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00:00:11.000I've rarely seen a moment as outrageous as this moment in American politics.
00:00:19.000And I don't mean outrageous as in hilarious or outstanding.
00:00:22.000I mean outrageous as in we should all be outraged if you have a shred of morality left in your body looking at how the Democrats are acting, looking at how the media are acting.
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00:01:37.000So we begin today with this ridiculous, stupid, foolhardy, obviously obfuscatory resolution from the House Democrats that was set to condemn, I kid you not, Racism and bigotry against, and this is a direct quote, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and others with verbal attacks, incitement and violence.
00:02:08.000So Jews come in, I believe, seventh on that list of peoples who are protected under this resolution.
00:02:14.000And the resolution specifically calls out the effect of white supremacy, white supremacist antisemitism, among other things that are targeted by white supremacists, other groups targeted by white supremacists.
00:02:25.000Let's remember, this resolution that was sponsored in the House yesterday and passed overwhelmingly, was a direct response to Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who is an open anti-Semite, who has apologized some three times in the last six weeks or quasi-apologized or not apologized for three separate openly anti-Semitic statements.
00:02:43.000One, she suggested that Israel, the Jews, had hypnotized the world with their Jew powers.
00:02:48.000Second, that Jewish money lay behind American support for Israel.
00:02:52.000And third, that American supporters of Israel were in fact loyal to Israel itself.
00:02:57.000And so those are all three anti-Semitic statements.
00:03:00.000Not one of them has to do with Israeli policy.
00:03:32.000The only thing that is new here is that Democrats are openly pandering on behalf of Ilhan Omar.
00:03:37.000They decided that it was more important to greenlight anti-Semitism from members of their intersectional base ...than it was for them to condemn antisemitism.
00:04:10.000Because they say openly, we're not voting for this thing because it's an open and obvious attempt to obfuscate the actual issue here, which is the anti-Semitism of a member of the House who is not even being removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:04:23.000And so how do the media react to that?
00:04:25.000They say, oh, look, Republicans are pro-antisemitism.
00:04:29.000So let's begin with the various players talking about this idiotic resolution, which is designed to, again, cover for Ilhan Omar's antisemitism.
00:04:38.000That is the only reason that this resolution came to the floor.
00:04:42.000And it's the only reason it is this broad, condemning all the things.
00:04:45.000So here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday talking about the resolution right before its passage.
00:04:50.000I don't think that the congresswoman is perhaps appreciate the full date of how it's heard by other people, although I don't believe it was intended in any antisemitic way.
00:05:06.000We're working on something that is one resolution addressing these forms of hatred, not mentioning her name, because it's not about her.
00:05:25.000The only reason we're having this discussion is because she keeps saying anti-Semitic stuff because she knows what she is saying and she doesn't care because she's an anti-Semite.
00:05:33.000But Pelosi openly acknowledges that this resolution is designed to avoid talking about all of this.
00:05:39.000Representative Ted Deutch, maybe the only honest Democrat left in the Democratic caucus, he gets up on the floor of the House and he talks about how the resolution really should only address anti-Semitism, but his fellow Democrats are too gutless to do that.
00:05:54.000The use of anti-semitic language and images can never be tolerated.
00:05:59.000What's been so difficult for so many people in my community is that people who are fearful when anti-semitic tropes are used are being told that they're wrong.
00:06:08.000When a colleague invokes classic anti-semitic lies three times, then this body must condemn that anti-semitism.
00:06:17.000Anti-Semitism is worthy of being taken seriously on its own.
00:06:21.000It's worthy of being singularly called out.
00:06:26.000For generations, they have had dangerous consequences for me, for my family, And for my people, this shouldn't be so hard.
00:06:41.000Okay, that of course is exactly right.
00:06:42.000That's Representative Ted Deutch, a Democrat from Florida, who is saying exactly the right thing.
00:06:46.000Now, Deutch and his colleagues have been attacked by people like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for having the audacity to say the truth about Ilhan Omar.
00:07:35.000But he is convenient to use because, of course, he is ethnically Jewish, so that allows people to use him as cover.
00:07:42.000In any case, Representative Lee Zeldin, who actually is Jewish, he is the Republican member of the House who is Jewish, he said, I'm not going to vote for this garbage resolution because this garbage resolution is specifically designed to cover up for Ilhan Omar being an anti-Semite.
00:07:56.000We are here today right now because of anti-semitic rhetoric from one member of this chamber said again and again and again.
00:08:04.000If that member was a Republican that member's name would be in this resolution and this resolution would be all about condemning anti-semitism and it would be done so forcefully.
00:08:14.000I apparently am giving Rep Omar more credit than the speaker is because I don't believe she is naive.
00:08:22.000I believe that she knows exactly what she's doing.
00:08:24.000Antisemitism must be condemned unequivocally and emphatically.
00:08:28.000Support of Israel, support of Jews, standing against antisemitism has been bipartisan in the past, it should be bipartisan today, and it should be bipartisan for every moment in the future.
00:08:39.000Okay, everything that he says is right.
00:08:41.000And of course, Representative Zeldin is Jewish.
00:08:44.000And not only Jewish, he is pro-Israel, he has deep connections with the Jewish community.
00:08:48.000So he votes against this resolution, as do 22 other Republicans.
00:08:52.000And those same 23 Republicans who voted against that resolution voted in favor of a resolution back in January to condemn white supremacism.
00:08:59.000So this is not about them suddenly siding with white supremacy.
00:09:05.000The reason that Republicans didn't vote, a few Republicans didn't vote for the resolution yesterday, is because they didn't want to grant cover to Ilhan Omar.
00:09:17.000The way the media played it, they said that the Republicans didn't vote for this resolution covering for anti-Semitism because the Republicans are the real anti-Semites.
00:09:25.000So notice the insane gaslighting here.
00:09:28.000A Democratic representative, a fresh face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, so fresh, so face, with AOC, with Nancy Pelosi.
00:09:37.000That fresh face is a blatant, brutal anti-Semite, a Jew hater.
00:09:43.000The House Democrats won't condemn her.
00:09:45.000And then they brought in a basic resolution condemning anti-Semitism into a wishy-washy resolution condemning everything except for, apparently, radical Muslim anti-Semitism.
00:09:57.000The only thing that they will condemn is everything else.
00:10:00.000Everything else will be condemned, but they will exempt Ilhan Omar.
00:10:02.000And then some Republicans say, listen, I'm not going to vote for that ridiculous resolution you're putting forward that is specifically designed to cover for anti-Semites.
00:10:48.000When you pass a stupid resolution designed to cover for anti-Semites by watering it down until it is anodyne, when people vote against that, they're not voting in favor of anti-Semitism.
00:10:57.000They're voting against watering down Resolutions against anti-Semitism in order to cover for Democrats.
00:11:04.000But not for Michael Barbaro of the New York Times.
00:11:06.000Oh look, now who's the anti-Semite Republicans?
00:11:52.000Representative Liz Cheney herself put out a statement explaining why she voted like this, quote, Today's resolution vote was a sham put forward by Democrats to avoid condemning one of their own and denouncing vile anti-Semitism.
00:12:04.000While I stand wholeheartedly against discrimination outlined in this resolution, the language before the House today did not address the issue that is front and center.
00:12:11.000Representative Omar's comments were wrong, and she has proven multiple times she embodies a vile, hate-filled, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bigotry.
00:12:18.000She deserves to be rebuked by name and removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee so there is no mistake about the values and priorities that the House stands for.
00:12:26.000For Democratic leadership to kowtow to their radical members and refuse to offer legislative language that criticizes Representative Omar's statements in the strongest possible manner confirms what we already knew, that their party is controlled by far-left extremists who can't even muster the courage to stand up to blatant anti-Semitism.
00:12:44.000That's why Liz Cheney voted against the resolution.
00:12:46.000But the media say, oh no, she did it because, really secretly, she's the anti-Semite.
00:12:50.000See, if you don't go along with the cover up, that means that you're the real anti-Semite.
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00:14:48.000AOC provided active cover for an open anti-Semite, and now she's saying the people who didn't help her provide that cover are the real anti-Semites.
00:15:10.000You, who have campaigned with Linda Sarsour.
00:15:12.000We're supposed to pretend that you are standing up to anti-Semitism?
00:15:15.000And the people who stood up to you are the real anti-Semites?
00:15:19.000This is sheer, absolute, unmitigated garbage, and the media have been repeating it at every turn because the media are stenographers for Democrats.
00:16:28.000say we are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti-semitism racism and white supremacy and a time when extremism is on the rise we must explicitly denounce religious intolerance of all kinds and acknowledge the pain felt by all communities our nation is having a difficult conversation and we believe this is great progress so this is the code now difficult conversation is i say something blatantly anti-semitic and then we cover for me That's what that's that.
00:17:25.000The idea that this is politicized, I'm really not, I was very nervous to talk about this on the show because I thought it would become politicized and it really shouldn't be.
00:17:33.000On both sides it should be called out.
00:17:35.000And just because I don't technically have Jewish family that are blood related to me, it doesn't mean I don't take this as seriously and it is very dangerous.
00:17:45.000And I think we all collectively as Americans on both sides and what Ilhan Omar is saying is very scary to me and it's very scary to a lot of people and I don't think you have to be Jewish to recognize that.
00:17:59.000What's so offensive about what she said?
00:18:00.000She said Ilhan Omar's comments are anti-Semitic and anti-Semitism is bad.
00:18:03.000So Mehdi Hassan, he is a columnist for Al Jazeera.
00:18:07.000He's a columnist for The Intercept, which is a wild, radical left publication that is supremely anti-Israel and is quite friendly with anti-Semitism.
00:18:17.000He tweeted out, quote, Megan's late father literally sang bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and insisted on referring to his Vietnamese captors as gooks.
00:18:25.000He also, lest we forget, gave the world Sarah Palin.
00:18:27.000So a little less faux outrage over a former refugee turned freshman representative, please.
00:18:33.000So, this Al Jazeera host's response is not that Ilhan Omar isn't anti-Semitic, it's that Meghan McCain's dad is a bad guy, so Meghan McCain should shut up about anti-Semitism.
00:19:48.000And then she has on the table in front of her a copy of Yentl.
00:19:53.000And a book called Jewish Race Explained.
00:19:55.000And it says, the things she said about the Holy Land.
00:19:57.000That refugee girl wants to exterminate us Jews.
00:20:01.000I mean this is straight up, it is straight up Jew hatred.
00:20:07.000And the attempt to suggest that Meghan McCain doesn't know what she's talking about because she's not Jewish and therefore she shouldn't care about anti-semitism?
00:20:14.000Like, the radical left is fine with anti-semitism.
00:20:16.000They're not just fine with it, they are enthusiastic about anti-semitism.
00:20:20.000They are supremely enthusiastic about anti-semitism, in fact.
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00:23:23.000By the way, and the media, again, are playing stenographer for the Democrats.
00:23:27.000To this point, David Duke came out yesterday and he said that Ilhan Omar is deeply important.
00:23:32.000He tweeted out a photo of Ilhan Omar, a Somali woman of Muslim descent, with a love emoji Saying, by defiance to the Zionist-occupied government, Ilhan Omar is now the most important member of the U.S.
00:24:26.000Now, what exactly is going to be the outcome of all of this?
00:24:29.000Well, it's pretty obvious that the Democratic Party has been taken over by the radicals.
00:24:34.000And as I've been saying for the past several days, the Democratic Party may not be fully anti-Semitic, but they are happy to embrace anti-Semitism if it means that they get to make common cause with the radical socialist base.
00:24:51.000So President Trump comes out today and he is talking about this resolution and he says that he thought it was disgraceful and then he characterizes the Democratic Party.
00:24:58.000I thought yesterday's vote by the House was disgraceful.
00:25:04.000Because it's become, the Democrats have become an anti-Israel party.
00:25:41.000They became anti-Israel under the auspices of Barack Obama, who was a radically anti-Israel president, a man who helped lie to the American people, helped lie, promulgated a massive lie to the American people in order to push forward an Iran deal that endangers the state of Israel.
00:25:54.000A man who allowed anti-Israel resolutions to go forward at the UN Security Council.
00:25:58.000A man who attempted to block Defense Department aid to Israel in the middle of the Gaza War in 2014.
00:26:03.000Barack Obama was radically anti-Israel.
00:26:05.000His administration was radically anti-Israel.
00:26:09.000There's just... There's no other way to put that.
00:26:11.000And as far as them being an anti-Jewish party, they just proved it yesterday.
00:26:15.000I mean, they proved it on the floor of the House.
00:26:17.000So everybody's gonna say, oh, well, Trump and Charlottesville and David Duke and all this.
00:26:23.000Say that President Trump said some really bad stuff a couple of years ago that he made common cause with anti-Semites, or at least was silent toward them, or winked and nodded at them in 2015, 2016, and into 2017.
00:26:41.000In the Republican Party, it is up near 80%.
00:26:45.000And when it comes to the anti-Jewish nature of the parties, there is no question which party has full-scale embraced an anti-Jewish perspective.
00:28:02.000She said, I am certainly not looking to be comfortable.
00:28:04.000I don't want everyone necessarily to feel comfortable around me.
00:28:07.000I think really the most exciting things happen when people are extremely uncomfortable.
00:28:11.000Yes, making the Jews uncomfortable every day, Ilhan Omar.
00:28:13.000And then you have Anna Palmer, a reporter for Politico, saying, I've heard this from more than one freshman Democrat when asked about Omar's comments.
00:28:20.000They use the word uncomfortable often.
00:28:22.000Need for those types of conversations.
00:28:25.000So Democrats are now saying, anti-Semitism, let's have a conversation.
00:28:31.000And then Politico has another story out today about how Bernie Sanders raced to support Ilhan Omar, knowing that a lot of people on the left would be very happy with an ethnic Jews defending Ilhan Omar.
00:28:43.000Matt Continetti, the editor of the Washington Free Beacon, has a really good piece out today.
00:28:48.000He says, if anti-Semitism is the price of a socialist America, so be it.
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00:30:27.000So what are the consequences for Nancy Pelosi having handed over control of her party to AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and the anti-Semites and enablers who are the fresh faces of the Democratic Congress?
00:30:49.000They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.
00:30:58.000The vast Somali community in the Twin Cities is like one sprawling extended family, explains Ali Aden, a 39-year-old engineer who came to the U.S.
00:31:06.000two decades ago as we survey the scene.
00:31:08.000When a prominent member of the family arrives, it's customary to greet them this way.
00:31:11.000Is it Congresswoman Omar they're waiting for, I ask, referencing the freshman Democrat whose district we're standing in?
00:31:38.000After Congress changed its 181-year-old rule prohibiting headwear to accommodate her, she became the first person to wear a hijab on the House floor.
00:31:45.000But it wasn't her wardrobe, or her religion, or her gripping biography as Congresswoman who came of age in a refugee camp that distinguished Omar in her early days on Capitol Hill.
00:31:53.000Rather, it was her usage of social media and the uproar that ensued.
00:31:58.000And then talks about her anti-semitic comments.
00:32:01.000And then she talks about what exactly her perspective is.
00:32:08.000And her perspective is that they need to make Jews uncomfortable and they also need to move in an incredibly socialist direction.
00:32:15.000Omar says, I'm certainly not looking to be comfortable.
00:32:17.000I don't want to make everyone necessarily feel comfortable around me.
00:32:20.000I think the most exciting things happen when people are extremely uncomfortable.
00:32:25.000And then she says, this is the best part of it, she starts ripping on Barack Obama.
00:32:30.000She says that Barack Obama was a problem.
00:32:31.000She says the hope and change offered by Barack Obama was a mirage.
00:32:35.000Recalling the caging of kids at the US-Mexico border and the droning of countries around the world on Obama's watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
00:32:48.000His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies.
00:32:52.000They just were more polished than he was, Omar says.
00:32:55.000And that's not what we should be looking for anymore.
00:32:56.000We don't want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished.
00:32:59.000We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.
00:33:05.000So she is ripping on Barack Obama and she wants a socialist takeover of the Democratic Congress.
00:33:11.000She says, I don't believe that tiptoeing is the way to win the hearts and minds of the people.
00:33:15.000I get saddened by some of my freshman colleagues who can't understand that within their districts, the idea of Medicare for All is extremely popular.
00:33:21.000The Green New Deal is a very popular idea in their districts.
00:33:23.000Making sure that we have a final fix to our broken immigration system is very popular in their districts.
00:33:28.000What they pay attention to is the rhetoric that says, this is a red to blue district.
00:33:33.000Well, in reality, these people are like everyone else.
00:33:36.000They struggle with the cost of health care.
00:33:37.000They struggle with our broken infrastructure.
00:33:39.000They struggle with having an economy that brings them into the 21st century.
00:33:42.000And we have to be willing to have those conversations.
00:33:46.000Facing another round of denunciations, Omar refused to back down.
00:33:49.000This is all Politico kissing her rear.
00:33:51.000What ensued was a week of unmitigated chaos within House Democratic ranks.
00:33:55.000Senior Democrats pushed for a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
00:33:58.000Younger Democrats rallied behind Omar and objected to her being singled out.
00:34:02.000And the party's leadership, desperate to defuse the situation, finally settled on a catch-all version of the resolution condemning all forms of hate speech, including against Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.
00:34:11.000It was a clear-cut victory for Omar and her allies on the left.
00:34:15.000In a preview of her defiance, just hours before the videotaped comments thrust the congresswoman back into the national limelight, Omar told me that Washington should get used to her troublemaking.
00:34:24.000As much as other people are uncomfortable, I'm excited about the change in tone that has taken place.
00:34:28.000That is extremely positive, she says, and my ability, I think, to agitate our foreign policy discussions in a way that many of my colleagues who have been anti-intervention, anti-war have been unable to do in the past.
00:34:39.000I'm okay with taking the blows if it means it will ignite conversations that no one was willing to have before.
00:34:43.000Ah, you see, she's just igniting conversations.
00:35:05.000You decided to surrender your party to the intersectional socialist mix.
00:35:10.000And Bernie Sanders decided to surrender his socialism to the intersectional contingent in the hopes that they would support him in the presidential race.
00:35:18.000Bernie Sanders, there is no question, is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination at this point.
00:35:22.000Because he is willing to pander to the intersectional base while being overtly socialist.
00:35:27.000There's a reason that Bernie Sanders came out, he knows better, and decided to openly embrace the anti-semitic members of his own contingent.
00:35:33.000And to pretend that their anti-semitism was just anti-Israel rhetoric.
00:35:38.000Make no mistake, the Democratic left knows exactly what it's doing.
00:35:41.000And now it's gonna get it good and hard.
00:35:43.000They voted for us, they're gonna get it good and hard.
00:35:45.000Because if you think the American people stand with the Democratic Party in their willingness to embrace anti-semitism this way, you got another thing coming.
00:35:53.000If you think the American people are interested in embracing socialism, And radical antisemitism.
00:36:03.000And you may think you can get away with it because Trump is unpopular.
00:36:06.000But here's the important thing to remember.
00:36:09.000President Trump is going to run against someone.
00:36:11.000It's not just going to be a referendum on Trump.
00:36:12.000It's going to be a referendum on how radical Democrats decide to be.
00:36:16.000The American people do not agree with this stuff.
00:36:18.000I still have enough confidence in the American people to believe that they hate antisemitism and that they are appalled by what they saw yesterday from the Democrats.
00:36:26.000And that they are appalled by Ilhan Omar's statements and that they are appalled by the radical socialism that is being pressed forward with the support of an intersectional coalition rooted in a hatred of America's hierarchical system.
00:36:40.000That's the contention of intersectionality.
00:36:42.000America has a hierarchical system and we need a band together to wreck it.
00:36:47.000Most Americans are not willing to be separated into groups this way and then targeted by group if you don't fall inside the intersectional coalition.
00:36:56.000What a sad moment for the country, seriously.
00:36:58.000I'm not somebody who puts a lot of faith in the Democratic Party to do the right thing, as you know.
00:37:02.000But it's a sad moment for the country.
00:37:59.000I want to read books, but whenever I try to read, my mind will linger and I don't comprehend what I am reading and or will get very bored very fast.
00:38:06.000Do you have any advice for getting in the habit of reading and focusing while reading?
00:38:10.000Well, you know, I will tell you that for me, listening to audiobooks sometimes helps me concentrate more.
00:38:16.000I don't know if you may be more of an Or a learner, meaning A-U-R-A-L, like a person who learns via listening.
00:38:23.000If you listen to this podcast, for example, it's basically a firehose of information.
00:38:27.000You may get the same thing from audio listening to books, or if you really want to slow down and comprehend what you are reading, I would suggest a couple of things.
00:38:35.000One is you can read some of the parts out loud.
00:38:37.000Two is something that I've started to do.
00:38:38.000I never used to underline in my books because I don't like defacing books.
00:38:43.000But one of the things I've started to do, also because I can do it on Sabbath, is I get those little tabs that allow you to sort of tab a certain page, a little sticky.
00:38:50.000And I use them when I'm reading, and that helps me focus in because just the mere action of having to focus in on what I want to tab allows me to concentrate a little bit better.
00:38:58.000Daniel says, do you think the increase in radical left-wing activity in the Democratic Party is going to create an increase in radical right-wing activity as a counter-reaction from the Republicans?
00:39:08.000Well, I do think that there is always the fact that people in response to bad coalitions tend to form bad coalitions.
00:39:17.000And I think it's one of the reasons that President Trump went and nodded at the alt-right in 2016, and so many people were willing to go along with that.
00:39:23.000I think it was because he was suggesting that the end of the world was nigh, so you make common cause with the people who are willing to make common cause with you, no matter how vile.
00:39:31.000So that would not be surprising to me.
00:39:33.000In fact, I think that we've already seen that.
00:39:35.000I think the Democrats, because they are polarized by President Trump, have decided they're going to go as far left as they can and embrace the most radical segments of their own base.
00:39:43.000As we segment ourselves off societally, and as we see the other side increasingly as the enemy, this thing turns into a spiral of hatred that's going to get worse, I think.
00:39:59.000Well, I'm in favor of keeping the Electoral College because I do think that states matter.
00:40:04.000The entire bargain of the Electoral College was that the popular vote was not sufficient.
00:40:08.000You don't want the entire presidency simply being decided by people who live in New York City and Los Angeles.
00:40:13.000You'd prefer that people in Montana have a say.
00:40:16.000And I know there are a lot of people who say, well, you know, that's really bad.
00:40:20.000We've seen this call from Democrats now.
00:40:21.000The Senate is a terrible place because it's non-representative.
00:40:24.000The original bargain of the United States is a federalist system, not a full-on Not a full-on democracy, not an American democracy, a federalist system where states and the federal government split authority and the states have a share in deciding how federal authority is allocated.
00:40:40.000That's the argument in favor of the Electoral College.
00:40:43.000Listen, to get me to run for president, I think, would be a heavy lift.
00:40:46.000for president just to get that debate with her.
00:41:02.000Well, I think, first of all, one of the great things about a convention of states is that it reawakens and reinvigorates people's interest in the Constitution.
00:41:07.000"by the federal government, "what could be added to protect the Constitution "from the branches running over it roughshod?" Thanks, Philip.
00:41:13.000Well, I think first of all, one of the great things about a convention of states is that it reawakens and reinvigorates people's interest in the Constitution.
00:41:18.000In the end, the Constitution is a set of parchment barriers.
00:41:21.000If the American people are not willing to stand up, if the American people are not willing to stand up to violations of the Constitution, then they are going to allow the Constitution to be undercut.
00:41:34.000Obviously, as far as amendments, I would like to see, I've said before, I would like to see an amendment that forces all congressional pieces of legislation to be shorter than 10 pages in plain language.
00:41:45.000I would like to see them be on single topics, no more omnibus packages.
00:41:49.000I would like to see the abolition of departments of government from the executive branch because the executive branch simply has too much power.
00:42:07.000I mean, once you go radical, you rarely go back.
00:42:09.000There's rarely a turn back to moderation after you go completely radical.
00:42:13.000Now, if they get shellacked, if they get destroyed, then you might see sort of a Jimmy Carter response to George McGovern from 1972 to 1976.
00:42:19.000The Democrats saying, listen, we've gone too far.
00:42:46.000Basically, every place in my house is covered with books.
00:42:49.000In fact, I've been reading Marie Kondo, and I'm thinking about going and giving away some of the books that I'm not going to reread, and that makes me sad, because I love books so much.
00:43:41.000I think that you've seen this in Europe.
00:43:42.000and honestly, it made me feel emotionally better to be surrounded by great thinkers and be able to essentially converse with them across the centuries.
00:43:50.000David says, "Do you think an increasingly anti-Semitic platform from the Democratic Party may lead to an increase of American Jewish immigration to Israel in the near future?" Well, yeah, I mean, I do.
00:43:59.000I think that you've seen this in Europe.
00:44:00.000I think that what you've seen in Europe is as anti-Semitism has increased, people are leaving.
00:44:04.000France is seeing a year-over-year decrease in the Jewish population because so many families are leaving and moving to Israel.
00:44:10.000If it turns out that America moves in the same direction, why exactly would American Jews stay in danger and not move somewhere else?
00:44:18.000If it turns out they have nowhere else to go.
00:44:21.000So yeah, I do think that you'll see more Jews making Aliyah.
00:44:40.000Well, there's no question that credentialing matters an awful lot to folks because we're not allowed to take IQ tests publicly and we're not allowed to grade people on the basis of those sorts of tests.
00:44:52.000And so what people tend to do is they use degree as a stand-in for intelligence.
00:44:56.000So if someone graduated from Harvard, then we sort of assume they're smarter than somebody who graduated from the local junior college, for example, which sometimes is true and sometimes is not actually.
00:45:06.000And in terms of practical knowledge, very often is not.
00:45:09.000With that said, you know, I believe that going to Harvard is a significant advantage.
00:45:15.000It does create social networks that allow you to take advantage of people that you know.
00:45:20.000There's a great book by What is his name?
00:45:25.000Hillbilly Elegy, where he talks about moving from sort of Appalachia to Yale Law School and how that changed his life.
00:45:30.000There's no question social networks matter.
00:45:33.000And Jesse says, Hey Ben, what are your thoughts on the massive Bryce Harper-Manny Machado contracts?
00:45:37.000I know the White Sox were at least in on Machado during the offseason.
00:45:40.000Well, I mean, my thought is that they got what they felt they could get in the market.
00:45:44.000I wouldn't have signed a contract for that much with these guys, particularly not Machado.
00:45:48.000I mean, at least Bryce Harper has a track record of production, and he doesn't have as much of an attitude problem.
00:45:54.000Machado wouldn't even run out ground balls with the Dodgers.
00:45:56.000So that, to me, is a massive red flag.
00:45:59.000Clinton says, Dear future President Shapiro, As of today, I am now a year-long subscriber partly because I wanted to pose this question to you.
00:46:05.000In light of recent events involving anti-Semitism and fresh faces, can you help clarify as to why there are so many people out there who believe Israel is land stolen from Palestinians?
00:46:12.000Additionally, can you point me to more evidence as to how or why Palestine is linked to terror organizations that push to oppress the Jewish state?
00:46:19.000Admittedly, I don't know much about the conflicts in Israel or their origins, And I think this is true for everyday Americans, thus making it difficult for them to condemn recent anti-Semitism, especially with the media muddying the waters.
00:47:37.000If you want another two-state solution, one that was rejected by the Palestinians in... and all the Arab nations, by the way, in 1948... 748.
00:47:45.000If you want a second one, you're gonna have to have a government that actually wants to negotiate and create a peaceful situation.
00:47:51.000Instead, Palestinians have decided that the only solution is the complete wholesale destruction of the state of Israel.
00:47:56.000That is part of the Palestinian Authority mandate.
00:48:46.000Time, and if you want a good resource on this, there's a really good book by Eli Bard called Myths and Facts that in very simple fashion goes through a lot of the frequently asked questions about the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
00:48:55.000Alright, time for some things that I like.
00:48:58.000So, things I like today, there's a great new book out by Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner and the American Enterprise Institute.
00:49:05.000Why some places thrive while others collapse.
00:49:07.000And in it, Timothy Carney talks about why certain areas in the United States seem to be doing well while others seem to be doing very poorly.
00:49:13.000And he points out that the areas in the United States that have the least social cohesion tend to be the ones that voted heavily for President Trump in, for example, the Republican primaries.
00:49:22.000The people who feel dispossessed, people who feel that America is not what it used to be, that those people voted for President Trump because President Trump was resonating to their message and they were resonating to his.
00:49:34.000So what exactly is going on in these areas?
00:49:35.000Timothy Carney goes through it factor by factor.
00:49:37.000He talks about the economic effects of trade in certain areas, as opposed to overall.
00:49:42.000He talks about the economic effects of robotization, of massive industries.
00:49:48.000But mostly what he talks about is the fact that all of the units of social cohesion that used to exist, family, church, Social institutions have collapsed in a lot of areas of the country, and that if you actually want to revitalize those areas of the country, it doesn't actually start at the factory per se.
00:50:02.000It's not a matter of economics alone, certainly.
00:50:05.000It is more a matter of rebuilding these social institutions and rebuilding the social fabric.
00:50:09.000It's a terrific book, Alienated America.
00:50:10.000You should go out and purchase it right now.
00:50:12.000It actually echoes a lot of the same themes that I hit in my new book that is coming out in just about a week and a half here, The Right Side of History.
00:50:20.000You should go check out my book as well, but Alienated America is a really fantastic book by Timothy Connery.
00:50:44.000She deals with all of my foibles on a daily basis.
00:50:46.000But more than that, she is a warm soul, and I am so appreciative of the time that she has spent with us here at The Daily Wire and on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:50:55.000She's just a terrific person, and I feel like we've become good friends, and so I just wanted to wish her the best, because this is her last day of work here, so she's liberated.
00:51:05.000But we're definitely gonna miss her, so... Senya is the chief thing human that I like today.
00:51:11.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:17.000Okay, so the thing that I hate today, I talked about a little bit yesterday on my radio show, but Ayaan Presley is another one of the fresh faces of Congress.
00:51:25.000She has not gotten anywhere near the attention of the other fresh faces.
00:51:28.000Nonetheless, she made an insane, ridiculous, and silly proposal yesterday.
00:51:31.000She suggested that we lower the voting age to 16.
00:51:34.000Since the days of abolitionists, suffragists, and civil rights activists, young people have been pushing the wheels of progress forward.
00:51:42.000These youth, our young people, who will inherit the nation we design here by virtue of our policies, or by default of our policies and authority, these very same young people should also have a say in who represents them.
00:51:57.000For your consideration, amendment number 127, which would lower the minimum voting age in federal elections from 18 to 16 years of age.
00:53:00.000They're already getting ready to start a family.
00:53:02.000The average age of first marriage in the United States, even 50 years ago, was about 20 for both men and women.
00:53:07.000Now the average age of marriage is about 73 in the United States.
00:53:11.000If you are 26, you're still on your parent's health insurance program.
00:53:14.000If anything, we should be raising the voting age.
00:53:16.000And I'm speaking as someone who was probably qualified to vote when I was 16 since I was already in college.
00:53:20.000I would gladly, gladly have raised the voting age when I was 25 to prevent other people who are 25 from voting, particularly if they're still living at home and reliant on mommy and daddy's health insurance plan.
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