Ben Shapiro: Democrats lay out an insanely extreme agenda to culturally divide the country. The NBA caves to the Communist Chinese government, and Democrats target Rudy Giuliani s associates? Ben Shapiro: All the Democrats have to do is not be insane to win the 2020 election, and they will have a chance to run for president in 2020, but first they have to be not totally insane, and so far, they ve ve ve been unable to do that, and we ve seen Democrats not only go insane over things like the Mueller report, but on policy they ve been swinging radically to the left, and that s not just true on things like Medicare for all, where frankly, there s a pretty healthy debate in the country over exactly which direction we should go with our national medical system. Should it be more regulated, should it be less regulated? Should we have a more regulated government? Should there be less regulation, should we have less regulation? Should it not be a controversial topic, but that s been up for debate since at least the 1990s when Hillarycare was discussed? What are the principles that Americans are not going to compromise on? And if they are forced to choose between adherence to religious principle, adherence to moral principle, what they teach their children, and the dictates of the social left, they will stand with their own religious and moral principles. They will not be castigated as bigots, because they are still going to cave to the social leftist dictates. . And if the left in this country decide to the New York Times or the Human Rights Council, they re gonna be caving to the leftist dictates, that somehow manifest animus, that s somehow bigotry that somehow manifests animus they re not tolerance, but they re going to stand up to the dictates They re not to their own principles . . And if you want the country to be divided, this is how you get it, not through economics, not by compromise, but by being a vast separation of the two Americas, and then a mutual parting of the country, then this country is going to have to have a vast population separation and then there s going to be a vast parting of ways if this country If you want two Americas? The reason I say this is because I don t think it won t come to armed conflict in the U.S. in the future, I think instead what you ll have is because of what you will have in the United States.
00:00:50.000All they had to do was be not totally insane.
00:00:53.000Naturally, Democrats have been unable to do that.
00:00:55.000And so we have seen Democrats not only go insane over things like the Mueller report, but on policy they've been swinging radically to the left.
00:01:01.000And that's not just true on things like Medicare for all, where frankly, there's a pretty healthy debate in the country over exactly which direction we should go with our national medical system.
00:01:41.000Because there are certain principles that Americans are not going to compromise on.
00:01:44.000And if Americans are forced to choose between adherence to religious principle, adherence to moral principle, what they teach their children, and the dictates of the social left, they will stand with their own religious and moral principles.
00:01:58.000And if they are castigated as bigots, They are still not going to cave to the social left.
00:02:02.000They're not going to cave to the editorial board of the New York Times or the anchors at CNN.
00:02:06.000They're not going to cave to the board members at the Human Rights Council, the Human Rights Campaign, who tell them that their attendance at church and their teaching scripture to their children or teaching their children traditional natural law principles about human behavior, that this is somehow bigotry, that this somehow manifests animus.
00:02:25.000And if the Democrats, if the left in this country decide that they're going to shut down religion in the country, if they decide they're going to shut down any moral principle that differs from theirs on very personal moral issues, including issues regarding how they raise their children with regard to gender and sex, Then this country is simply not going to last.
00:02:42.000Because if you have states like California that decide to go full social leftist and effectively make illegal any viewpoint that is not the social left line, everybody who is not that is going to have to move out of the state.
00:02:54.000And you're going to see a vast separation in the country.
00:02:56.000And if you want two Americas, this is how you're going to get it.
00:02:59.000Not through economics, not through Medicare for all.
00:03:02.000Those are open debates that can be had.
00:03:03.000But if you are fundamentally questioning the principles of a fellow American to the point where you are Effectively threatening to indoctrinate their children with your principles because you think that your principles are so sacrosanct and their principles are so evil?
00:03:17.000Well, that is the basis for actual conflict in the country.
00:03:21.000I don't think it'll come to armed conflict in this country.
00:03:23.000I think instead what you will have is a vast population separation and then a mutual parting of ways if this continues.
00:03:28.000The reason I say this is because I actually spent some time watching that Democratic Town Hall last night, the so-called Equality Town Hall, the LGBT Town Hall.
00:03:52.000I tolerate lots of behavior that I don't accept.
00:03:55.000I tolerate lots of behavior that I believe to be wrong, right?
00:03:58.000That is what it means to be American, is to tolerate viewpoints and behavior that you may not think is wrong, but that does not actually change your life or hurt you in any way.
00:04:27.000If you are not properly celebrating, this is evidence that you are a bad, bad person who's benighted and indoctrinated by centuries of religious bigotry and all of this.
00:04:36.000And the Democrats went full bore on that last night.
00:04:39.000They were cutting campaign commercials for Donald Trump last night.
00:04:42.000If you want Americans to go out and vote for Donald Trump, do this.
00:04:45.000Because I'll be honest with you, over the last week, Trump's had a terrible week.
00:04:48.000Trump's had an awful week between all the impeachment gate talk in Ukraine and President Trump pulling out of the Kurdish areas of northern Syria and getting blowback from his own party for that.
00:04:58.000It's made him an extremely unattractive candidate for a lot of people in the middle and even a few people on the right.
00:05:04.000But if you want people like me to walk over broken glass on my knees to vote for Trump, all you have to do is tell me you're going to outlaw my synagogue.
00:05:19.000You don't know a damn thing about my kid.
00:05:21.000And I will raise my kid better than you will.
00:05:22.000And I'm talking to you, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar.
00:05:25.000If you think you can educate my kid better than I can educate my kid, you can go F yourself.
00:05:30.000And I know there are millions, tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions of Americans who feel the same way.
00:05:34.000And what we saw last night on CNN was an abject attempt to seize the reins of cultural conversation, not just to push, not just to convince, but to cram down.
00:05:47.000If you are talking about using the heavy hand of government to cram down your social viewpoint, you are no different from the people who you label theocrats on the other side.
00:05:54.000You say that there are people who are theocratic on the other side, these evil, horrible religious people who want to use religious principle and ram that down on you from above.
00:06:02.000This is what the left is constantly claiming.
00:06:03.000And I keep saying, I don't see the theocracy.
00:06:06.000You keep saying Mike Pence is a theocrat.
00:06:07.000Please name the things that are theocratic that Mike Pence has done.
00:06:10.000But your religion of social leftism, it is indeed a religion.
00:06:13.000And you are the ones who are seeking to take control of a government and then use it to destroy how I raise my child, the people with whom I associate, how I practice my religion.
00:07:05.000And if you don't leave me alone, well, then I'm going to have to fight back.
00:07:09.000I'm either going to have to move or I'm going to have to fight back.
00:07:10.000Those are the only two choices you are leaving available to people when you will not let them live and let live.
00:07:16.000And when you dictate that their entire way of raising their children is morally wrong and benighted, and more than that, not just morally condemning those people, which is fine, right?
00:07:45.000And I think that there are only two genders, male and female, and that my child is born the biology that they are born.
00:07:51.000Or that I believe, according to natural law principles, that heterosexual behavior is morally superior to homosexual behavior, not because of religious principle, because of natural law principles that men and women belong together, that they produce families, that produce children.
00:08:03.000And that is not in any way a justification of discrimination against people who are homosexual.
00:08:08.000That is not in any way a justification of nastiness against people who are gay.
00:08:12.000That is not in any way a justification of people discriminating against people who behave in certain ways.
00:08:21.000I get to make that moral judgment in my own life and with regard to how I raise my kids and live my life, just as you get to make a moral judgment about me.
00:09:06.000But it's not about that for the Democrats.
00:09:08.000For the Democrats, it's about how we enshrine our principles in law and force you to behave in ways that conflict with both your religious and moral principles.
00:09:19.000We'll get to more of this in a second.
00:09:20.000We're going to jump into this Democratic town hall because it was truly insulting on virtually every level.
00:09:25.000I mean, when Barack Obama suggested that religious Americans are bitter clingers clinging to God and guns and religion, when people talk about the scorn that the high-level left has for traditional Americans and for basically everyone living somewhere between Los Angeles and New York, this is what they are talking about.
00:11:11.000And because he's desperate for attention, And he's just standing outside every Democratic forum, sort of like the weird balloon guy that you see on the top of car dealerships, just kind of waving his arms all wild like a crazy guy.
00:11:26.000Beto O'Rourke will say anything for attention, but he does represent the, at root, most radical and most true Democratic positions.
00:11:34.000So yesterday, Beto O'Rourke said the thing out loud.
00:11:37.000Last night, he said the thing out loud that Democrats have refused to say.
00:11:40.000I've been saying that this is what they want for years.
00:11:42.000I've been saying for years that the real danger of the social left movement in the United States is that they were going to go up against every church, religious institution, religious school in America.
00:11:51.000But their goal was going to be to use same-sex marriage not to preserve the ability of two men to have tax benefits for being married or two women to have tax benefits for being married or anything like that.
00:12:03.000That was not going to be the end of the road.
00:12:04.000The end of the road was going to be using laws that make such marriages enshrined, sacrosanct by law, using those to club into submission and destroy religious institutions.
00:12:15.000The next step would be to do the Bob Jones University move.
00:12:18.000The Bob Jones University move Back in the early 1980s, there was a federal tax case in which the IRS decided to remove tax-exempt status from Bob Jones University.
00:12:26.000Well, because Bob Jones University had an anti-interracial dating policy.
00:12:51.000Well, by basically equating same-sex marriage, which is not the same as interracial marriage, but equating the two, by saying that race is the same as sex when it comes to marriage, which is a patently insane position because male and female are inherently different in a very, very different way.
00:13:05.000Then people who have different skin colors, right?
00:13:08.000Different skin colors is a thing that does not matter when it comes to the ability to function as a married couple.
00:13:14.000Okay, when it comes to two males and two females versus a male and a female, one of the key functions of marriage, historically speaking, has been the production and rearing of children.
00:13:21.000When I say one of the key functions, I mean really the key function.
00:13:24.000Right, so that makes a bit of a difference, but by equating same-sex marriage with interracial marriage, I said the next move of the left was going to be to declare that every major religious institution in the United States was basically operating in discriminatory fashion, remove their tax-exempt status.
00:13:39.000Once you remove their tax-exempt status, and you say they don't have tax-exempt status anymore, you treat them like a normal LLC.
00:13:44.000Well, if you have anti-discrimination laws in states like California, or if you're the Democratic Party, and you're trying to pass the so-called Equality Act, which is really a way of cracking down on religious institutions, And forcing people to abide by social rules that they don't want to abide by, and in violation of the First Amendment, blatant violation of the First Amendment, the founders are spinning so fast in their graves, they're drilling directly to the core of the earth at this point.
00:14:09.000would be to then kick these religious institutions from 501c3 tax-exempt institutions into normal LLC territory and then declare that those LLCs are in violation of non-discrimination policies and shut them down as violative of law.
00:14:23.000We've already seen them do this with Arlene's Flowers in Washington State, where if you are a florist who is religious and only will cater to weddings that are traditional, you'll be shut down or fined.
00:16:43.000Here's Beto explaining that colleges and churches that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax-exempt status.
00:16:48.000So he is saying exactly what I have been saying for 10 years.
00:16:51.000People have been saying that I was alarmist about all of this.
00:16:53.000One of the reasons I'm libertarian on same-sex marriage is not just because I don't think that the government has a role in regulating activity that doesn't harm anybody else, but also because I was deeply afraid that the government getting involved and redefining marriage to include same-sex marriage would end in exactly with what Beto O'Rourke is talking about right here.
00:17:12.000saying straight out that he wants to remove tax-exempt status, which is the first step toward basically getting rid of these institutions altogether, from every college, every church that opposes a same-sex marriage, right?
00:17:50.000Okay, so in other words, if you're a church, you're not infringing on anybody's rights.
00:17:55.000You're just saying, you can't come here for your marriage.
00:17:58.000and the full civil rights of every single one of us.
00:18:02.000And so as president, we're going to make that a priority and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans. - Okay, so in other words, if you're a church, you're not infringing on anybody's rights.
00:18:12.000You're just saying you can't come here for your marriage.
00:18:43.000You want a culture war in this country?
00:18:44.000You want this country to come apart that seems, this is how you do it.
00:18:47.000Because I promise you, if you come to tell me that you're going to indoctrinate my kids in particular policy, and that I can't pull my kid out of the school and send my kid to a school I want to send them to, that I can't go to the church or synagogue that I want to go to, And if you make that national policy, not just California policy where I can move, but national policy, people are not gonna stand for that.
00:21:07.000This is driven by a religious conviction that the leveling of all human beings and the attempt to level all human behavior to the same moral level is an inherent good.
00:21:16.000That is a religious faith-based belief.
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00:21:34.000And the fact is that if you're a law-abiding American, you should have a gun for several reasons, including the protection of yourself from actual armed invasion, the protection from threat, the protection from people who want to come and hurt you.
00:21:47.000Well, when the founders crafted the Constitution, when they crafted the First Amendment, they wanted to protect our rights.
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00:22:47.000Here's Cory Booker yesterday, suggesting that Catholic schools across the country... He's basically suggesting we should shut down every Catholic school in America, Cory Booker.
00:22:54.000He says Catholic schools across the country are using religion to justify discrimination.
00:23:01.000And so, for me, I cannot allow, as a leader, that people are going to use religion as a justification for discrimination.
00:23:10.000I could respect your religious freedoms, but also protect people from discrimination.
00:23:14.000And as I said in an earlier answer, I grew up in a household where my parents talked to me about how people used to use religion to justify the discrimination against African Americans.
00:23:46.000I mean, you have institutions where you don't tolerate my religious beliefs.
00:23:50.000I don't expect that when I walk into a mosque, that suddenly they're gonna start practicing Judaism.
00:23:55.000I don't expect that when I walk into an atheist meeting, they're gonna start keeping kosher.
00:23:59.000And I don't expect that when I walk into the offices of the Human Rights Campaign, that they're going to start handing out literature from Leviticus.
00:24:04.000Like, why in the world would you not express the same degree of tolerance toward people who disagree with you than toward people you agree with?
00:24:11.000If you are only tolerant to people who agree with you, this is a good indicator you're not a very tolerant person.
00:24:17.000You will not allow... First of all, the very implication that the reason the Catholics are...
00:24:24.000against homosexual activity is simply out of bigotry and discrimination is an absolute ignorance of Catholicism.
00:24:31.000It's an absolute ignorance of the natural law history of Catholicism, of the natural law arguments with regard to human sexuality.
00:24:38.000For the same reason that Catholics are against abortion and contraception, they're also against homosexual activity.
00:24:42.000Namely, they believe that the end of the sexual act is procreation and that because Sex is directed toward procreation and toward the deepening of relationships that end with procreation.
00:24:54.000Heterosexual sex ought to be favored over homosexual activity, or by the way, over activity that ends with pregnancy outside of marriage.
00:25:04.000I mean, there are plenty of sexual rules in religion, and picking out one of them and pretending that that's the only one that matters is pretty insane by the left anyway.
00:25:11.000It demonstrates a full-scale lack of understanding of how religion works.
00:25:14.000But notice that for the left, they truly believe, many people on the left, like Booker, they truly believe that practice of religion is in and of itself discrimination.
00:26:01.000It flows from people like me, religious people like me, who don't have any problem with Cory Booker feeling what he wants to believe, or Human Rights Campaign believing what they want to believe, or GLAAD believing what they want to believe.
00:26:18.000Okay, Cory Booker was asked about the Pulse terror attack.
00:26:22.000For those who don't remember the Pulse terror attack, it was, up until the attack in Las Vegas, I believe, the deadliest terror attack in the United States since, and we still don't know if Las Vegas was effectually a terrorist attack or a mass shooting.
00:26:33.000It's kind of on that fuzzy border of classification, because there's no actual political motive there.
00:26:37.000We know the motivation in Pulse, where 49 people were killed at this gay bar.
00:26:41.000The motivation at Pulse was Islamic radical terrorism.
00:26:44.000Cory Booker tries to blame it on white supremacy, because we can never mention the intersectional conflict between radical Islam And gay rights.
00:26:51.000Whenever Cory Booker or Beto O'Rourke are attacking someplace, notice how they always attack synagogues and churches.
00:26:56.000They never have anything to say about mosques that believe exactly the same thing as synagogues and churches on traditional sexual morality.
00:27:02.000Now here's Cory Booker being a moron and suggesting that white supremacy was responsible for the Pulse terror attack.
00:27:08.000So first of all, very clearly, it is a national emergency.
00:27:12.000The majority of terrorist attacks in this country since 9-11 have been right-wing extremist groups.
00:27:17.000The majority of them have been white supremacist and hate groups.
00:27:21.000And I will elevate, as President of the United States, an office on hate crimes and white supremacy to make sure it is a presidential-level effort to protect our country as a whole.
00:27:49.000In just one second, we are going to get to more from this insane town hall, because some of this was attitudinal.
00:27:55.000And you've noticed that I'm putting the attitudinal stuff below the compulsive stuff, the compulsory stuff, because I don't think it's quite as important.
00:28:01.000It's still important because the attitudinal The attitudinal direction toward these issues is informing the Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, we are going to cram down our viewpoints on you routine.
00:28:12.000And the viewpoint itself is wildly out of step with evidence.
00:28:15.000So as I say, this is not about, we're bringing the best social science data to bear in a completely secular way.
00:28:20.000And if that affects religion, it affects religion.
00:28:22.000As Justice Scalia would have said about religious practice, it is a neutral law of neutral applicability, right?
00:28:27.000That it's just a law that applies to everybody and it is not, Specifically directed at religion?
00:28:35.000This is a non-evidence-based viewpoint on human relations that is going to be crammed down in religious fashion.
00:28:40.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:30:59.000So the attitude of the Democrats here is just as insane as their contention that the government ought to be used to cram down that attitude.
00:31:07.000Amy Klobuchar, who's the supposed moderate, senator from Minnesota, she committed, in the middle of this town hall, to putting a third gender on federal identification.
00:31:15.000So you can arbitrarily decide that you are this third gender.
00:31:18.000Now, notice, this is not evidence-based.
00:31:20.000There is no test that we can use to determine whether you are this third gender.
00:31:23.000Now, there are pretty obvious tests we can use.
00:31:25.000To determine whether you're a male or female.
00:31:27.000Namely, we can look at your birth certificate as a first line of resort.
00:31:30.000And if you're intersex, well, that is a very small percentage of the population, but that's an objective test too.
00:31:35.000Because we can either use genetic testing, or, in some cases, if you happen to have genetic anomalies, then we can actually check you.
00:31:42.000There needs to be some objective metric, in other words.
00:31:44.000When you're looking at government data, what you would like is objectivity.
00:32:26.000But Amy Klobuchar wants, in completely evidence-less fashion, to allow you to randomly recategorize yourself I currently identify as non-binary.
00:32:43.000In California, I am able to change my gender to X. However, on the federal level, there is no such option.
00:32:50.000Will you recognize third gender markers on a federal level?
00:33:02.000I identify as an immediate giveaway that the government should not actually be recognizing Your self-identification is of zero relevance when it comes to checking your gender when you get pulled over at a traffic stop.
00:33:22.000Your ID is not a five paragraph essay on how you feel about the movie Titanic.
00:33:26.000Your ID is about objective identification by others of you.
00:33:31.000When I travel with a passport, you know what they do?
00:33:32.000They look at my picture on the passport, then they look at me, then they look at the picture, then they look at me, and they go, oh, that's you!
00:34:43.000To demonstrate that you believe that gender doesn't exist, and that gender is an arbitrary construct, and that you can pick your own gender, you now have to identify the own pronouns by which you wish to be called.
00:34:53.000Because the world must be shaped according to your whim.
00:34:55.000When you talk about tolerance, by the way, tolerance is expressly about your ability to recognize that other people view the world in a way different from you.
00:35:05.000Tolerance is about, I recognize that you view the world in a way that is different from me.
00:35:10.000But the entire basis of the pronoun debate is the rest of the world must never view the world in a different way based on objectively defined characteristics.
00:35:19.000The rest of the world must define the world how I wish to define the world.
00:37:10.000There's exactly one study of which I am aware out of Vermont, and it surveyed like 500 couples, and what it found is that female same-sex couples are significantly more likely to break up than heterosexual couples, and that male couples are more likely to stay together.
00:37:21.000That is a small sample size, and it's in Vermont.
00:37:24.000There's a broader study that happened in Bowling Green State University.
00:37:27.000In 2017, they sampled 14,000 individuals, including three distinct types of couples, different sex, female same-sex couples, and male same-sex couples.
00:37:35.000And heterosexual couples were far more likely to stay together than either of the other two types of couples.
00:37:40.000What's more, when Joe Biden says this sort of stuff and he talks about couples staying together, He's failing to also define the nature of the relationship.
00:37:47.000What I mean by that is that if you were going to define staying together as like living in the same house, then I guess that's one way to define it.
00:37:54.000If you were going to define it as monogamy, then same-sex couples are not operating in the same universe as heterosexual couples in terms of monogamy.
00:38:01.000And that's not according to me, that's according to the gay couple study out of San Francisco State University, which followed 500 gay couples over many years and found that about half the couples By the way, that is a statistically driven argument about the nature of these relationships that Joe Biden is ignoring in order to pander.
00:38:14.000at least the rule and the exception, at the very least it's a very large minority of same-sex couples that are engaged in extra-marital sexual behavior with the consent of the other partner.
00:38:25.000It's a very different type of relationship than monogamous heterosexual relationships, which are generally expected to be monogamous.
00:38:31.000By the way, that is a statistically driven argument about the nature of these relationships that Joe Biden is ignoring in order to pander.
00:38:37.000So here is Joe Biden pandering. - Gay couples are more likely to stay together longer than heterosexual couples.
00:38:44.000Okay, again, not statistically true, except for one study from Vermont, which tends to be an outlier.
00:38:49.000That wasn't even nearly the weirdest moment for Joe Biden.
00:38:51.000He went over to Anderson Cooper and nearly kissed him.
00:38:53.000I mean, this was the Michael Scott and Oscar scene from The Office, where Michael is trying to demonstrate how tolerant he is of same-sex couples because Oscar comes out of the closet.
00:39:01.000And so Michael goes over and tries to kiss him on the lips.
00:39:03.000This nearly happened on national TV with Joe Biden.
00:39:05.000How they think this guy is a frontrunner is beyond me.
00:39:07.000And I got to tell you, you know, he's a great guy.
00:39:11.000I went in on Monday and all the national press said Biden's going to really get nailed when he walks in and sees the president every morning.
00:39:17.000He got up and he walked over to me, said, well, you told me you gave me a kiss.
00:39:53.000The cruelest moment, I thought, was a moment from the CNN producers, okay?
00:39:58.000And this is cruel because you should not exploit children on national TV, no matter what the children are doing, no matter who the children are.
00:40:08.000Okay, so there was this moment during the debate, and there's a nine-year-old transgender kid, okay, which is a girl who believes that she is a boy.
00:40:15.000This is a child who is suffering from gender dysphoria.
00:40:18.000Okay, that is a- that- I cannot imagine what it would be like to suffer from gender dysphoria.
00:40:22.000I seriously have nothing but sympathy for people who suffer from gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria.
00:40:27.000It must be just the most painful thing.
00:40:29.000And when people write about it, they say it is the most painful thing.
00:40:31.000You have a nine-year-old who is suffering from this.
00:40:33.000A nine-year-old, right, who's not hit puberty yet and so doesn't know the full meaning of what it means to be a member of the quote-unquote opposite gender because without the full development of brain, the full development of testosterone or estrogen, how could you possibly know what it's like in prepubescent fashion to be a member of the opposite sex?
00:40:51.000Things change pretty radically when you become hormonal.
00:40:53.000And anyways, in any case, this nine-year-old transgender boy is brought out by by her parents, because this is a girl, brought up by her parents, and she asks a question to Elizabeth Warren.
00:41:03.000And the purpose of this for CNN is to make it impossible to question Elizabeth Warren's answer, and also to basically emotionally blackmail the audience into suggesting that if you believe it's exploitative for CNN to do this, if you believe it's exploitative of this kid's parents, and I do, I believe it's deeply exploitative of this kid's parents, I feel awful for this child, It's a terrible, terrible thing.
00:41:26.000To turn a child into a political tool is a deeply wrong thing.
00:41:31.000And this is true whether you are taking your kid and forcing your kid to protest at rallies on police brutality or abortion.
00:41:38.000Or whether you are choosing to take your kid and trot them out on national television to talk about their own mental state at nine years old.
00:41:45.000I don't care what your mental state is.
00:41:46.000Talking about your mental state on public television at nine years old is insane.
00:41:50.000It's insane for CNN to do this to this kid.
00:41:54.000And they bring out this kid to question Elizabeth Warren, and this is treated as a great heroic moment for Elizabeth Warren.
00:42:00.000Children should not be treated like this in any context, let alone a context where the kid is suffering from a condition.
00:42:04.000And whatever you believe about transgenderism and the maleability of gender, there's no question that gender identity disorder is a condition, and that gender dysphoria is a condition, and a painful condition at that.
00:42:15.000Here is this moment, this very terrible moment, that CNN voiced.
00:42:18.000Again, this has nothing to do with My name is Jacob and I'm a 9-year-old transgender American.
00:42:24.000exploitation of the child for whom I feel awful.
00:43:15.000The only purpose in having the kid ask the question is to create the situation where if you say anything that is politically incorrect about the nature of, for example, locker rooms in schools, that girls should have their own locker rooms and boys should have their own locker rooms, and that girls should not be allowed to go into boys' locker rooms and vice versa.
00:43:32.000If you say any of that stuff, you are now considered intolerant and bigoted.
00:43:34.000That's the whole purpose of doing that.
00:43:37.000And the evidence-free cheering of a declaration that a child can determine their own gender at 9, show me the evidence that this is the case.
00:43:47.000Show me the evidence that this is objectively speaking the case, that this child is actually a boy and not a biological girl.
00:43:58.000This is a child suffering from a condition, the exploitation of that condition, I mean, I want these people raising my child?
00:44:04.000You think I want Elizabeth Warren deciding how I raise my child?
00:44:08.000You think I want the Democrats and Chris Cuomo and CNN deciding how I raise my child?
00:44:14.000Okay, well, unfortunately, we weren't able to get to any of the other news because this filled up the entire episode of this show.
00:44:21.000We'll bring you all the latest news next week when we are not in the middle of Jewish holidaying.
00:44:26.000Again, there's another Jewish holiday that is Monday, Tuesday in the United States.
00:44:31.000So we'll get to all of the latest on impeachment in 2019 and all of that next week.
00:44:35.000Suffice it to say that in the great social battle, which is the most divisive battle, because you're talking about how we raise our kids, where we go to church, how we deal with our neighbors.
00:44:44.000If you believe the government should cram down the left's point of view, You're dividing the country in a way that is making it nearly irreconcilable.
00:44:51.000And that is what the left is seeking to do on a daily basis, and they will even exploit children who are suffering with a condition in order to do that.
00:44:59.000They will exploit children to do that.
00:45:00.000You think I'm gonna trust these folks on how to raise my kid, handle my church, deal with charity in my community?
00:45:12.000We're not going to do a thing I hate, because, frankly, the prospect of a Democratic Party that wants to shut down all religious practice across the nation and dictate how you raise your kids is frightening enough for today's episode.
00:45:23.000So, as I mentioned, I am in Israel for all the Jewish holidays, and it's pretty amazing.
00:45:29.000Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit a place called the City of David.
00:45:32.000Now, when people think of the City of David, they think of the Tower of David in Daldavid.
00:45:35.000The Tower of David, which is in Old Jerusalem, does not actually have anything to do with David.
00:45:39.000It was built by the Crusaders, so it was way after the time of David.
00:45:43.000The City of David is the actual archaeological dig site that is just to the southeast, I believe, of Jerusalem, in the valley.
00:45:50.000And that's where the actual original city of Jerusalem used to be.
00:45:53.000The old city of Jerusalem has only really been built up over the past 500 years.
00:45:58.000The original city of Jerusalem, like where David used to live and where his dynasty ruled, is actually away.
00:46:05.000It's kind of to the south of the Temple Mount.
00:46:08.000And they've been uncovering All sorts of antiquities over there.
00:46:11.000One of the big battles right now in politics is the Muslim world's, large swaths of Muslim world's, their denial of the Jewish history of Israel, the Jewish history of Jerusalem, which is patently insane.
00:46:24.000The Palestinian Authority, for example, will deny the Christian history of Israel as well, because that's based on the Jewish history, so they can't allow that either.
00:46:30.000Well, you go and visit the city of David, you can actually see what they now believe was the palace of the Davidic dynasty.
00:46:36.000And not only that, they have now obviously uncovered the 2400 year old staircase that went from the large scale pool where people would cleanse themselves in ceremonial fashion They would actually ascend to the temple mount for the temple worship service.
00:47:15.000Because this is the road that everybody took to go toward the Temple Mount.
00:47:18.000So when it talks in the New Testament about Jesus overturning money tables of the money lenders along, this is the road that they're talking about.
00:47:24.000Not the Via Della Rosa, none of that stuff.
00:47:26.000We're talking about the actual places where Jesus walked, and for a thousand years before, people were walking.
00:47:31.000Hundreds of years before, people were walking.
00:47:33.000They've uncovered seals with names on them in ancient Hebraic script.
00:47:38.000That are the exact names that are mentioned in Tanakh, that are mentioned in the prophets.
00:47:55.000One of the fun things about coming to Jerusalem is that when you're in the United States and you visit an ancient place in the United States, maybe you visit Gettysburg.
00:48:08.000And then you come to Israel, and you're visiting places that are 3,000 years old, right?
00:48:12.000You're walking on the same exact pathways that were walked by people 2,000 years ago, 2,500 years ago, when people deny the Judaic nature of the origins of this land, they are just denying history.
00:48:26.000And the city of David proves it full-scale.
00:48:29.000We are talking about Jewish occupancy of the land of Israel fully 2,000 years before the rise of Islam.
00:48:36.000So when people when the UN when the UN declares that the old city of Jerusalem is Islamic territory, that is insane.
00:48:43.000If you're declaring that they've tried to stop a lot of the digging for antiquities specifically because they don't like the Jewish connections to these places.
00:48:50.000The the Palestinian Authority has famously urged the Islamic Waqf on the Temple Mount to actually dig up and destroy antiquities on the Temple Mount in order to prevent the Jews from claiming that the Temple Mount is Jewish.
00:49:02.000The Obama administration, in all of their horrific ridiculousness about the state of Israel, they actually, in the very late stages of the Obama administration, allowed a UN resolution to go forward declaring that the Temple Mount, as well as the Western Wall, were occupied territory.
00:49:16.000Okay, if you're talking about the holiest sites in Judaism that pre-exist Christianity by a full thousand years and Islam by full 2,000 years, if you're talking about that as occupied Jewish territory, it's because you are deliberately ignoring history.