The Ben Shapiro Show - Solve Your Own Problems. The Government Won't. | Ep. 840

00:00:00.000 Hey, yesterday I trended on Twitter.

00:00:02.000 Thanks for the signal boost.

00:00:03.000 As always, media matters, the economy continues to teeter, and another mass shooting takes place in Philadelphia.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:10.000 I have a lot to get to today.

00:00:18.000 We're gonna go through some basic economics and also some basic job advice today because apparently people don't understand English.

00:00:25.000 They don't understand economic arguments.

00:00:27.000 They would much prefer to attribute beliefs to me that I don't actually hold, but the entire show won't be about me.

00:00:33.000 We'll also get to a lot of the other stuff that's in the news, including Jeffrey Epstein apparently having a broken bone in his neck that suggests strangulation.

00:00:39.000 So, good times out there.

00:00:41.000 We'll get to all of that in just one second.

00:00:43.000 First, geopolitical tensions are rising.

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00:01:55.000 474747 again text my name Ben to 474747 go check them out right now okay so I'm gonna do something that I rarely do here on the shop I'm going to talk about something that I've said previously on the show.

00:02:08.000 The reason that I usually don't do this on the show is because I feel like most of the stuff that I say is fairly self-explanatory.

00:02:14.000 Well, yesterday...

00:02:15.000 There's a clip from the show, and it went viral, because this is what Media Matters does.

00:02:19.000 What they like to do is clip part of a clip, and then put it out there, and then people react on Twitter as they normally do, because as I have said, Twitter is the boo box, right?

00:02:27.000 Twitter is the place where someone has sinned, and we throw them inside the boo box.

00:02:32.000 They made a boo-boo! 0.92

00:02:33.000 We throw them inside the boo box, we drop scorpions, and we drop snakes on them.

00:02:36.000 Well, yesterday, it was my turn in the boo box, because that's what Twitter is.

00:02:40.000 And Twitter is also a place of dunking and being dunked upon.

00:02:44.000 And so yesterday was a day of slam dunks.

00:02:46.000 Okay, so what generated all of this?

00:02:47.000 You may have listened to the show yesterday and thought to yourself, I didn't hear anything particularly controversial.

00:02:51.000 What exactly was the big controversy about?

00:02:53.000 Well, the big controversy was about something that I had to say about Kamala Harris.

00:02:58.000 So we were talking yesterday about bad economic takes, and we were talking about the senator from California suggesting that no one in America should have to work two jobs in order to put a roof over their head or to get ahead.

00:03:08.000 And I was making a very simple point.

00:03:10.000 The simple point was that the government can't fix that.

00:03:13.000 That is not a government problem.

00:03:14.000 That's a you problem.

00:03:15.000 Now, when I say a you problem, I'm using you problem the way normal people use you problem.

00:03:20.000 Not it's a problem with you, if you have to hold two jobs to put a roof over your head, but that it's a problem you have to solve, right?

00:03:27.000 It is a problem within your domain.

00:03:29.000 It is not a government problem.

00:03:30.000 It is a you problem.

00:03:31.000 In fact, I'm very much in favor of people working multiple jobs.

00:03:35.000 I've worked multiple jobs every day since I graduated law school in 2007.

00:03:41.000 I have worked multiple jobs.

00:03:43.000 As of three years ago, I was actually working five simultaneous jobs.

00:03:48.000 I kid you not.

00:03:49.000 I was an editor-at-large over at Breitbart.

00:03:50.000 I was the editor of Daily Wire.

00:03:52.000 I was doing my podcast.

00:03:54.000 I was doing two radio shows, a morning radio show and an afternoon radio show.

00:03:59.000 So I was working a bunch of jobs at one time.

00:04:01.000 In fact, I think that that's good.

00:04:02.000 I think that that is a sign of ambition, that you're working multiple jobs in order to get ahead.

00:04:07.000 The point that I was making on the show is that you live in a free country.

00:04:10.000 It's your choice.

00:04:11.000 And if you don't want to work multiple jobs, you don't have to.

00:04:13.000 Now, there are consequences to that, of course.

00:04:15.000 If you have to work two jobs to put a roof over your head, and then you don't work one of those jobs, you're going to have to lower your costs, right?

00:04:21.000 You have a few choices if you don't want to work two jobs.

00:04:23.000 One is, you could simply not take the jobs that pay you less, believing that you're going to get a job somewhere else that will pay you more.

00:04:30.000 Maybe that works out.

00:04:31.000 Maybe that doesn't.

00:04:32.000 Your decision.

00:04:33.000 Hey, possibility number two, you lower your costs and you take one job.

00:04:37.000 Many people do this.

00:04:38.000 Possibility number three, you work two jobs in order to put that roof over your head in order to get ahead.

00:04:43.000 In any case, these are your options and these are all you problems, right?

00:04:46.000 This is the way that you solve your own life and you make your own life better.

00:04:50.000 What they are not is what Kamala Harris suggests and what all Democrats apparently suggest, which is the fourth off-the-board option.

00:04:57.000 I'm going to go to the federal government and force them to put a gun to the head of potential employers and pay me what I want to be paid.

00:05:04.000 And that is not an option, because that is tyranny.

00:05:07.000 And when Kamala Harris and all the other politicians tell you that they are going to fix a you problem, that they are going to fix a problem that you have to solve yourself, A problem that requires a used solution when politicians tell you they're going to fix that by somehow restructuring the economy so you can work that $15 an hour job at McDonald's and it will become a $35 an hour job magically so you can put that roof over your head that you want.

00:05:32.000 They are lying to you.

00:05:33.000 It's not going to happen.

00:05:34.000 That's not how economic works.

00:05:36.000 There's not a bunch of rich people sitting around who have always been rich and who are seeking to put their boot on the throat of poor people in order to pay them less.

00:05:43.000 That is just nonsense.

00:05:45.000 The way people get ahead in the United States is they work hard.

00:05:48.000 Yes, they work multiple jobs.

00:05:49.000 Sometimes they feel they need to work multiple jobs.

00:05:52.000 Sometimes they do have to work multiple jobs, but not because they are being forced by an outside actor to do that, Because these are individual choices we make in a free country where we have free consensual exchange of goods and services and pay.

00:06:06.000 And people were coming back at me yesterday after I said all this, and they were saying something like, well, you know, what about bad working conditions?

00:06:12.000 I'm not against private sector unions!

00:06:14.000 If you get together with all of the potential employees, and you say, we're not going to work there, good for you!

00:06:19.000 You should!

00:06:20.000 Absolutely!

00:06:21.000 You should strike so that you don't have to work in asbestos-laden conditions.

00:06:24.000 Of course you should strike so you don't have to work in coal dust without any sort of protections.

00:06:29.000 But if the idea is that government has to come in and regulate all of this and change the consensual relationships between a person who wants to work and a person who wants to pay them for that work, the answer is no.

00:06:40.000 The answer is no.

00:06:42.000 We are a consent-based free market system and we should remain so.

00:06:44.000 Okay, so that is what I was trying to say yesterday.

00:06:47.000 Here's what I actually said, and then we will see how people on the left decided to take this as I'm crapping all over poor people or something, which is absurd.

00:06:55.000 Kamala Harris is getting desperate at this point, and she continues to trot out promises that she can't keep. 0.54

00:06:59.000 She says nobody should have to work more than one job in the United States.

00:07:02.000 Nobody should have to work more than one.

00:07:04.000 Okay, sure.

00:07:05.000 You know, I find it very interesting, something about this administration and this president.

00:07:09.000 You know, he's going around crowing about how this economy is doing so well, right?

00:07:14.000 Oh, the economy is great, he says, right?

00:07:17.000 And they refer to the unemployment numbers.

00:07:20.000 Well, yeah, I'm traveling our country.

00:07:22.000 Let me tell you something.

00:07:23.000 Yeah, people are working.

00:07:25.000 They're working two and three jobs.

00:07:28.000 And in our America, we must agree nobody should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table.

00:07:37.000 Okay, well, the fact is that if you had to work more than one job to have a roof over your head or food on the table, you probably shouldn't have taken the job that's not paying you enough.

00:07:45.000 That'd be a you problem. 0.97

00:07:47.000 Also, it is not true.

00:07:48.000 So, they took that clip without the Harris quote.

00:07:51.000 So it is very obvious that I'm responding directly to Kamala Harris' contention that we all must agree, meaning the government, must agree, That you should only have to work one job to put a roof over your head.

00:08:02.000 And I'm saying, no, no, no.

00:08:03.000 That's not a government problem.

00:08:04.000 That's a you problem.

00:08:05.000 Meaning it's a decision that you are going to have to make about your own life.

00:08:09.000 And by the way, this is a message that is going to allow people to make free decisions.

00:08:14.000 That is going to add to income mobility.

00:08:16.000 It's a decision that to take your own life under your own control.

00:08:21.000 Kamala Harris and politicians lie to you. 1.00

00:08:23.000 They do it right, left, and center.

00:08:24.000 They tell you that if you are not living the economic life of your dreams, that they are going to fix this for you.

00:08:29.000 That they're going to make it all better for you.

00:08:31.000 And they're going to do so with the power of government.

00:08:33.000 They are lying to you to get you to give them money and power.

00:08:37.000 They are not going to fix your problems.

00:08:38.000 You are going to fix your problems.

00:08:40.000 You're going to be the one who makes free decisions to make your life better.

00:08:43.000 You're going to cut costs.

00:08:44.000 You're going to make sure that you're not spending too much.

00:08:46.000 You're going to take that extra job on the side.

00:08:49.000 Honestly, I'm insulted by how many people in the media on the left decided to take that last clip and then suggest that I am looking down on people who work more than two jobs as though those people can simply quit and get one job.

00:09:01.000 That's not what I'm saying.

00:09:02.000 What I'm saying is that if you chose to take two jobs, that's a you decision.

00:09:06.000 That's a you decision.

00:09:07.000 And of course it's a you decision.

00:09:08.000 It should be a you decision.

00:09:10.000 In fact, I'm very much in favor of people taking more than one job if it gets them ahead.

00:09:14.000 My dad, when he was first married to my mom, would work nightclubs at night.

00:09:18.000 He's a pianist.

00:09:18.000 He would work nightclubs at night, and then he would stuff newspapers in the morning, and then he would deliver food during the day.

00:09:23.000 He'd work three jobs.

00:09:24.000 Again, I've worked multiple jobs literally my entire career.

00:09:29.000 I'm very much in favor of that, but it's my decision to do that.

00:09:32.000 And that is how people get ahead.

00:09:34.000 We should be inspired by people who are working multiple jobs.

00:09:37.000 Because it's their decision.

00:09:39.000 We shouldn't treat them as though they are victims of society because they're working multiple jobs.

00:09:43.000 We should treat them as free actors in a free economy who are making free decisions to make their life better, freely.

00:09:50.000 That's how we should be treating people.

00:09:51.000 And that's what I was objecting to.

00:09:53.000 But apparently, that's apparently scorn for people who are poor.

00:09:58.000 And so I tweeted out all of this yesterday.

00:10:01.000 I put out a Twitter thread explaining exactly what Media Matters had done.

00:10:03.000 They cut off the part with Kamala Harris so that it sounds like I'm just saying, out of nowhere, that you should be able to quit your two jobs and get one job, and obviously that opportunity is available to everyone or something like that.

00:10:13.000 That is not what I was saying, and if that's what you heard, then I apologize if that's what you heard, but that's certainly not what I was saying.

00:10:19.000 In any case, I tweeted out what I meant.

00:10:20.000 I said, the point I'm making, of course, is that you cannot dictate that a job pay you what you wish it paid you.

00:10:26.000 That is obvious, and why it is foolishness for politicians to claim that the economy can be structured to force your desired level of pay from a job you chose to take.

00:10:34.000 Now, people are very angry at this, because they do want the utopian solution, which is that government comes in and restructures the economy along Kamala Harris's desired lines.

00:10:42.000 And so the answer to the problem of taking a job that you feel underpays you is to A, not take the job as I suggest here, or B, not live beyond your means.

00:10:50.000 Those would be the two decisions.

00:10:53.000 Or, take that job, and then you don't get to whine about it.

00:10:56.000 You don't.

00:10:56.000 Okay, if you freely take a job, and then you take the pay that comes up, like, they made clear what they were paying you the day you walked in.

00:11:03.000 This has been true for every job I ever held.

00:11:05.000 And yes, I have taken significant pay cuts in order to take jobs that I wanted.

00:11:10.000 When I first got out of law school, I was working at a law firm, right?

00:11:12.000 I'd gone to Harvard Law.

00:11:13.000 Everybody works at a law firm afterward.

00:11:14.000 I worked there for 10 months, and then I hated it so much that I quit.

00:11:18.000 That was a me decision.

00:11:19.000 And I chose to take a job that paid me one-third of what I had been making before.

00:11:24.000 Again, a me decision.

00:11:26.000 Do I then get to whine about the fact that I was being paid one-third of what I was?

00:11:29.000 No, it was my decision.

00:11:31.000 As I say, this was perfectly clear in context.

00:11:33.000 The comment immediately follows a line from Kamala Harris, claiming that no one should have to work two jobs.

00:11:39.000 So obviously, this is what I was saying.

00:11:40.000 So people decided that they were going to go nuts and take it out of context because this is what they do.

00:11:45.000 Naturally, AOC decided to do this.

00:11:46.000 So we are now in, what, year two of AOC kind of sniping at people and then refusing to talk to them.

00:11:53.000 So there's an open invitation to AOC.

00:11:55.000 Anytime she wants to discuss this or any other issue, she can come on the show.

00:12:00.000 This is not catcalling, as she put it.

00:12:02.000 But she sort of catcalled me yesterday by her own standards. 0.98

00:12:04.000 So she tweeted out, one of the most manipulative tactics plutocrats use is convincing people that the systemic issues we face are character flaws instead of policy flaws.

00:12:14.000 Stop there for one second.

00:12:16.000 Plutocrats?

00:12:17.000 Rule by the rich? 0.95

00:12:17.000 Like what? 0.95

00:12:19.000 Let me explain something.

00:12:20.000 I was middle class the vast majority of my life.

00:12:23.000 The vast majority of my life.

00:12:25.000 I know people like to make up kind of fake histories about where I came from and all of this.

00:12:28.000 And the fact is that my father and mother, I was born in a two-bedroom small house in Burbank on Ontario Street.

00:12:37.000 Okay, and that small house had one bathroom and six people in it.

00:12:41.000 I shared a bedroom with three sisters until I was 11 years old.

00:12:45.000 And we were middle, middle class.

00:12:47.000 We were certainly not upper class.

00:12:48.000 We were certainly not rich.

00:12:49.000 And you know what?

00:12:49.000 My parents worked their ass off to make it so that our life was better and good for them.

00:12:54.000 And they did so by working multiple jobs.

00:12:56.000 They did so by making personal decisions.

00:12:59.000 And she says, one of the most manipulative tactics plutocrats use. 0.84

00:13:02.000 So I'm a plutocrat.

00:13:04.000 So it's plutocracy if I wish to preserve free exchange between people.

00:13:08.000 But it is not hierarchical rule from above if AOC wants to take a gun, run by the government, and put it to the heads of employers.

00:13:16.000 So top-down centralized control by people like AOC is not tyranny.

00:13:21.000 It's tyranny if I say that there should be free exchange between people in how they choose to do jobs.

00:13:26.000 She says that one of the most manipulative tactics plutocrats use is convincing people that the systemic issues we face are character flaws instead of policy flaws.

00:13:34.000 Well, no, I'm not saying it's a character flaw to take two jobs, obviously.

00:13:38.000 I'm saying, in fact, that very often it's a character benefit.

00:13:41.000 It's an attribution of great character.

00:13:44.000 What I am saying is that that is a you decision.

00:13:46.000 It's a you problem.

00:13:48.000 That's what it is. 0.98

00:13:49.000 He says working people aren't dumb or inferior. 0.95

00:13:51.000 Obviously, no one is saying they are. 0.82

00:13:54.000 Except for AOC, who apparently believes they're not capable of negotiating their own salary.

00:13:58.000 They're not capable of creating income mobility.

00:14:00.000 They're not capable of working two jobs to get ahead.

00:14:04.000 Which is nor are they why insulin costs $300 or huge companies pay starvation wages.

00:14:09.000 I'm always confused by AOC's bizarre understanding of economics.

00:14:13.000 She says corruption is responsible for huge companies paying quote-unquote starvation wages.

00:14:17.000 Really, is that corruption or is that people choosing to take a job with Walmart because that is a free exchange?

00:14:23.000 You may not like what Walmart pays.

00:14:24.000 Good news.

00:14:25.000 You don't have to work there.

00:14:26.000 Again, that would not be Walmart's problem.

00:14:28.000 That'd be a you problem. 0.97

00:14:30.000 Now, you problem doesn't mean a character flaw.

00:14:32.000 In you, it means that you not wanting to work at a place in a free country is something that is your choice.

00:14:39.000 When I say you problem, I mean a choice made by you.

00:14:43.000 One of the most manipulative tactics used by socialists is suggesting that free decision-making by individuals is actually the result of systemic pressures that cannot be avoided other than by people like AOC running your life.

00:14:57.000 The tactic that the left likes to use is there's no income mobility, you can never rise, you're being crammed into this job against your will, that you're a victim of circumstance and therefore give me all the power. 0.97

00:15:07.000 It's manipulative and it's garbage and it makes people's lives worse. 0.99

00:15:11.000 It's just, it's gross. 0.99

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00:16:51.000 Okay, so.

00:16:53.000 One of the things that socialists and now too many democratic politicians want to do is tell you that problems that only you can solve are solvable by them.

00:17:04.000 This is the gig.

00:17:05.000 And it's not just politicians on the left.

00:17:06.000 We heard this from Donald Trump in 2016, that if you lost your manufacturing job in Ohio, it was the fault of the Chinese and the Mexicans, and all you needed to do was place your trust in Trump, and he would somehow return your job to the dying factory in your town.

00:17:20.000 And by and large, this has not happened.

00:17:21.000 Because it turns out that when politicians say that decisions freely made among human beings are bad and can be fixed by them, that is a gambit for power and money.

00:17:32.000 And that's what Kamala Harris is doing, just as Bernie Sanders does. 1.00

00:17:34.000 They label a problem that we all experience, or that many of us have experienced, which is economic shortcoming, or economic deprival.

00:17:41.000 And then, they use that as an excuse to say that they can restructure the system in a better, more fulfilling way, and that's a lie.

00:17:47.000 It's a lie, because the collective intelligence of the American public, and yes, the world public, is greater than any one politician believing they know what you ought to be paid, or what a job ought to pay.

00:17:57.000 Do you think that AOC, they're complaining about the price of insulin?

00:18:01.000 Well, she's free to start an insulin company and then explain how by eliminating corruption, she has lowered the price of insulin and this has allowed her to create enormous wealth for herself and her employees. 0.99

00:18:12.000 She can do that anytime she wants. 1.00

00:18:13.000 In fact, if she provides me with a great business plan, I'm happy to invest.

00:18:17.000 But I don't think she has any intent of doing that.

00:18:19.000 I think that she's shouting at the moon just as Kamala Harris is shouting at the moon. 1.00

00:18:22.000 And all that does is train the American people in learned helplessness.

00:18:26.000 So there is this theory of psychology called learned helplessness.

00:18:30.000 And learned helplessness basically suggests that all animals, including human beings, All human beings and animals that we can learn helplessness that if you teach people that there is no correlation between cause and effect, people stop seeing the correlation and then learn helplessness.

00:18:47.000 So this this experimentation was first done by a psychologist named Martin Seligman.

00:18:51.000 Martin Seligman did this experiment.

00:18:53.000 The experiment went like this.

00:18:53.000 He took basically two sets of dogs, one set of dogs.

00:18:57.000 He would he would electro shock the set of dogs every time They were, every time they ate a certain food, for example.

00:19:06.000 So they would eat a certain food, they would get an electroshock for a certain amount of time.

00:19:09.000 And this trained them in aversion, right?

00:19:10.000 The dogs would simply stop eating the food so that they would not be electroshocked.

00:19:14.000 They were compared with another set of dogs.

00:19:17.000 And this set of dogs was not correlated with food.

00:19:20.000 They wouldn't put food there.

00:19:20.000 So the dogs would simply be shocked seemingly at random times.

00:19:24.000 Then what they would do is they would take that second set of dogs, shocked at random times, and they would put the food in front of them, and they would start treating them like the first set of dogs.

00:19:32.000 So every time the dogs tried to eat the food, they would electroshock them.

00:19:34.000 It turns out the second set of dogs had learned helplessness.

00:19:37.000 So they would sit there and whine.

00:19:39.000 They wouldn't start avoiding the food.

00:19:42.000 They would still go for the food, but then they would sit there and whine when they were shocked, because they were not capable now of learning aversion.

00:19:48.000 They were not capable of learning to help themselves.

00:19:51.000 Well, learned helplessness is a trait among human beings, too.

00:19:53.000 It's highly linked to depression, by the way.

00:19:55.000 If you teach children, if you teach teenagers they are not in control of their own life.

00:20:00.000 If you teach them that systemic forces out there that we won't define are always going to keep you down and that nefarious corrupt people out there, we won't name them, they're just out there, that they're trying to screw you.

00:20:11.000 Eventually, people are not going to take the actions that can actually help them.

00:20:15.000 They are not going to learn helpfulness.

00:20:17.000 Now, there's another theory of learned helplessness, which is that the natural state of human beings is actually helplessness, and that you have to learn helpfulness.

00:20:24.000 You actually have to actively train people in the relationship between cause and effect.

00:20:28.000 I tend to believe this theory because I see it in my own kids.

00:20:31.000 Kids don't understand cause and effect until you teach it to them, and they would rather whine than learn cause and effect.

00:20:37.000 Well, that means that as a society, one of the things we should be teaching is that decisions in your control are the ones that can make your life better.

00:20:44.000 You want to better your life?

00:20:46.000 Then start looking at what's in your control instead of giving power to politicians like Kamala Harris or AOC to restructure the entire economy along lines that they see fit, and which will not help you in the end.

00:20:57.000 Because the fact is, people have been trying to restructure capitalism in the United States for decades.

00:21:01.000 And guess what?

00:21:02.000 About the same percentage of people in the United States are still under the poverty line after we spent $20 trillion in the war on poverty.

00:21:11.000 The great danger to the American public right now is a sense of pervasive helplessness that we are not in control of our own lives.

00:21:18.000 And it is a lie.

00:21:19.000 We are in control of our own lives.

00:21:21.000 Now that doesn't mean that every situation in which we find ourselves is a pleasant one.

00:21:25.000 It doesn't mean that we're not going to have to work jobs we don't want to work.

00:21:28.000 It doesn't mean that we're not going to have to work hard or cut expenses or make decisions to move.

00:21:33.000 It does mean, however, that the decisions within our control are the ones most likely to impact our own lives, and Kamala Harris ain't gonna change that by bitching about people working two jobs. 1.00

00:21:42.000 Okay, that's not gonna change anything.

00:21:45.000 In fact, the only obstacles that need to be removed for people are not the obstacles of other human beings who you should respect as independent human beings negotiating with you.

00:21:54.000 No, the other obstacles are people who are getting involved in the process.

00:21:58.000 I got an email yesterday from somebody who had seen this clip online, and the email was, they're in Boston, and they were saying, well, you know, my wife and I, we make $170,000 combined per year, and we have three kids, and we live in a house, and they're in daycare, and we're still finding it hard to make ends meet, and we're working multiple jobs.

00:22:16.000 My response to that is, number one, good for you.

00:22:19.000 Number two, the reason you're finding it hard to make ends meet in Boston is because the tax rates are exorbitant, the regulations are exorbitant, and it's almost impossible to find housing in Boston.

00:22:28.000 If you actually want a better world for people making decisions freely of their own accord, Then you need government out of this business, not in this business.

00:22:35.000 You don't need Kamala Harris healing things.

00:22:37.000 You don't need Kamala Harris ratcheting up the taxes. 1.00

00:22:40.000 You don't need Kamala Harris putting down markers on how many condos can be built for affordable housing. 1.00

00:22:46.000 What you need is them out of this.

00:22:47.000 You need more free exchange, not less free exchange.

00:22:50.000 You want jobs that pay better wages? 1.00

00:22:52.000 What you need is more competition in the employment market.

00:22:55.000 You need to make it easier to start a business.

00:22:57.000 You need to make it less burdensome to start a business.

00:23:01.000 The fact is, by the way, that these minimum wage regulations pushed by Democrats largely help big businesses at the expense of small businesses.

00:23:07.000 Small businesses have lower profit margins.

00:23:10.000 So the point that I am making here, and have been making consistently on this show forever and throughout my career, is that decisions are in your own hands.

00:23:18.000 And if you are given a choice between a problem being a you problem and being a government problem, you should certainly prefer that it be a you problem.

00:23:26.000 Because you are the solution.

00:23:27.000 Not government.

00:23:28.000 Not Kamala Harris.

00:23:30.000 You.

00:23:31.000 And taking me out of context to pretend that when I say that a you problem is because you're lesser?

00:23:36.000 No, it's a me problem too.

00:23:37.000 It's an everybody problem.

00:23:38.000 We are all individuals making free decisions.

00:23:41.000 And those problems are solvable if we put our minds to them, if we make solid decisions.

00:23:46.000 It's not up to Kamala Harris to fix everything.

00:23:49.000 And by the way, it is not scorn for people to treat them like adults.

00:23:53.000 It's scorn for people to treat them like children and suggest that your political solution is going to fix their lives when it ain't.

00:23:59.000 Elizabeth Warren ain't coming in on a white horse to fix it. 1.00

00:24:01.000 Kamala Harris ain't coming in on a white horse to fix it. 1.00

00:24:03.000 Donald Trump ain't coming in on a white horse to fix it.

00:24:06.000 In fact, every time they try to fix it, they make it worse.

00:24:09.000 In a second, we're going to talk about the question of whether it is actually true.

00:24:14.000 That the American dream is dead.

00:24:16.000 So one of the premises that is being used by so many folks on the left in all of this is that you lack individual choice.

00:24:23.000 Your individual agency is gone because the American dream is dead, because the plutocracy has taken over. 0.99

00:24:29.000 I'm going to explain why this is abjectly false in one second.

00:24:33.000 First, when the founders crafted the Constitution, the first thing they did was to make sacred the rights of the individual to share their ideas without limitation by their government.

00:24:40.000 That's the First Amendment.

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00:24:46.000 That would be the Second Amendment. 0.57

00:24:48.000 And also, in many ways, the most important amendment.

00:24:51.000 I love the Second Amendment.

00:24:52.000 I particularly love it these days when I receive death threats on a regular basis.

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00:25:47.000 Okay, so let's talk for a second about whether it is true That you are not in control of your own life in the United States.

00:25:53.000 So this is the contention of people right, left, and center these days, is that basically the American dream is dead, and now government is going to restore the American dream to you with interventionism. 0.98

00:26:02.000 It's absolute crap. 0.75

00:26:04.000 Okay, so one of the things that we keep hearing, for example, is that income mobility is declining radically in the United States. 0.99

00:26:11.000 This is effectively not true.

00:26:13.000 Okay, income mobility has not actually changed in the United States since, like, the 1970s.

00:26:21.000 That is true as of The Economist, February 1st, 2014.

00:26:26.000 America is no less socially mobile than it was a generation ago.

00:26:29.000 There's this misperception, also when you talk about people working two jobs, that people work two jobs forever.

00:26:34.000 That whatever is the job you hold today will be the job you hold tomorrow.

00:26:36.000 There's no time horizon on economics in the view of people on the left and people who want government interventionism.

00:26:42.000 Where you are today is where you will always end up.

00:26:45.000 Nonsense.

00:26:47.000 When people talk about the difference between the 1% and the 99%, for example, what they are missing is that people move in and out of the 1%. 1.00

00:26:47.000 Absolute garbage. 1.00

00:26:53.000 They're also missing that the 1% is disproportionately older. 1.00

00:26:57.000 Why?

00:26:57.000 Because old people are just richer?

00:26:59.000 No, because they've spent their life building up wealth and building up careers.

00:27:02.000 If you're working two jobs today, There's a good shot that in 10 years you won't be working two jobs.

00:27:06.000 If you are working a job for $50,000 today, there's a very good shot that in 10 years you will not be working a job for $50,000, you'll be working a job for $75,000 or $100,000.

00:27:14.000 Income mobility is still present in the United States.

00:27:17.000 If you want to know why certain areas of the United States suffer from lack of income mobility, it's not because of the government.

00:27:24.000 It is because, almost purely, not almost purely, but largely, largely, it is because of personal decision making.

00:27:31.000 Income mobility declines radically when you make bad decisions.

00:27:34.000 Okay, again, this does not mean it's a bad decision to work two jobs.

00:27:37.000 As I say, often that's a fantastic decision to work two jobs.

00:27:40.000 What I am saying is that if you make a decision to have a baby out of wedlock, for example, or to drop out of high school, or to not work a job, turns out you're not going to get ahead.

00:27:49.000 I know lots of billionaires.

00:27:50.000 Lots of them.

00:27:51.000 I don't know a single billionaire, really, who grew up a billionaire.

00:27:55.000 Not one.

00:27:56.000 I know their kids, but the billionaires themselves, I mean, I could tell you stories.

00:28:01.000 I know billionaires who grew up so poor it would make your head spin.

00:28:05.000 I mean, people who grew up, because the American dream is that you will be able to rise over the course of time.

00:28:10.000 So you working two jobs to put a roof over your head right now is not an indicator that you will be working two jobs forever in the United States.

00:28:17.000 Also, it is simply not true, as I said yesterday on the show, and the part that everyone wants to ignore, that tons of people in the United States are desperately working two jobs in order to put a roof over their head.

00:28:27.000 Everybody who is doing that is making a freely-willed decision to do that, and good for them.

00:28:33.000 Good for them.

00:28:34.000 You can't change that by rejiggering the economic status at the top by the Democratic Party.

00:28:41.000 A wealth tax ain't gonna fix that problem.

00:28:43.000 Because that problem is endemic to labor, supply, and demand.

00:28:47.000 You're not gonna make a job that is worth $7.50 an hour worth $25 an hour simply because Elizabeth Warren says so.

00:28:53.000 But it is worth noting that the United States is not suffering from a vast plague of people who must work two jobs in order to get ahead.

00:29:02.000 In fact, AOC made that claim just about a year ago.

00:29:06.000 And that claim was simply false.

00:29:08.000 She said unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs.

00:29:11.000 Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family.

00:29:17.000 This was rated pants on fire by PolitiFact.

00:29:21.000 If PolitiFact ever gives a Democrat pants on fire, you know that it was just completely false.

00:29:26.000 According to PolitiFact, multiple job holders account for a tiny fraction of American workers.

00:29:32.000 Again, what you're hearing from Democrats is that it's everybody, so we have to dramatically rescale the economy.

00:29:37.000 That's not going to work, number one.

00:29:38.000 And number two, it is not everybody.

00:29:40.000 In fact, it is a very, very small percentage of American workers, as held by PolitiFact, a left-wing source.

00:29:47.000 It is also not true that people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week to put food on the table as a general rule.

00:29:53.000 The Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to PolitiFact, breaks down its count of people with multiple jobs into three categories.

00:29:59.000 People working one full-time job and one part-time job, people with two part-time jobs, and people working two full-time jobs.

00:30:05.000 A worker with two full-time jobs is the smallest category of the three.

00:30:11.000 The people who might be working 70 or 80 hours a week amount to a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage.

00:30:15.000 310,000 people at most in a pool of employed Americans totaling 150 million.

00:30:21.000 It's also worth noting that on average, Americans aren't working more today than they have been in the recent past.

00:30:26.000 The average number of hours worked in the private sector has hugged tightly to about 34.5 hours a week since 2006, except for a dip during the Great Recession.

00:30:35.000 So all of this table setting by the Democratic left, that America has no more income mobility, that everybody is working 80 hours and two jobs, it's just not true.

00:30:45.000 It's just not true.

00:30:47.000 We'll get to another myth of the left, which is that we don't spend any money trying to help people who are in poor economic circumstances.

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00:32:00.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the myth that America doesn't spend money on social welfare programs, on helping people out.

00:32:06.000 Obviously, that is untrue.

00:32:08.000 We'll also get to the myth that Democrats are innately more charitable, so that when we say that it's your personal choice how many jobs you want to work, or what kind of lifestyle you want to lead, and that you can find a strategy to better your life and we want to help you out, that we're not just saying that we don't want government involved.

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00:33:33.000 So again, the myth pushed by politicians is that nobody can get a leg up in the American It is not true, statistically speaking.

00:33:49.000 It is also untrue that the United States doesn't spend trying to help people who are suffering economically.

00:33:55.000 It is simply untrue.

00:33:56.000 According to the American Enterprise Institute, the Census Bureau reported in 2016 that about 13% of Americans lived in poverty.

00:34:03.000 That is impossible to reconcile that poverty rate, which has remained virtually unchanged over the last 50 years, with the fact that total inflation-adjusted government transfer payments to low-income families have risen steadily.

00:34:15.000 Transfers targeted to low-income families increased in real dollars from an average of about $3,000 per person in 1965 to $34,000 in 2016.

00:34:26.000 Per person.

00:34:28.000 Per year.

00:34:31.000 Those numbers actually underestimate transfer payments to low-income families because they exclude Medicare and Social Security, which provide large subsidies to low-income retirees.

00:34:40.000 The measured poverty rate has remained virtually unchanged because the Census Bureau doesn't count most of the transfer payments created since the declaration of the War on Poverty, which by the way has been a large-scale fail.

00:34:51.000 Now, as for the notion that is being pushed by folks on the political left, it's a real, nefariously, the real reason that those of us on the right very often suggest that your life is in your own hands.

00:35:01.000 It's not because we want people to help themselves.

00:35:03.000 It's not because we believe that empowerment in America is about recognizing your own value as an independent, free human being.

00:35:09.000 It is not because I've seen too many people fail because they don't believe in themselves, don't believe in their own capacity to make responsible decisions.

00:35:17.000 No, the real reason is because I'm selfish and don't want to pay higher taxes.

00:35:20.000 Let me explain.

00:35:21.000 Republicans give way more in charity than Democrats do.

00:35:25.000 And it's not charity, Democrats, when you are not taking the money out of your own pocket.

00:35:28.000 It doesn't count as charity when you're taking money out of my pocket.

00:35:31.000 That'd be you stealing my money from me.

00:35:33.000 It's charity when I give the charity out of my own pocket.

00:35:36.000 Which, yes, I do.

00:35:38.000 And every other Republican I know does, too.

00:35:41.000 And this is not anecdotal.

00:35:44.000 This is statistical.

00:35:45.000 Paul Sullivan, writing in the New York Times, November 3rd, 2018.

00:35:48.000 Red counties, which are overwhelmingly Republican, tend to report higher charitable contributions than Democratic-dominated blue counties, according to a new study on giving.

00:35:57.000 And then watch how the New York Times tries to backfill this.

00:35:59.000 Although giving in blue counties is often bolstered by a combination of charitable donations and higher taxes.

00:36:05.000 So in other words, they're now going to count you taxing other people as Democratic charity.

00:36:10.000 Well, isn't that nice?

00:36:12.000 I wish that I could count me voting to take your money and give it to a third party as charity.

00:36:16.000 That seems delightful, frankly.

00:36:18.000 It seems like I'd be able to really get around this whole trying to be a good person and give charity out of my own pocket thing simply by taking my business partner's money and giving that to charity.

00:36:26.000 That sounds pretty fantastic.

00:36:28.000 Well, this brings us to the end of this particular very long rant about economics in the United States.

00:36:34.000 Suffice it to say, in summary, Your life is in your hands. 0.99

00:36:38.000 Solve your own damn problems. 1.00

00:36:40.000 Because they are your problems. 1.00

00:36:42.000 And you are the solution to your problems.

00:36:44.000 Not Kamala Harris.

00:36:45.000 Not the government.

00:36:46.000 That's the point.

00:36:47.000 And if you believe differently, you're gonna live a much harder life as a general rule.

00:36:51.000 Because your ability to control all of society to your liking, and in a moral fashion by forcing other people to do your will by bending them to your will, That is un-American.

00:37:01.000 It is un-American to force other people to create the utopian situation for yourself against their will that you wish.

00:37:08.000 It is wrong.

00:37:09.000 It is morally wrong.

00:37:11.000 There are certain things people do that are wrong to each other.

00:37:14.000 Engaging in free and open exchange is not one of those things.

00:37:19.000 If you want to make your life better, do it.

00:37:21.000 Do it.

00:37:22.000 And it's not gonna happen overnight.

00:37:23.000 Doesn't mean that your choices are free right now.

00:37:25.000 I'm not suggesting that you can go from working at McDonald's to being a billionaire overnight. 1.00

00:37:29.000 Nobody has ever suggested that, nor would they, because it's idiotic. 0.88

00:37:32.000 What I am suggesting is that in a free country, where we should all be grateful to live, it is not a sign of elitism. 0.95

00:37:38.000 In fact, it's a sign, I think, of populism to say to folks, do your own will.

00:37:45.000 Make yourself the center of your story and the hero of your story.

00:37:48.000 Okay, meanwhile, let's talk a little bit About the insane media bias that surrounds every major event in the United States, not just taking me out of context and throwing me on Twitter for the boo box, but, you know, the actual insane media bias that pervades the system.

00:38:05.000 So yesterday there was this horrible mass shooting in Philadelphia.

00:38:10.000 And everybody decided in the media to jump to conclusions.

00:38:13.000 So, CNN had on this representative who immediately, before any of the facts were out, we didn't know who the shooter was, we didn't know the situation, immediately started assuming this was about gun control.

00:38:21.000 The representative is named Val Demings, and said, I think we can assume, you know, without any evidence, that this was probably high-powered rifles.

00:38:28.000 I hold out very seriously that if this shooter in Philadelphia was armed simply with a handgun, that this gun battle would be going on well beyond an hour.

00:38:39.000 I think we can assume that he is also heavily armed with high-capacity rifles or weapons and also has high-capacity magazines.

00:38:50.000 We need to get these high-capacity weapons and magazines off of our streets.

00:38:55.000 That's the solution.

00:38:55.000 More gun laws.

00:38:56.000 And CNN totally agrees.

00:38:57.000 Wolf Blitzer used the ongoing shooting to pitch Kamala Harris' gun control program.

00:39:02.000 Again, none of the information was actually out about what happened here.

00:39:05.000 But Kamala Harris openly suggested that her solutions on gun control would have stopped the mass shooting in Philadelphia before she knew what the hell was going on. 1.00

00:39:13.000 We need Congress to act.

00:39:15.000 We do not lack for good ideas.

00:39:17.000 We do not lack for tragedies.

00:39:19.000 The failure of Congress, however, the United States Congress, to act on passing smart gun safety laws is the issue.

00:39:26.000 So, when elected?

00:39:28.000 I'll give the United States Congress 100 days to pull their act together on this and put a bill on my desk for signature.

00:39:33.000 And if they do not, I am prepared to take executive action.

00:39:36.000 To one, put in place a comprehensive background check requirement.

00:39:39.000 Two, put the resources into the ATF to take the licenses from gun dealers who violate the law.

00:39:44.000 And three, to ban the importation of assault weapons.

00:39:46.000 So just to be precise, you want to give Congress 100 days and then take executive action.

00:39:51.000 Some people say, you know what, Congress, given the 60 votes needed in the Senate, not going to do it.

00:39:55.000 Why not take executive action on day one?

00:39:58.000 Well, I believe in giving people a chance, especially when they know what's coming if they don't act.

00:40:02.000 Oh, she would have stopped it. 0.99

00:40:03.000 You know, she would have stopped it. 0.95

00:40:04.000 She didn't even know what was going on.

00:40:05.000 Well, now we know what was going on.

00:40:07.000 Here is what was going on in Philadelphia.

00:40:09.000 Quote from the Philadelphia Inquirer, police sources identified the gunman in a standoff at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36.

00:40:19.000 He's not really a mass shooter, as we will see a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice.

00:40:27.000 Wait, wait, you mean a guy with a bunch of gun convictions for violating gun laws, had guns and used them to shoot police officers?

00:40:35.000 You know what would have solved this?

00:40:36.000 More gun laws. 0.55

00:40:37.000 Obviously.

00:40:38.000 If somebody just keeps shoplifting over and over and over, what we need is a new shoplifting law, not better enforcement.

00:40:44.000 Not more guards.

00:40:45.000 What we actually need is more shoplifting laws because if a serial lawbreaker realizes that we've stacked up one additional law, then probably they'll stop.

00:40:53.000 Probably this guy would have stopped.

00:40:54.000 If you just note, like if we had an assault weapons ban, probably this guy never would have violated another gun law despite the fact that he'd violated six of them.

00:41:02.000 The police sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak.

00:41:06.000 The standoff began Wednesday about 4 30 p.m.

00:41:09.000 when a narcotics strike force unit attempted to serve a search warrant at a house.

00:41:13.000 So, great.

00:41:14.000 It turns out that what this really was, was it was a drug arrest gone bad, and that the person who was responsible for the shooting was in fact a serial offender.

00:41:24.000 But we are going to get talk about gun control nonetheless.

00:41:26.000 In fact, the mayor of Philadelphia came out and suggested gun control as a solution, despite the fact that, again, there's plenty of gun control, this guy's a serial gun offender, he doesn't care about violating the law.

00:41:39.000 But our officers need help.

00:41:41.000 They need help.

00:41:42.000 They need help with gun control.

00:41:43.000 They need help with keeping these weapons out of these people's hands.

00:41:46.000 I mean, I told you earlier, the two little boys that were, the officer had his head grazed just a little bit more, and those two little boys will grow up without their dad.

00:41:55.000 Because this government, both on the federal and state level, don't want to do anything about getting these guns off the streets and getting them out of the hands of criminals.

00:42:03.000 Okay, so yeah, more gun laws.

00:42:05.000 That'll probably solve it.

00:42:06.000 It can't be the fact that the elected district attorney in Philadelphia, a guy named Larry Krasner, he's made it his entire mission to release prisoners from jail.

00:42:14.000 And all the talk about criminal justice reform, people tend to forget that when you release criminals from jail, many of them go back to being criminals.

00:42:20.000 Philadelphia Magazine had a piece on this going back just about a week and a half ago, or a couple of weeks ago.

00:42:27.000 Well, a couple months ago, rather.

00:42:28.000 It was June 27, 2019.

00:42:30.000 It was an interesting social experiment.

00:42:32.000 What happens in a major metropolitan city like Philadelphia when you elect a district attorney whose primary goal is releasing criminals rather than prosecuting them?

00:42:40.000 The results, however, were all too predictable.

00:42:42.000 Gun-related violent crime is rising in Philadelphia.

00:42:45.000 The police force is demoralized.

00:42:46.000 Victims of crimes, their families, advocacy groups feel betrayed.

00:42:50.000 This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.

00:42:53.000 When he was running for district attorney, Krasner, Larry Krasner, supported by a PAC funded by George Soros, made his commitment to social reform and reducing the inmate population quite clear.

00:43:02.000 He promised to fundamentally transform the city's criminal justice system.

00:43:06.000 No one can accuse Krasner of not following through.

00:43:08.000 He's funneling an increased number of gun cases to a court diversionary program called Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition.

00:43:15.000 In 2018, Krasner's first year as DA, 78 cases were sent to this program compared with 12 the previous year.

00:43:22.000 Why does this matter?

00:43:23.000 Because criminals who carry guns usually intend to use them.

00:43:26.000 Why?

00:43:26.000 Look at that.

00:43:27.000 It turns out that soft-on-crime policies tend to have soft-on-crime effects.

00:43:30.000 Who would have thought that?

00:43:31.000 But, very important, the media got Kamala Harris out there spouting her gun control nonsense. 1.00

00:43:35.000 For those who don't believe, by the way...

00:43:37.000 But the media are biased.

00:43:38.000 I present to you PolitiFact. 0.96

00:43:39.000 Okay, so I quoted PolitiFact earlier to demonstrate that even left-wing sources recognize the stupidity of suggesting that everybody in America is working two jobs. 0.90

00:43:47.000 But, PolitiFact is in fact a terrible source on the left wing. 0.96

00:43:51.000 Listen to this headline.

00:43:52.000 Listen to this headline.

00:43:53.000 Okay, the headline is this.

00:43:55.000 New.

00:43:56.000 Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren called Michael Brown's killing in Ferguson a murder.

00:44:00.000 Legally, it wasn't.

00:44:02.000 How much should this word choice matter?

00:44:04.000 Oh, so you're not a fact-checking site.

00:44:06.000 You're a site that actually actively undermines fact-checks.

00:44:10.000 That's what politifact means.

00:44:12.000 Well done, media.

00:44:13.000 You know, they're just excellent.

00:44:14.000 It is amazing to me, by the way, that Kamala Harris still has not been asked publicly about the Michael Brown tweet, right?

00:44:20.000 She suggested that Michael Brown had been murdered.

00:44:22.000 And as I pointed out, this has rather dire ramifications for a lot of people in the United States who then have a perverse view of how policing works.

00:44:29.000 But nobody has asked her that. 0.98

00:44:31.000 Fortunately, somebody did ask her about Steve King's latest dumbass comments. 0.99

00:44:34.000 So Steve King, the congressman from Iowa who says something ridiculous every five minutes. 0.99

00:44:38.000 I've maxed out to his opponent, Kevin Feenstra. 0.60

00:44:40.000 You should too.

00:44:41.000 In the fourth congressional district in Iowa.

00:44:45.000 It didn't stop Twitter from trying to link me with King yesterday.

00:44:48.000 In any case. 0.99

00:44:50.000 Steve King said something very dumb yesterday about rape and incest. 0.99

00:44:52.000 He was trying to make the case that there should not be abortion available in cases of rape and incest, a case with which I agree, and then he made it in the dumbest possible way. 0.98

00:45:00.000 Here's what King had to say.

00:45:01.000 We know the reasons why we don't accept exceptions, for the most of us, for rape and incest, because it's not the baby's fault.

00:45:09.000 But there's another thing.

00:45:10.000 I started to wonder about this.

00:45:11.000 What if it was okay, and what if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest Will there be any population of the world left if we did that?

00:45:23.000 Considering all the wars and all the rape and village that's taken place and whatever happened in culture after society, I know I can't certify that they're not part of a product of that.

00:45:32.000 And I'd like to think every one of the lives of us are as precious. 0.97

00:45:35.000 This is what we call a very dumb comments. 0.99

00:45:37.000 So here is Steve King suggesting that we are all products of rape and incest, which seems to be sort of excusing both rape and incest as crimes, which of course is the stupidest thing ever. 0.99

00:45:47.000 So Kamala Harris naturally gets asked by Wolf Blitzer about that, but he didn't ask her a single question about Michael Brown. 0.98

00:45:51.000 This allows her to talk about how crazy Steve King is, which Is obviously sport for most people at this point.

00:45:58.000 But again, Kamala Harris gets asked about that. 0.99

00:46:00.000 But then she's got PolitiFact saying that it doesn't matter that she openly lied that Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson in a murder.

00:46:07.000 It's unbelievable.

00:46:08.000 We have to play the Wolf Blitzer clip.

00:46:10.000 It's just it's just unbelievable. 0.89

00:46:11.000 The hypocrisy.

00:46:13.000 OK, meanwhile, in other news.

00:46:15.000 There's a big hubbub that is brewing today because Israel has now denied entry to Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

00:46:22.000 Omar and Tlaib are both backers of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

00:46:26.000 They're both anti-Semites. 0.55

00:46:28.000 The BDS movement is a movement to destroy the State of Israel.

00:46:30.000 Its founders acknowledge as much.

00:46:32.000 So, a few things on this.

00:46:34.000 We have to separate out the legitimacy of Israel banning Omar and Tlaib entering as a legal and intellectual matter from the PR effect of it.

00:46:43.000 So, as a legal and intellectual matter, Israel allows critics in all the time.

00:46:47.000 In fact, there are many critics who are in Israel.

00:46:48.000 Israel has Arab parties in the Knesset.

00:46:50.000 Many of those Arab parties have in the past openly called for the destruction of the State of Israel.

00:46:55.000 So, it's not that Israel can't take dissent.

00:46:56.000 Israel takes an enormous amount of dissent.

00:46:59.000 All the time.

00:47:00.000 The question is, do you have to let somebody into your borders who has essentially claimed that you should not exist?

00:47:06.000 And as an intellectual matter, the answer is, of course, no.

00:47:08.000 The United States has no obligation to bring somebody in from abroad who is making the case that the United States ought to be destroyed as a sovereign entity.

00:47:18.000 The United States has every ability to ban people like that.

00:47:21.000 And in fact, Britain does this on a fairly regular basis, except they more broadly apply it to everybody they don't like.

00:47:27.000 It actually is more of a free speech in Britain than it would be here.

00:47:30.000 So as just an intellectual matter, barring people who claim they want to boycott Israel from entering Israel, doesn't seem like that big a deal as an intellectual matter.

00:47:39.000 And it's not a violation of free speech.

00:47:40.000 They are not citizens of the country. 0.75

00:47:42.000 They're calling for the destruction of the country.

00:47:46.000 It is pretty obvious that free speech does not encompass inclusion of people calling for the destruction of the entire system.

00:47:53.000 That is true under virtually any definition of even American free speech.

00:47:56.000 If you go out there and you're calling for the violent overthrow of the American government, you could be prosecuted for that.

00:48:03.000 That is long-standing American Supreme Court law.

00:48:06.000 In any case, is it really a big deal that Tlaib and Omar won't be able to enter?

00:48:12.000 Well, not really on an intellectual level.

00:48:14.000 And President Trump, of course, is happy.

00:48:16.000 He encouraged Israel to bar Omar and Tlaib.

00:48:20.000 It appeared before that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, was going to allow them, they were going to do their little propaganda trip around the Judea-Samaria area and the Gaza Strip, blame Israel for everything. 0.54

00:48:30.000 They'd go home, they'd fuss about it, that would be the end of it.

00:48:33.000 This is and then Trump apparently sounded off and said he didn't want them coming.

00:48:37.000 Maybe that is because Trump again wants to use them as the face of the Democratic Party.

00:48:43.000 Maybe he wants Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats to swing behind Omar and Tlaib and against Israel.

00:48:48.000 Maybe he wants to polarize them more.

00:48:50.000 Which brings us to the second point.

00:48:51.000 Is this a smart move by Israel? 1.00

00:48:52.000 No, it's a very not smart move by Israel. 0.99

00:48:54.000 It's a very not smart move by Israel. 1.00

00:48:55.000 This is going to result in what we call the Streisand effect. 0.75

00:48:58.000 So, if Omar and Tlaib had just gone to Israel, and then they had done their little propaganda tour about how Israel is evil and shouldn't exist, then their ten fans would cheer, and everybody else would sigh and roll their eyes.

00:49:08.000 Now, they've elevated that beyond this.

00:49:11.000 This is actually giving Omar and Tlaib what they want, in terms of PR, so they can falsely claim that Israel doesn't tolerate dissent.

00:49:18.000 That, of course, is a lie, but it does give them what they want.

00:49:21.000 They will go around claiming this.

00:49:23.000 The Streisand effect, of course, is where you bring attention to an issue you desperately don't want to bring attention to, and this is Israel making a pretty large mistake. 0.82

00:49:32.000 Again, on an intellectual and moral level, they have no duty to bring in Omar and Tlaib.

00:49:38.000 On a PR level, it's a big mistake.

00:49:40.000 Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Hoteveli said that the country would not, quote, allow those who deny our right to exist in this world to enter.

00:49:48.000 Hotevelli called it a very justified decision.

00:49:50.000 It's unclear when Israeli officials made that final decision.

00:49:53.000 Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, said, I think it would be helpful for anyone that has an opinion to come to the country, Most people believe, again, that it's that it's unhelpful for Israel to bar the sitting Congress people.

00:50:07.000 But Trump was encouraging it.

00:50:09.000 He tweeted out it would show great weakness if Israel allowed Representative Omar and Representative Tlaib to visit.

00:50:14.000 They hate Israel and all Jewish people. 1.00

00:50:15.000 There is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. 1.00

00:50:18.000 They are a disgrace. 0.91

00:50:19.000 I agree with pretty much all of that, except the part that it's weakness for Israel to allow them to visit. 0.96

00:50:23.000 Again, it's a PR blunder for them to give Omar and Tlaib what they want, which is to make the state of Israel look intolerant when they really are not.

00:50:31.000 Democratic lawmakers, of course, jumped right on board.

00:50:33.000 Jim Clymer tweeted, "This action is antithetical to our country's shared democratic values that are the basis for a strong bipartisan alliance." Yes, I'm sure.

00:50:41.000 Okay, I'm sure that if a sitting member of the Israeli Knesset called for the violent destruction of the United States, called for the destruction of the United States as a sovereign entity, I'm sure Jim Clyburn would be up in arms if they couldn't visit. 0.99

00:50:55.000 J Street, of course, sounded off, but who cares what they have to say because they're damned liars anyway. 0.98

00:50:59.000 Again, bad PR move, but not morally unjustified. 0.98

00:51:04.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then we'll get to a thing that I hate.

00:51:07.000 So, thing that I like today.

00:51:10.000 Every so often, Trevor Noah actually is funny.

00:51:12.000 He's on Comedy Central.

00:51:13.000 He was talking about Chris Cuomo and Fredo Gabe.

00:51:16.000 And Trevor Noah, who is black, pointed out to Chris Cuomo that no, calling somebody Fredo is not the same thing as calling them the N-word.

00:51:24.000 Chris Cuomo doesn't mess around.

00:51:26.000 Now I see why CNN makes people fight in separate boxes.

00:51:29.000 That's just workplace safety. 0.98

00:51:31.000 Yeah, Cuomo's like, if I wasn't in this box, I'd smash your face! 0.96

00:51:36.000 And look, Cuomo was clearly pissed off, because he feels like when this guy called him Fredo, it's a negative Italian stereotype, all right? 0.89

00:51:44.000 What's funny to me, though, was that his reaction that he chose also seemed like a negative Italian stereotype.

00:51:51.000 He's like, what you say? 1.00

00:51:52.000 I'll wreck your shit and throw you down these f***ing stairs, big man! 1.00

00:51:55.000 You wanna talk to me? 1.00

00:51:56.000 You wanna talk to me?!

00:51:59.000 Fair.

00:52:00.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:52:05.000 So everything about this Jeffrey Epstein death seems to be almost tailor-made for conspiracy theorizing.

00:52:12.000 So we now have reports that there was corruption inside the jail, that both of the guards were asleep at the time of his suicide and then falsified their logs, and now we have a story on the autopsy.

00:52:25.000 Excuse me.

00:52:26.000 This is reported by LMT Online.

00:52:29.000 An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.

00:52:39.000 Among the bones broken in Epstein's neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam's apple.

00:52:44.000 Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensic experts and studies on the subject.

00:52:50.000 But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.

00:52:55.000 I know.

00:52:57.000 So, more questions about Epstein's death.

00:53:00.000 There's a story that was very vaguely worded about hearing shrieking down the hall.

00:53:03.000 In the middle of this, it was unclear who was doing the shrieking.

00:53:05.000 Was it guards?

00:53:06.000 Was it fellow inmates?

00:53:07.000 Was it Epstein himself while he was hanging himself?

00:53:09.000 Again, I am not a believer in conspiracy theories.

00:53:13.000 This is a very weird fact pattern.

00:53:17.000 The medical examiner, the chief medical examiner in New York, has still listed the cause of his death as pending, and they didn't comment on the injuries found in the autopsy.

00:53:24.000 A lot of people are speculating about this.

00:53:27.000 I am not going to speculate about what happened here.

00:53:30.000 But, again, this is like tailor-made for conspiracy theories at this point.

00:53:35.000 Also, things that I hate.

00:53:36.000 This painting.

00:53:37.000 So apparently, in Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion, there is a painting of Bill Clinton In a blue dress, which I can only assume is meant to mimic Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, pointing at the, what would be the camera if it were a picture, pointing at the observer in red shoes lying seductively across a lounge chair, basically.

00:54:00.000 Confused.

00:54:01.000 Confused.

00:54:03.000 Not sure what this was supposed to be.

00:54:05.000 But how is this guy?

00:54:06.000 Just a question.

00:54:07.000 How?

00:54:08.000 How?

00:54:09.000 I mean, for decades, everybody knew exactly what this guy was.

00:54:11.000 How?

00:54:12.000 And the only answer is that he was probably rich and powerful.

00:54:14.000 I mean, that's the only answer I can come up with, because apparently he was given all sorts of special privileges by the New York authorities.

00:54:22.000 The federal authorities kind of sweetheart deal with him, even though there's controversy over how sweetheart it was.

00:54:29.000 This is some weird bleep, man.

00:54:31.000 And it also sort of suggests that Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton were closer than was commonly speculated.

00:54:37.000 There will be more shoes to drop here.

00:54:38.000 I hope all the shoes drop.

00:54:39.000 All the information should get out there as soon as possible.

00:54:42.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

00:54:45.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 15, 2019

Solve Your Own Problems. The Government Won't. | Ep. 840

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