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00:00:29.000We are joined by special guest Jordan Peterson to celebrate our Independence Day and lament the fact that we don't actually own Canada.
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00:02:25.000One of the nice things for President Trump is that every time President Trump does a normal thing, the left decides that the world has ended.
00:02:32.000Really, that the world has gone crazy.
00:02:34.000And I use as evidence of this the fact that I was on Bill Maher's show on Friday, and I was really more expecting the conversation to surround the things that Bill and I have in common, such as opposition to political correctness and aversion to identity politics.
00:02:47.000And instead, the entire interview turned into ten minutes about Russia collusion, which
00:02:51.000Again, if you are obsessed with the Russia collusion story at this point, let me suggest that your priorities are not straight.
00:02:56.000There's no evidence to suggest right now that President Trump has colluded with Russia during the campaign or afterward.
00:03:03.000If the evidence were there, I would talk about it because I've been very fair about this, but I'm not going to pretend that there's a lot of evidence there.
00:03:10.000The folks on the left have decided that President Trump must be ousted by any means, and they've decided that President Trump represents a great break in America's
00:03:19.000And they believe that America itself is deeply broken.
00:03:21.000And so now the left has decided the deep American institutions, not Donald Trump, other key American institutions, these institutions must be destroyed as well.
00:03:28.000They believe the Supreme Court now has to be packed and they need 11 justices on the Supreme Court instead of nine, because maybe that way they can get more liberal Supreme Court justices.
00:03:37.000They believe that the First Amendment must be overthrown.
00:03:39.000There's an article in The New York Times.
00:03:43.000It is a reported piece from Adam Liptack.
00:03:45.000Okay, Adam Liptak is one of the reporters who was on A1 of the New York Times over the weekend, and the title of the piece is, How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment.
00:03:54.000How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment.
00:03:55.000Now, you may ask yourself, what does that even mean?
00:03:59.000How do you weaponize the First Amendment?
00:04:18.000The New York Times, a newspaper dedicated, presumably, to the proposition of freedom of the press, a newspaper that was involved in some of the great free speech cases in our nation's history, from the Pentagon Papers case
00:04:31.000The New York Times now says that the First Amendment has been too broadly construed.
00:04:35.000That's how far the left has been broken.
00:04:37.000They believe the First Amendment must be curbed because it is an institution of power.
00:04:41.000The left is always going on about how the reason the left loses, the reason the left is not victorious, is because the system itself is corrupt.
00:04:47.000If it weren't for the corrupt system itself, then Marxism would have already taken over the world and everything would be hunky-dory utopia.
00:04:53.000But in the United States, where freedom reigns, they believe that the freedoms themselves are a threat to the Marxist worldview.
00:05:00.000And so freedoms themselves must be torn down.
00:05:02.000These are elements of a hierarchical structure.
00:05:23.000He says, On the final day of the Supreme Court term last week, Justice Elena Kagan sounded an alarm.
00:05:28.000The Court's five conservative members, citing the First Amendment, had just dealt public unions a devastating blow.
00:05:33.000The day before, the same majority had used the First Amendment to reject a California law requiring religiously-oriented crisis pregnancy centers to provide women with information about abortion.
00:05:43.000Conservatives, said Justice Kagan, who is part of the court's four-member liberal wing, were weaponizing the First Amendment.
00:05:48.000Now, I just want to point out, this is not a court's liberal wing, it's a left wing.
00:05:52.000The difference between liberal and left is that liberals believe that we ought to maintain rights like freedom of speech, even if they believe in more government intervention in the economy.
00:05:59.000The left believes that all of these rights ought to be subject to the needs of the community.
00:06:04.000That basically communitarianism is the way that if it violates their precepts of the hierarchy of various power groups, then the First Amendment should be subverted.
00:06:14.000The New York Times says, Notice how that's worded.
00:06:22.000The way the New York Times is wording that is not that the free speech agenda that has been promulgated by the court helps conservatives, is that it is the conservative agenda that is using the mask of free speech in order to push itself.
00:06:34.000Except for the fact that this free speech agenda has nothing to do with conservatism per se.
00:06:38.000It just has to do with the idea that you should be able to say what you want without the government compelling you.
00:06:43.000Well, that's a pretty radical take on what exactly the Supreme Court just did.
00:06:46.000Instead, what the court just did is they said that the government cannot compel you not to spend on elections, that the government cannot compel you to violate your own religious precepts, that the government cannot compel you to
00:07:10.000Say things you don't want to say or pay money to unions you don't want to join.
00:07:15.000Why exactly that has to do with a conservative agenda is beyond me.
00:07:18.000That seems like just a rational freedom agenda.
00:07:20.000But, you know, this is the New York Times.
00:07:22.000They say the Citizens United campaign finance case, for instance, was decided on free speech grounds with the five-justice conservative majority ruling that the First Amendment protects unlimited campaign spending by corporations.
00:07:31.000The government, the majority said, has no business regulating political speech.
00:07:34.000The dissenters responded that the First Amendment did not require allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace and corrupt democracy.
00:07:43.000The First Amendment does require me to be able to speak as much as I want, and that involves me actually spending money on things.
00:07:48.000If the First Amendment did not involve you spending money on free speech, then presumably the government could pass a law saying that corporations are not allowed to spend money on, say, printed materials in the 60 days before an election.
00:07:58.000You know what's a corporation that spends money on printed materials 60 days before an election?
00:08:26.000What Ilya Shapiro is saying is, you're calling it right-wing.
00:08:28.000This used to be the consensus position.
00:08:30.000And so much of American life has become this.
00:08:32.000So much of American life is positions that all of America used to hold, and then the left decided it didn't hold anymore, and so the consensus American position is now termed the right-wing position.
00:08:41.000So, for example, on immigration, the position that we should enforce our borders, the position that perhaps we should actually police the people coming into the country.
00:08:50.000That was a widespread, 100% position in America.
00:08:53.000Then the left decided that it was intolerant, and now that is a right-wing position to say that we should enforce our borders.
00:09:39.000So they've decided that they're no longer absolutist on free speech.
00:09:41.000Instead, they are more sensitive to the bad things that can happen because of free speech, which is a way of saying that we are not going to pay attention to free speech at all.
00:09:48.000If you trade in the harms that can be inflicted by free speech for free speech itself, free speech is no longer a right.
00:09:55.000This is like saying that there are certain harms that happen because of the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
00:10:01.000The Fourth Amendment prevents the government from coming into your home and simply just checking out everything that's there for the hell of it.
00:10:06.000Now, are there societal costs to that?
00:10:08.000Sure, there's a societal cost to that.
00:10:09.000It means that not everybody with drugs in their house is going to be seen by the government, for example.
00:10:14.000Not everybody with an illegal gun in their house is going to be seen by the government.
00:10:17.000But I'd much rather that a few people have illegal guns or illegal drugs than that the government have a blanket right to come into my home at any time for any reason without actually having to give a rationale.
00:10:27.000The minute that you start saying that the downside of the right is more important than the right, the right no longer exists.
00:11:05.000Judge Robert Bork once made this case.
00:11:07.000He said the pornography is not protected by the First Amendment.
00:11:09.000There's a pretty good solid case that the founders never intended for the First Amendment to cover dirty pictures.
00:11:14.000But there's no question that the founders intended for the First Amendment to cover political speech, which does involve Nazis marching in Skokie.
00:11:20.000Better First Amendment case, just legally speaking and historically speaking, for bad people marching than for naked pictures in public.
00:11:28.000But in any case, the New York Times says, says Frederick Schauer, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
00:11:46.000But the claim that speech was harmless or causally inert was never true, even if it has taken recent events to convince the left of that.
00:11:52.000The question then is why the left ever believed otherwise.
00:11:54.000So in other words, they were happy about free speech when it was anti-Vietnam War protests and civil rights and pornography.
00:12:01.000But the minute that it turns into religious bakers who actually just want to abide by their scruples, then all of a sudden the left is ready to toss out free speech, which is to say the left was never in favor of the right.
00:12:09.000They were just in favor of the of the exercise of the right as they saw fit.
00:12:13.000The left was never in favor of... This is the big problem with the left.
00:12:16.000The left doesn't believe that you have a right to do anything the left disagrees with.
00:12:20.000I believe, as a person on the right, that you have the right to do lots of things I disagree with.
00:12:24.000You have the right to march in the street with pussy hats.
00:12:26.000You have the right to act sexually how you want, basically.
00:12:30.000I believe that you have the right to... I actually believe that you have the right to smoke marijuana.
00:12:34.000I think there are lots of things that I believe have the right to do that I personally find abhorrent.
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00:14:48.000It says the government can't impose on you.
00:14:50.000This is the difference between how the left sees rights and how the right sees rights.
00:14:53.000The right sees rights as things the government cannot touch.
00:14:56.000Inalienable rights that preexist in government.
00:14:58.000The left sees rights as things the government gives to you.
00:15:01.000And therefore, if it's bad for you, the government can take it away from you.
00:15:05.000So if free speech is bad for you, the government can take it away.
00:15:08.000The right says, no, you can't do that.
00:15:09.000The right says, that right pre-existed government.
00:15:11.000I didn't give up that right to government when government was formed.
00:15:13.000The government exists to protect those rights.
00:15:15.000The left says, no, no, no, you didn't have any rights.
00:15:17.000Then the government gave you the right to free speech.
00:15:19.000So if it's bad for the community, well, then the idea here is that we can take it away from you using the power of government.
00:15:26.000McKinnon says, legally, what was, toward the beginning of the 20th century, a shield for radicals, artists, activists, socialists, and pacifists, the excluded and the dispossessed, has become a sword for authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen, pornographers, and corporations buying election.
00:15:41.000In other words, get rid of free speech, because the people I don't like are using it.
00:15:45.000And there's a long discussion of Robert Bork and the sort of development of free speech litigation and free speech trends.
00:15:55.000And they say the right turn has been pronounced under Chief Justice Roberts.
00:15:58.000The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a larger share of First Amendment cases concerning conservative speech than earlier courts had.
00:16:03.000According to a study prepared for The Times, it is ruled in favor of conservative speech at a higher rate than liberal speech as compared to earlier courts.
00:16:10.000The court's docket reflects something new and distinctive about the Roberts courts.
00:16:13.000According to the study, the Roberts court, more than any modern court, has trained its sight on speech protecting conservative values.
00:16:19.000Only the current court has resolved a higher fraction of disputes challenging the suppression of conservative rather than liberal expression.
00:16:25.000Well, the reason for that is because there is very little suppression of liberal expression in today's America.
00:16:32.000The real crackdowns that are happening right now are crackdowns from the left on the right with regard to First Amendment issues.
00:16:39.000But the left says that we should crack down on the First Amendment.
00:16:41.000The radicalization of the left is an ongoing story that really is absurd.
00:16:45.000And in just a second, I want to discuss that ongoing radicalization.
00:16:49.000First, I want to talk a little bit about the media.
00:16:51.000So the media, the same media who are saying that the First Amendment should be quashed for everybody they don't like, see themselves as First Amendment warriors.
00:16:57.000So Jim Acosta over at CNN, who loves him some Jim Acosta.
00:17:07.000He's the White House reporter for CNN.
00:17:11.000And over the weekend, right before the weekend, he decided it would be a worthwhile thing to shout at President Trump.
00:17:15.000So he's standing in the back of the room shouting at President Trump, and then he posted video of himself shouting at President Trump as though Trump has some sort of obvious obligation to answer Jim Acosta shouting from the back of a room.
00:17:25.000Now, do I care that Jim Acosta shouts at President Trump?
00:17:27.000I didn't care when a writer at the Daily Caller, Neil Monroe, shouted at President Obama.
00:17:31.000So it'd be rather hypocritical of me to care that Jim Acosta's shouting at Trump.
00:17:34.000But it just goes to show you how, when it was a right-winger like Neil Monroe, and it was the end of the world that he shouted a question to Barack Obama, Jim Acosta does it, and he's a hero.
00:17:43.000So Jim Acosta shouts at President Trump.
00:17:45.000He's shouting at him because there was a shooting in a newsroom last week, and the media tried to pin it on President Trump when it had nothing to do with President Trump.
00:18:45.000So first he starts off by saying, Fox News is only angry at me because they need someone to attack.
00:18:49.000Well, no, I'm not really angry at you as much as bemused by you, Jim Acosta.
00:18:54.000I'm not angry at Jim Acosta because I don't think he's worthy of my anger.
00:18:57.000But I am bemused by the fact that Jim Acosta thinks he's such an important human.
00:19:01.000And I love that CNN now does the navel-gazing routine where Jim Acosta is a hero for having shouted out a question and being shushed by a bald guy in front of him at the White House.
00:19:10.000So here's Brian Stelter questioning him.
00:19:12.000The president, Fox News, they don't have Barack Obama around anymore.
00:19:15.000They don't have Hillary Clinton, although the president goes after Hillary Clinton a lot, so does Fox News.
00:19:19.000And so we've sort of replaced Obama and Hillary.
00:19:23.000They need somebody to attack, and I think that we've sort of filled that role.
00:19:53.000Now, of course, if they're not going to take our questions, we have to find opportunities to ask those questions, and that means... Kind of like Sam Donaldson did decades ago.
00:20:26.000Now, the big question is, why Jim Acosta wasn't shouting at the devil when it was the devil he liked, right?
00:20:30.000Why wasn't he shouting at Barack Obama when it was somebody that he liked?
00:20:33.000And the answer is that Jim Acosta wasn't shouting at him because he was busy asking him kiss-ass questions.
00:20:38.000And the media, the same media who say the First Amendment should be curbed, right?
00:20:40.000The New York Times saying the First Amendment should be curbed for you, you know, the commenter, the little person.
00:20:45.000It should be expanded for the press to the extent that we have to force Donald Trump to answer every question Jim Acosta might have because Jim Acosta is a brave man who shouts at the devil in hell, you drag me down to Hades, you put me on that boat,
00:20:57.000You send me across the River Styx, I'll face down the devil, stare him in his beady little eyes, and then we will have a face-to-face conversation, me and Mr. Scratch.
00:21:09.000But, you know, when it comes to the common person, then of course if you're a religious baker, then we have to force you to do what we want.
00:21:15.000Or if you are a person who wants to give money in an election cycle, we have to force you to do it.
00:21:19.000If you're not a member of a union, we have to force you to pay money to a union.
00:21:22.000The double standard for people in the press who believe free speech should apply to them but should apply to nobody else is pretty astonishing.
00:21:27.000Now, speaking of radicalization of the Democratic Party,
00:21:30.000What we've been watching in real time is a massive radicalization of the Democratic Party.
00:21:34.000So right now, the person who is receiving all sorts of plaudits, of course, is this woman.
00:21:46.000And the reason I forget her name is because I don't think she's all that important, but the media are playing her as though she's deeply important.
00:21:50.000This, of course, is the 28-year-old former bartender who defeated Joe Crowley, who is a 58-year-old possible successor to Nancy Pelosi as House Minority Leader.
00:22:03.000Anastasia, or Alexandria Cortez, Ocasio-Cortez, she defeated him.
00:22:09.000We'll talk about her in just a second.
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00:23:24.000The radicalization of the Democratic Party continues apace.
00:23:27.000Alexandria Ostasio-Cortez, at some point I'll actually learn her name well enough that I don't have to pause when saying it because the media have turned her into such a ubiquitous figure.
00:24:03.000But it is an increasingly important membership because the Democrats themselves have embraced the principles of the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:24:09.000Or at least they're using them as the vanguard.
00:24:11.000The DSA is basically the Tea Party of the left.
00:24:14.000So we thought Occupy was going to be the Tea Party of the left.
00:24:16.000Occupy has sort of morphed into the DSA.
00:24:19.000And the DSA has all of these newfangled figures who are going to push the new America.
00:24:25.000They're going to push the new America.
00:25:11.000Senate, she was pro-gun and only quasi-pro-choice.
00:25:15.000And now Kristen Gillibrand has turned into a radical left-winger because she wants to run for president as the Hillary Clinton younger clone.
00:25:22.000So here she is talking about dumping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
00:25:25.000She doesn't have any substitute for ICE.
00:25:27.000She doesn't say, well, let's just start a new branch outside the Homeland Security Department.
00:25:30.000She just says, let's dump ICE, which, man, it is amazing how fast the radicals on the left are being mainstreamed into the Democratic Party.
00:25:38.000We should protect families that need our help, and that is not what ICE is doing today.
00:25:41.000And that's why I believe you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it, and build something that actually works.
00:26:04.000Okay, so Kirsten Gillibrand making a fool of herself.
00:26:06.000And then Elizabeth Warren doing the same thing.
00:26:07.000So, Elizabeth Warren, when she first entered the Senate, she was not considered the radical that she is now.
00:26:12.000She'd written a book, a very famous book, about what she called the two-income trap.
00:26:17.000That basically America had lowered its standard of living in certain ways because both parents were now expected to work, which was considered by many conservatives kind of an interesting argument because it was basically suggesting that maybe a one-parent family income would be better, that maybe one of the parents should stay home and we should build society around that.
00:26:33.000So there were a lot of family-oriented conservatives who actually liked Elizabeth Warren's book way back when.
00:26:37.000Well, now Elizabeth Warren is a full-scale Kirsten Gillibrand idiot.
00:26:40.000And so she has decided that she also is against ICE.
00:26:46.000Americans are not in favor of this position.
00:26:49.00070% of Americans think ICE ought to exist and that we ought to be enforcing our borders.
00:26:52.000This is a 70-30 issue for Republicans.
00:26:54.000But it is a 70-30 issue among Democrats that ICE should be abolished.
00:26:58.000So everybody is now swiveling to take care of their radical base, hoping they'll win 2020 primaries.
00:27:03.000Here's Elizabeth Warren doing the same thing as Kirsten Gillibrand, all of them now mirroring the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:27:09.000The president's deeply immoral actions have made it obvious we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our morality and
00:27:55.000This is anti-Maxine, a lady who a week ago was saying that people should be mobbed at gas stations and driven out of public life.
00:28:02.000I was surprised that Chuck Schumer, you know, reached into the other house to do that.
00:28:07.000I've not quite seen that done before, but one of the things I recognize, being an elected official, is in the final analysis, you know, leadership like Chuck Schumer's will do anything that they think is necessary to protect their leadership.
00:28:22.000So she's saying that Chuck Schumer is only being civil because he's trying to protect his leadership.
00:28:26.000The reality is that Maxine Waters has been a radical her entire career.
00:28:29.000She used to call the Los Angeles riots the L.A.
00:29:37.000We're going to go a little bit further in this direction.
00:29:39.000I want to talk about the movement of the mainstream toward Maxine Waters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and all the rest of us.
00:29:48.000Plus, I want to talk a little bit about
00:29:49.000Whether democratic socialism actually works, because there are a lot of myths that are floating around about democratic socialism, in just a second.
00:29:55.000First, I want to talk about your loans.
00:29:57.000Okay, the reality is that for decades credit cards have been telling us to buy now and pay for it later with interest.
00:30:01.000The problem is the interest rates are astronomical.
00:30:04.000That interest gets out of control fast.
00:32:12.000As the Democrats move more radical, people are going so crazy that even people who used to be supposedly conservative, although not all that conservative, have been echoing some of the more extreme rhetoric of the left.
00:32:23.000See, America is on a pendulum, and it swings side to side.
00:32:26.000Barack Obama was a radical guy, and now it has swiveled to President Trump, who is a very strong conservative in office.
00:32:31.000Okay, that means that when the pendulum swings back, it's going to swing back to the Democratic Party.
00:32:35.000Well, if the Democratic Party is a party of democratic socialism, meaning it's just a socialist party, then what you're going to see is an exacerbation of the conflict that is driving America into the ground right now.
00:33:22.000So, okay, I assume that the same applies to Jen Rubin, then.
00:33:24.000So, if Jen Rubin is out eating at a restaurant, I think that her political perspective is obnoxious, and I encourage people to harass her at restaurants, then, presumably, that's totally fine with her.
00:33:33.000Because, after all, this is the new politics.
00:33:35.000This sort of polarization is really quite terrible for the country.
00:33:38.000There's a piece in the New York Times talking about the embrace of full-scale socialism by the Democrats, by Michelle Goldberg, talking about the fact that this woman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, knocked off Joe Crowley in a primary vote in New York, and Summer Lee, who's 30, and Sarah Inamorato,
00:33:54.000Talk of popular control of the means of production is anathema to many older Democrats, even very liberal ones, right?
00:33:59.000Because they have a memory and they remember what it was like in the Soviet Union.
00:34:02.000They remember that Cuba is still a place.
00:34:04.000They remember that North Korea is garbage, that when the government controls the means of production, terrible things generally happen.
00:34:23.000But younger Democrats believe that the only way to counter President Trump is to counter the entire system.
00:34:29.000This is the pitch that the left has been making.
00:34:30.000It's not a pitch in favor of their own program and the success of it.
00:34:33.000It's a program in favor of... It's a pitch in favor...
00:34:37.000of a replacement of the entire hierarchy with something brand new.
00:34:40.000Trump is the product of this hierarchy.
00:34:42.000And if the hierarchy can be destroyed, if the First Amendment can be destroyed, if the Second Amendment can be destroyed, and a private property can be destroyed, then we will no longer have to suffer with Trump.
00:34:50.000It's not that Trump is a product of a broken civility in our politics.
00:35:42.000All that would bankrupt the United States in five seconds.
00:35:45.000The Democratic Party is happy to embrace that crowd because so long as they can wield that crowd like a club against President Trump, they're happy to do it.
00:35:52.000Meanwhile, I love this, Goldberg says,
00:36:08.000So right now, socialists are on the rise.
00:36:11.000There are more candidates like Ocasio-Cortez out there.
00:36:29.000On some days that public schools are closed, the DSA's Socialist Feminist Committee puts on all-day events with childcare and free lunches.
00:36:35.000Like several other chapters, the Pittsburgh DSA holds clinics, where members change people's burned-out car brake lights for free, helping them avoid unnecessary police run-ins while making inroads into the community.
00:36:45.000A local mechanic named Metal Mary helped train them.
00:36:49.000All that comes to an end the minute the socialists take over government.
00:36:51.000Because there is no reason, there is no rationale whatsoever, for them to actually do community outreach the minute that the government can do all of it.
00:37:00.000Now, let's talk for a second about the appeal of democratic socialism, because what you hear from the left is that democratic socialism is what exists in places like Denmark and Sweden.
00:37:20.000He holds a PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and conducted research at the University of Cambridge.
00:37:27.000And he has a great piece about why it is that so many people think that democratic socialist republics are the ones that are really succeeding when in reality they're succeeding in spite of their socialism.
00:37:53.000Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen says after seeing his country held up as an example in the American presidential debate, he told students in a 2015 speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, quote,
00:38:13.000When it comes to areas such as business regulations, trade policy, investment freedom, vouchers in the provision of education, elderly care and healthcare, and partial privatization of retirement savings, Nordic countries are among the most free market in the world.
00:38:24.000Hey, Nordic countries did not become rich by relying on socialism.
00:38:27.000Sweden is the only Nordic country that actually experimented with socialism in the 70s and 80s.
00:38:32.000And instead, it destroyed Sweden's economy.
00:38:36.000From 1970 to 1991, Social Democrats tried to introduce this form of planned economy into the country, and Sweden's growth rate fell to the second lowest among Western European countries after being among the highest.
00:38:48.000Also, there are a lot of people who say, well, look at Sweden and Denmark and Norway.
00:38:52.000Look at their wonderful, wonderful lifespans and low child mortality.
00:38:57.000Their low child mortality and lifespans pre-existed the socialist attempts to remake their economy.
00:39:03.000In 1960, the tax rate in Denmark was 25% of GDP, lower than 27% in the US at the time.
00:39:09.000And all of their outcomes were just the same or higher than they are now.
00:39:13.000The top 10 countries with the longest lifespan in 1960, when these were all capitalist, Norway, Iceland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland.
00:39:22.000Except that they've actually dropped a little bit.
00:39:24.000And they had low child mortality rates, too.
00:39:26.000And finally, important to note, that if you're talking about why Denmark does better, Sweden does better, Scandinavian Americans do better, Scandinavia does better, important to note, all of these groups, when they come to America, do better in the United States than they do back in their home countries.
00:40:03.000And the same thing is true in all these Nordic countries.
00:40:06.000All these Nordic countries became wealthy because they embraced free markets and capitalism.
00:40:10.000All of these countries in Scandinavia, all of them were among the free-trading companies, the most free-trading companies and countries in the 17th century, going all the way back, really, to the 15th and 16th centuries.
00:40:23.000So this idea that it was socialism that made these countries rich is just absurd.
00:40:26.000What it really was, was socialism redistributing all of the gains that had been made in capitalism.
00:40:31.000And all of these countries, including Denmark, still have very free markets when it comes to attraction of business, they just have incredibly high tax rates that tamp down the growth of individual industry.
00:40:41.000The reason that I bring this up is because this Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has become this big star now, right?
00:41:05.000The hardscrawled biography of Democrat congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been called into question after the revelation that she grew up mostly in wealthy Westchester County.
00:41:13.000Though Ocasio-Cortez, 28, was born in and currently lives in the Bronx, county land records show her late father, Sergio Cortez Roman, bought a quaint three bedroom in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1991 when she was about two.
00:41:25.000But her biography says, Yeah, except she grew up in Westchester County.
00:41:40.000She said that she was a girl from the Bronx.
00:41:43.000It's not to say that she's wildly wealthy, but she grew up in a nice middle-class family.
00:41:48.000Her father, who died tragically from lung cancer in 2008, was an architect and CEO of Kirshenbaum & Ocasio-Roman Architects, PC, which focused on remodeling and renovations.
00:42:00.000So, again, the idea that all of these people are living in absolute poverty
00:42:06.000They originally lived in a planned community in Parkchester, and then they moved out and they got a house.
00:42:11.000They lived in a planned community of 171 mid-rise brick buildings in the Bronx, and when she was about five, they moved to this house in Westchester County.
00:42:18.000So we're supposed to believe that she's not the result of capitalism.
00:42:21.000By the way, she seems to be pretty capitalistic in her own life.
00:42:23.000According to the New York Post, Ocasio-Cortez used to work at Flats Fix, which is an East 16th Street taco and tequila bar, and most of her co-workers liked her a lot.
00:42:31.000But one waitress says that at the end of one night, when Ocasio-Cortez was tending bar at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she'd gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress $50.
00:42:44.000After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100.
00:42:48.000And this waitress says that this says something about her character.
00:42:51.000So like a lot of socialists, it's all fun and games until it comes time to stick the money in your own pocket.
00:42:57.000So, Ocasio-Cortez was on TV, or actually, she was on Twitter, and she'd been asked about her lipstick, because she wears this bright red lipstick, and she tweeted out, Okay, then it sold out.
00:43:05.000So, the socialists pitched a capitalistic product, and it sold out.
00:43:07.000Because this is still a capitalistic country, and this is all stupidity.
00:43:22.000OK, quickly, I want to talk briefly about Supreme Court.
00:43:25.000So the Supreme Court, President Trump is talking about what he wants to do with the Supreme Court.
00:43:29.000And he says that abortion could end up with the states.
00:43:30.000You could see the overturning of Roe v. Wade from Trump's mouth to God's ears.
00:43:34.000Here's President Trump talking about it.
00:43:36.000The Roe v. Wade is probably the one that people are talking about in terms of having an effect.
00:43:51.000People on the left are going nuts over all of this.
00:43:52.000They suggest that it's terrible, we can never overturn Roe v. Wade.
00:43:55.000One of those people, of course, is the idiot Susan Collins, the senator from Maine.
00:43:58.000And I hear she is saying that she won't vote for anyone who demonstrates anti-Roe opinion.
00:44:03.000I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law.
00:44:22.000Okay, so it's established law, according to Susan Collins, except for every bad decision was established law.
00:44:28.000Plessy v. Ferguson, which said that segregation was legal, was established law for 58 years in the United States before Brown v. Board of Education.
00:44:35.000A case in the United States that said that same-sex marriage could be made illegal by states?
00:44:39.000Okay, that was law in the United States for 44 years.
00:44:41.000Whenever people on the left say precedent, what they really mean is a decision that I like.
00:44:45.000Susan Collins is a fool when it comes to Roe v. Wade.
00:44:47.000It should be overturned because it's a terrible decision, and I hope that it will be.
00:44:51.000OK, so in just a second, we'll do some stuff I like and some stuff that I hate.
00:44:54.000I have plenty of stuff I like and stuff I hate.
00:48:12.000That there are a bunch of 8 to 10 year old kids, boys, who decide to dress up as drag queens and now are being promoted by their parents and put in the media.
00:48:19.000So I have a general problem with child actors as just a whole.
00:48:24.000I think it's a huge mistake for parents to get their children into acting publicly.
00:48:28.000Because I don't think that children should be exposed to public discourse as a general rule.
00:48:32.000I think that kids don't know enough about what they want in their own minds.
00:48:35.000They're not capable of making reasoned decisions.
00:48:37.000They're not capable of making good decisions.
00:48:39.000I think it is particularly awful for parents to be exploiting their 10-year-old boys by dressing them up as girls or allowing them to dress up as girls and parade them in front of cameras looking like drag queens because this is somehow good for them.
00:49:50.000The only thing you can fairly make a case for on politics, why 10-year-olds should be activists, is maybe on pro-life issues, just because they're not dead.
00:49:57.000But even then, I wouldn't use a kid as an activist for pro-life causes, and I love pro-life causes.
00:50:02.000But to make a kid an activist on sexual matters is perverse.
00:50:08.000If there were an adult who were not this kid's parents who dressed this kid up this way and put this kid in public, you would know that this was something perverse.
00:50:20.000It's just, it's, as a parent of two children, I cannot imagine doing anything remotely like this to my kid.
00:50:24.000Even if my kid wanted to dress like this, even if I thought it was okay for my kid to dress like this, putting my kid in front of cameras and playing that as an act of bravery on my part is just disgusting.
00:50:35.000Drag is a form of expression and being yourself and dressing however you want and looking fierce.
00:50:42.000No matter what you're wearing, even if your eyeliner went down and it's like so bad, you still look fierce.
00:50:50.000My motto is be yourself always, but I like to add this on.
00:50:54.000No matter what anyone says, and pain hating no one, because they're not as fierce as you.
00:51:08.000Three-year-olds, five-year-olds, ten-year-olds, they don't know the word fierce unless you have been engaged in a particular culture that glorifies a particular set of values.
00:51:16.000And listen, as a parent, if that's what you want to do and it's not damaging your kid, that's one thing.
00:51:22.000But to trot this kid out as an activist, as a free-minded activist, is really quite gross.
00:51:32.000This is a parent who decided that they were going to get their kid some attention and decided that they were going to therefore encourage these sorts of tendencies in the kid.
00:51:39.000You think this kid isn't going to experience a harder life?
00:51:43.000Quote-unquote oppression from from people outside of this kid I'm not even talking about bullying which of course is not appropriate in any case what I am talking about here is that confusing kids about their own sexual identity and gender at the age of 10 and Not attempting to provide them any sort of solid grounding for this stuff before they even hit puberty is not a recipe for mental health just
00:52:05.000But the entire left would suggest that it's intolerant to say this.
00:52:08.000The only form of tolerance is to cheer along as a 10-year-old kid is dressed up in drag queen outfits and paraded in front of the drooling media.
00:52:43.000Okay, I would give President Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country, most favored nation principle that countries can't set tariff rates for different countries outside of free trade agreements, and bound tariff rates, the tariff ceilings that each WTO country has already agreed to in previous negotiations.
00:52:59.000So it's walking away from our current commitments on tariffs.