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00:00:06.000We will also be getting to Donald Trump giving a million dollars to Hurricane Harvey victims and why the left is now desperate for the Russia investigation to pan out, even more desperate than they were before.
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00:01:55.000And Sarah Huckabee Sanders made that announcement yesterday, and so here is what Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to say about it.
00:02:00.000Had a chance to speak directly with the president earlier, and I'm happy to tell you that he would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we've seen across this country do.
00:02:11.000And he's pledging a million dollars of personal money to the fund, and he's actually asked that I check with the folks in this room
00:02:19.000Since you are very good at research and have been doing a lot of reporting into the groups and organizations that are best and most effective in helping and providing aid and he'd love some suggestions from the folks here and I'd be happy to take those if any of you have them.
00:03:48.000It's not Trump at this point who's dividing the American people.
00:03:50.000Trump is responding the way he's supposed to be responding, and it's Sanders who's suggesting the divisions.
00:03:55.000And when it comes to the divisive rhetoric stuff, when it comes to the idea that Trump is the only one who's engaged in divisive rhetoric, this is not whataboutism, okay?
00:04:02.000I've been very, very critical of President Trump's rhetoric.
00:04:05.000I've criticized him for not disassociating himself from the alt-right.
00:04:08.000I think I've been pretty clear on this for the last two years at this point.
00:04:11.000That I think a lot of President Trump's rhetoric is designed to divide rather than to unite, and I don't like that part of his rhetoric that it is designed to do that without actually naming an enemy.
00:04:23.000That said, the idea that the left has proposed that Trump is the divider and they are the great uniters is absolute nonsense.
00:04:28.000This is a report from Politico, and it's an amazing report that's going to go under-noticed today, which is why we're going to bring attention to it on this, the most popular podcast on the right in America.
00:04:41.000They reported on Friday, the federal government has been worrying about the rise of Antifa, this is this leftist quasi-domestic terror group, since early 2016.
00:04:50.000Not 2017, like most people became aware of Antifa in 2017 when Antifa burned a bunch of crap at a Yiannopoulos speech at Berkeley.
00:04:57.000But Antifa had been very active in 2016.
00:05:00.000They had engaged in violent riots in Sacramento.
00:05:10.000There were a bunch of people who showed up to quote-unquote defend the rights of the white supremacists, and Antifa showed up ready to do violence.
00:05:16.000When this happened, it was not covered by the media, but that happened in the middle of 2016 in Sacramento at the state capitol.
00:05:24.000Apparently, the federal government has had reports on Antifa since early 2016, even labeled their activities domestic terrorist violence.
00:05:32.000Do you remember Obama saying anything about it in 2016?
00:06:15.000It's the white supremacists show up with a brick, and the Antifa people show up with a bat, and they go at each other.
00:06:20.000It is Antifa that has provoked these clashes, and then a lot of these white supremacist groups, a lot of these alt-right groups show up, and they look for violence as well.
00:06:28.000But the ones who are instigating this largely are Antifa.
00:06:32.000That's not according to me, that's according to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
00:06:35.000They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government, and political institutions, along with symbols of the capitalist system, racism, social injustice, and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by the DHS and the FBI.
00:06:48.000The violence ratcheted up as President Trump's campaign swung into full gear.
00:06:52.000The FBI noted violence by Antifa in Texas, Oregon, California.
00:06:56.000Law enforcement put particular focus on a white supremacist rally in Sacramento.
00:07:00.000At their Sacramento rally, Antifa protesters came looking for violence and, quote, engaged in several activities indicating proficiency in pre-operational planning, to include organizing carpools, to travel from different locations, raising bail money in preparation for arrests, counter-surveilling law enforcement using three-man scout teams, using handheld radios for communication, coordinating the event via social media, according to the DHS.
00:08:26.000Anytime there was a violent incident, Obama tended to downplay the violence and instead talk about the underlying root causes of the violence.
00:08:36.000Remember, in April 2009, it's amazing the double standard that holds for the right and the left, okay?
00:08:39.000So there's this report that comes out from the FBI and DHS, April 2016, talking about the violence of Antifa.
00:08:46.000Flashback before that seven years, okay?
00:08:48.000It's now April 2009, shortly after Obama takes office, and the Department of Homeland Security, under the auspices of Janet Napolitano, who's now in charge of the University of California system, issued a report saying that white right-wing extremism was on the rise, labeling anti-abortion, anti-immigration groups a suspect.
00:09:05.000The report specifically called out the prospect of lone wolf terrorism from those who agreed with quote-unquote right-wing viewpoints.
00:09:11.000The report was really vague, but the Obama administration stood by it.
00:09:15.000So, how about his apparently very specific report regarding Antifa from the year of the election?
00:09:20.000Not a word from the Obama administration.
00:09:22.000We're only finding out about it a year and a half after it happened.
00:09:26.000And let's contrast the language of that 2009 memo with the language of the Obama administration regarding political violence.
00:09:32.000The 2009 memo about right-wing violence, it says, quote, debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment.
00:09:42.000But in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
00:09:53.000That's vague, but the Obama administration stood by it.
00:09:56.000But when left-wing rhetoric actually turned violent, what did Obama do?
00:10:01.000He said, oh, the violence is bad, but they do have some grievances, don't they?
00:10:04.000I'm speaking specifically about President Obama's speech in July 2016 after a black radical parroting Black Lives Matter talking points went out and murdered five police officers and wounded seven others in Dallas.
00:10:15.000The officers were protecting a Black Lives Matter march at the time.
00:10:18.000Obama actually spent an inordinate amount of time echoing BLM's message at their funeral service.
00:10:24.000Imagine if President Trump had actually gone out after Charlottesville and he had said, and he sort of did do this to a certain extent, the media went nuts.
00:10:33.000You remember that he went out and he said, listen, this violence is terrible, but confederate statues...
00:10:39.000There's a legit argument to be had over Confederate statues.
00:10:42.000Here's what Obama said at the funeral for people who were murdered by a Black Lives Matter supporter, a black radical who is echoing the talking points of Black Lives Matter.
00:10:50.000Here's what he said, quote, We know that bias remains.
00:10:53.000We know it, whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or of Middle Eastern descent.
00:10:58.000We've all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point.
00:11:12.000But not one peep about Antifa, not one peep about Antifa.
00:11:15.000I want to talk a little bit more about that, and how the Democrats are really split now between their radicals and their moderates, and their only hope left is getting President Trump and how they hope to do that.
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00:14:20.000I mean, the communists were responsible for a couple hundred million deaths over the course of the last century.
00:14:26.000As Mark Thiessen said, I'm not sure why it is that somebody who gets violent in American streets carrying the flag of Stalin is better than somebody who gets violent in American streets carrying the flag of Hitler.
00:14:37.000There is a moral equivalence there, and I think that's right.
00:14:41.000Communism is an ideology that is just as evil as Nazism in its own way.
00:14:46.000It's not racist the way that Nazism was, but it is certainly classist.
00:14:49.000I mean, these are people who suggested that people who are bourgeois be murdered.
00:14:54.000You could separate people based on class.
00:14:55.000It's funny how both of these groups seem to center when it comes down to it.
00:14:59.000They both come down on the same side when it comes to the Jewish question.
00:15:01.000Neither of them really liked the Jews very much.
00:15:03.000Stalin wasn't really fond and neither was Hitler.
00:15:05.000But it is amazing how we in the United States, we've taken the sort of sanguine view of communism in a way that we never have with Nazism.
00:15:14.000Even though they were both at the time cheered by by Democrats at the time the the Nazi movement was seen as sort of a proto-fascist Or fascist proto forerunner of a more sophisticated movement that eventually could be used for good by a lot of people Including some mainstays of the Democratic Party back in the day.
00:15:32.000So again, the only point to be made here is
00:15:35.000Is that we ought to be looking at the violence on both sides and condemning it and condemning the ideology that underlies it, but instead what we're seeing is some people on the left condemning the violence, not all, and very few people on the left condemning the ideology at all, whereas everybody on the right who has any brain at all is condemning white supremacists in the alt-right.
00:16:28.000This is from yesterday from Joseph Wolfson.
00:16:32.000The team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly collaborating with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in its ongoing investigation.
00:16:38.000According to a new report from Politico, Mueller's team and Schneiderman's office have been in contact in recent weeks exchanging information and evidence on former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his financial transactions.
00:16:49.000Anonymous sources familiar with the collaboration have said they're potentially building a criminal case, possibly for money laundering, but no decision has been made whether or not charges will be filed.
00:16:58.000Nothing is imminent, one source told Politico.
00:17:01.000As Politico reports, Schneiderman could potentially provide Mueller additional leverage to get Manafort to cooperate with his investigation, noting that President Trump does not have pardoning power over state crime.
00:17:43.000You have Schneiderman charge Manafort in state court, and then say, we'll drop those charges if you testify against Trump, and Trump can't pardon Manafort and just get out of that conundrum.
00:17:52.000That'd be very clever by Mueller if that's what he intends on doing.
00:17:55.000But it's very dangerous for President Trump, obviously, because sitting around waiting to have your former campaign chair indicted at the state level and then see where that ends up is a very dangerous game.
00:18:07.000A lot of people are suggesting that based on this, Trump should fire Mueller.
00:18:11.000That would be the biggest disaster of all.
00:18:12.000Right now, there's a game of chicken going on.
00:18:13.000Mueller's going as far as he can, almost daring Trump to fire him.
00:18:16.000If Trump fires him, all hell will break loose.
00:18:18.000It's going to be very difficult for Republicans to stand up
00:18:21.000In the face of President Trump firing the special investigator who's looking into election corruption.
00:18:26.000That's not the only story involving Mueller today.
00:18:29.000According to Betsy Woodruff from the Daily Beast, special counsel Bob Mueller has teamed up with the IRS.
00:18:34.000According to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged Russian election interference, his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS's criminal investigations unit.
00:18:43.000This unit, known as CI, is one of the federal government's most tight-knit, specialized, secretive investigative entities.
00:18:49.000It has 2,500 agents, focusing exclusively on financial crime, including tax evasion and money laundering.
00:18:57.000The IRS does have access to Trump's tax returns.
00:19:00.000Potential financial crimes are a central part of Mueller's probes.
00:19:04.000Trump has said in the past that that would be the red line for him, as if Mueller started looking into financial dealings of his family, and Mueller said, screw that, I'm looking wherever I please.
00:19:14.000There is a problem too, which is that Trump has not actually staffed up the IRS.
00:19:23.000The team-up between the IRS and Mueller probe could come with political complications.
00:19:27.000Mueller has already taken some criticism for the number of Democratic donors on his team.
00:19:31.000Those critiques intensified yesterday after the announcement about Schneiderman.
00:19:35.000Also, it is pretty clear that Trump has not filled out a lot of the senior positions at these particular, at these particular agencies.
00:19:43.000Trump has not yet named his pick to run the tax division, which is a post that requires Senate confirmation, and also a post which could help out Mueller in his investigation.
00:19:51.000So right now, an Obama appointee is filling the slot that can work with Mueller to give him the information.
00:19:58.000So Mueller can get all the dirt that he wants right now.
00:20:01.000Trump has put himself in this situation because, remember, it was Trump's activity regarding James Comey.
00:20:06.000It was his dragging in of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that led to the appointment of the special counsel in the first place.
00:20:12.000Now if he fires the special counsel, it'll look like a cover-up.
00:20:15.000So it's a full-scale problem for President Trump at this point.
00:20:18.000A lot of people saying, well he should just fire people and get it over with, and that way they can't have grounds to impeach him.
00:20:24.000Again, impeachment is a political grounds.
00:20:26.000I think his best move here is to wait it out.
00:20:29.000And I honestly think that he's actually innocent of the Russia collusion.
00:20:33.000I don't think that Trump himself was colluding with Russia.
00:20:35.000I think that there is a possibility that Manafort was working with the Russians because Manafort's always worked with the Russians.
00:20:41.000I think there's the possibility that Flynn was doing so.
00:20:43.000But the idea that Trump knew about it is a whole different thing.
00:20:46.000So you could easily see a scenario where Trump's underlings go down and it looks more like Iran-Contra than it looks like Watergate.
00:20:52.000It looks a lot more like somebody underneath Trump goes down than like the president himself goes down.
00:20:57.000That's why I'm saying that I don't think Trump should fire Mueller.
00:20:58.000But what Mueller is doing is obviously provocative.
00:21:01.000What Mueller is doing is obviously aggressive.
00:21:03.000And so he must think that he's got something.
00:21:05.000The Democrats obviously are just ecstatic about this.
00:21:08.000MSNBC's Mark Halperin, he says Mueller is a ruthless opponent and is not afraid of President Trump.
00:21:13.000Mueller is a cyborg with a head, a heart, and a brain.
00:22:21.000Okay, so you can see the excitement from the media and all this, and we'll talk a little bit more about the excitement from some fake news people, like actual fake news people in just a second.
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00:25:02.000Okay, so the Democrats are obviously ecstatic about these new developments in Mueller.
00:25:07.000They're placing all their hope in Mueller.
00:25:08.000I don't think Mueller is going to give them what they want.
00:25:10.000I don't think this is going to come down to some major indictment of President Trump or even anyone who is super close to him, but you can see the excitement on the left.
00:25:19.000They think that finally there will be a magic bullet.
00:25:20.000Okay, when you are relegating to hoping that a magic bullet is going to take out the president, I mean literally, when you are relegated to hope, I shouldn't say magic bullet, in association with presidents because that's actually a thing with JFK, but
00:25:31.000When you're relegated to hoping that something bad is going to take the president out, like just some random event is going to take the president out, some random story, then you're in serious trouble.
00:25:41.000I know this because there are a lot of people on the right who are attempting to push the birther story back in 2012, hoping that suddenly there would be evidence that Obama was not actually eligible for office and then you'd have to leave office.
00:27:03.000Don't want to stretch that metaphor too far.
00:27:07.000Nothing says classy quite like in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane hitting the mainland United States, likening a political scandal to a hurricane that's going to take out the President of the United States.
00:27:16.000Just very classy stuff from a guy who lost his job in 2004 for legitimately making up a document or pushing a forged document about President Bush.
00:27:24.000He thought, this is the irony, he thought in 2004 that that was going to be the magic
00:27:28.000The magic bullet that ended up destroying the Bush presidency, that he was going to release this letter about Bush going AWOL.
00:27:36.000Virtually anytime somebody says, I have the magic tape, I have the magic thing that's going to take out the president, only once, only once in American history, really, has there been some sort of magic document, magic tapes that ended up taking down a president.
00:27:50.000And so everybody wants to go back to that model.
00:27:52.000That was something that was unique in American history.
00:27:56.000I don't think you're going to see something like that again in the near future.
00:27:59.000But you can see that the hopes of the Democrats are riding on this thing.
00:28:01.000Keith Olbermann is saying the same thing.
00:28:03.000He says, everyone in the cabinet is going to be impeached.
00:28:05.000Not only is Trump going to be impeached, everyone's going to be impeached.
00:28:08.000Here's Keith Olbermann broadcasting from his mother's basement.
00:28:10.000Republican senators and congressmen finally speaking out against Trump on Charlottesville, on Arpaio, on the response to Hurricane Harvey, on the Secretary of the Treasury watching the eclipse while standing next to 200 billion dollars in gold, on the military transgender ban, the daughter of the Secretary of the Interior herself a veteran calling for his impeachment over that, a website run by a Republican research firm noting with scorn that in one month Trump had attacked nearly one out of every seven Republican senators.
00:28:40.000The little tendrils are popping up through the soil, so well fertilized by seven months of this administration and the president of bulls**t. Roger Stone's insurrection may in fact be coming to pass, except it will be non-violent, and when it is over, it will not be good news for Stone or his fellow travelers.
00:28:59.000And when it ends, there will not be Trump.
00:29:15.000Okay, again, if you're banking on this hope and you're on the left, let me recommend that you get a better program, stop associating with Antifa, and start providing some solutions to the American people.
00:29:23.000It turns out that Republicans suck at their jobs.
00:29:24.000The only consolation is that Democrats are even worse at theirs.
00:29:37.000I was watching yesterday at the gym, CNN was on the TV, and again, I was not, I was in the middle of working out so I couldn't go up and just throw things at the TV, but
00:29:45.000They decided to have on John Kasich and I think it's John Hickenlooper.
00:29:50.000I can never remember Hickenlooper's first name.
00:29:56.000And they were both on with Brianna Keillor from CNN and Keillor actually presented to them
00:30:02.000They're presenting their joint health care plan.
00:30:04.000It's going nowhere because no one cares what these guys have to say because John Kasich is a watered-up piece of paper you stuck in your poppocat and it went through the wash.
00:30:10.000And John Hickenlooper is like a slightly weirder version of Gary Johnson.
00:30:15.000And so they're both sitting there and CNN actually proposes to them on the air that they should run a joint candidacy for president, a bipartisan candidacy for president.
00:30:38.000It's just a little poster just to give you a taste of what it would look like.
00:30:43.000So, I don't know, isn't that a little enticing, Governor Kasich?
00:30:47.000And then Kasich went on to avoid the question.
00:30:50.000He said, you know, I'd have to talk to my wife about that.
00:30:53.000And the only reason they're even proposing these stupid health care plans is because they want to run together or they want, like, would anyone take John Hickenlooper seriously as a human running for president?
00:31:17.000I've been informed on very good information that his father is a mailman, but that's about all that I know to recommend him.
00:31:23.000But this is how desperate the media are.
00:31:24.000Now they're trying to push Kasich, Hickenlooper as an alternative to the awful crappy 2020 Trump-Kamala Harris race that is sure to come.
00:31:32.000Okay, so with all that happening, Trump this morning tweets out that he's basically been targeted by forces beyond his control.
00:31:41.000The truth is that there is some of that happening.
00:31:44.000There's now a story out that transcripts reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee reveal that FBI Director James Comey had decided months before the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton concluded that he would not recommend criminal prosecution.
00:31:55.000GOP Chairman Grassley, Senator Lindsey Graham, they all requested all the records related to Comey's firing.
00:32:01.000In the transcript, the FBI's Principal Deputy General Counsel of National Security and Cyber Law, Tricia Anderson, told the Office of Special Counsel that Comey had drafted a statement in early May that he would later give in July 2016 that legally exonerated Hillary Clinton.
00:32:16.000So he already decided he was going to exonerate Hillary Clinton long before FBI agents finished their work.
00:32:22.000That'd be good enough reason to fire him right there.
00:32:24.000Comey was always a bad FBI director, and that is just more evidence of it.
00:32:28.000So when Trump says that he's been victimized by a system that's in place, clearly that's the case.
00:32:33.000And that, by the way, will be his defense to anything that Mueller comes up with, which is why I say it's not necessary to fire Mueller, because I don't think that there are going to be enough Republicans who even jump on board, as long as it seems that
00:32:42.000His investigation has been compromised in any way.
00:32:44.000I don't think Trump has tons to fear from it.
00:32:47.000I think there'll be a lot of bad headlines, but I don't think that he gets impeached over anything that Mueller has to bring, unless it clearly implicates the president directly.
00:32:53.000Okay, time for some things I like, things I hate, and then we'll do some mailbags.
00:33:21.000And he was trying to make it clear to them how he thought they should govern.
00:33:25.000He was trying to give his own book of little political advice.
00:33:28.000People identify Machiavelli as this evil, sinister guy who's trying to manipulate circumstances.
00:33:34.000He was actually a proponent of what he called VirtĂą.
00:33:37.000VirtĂą is like virtue, but it doesn't mean saints who sacrifice themselves, necessarily.
00:33:42.000VirtĂą, according to Machiavelli, means a certain quality of manliness that allows you to uphold the principles for which you stand.
00:33:47.000So VirtĂą isn't just the values that you hold, it's how you go about defending those values, and sometimes that requires a certain degree of ruthlessness
00:33:55.000This is the handbook, obviously, on political ruthlessness.
00:33:58.000Every political science major has read it, as every political science major should.
00:34:52.000Why don't you take your phone and call up your, and I want you to call up your boyfriend or something to let them know that you need to be bailed out.
00:35:00.000And she says, I don't want to take my hands off the steering wheel because I've seen all the videos.
00:35:04.000I've seen all the videos and apparently she's a drunk driver and she was drunk and kind of belligerent and wouldn't get out of her car or anything and so the cop jokingly says, well you got nothing to worry about because we only shoot black people.
00:35:23.000It doesn't seem to me that he means, yes, we literally go around every day shooting black people.
00:35:26.000It sounds to me like he's got a drunk woman in the car who's being an idiot, and he thinks he's joking with her to try and get her off her guard, and so he says this stupid thing sarcastically, like, you got nothing to worry about, we shoot black people, ha ha ha ha ha.
00:35:38.000Right, the same way that Steven Crowder and I make Jewish jokes?
00:35:40.000Right, he's making a joke about how cops are racist.
00:35:42.000That seems to me what this actually is.
00:36:13.000Yeah, we only kill black people, right?
00:36:15.000Okay, the right at the end is the dead giveaway that he's being sarcastic, but it doesn't matter.
00:36:21.000Obviously you can't say this sort of thing because that's asinine, but he ends up being fired and this is supposed to be some sort of indication that the police know they're institutionally racist.
00:36:32.000I mean it seems to me pretty obvious from the tape that what the guy is doing is the lady says I've looked at all these videos and he's saying yeah you've looked at the videos I know we're all terrible but we only kill black people even according to the videos so you know get out of the car.
00:37:22.000They're trying to absolve the other driver in the crash.
00:37:24.000They come into the hospital and they say, we want to take his blood.
00:37:27.000Okay, it is illegal under Supreme Court precedent from 2016 to take somebody's blood without any sort of probable cause, without a search warrant, or without the permission of the person.
00:37:37.000Person's unconscious, and there's no search warrant.
00:37:39.000So the nurse says, listen, you know, I may like you, but I can't let you take the guy's blood because that's illegal.
00:37:44.000Okay, they arrest her, and they brutalize her in the process.
00:38:45.000Okay, Adam Carolla makes this point all the time and I think that he's exactly right.
00:38:48.000If you're a black person getting pulled over by a cop and the cop was a jerk, he might immediately assume that it was because he was black.
00:38:53.000But being a white person who's pulled over by a cop, he knows that it's just because some cops are jerks.
00:38:58.000I think that's a perfectly understandable perspective.
00:39:00.000And when you're a member of a minority group, that is the tendency.
00:39:03.000You know, my father, my grandfather, I remember growing up, there'd be times where somebody would be a jerk, and my dad would say, the guy's probably an anti-Semite.
00:39:10.000And I'd say, Dad, it probably isn't because he's an anti-Semite, it's probably just because he's an a-hole.
00:39:17.000I think that you're a jerk is a better explainer 95% of the time than you're a racist.
00:39:22.000And so even the guy in the first tape, it seems to me he's acting out of ignorance, stupidity, incompetence.
00:39:28.000He had 28, by the way, the evidence for that is that he had 28 years on the police force before he was fired, not a single instance in which he was accused of racism.
00:39:34.000So, you know, that seems to me better evidence than that tape of sarcasm.
00:39:38.000But the point here is that bad police action, we would be better off talking about when police exceed their mandate, when police are brutal, when police get out over what they are supposed to be doing, when police exceed
00:39:53.000And when they do all those things, that seems to me a better explanation of police behavior than just blaming endemic institutional racism.
00:41:20.000That he switched places with Jaqen H'ghar in the jail at the end of season one.
00:41:26.000Uh, of the players who are left on the board in the Iron Throne, as I've said before, my heart says I would love to see Tormund and Brienne with their giant children bestriding the world.
00:41:35.000I think Tormund would be a good king because he's not interested in ruling anybody else.
00:41:39.000But I think that in all likelihood he'll end up being a council of advisors and a democracy and blah blah blah.
00:42:18.000Okay, other than a few guys who like to cat around, there are not very many people in the United States who are like, yeah, I love being single.
00:42:24.000A lot of people living together, a lot of people have girlfriends, but they don't get married because pop culture has told them that marriage is a patriarchal institution in which people are miserable, and they fall out of love with each other, and blah blah blah blah blah.
00:42:56.000Kids, it's really fascinating how Western civilization has made kids into dogs and dogs into kids, but that's a different question than marriage itself.
00:43:04.000Marriage itself is still an amazing institution and it is the lifelong commitment of somebody to you and knowing that you're going to be able to grow with that person the rest of your life.
00:43:12.000Is a very different thing than the idea that you have sex with random partners you get together with and blah.
00:43:41.000Right-to-work laws basically state, for those who don't know, that there are a lot of laws on the books in places like California, there was in Wisconsin, there is in Ohio, that if you want to work for the police department, or the fire department, or the teachers, you have to be unionized.
00:43:54.000You have to work for the teachers' union.
00:43:55.000So you can't actually be employed by the state of California as a full-time teacher without being a member of the teachers' union.
00:44:01.000That's nonsense, it's garbage, it's collusion, it should be illegal.
00:44:05.000Right-to-work laws basically say that you do not have to be a member of any union in order for you to work, and also that they can't confiscate your wages.
00:44:12.000I mean, the unions have the government so sewn up.
00:44:14.000There's a great book called Shadow Bosses by a friend of mine named Mallory Factor and his wife Elizabeth about this.
00:44:19.000There are a bunch of states that actually remove, the state will do this, when they pay a paycheck to a teacher in California, they actively remove your union fee out of your paycheck and give it to the union.
00:44:33.000That's like if I went to all of my employees and I said, listen, we have a charity fund over here, and we're going to use that charity fund for a bunch of nice things.
00:44:41.000And you have to give to the charity fund.
00:44:42.000And then the state says, okay, well, when we collect your taxes, we're going to take out a little extra and give it to your employer.
00:44:49.000It's totally nuts that this is how it works.
00:44:51.000Right-to-work laws are a good thing and ought to be pushed.
00:44:54.000Well, they haven't lost any teeth yet, so I haven't actually had to have that conversation.
00:44:59.000I see nothing wrong with kids believing in the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus.
00:45:04.000Life will disabuse you of all sorts of notions later, but I think it's kind of charming.
00:45:21.000So, I've divided mine on red light traffic cameras.
00:45:23.000The part of me that is annoyed with getting tickets hates them.
00:45:26.000The part of me that says that the law should be equally applied likes them.
00:45:28.000So, the question is whether red light traffic cameras actually capture dangerous activity or whether these are just prophylactic rules that they are enforcing.
00:45:38.000There are times when somebody is going through the intersection and it's the very last second and you're going through red light and there's no one there.
00:45:45.000Is that somebody who deserves a $200 ticket the same way that somebody who runs a red light in the middle of somebody else's green light deserves a ticket?
00:46:08.000Red light traffic cameras are a much better idea than hiring cops to sit around your intersections instead of policing actual crime.
00:46:14.000This has been a pet peeve of mine with the police for years.
00:46:16.000It has nothing to do with the officers.
00:46:18.000I mean, the other day I was pulled over right near the office a couple months ago.
00:46:21.000I was pulled over near the office and I said to the police officer, thanks for everything else you do.
00:46:26.000And he kind of smiled and nodded at me and said, yeah, this is ridiculous, because they'd set up one of these speed traps and they had, I think, four motorcycle cops and three squad cars just on the side street over here to catch people who were making illegal rights.
00:46:41.000And it's like, OK, we got crime in the city, like real crime in the city.
00:46:44.000Even the cops don't want to be doing that.
00:46:46.000Dana says, Hey Ben, what's the best way to get over a heartbreak?
00:46:49.000The best way to get over a heartbreak is to get back out there, not to sit around moping about it.
00:46:53.000If you sit around moping about it, then all you're doing is you are engaging in giving the control of your feelings over to somebody else.
00:47:12.000Not to get all Marcus Aurelius stoic on you, but the fact is that it is up to you how you decide to treat the circumstances that surround you.
00:47:19.000If you get dumped, if you have a heartbreak, then I would suggest that you move on as best you can in as quick a manner as you can.
00:47:28.000Don't do this routine where it's like, well, if I just sit around, everything will eventually sort itself out.
00:48:42.000There's one term of Democrats and then you go right back to Ronald Reagan.
00:48:45.000So it doesn't kill the party to have a president who's a failure.
00:48:48.000It does kill the party to have a party that endorses the failure.
00:48:50.000Megan says, what's your number one tip for conservatives in college?
00:48:54.000Number one tip for conservatives in college is keep your head down and be...
00:48:59.000Be specific about the points that you choose to make.
00:49:01.000Don't always go into every argument guns-a-blazing.
00:49:05.000Understand what the purpose of the argument is.
00:49:08.000Brendan says, I want to know what your stance on cussing is.
00:49:10.000I know on other podcasts you have a much more colorful language than on your show, but I'd like to know how you feel about cussing in regular life.
00:49:47.000I think it is a laxity in moral standards that has led to the laxity in language.
00:49:53.000But I think that if you're a person who drops the occasional F-bomb when you're frustrated and you're in the car alone, do I think that this makes you a lesser human being?
00:50:01.000Psychological studies have actually shown that when you drop an f-bomb, it actually helps alleviate pain and anger when you're in the car alone by yourself.
00:50:07.000Like if you stub your toe and you yell the f-word, don't do it in front of kids, don't do it in front of other people, but if you do, it'll probably make you feel better than if you just didn't.
00:52:52.000I asked my dad any questions that I had.
00:52:54.000And we were never shy in our house about talking about the way that sex works.
00:52:58.000And so, you know, I think that being open with your child about how things work is the best.
00:53:02.000These issues will make themselves apparent anyway.
00:53:04.000I don't think it's like you have to sit around and wonder, when do I tell my kid this?
00:53:07.000Your kid will come to you with questions if you're open about these issues.
00:53:09.000Your kid will come to you with questions and ask the questions and you'll be given the opportunity to talk about them but you should think in advance about how you want to talk about these issues because there are moral issues embedded in the sexual pleasure question that are not embedded in how does sexual reproduction work questions and that's a separate conversation for my money.