.000 He identifies as a human.

00:16:28.000 By the way, do I think that Andrew Cuomo would react the same way if Fox News fired half its staff?

00:16:31.000 I have some doubts.

00:16:49.000 Um, this is a free country.

00:16:51.000 When is the last time?

00:16:52.000 If I fire someone at this company, I don't actually have to notify Jerry Brown, the governor of the state of California.

00:16:57.000 First of all, I assume Jerry Brown would be happy if people, if we lost employees at the Daily Wire, but that in itself is a bizarre statement.

00:17:04.000 Then he says,

00:17:19.000 Well, that's how they got to be large corporations.

00:17:21.000 If you don't see profit as a bottom line, then that's because you're bad at business.

00:17:26.000 First of all, let me point out,

00:17:41.000 The conflict between the editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News saying, if you want heavier scrutiny on government, what happened today is terrible, and then the government saying, we'll help you rehire all those reporters.

00:17:50.000 Do you think maybe those reporters might go easy on Governor Cuomo if Governor Cuomo is the person who gets them rehired at the New York Daily News?

00:17:56.000 You think maybe a corrupt relationship between the government and the press is probably a bad idea?

00:17:59.000 But that's really not the point that I'm seeking to make.

00:18:01.000 The point I'm seeking to make is that the level of outrage over the firing of these journalists is wildly outsized.

00:18:06.000 There are industries in the United States where people legitimately have lost their jobs.

00:18:09.000 We're talking about dying industry towns.

00:18:11.000 We're talking about production factories that existed in the Rust Belt that have gone empty, that have turned into ghost towns.

00:18:17.000 And there are those of us who are free market people who say, you know, there are certain things that just happen under a capitalist system.

00:18:22.000 Joseph Schumpeter called it creative destruction, where every time there's a new technological development, certain people in certain industries lose jobs, and we have to try and grease the skids so that they can get new jobs in a different industry or move out of those dying towns, right?

00:18:34.000 We have to do something to help those people move out of a dying industry, but that's just the way the economy works.

00:18:40.000 But there are a bunch of people in the press who just ignore those people completely.

00:18:44.000 Who sort of have scorn for all those people who are working in factory towns.

00:18:47.000 Look at these rubes who voted for Donald Trump. 1.00

00:18:49.000 These stupid rubes who voted for Donald Trump. 1.00

00:18:51.000 Don't they understand how the economy works? 1.00

00:18:52.000 Don't they understand creative destruction? 1.00

00:18:54.000 Don't they understand that the economy moves on and these are low IQ idiot plumbers showing their butt cracks? 1.00

00:19:01.000 Don't they understand? 1.00

00:19:02.000 But then, when it's journalists, then the world ends, right?

00:19:05.000 When it's journalists, then we all have to cry about it.

00:19:08.000 We have to deep tears, pity, rage.

00:19:11.000 Now the thing is,

00:19:12.000 The journalistic industry is actually not in all that much trouble.

00:19:14.000 The New York Times is doing fine.

00:19:16.000 The Wall Street Journal is doing fine.

00:19:17.000 It's just that everybody is moving over to a subscription basis online as opposed to free online content.

00:19:22.000 The New York Daily News thought that they could cover for a bad press strategy and a bad business strategy by just printing nasty covers about President Trump incessantly.

00:19:30.000 They thought that was going to raise their profile and their circulation.

00:19:33.000 It did not.

00:19:34.000 But because they made a bunch of bad decisions, they laid off a bunch of people.

00:19:38.000 But it is indicative of a certain self-censoredness that exists on the coast and in particular industries that journalists' jobs are more important than the rest of your jobs.

00:19:46.000 That somehow these journalists losing their jobs is a tragedy for the country, but the factory worker in the center of the country losing his job is just fine.

00:19:53.000 Now, my view on this is that anybody who loses a job, that's a sad thing, but we have to determine whether that is a free market force at play and whether we can help those people out on the back end, but without actually regulating all of these other industries into sort of subservience to keeping

00:20:10.000 Lacking industries alive, but the but the fact that there is this dichotomy in the cultural attitude toward various jobs I think is very telling and one of the reasons the president of the United States continues to be very successful There's a feeling people the New York Daily News don't care very much about you if you're in Ohio and the president does even if the policy the president is pursuing on trade is Just not correct.

00:20:29.000 Okay now meanwhile

00:20:31.000 I want to talk a little bit about something that Nikki Haley did last night that I think is really spectacular.

00:20:34.000 So, President Trump's ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, did something that is quite great.

00:20:40.000 She was speaking to a bunch of high schoolers at the TPUSA, the Turning Point USA High School Leadership Summit.

00:20:47.000 And she spoke specifically about owning the libs.

00:20:50.000 Now, we'll talk about this in just a second.

00:20:51.000 First, I want to tell you about what happens if you experience a disaster.

00:20:55.000 There's an emergency.

00:20:56.000 What is your first impulse?

00:20:57.000 OK, here in California, we are now experiencing a massive heat wave and the government is telling us we should turn off our air conditioner and lights, which is just not going to happen.

00:21:04.000 But if all the lights go out, if the air conditioner should go out, if all the food in your fridge starts to spoil and suddenly all of the grocery shelves are empty because everybody is running out to try and replenish, what are you going to do then?

00:21:14.000 Well, one of the ways that you can help

00:21:16.000 Again, this is not because we're prepping for the apocalypse or anything.

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00:22:17.000 Okay, so Nikki Haley.

00:22:22.000 U.S.

00:22:22.000 Ambassador to the U.N.

00:22:23.000 and my spirit animal, as I have suggested before.

00:22:26.000 I'm a big Nikki Haley fan.

00:22:27.000 She also happens to be absolutely charming in person.

00:22:31.000 And she spoke yesterday at the Turning Point USA event in Washington, D.C.

00:22:35.000 And I've spoken at many Turning Point USA events, and it's filled with great kids who really want to help push America in a more conservative direction.

00:22:42.000 I mean, these are really motivated kids.

00:22:45.000 One of the things that's become very common among the younger set, and I know because I'm still one of the younger set, is this notion that what we ought to do here in the conservative movement is own the libs.

00:22:54.000 If you've ever been on Twitter, this is all we talk about all day long is owning the libs.

00:22:57.000 And here at The Daily Wire, we are not averse to owning the libs.

00:23:00.000 Right?

00:23:00.000 We have this.

00:23:01.000 The leftist here is hot or cold Tumblr.

00:23:03.000 And it comes free with your membership for 99 bucks a year, right?

00:23:06.000 The whole point of the Leftist Heroes Tumblr is that we own the libs, okay?

00:23:10.000 But the thing is that when you're going to own the libs, meaning own the liberals, when you're worried about owning the libs, you actually ought to own the libs by purchasing them at a fair market rate.

00:23:19.000 And the way that you do this is by actually making a good argument and convincing them, right?

00:23:23.000 That is the way that you own the libs.

00:23:24.000 And Nikki Haley understands this.

00:23:25.000 Unfortunately, a lot of folks in sort of conservative circles think that triggering the libs is the same as owning the libs.

00:23:31.000 Triggering the libs is not, in fact, owning the libs.

00:23:33.000 You can tick off people on the left very, very easily.

00:23:36.000 All you have to do is say something basically factual about men and women, and people on the left get very, very upset.

00:23:42.000 That's fine. 0.99

00:23:42.000 But triggering people on the left, you can do that just by being a jerk as well. 0.99

00:23:47.000 And I think it's very important to recognize that the way that you win people over is not always by being a jerk. 0.99

00:23:52.000 So Nikki Haley was speaking at TPUSA and she said, And everybody raised their hand because this is the thing that you do on Twitter and Facebook. 0.98

00:24:02.000 And then Nikki said,

00:24:09.000 Who are you persuading?

00:24:10.000 We've all been guilty of it at some point or another, but this kind of speech isn't leadership, it's the exact opposite.

00:24:14.000 Real leadership is about persuasion, it's about movement, it's about bringing people around to your point of view.

00:24:18.000 Not by shouting them down, but by showing them how it is in their best interest to see things the way that you do.

00:24:24.000 Not only do I think that message is eminently correct, I said basically the same thing at a TPUSA event just a few weeks ago at the Young Women's Leadership Summit.

00:24:31.000 I think that we ought to, here on the right, take Nikki Haley's words to heart.

00:24:36.000 That doesn't mean that we have to be weak in how we promote our viewpoint.

00:24:38.000 Not at all.

00:24:38.000 We should be strong.

00:24:39.000 We should be powerful.

00:24:40.000 We should be forward with how we promote our viewpoint.

00:24:42.000 But we should also recognize that just doing things to tick off people on the left is not actually going to win over the people in the middle that you need in order to win elections and in order to win the day.

00:24:51.000 The reason I bring this up is because the President of the United States yesterday decided that he was going to think about pulling the clearances of various Trump critics from previous administrations.

00:25:00.000 Now, here's the thing about security clearances.

00:25:01.000 I think that they should automatically expire upon you leaving the government.

00:25:05.000 This is normally the way that it works.

00:25:06.000 If you are fired, like James Comey was fired, he lost his security clearance, I believe.

00:25:12.000 The same thing happened with James Clapper as well.

00:25:15.000 When you leave an administration, very often, your security clearance goes away with it.

00:25:19.000 But there are certain people who are allowed to keep their security clearance.

00:25:21.000 Now, just because you have a security clearance doesn't mean that you can access classified material.

00:25:24.000 It's not like Susan Rice can stroll into the White House any day of the week. 1.00

00:25:28.000 And then just start accessing the computers and looking up classified materials.

00:25:31.000 The idea is that she retains her security clearance in case somebody in the government needs to talk with her or in case there's another Democrat who's elected and they want to bring her back in so she doesn't have to be cleared again.

00:25:41.000 She retains her security clearance.

00:25:43.000 There's a fair argument to be made by the Trump administration that security clearances should just go away as soon as you no longer work for the government, and if we have to redo it later, then we redo it later.

00:25:51.000 That's a fair argument.

00:25:52.000 But instead, it seems like the Trump administration is talking about removing security clearances from various actors they perceive as bad, and many of whom are bad, simply out of some sort of retaliatory anger.

00:26:03.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders talked yesterday about what President Trump was going to do with regard to the clearance.

00:26:08.000 The president is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearance because they've politicized and in some cases actually monetized their public service and their security clearances and making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia against the president is extremely inappropriate.

00:26:28.000 So what that sounds like is Trump is simply removing security clearances from anyone who has one who has been critical of him with regard to Russia.

00:26:35.000 Okay, that's not good stuff.

00:26:37.000 Now, again, I think that there's a case to be made that if you actually think that James Clapper or Susan Rice are using their security clearance to get access to information that they are then using to lie about on national television, first of all, we probably ought to discuss whether there's a legal violation that is prosecutable by the DOJ.

00:26:53.000 But if there is not, then this sounds like simple trollery.

00:26:55.000 Now, is that owning the libs?

00:26:56.000 Well, it ticked off a lot of people yesterday.

00:26:58.000 I ticked off a lot of people on the left.

00:27:00.000 So Adam Schiff, who literally has a pup tent that is actually pitched at the CNN headquarters.

00:27:05.000 This is what he does all day.

00:27:06.000 He's no longer a congressperson.

00:27:07.000 He's a congressperson in name only.

00:27:09.000 And he actually sits out there drinking from a thermos and then he just waits outside until they call him in for his latest hit on CNN.

00:27:15.000 So Adam Schiff, he says that this is just like authoritarian regimes.

00:27:18.000 So the libs have been in fact triggered by President Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

00:27:22.000 Suggesting that we will punish critics of the president by stripping them of their security clearance.

00:27:29.000 That is not what you see in a democracy.

00:27:32.000 That is exactly what you see in authoritarian regimes.

00:27:34.000 Okay, it is not exactly what you see in authoritarian regimes.

00:27:37.000 Typically in authoritarian regimes, you arrest your opponents.

00:27:39.000 You don't strip them of a security clearance to which they have no actual solid claim.

00:27:44.000 So Schiff is triggered.

00:27:46.000 It's not just Schiff who's triggered.

00:27:47.000 CNN's Gloria Borger was also quite triggered.

00:27:49.000 Here's what she had to say on CNN yesterday.

00:27:52.000 Look, the president wants to silence his critics.

00:27:54.000 Period.

00:27:55.000 I just think the president is sort of stunning and petty, small, and doesn't speak well for a president of the United States who is supposed to be able to handle his critics.

00:28:12.000 Okay, so, again, triggering, triggering everywhere.

00:28:14.000 And people on the right celebrate this because when CNN is triggered, that means something good is happening.

00:28:19.000 Well, sometimes that's true.

00:28:20.000 Sometimes it's true that when you trigger CNN, it's because something good is happening.

00:28:23.000 The president has triggered CNN before for good reason, and I've pointed it out when he has done so.

00:28:28.000 The question is whether this is actually beneficial or whether this is just, you know, trolling to troll.

00:28:33.000 Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, who is outgoing, so he can now speak some truths, he says that this is basically just President Trump trolling people.

00:28:39.000 I think he's trolling people, honestly.

00:28:44.000 This is something that's in the purview of the executive branch.

00:28:46.000 I think some of these people have already lost their clearances.

00:28:49.000 Some people keep their clearances.

00:28:50.000 That's something that the executive branch deals with.

00:28:52.000 It's not really in our purview.

00:28:54.000 You can see he's just really annoyed at this point.

00:28:56.000 And honestly, I'm kind of with Paul Ryan here.

00:28:59.000 It is one thing to pursue good policy that happens to trigger people on the left.

00:29:03.000 To take them off, to own them.

00:29:05.000 It is another thing simply to trigger them and then assume that you have done something good based on this reaction from the left.

00:29:11.000 What you end up with in this case is a pure reactionary policy on both sides of the aisle.

00:29:15.000 And it's happening on the left too, right?

00:29:16.000 The left will do stuff just to trigger the right.

00:29:18.000 The left will say things like, let's abolish ICE.

00:29:20.000 Now, how do I know they're lying about abolishing ICE?

00:29:22.000 Because they brought it up for a vote, right?

00:29:23.000 The Senate, Mitch McConnell, cocaine Mitch, he actually brought this thing up for a vote.

00:29:28.000 So Democrats proposed, what if we just abolished ICE?

00:29:30.000 And Mitch McConnell was like, let's do that.

00:29:32.000 Let's put that up for a vote.

00:29:33.000 It went down unanimously.

00:29:35.000 Not a single Democrat voted to abolish ICE.

00:29:37.000 Even people like Kirsten Gillibrand, who said that they want to abolish ICE.

00:29:40.000 Why do they say it then?

00:29:41.000 Because they're triggering the cons.

00:29:42.000 So on the one side, you have people triggering the libs.

00:29:44.000 On the other side, you have people triggering the cons.

00:29:46.000 And at no point do you have anybody who's actually having a real rational conversation.

00:29:50.000 Now, in just a second, I want to talk about what the cost of that is.

00:29:52.000 Why that stuff actually matters.

00:29:53.000 Because maybe it's all just fun and games.

00:29:55.000 And listen, on Twitter, I do it too.

00:29:57.000 Right?

00:29:57.000 It is fun and games to a certain extent.

00:29:58.000 But I want to talk about the real cost of this.

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00:31:16.000 So what does all of this triggering the libs, triggering the cons, what does it matter?

00:31:19.000 Isn't it all just in good fun?

00:31:21.000 Well, there are two reasons that it matters.

00:31:23.000 Reason number one, when people are very interested in triggering the libs and triggering the cons, they're also very interested in sometimes, sometimes,

00:31:31.000 Going too far.

00:31:32.000 So there are those of us who understand that a lot of this is just jokey and sort of gamey.

00:31:37.000 And yes, you want to fight the leftist positions as hard as possible because those positions are wrong and in some cases are actually evil.

00:31:42.000 You want to fight those positions as hard as you can.

00:31:44.000 But that's not the same thing as I'm just going to say something to say something because it made Whoopi Goldberg mad or whatever.

00:31:50.000 Whoopi Goldberg's mad about a lot of stuff.

00:31:51.000 I don't have to say much to get her mad.

00:31:54.000 If you're focused solely and completely on making the other side mad all the time, then it stands to reason that you're also going to be more likely to want to do things that cross the bounds of civility.

00:32:04.000 You're more likely to want to destroy people's lives based on giant nothings, for example.

00:32:08.000 You're more likely to say, well, I won a grand victory because the ends justify the means.

00:32:12.000 After all, I triggered them.

00:32:13.000 And if I triggered them, that means I did something right.

00:32:15.000 Well, that doesn't make for good dialogue.

00:32:16.000 Also, it is true that it brings you to a certain sort of crisis mentality.

00:32:21.000 The whole triggering phenomenon basically assumes that people on the other side of the aisle are the worst that humanity has to offer.

00:32:27.000 So simply by dint of you making them angry, you've done something good and done something right.

00:32:32.000 That you making them angry is in and of itself an achievable and easy goal, and therefore it's something that we should aim at.

00:32:37.000 But what if it turns out that the stuff that we're triggering each other over is actually rather minor?

00:32:41.000 That the stuff we spend most of our time agonizing over is actually relatively unimportant?

00:32:46.000 The reason I think about this is that, you know, I live in Los Angeles and everybody in my immediate vicinity, everybody within a nuclear blast radius of this office is on the left.

00:32:56.000 And all of those people invariably, invariably think we're living in a crisis scenario.

00:33:01.000 You look around LA, people are living pretty good.

00:33:02.000 Living pretty high on the hog.

00:33:04.000 Everybody has a nice house.

00:33:05.000 People have nice cars.

00:33:06.000 Aside from the mass number of homeless people brought in by the left in this city, which is a serious problem, people are living pretty well, okay?

00:33:12.000 People are, you can be born in this society and expect to live a full eight decades.

00:33:17.000 Things are good.

00:33:18.000 Things are good.

00:33:18.000 And yet we think that everything is a crisis.

00:33:20.000 Because we think everything is a crisis, every headline becomes an excuse to fight the daily battle by triggering the other side.

00:33:26.000 But what if the real crises that our society is facing are crises that are much deeper than that?

00:33:31.000 Crises of, for example, entitlement spending that is going to cripple our ability to do anything in the future.

00:33:37.000 Crises of a young population that is losing its purpose amidst all of this internecine warfare.

00:33:44.000 What if it turns out there are broader issues at stake and serious conversations are merited?

00:33:47.000 Well, if you're too busy triggering the other side, you can't have those serious conversations because it's more important to slander the other side as something terrible than it is to have conversations that are actually productive.

00:33:57.000 It's been very telling, I think, the last couple of weeks.

00:34:01.000 I try to make a point, as much as I enjoy triggering the occasional Lib.

00:34:05.000 And I do have a stock of Libs in my garage.

00:34:08.000 I mean, it's sort of like Season 2 of The Walking Dead.

00:34:10.000 I actually have in my garage a bunch of Libs. 1.00

00:34:12.000 You just sort of wander around in there, because I own many of them.

00:34:15.000 But, you know, when you

00:34:18.000 One of the things I've been trying to do, and I've been really, this is not new, I've been trying to do this since law school, is have substantive conversations with people on the left.

00:34:26.000 The reason I want to have those substantive conversations is because it at least clarifies where we stand and where the real rifts in our society are going to be when it comes to solving these serious and deep issues.

00:34:35.000 And if we can't have those conversations, then what we end up doing is trying to simply destroy each other for purposes of the latest news cycle.

00:34:42.000 And that means making people lose their jobs, and it means destroying people's careers, and it means going back through everybody's old tweets and destroying them one by one.

00:34:50.000 This is what it means.

00:34:50.000 It becomes a war.

00:34:51.000 We treat it like a war.

00:34:52.000 Guess what?

00:34:53.000 America is not actually at war.

00:34:54.000 I know there are a lot of folks on the right who want to say that we're at civil war.

00:34:57.000 There is an ideological battle that is going on, and it is meaningful, and it is deep.

00:35:01.000 But it is not the conversation that we are having today.

00:35:03.000 The conversation we're having today is how angry are you at X? 0.99

00:35:05.000 And X invariably is something stupid and something small and something petty and something worthless. 0.98

00:35:09.000 There are real societal issues that require us to have real societal discussions that cannot be happening. 0.98

00:35:15.000 That's not going to happen if all we worry about today is winning this particular battle of the headlines.

00:35:22.000 And that's not to say again that we don't fight that battle of the headlines, but we fight it in good faith and good spirits.

00:35:26.000 We fight it with a smile on our face.

00:35:28.000 We don't fight it with this kind of sour outrage and this vicious glee in, oh my gosh, the other guy got really, really, really, really mad.

00:35:35.000 If you don't like it on the left, you shouldn't like it on the right.

00:35:37.000 And I promise you, you don't like it on the left.

00:35:39.000 And when you see people on the left who are pettily suggesting that the president is in the pocket of the Russians, you're angry, aren't you?

00:35:44.000 You should be angry because that's unbased.

00:35:46.000 They don't actually have evidence for that.

00:35:48.000 And they are doing this to win the headline of the day.

00:35:50.000 How many people on the left honestly believe that the President of the United States is in the pay of the Russians and that we're being run by Russia?

00:35:56.000 How many people actually believe that?

00:35:57.000 And how many people believe that because our tribal need to own the other is too strong?

00:36:03.000 How many people actually believe that folks on the right are truly, deeply evil?

00:36:06.000 They don't believe it about members of their own family.

00:36:08.000 They don't believe it about people they know on the other side of the aisle.

00:36:10.000 They just believe that this sort of other that's out there is truly terrible.

00:36:14.000 And social media exacerbates this because you get to hide behind your computer screen all day, you get to hide behind your phone screen, you get to pretend that you're somebody that you're not.

00:36:21.000 You say things to people on Twitter that you'd never say to anybody in real life.

00:36:25.000 You know, Louis C.K., the comic who no longer gets to work, Louis C.K.

00:36:29.000 has a very funny routine about how people are in their cars.

00:36:32.000 And what he suggests is that you scream things at people in your car that you would never say to them in an elevator.

00:36:38.000 And if you're in a car and somebody cuts you off in traffic, you will curse a blue streak. 0.99

00:36:41.000 You'll say things like, I hope you die. 0.99

00:36:43.000 Whereas if you're in an elevator and somebody brushed up next to you, you wouldn't turn to that person right in your face and go, I hope you die. 1.00

00:36:48.000 Right?

00:36:48.000 You just wouldn't do that.

00:36:49.000 Social media does that to people.

00:36:51.000 Because you feel a certain level of disconnect.

00:36:53.000 You can always turn off the social media and it goes away.

00:36:55.000 But here's the thing.

00:36:56.000 The problems that creates in the country do not go away.

00:36:58.000 And that's why Nikki Haley is right.

00:36:59.000 We ought to be operating in good faith and we ought to be a lot less focused on trollery and a lot more focused on solving substantive issues.

00:37:06.000 Now, speaking of substantive issues, I want to talk about a substantive issue that very few people are going to talk about today.

00:37:11.000 And that is the New York Times has a long piece about childless women and men.

00:37:15.000 This is a substantive issue because there are just too many people in American society who are not having children.

00:37:20.000 I know.

00:37:20.000 Unpopular viewpoint with the left.

00:37:22.000 This is a true thing I'm going to say that is going to trigger the lebs by virtue of it being true. 1.00

00:37:26.000 Americans are not having enough children. 0.99

00:37:28.000 We're not having enough children to support our giant social welfare state. 0.62

00:37:31.000 We're also not having enough children just generally because we're replacing ourselves at barely replacement rates.

00:37:37.000 Europe is dying.

00:37:38.000 Europe is falling apart.

00:37:38.000 The reason Europe is reliant on mass immigration from the Middle East is because they don't have enough people to actually do the jobs.

00:37:44.000 The United States is falling into the same trap.

00:37:46.000 Why?

00:37:47.000 Because people have found meaning not in what does the future hold and building a better future, but in this sort of self-obsession.

00:37:54.000 How can I live a more satisfying personal life?

00:37:57.000 So, the New York Times has this fawning article about a bunch of old people who don't have kids.

00:38:02.000 Now, you might think that that's sad, a bunch of old people who don't have kids. 1.00

00:38:04.000 They don't have kids to visit them.

00:38:05.000 They don't have grandkids to visit them.

00:38:06.000 And in fact, there's a picture leading this piece of four old people sitting on a bench looking out into the ocean.

00:38:13.000 Right, which is really depressing just in its sort of context.

00:38:16.000 You put a child in that photo and suddenly it's charming.

00:38:18.000 But without a child, it just looks like a bunch of old people that are soon going to turn into tombstones. 1.00

00:38:21.000 That's essentially what it looks like.

00:38:23.000 And here's what the article says.

00:38:24.000 When we ask people who don't plan to have children about the reasons for an article in The Upshot,

00:38:34.000 The top answers were the desire for more leisure time, the need to find a partner, and the inability to afford child care.

00:38:40.000 Many women said motherhood had become more of a choice, and they were choosing to forego it, whether for personal or economic reasons. 0.98

00:38:46.000 In response to that article and related one about a woman who was happily child-free, we heard from many older childless women and some older childless men reflecting on their lives without children.

00:38:55.000 Many celebrated their decision.

00:38:57.000 Some wondered what might have been.

00:38:58.000 Others said they had moved from feeling heartbroken to feeling grateful.

00:39:01.000 Now, let's just face a basic fact about humanity.

00:39:05.000 A basic fact about humanity.

00:39:06.000 You will always justify the decisions you made.

00:39:08.000 It's very rare to find human beings who look at the decisions they've made in their life and say, you know what?

00:39:12.000 Really botched that one.

00:39:14.000 That was a mistake.

00:39:15.000 And I think the first step toward becoming a better human being is saying, I made a mistake and maybe I can do better.

00:39:20.000 But people have a real stake in doubling down on the stuff that they've already done.

00:39:24.000 Here are some of the comments.

00:39:25.000 Joanne from Georgia.

00:39:26.000 She is 62.

00:39:33.000 Why would you be proud that you never have children?

00:39:35.000 What sort of contribution to society have you made by not generating a second generation?

00:39:40.000 That's one thing if you obviously can't have children, if you have that sort of trouble.

00:39:43.000 But to choose not to have children is an inherently selfish act.

00:39:47.000 Again, this is a very controversial proposition in today's day and age.

00:39:50.000 The reason it is a selfish act is because you are voluntarily disconnecting yourself from the future of the human species.

00:39:58.000 You no longer have a stake in what happens next.

00:40:00.000 The world stops turning the moment you die.

00:40:02.000 Once you have kids, you start realizing that your decisions mean something more.

00:40:05.000 Nothing changes human beings more than having children.

00:40:08.000 Nothing makes you rethink the decisions that you've made in your life more than having children and deciding what to pass on to those kids.

00:40:13.000 Nothing makes you care more about building a better society than having children.

00:40:17.000 Nothing makes you more protective of the things that we have that are good than having children. 0.98

00:40:22.000 And when you sacrifice all that because, hey, I had a good time and my kids weren't a pain in the ass, at least I didn't have to deal with little Timmy's drug problem when he was 16. 0.97

00:40:29.000 Yes, having kids is a risk. 0.96

00:40:31.000 But it's that risk that not only makes life worth living, it makes civilization worth preserving.

00:40:36.000 Hey, Carson from River Heights, she's 66, she says, Right, that means that you are basically mooching off of someone else's kids. 0.98

00:40:40.000 Implying that women who don't have children are doomed to loneliness is ignorant. 0.97

00:40:55.000 No, it's not. 0.98

00:40:57.000 By poll data, it is certainly not ignorant.

00:40:59.000 The vast majority of women want to have kids and they want to have kids for a reason. 1.00

00:41:03.000 And just because human beings have an enormous capacity for self-deception and may want to suggest to themselves that everything is hunky-dory when they're 60 years old living at home with no one else there, you know, in a house by themselves with no kids.

00:41:16.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:41:17.000 Good luck with that.

00:41:18.000 And then the fact the New York Times is pushing this is pretty telling.

00:41:21.000 This is fine.

00:41:21.000 The real question is why is the New York Times actually pushing this?

00:41:23.000 And the answer is because the New York Times believes that this inherently

00:41:45.000 Self-absorbed culture is something good for the country.

00:41:48.000 This is something we need to talk about.

00:41:49.000 How do we instill a culture of purpose and meaning again in people that they want to contribute to the next generation and that they actually want to be part of the great chain of history that leads backward toward a time when people did not live in prosperity and decency with safety for their children, toward a time when people will live in ever-increasing prosperity and decency with a sense of meaning for their kids.

00:42:06.000 Those are the conversations we need to be having.

00:42:08.000 And that's not going to be happening if we are so focused on the triggering of the libs.

00:42:12.000 Okay, all that stuff's just not that important.

00:42:14.000 Okay, time for things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:42:17.000 So, things I like today.

00:42:18.000 So, I've been doing jazz all week, which is to say yesterday.

00:42:21.000 We're doing another piece of jazz today.

00:42:23.000 Ella Fitzgerald, of course, one of the great jazz singers of all time.

00:42:27.000 So, my grandfather, a guy we call Papa, he was a jazz drummer.

00:42:32.000 So, my dad is a jazz pianist, my grandfather was a jazz drummer, sort of in his spare time.

00:42:35.000 And he used to go down to a club where Ella Fitzgerald would sing, and he would bring her corned beef sandwiches right before she would perform, actually.

00:42:42.000 And Ella Fitzgerald is considered by many, probably most, to be the greatest jazz singer who ever lived, at least on the female side of the aisle.

00:42:50.000 Here's Ella Fitzgerald from her album, Ella in Hollywood, I've Got the World on a String.

00:43:11.000 What a world, what a life, I'm in love.

00:43:18.000 I've got a stone

00:43:28.000 The biggest problem with playing Ella Fitzgerald is you don't actually want to stop playing Ella Fitzgerald.

00:43:31.000 She's just terrific.

00:43:33.000 First-rate, first-rate musician and beautiful voice.

00:43:36.000 Yeah, she's just great.

00:43:37.000 Okay, now let's go to a bunch of stuff that I hate because now I'm in a good mood.

00:43:40.000 I gotta put myself back in a bad mood.

00:43:41.000 As you know, I have a rule on this show.

00:43:42.000 I cannot end the show in a good mood.

00:43:44.000 So let's do some things that I hate.

00:43:46.000 So...

00:43:50.000 We begin with the story of a Texas waiter.

00:43:51.000 This Texas waiter decided that he was going to tell everyone that there was a racist message on a receipt.

00:43:57.000 Okay, this guy's name is Khalil Kaveel, a 20-year-old server for Saltgrass Steakhouse in Odessa, and he claimed in a post on Facebook that a customer had left a racist note on a receipt.

00:44:06.000 The post, along with a photo of the receipt, quickly went viral.

00:44:08.000 It said, we don't tip terrorists.

00:44:10.000 Kaveel claimed the message had left him sick to his stomach.

00:44:13.000 He said the experience tested his faith, but then he added that he wanted to let it inspire him to change the world.

00:44:19.000 Okay, now I will give you three guesses as to whether this receipt was fake.

00:44:24.000 Oh, you got it on the first try.

00:44:25.000 Okay, here is a basic rule of thumb.

00:44:27.000 Whenever anybody posts a receipt, it's fake.

00:44:29.000 Unless it's somebody giving a giant tip.

00:44:32.000 If it's something bad that somebody wrote on a receipt, no one writes nasty things on receipts as a general rule.

00:44:37.000 Do you know anyone who's ever done that?

00:44:38.000 I never have.

00:44:40.000 Like, really.

00:44:40.000 The nastiest thing that I've ever done to any sort of waiter or waitress is undertip them if the service was really, really poor.

00:44:47.000 This is my grandfather's thing also. 0.97

00:44:48.000 When he wasn't bringing corned beef sandwiches to Ella Fitzgerald, if the service was really poor and he thought the waiter was a jerk, he'd leave them like a nickel tip. 0.91

00:44:54.000 Just to just to show them up. 0.73

00:44:57.000 I don't actually do that.

00:44:58.000 I tend to over tip because these people are working really, really hard.

00:45:01.000 But it's amazing how the entire media will fall for these stories time after time.

00:45:05.000 Oh, my gosh, we don't know who did it.

00:45:06.000 But somebody wrote on the bottom of receipt.

00:45:08.000 We don't tip terrorists.

00:45:09.000 Do we have any verification?

00:45:10.000 No.

00:45:10.000 Do we know who did it?

00:45:11.000 No.

00:45:12.000 But we know that the receipt is real.

00:45:13.000 How do we know the receipt is real?

00:45:15.000 Because. 0.98

00:45:17.000 Because America's racist! 0.98

00:45:18.000 That's the answer.

00:45:19.000 The answer is because they think America's racist, and therefore, the tip, the receipt has to be real.

00:45:24.000 Once again, this receipt was not, in fact, real. 1.00

00:45:27.000 It's just a bunch of stupid. 1.00

00:45:28.000 Okay, other things that I hate. 1.00

00:45:30.000 So, this is a crazy story.

00:45:33.000 So there's a shooting in Florida.

00:45:36.000 A guy named Michael Dreschka gunned down Marquise McLaughlin.

00:45:39.000 He's a 28-year-old father of three.

00:45:41.000 McLaughlin is black, Dreschka is white.

00:45:43.000 And there is some video that was shown on Good Morning America.

00:45:46.000 It's kind of disturbing, so if you don't want to see it, then don't watch.

00:45:49.000 But basically what the video is going to show is that this guy Dreschka walked out to a car and he apparently started berating McLaughlin's girlfriend.

00:45:57.000 Outside the store, he yelled at her for parking in a handicapped space without a permit.

00:46:01.000 So he was the do-gooder who was going to virtue signal by telling these people to get out of the handicapped spot. 1.00

00:46:05.000 And instead of just walking by and saying, you know, Miss, do you mind moving this?

00:46:09.000 You're in a handicapped spot. 1.00

00:46:10.000 First of all, there are a thousand spaces open in the parking lot, like it's in the video.

00:46:14.000 So it's bad to park in a handicapped spot, but it does not justify what happens next.

00:46:18.000 Michael Drezka tells this lady to get out of the handicapped spot, and then it turns into a shouting match. 1.00

00:46:23.000 Her boyfriend comes out of the store,

00:46:25.000 And it appears that this guy's yelling at his girlfriend, and so he pushes the guy down.

00:46:28.000 And then what happens next is that the guy pulls out a gun, points it at the guy who just pushed him down, and the person who pushed him down, McGlockton, he starts to back off a little bit, and then Drezhka shoots the guy in the chest and kills him.

00:46:41.000 So here's what the video looks like.

00:46:43.000 It's really disturbing.

00:46:44.000 Britney Jacobs was sitting in her boyfriend's idling car when, she says, 47-year-old Michael Dredgeka approached to tell her that she illegally parked in a handicapped spot.

00:46:54.000 You can see McLaughlin walk out of the store, he sees and hears the argument, runs over, and pushes Dredgeka to the ground.

00:47:02.000 But that's when the irreversible happens.

00:47:05.000 Okay, now this is nuts.

00:47:06.000 Now the reason it's nuts is because they decided not to charge the shooter.

00:47:23.000 Yeah, they decided not to charge the guy.

00:47:24.000 The reason they decided not to charge the guy is because they invoked the Florida Stand Your Ground law.

00:47:29.000 That is crazy.

00:47:30.000 Okay, the Stand Your Ground law does not say that you get to shoot anybody who pushes you down on the floor.

00:47:34.000 Now, if he had taken out the gun and threatened the guy with it, the guy backed off, and then he'd call the police or something, then we're not talking about the same thing.

00:47:41.000 He shot a guy to death after being

00:47:43.000 Pushed to the ground.

00:47:45.000 The Standard Ground Law does not actually say that.

00:47:46.000 And this is the part that's a little bit crazy, is the fact that the police decided not to charge him based on this mis-invocation of the Standard Ground Law.

00:47:54.000 Standard Ground Law, there has to be a deadly threat to you, and then you are allowed to stand your ground.

00:47:58.000 Now, the media routinely mis-covered the Standard Ground Law, so they said that, for example, in the Trayvon Martin case, stand your ground was implicated.

00:48:04.000 Stand your ground was not implicated in the Trayvon Martin case, because Trayvon Martin was shot in self-defense, according to the jury.

00:48:10.000 By George Zimmerman.

00:48:11.000 He was having his head pounded against the ground by, according to witness testimony and forensic evidence, but that the Stand Your Ground law actually was never actually invoked by the defense in that case.

00:48:20.000 In this case, for the police to invoke Stand Your Ground to say that it's okay for this guy to shoot this other guy,

00:48:26.000 Who's basically backing away when he pulls the gun is just crazy and demonstrates how the police sometimes get it wrong.

00:48:32.000 I do not understand the logic behind this and I'm having some trouble understanding it, frankly.

00:48:37.000 Okay, so that brings us to the end of our show.

00:48:39.000 We'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest.

00:48:42.000 Hopefully we won't be in a full-fledged trade war by the time that happens, but we'll find out.

00:48:46.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 24, 2018

Of Virtue Signaling And Vice | Ep. 587

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