After the Democratic response to the shooting of a Republican congresswoman in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, the opposition to President Trump went right back to the violent language they were decrying. On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren took a political tomahawk to Republicans, calling their bill "Blood Money." Then there was actor Johnny Depp, who has been playing a pirate both on screen and off for the last decade, who said that maybe an actor should assassinate Trump. And then there was Josh Fox, a leftist film producer who said, "Mitch McConnell is a terrorist. Donald Trump is aterrorist. This bill terrorizes people and sentences poor people to death." And there was these protesters, who yelled, "While protesters bleed and scream, the government wants to kill me!" And there are a couple of Democratic strategists who suggested that maybe a Republican should be "assassinated." How can we tamp down the amount of violent language we use in political discourse in order to prevent future acts of political violence? Ben Shapiro argues that we need to stop using violent language that could be linked to the recent shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the attack on Rep. Scalise, and that we should use it to describe the Republicans as "murderers, terrorists, murderers, and terrorists." and call them out for what they are really all of them. He also talks about the Senate Health Care Bill, which he has read, and why it is a bad bill. and why they should not be voted on by the American people, not the other way. Ben also discusses why the health care reform bill is not a good bill at all. And why you should own some precious metals, not just gold and silver, but some of the precious metals you should have in your portfolio. . And if you feel insecure about the future of the economy, then you should be worried about inflation, then it s a good idea to own a precious metal like silver, not gold and a precious precious metal that can help you protect your savings in the future. If you want to own some physical precious metals in your savings account, then go over to Birch Gold and silver to help you keep track of inflation and your future in a safe haven, you ll be better off in the long term, not only of inflation, but you ll have a better chance of the future, not less worry about inflation and interest rates going up, and you ll get a higher return on your savings.
00:00:00.000In the aftermath of a leftist terrorist attempting to murder dozens of Republican congresspeople, there were widespread calls from both right and left to tamp down the level of violent language regularly utilized in political discourse.
00:00:11.000It was a starry-eyed idea, kind of dumb, and was never likely to withstand a test of hard-nosed politics.
00:00:17.000The opponents of President Trump went right back to the violent language they were decrying.
00:00:21.000On Thursday, responding to the Senate health bill that would trim around the edges of Obamacare while restructuring Medicaid, Senator Elizabeth Warren took a political tomahawk to Republicans, calling their bill blood money.
00:00:31.000Then there was actor Johnny Depp, who's been playing a fae pirate both on screen and off.
00:00:35.000For the last decade, who said that maybe an actor should assassinate Trump.
00:00:39.000Then there was Josh Fox, a leftist film producer, who followed up with this gem.
00:00:42.000Quote, Mitch McConnell is a terrorist.
00:01:08.000Yes, the violent language the left thought was so terrible that it supposedly led to the Oklahoma City bombing and shooting of Gabby Giffords just had to stop.
00:01:15.000But not the violent language that, by the same theory, may have impacted the congressional shooter.
00:01:36.000We're going to talk about Johnny Depp and his fake piracy in just a second.
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00:03:36.000I want to talk about the Democrats' new obsession—really isn't new, I mean, this has been since the election—with killing Trump and saying violent things about Republicans and being just quite terrible.
00:03:46.000So, you know, we talked in the aftermath of the congressional shooting about when language is connected to violence, and I said that, you know, I'm not going to explicitly blame language for violence unless the language explicitly calls for violence.
00:03:59.000However, I also said that when you have increased violent language, when you have an increased tenor in political debate, it suggests that your political opposition, terrorists who are benefiting from blood money, that there is a small, fringy group of people who are going to be set off by this.
00:04:13.000And again, I'm not going to draw a direct linkage, but I think there is clearly an indirect linkage.
00:04:22.000If you think of speech as a giant circle, and then the group of sane people as mostly falling within this circle who understand what speech is, and then there are outliers out here who can be set off, as the circle of speech expands to include more violent speech, then what you will see is that the circle starts to shrink, actually, and the number of reasonable people who understand that this is meant not to be violent shrinks, and you start to exclude some of the people on the fringes who start to become irrational
00:06:01.000That may have come from a bad guy in a western, or also may have come from a hipster.
00:06:05.000I'm gonna go with probably from the hipster, and he got a Michael Jackson silk black shirt in order to, from the dead man's closet.
00:06:12.000In any case, here is Johnny Depp, who has been playing a fey pirate really since the first Pirates of the Caribbean.
00:06:17.000It's sad, because Johnny Depp used to be a pretty good actor, and now Johnny Depp just does the Lone Ranger as a fey pirate, and then he does the fey pirate as a fey pirate, and then he does
00:06:25.000Black Mass, he tries not to be a fey pirate, but he sort of fails, and even the fey pirate sort of infuses his attempt to be a Boston gangster.
00:06:34.000Anyway, here's fey pirate Johnny Depp talking about how he would like to kill President Trump.
00:07:24.000I lie for a living, you know, I'm just like, I'm a randy pirate, you can't... Baby, let me just tell you, I mean, I've been playing this semi-gay pirate for years, and I've made a bajillion dollars off of it, and blown nearly all of it on stupidity, but, you know, I have some things to say about politics.
00:07:39.000I mean, for God's sake, if you're gonna play a pirate, play a pirate!
00:07:44.000Bernie Sanders is going out there and he's openly proclaiming our brand sucks because he would like to be the brand.
00:07:49.000Yes, he wants the brand of the Democratic Party to be a crazy old loon bag from Vermont.
00:08:02.000who used to vacation in the USSR and is a socialist but it is not my fault that I love pudding so much I had to buy a second vacation home just to store all of my pudding as well as Ben and Jerry's ice cream which is quite delicious although it hurts my dentures because it is very cold so I like to wait until it melts into a soupy concoction which I can then eat but slowly through a straw while looking out at the lake in my vacation home Bernie Sanders Go!
00:08:29.000Democrat Congressman Tim Ryan told the New York Times just the other day that, quote, our brand is worse than Trump.
00:09:15.000He came out and he said that Nancy Pelosi, who is now under fire after the loss in GA6, he says, listen, Pelosi's brand is awful, and this is true, okay?
00:09:23.000If you look at the GA6 race, as I mentioned yesterday and the day before, if you look at the Georgia 6th race, the name that was national that was mentioned the most in that race was not Trump, it was Nancy Pelosi, and here's Tim Ryan pointing that out.
00:09:34.000Well, what I really think is that Leader Pelosi, looking forward to the 2018 election, has to ask herself this question.
00:09:43.000Do I help Democrats win swing districts, which we need to win in 2018 or do I not, and have an honest dialogue with herself?
00:09:53.000And I just, I think the answer is obvious.
00:09:56.000And the answer, obviously, is she should go?
00:10:00.000I think that if we are going to win, if we're going to regain the majority in 2018, we have to have new leadership.
00:10:07.000Okay, so even the Democrats are starting to realize they have a problem here.
00:10:11.000Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is gripping with that death grip of her gnarled fingers onto power in the House.
00:10:17.000Here is Nancy Pelosi, dentures are moving, talking about how she is the greatest politician who ever lived, ever in the history of the United States.
00:10:33.000I am a strategic, politically astute leader.
00:10:38.000My leadership is recognized by many around the country and that is why I'm able to attract the support that I do, which is essential to our election, sad to say.
00:10:52.000I'm well liked and beautiful and everyone loves me.
00:10:55.000Okay, good luck, Nancy Pelosi, with all of this.
00:10:58.000As I said yesterday, the Republicans have the upper hand because the Democrats are in disarray.
00:11:03.000What can bring the Democrats together is not just an unpopular president, like President Trump, and we'll talk about what he's been doing over the last 24 hours, but also they need a piece of legislation to rally around so that they can get their base out and so that they can get
00:11:16.000People on the edge to vote while leaving Republicans home.
00:11:20.000What they need is a piece of legislation that is so polarizing that they can grab onto it and hold onto it and use it as a club to beat Republicans.
00:11:28.000This is what happened in 2010 after Barack Obama pushed forward the auto bailouts and he pushed forward
00:11:34.000Well, it was essentially the nationalization of the auto industry, and the stimulus package, and he pushed forward Obamacare, and then in 2010, Republicans wiped out Democrats, okay?
00:11:43.000In 1994, it was Bill Clinton's Hillarycare proposal that led Republicans to wipe out Democrats.
00:11:47.000So what is the big proposal from Republicans?
00:11:49.000Naturally, they decide to play right into Democrats' hands.
00:11:52.000So they could have started with tax reform.
00:12:12.000Either you're going to do a full overthrow of the healthcare system that actually fixes it, but is unpopular because there's a transition period for any healthcare system, or you are going to leave it in place and let it die.
00:12:22.000Or there's a third possibility, which is the worst of both, which is you make some changes around the edges that may be beneficial in some ways, but you own the continued failure.
00:12:30.000And that's, of course, what Republicans are choosing because they are stupid.
00:12:32.000So here is what is in the Republican Senate Obamacare light bill.
00:12:37.000So there are a couple of things in here that are good.
00:12:42.000It cuts taxes, it gets rid of the employer mandate, and it also restructures Medicaid.
00:12:48.000So Medicaid right now is basically an open-ended program where the federal government is absorbing the increase in the number of people who are rushing on to Medicaid and then giving grants out on a need-based basis as opposed to a per capita, flat-rate basis to the states.
00:13:01.000Okay, that is a recipe for unending debt.
00:13:05.000As far as getting rid of the taxes and getting rid of the individual mandate and getting rid of the employer mandate and all this, the problem is that if you keep the central Obamacare regulations in place, what you're really doing by getting rid of all of this is blowing out the spending.
00:13:17.000Because if you don't have taxes to cover the cost of Obamacare, if you do not have mandates to force healthy people into the Obamacare system or into the individual health insurance market, then there is no one to pay for the sick people who Obamacare
00:13:56.000It is designed to lower the debt number so that they can get a tax
00:14:00.000Cut through, which is basically the, again, to the tax point.
00:14:03.000It is designed to restructure Medicaid, which is a good thing, a very good thing.
00:14:07.000Avik Roy is head over heels for the bill because it restructures Medicaid, which is a good thing.
00:14:12.000And then it is designed to let Republicans say they repealed Obamacare, which is actually a really bad thing because you don't want to lie to the American people about
00:14:18.000Repealing Obamacare when you didn't repeal it because you're going to take ownership of a non-free market system in the name of the free market, which is always a disaster for Republicans.
00:14:26.000So first of all, six things about this bill.
00:14:28.000First, insurance companies will still be mandated to cover pre-existing conditions.
00:14:33.000The minute you force insurance companies to do this, they begin hemorrhaging cash because people will wait until they get sick to get insurance.
00:14:39.000The bill gets rid of the individual mandate, okay?
00:14:41.000So it doesn't force people into the system.
00:14:43.000Which means that these insurance companies will start to go bankrupt or they will start to raise their rates dramatically, which of course does not decrease the price of premiums, it increases the price of premiums.
00:14:53.000The Republican bill leans heavily on subsidies and does away with the mandates and taxes, and that basically destroys the Obamacare individual market.
00:15:00.000Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review has this exactly right.
00:15:03.000He says, So the idea here would be that if you got rid of a lot of the regulations, then insurers would compete to reduce premiums.
00:15:07.000The bill doesn't do enough to do that.
00:15:21.000The bill re-enshrines a bunch of subsidies to insurance companies.
00:15:23.000As I talked about from Peter Studerman at Reason Magazine yesterday, the Republicans originally opposed the idea that the federal government was going to subsidize insurance companies.
00:15:32.000Now, they're saying that it's great that the federal government is subsidizing insurance companies, and that is not great, okay?
00:15:38.000And the reason they're subsidizing the insurance companies is because they kept
00:16:04.000Now, this is still better than the system that was in place from the House, so far as covering people and not forcing them onto Medicare, but it is a giant subsidy system.
00:16:14.000It alters Medicaid, and this is a good thing, but it does it mostly down the road.
00:16:18.000So originally, the House bill that was proposed would have begun rolling back federal funding on a need-based basis from beginning in 2020 and ending the open-ended funding of expansion of Medicaid enrollees.
00:16:28.000Now, the rollback has been kicked back to 2021,
00:16:32.000It's because it's after Trump's reelection.
00:16:34.000And in 2025, it creates a growth cap on Medicaid payments linked to inflation rather than health cost inflation, which means that basically instead of the federal government's Medicaid reimbursement being linked to the cost of health care, it's linked just to the dollar.
00:16:47.000Well, the problem with that, of course, is that that means that Medicaid reimbursements are going to drop.
00:16:51.000Which is okay, because that forces people onto private insurance, which they should be getting anyway, but it is never going to materialize anyway, because it's 2025.
00:16:59.000If you really think that it's now 2016, uh, 2017, if you really think that eight years from now, anything is going to be certain, then you don't know how government works.
00:17:08.000The bill does defund Planned Parenthood.
00:17:10.000This is the stop to the conservatives.
00:17:20.000As I say, the individual mandate and taxes disappear, which would be good, except for it exacerbating the Obamacare death spiral, for which Republicans will now be blamed.
00:17:26.000So, I think Nate Silver basically has this right.
00:17:28.000I'm just being intellectually honest here.
00:17:30.000This bill is not a healthcare revision.
00:17:34.000It is about restructuring Medicaid, which is good, but it does so in the long term when it's not actually going to materialize, and it is about tax cuts and ensuring that Republicans can get tax reform through.
00:17:44.000Well, what this means is that there's been some blowback from some of the Republicans in the Senate.
00:17:47.000I would not expect that Senator Cruz and Senator Lee, maybe, are going to stand against this.
00:17:53.000I think that they may be posing an opening bargaining position.
00:17:57.000I would hope that they would stand against the bill that doesn't repeal Obamacare after Ted Cruz shut down the government in order to propose the repeal of Obamacare.
00:18:40.000The key to getting an agreement, to getting a bill that can pass, is we need common sense reforms in the bill that lower the cost of premiums.
00:18:49.000The single biggest reason that so many people are unhappy with Obamacare, that are hurting under Obamacare, is because it's caused premiums to skyrocket.
00:18:57.000When I'm home in Texas, I hear over and over again from Texans who say, I can't afford health insurance because of Obamacare.
00:19:13.000The only reason that we're going to be able to lower cost of premiums is by getting rid of the core Obamacare regulations on pre-existing conditions.
00:19:32.000Let's say that somebody breaks into your house, it's the middle of the night, you grab your gun and you shoot them.
00:19:35.000First of all, if you want to know how to shoot them, then you should visit USCCA.
00:19:39.000They do have firearms training courses, firearm safety courses.
00:19:42.000But beyond that, once you shoot them, then you could be in trouble with the law, even if you did the right thing.
00:19:46.000And that's why USCCA makes sure that you have the resources and makes sure that you are legally and financially protected for after you pull the trigger.
00:20:48.000Again, all of their resources are invaluable, and the fact that you also get a chance to get the firearms and the ammo at the same time is super duper cool.
00:21:43.000I want a bill that looks like, feels like, and is a repeal bill.
00:21:48.000My fear is, when I look at this, I keep reading it, and it's like, it sounds like Obamacare to me.
00:21:53.000It doesn't even sound like Obamacare Lite.
00:21:55.000In some areas, it may be Obamacare Plus on the subsidy side.
00:22:00.000We can't have a bill that spends more than Obamacare in the first couple years and call that a repeal bill.
00:22:06.000So, yes, we should be for repeal, but we also have to have sufficient confidence in capitalism, competition, and free markets.
00:22:15.000Okay, so what's hilarious about all of this is that as the Republicans rightly, the conservatives in the caucus rightly say this does not repeal Obamacare, the Democrats of course, it wouldn't matter what this did.
00:22:24.000If it just said, we want the American Healthcare, the American Care Act, or the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
00:22:30.000We just want Obamacare to be called Obamacare.
00:23:00.000And make no mistake, this bill is about tax breaks for the rich, and this bill is about Republicans saying, hey, those are our priorities.
00:23:11.000We're taking care of the people we care about, and everyone else can just bear the costs of it.
00:23:17.000This is the moment to tell the Republicans in the United States Senate, to tell every one of the Republicans in the United States Senate, no.
00:23:28.000This bill does not represent our values.
00:23:30.000This bill is not who we are as a country.
00:23:34.000We believe that health care is a basic human right, and we will get out there and fight for it.
00:23:40.000And then she tweeted out, I've read the Republican health care bill.
00:24:09.000Okay, I've been paying for Obamacare since its inception through my tax dollars.
00:24:13.000I've been paying for Obamacare through increased premiums, and so have you.
00:24:17.000So this idea that we're going to change the system and it's going to redistribute the costs, one of the great Democrat talking points here is they keep saying, well, this is a tax cut for the rich.
00:24:25.000Excuse me, excuse me, or it's a redistribution of money from poor to rich.
00:24:29.000Obamacare was the greatest redistributive move in modern history.
00:24:32.000Moving wealth from the middle class to the poor.
00:24:35.000Moving wealth from the young to the old.
00:24:38.000Moving it from the healthy to the sick.
00:25:00.000This is a bill designed to strip away health care benefits and protections from Americans who need it most in order to give a tax break to the folks who need it least.
00:25:12.000This is a bill that would end Medicaid as we know it, rolling back Medicaid expansion, cutting federal support for the program even more than the House bill, which cut Medicaid by $800 billion.
00:25:50.000And this is why Republicans ought to just do whatever the hell they want.
00:25:52.000And pass a bill that does what they said it would do and repeal this piece of crap legislation instead of trimming around the edges because they actually want to keep it while lying to you about it.
00:26:00.000That's what's really nasty about all of this.
00:26:02.000Okay, well, as we continue here on The Ben Shapiro Show, I want to get to the mailbag.
00:26:14.000I also want to talk about the fact that the Obama administration really did almost nothing
00:26:20.000To get on top of the Putin supposed election interference, while Democrats keep talking incessantly about how the election was hacked and it's all Trump's fault.
00:26:31.000Really, if it's any president's fault, it's President Obama's fault.
00:26:33.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
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