Jimmy Kimmel goes off on Republicans over their new Obamacare repeal and replacement bill. Plus, President Trump goes to the UN. We do a full analysis on that and much more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Subscribe to my new podcast CRIMES OF PASSION where I break down the latest headlines and discuss the most pressing issues in American politics. Click here to become a supporter of my new presidential candidate, John McCain, by becoming a patron supporter of his campaign. If you haven t done so already, please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey. It will help us tremendously and we'll make sure to update the results as soon as we can. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends, family, and the ones you care most about! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Ben Shapiro Copyright 2019 Ben Shapiro This is a mashup of two pieces: 1) Jimmy Kimmel's Monday Night Football monologue 2) The Cassidy-Graham Bill 3) President Trump's trip to the United Nations 4) The Democratic response to the Kimmel-Graham-Kimmel bill 5) Why pre-existing conditions should be left out of Medicare and Medicaid 6) Why Rand Paul should vote for it 7) How much money should you pay for it? 8) What are you getting? 9) Why you should have to pay? 10) What will you get? 11) What does it mean? 12) What would you get in the bill? 13) What do you need? 15) Why does it have to be less than $5? And so on and so much more? 14) What is it better than that? 16) What's your answer to me? 17) What s your answer? ) And more? And so forth? #1) What kind of answer to that? #1 & so on? +) #3) #5) ) Is it really a good thing? #2) And so much less than that ) #3 & so forth... etc.) Also... ) Also ... ) And more! ) ) ) ... This is not enough? ) And finally, etc. ) Do you ve got it?? Thank you, bye, etc., etc.) And so Much More?
00:00:18.000Okay, so I have a lot to say about Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night.
00:00:20.000Jimmy Kimmel has sort of become the face of the quote-unquote moral movement for socialized medicine in the United States because his son underwent a heart procedure over at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
00:00:32.000I want to go through his monologue in some detail today because I think that it is indicative of where our healthcare debate is.
00:00:38.000That this is a serious piece of the healthcare debate now.
00:00:41.000I don't think that it should be, because I think that we have a tendency in our politics to identify people going through a difficult time, people having experienced something, with having expertise on that particular topic.
00:00:51.000And I don't think that's actually correct.
00:00:53.000I think the best arguments need to be used, not the best emotional appeals.
00:00:57.000But, I'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:02:23.000You know, that's a step in the right direction.
00:02:25.000I think that the Cassidy-Graham bill has a lot of flaws in it.
00:02:28.000I don't think that it's going to lower premiums all that much, but it does pare away at the underlying structure of Obamacare, particularly a funding mechanism, which means
00:02:37.000That you're going to have a situation where state governments are forced to relieve the regulations or absorb the higher prices of insurance.
00:02:45.000Yesterday I went through in some detail what exactly the Cassidy-Graham bill is.
00:02:48.000So if you missed it, go back to yesterday's show and listen to it so I don't have to spend ten minutes explaining exactly what's in the new version.
00:02:55.000Basically, Republicans have to pass this thing by September 30th or they run into a hard deadline.
00:02:59.000Because the way that this works is that under reconciliation rules, all bills have to be revenue neutral.
00:03:04.000The only way that you can tell whether a bill is revenue neutral is if you've already passed a budget.
00:03:07.000The current budget expires on December 30th, but for purposes of evaluation, it expires on September 30th.
00:03:14.000And that means that they have to pass something in the next week and a half.
00:03:17.000So they're really trying to ram this thing through quickly right now.
00:03:21.000And that means the Democrats are starting to push back in pretty hard measure.
00:03:26.000Now, their main point of pushback is that this is mean and cruel and cuts coverage and pre-existing conditions go away.
00:03:32.000First thing to know about pre-existing conditions.
00:03:34.000When we say insurance will be forced to cover pre-existing conditions, there are a couple problems here.
00:03:39.000Number one, insurance costs skyrocket because obviously you can't cover somebody's new conditions or conditions that already exist without having to charge them or the government more money.
00:03:49.000And number two, if they don't increase the insurance reimbursement rates to doctors, doctors stop taking the insurance altogether.
00:03:55.000This is why Medicare for All, Medicaid for All, it really misses a big key component here, which is doctors don't take Medicaid and Medicare in increasing numbers because the reimbursement rates are too low.
00:04:04.000So all the talk about pre-existing conditions, it's one of those things where it's the government saying something that sounds nice, but it doesn't necessarily accomplish what it's seeking to accomplish.
00:04:12.000It's like the South African constitution guaranteeing a right to housing, but nobody has a house.
00:04:17.000Here you can guarantee that people with pre-existing conditions are covered, but coverage does not equal care.
00:04:22.000Coverage does not equal care, and it certainly does not mean decreased cost for everybody else.
00:04:26.000That's why the Affordable Care Act was so stupidly named.
00:04:28.000It has not made care more affordable in any way, shape, or form.
00:04:32.000So Bill Cassidy, if you recall, was the senator from Louisiana.
00:04:36.000He went on Jimmy Kimmel's show on ABC News, or on ABC late night, and he said that he wanted to fulfill what he called the Jimmy Kimmel test.
00:04:44.000Now the reason that there was the quote-unquote Jimmy Kimmel test is because Jimmy Kimmel has a son and when the son was born they detected a congenital heart abnormality and they brought him to Children's Hospital of Los Angeles where they performed emergency open-heart surgery, saved his life and presumably his son is doing fine, thank God.
00:05:01.000And demonstrates, by the way, the flexibility and availability of healthcare in the United States that people can get immediate heart surgery.
00:05:08.000And by the way, that's not restricted to Jimmy Kimmel.
00:05:53.000Making healthcare more available means that you have to have a better market system.
00:05:57.000It means you have to have a better system where prices are transparent, where doctors are encouraged to go into the market and compete for the customer with the lowest available price, where quality goes up and price goes down, just like in every other market.
00:06:22.000There'll be more people covered under the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Amendment than are under status quo, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions.
00:06:30.000There'll be billions of dollars for coverage for working families in states like Maine, Virginia, Missouri, Florida, and elsewhere.
00:06:38.000States that have been bypassed by Obamacare, but under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, those folks will have insurance.
00:06:44.000So the way Cassidy originally stated the quote-unquote Jimmy Kimmel test was, would the child born with a congenital heart disease be able to get everything she or he would need in that first year of life even if they go over a certain amount?
00:06:55.000The problem with framing it that way, and this is always Cassidy's fault and Kimmel's fault, the problem with framing it that way is that you are assuming that it is the government's job to do all of these things or that the government is best positioned to do all of these things.
00:07:06.000The government is not best positioned to do all of these things.
00:07:09.000As I say, there are a lot of people on Medicaid who are not getting the kind of care that they need, specifically because if you're on Medicaid, that doesn't mean that a doctor is forced to take your Medicaid.
00:07:18.000Beyond that, the notion that Vaughn Starnes, the doctor who operated on Kimmel's kid and my kid, is sitting around rejecting poor kids is just not true.
00:07:24.000Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, the hospital where Kimmel went, that hospital is a charity hospital.
00:07:28.000That means they have an endowment of something like $200 million.
00:07:31.000People give enormous sums of charity to Children's Hospital.
00:07:34.000I know Jimmy Kimmel gives some every year.
00:07:36.000That charity goes toward helping these kids.
00:07:38.000The idea that it's the government's job to do this or that it lowers healthcare costs in general by doing this and makes it more available is just not true.
00:07:46.000In fact, many patients at CHLA who are getting these sorts of surgeries don't have Medicaid at all.
00:07:55.000Okay, so I've been kind of hitting Jimmy Kimmel without letting him speak for himself.
00:07:58.000So here is Jimmy Kimmel and I want to go through his monologue in some detail here because I think that it is important.
00:08:04.000I think that we have fallen into the trap of suggesting that because we have
00:08:08.000Sympathy for somebody's personal situation, we grant credence to a logic that doesn't really work.
00:08:13.000I'm not an expert on healthcare or whatever expertise I have on healthcare does not arise because my daughter had a heart surgery.
00:08:21.000It arises because of the fact that I've actually studied the issues.
00:08:24.000It's because my wife works as a doctor in this system and knows the system intimately.
00:08:29.000That's where I get whatever expertise I have.
00:08:31.000The notion that we have in our society is so stupid now that if you are the victim of something, that makes you an expert on that issue, right?
00:08:37.000If you're a victim of terror, now you're a terrorism expert.
00:08:41.000In fact, in medicine, it's precisely the reverse.
00:08:43.000If you're a doctor and you're told to operate on your child, you're supposed to not operate on your child because the idea is it actually distracts you from being able to concentrate on the issue at hand.
00:08:51.000But because of the merger of entertainment and politics, we've basically said that those whose hearts are the fullest, we're just going to grant that their brains are also the fullest.
00:08:59.000I don't think that that's necessarily true.
00:09:01.000In any case, here is Jimmy Kimmel going after Bill Cassidy last night with alacrity.
00:09:05.000A few months ago, after my son had open-heart surgery, which was something I spoke about on the air, a politician, a senator named Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, was on my show and he wasn't very honest.
00:09:19.000He got a lot of credit and attention for coming off like a rare, reasonable voice in the Republican Party when it came to healthcare.
00:09:27.000For coming up with something he called, and I didn't name it this, he named it this, the Jimmy Kimmel test, which was, in a nutshell, no family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can't afford it.
00:09:40.000He said he would only support a healthcare bill that made sure a child like mine would get the health coverage he needs no matter how much money his parents make.
00:10:45.000Insurance that Kimmel is talking about so what he's talking about this test It doesn't really work in real life because there is no such thing as a system that takes care of everybody for free It just doesn't you're gonna have to actually spend enormous sums of money or you're going to have to ration care Those are the only ways to do this and this has been true in every system ever.
00:11:03.000Okay, it's not a rip on Kimmel It's just a rip on his logic because his logic here is not correct.
00:11:08.000Uh, have, uh, annual or lifetime caps.
00:11:10.000These insurance companies, they want caps to limit how much they can pay out.
00:11:14.000So our current plan protects Americans from these caps and prevents insurance providers from jacking up the rates for people who have pre-existing conditions, uh, of all types.
00:11:24.000And Senator Cassidy said his plan would do that too.
00:11:27.000Okay, so he's making a couple of statements here.
00:11:30.000The lifetime caps, and then he's making a statement about jacking up the rates for people with pre-existing conditions.
00:11:36.000Just because you have a pre-existing condition and you have a crappy health insurance program does not mean a doctor is necessarily going to take that program.
00:11:43.000Number two, how about all the other people?
00:11:44.000Okay, the vast majority of people who get insurance do not have pre-existing conditions.
00:11:48.000Those people are being forced to pay through the nose and a lot of them are opting not to buy insurance, which means what do they do?
00:11:54.000They wait until they do get a pre-existing condition, then they buy insurance, which bankrupts the health insurance companies and drives up the cost of medical care.
00:12:02.000Okay, so what he's talking about, again, all of these things sound great, you know, the insurance companies, they want to put lifetime caps.
00:12:10.000You can buy an insurance program with no lifetime cap.
00:12:12.000In fact, a huge number of people throughout the United States who have employer-based health insurance, where your employer buys your health insurance, it's like 90% of people who have health insurance have employer-based health insurance.
00:12:22.000Those people, the vast majority of them probably don't even have a lifetime cap.
00:12:26.000The vast majority of them probably have no cap because they're buying group insurance negotiated by your employer.
00:12:32.000Again, facts and sloganeering are not quite the same thing.
00:13:12.000But I'm not as wealthy as Jimmy Kimmel is.
00:13:14.000And when I was, you know, getting my daughter's surgery, my health insurance provider was provided by, at that time, Salem, which is the corporation where I used to have a radio show.
00:13:23.000Okay, at that time I wasn't making nearly the amount of money that I'm making now, but we still got the surgery.
00:13:27.000And again, there are plenty of people who are getting charity surgeries from Von Starnes at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
00:14:05.000You're going to continue with this, because again,
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00:15:07.000Okay, so let's continue with Jimmy Kimmel and the analysis here because
00:15:12.000It really is a maddening thing to me that so many people in American political discourse are interested in playing this game where sympathy overrides logic.
00:15:21.000Here's Jimmy Kimmel continuing along these lines.
00:15:25.000Now, I don't know what happened to Bill Cassidy, but when he was on this publicity tour, he listed his demands for a health care bill very clearly.
00:15:34.000He said he wants coverage for all, no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, lower premiums for middle class families, and no lifetime caps.
00:17:39.000Most government-run systems have universality.
00:17:42.000And affordability to the individual but not affordability to the country and the quality kind of sucks because they have to ration.
00:17:48.000There are some countries that have universality and quality but not affordability like Switzerland where you're paying a lot of money out of pocket to make sure that your insurance is covered.
00:17:56.000America has quality and affordability but not universality.
00:18:00.000And when I say affordability, I'm not talking about the fact that on a per capita level we spend a lot of money.
00:18:05.000That's true because we opt for a lot more surgeries than people do abroad.
00:18:09.000We have a lot more administrative hurdles than people do abroad.
00:18:12.000The collective bargaining against the insurance companies is not as strong here as it is abroad because the government basically crams down pricing.
00:18:17.000But that's because they have rationing.
00:18:19.000It turns out that if you're rationing care, it's cheaper than if you don't ration care and people get to spend whatever kind of money they want on a particular surgery.
00:18:25.000I mean, you get to walk in and demand an x-ray of your doctor.
00:18:27.000This does not exist in a lot of socialized medicine countries.
00:18:30.000It has to be mandated from the top down by the government.
00:18:41.000And you don't see that happen very much.
00:18:43.000This bill he came up with is actually worse than the one that, thank God, Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and John McCain torpedoed over the summer.
00:18:53.000And I hope they have the courage and good sense to do that again with this one, because these other guys, who claim they want Americans to have better health care, even though eight years ago they didn't want anyone to have health care at all,
00:19:02.000They're trying to sneak this scam of a bill they cooked up in without an analysis from the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office.
00:19:12.000I read the hearings being held in the Homeland Security Committee, which has nothing to do with health care, and the chairman agreed to allow two witnesses, Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, to speak.
00:19:22.000So listen, health care is complicated.
00:20:29.000But, in the end, what he ends up saying is that he acknowledges that he's exploiting his son's situation in order to push a certain political viewpoint, and then he justifies that by saying it has to be done.
00:20:40.000We're all just looking at our Instagram accounts and liking things while they're voting on whether people can afford to keep their children alive or not.
00:20:48.000Most of the congresspeople who voted on this bill probably won't even read it.
00:20:51.000And they want us to do the same thing.
00:20:52.000They want us to treat it like an iTunes service agreement.
00:20:55.000And this guy, Bill Cassidy, just lied right to my face.
00:20:59.000And I never imagined I would get involved in something like this.
00:21:03.000My area of expertise is eating pizza, and that's really about it.
00:21:07.000But we can't let him do this to our children, and our senior citizens, and our veterans, or to any of us.
00:21:13.000And by the way, before you post a nasty Facebook message saying I'm politicizing my son's health problems, I want you to know I am politicizing my son's health problems, because I have to.
00:21:24.000We don't have to worry about this, but other people do.
00:21:26.000So you can shove your disgusting comments where your doctor won't be giving you a prostate exam once they take your health care benefits away.
00:22:12.000There are trade-offs in healthcare just like in every other public policy area.
00:22:16.000And when he says, take your politicization accusations and shove them up your butt.
00:22:20.000Again, I've talked about healthcare for years on this program.
00:22:23.000How many times have I suggested that I get my authority for discussing that on the basis of my daughter having an open heart surgery from the same doctor at the same hospital as Jimmy Kimmel?
00:23:08.000Thank you to CHLA, and thank you to my insurance company for covering that.
00:23:12.000I don't exploit that to talk about insurance because I don't think personal narrative is nearly as important as making good public policy decisions.
00:23:20.000And I'm tired of this notion that, like, he gets cheer.
00:23:22.000He says, I'm politicizing my kid's story because there's so many others who can't.
00:23:27.000Well, how about the people who talk actually read the bills?
00:23:30.000How about the people who talk actually, like, study this stuff?
00:23:32.000It's so funny, you hear about the left, they say, well, on global warming, listen to the experts, listen to the science, listen to the experts, and then when it comes to stuff like this, they say, screw that, let's listen to the guy whose kid had a health problem.
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00:25:17.000Okay, so I'm putting aside Jimmy Kimmel now and healthcare.
00:25:20.000I want to talk a little bit about President Trump's UN speech because I think that there are some interesting things that happened in his speech yesterday.
00:25:27.000I think what's more interesting is the left's reaction to the speech.
00:25:30.000So let's be straight about what President Trump's UN speech was yesterday.
00:25:33.000It was a basic down-the-line George W. Bush foreign policy speech with a little bit less pie in the sky about building democracy.
00:27:18.000That's a weird dichotomy right there because he's saying in the first clip he says as a nation as a national leader you have an obligation to your citizens to ensure interest of your people and and freedom of your people basically and then he says well everybody has the interests of their own nation and we're going to leave you alone and the nation state remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition.
00:27:37.000I'm so weirded out by by this particular notion.
00:27:41.000There are certain nation-states that do remain.
00:27:43.000America remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition.
00:27:46.000I don't think Saudi Arabia remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition.
00:27:49.000The nation-state as an institution does not necessarily represent the quote-unquote best vehicle.
00:27:54.000It is a vehicle, but Nazi Germany was a nation-state.
00:27:58.000I mean, the idea that nation-states are the be-all end-all, it's kind of this weird... I've always had a problem with the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
00:28:06.000I like patriotism because it says that we defend the principles on which America stands.
00:28:10.000I'm not as big on nationalism, which says my country right or wrong.
00:28:14.000I don't think that anything right or wrong.
00:28:32.000This is why I think that taking a value-neutral proposition like the nation-state and trying to imbue it with value, trying to infuse value into a concept like the nation-state,
00:28:41.000Which could be an evil nation-state like the Japanese Empire during World War II.
00:28:46.000Or it could be a very good nation-state like the United States or Great Britain.
00:28:50.000Right, that seems to me a very weird notion.
00:28:52.000And so you can see he's trying to basically fit this square peg of American exceptionalism and principle and creedal values into this round hole of nationalism generally.
00:29:01.000And it doesn't really work particularly well.
00:29:04.000Which is why he ends up basically in the Bush position.
00:29:06.000Here is President Trump sounding very much like President Bush at the end of his speech at the UN yesterday.
00:29:12.000We need to defeat the enemies of humanity and unlock the potential of life itself.
00:29:21.000Our hope is a world of proud, independent nations that embrace their duties, seek friendship, respect others, and make common cause in the greatest shared interest of all — a future of dignity and peace
00:29:41.000For the people of this wonderful Earth, this is the true vision of the United Nations, the ancient wish of every people and the deepest yearning that lives inside
00:30:20.000We actually don't need a UN, but we wouldn't need an army, we wouldn't need a navy, we wouldn't need an air force.
00:30:25.000If everybody yearned for dignity and peace, we'd all be fine, wouldn't we?
00:30:28.000But, again, this is the awkwardness of trying to merge traditional American foreign policy with the isolationism that Trump, I think, sort of resonates to.
00:30:40.000But then, when he gets down to situational ethics, when he gets down to Syria is gassing its own people, then he's like, fire a missile, right?
00:30:46.000And all of that goes right out the window, and we're back to firing missiles.
00:30:49.000This is a pretty traditional American speech on foreign policy.
00:30:52.000Because it was traditional, because Trump over the last couple of weeks has actually acted very much like a traditional centrist Democrat president in many ways, because of all that, that means the media has to go doubly nuts.
00:31:02.000So they try to find things to go crazy over, and it really is amusing, actually, because what you see is the media now defending Iran and North Korea from the predations of President Trump.
00:31:11.000How dare President Trump rip on North Korea and call Kim Jong-un Rocket Man?
00:31:32.000But I'm pretty sure that everyone was talking about the fat little dude threatening to nuke the United States before he was called Rocketman by President Trump.
00:31:39.000I think that has more to do with Trump likes to nickname things.
00:31:48.000Right, in any case, the media go completely insane over all of this.
00:31:52.000ABC's Jim Moran, he says that North Korea, you know, when Trump threatened to nuke North Korea if they should attack us, you know, how... Sorry, it's Terry Moran, who has the same... He has the same last name as the insane congressperson from up north.
00:32:09.000In any case, Terry Moran says that this was a war crime.
00:32:12.000He accuses Trump of war crimes in his UN speech yesterday.
00:32:16.000That is a potential justification, but the word's totally destroying a nation of 25 million people.
00:32:23.000That borders on the threat of committing a war crime.
00:32:27.000Okay, Bill Clinton said the same thing in the 90s.
00:32:29.000I got flack yesterday because there was a headline that President Obama had said that we could destroy North Korea, and people were saying, well, he didn't say we would destroy North Korea.
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00:35:41.000Good reporting, solid reporting from Jim Acosta.
00:35:42.000I do appreciate Wolf Blitzer, because Wolf Blitzer's job is basically to be the stupid third grader who asks questions that everyone already sort of knows the answers to, but he has to act like he is the stand-in for the audience.
00:35:53.000So he asks things like, President Trump said stuff, Jim.
00:35:56.000And then Jim gives his explanation with emojis and my memory.
00:36:06.000The guest's name was Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, and he launched into, former Obama staffer, of course, and he launched into President Trump's speech, the worst speech anyone ever gave.
00:36:37.000President Obama gave speeches at the UN where he legitimately ripped our race policies in the United States.
00:36:42.000President Obama went on a full-on apology tour at the beginning of his presidency where he went to Islamic countries and talked about how America was arrogant and evil.
00:37:49.000You are both required to stand up for the values of what we believe in, democracy and opportunity, as a way to demonstrate clearly the United States remains the beacon that we want it to be.
00:38:07.000Okay, this coming from the lady who sent a message to the entire Arab world and Muslim world in the middle of Benghazi suggesting that our values of the First Amendment were sort of a problem because it allowed people to cut videos that were not nice to Islam.
00:38:19.000I do have one question for Hillary Clinton.
00:38:34.000Do not wear the ugliest jacket that you found at the Salvation Army.
00:38:37.000And Hillary Clinton apparently went rubbish bin hunting and found this jacket and threw it on for Stephen Colbert's show.
00:38:42.000But Hillary Clinton lecturing us all on foreign policy after presiding over the worst eight-year foreign policy in recent memory, probably in history.
00:38:55.000This is the lady who was one of the architects of the Iran deal.
00:38:58.000She was working on it before she left the Obama administration, and now she's complaining that Trump is too mean to places like Iran.
00:39:03.000Yeah, I can't imagine why the Democrats remain unpopular.
00:39:06.000Meanwhile, the Democrats have decided, it does go to show you, by the way, all of this goes to show you, that all of the talk from President Trump about making nice with Democrats, they will stab him in the face at the first available opportunity.
00:39:17.000He's a fool if he thinks that he can work with these people, and they will then somehow be loyal to him.
00:39:22.000President Trump is currently trying to surrender on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
00:39:27.000That's not stopping Governor Jerry Brown, 1,000-year-old Jerry Brown, the governor of the state of California, from suggesting that Trump is some sort of evil xenophobe who wants to target illegal immigrants.
00:39:36.000Doesn't matter that Trump just agreed with Pelosi and Schumer on it.
00:39:58.000It protects public safety, but it also protects hardworking people who contributed a lot to California.
00:40:05.000Hardworking people who are undocumented immigrants.
00:40:08.000Yeah, by the way, they've got a couple million working.
00:40:11.000Our agricultural industry, our hospitality industry, our construction industry, they'd be in deep trouble without those same people.
00:40:18.000And that's why we need immigration reform, not bluster, not rhetoric, and not this kind of xenophobia that we see too much of coming out of Washington.
00:40:29.000We here in California have invited every person on earth to the state, but we have no idea why we have trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.
00:40:40.000The good news is I'll be dead before any of that has to be paid.
00:40:48.000Okay, so, there are your wonderful Democrats doing yeoman's work for the American people.
00:40:53.000Okay, time for some things I like, things I hate, and then I'll explain to you what this weird new Jewish holiday is and why I will not be here to provide you with my stellar and incisive commentary tomorrow or Friday.
00:44:14.000Unless they're actually things that are comparable?
00:44:16.000Keith Ellison, who's the last person in the world who should ever invoke the Holocaust, considering that he was a Nation of Islam backer who was wildly anti-Semitic for years and years and years and years, now he's comparing illegal immigrants living in the United States to Jews living in Nazi Germany.
00:44:32.000So, this is not someone else's fight, this is all of our fight.
00:44:35.000But some people are in the bullseye and others of us are not exactly the target.
00:44:40.000Therefore, it is our responsibility to stand up, fight, and do the right thing.
00:44:44.000And I'm going to tell you right now, I'm one of the people who believes we should give our neighbors sanctuary.
00:44:50.000And if you ask yourself, what would I do if I was a Gentile in 1941, if my Jewish neighbors were under attack by the Nazis?
00:45:36.000Okay, um, so I really wanted to do Tucker Carlson interviewing a witch, but I'm not sure I have time to do Tucker Carlson interviewing a witch.
00:45:48.000It just, it gives the left fodder that every time they take a screencap of these things, it's like Tucker Carlson on Gypsy Invasion in Pennsylvania.
00:45:54.000Tucker Carlson, witches take on President Trump.
00:45:56.000Like, I understand that there's such a thing as ratings, and I understand that this gets them, I assume, but I'm not sure that this is a valuable use of news-watching time, the witches who are taking on the President.
00:46:11.000So since you're the only witch, I've interviewed a lot of people, but I've never interviewed a witch.
00:46:16.000Sincere question, is eye of newt an actual ingredient?
00:46:20.000Well, I think the real problem is not whether or not eye of newt is an actual ingredient.
00:46:26.000The real problem is we're about to have some kind of big nuclear extravaganza with North Korea.
00:46:36.000There's a very funny thing online where this kind of nerdy guy goes through what he calls the hot crazy matrix where he talks about women who are hot versus women who are crazy and then where women fall along these lines and this would be one to avoid.
00:47:18.000Instead I'm going to explain to you in very basic terms what Rosh Hashanah is.
00:47:21.000So Rosh Hashanah literally means the head of the year.
00:47:23.000This is the Jewish new year when we believe that the earth was created.
00:47:28.000This is one of the cool things about sort of the history of scientific thought, is that for thousands of years, people thought that the Earth actually was not created, that it existed eternally.
00:47:36.000If you go read Aristotelian thought, Aristotle thought this, so did Plato.
00:47:39.000They thought the planets were in eternal motion, and that the Earth had always existed, and the Bible suggested something different.
00:47:46.000So when you read Maimonides or Aquinas, they're actually attempting to explain
00:47:49.000How the Bible can be true, and also, it can be true that the Earth always existed.
00:47:53.000So they're trying to rectify bad science with the Bible.
00:47:56.000It turns out that the science was bad and the Bible was right.
00:48:40.000praying uh in an ordinate amount uh and giving charity uh and and performing uh good acts and and trying to fulfill more commandments that begins tomorrow uh and what's cool is that we celebrate the judgment right it's not something that we fear on Rosh Hashanah it's supposed to be one of the happier days of the year we eat apples with honey for a new year
00:48:58.000We are supposed to celebrate God's creation of the earth and trust in God that if we do what we are supposed to do for Him, that He is going to fulfill us spiritually the way that He has promised to do.
00:49:05.000So that's what Rosh Hashanah is all about.