The Ben Shapiro Show - The Corporate Fascists Are Here | Ep. 357

00:00:00.000 Well, hey there.

00:00:00.000 We're going to talk about everything Google Memo related.

00:00:03.000 We're going to talk about the fact that there are a bunch of people who think that Colin Kaepernick must, must, must be hired back into the NFL.

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00:00:15.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:23.000 Oh, we have many things to get to today, and I will be discussing all of the things that have to do with this Google memo that we went through in depth yesterday here on the program.

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00:02:44.000 Okay, so, on to the situation over at Google.

00:02:48.000 So last night, Google decided that they had to fire their employee, the evil, evil employee who suggested in a memo that Google was leftist and close-minded.

00:02:59.000 Which is weird, since if you don't want to prove that you're leftist and closed-minded, perhaps you shouldn't fire the guy who says you're leftist and closed-minded.

00:03:05.000 That's kind of a bad move.

00:03:07.000 But they fired him.

00:03:08.000 The Google Revolutionary Brigade has offed that employee.

00:03:11.000 His name is James Damore.

00:03:13.000 And Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the 10-page memo had, quote, violated the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.

00:03:22.000 To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not okay.

00:03:28.000 I love when the left uses the phrase, not okay, because what they really mean by that is, we should take you out at sunrise to the stake and light you on fire. 1.00

00:03:36.000 Not okay is their understated way of saying, you're a Nazi and we should beat the crap out of you. 0.99

00:03:42.000 But here is the problem, just as with the rest of the media. 1.00

00:03:44.000 Nobody read the memo.

00:03:46.000 Nobody read the memo.

00:03:47.000 Nothing in the memo says that women as a group are less biologically suited to being in tech. 0.97

00:03:53.000 There's nothing in the memo that says that.

00:03:55.000 Okay, so the media obviously didn't read the memo, and so now they are simply attempting to make up what they wish the memo said, because it's easier to make a case that the guy should be fired if you make up what he said.

00:04:05.000 So here are some of the things that it didn't say.

00:04:07.000 So let me start with this.

00:04:08.000 Here's what the memo actually said.

00:04:10.000 Here's what the memo said.

00:04:10.000 It made three main contentions.

00:04:12.000 First, it said that Google had a leftist bias, which prevented them from hearing other viewpoints.

00:04:17.000 Obviously true, because you just fired the guy who said you had a leftist bias.

00:04:21.000 Second, it said that part, not all, but part of the discrepancy in employment between men and women at Google was attributable not to sexism, but to large-scale group differences between men and women.

00:04:31.000 Again, this makes perfect sense, and is obviously true, in the same way that it is true that the wage gap is largely explained in the United States by different choice of jobs, different amount of time that women want to spend in the workplace.

00:04:42.000 That's not to say that an individual woman can't outperform a man. 0.99

00:04:45.000 It's not to say that an individual woman can't perform the same job a man can do, depending on the job. 0.98

00:04:49.000 It is to say that group differences do make a difference when you're looking at aggregate, when you're looking at the aggregate.

00:04:55.000 And finally, the memo said, Google should actually try to make employment easier for women, in general, through a series of non-illegal means. 0.99

00:05:01.000 In other words, not through hiring quotas and diversity quotas, but through making it more attractive for women to be at Google. 0.99

00:05:07.000 Does any of that sound radical to you? 1.00

00:05:09.000 If so, you're a moron. 1.00

00:05:10.000 And I mean you personally, I don't mean on average. 1.00

00:05:12.000 I mean if you actually think that's a horrible thing that's in this memo, then you are a stupid person. 1.00

00:05:15.000 But the media are just lying about what this memo actually said. 0.99

00:05:18.000 So first of all, they're lying about people like me, who I say that the memo is fine, and that Google is ridiculous for having fired the guy.

00:05:25.000 So Newsweek ran a piece today saying, the alt-right kicks back against Google.

00:05:30.000 The alt-right, do they even know who I am?

00:05:32.000 I was the number one target of the alt-right according to the Anti-Defamation League last year.

00:05:36.000 Okay, Newsweek said I was alt-right.

00:05:40.000 Was it Medium?

00:05:40.000 There's another, there's several other publications that suggested that I was alt-right.

00:05:44.000 Okay, I understand the left's desperate attempt to paint everyone on the right as alt-right, but that's just nonsense.

00:05:48.000 But, in terms of the memo itself,

00:05:50.000 The memo itself does not say all the things that you're hearing in the media.

00:05:54.000 So today on CNN, CNN ran a segment claiming that James Damore's memo stated that women are quote-unquote biologically unfit for tech.

00:06:03.000 There's nothing in the memo that remotely says that.

00:06:05.000 In fact, Damore says the opposite.

00:06:07.000 The media can't comprehend a basic, basic truth, okay?

00:06:11.000 When I say a group on average is different from another group on average, that does not mean that individuals in that group can be outstanding.

00:06:18.000 Okay, and it does not mean that they can't be outstanding.

00:06:20.000 Individuals in the group can be outstanding.

00:06:23.000 Right?

00:06:23.000 The fact is, if I say 7-year-olds, as an average, are not as smart as 15-year-olds, that doesn't mean that every 7-year-old is not as smart as a 15-year-old.

00:06:31.000 It means, on average, they're dumber than 15-year-olds. 0.59

00:06:33.000 There may be a 7-year-old who's a genius and is as smart as some 15-year-olds. 0.98

00:06:36.000 That doesn't mean that 7-year-olds and 15-year-olds have the same average level of intelligence. 1.00

00:06:40.000 Okay, but the media, because they're morons, collectively, right? 1.00

00:06:43.000 I'm saying on average, the media are morons. 1.00

00:06:45.000 Not individually, every one of them is a moron, but collectively they're morons. 1.00

00:06:48.000 Okay, when they say that the guy is arguing that women are unfit for tech, what he's actually saying is women on average are different from men. 1.00

00:06:56.000 Not that this particular woman is different from this particular man.

00:07:00.000 Okay, here's what Demore wrote.

00:07:01.000 He said, I'm not saying.

00:07:02.000 Not saying.

00:07:03.000 I love how this works.

00:07:04.000 He says, here's what I'm not saying.

00:07:06.000 The media says, you're saying it.

00:07:07.000 And Google says, you're fired.

00:07:08.000 He says, I'm not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are just.

00:07:14.000 I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes, and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

00:07:24.000 Many of these differences are small, and there's significant overlap between men and women, so you can't say anything about an individual given these population-level distributions.

00:07:32.000 Right!

00:07:33.000 Okay, so, but according to the left, this means that what he's saying is that every woman is worse than every man in tech.

00:07:39.000 Okay, that's clearly not what he is saying.

00:07:40.000 The reason that it is important to look at averages is because when you're looking at statistical averages with regard to wages, when you're aggregating data, you have to look at all of the relevant confounding factors.

00:07:50.000 Okay, you'd be a bad social scientist if you failed to do this.

00:07:53.000 He reiterates this point later in the memo.

00:07:55.000 He says, I'm not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles.

00:07:59.000 I'm advocating for quite the opposite.

00:08:00.000 Treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group.

00:08:04.000 So what he's saying is, Google, you say that we need to hire more women. 0.98

00:08:07.000 And what I'm saying to you is, why don't we just hire more qualified people?

00:08:11.000 Why don't we just base it on their individual qualifications?

00:08:13.000 Why does it have to be we need to hire more women? 1.00

00:08:15.000 You cannot simultaneously, if you're Google, hold these two thoughts at the same time.

00:08:19.000 It is deeply important that we hire lots of women because women make the workplace more diverse. 0.99

00:08:23.000 And women are identical to men in all relevant respects. 0.80

00:08:27.000 You can't hold those two things simultaneously.

00:08:29.000 It doesn't work.

00:08:30.000 That's what Damore is saying.

00:08:32.000 Just to prove this, he even includes this particular chart in the memo itself.

00:08:37.000 This is the chart.

00:08:38.000 It says populations have significant overlap, and then it shows a trait, and it shows two bell curves, right?

00:08:44.000 A purple bell curve and a green bell curve.

00:08:46.000 And it shows that the purple bell curve and the green bell curve

00:08:49.000 They share some space, but the purple bell curve is shifted a little bit to the left on whatever this x-axis is.

00:08:55.000 Okay, and then he says, reducing people to their group identity and assuming the average is representative ignores this overlap.

00:09:02.000 This is bad and I don't endorse that.

00:09:04.000 He's explicitly saying what they're saying that he's not saying, right?

00:09:07.000 He's explicitly saying you can't judge individuals by group differences, but group differences do make a difference when you're analyzing the data, which of course is true.

00:09:15.000 This chart is basically showing what I told you yesterday, for those who missed it.

00:09:18.000 What I said yesterday is that what this chart shows is that women, on average, probably score very similarly to men with regard to tech, but when it comes to the outlayers, when it comes to, you know, the ends of the spectrum, there's a thicker end for men, meaning that there are more men who are in the upper echelon than women who are in the upper echelon, even if the averages are very similar.

00:09:38.000 Okay, so that's the first thing the media is telling you about this memo that is not true, that he is saying that all women are unqualified for tech 0.98

00:09:44.000 Absolute crap. 0.98

00:09:45.000 Doesn't say that anywhere in the memo. 0.99

00:09:46.000 And all that's happening here is that the media are, they've come up with a preconceived notion, which is that this guy is a sexist, and now they're going to work to turn him into a sexist.

00:09:54.000 Okay.

00:09:54.000 Second thing they say that this guy said, D'Amour said in the Google memo that he didn't say.

00:09:58.000 Diversity is bad. 0.97

00:09:59.000 Okay, D'Amour says, this is literally the first words of the memo, I value diversity and inclusion.

00:10:05.000 In fact, he offers an entire section of his memo devoted to, quote, non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap.

00:10:11.000 He suggests that Google make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration, because women enjoy emotional connection more than men, allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive, make tech and leadership less stressful, and allowing and truly endorsing as part of our culture part-time work.

00:10:27.000 Right?

00:10:27.000 All of this would definitely make Google a more attractive place for women to work.

00:10:32.000 One of the things about women in the workplace is that women tend to want to work part-time more than men because when they have kids, they want to spend more time at home with the kids. 0.98

00:10:38.000 This is true of my wife.

00:10:39.000 It's true of women on average. 1.00

00:10:42.000 Okay, Demore says he believes that arbitrary social engineering of tech just to make it appealing to equal portions of both men and women would be foolish, but if there's a goal of helping the company succeed, and having more women would help us do that, then we should definitely try and create a culture where this thrives.

00:10:56.000 Does that sound like someone who wants fewer women in the workplace? 0.79

00:10:59.000 Or does it sound like someone who just wants to get rid of quotas based on sex?

00:11:03.000 This guy just wants to get rid of quotas based on sex, but he suggests ways that you can make the workplace more attractive to women. 0.97

00:11:08.000 Okay, the other thing the media says that this guy says that he doesn't say, okay, they're lying about it.

00:11:13.000 They say that Damore said that sexism doesn't exist.

00:11:17.000 This is a direct quote from the memo, quote,

00:11:22.000 Quote, I hope it's clear that I'm not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that we shouldn't try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of those in the majority.

00:11:32.000 My larger point is that we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don't fit a certain ideology.

00:11:36.000 The final lie that the media have been telling about this memo, and it's being told by people on the left also, is that the memo promotes violence.

00:11:42.000 The memo is in some way making people feel uncomfortable.

00:11:46.000 First of all, as I mentioned yesterday, when we talked about the response of the diversity and inclusion officer at Google, when she says, some truths are uncomfortable, it's funny, this guy's truths make people uncomfortable, but that's bad, we have to fire him.

00:11:58.000 But if you make him uncomfortable, that's fine, and he just has to go along with the program.

00:12:03.000 Here's what he actually writes.

00:12:05.000 He says, quote, the same compassion for those seen as weak creates political correctness, which constrains discourse and is complacent to the extremely sensitive PC authoritarians that use violence and shaming to advance their cause.

00:12:17.000 While Google hasn't harbored the violent leftist protests that we're seeing in universities, the frequent shaming in TGIF and in our culture has created the same silent, psychologically unsafe environment.

00:12:27.000 So he's making the case against violence.

00:12:28.000 He's saying if you keep attributing motives to people without any sort of rationale, then you're going to want to get violent with them more often.

00:12:37.000 He's basically saying what's happening in college campuses could come to Google.

00:12:40.000 And it has come to Google.

00:12:41.000 There are a bunch of funny things about this particular story that are truly incredible.

00:12:44.000 First of all, he is saying that he probably will file some sort of lawsuit against Google on the basis that they terminated him wrongly.

00:12:51.000 Now, it's an at-will state.

00:12:52.000 California's an at-will state.

00:12:53.000 I believe in at-will employment.

00:12:55.000 I don't think employers should have to hire him.

00:12:56.000 He only has a right to be employed by Google.

00:12:58.000 But, what he is saying is that he was actually whistleblowing on illegal activity happening inside Google

00:13:03.000 Discriminatory activity happening inside Google, and they can't fire him for whistleblowing, which is a smart legal angle.

00:13:09.000 Okay, so this is an amazing follow-up story, this amazing follow-on story.

00:13:12.000 Okay, ready for this?

00:13:13.000 I love this so much.

00:13:14.000 So, the entire claim by Google was, how dare you say that women are unsuited for tech?

00:13:20.000 He never said that.

00:13:21.000 How dare you say that women, on average, are more emotional?

00:13:24.000 That's terrible.

00:13:25.000 You can't say that women, on average, are more emotional.

00:13:27.000 Direct quote from NPR today, quote,

00:13:30.000 A senior software engineer reportedly has been fired by Google after a memo he wrote criticizing diversity initiatives was leaked and sparked protests on social media.

00:13:38.000 Another software engineer who used to work for Google, Kelly Ellis, says some women who still work at the company stayed home on Monday because the memo made them, quote, uncomfortable going back to work.

00:13:50.000 So, your entire case is that women are no different from men in their emotional state, and women are no different from men on average, and yet, when a memo comes out about the differences between women and men, women stay home for emotional reasons.

00:14:05.000 This entire story was created to make conservatives look good.

00:14:09.000 I mean, it's truly incredible.

00:14:11.000 Like, if you want to prove him right on every score, that women are different from men on average, that Google has a leftist bias and they kill everyone who gets in their way, all you have to do is, this story makes it clear that all of this is true.

00:14:22.000 It's just amazing stuff.

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00:15:59.000 This is not the only story about corporate attempts to crack down on the right.

00:16:05.000 Unfortunately, this is becoming more and more common.

00:16:08.000 We saw just a couple of days ago, we talked about the story with Lena Dunham trying to out a couple of American Airlines employees who were supposedly talking about how

00:16:15.000 We're good to go.

00:16:36.000 Free speech only applies to them.

00:16:37.000 It doesn't apply to anyone else.

00:16:38.000 Again, Google has the right to fire anyone.

00:16:40.000 American Airlines has the right to fire anyone it wants.

00:16:42.000 But, if we can't live in a society where we acknowledge that differences of view generally do not mean that you should be fired, then it's going to be very hard to live in this society.

00:16:51.000 Now, I will say there's an exception, okay?

00:16:53.000 If somebody who's left-wing comes to work at Daily Wire, and then they start promulgating left-wing views,

00:16:58.000 I think that that's perfectly within bounds for me to say, you don't represent our company, you gotta go.

00:17:02.000 But Google is not about right-left.

00:17:05.000 Google's entire company is based around the idea of information being shared among lots of people.

00:17:10.000 Well, just because they don't like the information that's being shared, that doesn't mean that you can just dump people, especially because we're not even talking about, in this case, a guy actually writing a memo saying women shouldn't be working at Google, right?

00:17:19.000 I mean, there you could at least say, okay, this creates a hostile work environment.

00:17:22.000 There's nothing in the memo that creates a hostile work environment, they just

00:17:25.000 We're good to go.

00:17:42.000 He was the worst rated quarterback in the NFL last year.

00:17:45.000 He was demoted so that he was playing behind some other garbage quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, and finally he was let go. 0.99

00:17:51.000 And the popular media line has been that Colin Kaepernick was let go because he knelt for the National Anthem, not because he's a crappy garbage quarterback. 0.97

00:17:59.000 So now the Dolphins, the Miami Dolphins, 0.96

00:18:02.000 Their quarterback, a guy named Ryan Tannenbaum, I believe, he's injured and they had to pick up another quarterback.

00:18:11.000 So they picked up Jay Cutler.

00:18:12.000 Okay, Jay Cutler, I'm a Chicago Bears fan.

00:18:14.000 Jay Cutler is the most disappointing quarterback in Chicago Bears history.

00:18:18.000 He came in with his stellar reputation for having a gun of an arm, which he does, but he was not a good decision maker in the pocket and so he threw lots of interceptions.

00:18:26.000 That said,

00:18:27.000 He was sort of a middling quarterback in terms of QBR, in terms of quarterback rating.

00:18:30.000 He was not, like, on the very low end of the spectrum, he was not the best quarterback in the league, but he certainly was not Colin Kaepernick-quality bad.

00:18:36.000 The Dolphins picked him up, and naturally, the media are now suggesting that the NFL must force some team to take Colin Kaepernick.

00:18:43.000 Here is Shannon Sharpe over at Fox Sports 1 making this case.

00:18:46.000 Shannon, is this a good move or a bad move by the Dolphins?

00:18:48.000 It's a bad move.

00:18:50.000 Um... It's... And it's...

00:18:56.000 It's embarrassing, quite frankly.

00:18:58.000 And I get the Dolphins, they were in a bind.

00:19:03.000 Tannehill goes down with the knee injury.

00:19:05.000 The severity, it seems to be as more news trickles out, there's a great chance that he's probably going to be done for the entire season.

00:19:12.000 So I get it.

00:19:13.000 So I'm just trying to figure, did Jay Cutler call all 32 teams and say, if somebody goes down, I'm willing to come out of retirement?

00:19:23.000 Probably not.

00:19:25.000 I wonder if Jay Cutler called the Miami Dolphins and said, I want to play.

00:19:30.000 And then this narrative about Kap says, OK, well, he wants too much money.

00:19:34.000 It's amazing how the Miami Dolphins found $10 million for a guy, a retired guy, not a guy that last through a pass in January, a retired guy.

00:19:43.000 We don't want you.

00:19:45.000 But here's what's the most egregious part of it, Skip.

00:19:48.000 They lump Colin Kaepernick, a guy that last through a pass in January of 2017,

00:19:56.000 Okay, so a couple of things.

00:19:57.000 Number one, it's Ryan Tannehill, not Ryan Tannenbaum.

00:19:59.000 He's not a member of the Royal Tannenbaum family.

00:20:01.000 But what he says, you know, why are they going after Jay Cutler?

00:20:05.000 Okay, Jay Cutler retired May 5th, 2017.

00:20:08.000 He retired five minutes ago.

00:20:09.000 So this idea that he's been retired for five years and they dragged him out of retirement.

00:20:12.000 If they'd gone and hired Brett Favre, maybe there's a case there.

00:20:14.000 But this idea that it must be discrimination against Kaepernick that's preventing him from getting a job.

00:20:18.000 Maybe what's preventing him from getting a job is two things.

00:20:21.000 He creates a backlash among the fan base.

00:20:24.000 And two, 1.00

00:20:25.000 He's a really crappy quarterback. 0.98

00:20:27.000 But Sharpe is not the only person who's saying that politics ought to infuse the gridiron. 0.78

00:20:32.000 Stephen A. Smith is saying the same thing, saying the NFL should actually cram down on teams.

00:20:36.000 They should find some team to cram down Kaepernick on.

00:20:40.000 That there's going to be an uproar and uprising to some degree, and I think that the NFL is going to feel compelled to make sure that this man has a job.

00:20:48.000 Yes, you have the naysayers and the detractors, and you certainly understand that there are no African American owners in the sport of the National Football League, that a vast majority of them are white, as opposed to Shad Khan, who's in Jacksonville in East Pakistan.

00:21:03.000 I think I remember him being Pakistan.

00:21:05.000 We're good to go!

00:21:31.000 Okay, so, again, it's bad for business for the NFL to ban him.

00:21:34.000 They did the same thing, I remember, with Michael Sam, who was a seventh-round draft pick by the NFL.

00:21:39.000 Apparently, the heads of the NFL called up all of the various NFL teams, and they said, you need to pick Michael Sam.

00:21:44.000 We need to get him on the field.

00:21:46.000 We need to have him signed by a team because he was openly gay and came out right before the draft and was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and so it was impossible that the NFL wouldn't engage in this.

00:21:54.000 Again, it's hilarious to watch the left spin itself in circles over dictating to private businesses what they can and must do, okay?

00:22:00.000 So according to the left, it is a must to force a religious baker to cater a gay wedding. 0.91

00:22:06.000 Must happen, okay?

00:22:06.000 The government must force that.

00:22:08.000 Also, the same people will say that Google must fire somebody who disagrees with them.

00:22:12.000 Do you understand?

00:22:14.000 Religious people must cater to people with whom they disagree, but Google must fire people with whom they disagree. 0.95

00:22:21.000 If this all seems a little weird, if this all seems like it's just outcome-driven, that's because it is from the left.

00:22:26.000 All it is about promulgating leftist values.

00:22:28.000 It's not really about free speech or about the ability to express yourself in any way.

00:22:32.000 Again, do I think that Colin Kaepernick should be hired regardless of his stance on the national anthem?

00:22:38.000 Actually, sort of do.

00:22:39.000 But I will say that his business is actually two things, okay?

00:22:43.000 Unlike Google, where the guy who works at Google, his job is to code.

00:22:46.000 That's his entire job.

00:22:47.000 And there's no backlash, you know, that really matters outside the workplace with regards to his personal views on females.

00:22:53.000 Colin Kaepernick has two jobs.

00:22:55.000 One is to throw a pass, well, which he can't do.

00:22:57.000 And the second is to actually draw a crowd, which he has succeeded in alienating.

00:23:01.000 Okay, so before I go any further, I want to get to Trump material next.

00:23:05.000 What's going on with the Trump administration?

00:23:07.000 I think there's a lesson that Donald Trump should be learning from this week that's a really good lesson.

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00:25:08.000 I want to move on to talk a little bit about, first of all, final note on all of this attempt by the left to infuse all of our businesses with politics.

00:25:16.000 The more they do this, the more society is going to become polarized.

00:25:19.000 Right now, even last year, we all watched the NFL together.

00:25:23.000 It's something we could talk about at the water cooler.

00:25:24.000 It is important that in America we have things that are water cooler talk.

00:25:28.000 It is very important that we in the United States have stuff that we can talk about with each other, even if we disagree about politics.

00:25:33.000 And if we don't do that, it actually destroys the public discourse.

00:25:36.000 That's what happened with the NFL, with Colin Kaepernick.

00:25:38.000 People couldn't talk with each other about the NFL without devolving into a conversation about police brutality and race for no apparent reason.

00:25:46.000 And it was very polarized along racial lines.

00:25:48.000 Now you're seeing the same with Google.

00:25:49.000 You're going to see conservatives who say, OK, I'm no longer going to use Google Chrome.

00:25:52.000 Instead, I'm going to be downloading Safari or some other browser, and I'm going to use that.

00:25:58.000 We're going to be using different sources of information because Google is felt to have a bias, which they clearly do.

00:26:03.000 There's going to be companies that are started to fight that bias.

00:26:06.000 This already exists on the right with a bunch of other web companies.

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00:26:18.000 We have to exist to counterbalance the force of the left-wing media. 0.92

00:26:21.000 That's a good thing.

00:26:22.000 It would be a better thing if everybody were just honest in their reporting instead of lying about everything.

00:26:26.000 Okay, so in just a second, I want to get to everything Trump-related and a big lesson for President Trump that is coming from this week that I think is a really good lesson for President Trump, if he's willing to take it.

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00:28:45.000 Alrighty, so here is, I keep saying there's a lesson for President Trump.

00:28:49.000 Here's the lesson for President Trump that's happened from this week.

00:28:51.000 He's on vacation this week.

00:28:52.000 And guess what?

00:28:53.000 Things are going really well.

00:28:55.000 Like a lot of the news that's coming out from the Trump administration is really good.

00:28:59.000 You know why? 1.00

00:28:59.000 Because Trump isn't tweeting stupid crap. 1.00

00:29:01.000 Because he's not firing and hiring. 1.00

00:29:03.000 He's not grabbing people like Anthony Scaramucci from his American psycho coke den and bringing him in and using him as his communications guy. 0.86

00:29:12.000 We're not getting the chaos every time Trump opens his mouth.

00:29:17.000 Trump is quiet, and guess what?

00:29:19.000 Then you see stories like this appearing in the press, because guess what?

00:29:22.000 The media actually has to fill the time.

00:29:24.000 Okay, here's the dirty little secret about media.

00:29:26.000 We need content.

00:29:28.000 If Trump isn't providing content, we'll get content from somewhere else.

00:29:32.000 The content this week for Trump has been quite good.

00:29:34.000 Yesterday, or the day before, Monday, there was a 15-0 UN resolution that was passed to create new sanctions on North Korea, including China and Russia voting for it.

00:29:44.000 That's a major accomplishment by the Trump administration.

00:29:46.000 Today, the Daily Mail is reporting, and so is the Washington Post, quote, The war against ISIS has taken dramatic strides since Donald Trump became president, with the U.S.

00:29:54.000 and its allies reclaiming swaths of Iraq and Syria.

00:29:57.000 In fact, of all the land reclaimed by the U.S.-led coalition since 2014,

00:30:01.000 Nearly one-third has been taken since Trump took office.

00:30:04.000 That's thanks to Trump's decision to delegate decisions and engage in a campaign of annihilation, Brett McGurk, the State Department senior envoy to the Anti-Islamic State Coalition, told the Washington Post.

00:30:14.000 Since its peak in early 2015, ISIS has lost 78% of its occupied territories in Iraq and 58% in Syria.

00:30:22.000 In total, that is 27,000 square miles of territory, 8,000 of which has been taken since February of this year.

00:30:28.000 So, what should this teach President Trump?

00:30:31.000 It should teach him a few things.

00:30:32.000 One, when you delegate to good people and leave them alone and don't mess around with it, good things happen.

00:30:36.000 And this has been true at the EPA where we're cutting regulations.

00:30:39.000 This has been true with regard to hiring and firing, where Trump has cut 11,000 jobs. 0.66

00:30:43.000 Delegate to the right people and shut up.

00:30:46.000 He's on vacation right now. 0.98

00:30:47.000 He's disappeared.

00:30:48.000 The media doesn't have anything to feed off of.

00:30:51.000 This is why this great lie that Trump's tweets make his presidency stronger?

00:30:54.000 No.

00:30:55.000 Trump's tweets make his presidency eminently weaker.

00:30:57.000 If you were just to go quiet, and to starve the media of material, then all that would happen is that the media would be forced to actually cover the news.

00:31:05.000 They'd actually be forced to cover the news.

00:31:07.000 And they'd look more and more desperate.

00:31:09.000 Right?

00:31:09.000 Because the left is desperate at this point.

00:31:11.000 Listen to how desperate they sound, okay?

00:31:12.000 MSNBC had on a guest named Dean Obadiah.

00:31:15.000 He's actually usually at CNN.

00:31:17.000 And he's a Muslim comic, which is, in his case, oxymoronic. 1.00

00:31:22.000 He's not a funny man. 0.93

00:31:24.000 But he says that Trump, it's just like a swastika. 0.73

00:31:28.000 It's a Trump swastika. 0.98

00:31:29.000 The word Trump is like a swastika.

00:31:31.000 I spoke to the executive director of this mosque earlier today, and he was saying that the relations that they enjoy with the community are generally strong.

00:31:40.000 Sure.

00:31:41.000 You know, Muslims have been in America for a long time.

00:31:43.000 In some of these areas, there are slightly newer communities.

00:31:48.000 Some of them are first generation.

00:31:50.000 And he feels that the community is not hostile toward them.

00:31:53.000 And that's a great thing, and you saw that.

00:31:54.000 I saw immediately that within hours of the attack, the leaders of different faith communities standing up and saying, we're with you.

00:32:01.000 This mosque, according to local media reports, they did get some emails and hate mail before.

00:32:05.000 Just a week ago, another Muslim cemetery in the Minneapolis suburbs was vandalized with swastikas, graffiti.

00:32:12.000 Since January, we've had five mosques burned down in America by arson.

00:32:16.000 That's according to the police.

00:32:17.000 We've had swastikas written on mosques.

00:32:19.000 We've had the word Trump painted on mosques in New Jersey, Iowa, and New York.

00:32:22.000 For some, the word Trump is becoming a modern day swastika.

00:32:26.000 For some?

00:32:28.000 Why?

00:32:29.000 Why is that becoming a modern-day swastika?

00:32:30.000 First of all, we don't have any evidence he did that.

00:32:32.000 I mean, maybe his suggestion here seems to be that there are people who are alt-righters who use Trump as their stand-in, but, like, that's such an exaggeration.

00:32:41.000 Trump is a modern-day swastika.

00:32:43.000 Maxine Waters, the most corrupt person in Congress, she's saying, we're going to impeach Trump by December. 0.95

00:32:46.000 Hey, we'll let her go. 0.98

00:32:49.000 So I believe it is possible to impeach him.

00:32:53.000 How long is it going to take?

00:32:54.000 I don't know, but I give it to about December and I think I give it to December.

00:33:01.000 Okay, so that's not going to happen, but the left is so crazy that this is what they're promulgating.

00:33:05.000 And you know what makes them sound crazy?

00:33:07.000 When nothing's happening.

00:33:08.000 It makes them sound totally over the moon when nothing is happening.

00:33:11.000 It makes them sound bat poop, okay? 0.99

00:33:14.000 When they're going crazy and Trump is just quiet, it makes them sound like loon bags, because they are loon bags. 0.99

00:33:20.000 And here's the other thing. 0.98

00:33:21.000 All the divisions on the right regarding Trump, they go away when Trump does good things and when the left is crazy, okay?

00:33:26.000 These are the things that unify the right.

00:33:28.000 If you want a unified right, what you want is Trump to do positive things, and you want the left to continue acting the way that they're acting at places like Google.

00:33:35.000 Shutting down debate, making people on the right, making moderates feel threatened, right?

00:33:39.000 That helps the right.

00:33:40.000 That unifies the right.

00:33:42.000 Do you know what a liberal's idea of Armageddon is?

00:33:44.000 No, it's not a nuclear North Korea, but a successful Trump presidency.

00:33:47.000 Do you know what the never-Trump Republicans on Capitol Hill fear the most?

00:34:05.000 No, it's not ISIS, and it's not a 5,000-point drop in the Dow, but a successful Trump presidency. 0.97

00:34:11.000 Okay, so that last statement is the one that's really dumb, okay? 0.93

00:34:14.000 This idea that never-Trump Republicans are looking for Trump to fail. 0.91

00:34:17.000 That's what they fear is Trump's success.

00:34:19.000 No, what they fear is losing their seats. 0.94

00:34:21.000 And they fear losing their seats if Trump continues to do silly things. 0.97

00:34:25.000 So, again. 0.52

00:34:26.000 Mr. President, take a note from this week.

00:34:28.000 You're having a really good week, okay?

00:34:29.000 This week has been great for you thus far.

00:34:31.000 I understand it's only Tuesday, but it's been a great week, okay?

00:34:35.000 That's better than it's been in the past couple of weeks, okay?

00:34:37.000 So, you ended last week on a relatively high note.

00:34:40.000 Now, the first couple of days have gone great.

00:34:42.000 Why?

00:34:43.000 Because you were quiet.

00:34:45.000 Just be quiet, okay? 1.00

00:34:46.000 And everyone will unify around the good policies your administration pushes and around the idiocy of the left. 0.99

00:34:51.000 You can create another victorious coalition around those two things. 0.96

00:34:54.000 You're going to break the coalition if you decide that you have to meddle, create chaos, jabber, be the center of attention.

00:35:00.000 All those things need to stop.

00:35:01.000 If you stop that, every day can be like today.

00:35:04.000 Every day can be me just doing good Trump.

00:35:06.000 All day.

00:35:07.000 That's what I would like to do.

00:35:08.000 I would like to do that about any president, okay?

00:35:10.000 Forget whether it's Obama or Trump.

00:35:11.000 I wish they all did things that I want them to do.

00:35:13.000 Right now the Trump administration is doing things this week that I want them to do. 1.00

00:35:16.000 And it is not being degraded by you tweeting about how Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a jerk. 0.99

00:35:22.000 Right? 1.00

00:35:22.000 So why don't we just stick with that lesson? 1.00

00:35:24.000 That's a positive lesson.

00:35:25.000 Okay, time for some things I like, things I hate, and then we'll deconstruct the culture a little bit.

00:35:29.000 So...

00:35:30.000 Things I like.

00:35:31.000 We're doing sort of Cold War classics in honor of Venezuela.

00:35:34.000 Now, I guess, in honor of Google, since the gulags are back. 0.85

00:35:37.000 But the book is Witness by Whitaker Chambers.

00:35:40.000 This is sort of the classic of Cold War espionage thrillers.

00:35:45.000 It's not fiction, right?

00:35:46.000 It is a nonfiction book about this guy named Whitaker Chambers who testified against the Alger Hiss.

00:35:52.000 Alger Hiss was a top State Department official in the FDR and Truman administrations, and it turned out that he was actually a Soviet spy.

00:36:00.000 Whittaker Chambers knew about it, and was slandered by the press, and called a liar, and his life was threatened by the Communist Party, and it's all about what the Communist Party actually was doing in the United States, and how the left essentially lent them cover.

00:36:12.000 The book is Witness.

00:36:13.000 It's a long book.

00:36:13.000 It's about 500 pages, but it is a very quick read.

00:36:16.000 It is very well written.

00:36:17.000 Whittaker Chambers is a terrific writer.

00:36:19.000 Witness, you can check that out over at Amazon.com.

00:36:22.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:36:24.000 So, I have to say that I love this so much.

00:36:26.000 So, Royal Dutch Airlines, as I said before,

00:36:29.000 I don't see the need for corporations to politicize themselves, but they all seem to feel the need to make everything political now, which irritates me because I just want to fly my airline.

00:36:37.000 I don't want to hear about gay propaganda or transgender propaganda. 1.00

00:36:40.000 I just want to fly my airline.

00:36:41.000 So this is what Royal Dutch Airlines tweeted out yesterday.

00:36:44.000 For those who can't see, it is a picture of three separate sets of belt buckles.

00:36:49.000 One is to

00:36:51.000 Thanks for watching.

00:37:09.000 There is a problem with this particular tweet that I love very, very much.

00:37:13.000 Okay?

00:37:13.000 If you were to be in air turbulence, two of these three buckles do not work.

00:37:18.000 Okay?

00:37:18.000 If you're sitting there trying to insert the buckle into the buckle, you will die while the plane becomes turbulent at 30,000 feet.

00:37:25.000 If you're trying to insert the insert into the insert, then everything will go dark for you as your head smashes into the overhead compartment during turbulence.

00:37:34.000 Only one of these three things works. 0.99

00:37:36.000 So, thank you for making the biological case in favor of heterosexuality, Royal Dutch Airlines, in your inane and stupid attempts to demonstrate to the world just how tolerant and diverse you are. 0.99

00:37:49.000 Pretty incredible stuff. 0.99

00:37:51.000 Speaking of ridiculous gay propaganda that goes wrong, this gay clothing company is now trying to, no joke, trying to restore the swastika to its original symbolism as an element of peace. 0.99

00:38:05.000 Good luck with that, gang. 0.99

00:38:06.000 So, we can play this video?

00:38:08.000 Yeah, we can play it.

00:38:19.000 But one day, Nazism. 0.96

00:38:21.000 They took the swastika, rotated it by 45 degrees and turned it into hatred.

00:38:27.000 And turned it into power.

00:38:28.000 They stigmatized the swastika forever.

00:38:30.000 They won.

00:38:32.000 They limited our freedom.

00:38:33.000 Or maybe not.

00:38:35.000 The swastika is coming back. 0.85

00:38:37.000 Together with peace.

00:38:38.000 Together with love.

00:38:40.000 Together with respect.

00:38:41.000 Together with freedom.

00:38:42.000 Introducing the new swastika! 0.99

00:38:46.000 And then it is a rainbow swastika rotated 45 degrees, looking just like Hitler's swastika. 0.54

00:38:53.000 So they didn't even have the brains to make the swastika back to its original angle, right? 0.82

00:38:58.000 They just left it 45 degrees in half of their gear.

00:39:01.000 And then it says, peace with swastika, love with swastika, zen with swastika. 0.72

00:39:06.000 Yes!

00:39:08.000 I love it so much.

00:39:09.000 So, I only hope that one day when the gay swastika flies above companies that have fired all of the religious people, that we can understand that peace, love, and zen were all with the swastika. 0.98

00:39:19.000 The happiest person in the world today is John Nolte, who's been talking about the gay swastika for years with regard to companies destroying religious people's lives who don't decide to participate in same-sex weddings.

00:39:30.000 I love it.

00:39:30.000 Go for it, gang.

00:39:31.000 Just enjoy yourselves.

00:39:32.000 Love it.

00:39:32.000 And of course, everybody is like, wait, what?

00:39:33.000 What are you doing now?

00:39:34.000 Say, huh?

00:39:48.000 So, I assume that their next campaign will be to reclaim crematoriums.

00:39:53.000 Because it turns out that crematoriums have been used for thousands of years for actual cremations of people who wanted to be cremated.

00:39:59.000 So, I guess we can just reclaim...

00:40:02.000 Sometimes a symbol is so poisoned that you might just want to let it go.

00:40:05.000 The same people, I assume, who are in favor of the swastika, I'd like to see them try to reclaim the confederate flag next, since apparently we have decided the confederate flag is the root of all evil in the United States. 0.92

00:40:15.000 So, spectacular job.

00:40:16.000 Everybody who's up with the gay propaganda this week, just well done. 1.00

00:40:19.000 Royal Dutch Airlines, KA Designs, you've done yeoman's work.

00:40:23.000 Well done.

00:40:24.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:40:31.000 Okay, so Stephen Colbert last night spends his time going after Eric Bolling.

00:40:35.000 Eric Bolling has been suspended from his show The Specialist on Fox News after allegations of sexual harassment against guests.

00:40:41.000 And here's Stephen Colbert playing high and mighty with Eric Bolling. 0.84

00:40:45.000 The Huffing Po is reporting that a co-host of The Specialists, and guy who's cologne you can smell through the TV, Eric Bolling, sent co-workers an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via text message. 0.98

00:41:00.000 Oh my god. 0.95

00:41:02.000 Whatever happened to old-fashioned courtship? 0.98

00:41:05.000 When a gentleman would telegraph his genitalia. 1.00

00:41:11.000 Here is my penis. 1.00

00:41:13.000 Stop. 1.00

00:41:16.000 Stop sending me your penis. 1.00

00:41:18.000 Stop. 1.00

00:41:19.000 Seriously, stop.

00:41:20.000 Stop.

00:41:23.000 Bowling has been suspended while Fox News investigates, but he denies the charges.

00:41:30.000 Sort of.

00:41:31.000 According to his lawyer, Mr. Bolling recalls no such inappropriate communications.

00:41:37.000 He doesn't recall?

00:41:39.000 How do you forget sending someone your bits and pieces?

00:41:42.000 Okay, so, obviously Colbert and the rest of the left media, oh my god, look at Eric Bolling, it's so terrible. 0.91

00:41:46.000 Okay, so I would just like to remind people, and it is, by the way, if he's texting his genitals unsolicited to people, that is sexual harassment and it's disgusting, okay? 0.81

00:41:55.000 Now, with that said, Stephen Colbert took over for, does anyone remember? 0.82

00:41:59.000 David Letterman, yes, David Letterman.

00:42:01.000 Okay, David Letterman told the audience openly on his show that he had sexual relationships with female staffers on his staff, adding that he'd forked over a bogus $2 million check as part of an extortion plot on the matter.

00:42:14.000 Okay, so what happened?

00:42:15.000 He did it for years.

00:42:16.000 And yet no one seemed to mind. 0.95

00:42:18.000 Hollywood playing hypocrite when it comes to this kind of stuff? 0.98

00:42:21.000 Again, I'm fine with ripping people up and down for sexual harassment. 0.98

00:42:24.000 I have no problem with that.

00:42:25.000 But I just find it a little ironic that people in Hollywood are willing to forego ripping their leftist colleagues engaged in sexual harassment.

00:42:31.000 Like, a little consistency would be good.

00:42:33.000 I am not in favor of sexual harassment.

00:42:34.000 If somebody on the right does it, like if Eric Bolling did it, he should not have a job.

00:42:38.000 Okay?

00:42:39.000 And if somebody on the left does it, they should not have a job either.

00:42:41.000 But I'm consistent in this.

00:42:42.000 This is Letterman's audience, and so there's a little bit of irony to this whole shtick.

00:42:45.000 Okay.

00:42:46.000 Now let's do a little bit of deconstructing the culture.

00:42:49.000 So, deconstructing the culture today, ABC News and the Associated Press are pushing very, very hard this new idea that young, tiny children should be able to determine their own gender.

00:42:59.000 Oh, yes.

00:43:00.000 ABC News has a piece today that says, in some ways, Rainbow Day Camp is very ordinary.

00:43:04.000 Kids arrive with a packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, play basketball, sing songs, and get silly.

00:43:09.000 Whenever there's a story that starts this way, you know that it's going to go off the deep end very shortly.

00:43:14.000 It started off like any normal day, until Bob murdered his wife and fed her to the dog.

00:43:20.000 All these stories.

00:43:21.000 It seemed like a relatively normal place until it turned out to be one of Lennon's graveyards.

00:43:25.000 It always starts that way.

00:43:27.000 They packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, but it is unique from the moment campers arrive each morning.

00:43:32.000 At check-in each day, campers make a name tag with their pronoun of choice.

00:43:36.000 Some opt for she or he, or a combination of she, he, or they, or no pronoun at all.

00:43:41.000 Some change their pronouns daily to see what feels right.

00:43:45.000 The camp in the San Francisco Bay Area, mm-hmm, caters to transgender and gender-fluid children ages 4 to 12.

00:43:51.000 Okay.

00:43:51.000 So.

00:43:54.000 Once you get to twelve, I think that we can start having conversations about, you know, whether you are experiencing gender dysphoria.

00:44:00.000 At the age of four, if you're a parent sending your four-year-old to a camp that is reinforcing gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria, whichever term you choose to use, you are doing something deeply wrong.

00:44:10.000 I have a three-and-a-half-year-old.

00:44:12.000 It is insane, insane to suggest that a four-year-old is capable of deciding his or her sex.

00:44:19.000 That's utterly crazy, and parents who are doing this are doing something deeply sinful, something deeply nasty to their own child.

00:44:24.000 It is your job to guide your child, this idea that your child is supposed to lead you into something like sexual identity, when they have no clue what sex is, have no idea what their genitals are for, don't have hormones, okay? 0.99

00:44:35.000 It's just ridiculous. 1.00

00:44:36.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.89

00:44:38.000 He says, the enrollment has tripled to about 60 young campers.

00:44:41.000 This is demonstrative of the fact, by the way, this is true across the board.

00:44:43.000 It's true in Australia, it's true in Great Britain.

00:44:45.000 Every place where the transgender movement has started to push, what they've seen is an enormous number, the number of kids who are now looking to transition has skyrocketed dramatically.

00:44:55.000 Now what the left would say is, all these people were just waiting to transition and now society's become more accepting and you're seeing more of this behavior.

00:45:00.000 Okay, or it is possible that gender confusion can be created by environment, or exacerbated by environment. 0.99

00:45:08.000 This notion that the environment has nothing to do with sexual identity or sexual orientation or sexual behavior is just asinine. 0.96

00:45:13.000 It's not true. 0.96

00:45:14.000 There's been no evidence of this whatsoever.

00:45:16.000 According to the left, sexual orientation, sexual behavior, gender, all of those things are hardwired, but sex itself is not hardwired.

00:45:23.000 Sex itself is completely malleable.

00:45:25.000 This is ascientific.

00:45:26.000 It's actually anti-scientific. 0.62

00:45:28.000 And to pretend that small children, four-year-olds, should be going to camps where they are encouraged to revel in gender confusion is purely disgusting.

00:45:36.000 It's purely disgusting, particularly since, statistically speaking, 80% of small children who suffer from even gender identity disorder, right, actually suffer from it, grow out of it by the time they hit puberty.

00:45:46.000 So just, what a terrible society we're creating when we suggest that children ought to be making decisions about their own sex lives, but adults ought to be abdicating on that score.

00:45:55.000 Really, really terrible.

00:45:58.000 The article continues, talking about a six-year-old, Gracie Maxwell, was dancing in the sunshine as a Miley Cyrus song blasted from outdoor speakers.

00:46:04.000 The freckled blue-eyed blonde wore her hair in a braid on one side. 0.97

00:46:08.000 Gracie's a boy, by the way.

00:46:09.000 When she could talk, I don't remember a time when she didn't say, I'm a girl.

00:46:12.000 It said her mother, Molly Maxwell, who still trips over pronouns but tries to stick to she, then it grew in intensity.

00:46:16.000 I'm a sister.

00:46:17.000 I'm a daughter.

00:46:17.000 I'm a princess.

00:46:18.000 We would argue with her.

00:46:19.000 She was confused.

00:46:20.000 We were confused.

00:46:21.000 Living in liberal-minded Bay Area made it easier.

00:46:23.000 The Maxwells found a transgender playgroup, sought specialists, and had a four-year-old like Gracie grow her hair, dress as a girl, and eventually change her name.

00:46:30.000 What a joyous occasion.

00:46:32.000 I mean, look at...

00:46:34.000 Look at this kid here on the right.

00:46:35.000 This little kid.

00:46:35.000 How old is this kid, do you think?

00:46:36.000 Maybe six?

00:46:37.000 Five?

00:46:38.000 The one on the right with the multicolored hair here?

00:46:40.000 Yeah, it's a decision by the parents to allow this kind of stuff.

00:46:44.000 It's a decision by the parents to revel in this kind of stuff and make themselves feel better as parents of this kind of stuff.

00:46:48.000 Listen, I wouldn't want to be a parent who has a kid who has to deal with gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder, but for me to abdicate the decision to the four-year-old is just

00:46:58.000 It's non-adult, okay?

00:46:59.000 It's anti-adult.

00:47:00.000 And it's anti-civilization.

00:47:02.000 Okay, so.

00:47:03.000 This, unfortunately, is going to continue because the left is fully ensconced in its own navel-gazing with regard to the new civil rights movement it's created for itself.

00:47:11.000 It's not a civil rights movement at all.

00:47:13.000 It's a way of destroying childhood innocence.

00:47:14.000 Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow to talk about more fallout, I'm sure, from Google and the latest in the news.

00:47:19.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:47:20.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 08, 2017

The Corporate Fascists Are Here | Ep. 357

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