The Ben Shapiro Show - The Day After | Ep. 633

00:00:00.000 As Brett Kavanaugh takes his seat on the Supreme Court, the left copes in mature, considered fashion.

00:00:06.000 Or not.

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00:01:55.000 Okay, so over the weekend, Democrats really handled the Brett Kavanaugh vote, I think, with great aplomb, dignity, poise.

00:02:01.000 Folks on the left really

00:02:03.000 They really, I think, showed tremendous maturity when they realized that Brett Kavanaugh was actually going to be on the Supreme Court.

00:02:09.000 For those who missed it, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed on Saturday by a 50-48 vote.

00:02:14.000 It was only 50-48, not 51-49, because Mike Daines, who's the senator from North Dakota, had to go home for his daughter's wedding.

00:02:22.000 Until Lisa Murkowski abstained instead of voting against Kavanaugh. 0.87

00:02:27.000 So it became a 52-48 vote.

00:02:29.000 And Democrats responded in their typically moderated and I think modulated fashion.

00:02:36.000 It was really good to watch.

00:02:37.000 It was good to see the country come together after such a rough time because Democrats did, I thought, just a great job.

00:02:44.000 I mean, like here is what happened at the Supreme Court immediately as Kavanaugh was being confirmed inside.

00:02:53.000 For those who can't actually see this, these are people who are legitimately standing there beating on the 13-ton bronze doors of the Supreme Court.

00:03:00.000 My favorite is this lady who's trying to pry the door open. 1.00

00:03:05.000 Like Frodo trying to get into the Mines of Moria without the actual passcode.

00:03:10.000 She's just there trying to pry open the doors with her bare hands, though the doors are gonna part before her.

00:03:15.000 It's pretty astonishing stuff.

00:03:17.000 Obviously, people really reacting well to all of this.

00:03:20.000 We have an anti-Kavanaugh protester who started threatening people as well, so that was pretty solid.

00:03:24.000 And like to this, this was good.

00:03:25.000 I don't know if this guy was arrested or what, but things obviously have cooled down in the country.

00:03:30.000 There aren't and we're not.

00:03:32.000 But there's a lot more of us than there are of them.

00:03:34.000 So I'm going to say it straight up. 0.99

00:03:36.000 When y'all come back, get ready to physically fight these motherf***ers. 1.00

00:03:40.000 When y'all come back, if y'all got any guts about you, be ready to fight these motherf***ers and f*** their asses up. 1.00

00:03:48.000 When y'all come back, be ready to f*** up a pig. 1.00

00:03:52.000 I'm sure that this fellow is an expert in the intricacies of Supreme Court jurisprudence based simply on the language that he's using. 0.96

00:03:59.000 With regard to his political enemies, I'm sure that he knows the entire line of cases stretching prior to Griswold on the rights of privacy, and he's just upset at how that line of cases could be curbed by the presence of Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.

00:04:10.000 Probably that's what's going on.

00:04:12.000 But I don't want to make it sound like it's just, you know, members of an angry mob who are involved in being an angry mob.

00:04:18.000 I mean, they are.

00:04:19.000 But it's more than that, right?

00:04:20.000 It's some of the elites in our society.

00:04:23.000 First of all, I'd be remiss here if I didn't note that Cory Gardner says that his wife has now received gruesome beheading video after his pro-Kavanaugh vote.

00:04:31.000 He's not the only one who's receiving those sorts of threats.

00:04:33.000 Those threats actually are becoming quite common with regard to Republican members of Congress.

00:04:37.000 I've heard from a few of them who have said that this sort of thing is becoming sort of the norm.

00:04:41.000 But as I say, this isn't just the people at sort of the

00:04:45.000 Popular level of the Democratic Party.

00:04:47.000 This isn't just leftist grassroots folks who are very very upset.

00:04:51.000 We're talking about high-ranking Democratic Party people who have completely lost their mind.

00:04:55.000 I mean legitimately and completely lost their mind over Brett Kavanaugh joining the Supreme Court in much the way they lost their mind over Donald Trump being elected in the first place.

00:05:03.000 So take for example this Maisie Hirono.

00:05:06.000 So Maisie Hirono is a senator from Hawaii and she was specifically asked whether she believes that people should be confronted, Republicans should be confronted at restaurants and in their daily lives.

00:05:16.000 Watch as she bobs and weaves to avoid answering the question as to whether people should be harassed in their daily lives for the vote on Kavanaugh.

00:05:23.000 I think that it just means that there are a lot of people who are very, very much motivated by what is going on.

00:05:30.000 Because what happened with Judge Kavanaugh is, from the very beginning, this was not a fair process.

00:05:35.000 Should the going after people at restaurants stop?

00:05:37.000 Well, this is what happens.

00:05:40.000 Because when you look at white supremacists and all of that, this is what's coming forth in our country.

00:05:45.000 There's a tremendous divisiveness in our country, but this is the kind of activism that occurs, and people make their own decisions.

00:05:54.000 Oh, people make their own decisions!

00:05:56.000 Right, but we're asking about your opinion on the decisions they're making, see?

00:06:00.000 Like, we're asking whether you think it's okay to yell at Ted Cruz's wife in a restaurant, or yell at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or try and harass senators.

00:06:07.000 You're saying, well, you know, people have their opinions.

00:06:09.000 Yeah, people have their opinions.

00:06:11.000 My opinion is that Maisie Hirono is a completely immoral person based on these statements, or at least she's making completely immoral statements. 1.00

00:06:16.000 That's pretty astonishing stuff.

00:06:18.000 It's not just Maisie Hirono, of course.

00:06:20.000 You have the members of Hollywood and members of the comic community who are joining in.

00:06:25.000 So here is a writer for Stephen Colbert.

00:06:27.000 Stephen Colbert, as we all know, the finest comedian among us.

00:06:30.000 I mean, just a hysterical example of heartbreaking genius. 0.99

00:06:34.000 He has a writer named Ariel Dumas, or dumbass. 0.97

00:06:38.000 I think that it's probably properly pronounced the latter. 0.97

00:06:41.000 Here's what she wrote.

00:06:42.000 Whatever happens, I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life.

00:06:45.000 Yeah, I have a feeling that's how a lot of folks on the left actually feel these days, so points for honesty.

00:06:50.000 And then you have these comedians who decided they were going to follow around Brian Kilmeade.

00:06:54.000 So Brian is legitimately one of the nicest people in the media business.

00:06:57.000 It has nothing to do with politics.

00:06:58.000 Brian is just a genuinely nice human being.

00:07:00.000 He was walking to the subway, I believe from Fox News home, and comics started following him on the subway and then harassing him on the subway, asking people on the subway to harass him as well, and here's what that sounded like.

00:07:12.000 If you have anything you want Donald Trump to say...

00:07:17.000 Or do, tell this guy, because he's the only person in America that Donald Trump listens to.

00:07:22.000 I'll literally give you $10 if you ask Trump to resign tomorrow.

00:07:25.000 Look in the camera and you say, Donald, Mr. President, it's time to resign.

00:07:31.000 I'll raise it to $15.

00:07:34.000 $15.50.

00:07:34.000 $15.50, a napkin, five Tic Tacs, mango, passion fruit smoothie.

00:07:41.000 You're the only person that can stop this mess.

00:07:43.000 Please, I'm begging you.

00:07:45.000 I'm begging you.

00:07:47.000 So much comedian-ing, so much journalism-ing.

00:07:51.000 These folks on the left, they're really holding it together nicely, I think.

00:07:55.000 I think they're really holding it together in a pretty significant way.

00:07:58.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, by the way, if you think that the extremists in the Democratic base are in no way related to the folks at the top of the Democratic Party, all you have to do is watch the relationship between the two.

00:08:08.000 Linda Sarsour,

00:08:09.000 Who's legitimately a pro-terrorist operative.

00:08:12.000 I mean, she actually has stood up for terrorists before.

00:08:15.000 She's radically anti-Semitic.

00:08:16.000 She, of course, is one of the heads of the Women's March. 0.99

00:08:19.000 She introduced Kirstjen Gillibrand at one of the, at this latest rally outside the Supreme Court.

00:08:26.000 So, here is an actual terrorist supporter introducing a sitting senator of the United States in an event and no one on the left batting an eye.

00:08:35.000 Next up, I want to introduce to you another champion, another one of our people who works for us on the inside, someone who understands that she works for the people of this country, who has been speaking up against sexual assault and sexual violence before there was a Brett Kavanaugh.

00:08:51.000 Please give it up to the senator from the greatest state in the United States of America, my state, New York, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:09:01.000 Oh, how delightful.

00:09:03.000 What a delight.

00:09:03.000 And there's Kirsten Gillibrand, you know, a real feminist, standing up there with Amy Schumer as a woman who talked about the great paid maternity leave in Saudi Arabia introduces her.

00:09:13.000 Good stuff there from the Democratic Party.

00:09:15.000 President Trump is correct that the Democrats have indeed turned into an angry mob.

00:09:19.000 And you can see how much of an angry mob they've turned into when we get to what policies they are proposing, because it's pretty astonishing.

00:09:25.000 But here's President Trump hitting the nail on the head.

00:09:27.000 As I've said before, the president is a hammer.

00:09:29.000 Sometimes he hits a nail. 0.57

00:09:30.000 Sometimes he hits a baby.

00:09:32.000 Well, yesterday, he hit a nail.

00:09:34.000 And it was satisfying, because he said what is correct here. 0.68

00:09:36.000 The only thing Democrats had to do, honestly, when Trump was elected, all Democrats had to do was not be crazy.

00:09:43.000 That's all they had to do.

00:09:44.000 They have failed dramatically in that task of not being crazy. 0.79

00:09:47.000 Instead, they've decided to go full-blown crazy.

00:09:49.000 Here is President Trump pointing that out. 0.53

00:09:51.000 In their quest for power, the Radical Democrats have turned into an angry mob.

00:09:58.000 You saw that today with the screaming and the shouting, not from the 200 people or less.

00:10:06.000 You know what?

00:10:07.000 Those people, they couldn't fit in the front row.

00:10:10.000 Look what we have here tonight.

00:10:12.000 Okay, Trump is exactly right about all of this.

00:10:14.000 Now, what do the left, what do the folks on the left want to do about this? 0.99

00:10:17.000 Well, they want to do two things.

00:10:18.000 One, they want to come up with systemic ways to change the system.

00:10:22.000 And two, they want to try out a war on women narrative.

00:10:24.000 The war on women narrative is their great hope that they can start a war of the sexes. 1.00

00:10:27.000 They tried this in 2016.

00:10:29.000 They said that there was a war on women, and Hillary Clinton was a representative of women in this fight.

00:10:33.000 They're hoping that because President Trump is alienating to a lot of particularly suburban women, that they can glom onto that, and then they can combine that with

00:10:41.000 Enthusiasm for the MeToo movement and use that to club Republicans into submission on a political level.

00:10:46.000 We'll get to the war on women narrative in a second.

00:10:48.000 But first, what they want to do is they want to radically change the system of American government.

00:10:53.000 They're full-blown members of the media.

00:10:55.000 I'm talking about Washington Post reporters today who are shocked, shocked to discover that the Senate of the United States is not represented by population.

00:11:04.000 They're shocked to discover that, in fact, each state has two senators.

00:11:07.000 And then they realize that, wait, Montana has fewer people than New York, which means the Senate isn't representative.

00:11:14.000 Oh, my God.

00:11:17.000 They're literally realizing this, like, right now.

00:11:19.000 I don't know where they've been for, I don't know, the past 300 years in this country.

00:11:24.000 But yeah, I mean, this is actually a case that they are making.

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00:12:52.000 Okay, so the media have discovered a few things that they are upset about.

00:12:56.000 So after 2016, they discovered they didn't like the Electoral College very much because

00:13:00.000 Hillary lost.

00:13:01.000 And now they've discovered that there is such a thing called the United States Senate.

00:13:05.000 And that the United States Senate, believe it or not, actually represents a different population than the House of Representatives.

00:13:10.000 Now, originally, the Constitution said that the Senate was not even to be selected by popular vote within the states.

00:13:15.000 Originally, the state legislature selected their own senators, which was

00:13:20.000 The correct move.

00:13:20.000 That's the way it should have worked because that meant that there was even another layer between the population and the Senate.

00:13:25.000 See, the founders were actually quite worried about mob rule.

00:13:28.000 They were quite worried about the idea of pure democracy because they figured that demagoguery could win over broad swaths of the population and that would enable all sorts of bad things to happen to minorities inside the United States.

00:13:39.000 This is what they're worried about, and so they set up a system of checks and balances to provide for the rights of states, while ensuring that if there was overwhelming support for a measure, that all of that would be able to happen anyway.

00:13:50.000 But Aaron Blake over at the Washington Post, in shocking news, breaking news, he's the senior political reporter at the Washington Post, this is breaking news guys, hot off the wires, quote,

00:13:59.000 People are suddenly deciding that population disparities render the Senate undemocratic.

00:14:03.000 Upon ratification, Virginia had 12 times as many people as Delaware.

00:14:06.000 Disparities are bigger now, but they very much existed when our founders decided on this system.

00:14:11.000 So Aaron Blake is obviously

00:14:15.000 You know, actually saying the truth here.

00:14:17.000 But there are a bunch of people in the media who have been suddenly calling on folks to get rid of the Senate.

00:14:22.000 I'm not kidding.

00:14:23.000 I'm looking for all the tweets right now.

00:14:26.000 But basically, they're making the case that the Senate needs to go away.

00:14:30.000 Or alternatively, they're making the case instead that the Supreme Court ought to be packed.

00:14:36.000 So, my favorite is Democrats suggesting that Republicans undemocratically got Brett Kavanaugh through the Senate, when Republicans had the votes in the Senate.

00:14:45.000 Somehow that's undemocratic.

00:14:47.000 And now they're saying their solution to the undemocratic nature of the movement of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court requires them to add more justices to the Supreme Court in violation of the Constitution.

00:14:58.000 This is from the New York Times today.

00:15:00.000 This confirmation vote will not necessarily be the last word on Brett Kavanaugh serving a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, said Brian Fallon, executive director of the liberal group Demand Justice, and the top spokesman for Hillary's 2016 campaign.

00:15:28.000 So what exactly are they talking about?

00:15:29.000 Some have gone as far as proposing if Democrats were to retake control of Congress and the White House in 2020 or after, expanding the number of justices on the court to pack it with liberals, or trying to impeach, remove, and replace Brett Kavanaugh.

00:15:42.000 So good news, the Democrats are taking this all extraordinarily well.

00:15:45.000 They just want to change the system of government completely.

00:15:47.000 They want to get rid of the Senate, and they also want to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court because they couldn't win an election.

00:15:54.000 So well done to Democrats.

00:15:57.000 That's kind of tactic number one.

00:15:59.000 Then there is tactic number two.

00:16:01.000 And tactic number two is, okay, we'll leave the institutions of government in place, but what we are going to focus on innately and inordinately is the supposed war on women. 1.00

00:16:12.000 So this is one of the great lies that's being perpetrated.

00:16:15.000 It's being perpetrated by folks like Valerie Jarrett. 1.00

00:16:17.000 So Valerie Jarrett, you will remember, was a top advisor to President Obama, and she tweeted this out.

00:16:21.000 I think it sums up well the argument being made by folks on the left.

00:16:24.000 Quote,

00:16:39.000 So the idea here is that if you supported Brett Kavanaugh, you are ignoring women who make allegations of sexual assault.

00:16:45.000 This is so transparent, and it's really quite vicious and disgusting.

00:16:50.000 I, again, opposed Roy Moore for the Senate in Alabama as a Republican because there is verifiable evidence that he had done bad things with young girls when he was a younger man.

00:17:02.000 I did not vote for President Trump in large measure because of his treatment of women.

00:17:07.000 There are lots of people who are not happy with sexual assault allegations.

00:17:12.000 Not on the left.

00:17:13.000 On the left, they're okay as long as it's Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton.

00:17:15.000 But there are a lot of people who actually get kind of upset about these allegations.

00:17:18.000 But Brett Kavanaugh's case did not have the required verification or corroboration.

00:17:23.000 Christine Blasey's for his account sort of fell apart.

00:17:25.000 Susan Collins, the senator from Maine who came out in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, she was basically the deciding vote.

00:17:31.000 She's been ripped apart for what she had to say on CNN, but there's nothing innately wrong with what she said on CNN.

00:17:36.000 Here is her explaining that while she believes something happened to Christine Blasey Ford, she just doesn't believe that according to the preponderance of the evidence that Brett Kavanaugh was the guy who did it.

00:17:45.000 I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant.

00:17:49.000 So I do believe that she was assaulted.

00:17:53.000 I don't know by whom, and I'm not certain when, but I do not believe that he was the assailant.

00:18:00.000 Okay, and that prompted Maisie Hirono to come out and say, how could Susan Collins doubt?

00:18:05.000 How could Susan Collins doubt?

00:18:06.000 Well, it's really funny, because I remember that, like, a week ago, literally a week ago, there was a woman named Julie Swetnick, brought forward by Michael Avenatti, and she claimed that Brett Kavanaugh had gang raped her, or that he was involved in gang rapes.

00:18:19.000 You never hear her name anymore from the Democrats.

00:18:21.000 Why?

00:18:22.000 Don't they believe all women? 1.00

00:18:24.000 Don't they believe that all women ought to be believed, regardless of whether there is any sort of verifiable or corroborative evidence?

00:18:31.000 But Julie Swetnick sort of disappeared.

00:18:32.000 Boop.

00:18:33.000 She was gone.

00:18:34.000 So it's not believe all women.

00:18:35.000 It's believe the women who we want to believe because they're slightly more credible.

00:18:39.000 And then Republicans say, OK, well, we agree that Ford was slightly more credible than Swetnick, but we don't believe that she's totally credible either, or at least her story isn't corroborated.

00:18:47.000 And then people are like, no, no, no.

00:18:48.000 That means you're not believing all women. 0.83

00:18:50.000 Right?

00:18:50.000 But you don't believe all women.

00:18:51.000 You don't believe Juanita Broderick.

00:18:52.000 You don't believe Kathleen Willey.

00:18:53.000 You don't believe Paula Jones.

00:18:54.000 You don't believe the waitresses who were sandwiched by Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd back in the 1980s. 0.68

00:18:59.000 You don't believe any of that stuff.

00:19:01.000 It's just, it's maddening, but here is Maisie Hirono saying, because this is a free country where we do not condemn people without due process of law, and we certainly don't condemn people's lives to the ash heap of history, simply without any corroborative evidence whatsoever.

00:19:19.000 Well, to say that she thinks that Dr. Ford thinks that she was assaulted, what is that?

00:19:25.000 Is she mistaken?

00:19:27.000 There was corroboration because she had talked about this assault to her husband, to others, before Brett Kavanaugh was ever nominated to the Supreme Court.

00:19:35.000 She took a lie detector test. 0.97

00:19:37.000 Corroboration was there.

00:19:39.000 Okay, so Mazie Hirono just, again, this is the line.

00:19:42.000 So the line is that we may have lost the battle regarding Brebecavino, but we're winning the cultural war.

00:19:47.000 The cultural war is going to be that men versus women, and that women always must be believed, and that men who do not buy in, or women who don't buy in, are just lackeys of the system.

00:19:58.000 This is the argument being made.

00:19:59.000 So Alyssa Milano was on Meet the Press.

00:20:01.000 Which is just because of her expertise in meh.

00:20:04.000 So Alyssa Milano showed up on Meet the Press after showing up at the hearing because of Dianne Feinstein, who's a very serious senator we know. 0.99

00:20:11.000 Alyssa Milano on Meet the Press, and she explained we're winning the cultural battle.

00:20:15.000 I think a lot has changed, but I also think a lot hasn't changed.

00:20:18.000 And yesterday, we may have lost a political battle, but I do think we are winning the cultural battle.

00:20:25.000 And often, I don't fight for the win.

00:20:28.000 I'm fighting so that generations don't have to deal with the abuses of power that we've had to deal with.

00:20:35.000 Okay, so this is what Democrats are hoping, and they are hoping in the most wild possible way.

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00:20:47.000 But first, let's talk about your sleep quality.

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00:20:54.000 Okay, we're not going to agree on everything.

00:20:56.000 In fact, we may not agree on anything, but we can all agree we can use better sleep.

00:20:59.000 So, that's why you ought to have some better sheets.

00:21:01.000 The reality is you don't think about your sheets.

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00:22:05.000 So, quick note on the undemocratic Senate thing.

00:22:07.000 So it's mostly, so I don't want to hit Aaron Blake, because Aaron Blake is saying the right thing there, obviously.

00:22:11.000 But there are a bunch of people on the left, like Daily Kos guy David Neer.

00:22:15.000 He says, please stop lecturing us about how the Senate is deliberately undemocratic by design.

00:22:19.000 We know this.

00:22:20.000 We point it out because we think it's a bad thing.

00:22:22.000 Except when you thought it was a good thing, like two years ago.

00:22:26.000 When the Democrats were in control of the Senate, like in 2014, 2013, and you were real happy with the Senate, is undemocratic.

00:22:34.000 I love this.

00:22:39.000 Waleed Shaheed, who is a writer for Cynthia Nixon, he did comms and policy for Cynthia Nixon, he said the Senate is undemocratic and it matters.

00:22:49.000 Alec McGillis is a reporter for ProPublica, reporter, saying, the undemocratic nature of representation in the Senate is unlikely to be remedied anytime soon.

00:22:59.000 Good job, everybody.

00:22:59.000 Okay, so back to this war on women narrative that the left is trotting out.

00:23:04.000 This is best exemplified by a woman named Alexis Grinnell. 0.91

00:23:08.000 She has written on gender and politics for the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, and other outlets. 0.98

00:23:11.000 So she is a professional useless person. 1.00

00:23:13.000 And she writes a piece today that is titled, White Women, Come Get Your People. 1.00

00:23:18.000 They will defend their privilege to the death.

00:23:19.000 So what I like about this is that now the left is not just attacking men.

00:23:22.000 Now it's not just a war between women and men. 1.00

00:23:25.000 Now it's a war between intersectionality groups.

00:23:28.000 So it's black women versus white women and Hispanic women versus white women because it turns out white women largely sided with Brett Kavanaugh. 0.87

00:23:36.000 White women vote Republican more often because it turns out a lot of women actually think individually. 1.00

00:23:41.000 Women don't always think like the left wants them to think, which is fine and good. 1.00

00:23:46.000 I thought the whole point of feminism is you get to think what you want to think, but not according to the feminists. 1.00

00:23:51.000 Here is this insane piece.

00:23:52.000 I mean, this is fully crazy.

00:23:54.000 This is like, get the butterfly net and the straitjacket stuff.

00:23:58.000 Here's what Alexis Grinnell writes, in keeping with the moderate tone of the Democrats lately.

00:24:06.000 After a confirmation process where women all but slit their wrists 1.00

00:24:10.000 Letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through the Capitol.

00:24:15.000 The Senate still voted to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

00:24:19.000 With the exception of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all the women in the Republican conference caved, including Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who held out until the bitter end.

00:24:28.000 All but slit their wrists, letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through the Capitol.

00:24:36.000 I wasn't aware that screaming at people was

00:24:40.000 We're good to go.

00:24:57.000 I think that we ought to have a new rule.

00:24:58.000 Now there's a rule on the internet about using Hitler.

00:25:03.000 I'm trying to remember the rule about using Hitler on the internet.

00:25:05.000 What's it called?

00:25:07.000 There's an actual name for it.

00:25:09.000 Godwin's Law.

00:25:09.000 So it's called Godwin's Law.

00:25:11.000 That basically the longer an internet argument goes on, the more likely somebody is going to drop Hitler in the middle of the argument.

00:25:16.000 Well, the same thing now holds true for the Handmaid's Tale.

00:25:20.000 Call it Shapiro's Law. 0.65

00:25:21.000 The longer any argument goes on with the left,

00:25:23.000 The more of an opportunity the left is going to have to drop a reference to Handmaid's Tale, the most overrated book of the last half century, and a series that has become popular largely because the media have decided that it is deeply important for women to believe that they are on the verge of being sexually enslaved by men, in a society where fewer women than ever in American history are getting married, in which women are waiting longer to get married, having fewer children, and having more income from jobs than any time in American history, but women are this close.

00:25:52.000 They're this close.

00:25:52.000 If Mike Pence has his way, we're going to stick those women in those red burqas and we're just going to force them to reproduce with us.

00:26:00.000 That's what we're going to do. 0.99

00:26:01.000 If Mike Pence has his way, that evil, evil Mike Pence.

00:26:05.000 So here's what Alexis Grinnell writes.

00:26:23.000 Ooh, they tell their daughters not to dress all skimpy. 1.00

00:26:29.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:26:29.000 That means that they're bad moms, because the best moms tell their daughters to go out in the streets naked. 0.96

00:26:33.000 That's what the best moms do. 1.00

00:26:35.000 I love that.

00:26:36.000 First of all, I just have to stop right there.

00:26:38.000 This notion that if you tell your daughter not to dress skimply because she should respect herself more than that, that this makes you a bad parent or a restrictive parent is utterly insane.

00:26:49.000 It's utterly insane.

00:26:50.000 Only somebody who has never really raised children in any serious capacity could think this.

00:26:56.000 Or maybe if you think this, maybe you have a different strategy.

00:26:59.000 I don't know about Alexis Grinnell's situation.

00:27:01.000 Maybe she has kids. 0.99

00:27:02.000 Maybe.

00:27:03.000 Maybe.

00:27:03.000 All I will say is that it is a bad strategy to send your teenage girl to a high school in her bra and panties.

00:27:09.000 Just gonna say it's a bad idea.

00:27:12.000 And it doesn't make you a bad parent to say so.

00:27:13.000 It means that you're trying to protect your daughter from the fact that there are dangerous people in the world.

00:27:18.000 And also, because maybe your daughter doesn't want to look like a sex object all the time. 1.00

00:27:21.000 Maybe she doesn't want to portray herself as a sex object. 1.00

00:27:24.000 I like how the feminist movement moved from the correct opinion about pornography, that pornography was objectification of women for the pleasure of men, to pornography is empowerment of women.

00:27:34.000 Yeah, I'm sure that all those men who are in their basements right now watching Stormy Daniels old tapes are thinking about the empowerment of women.

00:27:40.000 They're all feminists. 1.00

00:27:42.000 That's what they're thinking right now.

00:27:44.000 Hey, but I love this.

00:27:45.000 Women who show up at the Capitol wearing Women for Kavanaugh t-shirts probably tell their daughters to put on less revealing clothes. 1.00

00:27:50.000 I also like the equation.

00:27:53.000 Put on less revealing clothes is the same thing as we want to make you a nun now. 1.00

00:27:56.000 Okay.

00:27:57.000 When did modesty become such a terrible thing?

00:27:59.000 I think men should be modest too, by the way.

00:28:01.000 But let's not pretend that men don't view women as sexualized objects, especially when women wear clothing that makes them more likely to be viewed as such.

00:28:12.000 It's a free country, you can wear what you want.

00:28:13.000 I'm not saying you shouldn't wear what you want. 0.98

00:28:15.000 I'm saying I would tell my daughters that because I'm not an idiot. 0.96

00:28:19.000 Okay, this piece continues. 0.98

00:28:21.000 They're more sympathetic to Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who actually shooed away a crowd of women and told them to grow up. 0.70

00:28:26.000 Well, right, because they were screaming at him like banshees.

00:28:30.000 We played the tape on the show.

00:28:31.000 And then he told them to grow up, and then they told him to grow up, which was hilarious, since he's one million years old.

00:28:36.000 Or Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whose response to a woman telling him she was raped was, I'm sorry, call the cops.

00:28:42.000 Which is, again, not an improper response.

00:28:47.000 Like, I'm sorry that happened to you.

00:28:49.000 Maybe you should talk to the authorities so we can catch the rapist and put him in jail is not a horrible response.

00:28:55.000 When did that become a bad response?

00:28:57.000 I'm just wondering.

00:28:58.000 What do you think Lindsey Graham's gonna do? 1.00

00:29:00.000 He's gonna grab his pistol like Yosemite Sam?

00:29:02.000 And you're gonna lead him to a house?

00:29:03.000 He's gonna burst through the front door, Lindsey Graham?

00:29:06.000 He's gonna burst through the front door? 1.00

00:29:07.000 He's like, well, I guess I have to shoot this fella now because this woman, without any evidence, said that she was raped by you. 1.00

00:29:13.000 Like that's gonna happen? 0.99

00:29:15.000 What do you think Lindsey Graham is going to say? 0.99

00:29:17.000 You want him to say, a woman comes up, she says, I was raped. 0.53

00:29:20.000 What's he supposed to say at that point?

00:29:21.000 You know what? 1.00

00:29:23.000 Now that you told me you were raped, Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist. 1.00

00:29:25.000 What in the? 1.00

00:29:27.000 Okay, this continues and we will get deeper into the insane, maze-like mind of the left on these women's issues in just one second. 1.00

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00:34:05.000 So the rampant mind loss that has taken over large swaths of the left obviously is being forwarded by their belief that if they just scream loud enough about how men are sexist, this will win out.

00:34:16.000 Alexis Grinnell has this piece in the New York Times we're going through, and I think it's indicative of a mindset on the left that it's pretty insane.

00:34:22.000 So, she's already accused women who supported Brett Kavanaugh or any Republican of being traitors. 1.00

00:34:29.000 She says, these are the kind of women who think that being falsely accused of rape is almost as bad as being raped. 1.00

00:34:34.000 The kind of women who agree with President Trump that it's a very scary time for young men in America, which he said during a news conference on Tuesday.

00:34:40.000 Well, it turns out, you don't actually have to compare the two, being falsely accused of rape is pretty bad.

00:34:45.000 Being falsely accused of rape does indeed ruin your life, destroy your reputation, destroy your family.

00:34:50.000 I don't have to compare that to rape, because there's no comparison.

00:34:54.000 Like, I don't see the necessity of comparing the crimes, but being falsely accused of rape is kind of a bad thing.

00:35:00.000 And when President Trump says, it's a very scary time for young men in America, that is 100% true. 1.00

00:35:05.000 I don't know a single mom, not a single mom with a boy who is not worried about the possibility of where all of this is going, especially considering the vagary of the nature of consent in our current political discourse.

00:35:17.000 We're now living in a time when Title IX charges can be brought against basically any man on any campus for any reason without any evidence and destroy the guy's life. 0.98

00:35:26.000 But here's Alexis Grinnell continuing, The people who scare me the most are the mothers, sisters, and wives of these young men, because my stupid uterus still holds out some insane hope of solidarity. 0.78

00:35:35.000 First of all, I just would like to point out that this appeared in the New York Times, the most solid paper in the United States, according to folks on the left. 0.97

00:35:44.000 And it printed a sentence in which a woman said that her uterus holds out hope.

00:35:49.000 Uteri do not hold out hope.

00:35:51.000 Uteri are an organ. 1.00

00:35:52.000 It's like me saying my appendix holds out hope.

00:35:55.000 In any case, she says, we're talking about white women, the same 53% who put their racial privilege ahead of their second-class gender status in 2016 by voting to uphold a system that values only their whiteness, just as they have for decades. 0.52

00:36:09.000 So white women put their femininity behind them. 1.00

00:36:11.000 They're not real women, is where this is going. 1.00

00:36:13.000 White women aren't real women, they're just white people. 1.00

00:36:14.000 They're just faceless, nameless white people. 0.99

00:36:16.000 You know, like these genderless widgets of whiteness. 1.00

00:36:19.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:36:20.000 Since 1952, white women have broken for Democratic presidential candidates only twice. 1.00

00:36:25.000 In the 1964 and 1996 elections, according to an analysis by Jane Jhun, a political scientist at the University of Southern California, women of color, and specifically black women, make the margin of difference for Democrats. 0.97

00:36:37.000 The voting patterns of white women and white men mirror each other much more closely, and they tend to cast their ballots for Republicans. 0.92

00:36:42.000 The gender gap in politics is really a color line. 1.00

00:36:45.000 Well, actually, that's not really true.

00:36:46.000 The gender gap in politics is really a marriage line. 0.99

00:36:49.000 If you actually look at how single people vote versus how married people vote, that's really the distinction.

00:36:54.000 Married people tend to vote heavily Republican.

00:36:56.000 Married women tend to vote heavily Republican. 0.95

00:36:58.000 Single women tend to vote heavily Democrat. 0.87

00:37:00.000 So it's not about color and it's not even about sex.

00:37:02.000 It's very much about marital status.

00:37:04.000 Why?

00:37:04.000 Because when you have kids and you start thinking to the next generation, and when you start thinking, what's the kind of society where I want to bring up a family?

00:37:10.000 And when you start thinking,

00:37:11.000 You know, I have a family unit that requires protection from an overarching federal government that wants to get in my grill.

00:37:17.000 Well, that changes your mind a little bit.

00:37:20.000 But according to Alexis Grinnell, it's all about the whiteness.

00:37:23.000 That's because white women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain. 1.00

00:37:30.000 In return, they're placed on a pedestal to be cherished and revered, as Speaker Paul Ryan has said about women, but all the while denied basic rights. 0.51

00:37:36.000 This is just nonsensical.

00:37:37.000 It's just nonsensical.

00:37:38.000 I don't even know what that first sentence means. 0.83

00:37:39.000 White women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain. 1.00

00:37:47.000 First of all, replace white with black in that sentence, and obviously it's racist. 0.98

00:37:50.000 But beyond that, the idea that women are somehow trading on their sexuality in order to achieve some decent treatment at the hands of the patriarchy, this is all crazy. 0.91

00:38:01.000 I'm sorry, this is all crazy stuff.

00:38:03.000 And I urge Democrats to run down this hill screaming like banshees as fast as possible.

00:38:08.000 Like, please, go, do this.

00:38:09.000 Make this your electoral strategy.

00:38:10.000 All those suburban white women, 1.00

00:38:12.000 Go for that.

00:38:12.000 Let's do that.

00:38:13.000 It's amazing.

00:38:13.000 So here's her evidence.

00:38:14.000 She says,

00:38:26.000 During the 2016 presidential election, did white women really vote with their whiteness in mind? 1.00

00:38:30.000 Lori Frazier-Yockley, a political scientist at UCLA, recently measured the effect of racial identity on white women's willingness to support Trump in 2016, and found a positive and statistically significant relationship.

00:38:41.000 So white women who voted for him did so to prop up their whiteness. 1.00

00:38:45.000 Or, alternatively, correlation does not equal causation because that's basic mathematical and statistical science.

00:38:54.000 In the study, white women who agreed that many women interpret innocent remarks or acts as sexist were 17% more likely to vote for a Republican candidate. 0.61

00:39:02.000 Right, that makes sense, because Democrats have gotten hysterical on this issue and they have decided that everything ought to be treated as rape.

00:39:07.000 When Matt Damon suggested that there were gradations of sexual misconduct, he was run out of town on a rail by folks on the left.

00:39:16.000 So finally, she concludes, this blood pact between white men and white women is at issue in the November midterms.

00:39:21.000 President Trump knows it, and at that Tuesday news conference he signaled to white women to hold the line. 0.71

00:39:25.000 The people that have been complaining to me about it the most, about what's happening, are women. 1.00

00:39:29.000 Women are very angry. 1.00

00:39:31.000 Yes, women are very angry. 1.00

00:39:32.000 Many mothers, many mothers are very angry, and that crosses racial lines.

00:39:36.000 But this is, the attempt to militarize the MeToo movement, which was supposed to be a bipartisan movement with basically universal support, no one wants to see women mistreated, has now been shattered thanks to politics, because the left decided that MeToo, any allegation, that under MeToo, any allegation brought against someone they like is going to be ignored, and any allegation brought against someone they don't like is going to be upheld.

00:39:58.000 That's the way this now works according to the left.

00:40:00.000 So me too broke on the shoals of politics because we were all on the same side with regard to all of this stuff.

00:40:07.000 But no longer.

00:40:08.000 I can't be on the same side as people who want to do away with due process simply because they think that this is somehow going to...

00:40:16.000 Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the craziest story of the day.

00:40:22.000 The craziest story of the day, as it turns out, comes courtesy of an astronaut.

00:40:29.000 This astronaut's name is Scott Kelly.

00:40:31.000 So Scott Kelly, is he a relation to Mark Kelly?

00:40:34.000 I don't know.

00:40:34.000 In any case, he's a former astronaut.

00:40:37.000 He went into space in, I believe, 1999, and he got himself into hot water with the political left.

00:40:41.000 Why?

00:40:42.000 Well, not because Scott Kelly's actually a right-winger.

00:40:44.000 He's not.

00:40:44.000 He actually tweeted this out.

00:40:51.000 Now I could argue with that tweet on the merits.

00:40:54.000 Victory and magnanimity has not been part of American politics for quite a while.

00:40:57.000 I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden told Barack Obama that Obamacare was a big effing deal.

00:41:03.000 I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama shined a rainbow flag on the wall of the White House after Obergefell.

00:41:09.000 I'm old enough to remember after 2008 when Barack Obama simply said to Republicans, I won.

00:41:15.000 I have a memory.

00:41:16.000 I don't have short-term memory loss.

00:41:17.000 I'm not Dory from Finding Nemo.

00:41:19.000 I remember all of this stuff happening.

00:41:21.000 But now we're told that it's bad if you celebrate Judge Kavanaugh being appointed to the Supreme Court.

00:41:26.000 But here's the part that's hilarious.

00:41:28.000 So Scott Kelly isn't ripped up by the right for this tweet.

00:41:30.000 Instead, he's ripped up by the left.

00:41:32.000 Why?

00:41:33.000 Because he had the temerity to quote Winston Churchill.

00:41:36.000 He tweeted out,

00:41:53.000 I will not come together with anyone who says I cannot quote Winston Churchill.

00:41:58.000 Not going to happen.

00:42:00.000 I will not come together with anyone who says I cannot quote Abraham Lincoln.

00:42:03.000 Because Abraham Lincoln, for most of his career, was a guy who believed in colonization of black people in Africa from the United States.

00:42:11.000 He was wrong about that.

00:42:12.000 That was a bad perspective.

00:42:13.000 I am not going to live in a country where I can't quote Abraham Lincoln and suggest that Abraham Lincoln was not a hero.

00:42:20.000 I'm not going to make common cause with people who say that I cannot quote Thomas Jefferson or George Washington or the wide variety of historical figures who were shaped by their time and held opinions that are not within the mainstream of today and are considered immoral today.

00:42:33.000 You know why? 0.99

00:42:34.000 Because that's idiotic. 1.00

00:42:36.000 There are two visions of how West works. 1.00

00:42:38.000 Vision 1.

00:42:39.000 The West is based on certain fundamental good principles.

00:42:42.000 And those principles were held by people who simultaneously did not live up to those principles in the fullest way, shaped as they were by the times in which they lived.

00:42:50.000 This is called being historically accurate.

00:42:53.000 That there are lots of good ideas embedded in times when lots of bad things are happening.

00:42:58.000 And this is the same thing that folks say about, they very often use this with regard to biblical criticism.

00:43:02.000 Well, the Bible is an immoral document because it contains things that we would not like today.

00:43:07.000 So, for example, it talks about slavery in the Bible.

00:43:10.000 And it's like, right, because the Bible was directed toward people who were routinely enslaving people, and the Bible was attempting to curb them from slavery, which is why, over time, the greatest advocates for freeing slaves were actually biblically-minded people in the 18th and 19th centuries. 0.76

00:43:26.000 The point is that either you see the West as a repository of certain eternal truths that we have not all lived up to, or you see it as a repository of evil that must be torn down.

00:43:34.000 And the same people who are saying you can't quote Churchill are the people who say we have to tear down the entire structure from the inside.

00:43:40.000 It has to be torn down, root and branch, and then, when we're finally done, then we can erect a new system in its place.

00:43:47.000 And so they'll tell lies about Churchill.

00:43:50.000 Churchill said some very nasty things during his career.

00:43:53.000 Things we would consider nasty now.

00:43:55.000 He heaped racial scorn on a variety of groups ranging from the Indians to the, like, from India, to the Sudanese, to certain Asian tribes.

00:44:02.000 But what the left has done is they've taken those comments out of context to suggest that he was complicit in genocide in Burma, which is not true.

00:44:08.000 To suggest that he wanted to gas people, which is also not true.

00:44:12.000 He suggested using tear gas against people to save their lives as opposed to using bullets, actually.

00:44:19.000 So they take all this stuff out of context.

00:44:22.000 This has relevance today not only because it demonstrates the extremism of the left, that we're now at the point where we're not allowed to quote Winston Churchill,

00:44:29.000 But it explains why there's this big fight that's now taking place over Columbus Day.

00:44:32.000 So on the left, the perspective is that Columbus Day is bad because Western Civilization is bad, and so we must celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on the day that Columbus discovered Hispaniola.

00:44:41.000 And on the right, the perspective is Christopher Columbus and the West have committed a lot of sins, but it is an eminently good thing for the world that Western Civilization found the Western Hemisphere.

00:44:49.000 That's the basic argument.

00:44:51.000 It's really not about Columbus.

00:44:52.000 It's about the value of Western Civilization.

00:44:54.000 That's really, at root, that is what the argument is about.

00:44:58.000 So, meanwhile, I want to talk about some things that I like, and then we'll talk about some things that I hate.

00:45:03.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:05.000 Heather McDonald has a fantastic, fantastic piece over at City Journal, in which she talks about the moving definition of rape.

00:45:12.000 It's called, Trauma and Truth.

00:45:13.000 The feminist movement has shifted the definition of rape to include regret.

00:45:16.000 And she talks specifically about, it's very difficult to come to agreement on Me Too when you won't define your terms.

00:45:22.000 So what she says, and she points out, is that in preparation for the next Salem witch trial-like ordeal, therefore, it is worth empirically rebutting the Believe Survivors mandate as well as its corollary.

00:45:34.000 The claim that if most self-professed rape survivors in our patriarchal culture don't report their assaults, that's because the social and emotional costs are too high, as California Congressman Ted Lieu explained on MSNBC last Sunday.

00:45:46.000 And the point that Heather McDonald makes is that a lot of 0.92

00:45:49.000 A lot of the variability in how sexual activity takes place makes for confusion about what exactly rape is.

00:45:57.000 And so when the left draws this hard line where anything a woman says rape is, is rape, what they are really doing is they are refusing to acknowledge the inherent vagaries of sexual relationships.

00:46:08.000 See, here's what Heather McDonald says, and this is correct.

00:46:30.000 And the overwhelming reason the alleged victims did not report is that they did not think that what happened to them was that serious.

00:46:36.000 At Harvard, for example, over 69% of female respondents who checked the box for penetration by use of force did not report the incident to any authority.

00:46:44.000 Most of those non-reporters, 65%, did not think that their experience was serious enough to report.

00:46:51.000 Now, why is that?

00:46:52.000 That's because, in college campuses, we have what is called a yes-means-yes standard, which means that if a woman goes through with the act of sex with a guy, and they're both drunk, and she wakes up the next morning, and she didn't say yes at every step because she was drunk, then therefore, she was raped.

00:47:05.000 But, in many cases, the woman says, you know what?

00:47:08.000 I wasn't really raped.

00:47:09.000 I made a report, but I didn't feel it was that serious.

00:47:12.000 Now, is she wrong?

00:47:13.000 Is her subjective opinion wrong?

00:47:15.000 Or is it possible that people are subjective in their opinions of what constitutes consent?

00:47:20.000 Like there's certain hard lines that we all agree to, right? 0.92

00:47:22.000 Forcible rape is rape. 1.00

00:47:24.000 And then there's a bunch of gray area.

00:47:26.000 And failing to acknowledge the gray area with regard to this stuff leads to absurdities like the yes means yes rules.

00:47:32.000 No one has ever had sex with a legal checklist on hand.

00:47:34.000 No one in history has ever done this.

00:47:36.000 And so when people in college campuses say you're supposed to say like, can I touch your hand now?

00:47:40.000 Can I touch your shoulder now?

00:47:41.000 Can I touch your knee now?

00:47:43.000 There's a great episode of New Girl.

00:47:45.000 Zoe Deschanel.

00:48:00.000 We're good to go. 0.97

00:48:21.000 And so she ends up running out and having sex with some random guy in the children's play area.

00:48:29.000 Because no one actually operates like this. 0.87

00:48:31.000 No one operates like this.

00:48:33.000 And that's not to suggest that bad things don't happen to women. 1.00

00:48:35.000 Terrible things happen to women all the time. 1.00

00:48:37.000 That's true.

00:48:39.000 But we actually have to define our terms if you want all of us to agree on things.

00:48:43.000 I want to agree with these women.

00:48:45.000 I want to believe victims.

00:48:46.000 I want to believe survivors.

00:48:48.000 I want to.

00:48:49.000 But I have to know what definitions we're using and I have to know what the corroborative evidence is.

00:48:52.000 Otherwise, we have just a moving standard.

00:48:54.000 A moving target.

00:48:57.000 Good example. 0.97

00:48:57.000 You remember when the entire left went nuts over Aziz Ansari inviting a woman back to his apartment whom he had sex with? 0.97

00:49:03.000 And then she was like, oh yeah, I was raped. 0.99

00:49:05.000 And you read her story and there was nothing in there that suggested she was sexually assaulted or raped. 0.98

00:49:08.000 Nothing. 0.77

00:49:09.000 And they went nuts over it anyway.

00:49:10.000 And you had to apologize.

00:49:13.000 Do I think that this has become a moral panic?

00:49:15.000 Yes, I think this has become a moral panic.

00:49:17.000 Heather McDonald's piece is really good.

00:49:19.000 She says, Our booze-fueled hookup culture has made relations between men and women messier than ever, leaving many girls and women with pangs of regret, but those regrets do not equal rape.

00:49:27.000 If we were actually in the midst of an epidemic of sexual assault, as New Jersey Senator Cory Booker asserted the evening of the Ford Kavanaugh hearings, we would presumably have seen women and girls take protective actions, such as avoiding frat parties and flocking to single-sex schools.

00:49:39.000 It's a good piece by Heather MacDonald and she is, in large part, correct.

00:49:42.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:49:43.000 So I have to give props to Banksy.

00:49:44.000 Not a big fan of Banksy's art, but I will say that this was an amazing, amazing prank.

00:49:47.000 So Banksy,

00:50:02.000 He created a painting of a girl with a balloon and sold it at a Sotheby's auction.

00:50:08.000 It went for, I think, $1.4 million.

00:50:09.000 And he had his art rigged so that when the final gavel was sounded, the painting would begin to shred itself.

00:50:18.000 It would go through the bottom barrier of the frame and actually physically shred, which is hilarious because the truth is that the value of art is entirely subjective.

00:50:29.000 It's entirely subjective.

00:50:30.000 And it's based on artificial scarcity, and he's making that point.

00:50:33.000 So I have to give it to Banksy.

00:50:35.000 I think this is a pretty good prank.

00:50:36.000 And he'll sell the thing for more money after it's been half-shredded, because now he made a meta point.

00:50:41.000 Because this is what art is.

00:50:41.000 It's not really appreciation of the art, it's appreciation of the meta point of the message.

00:50:45.000 So I think Banksy may not even understand the amount to which he's mocking the art community.

00:50:50.000 I think he thinks he's mocking capitalism, but he's actually mocking the subjectivity of art.

00:50:54.000 But nonetheless, it's pretty funny.

00:50:56.000 Here's some video.

00:50:59.000 Okay, and then look to the wall.

00:51:10.000 Uh oh, there goes the painting.

00:51:13.000 And the audience goes silent and shocked.

00:51:15.000 Oh my god, what just happened?

00:51:18.000 People can't believe it.

00:51:20.000 So, that's pretty funny.

00:51:22.000 So, good times.

00:51:23.000 Alright, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:51:31.000 Okay, so Pete Davidson was on SNL over the weekend.

00:51:34.000 SNL has just been egregious this season because folks on the left are utterly incapable of making light of the events happening.

00:51:40.000 For folks on the left, the feeling that they have down in the pit of their stomachs is that their brother just died.

00:51:44.000 And because their brother just died, how can you joke about your brother just dying?

00:51:47.000 So instead, you just get kind of bitter and cynical and nasty.

00:51:50.000 And that's basically what you're seeing from SNL these days.

00:51:52.000 So Pete Davidson

00:51:54.000 I don't even know what he's wearing.

00:52:04.000 It's like a tangerine orange kind of long-sleeved t-shirt.

00:52:09.000 It looks like he was picking up stuff on the side of the road before he came in.

00:52:13.000 In any case, he goes off on Kanye West.

00:52:15.000 Why?

00:52:15.000 Because Kanye West was on SNL the previous week and had worn his MAGA hat

00:52:18.000 So, speaking strictly for myself, what Kanye said after he went off the air last week was one of the worst, like, most awkward things I've ever seen here.

00:52:37.000 And I've seen Chevy Chase speak to an intern.

00:52:41.000 And we all had to stand behind him.

00:52:44.000 And here's what it looked like.

00:52:45.000 So, like...

00:52:47.000 I'm like on the left, I'm like, oh God.

00:52:50.000 And then I'm like, I want a career, so I leave. 1.00

00:52:56.000 Being mentally ill is not an excuse to act like a jackass. 0.99

00:53:09.000 You're a comedian, dude. 1.00

00:53:11.000 Like, you're on SNL.

00:53:13.000 And yet you know something about politics?

00:53:15.000 I'm old enough to remember. 0.94

00:53:16.000 I keep using that phrase today because the hypocrisy of the left is so strong.

00:53:19.000 I'm old enough to remember when Laura Ingraham was ripped up and down for suggesting that LeBron James should shut up and dribble because he knew basketball, but that didn't mean he knew politics.

00:53:26.000 And I said at the time, anybody's entitled to their opinion on politics, but we get to assess whether those opinions are smart or not.

00:53:32.000 Kanye's entitled to his opinion on politics.

00:53:34.000 And listen, this is coming from the guy who said, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye. 0.58

00:53:39.000 But, when folks on the left suddenly discover that Kanye West is a celebrity, and maybe celebrities don't have the smartest takes on politics, it's kind of ironic and kind of silly.

00:53:47.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:53:49.000 So, CNN's original headline on this story was just terrible.

00:53:52.000 The original headline was, Wasn't the...

00:54:00.000 A Palestinian killed two people in a terror attack.

00:54:02.000 Their original report suggested that it was a workplace violence incident, which is absurd.

00:54:06.000 What actually happened is that over the weekend, a 27-year-old Israeli named Kim Yechezgal was tied up and executed point-blank by a Palestinian co-worker in the West Bank, a place where Jews and Arabs work together.

00:54:18.000 The Palestinian Authority obviously will give money to the terrorist family.

00:54:21.000 She leaves behind a baby daughter and a husband.

00:54:24.000 She was one of two people who was killed.

00:54:26.000 There's a picture of her, obviously a very beautiful young woman, and she was murdered for the crime of being a Jew and living in Judea and Samaria. 0.52

00:54:33.000 That's exactly what happened here.

00:54:34.000 The media covered it, as they always do, as the predictable effect of occupation, which is pretty astonishing that if you are working at a factory next to Arabs with whom you share a life, and one of them

00:54:49.000 Okay, so that's a great tragedy.

00:54:50.000 I believe there's a GoFundMe for the family.

00:54:52.000 I'll try and tweet it out a little bit later if I can find it.

00:54:55.000 Okay, let's do a quick Federalist paper since we've been remiss the last few weeks.

00:54:59.000 So we are all the way up to Federalist 46.

00:55:00.000 In this Federalist paper, Madison is wrong.

00:55:15.000 So here's where Madison is wrong.

00:55:17.000 James Madison argues in favor of the notion that the people will be more loyal to the states than they are to the federal government.

00:55:21.000 So this is still true in, like, Texas, and not true pretty much anywhere else.

00:55:25.000 I live in California.

00:55:26.000 No one is more loyal to the state of California than they are to the federal government.

00:55:29.000 No one.

00:55:30.000 That's just not the way it works.

00:55:31.000 No one says, I'm a Californian.

00:55:33.000 That's not how it operates.

00:55:36.000 But Madison says, truth in the less than decency requires that the event in every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents.

00:55:44.000 Many considerations besides those suggested on a former occasion seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the governments of their respective states.

00:55:53.000 And originally, of course, this was true.

00:55:54.000 At the time of the founding, people were more loyal to the state of Virginia than they were to the federal government, which is why, note to leftists,

00:56:01.000 The Senate requires two votes per state because the only way the states were going to sign on is if they felt that they had enough insurance against the popular vote that they could afford to sign on to a federal constitution.

00:56:13.000 Smaller states didn't want their authority withdrawn from them without their permission, not on the basis of having a smaller population.

00:56:20.000 That's why there is a United States Senate today. 0.98

00:56:23.000 Madison argues the only way the federal government could ever earn the appreciation of the people would be terrific administration.

00:56:28.000 He says, if the people should in the future become more partial to the federal than the state government, the change would only result from manifest and irresistible proofs of a better administration.

00:56:37.000 That obviously is untrue.

00:56:38.000 He missed the point, which is that if the federal government grows and grows and grows and encroaches and encroaches and encroaches slowly and more slowly,

00:56:45.000 Then people would just get used, like a lobster in a pot, they'd just get used to the heat.

00:56:49.000 They'd just get used to the federal government being deeply important in their lives.

00:56:52.000 And then he adds that the federal government would seriously take into account state interests, just as state legislatures take into account county interests.

00:57:00.000 But he says, in the end, and this is the point that the left really doesn't want to acknowledge because it ties into Second Amendment rights,

00:57:06.000 He says that the states, if the federal government got too big for its britches, the states would cut it down to size.

00:57:11.000 He says,

00:57:27.000 This is the reason why people in Texas don't want to give up their guns to the federal government.

00:57:31.000 Because they believe, if you give up your guns, you're giving up all your other rights.

00:57:49.000 as well.

00:57:50.000 He says the only real problem would be federal power for its own sake, and he says that would never happen because the state governments with the people on their side would be able to repel the danger.

00:58:00.000 So, Madison was pretty clear about what the function of states and arms ownership was in Federalist 46.

00:58:05.000 Okay.

00:58:06.000 Well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest tonight.

00:58:08.000 We are at University of Buffalo, so go check us out at yaf.org slash live to watch.

00:58:12.000 I'm going to be going off on radical feminism. 1.00

00:58:13.000 That is the topic of tonight's speech.

00:58:15.000 All new material.

00:58:16.000 So it should be a lot of fun.

00:58:17.000 We'll see you then.

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